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OP - March 27, 2010, 07:25 AM

Anyone familiar with the theories of Krishnamurti here? Any fans?

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Reply #1 - March 27, 2010, 08:12 AM

The newsreader?

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Reply #2 - March 27, 2010, 09:44 AM

Haha, no, unfortunately, he was never a newsreader as far as I know.

He's a very radical thinker who proposed that the only way to genuine happiness, wisdom and love is to stop thinking.

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Reply #3 - March 27, 2010, 09:50 AM

So was he thinking when he said that?

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Reply #4 - March 27, 2010, 10:17 AM

Yes, that's an obvious question osman and I don't know how he squares that circle. I have only ever read his stuff infrequently and I've always been struck by the bargain he offers mankind.

According to him, thought is the beginning of all conflict - so either we have thought with all of its advances and inventions and war machines or you have complete non-conflict and love and bliss and all that good hippy stuff.

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Reply #5 - March 27, 2010, 10:43 AM

Sounds like bullshit. You can have plenty of conflict with little or no thought. Many species do that all the time.

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Reply #6 - March 27, 2010, 12:21 PM

It's not like I can stop thinking anyways. So I call BS.

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Reply #7 - March 27, 2010, 01:18 PM

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Sounds like bullshit. You can have plenty of conflict with little or no thought. Many species do that all the time.

That is indeed true but the difference being Human species is able to analyze, understand, design strategies and counter strategies either to win the conflict or diffuse the conflict dear Chief.. lol.

But osmanthus., I thought you are going strat some sort of front page put out some articles. what happened?

What you wrote at these links are as good as any one write as an article

http://www.councilofexmuslims.com/index.php?topic=6161.msg156529#msg156529

or this one
http://www.councilofexmuslims.com/index.php?topic=9381.msg239323#msg239323

So what happened?

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Reply #8 - March 27, 2010, 01:34 PM

There's some validity to the notion, it's the same idea as meditation.

You stop thinking, stop worrying, stop holding burdensome beliefs and from that one gains equanimity.

I don't think it should be taken to mean that you stop thinking entirely, just that you don't get into the situation where you can't stop thinking and your mind never rests, or where you hold strong opinions and the like.

If everyone did this, and lived in a state of permanent emotional and mental detachment, then the world probably would be a better place. But it ain't gonna happen.
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Reply #9 - March 27, 2010, 08:40 PM

Yeezevee, I can't claim credit for the one about Pascal's Wager. That one is copied from the link just above the article, which is why I gave attribution of course.

The one about propellers on top of baseball caps is, however, entirely my own work.

But yes, we should make more of an effort to get some better front page content.

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