Re: New names All Around ( was Re: Societies worse off)


"stumper" <stumper@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> George Cherry wrote:
>> "stumper" <stumper@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>>George Cherry wrote:
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>>>>"Lee Dillion" <leedillion@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>>>>George Cherry wrote:
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>>>>>>If you like (non-anagrammatic) puzzles, I'm thinking of
>>>>>>changing my t.r.b. name to "Eddy". Can anyone guess
>>>>>>why?
>>>>>
>>>>>Hi Eddy:
>>>>>
>>>>>Not sure about the reason for the new name.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Oh boy, here's my chance to explain "Eddy". No I'm not calling
>>>>myself Eddy because I think I'm the Jack Russell Terrier in Frazier.
>>>>
>>>>Joko Beck wrote in her book "Nothing Special" the following.
>>>>"We are rather like whirlpools in the river of life. In flowing for-
>>>>ward, a river or stream may hit many rocks, branches, or irregu-
>>>>larities ... causing whirlpools to spring up ... here and there.
>>>>Water entering one whirlpool quickly passes through and re-
>>>>joins the river ... . Though for short periods, it seems to be dis-
>>>>tinguishable as a separate [entity], the water in the whirlpools
>>>>is just the river itself. The stability of a whirlpool is only tempo-
>>>>rary.... However, we want to think that this little whirlpool that
>>>>we are isn't part of the stream. We want to see ourselves as
>>>>permanent and stable. Our whole energy goes into trying to
>>>>protect our supposed separateness ...."
>>>>
>>>>eddy: a current of water or air running contrary to the main
>>>>current; esp.: a circular current: whirlpool
>>>>
>>>>So I'm Eddy. Hello, are you Eddy too?
>>>>
>>>>Eddy
>>>>
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>>>So you couldn't go with the flow?
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>> Oh ***. You're screwing me up with another metaphor.
>> I'm a flow man too: the "flow experience" and all that.
>>
>> Flo
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> I was just kidding.
> Not a bad perspective.
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> How do you relate to other eddies?

Compete with 'em.
(Just kidding; I let 'em win .)


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