I quite enjoyed reading it. Self wankery, without doubt, as Thaths correctly diagnoses it, but lots of terrific quotes, worthy of inclusion into the Unix fortune cookies file, if they ever do that one again. My faves:
Time, of course, is the merciless slaughterer of all these infinitely qualified anchors of the meaning of life. Wait long enough, and every truth will crumble. Wait long enough, and every value will dissolve into moral ambiguity. Wait long enough, and every habit will decay, first into ritual, then into farce. Wait long enough, and every slain demon will rise again. The transience of the seemingly permanent is well-recognized, even though Buddhists around the world work hard to mystify it On 10 May 2016 at 08:30, Udhay Shankar N <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 8:12 AM, Thaths <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm in my 40's and dammit I don't want to waste it reading > > intellectual-self-wankery premised on dubious extrapolations from limited > > first-world data sets. > > > > "Self-wankery" reminds me of the awesome Madras expression "self > suicide". > > Udhay > > -- > > ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com)) > -- Narendra Shenoy http://narendrashenoy.blogspot.com
