[Buddha-l] Re: Bowl shaped earth

[David S]

Richard Hayes <rhayes at unm.edu> wrote:
   
  >Moreover, having arrived here by flying saucer, I can 
>confirm that the earth is shaped like a cup, which is just a bowl with a 
>handle on the side. (Many people are unaware of the earth's handle, because 
>it's on the outside, whereas sentient beings live on the inside.) I often ask 
>myself: if there weren't a God, why would the earth have a handle? As far as 
>I know, Buddhists have no good answer to this important question. It's not 
>even addressed in the geography chapter in Vasubandhu's Abhidharmakosha, 
>which aptly describes the earth as a container shaped like a dish (a dish 
>being, after all, a shallow bowl).

  The handle is for the gods (devas) to grab hold of and drink our oceans and purge out
  those with bad karma.
   
  Once the oceans are pretty dried up, they check out the seaweed-tea-leaves on the 
  bottom to read their fortunes.
   
  David S.
  Area 51 [Nevada]
   
  [any secrets revealed here on this list will be purged from your memory banks when
  you log-off.]

 
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