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betsy mctiernan's avatar

In this one you definitely hit a home run--actually hit the ball out of the park. While I have learned a lot by contemplating buddhist 4 noble truths--and stumbling along the path in my own time and style, I agree with much you say here.

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TERRANCE MANION's avatar

I've done some navel gazing--never at my own, I assure you--and I agree with both your diagnosis and your simplistic, but OH SO EFFECTIVE, prescription for peace, harmony and a big-ass bowl-o-rice wih lotta nice tidbits of avocado, black oil-cured olives and just a hint of lysergic acid diethylmide--say a gram, or so.

I tend toward the CSNY instruction. "Teach your children well".

As I have no children--and that's a net good thing, trust me--I try to NOT teach other people's children.

George Carlin's, "Two Commandments" comes to mind.

"And so, with all of this in mind, folks, I offer you my revised list of the Two Commandments:

First:

•THOU SHALT ALWAYS BE HONEST AND FAITHFUL, ESPECIALLY

TO THE PROVIDER OF THY NOOKIE.

And second:

•THOU SHALT TRY REAL HARD NOT TO KILL ANYONE, UNLESS,

OF COURSE, THEY PRAY TO A DIFFERENT INVISIBLE MAN

THAN THE ONE YOU PRAY TO."

Since I'm an atheist, that second part of the second one is pretty ignorable--much like the first clause of the only sentence that comprises the entirety of the U.S. 2nd Amendment.

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