god forbid bill...don't wind me up..drones...... go to the office eh...sit at 
computer kill a few hundred go home relax... disgusting!..merle


  
Merle,

...but we've got drones.  Doesn't that count for something?

...Bill!

--- In [email protected], Merle Lester <merlewiitpom@...> wrote:
>
>  joe...what the hell does this mean?...see a snip of your post below
> 
> i'll have you know in many circles here in the down under land, americans  
> are not number one on the hit parade...
> the war mongering, the obesity,  inability to achieve a universal medicare, 
> your lack of welfare support for the unemployed, the tea party mob...
> the catch cry: god bless america..as if there are no other nations or 
> people's elsewhere on this earth, does not sit well..
> 
> so how the hell can you tell me americans are more advanced in the practise 
> of zen?... american style zen?  
> 
> i may have this all upside down and back the front..
> however it erks me to constantly be hearing america.. "america the land of 
> the free" when you have 40 million living in poverty... 
> and the  right to carry guns..(how absurd)... it's not the wild west 
> anymore!!!!!... you've "killed off " all the indians
> 
> yes that's politics, yes that's your economy...and nothing at all to do with 
> zen..
> ok but don't give me the dribble that americans are more advanced in zen..
> 
> have you done a survey?..where is your statistical evidence that this is so...
> don't just make it up and believe us the "stupid " ones who bumble along in 
> our zen like struggle ... except to stand up and listen..absurd..
> 
> to me zen is getting to the nitty gritty.a bit like bingo..i got it...a flash 
> of lightening... 
> i have expressed before that sitting in dusty halls  reeking of incense on 
> hand woven cloth cushions  and holy than holy zen folk..is no different than 
> any other "institutions"...
> it does not always cut the mustard so to speak..
> 'one may find that enlightened, bingo moment... when one least expect ...
> it's something akin to the christian "grace" if i may be so bold... 
> well anyway that's my take on it...and proven otherwise i'm sticken to it... 
> at my age of 67..time is a running out..
> i'll be joining the many carcasses they cut up at the medical school for 
> research and teaching purposes...
> and i say what's more zen than that for a dead person..
> enjoy your day ..
> merle
> 
> >
> >
> >Compared to / with her posts, Americans are more advanced in practice than 
> >you and me.
> >
> >
> > --Joe.
> >
>


 

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