--- In [email protected], Sal Sunshine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm guess I'm just not deep enough for these self-evident truths, Don. > To me it simply sounded like a jab. > > Sal >
************ Self-deprecating humor is part of every ethnic strain's way of coping with the world. Physicist Fritz Houtermans, who had the bad luck to be imprisoned and tortured by both the Soviets and the Gestapo http://northonline.sccd.ctc.edu/knowing/lecsite/Frayn/bios.html -- 3/5 of the way down the page at this link -- , even wrote a book of jokes. Sample: "When your people were still swinging in the trees, my people (speaking of his Jewish heritage) were already forging checks." > On Mar 20, 2005, at 12:03 AM, Donald Sosin wrote: > > > y point in relating this joke was not to make jabs at groups, > > especially a group of which I am a member, but rather > > to make a comparison between people second-guessing Maharishi's > > statements and thinking they have the odds figured > > on when Sat-Yuga will materialize or not, when sidhas will levitate, > > etc. > > > > I would have thought this was self-evident. > > To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
