--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], Lsoma@ wrote: > > > > In a message dated 2/19/2007 6:02:52 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, > > jflanegi@ writes: > > > > --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (mailto:[email protected]) > > , TurquoiseB <no_reply@> > > wrote: > > > > > > * Curtis will hook up with a gorgeous babe named Bambi > > > who will suck the chrome off his favorite mouth harp > > > and leave him for an investment banker named Sheldon. > > > > > > * Rick's karma for starting this forum will finally > > > catch up to him, and he will be committed to a psych > > > ward, where everyone will call him Vaj. > > > > > > * MDixon will be reborn as a liberal, and will feel > > > guilty about it for that entire lifetime. > > > > > > * Willytex will contract a social disease from one of > > > his prairie dog "friends," and it will eat away the > > > bridge of his nose. No one will notice. > > > > > > * Bhairitu will develop an intense Tantric relationship > > > with his HD-DVD player, and as a consequence will have > > > to explain to the paramedics how his penis got caught > > > in the DVD slot. > > > > > > * Sal will become the resident hottie of her rest home, > > > and will be loved by all except the male nurses with > > > bruises on their buttocks from all the pinching. > > > > > > * Vaj will realize his full, to-the-max, fully-certified > > > enlightenment, and will be somewhat disappointed by it. > > > > > > * Cardemaister will arrive in Heaven to find that no one > > > there speaks Sanskrit, and will have to work for eternity > > > as a translator. > > > > > > * Tom T. will be jailed for making Byron Katie puns, > > > but will find love with a cellmate named Bubba. > > > > > > * Bob B. will have an epiphany and realize that the > > > world's progress towards Sat Yuga is not being retarded > > > by Maharishi to protect it from too fast a change, but > > > because the world itself is retarded and couldn't care > > > less about Sat Yuga. > > > > > > * Nablusos, upon his death, will ascend to the 12th > > > dimension, and will look down on everyone there. > > > > > > * Peter Klutz will be reborn in a world in which every- > > > one really IS out to get him. > > > > > > * Lou will be visiting Israel when the UFOs arrive, and > > > will board a spaceship that bears the name, "To Serve Man." > > > > > > * Jim will find that everything he's ever believed, about > > > anything, is false, but will react by saying, "Zzzzzzzzz." > > > > > > * Sparaig will become a noted scientist and will prove > > > conclusively that white rats cause cancer. > > > > > > * Peter will make history by being the first Floridian > > > to successfully psychoanalyze an alligator and live. > > > > > > * Judy will go to her grave never having seen Mel > > > Gibson's 'Apocalypto, Gibson's 'Apocalypto,<WBR>' so > > > that she was "right" about trashing it. > > > > > > * I will go watch the latest episode of Lost and identify > > > with all of the characters simultaneously. > > > > Yes! You nailed it. > > > > > > I love this. Very creative and a good laugh for a change. Lsoma. > > Thanks for getting it. Like almost all funny writing, > it just flowed off the keyboard -- no pauses, no > edits -- in less than three minutes. I've always > found that interjecting humor into a situation that > far too many people are taking far too seriously is > a great measure of spiritual seekers' flexibility, > and their ability to shift their state of attention > in a moment and laugh -- at themselves, at the things > they sometimes take too seriously, and at the world > they find themselves in. Those who can are worthy > of conversing with; those who can't, well...
Some of us, Barry, have the ability to laugh *and also* take seriously those things that warrant it. The interesting serious thing about what "flowed off" your keyboard here is that your quips about people you don't have any beefs with were all light, purely humorous, whereas the ones about those you do have beefs with were putdowns disguised as humor.
