The Workermonkey

Friday, January 20, 2006

you didn't have to do anything 

# posted by ron @ 1/20/2006 01:50:00 AM

gwen stefani? b-a-n-na-ssnasn asblbh ablah ablalh blah balh whateefer!

I've had quite a bit of time to sit and think about life , society and the future.

all I've really got to say about all tof my thinking is "screw you guys, I'm doing my own thing"

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Maybe if you have the time, it is good to do some interesting, thought provoking reading you wouldn't otherwise do. During my airport waits, etc I read "The Art of Happiness" by H.H. Dalai Lama and some American shrink as I happened across it in the small English section of a local bookstore. It was good, and Buddhism is cool in how it affects this life, though I don't buy the reincarnation and karma bits.

Does anyone else ever get the word verification wrong or am I that blind?

By  Damon, at Friday, January 20, 2006 5:10:00 AM  

yeah, i agree with damon. do anything that you've ever said "i wish i had time to do ________." it also could be a good time for general reflection.

and yes, i also occasionally get the word verification wrong. sometimes they're ridiculous.

By  josh, at Friday, January 20, 2006 8:05:00 AM  

"The Art of Happiness" is an excellent book on Buddhism for the western mind. I have read it multiple times and given copies of it to friends and family.

How can one not believe in Reincarnation? Unless one only thinks of their own, preconceived, notion of reincarnation. We are all made up of energy, this energy flows around the universe, being reborn into different things at different times. Along with this energy flows the elements of the past, things do not appear out of nowhere, they flow forward through space-time, so to say you dont believe in the law of causation(Karma) is illogical as well.

By  wyldshaman, at Saturday, January 21, 2006 11:14:00 AM  

I believe in karma and reincarnation..... all of my own definitions of course.

By  ron, at Saturday, January 21, 2006 2:12:00 PM  

Of course what we are physically made up of comes from previous matter and energy, but since I believe our mind and consciousness is only the flowing of electricity and chemicals in our brains and bodies, then I define myself as this continuous flow. When my body dies, it will cease to flow, and I will no longer exist. That my body will decompose and eventually be eaten by worms or roots is inconsequential to me, because what made up my mind will be gone never to return. Molecules and energy don't know anything about good and bad, so the atoms that were used in the Crusades are not later trying to rid their bad karma when they are used in other objects. I know little of the Buddhist ideas, but I do not believe that causation is carried through individual beings over hundreds of years.

By  Damon, at Sunday, January 22, 2006 2:12:00 AM  

ah damon, the quantum world is far from being understood.

By  ron, at Monday, January 23, 2006 1:17:00 PM  

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