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"No" Golf

Sometimes I check the statistics for the website. Someone arrived at this website by way of a Google search: I want to love golf but don't no how.

Normally, I would not deign to discuss the difference between "no" and "know;" however, I will do so briefly, limited, of course, to the context of the subject of the Google search. That someone might be desirous of igniting a passion for the game of golf is intriguing to me.

The love of golf can be derived from the spiritual pursuit of perfection, which can never be achieved, from the struggle to overcome one's inner turmoil, which boils to the surface as anger, one of its components being impatience, and achieve inner peace and harmony. In this pursuit, one must become acquainted with one's self, attempt to know one's self, for the path to inner peace and harmony requires one to overcome those negative thoughts, feelings, and inner demons that cast a shadow upon enlightenment and seek to divert one from the path to peace and harmony.

In contemplation of the ultimate question, however, I conclude that in order to approach the game of golf in this manner, in a spiritual way, one must understand that there is a difference between "know" and "no." That one does not understand the difference between "know" and "no" or does not care to learn that there is a difference takes this discussion in a quite different direction. For such a person, the love of golf is derived from golf as a social occasion, from the camaraderie and hedonism which accompanies that camaraderie, that is, getting together with a group of asswipes who get shit-faced drunk and annoy everyone within sight and earshot.

Posted by Bill at March 31, 2006 09:24 AM