My chosen subject is EMOTICONS!
--- In Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com, Merle Lester <merlewiitpom@...> wrote:
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> Â right!!!!!!!... so what's your chosen topic?...merle
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> Mike
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> Well, that would depend on whether you wish to have a discussion and stick to
> the topic or traipse off into unrelated matters, wouldn't it?
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> Mike
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> From: Merle Lester <merlewiitpom@...>;
> To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com <Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com>;
> Subject: Re: [Zen] the painted snake
> Sent: Mon, Aug 26, 2013 3:12:54 AM
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> Â are you directing me what to do and post?... please clarify..merle
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> Merle,
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> Hey, since when did you become the official forum entertainment officer? Fun
> and nonsense is fine (and I hardly think I could be accused of having no
> sense of humour), but you jumped from the middle of a discussion on the lack
> of a need for a creator god to 'painting legs on a snake' as being fun.
> Doesn't that ring your non-sequitur alarm bell? At least address/finish a
> topic before starting a new one. Or is that too conversation-nazi for you?
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> Mike
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> From: Merle Lester <merlewiitpom@...>;
> To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com <Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com>;
> Subject: Re: [Zen] the painted snake
> Sent: Mon, Aug 26, 2013 2:31:44 AM
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> Â i bit of nonsense never hurt anyone... all seriousness can lead to
> fanaticism and text book devotees... be careful..lest you fall into the
> trap..merle
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> Merle,
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> Is it National Non-Sequitur Week in Australia, or something?
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> Mike
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> From: Merle Lester <merlewiitpom@...>;
> To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com <Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com>;
> Subject: Re: [Zen] the painted snake
> Sent: Sun, Aug 25, 2013 1:06:17 PM
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> mike ... lighten up... where is your sense of humour?..merle
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> Case in point: I just typed in random letters and the spell-checker did the
> rest. See how you (we) imagine things that aren't there without agreed upon
> rules of communication? I understand that Zen masters and poets can turn such
> rules on their head to make a point, but we were still communicating a point
> within the thread (that a god is unnecessary for the creation and running of
> the universe). To talk about painting legs on snakes for the fun of it is a
> non-sequitur at best and just nonsense at worst.
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> Mike
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> From: Merle Lester <merlewiitpom@...>;
> To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com <Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com>;
> Subject: Re: [Zen] the painted snake
> Sent: Sun, Aug 25, 2013 9:41:55 AM
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> Â ah ha..now your experiencing the original buddha nature...well done Â
> mike..." sleep tight don't let the bed bugs bite"..Â
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> what's that about the ship of doom i read ? and wiki leaks....
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> is ya ship come in?
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> .signing out at 7:38pm..elrem..(all zen up and on fire)
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> Exnnhj,
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> Hertl njjik ddfoim doom wiki kklko ujji p ship.
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> Njiik
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> From: Merle Lester <merlewiitpom@...>;
> To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com <Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com>;
> Subject: Re: [Zen] the painted snake
> Sent: Sun, Aug 25, 2013 9:31:48 AM
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> Â from the original buddha nature..where else do you suppose?..what rules
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> there you go rules  regulations and conventions and in the next breath you
> deny being a textbook fanatic... huh?..merle
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> I hardly think employing the basic rules and conventions of communication
> makes me a "text book fanatic". Where do you come up with these things?!!
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> From: Merle Lester <merlewiitpom@...>;
> To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com <Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com>;
> Subject: Re: [Zen] the painted snake
> Sent: Sun, Aug 25, 2013 9:22:32 AM
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> Â i see..your a text book fanatic..lordi be...merle
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> Simply because your's is not the meaning of the phrase as it relates to Zen
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> From: Merle Lester <merlewiitpom@...>;
> To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com <Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com>;
> Subject: Re: [Zen] the painted snake
> Sent: Sun, Aug 25, 2013 9:12:45 AM
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> Â yes mike..i know your meaning..however you refuse point blank to see mine..
> why?..merle
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> Merle,
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> The meaning of 'painting legs on a snake' indicates the pointlessness of
> giving something it doesn't need and can do without. It has nothing to do
> with 'having fun'. My original point still stands that the universe works
> perfectly well without giving it imaginary fairy-stories as to how it works.
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> Mike
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> From: Merle Lester <merlewiitpom@...>;
> To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com <Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com>;
> Subject: [Zen] the painted snake
> Sent: Sun, Aug 25, 2013 8:09:34 AM
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> i do not follow the norm.. do you mike?.... painting legs on a snake i do it
> because i can and it's fun...try it.. the snake wont bite you if that's
> what's worrying you..merle
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> Your definition is meaningless though and certainly not in accord with how
> most people define 'God'. The universe works just fine without such a belief.
> Why paint legs on a snake?
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> Mike
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> Â rubbish...you missed the point then .....
> the forest is god..the forest and the people are one..
> .god, forest and people are all in harmony..it's called life!!!!!!!!...Â
> god is life...Â
> what the hell did you think god was?...
>  merle..not the old man with a long white beard syndrome? or some other
> equally absurd notion?
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> Watched it. Yep, no god.
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> Â mike ..you have missed the boat...( the point)... watch the brazilian tribe
> doc..then tell me "there is no "god"...merle
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> Merle,
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> Just because belief in a god gives comfort it doesn't make it true.
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> Mike
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> From: Merle Lester <merlewiitpom@...>;
> To: Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com <Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com>;
> Subject: Re: [Zen] Re: the human body
> Sent: Sun, Aug 25, 2013 1:23:16 AM
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> Â mike..explain yourself please..
> and KG.... not true...on a beautiful spring day one rejoices and gives thanks
> that one has eyes to see and ears to hear and a tongue to speak..merle
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> And comfort is only sought when dis-eased.Â
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> KG
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> On 8/24/2013 4:19 AM, uerusuboyo@... wrote:
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> >Merle,
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> >Utility is no measure of Truth.
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> >Mike
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