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From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery)
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Subject: Re: Upanishad / George Dance
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 22:12:49 +0000
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On Fri, 23 Aug 2024 6:30:14 +0000, General-Zod wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Jun 2024 19:49:48 +0000, Will-Dockery wrote:
>
>>
>>  > > In alt.arts.poetry.comments on Fri, 8 Jan 2010 15:17:55 -0800
>> (PST),
>>  > > George Dance <georgedance04> wrote:
>>  > >
>>  > > On Jan 8, 4:30 pm, "=z=" <shull> wrote:
>>  > > On Jan 8, 3:48 pm, George Dance <georgedanc> wrote:
>>  > >
>>  > >
>>  > >
>>  > > Upanishad
>>  > >
>>  > > What is the good of loving our desires
>>  > > in these foul-smelling, insubstantial bodies
>>  > > of bone, skin, muscle, marrow, semen, flesh,
>>  > > tears, sweat, feces, urine, bile, and wind?
>>  > >
>>  > > What is the good of loving our desires
>>  > > when we can see the whole world is decaying,
>>  > > when ants, mosquitos, every living creature,
>>  > > the very trees and rocks, arise and perish?
>>  > >
>>  > > What is the good of loving our desires
>>  > > when we can see the drying up of oceans,
>>  > > the fall of mountains, and the earth's submergence,
>>  > > even the disappearance of the stars?
>>  > >
>>  > > What is the good of loving our desires?
>>  > > Deliver me, and let me not exist.
>>  > >
>>  > > --
>>  > > George Dance
>>  > >
>>  > > it reminds me of 'da vinci'...who apparently despised the human
>> body
>>  > > with all it's smells and aberrant textures...of course at that
>> period
>>  > > of time no wonder...gnosticism at itŽs best ...
>>  > >
>>  > > It's actually from an ancient Hindu text, the Maitri Upanishad
>> (hence
>>  > > the title). But I expect such sentiments were common throughout
>> the
>>  > > precapitalist world (and still today, in some circles).
>>  > >
>>  > > It was an insight I picked up from Rand, though I doubt she was
>> the
>>  > > first to have it, that despising material existence in favor of
>> ideal
>>  > > or heavenly reality was tied to the squalor of human existence,
>> and
>>  > > that that's one reason religious belief declines as material
>>  > > conditions improve.
>>  > >
>>  > Peter J Ross wrote:
>>  >
>>  >
>>  > Is there no limit to how much time pretentious stupid people will
>>  > spend patting each other on the back for being pretentious and
>> stupid?
>>  >
>>  > .... Leonardo ... the Upanishads ... Ayn Rand ... aberrant textures
>> ...
>>  > precapitalist world ... yadda yadda ...
>>  >
>>  >
>>  > Has either of you ever had an intelligent thought in either of
>> your
>>  > lives?
>>  >
>>  >
>>  >
>>  > --
>>  > PJR :-)
>>  >
>>  >  http://pjr.lasnobberia.net/verse/
>>
>>
>> Troll much, PJR?
>>
>>
>> This is a response to the post seen at:
>> http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=658783675#658783675
>
> Did Peter pass away  ?

I don't know but Harry Lime is back.

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