[MD] Buddhism and Nothingness

[Khoo Hock Aun]

Thanks,John,I had that in but took it in the edit. I didn't think it
mattered because it would go viral anyway, mouth to mouth or by smoke
signals. Reminds me of the line from
Jesus Christ Superstar "what if you had mass communication ...would
you have done it differently?"

On 2/20/10, John Carl <ridgecoyote at gmail.com> wrote:
> Khoo,
>
> Very interesting  and well-written  piece.  I paused only at on point, your
> use of the Hugo quote:
>
> Victor:
>
> “there is nothing so powerful as
> an idea whose time has come”.
>
> Khoo:
>
>  Indeed, one idea can change the world if its
> time has come. And to change the world, all you have to do is think THAT
> idea.
>
>
> John:
>
> In order to change the world wouldn't you need to communicate your ideas?
> Which is ordinarily a big problem with the powers of the acquisitive  needed
> to promulgate the intellectual in all past societies.  But today it is  not
> so.  The global brain telecommunicates ideas to itself as effortlessly as
> mere thinking - a new phenomenon with unpredictable outcome.
>
> Once again, excellent thoughts, communicated well, Khoo.  Thanks.
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