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Getting Hummed   July 3, 2008 04:38 PM 
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About helping those people that ask for help.

Ummm

Don't really know. It depends how strong you're feeling and if you know anything about what they're asking for. If you don't know about their inquiry, I would tell them that. If they need help because someone is going to shoot them on their own lawn, you have just become a witness to their consternation and when the police become involved you will be instrumental in the conviction of so and so bla bla bla...

So you have to weigh the extent of which you are able to help someone.

Often you'll find that old woman or man falling on the sidewalk or the stranded hermaphroditic worm wiggling in a puddle. In these instances there is no question that, if you are not disabled yourself, you can help them to a bench or an nice patch of dirt.

There was once a wise old saying that made it up on this board once in a while...

"If they show up, bill em".

But I fail to see how a worm or frail old person falling on a sidewalk is billable. I think the whole reward in these cases is the fact that you are an able bodied and consciously aware entity that has found a purpose for your ability. There ya go.

 


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Getting Hummed   July 3, 2008 12:57 PM 
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Good on the Columbian dudes getting the women and guys out of 6 years of whatever they were doing there.

Why don't people just get along. Its far more efficient, and profitable for all.

 


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Getting Hummed   July 3, 2008 12:10 PM 
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Getting Hummed

 


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Nuse   July 3, 2008 10:27 AM 
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Great News from Bogata Columbia !

Check out stories of current rescue of hostages from rebel captivity.

 


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  July 3, 2008 10:21 AM 
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.. Rapid changes in the churning movement of Earth's liquid outer core are weakening the magnetic field in some regions of the planet's surface, a new study says...

 


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  July 3, 2008 10:14 AM 
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Ordinariness

Sometimes it happens that you become one, in some rare moment. Watch the ocean, the tremendous wildness of it--and suddenly you forget your split, your schizophrenia; you relax. Or, moving in the Himalayas, seeing the virgin snow on the Himalayan peaks, suddenly a coolness surrounds you and you need not be false because there is no other human being to be false to. You fall together. Or, listening to beautiful music, you fall together. Whenever, in whatsoever situation, you become one, a peace, a happiness, a bliss, surrounds you, arises in you. You feel fulfilled. There is no need to wait for these moments--these moments can become your natural life. These extraordinary moments can become ordinary moments - that is the whole effort of Zen. You can live an extraordinary life in a very ordinary life: cutting wood, chopping wood, carrying water from the well, you can be tremendously at ease with yourself. Cleaning the floor, cooking food, washing the clothes, you can be perfectly at ease--because the whole question is of you doing your action totally, enjoying, delighting in it.

Osho Dang Dang Doko Dang Chapter 3 Commentary:

This figure walking in nature shows us that beauty can be found in the simple, ordinary things of life. We so easily take this beautiful world we live in for granted. Cleaning the house, tending the garden, cooking a meal--the most mundane tasks take on a sacred quality when they are performed with your total involvement, with love, and for their own sake, without thought of recognition or reward. You are facing a time now when this easy, natural and utterly ordinary approach to the situations you encounter will bring far better results than any attempt on your part to be brilliant, clever, or otherwise extra-ordinary. Forget all about making headlines by inventing the latest widget, or dazzling your friends and colleagues with your unique star quality. The special gift you have to offer now is presented best by just taking things easily and simply, one step at a time.

 


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Susie Lee [email July 3, 2008 07:22 AM 
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Just last week my daughter and her beau moved into their first house about 2 miles from ours, nice quiet suburban area. For part of her housewarming among other things i got her a top-flight set of kitchen carving knives. We were joking around with the four biggest ones (the sizes of Roman short swords :) about how, if you had any suspicions about any local strangers you could bring one of the "short swords" with you to the door as though you'd just been busy with it in the kitchen and casually display it to your stranger's gaze while asking "can I HELP you?".

I know from long ago experience that a young woman handling a large knife tends to make good guys nervous and bad guys even more nervous. However one can't be responsible for the misapprehensions and vivid imaginations of others.

 


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  July 3, 2008 06:14 AM 
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I agree Nuse. Sometimes it gets ya good too...LOL!

And a Good Morning to yoouuuuuuse!

Aqua

 


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mark   July 2, 2008 10:17 PM 
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usenu. i am not sure about somethin' stalkin' me. maybe i ought to get a taser. and save it for our anniversary.

cool legna!

 


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Nuse   July 2, 2008 09:22 PM 
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From my experience, Love comes and Gets Ya.

It's not really something you can plan.

 


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  July 2, 2008 08:53 PM 
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X- "What's a straight woman ?"

Y

 


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Angel   July 2, 2008 08:49 PM 
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Kram; I loved it..

 


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mark   July 2, 2008 08:48 PM 
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geez angel, i was hopin' you'd love it. snicker

 


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Angel   July 2, 2008 08:08 PM 
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Mark, I liked that angel..

 


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Angel   July 2, 2008 08:07 PM 
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Of course I love my horses and children..and my place, the nature..but to fall in love with a man i simply beautiful.. ( if you are a straight woman )

:-)

 

  
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