[Buddha-l] ?????
Dan Lusthaus
vasubandhu at earthlink.net
Tue Oct 7 13:07:28 MDT 2008
> why do
> people in New Zealand say they are standing up, when it is perfectly
> obvious to everyone that they are in fact hanging down? Why don't they
> just admit that when they throw a ball down into the air, it comes back
> up to earth?
>
> Richard
Some basic physics solves this.
As a Firesign Theater character replied to someone about to faint who
expresses her dizziness by saying "the whole world is spinning around":
"That's lucky for us. If it didn't, all the Chinese would fall off."
Dan
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