[MD] Buddhism and Nothingness

[John Carl]

It makes a good point.


Khoo sings me the song


> Why'd you choose such a backward time in such a strange land?
> If you'd come today you could have reached a whole nation.
> Israel in 4 BC had no mass communication.
> Don't you get me wrong.
> I only want to know.
>
> For that matter, if he'd stuck with impressing the Romans, they'd have
accepted him as a god.  A guy who can turn water in wine?  That'd would have
put him at the top of the Roman Pantheon.

Instead he tried to impress a bunch of picky Jews.

Socrates should have used some sophisticated rhetoric and the vote would
have gone his way.

The Buddha should have said, "No thanks, I don't eat pork"

Pirsig should have hit the celebrity circuit, gone on Oprah and let Redford
play him in a movie.

Its a problem with messiahs.  always over-reaching.