[Buddha-l] Something nice for a change...

[Jim Peavler]

Any! You seem a mite nervous today! No need to get all hysterical on us, is there?

On Mar 4, 2010, at 12:55 AM, andy wrote:

> On Wednesday 03 March 2010 18:26:07 Franz Metcalf wrote:
>> Andy,
>> 
>>> C'mon, you were warned!  And it's not like finding out about
>>> dharmakaya, or
>>> that nirvana really is empty.
>> 
>> Whoa, what do you *mean* "finding out... nirvana really is empty"?
>> That's like a typo, right?
>> 
>> Oh, I get it; you're making a joke. Ha ha. You almost got me. You're
>> spoofing on that situation when someone has told a kid there's no
>> tooth fairy and the kid cries and some other kid says, "C'mon, it's
>> not like finding out there's no Santa Claus."
>> 
>> But of course it's not like that, so, yes, ha ha, very funny. Funny,
>> yes. You *were* trying to be funny, I know. Ha ha. Yes.
>> 
>> Ha ha.
>> 
>> Ha.
>> 
>> ...
>> 
>> (whimper)
>> 
>> Franz
> 
> Franz,  I am sorry.  It is just that I am still recovering from Dan 
> insinuating that I was one of those non-Buddhist substantialists.   And yes, 
> there really is a Santa Claus, but his real name is Cerenos,  Keeper of the 
> Deer. 
> And anyway, we are off on to the question of the tetralemma, though I don't 
> think anyone has mentioned it yet.  Is it the "both is and is not"  that  will 
> be the problem, or the "neither is nor not"?  I think nirvana belongs to the 
> last one, with the tooth fairy. 
> 
> -- 
> James Andy Stroble, PhD
> Lecturer in Philosophy
> Department of Arts & Humanities
> Leeward Community College
> University of Hawaii
> 
> Adjunct Faculty 
> Diplomatic and Military Studies
> Hawaii Pacific University 
> 
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