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   From: wudao@wuji.net   
      
   Tang wrote:   
   > dagnabit wrote:   
   >> "Ned Ludd"   
   >   
   >>>  But seriously, what do you think women want?   
   >   
   >> security, protection and emotional satisfaction.   
   >>   
   >> men just want to get their dicks wet.   
   >   
   >Hey JayLo,   
      
   Hey Tango.   
      
   > Jen/dagnabit is a woman in Flint, Michigan,   
   >a retired auto worker.   
      
   I did not know that.   
      
   >She has been posting on Buddhist   
   >Usenet for a long time. In 2006 she (under the nym fritz)   
   >posted many incredibly profound posts, which in hindsight   
   >I did not understand, so many apologies to her. Below is a   
   >sample:   
   >   
   ><that said that the average man thinks   
   >about sex hundreds of times per day.   
   >then of course when he's not thinking   
   >about sex he's thinking about defending   
   >his turf in order to continue to have sex or   
   >keeping his job so he has money in order to be   
   >able to have a place to have sex and on and on   
   >and on and on......>>   
   >   
   ><on results. it couldn't be the other   
   >way around.  if it were you could expect little but   
   >receive much. where's the challenge in that?   
   >[snip]   
   >problems are simply opportunities?   
   >[snip]   
   >it all hinges on the amount of need   
   >you have for security, safety, protection, blah blah   
   >blah fucking blah.>>   
   >   
   ><do so.   if indeed we give over our emotional stability   
   >to other's opinions then assuredly it will appear that   
   >they are the cause of frustration rather than our   
   >voluntary allowances.>>   
   >   
   ><including your own consciousness.  question it all.   
   >ask yourself how you attained this consciousness   
   >and in that enquiry you can learn how this temporary   
   >state has afflicted 'you' and how to go about with a   
   >sound and effective disidentification agenda by   
   >which an understanding can take place concerning   
   >that context of consciousness, so to speak, that   
   >milieu by which the conditions for the consciousness   
   >to arise are optimal and then it can be seen not only   
   >how and why it arises but also that strata in which it   
   >does so.  just understanding with full conviction that   
   >this consciousness is temporary is an excellent   
   >jumping off point to be able to determine that which   
   >is 'prior' to that consciousness, if you will.  buddha's   
   >'state', as such, can be enjoyed by anyone who has   
   >the courage to disidentify with their temporarily   
   >inherited human agenda.  only you stand in your   
   >own way from enjoying a total realization.>>   
   >   
   ><awakening doofus>>   
      
   Are you saying you don't want a Platonic relationship with dagnabit?   
      
   Maybe I'm not quite understanding your point here.   
      
   >Tang Huyen   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)