That also explains the defense of Wal-Mart and the arguing against gun control. They arewithout a doubt Bozos.BuddhaSoup wrote:. . . That's the sound of Jillette planting a big one on David Koch's butt.
Penn & Teller's Bullshit: the Dalai Lama
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Re: Penn & Teller's Bullshit: the Dalai Lama
>> Do you see a man wise [enlightened/ariya] in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.<< -- Proverbs 26:12
This being is bound to samsara, kamma is his means for going beyond. -- SN I, 38.
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” HPatDH p.723
This being is bound to samsara, kamma is his means for going beyond. -- SN I, 38.
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” HPatDH p.723
Re: Penn & Teller's Bullshit: the Dalai Lama
Tilt, I can say I have not noticed until today the Irish at the foot of your post. Excellent! Go raibh maith agat! I spent the best summer and autumn of my life as a student in Dublin.
Re: Penn & Teller's Bullshit: the Dalai Lama
mere statistical analysis is not necessarily scienceBuddhaSoup wrote:...the science of climate change....
Re: Penn & Teller's Bullshit: the Dalai Lama
I would appreciate it if we could remain on-topic.
Thanks
Ben
Thanks
Ben
“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
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- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725
Compassionate Hands Foundation (Buddhist aid in Myanmar) • Buddhist Global Relief • UNHCR
e: [email protected]..
Re: Penn & Teller's Bullshit: the Dalai Lama
Doesn't fit Jillete's "profile."BuddhaSoup wrote:Michael Parenti, featured in the video, is in part an apologist for communism, suggesting that he and Jillette may share an affinity for Communist regimes like the PRC.
Re: Penn & Teller's Bullshit: the Dalai Lama
in the lounge?Ben wrote:I would appreciate it if we could remain on-topic.
Thanks
Ben
plus,it's a counter to BuddhaSoup's ad hominem aguainst Jillete, which goes directly to the OP
Re: Penn & Teller's Bullshit: the Dalai Lama
Yes, even in the lounge.danieLion wrote:in the lounge?Ben wrote:I would appreciate it if we could remain on-topic.
Thanks
Ben
plus,it's a counter to BuddhaSoup's ad hominem aguainst Jillete, which goes directly to the OP
“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725
Compassionate Hands Foundation (Buddhist aid in Myanmar) • Buddhist Global Relief • UNHCR
e: [email protected]..
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725
Compassionate Hands Foundation (Buddhist aid in Myanmar) • Buddhist Global Relief • UNHCR
e: [email protected]..
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Re: Penn & Teller's Bullshit: the Dalai Lama
Penn is still a jerk.danieLion wrote:Doesn't fit Jillete's "profile."BuddhaSoup wrote:Michael Parenti, featured in the video, is in part an apologist for communism, suggesting that he and Jillette may share an affinity for Communist regimes like the PRC.
>> Do you see a man wise [enlightened/ariya] in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.<< -- Proverbs 26:12
This being is bound to samsara, kamma is his means for going beyond. -- SN I, 38.
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” HPatDH p.723
This being is bound to samsara, kamma is his means for going beyond. -- SN I, 38.
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” HPatDH p.723
Re: Penn & Teller's Bullshit: the Dalai Lama
From what I have read about Penn and his interest I would agree. I imagine what unites them are strong anti-religious views.danieLion wrote:Doesn't fit Jillete's "profile."BuddhaSoup wrote:Michael Parenti, featured in the video, is in part an apologist for communism, suggesting that he and Jillette may share an affinity for Communist regimes like the PRC.
Re: Penn & Teller's Bullshit: the Dalai Lama
I'd make the argument, not to be argumentative, that the affinity for the PRC does fit this Cato profile.Doesn't fit Jillete's "profile."
China today is all about unmitigated 'free market' capitalism, with only a facade of traditional communism. It is hardly the communism from the Soviet era, but a financially driven totalitarianism bent on high production, high pollution, high acquisition, with a goal toward regional and global dominance. How many Russian products did your family buy in the 1970's ? Today, who made the trainers you're wearing right now? I'd say the Koch brothers and the Chinese authorities make good bedfellows.
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But is Parenti an apologist for "olld style" communism or the present Chinese regime?
Re: Penn & Teller's Bullshit: the Dalai Lama
Good point. From what little I've read of Parenti, he's favorable to certain aspects of traditional communism, and critical of aspects that have manifested in the modern PRC.Mr Man wrote:But is Parenti an apologist for "olld style" communism or the present Chinese regime?
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Re: Penn & Teller's Bullshit: the Dalai Lama
As may of you know, I have been a professional magician, hypnotist and mentalist for more than thirty-five years. I have had the displeasure of knowing P&T since they hit the scene in the 80s. Penn Jillete has the emotional maturity and social graces of a spoiled 12 year old, Ray Teller is a little bit better, he's cultured and literate but still a bigot when it comes to spiritual and metaphysical matters. Both are howling atheists without the slightest shred of respect for anyone else's belief systems. They've built a fan base among the cynical, the hard-edged and the know-it-alls. The stories are legion about their callous behavior toward audience members and random people they encounter, and of fellow show-business people.
In other words, they're both total d-bags. Their opinions on anything mean nothing to me. I've never understood how anyone ever found them entertaining, but I don't care much for humor based on a foundation of disparaging or mocking other people,
BubB
In other words, they're both total d-bags. Their opinions on anything mean nothing to me. I've never understood how anyone ever found them entertaining, but I don't care much for humor based on a foundation of disparaging or mocking other people,
BubB
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Re: Penn & Teller's Bullshit: the Dalai Lama
That makes more sense than what you said before. Thanks.BuddhaSoup wrote:I'd make the argument, not to be argumentative, that the affinity for the PRC does fit this Cato profile.Doesn't fit Jillete's "profile."
China today is all about unmitigated 'free market' capitalism, with only a facade of traditional communism. It is hardly the communism from the Soviet era, but a financially driven totalitarianism bent on high production, high pollution, high acquisition, with a goal toward regional and global dominance. How many Russian products did your family buy in the 1970's ? Today, who made the trainers you're wearing right now? I'd say the Koch brothers and the Chinese authorities make good bedfellows.
Re: Penn & Teller's Bullshit: the Dalai Lama
I don't believe ad hominem is always inappropriate (just usually), and maybe this is one of those times it makes sense.
I'm neither a P&T fan nor a hater. I'd just never heard those things about the DL and was wondering if the de-bunkers (bozos, jerks, douchebags, etc...) needed debunking.
It's evident to me now they're committed to philosophical materialism, and Randians are, IMO, completely retarded.
I'm neither a P&T fan nor a hater. I'd just never heard those things about the DL and was wondering if the de-bunkers (bozos, jerks, douchebags, etc...) needed debunking.
It's evident to me now they're committed to philosophical materialism, and Randians are, IMO, completely retarded.