and another!


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They're coming hard and heavy. Pretty soon we will have to call a convention for a meeting between the nut cases and the credentialed idiots to hammer out the updated view from this pebble in space... this drop on Indra's net. Yes, yes, again I say my omitted Christmas still teaches me more than any math professor ever did. It's too long and sounds too much like you come here for the canon if I try to thoroughly explain.

And, without looking, I know there won't be a link that doesn't piss me off, so this one, while liable only to vex people, is lifted from an extremely reliable translation of the sutra, will do in a pinch... just in case you want a better idea than you've got now.

The ancients knew a lot more than you've been raised to think.

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And so do some moderns....