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a gift card! [outrage] [not laughing at all]

right i will 100 i ruddy will
but i have to go and do more wiping
i will definitely change the world in one generation with wiping
there is no doubt

(TM Hallmark)

Happiness is not something ready-made. it comes from your own actions

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

aww looooook

franny, actually feel free to ignore me,. I am in a shitty snippy mood.

I feel better about the crows that keep waking me up at 5am and heckling outside the bedroom window now. They will henceforth be revered

Yes the European parliament ballot paper here was like a piece of loo roll.

It was about 50 times as big as the slot in the ballot box and I was advised to fold it "any way you can to get it in the box"

Pity the people who have got to unfold them all again later

Ours had some Roman party on it - wtf?

at the kittens. All three purrfect for the gift card.

Look, I'm not really knocking him. He's done a good job of keeping everyone aware of Tibet hasn't he. And as spiritual leaders go he says good things - and it can't be easy for him having to hang out with boring movie stars all the time looking sage. It'd tax anybody doing that. I'm sure he does a great job and is a good man and an intelligent one - I just dislike all the faux spiritual stuff and how everyone idolizes him when he speaks in greeting card-eeze. It's not his fault it seems a bit emperors new clothes.

sorry about it molly - and i wasn't offended - sorry if i should have been but you are really getting it in the neck from school atm

about the dalai lama
one of his says "der der der der (can't remember what) that is an obvious fact."
i think that is the thing
he states things that are obvious facts
they are ruddy obvious but yet everyone has forgotten them and nobody pays them any attention
they go and do stupid things instead
we need someone to say obvious facts in a greetings card style

and 100
he only has one L i am pretty sure of it

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness. (my personal favourite)

Sleep is the best meditation

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace

Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.

I do see what you are saying 100, but as a sort of hippy humanist, I think we sometimes need reminding of the more obvious things. Kittens optional.

Dalai llama

My religion is very simple. Edit French Vogue

In the practice of tolerance, Sharon Stone is ones best enemy

I'll stop. Sorry.

My religion is very simple. If you are unhappy, eat cake. If you are lost, eat cake. If you are afraid, eat cake. If the walls of the world are closing in, eat cake.

there. And doesn't requiring nailing anyone to a cross or fighting anyone, or lopping off anyone's limbs.

Franny it is so much better than a loofah picture. You can alter itsappearance and make it move andfeed it flies and everything.
But sorry if you feel teased.

"Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible."

ooh that's a good one!

i like this one:

"When you think everything is someone else's fault, you will suffer a lot"

i am not looking at any loofahs TooT
don't be silly

We just voted, and there was that Animal party on the list, and the people's sirnames were all 'De Boo'.

I know a Buddhist monk. He's very nice, although not seen him for years as he's always on retreat, he's a kind of step-relative. When I met him he made me go a bit funny, I was a teenager at the time, and he wrote to me for a while and sent bits of cloth cut from dead lamas. The men type not 100's woolly animals. I like the dalai lama, but I don't like a lot of the crummy flakey spiritual stuff around, it annoys me.

I've given up on ideas for tomorrows party, I'm too disorganised and distracted, they will have to amuse themselves. I'm sure they can do it.

I do like that the DL (as I call him, Dally sometimes if we are chatting) says it's an effort, it takes years, you have to work at it

not 'with a few deep breaths and a couple of photographs of trees you can transform yourself on a Wednesday' or whatever

HA! HA! HA!

just read this on the UKIP website:

"UKIP is being inundated with calls from voters complaining that UKIP is not
on the ballot paper.

Voting has only been going on for three hours and already hundreds are calling the UK Independence Party to complain that they were not able to vote for the party.

The problem is that Returning Officers have been folding the ballot papers.
They have been folding them so that the last two, three or four parties in alphabetical order are hidden when the first fold of the paper is opened. It thus appears that UKIP is not on the ballot paper.

UKIP has already contacted both the Electoral Commission and the Returning Officers on this matter.

But it is important that the news gets out: that voters must make sure they completely unfold the ballot paper. And that Returning Officers and electoral officials must stop folding the ballot papers.

We have had reports from Carlisle, from York, from Hampshire, Dartford and other places, showing that the problem is nationwide, not just an isolated incident.

UKIP is collecting the names and addresses of those complaining and will be preparing the grounds for a legal challenge to the election result."

PMSL
i was getting a bit worried about fuckwits getting in, but i feel strangely reassured by fact they can't actually manage to unfold a piece of paper without detailed instructions

hahahahahah!

it's like that old joke ''how do you confuse an idiot (please turn over) and then please tunr over is written on t'other side....''

My favourite uplifting spiritual advice is 'add a dab of lavender to milk, leave town with an orange and pretend you're laughing at it'.

LOL at UKIP donuts. Maybe it stands for U Kant Inderstand Paper.

hey moll, what's up?

I was saying re Thik Nut Hahn (or something), HE ALMOST LULLED YOU into a sleepy agreement but he did remind me of that terrible Paul Coelho book. Akin to a comforting self help guide

We had big drama earlier. Dd2 racing in, wailing 'I've got an open cut! An opeeehhhnnn cuuuutt!"

She hates blood. She had sliced her finger on a ring pull while trying to do a handstand.

i hate that paulo doodah thing
i don't want people thinking i am into vague spiritual wotsits
i just really like the dalai lama

i think i have told you i did once find spiritual advice on a carry out keg of cider
it said "Remain upright. Try to avoid shaking."

KEEP upright
doh

I had something called the Free Cornwall Party on my ballot paper. eh? Free it from what? Surfers maybe?

Also I don't think many people have been in you know. There were hardly any names crossed out. They all stared at me and I said 'isn't it hot in here?' Then I opened out this implausibly long ballot paper and said, 'crikey' and they said, 'one cross, please do this privately'.