OT: CHATter: Pica-pikachu (wasRe: OT: Worcestershire sauce)

In a message dated 2003:10:13 11:52:42 AM, andjo@FREE.FR writes:

>Now, I'm not really suspecting Christophe of this, but the tendency to
>think of all non-Western cultures as essentially the same is not appreciably
less
>common in the intercultural exchanage and understanding brigade than among
>Western supremacists.
    The line betwixt "exotica" and "xenophobia" is a thin one: both exotic
and xenophobic images/sounds/ideas are twisted & warped _representations_,
"simulcrae", ... in another words, hehe, mis-representations.*

    * hey, I am not making this word-jumble up. It is authentic postmodernist
cultural studies theory...


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    Hanuman Zhang

_NADA BRAHMA_ < Sanskrit >  "sound = Godhead"

"God utters me like a word containing a partial thought of himself." -Thomas
Merton

"Chance is the inner rhythm of the world, and the soul of poetry." - Miguel
de Unamuno

_LILA_  < Sanskrit >        Divine Play     whimsy
like a child playing alone      God the Cosmic Dancer
whose routine is all creatures and all worlds
a world that _is_ Lila  the play of the Divine in its Cosmic Dance
the universe is what happens when God wants to play
from the tireless unending resistless stream of God's energy the Cosmos flows
infinite variety infinite vitality      joyous exercise of spontaneity
involved
                                    in the art of creation

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