Whats is your secret talent?

[Blake]

Originally posted by Jon Miller
In my defense, Blakes posts are a bit hippy and I was trying to be funny.

JM

In my defense, anyone who takes the time to listen to some Wisdom, will improve their life immeasurably.

Depending on how old you are, you might expect to have some 100,000-400,000 waking hours ahead of you in this life time (you might have less)

An hour of wisdom now, makes every subsequent hour a better one...
Just like an hour of doing something mindless like watching TV, does nothing for your future...
And an hour of mental torture makes every subsequent hour hour less pleasant (ie depression)...

"I'd rather spend an hour watching TV, than spending an hour on a Dhamma Talk", that is a big gamble... especially if you've never even heard a Buddhist Dhamma Talk by a western Monk before. You don't even know if it's the kind of thing you enjoy or not!

I have this thing called "Compassion" where I wish for the suffering of other living beings to diminish, there's a whole lot of things I could talk about, but one is far more compassionate than any other - encouraging people I care about to take the time to listen to Ajahn Brahm (who has been described as a fantastic speaker, the Elvis Presley of Buddhism, a Comedian, "the kind of guy I'd like to have as an Uncle", and more) and get some new perspectives on life and their problems in life .
It beats mindlessness...

Desire, by Ajahn Brahm
"Hear first hand how our favourite monk was sitting on the beach between bikini wearing seventeen year old beauties before going to prison ..."

Come on, doesn't that sound the least bit intriguing?

[LordShiva]

Now, Blake, you're just making Etchy look really stupid

[Darius871]

Originally posted by Blake


In my defense, anyone who takes the time to listen to some Wisdom, will improve their life immeasurably.

Depending on how old you are, you might expect to have some 100,000-400,000 waking hours ahead of you in this life time (you might have less)

An hour of wisdom now, makes every subsequent hour a better one...
Just like an hour of doing something mindless like watching TV, does nothing for your future...
And an hour of mental torture makes every subsequent hour hour less pleasant (ie depression)...

"I'd rather spend an hour watching TV, than spending an hour on a Dhamma Talk", that is a big gamble... especially if you've never even heard a Buddhist Dhamma Talk by a western Monk before. You don't even know if it's the kind of thing you enjoy or not!

I have this thing called "Compassion" where I wish for the suffering of other living beings to diminish, there's a whole lot of things I could talk about, but one is far more compassionate than any other - encouraging people I care about to take the time to listen to Ajahn Brahm (who has been described as a fantastic speaker, the Elvis Presley of Buddhism, a Comedian, "the kind of guy I'd like to have as an Uncle", and more) and get some new perspectives on life and their problems in life .
It beats mindlessness...

Desire, by Ajahn Brahm
"Hear first hand how our favourite monk was sitting on the beach between bikini wearing seventeen year old beauties before going to prison ..."

Come on, doesn't that sound the least bit intriguing?

Do you ever talk (or even think) about anything else?

[Blake]

Originally posted by Darius871
Do you ever talk (or even think) about anything else?

Why bother thinking about unproductive things?
Because it's easier?

[SlowwHand]

Have you ever contemplated the wonder of your navel?

[Alinestra Covelia]

Originally posted by Heresson
I can touch teh tip of my nose with my tongue

Hey, I can do that too! Only very lightly though.

Actually, it's not so much the tip of my nose. More like that little bit of skin that separates my two nostrils. >_>

[LotC]

Originally posted by Darius871
Wait wait wait, LotC is totally full of it, correct? Is there a doctor in the house?

What's a doctor on a message board going to prove or disprove? I'll meet up with a doctor, anyone with a PhD, in Vancouver and offer irrefutable proof of all my claims.

[Alinestra Covelia]

Oh, I forgot another one, though it's hardly unique - many musicians I know have this.

Every so often I hear music playing in my head at night when I'm tired. This has been happening since I was 12 or 13 and it's recurred at certain points of very high occurrence during my life.

The music is almost always instrumental. If there's any vocals, it's never lyrical. When I was younger it used to be generally repetitive, and multilayered. I was occasionally able to record more than one layer by humming it into a microphone and then repeating for other layers.

If I don't record it, I will forget it. I've almost never remembered a piece of music after sleep. On the rare occasions I do, I will forget it instantly upon hearing another piece of music.

Lately the music has been multilayered and I have had increased control over it. I can change instrumentation, I can change tone, I can change pitch, rhythm, speed, etc. I don't do this directly - it's more of a "let's have some violins in glissando here... some snare drum here" and so forth.

The music also is much more changeable now than it was in my teens. I can't even get enough of a handle on the main theme to record it, it changes so fast.

[Heresson]

Also, I have a secret talent to grow enormous zits just when it's holidays and I'm going to meet a lot of people I don't see very often. Ah.

[Blake]

Originally posted by Heresson
Also, I have a secret talent to grow enormous zits just when it's holidays and I'm going to meet a lot of people I don't see very often. Ah.

And then you don't meet them so as to keep it a secret? Devious, devious indeed.

[Zoid]

I can deflate or bring down any meeting, project or party by my awesome negative force. It's my superpower, that's why I don't get involved much anymore. For the sake of humanity...

[Cartimandua]

I have a pretty long tongue. It's long enough to eat a whole pudding cup without a spoon

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by Cartimandua
I have a pretty long tongue. It's long enough to eat a whole pudding cup without a spoon

We demand videographic proof of this claim.

[Wittlich]

I bet you would LordShiva!

[Cartimandua]

Originally posted by LordShiva
We demand videographic proof of this claim.

Videographic proof? Hmm...I am not sure that would be such a good idea