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Kitchen Table Kibitzing ~ 8.7.23 [1]

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Date: 2023-08-07

When I was 16, I lived in a Cesar Chavez house in East Lansing MI. I could walk anywhere, and I did because I didn’t have a car. Even in the winter I walked everywhere wearing tights, jeans, boots several shirts, a coat, hat, scarf and mittens.

One of the guys I walked around with wore none of these things. Well, he wore jeans, boots and a long sleeve shirt, but he was under the impression that if you were enlightened you wouldn’t feel the cold. Okay then.

x Doesn't everyone eat ice cream this way? 🍦🦶 https://t.co/Ah6k02rJdr — Mark Hamill (@MarkHamill) July 17, 2023

x Wishing you all a peaceful day 🤍 pic.twitter.com/suDxi9gfI0 — Brad (@Brad_S_M) July 26, 2023

Years later I was hanging out with a guy who was trying really hard to become enlightened. We were leaving a restaurant one night, getting into his car when he realized he had forgotten his coat, had left it at home. He asked me if I thought he wouldn’t be cold if he were enlightened.

My reply was “If you were enlightened you would remember to bring your coat”. But I will tell you right now that my personal opinion is that if/when you do become enlightened, POOF, you leave the planet. You’re done here.

I do think that you can lower or raise the temperature a bit mentally though. I do it by imagining things, reading books that take place in the winter and watching TV shows like Northern Exposure. Also, videos and tweets like the ones I’ve included.

x 🏔 Kanada’nın buzullarla beslenen Moraine Gölü’ndeki şamdan buzları



pic.twitter.com/sCq4RKWW12 — Biltek Plus (@biltek_pluss) July 4, 2023

How are you staying cool?

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