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28 May 2007 11:48:18 AM |
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Paris Hilton turns to Buddha! |
Paris Hilton turns to Buddha
Because the power of Jesus might not be enough to save her, Paris
Hilton was spotted at the Buddhist bookstore, Bodhi Tree, in
Hollywood. Her lawyers have apparently told her to "live like a nun"
if she has any chance of evading jail so she's taken this to mean
getting photographed with as many religious books as possible. She's
also allegedly told friends she's quitting alcohol and partying and
has even replaced her skimpy outfits with a new "demure" look.
Why not go all the way and just put on a fake beard and white robe?
Carrying around religious books is pretty good, but nothing beats
actually turning into God.
lots of photos:
http://thesuperficial.com/2007/05/paris_hilton_turns_to_buddha.php
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| User: "doomella" |
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| Title: Re: Paris Hilton turns to Buddha! |
28 May 2007 12:00:12 PM |
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"ommmmm" <ommm@mani.padme.om> wrote in message
Her lawyers have apparently told her to "live like a nun"
if she has any chance of evading jail so she's taken this to mean
getting photographed with as many religious books as possible. She's
also allegedly told friends she's quitting alcohol and partying and
has even replaced her skimpy outfits with a new "demure" look.
In other words, she's going to jail?
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| User: "Greg Grant of 333" |
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| Title: Re: Paris Hilton turns to Buddha! |
28 May 2007 01:12:26 PM |
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"ommmmm" <ommm@mani.padme.om> wrote in message
news:so1m53lccn9u5ijf9f4mnhnu196s8hn82g@news...
Paris Hilton turns to Buddha
Because the power of Jesus might not be enough to save her, Paris
Hilton was spotted at the Buddhist bookstore, Bodhi Tree, in
Hollywood. Her lawyers have apparently told her to "live like a nun"
if she has any chance of evading jail so she's taken this to mean
getting photographed with as many religious books as possible. She's
also allegedly told friends she's quitting alcohol and partying and
has even replaced her skimpy outfits with a new "demure" look.
Yeah, that's gonna last for about what three seconds or so?
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| User: "FDR" |
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| Title: Re: Paris Hilton turns to Buddha! |
28 May 2007 11:57:37 AM |
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maybe she can go Muslim and wear a Burka
"ommmmm" <ommm@mani.padme.om> wrote in message
news:so1m53lccn9u5ijf9f4mnhnu196s8hn82g@news...
Paris Hilton turns to Buddha
Because the power of Jesus might not be enough to save her, Paris
Hilton was spotted at the Buddhist bookstore, Bodhi Tree, in
Hollywood. Her lawyers have apparently told her to "live like a nun"
if she has any chance of evading jail so she's taken this to mean
getting photographed with as many religious books as possible. She's
also allegedly told friends she's quitting alcohol and partying and
has even replaced her skimpy outfits with a new "demure" look.
Why not go all the way and just put on a fake beard and white robe?
Carrying around religious books is pretty good, but nothing beats
actually turning into God.
lots of photos:
http://thesuperficial.com/2007/05/paris_hilton_turns_to_buddha.php
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| User: "explorer" |
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| Title: Re: Paris Hilton turns to Buddha! |
28 May 2007 01:28:55 PM |
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"FDR" <_removespamfilter_fdr@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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maybe she can go Muslim and wear a Burka
A peek-a-boo burka is all the world needs....
"ommmmm" <ommm@mani.padme.om> wrote in message
news:so1m53lccn9u5ijf9f4mnhnu196s8hn82g@news...
Paris Hilton turns to Buddha
Because the power of Jesus might not be enough to save her, Paris
Hilton was spotted at the Buddhist bookstore, Bodhi Tree, in
Hollywood. Her lawyers have apparently told her to "live like a nun"
if she has any chance of evading jail so she's taken this to mean
getting photographed with as many religious books as possible. She's
also allegedly told friends she's quitting alcohol and partying and
has even replaced her skimpy outfits with a new "demure" look.
Why not go all the way and just put on a fake beard and white robe?
Carrying around religious books is pretty good, but nothing beats
actually turning into God.
lots of photos:
http://thesuperficial.com/2007/05/paris_hilton_turns_to_buddha.php
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| User: "" |
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| Title: Re: Paris Hilton turns to Buddha! |
05 Jun 2007 11:33:14 AM |
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On May 28, 12:57 pm, "FDR" <_removespamfilter_...@hotmail.com> wrote:
maybe she can go Muslim and wear a Burka
"ommmmm" <o...@mani.padme.om> wrote in message
news:so1m53lccn9u5ijf9f4mnhnu196s8hn82g@news...
Paris Hilton turns to Buddha
Because the power of Jesus might not be enough to save her, Paris
Hilton was spotted at the Buddhist bookstore, Bodhi Tree, in
Hollywood. Her lawyers have apparently told her to "live like a nun"
if she has any chance of evading jail so she's taken this to mean
getting photographed with as many religious books as possible. She's
also allegedly told friends she's quitting alcohol and partying and
has even replaced her skimpy outfits with a new "demure" look.
Why not go all the way and just put on a fake beard and white robe?
Carrying around religious books is pretty good, but nothing beats
actually turning into God.
lots of photos:
http://thesuperficial.com/2007/05/paris_hilton_turns_to_buddha.php- Hide quoted text -
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Nothing wrong with replacing wrong thought and wrong actions with
right ones.
Look at what is aid and not at who says what.
I was at a religious discussion where the group was composed of a wide
spectrum of believers and non believers. One atheist said he ran his
life by the golden rule. Another person piped up that the golden rule
came from the bible, which made the atheist wince. The atheist seemed
to take pride in his self sufficiency and did not like to run his life
by anything that came out of the bible. When it came up that the
concept of golden rule might be from an earlier source than the bible,
the atheist was relieved.
This was a good reminder to me to examine where my guiding light
resides?
Is it ego based or truth based?
When the guiding light of this atheist was not grounded in the bible
he was happy. But when it came from an area that he did not like, he
was upset. How can the same material be used to build a palace by one
man, yet only build a hovel for another?
By one spiritual practitioner seeing truth and applying it to live a
life at peace. And the other person only seeing prejudice and problems
and doing nothing.
Every religion was made by man and as such every religion is imperfect
as it is run by man. Despite these imperfections, each religion also
has many "perfection's" within it as well. We can still be open to
peace generating tools from any of the religions and spiritual
traditions that are available to us if we are serious about being at
peace. This requires us to run our life by truth and not by prejudice.
In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus said: "Therefore, whatever you want
men to do to you, do also to them" (Matthew 7:12). Nowadays this verse
is commonly referred to as "The Golden Rule," and is more commonly
quoted as: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." Here
are some of the earliest sources for this concept of reciprocity
~1970-1640 BCE "Do for one who may do for you, / That you may cause
him thus to do." - The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant 109-110, Ancient
Egypt, tr. R.B. Parkinson.
* ~700 BCE "That nature only is good when it shall not do unto another
whatever is not good for its own self." - Dadistan-i-Dinik 94:5,
Zoroastrianism.
* ? BCE "Whatever is disagreeable to yourself do not do unto others."
- Shayast-na-Shayast 13:29, Zoroastrianism.
* ~550 BCE "You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against your
countrymen. Love your fellow as yourself: I am the LORD." - Tanakh,
new JPS translation, Leviticus 19:18, Judaism.
* ~500 BCE "Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find
hurtful." - Udana-Varga 5:18, Buddhism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethic_of_reciprocity
Now, whether you believe in God or believe in Jesus or are an atheist
or Buddhist does this wisdom not apply to you? This truth is universal
in nature as it is based not on being of a certain religion, other
than that of the religion of humanity. In this case, you can adopt a
peace generating tool and apply it to your life irrespective of your
religious beliefs or lack thereof. I had to chuckle one time when an
atheists argued that the golden rule is not perfect, so he said he
does not follow it. When I questioned him about what he does follow as
well as the state of perfection that applied to his life, all he could
do was reply with ad hominem attacks.
If we are waiting for perfection when it comes to spiritual studies we
will always be disappointed. Before applying perfection to anything
outside of us, we should examine the perfection within us. The nature
of humans is that of imperfection, so we must always look towards
direction and forget perfection. I heard a story one time in a Yoga
lecture that illustrates this point. "Range is of the ego - Form is of
the soul." The only thing we need to be concerned with is how is our
form when it comes to our spiritual practice and our life.
Regarding the golden rule? It is more perfect than imperfect, so it is
a most useful tool to live a life at peace by. And when we combine it
with other tools such as universality, natural law, contrast the
greater good with the greater right, etc the synergistic effect is
close to perfection as humans can get with this subject. But it takes
some thinking and one will not see it without an open mind.
Wisdom for living a life at peace is all around us for the taking. But
many of us get blinded with labels and personal prejudices. Whenever
we take it upon ourselves to beat down, we are headed in a direction
of destroying peace. We destroy our own peace as well as others peace.
As such, I practice from many religious and spiritual traditions
without problems or prejudices and readily look for such gifts
irrespective of what label they come under - on the contrary I am most
grateful wherever I find them. If I am not able to use a concept, I
leave it alone, but do not spend my time or energies to beat others
down. Do we like to be beaten down?
I saw some paintings in a Japanese museum that showed a cousin of the
Buddha being of great power and to show his strength he went up to a
baby elephant and pushed it down to the ground. A second painting
showed the Buddha helping this baby elephant back up to his feet and
the Buddha lifted the elephant high up over his head and said, "It is
much better to uplift - than to tear down." Whether this is a true
story or not I do not know. But we can all benefit from uplifting
rather than destroying.
I see this predisposition to destruction many times in responses I
receive from my posts. The critiques offer much in the line of 'no
goods' but they seldom do they offer any substantive tools to finding
peace. Maybe I do not have it '100% right' but I have it 'right
enough' to be able to be at peace if I apply these principles. If I
waited for perfection, I would never act. I use the tools at hand.
Aristotle ~ "It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with
the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not
to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible."
This being able to 'rest satisfied' is something the perfectionists
lack and why they will never be at peace until they stop collecting
concepts and start using the concepts of peace generations. The
atheist I mentioned above demonstrated this with his blanket dismissal
of the golden rule since it is not 100% perfect. He could offer no
substitutes for the golden rule, all he could do was succumb to
personal attacks on me.
We can examine our writing to see what useful tools for finding peace
we offer to others it also says a lot about our own practice of
generating inner peace. When you practice peace promotion with others
you will reap inner peace promotion. When you practice destroying
others peace, you will reap self destruction of inner peace.
Take care,
V (Male)
Agnostic Freethinker
Practical Philosopher
AA#2
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| User: "Mark K. Bilbo" |
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| Title: Re: Paris Hilton turns to Buddha! |
07 Jun 2007 11:56:47 PM |
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On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 17:33:14 +0000, vfr44 wrote:
Nothing wrong with replacing wrong thought and wrong actions with
right ones.
What an Orwellian comment...
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Mark K. Bilbo a.a. #1423
EAC Department of Linguistic Subversion
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"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace
alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing
it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
- H. L. Mencken
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| User: "Michelle Malkin" |
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08 Jun 2007 02:33:53 AM |
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"Mark K. Bilbo" <gmail@com.mkbilbo> wrote in message
news:pan.2007.06.08.04.56.46.170948@com.mkbilbo...
On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 17:33:14 +0000, vfr44 wrote:
Nothing wrong with replacing wrong thought and wrong actions with
right ones.
What an Orwellian comment...
Nah, it sounds more Talosian. Right thought will
be rewarded. Wrong thought will be punished.
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Michelle Malkin (Mickey) aa list#1
BAAWA Knight & Bible Thumper Thumper
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When fascism comes to America, it will be
wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross -
Sinclair Lewis
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Mark K. Bilbo a.a. #1423
EAC Department of Linguistic Subversion
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"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace
alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing
it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
- H. L. Mencken
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| User: "Mark K. Bilbo" |
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| Title: Re: Paris Hilton turns to Buddha! |
08 Jun 2007 05:49:05 PM |
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On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 04:33:53 -0400, Michelle Malkin wrote:
"Mark K. Bilbo" <gmail@com.mkbilbo> wrote in message
news:pan.2007.06.08.04.56.46.170948@com.mkbilbo...
On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 17:33:14 +0000, vfr44 wrote:
Nothing wrong with replacing wrong thought and wrong actions with
right ones.
What an Orwellian comment...
Nah, it sounds more Talosian. Right thought will
be rewarded. Wrong thought will be punished.
How do ya make that vein throb like dat?
--
Mark K. Bilbo a.a. #1423
EAC Department of Linguistic Subversion
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"What the hell is an aluminum Falcon?"
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| User: "Agent Smith" |
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08 Jun 2007 08:15:32 PM |
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"Mark K. Bilbo" <gmail@com.mkbilbo> wrote in
news:pan.2007.06.08.22.49.04.45130@com.mkbilbo:
On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 04:33:53 -0400, Michelle Malkin wrote:
"Mark K. Bilbo" <gmail@com.mkbilbo> wrote in message
On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 17:33:14 +0000, vfr44 wrote:
Nothing wrong with replacing wrong thought and wrong actions with
right ones.
What an Orwellian comment...
Nah, it sounds more Talosian. Right thought will
be rewarded. Wrong thought will be punished.
How do ya make that vein throb like dat?
Industrial Light and Magic.
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| User: "Michelle Malkin" |
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| Title: Re: Paris Hilton turns to Buddha! |
08 Jun 2007 08:29:06 PM |
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^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^
Michelle Malkin (Mickey) aa list#1
BAAWA Knight & Bible Thumper Thumper
^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^
When fascism comes to America, it will be
wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross -
Sinclair Lewis
"Mark K. Bilbo" <gmail@com.mkbilbo> wrote in message
news:pan.2007.06.08.22.49.04.45130@com.mkbilbo...
On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 04:33:53 -0400, Michelle Malkin wrote:
"Mark K. Bilbo" <gmail@com.mkbilbo> wrote in message
news:pan.2007.06.08.04.56.46.170948@com.mkbilbo...
On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 17:33:14 +0000, vfr44 wrote:
Nothing wrong with replacing wrong thought and wrong actions with
right ones.
What an Orwellian comment...
Nah, it sounds more Talosian. Right thought will
be rewarded. Wrong thought will be punished.
How do ya make that vein throb like dat?
I think it was a little airhose.
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Mark K. Bilbo a.a. #1423
EAC Department of Linguistic Subversion
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"What the hell is an aluminum Falcon?"
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| User: "Mark K. Bilbo" |
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08 Jun 2007 09:59:11 PM |
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On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 22:29:06 -0400, Michelle Malkin wrote:
"Mark K. Bilbo" <gmail@com.mkbilbo> wrote in message
news:pan.2007.06.08.22.49.04.45130@com.mkbilbo...
On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 04:33:53 -0400, Michelle Malkin wrote:
"Mark K. Bilbo" <gmail@com.mkbilbo> wrote in message
news:pan.2007.06.08.04.56.46.170948@com.mkbilbo...
On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 17:33:14 +0000, vfr44 wrote:
Nothing wrong with replacing wrong thought and wrong actions with
right ones.
What an Orwellian comment...
Nah, it sounds more Talosian. Right thought will
be rewarded. Wrong thought will be punished.
How do ya make that vein throb like dat?
I think it was a little airhose.
I just felt sorry for them when I discovered those were women who had
their bahoogies taped down squashed to make them look like diminutive
males...
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Mark K. Bilbo a.a. #1423
EAC Department of Linguistic Subversion
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"What the hell is an aluminum Falcon?"
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