Hey guys---almost didn't get here today---I was sitting up with a Sikh friend! (Tambura-shot!!)
No seriously, I was visiting a Latino guro friend of mine---you may have heard of him --Fernando Lama? We had a lunch at the Stage Dalai.
Speaking of which, the restaurant recently honored me by creating a sandwich in my name.
I have not as yet tasted it---has anyone ever tasted Ham and Butthole??
*** I was asked today by a devotee, "Krishna Morty, why is there is so much suffering in the world---wars, famine, disease, natural disasters, tragic deaths of innocents??"---I replied, "You think that's bad---have you watched daytime television??"
*** An important tenet of faith is to not be judgmental (Sylviadayenta was once judged Mental at a Baker Act proceeding, but I digress).
"Vengeance is Mine" said that holier-than-thou God of the Bible. No, but I kid the Judaeo-Christian tradition.I kid 'cause I venerate!
Unfortunatly for Yours Holy, vengeance was once Judge Ross's who sentenced me to six months for 'Disturbing the War' at a peace rally.
However, if I may digress back from the non sequitur, we all the know the saying, 'when you point a finger at someone, three fingers are pointing back at you' (except , of course in the case of a man who once got his hand caught in machinery).
Or as the Bible said, 'remove the beam from your own eye before seeking to remove the speck from mine'(Speaking of industrial accidents, how the guy gotta a beam in his eye, I'll never know!)
Or 'judge not, that you not be judged'---(not to self---text message to Simon Cowell).
What we are saying here is, if I may paraphrase a popular song, 'Nobody Knows the Trouble They Seen.'
We must never judge people until we have walked a mile in their moccasins (if a Native-American) or, in the case of gay people, in their Birkenstocks. Nor until we have rolled a mile in Ironside's wheelchair, or hopped a mile on Pegleg Pete's wooden limb.
Nor can we know the billions of cause and effect episodes over the millenia that have led to this moment of one wanting to judge another harshly.
That's why I say, screw it-- just go over and give him an atomic wedgie!!
The One Liners #365
16 years ago
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