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MeTa post:
Making questions clearer
To be fair you said: Any advice or anecdotes welcome.
So, you know, if they're not welcome, don't say that.
posted to MetaTalk by milarepa
at 10:25 AM on April 23, 2008
preview's for wimps.
posted to MetaTalk by milarepa
at 10:26 AM on April 23, 2008
MeTa post:
Or you could just not say anything.
Mr. President Dr. Whatever: caring for the people you love in this life is a blessing. Perhaps the highest blessing. Sex, parites, food, being fabulous are distractions. Even dogs and cows are able to pursue their own satisfaction. Taking care of others is not something that "ruins" your life. It is the holiest thing you can do. I hope for your sake you can understand that some day.
posted to MetaTalk by milarepa
at 2:09 PM on March 16, 2008
drpynchon, you know, you're right. I resist coming to metafilter because I find myself tempted to roll around in all the snark against my better judgment. I think it's time I left.
posted to MetaTalk by milarepa
at 2:32 PM on March 16, 2008
MeTa post:
Sans quoi?
Next on metafilter mysteries: peter mcdermott, ftw?
posted to MetaTalk by milarepa
at 12:49 PM on March 10, 2008
MeTa post:
Cultural Biases In Education
When iknowizbirfmark enters the room, immediately stop talking, put your pencils down, straighten your spines and prepare for unbiased, fully clothed, indoctrina...I mean education!
posted to MetaTalk by milarepa
at 11:51 AM on February 22, 2008
MeTa post:
valerie flame
Paging greater than symbol...Greater than symbol please report to comment 514040.
posted to MetaTalk by milarepa
at 9:04 AM on February 21, 2008
MeTa post:
best comment ever?
397
posted to MetaTalk by milarepa
at 12:35 PM on February 19, 2008
The age of hermitosis is over! The time of the orc has come!
posted to MetaTalk by milarepa
at 12:41 PM on February 19, 2008
[extra comment for roll truck roll to favorite indiscriminately, thereby upping my favorites count]
Flagged!
*Laughs diabolically*
posted to MetaTalk by milarepa
at 1:10 PM on February 19, 2008
MeTa post:
Are some more worthy of respect than others?
I don't understand the touchiness--if someone calls me a stupid, heathen buddhist, what's it to me? If someone calls the buddha a mythical impotent old man, what's it to me? I don't get why people are so touchy about what other's say about what they believe. I mean if there's some danger of actually being killed or disenfranchised for your beliefs, okay. But some weirdoes on the internet, who gives damn?
posted to MetaTalk by milarepa
at 3:18 PM on February 17, 2008
I could be way off here, but I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that no one likes to have their belief system poked at.
Of course no one likes it, but I don't see why people get so touchy about it.
posted to MetaTalk by milarepa
at 3:40 PM on February 17, 2008
I would like it very much if NO one went there, but God has the final say on that one.
If this is an honestly held belief, and you've thought out the implications of it, then I don't see you how you can have anything but the deepest compassion for the people who aren't Christian. The people whose opinions rile you are, in your view, going to spend eternity in extreme suffering. How could you possibly be angered or insulted by... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by milarepa
at 6:55 PM on February 17, 2008
Fair enough. Thanks.
posted to MetaTalk by milarepa
at 7:09 PM on February 17, 2008
Interesting question; I wonder how many religious people actually "try before they buy"? You know...study Buddhism, check out the Koran, chant with the Hare Krishnas, learn about Christianity before deciding? How many actually have an understanding of multiple belief systems before they commit their soul to the "best one"? I'd imagine you could probably count them on one hand.
I'm one.
posted to MetaTalk by milarepa
at 5:59 PM on February 18, 2008
Oh, and I don't believe in a soul.
posted to MetaTalk by milarepa
at 6:00 PM on February 18, 2008
'm interested in the folks that caught the religeon young or, even better, found religeon past their teens. Why that religeon?
My mom "found religion" in her very late 20's. She said she heard the first noble truth and said, "Finally, someone who's not sugarcoating it."
posted to MetaTalk by milarepa
at 6:47 PM on February 18, 2008
MeTa post:
White people on Metafilter
Who would flag that as racist? That shit is funny!
posted to MetaTalk by milarepa
at 11:47 AM on February 15, 2008
"White people like recycling" implies that non-white people do not like recycling.
Even if that was true, which it's not, that is definitely not the reason someone would flag the post as racist.
posted to MetaTalk by milarepa
at 12:01 PM on February 15, 2008
Oh, and as someone who thought Juno was an embarassing-contrivance-bordering-on-abominiation,
I thought I was the only one!
posted to MetaTalk by milarepa
at 12:25 PM on February 15, 2008
Getting folks to recycle is hard enough. Do we really want to frame it as something only stuck-up honkeys like to do?
Oh, come on. I mean, really.
posted to MetaTalk by milarepa
at 3:25 PM on February 15, 2008
If you're saying my point is invalid, you're welcome to come on down to my neighbourhood and have the conversation about recycling I just had with some chicks from the complex across the way.
Really, those girls from the complex across the way said that?! I totally take it back. You're right.
posted to MetaTalk by milarepa
at 3:43 PM on February 15, 2008
*hugs batmonkey*
posted to MetaTalk by milarepa
at 4:20 PM on February 15, 2008
MeTa post:
LOLMORMONS
There is a fine line between snark and scorn.
posted to MetaTalk by milarepa
at 7:33 AM on January 29, 2008
Those Wikipedia numbers are bullshit anyway. Christianity always comes out on top, often due to the way the western world defines religion. If you count how many Chinese have aspects of buddhism in their daily life, the number for buddhism is much, much higher, for example.
posted to MetaTalk by milarepa
at 7:58 AM on January 30, 2008
MeTa post:
Yes, it looks a bit funny
Oh whatever. My grandfather was hopelessly senile for YEARS. That was awful. Unspeakably awful. However, that doesn't make the hamburger helmet any less funny looking. Post a link after they have some nice results and I'll drop to my knees in gratitude that some needless suffering of the world has been eradicated through their hard work. Until then, I am going to continue laughing at the idea of old people with hamburgers on their head.
posted to MetaTalk by milarepa
at 9:47 AM on January 25, 2008
MeTa post:
Those Run of the Mill Hasidic Landlords
As my mom says, anti-semtism is like gravity: a natural law of the universe, and, for all pratical purposes, inescapable.
posted to MetaTalk by milarepa
at 2:45 PM on January 17, 2008
My mom is Jewish by birth (and decidedly anti-Zionist, chosen people bs) and our extended family has directly suffered the effects of anti-semitism in many wonderful european countries. It's never said as seriously as I guess it came across, but there is definitely some resignation behind it.
posted to MetaTalk by milarepa
at 3:13 PM on January 17, 2008
As for Astro Zombie's long riff: How many of those things have happened to you? How many have even happened in your lifetime? The Daniel Perl execution's the only one I see that's contemporary, and that happened pretty fucking far from Minnesota. There are no genealogy laws here—you can stop being a Jew at any time, if it's such a horrible burden, but it's like listening to a fucking Baptist complain about the Romans and the Inquisition.
Sixty years... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by milarepa
at 9:10 AM on January 18, 2008
whine about suffering "genocide" AS IF IT ACTUALLY HAPPENED TO YOU is chutzpah,
Would you tell someone to stop "whining" about their father or grandmother being sold down the river before they were born?
"Being sold down the river as a piece of meat didn't happen to you, so stop whining."
posted to MetaTalk by milarepa
at 10:35 AM on January 18, 2008
Seriously: If anything happens, they'll come for the gays and Muslims before any Jews are rounded up. Dominionists are pretty clear about Jews being needed for the end times.
Others being rounded up doesn't make me feel much better.
Besides, once the rounding begins, I suspect they'll throw the jews on for good measure.
posted to MetaTalk by milarepa
at 10:37 AM on January 18, 2008
Like I said, other's being rounded up should never be a source of comfort.
Frankly, that's my personal gripe with the jews...they don't care about other people's suffering. They should know better by now.
posted to MetaTalk by milarepa
at 11:07 AM on January 18, 2008
meant to say, they don't care enough. Still probably abrasive.
posted to MetaTalk by milarepa
at 11:08 AM on January 18, 2008
I would tell someone who feels that what blacks still face, assimilation wise, is equal to what the Jews face today that they have no sense of perspective. Further, were we stuck in a policy discussion, I'd ask what they wanted now. Blacks are still more likely to end up in prison than whites. Are Jews? Blacks are still paid less than whites. Are Jews? Do Jews have trouble getting an equal education? Those are social problems that can be worked on—that someone's grandmother was sold... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by milarepa
at 11:20 AM on January 18, 2008
Yeah, I certainly didn't argue that.
klangklangston, I encourage a sense of proportion.
posted to MetaTalk by milarepa
at 11:36 AM on January 18, 2008
I knew this jew one time, jeremy from georgia (do you know him? skinny chap with the bushy eyebrows?), well, he totally was like not jewish and it was like totally not a problem for him so I don't even get why you guys are like talking about this stuff that's happened to you or your family, cuz jeremy says its not a problem.
posted to MetaTalk by milarepa
at 12:10 PM on January 18, 2008
yes, desjardins, yes, we are.
posted to MetaTalk by milarepa
at 12:45 PM on January 18, 2008
MeTa post:
What will the Bhutto assassination mean for the future stability of Metafilter?
There is never an 'inappropriate' time for the truth.
Let me take wild guess....you've never been married?
posted to MetaTalk by milarepa
at 7:59 PM on December 27, 2007
The science of not letting scathing honesty become a problem in your relationships rests on only having relationships with scathingly honest people.
. . . the *art* is in pulling this off while still dating physically attractive people.
Was that a convoluted way of saying "Yes, you are right. I have never been married."?
posted to MetaTalk by milarepa
at 9:00 PM on December 27, 2007
MeTa post:
BushFilter.
I don't understand the purpose of this thread. Am I dense? Someone explain?
posted by sneakin
sgt. serenity is ordering us to stop interrupting his serenity.
posted to MetaTalk by milarepa
at 8:25 AM on December 19, 2007
MeTa post:
Slapping someone in the face a bit too much ...
I don't know. Anything that gets that guy into a night club and off the street is a good thing.
What amazed me, is that he says "geek" but screams "confused fratboy." He seems like an intellectual meathead, which is of course the worse kind of meathead.
posted to MetaTalk by milarepa
at 2:19 PM on December 18, 2007
MeTa post:
Metafilter Mix CD Swap: Best of 2007 Edition Tracklists
Man, that sucks. How did I miss this?
Boo on me.
Well, I guess it doesn't really matter, cuz I only ever listen to "Any Way You Want It" by Journey.
Well, that's not entirely true, I sometimes listen to "You're the Best" by Joe Esposito.
posted to MetaTalk by milarepa
at 10:28 AM on December 14, 2007
MeTa post:
Nice pics!
Amberglow wins hands down. My beautiful face is a close second tho.
posted to MetaTalk by milarepa
at 3:41 PM on November 14, 2007
Wait, amberglow wins for cuteness. For sexy, you all lose.
posted to MetaTalk by milarepa
at 3:42 PM on November 14, 2007
