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Ariel
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[ 07. August 2009, 18:20: Message edited by: Firenze ]

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Paul.
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That's easy for you to say!
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fletcher christian

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Zen garden = Heaven

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'God is love insaturable, love impossible to describe'
Staretz Silouan

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Stoo

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What's the sound of one hand slapping Ariel upside the head?

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Mamacita

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Re-opened with thread title fixed because the original title was giving me cognitive dissonance in a very un-Zen-like way.

[ 10. May 2009, 04:01: Message edited by: Mamacita ]

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Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.

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Timothy the Obscure

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MU!

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When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.
  - C. P. Snow

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mousethief

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!UM

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Women in the church are not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be enjoyed.

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Robert Armin

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If posters post on a closed thread can anyone read them?

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Keeping fit was an obsession with Fr Moity .... He did chin ups in the vestry, calisthenics in the pulpit, and had developed a series of Tai-Chi exercises to correspond with ritual movements of the Mass. The Antipope Robert Rankin

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John Donne

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[I am appreciating the moment. And it is fine indeed]

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Miffy

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[Angel] [Axe murder]
Hmmm
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Ariel
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koan koan koan
koan koan koan
KOAN KOAN KOAN
have a cup of feckin' tea!

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QLib

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Tea. Here. Now. [Cool]
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Miffy

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Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

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"I don't feel like smiling." "You're English dear; fake it!" (Colin Firth "Easy Virtue")
Growing Greenpatches

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Otter
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The plural of "anecdote" is not "data", YMMV, limited-time offer, IANAL, no purchase required, and the state of CA has found this substance to cause cancer in laboratory aminals

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kankucho
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ommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmG!!!1

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"We are a way for the cosmos to know itself" – Dr. Carl Sagan
Kankucho Bird Blues

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Beenster
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Ariston
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"What is enlightenment?"
"The sound of the evening sunlight falling on the distant mountains."
"No you fool! Have you learned nothing in these last years? Begone from my sight!"
"But master, what is enlightenment?"
"The sound of the evening sunlight falling on the distant mountains."

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“Therefore, let it be explained that nowhere are the proprieties quite so strictly enforced as in men’s colleges that invite young women guests, especially over-night visitors in the fraternity houses.” Emily Post, 1937.

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Zappa
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quote:
Originally posted by Ariel:






To edit is to ameliorate. Discuss with reference to the above.

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shameless self promotion - because I think it's worth it
and mayhap this too: http://broken-moments.blogspot.co.nz/

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Arrietty

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<bangs head rhythmically on wall and is instantly enlightened>

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i-church

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Athrawes
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<Drops bundle and is immediately enlightened>

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Explaining why is going to need a moment, since along the way we must take in the Ancient Greeks, the study of birds, witchcraft, 19thC Vaudeville and the history of baseball. Michael Quinion.

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Campbellite

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If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him.

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I upped mine. Up yours.
Suffering for Jesus since 1966.
WTFWED?

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Lamb Chopped
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I thought that was supposed to happen at the cross, as Christian reaches the end of his journey...

Hold on, wrong thread.

ETA: terrible crosspost! [Killing me]

[ 12. May 2009, 23:28: Message edited by: Lamb Chopped ]

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Er, this is what I've been up to (book).
Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down!

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Arrietty

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<sound of one brick hitting Lamb Chopped on the head>

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i-church

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MiceElf

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What do we want.... Cure for Obesity
When do we want it.... After Dessert.

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Lamb Chopped
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If a troublemaker falls on her keyboard, does anybody hear?

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Er, this is what I've been up to (book).
Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down!

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kankucho
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quote:
Originally posted by Campbellite:
If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him.

You'll be wasting your time: he'll be back again in an instant.

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Kankucho Bird Blues

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Marvin the Martian

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The rain is on the roof
Hurry high butterfly
As clouds roll past my head
I know why the skys all cry
OMMMMMMMMMMMMM,
OMMMMMMMMMMMMM,
Heaven,
OMMMMMMMMMMMMM.

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Just as new life will come from death, love will come at leisure.
Love of love, love of life and giving without measure
Gives in return a wonderous yearn of a promise almost seen.
Live hand-in-hand and together we'll stand on the threshold of a dream.

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Man, the Moody Blues came up with some good shit back in the day...

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Hail Gallaxhar

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Leaf
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This is not a post.
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این نیز بگذرد

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Jahlove
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<opens Third Eye. Applies mascara>

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saxineno
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I'm posting by not posting...

...I'm not posting by posting

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Zappa
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Oh Fly,
why die,
when winter
is nigh?

(with apologies to Chas Munford in whose profound literary work this reflection on life and death was first published)

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and mayhap this too: http://broken-moments.blogspot.co.nz/

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Ariel
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I have made five non-posts to this thread.

The threads I have not started are as the first flakes of winter snow on Fuji-no-Yama.

The words of those who have not posted contain sublime infinity.

In the silence of the night, a night bird cries; bamboo shoots unfurl, green ideas sleep furiously. Behold! We contemplate the universe, and the universe stares back at us all, a bemused look in its eye.

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42

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Retired, sitting back and watching others for a change.

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quote:
Originally posted by Marvin the Martian:


Man, the Moody Blues came up with some good shit back in the day...

Why do we never get an answer
When we're knocking at the door
Because the truth is hard to swallow
That's what the war of love is for

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Who is it that you seek? How then shall we live? How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land?

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Marvin the Martian

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Gill H

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This post intentionally left blank.

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*sigh* We can’t all be Alan Cresswell.

- Lyda Rose

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The Great Gumby

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Please do not read this post.

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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool. - Richard Feynman

A letter to my son about death

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Lean but do not fall.

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(Paul Sinha, BBC)

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Arrietty

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If this is the answer, what is the question?

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i-church

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fletcher christian

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Many look for the Ox
but few have ever seen him.
Has the herdsman found him on the north side of
the mountains or on the south?
The one way of light and darkness, along which
each thing goes and comes.
If the herdsman finds himself on such a path
everything is all right.
Grasp the reign harder, do not let go of the Ox!
Many, and the most subtle, faults are still not yet overcome.
Even when the herdsman cautiously draws him by the nose with the reign,
the Ox occasionally turns around and wants to go back to the wilderness.

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Staretz Silouan

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Pax Romana
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Are we back in the 70's again? If so, how did we get here? And why am I still as old as I am?

Pax Romana

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Ariel
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quote:
Originally posted by Pax Romana:
Are we back in the 70's again? If so, how did we get here? And why am I still as old as I am?

Am I mad, in a coma, or back in time?
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QLib

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quote:
Originally posted by Ariel:
quote:
Originally posted by Pax Romana:
Are we back in the 70's again? If so, how did we get here? And why am I still as old as I am?

Am I mad, in a coma, or back in time?
Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future contained in time past.
If all time is eternally present
All time is unredeemable.


T.S. Eliot Burnt Norton - Four Quartets

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Bean Sidhe
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Where could the thread with no beginning, end?
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Arrietty

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quote:
Originally posted by Ariel:
Am I mad, in a coma, or back in time?

<sound of one flare flapping>

[ 14. May 2009, 23:20: Message edited by: Arrietty ]

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i-church

Online Mission and Ministry

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mousethief

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The thread that can be spoken is not the true thread.

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This is the last sig I'll ever write for you...

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Piglet
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[Confused]

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I may not be on an island any more, but I'm still an islander.
alto n a soprano who can read music

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