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   From: invalid@invalid.invalid   
      
   Wilson  wrote:   
   > 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.   
   >   
   >   
      
   Of the various things I do on a daily basis, I think the one I spend the   
   most time doing, is figuring out what I'm doing.  Then, spaced somehow   
   between these interminable gaps of "duh!", there are bursts of action.   
   Whether the creation occurs in action or in duh is an interesting question.   
      
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