Re: Days Gone By

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Also, isn't new Comms director Hope Hicks the one he's rumored to be having an affair with?


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 08-16-17 11:29 AM
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Well, now he is.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 08-16-17 11:42 AM
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I came up with a super-elegant system for how reincarnation and karma worked together once: there is in fact only one soul, which lives every life, but not serially - it flips back and forth through time. So every bad thing you do to someone else you are doing to one of your future or past incarnations.


Posted by: Tom Scudder | Link to this comment | 08-16-17 12:23 PM
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3 is really nice.


Posted by: jms | Link to this comment | 08-16-17 12:45 PM
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3: So it is really always all about me?


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 08-16-17 12:59 PM
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No, it's all about me.


Posted by: | Link to this comment | 08-16-17 1:09 PM
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6: You are me!


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 08-16-17 1:45 PM
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I have had perfectly excusable reasons for reading everything Richard Bach ever wrote (look, Tim had a thing for him. So the books were in the apartment, which means I read them. Before the ones about the ferrets, but probably up to that point). But one of his later, loopier books had exactly that 'Everyone is the same person getting reincarnated over and over (plus in parallel universes!)' theory.

It sounds more elegant coming from Tom. The Richard Bach version had a thick layer of Seventies dopiness plastered all over it.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 08-16-17 1:47 PM
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goo goo g'joob


Posted by: md 20/400 | Link to this comment | 08-16-17 1:49 PM
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seventies! Or the Toto version

Buddhism includes teachings that can be summarized in helpful images (see if you can find Žižek among the ghosts) and also a teaching pretty close to 3, except with zero souls instead of one, anatman.


Posted by: lw | Link to this comment | 08-16-17 2:09 PM
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I hope 3 isn't true, because of the new, gross light it puts on Mooch's comment about Steve Bannon.


Posted by: Todd | Link to this comment | 08-16-17 2:27 PM
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The image in 10 reminds me of the guy who carefully edited Where's Waldo images to take Waldo out.


Posted by: Tom Scudder | Link to this comment | 08-16-17 5:48 PM
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Murder rural Pennsylvanians en masse.

(To OP.last)


Posted by: JRoth | Link to this comment | 08-18-17 3:10 PM
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