Chris,
Now you 'make' me want to see again the movie "Meet Joe Black", a reworking of
the earlier story "Death Takes a Holiday". Philosophical and fun. And some
really good casting and acting. Death and taxes figure literally, and LARGE,
in the movie!
The Buddha might have said that the two Inevitables are Suffering and Rebirth.
We all know that the final Truth of the Four Noble Truths is the program meant
to change *that* situation: The Eightfold Path.
--Joe
> Chris Austin-Lane <chris@...> wrote:
>
> I always heard death and taxes were two of the inevitably disappointing
> parts of life. I am pretty sure democracy arose as a way to make the
> inevitable taxes be chosen and spent in a somewhat more 'consent of the
> governed' sort of way, not that democracy invented taxation.
>
> Taxation without representation being the ill we oppose - taxes, like
> death, are just part of life.
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