Bob, OMG, where have you been hiding all these days Bob - love the sarcasm and humor in your post - please keep posting - yeah Tom Pall and all that. Welcome back to FFL !!
--- In [email protected], Bob Price <bobpriced@...> wrote: > > Tom, > > I don't think you know me and I hope I don't upset you, heaven forbid. But > I've > been pondering most of the night about how I could do something positive to > help > Tom and MZ's relationship. More specifically, how I might convince you to > make > amends to MZ. > > But before I go on, if you've read any of my stuff you know I'm a terrible > digress'er (SIC), I have to take exception with something I thought you said. > I > may have misunderstood, but did you say Tim Leary could write? Don't get me > wrong, I love Tim Leary. Maharishi took five years to show me the light that > Tim > lead me to in one night. Tim could do many things, turn on a generation, > escape > prison, avoid getting murdered by Eldridge Cleaver, survive having Charles > Mansion in the cell next to him, attract drop dead beautiful women till the > day > he died, intimidate Ram Dass, successfully, in my opinion, template The > Tibetan > Book of the Dead over an acid trip, I guess I don't need to go on, but good > writing was not part of his formidable arsenal. Talking certainly was, but > writing, don't think so. > > On the other hand, some of us think the old Zebra is an exceptional writer > and > that will be true no matter how many spitballs you throw at him. Granted most > of > us need a dictionary and thesaurus to keep up to him but hell with Google > that's > not an impediment. Unlike what you seem to be implying, I think he may have > waited 24 years for the technology to make it easier for us. > > I know I run the risk of being lumped in with MZ and Ravi but frankly I was > disappointed that you didn't include me in that list. As a fellow > practitioner > of the dark art of sarcasm (from the Greek, Sarc, meaning to draw blood) you > know ignoring someone is the most painful of insults. And frankly no one > seems > to be ignoring the Zebra. (Come on Turq, admit it that you're reading > everything > that MZ posts. Its getting a bit boring around here, some of us are looking > for > a real dust up and we think MZ is up to speed and punching in his weight > class). > Granted, he's not pithy but you know no one has been pithy since Twain or > maybe > Wilde. I think the correct term for what passes for pithy on FFL is sarcasm > although I think Judy, Turq and sal get close sometimes. The Zebra on the > other > hand is not sarcastic, my suspicion is the his EI is too high for that. > > Sorry about that, this is looking like the mother of all digressions. > > Back to the point. > > So when I was pondering how to convince you of the power of an amends, as > tasty > as a good nights sleep. I was thinking about what you said and how much I > like > Robins writing. How he reminds me of some old Maronite Saint walking over the > Shuf mountains to preach to the multitude (sorry can't get King Tony and the > party hats out of my head). Lets just say MZ reminds my of the majesty of a > bonsai tree. > > And that's when it hit me. > > The I Ching! > > It was so obvious, "I'll throw the I Ching". MZwrites a bit like the I Ching > and > who will question the I Ching's sincerity. > > So Tom I asked the following question, threw the coins (wife won't let me > take > yarrow stalks on trips) and got the following hexagrams. I'm hoping it helps > because frankly I think I have a lot to learn from you, you also know how to > punctuate, but I'm not willing to lose MZ for a whole week. I have any number > of > questions for him, like God leaving the building, Constantine and St. Paul, > just > to name a few. So please Tom, loosen up! > > Question to the I Ching: > > "What is the best way to encourage Tom to make amends to MZ"? > > The hexagrams > > 9 - HsiaoCh'u (The Taming Power of the Small) > > changing to > > 37 Chia Jen / The Family (The Clan) > > I'm sure many on FFL have a old copy of the I Ching buried under something. > So I > won't bother with the commentary, if you think MZ writes like the Urantia > book > try reading the commentary. > > So just the high points > > 9 - HsiaoCh'u (The Taming Power of the Small) > > The Judgement > > The taming power of the small > Has Success > Dense Clouds, no rain from our western region. > > The Image > > The wind drives across heaven: > The image of The Taming Power of the Small > Thus the Superior man > Refines the outward aspect of his nature > > Changing lines: (thank God there is only one) > > Nine in the second place means: > > He allows himself to be drawn into returning > Good fortune > > Changing to: > > 37-The Family (The Clan) > > The Judgement > > The Family. The perseverance of the woman furthers. > > > The Image > > Wind comes forth from fire: > The image of The Family > Thus the superior man has substance in his words > And duration in his way of life. > > > The reference to fire really jumped out at me. I've battled with anger most > of > my life. I've come to believe that my passion and love of Agni is where it > comes > from. That said, I've found the power of "I'm Sorry" changes everything. > > Got to run, the wife is up and she wants to mediate. > > PS: Maybe you could go web based for better filtering functionality. LOL > > > > > > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Tom Pall <thomas.pall@...> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Fri, July 1, 2011 5:44:28 AM > Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: another question for MZ, and maybe William > of > Occam > > > On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 3:34 AM, Ravi Yogi <raviyogi@...> wrote: > > > > > >MZ, ignore Tom - he hates everyone so it's nothing personal. > > > >--- In [email protected], Tom Pall <thomas.pall@> wrote: > >> > > > >> RC, don't place limits on yourself like that. Take next week and the week > >> after and the week after. > >> > >> But Nature's already taking its course. You're quickly becoming irrelevant > >> here just as you've become irrelevant wherever you've squatted. Soon all > >> that be left behind will be some rotting turds, a God awful stench and > >> flies. > >> > > > > > Quite right. Nothing personal. I actually was looking forward to the time > when > the great legend RC would/could come to visit. I thought he must be a really > cool dude, having done all of that. But instead he was just another Lory, > another Ravi: Hey everyone. I'm going to sit at the keyboard and free > associate, write nothing coherent but make up for the incoherence in the > volume > of non-sequitor words, sentences, paragraphs and pages I produce. You see, > when > you've had experiences like I've had, when you've been enlightened, you no > longer need to nor can write the in vernacular, no longer need to use the > idiom > of the common, rather highly educated FFLer. If we can't make out what > you're > writing, it's because you are so high above us, so very special and well, > it's > so ineffable that you need to pick random words out of philosophy texts as > you > type along. Maharishi didn't find this important. He we call Guru Dev > didn't > find this important. SSRS, Amma, Christ did not find this important. Nor > did > the God who spoke to Abraham. Nor Shankara. Nor Tim Leary. But you are > something very special, beyond all of those and we need to struggle to just > to > try to make a bit of sense out of what you set down on the screen. The shear > struggle we put forth might help us climb a bit of the ladder to your level. > > How interesting that we have to struggle our way up the side of a cliff, draw > ourselves up a steep ladder when it's actually all about getting from here to > here. > > Nothing personal about quantity of words produced. Barry Wright often fills > pages. Though his messages ever have a slam against TM, Americans (which he, > BTW, happens to be) and Judy, he writes compelling stuff in prose where every > sentence is terse and tight, one sentence leads to the next, paragraphs tie > together, the whole makes sense. But Barry Wright doesn't put yourself in > your > class, Thank God. > > I don't care if you had a romance with Maharishi. In fact, I don't care if > you > two walked the beach hand in hand saying sweet nothings to each other. Nor > that > you launched a campaign against Maharishi and his TMO. I actually prefer > that > sort of behavior and history compared to the blissninny postings we get here > about this or that TMO event. > > > Yes, I have lots of hates. One hate is someone who comes to a forum where > people communicate with each other, mostly. The politics can be bizarre, the > philosophies can be bizarre, the life experiences are vastly different and > yes, > there are the awards for the one line zinger or the succinctly worded pithy > point summed up in a single sentence. > > It truly is nothing personal, RC. I wouldn't care if your name was actually > Daisy Mae. You, Ravi and Lory are full of shit. Or rather you three write > shit. Some are impressed with that. Surely each of you are impressed with > each > other's shit. > > > Why not just hit the delete key or put spam filters in place? Because the > way > these posts and threads work, I'll begin reading what I think is an > interesting > post about XYZ. Turns out it's a response or a response to a response to > your > keyboard diarrhea. Can't filter those out as these threads go on forever at > times. If I filter a poster to trash, the entire thread containing a post by > someone I'm filtering all wind up in the trash. A lot of fascinating stuff > is > lost that way, so I wind up going through my trash to find the otherwise good > stuff. >
