<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 15 April 2007 - Volume 03</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: </span><span id="_user_Dutchmatters@comcast.net" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Jacqueline Bungenberg de Jong <<a href="mailto:Dutchmatters@comcast.net">
Dutchmatters@comcast.net</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "Demographics" 2007.04.15 (02) [E]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;">Wesley Parish wrote "</span></font>Things which are impossible are
equal to each other."<font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;"> He managed to
explain a joke that I thought very funny for the longest time, but never could
explain. Here it is:</span></font></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;" lang="NL">Q: Wat is het verschil
tussen een dood vogeltje ? </span></font><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;">(What is the difference
between a dead bird?)</span></font></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;" lang="NL">A: Zijn ene pootje is
even lang. </span></font><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;">(Its one leg is of equal length)</span></font></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;">Now, would somebody please explain what
form of Philosophical Dialectics is responsible for that conundrum,</span></font></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;">Thanks Wesley. You made my day. Jacqueline
<br></span></font></p><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">----------</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From:
</span><span id="_user_Dutchmatters@comcast.net" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: Demographics</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Jacqueline,</span>
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">My first reaction was that it seemed like a </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
koan </span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">(公案, Japanese </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">kōan</span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">, Mandarin </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
gōngàn</span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">, </span><a style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koan">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koan</a><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
), a puzzling type of question ("riddle"?) used in Zen Buddhism, mostly in the Rinzai (臨済, Mandarin </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Línjì</span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
) school, in most cases to point out delusions of human perception. If what you quoted is in fact a </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">koan</span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
, I'd venture to guess that it targets the perception of duality.</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Does this response seem esoteric enough?
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Regards,</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Reinhard/Ron</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">