Mahasamadhi???

[Dorothy]

What you say OneLove (Hello!)

is particularly precise. The Mummery must go on. How the Xtians constructed the NT to coincide with the "predictions" in the OT. This sign, that sign. It's an old, tried and true game in the Religion business.

In my own case, twenty-five years ago, i was a sucker for this kind of myth-making. "Omigod! That PROVES it!" was a frequent response. Nowadays, nothing proves anything anymore. Excepting Consciousness would seem to prove Existence, but even that's not final.

It will be interesting to see if the post-Da religion catches on in any fashion even remotely resembling early Xtianity. Would help if a Constantinian figure would declare Adidam as the state religion. Doesn't appear to be too likely. Wonder what there is to hope for in the Community at this point.

[mdpc]

Elias mentioned something on this thread about some recent Da dreams that he had.

I had a sort of amusing Da-related one last night. In the dream I was reading the features/entertainment section of a small-town newspaper. There happened to be an article about a local young woman whose claim-to-fame was composing the music from the "Jeopardy" television game show (y'know, the little tune they play during the Final Jeopardy round when the players are scribbling down their answers). The article went on to mention that the song was originally written by her as a hymn to her guru, who happened to be Da. The song originally had lyrics in praise of Da, and they were re-printed in the article, but I can't recall any of them now. You can probably imagine, though; it was along the lines of "You are the Brightness, etc."

That's about it for the dream, though in recalling it I became curious about that tune and found the following on Wikipedia:

"Think!" (originally composed by Merv Griffin as "A Time for Tony" as a lullaby for his son Tonya, the lullaby might have been modeled after the "I'm a Little Teapot" nursery rhyme), has served as the Final Jeopardy! Round countdown music since the show's debut in 1964. In the United States, "Think!" has insinuated itself into everyday communication; the theme has been used to score situations in which someone is waiting for another to answer a question or make a decision. "Think!" is often used at baseball stadiums when the manager goes out to the pitcher's mound to discuss a replacement, or during instant replay reviews, or at short-track races when officials are trying to ascertain the cause of a red flag accident. On numerous television shows, including The Jerry Springer Show and Boston Legal, the theme or some variation thereof is heard when a choice has to be made or a result is being awaited. Merv Griffin estimated that the Jeopardy! theme earned him royalties of over $70 million. International versions of Jeopardy! use sound-alike music rather than the actual "Think!" theme during the Final Jeopardy! Round, presumably to avoid making royalty payments to Griffin.

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In 1835, the year Samuel Clemens, writer, reporter, and pub-
lisher was born, Halley's Comet passed over. Twain vowed that
he would not die until he saw the famous comet again. Then,
just before Twain died, Halley's Comet passed over. He died
the next day--April 10th, 1910 at 6:30 p.m.

"I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year (1910), and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.' "
- Mark Twain, a Biography