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about other people's love affairs -- they became peeping toms -- but they could not find out anything.
Finally they asked a Martian couple, very politely, "We have come from Earth, we are on a research tour. We want to know how you make love."
They said, "It is very simple!" They opened their fridge, brought out two jars, started mixing the chemicals contained in the jars into a third small jar, mixed them well and put the jar back into the fridge.
The couple inquiring about love-making could not see any love-making in it. They said, "What are you doing? Are you preparing coffee or something?" They said, "No, because in nine months this new jar will have a child in it. We have mixed all the ingredients needed. This is how we reproduce."
The couple from Earth started laughing. They said, "Then tell us one thing more -- how do you prepare coffee?"
Then they both undressed and started making love! And the couple from Earth went into hysterical laughter; they could not believe what was happening. They were making coffee!
The Martians asked, "What are you laughing at? Why are you laughing?"
They said, "Because this is the way we reproduce -- and you are making coffee! So this is the coffee which you served us this morning!"
Man has been trying to find some scientific way to reproduce so that everything can become mechanical. Then even love will no longer be private. Wisdom has already been taken over by the churches, the universities; love is still a little bit private. Of course, the society has dominated almost ninety-nine percent of it through marriage, through all kinds of laws, through all kinds of legal bindings, but still one-percent remains private. That too the society is not very happy about; that has also to be encroached upon -- your love has also to be taken away from you. Wisdom was taken away long ago, now love has to be taken away. Then you are reduced to a machine, a servile machine, a slave; then you will only repeat cliches.
A man rings at the chaplain's door. When the housekeeper opens the door, the man says, "I am bringing you the twenty-four thousand liters of oil you ordered"
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