"Immortality anyone???"...

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According to Tom Robbins, author of the most wonderful book, "Jitterbug Perfume"... immoratlity methodology sounds too simplistic to be feasible. He says, "the results would be far more dramatic than the process, even though, for all practical purposes, the results are the process"...VBS!!! He further states, "that whether guided by a divine intelligence or inspired in some supernatural fashion or by simply being informed of your own intuition, a program based on the four elements; air, water, earth and fire is whats needed to sustain a good, happy and healthy life...in essence, a legitimate manifestation of immoratlity can be produced"....curious isnt it?...

Okay then, for the moment lets say that we connect air to breathing, water to bathing, earth to food and fire to sex..then what?...maybe by supplying a mixture of empiracal fact and medical theory to support the case for these life extending properties, this quartet when ritualistically and resolutley embraced..works...but what about the mind's ability to aid and abet the body?...he addresses that by saying, "that we should not forget the 5th element...positive thinking".... aaahh as in the power of?...Indeed!.."In positive thought and pointing out that breathing, bathing, eating and screwing bring about much physical pleasure so much so, that an organism steeped in leasure is an organism disposed to continue life"...so I ponder, if thats true...is it also true that we cannot...'overestimate' these elements..as a stimulant to longetivity....and can we go further to say that if we do NOT adhere to these basics...ninety percent of all deaths would be considered suicides?...Geeze, nothing to be said for a slow painful death huh?...

As you know, it has also been said, "that persons who lack curiosity about life, who find minimal joy in existance, are all too willing, subconsciously, to cooperate with and attract--disease, accident, violence and subsequently death"...that makes perfect sense to me...does it to you?...curious! :) Hey!...how do you feel about calories..since there are more of them than there are of us?...LOL...I caution you to know, accept and understand...that the four elements are not defined as cocaine, champagne, chocolate and pussy..LOLOLOLOL...but boy could that be fun... Robbins says, "Sure, life is a lot of misery all right, and death is more misery yet. Dread, fear, guilt, even a bit of neurosis are perfectly natural responses to a life that promised such an unescapable end. The trick is not to take such responses too seriously, not to trivialize your all too short stay in your carton of flesh by cooperating with death....Since reality is subjective, and there's an unenlightening tendancy in this culture to regard something as "important" only if its sober and severe. Sure and still it is true about the Cheerful Dumb, only they are not so much happy as lobotomized. and the Gloomy Smart are just as ridiculous. When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. And you get to take yourself oh so very seriously. But truly happy people, which is to say, the people who truly like themselves, they dont think about themselves very much at all. The unhappy person usually resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwelling on himself and start paying attention to the universe and other things that are around him. Unhappiness is therefore, the ultimate form of self~indulgence.".. I have never heard it more eloquently stated and although I have been "guity" of the same from time to time..I will try nonetheless, to steer clear of this dimenuendo in the present and very near future...In fact, I think we should all give it the good old fashioned American whirl...what do you say?...LOL

Think I read too much?...LOL..well, IMHO there is no such thing as reading too much unless of course its only the reading of prissy academic novels that counts... LOL...You should note that I read "rags" on occasion as well...but ("borrowed from somewhere"?)... when I was a small girl I used to climb into bed, in the wee hours of the morning, between my Mom and my Dad, right up in the middle and immediately they would both roll over and turn a back to me just like a pair of bookends...so, it's only natural that I grew up thinking I was a volume...LOL

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Ms. Understood