[Buddha-l] ?????

[Dan Lusthaus]

> why do
> people in New Zealand say they are standing up, when it is perfectly
> obvious to everyone that they are in fact hanging down? Why don't they
> just admit that when they throw a ball down into the air, it comes back
> up to earth?
>
> Richard

Some basic physics solves this.

As a Firesign Theater character replied to someone about to faint who
expresses her dizziness by saying "the whole world is spinning around":

"That's lucky for us. If it didn't, all the Chinese would fall off."

Dan