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be careful!

suppose you and i have had an argument.  if you have beaten me instead of my beating you, then are you necessarily right and am i necessarily wrong?  if i have beaten you instead of your beating me, then am i necessarily right and are you necessarily wrong?  is one of us right and the other wrong?  are both of us right or are both of us wrong?  if you and i don't know the answer, then other people are bound to be even more in the dark.  whom shall we get to decide what is right?  shall we get someone who agrees with you to decide?  but if he already agrees with you, how can he decide fairly?  shall we get someone who agrees with me?  but if he already agrees with me, how can he decide?  shall we get someone who disagrees with both of us?  but if he already disagrees, with both of us, how can he decide?  shall we get someone who agrees with both of us?  but if he already agrees with both of us, how can he decide?  obviously , then, neither you nor i nor anyone else can know the answer.  shall we wait for still another person?

..... forget the years; forget the distinctions.  leap into the boundless and make it your home!

chuang tzu

dear william wheaton, i knew you would be asking a question like this sooner or later.  here are my answers:

read death and the compass -borges.

practice meditation including loving-kindness meditation.

donate as much money and /or time as possible to giving clean water to people who need it

donate up to $8000 to my friends' nonprofit, http://www.golongitude.org/www/Uncaste_India.html

before sept 30

change your name (when the time comes)

if you do all things, with seriousness, i, speaking as simbi fully absolve you of your grandfathers gun for which you are not responsible, believing that at heart you are kind.

did you really think my myspace page = me ?  

you are struggling with an illusion --

as usual.

you've misunderstood.

you originally wrote me half hoping a way out, half hoping to fight your way back in.  

i am not accusing you or your grandfather of anything.  i am suggesting a way out.  dramatizing it.  mythologically.  an invitation

as to the name change: just an intuition

SIMBI