JOE, thanks for your kind feedback. This was in my e-mail this morning--it is kind of our mindset, writ large:
Quote:
Three Guys and a Genie
Three guys--a Canadian farmer, Osama bin Laden, and an American engineer--are walking together one day. They come across a lantern and a Genie pops out of it.
"I will give each of you one wish, which is three wishes total," says the Genie.
The Canadian says: "I am a farmer, my dad was a farmer, and my son will also farm. I want the land to be forever fertile in Canada." Pooooof! With a blink of the Genie's eye, the land in Canada was forever made fertile for farming.
Osama Bin Laden was amazed, so he said: "I want a wall around Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran so that no infidels, Jews, or Americans can EVER come into our precious land." Pooooof! Again, with the blink of the Genie's eye, there was a huge wall around those countries.
The American engineer asks, "I am very curious. Please tell me more about this wall."
The Genie explains: "Well, it's 5,000 feet high, 500 feet thick, and completely surrounds these countries. It's virtually impenetrable. Now what is your wish?"
The American engineer smiles and says: "Fill it with water."
Pooooof! Peace.
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Now, my question is, if one has
a) the choice of the
Genie Solution, or
b) the choice of the
Radical Acceptance and 100% Responsibility For Everything in Our Lives Solution
which is more likely to perpetuate the negativity
ad infinitum?
I realize that isn't beginning to answer your questions in any thoroughgoing way, but it's just meant to be suggestive of where I'm going.
And, BTW, 'spirit' started this thread, and if this tangent doesn't suit, we could take it to a new thread, of course--just want to be respectful of the desires of the thread's originator.
