--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "Robert Gimbel" > > <babajii_99@> > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > Therefore there have been many prophecy's of this time; > > > > > > So, the real question is: > > > > > > With so many people, expecting something like this to > > > > > > happen; > > > > > > These fanatical thought forms... > > > > > > Will there be a chance to change this apparent destiny? > > > > > > > > > > A good question. > > > > > > > > > > Not to comment on your last question (I have > > > > > no answer) but on the first statement, a couple > > > > > of the teachers I've worked with had an inter- > > > > > esting interpretation of people's fascination > > > > > with Armageddon and impending disasters and > > > > > prophecies of Huge Events and possibly even the > > > > > end of the world being right around the corner. > > > > > > > > > > They termed it 'self importance.' > > > > > > > > > > I think there is some truth in this. When there > > > > > is an upsurge in the number of people believing > > > > > that they're in the Last Days, there is prob- > > > > > ably *also* an upsurge in the self importance > > > > > of the people who believe this. "I'm so important > > > > > that these Huge Events are going to happen during > > > > > my lifetime," "Aprés moi, le deluge," and all that. > > > > > And thus there is probably a corresponding upsurge > > > > > in the *fear* that accompanies identification with > > > > > the self. > > > > > > > > > > You heard the same thing in the Middle Ages, and > > > > > in the Renaissance, and in thousands of eras in > > > > > thousands of cultures all over the planet. And > > > > > we'll probably *keep* hearing it for a long, long > > > > > time. It may be a buncha cockroaches saying it, > > > > > with no humans left, > > > > > > > > Which would mean that the last humans around before > > > > the cockroaches took over were right to believe > > > > they were so important that the Huge Events were > > > > going to happen in their lifetimes.... > > > > > > The cockroaches don't miss 'em. Neither > > > will the universe. > > > > Non sequitur. Point being that by postulating > > a human-free world dominated by cockroaches, > > you've acknowledged that the elimination of the > > human race isn't the self-important fantasy you > > were mocking to start with, but a real prospect. > > > > In other words, at some point it will no longer > > be *us* who keep hearing about the Last Days. > > Your "long, long time" won't be quite as long > > as you suggest. > > > > Never mind; it's just an editorial comment on > > the way you tend to get so carried away with > > your rhetoric that you step on your own point. > > Uh, thanks. I guess. > > It's funny you should use that term, because > before you replied I was smiling over the *other* > editorial comment you made, and noticing that > you've been making the same comment a lot lately. > You cut out the joke at the end of the post.
I wasn't commenting on the joke, editorially or otherwise. Presumably anyone who read your original post also read the joke at the end, so there was no need to quote it, especially since it was totally irrelevant to the point you thought you were making in the rest of the post. > Thanks for the offer, but if I have need of > an editor in the future, I don't think I'd > be happy with one who snips the funny parts. However, there *is* an editorial point to be made about the funny part: when it comes to jokes, getting there is half the fun. When you foul up the getting-there part, you step on the joke as well.
