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mrfrog

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If you meet the Buddha, kill him

7/15/2011 2:39:48 PM

NCSUStinger
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SHUT THE FUCK UP

7/15/2011 2:40:07 PM

Byrn Stuff
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What was the one about you and fredbot3000 trying to breathe underwater?

7/15/2011 2:40:58 PM

FroshKiller
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While walking through the grass, the master and his student startled a bird, which flew away. "We meant the bird no harm," said the student. "What a stupid animal!"

The master struck his student across the head with his cane and shouted, "Fly!"

7/15/2011 2:41:39 PM

TreeTwista10
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there is a such thing as breathable liquids, The Abyss wasn't completely fiction

7/15/2011 2:41:56 PM

NCSUStinger
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yeah, but Ed Harris shouldnt have brought back Marion anyway

how many Merry Men died because of her??

7/15/2011 2:43:00 PM

TreeTwista10
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they should make a movie with the Abyss alien thing versus Leviathon

7/15/2011 2:46:34 PM

NCSUStinger
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Only if they get time traveling phone booths

7/15/2011 2:47:45 PM

mrfrog

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Gasan instructed his adherents one day: "Those who speak against killing and who desire to spare the lives of all conscious beings are right. It is good to protect even animals and insects. But what about those persons who kill time, what about those who are destroying wealth, and those who destroy political economy? We should not overlook them. Furthermore, what of the one who preaches without enlightenment? He is killing Buddhism."

7/15/2011 2:53:05 PM

Byrn Stuff
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I think I will have my students write koans in creative writing this year.

7/15/2011 2:53:57 PM

NCSUStinger
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they need to kill buddha, obesity is major problem these days

7/15/2011 2:54:05 PM

mrfrog

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Quote :
"I think I will have my students write koans in creative writing this year."


I think a problem would be how a lot of people don't "get" them, but out of an entire class I think you'd have some serious quality stuff.

7/15/2011 3:11:38 PM

Byrn Stuff
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Ya, they felt the same way about magical realism and flash fiction. The exposure will be good though, and it something they've probably not done before.

7/15/2011 3:13:00 PM

mrfrog

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Circumstances arose one day which delayed preparation of the dinner of a Soto Zen master, Fugai, and his followers. In haste the cook went to the garden with his curved knife and cut off the tops of green veetables, chopped them together, and made soup, unaware that in his haste he had included a part of a snake in the vegetables.

The followers of Fugai thought they had never tasted such great soup. But when the master himself found the snake's head in his bowl, he summoned the cook. "What is this?" he demanded, holding up the head of the snake.

"Oh, thank you, master," replied the cook, taking the morsel and eating it quickly.


I like how you can identify where the punchline is, and still have no idea what you're looking at.

7/15/2011 3:16:01 PM

paerabol
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What is the sound of one hand clapping?

7/15/2011 3:27:40 PM

mrfrog

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bump

5/4/2012 1:15:14 PM

Snewf
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What is the sound of one hand fapping?

5/4/2012 1:17:33 PM

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