Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pucc-h Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxj!houxm!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:aeq From: aeq@pucc-h (Jeff Sargent) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: Open suggestion to Jeff Sargent Message-ID: <1651@pucc-h> Date: Wed, 9-Jan-85 10:31:53 EST Article-I.D.: pucc-h.1651 Posted: Wed Jan 9 10:31:53 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 11-Jan-85 23:55:06 EST References: <252@stat-l>, <1064@houxm.UUCP> Organization: the PIRATE ship Lines: 15 From Greg Skinner (houxm!gregbo): > It seems there was once a master and a student. The student asked the master > one day "What is the meaning of the Tao?" The master slapped the student in > face and said, "If you have to ask then obviously you do not understand." 1. The master's line is so obvious that it's hardly worth saying. 2. This is exactly the kind of perfectionistic attitude that is killing me -- the idea that any lack of knowledge or understanding is a sin deserving painful punishment. -- -- Jeff Sargent {decvax|harpo|ihnp4|inuxc|ucbvax}!pur-ee!pucc-h:aeq Proud owner of two Control Data doorstops.