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    From David Dalton@21:1/5 to All on Tue Feb 1 21:01:18 2022
    XPost: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, alt.religion.buddhism.tibetan, alt.religion.buddhism
    XPost: alt.philosophy.zen, alt.meditation

    Over the past 26 years, as you know, I have been going
    over the same old ground a fair bit, which makes me
    feel like I am in the movie Groundhog Day. Hence I
    hope that my magickal workings will reach completion
    by dawn tomorrow, or at the latest by early waxing
    crescent tomorrow evening.

    For my latest progress see recent and ongoing threads
    on alt.religion.druid.

    One major change is that I have renamed God to Goddess
    but still define her as the ruler of the region all/everything.
    I divine that she is bif to me, but that is not part of my
    definition of her.

    Happy Imbolc!

    --
    David Dalton dalton@nfld.com https://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page) https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page) “‘And if I shed a tear I won’t cage it/I won’t fear love
    And if I feel a rage I won’t deny it/I won’t fear love" (Sarah McLachlan)

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  • From David Dalton@21:1/5 to All on Thu Feb 3 02:02:38 2022
    XPost: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, alt.religion.buddhism.tibetan, alt.religion.buddhism
    XPost: alt.philosophy.zen, alt.meditation

    On Feb 1, 2022, David Dalton wrote
    (in article<0001HW.27AA0856000F57AA700008C6438F@news.eternal-september.org>):

    Over the past 26 years, as you know, I have been going
    over the same old ground a fair bit, which makes me
    feel like I am in the movie Groundhog Day.

    And February 3 was the day that Bill Murray’s character
    reached release/redemption from the time loop, though
    it was probably after dawn.

    Also tonight I heard an interview repeated from last
    year on the CBC Radio One program As It Happens
    on which the actor who plays Ned the irritating
    insurance salesman said that Bill Murray’s character
    was stuck in the February 2 time loop for 10,000 years,
    the time said in Buddhism to be required for a soul
    to be purified (or something like that, I forget his
    exact words).

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    David Dalton dalton@nfld.com https://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page) https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page) “‘And if I shed a tear I won’t cage it/I won’t fear love
    And if I feel a rage I won’t deny it/I won’t fear love" (Sarah McLachlan)

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