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stripper breast dining FTW

Not so much the bible as a funny book they named the forum after. Quoting it will get you nowhere round these parts 23fnordpineal..etc

Cross posted in case anyone is interested in participating.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY-uv-6YhS8

Upload yuor clip to megaupload and link me. The beauty is it takes absolutely no time at all to create this effect. Suggest anyone with a camcorder do a piece to camera of a rant, try to keep your head as still as possible and I can make you look creepy as fuck with very little effort (very little effort FTW)

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I have to think about this some more before I write, but the above is the basic idea.

Just make it a hundred times more complex and it would be like a BIP mandela.

Is that a spelling mistake or did you really mean a BIP political prisoner cum politician?

srlsy dude get the pdf - I'm just making it look complicated on account of I'm thick as pigshit.

i'll ask LMNO for it. i've just finished 'view from the center of the universe' and am now reading a book on kaballah & cosmology. but if things get into math, then i just switch off.

lol - QBL without maths is like fish and chips without the fish ... or the chips - it's just a greasy paper bag where your meal ought to be. Fortunately it's mostly geometry - I can get my head round geometry cos I can see it.

For sure. I liked the part about doing coke off strippers titties. 

Damn you kenan you're just too fuckin deep for this place.

i did wonder if the idea of a monad (a hadit) was anything capable of experience, so i started to think on small scales like single cells or even atoms.

Hadit is the only thing that is capable of experience, all else is experienced by hadit. Ask yourself "Who am I?" and keep asking until huge complicated chunks of biological and chemical manifestations stop trying to convince you that it's them.

you're good. maybe you should be in SSOOKN afterall.....

Nocando I'm afraid. Couple of complete bastards blackballed me. 

Happy 666th Hunter 

Any honest buddhist will tell you - their way ain't the only way. I see monks (in most any religion) as fast trackers. I tend to just amble along my life and concentrate on enjoying it on my terms. PS2 features quite prominently in those terms of late. If I find myself in a situation where I don't have a PS2 (Kayak trips ain't conducive, what with salt water, and no leccy) do I get all fidgety? Nope - that's lack of attachment for me. Lack of attachment, while still hoarding cool stuff - that's what makes me different from a monk.

...and if I die before I wake - it's been a hoot.

Holy fucking 

Reminded me a bit of Stephen King's Langoliers

"Buddhist_Monk_Wannabe" - you an me both

i did wonder if the idea of a monad (a hadit) was anything capable of experience, so i started to think on small scales like single cells or even atoms.

Hadit is the only thing that is capable of experience, all else is experienced by hadit. Ask yourself "Who am I?" and keep asking until huge complicated chunks of biological and chemical manifestations stop trying to convince you that it's them.

What we really need in this forum is a full time thread miner. The nature of these fucking boards is that the ideas flow so thick and so fast that many really good ones get forgotten about in the avalanche. Another tactic that works for me is not to wait or even try to get approval for something until after you've done it. Because if you were to say something along the lines of "I was thinking of making a song based on one of so and so's rants whaddya think?" there'd almost inevitably be a huge thread with everybody arguing over how best to do it and throwing their own thoughts and ideas into the mix. Then there'd be the inevitable threadjack and within as little as a day or two the original idea would be long forgotten. Just do it, post it then, if there's any feedback, modify it. Remember - someone is more likely to buy into the idea of you using their intellectual property for a pet project if you can show them the end result when you're asking.

Incidentally - I'll restate for the new blood. My intellect is public domain. If I post something on this board I'm throwing it out to the internets. Anyone wants to use it for anything then you have my blessing. If it sucks then I might mock you a bit but more often than not when something like this happens I'm kinda flattered. (doesn't happen that often - prolly due to my use of low grade intellect)

The attachment issue is prolly best summed up by the Happy Mondays line "The things that you own start to own you" It comes down to when you have something or someone that you really love to bits there's an inherent fear of losing it, largely subconscious in most cases but it's there nonetheless. The ultimate attachment is life itself. Some people tie themselves in all sorts of worry-knots fretting about the inevitable fact that they're going to die and this sorta casts a really gloomy shadow over their whole outlook on life. Part of satori is realising that, even if you happen to die right now, it's still been amazing. The Buddhist focusses on the amazingness of now and forgets all about the past the future, especially the slowly rotting bit at the end, whenever that might be.

I have lots of cool stuff and cool friends and I like to go to cool places. If I lose something or a friend or I can't go somewhere ever again, fuck it. It/they were still cool as fuck, regardless of the fact that they're gone. People have a tendency to come away with shit like "I'd be heart broken if you ever left me" or "I'd be lost without my house" What purpose could entertaining a notion like that possibly serve? Don't get me wrong, sometimes people close to me die or leave or I end up homeless and it pisses me off for a while (I aint a buddhist monk) but, ultimately, life goes on and it's still pretty amazing even without them.

The reason a monk gives up his posessions is to remove himself from attactment. Since suffering is caused by clinging, by attachment, ridding yourself of material things  aids in ridding yourself of attactment. But really, the lack of want for material things has to come first. Leaving them behind is just following through.

I don't like that reasoning, its way too black and white.  In fact, thats pretty much why I don't like religion.

The buddhist 'way' is simply that a way or means to an end. When the monk enters the monastery he is enrolling in enlightenment university. Just like a traditional uni the monastery has a curriculum. This curriculum is what they call the way. Unlike normal university the monk does not go home at night. Enlightenment is a slightly more immersive degree than normal academic ones. Probably because it isn't merely academic but parallels can still be drawn.

Think about when you're in a lecture; it's implicitly recommended (and probably in a rule somewhere) that you don't do things like listen to personal stereos, play ps2 or read  the daily telegraph. Why? Because these things make it really difficult to take in what the lecturer is telling you. Behaving like this is likely to cause you to fail your degree so it's recommended you don't, for your own benefit, not because these people are nazi bastards and don't want you to enjoy yourself.

It's the same with buddhism, only the lecture/study time is 24/7. One of the key lessons in the tao curriculum is freedom from attachment. It's much easier to teach and learn this lesson if the student isn't surrounded by things they are attached to. The sweet sharp shock of losing all their possessions will initially trigger feelings of loss. Dealing with these feelings, understanding where they come from and eliminating them is the lesson. How you gonna teach that to someone who's addicted to super mario and won't stop playing it on their gameboy?