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3983Apr 1 2011: Our new video: "Man Investigates a Plumbing Problem" http://youtu.be/P53-qtSeb3I - A one-minute suspense movie filmed and edited tonight in Orlando. ←Our original YouTube video [more] 3984
Apr 1 2011: (Preceding is my BALD acting debut. The goal: working with available materials, create something spooky and suspenseful.) 3985Apr 1 2011: Something must be done about the peeing epidemic in this country. People are doing it too much! ←Start tweet essay: Too Much Pee! 3986Apr 1 2011: Peeing too much is medically harmless but a personal inconvenience. You're pissing away your life with all those bathroom breaks! 3987Apr 1 2011: News flash: If you didn't drink so much you wouldn't have to pee so much. 3988Apr 1 2011: Peeing too much is usually a sign of addiction—either caffeine or alcohol. 3989Apr 1 2011: Science fact: Any water coming into the body has to leave in identical quantity, either by evaporation or urination. 3990Apr 1 2011: Should you be peeing three times a day or twenty? Your life is so much freer if you can do it less. You're not tethered to a bathroom! 3991Apr 1 2011: God intended pee to be dark golden yellow, not pale and clear. (It's in the Bible somewhere.) 3992Apr 1 2011: The cost of caffeine addiction is the cost of the drinks themselves, the inconvenience of preparing them and all those bathroom breaks! 3993Apr 1 2011: People confuse caffeine craving for thirst. One is a genuine need and the other a pseudo need. 3994Apr 1 2011: Caffeine addicts are so well hydrated that they haven't experienced true thirst in years! 3995Apr 1 2011: You'll experience true thirst if you're hiking outside on a hot day. Then you need water to survive—and you rarely pee. 3996Apr 1 2011: Fun fact: You can safely drink your own urine when it is running clear. Catch-22: When you're truly thirsty, you aren't producing any! 3997Apr 1 2011: True dehydration is a serious threat to one's life and health. However, few of us ever get close to that point. We're overhydrated! 3998Apr 1 2011: "Obey Your Thirst!" in a soft drink ad really means, "Obey Your Caffeine Craving!" 3999Apr 1 2011: If you can't sleep the night without visiting the bathroom, you're probably drinking too much. Children can do it; why not you? 4000Apr 1 2011: The best way to maintain hydration is bland, ordinary water. Then you're not confusing thirst for other cravings. 4001Apr 1 2011: If you feel your drinking water must be imported from Fiji, that's your choice, but ordinary tap water does the job just fine. 4002Apr 1 2011: Only in the desert or when you're obviously sweating will you find much difference between drink input and urination output. 4003Apr 1 2011: If you drink mainly water, then you'll probably find you're not drinking much. When your body truly needs it, it will tell you! 4004Apr 1 2011: If we all learned to drink less, we'd pee less and have more time for other things. Join the Anti-Pee Revolution! 4005Apr 1 2011: #### End. This has been a live 1-hour essay by the Bad Dalai Lama: "Too Much Pee!" We now resume our originally scheduled programming. ←End tweet essay: Too Much Pee! 4006Apr 1 2011: RT @shangizestaponi: @BadDalaiLama #sincewebeinghonest Ai lik ur bald hed. 4007Apr 1 2011: "Damn! Actually damn good!. Bravo! More more more!" @sheephogan on our new 1-minute movie http://youtu.be/P53-qtSeb3I←Our original YouTube video [more] 4008Apr 1 2011: @mostlegendary "Caffeine is a diuretic. A caffeine addict isn't necessarily well hydrated." ==> Only MILD diuretic to non-addicts. 4009Apr 1 2011: (Our latest movie stars His Baldliness and concerns a suburban plumbing problem.) 4010Apr 1 2011: The key the great photography and videomaking is to liberate yourself from the need to accurately record reality. 4011Apr 1 2011: People are desperate to get to the "next step" of whatever race they're running. Alas, the next step often turns into the last. 4012Apr 1 2011: A remarkable sight! Witnessing the northward migration of the majestic snowbird to its summer nesting grounds. http://twitpic.com/4fp8bs←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4013Apr 1 2011: Kids are fun but incredibly labor intensive. If you choose to raise them, you must realize it will be your main career! 4014Apr 1 2011: All-American hog. http://twitpic.com/4fq706←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4015Apr 1 2011: Big fat Harley hogs are usually ridden by big fat Harley hogs, often retired folk traveling in packs. Outlaws, my ass! 4016Apr 1 2011: RT @JamieMoser76: that's a hell of a picture ya got there!! :) I love your tweets, some of my favs 4017Apr 1 2011: There is nothing so pathetic as a life dedicated to entertainment. 4018Apr 1 2011: RT @WWIIHeadsOState: @BadDalaiLama What is your life dedicated to? Boredom? You could go for world domination if you had real sociopath ... 4019Apr 1 2011: RT @BBlane: @BadDalaiLama Haha! You changed your pic! Love it ;-) 4020Apr 1 2011: I love the names they give to RVs, like this one. It is supposed to sound adventurous when it's anything but. http://twitpic.com/4fr6vl←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4021Apr 1 2011: RT @trevlutz: @BadDalaiLama "I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted entirely to pleasure." - Prince Charles. 4022Apr 1 2011: I am outraged by the free pass given to mitochondrial DNA. There's no accountability! 4023Apr 1 2011: Autodidactism is learning what you need when you need it, based on your own assessment of what's important. 4024Apr 1 2011: Love advice: The quality of the fish you catch depends on the bait you use. If you cast out crap, you're gonna reel in crap! 4025Apr 1 2011: Most of the apparent wealth of the world is merely a theft from the future. {10/4} 4026Apr 1 2011: RT @HisHoliness: If you rely on someone who has lower qualities than yourself, that will lead to your degeneration. 4027Apr 1 2011: Everyone is a minority in some way, and all of us have been discriminated against, but the main thing holding you down is you! 4028Apr 1 2011: Beware of "help" offered by others that ends up being more trouble than it's worth. Take charge of your own needs! 4029Apr 2 2011: Every superhero needs a supervillain to define him, and vice versa, so when the opportunity comes to kill each other, they won't do it. 4030Apr 2 2011: "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink." As long as you have offered the water, then you have done your part. 4031Apr 2 2011: Turning your opponent into a monster doesn't mean you want to kill him. You just want people to see that you're better by comparison. 4032Apr 2 2011: The trouble with emotionally needy people is they'll always be needy, no matter how much you give them. 4033Apr 2 2011: Listen to couples argue, and you'll hear straw man at work. One exaggerates the words or misdeeds of the other only to cut them down. 4034Apr 2 2011: All of our one-hour tweeted essays are now available in separate section of our Wisdom Archive: http://baddalailama.com/#essays 4035Apr 2 2011: When someone uses straw man against you, there's really no defense. They've gone paranoid, and all you can do is withdraw. 4036Apr 2 2011: Example: This morning's essay on "The Straw Man Argument" is available here: http://BadDalaiLama.com/archive/?essay=strawman 4037Apr 2 2011: You can avoid straw man only in yourself. Focus on the threat to your ego, why it hurts and what you can change within yourself to fix it. 4038Apr 2 2011: People believe what they have to believe to justify their past investments. Logic is filled in only later to rationalize the belief. 4039Apr 2 2011: Killing the messenger doesn't work, because the bad news is still out there and will eventually arrive by a more catastrophic route. 4040Apr 2 2011: There's no point in debunking religion because those with a need for irrational belief will always find something to attach it to. 4041Apr 2 2011: #### End. This has been a 1-hour essay by the Bad Dalai Lama: "Straw Man" — We now resume our regularly scheduled programming. ←End tweet essay: The Straw Man Argument 4042
Apr 2 2011: RT @trevlutz: @BadDalaiLama When faced with the choice between changing one's mind or justifying why they don't have to, most choose the ... 4043
Apr 2 2011: RT @sampras16: @BadDalaiLama To be honest BadDalaiLama has got much more practical advice than the 'other' Dalai Lama. 4044Apr 2 2011: Chinese Hawaiian dancing girls at the dollar store. http://twitpic.com/4g6ilj/full←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4045
Apr 2 2011: RT @jonfernquest: #FF @BadDalaiLama for practical everyday practical urological tips :) 4046Apr 2 2011: "Well, you'll have plenty of time to think THAT over... in Statesville Prison!" —Lt. Frank Drebin http://twitpic.com/4g6w26/full←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4047
Apr 2 2011: Welcome to Camp Happy! We want everyone to be happy here. Anyone who isn't happy will be taken out and shot. So by all means BE HAPPY! 4048
Apr 2 2011: No one wants to see animals slaughtered, workers exploited or other unpleasantness, so we leave it to corporations to do the job for us. 4049
Apr 2 2011: You can expect me not lie to you, but you cannot expect me to tell you everything I know. That's like asking me to give you all my money. 4050
Apr 2 2011: Homeless Tip: Wherever you have Walmart, you have lodging. Buy a sleeping bag and tarp and camp in the field behind the store. 4051
Apr 2 2011: Language Police: "cowboy" is sexist to both human and animal. Use "cattleperson" or "cattle management professional". 4052
Apr 2 2011: On My Bucket List: Start and maintain a pyramid scheme. [See Full Bucket List] 4053
Apr 2 2011: "Saboteur" is a wonderful word we rarely use these days. We have hackers and terrorists but few with the grace of a true subversive agent. 4054
Apr 2 2011: Hackers are computerized anarchists, and terrorists seek terror, but a saboteur would subtly break something to achieve a strategic goal. 4055
Apr 2 2011: World War II was the Golden Age of saboteurs. There were bridges to blow up and agents to seduce. The field hasn't been the same since. 4056
Apr 2 2011: Many animals can learn, but only humans can be coaxed into believing in something they've never seen based on words alone. 4057
Apr 2 2011: Adult-oriented advertising notwithstanding, no sex toy or lubricant is going to "bring romance back to your relationship". 4058
Apr 2 2011: On My Bucket List: Become heir to the British throne, pressured to choose a wife and make the marriage work under continuous media coverage. [See Full Bucket List] 4059
Apr 2 2011: It doesn't matter if aliens are visiting our planet or ghosts are haunting our mansions. They are shifty characters you just can't rely on! 4060
Apr 2 2011: The worst part of prison (or marriage) is being trapped with a cellmate you no longer have anything in common with. 4061Apr 2 2011: Renamed my new 1-minute movie to "Investigating a Plumbing Problem" http://youtu.be/P53-qtSeb3I - Nephews wanted more blood. ←Our original YouTube video [more] 4062
Apr 2 2011: A straw man argument is misrepresenting your opponent's position, then discrediting him by attacking that image. Used by one and all! ←Start tweet essay: The Straw Man Argument 4063
Apr 2 2011: Example of a straw man argument: "My opponent wants to sell your children into slavery. Well, I think that's just wrong!" 4064
Apr 2 2011: The straw man, in a personal conflict, is when someone distorts your words into the worst possible connotation then attacks that version. 4065
Apr 2 2011: Paranoia is internalized straw man—the exaggeration of a perceived threat so as to justify an emotionally convenient response. 4066
Apr 2 2011: Emotional convenience is what you need to do to defend your ego. If a messenger delivers bad news about you, kill him! 4067
Apr 2 2011: Actually killing a bad-news messenger would be uncouth, so we do what we can to discredit him instead. 4068
Apr 2 2011: Straw man is carefully selecting the words of one's opponent and taking them out of context, turning him into a monster easily slayed. 4069
Apr 2 2011: When we're paranoid, we're feeling inadequate inside. We need an external opponent to blame it on, so we invent one. 4070
Apr 2 2011: People need enemies to deflect attention from their own shortcomings. 4071
Apr 2 2011: Having a powerful enemy justifies a "state of war" where normal opposition and debate can be suspended. 4072Apr 2 2011: Graveyard in Wytheville, Virginia, 6 hours ago. Wonderfully weird. http://twitpic.com/4gbcrb/full←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4073Apr 3 2011: Video Postcard: "Death Stalks Us All" http://youtu.be/4z4iFE0ilCY - A 30-second graveyard experiment, Wytheville, VA, 6 hours ago. ←Our original YouTube video [more] 4074Apr 3 2011: @trevlutz "Great shot!" <== Yeah! That's an iPhone photo, where it's hard to control focus, but this was perfect. http://twitpic.com/4gbcrb←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4075Apr 3 2011: ++++ Beginning 1-hour essay: "Wisdom" ←Start tweet essay: Wisdom 4076Apr 3 2011: Wisdom consists of "meta-skills"—skills obtained through experience that apply to a wide range of circumstances. 4077Apr 3 2011: Meta-skills mostly involve managing yourself and your interactions with the world. 4078Apr 3 2011: One meta-skill is processing criticism. The wise will accept criticism graciously, even seek it out. The unwise will try to suppress it. 4079Apr 3 2011: Technical skills, like juggling or engineering, are useful only in certain environments. Meta-skills are applicable in ALL environments. 4080Apr 3 2011: Once you learn a meta-skill, you can use it in situations you have never encountered before. 4081Apr 3 2011: Once you know some essential things about people, you can step into cultures you have never visited before and know your skills will apply. 4082Apr 3 2011: Someone can speak a dozen languages and still not have a clue about people. They have technical skills but not meta-skills. 4083Apr 3 2011: Meta-skills involve understanding how reality works, even if it is a reality you have never encountered before. 4084Apr 3 2011: The most important thing about reality is that it has no regard for your wishes. It takes a long time and many failures to learn this fact. 4085Apr 3 2011: The essential skills of wisdom are knowing your limitations, recognizing reality as an independent entity and seeing the needs of others. 4086Apr 3 2011: We all start with a childhood delusion that reality will conform to our desires. If we want something, we only need to wish for it. 4087Apr 3 2011: In childhood, wishing for things worked! We put things on our Christmas list, and they magically arrived. 4088Apr 3 2011: In childhood, we lived in a fantasyland of magically fulfilled wishes—setting us up for failure later on. 4089Apr 3 2011: Adult wisdom involves learning to separate wishes from fact. 4090Apr 3 2011: Reality has its own structure, independent of our wishes. It is what it is and doesn't care what we want. 4091Apr 3 2011: It is a rare and valuable skill to see reality for what it really is, not for what you want it to be. 4092Apr 3 2011: A fool comes into a new situation and thinks he understands it. A wise man grasps his own lack of knowledge and is willing to seek it. 4093Apr 3 2011: It takes great wisdom to say, "Hey, I don't understand what's going on here. I must find out more." 4094Apr 3 2011: "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." 4095Apr 3 2011: Fools take too much on faith. Wisdom involves replacing that faith with knowledge. 4096Apr 3 2011: The skill of balanced judgment doesn't come easily. You have to be smacked down hard a few times before you start to get it. 4097Apr 3 2011: A wise man is wise even if you take him out of his environment and stick him in an entirely new one. Meta-skills make the difference. 4098Apr 3 2011: Wisdom in dealing with people involves seeing them for who they are rather than what we want them to be. 4099Apr 3 2011: We tend to overestimate and misconstrue people to serve our emotional needs. 4100Apr 3 2011: It is a skill of wisdom to be able to see the world through the eyes of others. You don't have to agree with this viewpoint, just see it. 4101Apr 3 2011: Fools make poor predictions about the behavior of others because they can't suppress their own ego enough to see the other's viewpoint. 4102Apr 3 2011: As children we gain praise just for being ourselves. In adulthood, we lose the free pass and actually have to serve people's needs. 4103Apr 3 2011: Wisdom is the systematic dispelling of the myths of childhood. 4104Apr 3 2011: Wisdom is looking though the viewfinder of a camera and seeing what is actually there, not what your emotions tell you should be there. 4105Apr 3 2011: Wisdom is seeing yourself, other people and the world around you for what they really are. 4106Apr 3 2011: Wisdom is the willingness to experiment and investigate to determine the structure of reality for yourself. 4107Apr 3 2011: Reality doesn't suck, but it's not on your side either. It is what it is, and it's your responsibility to adapt. 4108Apr 3 2011: #### End. This has been a live 1-hour essay from the Bad Dalai Lama: "Wisdom" — We now resume our regularly scheduled programming. 4109Apr 3 2011: RT @mecotterill: @BadDalaiLama if the highest aim in life is to be happy then the fool has it all figured out. 4110Apr 3 2011: Fact: In Maine, they freeze the old folks in the winter then thaw 'em out in the spring. Saves a lot of bitching that way. 4111Apr 3 2011: The right to do something does not imply the wisdom of it. 4112Apr 3 2011: The good news: People can change! The bad news: It's not going to happen on your schedule or while you're enabling them. 4113Apr 3 2011: There's no arguing with someone on the rising arc of their career. They have things all worked out and can't conceive of any downside. 4114Apr 3 2011: Lord, protect us all from the ambitious schemes of young men. ←End tweet essay: Wisdom 4115Apr 3 2011: On the set of my latest movie, "Man Investigates a Plumbing Problem". http://twitpic.com/4gmdow←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4116
Apr 3 2011: "You must remember this. A kiss is just a kiss. A sigh is just a sigh. The fundamental things apply...." http://bit.ly/g9SN9Q 4117
Apr 3 2011: You can tell a lot about a person from the car they drive—for example, how frivolous, vain or arrogant they are and how prone to waste. 4118
Apr 3 2011: It gives me great satisfaction to pass the cattle crammed into First Class, to a wide open Coach section where I will sleep 3 seats across. 4119
Apr 4 2011: The most handicapped travelers are those who require luxury. Only a tiny portion of the world is open to them. 4120
Apr 4 2011: A kid learns eventually: One Oreo cookie is good. A whole package of Oreos eaten at one sitting? Not so good. 4121
Apr 4 2011: The Bad Dalai Lama is your violent torpedo of truth! Now on nationwide tour! #winning 4122
Apr 4 2011: On My Bucket List: Fake my own death. (Quite effectively, it turns out.) [See Full Bucket List] 4123
Apr 4 2011: Of 175 million Twitter users, only 36m follow 16 or more users. (Far fewer actually READ their tweets.) Time http://ti.me/efAlQt 4124
Apr 4 2011: @DanielleOlympia Welcome to Twitter! You're first tweet! Waffles and chicken for everyone! 4125
Apr 4 2011: RT @Kurt_Vonnegut: How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is. 4126
Apr 4 2011: Those who can't say "no" eventually drown in their own commitments. 4127
Apr 4 2011: Chaos is a test of character. 4128
Apr 4 2011: "Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you." —Jean-Paul Sartre <== The best existential quote of all time! 4129Apr 4 2011: The Bad Dalai Lama's pedigree explained. http://twitpic.com/4gw7f9 (new graphic on our home page) ←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4130
Apr 4 2011: Flight delays, itinerary changes, unexpected diversions from the plan—catastrophes to some, opportunities to others. 4131
Apr 4 2011: No matter how rich the resource may be, people will find a way to spend more than they have. 4132
Apr 4 2011: Wherever there are rules there is also the necessity to fudge the rules to make things work. 4133
Apr 4 2011: There should be a League of Exceedingly Precise Gentlemen. They'll keep themselves occupied giving each other overly detailed instructions. 4134Apr 4 2011: The scenic natural beauty of Durango, Colorado. http://twitpic.com/4gz7p4/full←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4135
Apr 4 2011: For harmony in polite social situations, it is best not to discuss politics, religion or Walmart. 4136Apr 4 2011: Investor wanted. Pagosa Springs, Colorado. http://twitpic.com/4h0fdb←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4137Apr 4 2011: Giant tower of mashed potatoes, Pagosa Springs, Colorado. http://twitpic.com/4h0k49←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4138Apr 4 2011: Wolf Creek Summit, Colorado. Elevation 10,857 feet. http://twitpic.com/4h10c1←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4139
Apr 4 2011: You can't outwit someone else's paranoia. They will see right through your best intentions. 4140
Apr 4 2011: "Too clever for your own good" means you have the smarts to succeed in what turns out to be an unwise endeavor. 4141Apr 5 2011: Many of Israel's military atrocities are attributable to the fact they have an army of children, about as wise as teenage drivers. ←Start tweet essay: Israel 4142Apr 5 2011: Every bus station in Isreal is filled with teenagers in transit, acting like kids everywhere, but with green uniforms and really big guns. 4143Apr 5 2011: Whenever I hear of the Israeli army killing civilians in some botched operation, I think, "That's what happens when you give guns to teens." 4144Apr 5 2011: I've been to Israel twice. Some of my photos: http://roamingohotos.com/main?place=Israel 4145Apr 5 2011: To the tourist, Israel is safe, fascinating and cheap. Hebrew is the language but English is widely spoken. 4146Apr 5 2011: Like many Muslim countries, Israel is controlled by religious extremists, but unlike them, diversity of opinion is cherished. 4147Apr 5 2011: Some of the greatest opposition to Israeli government policies comes from Israeli citizens. Unfortunately, extremists hold the most power. 4148Apr 5 2011: Some American Jews still dream of emigrating to Israel. Bonehead move! you're getting yourself trapped on a very small island. 4149Apr 5 2011: American Jews may dream of emigrating to Israel, but many more young Israelis dream of emigrating to America. Get me outta here! 4150Apr 5 2011: Israel is an Island, cut off from most links to its neighbors. 4151Apr 5 2011: Israeli citizens can't visit the West Bank, but foreign tourists can. It's remarkably safe and easy. 4152Apr 5 2011: Israeli security checkpoints are usually cursory and lackadaisical—at least for Americans. Mostly concerned with flow of arms and bombs. 4153Apr 5 2011: Sarah Palin was heading to the West Bank a few weeks ago, but chickened out without explanation. Dweeb! 4154Apr 5 2011: Israel security is overrated. It's mostly a show of security involving primitive metal detectors and teenagers with big guns. 4155Apr 5 2011: Hebrew is an ancient language resurrected within the past century. It's like Europe deciding to speak Latin again. 4156Apr 5 2011: The most frustrating thing about visiting Israel is the haggling. Few posted prices in stores, so you haggle. Part of the Jewish heritage? 4157Apr 5 2011: Israel is a multi-cultural country. Nowhere else in the world are there so many sects and divisions—and so many funny hats! 4158Apr 5 2011: #### End. This has been a live 1-hour essay by the Bad Dalai Lama: "Israel" — We now resume our regularly scheduled programming. 4159Apr 5 2011: RT @colestics: @BadDalaiLama <- #kicksknowledge thanks for sharing.You have made me want visit Israel! 4160Apr 5 2011: "Sarah Palin aborts visit to Bethlehem" UK Telegraph http://ow.ly/4jndp {3/23} 4161Apr 5 2011: Our video report from the Palestinian side of the West Bank barrier (like the Berlin Wall). http://youtu.be/zbfxbOmGOyY {12/25 Christmas!} ←Our original YouTube video [more] 4162Apr 5 2011: All our Christmas photos, videos and tweets from Bethlehem (West Bank) http://j.mp/dJPfAu Jerusalem http://j.mp/eucNIf←End tweet essay: Israel 4163Apr 5 2011: Dawn near La Junta, Colorado. Right now! http://twitpic.com/4h7ruv←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4164Apr 5 2011: RT @Toledowni: @BadDalaiLama Well, I guess the people from Bethelem must be relieved. Sara Palin + "Holy land" + attention are no good c ... 4165Apr 5 2011: The average citizen holds political opinions of the greatest perfection—untainted by knowledge or experience. 4166Apr 5 2011: Las Animas, Colorado. http://twitpic.com/4h8sij←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4167Apr 5 2011: The benefit of experience is being able to do more—and do it successfully—with less conscious attention and wasted effort. 4168Apr 5 2011: Warning regarding equine activities in Colorado. http://twitpic.com/4h9m2q←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4169Apr 5 2011: Life is a credit card that most people spend to the limit early on, then struggle the rest of their days to pay off. 4170Apr 5 2011: There is no glory in parenting. Your clients abuse you and only appreciate your efforts long after it makes any difference. 4171Apr 5 2011: A "bridge" is a job or relationship that helps you transition between two phases in your life—even if it doesn't work in itself. 4172Apr 5 2011: Dodge City, Kansas. http://twitpic.com/4hbebu←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4173Apr 5 2011: A logical combination, given scoundrels they have to deal with. Dodge City, Kansas. http://twitpic.com/4hbr18←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4174Apr 5 2011: It doesn't get more Kansas than this! http://twitpic.com/4hclty←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4175Apr 5 2011: Freedom is your ability and willingness to adapt to circumstances you never anticipated. 4176Apr 5 2011: Freedom exists where you believe it exists. 4177Apr 5 2011: RT @rongillmore: @BadDalaiLama Freedom is whatever you want it to be.* *(bullshit) 4178Apr 5 2011: Self-portrait with train tracks, Kansas. http://twitpic.com/4hdiow←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4179Apr 5 2011: In Kansas, the roads are spaced exactly a mile apart, so maps could be drawn on graph paper. http://twitpic.com/4he1zj←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4180Apr 6 2011: On My Bucket List: Arrange my own funeral, in detail, and make my bequests contingent upon attendance. [See Full Bucket List] 4181Apr 6 2011: "It's a clear example of evolution!" @Erekosse re our pedigree http://twitpic.com/4gw7f9←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4182Apr 6 2011: Beware of giving out charity that is too easily received. The beneficiary should have to work for it or he won't value it. 4183Apr 6 2011: New travel video from an abandoned grain elevator in Kansas. http://youtu.be/Sdttl-DKeOo — Silly 4-minute video shot yesterday. ←Our original YouTube video [more] 4184Apr 6 2011: You can collect a lot of nice data about a place you've never been, but you can only really know it by going there. 4185Apr 6 2011: One of HHBDL's many charitable ministries: a donation of $200 in groceries to a needy family in Oklahoma. http://twitpic.com/4hnnji←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4186Apr 6 2011: The life of the lower classes is centered around television. Often there is a big screen TV in the living room and no food in the kitchen. 4187Apr 6 2011: RT @Javi_Air: @BadDalaiLama My last tweet made me think "hmn, at least baddalailama's tweets seem to be coming from his mind, not google." 4188Apr 6 2011: The opposite of loneliness is to be drowning in the needs of others. Makes loneliness look like Heaven, actually! 4189Apr 6 2011: RT @danywino: @BadDalaiLama "L'enfer, l'enfer c'est les autres" (Hell, Hell is others) another quote by Jean Paul Sartre. 4190Apr 6 2011: The root of most disasters is the euphoria and overconfidence that came before. 4191Apr 6 2011: FYI: His Holiness the Bad Dalai Lama does not speak out of his ass! He has personal experience in most of the human folly he talks about. 4192Apr 6 2011: Unlike SOME lamas, all of HHBDL's tweets are his own original work, the product of his personal meditations, usually broadcast the same day. 4193Apr 6 2011: RT @trevlutz: @BadDalaiLama Having experience does not necessarily mean that a person isn't talking out of their ass. Not talking about ... 4194Apr 6 2011: Experience does not guarantee wisdom, but there can be no wisdom without experience. 4195Apr 6 2011: Entertainment is the universal substitute for action. 4196Apr 6 2011: The "right" thing to do cannot be separated from the limitations on the resources available to do it. 4197Apr 6 2011: RT @GreatestQuotes: "It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom." - Mahatma Gandhi 4198Apr 6 2011: When you want to eat, this is the place to do it. (Vinita, Oklahoma) http://twitpic.com/4hr3hy←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4199Apr 7 2011: Pretty faces are common. Faces animated by intelligence are quite rare. 4200Apr 7 2011: Just as Rome was not built in a day, it did not fall in a day. There was a long period of Caligularian debauchery. 4201Apr 7 2011: (Ha! I bet that's the first time you've seen "Caligularian" in a sentence!) 4202Apr 7 2011: RT @Kyoks1: @BadDalaiLama like with double dip recession and 2 (10+ year) wars? 4203Apr 7 2011: @Kyoks1 "like with double dip recession and 2 (10+ year) wars?" <== Yeah, kinda like that! 4204Apr 7 2011: RT @Ruys: Y @BadDalaiLama le patea el trasero a @DalaiLama 4205Apr 7 2011: RT @Ruys: Y @BadDalaiLama le patea el trasero a @DalaiLama <== Translation: kicks the other lama's ass! 4206Apr 7 2011: I explain the fall of Rome in this video from outside the Roman Forum (May 2010) http://youtu.be/aR7vE5YEvms←Our original YouTube video [more] 4207Apr 7 2011: Lessons of Rome: Success leads to overconfidence leads to overcommitment. Overcommitment leads to the Fall leads to the Dark Ages. {11/5} 4208Apr 7 2011: RT @Cinnapuff: If I ever have a racehorse I'm naming it Caligularian debauchery RT @BadDalaiLama .....There was a long period of Caligul ... 4209Apr 7 2011: Everyone makes mistakes. The difference between individuals is how quickly and efficiently they learn from them. 4210Apr 7 2011: Tweets live in a perpetual "now". They have no memory of what went before nor knowledge what will come after. Each must stand on its own. 4211Apr 7 2011: Behavioral reinforcement—direct reward or punishment for actions—isn't the most elegant way to change behavior, but it's often the only way. 4212Apr 7 2011: A judicious slap on the fanny can be more effective in changing behavior than all the negotiating in the world. 4213Apr 7 2011: Changing people is generally a hopeless task. The most you can hope for is muting the specific behavior that is causing problems. 4214Apr 7 2011: RT @Kyoks1: @BadDalaiLama most likely you would only end up being just an enabler of a different co-dependent dynamic. 4215Apr 7 2011: A person's basic style of behavior is deeply engrained and cannot be changed by talk or negotiation. 4216Apr 7 2011: RT @danywino: @BadDalaiLama El estilo de una persona, esta fuertemente enraizado, no se puede cambiar con pláticas o negociaciones. 4217Apr 7 2011: Your job as a parent us to set a good example and assure behavioral compliance, not to micromanage beliefs and attitudes. 4218Apr 7 2011: The life of an exiled spiritual leader: Rarely two nights in the same place. Few possessions. New environment every day. Heaven or Hell? 4219Apr 7 2011: RT @PeaceConclusion: @BadDalaiLama heaven :) 4220Apr 7 2011: RT @trevlutz: @BadDalaiLama For you, rock stars and stand-up comedians: heaven. 4221Apr 7 2011: Here in the Ozarks, they got their own way fer ta spell thangs. (Thrift store in Springfield, Missouri) http://twitpic.com/4hyyo6←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4222Apr 7 2011: You'll know what your body and mind can do only by testing them and pushing their limits. 4223Apr 7 2011: McDonalds' "Billions of Hamburgers Served" translates into how many cattle slaughtered? They don't advertise that, do they? 4224Apr 7 2011: Childhood gave us a set of assumptions about what is required for a happy life—most of which turn out to be bullshit! 4225Apr 7 2011: For those in conflict with themselves, any introspection is intolerable. They'll avoid it with entertainment or other continuous diversions. 4226Apr 7 2011: Get your Branson coupons here! http://twitpic.com/4i0c3g←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4227Apr 7 2011: Cambridge University psychopathologist says a lack of empathy is the root of all evil. http://ind.pn/ikrzdY via @ebertchicago 4228Apr 7 2011: The measure of how at peace you are with yourself is how long you can sit alone in an empty room with only yourself for company. 4229Apr 7 2011: A long wait in a doctor's office with no television, cellphone or reading material—Heaven or Hell? 4230Apr 7 2011: A long wait in a doctor's office with a television playing that you can't turn off—Heaven or Hell? 4231Apr 7 2011: It doesn't count as "solitude" if you're working your mobile phone the whole time. 4232Apr 7 2011: Television is a sedation device for prisoners, shut-ins and those without the initiative to direct their own activities. 4233Apr 7 2011: This place really sucks! (@ Vacuum Cleaner Museum) http://4sq.com/furmFb 4234Apr 7 2011: You can see Britain as a seat of culture or the country that gave us soccer hooligans, Benny Hill and those tasteless royal weddings. 4235Apr 7 2011: Now playing IN MY HEAD: "Yakety Sax" (the Benny Hill theme song). Make it stop! 4236Apr 7 2011: RT @danonchalant1: @BadDalaiLama ...now that song is in MY head...thanks! 4237Apr 7 2011: Lowbrow comedian Benny Hill should not be confused with faith-healing televangelist Benny Hinn... On second thought, same thing pretty much. 4238Apr 7 2011: RT @vacca23: @BadDalaiLama EVERYTHING is funny with Benny Hill music playing behind it. 4239Apr 7 2011: The real test of success is not how you gain it but how you use it once you do. 4240Apr 7 2011: The opposite of apathy is micromanagement—which, if you're at the receiving end, makes you wish for a little apathy! 4241Apr 7 2011: If someone has truly found a way to make money, he is unlikely to let you in on it. 4242Apr 8 2011: The best place for your money is missions that are personally meaningful to you, in fields you know, where profit isn't everything. 4243Apr 8 2011: The only guaranteed way to "make money" is to cut your expenses. Then monetary profit won't be so important to you. 4244Apr 8 2011: There are a lot more important things in life than money. To be happy, you need "enough" money, but being rich won't make you any happier. 4245Apr 8 2011: Leave investing to gamblers who have nothing better to do with their lives. 4246Apr 8 2011: #### End. This has been a live essay by the Bad Dalai Lama: "Delusions of Investing" — We now resume our regularly scheduled programming. 4247Apr 8 2011: "Past performance is no guaranty of future returns." — Believe it! (But few people do.) 4248Apr 8 2011: Most "trends" are illusions. 4249Apr 8 2011: When everyone agrees on the wisdom of an investment, you're a fool to join them. 4250Apr 8 2011: When infomercials urge you to buy gold because of a huge run-up in recent prices... you're an idiot even to be watching. 4251Apr 8 2011: "Retroactive investing" is buying into a "hot" product that has already shown huge gains. You're joining a bubble just before it bursts! 4252Apr 8 2011: With just a little dredging near Chicago, you could make the Great Lakes drain through the Mississippi. Let's do it! It would be fun! 4253Apr 8 2011: On My Bucket List: Make money "flipping" houses in an irrationally exuberant real estate market. [See Full Bucket List] ←End tweet essay: Delusions of Investing 4254
Apr 8 2011: "Self-regulatory outsourcing" (relying on others) results in less willingness to help oneself. http://tinyurl.com/3mzuj9t by @abmarkman 4255
Apr 8 2011: RT @philoquotes: Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak. ~ Cicero http://bit.ly/philq 4256
Apr 8 2011: RT @DalaiLama Compassion and love give meaning to our activities and makes them constructive. <== Dude, you got a 'bot tweeting for you 4257
Apr 8 2011: Truth revealed! The @DalaiLama's tweets are authored by the LamaBot 2000 using infinite variations of "love" and "compassion". 4258
Apr 8 2011: RT @Jowtok: Its great outsourcing ! :)RT @BadDalaiLama: Truth revealed! @DalaiLama's tweets are authored by the LamaBot 2000 using infin ... 4259
Apr 8 2011: RT @mecotterill: @BadDalaiLama woo got a @BadDalaiLama and a @DalaiLama tweet right next to each other. Is there a prize? 4260
Apr 8 2011: RT @JonnyNotion: @BadDalaiLama You tweet good things and you sound like Tom Waits. 4261
Apr 8 2011: On My Bucket List: Give a PowerPoint presentation. [See Full Bucket List] 4262
Apr 8 2011: @FlyoverJoel My biggest fear is.,, I'm forced to live a Lost-like existence but in Gary, Indiana. <== Gary is the place! http://Glenn-Campbell.com/album?gary 4263
Apr 8 2011: Travel Mythbusters: The French savor their meals and abhor fast food. Then who's eating at all those fast food restaurants all over France? 4264Apr 8 2011: Gateway Arch. http://twitpic.com/4i3pux←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4265
Apr 8 2011: Sometimes, the only difference between success and failure is letting go of some piece of the past that no longer works. 4266
Apr 8 2011: RT @KimKardashian: Why is it that the more I work out the hungrier I am! 4267
Apr 8 2011: RT @KimKardashian: Just turned on the news, and saw that there was another earthquake in Japan. So sad, my prayers go out to everyone in ... 4268
Apr 8 2011: C'mon, everybody follow @KimKardashian! I still don't understand why she's famous, but she is... And she's an idiot! We'll mock together! 4269
Apr 8 2011: If you've got Alzheimer's and your brain is mush, you have an excuse; otherwise there's no reason to "slow down" 'til you're dead. 4270
Apr 8 2011: RT @AndrewBober: @BadDalaiLama I do enjoy your dour soundbytes. It is the perfect antidote to the other people banality. Including my own. 4271
Apr 8 2011: RT @TIME: Despite everything you've heard, the health risk of radiation in Japan remains pretty low | http://ti.me/gFJUVN 4272
Apr 8 2011: RT @brainpicker: The Pringle as technology http://j.mp/dV9TvH (via @matthiasrascher) 4273
Apr 8 2011: In investing, there are winners and losers. The question is whether winners really outnumber losers in the long run. ←Start tweet essay: Delusions of Investing 4274
Apr 8 2011: "Investing" is distinguished from "gambling" when you have a better chance of winning than losing. 4275
Apr 8 2011: A bold thesis: Investing, at least at the retail level, is a loser's game, little better than taking your money to a casino. 4276
Apr 8 2011: If you had invested all your money in the stock market ten years ago, prudently you thought, you would have made close to nothing. 4277
Apr 8 2011: The main delusion of gambling and investing is that the winners get all the publicity while the losers vanish into obscurity. 4278
Apr 8 2011: The guy who "made a killing in the stock market" is as rare and mythical as the slot machine winner. 4279
Apr 8 2011: Investors don't make money. People who serve investors make money. Corporate executives, brokers, etc. 4280
Apr 8 2011: Investors are the poor saps who fund the lavish lifestyles of corporate executives. 4281
Apr 8 2011: If you have money, the dumbest thing you can do with it is to give it to someone with a brilliant idea. 4282
Apr 8 2011: You make money reliably only in fields you know personally and intimately yourself, where you aren't relying on someone else's knowledge. 4283
Apr 8 2011: If you've worked in an industry for 20 years and think you see a way to to do things better, you have a fair chance of succeeding. 4284
Apr 8 2011: You don't make money by listening to a pitch and giving money to the person with the sweetest presentation. 4285
Apr 8 2011: The venture capitalists who make money are the EXPERIENCED ones who thoroughly know their industry. 4286
Apr 8 2011: No one makes money in get-rich-quick schemes except the people selling them. 4287
Apr 8 2011: In retrospect, it's easy to know where you SHOULD have put your money, but there are a lot of failures that sounded just as good in theory. 4288
Apr 8 2011: In practice, it's nearly impossible to tell the Steve Jobs' from the Bernie Madoff's. 4289
Apr 8 2011: Every investor, like every gambler, thinks he is smarter than everyone else, that he can outwit the system, until he loses his shirt. 4290
Apr 8 2011: @FlyoverJoel Gary is seriously cool in its decrepitude. Half the buildings abandoned--and open for exploration! 4291Apr 9 2011: Video Postcard: Oil Well in Oklahoma http://youtu.be/MHLMoWqLBDo - 1 minute of pumpin' crude, shot two days ago. Edited for excitement! ←Our original YouTube video [more] 4292Apr 9 2011: New travel video: Pagosa Springs, Colorado http://youtu.be/KSS6wwnKV14 - A two-minute introduction to the "Hot Spring Capital". 4 days ago. ←Our original YouTube video [more] 4293
Apr 9 2011: A busy life should not be confused with a meaningful one. 4294
Apr 9 2011: A positive outcome doesn't necessarily justify the risk taken. 4295Apr 9 2011: Gained a testimony and repented my wrongdoings. I'm becoming a Mormon! (@ Avenues Hostel) http://4sq.com/e7JUUH←Start tweet essay: Salt Lake to Oregon 4296Apr 9 2011: Joseph Smith translated the Book of Mormon from golden tablets written in "Reformed Egyptian". I believe this completely. 4297Apr 9 2011: Faith is a mechanism that allows people to believe the rationally absurd. 4298Apr 9 2011: No logical argument can dissuade someone of their faith. 4299Apr 9 2011: The greater investment one has made in one's faith, the more one believes. 4300Apr 9 2011: Belief justifies itself. 4301Apr 9 2011: Don't confuse "New!" with better. Sometimes it just means a new set of problems and the loss of something that worked. 4302Apr 10 2011: The Great Salt Lake (from a Greyhound bus). http://twitpic.com/4j96ye←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4303Apr 10 2011: Bonneville Salt Flats. http://twitpic.com/4ja6qs←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4304Apr 10 2011: A 40-year-old doesn't usually change like a 20-year-old, not for any biological reason, but because he is blocked in by his own investments. 4305Apr 10 2011: I'm TRAPPED in Wendover, Nevada! Need to get to Wells, NV, but the bus won't stop there. "Liability issues," said the driver. 4306Apr 10 2011: Stranded in West Wendover, Nevada. Right now! If necessary, I'll live off the land. http://twitpic.com/4japqj←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4307Apr 10 2011: Youth is a period of boundless optimism—and poisonous hubris that will eventually bring it down. 4308Apr 10 2011: My creative approach to a transportation dilemma. Been at the onramp for 15 minutes now. http://twitpic.com/4jb44k←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4309Apr 10 2011: Pain is the most effective teacher, but even he has a tough time getting through to some people. 4310Apr 10 2011: When the going gets tough, most people will choose the illusion of security over the promise of growth. 4311Apr 10 2011: People worship famous actors because like winning the lottery it can happen to anyone. 4312Apr 10 2011: A trucker picked me up. He was broke and appreciated the $20. I had waited at the onramp for about 90 minutes. http://twitpic.com/4jccpg←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4313Apr 10 2011: Faith is a mechanism that allows people to believe the rationally absurd but emotionally convenient. 4314Apr 10 2011: **SOME** lamas only give you positive affirmations. We give you realistic warnings so you don't toast your own ass. 4315Apr 10 2011: Wintery mix, Salt Lake City. http://twitpic.com/4iz8qo←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4316Apr 10 2011: Historic Front Street, Wells, Nevada. http://twitpic.com/4jcs24←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4317Apr 10 2011: On My Bucket List: Open a cheese shop in Bristol. (No idea why, it just sounds quaint.) [See Full Bucket List] 4318Apr 10 2011: The main thing standing between you and your success is the delusions you're not letting go of—perhaps about success itself! 4319Apr 10 2011: If you need to sacrifice your integrity to achieve a goal, then the goal probably isn't worth attaining. 4320Apr 10 2011: There is a lot of money to be made in helping people build their own cages, but you create one for yourself in the process. 4321Apr 10 2011: The center of all creation. http://twitpic.com/4j6zr3←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4322Apr 10 2011: Snake River Canyon at Twin Falls. http://twitpic.com/4jf6x0←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4323Apr 10 2011: A apparition of @joesmith_really. http://twitpic.com/4j75od←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4324Apr 10 2011: Bridge over the Snake River. http://twitpic.com/4jf77u←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4325Apr 10 2011: I'm an ethnic Episcopalian. My people have never been repressed. Kinda disappointed in that. 4326Apr 10 2011: At the end of ambition is usually a barrier of your own creation. 4327Apr 10 2011: RT @latimes: It's time to let the Chowchilla kidnappers go free http://lat.ms/ie0uey RT @latimesopinion 4328Apr 10 2011: A dilemma of law: You hire a lawyer to protect your rights, but who is going to protect you from your lawyer? 4329Apr 11 2011: Post-apocalyptic wasteland. Oregon. http://twitpic.com/4jpjcr←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4330Apr 11 2011: More photos from a post-apocalyptic wasteland. http://roamingphotos.com/a?cement 4331Apr 11 2011: If one bipolar marries another, do they cancel each other out? 4332Apr 11 2011: "All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them." —Walt Disney <== Disney pap! They have to be realistic dreams. 4333Apr 11 2011: Beware of "help" that turns out to be more trouble than it's worth. 4334Apr 11 2011: Near Pendleton, Oregon. http://twitpic.com/4jqsgl←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4335Apr 11 2011: Downtown Pendleton, Oregon. http://twitpic.com/4jqy1m←Live photo from the road! [location|more]←End tweet essay: Salt Lake to Oregon 4336Apr 11 2011: Apart from Google, is there anyone making money selling Internet content or services? Will there ever be? Isn't it all one big fat delusion? ←Start tweet essay: Delusions of the Internet 4337Apr 11 2011: Nearly every content business—from newspapers to music to porn peddlers—has been gutted by the Internet. 4338Apr 11 2011: You can't "roll back" the internet, but don't think this is a better world just because more free information is available. 4339Apr 11 2011: The downside of endless free information is the loss of certain kinds of quality, such as rigorous journalism. 4340Apr 11 2011: In the Brave New World of the internet, everyone is a recycler of other people's work. There's little incentive to invest in new content. 4341Apr 11 2011: If you choose to create new, high-quality content, you do it for love, because the chances of getting paid for it are slim. 4342Apr 11 2011: No one can build a career on supplying free content. 4343Apr 11 2011: The only way websites make money is selling ads in the margins, which is only profitable with a huge reader base. 4344Apr 11 2011: The Onion can make money because it makes up news stories, no research required. This is the low quality content we will soon be limited to. 4345Apr 11 2011: For every internet venture that takes off—like Facebook—there must be 1000s that fail. And even Facebook hasn't proved itself profitable. 4346Apr 11 2011: The internet has been built on dreams—like the California Gold Rush. Indeed, California was settled, but few found the gold they expected. 4347Apr 11 2011: In the California Gold Rush, the main people making money were those selling the dream to others. The dreamers themselves lost their shirts. 4348Apr 11 2011: Many a small business has been conned into a expensive website, thinking it will expand their prospects. Then, no one looks at it. 4349Apr 11 2011: The internet has brought great efficiency to the sale of standardized products. Great for the consumer, not so great for the supplier. 4350Apr 11 2011: The internet in Yin and Yang. For every gain, there is s loss. Amazon gives you low prices but has wiped out your local bookstore. 4351Apr 11 2011: The next thing to be decimated by the internet: education! Why go to Yale or even high school when you can do it all online. 4352Apr 11 2011: Internet education will bring efficiencies of scale, but at what cost? 4353Apr 11 2011: The internet has changed life on Earth. Not improved it, only changed it. Just don't believe it is the solution to any of our problems. 4354Apr 11 2011: #### End. This has been a live 1-hour essay by HHBDL: "Delusions of the Internet". We now resume our regularly scheduled programming. 4355Apr 12 2011: Each generation thinks it is going to solve the world's problems with some new technology. In the end, the technology becomes the problem. 4356Apr 12 2011: RT @rossmerriam: @BadDalaiLama the essay today was too one sided. Quality content is out there. You just have to look: Take @NPRamerican ... 4357Apr 12 2011: .@rossmerriam Quality content: This American Life <== The exception that proves the rule, supported entirely by charitable contributions. 4358Apr 12 2011: Once upon a time, there were countless thick magazines filled with in-depth articles, some of which took weeks to produce. No more. 4359Apr 12 2011: When is the last time you saw a real investigation in print? 4360Apr 12 2011: If the Watergate break-in had happened today, would there be anyone to run it down?l 4361Apr 12 2011: There are no Woodwards and Bernsteins these days because no one can afford them. The internet has seen to that. 4362Apr 12 2011: RT @stevewilliams52: @baddalailama I disagree - every "journalist" with an iPhone has the next big story. Trouble is - a big story only ... 4363Apr 12 2011: Crowd-sourced information has its value, but it wouldn't have cracked the Watergate break-in. 4364Apr 12 2011: Crowd sourcing is low-quality data multiplied by thousands—yielding low-quality data. 4365Apr 12 2011: Amateur, in-your-free-time journalism is not credible check on the complexities of government. 4366Apr 12 2011: RT @morelimes: @BadDalaiLama Liddy got caught went to jail and now has 1.5 million daily listeners. Talk about crowd sourcing. 4367Apr 12 2011: His Holiness does not hesitate to use technology in his own ministry. It is beneficial to some, just not to society at large. 4368Apr 12 2011: Technology does not bring you closer to truth, to peace or to harmony with yourself. ←End tweet essay: Delusions of the Internet 4369
Apr 12 2011: Too many important decisions are made without considering the phases of the moon. 4370
Apr 12 2011: Do you even know what the moon is doing right now? Is it waxing, waning, new or gibbous? Shouldn't you find out? 4371
Apr 12 2011: It is fine to MacGyver yourself out of problems, but it is better not to get into them. 4372
Apr 12 2011: RT @trevlutz: @BadDalaiLama@DeepThroat would have been on #Twitter. Don't romanticize the past. How many stories DIDN'T get covered by ... 4373
Apr 12 2011: Aging is nature's failsafe mechanism to assure that none of its mistakes hang around for too long. 4374
Apr 12 2011: Nature would have us live 200 years if it were beneficial to our species' survival. Evidently, it isn't. 4375
Apr 12 2011: Has anyone done any productivity studies to see if keeping old people alive is cost-effective for society? When does it become a net drain? 4376
Apr 12 2011: As we push the boundaries of geriatric medical care, at huge cost, how much will the young be willing to labor to support the old? 4377Apr 12 2011: Vancouver. One hour ago. http://twitpic.com/4k07tu←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4378
Apr 12 2011: Nationalism: "I'm proud to be a [fill in your birth nationality]! It can be construed to be the best country in the world!" 4379
Apr 12 2011: RT @NewMindMirror: The Older You Get, the Harder it Is to Multitask - @psychcentralhttp://su.pr/71b63Y #aging #brain #seniors 4380
Apr 12 2011: RT @anastic UFOs have been deactivating nuclear missiles since 1948 http://T.CO/Gb3oKjy <== Wish they could deactivate some baby producers! 4381
Apr 12 2011: You can believe in the inherent goodness of people, but you still have to respond to what they actually do, good or bad. 4382
Apr 12 2011: On My Bucket List: By clever arrangement of words and implications, sell people things they don't need. [See Full Bucket List] 4383
Apr 12 2011: @JonnyNotion "you move ridiculously fast from place to place." <== Just another day in the life of a long-distance driver. 4384Apr 12 2011: To some of us, a plane being serviced is poetry in motion. http://twitpic.com/4k2uio←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4385
Apr 12 2011: The delusion of lawyers: If it is legal then it must be right. 4386
Apr 12 2011: The challenge of sports coverage is finding ways to romanticize an otherwise meaningless activity. 4387
Apr 12 2011: The measure of a person's character is how they deal with dissent. 4388
Apr 12 2011: One momentary lapse of judgment can undo years of careful work. 4389
Apr 13 2011: Food expiration dates are for wimps! Taste it. If it tastes fine, eat it. That's why nature gave you taste buds! 4390
Apr 13 2011: So many things would be easy if you could turn off your own ego and see what's really there. 4391
Apr 13 2011: Many can follow directions. Few have the initiative to find out what works on their own. 4392
Apr 13 2011: RT @dunebat: OR to do that once they found it. RT @BadDalaiLama Many can follow directions. Few have the initiative to find out what wor ... 4393
Apr 13 2011: On My Bucket List: Write a rambling paranoid manifesto to justify my actions. [See Full Bucket List] 4394
Apr 13 2011: idiot savant — n. one who is smart in some ways but dumb in the things that matter most. 4395Apr 13 2011: Misery, thy name is Boston. http://twitpic.com/4kftm3←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4396Apr 13 2011: "NO ASSING ROUGH" used to be the motto of the Boston subway, until new engraved signs made it more difficult. http://twitpic.com/4kg8ku←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4397
Apr 13 2011: If you're going to grow then you have to leave behind those who don't. 4398
Apr 13 2011: Use it or lose it! ==> Those with constricted "Life Space" twice as likely to get Alzheimer's http://bit.ly/gj7OeI via @SocialPsych 4399
Apr 13 2011: None has achieved such a state of perfection as youth, unpolluted by wisdom or experience. 4400
Apr 13 2011: RT @kellyoxford: The only people we call 'normal' are people we don't know. 4401
Apr 13 2011: Our new philosophy essay: "Bandwidth in Personal Relationships" http://j.mp/hetYm7 4402
Apr 14 2011: In a low-bandwidth relationship, you are forever trapped in a cycle of retractions, corrections, misinterpretations and apologies. {ibid} 4403
Apr 14 2011: RT @dunebat: From a rickety wooden shack, right? RT @BadDalaiLamaOn My Bucket List: Write a rambling paranoid manifesto to justify my ... [See Full Bucket List] 4404
Apr 14 2011: Invest in a dolt and years later they will still be a dolt. And you will be watching your words very, very carefully. {ibid} 4405
Apr 14 2011: We hesitate to talk about meaningful things with strangers because we fear they might not understand us or, worse, might be offended. {ibid} 4406
Apr 14 2011: Just discovered @kellyoxford, although apparently I'm not the first. Rare case of quality matched by number of followers. 4407
Apr 14 2011: "Our House" by Crosby, Stills and Nash <== Pro-real estate propaganda! How many have been suckered by that one? 4408
Apr 14 2011: How many humorless liberals does it take to screw in a light bulb? — None. Light bulbs are wasteful and should be replaced by fluorescents. 4409
Apr 14 2011: Our custom-made tweet archive is the most sophisticated on the planet: http://BadDalaiLama.com/archive Search by month, topic, essay & more! 4410
Apr 14 2011: The most dreadful thing about "working" at a "job" is listening to ones coworkers talk about it. The same trivial themes over and over! 4411Apr 14 2011: Children get a "cute pass" from adults, where they are praised and valued without doing anything special. As they grow, they lose it. ←Start tweet essay: Childhood and Religion 4412Apr 14 2011: RT @mecotterill: @BadDalaiLama amen to that! Been driving a truck for nearly 18 years and still keep hearing the same compl about shift ... 4413Apr 14 2011: Heifers reach full size in 2 years; humans take at least 16. Nature must hold them back to allow more time for brain development. 4414Apr 14 2011: Human children are kept small so they don't appear as threats to adults. 4415Apr 14 2011: The greatest trauma of life is the transition from protected childhood to unprotected adulthood. 4416Apr 14 2011: All small children are seen as cute. Adults are judged more coldly, often based on body type they have little control over. 4417Apr 14 2011: Humans differ from apes not in learning ability, per se, but in the ability to take instruction. 4418Apr 14 2011: Human children accept the words of their elders as truth, even if those words are absurd and counterintuitive, as with religion. 4419Apr 14 2011: Religion and religious faith are not a deviation in human intellectual development; they are an essential part of it. 4420Apr 14 2011: Without the ability believe the unbelievable, humans would not blindly follow their elders and learning would not be transmitted. 4421Apr 14 2011: Humans are overwhelming religious because it must have had some survival benefit in our past. 4422Apr 14 2011: Historically, it is more conducive to survival to follow the ways of ones elders than to think independently. 4423Apr 14 2011: Children are programmed to listen to their elders and believe whatever they're told. They can rebel, but they still believe the fairy tales. 4424Apr 14 2011: Religion is basically Santa Claus for grownups. 4425Apr 14 2011: For their own protection and development, children are kept in an artificial environment and fed fairy tales. 4426Apr 14 2011: In adulthood, the protection of childhood is withdrawn. Young adults march into the world armed with the delusions their parents fed them. 4427Apr 14 2011: In ancient times when little changed, the ways of the elders worked pretty well. Now, they usually suck. 4428Apr 14 2011: Religion, in adulthood, allows one to return to a satisfying pseudo childhood, where imaginary elders offer protection. 4429Apr 14 2011: Young adults march into the world armed with childish delusions, and when they are beaten down, their Heavenly Father will take them back. 4430Apr 14 2011: #### End. This has been a live 1-hour essay: "Childhood and Religion" 4431Apr 14 2011: New airport Minute Suites give you a 8x8 foot "suite" for $30/hour... or you can sleep at a gate for free (as we do). http://twitpic.com/4kk757←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4432Apr 14 2011: "Manic-depression" is a recurring cycle in all areas of human endeavor: expansive exuberance leading to a painful crash. 4433Apr 14 2011: Just woke up to discover my dreams lied to me. That's not the way things are at all! 4434Apr 14 2011: People who are heavily invested are easily offended. 4435Apr 14 2011: On My Bucket List: Wear a funny hat to indicate my religious affiliation. [See Full Bucket List] ←End tweet essay: Childhood and Religion 4436Apr 15 2011: HHBDL is back in the Holy Land, trying to knock some sense into these people. ←Start tweet essay: Jerusalem April 2011 4437Apr 15 2011: Just chillin' in Old Jerusalem. (@ Jaffa Gate Hostel) http://4sq.com/gUUjr3 4438Apr 15 2011: The Jaffa Gate Hostel, cheap lodging with loads of character. I'm very comfortable here. http://twitpic.com/4l5533←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4439Apr 15 2011: A bed with my name on it. $24/night. http://twitpic.com/4l5kax←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4440Apr 15 2011: All our tweets, photos and videos from our last visit to Jerusalem in December: http://BadDalaiLama.com/archive?essay=jerusalem 4441Apr 15 2011: Damascus Gate, 2 hours ago. The Ministry of Silly Hats is out in force! http://twitpic.com/4l8xlk←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4442Apr 15 2011: Local politics. http://twitpic.com/4l98br Just outside the walls of Old Jerusalem: "Free Palestine" ←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4443Apr 15 2011: It is amazing how many people will freely admit: "I like my house, my TV and my current routine. I really have no ambitions beyond that." 4444Apr 15 2011: RT @Kyoks1: Jerusalem te ensena q todas las religiones son lo mismo; diferentes sombreros y festividades misma suspencion de logica via ... 4445Apr 16 2011: My favorite falafel stand in Jerusalem, near the Damascus Gate. http://twitpic.com/4lowob←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4446Apr 16 2011: Falafel pita—Official Food of the Bad Dalai Lama in the Middle East. http://twitpic.com/4lozik←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4447Apr 16 2011: In Jerusalem, I eat a balanced diet: falafel pita for breakfast, falafel pita for lunch and a sensible falafel pita for dinner. 4448Apr 16 2011: Many dream of foreign travel but few actually pull it off. They invent too many barriers for themselves to ever allow it to happen. 4449Apr 16 2011: Hostels separate relaxed, flexible people from the uptight and inflexible. The latter belong at the Hilton or should never leave home. 4450Apr 16 2011: Any big, confusing place becomes small and provincial once you have been there for a while. 4451Apr 16 2011: Even New York and L.A. have their versions of the country bumpkin—people of limited perspective who can't function anywhere else. 4452Apr 16 2011: Jerusalem teaches you how every religion is the same. Different hats and holidays, same underlying suspension of logic. 4453Apr 16 2011: If you are religious, then no matter how mundane and restricted your life may be, you can feel superior, because God knows you personally. 4454Apr 16 2011: RT @JerryThomas: "Hell is other people."~Jean Paul Sartre "You're not so hot yourself."~Other People 4455Apr 16 2011: Video Postcard: Old Jerusalem "Subway" http://youtu.be/KZuCO324TB4 - Many cities have subways, but this one is FREE and carries only 3 boys. ←Our original YouTube video [more] 4456Apr 16 2011: RT @YourAuntLola: Sweetie, love does not conquer deception, agression or cruelty. And it has a pretty hard time with snoring 4457Apr 16 2011: Most Americans would be freaked out by hostels. They couldn't handle the wide range of conditions or the relative lack of privacy. 4458Apr 17 2011: RT @trevlutz People say the want to travel around the world, when they really mean they want to travel around the world in first class. 4459Apr 17 2011: Early results of yesterday's video shoot in Old Jerusalem. (2-minute draft portion of a promo video) http://youtu.be/yeDTvVZL1W0←Our original YouTube video [more] 4460Apr 17 2011: The stupider a traveler is, the more outraged he becomes when things don't turn out as planned. 4461Apr 17 2011: Smart people: "I made a mistake. How can I change?" Stupid people: "A mistake was made. Who can I blame?" 4462Apr 17 2011: That a computer can win Jeopardy suggests that Jeopardy represents a dumb kind of intelligence any automaton can master. 4463Apr 17 2011: Human suffering is everywhere. It is hypocritical to respond to it when it's visible but not when you know it's just out of view. 4464Apr 17 2011: Jerusalem is testament to the human willingness to believe in whatever system you were born into. 4465Apr 18 2011: View from the roof of my $25 hostel in Jerusalem. Right now! http://twitpic.com/4mdqx4←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4466Apr 18 2011: Video Postcard: Looking out over Jerusalem from the roof of my hostel. http://youtu.be/pBmFvwR7YR0 (30 seconds) ←Our original YouTube video [more] 4467Apr 18 2011: Religion isn't about trusting God. It's about trusting that other people know more about God than you do. 4468Apr 18 2011: Today's solution becomes tomorrow's problem. 4469Apr 18 2011: Rule of law is essential to the governance of man, but it can also be a cruel master, imposing a tyranny of its own. 4470Apr 18 2011: The lowest form of humor is now the Sarah Palin joke, displacing the pun in 2008. 4471Apr 18 2011: The measure of "old" is the extent to which you are dwelling on the past instead of the future. 4472Apr 18 2011: I can think of nothing more depressing than growing old with someone. Have you seen what those people have to put up with? 4473Apr 19 2011: Brilliant! Our two arch-nemesis's, @KimKardashian and @DalaiLama have been combined as @KimOrDalai. Which is which? You decide. 4474Apr 19 2011: About to enter Jesus' tomb (currently empty). This place is crawling with Christians! 4475Apr 19 2011: Like the multiple sites of the Roswell crash, there are competing locations for the crucifixion and tomb of Jesus. 4476Apr 19 2011: No believer wants to get too specific about the roots of his belief. 4477Apr 19 2011: RT @sjb351: @BadDalaiLama And nobody should ever get too involved in the beliefs of their roots. 4478Apr 19 2011: Queuing up to enter Jesus' tomb. (One of several competing sites.) http://twitpic.com/4mu6il←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4479Apr 19 2011: Inside Jesus' tomb... not much to see really. Just this sign indicating he has stepped out. http://twitpic.com/4mudwl←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4480Apr 19 2011: The alleged site of Jesus' crucifixion: This bus station. http://twitpic.com/4mumhp←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4481Apr 19 2011: The exact sites of Jesus' birth, life and death seem speculative, since he was gone for centuries before anyone tried to pin them down. 4482Apr 19 2011: Jerusalem is the quintessential medieval city. In spite of the tourist trappings, you can't get closer to what life was like 1000 years ago. 4483Apr 19 2011: RT @KimOrDalai: RT Kim or Dalai? OMG I just got Tina Fey's new book Bossypants! Have u guys read it? Its amazing & thanks for the shout ... 4484Apr 19 2011: RT @TheBosha: The fall of Western civilization will be traced to the triumph of design over content. 4485Apr 19 2011: Change of venue. (My original hostel was full due to the bi-religional holiday,) (@ New palm hostel) http://4sq.com/h55Tfx 4486Apr 19 2011: Eilat—the Israeli Vegas! Within mortar range of Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. (@ Corinne Hostel) http://4sq.com/g9eXLx 4487Apr 20 2011: Boys with big guns sleeping beside me. http://twitpic.com/4nbwz8←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4488Apr 20 2011: Aerial tramway to Masada (earlier today). http://twitpic.com/4nc0xk←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4489Apr 20 2011: It's done! The best TV series proposal ever created! http://youtu.be/K5gV7IYibPo Filmed in Jerusalem and Palestine over the past few days. ←Our original YouTube video [more]←End tweet essay: Jerusalem April 2011 4490
Apr 20 2011: You can't outwit stupidity. It always wins in the end. 4491
Apr 20 2011: Humility is a virtue earned through failure. 4492Apr 20 2011: A fetching young lass at the Corinne Hostel, Eilat, Israel. (this morning) http://twitpic.com/4nozu5←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4493Apr 21 2011: Video Postcard: Eilat, Israel. The most densely packed beach I have ever visited! 1-minute iPhone video. http://youtu.be/PxNDhtQzmDM←Our original YouTube video [more] 4494
Apr 21 2011: "Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, there lies your vocation." — Aristotle 4495
Apr 21 2011: Hanging with the Chef in Tel Aviv. (@ Chef Hostel Montefiore) http://4sq.com/gG0ocT 4496Apr 21 2011: On the Red Sea... a sea of bodies! Mountains in the background are Jordan. http://twitpic.com/4nq5rv←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4497
Apr 21 2011: There's a difference between an artwork that makes you say, "That's clever!" and one you remember months later. 4498
Apr 21 2011: The test of a quality work of art is whether you still mull it over in your head months after you saw it. 4499
Apr 21 2011: Alcohol can turn even the nicest people into animals. 4500
Apr 22 2011: When you are a victim of crime, 9 times out of 10 it can be traced to something foolish you did. 4501Apr 22 2011: RT @DalaiLama Monks in traditional dress with HHDL during a long life ceremony... http://twitpic.com/4nxc0t <== I need one of these outfits! ←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4502
Apr 22 2011: RT @DalaiLama: Monks in traditional dress with HHDL during a long life ceremony held in Dharamsala, India, on April 22nd, 2011. http:/ ... 4503Apr 22 2011: "You are going to die" in Russian. http://twitpic.com/4o0ydo←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4504
Apr 22 2011: Americans find it hard to understand: speaking many languages does not imply intelligence or wisdom. There plenty of idiot polyglots! 4505Apr 22 2011: Jaffa at dusk. http://twitpic.com/4o4n0n/full An amazing iPhone photo taken a few hours ago! ←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4506
Apr 22 2011: RT @ebertchicago: "By the age of 50, every man has the face he deserves." (George Orwell) http://bit.ly/e6I2jT 4507
Apr 22 2011: RT @washingtonpost: Israeli intellectuals back Palestinian state http://wapo.st/hrLIQP #Israel #Palestine 4508
Apr 22 2011: RT @trevlutz: #FF @BadDalaiLama because he's smarter and prettier than you. 4509
Apr 22 2011: @Toledowni "Guess you haven't been to México, right? ...foolish thing to do." <== Mexico City is fine. Only the border states are no-go. 4510
Apr 22 2011: RT @Sports_Greats: Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records. -William Arthur Ward 4511Apr 23 2011: Video Postcard: Jerusalem Central Bus Station. http://youtu.be/8z48Ude_OaU (30 sec. 3 days ago) Typical chaos waiting for a bus to Masada. ←Our original YouTube video [more] 4512
Apr 23 2011: Our tweet archive has been updated at http://BadDalaiLama.com - All the ancient wisdom of His Badliness in easily searchable form! 4513
Apr 23 2011: The most maddening thing about Israeli travel is the Sabbath, which shuts down all public transit Friday afternoon to Saturday night. Arggh! 4514
Apr 23 2011: Spent HOURS working out my bus connections from Tel Aviv to the airport, between the end of Sabbath and my flight time. Considered walking! 4515
Apr 23 2011: America may be bland, but when trying to get things done in other countries, you miss our 24-hour convenience. 4516Apr 23 2011: The trouble with beautiful landscape and scenic photography is that it looks generic, hence meaningless. http://twitpic.com/4o4n0n←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4517Apr 24 2011: By wagon train across Canada, starting now! http://twitpic.com/4p40pi←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4518
Apr 24 2011: Intermodal transfer. (@ Greyhound Bus Depot) http://4sq.com/frdQNE 4519
Apr 25 2011: Tel Aviv to British Columbia: 3 planes, 3 buses, 2 trains, 2 miles walking, 2 customs crossings, 1 Jewish Sabbath, 1 Easter. 40 hours total. 4520
Apr 25 2011: Lessons of Childhood #1: Whenever your gang of ghost hunters splits up, don't put Shaggy and Scooby on the same team! 4521
Apr 25 2011: Lessons of Childhood #2: Whenever you hear a theremin, a sinister alien encounter is imminent. Run! 4522
Apr 25 2011: Lessons of Childhood #3: Gilligan is never going to get off the island. 4523
Apr 25 2011: Lessons of Childhood #4: Dr. Zachary Smith can't be trusted. 4524Apr 25 2011: In Vancouver, they let me drive the subway! (yesterday) http://twitpic.com/4pcl9n←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4525
Apr 25 2011: Television promised to educate the public, but the public didn't want to be educated. They wanted "The Beverly Hillbillies". 4526
Apr 25 2011: Wanting to do something and actually getting off your ass to do it are two different things. 4527
Apr 25 2011: The root of addiction isn't alcohol or drugs but a certain philosophical attitude that leads to them. 4528
Apr 26 2011: Any large community can be labeled the "Capital" of something. (e.g. Redcliff, Alberta—the Greenhouse Capital of the Prairie!) 4529
Apr 26 2011: Canada probably has more "Capital of" towns, per capita, than any other country in the world. It's the Capital of Capitals! 4530
Apr 26 2011: RT @latimes: Edward and Wallis: An enduring hate story http://lat.ms/erDVmf 4531
Apr 26 2011: If you haven't bathed in a number of days but there's no one around to smell you, do you still stink? I'm assuming not. 4532
Apr 26 2011: RT @Olivia_Sarai: @BadDalaiLama The stimulus exists even when It's not perceived by anyone 4533
Apr 26 2011: People in stable relationships may be happier, but their creative initiative also drops. They're less likely to take chances or push limits. 4534
Apr 26 2011: Most people start as animals, capable of movement, but turn into plants, rooted in place, and end up as minerals, not growing at all. 4535
Apr 26 2011: Any failure can be a prelude to success, provided you learn from it. 4536
Apr 26 2011: RT @themidnightcrow: @BadDalaiLama Obviously you don't know shit. My husband pushes his limits with me on a daily basis. Stick to what y ... 4537
Apr 26 2011: The ultimate act of hubris is having children. 4538
Apr 26 2011: Much of our logical reasoning about life turns out to be dead wrong, because it is based on flawed assumptions. 4539Apr 26 2011: New philosophy video: "The Flawed Movie Hero and What He Teaches Us" http://youtu.be/sXuUEKcXTAM Shot this morning in Alberta. ←Our original YouTube video [more] 4540
Apr 27 2011: Movies usually offer an optimistic view of human change. The odds may be stacked against the hero, but he'll find a way to overcome them. 4541
Apr 27 2011: Modern sanitation has the perverse effect of breeding people with weak immune systems. 4542
Apr 27 2011: Identity etched on the skin is a weak substitute for identity defined by accomplishment. 4543
Apr 27 2011: Human-powered gyroscopicly stabilized mobility device. (See bicycle.) 4544Apr 27 2011: Canadian rainbow, Alberta. (yesterday) http://twitpic.com/4q30mg←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4545Apr 27 2011: Who says fashion and style have to cost more? This accessory was only $1.25 in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. http://twitpic.com/4q3tby←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4546
Apr 27 2011: Many new photos from Canada added to this Facebook album: http://j.mp/eK31BK 4547
Apr 27 2011: RT @beepmovercool: Social networking 'success' doesn't extend to offline relationships http://lat.ms/f3bwKX 4548
Apr 27 2011: In Quebec they don't have a legislature but "National Assembly". Quaint. Don't they know they're an outlying territory of the United States? 4549
Apr 27 2011: Don't confuse maturation of the body with maturity of the mind. 4550
Apr 27 2011: RT @MikeShawTweet: @baddalailama Quebec: Let them maintain their illusions. The "more French than the French" attitude makes for a great ... 4551
Apr 27 2011: In France, stop signs say "STOP". In Quebec, they say "ARRET". Because you can never be too French! 4552
Apr 27 2011: RT @the_bat: @BadDalaiLama Yeah, I finally figured out "ARRET" means "STOP." So, y'know what the statute of limitations is up there? 4553Apr 27 2011: Calgary to Winnipeg: a meditation road. Not much to stand between a man and his thoughts. http://twitpic.com/4q953r/full (Elkhorn, Manitoba) ←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4554
Apr 27 2011: "Oren Peli's Area 51 is getting some rewrites" http://j.mp/iPQF4i - I'm a supporting actor in this one, playing myself. 4555
Apr 27 2011: Youth says, "It's summer; let's have fun!" Age says, "Winter is coming; we have to prepare." 4556Apr 28 2011: Falcon Lake, Manitoba. http://twitpic.com/4qkwl9/full←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4557
Apr 28 2011: If you want the Alaska Highway experience without going that far, driving over the top of Lake Superior will give a pretty good taste of it. 4558
Apr 28 2011: People are willing to endure great hardship to climb Mt. Everest but not to change their own habits. 4559
Apr 28 2011: If you want to move ahead in your life, you have to be prepared to give up things you have already invested in. 4560
Apr 28 2011: When you have "plateaued", your personal development isn't going any farther because you have fenced yourself in with your own investments. 4561
Apr 28 2011: The aim of the game of life is "self-realization"—accomplishing all you are capable of. 4562
Apr 28 2011: On My Bucket List: Learn how to golf, ski, surf, sky dive, hang glide and otherwise waste precious hours of life. [See Full Bucket List] 4563
Apr 28 2011: When emotion has already set a course, there is no logical argument that can change it. 4564Apr 29 2011: My superpower is directional urination while standing up. It may not sound like much, but it's the envy of the female world. ←Start tweet essay: Your Superpowers 4565Apr 29 2011: Any mundane ability is a superpower to someone who can't do it. 4566Apr 29 2011: Each of us is a potential superhero, possessing certain skills or resources that others can only marvel at. 4567Apr 29 2011: The skill of X-Ray Vision is easier than you think. It's a matter of seeing what's right in front of you instead of what you want to see. 4568Apr 29 2011: The most useful superpower is being able to see yourself as you really are and modifying your own behavior based on that vision. 4569Apr 29 2011: The fog of ego stands between us and getting the most out of life. 4570Apr 29 2011: The greatest superpower is being able to separate your ego from the objective reality outside you. 4571Apr 29 2011: A change of attitude can change everything. It doesn't change objective reality, but it gives you new tools to work with. 4572Apr 29 2011: We use only a tiny portion of our creative ability, not for any neurological reason, but because of emotional blocks standing in our way. 4573Apr 29 2011: The superpower of infinite creativity is within your grasp. You just do it! 4574Apr 29 2011: Much of what we think is impossible is merely a block in our own mind. 4575Apr 29 2011: Achieving the impossible means seeing beyond your immediate goal to what you REALLY want. 4576Apr 29 2011: Becoming a movie star or billionaire may be impossible, but achieving long term happiness isn't. 4577Apr 29 2011: Through no fault of your own, you have extraordinary advantages over the rest of humanity. The question is, will you use them? 4578Apr 29 2011: Every superhero has to come to grips with his own superpower. He denies it for a while until he recognizes the necessity of using it. 4579Apr 29 2011: We are all superheroes if we choose to be. 4580Apr 29 2011: Extraordinary accomplishment depends on recognizing your own special abilities and nurturing them, as a parent would. 4581Apr 29 2011: "I'm tired of pretending I'm not special," said the great @CharlieSheen. He's onto something! 4582Apr 29 2011: You shouldn't expect to be treated specially by others, but you should expect special accomplishment from yourself. 4583Apr 29 2011: There are no "ordinary" days in the life of a superhero, and there shouldn't be in your life either. 4584Apr 29 2011: Everything you do is a chance to excel and push your own boundaries in some way. 4585Apr 29 2011: Superheroes see the "big picture" of what is going on in the world and where they are headed. You can do that, too! 4586Apr 29 2011: Superheroes get a lot of press for saving those in peril, but the real accomplishment is disabling the peril so no rescue is needed. 4587Apr 29 2011: The sadness of the superhero is you cannot save everyone. In the end, you have to worry about systems, not individuals. 4588Apr 29 2011: #### End. This has been a 1-hour essay by the Bad Dalai Lama: "Your Superpowers" ←End tweet essay: Your Superpowers 4589
Apr 29 2011: @ThatsWright "Just got carded buying lotto tickets." <== Are you going to wish for good fortune or make it happen? 4590
Apr 29 2011: So happy to NOT be watching the Royal Wedding right now, but pleased to read your tweets about it! 4591
Apr 29 2011: .@drjoesmithreal "Are you quite sure you're the "BAD" Dalai Lama, Sir?" <== B-b-b-bad to the bone! 4592
Apr 29 2011: RT @oliverburkeman: All cynicism aside, though, that was like a fairytale, set in a magical land without proper democratic government. 4593
Apr 29 2011: RT @KK2002ti: I feel like I am watching a Walt Disney movie. #RoyalWeddding 4594
Apr 29 2011: "The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook." —William James via @DoruTARITA 4595Apr 29 2011: RT @MrsStephenFry: For those without a TV, here's Princess Beatrice at the #RoyalWedding #rw11 http://twitpic.com/4qxfbz←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4596
Apr 29 2011: RT @ingybelle: I swear this is starting to have a Star Warsy type of feeling #royalwedding 4597
Apr 29 2011: RT @fakulta: She's now going to be sold off to Jabba #rw11 4598
Apr 29 2011: RT @ljraggy: @godwingrech Waits for the Star Wars Theme to Break out #royalwedding #rw2011 4599
Apr 29 2011: RT @kellyoxford: If you missed the Royal Wedding, this GIF will sum it up. http://t.co/I3eyNQY 4600
Apr 29 2011: RT @noahWG: Hey Britain, just wait till Kim Kardashian gets married. Then you'll see how the American royalty rolls!! #RoyalWedding #USA ... 4601Apr 29 2011: On Lake Superior, boating season isn't quite upon us yet. http://twitpic.com/4qxsnc/full (Red Cliff, Ontario, yesterday) ←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4602Apr 29 2011: You can't have this island. It's mine! http://twitpic.com/4r64eg/full (North Shore of Lake Superior) ←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4603
Apr 29 2011: Any attempt to help others must be tempered by the actual experience of how people respond to that help. 4604Apr 30 2011: Old Woman Bay, Lake Superior. http://twitpic.com/4ri0b1/full←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4605
Apr 30 2011: Many theories of parenting and social service fall flat in real life. Theory is trumped by what actually works. 4606Apr 30 2011: Lake Superior. Where does water end and sky begin? http://twitpic.com/4rnnq7/full←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4607
Apr 30 2011: Hockey is the most popular sport in Canada—not playing it but watching it while drinking beer.
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