XPost: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, alt.philosophy.taoism, alt.philosophy.zen   
   From: absfg_wilson@yahoo.com   
      
   On 11/5/2016 10:39 AM, Tang Huyen wrote:   
   > On 11/4/2016 11:29 PM, Nobody in Particular wrote:   
   >   
   >> When we first got cable in the early 80's, i flipped through all the new   
   >> channels and found a parody of TV preachers, the PTL club with Tammy   
   >> Faye Bakker crying with runny mascara. I was laughing because the parody   
   >> was so realistic. Then, after a while, i realized it was a serious show,   
   >> not a parody. Sure had me fooled.   
   >   
   > I rarely watched TV, but some decades ago, when I first   
   > came to the US, I saw an evangelical show, which was   
   > run by a husband-wife team, and the wife (in her fifties)   
   > was talking about how her work (God's service) made   
   > her so happy. She sounded very depressed and unhappy,   
   > and the matter of what she said contrasted violently   
   > with the manner in which she said it, which was flat-out   
   > mournful. Like you would want to tell her: Go to see a   
   > shrink this minute, don't wait a second, you're in danger.   
   >   
   > Tang Huyen   
      
   Living a lie can do that to you.   
      
   In my experience, inspiration and happiness comes from being creative in   
   harmony with one's own life force.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)