[Buddha-l] End of laicity in France?

[Richard Hayes]

On Wednesday 10 October 2007 13:38, Joy Vriens wrote:

> >Glad to know it. I'm going to march right down to my local board of
> > education and demand that thinking clearly with a mind unclouded by
> > emotions is a practice essential to Buddhism.
>
> Do you have all the right stuff when they will ask you to put up or shut
> up? :-)

No, I'm genetically impaired. You see, I had a father and mother, which right 
away put me at a terrible disadvantage. I inherited all their worst traits 
and none of their good ones. One of my fondest memories of my father is 
watching his face turn red as all the veins stood out on his forehead as he 
pounded the arm of his chair and shouted at the top of his lungs, "The 
problem with this world is THAT PEOPLE ARE TOO GODDAMN EMOTIONAL!" 

Like my father, I talk a good game of stoic dispassion, but my house is full 
of broken cups and cats cowering under chairs. I must stop watching the 
evening news on television. Just about every story I see reminds me that 
PEOPLE ARE TOO GODDAMN EMOTIONAL!

-- 
Richard P. Hayes
Department of Philosophy
University of New Mexico
http://www.unm.edu/~rhayes