--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> > wrote: > > --- In [email protected], anon_astute_ff <no_reply@> > > wrote: > > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> > wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], cardemaister <no_reply@> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > "If it was possible to become free of negative emotions by a > > riskless > > > > > implementation of an electrode - without impairing > intelligence > > and > > > > > the critical mind - I would be the first patient." > > > > > Dalai Lama (Society for Neuroscience Congress, Nov. 2005) > > > > > > > > > > http://www.wireheading.com/ > > > > > > > > It's always difficult to tell. People love to make > > > > shit up and attribute it to the Dalai Lama. If you > > > > really want to know, you can write an email to > > > > http://www.tibet.com/ and they'll research it and > > > > tell you. Last time I did this, the respondent said > > > > that fewer than 10% of the quotes they receive > > > > that are attributed to the Dalai Lama were really > > > > said by him. > > > > > > Thats because the "universe" said them, you fool! Havn't you been > > > listening here? :) > > > > FWIW, the quote is attributed to an address by the > > Dalai Lama at the Society for Neuroscience Congress, > > November 2005. > > And the "graduation address" that made its way > around the Internet as being by Kurt Vonnegut > was attributed and dated, too. It just happened > to be fiction, and have nothing whatsoever to do > with Vonnegut. > > As I said, the only way to really tell when deal- > ing with the Dalai Lama is to submit a query to > Tibet House. They handle about a dozen of them > a month. >
OR, and perhaps this would be even more reliable given that he might regret having said it, check and see ifthere's a transcript of any speech he may have given at teh Neuroscience Congress, assuming that such a Congress exists, and that he gave a speech there in Nov. 2005. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
