Abishai
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Post by Abishai on Oct 5, 2004 18:20:06 GMT -5
Here's another little story for you then, it makes you think a little. Or it may be.
There once was an old man who was a farmer. He had one son, and only one horse. One night the farmer neglected to close his corral and his horse ran away. His son approached him the next day and said "Father I'm so sorry, your horse has run away." His father replied that it just happened. The next day the corral was full of wild mustangs that the farmers horse had brought back. The son approached, "Father I am grateful for your good fortune." The father replied in exactly the same fashion. "It just happened." The next morning the son was tying to 'break' one of the mustangs and was thrown from his horse, breaking his leg in the process. The man's neighbors approached saying they were sorry for his loss. The farmer replied that it just happened. The next day a band of rebels swept through the area drafting ABLE BODIED men into their ranks. . . .
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Post by Cobra5 on Oct 6, 2004 9:09:59 GMT -5
Something like that happened to my uncle. He was really high-ranking in the green beret... I'm talking, he can't even tell us one war story, 'cuase he's not allowed... anyway, just before the vietnam war, he was working on his car, and cut his arm wide open. Massive gash, he needed to go to te hospital and all that kind of stuff. Just a couple days later he was supposed to head out to war (although he didn't know that untill after he cut his arm). I'm pretty sure he ended up going anyway, but at a later date. But still... kinda the same thing
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Post by Abishai on Oct 6, 2004 10:45:58 GMT -5
It's an example of Budhist philosophy. Things just happen. There is no reason to hang on to anything. Nothing is really good or bad, it just is.
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Post by BugHunter on Oct 6, 2004 12:22:07 GMT -5
I think all things happen for a reason, whether it be good or bad. And that is a good point to not cling onto material things, though it may be tough. Oh how tough it be.... But what are you're thoughts on the wise man story?
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Post by Abishai on Oct 6, 2004 12:42:47 GMT -5
I'm not sure. I really don't think that people intend to be good or evil. I think that people just assume that they are one or the other. As far as the story goes, I think the attitude that the old man has is kind of impossible in the real world. An example would be 9/11 with his attitude America would have just limped away from it going, "Oh, it happened".
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Post by BugHunter on Oct 6, 2004 14:42:07 GMT -5
huh? are you talkin about the wise man or the farmer?
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Post by Abishai on Oct 7, 2004 10:36:09 GMT -5
The farmer in essence is a wise man is he not?
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Post by BugHunter on Oct 7, 2004 11:38:34 GMT -5
i guess, but can i get a real reaction to the story of my wise man that i took the trouble of posting on the forum, i mean sheesh! Why do you do always have to do this to me! WHY! WHYYYYYYYY!!!!!?
just kidding, hehehe.
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Post by Abishai on Oct 7, 2004 11:56:30 GMT -5
It is similar to another Budhist story about a man that dreams that he is dreaming. He wakes up questions if he has really woken up, or if he is still dreaming. Philosophical, rhetorical questions, interesting aren't they?
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Post by BugHunter on Oct 7, 2004 12:47:09 GMT -5
huh? I think you're analyzing a wee bit too much... And what the heck does dreaming have to do with my wise man? All my story is about is old wisdom telling naive youth that the end result of the questions that they ask is up to them to create. I dont know what the heck you talkin about
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Post by Abishai on Oct 7, 2004 13:40:17 GMT -5
*LMFAO* Don't take philosophy in college.
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Post by Coral on Oct 7, 2004 18:38:15 GMT -5
I take philosophy in middle school. I learned that technology is evil and that all computer-users should be smashed to death....
Unfortunately, the teacher was showing that philosophy on a computer, so we dont have that class anymore...
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Post by BugHunter on Oct 7, 2004 19:52:49 GMT -5
Hey, i can philosophize, man. But whatever you said i think is completely unrelated.
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Post by Abishai on Oct 8, 2004 10:29:47 GMT -5
Both stories were rhetorical in nature. That's what I was getting at.
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Post by BugHunter on Oct 8, 2004 10:59:29 GMT -5
okaaayy.... but at least they make sense
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