2009-02-29 - Pat Pat Pat

Brain.Damage · Joined: 05 Mar 2007 Posts: 1336

I doubt you have the credentials to be calling it, or rather anything, trash.

The Bible and like texts are great giant swamps of interpretation, you pull from it's depths whatever you want.

Or maybe I should say, it's like an abstract painting... your own personality divines the meaning.

There's what the writers intended... and then there's your perception, if you're going to spend your days complaining about someone else's interpretation that's your own business... but I doubt its going to make you happy.
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Chocolatefan · Joined: 19 Feb 2008 Posts: 253

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netsplit · Joined: 13 Jan 2008 Posts: 76

This comic reminds me a of Zen Koan I once read. Hopefully I don't mess the telling of it up. Admittedly I'm taking a little creative license with part of it.

Once there was an undefeated fighter. He was known through out the land as practically invincible. His strategy was he'd say terrible things to bait his opponent into making the first move. Then he'd use a devistating counter attack he developed. Well he came to the village of a Zen master, a frail old man, looking for challengers. The Zen master ended up accepting his challenge.

They stepped into the ring. The fighter talked about his mother and implied she liked goats in an impure way. The Zen master just smiled sweetly at him. The fighter said the master liked Celine Dion's music, and even implied he liked Nickleback. Not even these grievous slurs could jostle the master's smile. The fighter got up in the old man's face and repeated the annoying commercial "head on apply directly to the forehead". He ate garlic and breathed in the old man's face. The old man just looked at him with the same sincerely sweet smile. The fighter became frustrated, and then enraged. Finally giving up, storming out in a cloud frustrated defeat.

The town asked the Zen master how his frail old man self did it. He simply replied "If you give a gift to someone, and the they won't accept it. Then you have to keep it for yourself."

Basically what Buddha did to little E

Sojobo · Joined: 11 Jul 2006 Posts: 2487

That is not a koan.
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netsplit · Joined: 13 Jan 2008 Posts: 76

You're right I did misspeak in calling it a koan.

However the rest of it stands. Especially the part about Nickleback being a grievous slur.:p

sojourner · Joined: 12 Sep 2007 Posts: 366 Location: down a' shore

godsfire · Joined: 15 Mar 2008 Posts: 2

This comic changed my life. Seriously...I went to work the next day and apologized to a coworker for treating them unfairly in the past. I realized how unjust and spiteful I behaved just by seeing Buddha console devil.