I must ask myself if I know anyone that practices Jainism ??
Does anyone?
No. They do not, as far as I know, practice it in great numbers in the west.
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Here's one for the god botherers:
Did god smite my dash key?
As some of you may have noticed, I am normally a great user of the dash.
Some may say I use it too much.
Well, you can just go **** yourselves if you are gonna say that.
But I digress.
The other day, I was drinking coffee at the puter, and I spilled a wee bit upon the key board.
It killed my dash key. I have neither short nor long dash.
This is AWFUL!!!!
Now, you god folk, is this some form of actual vengeance and smiting, or did the god person merely watch, as it is reputed to watch the sparrows fall, and do nothing, either smite wise, or protection wise?
Either way, I am NOT happy.
And, I have a follow up.
Chai Tea wrote:Hmmm.
A Jainist could not even shut down his/her computer, without causing its demise....
What about closing a program, or closing a file, or deleting anything?
I am really thinking about this.
What if your hard drive crashed? would that be the same as suicide?
Take it a step further! If a computer program is a living thing then shouldn't a true Jainist be seeking them out and installing every application they can find in order to let each one live? Shouldn't they be helping viruses spread by e-mailing them to all their friends?
No, that would be interfering with the karma of the entities in question.
And Janian ideals encourage chastity, even in virii.
I must be a wannabe Janian.
I always aimed at being chaste.Being unchaste just looked so ridiculous.I wish I had known there was an 'ism I could have sought for help and then I would have had a chance of escaping from the pinching clutches of those evil temptresses who have brought me so low and despoiled my innate dignity.
Wagging tails eh?I'm ashamed of myself.
Chai Tea wrote:Our image in the mirror, or in a photo, is merely that, an image. How do we know what we REALLY look like?
Can we rely on what a photo or mirror shows us?
what if it is a self-delusional image and we look nothing like that?
And in that same vein.....
Can we rely on a recording of our voice to be an accurate representation of what we really sound like?
Yack, I can hardly bear my recorded voice. There is a smug sound that annoys the hell out of me..
spendius wrote:I must be a wannabe Janian.
I always aimed at being chaste.Being unchaste just looked so ridiculous.I wish I had known there was an 'ism I could have sought for help and then I would have had a chance of escaping from the pinching clutches of those evil temptresses who have brought me so low and despoiled my innate dignity.
Wagging tails eh?I'm ashamed of myself.
Who else thinks that Sturgis needs to get laid?
ossobuco wrote:Yack, I can hardly bear my recorded voice. There is a smug sound that annoys the hell out of me..
Yes, our voice always sounds different to ourselves when we listen to it from a recording.
Why is that you think?
By the way, did you know your name means
hollow bone?
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dlowan wrote:No, that would be interfering with the karma of the entities in question.
And Janian ideals encourage chastity, even in virii.
I was just going to mention how a post of Slappy's inspired me to realize these folks must not engage in oral sex. Oh well....
Why can't I put the goddamn DVD/Video thingy together?
Why can't ANYONE, except a small child, program one of the damn things!!!
And, why did my little CD/radio/cassette microsystem come with the wrong aerial?
Miss Lowan:
1. Because you're a wabbit, and paws are not hands.
2. Because then you might not need to buy expert technical support.
3. Just to piss you off.
Terza rima?
Now, why do we have to be so worried about lumps IN our breasts, when the whole breast is, itself, a lump?
A lump within a lump is making things too lumpy.
You have testicles, and you can still say that?
