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That funny man, Owen Wilson, speaks the truth. Kudos to you sir:


http://breakingnews.iol.ie/entertainment/story.asp?j=146004330&p=y46xx5x36

12/06/2005 - 15:22:22

Hollywood actor Owen Wilson has dismissed spiritual leader the Dalai Lama as a "corny" purveyor of "goofball ideals".

The Starsky and Hutch star, 36, went to hear the Tibetan holy man speak to "impress a girl" - but he found himself utterly nauseated by the audience and speaker alike.

He fumes: "The crowd made me want to throw up. At the end of his corny lecture, with a bunch of goofball utopian ideals, he opened it up to questions.

"Somebody asked, 'What's the answer to world hunger?' And his answer was like, 'Sharing!' And everyone oohed and aahed like he'd just solved the problem.

"Somebody else asked, 'What's the solution to racism?' And he came back with, 'We all have the same colour of blood,' and everybody was swooning.

"I just couldn't believe what the big deal was."

Yeah, whatever. :rolleyes:

Yeah, whatever. :rolleyes:

Your point?

The Dalai Lama reminds me of the character The Sphinx in the movie Mystery Men:

"When you can balance a tack hammer on your head, you head off your foe with a balanced attack! "
"Before you can learn my teachings, I must first teach you to learn."
"You must be like the wolf pack... not like the six-pack."
"You must lash out with every limb, like the octopus who plays the drums."
"Learn to hide your strikes from your opponent and you'll more easily strike his hide."
"He who questions training only trains himself at asking questions."
"Do not go there, my son! When you doubt your powers, you give power to your doubts."
"We are number one! All others are number two, or lower."

Your point?

Well what was your point exactly?

The Dalai Lama has more credibility than any stuck-up Hollywoodie.

The Dalai Lama has more credibility than any stuck-up Hollywoodie.

The Dalai Lama is about as credible as the kid who mows my lawn on the weekends.

The Dalai Lama has more credibility than any stuck-up Hollywoodie.

Eh. To people of his religion, maybe.

The Dalai Lama is about as credible as the kid who mows my lawn on the weekends.

Somehow, I think that in a personal discussion of philosophy, religion and life in general, you might find what the Dalai Lama has to say a bit more 'credible' than that kid. I mean how great is that kid anyway. He mows your lawn, so he's obviously a philosophy or religion major, but that just means he's a junior apprentice in a field where the Dalai Lama is the master.

And how is that that trolling threads that do nothing but insult a religious leader are OK when it's Buddhism? Let's see how long a similar anti-Judaism thread lasts...

And how is that that trolling threads that do nothing but insult a religious leader are OK when it's Buddhism? Let's see how long a similar anti-Judaism thread lasts...They're not. You just need a Moderators attention, that's all.

iLock pending Moderator review.

--The Modified Democratic States of Cogitation