From a personal conversation with a Tibetan Buddhist Monk: Bush is just

[Thtwudbeme]

not that smart. He is not really smart enough to understand his actions....but, Cheney...Cheney is....evil.

Nothing we really didn't know, but I thought I would share that with DU.

Oh, and he also said that the first Chinese cars sold here will be really good, but after that they will suck. ;)

[bedpanartist]

1. he's a tibetan buddhist monk

therefore, everything he says you can take to the bank.

[Flubadubya]

4. I bet I'd believe him before I would most in this country...

Grasshoppa very wise! :hippie:

[bedpanartist]

13. I wouldn't believe him

any more than I would believe anyone else because of their religion or group affiliation. I'll stick with my individual vibe-meter.

[Flubadubya]

17. But I'll bet Thtwudbeme's "vibe meter" was working just fine...

Is yours better than his?

[bedpanartist]

19. how in the world would I be

prepared to answer that question knowing that I have no idea what thumpums vibe-o-meter consists of silly!

[Flubadubya]

21. But you apparently don't trust his estimation of the monk's assessment...

I just thought you figured your opinion (without having met the monk) was somehow superior to the opinion of the person who knew him. You say you wouldn't believe him just based on what Thtwudbeme said. Hmm... :shrug:

[bedpanartist]

24. personally, I don't believe

anything anyone says outside of my circle of proven trustworthys without my personal research, etc...

Nothing against thumpum though.

I guess I was just pointing out that because the dude is a tibetan monk doesn't make his opinion/observations any more valid had he been a tibetan garbageman.

Personally, I think Bush is a calculated genius for acting so goddamn dumb and garnering such worship. I go along more with rotten.com estimation of his skills.

[Flubadubya]

25. Why isn't there a "I want to shoot myself" smilie?

Enough of this :silly: crap! Ugh! :puke:

[Thtwudbeme]

27. note: S/he won't respond to me.

But, that's OK...maybe s/he took my advice and put me on "ignore."

I hope so anyway.

[bedpanartist]

33. wrong

I did respond dutifully. Piece out!

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

46. It's "PEACE out!" not "Piece out!"

[bedpanartist]

47. for you perhaps

but I'm more interested in getting a piece that leads to peace. So you are wrong in asserting that I should have said peace out. For me, it's piece out.

Love and gravey,

davey

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

48. Is anybody but you ever right? nt

[bedpanartist]

49. I think we both were nt

[Warpy]

29. Some of those monks are so perceptive it seems like prescience

and my shit detector says he's right about both Stupid and Cheney. I don't think the initial Chinese cars will be that great, though. They've got a major pollution problem to fix, they're built to standards some 30 years old.

[Thtwudbeme]

5. Where did I write that?

?

Maybe you can help me out here. I was relating a personal conversation that I had...I thought it was interesting.

Maybe you can tell me how you read "Omniscient Buddhist Monk" into my post.

Thanks...I am eagerly awaiting your response so that I might clarify my original post.

Stephanie

[Teaser]

6. more'n someone named bedpanartist

that's for damn sure

[bedpanartist]

16. thank you

I am glad that you are now able to judge individuals based upon their internet indentities.

Hint - I make art out of human waste receptacles and sell it to humanoids.

[Thtwudbeme]

23. Why shouldn't they? You judged me and a monk in one post

?

So you can do that, but others cannot? Can you explain that?

[bedpanartist]

26. no judging

just an observation that because someone is a monk doesn't make their word any more believeable than a bass player who plays the funk.

[Warpy]

32. Wow, I've been known to serve punch in one

at a hospital party, but making art out of it never occurred to me. I stopped at exam glove and Texas catheter balloons.

[Flubadubya]

2. Far out...

how did you encounter a Tibetan Buddhist monk? I sure would like to meet one. :)

[bedpanartist]

3. I know an Appalachian Buddist Monk

are they any different from Tibetan Buddhist monks apart from the fragrance of soup beans and onions?

[Flubadubya]

7. Oh, OK... Tibetan/Appalachian...

what the hell, as long as he or she is not from Alabama. :rofl:

[Name removed]

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[bedpanartist]

10. where is that?

I stay put pretty much most of the time in the Urban Appalachian Babylon of the United States, and therefore, do run into Appalachian Buddist monks and monkeys.

[Thtwudbeme]

12. Well! I might have been out and about in the same place as you last night

What a coincidence!

Were you in Asheville last night?

[bedpanartist]

35. never been there

passed through it once. I hang here in the shithole of Dayton with my trusty pit bull at my side.

[Thtwudbeme]

9. Funny you should mention that, dear

We were driving past Billy Graham's Ridgecrest in NC as we were having this conversation.

He was in my backseat. I am familiar with the Appalachians.

[bedpanartist]

11. I am

an appalachian.

[Thtwudbeme]

14. Excellent! I used to be also! We just returned home, as a matter of fact

maybe you could respond to my post to you, and tell me precisely why you have a problem with my conversation with the Monk?

[bedpanartist]

18. you can't used to be

an appalachian. You can take the boy or girl out of appalachia, but never the appalachia out of the boy or girl.

[Thtwudbeme]

22. aww sweetie...you just don't want to answer questions, do you

why don't you put my thread, and maybe me, on "ignore." It will make your DU experience better, I promise.

To do that, click on the little red thing beside "Thtwudbeme" and you will never be bothered with me again.

[bedpanartist]

28. you don't bother me a bit

I'm way past sweating the small stuff like that. I'm having a good time tonight.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

15. Billy Graham was in your backseat?!

maybe bleach will get the ooze off the seats. ?

[Thtwudbeme]

20. Heh....something interesting about Billy Graham worth noting:

I don't know how old you are, but this is the FIRST time in my life that I do not recall the man being present either at inaugurations nor at the WH.

To make sure I was right, I contacted his organization here in NC, and sure enough, he has never met with Jr.

Sick? Maybe...except that he has filled Madison Square Garden and appeared in public since Jr. stole the election.

Infer what you will from that....but, I find it telling.

[Dervill Crow]

30. Isn't he the guy who first introduced Jr. to Jesus?

If so, he bears a great deal of responsibility for dumbya being able to claim christianity and pulling the wool over the sheeple's eyes.

I could be mistaken and it was some lesser known minister.

[Merlot]

31. Personally I think the whole "bush isn't smart" thing is BS

He's clever, coniving, and evil. Please don't tell me he's to stupid to understand his actions. He may be to stubborn and close-minded to consider the consequences or his actions. He's been protected all his life from consequences. But don't make excuses for him like him being to dumb. He lives behind that excuse quite comfortably.

[bedpanartist]

34. he is stupid on purpose, making him an evil genius

it is amazing how little people recognize blatant show business when they are being served it on a silver platter.

Bush is a genius in attracting the Bubba vote by acting all down-homey. DEMS could take some clues. He's sheer genius.

[Warren DeMontague]

37. Nobody's that good of an actor.

He's not "shouldn't use the stove unsupervised" stupid, but he's hardly a genius.

[bedpanartist]

38. I've met plenty of actors

lots better than he. He was in the right place at the right time.

Lots of rock stars (the vast majority actually), are phenomenal actors, and their acts are nothing but acting.

If you've ever been in show business or organized religion (which are often one in the same), you would realize this.

[Warren DeMontague]

39. Oh, I'm not saying he doesn't have a shtick- the John Wayne cowboy thing,

for instance.

"Yeah, Laura an' I have just been down at the ranch, clearing brush".

Obviously. The guy is a silver spoon preppy frat boy. I'm not saying he can't act at all--

I'm just saying SOME of the stupidity is genuine.

[bedpanartist]

40. perhaps...

but he's beat our side's ass twice. What does that make us?

[Warren DeMontague]

41. That makes us... Not the people who are rigging the elections.

Welcome to DU. :hi:

[bedpanartist]

42. hi there

and thanks for the welcome! I've been looking for a good site with active boards not full of idiots, and I think I've found it (although there are plenty of goofy hippies with nary a clue here too).

Love and gravey,
Davey

[Warren DeMontague]

44. I'm one of the goofy hippies.

Enjoy!

[bedpanartist]

45. no personal hatred implied

but from my standpoint, all of the hippies really are in the suburbs decrying all of the problems of the cities from afar (kindof like another group I know). I live in the hood and never see hippies trying to help the old ladies or kids do what they gotta' do that day. Plus, wherever I see hippies, there is a huge pile of garbage from beer cups and discarded nitrous oxide balloons.

[Warren DeMontague]

50. Well, maybe the little old ladies

are the ones leaving behind the empty beer cups and nitrous balloons.

Betcha never considered that, did you?

[upi402]

36. Buddhism says there are many paths up the mountain, right?

I wonder if the view is held that fundamentalism is a path up -or is it down?

[Gman]

43. Gunga, gunga-galunga

Did he say anything about gunga, gunga-galunga?