The Monk, the Cook, and the Bard of Avon

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Nisargadatta , " goldenrainbowrider "

<laughterx8@h...> wrote:

>

>> Golden: that's a great story, but what makes it even more

enjoyable

> is that you recognized it in your own experience. You make me

> smile. It's your kind of bold openness and honest wording without

> having to tip toe around wording for concern of upsetting

someone's

> sensibilities that made me stick around here.

> The thing is that it really doesn't matter from who's mouth it all

> came out of does it?>>

 

I appreciate the kind words, Golden. Thanks. What's really

laughable, as far as I'm concerned, is that although I knew the

story, I somehow didn't realize it applied to ME.

 

" O what fools we mortals be. "

 

Shakespeare wrote it, so it's OK to believe it, haha.

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Nisargadatta , " garyfalk1943 " <falkgw@h...>

wrote:

>

> Nisargadatta , " goldenrainbowrider "

> <laughterx8@h...> wrote:

> >

> >> Golden: that's a great story, but what makes it even more

> enjoyable

> > is that you recognized it in your own experience. You make me

> > smile. It's your kind of bold openness and honest wording

without

> > having to tip toe around wording for concern of upsetting

> someone's

> > sensibilities that made me stick around here.

> > The thing is that it really doesn't matter from who's mouth it

all

> > came out of does it?>>

>

> I appreciate the kind words, Golden. Thanks. What's really

> laughable, as far as I'm concerned, is that although I knew the

> story, I somehow didn't realize it applied to ME.

>

> " O what fools we mortals be. "

>

> Shakespeare wrote it, so it's OK to believe it, haha.

 

G: You recognized it once I told you didn't ya? Once it was

pointed out that " you are that which you were pointing out " and all

that jazz. We hide behind these self righteous coke bottle glasses

so we have trouble seeing it all in ourselves until someone takes

the glasses off for us.

Hey, you haven't heard of the prominent theory that Shakespeare

didn't write any of that stuff? Many literary scholars (Mark

Twain among them) believe that Frances Bacon wrote Shakespeare but

due to the social problems of that time was hesitant in writing his

own name for fear of persecution. Scholars have lists of arguments

to promote their stand.

Sounds kind of like the first time I read the book, " The Hyrum Key "

and " The Second Messiah " by Christopher Knight & Robert Lomas. It

was a big moment of, " what? everything I was taught could actually

have been Roman propoganda and misinterpretations in order to keep

the Romans in line? " In other words, don't always believe what

you read, by shakespeare or anyone else for that matter.