XPost: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, alt.philosophy.taoism, alt.philosophy.zen   
   From: wudao@wuji.net   
      
   Tang wrote:   
      
   > TRB feuds of yore scarcely rose to this level   
   >of intensity. Anybody wants to test his or her stability in   
   >such hostility?   
      
   Maybe I'm a quick study, or too stupid to realize shit.   
   I don't know anything about TRB, az nor absfg.   
   Nor even where you happen to be.   
      
   But I do recall back in late '96,  perhaps it was   
   twenty years ago today, when a band began to play.   
      
   It was not in a yellow submarine. But it was a crossposted   
   flame war that involved Tao, God and Tod and was odd,   
   to me at the time, being new to newsgroups.   
      
   It was bitter and lasted quite a long while.   
      
   One poster in particular, who went by various names,   
   would take thing to the limit very often, no matter who   
   posted what, he didn't want to hear about God.   
      
   Until, one time, he went too far.   
      
   If what goes against Tao ends early   
   and one can determine what the word, early, means   
   by when something ends, then that is the end of that.   
      
   Testing one's ability by bashing heads against someone   
   might be done peer to peer. Knowing when one is in   
   over one's head can be called a form of wisdom.   
      
   One might call it an instinct, to know when that is.   
   Or, maybe just dumb luck of the deaf and blind.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)