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From: cjr@unirot.UUCP (Charles Riordan)
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Subject: Re: Contempt prior to Investigation
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Date: Tue, 11-Mar-86 22:19:57 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 11 22:19:57 1986
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Summary: awstruck admiration?

In article <494@utastro.UUCP>, ethan@utastro.UUCP (Ethan Vishniac) writes:
> Really good satire is a rare jewel.  My favorite line in Mr. Riordan`s
> contribution is one I will treasure for the rest of my life.
> In article <358@unirot.UUCP>, cjr@unirot.UUCP (Charles Riordan) writes:
> > 
> > My friend Pete who studies this stuff a lot says that mathematics is
> > just an allusion made up by God,...
>           ^^^^^^^^
> How true!

Listen, man, I don't know what gave you the idea that what I wrote was
satirical. People who believe in this Western science stuff like mathematics
are deluding themselves. They think they can learn the truth by studying
scientific processes of learning and understanding, when the only real
truth comes from following your inner beliefs to the point of realization
at the apex of your minds. I know that sounds alot like the words from a
song by Iron Butterfly, but, hey, those guys had great insight into the
meaning of life- remember In-a-God-a-da-Veda? (Of course they'll never match
the insight of the Dead)

The truth is what you believe it to be. My friend Pete, the one who's
serious about studying the mystical sciences, told me about this book called
The Tower of Physics or something like that. This guy wrote that while
we each have our experiences we're in our own special cosmic subspace
where our energies flow and where many worlds merge to form one hole. It's
like a shrubbery where we all represent invidual leaves, which all fall
down on the same ground. And all our prospectives are equally valid.
God is the glue that bonds our separate realities together to form the
ultimate reality, like the guy in the commercial hanging from the girdle by
his helmet. We can tap the energies within us to transform our beliefs
into reality, like with ESP, or UFOS, or anything else you want to believe.
People like that guy Weiner who called anybody who believed in ESP a nut
case are really nut cases themselves. They refuse to participate in the
ultimate reality that we are all making through our belief energies, and
their negative belief energy hurts the rest of us by interfering with the
realization of our beliefs. I'm sure any good ESP researcher can document
the reasons for this better than I can.

By the way, Pete's still studying Zen investing in night school as part of
his independent mystical studies program. He hasn't made any money yet,
but his instructor says that's the way it's supposed to work as a learning
experience. He brings in all the money he has to invest and the instructor
takes it away and smacks his face with a wooden board! I still can't make
heads or tails of that cosmic stuff unless I've had a tab of acid or a good
hit from the bong.

Speaking of which, while you guys are de-luding yourselves with your
dogmatic Western science, I think I'll be re-luding myself, if you know
what I mean. Pete and my other friend Bobby are coming over to watch
the tape of the Dead's New Year's show on my new VCR, and the only way
I can cope with both the incredible deepness of the Dead and the heavy
trips Pete lays on me is to get my brain a little loosened up to free
my Eastern mind from the bonds of my Western mind's dogmatic thinking.
Heavy stuff, man.

Peace,
	CJ