XPost: alt.philosophy.taoism, alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, alt.philosophy.zen   
   From: wudao@wuji.net   
      
   On Sun, 23 Oct 2016 09:34:00 -0400, "dagnabit"   
    wrote:   
      
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   >   
   >"daletx"  wrote in message news:nuh5t10v0j@news4.newsguy.com...   
   >   
   >On 10/22/2016 3:01 PM, Ned Ludd wrote:   
   >>   
   >> "brian mitchell"  wrote in message   
   >> news:7kdn0c1cr2q0v2a5p6k6r5fe9n8b6tcdnt@4ax.com...   
   >>> Tang Huyen wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> On 10/22/2016 7:00 AM, dagnabit wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> "{:-])))"   
   >>>>   
   >>>>>> Having gotten older, as if it was something I have,   
   >>>>>> my eyebrow hairs now grow as never before.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> One of them needed to be cut.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Synchronicity is meaningful by definition.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> A paradigm that is wordified is often fried.   
   >>>>>> At times the beer batter matters.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> my life is beer batter crunchies   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Some people batten down the hatches to insulate   
   >>>> themselves from threats, real or perceived, but   
   >>>> really to wall off themselves from themselves.   
   >>>> When crunch time comes, which is often, they all   
   >>>> but block off everything from themselves, internal   
   >>>> or external, hiss like snakes, foam at the mouth   
   >>>> like beer, crepe their jowls like weeping willow,   
   >>>> grope like octopi with their tentacles, and go   
   >>>> ballistic like geysers, all in synchronicity, like a   
   >>>> well rehearsed troupe, as with Trump.   
   >>>   
   >>> Haven't you got any newer dharma, Tang? This one's   
   >>> getting kind of old.   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >>  Ah, but remember back when the group was starting (NOT the   
   >> first recorded posts on Google Groups from June and Aug. of   
   >> 1990 [!] but from when it became really active in '94-'95), there   
   >> was this guy, who, no matter what anyone posted, would   
   >> always reply by selecting a noun from the prior post and asking:   
   >> "But does  have the Buddha-nature?"   
   >>   
   >>  That guy really ticked me off.   
   >>   
   >> Ned   
   >   
   >>But do ticks have the Buddha-nature?   
   >   
   >quite likely, but it is still unclear   
   >whether or not tocks do.   
      
   What is this, Buddha-nature?   
   Will it stop my eye-brows from growing hay-wire?   
   I'd take a bale of it, if so.   
      
   Tock is cheap and lives next   
   door to mock turtles.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)