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ATTN MORTALS: Post ITT for a quest to make you more Holy™.

Started by The Good Reverend Roger, March 11, 2011, 05:23:51 PM

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Elder Iptuous

#225
March 21, 2011, 02:31:42 PM
Roger, i'm sad to report that requesting sarsaparilla had little to no effect in four separate bars in the heart of cowtown...
two expressed ignorance of what it was, and two simply said 'no'.  I wasn't even able to declare this place Portlandia.  :sad:

The Good Reverend Roger

#226
March 21, 2011, 03:12:23 PM
Quote from: Iptuous on March 21, 2011, 02:31:42 PM
Roger, i'm sad to report that requesting sarsaparilla had little to no effect in four separate bars in the heart of cowtown...
two expressed ignorance of what it was, and two simply said 'no'.  I wasn't even able to declare this place Portlandia.  :sad:

Mission Complete:  You will not be required to spend time in the afterlife with people from Houston.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Payne

#227
March 21, 2011, 05:24:16 PM
Ugh, work was harsh today.

All those 90 degree angles you find on walls and doors and such seemed to be that much more pointier to my scrambled vision. Colours took on menacing new meaning, even the rather dull and characterless yellow paint we have in our little kitchen area.

I could see in my colleagues eyes that they didn't share my discomfort with this place, as a I walked among them as if in one of those "young naive waif gets lured into the dangerous wrongs of drink and drugs" videos from back in the day. Except instead of scotch and cigars and opium, these bastards were knocking back coffee and laughing gaily. Each chuckle made me want to ram a fist down their throat, pull up their vocal chords and strangle them with them.

Work was also long, and so very. very. very tedious.

And tonight, I am going to a pub to celebrate a guys birthday. I don't know the guy, really. Well I kinda do, but it's a long story that I may cover in the recap at the end of the week.

Roger, when do I begin to feel Holier? Or is it just that I am already at Maximum Holy, and I'm just doing the spiritual equivilent of waiting in line at the DMV?

The Good Reverend Roger

#228
March 21, 2011, 05:25:46 PM
Quote from: Payne on March 21, 2011, 05:24:16 PM
Roger, when do I begin to feel Holier? Or is it just that I am already at Maximum Holy, and I'm just doing the spiritual equivilent of waiting in line at the DMV?

You're assuming there's a difference.

There's a reason enlightened Buddhists all smile enigmatically.  They live in hell, and they aren't going to warn you about it, because misery loves company.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Payne

#229
March 21, 2011, 05:30:18 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 21, 2011, 05:25:46 PM
Quote from: Payne on March 21, 2011, 05:24:16 PM
Roger, when do I begin to feel Holier? Or is it just that I am already at Maximum Holy, and I'm just doing the spiritual equivilent of waiting in line at the DMV?

You're assuming there's a difference.

There's a reason enlightened Buddhists all smile enigmatically.  They live in hell, and they aren't going to warn you about it, because misery loves company.

I'm gonna get me a Buddhist hat then. Make one out of a face, and just wear it all the time.

"SAY WHA?, THIS IS MY HAPPYHATTM!"

I wonder if the Dalai Lama would donate his face... I wonder if I would gain Sooper Hell-Boodist Pyrotechnic Powers if I wore a HappyHat...

DAMN YOU ROGER!

:crankey:

Don Coyote

#230
March 21, 2011, 06:12:29 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 21, 2011, 05:25:46 PM
Quote from: Payne on March 21, 2011, 05:24:16 PM
Roger, when do I begin to feel Holier? Or is it just that I am already at Maximum Holy, and I'm just doing the spiritual equivilent of waiting in line at the DMV?

You're assuming there's a difference.

There's a reason enlightened Buddhists all smile enigmatically.  They live in hell, and they aren't going to warn you about it, because misery loves company.

You just inspired a WOMP.

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#231
March 21, 2011, 07:34:22 PM
I can't get into Buddhism for the same reason I can't get into Christianity; they are both based on the idea that the physical world is Badwrong.

Sorry, babe; no can do.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

The Good Reverend Roger

#232
March 21, 2011, 07:37:55 PM
Quote from: Nigel on March 21, 2011, 07:34:22 PM
I can't get into Buddhism for the same reason I can't get into Christianity; they are both based on the idea that the physical world is Badwrong.

Sorry, babe; no can do.

Fucking Buddhists.  Here today, and here tomorrow.  :crankey:
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#233
March 21, 2011, 08:59:21 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 21, 2011, 07:37:55 PM
Quote from: Nigel on March 21, 2011, 07:34:22 PM
I can't get into Buddhism for the same reason I can't get into Christianity; they are both based on the idea that the physical world is Badwrong.

Sorry, babe; no can do.

Fucking Buddhists.  Here today, and here tomorrow.  :crankey:

:lulz:
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

Don Coyote

#234
March 21, 2011, 09:50:09 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 21, 2011, 07:37:55 PM
Quote from: Nigel on March 21, 2011, 07:34:22 PM
I can't get into Buddhism for the same reason I can't get into Christianity; they are both based on the idea that the physical world is Badwrong.

Sorry, babe; no can do.

Fucking Buddhists.  Here today, and here tomorrow.  :crankey:

But I thought you were a buddha?

Ari

#235
March 21, 2011, 10:20:12 PM
What a week!
I went out of my way alright, to find weird strangers and strange weirdos - and feel pleased with the results.
Give me a day to sort through my notes, write a coherent summary and maybe throw some of the recorded noises together. It's my first day off work in two weeks and my bones demand tending to.

In short: drunk soccer-lovers throw a fit out of nowhere, old danish man in search for "a little bedwarmer" hits on me, St. Patrick's Day at local "irish pub" goes badwrong, camping in the industrial jungle and getting to know the weird in close friends while finding new weird inside my selves. Good times!
パンクビッチ

Elder Iptuous

#236
March 22, 2011, 01:17:59 AM
Buddhism is the worst of all religions, in my opinion.  any religion that teaches the dissolution of the self is pretty fucked up, i think.
it's like a suicide cult on steroids, right?  i mean, most of the suicide cultists at least think that they are going to survive in some form, but the Buddhist self loathing is eternal...
fucking buddhists.
:argh!:

Cainad (dec.)

#237
March 22, 2011, 01:51:08 AM
Quote from: Iptuous on March 22, 2011, 01:17:59 AM
Buddhism is the worst of all religions, in my opinion.  any religion that teaches the dissolution of the self is pretty fucked up, i think.
it's like a suicide cult on steroids, right?  i mean, most of the suicide cultists at least think that they are going to survive in some form, but the Buddhist self loathing is eternal...
fucking buddhists.
:argh!:

Except loathing implies an attachment. It's not the same as Christians being pissed at themselves all the time for being sinners.

Schools of thought and specific teachings vary, but in general the primary Buddhist teaching is to dissolve attachments. The idea of "self" tends to be bound up in our attachments to things we can never have, and the general Buddhist outlook is that these unattainable desires are what make us unhappy.

"I want to be wealthy. I need to get that promotion. I worry that my life won't mean anything to anyone once I'm gone."

That's the theory, anyway. Sorta. In a very boiled-down and insufficient CliffNotes version.


Cainad,
Buddhist apologist, and going to Fundie Heaven now for derailing a Holy Thread.

Elder Iptuous

#238
March 22, 2011, 02:23:34 AM
so, they dismiss longsuffering as a virtue, or are they just too cowardly to face it?

The Good Reverend Roger

#239
March 22, 2011, 02:38:11 AM
Quote from: Cainad on March 22, 2011, 01:51:08 AM
Quote from: Iptuous on March 22, 2011, 01:17:59 AM
Buddhism is the worst of all religions, in my opinion.  any religion that teaches the dissolution of the self is pretty fucked up, i think.
it's like a suicide cult on steroids, right?  i mean, most of the suicide cultists at least think that they are going to survive in some form, but the Buddhist self loathing is eternal...
fucking buddhists.
:argh!:

Except loathing implies an attachment. It's not the same as Christians being pissed at themselves all the time for being sinners.

Schools of thought and specific teachings vary, but in general the primary Buddhist teaching is to dissolve attachments. The idea of "self" tends to be bound up in our attachments to things we can never have, and the general Buddhist outlook is that these unattainable desires are what make us unhappy.

"I want to be wealthy. I need to get that promotion. I worry that my life won't mean anything to anyone once I'm gone."

That's the theory, anyway. Sorta. In a very boiled-down and insufficient CliffNotes version.


Cainad,
Buddhist apologist, and going to Fundie Heaven now for derailing a Holy Thread.

Those unattainable goals are what make us human.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.
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