On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 20:03:57 -0500, Kevin Gowen
<kgowenNOSPAM@myfastmail.com> brought down from the Mount tablets
inscribed:

>Ernest Schaal wrote:
>> in article apjb111jq9usblq1742go3h6duj9ihfj19@4ax.com, Michael Cash at
>> mikecash@buggerallspammers.com wrote on 2/18/05 8:20 PM:
>> 
>> 
>>>On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 06:11:53 +0900, Ernest Schaal
>>><eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp> brought down from the Mount tablets
>>>inscribed:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Frankly, when I read your message about why you stay in Japan, I felt sorry
>>>>for you. Stasis is not a fun reason to stay here.
>>>
>>>I meant it as an answer as to why Rev. Ed is still here.
>>>
>>>But when you come right down to it, being settled in any location
>>>involves stasis. So what does it matter whether stasis has overtaken
>>>me here or elsewhere? I'm just as content right where I am right now
>>>as I imagine I would be anywhere else.
>> 
>> 
>> Sorry if I read too much into your answer. Stasis involves conflicting
>> forces, and I took it to mean that you were caught in the middle of those
>> conflicting forces.
>
>You are in stasis most of the time. As you sit in your chair, it is 
>pushing up against you with the exact same force with which gravity 
>pulls you down.

The older I get, the more it feels like gravity is winning.




--

Michael Cash

"Clowns to the left of me and jokers to the right, Mr. Cash.
Clowns and jokers."

                                Prof. Ernest T. Bass
                                Mount Pilot College