Re: 24 minute ghost and paranormal chat room

Date: 09 May 2003 13:13:08 GMT
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.ghost-stories
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>From: "Scott" email-address-deleted
> Interesting. I won't even ask why you feel that you aren't free.
It's difficult to know exactly how to respond to someone who "won't even ask"
for clarification of a point that would appear to be integral to mutual
understanding and the advancement of discussion, nevertheless:
>The lyric you're thinking of is "Freedom's just another word for nothin'
>left to lose." Kris wrote it, Janis made a hit out of it (albeit
>posthumously), but I don't necessarily agree with that philosophy.
You seem to have a very firm grasp of the obvious, Scott, which is more than I
can say for most people. ;-}
Actually, in point of fact, that is not the lyric I was thing of. It is,
however, the lyric I was specifically referencing. In this instance, there is
a difference. This is the lyric I was thinking of:
0 - portrayed as empty, a simpleton in suspended reality
is the co-conspiring victim of synchronicity;
impulsively directed by spontaneity
(like janice joplin sang about in 'me and bobby magee');
so foolishly prospecting for possibility,
while trusting in the mystery of providential divinity.
>It's a state of Mind and Being that is taken too much for granted these
>days.
It's a stupid little verse I wrote a long lime ago.
>The only people I know of who have "nothing left to lose" are in Caskets,
>Urns or are sprinkled or scattered somewhere.
Yeah, that's kind of what I meant. I died for a moment once a long time ago on
a roadside somewhere. Of course I know that sounds absolutely absurd, and I
certainly never made it to a Casket or an Urn or anything like that, like I
said it was just for a moment, but it happened, and for better or worse it
irrevocably altered my perception of what it means to be free.
I know I'll be free, which is to say dead, again someday. That's just a fact
of life. Until then, it's payday.
> Hmmmmmm, I wonder if ghosts have anything to lose?
In brief answer, yes. I know a ghost who has a smell to lose. It's like BO,
only without the B.
> Thank you for sharing your point of view with me.
Well, you're welcome of course, but heck, you ain't even heard the half of it
yet.
-hi-