> Sherrie Lee wrote:
>

>> Mark Twain, "Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you
>> may still exist, but you have ceased to live."

>

>> That's probably staring into the abyss, but one step further is
>> suicide. The other times you probably see the image, or house, or
>> walls you've built and say, This is what it means.

>
> That suicide is recommended by the discipline reconstructed (in that
> part) as Zen and overheard by a 12-year-old hookey-player as The Church.
>
> "Unless ye die, ye shall not live," yatta.
> It's an utterly poor rendition in both cases, as Zen founds
> everything on "The Void," which appears to be nothing more than the
> usual way to get rid of the conservation of natural law (as the U.S.
> asserted to have done in 1886 so that "there can be no doubt that the
> law is whatever the People Want"), and Darling Jesus overheard parts
> of Water and Air, but never even heard /of/ Earth, Homos, and Fire,
> as they weren't discussed in the entrance exam or trivium, and he
> only listened at the doorway.
> Alternatively, "Void" is merely the only "subatance" the orient
> could imagine, let alone measure, that was "everywhere the same as
> itself."
> But it can conserve nothing -- not even extension, which is what
> makes the concept (or perhaps it's only those who wallow in it) so
> amusing.
> Just as the only reason the universe "must expand or collapse" is
> that in 1886 it was Ordered to consist in Perfectly Empty Space
> ("Void") with quasi-eternal thingies (incl "souls") in it.
>
> "Soul" is a /verb/ that, like a flame, goes /out/, and for the same
> reasons.
> Indeed, it goes out every night when your head hits the pillow (if
> you put a rock in the pillow).
> A baby is a flame on the end of a brand new candle, one who has
> neither a match or a shoelace, let alone a woodpile.
> And he spends his entire life squalling that nothing is worth
> anything because the end of the fuken candle is /right down there/...
>
> So he invents this fantasy that he's gonna sitteth on the Right Hand
> A JEEZuss to have his Man-hood fondled for A-a-a- Eternity.
> Which is conveniently a Perfect Excuse for spending "This Life"
> shitting in "This World."
> Not to mention shitting on those who commit the Blasphemy of
> eating the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge.
>
> --
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> ~/:o)_|
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