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Monday, October 4, 2010

The universe is full of shit raining down on everyone:

In Mohsen Makhmalbaf's film, Scream of the Ants, there is a monologue by a German tourist. He tells us that The Universe is full of shit raining down on everyone, and that different faiths have different ways of dealing with this shit:

"The Catholics say, “Shit happens.”
The Protestants say, “The other guy is responsible for the shit.”
The Muslims say “The shit is the Will of Allah.”
The Jews go, “Why, oh why, is all the shit falling only on us?
The Buddhists reply, “But there is no shit.”
And the Japanese Zen masters whisper, “Listen closely and you will hear the sound of shit falling.”

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