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JetLeg

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Why do you need to think about philosophy so much? The answers are given by HH the Dalai Lama!
 
Oh? And how does he know? Because he says so?

Anyone who believes that someone else "has the answer" to a question that is ultimately unanswerable is being fleeced by a huckster.
 
I don't know that he's a joke or anymore of a fraud than any other religious leader. However, he's taken money from the CIA to train resistance fighters and Tibet before China took over wasn't a happy happy place where everyone lived in nirvana. It was basically a serfdom.

Like all humans, he does and says things that are both "good" and "bad".
 
Lisa Simpson said:
I don't know that he's a joke or anymore of a fraud than any other religious leader. However, he's taken money from the CIA to train resistance fighters and Tibet before China took over wasn't a happy happy place where everyone lived in nirvana. It was basically a serfdom.

Like all humans, he does and says things that are both "good" and "bad".
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QFT.
 
JetLeg said:
Why do you need to think about philosophy so much? The answers are given by HH the Dalai Lama!
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That's right everyone, you too can avoid that nasty habit known as thinking.

Famous people who thought:
Hitler
Stalin
Atila the Hun
Caligula
Elvis

Thinking leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.

(The OP was probably a joke but best to play it safe.)

Edit: HH = Harry Houdini? He WAS pretty cool.
 
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JetLag,

JetLeg said:
Why do you need to think about philosophy so much? The answers are given by HH the Dalai Lama!
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Who knows. Perhaps we pursue such contemplative passions to fill the void of our inexplicable existence.

Jason
 
How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little
lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact
that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our
existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides,
everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the
rarest of exceptions do.

--Arthur Schopenhauer
 
Lisa Simpson said:
I don't know that he's a joke or anymore of a fraud than any other religious leader. However, he's taken money from the CIA to train resistance fighters and Tibet before China took over wasn't a happy happy place where everyone lived in nirvana. It was basically a serfdom.

Like all humans, he does and says things that are both "good" and "bad".
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No it wasn't, read his autobiography.
 
TX50 said:
How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little
lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact
that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our
existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides,
everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the
rarest of exceptions do.

--Arthur Schopenhauer
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Right, but thinking is hard and confusing. Instead of doing that, you can just trust someone reliable, and rely on him.
 
JetLeg said:
Right, but thinking is hard and confusing. Instead of doing that, you can just trust someone reliable, and rely on him.
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I'm going with joke OP. Thinking is hard and confusing?? So's walking until you try, practice and get used to it. On the other hand, you can just get someone to carry you around your whole life.....
 
lionking said:
I'm going with joke OP. Thinking is hard and confusing?? So's walking until you try, practice and get used to it. On the other hand, you can just get someone to carry you around your whole life.....
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I'm thinking that our new friend Jetleg actually means it. There really are people who are that far gone. Sadly. Not sure how they figure out how to use a computer and what they're doing here on the JREF, though...
 
lionking said:
I'm going with joke OP. Thinking is hard and confusing?? So's walking until you try, practice and get used to it. On the other hand, you can just get someone to carry you around your whole life.....
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He's not saying thinking in general. He's talking about philosophical thought--critical thinking.

We should all be molochs, basically; engineers in the dark, as our superior thinkers tell us about the wonderful nirvana ahead of us, if we'd just learn to get over our arrogant questioning of authority.

But I think he's actually joking, or most seems to be. It's the exclamation mark.
 
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