3 Replies to “Sunday morning video: “She was the prettiest girl you ever saw.” [Darleen Click]”

1. The Monster says:

   August 25, 2013 at 11:05 am

   For some reason I’m finding it hard to see the screen right now. I’m sure it’ll clear up in a bit.

2. The Monster says:

   August 25, 2013 at 11:07 am

   Might have something to do with knowing TBoM’s myesthenia gravis will probably put me in Fred’s shoes some day. Yeah, that’s probably the reason I’m having trouble seeing.

3. serr8d says:

   August 25, 2013 at 4:39 pm

   Now this, brethren, is the Ariyan Truth about Suffering: Birth is Suffering, Decay is Suffering, Sickness is Suffering, Death is Suffering, likewise Sorrow and Grief, Woe, Lamentation and Despair. To be conjoined with things we dislike, to be separated from things we like – that also is Suffering. Not to get what one wants – that also is Suffering. In a word, this Body, this five-fold mass which is based on Grasping, that is Suffering.

   Now this, brethren, is the Ariyan Truth about the Origin of Suffering: It is that Craving that leads downwards to birth, along with the Lure and Lust that lingers longingly now here, now there: namely, the Craving to be born again, the Craving to have done with rebirth. Such, brethren, is the Ariyan Truth about the Origin of Suffering.

   And this, brethren, is the Ariyan Truth about the Ceasing of Suffering: Verily it is utter passionless cessation of the giving up, the forsaking, the release from, the absence of longing for, this Craving.

   -Attributed to Buddha, via Leszek Kolakowski: “Religion…”

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