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Title: hy everyone
Post by: ruddy on July 22, 2011, 05:38:26 PM: i just want to say hi to everyone
Title: Re: hy everyone
Post by: ivan on July 22, 2011, 06:51:02 PM: Well, luckily that is something you can do here (depending on what your definition of "everyone" is, of course). So... any time you're ready, go for it.
Title: Re: hy everyone
Post by: Banshee on July 25, 2011, 09:04:18 AM: Buddha says that wants are the source of all unhappiness.

You must rejoin the Eight-fold Path to resume your journey towards Nirvana, grasshopper.
Title: Re: hy everyone
Post by: ivan on July 25, 2011, 10:36:48 AM: Quote from: Banshee on July 25, 2011, 09:04:18 AM
Buddha says that wants are the source of all unhappiness.

You must rejoin the Eight-fold Path to resume your journey towards Nirvana, grasshopper.

Here's what I don't get: in order to divest yourself of all wants on your journey towards Nirvana, don't you have to want to divest yourself of all wants on your journey towards Nirivana? Don't you have to want Nirvana? Don't you have to want not to want?

I think I'll go sit under a tree somewhere and chew on this.
Title: Re: hy everyone
Post by: ivan on July 25, 2011, 10:37:37 AM: Not that I want to or anything.
Title: Re: hy everyone
Post by: Demosthenes on July 25, 2011, 10:38:14 AM: Quote from: Detta, squirelmasta772, needles, Demosthenes, 12AX7 on July 25, 2011, 10:36:48 AM
Here's what I don't get: in order to divest yourself of all wants on your journey towards Nirvana, don't you have to want to divest yourself of all wants on your journey towards Nirivana? Don't you have to want Nirvana? Don't you have to want not to want?

I think I'll go sit under a tree somewhere and chew on this.

If you have ice cream I will give you some. If you have no ice cream I will take it away from you.

It's an ice cream koan.
Title: Re: hy everyone
Post by: ivan on July 25, 2011, 10:41:55 AM: Quote from: Mr_Shifty on July 25, 2011, 10:38:14 AM
If you have ice cream I will give you some. If you have no ice cream I will take it away from you.

It's an ice cream koan.

That is awesome.
Title: Re: hy everyone
Post by: Demosthenes on July 25, 2011, 11:04:09 AM: I can't take credit for it. I think that came from Jack Kerouac.
Title: Re: hy everyone
Post by: ivan on July 25, 2011, 01:17:46 PM: I guess I'll have to break down and read his stuff some day.
Title: Re: hy everyone
Post by: Demosthenes on July 25, 2011, 01:20:12 PM: Eh. It's overrated, in my opinion.

Most people who say they like Kerouac are just afraid to say that they didn't like it, or possibly worse, didn't get it.
Title: Re: hy everyone
Post by: ivan on July 25, 2011, 01:52:03 PM: I dodged the bullet in college -- never took a class that required it -- but a person I know very well described him as just another white guy trying to act cool by hanging out with (and condescending to) black musicians and other exotic people.
Title: Re: hy everyone
Post by: pbsaurus on July 25, 2011, 04:36:19 PM: I have a strange desire to listen to Cheap Trick and Nirvana.
/me curses Ivan
Title: Re: hy everyone
Post by: 12 on July 26, 2011, 03:31:40 AM: Its a good thing he didnt say "hy" to just the males here. Imagine the hyjinks with a thread tytled "Hymen!"