SMILES ALONG THE NILE :>).
'Ha, Ha, ho, ho, he, he...' The Laughing Buddha, on realizing suchness.
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'Empy', our email man at Empyrean Quest, believes he has found a key
past incarnation of himself. He was invited to a costume ball and
decided to go in a Greek toga. As ridiculous as he looked with his
enormous, hairy, 7 ft, 275 lb frame stuffed into a Grecian 'dress', he
carried it off with such grace that a cocktail-carrying female pundit
exclaimed: "Oh look! The Greek philosopher, Empedocles!"
Empy knew that nothing happened by accident, and immediately left the
party to do some research on the internet. He and his roommate 'the
world's tiniest guru (5 inches tall)' worked side by side, Empy on his
27 inch monitor, and 'WTG', as he was called for short, on his two inch
screen. After studying everything they could get on Empedocles, Empy
began to realize that his love for science and poetry was no accident.
His embodiment as Empedocles came back, slowly at first, and then in a
torrent of recollections which had the two of them visiting lots of
Greek restaurants. One time, Empy had his glasses off and mistook WTG
for a stuffed grape leaf, nearly biting his head off.
Empy expressed his grief and excused himself as Empedocles might have:
"You see, all change is a product of the forces of love and strife.
Unfortunately strife almost separated your head from your body."
Empedocles was the first Greek (actually from Sicily) to realize the
four elements of earth, air, fire, and water. And so, when the local
university poetry society asked him to read a poem at their poetry
festival, Empy responded with the following:
FIRE, WATER, AND MUD
A love-hate relationship
As with the universe,
Strife divided my soul in two,
Half gave me me, half gave me you
When I have some fire-water and get a little tight,
Sometimes I think love might make us unite,
But mostly I cry 'til my tears turn to mud,
Wishing your love for me would just dammit bud.
And then I remember Empedocles' thought,
By him with much pain I'm sure it was bought:
I am encouraged that if I wait long enough,
The opposite force would make us one stuff.
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