sorry for the delay
Noam Chomsky: University of Connecticut Commencement Speech (1999)
Chomsky on Mind Body Problem
and the main one:
Linguistics & Philosophy.mp3
Materialism and Buddhism
Re: Materialism and Buddhism
A Japanese man has been arrested on suspicion of writing a computer virus that destroys and replaces files on a victim PC with manga images of squid, octopuses and sea urchins. Masato Nakatsuji, 27, of Izumisano, Osaka Prefecture, was quoted as telling police: "I wanted to see how much my computer programming skills had improved since the last time I was arrested."
Re: Materialism and Buddhism
Oh Gawd! Chomsky has been irrelevant for decades.
Let's just take a quick look at his basic philosophy:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian_socialism
It is true he was right about Vietnam, and the fact that he spoke out early and often is to his everlasting credit. But why would a Buddhist be interested in his theories?
Let's just take a quick look at his basic philosophy:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian_socialism
It is true he was right about Vietnam, and the fact that he spoke out early and often is to his everlasting credit. But why would a Buddhist be interested in his theories?
Re: Materialism and Buddhism
Hi Alan
Anyway,time to get back outside again.
Ben
Years ago I watched a documentary based on 'manufacturing consent'. At the time - loved it. So, I went and bought the book. Got about ten pages in and...just had to put it down. Tried again, put it down again. I remember at the time that it did seem as though through the passage of a couple of decades, it had lost some of its relevancy.alan wrote:Oh Gawd! Chomsky has been irrelevant for decades.
Let's just take a quick look at his basic philosophy:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian_socialism
It is true he was right about Vietnam, and the fact that he spoke out early and often is to his everlasting credit. But why would a Buddhist be interested in his theories?
Anyway,time to get back outside again.
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.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725
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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]..