[Buddha-l] Hoax?

[Chan Fu]

On 1/5/06, Richard P. Hayes <rhayes at unm.edu> wrote:
> Alex Wilding asks whether the story of DHS people gathering information
> on someone ordering the copy of Mao's "little red book" through
> interlibrary loan was a hoax. Yes, quite a few Internet sites report it
> as a hoax. See, e.g.
> http://www.boingboing.net/2005/12/24/hoax_little_red_book.html
>
> That raises the interesting question: what if the hoax reports were
> themselves hoaxes? I mean, would you believe a book called th Bible or a
> website called Boingboing?
>
> We live in epistemologically interesting times. Swami Vivekananda
> predicted that the 20th and following centuries would be the Age of the
> Shudra. All power, he said, will gravitate to the ignorant and the
> incompetent.
>
> Hell, if Ahmadinejad can convince himself and his followers that German
> concentration camps were a hoax, and if George W. Bush can convince
> himself that the theory of evolution and global warming are hoaxes, and
> if Pat Robertson can convince himself and his millions of viewers that
> Ariel Sharon's stroke is punishment from God for letting God's land be
> divided, I suppose it is possible that the day is coming when we may
> have to think for ourselves or live with the potentially unpleasant
> consequences of being duped by our governmental and cultural leaders,
> and even by newspapers and Curt Stienmetz.
>
> The older I get, the more I realize that the only reliable information
> available these days is what is posted right here on buddha-l. (My
> definition of the world "reliable" is what I believe, without evidence,
> to be true and what I write, except when I'm joking or being ironic,
> neither of which I have done for about eight years now.)

You're just kidding, of course...
And so is the universe.

How's this:
Ariel Sharon's brain has been extracted and is now in the
White House basement waiting to be transplanted into
an appropriate senior Israeli body which was shot in the head
about a month ago, frozen, and stored with over 2000 other
such important bodies stored in the NSA sub-zero archivies
up in Maryland, along with every bit of data transmitted,
world wide, since 1990.

Now, the question is whether these two data sets can be
reassembled into the ultimate poker player who could go to
Vegas and finance her way to the presidency by applying
simple probabity theory.

If you don't believe that, simply hit the "bacK" function in
your browser for more options,


very truly yours,

Grandmother's Blazing Mace of Flaming Compassion