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The Zen is crap and I hate the ex wife

posted 10 years ago by Promontorium
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That whole "here isn't here", "Maybe we're all angels", "I am not attached to this car" crap isn't remotely "Zen". Zen isn't philosophizing ad absurdity. Zen is far more practical. It is about actual results, not perpetually postulating. There's an interesting old story about a Zen archer. He is unbelievably accurate and powerful. He got that way by making the same motions thousands of times until shooting the arrow was as much a part of him as breathing. The story didn't include him saying he wasn't attached to the bow, nor did it include crap about shooting himself when he shoots another. He also didn't spend his time asking if he was shooting the arrows or were they standing still while the whole universe moved back.

The ex wife abandoned him in prison. Never even apologized. Treated him like a nuisance when he got out. Screw her. Why is he always trying to get back with her or mess with her husband. He's bothered enough that she's remarried but never takes it up with her? That's crap. The whole mother in law thing was crap too. His dad abandoned him AND refused to let his mother visit him in prison? Screw em. Oh and screw that woman who survived the murders. She love the killer like a father, is all lovey with the guy who sent the killer, but she treats Cracker Jack Zen Master like he's her enemy. Finally screw the wife of his old partner "Your false imprisonment was so hard on me, get out" someone kill her.

But the old partner still a beat cop after 12 years, that's just sad. How could he plausibly complain about the guy being hired as detective, if he had any ambition he'd have been promoted years ago.

[–] chewtoy45 9 years ago

I detest his ex-wife.

I think I'll have a large order of prognosis negative.

[–] Matthyew_AKA_Jasonbronze 9 years ago

It did always get to me how the people who had no leg to stand on, that didn't help or visit him after 12 years as a cop in jail turn around when he gets out and blame him, as if what happened was his fault and he should have stayed in or died. IK wanted to slap so many of them, or at least watch him smack them down verbally for trying to pull such pathetic crap.

[–] WhoToTrust 9 years ago

It's all a matter of perspective. When faced with a corrupt system, 99% of people are not going to realize they are being duped by the people who are supposed to be trusted, especially when those "trusted" people are coming up with all sorts of evidence to support THEIR case of falsehoods. Crews' wife made that comment herself. "They had ALL that evidence."

When faced with that kind of system producing ALL that kind of "evidence", it's no wonder that Crews' wife would have been confused, even about a man she loved.

In my opinion, Crews always understood that probable confusion, and that's why he didn't blame his ex for what she'd done and was willing to overlook it in trying to get her back. IMO that was also why he repeatedly went out of his way to "harass" his ex's new husband by "abusing" his power as a police officer and pulling him over whenever he felt like it...to show the guy what being the victim of an abuse of power felt like, even IF only in a minor way compared to what Crews himself had been put through.

There are many examples of that kind of abuse of power and position happening today where's it's obvious that most of the people who are being duped don't even know (or want to admit...which is ANOTHER layer to add to the mix) they're being duped...and that would explain Crews's ex partners' wife. She'd convinced herself that Crews was guilty, but now that it had been proven that he'd been set up, Crews's ex partners' wife would actually have to admit that she'd been duped and been wrong all along too, and some people just can't stand to know that about themselves. But yeah, screw her if she can't admit that to herself or others.

When at least those things are viewed in THAT way...Crews' zen makes perfect sense.

[–] lferrigon-1 8 years ago

Crews was a saint to be nice to his former partner who turned on him. Crews' father was an awful person. Not only did he not visit his son in prison but would not allow Crew's mom to visit her son.