Blake: Now available with less fluff.

[Koyaanisqatsi]

Originally posted by Blake
But there's a deeper reason to shave off your hair and eyebrows. I could say a lot, but I could also probably just leave it at "Conversation starter".

And a fascinating conversation it must be: Explorations on the intersection between Buddhism and attention whoring. Could get a whole lecture series out of that, I bet.

[Asher]

Buddhists are attention whores. Who else lights themselves on fire.

[Riesstiu IV]

Originally posted by Oerdin


That's the final proof. Buddhism = Nazism.

Nazis also shaved the heads of concentration camp inmates. Dr. Phil is bald.

All bald people (with the exception of Patrick Stewart) are evil and vile creatures.

[DaShi]

You don't need your pinky fingers either, pinky toes too. And since you're becoming a monk, there's another organ that you don't need.

[Heraclitus]

Re: Blake: Now available with less fluff.

Originally posted by Blake
Having only what you need, is the way to happiness.

It is good to see that more men now renounce the wickedness of old and convert to Origin.

Remember Blake:
"Priors are beacons on the road to enlightenment."




Hallowed are the ori and those who follow.

[Heraclitus]

Originally posted by DaShi
You don't need your pinky fingers either, pinky toes too. And since you're becoming a monk, there's another organ that you don't need.

Don't give people bad ideas.

[Blake]

Originally posted by Koyaanisqatsi


And a fascinating conversation it must be: Explorations on the intersection between Buddhism and attention whoring. Could get a whole lecture series out of that, I bet.

Attention is just what it is, it can be used or misused.

Please reprimand everyone who paid attention to me when I first started my experiments in AI. If it wasn't for them, I'd never have persevered and Better AI would never have come into existence. If not for that success, I wouldn't have had the self-confidence to expand "changing a corner of the gaming world" into "changing a corner of the world".

You know who are to blame for me being an attention whore, now go blame them!

[Blake]

Originally posted by DaShi
You don't need your pinky fingers either, pinky toes too. And since you're becoming a monk, there's another organ that you don't need.

A very important and central question in Buddhism, asked on issues such as this are:
"Who does it harm? If the answer is no-one, it is okay"

Someone may not need something, but if taking it away from them would harm them, it is not Buddhist kosher to do so. That question can put almost anything into perspective.

[SlowwHand]

Re: Blake: Now available with less fluff.

Originally posted by Blake
Having only what you need, is the way to happiness.

I decided I had no further need for my hair or eyebrows.



Mwahahaha! I love it!

Sweet Fanny Moses!

[Alinestra Covelia]

Originally posted by Oerdin


That's the final proof. Buddhism = Nazism.

Not just that but also the swastikas.

[Alinestra Covelia]

Oh, and to Blake:

Glad you've taken this step! I did some reporting on a Cambodian Buddhist monastery here in the States, and in the summer they would occasionally get some interest from lay citizens who wanted to try out the lifestyle of prayer and meditation that their monks observed.

One boy was an American youth of 14 and he shaved his head and his eyebrows and took up the saffron robes. He went through the two-week training program, and then he returned to the secular world again. He thought about returning to do more study but could not commit to becoming ordained just yet. The monks were fine with that.

Do whatever you need to find a purpose with your life. And if you actually do find it, be sure to let the rest of us know.

[Blake]

Originally posted by Alinestra Covelia
Not just that but also the swastikas.

And if you want even more proof, consider that nearly all Nazi's had mothers who loved them, just like Buddhists !

[Alinestra Covelia]

Originally posted by Blake


And if you want even more proof, consider that nearly all Nazi's had mothers who loved them, just like Buddhists !

Hitler was a vegetarian!

[SlowwHand]

I doubt that. (At the Nazi mama remark.)

[DaShi]

Originally posted by Blake


A very important and central question in Buddhism, asked on issues such as this are:
"Who does it harm? If the answer is no-one, it is okay"

Someone may not need something, but if taking it away from them would harm them, it is not Buddhist kosher to do so. That question can put almost anything into perspective.

But it harms me having to see your picture like that.

Anyway, I believe that since people were put on this Earth with hair to remove it like that is simply a form a vanity.