XPost: alt.philosophy.taoism, alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, alt.philosophy.zen   
   From: absfg_wilson@yahoo.com   
      
   On 11/1/2016 3:49 PM, noname wrote:   
   > Wilson  wrote:   
   >> On 10/31/2016 4:51 PM, noname wrote:   
   >>> Wilson  wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Yes.  We are a fairly deluded lot.  But it could always be worse :-)   
   >>>   
   >>> How so?  I'm seeing nowhere to go but up.  Maybe that doesn't imply   
   >>> bottom-ness, I dunno.  One would hope not, but sometimes it's real hard   
   >>> (for me) to tell.   
   >>   
   >> In my experience no matter how bad things might seem, it could *always*   
   >> be worse.   
   >   
   > Heh, maybe you've just been lucky so far, you don't seem as thick-headed as   
   > i was.  I was real thick-headed, made my way to a place where things   
   > eventually got bad enough for me to figure out why they kept getting worse.   
   >  Bigtime forehead-slapper.   
      
   I don't feel especially lucky, but I at least I haven't had a toilet   
   fall out of the sky onto my pickup truck.   
      
   Yet :-)   
      
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