If you could have only one dream come true....

Bob · Post by **Bob** » Wed Apr 21, 2004 1:53 pm

Get in touch w/ yr Inner Badger, KellY.

Rob the Wop · Post by **Rob the Wop** » Wed Apr 21, 2004 2:00 pm

So if you direct your energy in a form with the intent of trying to cause another to become 'angry', 'upset', or happy'- then you are following the teachings of Buddha whilst at the same time, helping another reach enlightenment?

Action + intent + result = karma

Don Muerto · Post by **Don Muerto** » Wed Apr 21, 2004 2:06 pm

nice!

technopatra · Post by **technopatra** » Wed Apr 21, 2004 2:34 pm

Black Rock Ric wrote: Teaching people the uselessness of upsetness, or angryness, or happiness, or sadness is a helpful thing.

True. However, poking people where you know it will hurt or upset them, when all you know about them is that it will hurt or upset them if you poke them there...this is neither teaching, nor helping. This is knowingly causing other people pain for your own enjoyment.

To teach someone is to have them be open to your ideas - whipping them into a froth does not accomplish this. Dressing abuse up as being for-someone-else's-own-good is merely manipulative cowardice in action.

I agree with the basic sentiment that folks have more power to let or not let some things upset them. But if they are not at point where they can or want to do so, and you know that, and you still poke them to get a rise, you are not only being unhelpful, but you are being willfully destructive to both your relationship with that person and with anyone who is unfortunate to stumble upon your very public game of cat and mouse.

There exists no noble path to enlightenment, here. It just makes you feel good to manipulate others.

Of course, one cannot teach anyone anything, one must learn, which is and entirely different thing.

You teach people everyday by your own example. We all learn something from each other - it might behoove us all, and I certainly mean you, too, BRR, to ponder the question of what it is you want people to learn from you?

So far what I have learned from you is if I were the type of person to thrive on schadenfreude and had a fair amount of free time, all I have to do is attack someone's core beliefs, call them names, and tell them how wrong their opinions are on a number of subjects.

Then I could sit back and enjoy telling them how amused I am that they are upset, while writing in Italian and dialect. I would do this only because some deeper part of me is just trying to reach out to people I hope will respect my intelligence and creativity.

Which, ironically, they would if they didn't now associate me with causing them pain. So far from teaching or learning anything, I'veirrevocably lost an opportunity to make the connection needed for teaching and learned nothing in the process.

But that's just my opinion. YMMV.

Simply Joel · Post by **Simply Joel** » Wed Apr 21, 2004 2:38 pm

Black Rock Ric wrote:Buddha teaches that facing the troubles and tribulations of the world with equanimity allows one to maintain internal peace.

My inner buddha can whip your inner buddha.

blyslv · Post by **blyslv** » Wed Apr 21, 2004 2:56 pm

Technopatra is my new something or other! You rock! You rule! You are so cool!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Apr 21, 2004 4:47 pm

Kelly the answer to your question is yes..

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Apr 21, 2004 4:53 pm

Good, Technopatra, you are now feeling a very small percentage of the incredible annoyance most of us here in Northern Washoe County feel when you and your 30.000 brothers and sisters show up.. If you truly feel as you feel you would not want to inflict that on others, now multiply by many times... And STAY AWAY from the desert, do not create a city in the desert. Create your city in your city.. Would you like to talk about annoyance? You cannot imagine the level of annoyance you and your cohorts bring to Gerlach, Empire and those of us who have 30,000 unwanted people dropped into our laps every year..

DVD Burner · Post by **DVD Burner** » Wed Apr 21, 2004 4:55 pm

If I could have only one dream come true........

Alpha · Post by **Alpha** » Wed Apr 21, 2004 5:30 pm

My dream (obTopic) would be for everyone on eplaya to recognize that BLM land is funded by federal taxes, and therefore open to use by all U.S. citizens....

Bob · Post by **Bob** » Wed Apr 21, 2004 6:05 pm

Black Rock Ric wrote:...the incredible annoyance most of us here in Northern Washoe County feel...

Three words: Whitey Will Pay.

DVD Burner · Post by **DVD Burner** » Thu Apr 22, 2004 5:55 am

I figured it out.

BRR is a closet Burner and is tossing with the prospect that others will find his secret out. After all, he's on eplaya everyday.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Thu Apr 22, 2004 8:23 am

If someone is a good buddist who does not let someone else disturb his equanimity, how can 30,000 someones showing up for a week in his line of view eat at him all year?

angrykittie25 · Post by **angrykittie25** » Tue May 25, 2004 10:57 pm

I think that the wish that would make me most happy would be a somewhat selfish one. Although it should probably make the world a better place, the thing that would make me most happy would be to know that my daughter would grow up safe, happy and have a wonderful life.

Actually, now that I think about it, that would be my second wish. I would wish that there were no longer child pedophiles or any child preditors. That would make me very happy.

Captain Goddammit · Post by **Captain Goddammit** » Tue May 25, 2004 11:50 pm

Right about now, I could use a nice cheeseburger.
And a neighborhood kid to mow the lawn for 5 or 10 bucks.
And more stories from RingOFire.
And less from BRR.
And a pony.

cowboyangel · Post by **cowboyangel** » Tue May 25, 2004 11:54 pm

mass self realization....of course, then the world will desolve and we'll have to have the big bang all over again. and again and again and again and again

samtzu · Post by **samtzu** » Wed May 26, 2004 1:45 pm

My dream? A reduction in the human population of the planet by 99.99% (leaving only 700,000 on the planet) would be a start. Too bad I won't be around to see what happens next... but maybe BRR would be a little less annoying, and a lot more 'buddhaesque'. The Earth would get to take a breather for a few hundred years, or at least until the population reaches the place once again where we can seriously impact it... AGAIN!

That, or a date with Emma Thompson... Either dream; I'm easy.

Sam

cowboyangel · Post by **cowboyangel** » Wed May 26, 2004 5:03 pm

Yo Samtzu, to get the pop down by 99.99% would mean having to have Bush for 4 more plus his pulling off a coup declaring himself king of America for life, then we'd have someone nuke us for sure...be careful what you wish for...I like the Emma Thompson thing better...though I would prefer one with
Linda Hamilton, ok ok I'm one of those unabashed Linda Hamilton fans......what can I do??

BAS · Post by **BAS** » Wed May 26, 2004 7:30 pm

Keltoi wrote:If you could only have one dream come true and only one that would fulfill your every wish and dream and would make you the happiest person in the world what would that one dream be?

Hmmm.... Most of my dreams have been kind of boring lately, maybe I am not getting enough sleep...?

Well, okay, maybe that isn't what you meant by "dream".

I think it would take multiple universes to have my every wish and dream come true-- plus a LOT of time to explore all of those universes! There is one world in particular I would like to start out with, a fantasy/steam punk world which I have been struggling to write about for more than twenty years at this point....

Apollonaris Zeus · Post by **Apollonaris Zeus** » Wed May 26, 2004 8:04 pm

The promissed edit button for EPLAYA!

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samtzu · Post by **samtzu** » Wed May 26, 2004 10:28 pm

Cowboy Angel;

I'm a Shakesperean actor, too, so Emma Thompson has always been a dream for me... I would love to do Benedict to her Beatrice some day. Branagh must have been out of his mind (or trapped in his ego) to let her get away. She earned her Oscar for writing the screenplay for Sense and Sensability. As I've said for years, the sexiest organ in the human body is the brain, and she has a great one!

Sam

P.S. Oh, yeah... Linda Hamilton in Terminator 2!! Buffed babes do me in, too.

Lark · Post by **Lark** » Thu Jul 15, 2004 6:33 am

Well, I alredy have a partner for life who fulfills my most important desires, and we have two boys who are proving to be more of a joy than I ever could have imagined, so there is really only one major stressor that I dream to be rid of: debt. Financial freedom is my dream.

Here's my tip for the day: If you can avoid living on credit cards while you're unemployed for nearly a year, then following that with your spouse being unemployed for over a year after finishing grad school, do. Consumer debt will kill you. Thank goodness for my kids, or I might have offed myself years ago. Seriously.

JezebelinHell · Post by **JezebelinHell** » Thu Jul 15, 2004 7:50 am

that dream where I show up to school without any clothes on ...

Rob the Wop · Post by **Rob the Wop** » Thu Jul 15, 2004 8:37 am

JezebelinHell wrote:that dream where I show up to school without any clothes on ...

Hey, that's my dream too! Where you show up at my school without any clothes on.

Course, me showing up at school without any clothes on is often other people's nightmare.

cowboyangel · Post by **cowboyangel** » Fri Jul 23, 2004 9:16 pm

click and clack become president and vice president and vice versa

Tancorix · Post by **Tancorix** » Fri Jul 23, 2004 11:36 pm

That the Democratic National Convention has an incident free 4 day run.

Simply Joel · Post by **Simply Joel** » Sat Jul 24, 2004 4:27 am

Tancorix wrote:That the Democratic National Convention has an incident free 4 day run.

That is actually amusing...

Tancorix · Post by **Tancorix** » Sat Jul 24, 2004 7:54 am

Amusing to you, totally fucking serious to me.

cowboyangel · Post by **cowboyangel** » Sat Jul 24, 2004 9:36 am

let's not forget the already successful Green Convention!

Tancorix · Post by **Tancorix** » Sat Jul 24, 2004 10:00 am

Welcome to Boston. Along with all the other gear and crap you have to haul around, here's a bottle of Potassium Iodide (KI) for the unthinkable....

Seeing that mandatory issue bottle freaks me out everytime I think about it. Oh well....6 days and if alll goes well I get to go home and prepare for the playa.

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