XPost: alt.philosophy.taoism, alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, alt.philosophy.zen   
   From: robert_smrdelj@gmx.de   
      
   Am 12.10.2016 um 08:24 schrieb {:-]))):   
   > crazyrainbow wrote:   
   >> Am 12.10.2016 um 06:53 schrieb {:-]))):   
   >>> crazyrainbow wrote:   
   >>>> Am 11.10.2016 um 15:00 schrieb {:-]))):   
   >>>>> noname wrote:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>> The world does need fixin.  Why does the world need fixin if it's   
   perfect?   
   >>>>>> It's continually generated by a perfect machine.  Its operators don't   
   know   
   >>>>>> how to run the thing so they've brought it around to where its product,   
   >>>>>> called the world, needs fixin.  How do you fix that?  Show folks how to   
   >>>>>> work the machine so their fingers don't get cut off and the present is   
   >>>>>> better than the past, for a start.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Sounds kinda like the living Master pickle jar in a way.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> As for me, personally, when I see what needs fixin   
   >>>>> and I can fix what my needs tell me it needs, I fix it.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> ...   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Maybe when they now start to drop the so "needed" atomic bombs! Maybe   
   >>>> tehn you'll probably see the need of fixing, but maybe when you survive   
   >>>> and the tumors start to grow on you, maybe thewn it is to late to fix   
   >>>> anything! (no need to mention environnmental destruction. if you maybe   
   >>>> think it doesn't concern me only maybe the next generation, because now   
   >>>> everything is still(!?) under control, isn't that kind od selfish   
   thinking?)   
   >>>   
   >>> When the Sun expands and consumes Earth,   
   >>> all who remain as surface dwellers shall be consumed.   
   >>>   
   >>> The end of Earth as it now is does not bother me.   
   >>>   
   >>> Sooner than that, when the next ice age's glaciers crush cities   
   >>> that many of the Earthlings live in, if climate change did not   
   >>> slow the pace of the ice, by then it will be too late.   
   >>>   
   >>> Climate change does not bother me.   
   >>>   
   >>> I do not fear atomic bombs.   
   >>> I lived thru that era, in the 50s.   
   >>>   
   >>> There are millions of things that can be fixed each day.   
   >>> I fix what needs fixing when I am able. And if I can't,   
   >>> if it bothers me, then it bothers me.   
   >>>   
   >>> I have had cancers removed.   
   >>> And yet, quite often I'm full of joy and not in fear.   
   >>>   
   >>> When I am concerned, I am concerned.   
   >>>   
   >>> When I am at the center of a center, I remain   
   >>> unconcerned and simply respond.   
   >>>   
   >>> I used to ride on a see-saw, as a kid.   
   >>> We had one in the back yard.   
   >>>   
   >>> Going up and down is not unusual for me.   
   >>>   
   >>> Cycling occurs.   
   >>> Sometimes on two wheels.   
   >>> At times with no hands.   
   >>>   
   >>> Normally I walk to get around.   
   >>> Without shoes. As if that makes a difference.   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> Do you consider yourself some kind of (pseudo and selfdeclared)   
   >> enlightened (selfcentered) "egomaniac", or what should i read out of   
   >> your selfcentered posting? Because that's what i read out of it: pseudo   
   >> and selfdeclared enlightened selfcentered egomaniac.   
   >   
   > I consider myself simply unconcerned   
   > with many things that bother a great many people   
   > who live in fear and doubt.   
   >   
   > As I said, when a thing bothers me, it does.   
   > When things don't, they don't.   
   >   
   > Usually most things that people fear don't bother me.   
   > I've thought about them a great deal.   
   > Those fears are not my fears.   
   >   
   > I have compassion when I do.   
   > When I don't I don't.   
   >   
   > What you read out of my words is what you read.   
   > That's in your mind. Or where ever it arises from.   
   >   
   > How big would you say your ego is?   
   > Or how small? If you care to say.   
   > Maybe on a scale of your choosing.   
   >   
      
   Ok sorry!   
   Considerind my ego on a selfchosen scale, let's take the usual 1 to 10,   
   my ego varies depending on circumstances from -10 to 20, even that is   
   statemnet considering my ego is included in that range. ;-) :-( :-)   
      
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