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! (i@no.self):
|# how can we help it if nobody can *recognize* that they
|#  are enlightened forever?

"Ned Ludd" <nedludd@ix.netcom.com>:
| We have to do it for them.

if you leave it to me, I'll ask them to enlighten me

|# ...why bother if all actions are equally Nirvanic?
|
| Exactly.  And why, therefore, not bother?

because it's just something to avoid boredom (reflection)?

 nothing doing