Posted on 06/06/2007 12:34:50 PM PDT by G. Stolyarov II
Most people are astonished when I tell them that I would like to live forever. "Would that not get extremely boring after a long time?" many of them ask. I respond, "Being dead - sensing nothing, thinking nothing, feeling nothing - would be far more boring. Besides, one is dead forever; once one is dead, one cannot simply recognize the misfortune of one's situation and decide that one will not be dead anymore." An absence of everything is far more boring than a presence of anything.
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One must experience that before reaching such a conclusion... (IMO) :-)
So I jump ship in Hong Kong and make my way over to Tibet, and I get on as a looper at a course over in the Himalayas. A looper, you know, a caddy, a looper, a jock. So, I tell them I’m a pro jock, and who do you think they give me? The Dalai Lama, himself. Twelfth son of the Lama. The flowing robes, the grace, bald... striking. So, I’m on the first tee with him. I give him the driver. He hauls off and whacks one-—big hitter, the Lama-—long, into a ten-thousand foot crevasse, right at the base of this glacier. Do you know what the Lama says? Gunga galunga... gunga, gunga-galunga. So we finish the eighteenth and he’s gonna stiff me. And I say, “Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know.” And he says, “Oh, uh, there won’t be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consiousness.” So I got that goin’ for me, which is nice.
You might already be living forever, but how would you know?
The Lama system was set up by the Chinese in the first place as a buffer against outside forces. Nothing got through that.
The problem is, once one experiences it, it is impossible for one to decide that one dislikes it and opt for one's previous state.
I am
G. Stolyarov II
I prefer the certain expectation of life eternal with the Lord Jesus, although as they say, “Heaven’s my home, but I ain’t homesick”.
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