From: Sam Norton (elizaphanian@kohath.wanadoo.co.uk)
Date: Fri Jan 28 2005 - 18:39:43 GMT
Hi DMB,
> dmb says:
> I'm tempted to go off on an imaginary journey back to the days of the
> caveman, in cold, starving winter, when the best thing to do is lay under
> warm, heavy fur and dream your brains out, but I'll skip all that. Let's
> just say it seems obvious to me that philosophy grew out of some very
> basic
> human experiences. Philosophy was invented by a guy who'd been asleep and
> half-dead for several weeks. When he emerged from the darkness of the cave
> and began to speak, his elegant and fasicinating reports were accompanied
> by
> the worst case of morning-breath ever. He was enlightened, but he
> desperately needed a toothbrush. Halitoseus Trismegastice was his name.
> His
> auspicous countenance glow with the dharmakaya light, but you definately
> wouldn't want him to kiss you, not without a little mouthwash first.
> That's
> how the mystical secret was lost. No one wanted to let him get close
> enough
> to whisper. "Write it down", they said, hoping to avoid the offensive
> odor.
> Problem was, the written language hadn't been invented yet. Poof! It was
> gone. Neo-lithic oral hygiene, or rather the lack of it, doomed Western
> civilizaton to centuries of superficial materialism and spiritual exile.
I'm working my way through some fairly heavy philosophical posts, and come
across this, which is so refreshing. Thank you.
Sam
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