[at-l] who da phuque am I?

[Jim Bullard]

David, I loved your sentiments up to the last line. It is precisely because
of the magic that really smart people don't check out of life.

2008/4/19 David Addleton <dfaddleton at gmail.com>:

> yewd thinque i'd know by now after more than 53 years . . .
> cheque out the video on this page: wcbstv.com/papalvisit/p...2.703533.html<http://wcbstv.com/papalvisit/pope.benedict.xvi.2.703533.html>
> i am not jewish
> i am not catholic
> but I was amazed and moved by this viedeo . . .
> perhaps because i've studied so gawdamned much history . . . perhaps
> because i grew up in a muslim nation, Pakistan . . . perhaps because the
> fates would leave me a stranger in a strange land . . . passing through . .
> . wondering . . . how do you reconcile people who value your life less than
> a goat's or an ant's with people who would love, ineverywhichwayofthatword,
> you if you would just let them . . . what weirdness doth this material world
> create?
> i am not jewish . . .
> i am not catholic . . . (I liked Merton!)
> i am not muslim . . .
> tho' all three attracted me at one time or another . . .
> i am not sufi . . . (but i adore Rumi!)
> i am not buddhist . . .
> i am not hindu . . .
> tho' they've all attracted me at one time or another . . .
> i am not athiest . . .
> i am not agnostic . . .
> i am not a believer in anything . . . beyond . . . you and me . . .
> I believe in you . . .
> I believe in me . . .
> and betwixt us both majik can happen . . .
> and damn it all its that majik that created religions . . .
> and recently the ghastly absurdity in the Texas courthouses . . .
> no wonder, really, why really smart people cheque out . . .
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Jim Bullard
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