--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], Rick Archer <groups@> > quoted Mark Morford, who said many wise things, the wisest > being: > > > > Or you can easily argue that we are discovering shocking > > new wonders every day but we have merely lost the ability > > to be surprised, that given our media and our movies and > > our terrific level of sad jaded ennui, nothing short of > > giant amorphous aliens landing here in vagina-shaped > > spacecraft and declaring the disastrous experiment over > > and ushering everyone back into the jar would shake us > > from our intellectual and spiritual lethargy. > > . . . > > > > Maybe the dolphins already know. But we just haven't > > learned to listen. > > Mark, in his usual funny way, nails the same issue > I noticed when "catching up" with a few weeks of > FFL. One of the phrases that struck me while doing > this was, "Fairfield Life seems to be the kind of > place where people come to talk about the spiritual > experiences of others when they're not having any > of their own." > > So many people are searching for something *flashy*, > something extraordinary that will shake them out > of the boredom of their lives. Crop circles, "true" > levitation, golden glowing visions of Brahman > dancing a jig, saviors showing up and speaking > all the languages of Earth at once as they tell > us what to do and how to do it. > > In other words, childish fantasies along the lines > of waiting with 'bated breath for the next Star Wars > movies so that the special effects can take us out > of ourselves for a couple of hours, and we don't > have to remember that most of the other hours have > been pretty boring, because *we* have grown boring, > because *we* have grown bored. > > I'd suspect that the great revelation Mark is talk- > ing about will be far more individual, and far more > Zen. It'll consist of people finally noticing the > wonder of breathing in and breathing out, and of > the sound of the wind in the trees, and the way light > dances on the surface of water as they walk along a > river. It'll involve an appreciation of the sound of > children's laughter and our own laughter, not some > big booming Maitreya-voice from the sky telling us > more stuff to convince us that we "know" things. > > You are not very well informed. My suggestion is that you brush up your knowledge before you write.
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