--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], Rick Archer > <fairfieldlife@> wrote: > > on 4/8/06 8:09 AM, TurquoiseB at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > Laugh while you can, Monkeyboy. > > > > > > (Trivia question here...who can name the movie > > > that the above quote comes from?) :-) > > > > Buckaroo Banzai? > > Give that man a kewpie doll. :-) > > One of the great cult films of all time. > > > > And to be even more in your face, death is going to > > > happen -- to YOU -- far sooner than you want it to. > > > You personally are going to DIE within twenty years, > > > and probably closer to ten. > > > > Why so soon? Is Shemp 75? > > No particular reason, and it may not be true. But > he IS going to die, and if he manages to live the > rest of his life as incurious and as unwilling to > exert *any* effort to learn anything new as he has > during the last few years, he'll face that death as > ignorant of what it's all about as he is today. > > For some reason, that just struck me as sad this > morning, and so I wrote what I wrote. > > Periodically, Shemp decides to trash the Dalai Lama > and Things Tibetan for -- as far as I can tell -- no > other reason than to be a troll and to be provocative.
Actually, I've certainly trashed the Dalai Lam but have never trashed the Tibetan Buddhists (don't know enough about them to either trash or love 'em). As for being a provocateur, yes, I readily admit to it, especially in this case. > He knows *nothing* about the Dalai Lama, nothing about > Tibetan history, nothing about Tibetan Buddhism, and > doesn't really *care* to learn anything or intend to > *ever* learn anything about it. Where this subject is > concerned, Shemp is what I termed a "typical American" > -- Ignorant And Proud Of It. > > I just got tired of putting up with his troll act > is all, and decided to call him on it. If he actually > has any desire to *learn* something about Tibet and > its approach to death, dying, and reincarnation, I > will be happy to interact with him. But for that to > happen, he has to do his homework, and read a book > called "The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying," by > Sogyal Rinpoche, Patrick D. Gaffney, and Andrew Harvey. > > If he does, I'll interact with him on the subject of > Tibet and its philosophies. If he doesn't, I'll continue > to treat him as the ignorant adolescent he seems content > to be, and to be until he dies. > 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/
