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I received this one in my email today. I actually hadn't seen this one before.
Enjoy The Coffee (This is such a good one)
A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor.
Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life. Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups - porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to the coffee.
All the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: "If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is but normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. Be assured that the cup itself, adds no quality to the coffee in most cases, just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink.
What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups... and then began eyeing each other's cups.
Now consider this: Life is the coffee, and the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, and the type of cup we have does not define, nor change the quality of Life we live. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee God has provided us."
God brews the coffee, not the cups..........enjoy your coffee
That last part gets me, "God brews the coffee, not the cups." I didn't think you brewed cups.
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So some days, God gives you full-bodied espresso, and some days he gives you instant decaff...
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Christian/Muslim = Fully expects the coffee to be instantly made, and if it isn't its "part of Gods plan."
Aethiest = Understands that no one will make the coffee so has to make it themselves
Agnostic = Decides after careful consideration that no one will make the coffee, but lives in hope that fresh steaming cup (of coffee) will appear one day
Buddhist = That though denying the self and achieving enlightment, they will realise that they do not need coffee, hence thats why there is NONE!
Fundamentalist (Any religion): The coffee WILL be made and you WILL drink it and you WILL LIKE IT!
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The devil peed in half the cups. What's wrong; does yours taste funny? No, you may not spit it out! What are you, some kind of ingrate?
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So if you get a leaky cup with a hole in it and the coffee pours down your shirt, ruining it and burning your chest, and then you have no coffee to drink, somehow you are not supposed to let your crappy cup affect your enjoyment of the coffee?
Duh. The kind of cup I have, how well it functions and whether or not the aesthetics are pleasing, does matter to me. Some folks might not care about aesthetics but everyone cares about the function - if it gets cold quickly or spills or won't fit in the cup holder, that really puts a damper on enjoying the java.
But it's glurge, so I guess it's silly to expect it to make any sense.
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I guess I am in BIG trouble since coffee makes my head spin and makes me smell really bad... I like to put other stuff in the cups!
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quote:That last part gets me, "God brews the coffee, not the cups." I didn't think you brewed cups.
I think it's trying to say that the cups don't brew the coffee; God brews the coffee.
- snopes
Boy, do I feel silly right about now.
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quote:Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life. Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups - porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to the coffee.
Has anyone ever seen a crystal coffee cup or is this some obscure metaphor?
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quote:Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life. Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups - porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to the coffee.
Has anyone ever seen a crystal coffee cup or is this some obscure metaphor?
I've seen clear glass ones, both mugs and Irish coffee glases -- I don't know if they're crystal. Can you serve a hot liquid in crystal? Should you?
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Then the alums thanked the professor for the coffee and stepped out into the sunlight, where they agreed that old professor Thwockmorton was still a tedious, pretentious ass.
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.... what about if you politely decline the coffee?
Not related in the least, but theres a tea spot aorund here that uses mismatched cups. I don't care what cup I get, but I will make someone trade if their cookie saucer is prettier than mine.
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quote:Originally posted by laiskuri: Then the alums thanked the professor for the coffee and stepped out into the sunlight, where they agreed that old professor Thwockmorton was still a tedious, pretentious ass.
This is exactly what I was thinking.
Good one!
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Reading the title, I expected something ending in "... Jesus is like coffee - He lifts you up, but He can burn you, too".
Seeing that I was wrong, I'd like my life black and without sugar in a position in society made of waterproof cardboard with a plastic lid, please.
Don "to go" Enrico
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Actually, I think one of the students should have said, "But *you*, sir, collected all these cups. We are just using them temporarily to enhance our experience. Which makes us the ones savouring the serendipitous moments of life, while you are a materialist who has made a point of amassing a large and varied collection of coffee cups to then lecture us on the folly of our choices. We each chose one cup, but you chose them all."
Then again, I found out quickly which professors really wanted us to think for ourselves and which ones didn't.
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quote:Originally posted by Chloe: What does it mean if you just go for the biggest cup?
You beat me to it.
Coffee glurge???
Is NOTHING sacred?
Apparently not! I can cope with the puppies and kittens and folks with handicaps and even with the pus-filled wounds- but when they make my COFFEE into gluge by crimeny I won't stand for it!
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I prefer Dunkin Donuts coffee in a styrofoam cup myself.
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I read once that in asian cultures, food is regarded as something that should please all the senses, not just taste. I've always liked that idea and have tried to incorporate it into my day to day life. I would have chosen one of the beautiful cups just to enjoy the experience of something more aesthetically pleasing than I usually have. If I was eyeing others' cups, it would be curiosity and admiration, not jealousy.
Not long ago I bought myself a beautiful, dansk-type tempered glass mug ($2.00 at the thrift store, but quite an extravagance for me). I took it home, prepared tea, poured it into the mug, and it shattered into a dozens of pieces! I guess God's telling me I don't deserve even a little luxury. Sniffle....
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quote:Originally posted by Black Sunshine: and then began eyeing each other's cups.
Well I have some pretty big cups myself! However, hubby is more interested in what's in them!
Dawn--oh, you mean COFFEE cups?? --Storm
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quote:Originally posted by vicious: What if you freeze the coffee and eat it like a popsicle...
Am I a disciple of satan ?
Or am I dead ??
You're not dead, but since you've frozen the coffee (representing Life in this glurge), I guess that means you are stubborn, refusing to let life flow the way it should. You are trying to control life, instead of letting God do all the work. So you're not a heathen unbeliever so much as one of those "iffy" people that glurges are suppose to convert in one reading.
Myself, I like coffee milk (which does not mean coffee with a lot of milk, for you non-R.I.ers. It's a syrup to put in milk, just like chocolate milk). I think Rhode Islanders are a different branch of the Faith for this glurge. Another branch of the Faith for this glurge would be people who like eating chocolate covered coffee beans. Why have God brew it, when you get the full on buzz direct!
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quote:Originally posted by TrishDaDish: Another branch of the Faith for this glurge would be people who like eating chocolate covered coffee beans. Why have God brew it, when you get the full on buzz direct!
What about me? I drink coffee and eat chocolate covered coffee beans (as well as chocolate with coffee filling and coffee pralines).
Don "on the rush" Enrico
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My beverage of choice at the office is artificially-sweetened hot chocolate. I guess this affirms the fact that, as an atheist, not only do I lead a completely Godless life, but any joy I derive from life must be empty and artificial because...well, because there isn't any God in it.
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Well, what does the book of He-Brews say about this?
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