<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt">It's in the /Journey to the West/. Whether Chinese Buddhism got it from Taoism I don't know. I believe it's also in Tantric Buddhism.<br><br>I will be very surprised to hear that Judaism has this idea.<br><div><br>Jerry Friedman has been surprised before.<br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> James Wynn <crushtv@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> The Urth Mailing List <urth@lists.urth.net><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Fri, June 4, 2010 1:22:53 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: (urth) Urth & Earth (was "Travelling North aka miscellaneous thoughts on Wolfe")<br></font><br>
Taoism too, right?<br>
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<div>I'm never sure what planet you're from.</div>
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<div>For the record, Nietzsche shared your view that there was some
biological benefit to preserving the seed. He too was a bit of a
nutter.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 3:20 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:brunians@brunians.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:brunians@brunians.org">brunians@brunians.org</a>></span>
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is biologically based.<br>
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If a man does not have orgasms, he becomes capable to perform certain<br>
spiritual acts which he cannot otherwise perform, or not as well.<br>
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