OT Funeral readings

Fookin'ell, not arf.

I have a cunning plan...
I'm going to revisit all the reading material I've been through in
my search for new computer hardware. This time adopting a reading
attitude of rigorous theme-oriented nonliteralism. It's crazy, but
it just might work.

 

He'll be there in spirit.

 

I think it was translated from Persian by Babelfish.

 

you've got to wonder if the mystics realise how ironic it is that when
a rationalist tells them they're wrong, they can't mount a rational
rebuttal.

 

Ok, I'll bite.

"It's blatantly obvious to the initiate that the mystery religions have
in common the use of entheogens that produce the experiencing and
phenomena that are so fantastically allegorized in mythic form as
miracles..."

I gave up after that.

To whom is it blatenyly obvious, exactly? Not I.

 

Oh no he wont

 

that'd certainly **** it up, as Gibran wrote it in English.

 

D'oh. My copy is on loan.

 

Planning on dying are you?

Me I have better things to do than **** about worrying what the likes of
you lot would be saying about me after I am gone.

Try concentrating on what you have now, it is called life so fucking
live it.

 

You'll have missed this bit then

"These two positions, "science" and "religion" as conceived in the mid
20th Century, are part of the same thing, the same stunted way of
thinking. Such scientists are, in the end, every bit as dimwitted,
blindly ignorant, and narrow-minded as the religionists they battle
against and define themselves in terms of."

 

Er, I think it boils down to:

Any fule know, religious nutters taking drugs claim all
sorts of weird and wonderful shit happens.

<fx:hopeful> Yes?

 

<goes to library to fetch huge pile of books>

<pokes Fisher and Launchbury - wanna play?>

 

It's a good rule of thumb not to take reading recommendations from an
Earth Mother.

 

Well done for getting that far

Ah but you're not an initiate <g>

 

NP. I think you should know that you are morphing into Magrat Garlick in
my minds eye.

 

Well I never. Another short-circuited neuron. Amazing how the stuff you
think you know turns out to be rubbish.

All the same, I still think that's what happened. For comparison, I offer
the first stanza having run it forth and back through an Arabic translator
(I couldn't find a Persian one in 30secs of looking).

"You measured time the [[mswrlss]] and accepting for the measurement.
You [kyyft] your administrative behavior oasis face of the path from as
your cross-eye hours of hours and chapters reconciled for.
From time you made current on who bank of you sat and watched him flows."

It's a bit pidgin, but I still submit that it's no more incomprehensible
than the original.

 

Not for a long while. This is for next Wednesday.

 

a) it wasn't a recommendation, I merely said some of it was
interesting.

b) I think you mistake the dynamic.

 

Gold star go to the top of the class.

 

"There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your
[lack of] philosophy" (my paraphrase).

It was interesting. I disagreed with almost all of it but then I would
wouldn't I?

Phil.