let's try to do nuance

[Pepi Plowman]

--- Michael Eisenstadt <michaele@ando.pair.com> wrote:
> Pepi,
> 
> Thanks for writing at length about this.
> 
> No, I don't speak it.
> 
> In Hebrew school (to prepare for confirmation at 13
> for the sake of my religious grandmother who would 
> have had a fit if I wasn't confirmed), we used to
> say
> Baruch ator, I don't know anymore.
> 
> Baruch ator are the first 2 words of all the
> prayers. 
> Actually we worked our way through quite a bit of 
> Genesis reading it in the original which was my
> original
> introduction to the ENORMOUS charm of reading a 
> foreign language.When I slowly worked my way through
> 
> one of the books of the Iliad in the original many
> years 
> later, I thought back to Miss Snow with the enormous
> 
> boobs driving us like Gadarene swine through the
> beginning
> of the bible.

Amusing visuals here!

> 
> As for your and your sisters' previous lives, that
> sounds 
> like hard work.

Seems like it always is.

> 
> Let me get this straight: the jews burnt in the
> ovens 
> came back as the Plowman sisters (or some of the
> Plowman sisters); the Nazis who died came back as 
> Israelis.
> 
> I still come back to this simple question: if you
> and your
> sisters love all people all that much, how do you
> come
> to the conclusion that the Israelis are reborn
> Nazis?

A few Israelis, perhaps.  Certainly, not all.  This is
merely supposition, in any case, as we both know.  But
I would say by observing the ones who manifest a
similar persona with a similar agenda (except for the
reversal of the victims), however you would describe a
Nazi.  Sharon, perhaps?  Hey, for all we know, Arafat
may have been a Jew in his past lifetime!
> 

> You write:
> 
> > But may you not hate too much, it's bad for the
> soul
> > (I know, you don't believe in its existence.  Oh,
> > well, so be it).
> 
> I'm not the hater. I was taking exception to other
> folks'
> hatred. Is that allowed in your scheme of things?

You were taking exception to others with your
assumption that they hated--sometimes an incorrect
one.  And certainly, we've already been here...you're
allowed to be as incorrect as you like, and I'm
allowed to perceive you that way, whether you see it
that way or not.

> 
> And yes, it is totally bad for the soul. I believe
> in the
> existence of the soul, I just don't believe in its
> survival
> after death. That's for cowards who don't want to 
> accept that they must die and stay dead.

Death is a part of Life--they're not opposites--our
energies continue into perpetuity.  Any scientist will
tell you that there is no energy on earth that can be
made to disappear completely--it merely transforms
into something else.

It has nothing to do with being a coward or not.   If
one leaves one's body and is awake, as everyone does
when sleeping, it's enough proof for me that there is
a soul. You're crossing a room.  No, you're floating
across the room.  You look down at your body.  No
body.  A light the color of a Peace Rose.  Is that
Life? 

> 
> And I aint got no agenda.

Well, good, I'm glad to hear that!

 If you or others want to 
> believe in up to 5 impossible things before
> breakfast
> like the Red Queen in Alice in Wonderland, hey! be
> my guest!
> 
Thanks, my friend, for taking a different tone with
me.

Best to you,

Pepi
> Best,
> 
> Mike
> 
> P.S. When it comes to learning foreign languages,
> unless
> one is a very talented linguini, you hafta choose
> which 
> one or two or three is it is worth learning in terms
> of
> what's written in said languages. Having been an
> Asian monk
> in a previous life, have you learnt or remembered
> how to
> speak or read Asian monk books? Or is that
> considered 
> unnecessary. 
> 
Mostly, as I understand it, a veil drops when people
are born, hiding past lives from them.  Some people
have bleedthroughs, like me and my sisters.  I have
the ability (and so do my sisters) to learn any
language on earth, if we were to spend time in that
country.  I've had Chinese friends and learned a few
words from them, but I've never been immersed in the
language; I've taken a couple of semesters of
Japanese, have a great accent and that is all--I loved
writing the kanji; the same could be said for German,
except I took it in high school for two years and
never opened the book (I thought it an ugly language);
I speak and write Spanish and French; defend myself in
Italian; have translated Portuguese; took three years
of Latin (but never bothered to study, so can't say I
really know it); can understand just about any Latin-
based language when spoken to me.  My sister speaks
and writes really GOOD Spanish, Italian, French and
German; speaks Hebrew and some Arabic; wants to learn
Russian.  I want to learn Chinese.  Life isn't long
enough to learn every language or to remember every
past life.    
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