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#4014 -
Wednesday, September 15, 2010 - Editor: Jerry Katz
The Nonduality Highlights - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NDhighlights
Today's feature is
from the amazing and popular Hyperbole and a Half blog
of Allie Brosh at
http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/
Here is an excerpt.
Please Stop!
When I was a child, one of the things I enjoyed doing was hitting
other children with a stick. Many of my classmates also enjoyed
doing this. We would walk through the forest in back of our
school, trying to find the biggest stick we could feasibly wield
as a weapon. When we found the right stick, we would lure an
unsuspecting child out of the teacher's sight during recess and
attack them. We called this game Stick War and it was the best
game ever as long as you weren't the one being beaten
mercilessly.
We were able to secretly play Stick War for almost three whole days before one of our asshole classmates ruined it by calling for help when we wouldn't stop hitting him. Our teacher was furious. She sat us down and told us that from then on, if any one of us felt like we were being treated unfairly, we could yell "PLEASE STOP!" and the offending party must stop or face dire consequences.
Life after Please Stop was very different for us. We could no longer overpower our weaker classmates with brutality.
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