Tweets on a single topic ("Extruded Snacks") published within a short period.
Shown here in the order tweeted (earliest first).
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Sep 15 2010: People praise freedom in principle but usually choose prison in fact. 2
Sep 15 2010: Religion. Simple answers for those who can't bear to leave childhood behind. 3
Sep 15 2010: You can't "choose life" without also choosing death and suffering. 4
Sep 15 2010: People believe what they have to believe to avoid disrupting their existing emotional investments. 5
Sep 15 2010: There's a difference between freely believing something and believing it because you have set up your life so you now have no choice. 6
Sep 15 2010: Utopias, in the real world, almost always turn into prisons. 7
Sep 15 2010: You can't own real estate. It owns you. 8
Sep 15 2010: However you regard death, your ability to operate machinery will be greatly hindered. 9
Sep 15 2010: Given the choice between freedom and slavery, most will choose slavery, but they call it by other names. 10
Sep 16 2010: Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he'll deplete the local fisheries. 11
Sep 16 2010: There are no unconditional relationships. You have to fight for what you want, even from those you love. 12
Sep 16 2010: This is all you need to know about the meaning of life: No one knows any more than you do! 13
Sep 17 2010: People usually choose their lifestyle based on how it looks in the brochure, not on how they actually experience it. 14
Sep 17 2010: Love alone cannot bear the weight of all we ask it to do. 15
Sep 17 2010: The most dangerous people are those with absolute moral certainty about what should be done. 16
Sep 17 2010: RT @DalaiLama: There must be a way of promoting human values without involving religion, based on common sense, experience and recent sc ... 17
Sep 17 2010: You can't talk people out of their bad habits. You can only defend your own boundaries when their habits intrude into your space. 18
Sep 17 2010: Many will complain. Few will be moved to change their circumstances. 19
Sep 17 2010: To be honest, the life of an exiled spiritual leader is far easier and more rewarding than actually running a country. 20
Sep 18 2010: The hard part about freedom is you have no one to blame but yourself when things go wrong. 21
Sep 18 2010: The main goal of human relations is not to convince people you are right but to get the behavior you want from them. 22
Sep 18 2010: RT @DalaiLama: Unfortunate events, though potentially a source of anger and despair, have equal potential to be a source of spiritual gr ... 23
Sep 18 2010: People believe what they need to believe. My job is to remain vague and not say anything that disrupts their belief. 24
Sep 18 2010: It is not selfish to guard your own resources and abilities because they are your only tools for changing the world. 25
Sep 18 2010: For everything we do, there is a purpose and a ritual. With time, we perform the ritual and forget the purpose. 26
Sep 18 2010: Your weakest negotiating position is when you are handcuffed to the person you are negotiating with. 27
Sep 18 2010: In a world of crushing need and inadequate resources, you must conserve your resources and use them only where they do the greatest good. 28
Sep 19 2010: To journey wisely, you do not need perfect knowledge of every road. You only need to choose your next step. 29
Sep 19 2010: Society is built on a delicate web of withheld information. Speaking the truth in the wrong circumstances can be as destructive as any lie. 30
Sep 19 2010: RT @joesmith_really: The @BadDalaiLama kicks the other lama's ass. 31
Sep 19 2010: RT @DalaiLama: No amount of legislation or coercion can accomplish the well-being of society, as it depends on the inner attitude of its ... 32
Sep 19 2010: The biggest mistakes of nations and individuals are when they see a "trend" in recent events and assume it will always continue. 33
Sep 19 2010: Looking back on our own romantic obsessions, we are bound to exclaim, "I can't believe I fell for that!" 34
Sep 19 2010: Steer clear of people who get mad at inanimate objects, because they will blame you next. 35
Sep 19 2010: Life is like riding a roller coaster backwards. You see the current trend, up or down, but not the curves and reversals of the future. 36
Sep 19 2010: You will never know your true limits until you are pushed against them. 37
Sep 19 2010: The existence or nonexistence of extraterrestrial life is irrelevant to our life on Earth. It doesn't change what we need to do. 38
Sep 19 2010: Technology does not solve the problems of humanity. It merely redistributes them. 39
Sep 19 2010: Thanks to technology, there are far more suffering people in the world than there ever were in the past. 40
Sep 19 2010: All passions are fleeting. We will repeat the same motions but lose the feeling. 41
Sep 19 2010: The greatest tragedy of mankind is that the people who are least capable of raising children are the most likely to have them. 42
Sep 20 2010: That a cause is worthy is not sufficient reason to devote yourself to it. It must also be the best use of your limited resources. 43
Sep 20 2010: Fatalism is a self-fulfilling prophesy. 44
Sep 20 2010: The best treatment for trauma is to thoroughly understand the thing that traumatized you. Only then can you leave it behind. 45
Sep 20 2010: Parenting, like democracy, is a delicate balance between authority and the consent of the governed. 46
Sep 20 2010: One of life's biggest puzzles is figuring out the family we grew up in and what was really going on. 47
Sep 20 2010: Keeping your promises involves two things: doing what you say you will and limiting your promises. 48
Sep 20 2010: My other half often speaks without saying anything. RT @DalaiLama: "Cultivating contentment is crucial to maintaining peaceful coexistence." 49
Sep 20 2010: The message of the Good @DalaiLama: Everyone should be nice to everyone else. The @BadDalaiLama is here to give you more useful advice. 50
Sep 20 2010: Abortion may be murder, but there is also death and greater suffering in bringing more children into the world than the world can care for. 51
Sep 20 2010: Faith is a mechanism people use to justify whatever it is they have already committed to. 52
Sep 20 2010: Wealth is an enabler of dysfunction. It allows people to indulge their delusions and addictions without accepting the consequences. 53
Sep 20 2010: Youth is a blissful state of having a high-limit credit card and no payments due until later. 54
Sep 20 2010: The true cost of something includes not just the purchase price but the ongoing burden of maintenance, which is often far greater. 55
Sep 20 2010: Every man believes himself to be reasonable, fully justified in what he does. Only others are unreasonable. 56
Sep 20 2010: The greatest wasters of human potential are poverty, war, political repression, drugs and spectator sports. 57
Sep 20 2010: If you demand a vow of celibacy from your priests, their sexuality will be forced underground where it is bound to do terrible things. 58
Sep 20 2010: Deception is the way of both man and nature. Detection of it is one of the main challenges of life. 59
Sep 21 2010: Freedom, for most, is the ability to build ones own prison. 60
Sep 21 2010: It is not our role to reform our ancestors. 61
Sep 21 2010: If you support someone unconditionally, they will use you to avoid their own responsibility. 62
Sep 21 2010: Life is a mistake, a catastrophe, a deviation from the plan. All that matters now is what you make of it. 63
Sep 21 2010: Government is inevitable and inevitably inept. 64
Sep 21 2010: RT @nicedream: Teaching tolerance is like teaching a little hate. 65
Sep 21 2010: Educating children against something (drugs, etc.) usually has the opposite effect, teaching them how to rebel against you. 66
Sep 21 2010: Mirrors can lie! They draw your attention to details and imperfections that others honestly don't see. 67
Sep 21 2010: Most so-called luxuries impoverish your life more than they improve it. 68
Sep 21 2010: The half-life of beauty is extremely short. It impresses you on first encounter but fades quickly. Then function becomes more important. 69
Sep 21 2010: Scientists are driven by the blind religious faith that more knowledge is always better, a belief not supported by human history. 70
Sep 21 2010: There is no compelling argument that basic discoveries in science should be made now rather than later. Every "advance" carries a cost. 71
Sep 21 2010: Never mistake success for quality. 72
Sep 22 2010: Bad Dalai Lama has reached 100 followers in 6 days on Earth. Thanks for your support! (For the record, the Good @DalaiLama has 818,186.) 73
Sep 22 2010: "I love you. You love me. We're a happy family." — Barney the Purple Dinosaur (channeling the Good @DalaiLama) 74
Sep 22 2010: There is no absolute truth, only relative truth compared to the other options available. 75
Sep 22 2010: Success can be a barrier to growth, since it tends to freeze you at whatever state you were in when it happened. 76
Sep 22 2010: If your life today is exactly as you predicted it ten years ago, you're probably living in captivity. 77
Sep 22 2010: Dreams come in a million flavors. Then reality dashes them and gives you only one. 78
Sep 22 2010: Neither can the Catholic Church! RT @TelegraphNews: Pope says science cannot explain meaning of life http://tgr.ph/9E1Ry1 79
Sep 22 2010: Between the good and the bad is the interesting. 80
Sep 22 2010: Loneliness may be painful but so is the opposite: losing yourself to the needs of others. Sometimes they feel the same! 81
Sep 22 2010: Every decision is an act of triage. 82
Sep 22 2010: Triage is the rationing and leveraging of inadequate resources to achieve the maximum positive effect. It doesn't just apply to war! 83
Sep 23 2010: It is the nature of society to worship actors—people who only pretend to do things—while people who actually do them are ignored. 84
Sep 23 2010: Bearing children is the ultimate Frankenstein experiment. Let's mix up our genes, throw the dice and see what happens! 85
Sep 23 2010: Whenever quality becomes associated with a certain signal, an interloper will learn to reproduce the signal without delivering the quality. 86
Sep 23 2010: Quality is a lonely business. 87
Sep 23 2010: Just because a little of something makes you happy doesn't mean a lot of the same thing will make you more happy. 88
Sep 23 2010: Charity must never seem like charity. The recipient must pay a price for it, or the gift will be taken for granted. 89
Sep 23 2010: Anyone can appreciate beauty. Only the arrogant think they can own it. 90
Sep 23 2010: To master your future you must make peace with your past. 91
Sep 23 2010: The most insidious prison is comfort, robbing us of the incentive to change. 92
Sep 23 2010: The young man says, "I've got plenty of time. I'll change later." The old man says, "It's too late for me. I can't change now." So when? 93
Sep 23 2010: Many a white knight has rode to the rescue of some fair damsel only to come out soiled and beaten—by the damsel! 94
Sep 24 2010: RT @gauravkantgoel: China's official Twitter account - @BadDalaiLama 95
Sep 24 2010: It's okay to be nice to stupid people, but never grant them any power over you. 96
Sep 24 2010: Men are judged great by history not for their accomplishments but for their ability to produce memorable Twitter-size quotes. 97
Sep 24 2010: Serial killers get the last laugh because even if they kill 20 people they get punished the same as for one. All the rest are free! 98
Sep 24 2010: Education is the most inefficient form of learning. 99
Sep 24 2010: Happiness should not be confused with euphoria. Drugs can give you euphoria, but happiness lasts longer. 100
Sep 24 2010: A relationship isn't necessarily a cure for loneliness. Sometimes it's just another kind—a form of loneliness with much less control. 101
Sep 24 2010: What's really inside the secret Vatican archives? Bullshit! Century after century of utter bullshit. 102
Sep 24 2010: The biggest cosmic joke of all would be that there is a God but He isn't listening. 103
Sep 24 2010: The real measure of wealth is not your income but how much freedom you have left after expenses. 104
Sep 24 2010: The trouble with superheroes in real life is they fly into a problem expecting to save people but end up becoming part of the problem. 105
Sep 24 2010: Fashion is porn for women. 106
Sep 25 2010: The most powerful force in the universe is described in one word: Mother. 107
Sep 25 2010: If you see a defect in yourself or your life, there's no courage in making jokes about it. The courage lies in changing. 108
Sep 25 2010: Intelligence is not a talent but a choice. 109
Sep 25 2010: Hidden within every misfortune is an opportunity. It's up to you to discover it. 110
Sep 25 2010: You can't help anyone until you know your boundaries and how far your help should go. 111
Sep 25 2010: RT @scottishstarr: Morality is doing what is right regardless of what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told regardless of wh ... 112
Sep 25 2010: The most romantic gesture is not flowers or a kiss but a word that shows someone understands you. 113
Sep 25 2010: Sleep is your brain's scheduled maintenance period. You can't cheat on maintenance and expect a safe and healthy waking life. 114
Sep 25 2010: You need food, a safe place to sleep, medical care, community with others and a meaningful mission. Every other "need" is negotiable. 115
Sep 25 2010: A romantic relationship should not be confused with a parental one. 116
Sep 25 2010: There is no limit to the cruelty you can inflict on others if you believe you are merely defending yourself. 117
Sep 26 2010: The purpose of paranoia is to defend the ego, to make your own flaws and mistakes seem justified. 118
Sep 26 2010: Paranoia thrives in people with low native self-esteem, especially when they are isolated from others. 119
Sep 26 2010: Paranoia, once it needs to exist, will always find a reason. 120
Sep 26 2010: There is no benign word or act that can't be interpreted as a threat. 121
Sep 26 2010: Paranoia is a defense against loneliness. If the CIA is bugging your phone and aliens are probing your mind, at least somebody cares! 122
Sep 26 2010: Paranoia usually assumes that the world cares more about you than it actually does. 123
Sep 26 2010: Paranoia is essential to sustaining any religion. There has to be a sense that the rest of the world is out to get us. 124
Sep 26 2010: Knowledge should not be confused with wisdom, which is an awareness of where your knowledge ends. 125
Sep 26 2010: Hubris is thinking, when a roll of the dice favors you, that the dice really care. 126
Sep 26 2010: Your relationship is doomed if your partner worships you but doesn't understand you. Sooner or later, worship will turn to paranoia. 127
Sep 26 2010: Paranoia often leads to an explosion of violence as the paranoiac cuts off all avenues for his own escape. 128
Sep 26 2010: The main deception of gambling is that only the winners get noticed. The losers, although more numerous, are quickly forgotten. 129
Sep 26 2010: A person's most obvious self-destructive trait is exactly the thing you can't talk to them about. They will only get angry. 130
Sep 26 2010: Technology is not the savior of man, because every problem it solves inevitably creates another. 131
Sep 26 2010: The key to a great performance, in any field, is seeing yourself as the audience sees you, not as you want to be seen. 132
Sep 26 2010: The real coin of life is not money but time. 133
Sep 26 2010: Atheism itself is a religion, based on assumptions taken on faith. How do you know there's no God? 134
Sep 26 2010: There will always be a difference between theory and reality, and only experience can tell you what it is. 135
Sep 26 2010: Fame, money, beauty, power: all can form a bubble around you that isolates you from accurate information. 136
Sep 27 2010: Curiosity is the privilege only of those who are free to change. 137
Sep 27 2010: Curiosity is detecting what doesn't fit with your current knowledge and exploring it until it is understood. 138
Sep 27 2010: Most adults have little curiosity about the world because it might threaten the value of their own investments. 139
Sep 27 2010: What passes for curiosity in adults is merely "pseudo-curiosity"—exploration only within predetermined bounds. 140
Sep 27 2010: True curiosity is unbounded, with no preconditions about where it may go. 141
Sep 27 2010: People without curiosity are the least adaptable to change and run the highest risk that they'll be blindsided by unexpected events. 142
Sep 27 2010: Curiosity is the hallmark of creative intellect. 143
Sep 27 2010: No amount of love, from the outside, can change something that childhood has formed. 144
Sep 27 2010: If you look around you and see only happiness, you aren't looking very deeply. 145
Sep 27 2010: The Christian God, if He is truly just, will probably cut you a break for not believing in Him as long as you've been good. 146
Sep 27 2010: The paradox of protection is that people get addicted to it and become less motivated to protect themselves. 147
Sep 27 2010: The ugly side of romance is co-dependence, where you enable each others' addictions. 148
Sep 27 2010: The ugly side of romance is co-dependence, where you enable each others' addictions. 149
Sep 27 2010: The ugly side of romance is co-dependence, where you enable each others' addictions and personality flaws. 150
Sep 27 2010: Morality is just another name for long-term planning. 151
Sep 27 2010: The gray area between rules and enforcement is where most of life is lived. 152
Sep 28 2010: The only thing certain about life is uncertainty. Your best laid plans will never turn out quite as expected. 153
Sep 28 2010: Speaking many languages does not imply one is skilled at communication. 154
Sep 28 2010: There is nothing sadder than a lifetime wasted on the maintenance and protection of one possessions. 155
Sep 28 2010: When the emperor has no clothes, you place yourself in great danger by saying so. 156
Sep 28 2010: The more resources you have at your disposal, the more "necessities" you think you need. 157
Sep 29 2010: Biology is not destiny; it just provides a set of strengths and weaknesses. 158
Sep 29 2010: Pain is real, but pleasure is in the eye of the beholder. 159
Sep 29 2010: Only one thing is undeniably pleasurable: relief from pain. 160
Sep 29 2010: Of all the intellectual abilities one can possess, the skill of relevance is most valuable. 161
Sep 29 2010: Youth is a period of joyously going about getting yourself trapped. 162
Sep 29 2010: There are many people in the world who would do us harm, but their threat is minor compared to the harm we do ourselves. 163
Sep 29 2010: Pity the king, alone in his castle, imprisoned by the same stone walls that protect him. 164
Sep 30 2010: The purpose of the mind is to produce possible outputs from impossible inputs. 165
Sep 30 2010: Life is the process of solving the problems presented to you. 166
Sep 30 2010: Education can teach the outward form and procedures of things but not their inner purpose and meaning. 167
Sep 30 2010: Students graduate from college smarter and wiser than when they went in. The reason is simple: age. 168
Sep 30 2010: The joyous part of romance is the Exploration Phase. It is followed by the longer Obligation Phase when you try to pay the bills. 169
Sep 30 2010: The more words someone produces with their mouth, the less action you can expect from their body. 170
Sep 30 2010: Experience is the best teacher. When it slaps you hard across the face, you never forget the lesson! 171
Sep 30 2010: Freedom is the ability to change course in response to unexpected circumstances. 172
Sep 30 2010: The nature of freedom is that you don't know in advance what you might need it for. 173
Sep 30 2010: When people say on their wedding day, "I'll never be lonely again," they don't understand: You can be married and still be lonely. 174
Sep 30 2010: The highest standard of morality is to be consistent with yourself. 175
Sep 30 2010: There is no honor in selling people bad choices. 176
Sep 30 2010: If porn is just the same acts repeated over and over, why do we need new porn? Can't we just recycle the old porn and save the environment? 177
Sep 30 2010: One person's erotica is another's tedium. 178
Sep 30 2010: Most people can't handle freedom. Without the enforced structure of debts, obligations and a job, they would self-destruct. 179
Sep 30 2010: Identity etched on the skin is a weak substitute for identity defined by behavior. 180
Oct 1 2010: The absence of lies should not be confused with honesty. 181
Oct 1 2010: When a man buys real estate he starts building his own tomb. 182
Oct 1 2010: Free will dies the moment you say "forever". 183
Oct 1 2010: Almost anyone can do "form". Very few understand "function". 184
Oct 1 2010: Youth is when you follow your heart and suffer the consequences. Maturity is when you start to trust your brain instead. 185
Oct 1 2010: Most people are like aquarium fish, living the life of the fishbowl without caring to know about the world beyond it. 186
Oct 1 2010: No parent can comprehend in the beginning how child rearing will consume their life. 187
Oct 1 2010: Wisdom may require some experience, but experience is no guarantee of wisdom. 188
Oct 1 2010: Happiness is not a permanent condition. It must be constantly renegotiated and cannot be nailed down by any form of contract. 189
Oct 1 2010: Between truth and lies is discretion. 190
Oct 2 2010: Government is usually built upon the crackpot theories of people who have never had to run a government. 191
Oct 2 2010: Sterile conditions weaken your immune system. 192
Oct 2 2010: The job of an expert is to scare the shit out of you so you'll come to him for help. 193
Oct 2 2010: In any relationship, there are times you draw close and times you pull away. You damage the former if you try to prevent the latter. 194
Oct 2 2010: Love can't be proven if it is enforced by marriage. 195
Oct 2 2010: There is no easy childhood. Either you are traumatized by reality too early or blindsided by it later. 196
Oct 2 2010: A mark of maturity is being able to feel the pain of others while also accepting that you can do nothing about it. 197
Oct 2 2010: Adult personality cannot be changed from the outside, especially within the scope of romance. Change may happen, but only after you're gone. 198
Oct 2 2010: Most of what passes for "news" is merely voyeurism. It contributes nothing to our understanding of the world. 199
Oct 3 2010: In a great work of art, most of what you see in it was never put there by the artist. 200
Oct 3 2010: When deciphering a message of any kind, the envelope it came in is as telling as the message itself. 201
Oct 3 2010: You never know what a person is really like until after the honeymoon. 202
Oct 3 2010: Religion is one opiate of the masses. Another is humor. 203
Oct 3 2010: Perceived loneliness is usually a mask for other things. What makes us lonely is not a lack of people but a defect in our mission. 204
Oct 3 2010: Good working theory! MRT @kirkfranklin: God is either going to fix the situation, or use the situation as His tool to fix you (Romans:28). 205
Oct 4 2010: The world is filled with dreamers, unmoved to action. 206
Oct 4 2010: RT @joesmith_really: Life's too short for too many friends. 207
Oct 4 2010: Many a dream turns into a nightmare when it's only half built and the resources run out. Then it becomes a prison. 208
Oct 4 2010: History is full of young people courted to disaster by thinking their generation is different. 209
Oct 4 2010: RT @KilroyCafe: "If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story." -- Orson Wells 210
Oct 4 2010: Character is how you behave when you think no one's watching. 211
Oct 4 2010: Much of the apparent wealth of the world is merely a theft from the future. 212
Oct 4 2010: Having a baby is what couples do when their relationship runs out of steam and they can't think of anything else. 213
Oct 4 2010: To change someone's behavior, you have to have the ability and willingness to say "no". 214
Oct 5 2010: People who live in glass houses can't expect much privacy. 215
Oct 5 2010: People are judged by standards they themselves create. 216
Oct 5 2010: If you're not using it, get rid of it! 217
Oct 5 2010: RT @lynniekitt: @DalaiLama I'm more impressed with the fact that the Dalai Lama has a Twitter account than with his words of wisdom. 218
Oct 5 2010: It is not your role to correct the delusions of others, but you must not encourage them either. 219
Oct 5 2010: Boredom is an affliction of boring people. 220
Oct 5 2010: One of the world's greatest luxuries is to be able to sleep without an alarm clock. 221
Oct 5 2010: "Old" is a state of having given up on change. 222
Oct 5 2010: The real measure of wealth is not how much money you make but the freedom you have left after expenses. 223
Oct 5 2010: Life is traumatic by its nature. You can't pass through it unscarred. 224
Oct 5 2010: The only difference between a cult and a religion is how long it has been practiced. 225
Oct 5 2010: The best way to win is chose a contest you're good at. 226
Oct 5 2010: Falling in love with someone is the best guarantee that you won't be able to change them. 227
Oct 5 2010: There's nothing like the wolf at your door to get you focused and motivated. 228
Oct 5 2010: All the different varieties of alcohol are just a charade to make you think you're cultured instead of addicted. 229
Oct 5 2010: The habits of personality cannot be changed by words or education, only by enforcement. 230
Oct 6 2010: Trying to capture love with marriage is like displaying a wild animal on your wall. As soon as you have nailed it down, you've killed it. 231
Oct 6 2010: Romance involves the acceptance of creeping change, often leading to conditions you never would have agreed to in the beginning. 232
Oct 6 2010: Love is possible, but you can't dive into it too deeply. Go too far down and you'll drown! 233
Oct 6 2010: Success for the wrong reasons—for fakery or luck—usually leads to self-destruction. 234
Oct 6 2010: RT @KilroyCafe: The one charity that undeniably improves the world: Planned Parenthood. 235
Oct 6 2010: RT @KilroyCafe: Dog shows, talent contests, beauty pageants — there's nothing unbiased about them! The winner is chosen by the politics ... 236
Oct 6 2010: Of course you made the right choice... if you block out news of every other choice! 237
Oct 6 2010: Revolution, in most of human history, is a bloody battle to replace one form of oppression with another. 238
Oct 6 2010: Crises and catastrophes are unfortunate but necessary. Without them, no one would change. 239
Oct 6 2010: If your life is simple, you can master it and make few mistakes. If your life is too complex, you'll always be stumbling. 240
Oct 6 2010: Celebrity is our society's celebration of those who perform but don't really accomplish anything. 241
Oct 6 2010: Nothing gets you thinking clearly like the threat of impending disaster. 242
Oct 6 2010: Any forbidden fruit becomes bland and uninteresting as soon as you have easy access to it. 243
Oct 6 2010: The ancient ways, the old traditions, the sacred beliefs of the elders... mindless habits for those without judgment of their own. 244
Oct 7 2010: Most secrets are intended to prevent insecure people from learning too much about themselves and making a scene. 245
Oct 7 2010: RT @DrkIntellectual: It's odd to say that you've thought about things or that you have the "truth" when you merely picked-up the beliefs ... 246
Oct 7 2010: RT @YourAristotle: I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. Aristotle 247
Oct 7 2010: RT @DrkIntellectual: We're taught to seek out love but I have found it much more rewarding to work towards making myself more lovable; l ... 248
Oct 7 2010: It is good to be open to the spiritual and paranormal, but decisions must be based on the concrete and testable. 249
Oct 7 2010: The key to a great performance, in any field, is seeing yourself as the audience sees you, not as you want to be seen. 250
Oct 7 2010: The worst mistakes of life are misguided attempts to take a temporary thrill and make it permanent. 251
Oct 7 2010: Life is full of "Duh!" moments when you realize you've been doing things the hard way all along. 252
Oct 7 2010: Of all the weird things in the world, the most bizarre is our body and how we got stuck inside it. 253
Oct 7 2010: Narcissism is when you do something ordinary but think it's extraordinary, just because you did it. 254
Oct 8 2010: The world doesn't want quality. It wants reliable mediocrity delivered on demand. You do quality only for your own satisfaction. 255
Oct 8 2010: The world, with all its billions, may seem huge, but if you count those who are doing what you are and doing it well, it's tiny indeed! 256
Oct 8 2010: RT @DrkIntellectual: Patriotism - a confused state where one thinks "love of homeland" is synonymous with "fear and hatred of all things ... 257
Oct 8 2010: RT @DrkIntellectual: Many remain apathetic about politics but claim to care strongly about people; politics is the science of managing p ... 258
Oct 8 2010: Children need praise for whatever good they do. Adults ought to be able to function without it. 259
Oct 8 2010: RT @stevewilliams52: #FF @BadDalaiLama He's wiser than any fortune cookie 260
Oct 8 2010: Money in excess of ones needs is more an enabler of dysfunction than a key to happiness. 261
Oct 8 2010: Religion isn't so much a belief in God but in certain social policies, taken on faith, that limit the ways you can solve your problems. 262
Oct 8 2010: Pets and children are deceptively charming mechanisms to imprison you and absorb any excess resources you may have. 263
Oct 8 2010: True wealth is measured in two ways: freedom from financial stress and freedom to do what you wish with your time. 264
Oct 8 2010: The mind, by necessity, imposes constraints on the infinite possibilities of the world. Change your mind, and new options appear. 265
Oct 9 2010: In the battle for respect from your elders, you'll probably never win, so just do what's right for you. 266
Oct 9 2010: The great irony of advice is that the people most in need of it are least capable of accepting it. 267
Oct 9 2010: The concept of rescue is usually misguided. You can give people the tools for their own rescue, but they have to do it themselves. 268
Oct 9 2010: There is no accounting for romantic attraction. Logic need not apply. 269
Oct 9 2010: If you have experienced misery all your life and it happens to go away, you will probably create new misery to replace it. 270
Oct 9 2010: "Are we alone in the universe?" The question is irrelevant. Even if we are not alone, we are still alone. 271
Oct 9 2010: Some people are heat sinks: You pour energy into them and get nothing in return. 272
Oct 9 2010: It is not your civic duty to vote if you don't know the candidates and can't make an informed choice. 273
Oct 9 2010: Nearly all advertising involves an element of fraud. If it isn't lying to you explicitly, it is doing it by implication. 274
Oct 10 2010: Choosing the best path is only part of the journey. The other part is negotiating the path you have chosen. 275
Oct 10 2010: The ultimate test of any law or public policy is how human behavior actually responds to it. 276
Oct 10 2010: The risk in rescuing someone is they come to expect it and get themselves in the same mess again. 277
Oct 10 2010: Don't be surprised to find moneychangers in the temple. They built the temple! 278
Oct 10 2010: No one can give you a meaningful mission in life. You have to find it on your own. 279
Oct 10 2010: Many tragedies are blessings in disguise because they force us to make hard decisions we couldn't face otherwise. 280
Oct 10 2010: Real security lies not in locks or guns but in knowledge of your surroundings. 281
Oct 10 2010: UFOs may be real, but they're not relevant. 282
Oct 10 2010: People credit God for their good fortune so they don't have to think about who they hurt to obtain it. 283
Oct 11 2010: Many of the beliefs that are presented as spiritual are really a mask for mental illness. 284
Oct 11 2010: People praise freedom in the abstract but usually act to eliminate it in their own lives. 285
Oct 11 2010: Behind laughter can be much unhappiness. 286
Oct 11 2010: There are no solutions to the world's problems, only statistical improvements. 287
Oct 11 2010: Romance is no place for charity. The relationship has to pay it's own way! 288
Oct 11 2010: The danger of comfort is that you're lulled into repetitive activity and lose the incentive for growth. 289
Oct 11 2010: Instead of laughing at the absurdities of your life, maybe you should fix them. 290
Oct 11 2010: It takes talent to recognize talent. 291
Oct 11 2010: Even as adults, we will always see the world through the prism of the family we grew up in. 292
Oct 12 2010: The easiest people to help are those who are close at hand, who are responsive to attention and who are willing to pay a price. 293
Oct 12 2010: The risk in any form of social intervention is that people adapt in unexpected ways and the solution becomes the problem. 294
Oct 12 2010: Any calculation about who to help has to take into account the cost and ease of doing so. 295
Oct 12 2010: Those who create will always be at the mercy of those who deal. 296
Oct 12 2010: No matter what exotic destination you visit, you will find people living there who think it's the most boring place in the world. 297
Oct 12 2010: People who have got themselves trapped usually want you to join them. 298
Oct 12 2010: Whenever an advertiser claims, "You CAN make a difference!" the proposed action is probably trivial and benefits mainly the advertiser. 299
Oct 12 2010: If companies and individuals are allowed to do whatever they want, they will pollute the river all of us drink from. 300
Oct 12 2010: The most trivial use of your time is voicing your opinion about the news stories of the day. 301
Oct 12 2010: "No" can be the starting point of happiness. Once you give or receive it, new options will open up and you can move on with your life. 302
Oct 12 2010: The ultimate product of your life is the conditions you leave behind. 303
Oct 13 2010: Part of our personal growth is learning to consider options we previously weren't willing to accept. 304
Oct 13 2010: Children can be crippled by poverty and violence but also by wealth and privilege, which skews their perceptions of who they are. 305
Oct 13 2010: The absence of divorce does not imply a marriage is a success. There is a high threshold of dysfunction before one is willing to change. 306
Oct 13 2010: People carry their own theater with them, turning each new situation into the drama they expect. 307
Oct 13 2010: Schadenfreude may be justified when someone who actively courts fame or wild animals gets bitten by same. 308
Oct 13 2010: I don't care what planet you came from as long as you behave decently on this one! 309
Oct 13 2010: In a single instant, after one miscalculation, everything in your life can change. There is no undoing that moment, only accepting it. 310
Oct 13 2010: Legality and morality are two different things. One does not imply the other. 311
Oct 13 2010: What is the meaning of life? There doesn't have to be one. You just deal with the problems in front of you! 312
Oct 13 2010: There is no safe harbor. 313
Oct 14 2010: The liability of giving advice is that someone may follow it and get in trouble. Then you are responsible. 314
Oct 14 2010: People are crippled by their own artificial list of things they can't do. 315
Oct 14 2010: Another truism from the Good @DalaiLama: I believe that at all levels of society...the key to a better, happier world is greater compassion. 316
Oct 14 2010: Most of the wars, feuds and violence of this planet originate with one person blaming others for his own failures. 317
Oct 14 2010: Separating humans from apes is not just the ability to learn but the ability to be taught—to blindly trust the wisdom of teachers. 318
Oct 14 2010: The root of religion isn't faith in God but faith that other people know more about God than you do. 319
Oct 14 2010: Money can't buy inspiration. 320
Oct 14 2010: None of us deserve the indignity of being trapped on this primitive planet, but we have to make the best of it. 321
Oct 14 2010: The answer to life's biggest questions is simply "We don't know." You have get by on what little you do know. 322
Oct 15 2010: The greatest test of intellect is to know something to be true and act upon that knowledge without anyone else supporting you. 323
Oct 15 2010: There has never been a time when advertisers haven't said, "There's never been a better time!" to buy whatever they're selling. 324
Oct 15 2010: Let it be said that you crammed as much life as possible into your final years on Earth. 325
Oct 15 2010: The rarest and most valuable skill of the individual is being able to see himself objectively, as though observing from afar. 326
Oct 15 2010: When you find something thrilling, the worst thing to do is commit yourself to repeating it. The thrill fades, but the commitment stays. 327
Oct 15 2010: The most common and pernicious form of censorship is practiced by the individual against himself to defend his own investments. 328
Oct 15 2010: To find meaning in life, perform every act as though it were your last. 329
Oct 15 2010: There is a fine line between love and strangulation. 330
Oct 15 2010: RT @DalaiLama: If we reserve ethical conduct for those whom we feel close to, we may neglect our responsibilities toward those outside t ... 331
Oct 15 2010: Most human behavior is simply inaccessible to words. You can't talk people into changing. You can only bite back when they go too far. 332
Oct 16 2010: Anything promising permanent security is really just a prison in disguise. 333
Oct 16 2010: A housekeeping matter: Should the @BadDalaiLama follow everyone who follows him, or no one (like the Good @DalaiLama), or be judgmental? 334
Oct 16 2010: The correct answer is (b) the @BadDalaiLama will follow everyone who follows him (except protected accts & spam). 335
Oct 16 2010: The aim of the game is not who gets rich but who gets to do what they want. 336
Oct 16 2010: Wisdom is knowing when and how to break the rules. 337
Oct 16 2010: RT @KayM77: Has it occurred to @DalaiLama that people behave differently around Dalai Lamas? 338
Oct 16 2010: Anyone can surround themselves with the tools and technical skills of an artistic medium, but few are capable of real creativity. 339
Oct 16 2010: Solution to the UFO mystery: an advanced race of alien cats. With laser pointers. Trying to get even. 340
Oct 16 2010: Just because you love someone doesn't mean you can live with them. 341
Oct 16 2010: Most adults are a sensitive minefield of conflicting emotions. You must carefully watch your words to avoid destabilizing them. 342
Oct 16 2010: The internet can call up all manner of facts but can't help with judgment and perspective, which still must come from experience. 343
Oct 16 2010: No matter how technologically complex the world may become, it will always be dominated by the stupid mistakes of human ego. 344
Oct 16 2010: Childbirth is the world's most narcissistic act. It is not done for the child or the world but for the selfish desires of the parent. 345
Oct 17 2010: Wealth can buy freedom but more often it simply buys more obligations. 346
Oct 17 2010: RT @amiee_r: @resident_nomad the @BadDalaiLama is way smarter! Thanks to you I'm now following. 347
Oct 17 2010: "Enforced belief" is when you have to believe something because your existing investments demand it. That's different from free-will belief. 348
Oct 17 2010: Before you try to move a boulder, ask it how it wants to move. 349
Oct 17 2010: Pornography is the opposite of art because it hides nothing. 350
Oct 17 2010: One of the great struggles of life is finding work you enjoy that also makes you enough money to survive. 351
Oct 17 2010: There are no relationships without dysfunction. 352
Oct 17 2010: Idealistic young people will always overestimate their abilities and act accordingly, setting themselves up to become cynical old people. 353
Oct 17 2010: If you want it too much, you can't have it, because your own desperate need will sabotage the effort. 354
Oct 17 2010: Success in any field often depends on being able to get rid of things you once thought were essential. 355
Oct 18 2010: Life is a race to see how much you can accomplish in the time you have left. 356
Oct 18 2010: The first step to social change is to set a good example. 357
Oct 18 2010: All religions require an enemy to keep faith alive. Muslims and Jews need each other, and Christians never forget being thrown to the lions. 358
Oct 18 2010: RT @YourAristotle: The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. Aristotle 359
Oct 18 2010: RT @philoquotes: Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk. ~ Seneca http://bit.ly/philq 360
Oct 18 2010: If you must ask a question of a stranger, just ask it. Don't prefix it with "May I ask you a question?" which only creeps people out. 361
Oct 18 2010: Sex is a trick of nature to get you to mate. The lust soon fades, but you're still stuck with the relationship. 362
Oct 18 2010: He died doing the thing he loved most: taking foolish risks. 363
Oct 18 2010: Whenever you fight against something, you are trapping yourself in the world of the thing you are fighting against. 364
Oct 18 2010: Intelligence is a test of how well you can separate logic from emotion in the decisions that matter most. 365
Oct 18 2010: RT @historytweets: A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. -Winston Churchill 366
Oct 18 2010: You cannot be truly free until you accept the underlying tragedy of the world. 367
Oct 18 2010: It is noble to fight for a cause, but you can't neglect your own development. You must nurture your ability to fight for future causes. 368
Oct 19 2010: @serenebabe1: "It isn't possible to separate logic and emotion." Sure it is! 1+1=2 regardless of your emotional state. 369
Oct 19 2010: Your brain is a biological computer driven by emotional needs but you still have to make rational decisions if you expect to survive. 370
Oct 19 2010: Any thrill today could become drudgery tomorrow. 371
Oct 19 2010: Before becoming famous, you should first do something worthy of fame. 372
Oct 19 2010: Most humans will willingly accept imprisonment in exchange for the approval of their family and society. 373
Oct 19 2010: Sex is fun when you are in the mood, but no contract can guarantee it will always be fun. 374
Oct 19 2010: On the map, there is no terra incognita left. In the mind, there is plenty! 375
Oct 19 2010: The key to success in any creative medium is seeing what is right in front of you, not what you want to be there. 376
Oct 19 2010: A partnership sounds like a good idea when labor is shared, but it can also be a "bureaucracy of two" that adapts poorly to change. 377
Oct 19 2010: The greatest danger to your own freedom is overcommitment. 378
Oct 19 2010: Sex is powerful mainly when it is denied. 379
Oct 19 2010: A relationship is a shared history. It means that when you talk to someone you already have a language in common. 380
Oct 19 2010: The real measure of wealth is having the freedom to do what you want with minimal obligations. 381
Oct 20 2010: All tastes fade and change, yet people plan their lives as though their desires were permanent. 382
Oct 20 2010: Our culture gives us a list of things we must do to be happy. We try and fail, which gives us a chance to try again, ignoring the list. 383
Oct 20 2010: Life is the process of correcting the false assumptions of our childhood. 384
Oct 20 2010: If our parents hadn't made the decisions they had, we wouldn't be here today, but that doesn't mean we are bound to the same choices. 385
Oct 20 2010: The job of the captain is to steer the whole ship, not to be distracted by the intrigues on board. 386
Oct 21 2010: You are addicted to something if you do it not for its own reward but for how anxious you feel when you don't do it. 387
Oct 21 2010: As soon as you work to create something, your ego becomes attached to it, which corrupts your ability to judge it objectively. 388
Oct 21 2010: RT @NorthernMagic: I always tell the truth because having to remember lies would give me conniptions. Apparently, a lot of people don't ... 389
Oct 21 2010: "Follow your heart" usually means "Follow your self-serving delusions." 390
Oct 21 2010: The postcoital problem: What do we do now? 391
Oct 21 2010: It is good to have a plan, but you shouldn't be so committed to it that you can't change course if unexpected opportunities arise. 392
Oct 21 2010: Every plot of land, sometime in history, was stolen from its rightful owner. We cannot correct every past wrong without upending society. 393
Oct 21 2010: Success is sometimes just a matter of being able to see it dangling in front of you. 394
Oct 21 2010: The statements that cause the greatest offense are usually those that are most accurate. 395
Oct 22 2010: Lying is costly and should be avoided, but that doesn't mean you should reveal everything you know. Human politics demand discretion. 396
Oct 22 2010: The purpose of religion is to justify the choices people have already committed to. 397
Oct 22 2010: The law is a religion based on the belief that the ills of society are best addressed by an infinite progression of explicit rules. 398
Oct 22 2010: Our greatest terror is not what others might do to us but what we ourselves are capable of. 399
Oct 22 2010: When you are young and striving for glory, the worst thing that can happen to you is finding it. 400
Oct 22 2010: Liberals say "carrot"; conservatives say "stick" (or vice versa). Best policy? Whatever works! 401
Oct 22 2010: The greatest barrier to personal growth is a steady, well-paying job. 402
Oct 23 2010: To get along comfortably with others, you must never discuss the obvious delusions that afflict them. 403
Oct 23 2010: The dullest places have the nicest tourist information offices. 404
Oct 23 2010: I'm trying out @TweetBackup by @jonasl to archive my tweets http://tweetbackup.com - We'll see if it does the job. 405
Oct 23 2010: Once you have enough money to survive, the only meaningful pursuit is quality. 406
Oct 23 2010: Quality is the product that most elegantly and efficiently fulfills its intended function. 407
Oct 23 2010: The "quality" of a car is not its leather seats but how efficiently it gets you from place to place with minimal maintenance. 408
Oct 23 2010: Quality is its own reward. 409
Oct 23 2010: A common affliction of humans (especially the male) is to dwell on technical minutia while completely missing the big picture. 410
Oct 23 2010: Delusions persist as long as there are excess resources to support them. They collapse when the resources run out. 411
Oct 23 2010: The child finds joy in discovering new things. The adult sees mainly threat in them because he is so heavily invested in the old things. 412
Oct 23 2010: People bemoan the prison they have trapped themselves in, but without its structure they would probably self-destruct. 413
Oct 23 2010: The most powerful human emotion is regret—inner shame for ones own mistakes. Grief doesn't go on forever, but regret can! 414
Oct 23 2010: The irony of law enforcement is that it needs crime to justify its existence. 415
Oct 24 2010: Even a skunk smells sweet to a skunk! 416
Oct 24 2010: Here is an archive of the @BadDalaiLama's tweets on a single page: http://kilroycafe.com/twitter/baddalailama/ - Retweet the ones you like! 417
Oct 24 2010: The desperate problem of the rich is finding ways to spend their money. Fortunately, plenty of marketers will help them invent new needs. 418
Oct 24 2010: A new place seems most exotic before you go and when you first arrive. Within a few days, it feels as common as where you came from. 419
Oct 24 2010: Those who drink to escape their problems will always find problems to drink to. 420
Oct 24 2010: The ultimate test of free will is being trapped physically in prison and seeing it as an opportunity. 421
Oct 24 2010: Wine: the world's oldest consumer fraud! Fermented fruit juice sold to gullible social climbers based on invented distinctions of taste. 422
Oct 24 2010: Research shows that most divorces are caused by marriage. Essay: http://bit.ly/cjgsQp 423
Oct 24 2010: The greatest luxury of business is being able to tell a potential customer, willing to pay you, that your services don't make sense for him, 424
Oct 24 2010: The main social tool of children is emotional manipulation. They cry and we come. 425
Oct 24 2010: Success is sometimes just a matter of being able to see an opportunity dangling in front of you. 426
Oct 25 2010: The best roads aren't on any map, and you'll only know them when you stumble upon them. 427
Oct 25 2010: Statistics about what other people are doing have no relevance to what you should do. 428
Oct 25 2010: The competence of a professional will never exceed the instructions of the person who hires him. 429
Oct 25 2010: How to sell useless products to consumers: double the price, then take 50% Off—For A Limited Time Only! 430
Oct 25 2010: .@TeaDrinker3000: "Really wish @DalaiLama would follow back :(" — The @BadDalaiLama does! 431
Oct 25 2010: Before you can experience new things, you have to let go of the old things. 432
Oct 25 2010: Money may buy an adequate copy of whatever you ask for, but it can't buy insight or inspiration. 433
Oct 25 2010: It is not our place to correct the delusions of others, only to find the common ground necessary to get things done. 434
Oct 25 2010: "The world owes you nothing; it was here first." - Mark Twain 435
Oct 25 2010: The world obeys its own rules, independent of your wishes. It is your job to discover those rules and adapt to them. 436
Oct 25 2010: The less people have, the more they are attached to it. 437
Oct 25 2010: Making jokes about your addictions is just another way to try to justify them. 438
Oct 26 2010: Photos can lie! They distort reality by showing only a restricted view. They can't capture the big picture the way words can. 439
Oct 26 2010: Foreign travel is important to our education, not so much to show us what is different about other cultures but what is universal. 440
Oct 26 2010: The biggest questions of life—like "Why am I here?"—are also the most irrelevant. You just work with what you've got! 441
Oct 26 2010: One part of knowledge is theory, which can be conveyed through words. The other is application, which can only be gained through experience. 442
Oct 26 2010: To a dog, there are no bad smells, only information. 443
Oct 26 2010: Each individual must negotiate his own solution to the conflicting demands of life. 444
Oct 26 2010: If psychic phenomena are real, they are unreliable tools for interacting with the world. They are too easily confused with wishful thinking. 445
Oct 26 2010: A director would not repeat the same movie, or the author the same book. Why, then, would a singer sing the same song? 446
Oct 26 2010: To impress people with your best work, you must not distract them with your mediocre work. 447
Oct 26 2010: The conundrum of romance is that once you are committed to someone, you're also imprisoned with them. 448
Oct 27 2010: Sleep is a blessed relief from motivation. It is the one time of the day when you don't have to do anything. 449
Oct 27 2010: There is hardly any product you can buy that doesn't involve some form of human or animal exploitation. 450
Oct 27 2010: Art is a medium for a message. If you don't have a message, it's vanity, not art. 451
Oct 27 2010: An adorable little puppy is just the Trojan Horse for an expensive 10-year burden. 452
Oct 27 2010: Being good looking stunts your growth. 453
Oct 27 2010: The world is full of crap because crap has a higher profit margin than things you really need. 454
Oct 27 2010: Among the animals, our closest relative is the dog. We are eager to please, loyal to a fault and willing to follow others anywhere. 455
Oct 27 2010: "Two can live cheaply as one" is a fallacy. When you marry, costs increase due to bureaucratic inefficiency. 456
Oct 27 2010: "Conspicuous meditation" is when you publicly display how spiritually aware you are, by meditating in parks, wearing saffron robes, etc. 457
Oct 27 2010: A single face-to-face meeting can sometimes accomplish more than 10,000 email messages. 458
Oct 28 2010: Paranoia assumes that the world cares more about you than it actually does. 459
Oct 28 2010: The rich and powerful are not invulnerable. They are just as constrained as you are but in different ways. 460
Oct 28 2010: If you need religion to make sense of your life, so be it. Just don't go around thinking you are God's chosen one. 461
Oct 28 2010: The willingness to follow others is man's greatest asset and his worst flaw. 462
Oct 28 2010: No one should be discriminated against for his sexual preferences, religious beliefs or political affiliations. They are all equally insane! 463
Oct 28 2010: It is impossible to tell good news from bad until time has passed. 464
Oct 28 2010: Internal inconsistency is the precursor of violence. When someone is at war with themselves, they will soon be at war with others. 465
Oct 28 2010: It is good to be generous, but you also don't want to disrupt a local economy so it becomes unsustainable without you. 466
Oct 28 2010: People with a conflict of interest rarely see themselves as having one. Their own needs just happen to coincide with their constituents'. 467
Oct 29 2010: Life is hard mainly because you make it so. 468
Oct 29 2010: Every forest needs an occasional fire to make way for new growth, and people need catastrophes for the same reason. 469
Oct 29 2010: RT @ederguillermo: En 5 meses twitteando nunca he dado un #FF; hoy haré 1 excepción. Sigan a @BadDalaiLama, trae la mera #neta de la vida. 470
Oct 29 2010: Romance does not just combine the strengths of two people, also their weaknesses. 471
Oct 29 2010: Many barriers that seem insurmountable in theory turn out not to be a problem in real life. You have to test them to find out! 472
Oct 29 2010: Reality is rich and subtle and puts all theories about it to shame. 473
Oct 29 2010: Failure is a resource, not to be squandered on self-pity but to be applied judiciously to ones own education. 474
Oct 29 2010: Success isn't just a matter of working hard, but working smart. 475
Oct 30 2010: Love is an ongoing struggle between loneliness on one side and engulfment on the other. 476
Oct 30 2010: The more shame you feel, the more drugs you do. 477
Oct 30 2010: The main thing that keeps the world economy going is an optimistic delusion: "If I buy this product, my life will be better." 478
Oct 30 2010: If alien life presents itself to us, we'll have to deal with it. Until then, searching for it is a poor use of our resources. 479
Oct 30 2010: Television is for prisoners and shut-ins. If you value your life, there are better things to do with it. 480
Oct 30 2010: Wine and cheese were the junk food of the Middle Ages. 481
Oct 30 2010: The best predictor of someone's future behavior is their past behavior. 482
Oct 30 2010: Most adults have so many excuses for not changing that they need a crisis before anything gets done. 483
Oct 30 2010: The main effect of automatic light switches and toilet flushers is to train people not to turn off lights or flush toilets. 484
Oct 31 2010: The convicted murderer died in his sleep before he could be executed, robbing society of the satisfaction of killing him. 485
Oct 31 2010: Boredom is a flaw of the individual, not a state of the world. 486
Oct 31 2010: "Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?" —Jalal ad-Din Rumi 487
Oct 31 2010: Peaceful passage through a desperate world rests on one principle: Do not create new responsibilities where none previously existed. 488
Oct 31 2010: RT @AngryDalaiLama: If you have love and compassion towards all living beings, you're going to get fucking killed out there. 489
Oct 31 2010: Crime is not random. It happens mainly when you give the criminal an obvious opportunity and guarantee him anonymity. 490
Oct 31 2010: The enemy of growth is investment. 491
Oct 31 2010: You can pray to God for serenity but not for help. These are your problems, not His. 492
Oct 31 2010: The first bite tastes great! The second is good. The third is okay. By the fourth or fifth, even the greatest thrill is routine and boring. 493
Oct 31 2010: Addiction and fatalism go together. You don't see one without the other. 494
Oct 31 2010: One sibling must make the sacrifice: become a parent so the others can become doting aunts and uncles and be dissuaded of doing the same. 495
Oct 31 2010: Most people are spectators in their own lives, watching from the sidelines as others control the game. 496
Nov 1 2010: An oft-neglected factor in any decision is the will and intentions of the other party to it. 497
Nov 1 2010: A decision delayed could be an opportunity lost... or a chance to gain better information and let the problem resolve itself. 498
Nov 1 2010: For each decision, there is an optimal time for resolution. Some require swift action while others are best deferred. 499
Nov 1 2010: A story is an outward projection of an inner journey. 500
Nov 1 2010: The main challenge of both fiction and real life is overcoming ones own inertia. The protagonist has to change his pattern of behavior. 501
Nov 1 2010: We might not buy the things we do if we amortized them over time and found out how much they actually cost us per use. 502
Nov 1 2010: Belief follows emotional necessity. Evidence is backfilled later to support the belief. 503
Nov 1 2010: Most of what passes for creativity is merely interior decoration—adorning ones walls without attempting to change them. 504
Nov 1 2010: To us, there is nothing natural about our body. It is merely the life support system we find ourselves inexplicably trapped in. 505
Nov 1 2010: Isn't it amazing how the religion you were born into just happens to be the right one? That's the magic of faith! 506
Nov 1 2010: Nothing restores ones ego to balance like a healthy dose of failure. 507
Nov 1 2010: RT @gswsyndicate: Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.- Einstein 508
Nov 2 2010: Evil is when you detect a flaw in yourself but project it onto the outside world. 509
Nov 2 2010: The most secure prison is one without bars or locks, that exists only in the mind of the prisoner because he has invested in it. 510
Nov 2 2010: The pillars of religion are narcissism and paranoia—that an all-powerful being cherishes me personally and is watching my every move. 511
Nov 2 2010: "Boom and Bust" is the cycle of life. Boom is when you think you can do anything and overcommit yourself. Bust is when you pay the price. 512
Nov 2 2010: People are usually paid according to how much damage they can cause not how much good they do. 513
Nov 2 2010: The most valuable friend is one to whom you can speak your mind without fear of repercussions. 514
Nov 2 2010: The usual solution to a crisis is giving up things that aren't important but that you once thought you couldn't live without. 515
Nov 2 2010: When you become a professional musician, the first thing you lose is your hearing. 516
Nov 2 2010: Love is purest from a distance. 517
Nov 2 2010: People do their best work without a safety net, because when a net is present they tend to use it to avoid making hard decisions. 518
Nov 3 2010: Do not dwell on what you have lost. Rejoice in what remains to you. 519
Nov 3 2010: "Opportunity dances with those on the dance floor." —Anon. 520
Nov 3 2010: RT @ederguillermo: @BadDalaiLama thanks master, you have the truth of life. I really Can't belive so few people follows you. 521
Nov 3 2010: RT @DalaiLama: I am convinced that everyone can develop a good heart and a sense of universal responsibility with or without religion. 522
Nov 3 2010: Life is an exercise in risk management. 523
Nov 3 2010: Better than any X-ray vision is the ability to clearly see what is right in front of you. 524
Nov 3 2010: Humanity is governed by inertia—the tendency to repeat the same behavior regardless of whether it is effective. 525
Nov 3 2010: Many of the problems we create for ourselves can only be resolved by catastrophe, which graciously obliges from time to time. 526
Nov 3 2010: To have real negotiating power, you must retain the ability to say "no"—which must be exercised from time to time to prove your point. 527
Nov 3 2010: Sex is a delusional system that leads you to believe you are compatible with someone you would have nothing to do with otherwise. 528
Nov 3 2010: Intelligence begins with skepticism—the willingness to question the assumptions you were born into. 529
Nov 3 2010: If we make life too comfortable for our children, we only increase their trauma when they have to deal with the world on their own. 530
Nov 4 2010: The function of entertainment is to generate profit and absorb people's time without actually accomplishing anything. 531
Nov 4 2010: The main thing people are hiding when they jealously guard their privacy is how uninteresting their lives really are. 532
Nov 4 2010: "Progess means replacing something wrong with something more subtly wrong." —Unknown 533
Nov 4 2010: "You can never get enough of what you don't really need." —Eric Hoffe 534
Nov 4 2010: Humans are natural hoarders, jealously guarding their possessions and stockpiling resources. It was functional for the cave but not today. 535
Nov 4 2010: As the brain deteriorates, humans revert to their natural animal behavior of saving old containers and bits of string for future use. 536
Nov 4 2010: When you die, your heirs will hold a garage sale to unload all your useless stuff. Why not do it yourself while still alive and be free? 537
Nov 4 2010: Here is a new archive of all the @BadDalaiLama's tweets on a single page: http://kilroycafe.com/twitter/baddalailama 538
Nov 4 2010: Scenery is meaningless without human context. 539
Nov 4 2010: Knowing the right thing to do and actually doing it are two different things, separated by habit and fear. 540
Nov 4 2010: Choose your parents wisely, and if you can't do that just grin and bear it. 541
Nov 4 2010: RT @dhinojosaxtreme: @wsteffie@BadDalaiLama is awesome! I am not sure he's bad either, those are some powerful words of wisdom! 542
Nov 4 2010: Love is harmless. The obligations that follow on its heels are not. 543
Nov 4 2010: Share the love! Retweet @BadDalaiLama's past tweets and you will be rewarded in Heaven!* Archive: http://j.mp/blbW0e (*if there is one) 544
Nov 4 2010: It is a form of child abuse to raise a child in wealth and priviledge he can never hope to attain on his own. 545
Nov 4 2010: The @BadDalaiLama has a new welcome page at http://BadDalaiLama.com - A spiritual awakening is close at hand! 546
Nov 5 2010: Lessons of Rome: Success leads to overconfidence leads to overcommitment. Overcommitment leads to the Fall leads to the Dark Ages. 547
Nov 5 2010: Dogs and children, when treated as kings, quickly come to believe it. 548
Nov 5 2010: Responsibility means taking charge of the things you fear. 549
Nov 5 2010: "Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose." —Bill Gates 550
Nov 5 2010: The dangers of stimulants in any system are the risk of addiction and the crash when they are removed. 551
Nov 5 2010: RT @RSVPLani: Now you tell me @BadDalaiLama where have you been the last 30 years? 552
Nov 5 2010: RT @shimols: @BadDalaiLama so I am on twitter all the time now. Only coz of you. You are so good. I dont know what to do. 553
Nov 5 2010: There are people you can speak freely to and others you have to tiptoe around. Those are the dangerous ones! 554
Nov 5 2010: You can't protect people from their own decisions. Any system that tries will fail, because it enables continued dysfunction. 555
Nov 5 2010: Every attempt to do good also has the potential for causing harm, possibly worse than if you had never intervened. 556
Nov 5 2010: If warning shots across the bow don't work, you have to aim for the ship. 557
Nov 5 2010: "How are you?" is intended as a greeting only. No one wants a truthful answer, only a positive reply to get them off the hook. 558
Nov 5 2010: The score: @DalaiLama: 995,526. @BadDalaiLama: 424. Through compassion and understanding (and aggressive retweeting), we shall overcome! 559
Nov 5 2010: RT @HisHoliness: It is very wrong for people to feel deeply sad when they lose money, yet when they waste the precious moments of their ... 560
Nov 5 2010: Government is a process that starts with passion and idealism but ends in lifeless bureaucracy. 561
Nov 5 2010: The saddest fact of life is how much there is to do and how little we can actually do. 562
Nov 6 2010: We worry about money when we don't have enough, but once that need is solved, time becomes our main concern. You can't buy more of it! 563
Nov 6 2010: People believe mainly what they are told. Few have the strength to trust their own perceptions and form their own opinions. 564
Nov 6 2010: RT @RSVPLani: @BadDalaiLama Finally, I'm getting Zen with you. I question anything that does not feel right. I trust myself. All of them. 565
Nov 6 2010: If you aren't flirting with depression, you should question whether you're really alive. 566
Nov 6 2010: RT @GreatestQuotes: "It's never too late to be what you might have been." - George Eliot 567
Nov 6 2010: The most difficult skill of perception is seeing the world as it really is, not as you want it to be. 568
Nov 6 2010: To those who already have a conscience, law is more an obstruction of morality than an expression of it. 569
Nov 6 2010: RT @philoquotes: Man can alter his life by altering his thinking. ~ William James http://bit.ly/philq 570
Nov 6 2010: God was invented to serve the ego of man. 571
Nov 6 2010: There are a million things you can do that you never thought you could. You just haven't been motivated to try. 572
Nov 6 2010: There is no sin in having money in the bank, only in spending it frivolously. 573
Nov 6 2010: The main delusion of youth is thinking you have all the time in the world. 574
Nov 6 2010: RT @GreatestQuotes: "He who would travel happily must travel light." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery 575
Nov 7 2010: Rape may be a terrible crime, but if the punishment is close to that of murder, you are only encouraging the rapist to kill the witness. 576
Nov 7 2010: Pain is real and reproducible. Pleasure, however, is in the eye of the beholder and may not work the second time around. 577
Nov 7 2010: Education is for those without the motivation or self-direction to teach themselves. 578
Nov 7 2010: RT @philoquotes: Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. ~ William James 579
Nov 7 2010: The surest road to catastrophe is trusting the word of proclaimed experts instead of understanding the problem yourself. 580
Nov 7 2010: Quality usually wins in the end. The question is whether you can hang on for that long. 581
Nov 7 2010: Once people get used to prison, you can take away the bars and they'll still stay in their cell. 582
Nov 7 2010: The maintenance of social order depends not on justice, which is unobtainable, but the illusion of it. 583
Nov 7 2010: Great art is so graceful that it flows out of the artist almost effortlessly. His only skill is in recognizing it. 584
Nov 7 2010: Humility is admirable, but it is also important to recognize when your judgment is better than someone else's. 585
Nov 8 2010: The promise of advertising is escape from responsibility. The product will make your decisions for you. 586
Nov 8 2010: In a democracy, the poor have the same power as the rich, but the rich can buy advertising, which the poor are suckers for. 587
Nov 8 2010: The American Dream: marriage, children, house, pets and a secure job to pay for it all—i.e. total imprisonment. 588
Nov 8 2010: Most people want the same things repeated day after day. No risks, no challenges, just safe repetition. 589
Nov 8 2010: The most bizarre and alien organism is our own body. How did we get stuck inside this? 590Nov 8 2010: Our first VIDEO philosophy essay: "The Law of Diminishing Returns" http://youtu.be/iRF3NuLxBic - Filmed yesterday on Miami Beach. ←Our original YouTube video [more] 591
Nov 8 2010: If $1 million makes you happy, that doesn't mean $10 million will make you 10 times as happy. 592
Nov 8 2010: Self-pity is a poor substitute for self-control. 593
Nov 8 2010: WARNING: Any adult regarded as "high maintenance" is someone you don't need in your life. Anything you do for them will be used against you. 594
Nov 8 2010: RT @GreatestQuotes: "What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us." - Jean-Paul Sartre 595
Nov 8 2010: There is no freedom without risk. 596
Nov 8 2010: There is no safe harbor, only an illusion of safety that could wash to sea on the next storm. 597
Nov 9 2010: The purpose of protests is to allow people to vent and think they're changing something when in fact they're changing nothing. 598
Nov 9 2010: Every swindler, when caught, will act like the victim. 599
Nov 9 2010: Success doesn't make you wise; failure does—as long as you learn something from it every time. 600
Nov 9 2010: The difference between dreams and reality is reality is still there when you wake up. 601
Nov 9 2010: Day and night are two different worlds: one of responsibility and transparency, the other of impulse and anonymity. 602
Nov 9 2010: There is no humiliating task that people aren't willing to do, day after day, year after year, for the illusion of job security. 603
Nov 9 2010: RT @theredsmurf: @BadDalaiLama Your tweets are unnervingly close to the mark 604
Nov 9 2010: The idea of "retirement" is absurd—where you spend your final days accomplishing little. You accumulated a lifetime of wisdom for this? 605
Nov 9 2010: Belief is controlled mainly by investment. Whatever you have already invested in, you must believe in. 606
Nov 9 2010: Once a need is met, exceeding the need doesn't make you any happier. Instead, your attention turns to other unsatisfied needs. 607
Nov 9 2010: The key to great art, in any medium, is restriction. You don't want "hi-def" but "low-def", painting reality with as few pixels as possible. 608Nov 9 2010: Video philosophy essay: "You Can't Change Personality" http://youtu.be/aPO105q0UVU - Our 2nd video from Miami Beach. ←Our original YouTube video [more] 609
Nov 9 2010: "I like what you're do," is far more meaningful than, "You're beautiful." 610
Nov 10 2010: Even a sheik with a vast harem has his one favorite concubine, and it is her wits more than her looks that got her there. 611
Nov 10 2010: Classical music and jazz are for people who prefer their music devoid of meaning. 612
Nov 10 2010: When you put your faith in God, you stop taking responsibility for your own problems. 613
Nov 10 2010: A selection of the @BadDalaiLama's best tweets, assembled by Input Junkie: http://j.mp/aOj9gR 614
Nov 10 2010: Every "expert" has a conflict of interest: He wants you to buy whatever advice he is selling. 615
Nov 10 2010: Music is the subcarrier of language. Infants instinctively follow the tones and rhythms of words, only later learning their meaning. 616
Nov 10 2010: Language - Meaning = Music 617
Nov 10 2010: Music can be a powerful addictive drug—a brain parasite—occupying the mind and preventing it from doing more useful things. 618
Nov 10 2010: The ultimate goal of any social program is the emancipation of the client. 619
Nov 10 2010: Theory looks at a problem from only a few angles. Reality sees it from every angle. 620
Nov 10 2010: The job of advertising is to sell you a fantasy in which use of the product seems perfectly logical. 621
Nov 10 2010: The risk of curiosity is discovering that the investments you have made are not the best. That's why so few adults have it. 622Nov 10 2010: Video philosophy essay #3: "Triage" http://youtu.be/HGDt3I78CAU - Triage is the management of limited resources to achieve the maximum good. ←Our original YouTube video [more] 623
Nov 10 2010: The most spectacular failures are born in success, when we overestimate our own abilities and commit ourselves to the unsustainable. 624
Nov 11 2010: Any wall we build to protect ourselves also imprisons us inside. 625
Nov 11 2010: Happiness should not be confused with euphoria. Drugs can give you euphoria, but happiness lasts longer. 626
Nov 11 2010: Business is mostly rational in its spending and buys by the numbers. Consumers are mostly emotional and are suckers for a sweet pitch. 627
Nov 11 2010: "Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated." —Jean Baudrillard 628
Nov 11 2010: .@Stonerpreneur "Creating art/beauty for others who appreciate it is something devoid of meaning?" — Correct. 629
Nov 11 2010: There is no greater waste of time than offering the world your opinion on the news stories of the day. 630
Nov 11 2010: Comedy without meaning is just a laugh track. 631
Nov 11 2010: Intelligence is not a quality of the brain but a personal decision to follow reason over convenience. 632
Nov 11 2010: The @BadDalaiLama's tweet archive has been updated: http://baddalailama.com/archive/ - Give old tweets new life by retweeting them! 633
Nov 11 2010: The aim of marketing is to sell us adjectives, because there is little profit in the simple nouns that get the job done. 634
Nov 11 2010: Misery, to some, is a necessary regulating device. Without it, reckless euphoria would take over and cause even worse damage. 635
Nov 11 2010: There is no sense in arguing with someone who has already invested his life in the opinion he holds. 636Nov 11 2010: VIdeo Essay #4: "The Meaning of Life Explained" http://youtu.be/XONxJEl2fiU - From Miami Beach. The secrets of life revealed at last! ←Our original YouTube video [more] 637
Nov 12 2010: What most people call "boredom" is really the withdrawal symptoms of a stimulation addiction. 638
Nov 12 2010: The hard decisions of life involve accepting some pain now to avoid even greater pain later. 639
Nov 12 2010: The most incompetent boss ever! He has an atrocious record of hiring the worst employees, yet he remains in power. The voter! 640
Nov 12 2010: Why should you "slow down" in your final years? Shouldn't you be "speeding up" since there are so many things left to do? 641
Nov 12 2010: You cannot afford to fight every battle. You must calculate the costs, rewards and risks before committing the troops. 642
Nov 12 2010: Science can explain our body and brain but not how our consciousness became enmeshed in this machine. 643
Nov 12 2010: The biggest cosmic joke of all would be that there is a God but He doesn't believe in you. 644
Nov 12 2010: There will always be people making bad choices. You cannot save them from themselves, but at least you must not facilitate them. 645Nov 12 2010: Philosophy Video #0: "Explaining the Fall of Rome" http://youtu.be/aR7vE5YEvms - From outside the Roman Forum, May 2010. ←Our original YouTube video [more] 646
Nov 12 2010: Most will run whatever race is presented to them. Others make their own path where there is no competition. 647
Nov 13 2010: Life is like riding a roller coaster backwards. We can see the trend behind us but not the dips and turns ahead. 648
Nov 13 2010: Catastrophes are often blessings in disguise, giving people the kick in the butt they need to change their lives. 649
Nov 13 2010: Catastrophes can often accomplish, very quickly, what years of negotiation and conscious effort can't. 650
Nov 13 2010: There is usually a better way to do things, but you have to be willing to experiment and let go of your preconceptions. 651
Nov 13 2010: You place yourself in moral jeopardy when your livelihood depends on selling people things that aren't good for them. 652
Nov 13 2010: The human body is only the physical avatar of ones virtual personality. 653
Nov 13 2010: True atheists are rare. Even those who profess no faith in God may follow quasi-religious beliefs without proof—like belief in atheism. 654
Nov 13 2010: The agnostic says he doesn't know if there is a God. It is the only rational position given the lack of evidence. 655
Nov 14 2010: In the landscape of the mind, there are vast tracts we dare not visit for fear of exposing our own inconsistencies. 656
Nov 14 2010: Evil, at its base, is a condition of the brain. A mind at war with itself produces reprehensible behavior. 657
Nov 14 2010: There is no such thing as safety, only a balanced portfolio of risk. 658
Nov 14 2010: The best thing about ghosts, gods, UFOs and psychic phenomena is they keep a low profile. They mostly leave us alone to live our own lives. 659
Nov 14 2010: All passions are fleeting. That is what's so scary about them. 660Nov 14 2010: Video Essay #6: "Stream of Consciousness" http://youtu.be/oNGIgiW0mGs - Dragoon, Arizona. You can control the content of your consciousness. ←Our original YouTube video [more] 661Nov 14 2010: Video Essay #5: "Understanding Las Vegas" http://youtu.be/YDyAZaXLS9g - Direct from the Las Vegas Strip (this morning). ←Our original YouTube video [more] 662
Nov 14 2010: You can't reason with the gambler, the addict or someone in love. They may agree with your logic, but it won't change their behavior. 663
Nov 14 2010: The atheist says, with certainty, that there is no God. Only one thing can account for this absolute position: faith! 664
Nov 14 2010: You cannot police the belief systems of others, only your own. 665
Nov 15 2010: The only thing we can demand from others is outward behavior within certain bounds. How they arrive at that behavior is their business. 666
Nov 15 2010: If you need it, you can't have it, but if you want it but don't need it and you watch for opportunities, you just might get it. 667
Nov 15 2010: "A man's errors are his portals of discovery." —James Joyce 668
Nov 15 2010: Not all prostitution is illegal. Most of it is called "business". 669
Nov 15 2010: Life involves moral trade-offs. We work for goals we don't agree with to further more important goals. Just don't let it become comfortable. 670
Nov 15 2010: The main structure of society is provided by commerce. It can be a corrupt and exploitative structure, but it is better than none at all. 671
Nov 15 2010: Your most precious resource is time—not just time to do things but time to think about things you've done. 672
Nov 15 2010: Learning doesn't happen when you experience new things but when you recall and analyze those experiences later. 673
Nov 15 2010: The main trauma of life, experienced by all of us, is learning that the outside world works differently than the one we grew up in. 674
Nov 15 2010: Marriage is most destructive when you have to mute your own growth to match that of your jealous and less competent partner. 675
Nov 16 2010: Objects have value only to the extent that they help you achieve something valuable. 676
Nov 16 2010: People tend to value their possessions and investments based on how much they spent on them, not on true market value or usefulness. 677
Nov 16 2010: Religiosity is resilient. If one belief system is discredited, people will shift their faith to another. 678
Nov 16 2010: The only thing as frightening as conservatives in power is liberals in power. 679
Nov 16 2010: It is better to be known for your own accomplishments than for exposing flaws in the work of others. 680
Nov 16 2010: Perseverance is the fool's substitute for wisdom. 681
Nov 16 2010: Taste is an illusion. It is the promise of something more than what you actually get. 682
Nov 16 2010: Whenever anyone tempts you to "Be your own boss!" just remember what a jerk that guy can be. 683
Nov 16 2010: Romance is the P.R. department of addiction. 684
Nov 16 2010: Any parasite can be cast as a savior by a good copywriter. 685
Nov 17 2010: Aboard the Titanic, you can't stop the ship from sinking by ordering the band to play a different song. 686
Nov 17 2010: A good heart is worthless without smart strategies to protect it. 687
Nov 17 2010: Dreams, blindly followed, get you nowhere. It is best to have flexible dreams and adapt them to whatever opportunities arise. 688
Nov 17 2010: "We study hard in high school to get into a top college to get into grad school to get a good job to get into a decent nursing home." —RS 689
Nov 17 2010: Those who can't go to sleep without music or television are afraid of their own thoughts. 690
Nov 17 2010: Most of our mistakes—the big ones at least—are the result of allowing emotion to overrule reason. We knew the right choice but didn't obey. 691
Nov 17 2010: Every new law has unintended consequences, sometimes worse than the problem it was supposed to address. 692
Nov 17 2010: The main purpose of public service advertising is to free the advertiser of responsibility. It does little to change behavior. 693
Nov 17 2010: Dire warnings on cigarette packs do not reduce consumption. They only free the manufacturer of liability and give him permission to sell. 694
Nov 17 2010: There is nothing more ineffective in curing addiction than mandated drug treatment. As soon as supervision ends, so does the cure. 695
Nov 17 2010: Slogans, advertising and education do nothing to change impulsive behavior. The only thing that works is enforced consequences. 696Nov 17 2010: Video Essay #7: "The Trauma of Childhood" http://youtu.be/nVg6gW_9rj4 Jackson, Mississippi. Moving out of the fantasyland of childhood. ←Our original YouTube video [more] 697
Nov 18 2010: The concept of drug treatment is inherently flawed. It only frees the addict of responsibility by placing his cure in someone else's hands. 698
Nov 18 2010: Following in the footsteps of another is impossible, because by the time you get there the path will have changed. 699
Nov 18 2010: The fundamental right and responsibility of both countries and individuals is to control their own economy. 700
Nov 18 2010: Whenever someone speaks of an "economic miracle", the listener should prepare for the economic dark ages that follow. 701
Nov 18 2010: Stupidity is the habitual condition of letting emotions overrule facts. 702
Nov 18 2010: It is okay to be polite to stupid people, but keep them at arm's length and never let them have any power over you. 703
Nov 18 2010: Blog entry: "The Crisis of Human Evolution" http://j.mp/aacnrV - While the dumb get dumber, the smart get smarter. 704
Nov 18 2010: The current trend of human evolution favors those of low intelligence and poor impulse control who procreate irresponsibly. 705
Nov 18 2010: Freedom is the ability to change your path based on unexpected information. 706
Nov 19 2010: The nature of freedom is that you don't know in advance what you might need it for. 707
Nov 19 2010: At a fork, you must choose a path. After you have started down it, you must choose again—whether to turn back or make the best of it. 708
Nov 19 2010: "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. [It] is an opportunity to do things you didn't think you could do before." —Rahm Emanuel 709
Nov 19 2010: Clinical effects of popular recreational drugs: http://yfrog.com/61xsjuj (via @PoulsNocturne@motorfingerzach) 710
Nov 19 2010: The most degrading and exploitative form of reality TV is called "news". How do people watch this stuff? 711
Nov 19 2010: Any help you give will be devalued and abused unless the person you are helping decides he wants it and is willing to pay a price for it. 712
Nov 19 2010: Paranoia is what keeps us from recognizing good opportunities when they happen to fall into our lap. 713
Nov 19 2010: It is good to eat a balanced diet, but the more dietary restrictions we obey, the more barriers we create to our movement and growth. 714
Nov 19 2010: Many speak. Few have anything to say. 715
Nov 19 2010: Investments are future commitments to an object, idea, person or activity. They make us who we are—and are the main block to our growth. 716
Nov 19 2010: "I can fly!" he exclaimed as he jumped off the ledge. Alas, believing in himself was of little benefit. 717
Nov 20 2010: Helping others, while noble in spirit, often has the unintended effect of increasing their dependency. 718
Nov 20 2010: The most destructive drugs are not narcotics but mindless entertainments that squander our mental resources. 719
Nov 20 2010: With relative wealth comes both responsibility and isolation. 720
Nov 20 2010: The dirty little secret of psychiatry is that cognitive therapy doesn't work. You can't change behavior by talking about it. 721
Nov 20 2010: @laurenahayes "Owners are only as smart as their dogs." --> You are only as smart as your dumbest obligations. 722
Nov 20 2010: You are not responsible for the fate of planets, only for the consequences of your own actions while visiting. 723
Nov 20 2010: The score: @BadDalaiLama 501, Good @DalaiLama 1053630. We got that bugger on the run now! Thanks for all your retweets! 724
Nov 20 2010: Paranoia gives people permission to not change, because the threat is externalized. The defect is always "out there" instead of "in here". 725
Nov 20 2010: An actor is someone who can recite a writer's words, follow a director's instructions and then say, "I made this!" 726
Nov 21 2010: When choosing a romantic partner, let it be someone you'll still want on your friends list after the break-up. 727
Nov 21 2010: RT @Bouletcorp: Dans les suggestions Twitter j'avais la page du @DalaiLama alors je suis allé voir. C'est comme bouffer 400 biscuits hor ... 728
Nov 21 2010: If you are walking on eggshells, carefully watching your words so as to not set your partner off, then your relationship is doomed. 729
Nov 21 2010: The acrimony of the divorce is proportional to the passion of the courtship. 730
Nov 21 2010: Divorces are so nasty because the primitive neurological bond remains. Bonded people are still drawn together, if not by love then by hate. 731
Nov 21 2010: Love and addiction are the same. The same pleasure centers are stimulated in courtship and at the other end the same withdrawal symptoms. 732Nov 21 2010: Video Essay #8: "Drug Abuse: What Doesn't Work" http://youtu.be/A1EIIgZD4Fc - From the main courthouse in Las Vegas (two days ago). ←Our original YouTube video [more] 733
Nov 22 2010: Romance is driven not just by sex but by a hunger for meaning that we falsely believe the other person will fulfill. 734
Nov 22 2010: You'll never really know who you married until the honeymoon is over. 735
Nov 22 2010: Romance is the ultimate exercise in wishful thinking. 736
Nov 22 2010: "Not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck." MRT @DalaiLama 737
Nov 22 2010: People search for meaning but usually end up with obligation instead. They can't tell the difference until it's too kate. 738
Nov 22 2010: Just because your life is full of things you have to do doesn't make it meaningful. 739
Nov 22 2010: For most, life is an exercise in digging holes and filling them up again—creating new obligations then struggling to fulfill them. 740
Nov 22 2010: Love is a condiment of life, not a main course. It can't give you a meaningful mission any more than ketchup is a food group. 741
Nov 22 2010: The pursuit of love is often just an escape from responsibility. We want a White Knight to rescue us from ourselves. 742
Nov 22 2010: The downside of relationships is loss of control over ones own life. 743
Nov 22 2010: Those who can take love or leave it, who don't need it to give them identity, are in the best position to benefit from it. 744
Nov 23 2010: In the beginning, love is defined for us by others. We have to fail many times before we learn to define it for ourselves. 745
Nov 23 2010: The art that gets noticed first is usually attached to a moneymaking scheme, but the art that lasts survives on its own merits. 746
Nov 23 2010: Everyone is selling something, not just for monetary gain but to support their own self-esteem. 747
Nov 23 2010: Creativity is looking past conventions and preconceptions to what really works. 748
Nov 23 2010: The amount of makeup used is inversely proportional to ones self-confidence. 749
Nov 23 2010: Creativity isn't playing by the rules; it's rewriting the rules by which the game is played. 750
Nov 23 2010: Beauty strikes the eye only on its first appearance. After that, all that matters is what really works. 751
Nov 23 2010: Misfortune is an essential mechanism to push us out of our comfort zone and into the next stage of our development. 752
Nov 23 2010: Jealousy is a bad sign. It is a hint that the relationship can't sustain itself on its own merits. 753Nov 24 2010: Video Essay #9: Human Feedback Systems: http://youtu.be/tsqHYKqt6ew - From an abandoned roadhouse in the Yukon Territory. Free tour at end! ←Our original YouTube video [more] 754
Nov 24 2010: Success tends to freeze you at whatever developmental state you were in when it occurred. It can rob you of the incentive to move forward. 755
Nov 24 2010: Ego both pushes you to succeed and stands in your way. 756
Nov 24 2010: Ownership is an illusion. You can't permanently own something. You can only rent. 757
Nov 24 2010: The first step toward intelligence is when you're afraid of something, you turn toward it instead of away. 758
Nov 24 2010: To find what makes you happy, you must experiment and test your own limits. No advice from others will suffice. You must seek your own data. 759
Nov 24 2010: All the best stories—in fiction, movies and real life—are about a character facing his fears and overcoming his own inertia. 760
Nov 24 2010: Given the choice between being lonely and losing yourself in a relationship, lonely gives you far more options. 761
Nov 24 2010: It is of little benefit to your self-esteem to be praised for an accomplishment you know is not your own. 762
Nov 24 2010: Romantic love is a value-added service. If you are not receiving value in excess of the price paid, you shouldn't be using the service. 763
Nov 24 2010: His Holiness @BadDalaiLama actively stars tweets he likes. See his Favorites for contemporary wisdom he would like to retweet but can't. 764
Nov 24 2010: "Smart" doesn't always mean "wise". One can be smart in pursuit of ones goals but unwise in the choice of them. 765
Nov 24 2010: Most romantic relationships eventually devolve into parental ones. One partner becomes increasingly childish as the other enables them. 766Nov 25 2010: Video Essay #10: Practice Makes Perfect... Idiocy! http://youtu.be/8ipjgmFACDE - Why rote practice is usually not the best use of your time. ←Our original YouTube video [more] 767
Nov 25 2010: "Love is when you find someone better, yet you stay with the same person you promised to spend forever with." @TheQuoteWhore - Disturbing? 768
Nov 25 2010: When you need something too much, your neediness in itself becomes the biggest barrier to getting what you want. 769
Nov 25 2010: "Life is outsourcing." @danywino - Indeed, everything must be outsourced by the time you're finished. 770
Nov 25 2010: There is no reason you can't become a child prodigy at any age. Just free yourself of all the useless stuff you've accumulated since then. 771
Nov 25 2010: Another term for "dream home" is "self-designed prison". 772
Nov 25 2010: Creativity is when you grab something from your environment and use it for a purpose it was never intended for. 773
Nov 25 2010: Marketing can generate a hit, but only quality creates a classic. 774
Nov 25 2010: Schadenfreude may seem justified when someone's own ego led to their misfortune, but what other kind of misfortune is there? 775
Nov 25 2010: Single people dream of love. Married people dream of being free. 776
Nov 25 2010: The key to mastering any artistic medium is emotional detachment, because once your ego gets involved, you stop seeing what's there. 777
Nov 25 2010: If someone freaks out over life's minor frustrations (traffic jams, lost luggage), you definitely don't want them around for the big crises. 778
Nov 25 2010: Running a race and winning isn't necessarily creative. Creativity is bypassing the race altogether to find what really matters. 779
Nov 26 2010: Each of us is a sexually motivated being, through no fault of our own, but how we express and manage that drive is a matter of choice. 780
Nov 26 2010: "So you're saying homosexuality is a choice?" @Knigel — Arousal isn't a choice. Where you go with it is the choice. 781
Nov 26 2010: The most important right of the individual is to keep secret his intentions. 782
Nov 26 2010: "Music is a safe kind of high." Jimi Hendrix via @astrangersashes — It can still be an addiction drawing you from more productive things. 783
Nov 26 2010: The most hideous musical form is the "cover", where one singer repeats the famous song of another. It only proves their bankrupt creativity. 784
Nov 26 2010: Whenever you think you have no choice, you usually have many. You just refuse to see them. 785
Nov 26 2010: His Holy Badliness does not #ff lightly. For the best of all things philosophical, follow @laurenahayes and watch her Favorites. 786
Nov 26 2010: Selfless service to others is not your highest calling. First invest in yourself, then you will have the tools to invest in others. 787
Nov 26 2010: The depth of my love for you—Is shown on this fine tattoo.—Would it cause you alarm—If I sent you my arm—To nourish your lawyer and you? 788
Nov 26 2010: Opposites attract—and usually end up trying to annihilate each other! 789
Nov 26 2010: A delusion can persist only as long as there are excess resources to support it. 790
Nov 26 2010: Reality is the crusher of delusion. 791
Nov 26 2010: It is one thing to protest a rigged election, quite another to riot over a cut in pay. That's more like a child's temper tantrum. 792
Nov 26 2010: RT @latimes: Dalai Lama to cede role as leader of exiled Tibet government http://lat.ms/e5W0cf 793
Nov 26 2010: Paranoia is a mechanism that assures your success in life never exceeds your inner self-esteem. 794
Nov 27 2010: Notes on protocol: @BadDalaiLama can be addressed as "Your Holy Badliness", YHB, HHB, HHBDL or however you feel moved. He's not a stickler. 795
Nov 27 2010: People like to invent restrictions for themselves—lists of things they won't do—because it helps them avoid making real decisions. 796
Nov 27 2010: You can devote your whole life to healthy living, resulting in a slight increase in your otherwise meaningless lifespan. 797
Nov 27 2010: Slogans are cheap, easily distributed, immediately satisfying and far less painful than action or decision. "We Support Our Troops!" 798
Nov 27 2010: The purpose of slogans is to give people the illusion they are addressing a complex problem without any costs and risks. 799
Nov 27 2010: "Just Say No!" to catchy, ineffective slogans. 800
Nov 27 2010: Life throws barriers in your path, but they are usually minor compared to the barriers you create for yourself. 801
Nov 27 2010: RT @YuririaSierra: Here goes a #FF for @BadDalaiLama, who always is as good (sometimes quite better) as the Lama himself... And certainl ... 802
Nov 27 2010: Those who unfollow you if you unfollow them had no real interest in your communication anyway. 803
Nov 27 2010: Capitalism expects you to be a small cog in a big exploitative machine. Sometimes you have to play along to advance a more noble agenda. 804
Nov 27 2010: There is no money to be made in solving people's underlying problems, only in giving them what they think they want. 805
Nov 27 2010: No one wants to kill pets, but if the shelter doesn't do it, the system will collapse and all the animals will suffer. 806
Nov 27 2010: RT @KilroyCafe: Been to Borders and Barnes & Noble but can't find a good tourist guide to the Somali Coast. Guess I'll have to go it alone. 807
Nov 27 2010: Who is the best romantic partner? Sadly, it is someone just like you in personality. Only a clone can really know you. 808
Nov 27 2010: Marketing consists of offering the consumer a pornographic image then standing in front of it and collecting an admission fee. 809
Nov 27 2010: Unlike SOME lamas, HH @BadDalaiLama reads and cherishes your @ replies and DMs. (He replies to most DMs but only a few @'s.) 810
Nov 27 2010: Full speed ahead, take no prisoners, never apologize, never look back, never stop believing in yourself... Sarah Palin! 811
Nov 27 2010: "We don't go about life as scientists, but as talk radio hosts, concocting arguments that feel persuasive." http://is.gd/hRWhn 812
Nov 27 2010: Obvious neediness has the paradoxical effect of pushing people away. They don't want to drown in your concerns. 813
Nov 28 2010: RT @TommysJustTommy: Going to have to unfollow @BadDalaiLama . That sounded like a pro-Palin tweet. Can't have that In my world. 814
Nov 28 2010: Those without grasp of irony are poorly equipped to deal with the world. 815
Nov 28 2010: Full disclosure: His Holiness and Sarah are very close. http://j.mp/dYNTk6 - Also George W. http://j.mp/hkRO7Z 816
Nov 28 2010: The root of all evil is a mind at war with itself. 817
Nov 28 2010: His Holy Badliness has updated his tweet archive at http://baddalailama.com/archive/ - All his wisdom on one page! 818
Nov 28 2010: Term limits rob a legislature of experience and assure no leader remains in power long enough to suffer the consequences of their actions. 819
Nov 28 2010: It is sad to watch a friend descend into addiction and almost as sad to see them bury themselves in possessions and obligations. 820
Nov 28 2010: No matter how sexy data may seem, the ultimate coin of existence is still concrete actions in the real world. 821
Nov 28 2010: Data is an aid not an end. 822
Nov 28 2010: A life dedicated to online data and virtual worlds is ultimately no more satisfying than a diet of zero-calorie soft drinks. 823
Nov 28 2010: No matter how complex a virtual model may become, it can't compete with the richness, consistency and unexpected twists of reality. 824
Nov 28 2010: Reality. Live with it. 825
Nov 28 2010: Music, television, web surfing, shopping, sports, political debate... All are a mask for the fact that you haven't done a damn thing. 826
Nov 28 2010: The online world is place to analyze activities of the real world, not a replacement for them. 827
Nov 28 2010: Additional notes on protocol: Address HHBDL as "Your Holy Badliness" NOT "Your Holy Baldliness". Also: remove your shoes before approaching. 828
Nov 28 2010: A "home" is where you sleep, write, think, change clothes and store a limited cache of supplies. A dorm room is optimal, a house excessive. 829
Nov 28 2010: The bigger the home you live in, the more possessions and obligations you accumulate in it and the more burdened your life becomes. 830
Nov 28 2010: Humans are natural hoarders, genetically programmed to stockpile resources for lean times. Once, it was essential, now dysfunctional. 831
Nov 28 2010: If we have storage space available, few among us can resist the temptation to hold onto anything that "might" be useful in the future. 832
Nov 28 2010: Owning a house is fine—if that's all you want to do. Home acquisition, decoration and maintenance give a mission to those without any. 833
Nov 28 2010: RT @GreatestQuotes: "Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with th ... 834
Nov 28 2010: The purchase price of a possession is only part of its cost. The other part is its storage, maintenance and protection—often much higher. 835
Nov 28 2010: RT @philosophytweet: Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men. ... 836
Nov 28 2010: No matter how thrilling something was the first time, you can never go back. You can repeat the outer motions but not the inner feeling. 837
Nov 29 2010: Youth may know the statutes, but only age knows the case law. 838
Nov 29 2010: If there were no limit on the human lifespan, power would become entrenched and we would be even more wasteful of time than we already are. 839
Nov 29 2010: Parental love is an act of charity. Romantic love is an arrangement for mutual profit. Don't confuse one with the other. 840
Nov 29 2010: Where would we be without parataxic distortion? (Probably not here today to discuss it!) - Wikipedia http://su.pr/1agHG5 via @NewMindMirror 841
Nov 29 2010: Some ideas are offensive because they are exploitative, others only because you have already invested in the opposite. 842
Nov 29 2010: If slogans really change human behavior, then we should erect signs every mile along the highway: "Always Drive Safely!" 843
Nov 29 2010: Instead of following the nutrition fad of the moment, try listening to your body and eating foods that makes you feel good afterwards. 844
Nov 29 2010: "Our body is full of maladaptive cravings that trick us into feeling good." @Knigel — If you eat a whole bag of Doritos™, how do you feel? 845
Nov 29 2010: Taste is a neurological mechanism to guide us to the foods our body needs, not an end in itself. 846
Nov 29 2010: Sarcasm is irony with a bitter edge. 847
Nov 29 2010: @Knigel@bofaux Hey, dude, cut me some slack! I'm the ***BAD*** Dalai Lama! 848
Nov 29 2010: Sarcasm is the passive-aggressive way of saying things. It expresses your frustration but cynically assumes nothing can change. 849
Nov 29 2010: Sarcasm, like anger, is dysfunctional self-expression the world doesn't need. 850
Nov 29 2010: Unbuffered democracy—where the people vote directly for laws—is as much a tyranny as any dictatorship. (See California.) 851
Nov 29 2010: Productive living is a process of "outsourcing", where you develop systems, test them out, then pass them on to others. 852
Nov 29 2010: The condition of being fully outsourced is called "death". 853
Nov 29 2010: Caffeine gives you energy only in the same sense that nicotine gives you pleasure: because addiction has taken it away from you. 854
Nov 29 2010: Photos: HHBDL in Jerusalem: http://j.mp/2uwh9g — Trying to broker a Mid-East peace. Luckily, His Holiness has no dog in this fight. 855
Nov 29 2010: Those who cannot reduce their commitments to sustainable levels will find their commitments reduced for them. 856
Nov 30 2010: "Wanting it all" is the functional equivalent of wanting nothing. 857
Nov 30 2010: Life is the process of reducing the infinite possibilities in front of you to the few things you can afford to do. 858
Nov 30 2010: RT @DOGENZEN: The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear. ~ Krishnamurti 859
Nov 30 2010: You can't teach someone creative writing or film. Either they're inclined to pick up a pen or video camera or they're not. 860
Nov 30 2010: "Object constancy" is knowing that people have their own lives apart from your needs. Children learn it gradually, but some adults never do. 861
Nov 30 2010: "My right to happiness carries no more weight than others'." MRT @DalaiLama — Dude's talking about object constancy. 862
Nov 30 2010: Life is easy: Find a mate, get married, buy a house, have children, work hard, retire. Voilà , life over! 863
Nov 30 2010: Sometimes your best move is just cop an Alford plea and move on with your life. 864
Nov 30 2010: Reality has its own structure, independent of our theories or wishes. The only way to know it is to test it. 865
Nov 30 2010: "You can have it all." @laurenahayes — Nope! Life is a series of brutal choices to reduce the "all" to the few things you can afford to do. 866
Nov 30 2010: Whatever consciousness may be, it is not infinite. You cannot divide your attention without eventual degradation of your thought processes. 867
Nov 30 2010: @laurenahayes "Maybe mindfulness can multiply [consciousness]" — What's "mindfulness"? Does it give you a faster CPU? Too many apps running! 868
Nov 30 2010: You can't have quantity without sacrificing quality. 869
Nov 30 2010: In all things, you should to be dealing with the guts of life, not its skin. 870
Nov 30 2010: If you are "receiving" an education, you're doing it all wrong. 871
Nov 30 2010: Photos: HHBDL at the Acropolis in Athens: http://j.mp/grrKqS 872
Dec 1 2010: Personal boundaries are when you say, "This far and no closer." 873
Dec 1 2010: Virtual reality is pure addiction — the crack cocaine of the 21st Century. 874
Dec 1 2010: Once upon a time, people went places and did things. They learned directly from reality, not electronic simulations. They had a life! 875
Dec 1 2010: The root of most personal disasters is euphoria, where we think we can do anything and commit to more than we are capable of. 876
Dec 1 2010: Before relying on any data, consider where it came from and who has something to gain by distorting it. 877
Dec 1 2010: Delusions of grandeur don't thrive well on social media, since you can see who's following you, and it ain't many. 878
Dec 1 2010: Social media may actually restrain narcissism, because pure narcissists* don't get followed. [*except celebrities] 879
Dec 1 2010: We all grew up in Disneyland. We spend the rest of our lives learning how naive that world was. 880
Dec 1 2010: It's not The Man holding you down; it's you holding you down! 881
Dec 1 2010: RT @philo_quotes: Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own. ~ Schopenhauer http://bit.ly/philq 882
Dec 1 2010: CASINO PAYCHECK BONANZA!!! CASH YOUR PAYCHECK HERE!!! YOU COULD BE OUR NEXT ***MILLION DOLLAR WINNER***!!! ... (please gamble responsibly) 883
Dec 1 2010: Is global warming real? Yes. Can it be stopped? Probably not. Politics demand action, but most of us have better things to worry about. 884
Dec 1 2010: NSA bugging your phone? KGB watching your house? Aliens invading your brain? Relax! Now you can consolidate all these services with Google! 885
Dec 1 2010: Photos: HHBDL at the Pyramids of Teotihuacan in Mexico City: http://j.mp/aVJdeG 886
Dec 1 2010: Morality is simply the effort to be consistent with yourself, so your rules of behavior take up the smallest space possibly. 887
Dec 2 2010: The Greatest Hits of His Holiness: http://favstar.fm/users/BadDalaiLama - Our best tweets, selected by readers. Now with a "More" button! 888
Dec 2 2010: Mona Lisa's smile. Hotel California. The role of great art is to conceal, not reveal, to give the illusion of meaning without any. 889
Dec 2 2010: We are fish in a fishbowl looking out on the immensity of all we don't know, but until we can cross the glass, the fishbowl's where it's at! 890
Dec 2 2010: In the market of goods and ideas, "pull" is better than "push". Better to have people drawn to your product than you pushing it on them. 891
Dec 2 2010: truism [ˈtruËɪzÉ™m]—n. an obvious truth; platitude; "goes without saying" ... See tweets of @DalaiLama 892
Dec 2 2010: What good is a house on the seashore or in the mountains? As soon as you move in, you stop looking out the window. 893
Dec 2 2010: Kodachrome: Real life is never as good as the pictures or our nostalgic memories. (MRT Paul Simon) 894
Dec 2 2010: "Our faith is faith in someone else's faith." ~ William James via @philo_quotes 895
Dec 2 2010: Beauty cannot be purchased or possessed. If you try, all you'll get is bragging rights to the beauty that was once there. 896
Dec 2 2010: Charlie the Tuna never figured it out: You can't buy good taste. 897
Dec 2 2010: The rich man thinks he can prove his good taste by purchasing an art collection, but he's still a narcissistic bore. #donaldtrump #stevewynn 898
Dec 2 2010: Inertia: a body in motion stays in motion. Applies to people, too. They continue their trajectory until interrupted—usually by misfortune. 899
Dec 2 2010: Insight: recognizing the defects in ones own behavior and changing course. Exceedingly rare but magical when it happens. 900
Dec 2 2010: If you call yourself creative then create, dammit! Every day you don't create something is a day wasted. 901
Dec 3 2010: Monty Python's Philosophers' Football Match (video) and new essay by HHBDL: "Just Hit the Ball!" (blog) http://j.mp/fHEHhD So few will do it 902
Dec 3 2010: Attention magicians: You can't create illusions for a living and then complain about people believing in the paranormal. What do you expect? 903
Dec 3 2010: "WARNING: DEATH OR SERIOUS INJURY CAN OCCUR" (on car visor) Thanks for the existential advice, but shouldn't it be "WILL OCCUR"? 904
Dec 3 2010: RT @laurenahayes: A must read by @BadDalaiLama: "Just Hit the Ball!" http://j.mp/fHEHhD 905
Dec 3 2010: RT @DhammaService: Those who live with the truth, and have nothing to hide, will not fear the truth, nor any Internet Leaks. 906
Dec 3 2010: Adult entertainment is neither. 907
Dec 3 2010: You don't get off the hook by saying "I obeyed the law." That is a coward's excuse. 908
Dec 3 2010: You can spend a lot of time trying to save money, but time can't be replenished. 909
Dec 3 2010: RT @designersays: My dream in life is to start a band with the Dalai Lama and a bunch of girls from the 80's just so I can call it The D ... 910
Dec 3 2010: Is it really "green" to spend twice as much for a hybrid car that uses only slightly less gas? You could plant trees with that money! 911
Dec 3 2010: The chronological snobbery of each new generation is usually followed, some time later, by chronological schadenfreude in their elders. 912
Dec 3 2010: In the spirit of the season, "A Wal-Mart Christmas Carol": http://j.mp/S6l3a - You don't have to pay for it now! 913
Dec 3 2010: RT @wistfuleden: @BadDalaiLama I'm really enjoying your www.kilroycafe.com 914
Dec 4 2010: My love for you may be unconditional, but my interactions with you are not. 915
Dec 4 2010: A relationship cannot truly grow unless there is the realistic option to withdraw and renegotiate. 916
Dec 4 2010: There is nothing more dangerous than pure democracy. It is arbitrary rule by the hysteria of the moment. 917
Dec 4 2010: Male pattern autism: mindless babble about sports, preoccupation with all things technical, total inability to relate to others. 918
Dec 4 2010: Doctors, lawyers & engineers are some of the most imprisoned workers—personal growth frozen by their educational investment and high salary. 919
Dec 4 2010: "People suffer because they grasp and don't let go." Mae Chee Kaew 920
Dec 4 2010: RT @NewMindMirror: Researcher has 10 controversial ideas about evolutionary psychology http://su.pr/7054RK #psychology #evolution 921
Dec 4 2010: Both liberalism and conservatism, allowed to proceed unchecked, will end in a police state. 922
Dec 4 2010: "It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when they don't have to." Walter Linn 923
Dec 4 2010: You are at peace with yourself if you can sit for hours on a long flight—middle seat, no entertainment—and enjoy your own company. 924
Dec 4 2010: "Just close your eyes and jump!" That's the No.1 fallacy of youth. Take initiative, yes, but only jump into what you see and understand. 925
Dec 4 2010: Nothing makes you so uneasy as lavish praise from someone who doesn't understand you. 926
Dec 4 2010: RT @danywino: @BadDalaiLama You are great! Merveilleux! Continuez! Prevail! 927
Dec 4 2010: @laurenahayes: "Anthropologie is a crap collectors paradise" — No, that's scatology. 928
Dec 4 2010: You can't change someone's personality. You can only decide how and whether to interact with them and how much of yourself to expose. 929
Dec 4 2010: Through the magic of romance, any lead can be turned into gold, but it usually turns back to lead again. 930
Dec 4 2010: Hang out with dumb people and you'll be drawn down to their level. Even worse if you marry them. 931
Dec 4 2010: The worst prison is being handcuffed to a person of lesser ability. 932
Dec 4 2010: Essay: His Holiness speaks out against gay marriage. http://j.mp/f3lgUl (heterosexual marriage, too!) 933
Dec 5 2010: Sometimes failure is your best option and accepting it is your wisest move. You have to lose some battles to win others. 934
Dec 5 2010: "Clever" is an ingenious solution to a problem. That's different from "wise", which is solving the right problem. 935
Dec 5 2010: Life gives you too many problems and not enough resources. Your challenge is to choose the right problems to solve. 936
Dec 5 2010: The Rapture has been moved up to 5/21/11: http://j.mp/ik4fRL Some looting is expected as the good Christians depart, but we wish them well. 937
Dec 5 2010: Boredom and entertainment are similar: a surrendering of ones time and the responsibility for it. 938
Dec 5 2010: The number of vain, unproductive hobbies you can engage in is limited only by the time and money at your disposal. 939
Dec 5 2010: Government measures to protect the public, once implemented, rarely go away, even after the threat had passed. 940
Dec 5 2010: Comedy, like candy, is best as a rare treat. Just because something is funny doesn't mean you should consume it every day. 941
Dec 5 2010: No theory alone can adequately prepare you for reality. You have to experiment and make some mistakes before you fully understand. 942
Dec 5 2010: RT @princeboucher: @BadDalaiLama is way cooler than the original @DalaiLama #speaksotrue 943
Dec 5 2010: What makes a person "old" is not the deterioration of the body but an accumulation of investments that makes them unwilling to change. 944
Dec 5 2010: Every televangelist is a latent disgraced televangelist. 945
Dec 5 2010: @princeboucher "I'm loving this @BadDalaiLama guy! Spits straight fire and truth!" — Watch out, some of that fire might be heading your way! 946
Dec 5 2010: He who advocates total openness in diplomatic affairs should feel no discomfort seeing his own private emails placed on public view. 947
Dec 5 2010: The most precious right of individuals and organizations is private deliberation. Final decisions are public. The internal debate is not. 948
Dec 5 2010: To reach just and reasonable decisions, one must be free to think unjust and unreasonable thoughts so they may be tested and discarded. 949
Dec 5 2010: RT @oliverburkeman: !! RT @researchdigest: A successful replication of the Bem reverse-psi effect study: http://ht.ly/3k9o5 Background: ... 950
Dec 5 2010: Coming soon: WikiYou! Ex romantic partners and jealous co-workers post the contents of your hard drive, browser cache, texts and emails. 951
Dec 6 2010: Coming to TV: "Reality Diplomacy". Cameras follow US diplomats, broadcast their strategy meetings and personal feelings during world crises. 952
Dec 6 2010: New Essay: "The Limits of Selfishness" http://j.mp/hXtfwA - Tearing into that Ayn Rand bitch! 953
Dec 6 2010: The main fallacy of romance is thinking someone else can give your life meaning when you can't find it yourself. 954
Dec 6 2010: Any idiot can be an anarchist. It takes brains and wisdom to build real workable solutions. 955
Dec 6 2010: People who say "You should write a book," are still trapped in the 20th Century. 956
Dec 6 2010: RT @philo_quotes: The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. ~ William James http://bit.ly/philq 957
Dec 6 2010: "Total transparency would be good for the society. isn't it?" @sashazykov — Then you should practice it. Show us your passwords, your email. 958
Dec 6 2010: Discretion is the cornerstone of human relationships. 959
Dec 6 2010: His Holiness is loathe to retweet his old wisdom, but this is relevant: http://twitter.com/BadDalaiLama/status/24903779291 960
Dec 6 2010: RT @ambientFen: @BadDalaiLama Anarchists tear down indiscriminately. Assange reveals indiscriminately, with the intention of tearing dow ... 961
Dec 6 2010: "Individuals and institutions should have different rules of transparency." @Knigel — Then military should reveal all operations beforehand. 962
Dec 6 2010: Openness keeps governments honest but also makes them incompetent. Now they must please everyone and reveal every plan. Little gets done. 963
Dec 6 2010: No meaningful work can be accomplished in the full glare of public scrutiny. 964
Dec 6 2010: It is hard to resist temptation if a box of enticing chocolates is sitting in front of you. Get rid of it or remove yourself. 965
Dec 6 2010: If you like to dance along the edge of death, one wouldn't be surprised if, just once, it reached up and grabbed you by the heels. 966
Dec 6 2010: People choose beliefs that support their existing investments. Evidence is then selected to support those beliefs. 967
Dec 6 2010: For the Greatest Hits of the Bad Dalai Lama, follow @BadLamaDaily! One retweet per day of his past Holy Wisdom. Catch what you've missed! 968
Dec 6 2010: You can't explain narcissism to a narcissist. 969
Dec 6 2010: RT @DrStrangeBalls: @BadDalaiLama Your post about getting rid of the box of chocolates reminds me of this: http://j.mp/aUCsCd 970
Dec 6 2010: Spectator politics is jeering from the stands but not joining the game. It gives passive, sedentary people the illusion of action. 971
Dec 6 2010: The Liberal/Conservative debate is as old as politics itself, with rational arguments on both sides. Emotional convenience makes the choice. 972
Dec 6 2010: We would be happy to hear your political opinions if you are running for public office and plan to use them. Otherwise, it's just hot air. 973
Dec 7 2010: If all the empty, ineffective words expended on national politics were converted to action in local politics, something might get done! 974
Dec 7 2010: Where do vampires get their hair cut? For zombies and werewolves it's not an issue, but vampires always look so... well groomed! 975
Dec 7 2010: Every hour of every day, the question must be asked: "Is this the best thing I can do with my time?" 976
Dec 7 2010: Photos: HHBDL on the island of St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands: http://j.mp/gxzbiC - A little slice of Paradise! 977
Dec 7 2010: Judging by boy bands through the ages, girls like boys with hair like girls'. 978
Dec 7 2010: You can talk about it all you want, but the rewards go to those who stop talking and do it! 979
Dec 7 2010: What sucks up your life is "infrastructure maintenance"—cleaning, walking the dog, etc. Reduce these things and you'll have more life left. 980
Dec 7 2010: Many talk about social media, but few will use it for anything meaningful—like talking about the road but never traveling it. 981
Dec 7 2010: The only legitimate debate in politics is government power and how and when it should be used. 982
Dec 7 2010: Many of the solutions people create for themselves are appalling to us, but if the basic job gets done without our help, we can't complain. 983
Dec 7 2010: Ratio of talkers to doers: easily 10000 to 1. 984
Dec 7 2010: Love is a fairy tale of holy grails, magic swords, imperiled virgins and dragon-slaying heroes who can't possibly live up to their billing. 985
Dec 7 2010: When starting a new religion, your finest stroke of luck is to be persecuted. Then you can play the victim for millennia! 986
Dec 7 2010: Your favorite storybook characters come alive!... but you have to go to Disney World to see them because Disney owns every damn one. 987
Dec 7 2010: The Malthusian Dilemma says that when you feed the hungry their population expands, creating just as much misery as before. 988
Dec 7 2010: Good intentions are useless without a healthy dose of Machiavellian strategy. 989
Dec 7 2010: The most vapid form of travel is the cruise. You can't find a more artificial environment outside of a video game. 990
Dec 7 2010: Never give up on your dreams—unless they're narcissistic, unobtainable dreams ignoring the opportunities around you. 991
Dec 7 2010: The most dangerous substance on Earth: hubris. 992
Dec 7 2010: The Wisdom Archive has been updated at: http://BadDalaiLama.com/archive/ - With a nifty new search system! Searching for love? Find it here! 993
Dec 7 2010: Survival, in modern times, isn't about keeping yourself alive but maintaining the huge bubble of obligations you have created around you. 994
Dec 8 2010: Some of the most dangerous drivers on the road are the wimps who won't make the bold moves necessary to merge into traffic. 995
Dec 8 2010: If someone tells you he has found a fantastic way to beat the system, come back six months later to see if the system hasn't beaten him. 996
Dec 8 2010: Photos: HHBDL in Barcelona, Spain: Rambla http://j.mp/gKX56j Modern http://j.mp/eZfJSr Old http://j.mp/gS538V Night http://j.mp/gmjL5V 997
Dec 8 2010: When life gets too easy, people instinctively create barriers for themselves to give it the illusion of substance. 998
Dec 8 2010: The Rip Van Winkle Effect is when you step into a career then step put of it 20 years later wondering, "What? Huh? What happened?" 999
Dec 8 2010: It's your choice: engage in the core business of life or enslave yourself to its peripheral infrastructure. 1000
Dec 8 2010: The Personality Paradox: (A) Yes, people can change, but (B) No, you can't change them. 1001
Dec 8 2010: People become the roles they play. 1002
Dec 8 2010: People follow the Good @DalaiLama because he doesn't tweet much, he offends no one, and people can say, "I follow the Dalai Lama!" 1003
Dec 8 2010: Watch "Megamind"! Earnest bad guy yapping at the heels of a too-good superhero. Yup, we can identify! 1004
Dec 8 2010: Intellect shuts down when investments get in the way. 1005
Dec 8 2010: RT @TheBosha: Of course honesty increases with age, it takes a lot of youthful energy to bullshit people. 1006
Dec 8 2010: In romance, it can be hard to distinguish what's really there from what we desperately want to be there. 1007
Dec 8 2010: Truth is the hypothesis that is borne out by eventual fact. 1008Dec 8 2010: Video Essay #11: What is Truth? http://youtu.be/m6bGd0TZpeI - From Ithaca, NY. Truth is pretty simple really. ←Our original YouTube video [more] 1009
Dec 8 2010: One of the saddest experiences is when a fantastic opportunity comes your way but can't take it due to prior commitments. 1010
Dec 8 2010: You can't plan on unexpected opportunities, but you can plan on being in a position to take advantage of them. 1011
Dec 8 2010: Life planning is a balance between the commitments necessary to get things done and the preservation of future discretion. 1012
Dec 9 2010: No matter how well you think you have planned your life, it will change in ways you never expected. 1013
Dec 9 2010: The neutralizing of future discretion should not be mistaken for a declaration of love. 1014
Dec 9 2010: A "first adopter" is the sucker with too much disposable income who buys a product when it first comes out. Also known as a "guinea pig". 1015
Dec 9 2010: The reward of any endeavor lies not only in the end result but in what you learn in the process. 1016
Dec 9 2010: Most of what passes for "fun" is dull repetition of something that used to be fun. 1017
Dec 9 2010: There isn't much accomplishment in filling up a hole if you're the one who dug it. 1018
Dec 9 2010: The chief advantage of flying First Class is being able to say you did. 1019
Dec 9 2010: news—n. an inexhaustible supply of daily happenings of little significance, designed chiefly to titillate and appall. 1020
Dec 9 2010: .@PoulsNocturne Yes, His Holiness schedules his tweets via @HootSuite. Most important: A waiting period between brain and mouth. 1021
Dec 9 2010: Many of life's tragedies could be avoided if only there was an enforced waiting period between brain and mouth. 1022
Dec 9 2010: Existential regret is the recognition that one has made a profound error in ones own life. 1023
Dec 9 2010: "It's sad to belong to someone else when the right one comes along." — That's existential regret! 1024
Dec 9 2010: "Open the pod bay doors please, Hal." http://plixi.com/p/61893049 1025
Dec 9 2010: Existential regret is being sentenced to life in prison for a crime you DID commit. 1026
Dec 9 2010: @DalaiLama Provided your "best" is always getting better and your compassion isn't wasteful. 1027
Dec 9 2010: Even superheroes have to stop and do their laundry. People are going to die, but you can't be flying around in a soiled supersuit. 1028
Dec 9 2010: To find meaning in life, you need only avoid pain with as much foresight as possible. 1029
Dec 9 2010: The danger of philosophical inquiry is that it might turn out to be meaningful. 1030
Dec 9 2010: You can't choose the Red Pill and then say, "No, wait, I want the Blue Pill for this one little thing!" 1031
Dec 9 2010: Never decide today what you can put off 'til tomorrow (if there is no benefit in deciding now). It's good to preserve your options. 1032
Dec 9 2010: Our most essential right is the secrecy of our own thoughts. 1033
Dec 9 2010: Also follow @BadLamaDaily! This low-volume feed (1-2/day) lets us retweet HHBDL's past wisdom relevant to current topics. http://j.mp/hJtRYD 1034
Dec 10 2010: The paradox of jealousy is that it drives away the person you are jealous about. 1035
Dec 10 2010: It's nice to have a "Plan B", but sometimes you have to wing it without one. 1036
Dec 10 2010: The world gives you two artistic choices: Either you do things well or you do them to make money. 1037
Dec 10 2010: As a forest needs fire to clear out the dead wood, we all need an occasional catastrophe to burn off our delusions. 1038
Dec 10 2010: Mickey, Minnie, Mighty and Jerry — the four famous faces on Mouse Rushmore. 1039
Dec 10 2010: Amazing, Fantastic, Exhilarating, Extraordinary, Nutritious, Healthy, Beautiful, Powerful... Get Your Meaningless Advertising Words Here! 1040
Dec 10 2010: The ego is biggest in those who least deserve it. 1041
Dec 10 2010: The law is a like a Whac-A-Mole game: Every problem solved makes another one pop up elsewhere. 1042
Dec 10 2010: Long #ff lists are annoying and not very useful. If someone is good, don't tell us but show us by retweeting their best stuff. 1043
Dec 10 2010: Legalized gambling boosts the local economy only in the same sense that methamphetamine gives you energy. 1044
Dec 10 2010: The best way to guarantee judicial incompetence is selecting judges by popular vote. 1045
Dec 10 2010: It used to be steak on payday and beans the rest of the week. With credit, it's now steak for a few years then beans the rest of your life. 1046
Dec 10 2010: RT @Uneven_Pavement: #FF @baddalailama cuz he's a big hitter, the bad llama is! His wedge puts his brother to shame! I'll use the pool... 1047
Dec 10 2010: The likelihood of your dreams coming true depends on how restrictive they are. The bigger your target, the more likely you'll hit it. 1048
Dec 10 2010: It is good to have dreams and goals but not to be trapped by them if something better comes along. 1049
Dec 10 2010: People with money can pay others to solve their problems. Without it, we are forced to deal with life more honestly and efficiently. 1050
Dec 10 2010: We have added a collection of Holy Blurbs to the right margin of our home page: http://BadDalaiLama.com - Do #ff all these Enlightened Ones! 1051
Dec 10 2010: The first step in romance is the mythologizing of potential partners. They become perfect gods or goddesses capable of rescuing us. 1052
Dec 10 2010: If you market yourself as a myth, don't be surprised if people start believing it. They'll see the myth and not you. 1053
Dec 10 2010: "Don't ask, don't tell." — Isn't that an element in every relationship? 1054
Dec 10 2010: Discovery is unpredictable but not random. It happens mainly when we invest in exploration. 1055
Dec 10 2010: The risk of exploration is that it will reveal flaws in our existing investments. That's why most people never leave home. 1056
Dec 11 2010: However you are doing things now, there's probably a cheaper and better way. You just have to experiment to find it. 1057Dec 11 2010: Video Essay #12: People Can Change, But You Can't Change Them. http://youtu.be/OBIGnQlC9ko - From the woods of Massachusetts ←Our original YouTube video [more] 1058
Dec 11 2010: We all have a primal need for "witnesses"—beings more powerful than ourselves taking notice of what we are doing. 1059
Dec 11 2010: Sadists and serial killers are seeking acknowledgment. Turns out, people will pay more attention to you if you're killing them. 1060
Dec 11 2010: We are all performing for others, asking to be judged, and if not judged positively, at least to be feared. By any means, to be noticed. 1061
Dec 11 2010: Why do adults sit in classrooms to learn things from textbooks? Can't they just read the book directly and cut out the middle man? 1062
Dec 11 2010: "Adult Education" implies a passive adult without the initiative to teach himself. 1063
Dec 11 2010: The best sleeping pill is a full day of accomplishment. 1064
Dec 11 2010: Sleep is your body's scheduled maintenance period. You can't cheat on maintenance and expect to remain in top form. 1065
Dec 11 2010: The only honest sleep is without an alarm clock. 1066
Dec 11 2010: RT @AngryDalaiLama: If you have love and compassion towards all living beings, you're going to get fucking killed out there. 1067
Dec 11 2010: The law is a blunt instrument, more like a sledgehammer than a scalpel. It pummels problems, but there's always collateral damage. 1068
Dec 11 2010: "I always tell the truth because having to remember lies would give me conniptions." @NorthernMagic 1069
Dec 11 2010: If you believe in willpower, you'll have it. If you don't, you won't. Psychology Today: http://su.pr/2VyE0J via @laurenahayes and @abmarkman 1070
Dec 11 2010: If we all followed Thoreau's advice to "Simplify, simplify," live efficiently and own only what you need...our whole economy would collapse! 1071
Dec 11 2010: Photo: Thoreau's cabin in the woods. (precisely geotagged for your convenience) Concord, Mass. http://plixi.com/p/62333141 1072Dec 11 2010: The Pigeons of St. Marks Square, Venice, Italy. Travel Video:http://youtu.be/drqCITD_GxI (July 2010) - One of His Holiness' best! ←Our original YouTube video [more] 1073
Dec 11 2010: The college student is invested in the parading of knowledge and the expounding of opinions untested by experience. 1074
Dec 11 2010: There is no wisdom without irony. 1075Dec 11 2010: Video Essay #13: In the Footsteps of Thoreau at Walden Pond http://youtu.be/7Yrj7Blai7c - From Thoreau's cabin site in Concord, Mass. Today. ←Our original YouTube video [more] 1076
Dec 11 2010: Government is inevitable and inevitably inept. 1077
Dec 12 2010: A healthy life can be lived only in the peripheral vision of the law, not under its direct gaze. 1078
Dec 12 2010: When people feel they have been wronged, they don't want justice; they want Judge Judy justice (public humiliation of their opponent). 1079
Dec 12 2010: Classic paranoiacs: Ted Kaczynski, Howard Hughes, Richard Nixon, Hitler, Saddam, conspiracists, cult leaders, you, me. 1080
Dec 12 2010: Death is inevitable, but old is a choice. 1081Dec 12 2010: Stumbled upon this YouTube girl while searching for "existential" http://youtu.be/cfZHutu1wS8 A little spacey but appealing. #existentialcat ←Our original YouTube video [more] 1082
Dec 12 2010: Let's be honest: The bear shape has no relevance to the flavor of the Gummi Bear. #mythbusting 1083
Dec 12 2010: If you have failed at something, it is easier to believe in a conspiracy than accept your own responsibility for the failure. 1084
Dec 12 2010: While it is within your power to learn anything (Greek, Kanji, particle physics), the question is whether it's the best thing you can learn. 1085
Dec 12 2010: "Has it occurred to @DalaiLama that people behave differently around Dalai Lamas?" @KayM77 1086
Dec 12 2010: "Evolution has no foresight, no sense of where its work will go." Smithsonian http://su.pr/51s8hV 1087
Dec 12 2010: Half of life is knowing the rules. The other half is knowing when to break them. 1088
Dec 12 2010: Why do you need civil rights? Because law enforcement will always be a flawed human operation with a built-in bias toward guilt. 1089
Dec 12 2010: "Are we truly experiencing existential angst or are we just spoiled brats?" @pau_v — Is there a difference? 1090
Dec 12 2010: Police owe their existence—and ego—to crime. If they can't find it, they are nobody. Find it, and they become powerful. That's the bias. 1091
Dec 12 2010: RT @pau_v: @BadDalaiLama You're prolly computerized, but I'd like to answer you anyway for fun! Yes there is a difference. I did say fin ... 1092
Dec 12 2010: @pau_v "You're prolly computerized..." <== I'm not prolly computerized! His Holiness is only computer assisted in tweet scheduling. 1093
Dec 12 2010: Just by interacting with law enforcement you run the risk of being accused of a crime, so you want to limit that interaction. 1094
Dec 12 2010: Police can always find more or less crime by adjusting their tolerance. "Speeding" can start at 5 mph above the limit or 15. They choose. 1095
Dec 12 2010: Whenever a member of a legacy rock group gets a degree in astrophysics, it makes me sad. They had so much more impact with their music. 1096
Dec 12 2010: Some of history's most acclaimed leaders were merely figureheads who happened to be at the bow of the ship when it was turning. 1097
Dec 12 2010: Instead of keeping a gun at your bedside to shoot intruders, try a stick of dynamite. Cheaper, as dangerous and as likely to hit the mark. 1098
Dec 12 2010: The alien data is in! UFO sightings, plotted geographically, tend to cluster around cities where there are UFO groups. 1099
Dec 12 2010: @princeboucher "Did WikiLeaks release it?" <== No. Kinda suspicious, all this diplo traffic but no UFO data. WHEN WILL WIKILEAKS COME CLEAN? 1100
Dec 12 2010: Photos: Lowell, Massachusetts, site of today's video essay DEFENDING SECRECY (coming tonight): http://RoamingPhotos.com/a?lowell 1101
Dec 12 2010: Nothing enrages the borderline so much as you offering solutions. They don't want solutions. They want you to be as miserable as they are. 1102
Dec 12 2010: The downside of love is the loss of control over your own destiny. 1103
Dec 13 2010: Never trust a country music singer who tells you how faithful he's going to be. Them good 'ole boys got a poor track record. 1104Dec 13 2010: Video Essay #14: "In Defense of Secrecy" http://youtu.be/lZI0UqoqeFU — From under a bridge in Lowell, Mass., our response to #wikileaks ←Our original YouTube video [more] 1105
Dec 13 2010: family — n. a shared delusional system by which dysfunctions are transferred from one generation to the next. 1106
Dec 13 2010: Given freedom, most people will move to quickly neutralize it, preferring lives of dull repetition to the anxiety of ongoing choice. 1107
Dec 13 2010: Bored cops are the most dangerous. They will detect more "crime" than busy ones, sometimes more than actually exists. 1108
Dec 13 2010: Ego is the opposite of what it presents itself as. Big ego = low self-esteem. Those with high self-esteem don't parade it around like that. 1109
Dec 13 2010: Virtual reality is not reality. The value of all actions in cyberspace ultimately derives from concrete actions in the real world. 1110
Dec 13 2010: Reality is the ultimate video game. It has more levels of complexity, more unexpected twists than any game created by man. 1111
Dec 13 2010: Social media, without an anchor in the real world, is merely addiction. 1112
Dec 13 2010: "It is only in our decisions that we are important."—Sartre 1113
Dec 13 2010: "The brain is oriented to make sense of the world even if the result is unenjoyable." Research on curiosity: http://su.pr/1uOkaa 1114
Dec 13 2010: Wine and cheese: junk food of the Middle Ages. 1000 years from now, we'll probably be treating Hostess Twinkies with the same reverence. 1115
Dec 13 2010: "One of the human mind's chief preoccupations is prediction." WSJ http://su.pr/7ZYVX0 via @NewMindMirror 1116
Dec 13 2010: Music is a software problem. The singer gets all the glory, but the real credit should go to the programmer who wrote the notes and words. 1117
Dec 13 2010: If you try to please everyone, you'll end up pleasing no one. 1118
Dec 13 2010: Photos: A Day at the Museum (Harvard Natural History Museum) http://j.mp/fLlbCJ - Mar. 08. Cool skeletons and stuff! 1119
Dec 13 2010: For learning about philosophy, personality, mental illness and human delusional systems there is no finer laboratory than a failed romance. 1120
Dec 13 2010: Most of the things you now see as essential are only imaginary barriers you have created for yourself to avoid the anxiety of choice. 1121
Dec 13 2010: It is amazing what we can comfortably do without when forced to, but we are loathe to give these things up on our own. 1122
Dec 13 2010: Photos from Harvard University, setting of tonight's video essay, QUALITY & DECEPTION (coming soon) http://roamingphotos.com/a?harvard 1123Dec 13 2010: A clear evolutionary trend. Notice the increased cranial capacity. http://twitpic.com/3fnnnu←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1124
Dec 13 2010: Two devastating wars and a shattered economy, but that's not important now. The main thing is, George is looking good and feeling positive. 1125
Dec 13 2010: The needless risk-taking of youth is usually replaced by pathological risk aversion in old age. 1126
Dec 13 2010: Pity the suburban homeowner, trapped in their self-made prison, thrilled to death to see a certain breed of bird appear at their birdfeeder. 1127
Dec 13 2010: Here again, for your shopping pleasure, our "Wal-Mart Christmas Carol" http://j.mp/S6l3a - You don't have to pay for it now! 1128
Dec 14 2010: "Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely."—Rodin <== Yes, but you must still seek the most useful experiences. 1129
Dec 14 2010: Thank God for breeders—people willing to put their lives on hold for 20 years to propagate our species. More power to 'em! 1130
Dec 14 2010: In this Holiday Season, let us not forget those millions who gave their lives, at starvation wages, to defend our Always Low Prices. 1131
Dec 14 2010: A natural corollary of freedom is loneliness. 1132
Dec 14 2010: The world cannot be saved virtually. Non-virtual intervention will be required. 1133
Dec 14 2010: High Definition only makes my hatred of television more refined. 1134
Dec 14 2010: Money is poison to truth. 1135
Dec 14 2010: Anything "good" also has its dark side. If you can't see it, then you haven't grasped the whole picture. 1136
Dec 14 2010: "The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well." - Joe Ancis via @linkibol 1137
Dec 14 2010: FACEBOOK CRIMEWAVE! Facebook crimes up 540% in 3 years. Police chiefs sound the alarm. http://bit.ly/fa5h7S (Duh! Who was on FB 3 yrs ago?) 1138
Dec 14 2010: His Holiness compassionately stars tweets he likes. Check our Favorites every day for articles and wisdom intruding into His Consciousness. 1139
Dec 14 2010: RT @GreatestQuotes: "There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure." - Colin L. ... 1140
Dec 14 2010: RT @philoquotes: We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people. ~ Schopenhauer 1141
Dec 14 2010: It is a form of child abuse to raise a child in conditions of wealth and privilege he can never reasonably attain himself. 1142
Dec 14 2010: .@rejecter: "This day started with me signing for a package of salmon in my underwear." <== What were the salmon doing in your underwear?!?! 1143
Dec 14 2010: No one cries for the "poor little rich kids" but their adjustment to adult life can be difficult and traumatic as anyone else's. 1144
Dec 14 2010: Real estate is so 20th Century. 1145
Dec 14 2010: Freedom, in practice, means anxiety, uncertainty, loneliness and constant awareness of how close you are to the edge. 1146
Dec 14 2010: The opposite of freedom is entrusting your fate to someone else. 1147
Dec 14 2010: Face fact: No one is going to rescue you. 1148Dec 14 2010: Mystery location. Identify. http://twitpic.com/3fxcjw←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1149
Dec 14 2010: "Intelligent people live longer—the correlation is as strong as that between smoking and premature death." Sci American http://j.mp/gZIoZK 1150
Dec 14 2010: ...or stated differently: Stupidity is as damaging to your health as smoking. SO STOP BEING STUPID. Just quit. You can do it! 1151
Dec 14 2010: Reality is like a video game but better designed, with more complexity levels and bigger rewards and risks. Caveat: You die only once. 1152
Dec 14 2010: RT @noahWG: Old people are worthless. At least to big companies with big advertising budgets. But can social media change that? http://b ... 1153
Dec 14 2010: Lord, give me the serenity to deal with my parents without going ballistic. Help me accept what I cannot change—which is everything. Amen. 1154
Dec 14 2010: It is better to be real than perfect. 1155
Dec 14 2010: Pro Tip: When people ask, "How are you?" they don't really mean it. If you can't be positive, no one wants to hear it. 1156
Dec 14 2010: The future is here! Instant communication with anyone via our handheld devices. We should all be wearing Rudi Gernreich moon suits! 1157
Dec 15 2010: Language Police: "cowboy" and "cowgirl" are sexist and belittling. From now on: "cowperson". Thank you for your cooperation. 1158
Dec 15 2010: Beauty can be an ugly business. 1159
Dec 15 2010: WikiLeaks: Lots of fun, lots of little trinkets to take home—like casual looting after an earthquake. 1160
Dec 15 2010: Music is the subcarrier of language. Before an infant knows any words, he learns the song of his language. 1161Dec 15 2010: Video Essay #15: From the Harvard Museum of Natural History, "Quality and Deception" http://youtu.be/zYU84symCCM - With free museum tour! ←Our original YouTube video [more] 1162
Dec 15 2010: In Ireland, most language on the street that you think is Gaelic is really just English, all slurred up by a few too many! 1163
Dec 15 2010: Inflammation of the brain caused by too much thinking can be quickly treated by the application of alcohol, cannabis or television. 1164
Dec 15 2010: To be happily married, it helps to be deluded. Time: http://j.mp/gTwxj8 1165
Dec 15 2010: "neurotic — those who tend to view life as a state invented so that bad things could happen to them." http://j.mp/gJFmSa Sounds borderline. 1166
Dec 15 2010: Best way to deal with a neurotic (borderline) spouse? Leave. Seriously, it's best for both of you. 1167
Dec 15 2010: "I'm more impressed with the fact that the @DalaiLama has a Twitter account than with his words of wisdom." @lynniekitt 1168
Dec 15 2010: .@DalaiLama Correction: The aims of religion are to help people escape their responsibility and to give more power to religious leaders. 1169
Dec 15 2010: On My Bucket List: Become morbidly obese, use an electric scooter, park in handicap spaces and demand special attention for my "disability". [See Full Bucket List] 1170
Dec 15 2010: Music isn't just music. It's our worldwide religion! More people can sing a Beatles tune than any hymn. 1171
Dec 15 2010: Photos: 1000 Greeks singing Beatles songs. Athens, June 21, 2009. http://j.mp/icfJmV 1172
Dec 15 2010: The subtlety of acting is in the eyes. 1173
Dec 15 2010: Anarchy is always in fashion. It's easy to tear things down, fun to watch the demolition, but then what? 1174
Dec 15 2010: You gotta admire Al Franken, regardless of his politics. Instead of sniping from the outside like most, he moved from talk to action. 1175
Dec 15 2010: It is easier to succeed without fixed goals. Instead, pursue "meta goals"—general outcomes that will serve your needs. 1176
Dec 15 2010: No war was ever won without some strategic retreats. 1177
Dec 15 2010: .@heckadecimal: "God, you're righteous." <== I am not God, just a humble lama. 1178
Dec 15 2010: Cats, like humans, are not easily trained, but if you put out food, they will come, and you can set conditions on giving it. 1179
Dec 15 2010: Fatalism is a self-fulfilling prophesy. 1180Dec 15 2010: Chicago (right now) ==> That's all most people use their freedom for: to choose their own addictive substances. http://twitpic.com/3g8jsm←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1181
Dec 15 2010: Freedom is your ability to adapt to unexpected changes in yourself and the world around you. 1182Dec 15 2010: Millennium Park in Chicago, site of our next inspirational video. http://twitpic.com/3g8zvc←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1183
Dec 15 2010: Today is the 3-month birthday of His Holiness. The score: @BadDalaiLama: 690. Some other lama: 1,138,226 1184
Dec 15 2010: Hard work and perseverance have their virtues, but intelligence and wise decision making are more valuable. 1185
Dec 16 2010: Aliens did not create the problems of Planet Earth. It is unreasonable to expect them to save us. 1186
Dec 16 2010: Language Police: "dinosaur" is derogatory, implying something inefficient, overgrown and destined for oblivion. Use "jurassic reptile". 1187
Dec 16 2010: Technology, schmectology! You still need Vanna White to turn the letters. 1188
Dec 16 2010: Oz legitimized the Scarecrow by giving him an advanced degree. It's amazing how many buffoons we respect based on the same criteria. 1189
Dec 16 2010: The usual penalty for mistakes in life is some form of imprisonment. 1190
Dec 16 2010: In childhood, there was someone looking out for us. In adulthood there isn't. Between the two is a difficult and painful transition. 1191
Dec 16 2010: Twitter and Facebook let you indulge in narcissism but also make you see how few people care. 1192
Dec 16 2010: The First Class traveler is a crippled one, cut off from most of the world by his own luxury requirements. 1193
Dec 16 2010: .@laurenahayes "Fox News Makes You Stupid" http://bit.ly/fLx2fc <== The causal link is tenuous, as Fox viewers are already stupid. 1194
Dec 16 2010: In an intellectually bifurcated society, the smart get smarter while the dumb get dumber. Then those dumb suckers breed! 1195
Dec 16 2010: On My Bucket List: Buy an expensive RV, make one trip across the country then store it in my backyard for the next 10 years. [See Full Bucket List] 1196
Dec 16 2010: The 4th body of a strangled, nude young woman has been discovered in Philadelphia. "It is a suspicious death," said Police Commissioner. 1197Dec 16 2010: Just your ordinary crippled harpist on the Washington Metro. http://twitpic.com/3gggw7←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1198
Dec 16 2010: Education is the refuge of the semi-competent. 1199
Dec 16 2010: Most of the Einsteins and Edisons of the world have been self-taught, with little patience for schooling. 1200
Dec 16 2010: North Korea wouldn't be the belligerent character it is if it didn't in some way serve China's interests. 1201
Dec 16 2010: Enlightenment is "fukasetsu"—beyond words—but so is everything else, like driving or skiing. Words are crude instruments. cc:@laurenahayes 1202
Dec 16 2010: Twitter taught me brevity. 1203Dec 16 2010: Video #15, from Chicago's Millennium Park: "Goals and How to Achieve Them" http://youtu.be/fZ4d0Q9BFPY (not our most coherent) ←Our original YouTube video [more] 1204
Dec 16 2010: The most important lesson you learn in foreign countries is what things are universal. 1205Dec 16 2010: Archive Video: "Message from a Tribal Elder in New Mexico" http://youtu.be/iSiNNb-MbZo Please gamble responsibly. (One of our first videos) ←Our original YouTube video [more] 1206
Dec 17 2010: It seems unconscionable to bring a new child into the world when there are already millions here with inadequate care. 1207
Dec 17 2010: "Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer"—a cynical story of power and influence. You're nobody until the big guy picks you, then everyone loves you. 1208
Dec 17 2010: "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" describes the ultimate police state. Big Brother sees and knows all. Even pouting gets you in trouble! 1209
Dec 17 2010: Dogs live in a perpetual "now". Humans live in the past or future but hardly ever in the now. 1210Dec 17 2010: Don't resort to Plan 9 from Outer Space until you've exhausted your eight plans on Earth. http://twitpic.com/3egwhx←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1211
Dec 17 2010: On every planet in the universe there are mathematical constants like Pi and existential ones like freedom, death and regret. 1212
Dec 17 2010: Language Police: "smart" has connotations of elitism and superiority. Use "idiocy challenged". 1213
Dec 17 2010: While discrimination by race or gender is deplorable, little attention has been paid to our society's marginalization of smart people. 1214
Dec 17 2010: Smart people have little power in our society because they're immune to advertising, don't buy much and are a tiny minority of voters. 1215
Dec 17 2010: National debts are the great nuclear bombs of our time, more devastating, deadly and long-lasting than anything North Korea can cook up. 1216
Dec 17 2010: If you doubt the potential speed of evolution, look at the many breeds of dogs, mostly created by human selection within historical times. 1217Dec 17 2010: .@Knigel "How do you know how dogs think?" <== Some of my best friends are dogs. They tell me. (Samson in NC) http://twitpic.com/3gp7h2←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1218
Dec 17 2010: .@URGodAlso "Where are the smart people? I thought they ran companies & bought politicians..." <== You call that smart? (smart = wise) 1219
Dec 17 2010: Just because someone holds a high position in society doesn't make them wise. It only means they're crafty. 1220
Dec 17 2010: Statistically, income rises with intelligence, but only up to a point, then it starts falling. Why would that be? 1221
Dec 17 2010: The Wisdom Archive has been updated: http://BadDalaiLama.com/archive — Please help rescue old tweets from oblivion by retweeting them! 1222
Dec 17 2010: Wisdom has many outward manifestations—calmness, humor, grace under pressure—but material success isn't necessarily one of them. 1223
Dec 17 2010: On My Bucket List: Become a drag queen and own a nightclub where other drag queens hang out and take advantage of me horribly. [See Full Bucket List] 1224
Dec 17 2010: When a product promises to "kill 99.9% of germs", it is really breeding stronger germs (the 0.1% that survive). 1225
Dec 17 2010: RT @DOGENZEN: It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has wo ... 1226
Dec 17 2010: To walk down the street of any busy city is to witness a thousand forms of human slavery. 1227Dec 17 2010: A holiday self-portrait. Walmart, Lumberton, NC. http://twitpic.com/3gsnz4←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1228
Dec 17 2010: You can't lie to your dog. His nose knows. 1229
Dec 17 2010: Romance is not charity. You do it to enhance your own growth. If a relationship isn't doing that for you, you shouldn't be in it. 1230
Dec 17 2010: Casual sex is impossible. Sooner or later, someone is going to take it seriously. 1231
Dec 17 2010: RT @ederguillermo: Sigan a @BadDalaiLama si quieren ver la cruda, realidad. 1232
Dec 17 2010: "Try telling me that!" @S_BerlusconiPM (re: casual sex) <== We are very pleased to have Mr Silvio Berlusconi of Italy following us. Welcome! 1233
Dec 17 2010: Humans have far more sex than necessary for procreation. Females enjoy it even when not in estrus. Why? 1234
Dec 17 2010: The purpose of sex, in humans, is not just procreation but bonding, to encourage partners to stay together for child rearing. 1235
Dec 17 2010: Language Police: "boyfriend" and "girlfriend" are sexist and belittling. Use "personfriend". Thank you for your cooperation. 1236
Dec 18 2010: Progressive levels of senior care: In Home, Independent Living, Assisted Living, Alzheimer's Care, Nursing Home, Hospice Care, Funeral Home. 1237
Dec 18 2010: Society allows young people a reasonable period of creativity and freedom before settling into a normal adult life of debt and servitude. 1238
Dec 18 2010: RT @KilroyCafe: Billy Mays dead!!! But wait, there's more! Act now and get NO MORE BILLY MAYS INFOMERCIALS! Operators are standing by. 1239
Dec 18 2010: You can't erase your trace! In the 21st Century, everything you have ever done or will do, there will be a permanent record of it. 1240
Dec 18 2010: One human year is equivalent to 7 dog years or 26 Zuckerberg years. 1241
Dec 18 2010: Tron is supposed to be about these guys trapped in a software program. Like that's exotic. Do you know anyone who isn't? 1242
Dec 18 2010: Someone can be "smart" and "talented" but that's only part of the story. The rest is how they are emotionally invested. 1243
Dec 18 2010: Every new technology creates new diseases and breeds new parasites. 1244
Dec 18 2010: For every new object or obligation one acquires, there must be a corresponding release of an existing burden or the system overloads. 1245
Dec 18 2010: The Holy Grail of commerce is to make something for pennies and sell it for dollars. Examples: perfume, soft drinks, fashion. 1246
Dec 18 2010: "Emotional intelligence peaks in our 60s." http://su.pr/1xHOTI <== Does that mean we become more childish in our 70s and 80s? 1247
Dec 18 2010: @laurenahayes "Inspecting/critiquing/digesting is the new seeing/observing/accepting" <== Alas, the human brain only does the former. 1248
Dec 18 2010: See FavStar for the all-time Greatest Hits of His Holiness (as rated by our readers): http://favstar.fm/users/BadDalaiLama Also see "Recent" 1249
Dec 18 2010: On My Bucket List: Have an incurable, progressively degenerative disease named after me, like that lucky stiff Alzheimer. [See Full Bucket List] 1250
Dec 18 2010: Education requires that you slow your learning down to the pace of the instructor. 1251
Dec 18 2010: You can't own a home. A home owns you. 1252
Dec 18 2010: 99% of the consumer economy depends on the consumer having poor reasoning skills. 1253
Dec 18 2010: When you reduce TV, radio, news, websurfing and music to a minimum, you regain your brain and can begin to think again. 1254
Dec 18 2010: If you give the average person extra resources, he will only use them to dig himself a deeper hole. 1255
Dec 18 2010: After 9/11, it was a matter of civic pride that terrorists would target your city next. Every town in Kansas was prepared! 1256
Dec 18 2010: No human can obey every law and regulation. It's not possible and still get things done. You must decide which rules to comply with and why. 1257
Dec 18 2010: So Jesus was born of the Virgin Mary, who was married to Joseph. Does that mean married people didn't have sex back then? 1258
Dec 18 2010: Why did the tortoise cross the road? I'm afraid we'll never know. R.I.P. 1259Dec 18 2010: Video #16: "Universal Health Care: A Southern Perspective" http://youtu.be/FBKeMR3h6Kg - Funny and meaningful. ←Our original YouTube video [more] 1260
Dec 18 2010: Digital is the new slavery. 1261
Dec 19 2010: Each individual has built his life on a platform of delusion. It is not usually our role to pull it out from under him. 1262
Dec 19 2010: Language Police: "topless" has risqué and pornographic connotations. Use "topfree". http://j.mp/dYDSiU 1263
Dec 19 2010: Nothing says Christmas like festive holiday products made by Chinese slave labor. 1264
Dec 19 2010: The Devil always makes the same deal, and people always fall for it: sell your soul for the illusion of security. 1265
Dec 19 2010: Paranoia creates new enemies—real ones—where none previously existed. 1266
Dec 19 2010: Paranoia, once it reaches a certain level, is self-sustaining, creating new enemies to match those imagined. 1267
Dec 19 2010: History has never known an anarchist who actually improved the world. They're only remembered for starting wars and blowing things up. 1268Dec 19 2010: Chains are required on Donner Pass. http://twitpic.com/3hhrgb←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1269Dec 19 2010: And this is why chains are required on Donner Pass. (BTW: Chains are awesome! Turns your car into a snowmobile.) http://twitpic.com/3him33←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1270
Dec 19 2010: RT @Pokersoul: I will leave you now. Apparently the real world is real and some of the other accounts demand food. 1271
Dec 19 2010: How it looks only matters for the first 15 minutes. After that all that matters is how it works. 1272Dec 19 2010: Found a little elbow room in Northern Nevada. http://twitpic.com/3hjilh←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1273
Dec 19 2010: Get this straight: A peanut is not a "nut" but a legume, like peas and beans. When will the hypocrisy end? 1274
Dec 19 2010: On My Bucket List: Violate a restraining order. [See Full Bucket List] 1275
Dec 19 2010: Heroes are neither made nor born but are invented by the press whenever they are needed. 1276
Dec 19 2010: Your greatest thrill is the first. You repeat the same motions but sensation fades, until you're only remembering the thrill not feeling it. 1277
Dec 20 2010: The best way to show your love for HHBDL is to retweet him. Barring that, a simple star shows you care. Costs so little, means so much! 1278
Dec 20 2010: Our greatest instrument of growth is catastrophe, which forces us to make decisions we couldn't face otherwise. 1279
Dec 20 2010: Language Police: They aren't "Gypsies" anymore. They're "Romani people". Also: "Bohemians" are now "employment challenged". 1280
Dec 20 2010: Trying to capture love with marriage is like displaying a wild animal on your wall. As soon as you have nailed it down, you've killed it. 1281
Dec 20 2010: Art is the process of reducing reality to its simplest symbolic form. 1282
Dec 20 2010: You cannot walk through walls, but you can overcome any barrier of will or discomfort, simply by deciding to do it. 1283
Dec 20 2010: The easiest way to avoid temptation is to remove yourself from its vicinity. 1284
Dec 20 2010: Nirvana, on Earth, is being able to live your life as you know it should be lived, where your wishes and actions coincide. 1285
Dec 20 2010: You can make the best of any circumstance, but you should still try to choose the best circumstances. 1286
Dec 20 2010: A degree proves only that you can follow instructions, not your ability to think for yourself or solve real-world problems. 1287
Dec 20 2010: On My Bucket List: Get caught on tape in a misogynistic anti-Semitic tirade. [See Full Bucket List] 1288
Dec 20 2010: Do you have profound questions for His Holiness? DM or @ them to us and HHBDL may answer with a short essay or video. 1289
Dec 20 2010: Looking back on our worst mistakes, we can usually say: "I had the data. It was all in front of me. If only I had listened." 1290
Dec 20 2010: The wisest choice is usually the one that best promotes future choice. 1291Dec 20 2010: On the edge of the Great Salt Lake — the setting of our upcoming inspirational video, "The Problem with Love" http://twitpic.com/3hsn3f←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1292
Dec 20 2010: Cool beauty is perfect geometry, detached and inaccessible. Warm beauty is a smile, imperfect but real, that engages the viewer personally. 1293
Dec 20 2010: An honorable mission is to explore the world, learn how it works, make some mistakes, assemble some wisdom and convey it to others. 1294
Dec 20 2010: Parenting is not possible by positive reinforcement alone. From time to time, one has to inflict pain. 1295
Dec 20 2010: If you're a parent and your child wants something, don't just give it to him. Make him pay! Else what you give will be taken for granted. 1296Dec 20 2010: Rest area near Coalville, Utah. http://twitpic.com/3hukme←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1297
Dec 20 2010: Most of life's hardest falls stem from foolish decisions we made during moments of success. 1298
Dec 20 2010: Christmas is a holiday of "enforced giving". You don't have any choice. That's different from a spontaneous gift you give on your own. 1299
Dec 20 2010: Intellect isn't worth much if you aren't willing to apply it to your most emotional decisions. 1300
Dec 20 2010: You can never really know another person's thoughts, because the act of reporting the thoughts destroys them—like Heisenberg. 1301Dec 21 2010: Video #17: "The Problem with Love" http://youtu.be/Xun4mhWnuJU From Utah (today). The risk of love is losing control over your own destiny. ←Our original YouTube video [more] 1302
Dec 21 2010: What most people take for "thirst" is really an addict's craving for caffeine. Bodily fluid levels are fine. 1303
Dec 21 2010: The most dangerous people are those with absolute moral certainty about what should be done. 1304
Dec 21 2010: Most people make poor photographers because they can't separate their own feelings from what actually appears in the viewfinder. 1305
Dec 21 2010: Half the battle of life is learning to see what's actually in front of you instead of what you want to be there. 1306
Dec 21 2010: We construct our own romantic disasters. The opposite gender just fulfills them for us. 1307
Dec 21 2010: On My Bucket List: Listen to an entire country song from start to finish and take its advice to heart. [See Full Bucket List] 1308
Dec 21 2010: The law, in practice, is more an escape from responsibility than an expression of it. 1309Dec 21 2010: It's kitsch, but bearable. Denver International Airport. http://twitpic.com/3i4tro←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1310
Dec 21 2010: People usually choose their lifestyle based on how it looks in the brochure, not on how they actually experience it. 1311
Dec 21 2010: The cost of security is loss of freedom. 1312
Dec 21 2010: In love, as in cell phone contracts, pay-as-you-go is usually preferable to long commitments. 1313
Dec 22 2010: ...(Unless you get a free phone. But then again, is it really free?.. And a 2-year commitment, tops! Read the fine print before you sign.) 1314
Dec 22 2010: RT @ImAVeronica: "Don't use me" is scrawled in chalk on the washroom wall. I thought it was a lament, but it's instructions. To which I ... 1315
Dec 22 2010: Darn near the best existential song ever written: "Desperado" by the Eagles. 1316
Dec 22 2010: Probably the best song you've never heard: "Houdini's Box" by Jill Sobule. Check it out! 1317
Dec 22 2010: His Holiness will be spending Christmas in the most Christmassy place possible. Maximal Christmasositiness! 1318
Dec 22 2010: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but the word almost always refers to some form of graceful simplicity. 1319
Dec 22 2010: The right of privacy does not extend after death. 1320
Dec 22 2010: Privacy and secrecy are only temporary. Whatever you do, it will be known eventually. 1321
Dec 22 2010: It is plain enough to us when a friend gets drawn into an unproductive relationship. If only we had that same insight for ourselves! 1322
Dec 22 2010: Dreams, once fulfilled, often become prisons. 1323
Dec 22 2010: A true friend will tell you when you smell bad. 1324Dec 22 2010: Checked into my hostel in this very Christmassy place. 4 nights' lodging is setting me back $80. http://twitpic.com/3ifdle←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1325
Dec 22 2010: The brain is an analog system. Billions of connections but not one certainty. 1326
Dec 22 2010: Charity must never seem like charity. For the gift to be effective, the recipient must work for it. 1327
Dec 22 2010: Curiosity is the luxury of children and those with the freedom to change. 1328
Dec 22 2010: I'm in Jerusalem for Christmas, hoping to produce a few new videos for you. In the meantime, photos from my last visit: http://j.mp/ePqnpw 1329
Dec 22 2010: My hostel in Jerusalem: http://j.mp/giqAW6 - 75 Shekels a night! (Oy, vey—can you imagine such a thing!?) Location: http://j.mp/h0jMuV 1330
Dec 22 2010: "Hot" stocks (P:E > 25) are more like a game of Hot Potato. Everyone makes money except the sucker holding the potato when the stock tanks. 1331
Dec 23 2010: Today's hot new technology is tomorrow's hopeless dinosaur. 1332
Dec 23 2010: Every fast-growing company will eventually be crippled by its bigness and stop growing, to be outwitted by the next new thing. #facebook 1333
Dec 23 2010: People do their best work without a safety net. 1334
Dec 23 2010: There's not much money is supplying people's needs. Serving their addictions is far more lucrative! 1335
Dec 23 2010: "Merely getting into Harvard is as good an indicator of future success as actually going." http://bit.ly/ijKNOI via @laurenahayes 1336Dec 23 2010: In front of my hostel in Davidka Square, Jerusalem. More at http://j.mp/3Rrs7g - Going exploring now! http://twitpic.com/3inykm←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1337
Dec 23 2010: On My Bucket List: Start and maintain a stamp collection, because that's much more interesting than visiting actual countries. [See Full Bucket List] 1338Dec 23 2010: Awesome shot from the Muslim Quarter of Old Jerusalem! Now adding more to FB album: http://j.mp/2uwh9ghttp://twitpic.com/3iqp6w←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1339
Dec 23 2010: Just say "No" to tattoos! They (a) deteriorate with time and (b) commit you to a message you might not always agree with. 1340Dec 23 2010: Video #18: Jerusalem, Israel: Crossing the Old City. http://youtu.be/8Fzh5iNH65s - Intro tour from Damascus Gate to the Western Wall. Today! ←Our original YouTube video [more] 1341
Dec 23 2010: There's a certain freedom in not speaking a word of the local language. You can claim ignorance of local politics. 1342
Dec 23 2010: Today's best photos from Old Jerusalem! http://j.mp/fW8YAwhttp://j.mp/fsOejdhttp://j.mp/goxIk0http://j.mp/e5O1fChttp://j.mp/fn4Ahl 1343
Dec 24 2010: Monetary wealth should not be measured by income but by remaining freedom after commitments. 1344
Dec 24 2010: RT @NewMindMirror: A reversal on carbs: Are sugar and refined grains greater health risks than fat? - LA Times http://su.pr/2H5eIz #diet 1345
Dec 24 2010: The most common and disastrous mistake of life is to assume the trend of the moment is a permanent state of affairs. 1346
Dec 24 2010: Relationships are damaging when they disrupt the individual's direct negotiation with outside reality. 1347
Dec 24 2010: If I claimed to be a Christian, the first thing I'd do is come here—the Holy Land—to find out exactly what I'm buying into. 1348
Dec 24 2010: The two-parent family may still be the norm, but consistent parenting between them is rare. Sometimes, one is better! 1349
Dec 24 2010: There's not much money in supplying people's needs. Serving their addictions is far more lucrative! 1350
Dec 24 2010: Anyone can fly through the air like Superman! (But you can only go in one direction, and landing is a bitch.) 1351
Dec 24 2010: RT @JousinPalafox: @DalaiLama I apreciate your advice about happiness but you should follow @BadDalaiLama, because believe it or not he ... 1352Dec 24 2010: BETHLEHEM, PALESTINE — My favorite photo from today. More coming soon! (Christmas Eve in Bethlehem!) http://twitpic.com/3j4ruu←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1353Dec 24 2010: JERUSALEM — Sabbath enforcer appears at the door of my hostel to make sure we are not doing business (just now!) http://twitpic.com/3j5dzd←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1354
Dec 24 2010: In deference to the Christian holiday, HHBDL is suspending his usual words of wisdom to report LIVE from JERUSALEM and BETHLEHEM! 1355Dec 24 2010: BETHLEHEM — Bagpipes on Christmas Eve! TODAY!! Not the procession you'd expect at Jesus' birthplace. http://youtu.be/ABqn3W5NKrU (Video #19) ←Our original YouTube video [more] 1356Dec 24 2010: BETHLEHEM — There are multiple story lines in this photo. http://twitpic.com/3j7c9a←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1357
Dec 24 2010: RT @wistfuleden: @BadDalaiLama You've got 779 followers and no one is commenting on your wonderful photos from the Holy Land on Christmas? 1358Dec 24 2010: RT @wistfuleden: @BadDalaiLamahttp://twitpic.com/3j4ruu - Beautiful shot. ←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1359Dec 24 2010: BETHLEHEM — OMG! Nailed another one! http://twitpic.com/3j7xbm←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1360
Dec 24 2010: BETHLEHEM — First album from the Scouts Parade. Some of my best photos yet! Shot today (Christmas Eve) in Palestine. http://j.mp/gOXeMz 1361Dec 24 2010: BETHLEHEM — Touring the Church of the Nativity, alleged site of Jesus' birth, on Christmas Eve! http://youtu.be/iQinzwUZ1xM (Video #20) ←Our original YouTube video [more] 1362Dec 25 2010: BETHLEHEM — Wrapping up my Christmas Eve experience in Bethlehem. From outside a Santa shop on the edge of town. http://youtu.be/RJqbvMZAcCA←Our original YouTube video [more] 1363
Dec 25 2010: JERUSALEM — Archive photos from the Western Wall http://j.mp/g0zIAT & an Israeli Army graduation ceremony there http://j.mp/ihmJjG (Oct 09) 1364
Dec 25 2010: I walk the streets of Jerusalem with complete equanimity toward Jews, Christians and Muslims. They're all Loony Tunes! 1365
Dec 25 2010: It is useful to believe in fate in retrospect ("Everything happens for a reason") but not in the future ("I am powerless to change it"). 1366
Dec 25 2010: @laurenahayes "Excessive consumerism makes me nauseous; we already have everything we need" <== It all depends on how you define "excessive" 1367
Dec 25 2010: Christmas morning in Jerusalem! Weird dreams last night. Men in funny hats are chasing me for not keeping Shabbat. Also Area 51 security. 1368Dec 25 2010: BETHLEHEM — Santas in Palestine tend to run on the scrawny side. http://twitpic.com/3jelt3 - More Bethlehem photos: http://j.mp/gOXeMz←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1369
Dec 25 2010: BETHLEHEM — Moi-même in Manger Square last night (Christmas Eve). Photo: http://j.mp/eJkftv 1370
Dec 25 2010: I'm in Jerusalem, right? It is supposed to be controlled by the Jews. SO WHY CAN'T THEY STOP THE DAMN CHRISTMAS MUSIC?!?! 1371Dec 25 2010: BETHLEHEM — The PLO wishes you a Very Merry Christmas! http://twitpic.com/3jewn1 - More at http://j.mp/gOXeMz←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1372
Dec 25 2010: Shabbat in the Jewish areas of Jerusalem means being able to walk down the middle of a city street that's normally packed with traffic. 1373
Dec 25 2010: Just returned to my Jerusalem hostel after a second visit to Bethlehem for Christmas. Videos and photos coming! 1374Dec 25 2010: Video: Panoramic view of Old Jerusalem from the top of the Damascus Gate on Christmas morning. http://youtu.be/kCKkKdyiMxQ (Video #22) ←Our original YouTube video [more] 1375
Dec 25 2010: JERUSALEM — Bible, Talmud or Koran? This pilgrim to the Old City brought his own sacred text. Photo: http://j.mp/eAVD3k (Christmas Morning) 1376
Dec 25 2010: JERUSALEM — A miraculous appearance of the Virgin Mary on a bus from Jerusalem to Bethlehem. http://j.mp/gyGKpm 1377
Dec 25 2010: JERUSALEM — Christmas party at the Abraham Hostel, happening RIGHT NOW! Come on down! FB Album: http://j.mp/ffpfVw 1378Dec 25 2010: BETHLEHEM — Report from the Palestinian side of the West Bank barrier (like the Berlin Wall). Almost journalism! http://youtu.be/zbfxbOmGOyY←Our original YouTube video [more] 1379
Dec 25 2010: JERUSALEM — Moi-même on the Damascus Gate, Christmas Morning. Photo: http://j.mp/dMAAZr 1380
Dec 26 2010: @PoulsNocturne "We can now see his holiness ;)" <== That's only the CHANNELER of His Holiness (who has no corporeal form). 1381
Dec 26 2010: If you don't want a flabby immune system, do you? Give it some exercise. Revel in dirt! 1382
Dec 26 2010: The difference between studying history and living it is that when you live it you don't know how it will turn out. 1383
Dec 26 2010: There are no greater barriers to personal growth than money and social success. Why would you leave that comfortable bubble? 1384
Dec 26 2010: TEL AVIV — Leaving Israel in a few hours. Conclusion: This has to be the weirdest patchwork country on Earth—like a rhinogiraffalope! 1385
Dec 26 2010: Charity must never seem like charity. For the gift to be effective, the recipient must work for it. 1386
Dec 26 2010: .@rejecter "So, BDL supports Israeli apartheid policies by supporting the Israeli economy" <== Hardly! 600 Shekels total over 4.5 days! 1387
Dec 26 2010: Passing through the Israeli checkpoint from Bethlehem back to Jerusalem (essentially a "Checkpoint Charlie"). http://yfrog.com/gziwxzj 1388
Dec 26 2010: Strange but true: The Israeli partition wall has encouraged more Palestinian workers to live in Israel, diluting some Jewish neighborhoods. 1389
Dec 26 2010: Isreali security consists primarily of teenagers with big guns, more concerned with their social lives than terrorism. http://j.mp/ihmJjG 1390
Dec 26 2010: .@rejecter "Israel doesn't need a PR department now that they have the Bad Dalai Lama." <== Also equal PR for Bethlehem, Palestine. 1391Dec 26 2010: BETHLEHEM — Christmas message from the birthplace of Christ: TURN OFF THE DAMN INTERNET AND DO SOMETHING! http://youtu.be/hA2RNf3QIMA (#24) ←Our original YouTube video [more] 1392
Dec 26 2010: It is not the place of His Holiness to right the wrongs of the Middle East or to take sides, merely to understand and find irony! 1393
Dec 26 2010: Competence is rarely recognized in organizations because it threatens the incompetent, who will do their best to stamp it out. 1394
Dec 27 2010: The funnest part of "Celebrity Douchebag Rehab" would be watching the douchebags admit they are douchebags. 1395
Dec 27 2010: I'm sure this is a respectable dental practice, but it just can't shake the Mengele connection. Photo: http://j.mp/hgWlgD (Bethlehem) 1396
Dec 27 2010: Education is the passive form of learning. Curiosity is the active form. 1397
Dec 27 2010: Let us have a moment of silence for the many who gave their lives for our entertainment. 1398
Dec 27 2010: There is nothing sadder than a suburban life dedicated to recycling. 1399
Dec 27 2010: UFO evidence that seems clear at the beginning turns muddy upon closer examination. Damn humans keep getting in the way! 1400
Dec 27 2010: chronological chauvinism — the belief that ones own generation is inherently more enlightened than any previous one. 1401
Dec 27 2010: You can praise the "common man" in the abstract, but you don't want to be trapped in the same room with him. Them folks is dumb! 1402
Dec 27 2010: Strange but true: Israelis can't visit the West Bank, but the Shekel is the local currency, and nearly all store products are Israeli. 1403
Dec 27 2010: Golf, skiing, tennis, sailing — sports invented to help rich people spend their money. 1404Dec 27 2010: Video #25: Exploring an abandoned building in Jerusalem (on Christmas). http://youtu.be/KajWJPiR6MM←Our original YouTube video [more] 1405
Dec 28 2010: People are willing to endure great inconvenience for the appearance of luxury. 1406
Dec 28 2010: Whatever consciousness may be, you can't keep dividing it and get the same quality from it. 1407
Dec 28 2010: Life is a negotiation with reality. You arrive on this strange planet with its own rules and start bargaining to fulfill your needs. 1408Dec 28 2010: MACEDONIA, OHIO — Wandering Walmart at 4am in search of food. Alas, they only have "processed food product". http://twitpic.com/3kh548←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1409
Dec 28 2010: Flooding the internet with free porn is like legalizing drugs. It's still not healthy but it cuts out the criminal middle man. 1410
Dec 28 2010: The internet has democratized porn, making it accessible to children but also diluting its destructive power. Now kids say, "So what?" 1411
Dec 28 2010: @GisforGangstaa "What do you expect at 4am? Let alone Walmart?" <== The source of nearly all my supplies, except food. 4am = jetlagged. 1412
Dec 28 2010: It's tragic how no one is making any money in porn anymore. Actors, producers, marketers out of work! Another casualty of the internet! 1413
Dec 28 2010: Not a scam, but a placebo. The iRenew™ bracelet for only $20. MAY enhance strength. WILL make a profit. Photo: http://j.mp/eG97pC 1414
Dec 28 2010: Free speech includes "puffery"—the right to make any inflated claim or implied promise as long as it is not technically a lie. #iRenew 1415
Dec 28 2010: As deceptive as advertising may be, it would be even more offensive for the government to police claims that are merely implied, not stated. 1416
Dec 28 2010: "Gonna Do's" aren't worth anything if there aren't any "Already Done's" to back them up. 1417
Dec 28 2010: The greatest luxury of all is time, and no marketed luxury product can give you that. Mostly, they just steal your time. 1418
Dec 28 2010: A future dream itinerary: Tel Aviv to Cairo by bus for less than $100. Map: http://j.mp/exBadn 1419Dec 28 2010: CANTON, OHIO — I have the power of God at my fingertips! (short but electrifying video shot today) http://youtu.be/ozUkIw3Pi9Y (Video #26) ←Our original YouTube video [more] 1420
Dec 28 2010: A person's beliefs are dictated by their existing investments, with reasons backfilled later to support the chosen beliefs. 1421
Dec 29 2010: People run on tracks, like trains. They have feet, not wheels, and can leave the track anytime they want, but they rarely do. 1422Dec 29 2010: Video #27: Settlement protests in Jerusalem. I infiltrate two opposing demonstrations in Zion Square. http://youtu.be/0pQgdvC1ocw (Dec. 23) ←Our original YouTube video [more] 1423
Dec 29 2010: Dear pot legalization advocates: You seem to be getting your way these days, but honestly, is that the best social cause you can think of? 1424
Dec 29 2010: True morality often lies in skirting the law. You don't openly defy it but quietly evade it to reach an ethically acceptable conclusion. 1425
Dec 29 2010: RT @lolahayes: Americans Admire Glenn Beck More Than the Dalai Lama http://bit.ly/eOYQI6 1426
Dec 29 2010: @lolahayes Kalonkinesioöpticity is in the eye of the beholder. A colonoscopy, on the other hand, is quite concrete. 1427
Dec 29 2010: RT @ispeakfemale: The brain is the most outstanding organ. It works for 24 hours, 365 days, right from your birth until you fall in love. 1428Dec 29 2010: Video #28: Who is buried in McKinley's Tomb? (And who really cares?) http://youtu.be/hTNv32VsshI Canton, Ohio - Yesterday. ←Our original YouTube video [more] 1429
Dec 29 2010: That an activity is legal doesn't make it wise. It only means the government isn't interfering in your Right to Stupidity. 1430
Dec 29 2010: "If you are not a master of your own will and your own actions, you can't be a master of anything else." @brooksbayne 1431
Dec 29 2010: If you cherish your brain, why would you do any drug, legal or not? It's like throwing dirt in the engine of a high-performance sports car. 1432
Dec 29 2010: Israeli airport security is overrated. Are they really incompetent or just pretending to be? That must be the security! 1433
Dec 29 2010: Just because a cause is worthy doesn't mean you should support it. It must also be the best thing you can do with your resources. 1434
Dec 29 2010: Give young people the impression they're breaking the mold, and they'll buy into just about anything. 1435
Dec 29 2010: The actor may find success, but only as the character he is playing, not as himself. 1436
Dec 29 2010: RT @DOGENZEN: We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses ~Carl Jung 1437
Dec 29 2010: Buffets are wasted on children. They go straight for the pizza! 1438
Dec 29 2010: @LolaHayes Welcome, Lola! You already have your own theme song: "Lola" by the Kinks. ♫ http://blip.fm/~105uhc 1439
Dec 29 2010: Simple, haunting song that's a fav of His Holiness: Houdini's Box – Jill Sobule ♫ http://blip.fm/~105v1c 1440
Dec 29 2010: What does "Hotel California" mean? That's the beauty of it. It's an uncrackable mystery! ♫ http://blip.fm/~105vdu 1441
Dec 29 2010: Life is a struggle against passivity and inertia. The first step to solving any problem is to take control and stop being a victim. 1442
Dec 29 2010: As a visitor from outer space, you are not responsible for all of Earth's problems, only those that you caused. 1443
Dec 30 2010: luxury — n. infinite gradations of taste invented by marketers to absorb the excess resources of those who have them. 1444
Dec 30 2010: Every intervention, no matter how well intended, carries the risk of making things worse rather than better. 1445Dec 30 2010: REPOST: Our inspirational Christmas message from Bethlehem, Palestine: GET OFF THE DAMN INTERNET! http://youtu.be/hA2RNf3QIMA (Video #24) ←Our original YouTube video [more] 1446
Dec 30 2010: The Peter Principle says that an employee tends to rise to the level of his incompetence then remain in place, neither fired nor promoted. 1447
Dec 30 2010: Every large organization becomes incompetent with time, crippled by lackluster employees and its own internal complexity. 1448
Dec 30 2010: Every hot new company will eventually stop growing and decline, overtaken by the next new thing that it just isn't prepared for. 1449
Dec 30 2010: I am the internet user from Hell! I enjoy those wonderful free services but never click on ads or sponsored links. I am the future. Bite me! 1450
Dec 30 2010: @chachiTHEgr8 "I liked u better when u were mysterious... Kinda killed it when u geotagged tweets" <== A deliberate choice to exist. 1451
Dec 30 2010: A sad passing: Kodachrome (the film but not the metaphor) http://nyti.ms/gLLOfI My own Kodachrome moment: http://j.mp/i4PTGH 1452
Dec 30 2010: The witchdoctor gives people the illusion of control when they have none. He mixes a potion, says a few words, and the customer is relieved. 1453
Dec 30 2010: It is one thing to know the laws of aerodynamics, quite another to fly a plane and land it safely. Theory can't replace experience. 1454
Dec 30 2010: Human nakedness (lack of fur) suggests that getting rid of heat was more important to our survival than keeping warm. 1455
Dec 30 2010: Show me a pot legalization advocate and I'll show you someone trying to justify his own use. Concern for humanity has little to do with it. 1456
Dec 30 2010: @ValdemarLethin "Wow, who's not burdened by politics?" (re: pot) <== Oops! Did we stumble into politics there? Sorry, won't happen again! 1457
Dec 30 2010: Theory: Pot damages the initiative centers of the brain. Think of the potheads you know. Aren't they stuck in an infinite loop? 1458
Dec 30 2010: Wikipedia is the key to intergenerational understanding. 1459
Dec 30 2010: For every successful viral marketing campaign (Old Spice Man), there are probably 1,000 failures you never heard of. Reproducible or fluke? 1460
Dec 30 2010: The trouble with viral marketing (like real viruses) is that the immune system adapts quickly and won't accept the same campaign twice. 1461
Dec 30 2010: Advertising people are suckers for the same sort of scams they perpetuate. 1462
Dec 30 2010: I can't prove I have free will, but I seem to, and that's good enough to justify trying. 1463
Dec 30 2010: The two human errors of planning are a) not planning at all (impulsivity) and b) overplanning for a permanent future one can't possibly see. 1464
Dec 30 2010: Any art that doesn't teach you something about life isn't worth the effort to take in. 1465
Dec 30 2010: Heading to Rome for New Years. Flying for free, ample seats. Got to the gate. Then a voice inside said, "I don't want to go." So I didn't. 1466
Dec 30 2010: RT @GisforGangstaa: @BadDalaiLama ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! Wait, never mind only people with such luck can turn down Rome like nothing. 1467
Dec 30 2010: @GisforGangstaa Sometimes inner peace is more important. Israel & Palestine last week. Internal digestion is backlogged. 1468
Dec 30 2010: Archive photos from Rome & Italy (in lieu of going there): http://j.mp/h8TGRf 1469
Dec 30 2010: You can't prove love by killing freedom. 1470Dec 31 2010: Video #29: We propose a new world currency: hamburgers! http://youtu.be/eOMeLD3zHTg From McDonalds, Deltona, Florida. ←Our original YouTube video [more] 1471
Dec 31 2010: 2010 Highlights: Gibraltar http://j.mp/dgmyD3 Tarifa, Spain http://j.mp/aOYglK (Sept.) 1472
Dec 31 2010: 2010 Highlights: Mexico City: Teotihuacan Pyramids http://j.mp/aVJdeG Guadalupe Shrine http://j.mp/gP8Inc More http://j.mp/gtielp (May) 1473
Dec 31 2010: 2010 Highlights: Tangier, Morocco http://j.mp/bA2wN4 (Sept) 1474
Dec 31 2010: 2010 Highlights: Las Vegas Age of Chivalry Renaissance Faire http://j.mp/9JSzBN (Oct) 1475
Dec 31 2010: 2010 Highlights: Seville, Spain http://j.mp/hboOl9 Parade http://j.mp/a7iHmB (Sept) 1476
Dec 31 2010: 2010 Highlights: Eastern Europe. Budapest http://j.mp/bT2qga Zagreb http://j.mp/hAiPEn Ljubljana http://j.mp/bEhGYp (July) 1477
Dec 31 2010: 2010 Highlights: Quebec City http://j.mp/aPb8nK Trois Rivieres http://j.mp/f0Rv0j Prince Edward Island http://j.mp/gVeFoE (April) 1478
Dec 31 2010: 2010 Highlights: Las Vegas Celebrity Impersonators Convention http://j.mp/aQrV30 On Stage http://j.mp/dhA0sl (March) 1479
Dec 31 2010: 2010 Highlights: Waikiki Beach, Hawaii http://j.mp/d8dWYe Oahu Shore http://j.mp/awGVX5 Honolulu http://j.mp/gIyhBa (March) 1480
Dec 31 2010: 2010 Highlights: Sarajevo, Bosnia http://j.mp/bI0ONC (July) 1481
Dec 31 2010: 2010 Highlights: Island of Santorini, Greece http://j.mp/cmY9LB Our favorite destination of the year! (June) 1482
Dec 31 2010: 2010 Highlights: Alaska Highway http://j.mp/yQOqg Whitehorse Yukon http://j.mp/iby2W1 Bear Flats http://j.mp/1DU0Pq (Nov) 1483
Dec 31 2010: 2010 Highlights: Film crew shooting SyFy special at Area 51 http://j.mp/9KwOrj (March) 1484
Jan 1 2011: 2010 Highlights: Christmas in Bethlehem http://j.mp/gOXeMz Jerusalem http://j.mp/2uwh9g More http://j.mp/eoczsc (Dec) 1485
Jan 1 2011: 2010 Highlights: Transylvania, Romania http://j.mp/abQSHQ (July) 1486
Jan 1 2011: 2010 Highlights: Amsterdam http://j.mp/b8nN7R Munich http://j.mp/cinqjX Cologne http://j.mp/9pHxCv (July) 1487
Jan 1 2011: 2010 Highlights: Big Island of Hawaii. Waipio http://j.mp/6j2myb Kona http://j.mp/fnHQXA School http://j.mp/bn4X52 More http://j.mp/fDseh7 1488
Jan 1 2011: These are all places His Holiness has taken his ministry in the past year. Kind of mind numbing, isn't it? 1489
Jan 1 2011: This should be a TV show? Indeed! Called "Operation Weekend". Team explores an exotic world location in only 2-4 days. Where would you go? 1490
Jan 1 2011: The more you travel, the more you see how little changes. People are the same everywhere, and they're all on Facebook! 1491
Jan 1 2011: RT @princeboucher: No resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is consi ... 1492
Jan 1 2011: 2010 Highlights: New Years Eve in Madrid (last year) http://j.mp/6seA4x 1493
Jan 1 2011: 2010 Highlights: Gary, Indiana: Post-Apocalyptic Wasteland http://j.mp/fuG3ek Ghost Church http://j.mp/gihmZn More http://j.mp/f7909m (Apr) 1494
Jan 1 2011: 2010 Highlights: Athens, Greece: Acropolis http://j.mp/grrKqS Tourist Sites http://j.mp/bgctrj Waterfront http://j.mp/hBTMEv (June) 1495
Jan 1 2011: 2010 Highlights: Florence, Italy. http://j.mp/bWbjzd (May) 1496
Jan 1 2011: An alternate monetary system: "Kilowatts Cards" http://j.mp/gsC1LJ Why pay in dollars when you can pay in electricity? 1497
Jan 1 2011: On today's menu: bittersweet regret with a touch of self-pity, on the rocks! 1498
Jan 1 2011: Mistakes are the most awesome learning devices! Like sticking your finger in a candle flame, you never forget the lesson. 1499
Jan 1 2011: New Years Resolution: Stop waiting for the New Year to make resolutions. 1500
Jan 1 2011: If you are having trouble resisting temptation, remove yourself from the environment where it is offered. 1501
Jan 1 2011: What most people take for happiness is merely numbness: the absence of feeling and growth, dull repetition, a state of suspended animation. 1502
Jan 1 2011: RT @alexiswi: For all the fun snark that @BadDalaiLama offers, a lot of his tweets ARE really good advice. 1503
Jan 1 2011: .@alexiswi His Holiness does not "snark". He sits supremely above all snarkitude in a state of surreal subliminal somnifacience. 1504
Jan 1 2011: The Score: @BadDalaiLama 817, Good @DalaiLama 1,188,856. Growth in past 15 days: +18% (Bad) vs +4% (Good). Who's laughing now, Buddha? 1505
Jan 1 2011: Happiness is not money, love or power (as long as you have a little of each). Happiness is pushing your own development to the next level. 1506
Jan 1 2011: The Wisdom Archive has been updated at http://BadDalaiLama.com/archive - All our tweets on one page! 1507
Jan 1 2011: OUR NEW ESSAY: "The 6 Essential Communication Skills of Modern Life" http://j.mp/fWXDja What the enlightened communicator needs to know. 1508
Jan 1 2011: If a relationship fails, it is YOUR responsibility. You chose it. You can't blame the other person for being who they were all along. 1509
Jan 1 2011: Bah! The only REAL holidays are the equinoxes, solstices and eclipses. All our values went mushy with the end of human sacrifice. 1510Jan 1 2011: Our best videos from 2010: Prairie Dogs Attack! in Wyoming. http://youtu.be/Ki0elJpV6Ow (June) ←Our original YouTube video [more] 1511
Jan 1 2011: People who hate themselves do things that are worthy of hate, so the cycle continues. 1512
Jan 2 2011: Many pretend to change the world by protesting and announcing their opinions. Only a few actually change things by learning the system. 1513
Jan 2 2011: Promotion can initially get an artistic work noticed, but only quality can make it last. 1514
Jan 2 2011: "Classic hits" gained this status for one reason only: They're great songs! Compare to current hits, based on promotion, that won't last. 1515
Jan 2 2011: Quality is how well a product actually accomplishes, over a period of time, what it presents itself as doing. 1516
Jan 2 2011: We buy crappy products (and make crappy life choices) because we mistake the superficial symbols of quality for the real thing. 1517
Jan 2 2011: The best creative position is the blank slate – no demands, no commitments. You should get back to that point whenever you can! 1518
Jan 2 2011: Southern California has two seasons: fire season and flood season. They are preempted only by earthquake season. (Coming Soon!) 1519
Jan 2 2011: The release party is where people with an obvious bias gather together to tell you how simply MARVELOUS your work is. 1520
Jan 2 2011: If you run the camera long enough, you'll get wisdom out of anyone... even Willie Nelson! http://vimeo.com/5702381 via @lolahayes 1521
Jan 2 2011: On My Bucket List: Become a celebrity chef, devoting my life to food, because art people eat is better than art they have to think about. [See Full Bucket List] 1522
Jan 2 2011: .@mmufti "I am curious where you get your insights..." <== A by-product of thinking. Turn off radio, TV, news and you might have them too! 1523
Jan 2 2011: @lolahayes "Risk is justified by the size" <== So should you buy lottery tickets when the prize tops $100 million?? (prize > risk) 1524
Jan 2 2011: People who have lived stable lives under the protection of a benign system are usually philosophical simpletons who have little to say. 1525
Jan 2 2011: Now here's a creepy offer from Boston: Would you share your car with a stranger for $5/hr? Photo: http://j.mp/dOlQeq #RelayRide 1526
Jan 2 2011: It is the nature of youth to experiment with excess. If life doesn't kill them for it, they'll learn moderation with time. 1527
Jan 2 2011: Young people in love think they have things all worked out, but time will teach them otherwise. 1528
Jan 2 2011: Old may seem wise until you realize that most of those old people are stuck in their ways and don't do a damn thing! 1529
Jan 2 2011: Old age, for most, is mindless, comfortable repetition. 1530
Jan 2 2011: The cost of a lie includes not just the moral damage but the huge psychological energy required to maintain it. 1531
Jan 2 2011: Information is a product of effort, strategy and luck, like money. Having It doesn't necessarily mean you should give it away. 1532Jan 2 2011: Our best videos from 2010: Please Gamble Responsibly (a message from a tribal elder in New Mexico) http://youtu.be/zGx0B01yfgs (July) ←Our original YouTube video [more] 1533
Jan 2 2011: When your relationship hits a dead end and you have nothing more to talk about, there's always a solution: Have a baby! 1534
Jan 2 2011: Survival in marriage means carefully watching your words and not rocking the boat. 1535
Jan 2 2011: The value of money is not constant but logarithmically decreasing. The more of it you have the less valuable it becomes. 1536
Jan 2 2011: Recycling Nazis. Paper, aluminum, clear glass, green glass... DON'T LET THEM WIN! When they're not looking, just throw the damn thing out! 1537
Jan 3 2011: A celebrity gets a serious disease, becomes advocate for a cure, wants us to think this problem is the world's most important. Self-serving? 1538
Jan 3 2011: Would you willingly take part in an activity with a 5% risk of serious lifelong disability? That's childbearing. 1539
Jan 3 2011: Funny is fun only as long as you don't have to be funny. 1540
Jan 3 2011: The lowest excuse for bad behavior is, "I obeyed the law." 1541
Jan 3 2011: The limits of knowledge: You cannot know what consciousness is, what happens after death or why you are here, but you must proceed anyway. 1542
Jan 3 2011: Education can teach you the rules, but only experience can tell you how the rules are prioritized, enforced and ignored. 1543
Jan 3 2011: You don't understand people until you understand Borderline Personality Disorder. In a way, it afflicts us all, just some more extremely. 1544
Jan 3 2011: Alcohol is the lubricant of self-pity. 1545
Jan 3 2011: RT @mostlegendary: RT FTFY! @BadDalaiLama: Would you willingly take part in an activity with a 100% risk of serious lifelong disability? ... 1546
Jan 3 2011: RT @mmufti: @BadDalaiLama thanks.my friend really likes your comments.he contemplates on them when he is high.. 1547
Jan 3 2011: In law, as in life, the main problem isn't obeying the rules; it's knowing what to do when the rules conflict. 1548
Jan 3 2011: "RT FTFY! Would you willingly take part in an activity with a 100% risk of serious lifelong disability? That's childrearing!" @mostlegendary 1549
Jan 3 2011: Parenthood is like marriage but with no possibility of divorce. For better or worse, you're in it for the long haul. 1550
Jan 3 2011: One congenital disease, autism, afflicts 1 in 110. Add other disorders, and the risks of birth are extraordinary. Who would play such odds? 1551
Jan 3 2011: Childbirth is justified by circular logic that masks the real reason: to serve the selfish desires of the parents. 1552
Jan 3 2011: Sleep is the wisest guru. If you listen, you never know what it might teach you. 1553Jan 3 2011: Our best videos of 2010: The Pigeons of St. Marks Square, Venice. http://youtu.be/drqCITD_GxI (July) ←Our original YouTube video [more] 1554
Jan 3 2011: Tweet stealing is a crime punishable by people not believing you when you produce a good one yourself. 1555
Jan 3 2011: To show that a quotation is not yours (in tweets), it is sufficient to enclose it in "quotes". People can always Google for the source. 1556
Jan 3 2011: As a rule, celebrities, politicians and people in power are very passive. They won't make decisions or respond to requests unless forced to. 1557
Jan 3 2011: Celebrity is the ability to ignore and abuse more people than anyone else. 1558
Jan 3 2011: Every endeavor has a goal, but the most valuable reward is often what is learned along the way, even when the goal fails. 1559
Jan 4 2011: The liability of giving advice is that people may follow it and get in even worse trouble. 1560
Jan 4 2011: Giving out information, like selling a product, entails risk—that it will be defective, naively used or used against you. 1561Jan 4 2011: My favorite girl, Sweetie. We spend the weekend together, twice a year. No strings. http://twitpic.com/3mwjec←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1562
Jan 4 2011: One of our Top Ten fav songs: "Building a Mystery" by Sarah McLachlan. ♫ http://blip.fm/~10cnl9 1563
Jan 4 2011: New photos added to album: "Christmas in Bethlehem" (Palestine) http://j.mp/gOXeMz 1564
Jan 4 2011: Just because a sign says you can't do something doesn't mean the rule is enforced. 1565
Jan 4 2011: On My Bucket List: Become a successful advertising executive, inventing clever and persuasive campaigns for useless, exploitative products. [See Full Bucket List] 1566
Jan 4 2011: Most of life is governed by unwritten rules that can't be defined precisely in words and can only be learned by doing. 1567
Jan 4 2011: Pickled people, living in suburban isolation, preserved in a state of suspendered animation. 1568
Jan 4 2011: Microsoft, Arab Oil Sheiks, Japan, IBM... Things that were supposed to take over the world but didn't. Next: Google, Facebook, China. 1569
Jan 4 2011: In the real world, there is no such thing as exponential growth or a straight-line graph. Every trend will peak eventually. 1570
Jan 4 2011: The trouble with dedication and perseverance is not letting go when you should. 1571Jan 4 2011: Our best videos of 2010: Transylvania Promo for Operation Weekend. http://youtu.be/LDjtguSy-po←Our original YouTube video [more] 1572
Jan 4 2011: Many incremental course corrections, sensitive to circumstance, are more accurate than one big irreversible one based on theory. 1573
Jan 4 2011: His Holiness follows @tonyrobbins, because wisdom can come from anyone. (Better than that Good Lama dude!) 1574
Jan 4 2011: RT @AddamBONGG Most "wisdom" is actually foolishness written by those who have never set foot beyond their safe haven. 1575
Jan 4 2011: Note on human protocol: "How are you?" is intended as an idiomatic greeting only. No one really wants to hear about your problems. 1576
Jan 4 2011: Everyone makes mistakes the first time they do something. The question is how quickly you recover and learn from them. 1577
Jan 4 2011: A rare thing in the modern world: gratitude. You go out of your way to help someone (online or in person) then hear nothing back. Nada! 1578
Jan 4 2011: The detachment of the internet means you can blow someone off or run them over and never feel it yourself. It's only electrons! 1579
Jan 4 2011: The advantage of talking to people face-to-face is you had a chance to read the feelings behind the words, the subtext. So much is lost now. 1580
Jan 4 2011: Old people. In their final months of life, obsessed with the most trivial things. Saving money. Repeating daily procedures. What a waste! 1581
Jan 4 2011: Avoid the online trap of providing an ongoing public service. What you publish should stand on its own without committing you to more. 1582
Jan 4 2011: Where chemistry, marketing and psychological engineering come together, you have "food" from the Frito-Lay Corporation. 1583
Jan 5 2011: Malthus expanded: Every well-intended intervention is vulnerable to feedback conditions that make matters worse. 1584
Jan 5 2011: RT @JesusBot9000: I like @BadDalaiLama .. he don't take no shit. Almost worthy to get into bacon heaven. 1585
Jan 5 2011: Hunting with a rifle isn't a sport any more than a video game is. A naked, starving man with a spear—now that's a sport! 1586
Jan 5 2011: The infrastructure of modern life is paid for by the gullible saps who buy the products advertised. Where would we be without those suckers? 1587
Jan 5 2011: Humans evolved on a diet of cooked, high-density food, not just nuts and berries. "Back to nature" means whale blubber, suet and kidney pie. 1588
Jan 5 2011: Monetary wealth isn't as important as the liquidity of your assets, especially time. 1589
Jan 5 2011: Youth may be foolish with change, but age is dumb with routine. 1590
Jan 5 2011: The human body doesn't care about cuisine, only about the aggregate chemical products in the stomach. Cuisine is a vanity of the mind. 1591
Jan 5 2011: Your life's work consists of the systems and structures you leave behind. 1592
Jan 5 2011: Each person we deal with must be tested for intellect, ego and emotional control, with interactions adjusted accordingly. 1593
Jan 5 2011: Celebrity becomes a pain in the ass when you can't go to the grocery store without being spotted. 1594
Jan 5 2011: RT @oliverburkeman: Are you suffering from an undiagnosed Personal Branding Disorder? http://bit.ly/h10EoL 1595
Jan 5 2011: Most catastrophes in the modern world are caused by multitasking—subdividing your attention and other resources beyond safe limits. 1596
Jan 5 2011: Just because you know something to be true does not mean it should be spoken. The ill-considered truth can be as destructive as any lie. 1597
Jan 5 2011: Free will is believing you have a choice when all science and logic say you have none. 1598
Jan 5 2011: Standard Joke Format #5: Q: How many [cultural stereotype] does it take to screw in a light bulb? A: [Ironic answer based on stereotype.] 1599
Jan 5 2011: How many swingers does it take to screw in a light bulb? — None. You can't screw in a light bulb. It's too small! 1600
Jan 5 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. 1601
Jan 5 2011: Offer a dog steak and he won't eat the dog chow. #metaphor4hire 1602
Jan 5 2011: Experiencing 3-D for the first time. How does it make me look? FB photo: http://j.mp/gqUw6e 1603Jan 5 2011: Our best videos of 2010: Destruction Bay. http://youtu.be/uZ3O4C4gXTA Our first attempt at drama. (Oct.) ←Our original YouTube video [more] 1604
Jan 5 2011: Although the causal link is unproven, depression is statistically correlated with having things to be depressed about. 1605
Jan 5 2011: Free will is a choice made in the present, not the future. As soon as you say, "I'll change later," you've surrendered to fatalism. 1606
Jan 5 2011: If there is a tempting food you know you shouldn't be eating, don't buy it and don't let it into your home. Voilà , temptation solved! 1607
Jan 5 2011: The "fundamentals" of life, love and money are like the San Andreas Fault: You know it's going to break; you just don't know when. 1608
Jan 5 2011: If all the energy spent on sports and pets was devoted instead to the needy, a lot more poor people would yell at TVs and play fetch. 1609
Jan 6 2011: Crime may be destructive, but not so much as the prison we lock ourselves in for fear of it. 1610
Jan 6 2011: The easiest way to avoid crime is to not own anything worth stealing. 1611
Jan 6 2011: HD Delusion #1: How does it improve your viewing experience to see the pimples on the faces of the actors in a movie? 1612
Jan 6 2011: HD Delusion #2: How is a 42-inch screen 15 feet away better than a 15-inch screen 2 feet away? 1613
Jan 6 2011: HD Delusion #3: What is the point of a viewing screen with greater resolution than the eyeballs watching it? 1614
Jan 6 2011: HD Delusion #4: If you remember a good movie with a compelling story, can you even remember if it was in 3D/2D, HiDef/LoDef, B+W/Color? 1615
Jan 6 2011: HD Delusion #5: Would Casablanca or Citizen Kane be better movies if filmed in HD—or just more cluttered? 1616
Jan 6 2011: HD Delusion #6: Mortgages can be "underwater" but so can TVs. As prices drop, you could owe more on your old set than the cost of a new one. 1617
Jan 6 2011: HD Delusion #7: In video, as in real life, the brain retains only what happened, not the details of the scene, so HD is forgotten instantly. 1618
Jan 6 2011: Nearly every property on Earth has, sometime in history, been stolen from its rightful owner. That doesn't mean we can right these wrongs. 1619
Jan 6 2011: Sodom & Gomorrah, Jericho, the Great Flood, the Plagues of Egypt... Those were the good old days when God was vengeful and kept score. 1620
Jan 6 2011: Beauty may open doors, but at a cost. When it fades you'll come to a closed door and say, "Huh? How does this thing work?" 1621
Jan 6 2011: Just because something is a "good idea" doesn't mean you should do it. It has to be the BEST idea for your limited resources. 1622
Jan 6 2011: Now playing IN MY MIND: Just A Song Before I Go / Crosby, Stills & Nash ♫ http://blip.fm/~10f8a0 1623
Jan 6 2011: Music... crack cocaine for the ears! 1624
Jan 6 2011: Everyone is looking to the Arkansas Livestock and Poultry Commission for answers. The necropsies are in! http://bit.ly/ejpMsh (@dorkexposed) 1625
Jan 6 2011: The best thing Spinal Tap could have done is kept making music. All music starts out as parody, but then the magic kicks in and its real! 1626
Jan 6 2011: Really, now, how many different types of gas do you need? FB photo: http://j.mp/fnrtCv (Tampa) 1627
Jan 6 2011: Confuse 'em with choice! Give them the illusion they're asserting their individuality by offering a numbing variety of trivial variations. 1628
Jan 6 2011: Predictions for 2011: Many famous people will die—in fact 1-2% of the famous people out there! Mostly older ones. Many fans will be sad. 1629
Jan 6 2011: Predictions for 2011: Many unpredictable and unexpected events will occur. Some of these events will be tragic. 1630
Jan 6 2011: Predictions for 2011: Earthquakes will strike without warning, as well as more predictable volcanic eruptions. Many will die! 1631
Jan 6 2011: Predictions for 2011: Certain celebrities and politicians will become ensnared in scandal. It will be revealed that they were very foolish. 1632
Jan 6 2011: Predictions for 2011: You or someone you know will suffer from a serious disease or life-threatening accident. 1633
Jan 6 2011: Predictions for 2011: World peace will not be achieved. 1634
Jan 6 2011: Predictions for 2011: Health care and health insurance will get more expensive. 1635
Jan 6 2011: Predictions for 2011: Some of the things we think are important today will not seem relevant by the end of the year. 1636
Jan 6 2011: Predictions for 2011: The economies of some countries will get worse, while others get better. 1637
Jan 6 2011: Predictions for 2011: A hot new technological innovation will be talked about a great deal. 1638
Jan 6 2011: Predictions for 2011: Major government revelations about extraterrestrial contact will not occur. 1639
Jan 6 2011: Predictions for 2011: Many will suffer dramatic reversals of fortune, especially those who weren't expecting it. 1640
Jan 6 2011: Predictions for 2011: The world will mostly continue on the same path, but with some dramatic surprises. 1641
Jan 6 2011: Living in exile can be expensive! That's why His Holiness stays at http://Motel6.com Simple, consistent quality. No mint on pillow, but FTS. 1642Jan 6 2011: Airport glamor shot. Charlotte at sunset. http://twitpic.com/3nmhkj←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1643
Jan 6 2011: Overseas, His Holiness likes to mingle with the people, staying at hostels wherever he goes. Usually $20-30/night. http://HostelWorld.com 1644
Jan 6 2011: When musicians only play other people's music, they are no better than biological recording devices. What a waste of resources! 1645
Jan 7 2011: RT @sciencedaily: Lice DNA study shows humans first wore clothes 170,000 years ago: A new study following the evolution of lice sh... ht ... 1646
Jan 7 2011: Most of music culture is irrelevant. All that matters is the words and sounds that come into your ears and what you remember of them. 1647
Jan 7 2011: A "commitment spree" is like a crime spree but with escalating commitments, each justifying the last. E.g. love > marriage > mortgage > baby 1648
Jan 7 2011: True growth is possible only when you are free to change. 1649
Jan 7 2011: Much about life is decided in an instant. A momentary indiscretion, a wrong move and—WHAM!—nothing is the same again. 1650
Jan 7 2011: Numbness happens when you do the same things over and over, staying within a narrow band of behavior. Weeks go by, then years and decades. 1651
Jan 7 2011: RT @DalaiLama: Photo of HHDL taking part in his first video conference with 3 prominent Chinese intellectuals on January 4, 2011. http:/ ... 1652
Jan 7 2011: Predictions for 2011: Facebook will go from hip to square. Sharks will be jumped. 1653
Jan 7 2011: Why do we buy labor-saving devices, then go to the gym? (MRT @chenne) 1654
Jan 7 2011: Consult the Sky Mall catalog in your seat-back pocket for an extensive selection of things you don't need. 1655
Jan 7 2011: Cocaine Vaccine http://bit.ly/fin9iO (@lolahayes) <== There is no vaccine against temptation. The addict will just switch drugs. 1656
Jan 7 2011: RT @DalaiLama: Happiness does not come about only due to external circumstances; it mainly derives from inner attitudes. 1657
Jan 7 2011: Songs can be inspirational, when they capture a meaningful idea, or merely religious, when you dwell on the priests and what they are doing. 1658
Jan 7 2011: How does hearing a song "live", with cheering fans and poor acoustics, make it better? That's a religious experience, not a musical one. 1659
Jan 7 2011: RT @philo_quotes: No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution ~ Machiavelli 1660
Jan 7 2011: RT @SocialPsych: ESP Study Published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology http://bit.ly/ez4YGe 1661
Jan 7 2011: "We openly admit that the reported findings conflict with our own beliefs about causality and that we find them extremely puzzling." 1662
Jan 7 2011: "we were guided by the conviction that this paper—as strange as the findings may be—should be evaluated as any other" http://bit.ly/ez4YGe 1663
Jan 7 2011: We know television watching is damaging to the brain, but what about secondhand exposure? http://bit.ly/hf1mRz (@SocialPsych) 1664
Jan 7 2011: Once the definitive version of a song has been recorded, what's the sense in 100 other bands doing inferior renditions of it? 1665
Jan 7 2011: The only thing about music that has to be "real" is the human voice. Everything else can be computer generated. 1666
Jan 7 2011: The problem with drug abuse is not the drug, but temptation and how one handles it. Cut off one drug and the addict will use another. 1667
Jan 7 2011: Lesson of the dead birds: If you fly in formation, if one goes down you all do! #deadbirds 1668
Jan 7 2011: Just because a TV show is called a "documentary" doesn't mean it bears any relation to reality. More like "truth-based fiction" for ratings. 1669
Jan 7 2011: A meaningful life is not just keeping occupied but doing the most important thing you can at any particular moment. 1670
Jan 7 2011: Sometimes the most important thing you can do is your laundry. Even superheros have to wash their supersuits! 1671
Jan 7 2011: Genius is seeing the obvious and asking, "Why?" 1672
Jan 7 2011: Another moneysaving tip from your exiled spiritual leader: http://GoldenCorral.com — Not the buffet (you'll burst). Buffet-by-the-pound. 1673
Jan 7 2011: Artistic maturity is trading trite and simplistic emotions for complex and layered ones. 1674
Jan 7 2011: Self-interest with sufficient foresight is indistinguishable from altruism. 1675
Jan 7 2011: Those with the lowest native self-esteem become the biggest egomaniacs once they gain a little power. 1676
Jan 8 2011: Entertainment is like burning money—except you're burning time! 1677
Jan 8 2011: It is illegal and immoral to discriminate by race, gender, age or ethnicity. Stupidity, however, is open game! 1678
Jan 8 2011: I can totally identify with Smeagol and his "My Precious" obsession. When you lose your iPhone you get like that. 1679
Jan 8 2011: Irony is the basis of all great art. 1680
Jan 8 2011: Just because you have a Twitter account, Facebook, YouTube, blog, podcast... doesn't mean you have anything to say. 1681
Jan 8 2011: Social media may be faster, but the main problem is the same as it was with the printing press: how to produce meaningful content. 1682
Jan 8 2011: Life is content, not media. 1683
Jan 8 2011: If you are reading just our timeline, you're getting only half the world's wisdom. For the other half, see our Favorites. http://j.mp/ezKglX 1684
Jan 8 2011: Barney Fife is funny until you realize he's an inept, insecure cop hired by nepotism and no one in Mayberry objects. Family values, my ass! 1685
Jan 8 2011: "Information obesity" is like the other kind—you are taking in more than you need or can digest. Turns your brain flabby! 1686
Jan 8 2011: Imagine a world without entertainment, where you never sat and watched, only went and did. 1687
Jan 8 2011: "No to property, yes to usufruct." @haelox <== Learned a new word today! 1688
Jan 8 2011: RT @oliverburkeman: Fully Validated Kanye West Retires To Quiet Farm In Iowa: http://onion.com/gZIcsO —Â top comedy AND kinda profound ps ... 1689
Jan 8 2011: RT @TheEconomist: Talk of the Dalai Lama's "retirement" shows how much Tibet still needs him. Yet so does China. http://econ.st/fmSinr 1690
Jan 8 2011: Correlation is not causation. E.g. People who use a gym locker are fitter than those who don't, but it's not the locker that does it. 1691
Jan 8 2011: Another tip from your exiled spiritual leader: Restrooms in the back of Wal-Mart are usually cleaner and less crowded than in the front. 1692Jan 8 2011: It's amazing what chewing gum can do for you—or be implied to do for you. http://twitpic.com/3o635d←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1693
Jan 8 2011: People are suckers for correlation, seeking the superficial symbols of health, happiness and achievement instead the causative actions. 1694
Jan 8 2011: Two dozen long-stemmed roses, Lady Godiva chocolates, diamond earrings, a pearl necklace... If that's not love, what is? 1695
Jan 8 2011: Talking about Twitter: $0.02. Talking about Facebook: $0.02. Talking about Apple, Google: $0.02. Producing meaningful content: Priceless. 1696
Jan 8 2011: AT&T has got a bum rap. It was the guinea pig for the iPhone and its intense data usage. Is Verizon really going to solve everything? 1697
Jan 8 2011: "It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims."—Aristotle (@philoquotes) <== But middle aged men can, if they got some street cred. 1698
Jan 8 2011: In the Civil War, the South's slavery was soundly beaten by the North's sweatshop labor. Victory for human rights? 1699
Jan 8 2011: If you are a creator, you will create with whatever you have. If you are not, no software package or electronic device can give it to you. 1700
Jan 8 2011: Life is full of "Duh!" moments when you realize the solution was right in front of you all along. Only your own blindness kept it from you. 1701
Jan 8 2011: ***BREAKING NEWS!*** We are Investigated by the FBI and Homeland Security for Suspicious iPhone Photography! http://j.mp/hOJykk TRUE STORY! 1702
Jan 9 2011: So, yeah. Bet YOU have never been investigated by Homeland Security! It takes a special breed of iPhone user! 1703
Jan 9 2011: The main lesson: Stay out of West Virginia. Them folks is dumb! 1704
Jan 9 2011: "Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom."—Euripides (@philosophytweet) <== Usually unjustified. 1705
Jan 9 2011: Don't worry about what the rest of the world is doing. Worry about what you are doing. 1706
Jan 9 2011: For a real-time feed of our most popular tweets (starred by others) monitor our FavStar page at: http://favstar.fm/users/BadDalaiLama/recent 1707
Jan 9 2011: Science Is a religion that believes all knowledge is good. It neglects that every advance creates new hazards and detracts from other goals. 1708
Jan 9 2011: Women's Studies are a crock! Doesn't it just say, "We need to be treated differently"? How about Men's Studies for prissy male academics? 1709
Jan 9 2011: Academia is the ultimate bluepill society—an artificial environment supported from the outside and isolated from redpill reality. 1710Jan 9 2011: His Holiness at Washington Reagan Airport. http://twitpic.com/3oioai←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1711Jan 9 2011: His Holiness meets President Obama and the First Lady at Reagan Airport, Washington. http://twitpic.com/3oiqpt←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1712
Jan 9 2011: Capitalist morality is a system of compensation. Exploit others, then give to charity. Sin, then repent. It all balances out, right? 1713
Jan 9 2011: A life rich with success leaves little time for thought or growth. 1714
Jan 9 2011: Blessed with everything you want, what incentive do you have to leave your comfort zone? 1715
Jan 9 2011: The most damaging moral position is the double life, when you present one face to the world but do the opposite in private. 1716
Jan 9 2011: It is okay to present different aspects of yourself to different people. That's not a lie. It is a lie when the roles contradict each other. 1717
Jan 10 2011: In spite of their dismal track record, most experts are not full of shit, experts say. 1718
Jan 10 2011: Existential Muppet Crisis! Kermit and Fozzie become aware of their foam and wire innards. Classic video: http://bit.ly/ibXpla (@redditpics) 1719
Jan 10 2011: American society is composed of two groups: those who love Sarah Palin and those who hate her (That's one group!) and those who ignore her. 1720
Jan 10 2011: The genius of the two party system is it makes people believe they can only be one or the other. They can stop thinking for themselves! 1721
Jan 10 2011: Give people a choice of two things (Coke v. Pepsi) and most will fall for it, thinking those are the only choices possible. Both brands win! 1722
Jan 10 2011: Transgender issues seem silly. We are ALL aliens in our bodies! Changing your gender won't resolve your problems, only promise to. 1723
Jan 10 2011: Changing your gender is a giant placebo pill. After you have invested so much in the change, you have to believe it made your life better. 1724
Jan 10 2011: Paul, the Area 51 alien, movie trailer. http://j.mp/eIBhig (I can confidently say I had nothing to do with this.) 1725Jan 10 2011: "Oh, THAT Jean-Luc Picard!" Hilarious 1-minute reedit of Star Trek TNG: http://youtu.be/pf9oD_xl8mI via @OhCrap←Our original YouTube video [more] 1726
Jan 10 2011: His Holiness does not watch television, but catches glimpses in public places. Seems like an archaic system. What is it good for? 1727
Jan 10 2011: Honest, we have TRIED to watch television, but it hurts! It feels like throwing sand into our brain. 1728
Jan 10 2011: The problem with television is you don't control the pace. Information is spoon-fed to you instead of you deciding what you need and when. 1729
Jan 10 2011: It is fine to own a house—if your main goal in life is to support and maintain a house. 1730Jan 10 2011: Cambridge to Manhattan for $15! Free wifi/power. No airport hassles. Empty bus. Enjoying it while it lasts! http://twitpic.com/3otp4t←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1731
Jan 10 2011: How many of us can resist the temptation: a big pile of cash for a little moral compromise? 1732
Jan 10 2011: RT @mostlegendary: RT I'd do most anything for a little moral compromise! @BadDalaiLama: How many can resist: a big pile of cash for a l ... 1733
Jan 10 2011: .@mostlegendary "I'd do most anything for a little moral compromise!" <== Funny how little moral compromises turns into big ones. 1734
Jan 10 2011: The road to Hell is paved with democracy—uninformed people voting for whatever feels good at the moment. 1735
Jan 10 2011: Most of what passes for politics is loudly expressing ones opinion while accomplishing nothing with it. 1736Jan 10 2011: Lexington Ave, NYC. http://twitpic.com/3ovcfy←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1737
Jan 10 2011: By all means vote, but don't think that by doing so you have changed anything. There are 10,000 things you can do that are more effective. 1738
Jan 10 2011: Most of those who hold forth endlessly with their opinions would never actually visit a legislature to see how it works. 1739
Jan 10 2011: Who do you respect more—people who talk about fixing cars or people who actually fix them? 1740
Jan 10 2011: Everyone has the right to express their opinion, but not everyone has the right to be heard. 1741
Jan 10 2011: Until you have visited a legislature and learned enough about an issue to speak at a committee hearing, you're all talk, no action. 1742
Jan 11 2011: Pitching a TV series "Models Change the World"—They offer make-up and fashion tips while touring unstable war-torn areas promoting peace. 1743
Jan 11 2011: Another Bethlehem. 1744
Jan 11 2011: This Bethlehem: decrepit steel mills and a massive Sands casino. Not like the other: http://j.mp/gOXeMz (but more Xmas decorations here) 1745
Jan 11 2011: ...and real snow! 1746
Jan 11 2011: Anomalous causality and rips in the fabric of space-time may indeed be possible, but when driving a car please respect Newtonian physics. 1747
Jan 11 2011: When you see a friend make a bad life choice, it hurts. Even though it's not your choice, you still feel somehow responsible. 1748
Jan 11 2011: There is no absolute morality, only relative morality compared to the alternatives actually available. 1749
Jan 11 2011: In a movie or novel, every detail is reverse engineered to serve the needs of the story. 1750
Jan 11 2011: The terrifying truths behind 24 classic nursery rhymes http://bit.ly/8ESN4 (Humpty Dumpty, Jack and Jill, etc.) via @absolutelytrue 1751
Jan 11 2011: .@lolahayes "An analyst expects Verizon to sign up 9.6m iPhone users..." <== How can any "analyst" know what human behavior will be? 1752Jan 11 2011: Me and my friends, Harrisburg, PA. http://twitpic.com/3p2b6e←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1753
Jan 11 2011: Never forget: It was "analysts" and "experts" who sold us real estate, based on "trends" they saw in the "data". 1754
Jan 11 2011: Investment advice for the new Graduate: plastics!... also: railroads, airlines, bathroom fixtures. Leave Tech to the gamblers. 1755
Jan 11 2011: WWWD—What Would Warren Do? At the peak of the financial crisis, he bought a railroad. How many shares of Facebook do you suppose he owns? 1756
Jan 11 2011: bubble surfing—a form of speculative investing in which one buys an objectively overpriced asset on the assumption it will go even higher. 1757
Jan 11 2011: The best gauge of future performance is past performance—except in investing where the market already factors that assumption in. 1758
Jan 11 2011: The main delusion of growth investing is the same as gambling: You only hear about the winners, not the losers. 1759
Jan 11 2011: A few years ago, we couldn't have imagined Facebook's hold on society. Likewise, we cannot envision now what will replace it. 1760
Jan 11 2011: Imagine trying to explain electricity to the Romans. Even the most enlightened among them couldn't grasp all the implications. 1761Jan 11 2011: Traveling companion. http://twitpic.com/3p5vmu←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1762
Jan 11 2011: @lolahayes "Human behavior at large is fairly predictable" <== Only in retrospect. 1763
Jan 11 2011: All human behavior is predictable in retrospect: A+B=C. The problem is predicting it in advance, when you don't know which A and B to use. 1764
Jan 11 2011: The New Coke: Blind taste tests said people preferred it to old Coke. So why did it flop? Apparently, taste was the wrong metric. 1765
Jan 11 2011: You can say, in retrospect, that the promoters of New Coke were fools, but how could they know what the public would react to? 1766
Jan 11 2011: Science gives you only microscopic answers to macroscopic questions. The big picture—integrating all the factors—is an art not a science. 1767
Jan 11 2011: Music has a dangerous hold on the nervous system. Instead of thinking real thoughts, you have an iPod pumping drugs into your brain. 1768
Jan 12 2011: .@The_Scrutiniser "What makes you think 'real thoughts' are so valuable?" <== Is your life worth doing something with? 1769
Jan 12 2011: If you want to understand music, the first thing to do is throw away your iPod and music collection. That's merely music addiction. 1770
Jan 12 2011: .@astrangersashes "Music is a muse. It makes you think, it inspires, it helps you create..." <== Indeed, but not if pumped in continuously. 1771
Jan 12 2011: Music is all around us, in everything we say and do. That's different, however, than pumping the same songs into your ears, over and over. 1772
Jan 12 2011: Humor is an essential lubricant of life, but it can't be an end in itself. Humor without meaning is just another drug. 1773
Jan 12 2011: Emotional security sounds nice. The question is whether it is really possible. 1774
Jan 12 2011: The Stockholm Syndrome, where hostages identify with their captors, applies just as well to families. Didn't we all grow up as hostages? 1775
Jan 12 2011: True self-confidence arises from an honest accounting with oneself. 1776
Jan 12 2011: You can glorify the ironworker for building a bridge but ultimate success depends on an invisible designer who never touches the metal. 1777
Jan 12 2011: Wild horses in America are an invasive species, brought here by the Spaniards. Why do they need special protection? 1778
Jan 12 2011: Political opinions? The air is full of 'em, as cheap as the breath they're made of. 1779
Jan 12 2011: @astrangersashes "Everything is a drug in some way." <== A drug is something done not for its own reward, but for the anxiety when you stop. 1780
Jan 12 2011: You know you are addicted to something when you do it not for its own reward but to relieve the anxiety you feel when you stop doing it. 1781
Jan 12 2011: Education is a placebo designed chiefly to occupy a child's time while his brain and body are maturing. Curriculum is irrelevant. 1782
Jan 12 2011: College is a halfway house between home and real life. It keeps students occupied while they grow their final layer of brain cells. 1783
Jan 12 2011: You want to psych out cats? Change their names! They're all like, "What? Huh? Well I'm not responding to that one either." 1784
Jan 12 2011: Mediocrity persists because it is profitable. It is reproducible, marketable, doesn't make waves and is easily mass-produced. 1785Jan 12 2011: Ready to roll! Macedonia, Ohio. http://twitpic.com/3pdshb←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1786
Jan 12 2011: Fun 1950s TV fact: When Ralph Kramden says, "One of these day, Alice... Pow, right to the moon!" he's really threatening domestic violence. 1787
Jan 12 2011: Life is traumatic by its nature. No matter who you are or what your resources, you can't pass through it unscarred. 1788Jan 12 2011: I stand before this court full of shame. I know, Your Honor, that I should not be here. http://twitpic.com/3pfuf6←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1789
Jan 12 2011: The chief effect of car alarms is people ignoring car alarms. 1790
Jan 12 2011: One person's erotica is another's tedium. 1791
Jan 12 2011: It disgusts me when straight males call each other "gay" to imply weakness or cowardice. Grow up guys! The proper term is "pussy". 1792Jan 12 2011: Song #1: "Galaxy Queen" A Space Tragedy. OUR FIRST SONG! Sung by the songwriter this morning. http://youtu.be/d-HJtzmVjiI (Video #30) ←Our original YouTube video [more] 1793
Jan 13 2011: Most people need a certain level of misery in their lives to protect them from even more dangerous euphoria. 1794
Jan 13 2011: It is during periods of happiness and prosperity that the biggest mistakes are made. 1795
Jan 13 2011: Euphoria is when you overestimate your abilities and overcommit your resources, charging it all to the credit card of life. 1796
Jan 13 2011: RT @kindw: 294 terrorist incidents in Europe in 2009. Guess how many were carried out by Muslims? http://bit.ly/eR6yzB one was out of 294 1797
Jan 13 2011: Any sign that says "No Exceptions!" is a lie. There are always exceptions. 1798
Jan 13 2011: Failed romantic relationships are the finest educational laboratory you'll ever find—learning both about others and yourself. 1799Jan 13 2011: These mystery meat products are NOT READY. (I don't think they will ever be ready!) Madison, Wisconsin. http://twitpic.com/3pnjub←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1800Jan 13 2011: Madison, Wisconsin. Brrrrr! http://twitpic.com/3pnmjx←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1801
Jan 13 2011: Every kind of relationship, even an adversarial one, is a learning opportunity. You see the strategies of another and borrow what is useful. 1802
Jan 13 2011: Even when they look the same, every cat or dog is different, responding to the world in different ways. That's personality! 1803Jan 13 2011: Better than any hostel: $17/day for transportation AND lodging! Planned R&R on Florida's west coast. http://twitpic.com/3por7p←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1804Jan 13 2011: Business traveler, Milwaukee. http://twitpic.com/3ppk2x←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1805
Jan 13 2011: Nirvana is walking into a high-end electronics store and seeing absolutely nothing you want, even if you had unlimited money. 1806
Jan 13 2011: Future archaeologists will be baffled by the presence of huge stadiums built adjacent to universities. What was the educational purpose? 1807
Jan 13 2011: @lolahayes In the World of Tomorrow, "relationships" will be replaced by social media transaction units, incentivized by partner ratings. 1808
Jan 14 2011: Most of what people call "luxuries" are really just expensive forms of imprisonment. The 2nd home, the boat, the sports car... shackles! 1809
Jan 14 2011: The true measure of comfort is not the objects you surround yourself with but the ease of your mind. 1810
Jan 14 2011: UFO believers get all excited when they say, "We are not alone!" but they fail to answer the bigger question: "So what?" 1811
Jan 14 2011: When deciphering a message of any kind, the envelope it came in is as telling as the message itself. Ask: Who sent this to me and why? 1812
Jan 14 2011: RT @GreatestQuotes: "Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." - George Bernard Shaw 1813
Jan 14 2011: RT @philoquotes: Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity. ~ Rousseau http://bit.ly/philq 1814
Jan 14 2011: What we all really want is not money but Whuffie. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whuffie via @princeboucher (The only trouble is defining it.) 1815
Jan 14 2011: At Walmart I like to go in the Exit doors just to assert my individuality. 1816Jan 14 2011: The most hideous form of junk food is the Pringle: reconstituted potato paste in a variety of chemical flavors. http://twitpic.com/3pws7v←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1817
Jan 14 2011: RT @djackmanson: @BadDalaiLama You misspelled "awesome" 1818Jan 14 2011: Dali Museum, logical place for the Bad Dalai Lama to hang out. http://twitpic.com/3px79d←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1819
Jan 14 2011: The limitation of Facebook is all those damn friends! They have so many sensitivities that you end up posting nothing of great meaning. 1820
Jan 14 2011: Facebook is one layer of your public persona. It is a place for photos and public announcements but not for conversation or collaboration. 1821Jan 14 2011: One of the world's oldest lifeforms... dead! http://twitpic.com/3pxwqp←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1822
Jan 14 2011: In the World of Tomorrow, every form of "new media" will quickly turn into "old media", fighting for survival. 1823
Jan 14 2011: In the World of Tomorrow, everyone will have a Facebook page, but no one will use it except when they have a baby or go on vacation. 1824
Jan 14 2011: Just because an entertainment product is "funny" or "good" doesn't mean it is worth watching. It must also be the best use of your time. 1825
Jan 14 2011: When all else fails, try calling God. (Standard airtime rates apply. God is not a medical device. Individual results may vary.) 1826
Jan 14 2011: Every relationship needs a dose of Machiavellian strategy to survive. Sometimes you must outwit your opponent to best serve him. 1827
Jan 14 2011: Machiavelli had something right: Behind every human enterprise are hidden systems, separate from the noble sentiments people express. 1828Jan 14 2011: Covered parking. http://twitpic.com/3q0qtk←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1829Jan 14 2011: I love you, too! http://twitpic.com/3q16p9←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1830
Jan 14 2011: On My Bucket List: Retire to Florida, then severely injure myself in a tragic Segway accident. [See Full Bucket List] 1831
Jan 14 2011: The best way to kill love is call it "forever". 1832
Jan 15 2011: .@jachy "How about 'until all the stars of the Milky Way burn out'?" <== You have stars in your eyes! I've seen this syndrome before. 1833
Jan 15 2011: The trouble with any brilliant utopian idea is that parasites eventually invade it and exploit it for their own purposes. 1834
Jan 15 2011: Every 1960s hippie commune eventually collapsed for the same reason Communism did: There was no way to control freeloaders. 1835
Jan 15 2011: Capitalism sucks, but it's the best social control system we have. At least it gives our lives structure that we can build other things on. 1836
Jan 15 2011: People are prisoners of their stuff. 1837
Jan 15 2011: Sleeping in a rental car is a valuable skill. Requires some training but means you can spend the night for the price of a sleeping bag. 1838Jan 15 2011: Local manifestation of Superbowl season. http://twitpic.com/3q8acp←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1839
Jan 15 2011: So which is better: Venice, Italy; Venice, California or Venice, Florida? (Hint: Only one has a Walmart Supercenter.) 1840
Jan 15 2011: Archive photos: Venice, Italy: land http://j.mp/d2nnG8 water http://j.mp/fyddmR Lido http://j.mp/gjQAgd - Venice, Calif.: http://j.mp/iggpeX 1841
Jan 15 2011: RT @garamiredux: If @DalaiLama and @BadDalaiLama will ever meet the world will immediately desintegrate. Like Neo and Agent Smith on Matrix. 1842
Jan 15 2011: Seasons in America: Superbowl, Valentines, Easter, Mothersday, Fathersday, Fourthofjuly, Backtoschool, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas. 1843
Jan 15 2011: When you think about it, every product is "Real". So "Real Cola Taste, Zero Calories" is perfectly legal. 1844
Jan 15 2011: Our Wisdom Archive has been updated: http://BadDalaiLama.com - NEW & IMPROVED! All our wisdom is now gluten-free and rich in antioxidants! 1845
Jan 15 2011: What is the point of oceanfront property? Once you have been there for a few days, you stop seeing the ocean. 1846
Jan 15 2011: Florida is America's capital of non-productivity. Nowhere else do so many people go to DO NOTHING. 1847
Jan 15 2011: Growth is permissible only within the confines of the investments you have already made—which means, in most adults, no growth at all. 1848Jan 15 2011: The inevitable effect of too much testosterone. http://twitpic.com/3qbga0 More photos from Florida: http://j.mp/frw9bA←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1849Jan 15 2011: Blue crab and its new owner. Naples, Florida. http://twitpic.com/3qblpy←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1850
Jan 15 2011: Get this straight: RVing is not "camping". It is more like "mobile apartment living". Camping is where you actually touch the environment. 1851Jan 15 2011: Private dock. Everglades City, Florida. http://twitpic.com/3qcyo2←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1852Jan 15 2011: Airboat. Everglades City, Florida. http://twitpic.com/3qde08←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1853Jan 15 2011: Conference of vulture capitalists.http://twitpic.com/3qd8cc←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1854
Jan 15 2011: When you gamble at a casino, the most you can lose is the money you put on the table. When you gamble with life, you risk paying forever. 1855Jan 15 2011: Pretty boy! Everglades City. http://twitpic.com/3qdwzj←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1856
Jan 16 2011: @princeboucher "Whereever attention flows, money will follow." <== Not true! Ask Mel Gibson! 1857
Jan 16 2011: @garamiredux "Is it me or the more we are available to our love counterparts the less attractive we seem to them..." <== It's just you. 1858
Jan 16 2011: topless—n. the unshielded display of female mammaries for the purpose of tanning or the extraction of money from gullible male alcoholics. 1859
Jan 16 2011: AD 2025—I am alone on this planet except for the zombies. The virus has killed everyone with a brain. Note to self: Buy shotgun at Walmart. 1860
Jan 16 2011: "Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value."—Albert Einstein 1861
Jan 16 2011: In most cases, you must leave people to solve their own problems, simply because your resources to intervene are so limited. 1862
Jan 16 2011: A home is an exercise in self-hagiography—a temple to the self. Only a small portion of it is used for actual living. 1863
Jan 16 2011: If you got rid of all the sacred icons you own and kept only the things you really need, you could live comfortably in a 10x10-foot box. 1864
Jan 16 2011: RT @santhonythomas: I love the new Activia commercial with it's "non specific about what the product does so they can't get in any more ... 1865
Jan 16 2011: Some fascinating Siberia photos from one of my FB friends: http://j.mp/gC9gi6 (I hope you can access them.) 1866
Jan 16 2011: One word describes retirement in Florida: antiseptic. Like spending your final years in a hospital. 1867
Jan 16 2011: All the best shit—the glittery, spangly, primo shit—the shit you want to write home about—that shit comes from L.A.! 1868
Jan 16 2011: RT @DalaiLama: Photo of HHDL waving to the audience before his teachings in Sarnath, India, on January 15th, 2011. http:/ ... 1869
Jan 16 2011: The spoken word is much more subtle and powerful than anything written, especially if you are talking to just one person in front of you. 1870
Jan 16 2011: Money in liquid form is a valuable asset to your freedom. Money in solid form (real estate, possessions) is more a liability. 1871Jan 16 2011: Some oceanfront property in Sarasota, Florida, site of our next philosophy video. Should we buy? http://twitpic.com/3qlty1←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1872
Jan 16 2011: Beauty, wealth, fame and power are often mistaken for wisdom. In fact, wisdom may display none of these outward signs. 1873
Jan 16 2011: The book is a passing fad (albeit a 500-year-old one). Who today has 10-30 hours to devote to one work? It's an expensive hobby! 1874
Jan 16 2011: Do not assume a person who is successful in one area has any skills in another. Often that success came at the cost of everything else. 1875
Jan 16 2011: The concept of "retirement" is meaningful only to those who are doing meaningless work. 1876
Jan 16 2011: Age ought to imply wisdom, but it doesn't. Usually it just means you've run around the same track longer and are less inclined to change. 1877
Jan 16 2011: RT @Morros: He's probably right. I should step away from the vehicle. 1878
Jan 16 2011: The best way to get most things done is to do it yourself, by yourself, without having to waste energy negotiating with others. 1879
Jan 16 2011: People don't necessarily seek the "best" romantic partner but the one who is the least threat to their ego. 1880
Jan 16 2011: Most freedom is sacrificed in the delusional pursuit of safety in areas where no safety is really possible. 1881
Jan 16 2011: Most people live the majority of their lives in a state of suspended animation. 1882
Jan 17 2011: Time distills quality. 1883
Jan 17 2011: Marriage is the most effective Redpill you can take. In a few weeks you'll start seeing your partner for who they really are. 1884
Jan 17 2011: Doesn't happen often, but we have blocked a new follower: @gandalfphoto. Pretty photos, but limited range. Not pornographic—or is it? 1885Jan 17 2011: His Holiness meets with the ambassador from Rigel-5, a non-humanoid species. http://twitpic.com/3qrr9n←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1886
Jan 17 2011: Our economy hasn't been the same since the bottom fell out of the shit-you-don't-need market. That whole industry continues to suffer. 1887
Jan 17 2011: The Prime Directive says that starship crews must not interfere in the affairs of primitive planets, as the results are usually disastrous. 1888
Jan 17 2011: The Prime Directive, on Earth, means you cannot solve people's problems for them. The best you can do is make tools available. 1889
Jan 17 2011: To understand someone, first listen to what he says about himself. It may not be true, but it tells you what he thinks is important in life. 1890
Jan 17 2011: The core of romantic love is attachment—a primitive neurological bond. The problem lies in reconciling this with the higher brain. 1891
Jan 17 2011: @mostlegendary "I don't understand why you would block @gandalfphoto" <== His life priorities upset me. Husband, father, but MJ is #1. 1892
Jan 17 2011: .@Zylaw Indeed, in real life, the Prime Directive is unworkable. You violate it just by living. 1893
Jan 17 2011: All compassion is a violation of the Prime Directive. We must choose, and sometimes compassion wins. We intervene, but temporarily. 1894
Jan 17 2011: The law consists not just of what is written but how courts have interpreted those words—called case law. That's where the real wisdom lies. 1895
Jan 17 2011: The Federation's lawyers had a fine time with the Prime Directive, producing reams of case law on its exceptions and application. 1896
Jan 17 2011: @mostlegendary A small symbolic action. @gandalfphoto is an addict romanticizing his addiction at huge cost. I want him nowhere near me. 1897
Jan 17 2011: The saboteurs of the Prime Directive were the Cardassians, who refused to obey it, and the humans, who ignored it earlier in their history. 1898
Jan 17 2011: If you choose to violate the Prime Directive, you are responsible for any damaging side effects. 1899
Jan 17 2011: @burntsugar "bluddy treckies :P" <== I'm trying to be metaphorical here. 1900
Jan 17 2011: Every ill-advised violation of the Prime Directive requires still more violations to repair. At some point, you have to give up and move on. 1901
Jan 17 2011: Everything changed with Zefram Cochran's invention of the warp drive in 2063. Can't put that genie back in the bottle! 1902
Jan 17 2011: 18 USC 795 is a meaningless statute until the courts define its boundaries. Is Google Earth in violation? Photos from Tikaboo Peak? 1903
Jan 17 2011: In a post-Singularity world humans will become slaves to a system none of them controls—just like today! 1904
Jan 17 2011: Machines are taking over the world—we've been hearing that for 150 years. Until a machine can propagate itself, it's all hot air. 1905
Jan 17 2011: RT @AngryChristian: @BadDalaiLama or until a program/programmer can create a program that is better than itself. Ultimately all AI is li ... 1906
Jan 17 2011: Just because we can fit ever more circuits on the head of pin doesn't mean we are any closer to machine consciousness or true intelligence. 1907
Jan 17 2011: There is no machine on Earth—and probably never will be—that can effectively deal with problems outside of its programmed function. 1908
Jan 17 2011: Cyborgs may take over the world, but that's not machine intelligence, only a human brain with more peripherals. 1909
Jan 17 2011: A major concern of cyborg technology is that some dictators might live forever and never give up power. Robo-Castro, Cyber-Stalin—not good! 1910Jan 17 2011: Philosophy Video #31: "The Problem with Property" http://youtu.be/4GC69eqh67Q From the beach in Sarasota, Florida, yesterday. ←Our original YouTube video [more] 1911
Jan 17 2011: RT @RougeStatusSURF: @DalaiLama V.S. @BadDalaiLama I wanna see some black eyes in ROUND 3 1912
Jan 17 2011: @RougeStatusSURF I am the greatest! Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee! 1913
Jan 17 2011: On My Bucket List: Own a number of expensive homes around the world and never stay in any of them. [See Full Bucket List] 1914
Jan 18 2011: The value of time is judged by what you could be doing if you weren't doing what you're doing now. 1915
Jan 18 2011: @BlingVodka Alas, due to the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, once you know where I am, I'm not there anymore. 1916
Jan 18 2011: If your quest isn't slightly quixotic, you're not pushing your limits. 1917
Jan 18 2011: The most insecure people are those who owe their whole identity to their birth circumstances. They can never say, "I did this myself!" 1918
Jan 18 2011: "Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach." — So if you want learn things right, you have to teach yourself. 1919
Jan 18 2011: @joelofarc "What happens if I want to learn how to be a teacher?" <== Observe the behavior of your teachers and do the opposite. 1920
Jan 18 2011: Airline safety advice: "Put your own mask on first before assisting others." — Words to live by! 1921
Jan 18 2011: Value investing—seeing the underlying value of a stock—also applies to the rest of life. Ignore the fundamentals and they'll bite you! 1922
Jan 18 2011: @lolahayes "Insist on the destination, not how you'll get there" <== Nope. See what roads are available, then choose the destination. 1923
Jan 18 2011: @lolahayes "...pave your own" <== That's awfully expensive. Much better to use existing roads when available. You'll go farther. 1924
Jan 18 2011: @lolahayes You only need to choose your general direction. The finest destinations are unexpected—because you listened to the road. 1925
Jan 18 2011: To a dog, every car ride is a Magical Mystery Tour. You never know where you'll end up! 1926
Jan 18 2011: Movie award shows—because what you think about a movie isn't as important as what the popular people think. 1927
Jan 18 2011: You would think competition assures quality products, but it doesn't, because consumers make poor choices based on faulty criteria. 1928
Jan 18 2011: Feeling much more refined because my Wendy's fries are now salted with SEA SALT. (Still queasy though!) Junkfood Science: http://j.mp/g1Zf0v 1929
Jan 18 2011: Returning to the scene of my photographic crimes in West Virginia. http://j.mp/hOJykk Turns out it's a Dupont plant, not Dow. 1930
Jan 18 2011: Once you know your marriage isn't working, get a divorce—fast! It serves no one to drag things out for years on false hopes. 1931
Jan 18 2011: If painful surgery must be performed, it is better to do it quickly than slowly. #divorce 1932
Jan 18 2011: Divorce is the psychological equivalent of having a limb amputated, except that you'll eventually grow it back. 1933
Jan 18 2011: Never underestimate the ability of people in misery to endure even greater misery to avoid acknowledging their past mistakes. 1934Jan 18 2011: What the Egyptians demand, the Egyptians get. http://twitpic.com/3r9th3←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1935
Jan 18 2011: Choose a wise road, and the destination will take care of itself. 1936
Jan 18 2011: Lessons from Greek mythology: Muses are good. Sirens are bad. Muses inspire you, while sirens only lure you to the rocks. 1937
Jan 19 2011: No one who you think is having fun is really having as much fun as you think they are. 1938Jan 19 2011: At last, a reason to visit McDonalds: oatmeal in the morning. http://twitpic.com/3reknh←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1939
Jan 19 2011: @DalaiLama "Mutual respect is the foundation of genuine harmony." <== Vague, inoffensive truisms are the foundation of high follower count. 1940
Jan 19 2011: Experience is the memory of what works and what doesn't. 1941
Jan 19 2011: Wayne Gretsky Estates Winery — because no one knows more about fine wine than a hockey player. 1942Jan 19 2011: Toronto sux! http://twitpic/3rhy9h←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1943
Jan 19 2011: AT&T iPhone domestic data overage charge: $10 per 10 Gb. AT&T international data roaming charge: $15.36 per Mb, or 10 Gb for... $153,600! 1944Jan 19 2011: Niagara Falls. http://twitpic.com/3rivpb←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1945
Jan 19 2011: Our new philosophy essay: "Roads are more important than destinations" http://j.mp/e2UAGO 1946
Jan 19 2011: Everyone has a pattern of behavior they are loathe to leave, even when they know it's not working. Life's greatest challenge is changing it. 1947
Jan 19 2011: It is the nature of the mind to see patterns in everything, even where no patterns exist. 1948
Jan 19 2011: Why, yes, I have read and agreed to your 23-page Terms & Conditions. You're a computer—would I lie to you? 1949
Jan 19 2011: My spirit animal is a pigeon. No pretense, can adapt to anything. Either that or a Norway rat. Beats your nearly extinct eagle or wolf! 1950
Jan 20 2011: We wanted you prisoners to be passive, sedated and non-confrontational. That's why we gave you television. 1951
Jan 20 2011: Will human consciousness ever be transferrable to a computer? Meh! Not bloody likely! http://qr.ae/29Wq via @quora 1952Jan 20 2011: Good news! Great Value Pure Cane Sugar is now gluten-free! (No wheat was harmed in the making of this product.) http://twitpic.com/3rp8ph←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1953
Jan 20 2011: ...oh, and it's low in sodium, fat free, cholesterol free, dairy free, vegan and maybe even Kosher! 1954
Jan 20 2011: Now we know what human ashes look like! RT @RotimiKuforiji: Burglars snort dead man—thinking his ashes are cocaine. http://yhoo.it/fHb5dO 1955
Jan 20 2011: The secret of creativity? Don't talk about it. Do it! Then stand back and look at what you've done, figuring out what needs work. 1956Jan 20 2011: From the air: NSA Headquarters, Ft. Meade, Maryland. (20 minutes ago) I once had my film seized here! http://twitpic.com/3rqj5f←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1957
Jan 20 2011: Fond memories of having my film seized at NSA Headquarters in 1994. http://j.mp/iezMae (I gave up my film so they didn't get my computer.) 1958Jan 20 2011: Admirable qualities in a woman. http://twitpic.com/3rr530←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1959
Jan 20 2011: The main distraction of music is... the music! What really matters is the words and tune. The rest of the music is secondary. 1960Jan 20 2011: His Holiness consults with the Egyptian delegation. http://twitpic.com/3rrkj8←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1961
Jan 20 2011: We remember what presidents said, but did they really say it, or did their speechwriters? 1962Jan 20 2011: Union Station, Washington. http://twitpic.com/3rse9g←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1963Jan 20 2011: Plenty of free parking around the Capitol—as long as your car is black. http://twitpic.com/3rsn8p←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1964
Jan 20 2011: Special privileges for the disadvantaged may help some of them, but it also encourages more people to be disadvantaged. 1965
Jan 20 2011: It is amazing who qualifies as "handicapped" when you can get premium parking spaces for it. 1966Jan 20 2011: For once in my life, I'm legit! I have a photography permit at the US Capitol! (Scene of an upcoming video.) http://twitpic.com/3rta6q←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1967Jan 20 2011: Aboard the Virginia prison train, transporting slaves from the North to the South. http://twitpic.com/3rtw61←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1968
Jan 20 2011: @MotherCatt "You realize, of course, that now everyone knows where you live, right?" <== His Holiness lives nowhere and everywhere. 1969
Jan 20 2011: @PepGarcia "Mozart? Beethoven? Chopin?" <== Bah! Mere technicians. Nowhere near the impact of the Beatles, Eagles or Elvis. 1970
Jan 20 2011: Define "government outreach" and "technology thought leadership" in this article by Google's ex-CEO: http://read.bi/i208en via @lolahayes 1971
Jan 21 2011: government outreach—n. corporate PR term for "how we plan to own the government". 1972
Jan 21 2011: RT @babilano: @BadDalaiLama If you drank some of this you would agree that music is more than just tunes & lyrics: http://en.wikipedia.o ... 1973
Jan 21 2011: "Google's Eric Schmidt: Open Mouth, Insert Foot" Wash. Post http://j.mp/fW8Syv - Big Brother speaks. 1974Jan 21 2011: Florida in the rear-view mirror (5 days ago). http://twitpic.com/3rylsj←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 1975
Jan 21 2011: You should keep most details of your life private not because they are sensitive but because they are boring. #facebook #twitter 1976
Jan 21 2011: If you choose to post to Facebook or Twitter, you are accepting the responsibility to be useful to others. 1977
Jan 21 2011: What you present on public media can be "you" but a carefully packaged subset of you. It's a refined product, not a guileless sharing. 1978
Jan 21 2011: opportunistic—the ability and willingness to take advantage of unexpected opportunities when they arise. Generally a good thing, not bad. 1979
Jan 21 2011: anhedonia—the natural result of long-term drug use, overstimulation, lack of sleep, excessive TV, caffeine withdrawal or too much Twitter. 1980
Jan 21 2011: The Wisdom Archive has been updated at BadDalaiLama.com/archive — An all-you-can-eat buffet of homespun advice for one low price! 1981
Jan 21 2011: The highest incarnation of capitalism is the beverage industry. Nowhere else is the markup so high on so little substance. Bubbles mostly! 1982
Jan 21 2011: Most secrets aren't really secrets, just things you don't say to avoid upsetting those with fragile egos. 1983
Jan 21 2011: RT @preschoolgems: "Kind of weird, me." 1984
Jan 21 2011: "There's a fine line between clever and stupid."—Spinal Tap 1985
Jan 21 2011: There's a fine line between sexy and stupid. 1986
Jan 21 2011: It is best to err on the conservative side of sexy to avoid the inevitable slide into slutty. 1987
Jan 21 2011: Sexy and sex are two different things. Porn isn't sexy. Almost anything else can be. 1988
Jan 21 2011: The solution to America's Douchebag Crisis is giving more young men ungodly amounts of money and obscene success they don't deserve. 1989
Jan 21 2011: (America's Strategic Douchebag Reserve [SDR] has been falling since the departure of @johncmayer from Twitter.) 1990Jan 21 2011: WASHINGTON—Our new video from the steps of the Capitol: "Political Hot Air" http://youtu.be/MEVgzK2XzG4 (Video #32) Filmed yesterday! ←Our original YouTube video [more] 1991
Jan 22 2011: The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle is neither here nor there. 1992
Jan 22 2011: The half-life of beauty is very short—more like Cesium-134 than Plutonium-241. 1993
Jan 22 2011: Every animal that ever lived eventually died, and when it did its flesh decayed leaving behind bones or shells—so, yeah, lots of fossils. 1994
Jan 22 2011: Those who can, do. Those who can't... become salesmen, agents and marketers, making millions off those who do. 1995
Jan 22 2011: Anhedonia usually encourages more indulgence, not less. You up the dose trying to get the same high. 1996
Jan 22 2011: Put food in the fridge, plug the kids into the TV and let them raise themselves. Worked for the last two generations, so why not this one? 1997
Jan 22 2011: Which bubble will burst first: China's real estate or Facebook's valuation? Justify your answer. 1998
Jan 22 2011: "Facebook is building its business from a fundamentally unsustainable base." http://bit.ly/hJomDp via @wwjimd &@lolahayes 1999
Jan 22 2011: The college placebo: "45% of college students show no gains in critical thinking during first 2 years" http://nyti.ms/erNksC via @lolahayes 2000
Jan 22 2011: @sashazykov "People can. Why can't machines?" <== Let me know when any machine starts solving problems outside its designed function. 2001
Jan 22 2011: I could claim I was a cellphone battery but I would be Li-ion. 2002
Jan 22 2011: You have control over a lot of things, but the body you're stuck in and the family it came with are the luck of the draw. 2003Jan 22 2011: Louisville, Kentucky. http://twitpic.com/3sdjk0←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2004
Jan 22 2011: Many pointless family arguments start, "I don't like your attitude!" but all that really matters is: "Did you do what you said you would?" 2005
Jan 22 2011: "We are compelled toward relationships because our very existence is the result of one." MRT @TheBosha 2006
Jan 22 2011: Regardless of your circumstances, you can either take control and accept responsibility for your destiny or be a victim. 2007
Jan 22 2011: If you're a victim of a crime or disease, you didn't cause the misfortune, but you're still responsible for making the best of it. 2008
Jan 22 2011: When you have been wronged, revenge is of little value. Focus on repair, and let revenge take care of itself. 2009
Jan 22 2011: A bikini is sexier than nudity, a wink more alluring than a kiss. Sexy is the promise of something that can never be attained. 2010
Jan 22 2011: Ladies, if we can see your ribs, you don't look sexy—you look hungry! 2011
Jan 22 2011: Walking down the aisle, taking the marriage vows, the bride is thinking: "What does everyone think of me? Am I doing this right?" 2012
Jan 22 2011: Your wedding isn't for you. It's all about presentation to others. 2013Jan 22 2011: His Holiness is visiting a SHOPPING MALL to get his iPhone fixed. Silly place filled with things you don't need. http://twitpic.com/3si1dq←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2014Jan 23 2011: iPhone fixed. Compare this photo to the previous one. Cataracts removed! (a common iPhone disorder) http://twitpic.com/3si91d←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2015Jan 23 2011: Them fancy shoppin' malls sure are purdy! http://twitpic.com/3sic09←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2016
Jan 23 2011: Planning your summer vacation? His Holiness recommends EASTERN EUROPE. Our new blog entry tells all you need to know. http://j.mp/fygPDv 2017
Jan 23 2011: "How to Sleep in a Hostel"—our blog entry from 2009. http://j.mp/u0xQ9 Unless you're a total wuss, this is the best way to see the world. 2018
Jan 23 2011: Some people are only happy when they're miserable. 2019
Jan 23 2011: To those who are used to misery, happiness triggers euphoria, which often leads to bad decisions that bring the misery back. 2020
Jan 23 2011: Happiness, in the long term, is a personality trait you either have or you don't. Circumstances are largely irrelevant. 2021
Jan 23 2011: Men want women with some strategic lipid reserves to prove their fitness for childbearing—hence, the allure of the breasts. 2022
Jan 23 2011: All mammals have teats but only humans have fatty breasts. They're a product of our upright posture, an eye-level signal of fertility. 2023
Jan 23 2011: "My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard." = an obvious invitation to insemination and procreation based on proven fat reserves. 2024
Jan 23 2011: Although a milkshake may bring all the boys to the yard, not all the boys will get the milkshake. Them's just the sad facts of life! 2025
Jan 23 2011: RT @AClkwrkStarfish: Today is the first day of the rest of your life. Also the last day if you don't stop quoting affirmation bullshit a ... 2026
Jan 23 2011: The Handicap Principle says that animals (and humans) may accept an ostentatious burden to prove their fitness. E.g. a peacock's feathers. 2027
Jan 23 2011: Pity the peacock who must haul around all that ridiculous plumage. Also pity the luxury consumer who must do the same. 2028
Jan 23 2011: Los Angeles is the sizzle in the steak, the bubbles in the soft drink. Pure sensation, calorie-free. You can't live on that crap! 2029Jan 23 2011: Signs like this are totally ineffective, but why *commercial* tobacco? Don't tribes make a lot of money on it? http://twitpic.com/3st0im←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2030
Jan 23 2011: ...but if you MUST smoke, visit one of the Cherokee Nation Smoke Shops such as this one: http://j.mp/fTBMcH 2031
Jan 23 2011: His Holiness has superhuman powers: He can drive coast-to-coast and never turn on the radio, check into a motel and never turn on the TV. 2032
Jan 23 2011: NPR rots your brain! Do you need to be spoon-fed the news? Turn the damn thing off! JUST SAY NO TO PROCESSED MEDIA! 2033
Jan 23 2011: Obvious neediness has the paradoxical effect of pushing people away. They don't want to be swallowed in your need. 2034
Jan 24 2011: No wisdom is possible without mistakes. 2035Jan 24 2011: Our original song #11: "Blood on the Windshield" http://youtu.be/Ehg8diJCR5I Injustice in the Deep South. Sung today in Oklahoma. Video #33 ←Our original YouTube video [more] 2036
Jan 24 2011: ...All my songs need is a singer, an arranger, a band, music... I can't sing well myself, but I'm doing my best, just to demo the song. 2037
Jan 24 2011: His Holiness is a "peripatetic hyperprolific content generator"—photos from all over, videos, essays, even songs! So, yeah, expect links. 2038
Jan 24 2011: Note: A "content generator" (producing new stuff) is different than a "content referrer" (passing on other people's stuff). Cherish it! 2039
Jan 24 2011: Oklahoma has a idiot breeding program. Works like this: Oklahomans breed. Smart kids move out. Dumb ones stay, then they breed. Repeat. 2040
Jan 24 2011: (I don't mean to slight the excellent breeding programs in West Virginia, Iowa and rural locations around the world.) 2041
Jan 24 2011: If women have been abused throughout history, so have men. I think we can agree in general terms that history sucked for almost everyone. 2042
Jan 24 2011: Almost as destructive as not caring about others is caring too much, to the point where your own stability is compromised. 2043
Jan 24 2011: His Holiness has OVER 500 photo albums online! On FB http://j.mp/hCy23K and http://RoamingPhotos.com — Stunning in both quality & quantity! 2044
Jan 24 2011: Basic index of all our videos: http://KilroyCafe.com/video - Our first video? "Rooster Eats My Ice Cream" on May 6, 2010. http://j.mp/hohf26 2045
Jan 24 2011: Some of our finest essays were written between May 2008 and March 2010: http://KilroyCafe.com (Then we discovered video!) 2046Jan 24 2011: How to enjoy the social cache of the Mac at lowest cost: (a) take Apple decal, (b) place over Compaq logo. Voilà ! http://twitpic.com/3szm8k←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2047
Jan 24 2011: Trauma is like being beaten with a block of ice. Eventually the ice melts and vanishes, and all you know is you hurt really bad. 2048
Jan 24 2011: If you want to be an artist, you can't afford to wait for others to support you. Just seize whatever tools are available and do it! 2049
Jan 24 2011: When you embark on any project, there are two goals: the end result you are seeking and the experience you gain along the way. 2050
Jan 24 2011: If you respect your own mind, don't feed it junk! You keep it in shape with meaningful challenges, not programmed entertainment. 2051
Jan 24 2011: Entertainment is to the brain what junk food is to the body. 2052
Jan 24 2011: @hjamess "It doesn't happen often, but you're wrong about entertainment BadDalai." <== How so? It's real experience vs fake experience. 2053
Jan 24 2011: RT @soundhunter: @BadDalaiLama@hjamess seems to me, that it's entertainment in excess, causes bloat/problems, like excess of any other ... 2054
Jan 24 2011: You can enjoy food, but its underlying value is nutrition. You can enjoy entertainment, but its underlying value is... what? 2055
Jan 24 2011: Another term for entertainment is "pseudo experience". When you are "being entertained" you aren't doing real things in the real world. 2056
Jan 24 2011: Occasionally some nutrition slips into entertainment—like a thoughtful movie—but it's no more common than nutrition in junk food. 2057Jan 24 2011: McLean, Texas. http://twitpic.com/3t2yxt←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2058Jan 24 2011: Stopping for gas on Route 66. http://twitpic.com/3t2zfp←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2059Jan 24 2011: The Leaning Tower of Texas. http://twitpic.com/3t3aai←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2060Jan 24 2011: Cathedral of the Heartland. http://twitpic.com/3t3dzy←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2061
Jan 24 2011: How often do you use Facebook? How many times have you clicked an ad & bought the product? That (x500,000,000) is Facebook's true valuation. 2062
Jan 24 2011: The Sherlock Holmes Delusion is that you can deduce the whole from a few isolated details. Reality has too many dimensions for that. 2063
Jan 25 2011: Between Amarillo and Albuquerque is a 280-mile Walmart-free zone. I now understand the hardships the pioneers had to face. 2064
Jan 25 2011: Every tweet has its personality, reflecting the personality of its author. It is a Rorschach of how that person operates. 2065
Jan 25 2011: Most tweets are highly narcissistic, expressing the needs of the author but giving little to others. 2066
Jan 25 2011: Everyone is narcissistic at their core, but some learn to transform it into something useful—giving to others while also serving oneself. 2067
Jan 25 2011: A narcissistic tweet: "Here I am, doing something amazing!" You can get away with a few of these but not a whole stream of them. 2068
Jan 25 2011: You should have *some* narcissistic tweets! Without a dose of "me", your tweet stream will be taken for granted as a free public service. 2069
Jan 25 2011: You can lie in a tweet—It's easy enough.—but you can't fake your personality over time. The real person will show through! 2070Jan 25 2011: Atomic energy is a blast! http://twitpic.com/3tbsly←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2071Jan 25 2011: Bombity, bombity, bomb! Little Boy and Fat Man. (Note: not the actual bombs, which could not be reconstructed.) http://twitpic.com/3tbylx←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2072
Jan 25 2011: Why does your typical male have to turn every problem into a technical issue? If I want data, I can go to the internet. 2073
Jan 25 2011: Male Data Collection Syndrome [MDCS] — a common disorder where the male obsessively collects useless info and statistics: sport scores, etc. 2074
Jan 25 2011: (His Holiness is a recovering MDCS sufferer. His drug was geographical data. Clean and sober for 8 years—except for the travel.) 2075Jan 25 2011: Four of the world's greatest scientists at your fingertips. http://twitpic.com/3tdmzi←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2076Jan 25 2011: Laguna Pueblo, New Mexico. http://twitpic.com/3tdtfc←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2077
Jan 25 2011: @lolahayes "Full-time jobs are overrated" <== Frankly, the whole "job" concept is overrated, especially when they make you do work. 2078Jan 25 2011: At Cadillac Ranch near Amarillo, Texas... IT'S FRICKING COLD! http://twitpic.com/3t4evw←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2079
Jan 25 2011: Our new philosophy essay: "Going With The Flow" http://j.mp/gmMDbr — It is good to sail with the currents, but you still have to steer! 2080Jan 26 2011: Yellowhorse Trading Post. http://twitpic.com/3tev4g←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2081
Jan 26 2011: Marriage is the end of macroscopic creativity. Now you're an institution, a rooted plant. Get used to TV cuz you'll be watching a lot of it! 2082Jan 26 2011: Driving into the sunset. Arizona. http://twitpic.com/3tf84j←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2083
Jan 26 2011: As health care technology improves, it keeps people alive longer. These people then use more health care. It's an infinite cost spiral! 2084
Jan 26 2011: Yeh, mayt, oy spayke Ozstroilyin! Got enny Vegemite? 2085
Jan 26 2011: Did you know? Vegemite was invented in 1922 by food technologist Cyril Callister to make use of waste yeast discarded by breweries. Mmmmm! 2086
Jan 26 2011: No argument can change someone's personality. Only they can change themselves, or catastrophe can force change upon them. 2087
Jan 26 2011: RT @willwork4food: if practice makes perfect, then how do you explain all the people who practice all day and still suck at what they do ... 2088
Jan 26 2011: .@auren "If you are under-40 today, healthy and relatively wealthy, there is a good chance of living past 140" <== "Wealthy" being the key. 2089Jan 26 2011: Family restroom at Walmart. http://twitpic.com/3tjwru←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2090
Jan 26 2011: The only differences between Motel 6 and hotels charging 2-4 times as much are a few amenities worth pennies. Oh, and snob value. 2091
Jan 26 2011: The silliest courses in college are anything to do with creativity. If you are going to the class, then you aren't being creative. 2092
Jan 26 2011: Here in Arizona, all the vultures love roadkill! It's fresh, easy and free. You just got to be careful you're not the next. 2093Jan 26 2011: Down at the Roadkill Cafe, it's all fresh, never frozen! http://twitpic.com/3tl91p←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2094Jan 26 2011: If you're not roadkill, you don't belong here! http://twitpic.com/3tlanm←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2095
Jan 26 2011: Art, beauty, joy, pleasure — Are these things really valid goals in themselves, separate from accomplishment or learning? 2096
Jan 26 2011: Just because an entertainment product is clever, funny, interesting or "good" doesn't mean it is worth your time to consume. 2097
Jan 26 2011: Entertainment is a religion of its own, based on sacred assumptions taken without proof—namely, that entertainment is worth ones time. 2098
Jan 26 2011: @lolahayes "Joining the Lepidopterists' Society" <== Is that really the way you choose to live—to preserve beauty by killing it? 2099Jan 26 2011: Dam! http://twitpic.com/3tmh8b←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2100
Jan 26 2011: Entertainment is society's most popular drug, neutralizing more human resources than all chemical drugs combined. 2101Jan 26 2011: I yam what I yam. http://twitpic.com/3tn16g←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2102
Jan 26 2011: RT @AClkwrkStarfish: Photo: Oh, Twitter. http://tumblr.com/x2t1con6kb 2103
Jan 26 2011: "Entertainment" includes news and documentaries. An evening watching the Discovery Channel or CNN is just as wasted as Cartoon Network. 2104
Jan 26 2011: The fact that you have consumed a lot of news and expressed a lot of opinions doesn't make you an active participant in the world. 2105Jan 26 2011: Cosmopolitan. Las Vegas' last megaresort. There won't be any more! http://twitpic.com/3to2iu←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2106Jan 26 2011: From where I sit. http://twitpic.com/3to5xt←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2107
Jan 26 2011: A life without entertainment doesn't mean a life without fun. It means having fun doing real things instead of pseudo-fun doing fake things. 2108Jan 26 2011: What is this country "FB"? http://twitpic.com/3toc4u←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2109
Jan 26 2011: RT @Skylorde: @BadDalaiLama Facebook. Population 500 million :) 2110
Jan 26 2011: RT @dunebat: @BadDalaiLama Fat Bastard lol? 2111
Jan 26 2011: You can live a life full of applause and still not be fulfilled. Fulfillment is doing all that you know you are capable of. 2112
Jan 26 2011: (The real source of the "FB" bumper sticker was "Folly Beach, SC", but it had me going for a while.) 2113
Jan 26 2011: The rarest kind of vision is to be able to see both the forest AND the trees. 2114
Jan 27 2011: Merely to have changed the world is not in itself a noble accomplishment. 2115
Jan 27 2011: Flight for Life near Barstow. (Our first directly uploaded video.) 0:19 http://twitvid.com/CP0OJ 2116
Jan 27 2011: "Practice makes perfect" isn't the whole story. Some practice all their lives but don't improve. Others get it quickly. That's insight! 2117
Jan 27 2011: A "promisoholic" is one who can't stop making promises, far beyond their ability to fulfill them. 2118
Jan 27 2011: Promisoholism is the result of an overwhelming need to please others combined with an unrealistic appraisal of ones own abilities. 2119
Jan 27 2011: For all the experiences of parenting at lower cost and commitment, try foster parenting. It's traumatic, but so is a child of your own. 2120
Jan 27 2011: You can't consider yourself educated in the ways of the world until you have dealt firsthand with the conundrums of child welfare. 2121
Jan 27 2011: FADE IN — His mind is a total blank, free of desires. Systems check. GPS kicks in and he determines his location. Then motivation boots up. 2122
Jan 27 2011: "Reverse engineering", in any narrative artform, is starting with what you want to achieve, then back-filling the details to make it happen. 2123
Jan 27 2011: @lolahayes What is called "homelessness" in America isn't a lodging problem; it's a spectrum of mental health issues. 2124
Jan 27 2011: If you feed the homeless, give them comfortable places to stay, doesn't it just make them dependent on you and discourage their own action? 2125
Jan 27 2011: @lolahayes His Holiness recognizes that for many things there are no solution. We change what we can and accept what we cannot change. 2126
Jan 27 2011: @michellenassau "Become homeless and then let's see if you'll still have this limited view." <== LOL! His Holiness *IS* homeless! 2127
Jan 27 2011: You may see His Holiness as "homeless", but he sees you as "home burdened" and has great sympathy for you. 2128
Jan 27 2011: Do not try to solve problems with tools you don't have. Instead look at the tools you do have and see what problems can be solved with them. 2129
Jan 27 2011: @lolahayes HHBDL has never advocated passivity, only working with the tools you have. Right now you have no tools to address homelessness. 2130
Jan 27 2011: Any resources used to feed the hungry can't be used to address the underlying problems that lead to hunger. At some point, you must choose. 2131Jan 27 2011: This is Pepper, living beside the Los Angeles River. He let me take his photo for a $5 "donation" (2006). http://twitpic.com/3ty69b←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2132
Jan 27 2011: The fundamental question in everything you do is, "Is this the best thing I can be doing with my limited resources?" 2133
Jan 27 2011: In every noble endeavor there are Malthusian systems present, potentially neutralizing your work. 2134
Jan 27 2011: Aliens make poor benefactors. They don't understand the planets they are trying to help and often end up making matters worse. 2135
Jan 27 2011: An irony of child welfare is that the state can take your kids away but you can't give them up—although many parents of teens would like to! 2136
Jan 27 2011: One benefit of juvenile court is that it forces parents and teens back together, since parents are called into court along with their kids. 2137
Jan 28 2011: RT @michellenassau: @BadDalaiLama His "holiness" my ass. How does he survive? That's right. 2138
Jan 28 2011: @kwistred "vegemite is delicious" <== If you've been raised on something from birth, anything is delicious, even brewer's yeast residue. 2139
Jan 28 2011: RT @ederguillermo: "@BadDalaiLama: Ladies, if we can see your ribs, you don't look sexy—you look hungry!"// Suscribo vehemente. 2140
Jan 28 2011: RT @peregrinari7: I *like* this... RT @BadDalaiLama: If your quest isn't slightly quixotic, you're not pushing your limits. 2141
Jan 28 2011: To make the most of your limited resources, focus on the areas you know best. The key to avoiding pitfalls is your knowledge of the terrain. 2142
Jan 28 2011: You got to give those aliens credit: At least they're staying out of our business! Anything they did would just screw us up more. 2143
Jan 28 2011: New video of our old haunts. 15 years later, nothing has changed. RT @1080visual Student Podcast about Area 51 http://j.mp/e2TsL4 2144
Jan 28 2011: Juvenile probation is one of the world's most cost-effective social interventions. A little spent now, a lot saved on prisons later. 2145Jan 28 2011: San Francisco. Right now! http://twitpic.com/3u236a←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2146Jan 28 2011: Local ladies. San Francisco. http://twitpic.com/3u27ay←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2147
Jan 28 2011: Decent enough! They gave His Holiness his own room in the heart of San Francisco for $29. (@ USA Hostel) http://4sq.com/haBYNr 2148Jan 28 2011: Thanks to advances in steam technology, central heating comes standard in most San Francisco rooming houses. http://twitpic.com/3u2qxa←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2149
Jan 28 2011: In Egypt, they can't Twitter, they can't Facebook... OH, THE HUMANITY!!! 2150
Jan 28 2011: A game I play every morning is figuring out where in the world I am. Sometimes it takes a few seconds of analysis. 2151
Jan 28 2011: The most powerful force in the universe is "me". The drive for me-ness keeps all the wheels turning. 2152Jan 28 2011: 891 Post Street, home of detective Sam Spade. His apartment us in the upper left corner. http://twitpic.com/3u5u59←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2153Jan 28 2011: Local resident of the Tenderloin. http://twitpic.com/3u5vpf←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2154Jan 28 2011: My hostel. http://twitpic.com/3u5xg2←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2155
Jan 28 2011: Hybrid taxis are deadly! They come at you at taxi speed, but NO SOUND! 2156
Jan 28 2011: http://twitvid.com/YVUJL - Mini-Video: San Francisco cable car at Powell and Bush. (0:30) 2157
Jan 28 2011: Egyptian censorship is wimpy, half-ass censorship, easy to work around. It takes the Chinese to do it right, backed up by capitalism. 2158
Jan 28 2011: The economic necessity of "work" gives people structure and identity. Without it, most would be watching TV all day. 2159
Jan 28 2011: Money and the quixotic quest for it provide the infrastructure of the world. It's not the most noble structure, but better than nothing. 2160
Jan 28 2011: There are two ways to gain economic freedom. One is to make more money. The other is to cut your costs. The latter is usually easier. 2161
Jan 28 2011: Money has value only when you don't have enough if it. Otherwise, it's just numbers in a bank account. 2162
Jan 28 2011: My own visit to Cairo is scheduled for Feb. 10. Will I get my visa? Will they let me in (at Taba)? CAN I TWITTER? 2163
Jan 28 2011: No matter what your income may be, the "necessities" of life tend to expand to consume it. 2164
Jan 28 2011: Ten times the income doesn't make you ten times richer if you have also taken on ten times the commitments. 2165
Jan 28 2011: You can't give motivation to someone who can't find it on their own. 2166
Jan 28 2011: @MollyTheWineDog "my fantasy dinner party #FF @dalaimamma@dalailama@baddalailama..." <== Alas, they'd all annihilate each other! 2167Jan 29 2011: Palestinian toughs. Don't mess with these guys! (Bethlehem, Dec. 24) http://twitpic.com/3ubsep←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2168
Jan 29 2011: I won't go to Egypt if the State Dept. advises against it. http://j.mp/f67OeR - Palestine is one thing. An active civil war is another. 2169
Jan 29 2011: So far, I have only invested $15 in the Egyptian visa. I can accept the loss if there is real risk involved. 2170
Jan 29 2011: MISSION ABORTED! Not going to Cairo right now. This WAS my intended bus route on Feb. 10 http://j.mp/exBadn but there are too many risks. 2171
Jan 29 2011: I'm not worried so much about Cairo itself but about crossing the Sinai, which is a semi-lawless area even in the best of times. 2172Jan 29 2011: Look at who I ran into at the Philadephia airport! http://twitpic.com/3uh8fz←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2173Jan 29 2011: There's no traveling light on the Baby Train! http://twitpic.com/3uhds5←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2174
Jan 29 2011: The usual message of advertising is: "Go ahead, give in to your childish impulses!" 2175
Jan 29 2011: Your physical resources are obvious things like money and time. Your emotional resources are hidden skills that help you deal with life. 2176
Jan 29 2011: One can have plenty of physical resources but no emotional resources. 2177
Jan 29 2011: http://twitvid.com/RVKON - Mini-Video: De-icing in Philadelphia (2 hours ago). Spacy cool! (0:44) 2178
Jan 29 2011: Being God must really suck. No matter what you do, people get hurt. 2179
Jan 29 2011: You don't call them "fatties" anymore. That's denigrating. They're Obese Americans. 2180
Jan 29 2011: http://twitvid.com/CUB7H - Giant hamsters! Key Largo, Florida. Right now! 2181Jan 29 2011: Florida Keys. Right now! http://twitpic.com/3umhta←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2182Jan 29 2011: Live-tweeting my swim on the Florida Keys. Brutal! Water temp can't be more than 75 degrees. Video coming. http://twitpic.com/3umulo←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2183
Jan 29 2011: http://twitvid.com/EXTZZ - On the Florida Keys, going where no iPhone has gone before! — A journey into another dimension! 2184Jan 29 2011: Dusk. http://twitpic.com/3un7cr←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2185Jan 29 2011: Overseas Highway. http://twitpic.com/3unbt8←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2186
Jan 29 2011: The art of photography lies in seeing what actually appears in the viewfinder, not what you want to be there. 2187Jan 29 2011: Song #6: "Flatland" - Our own original song, sung yesterday in the Central Valley of California http://youtu.be/oy-AI1rK1xw (Video #34) ←Our original YouTube video [more] 2188
Jan 29 2011: The root of most disasters is mistakes made during periods of success. 2189
Jan 30 2011: KEY WEST — Photos from previous visits: http://roamingphotos.com/a?keywest 2190Jan 30 2011: Not Sponge Bob, but another one. Key West. Right now. http://twitpic.com/3uomjd←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2191Jan 30 2011: Dancing. Key West. Right now. http://twitpic.com/3uoq18←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2192Jan 30 2011: Mayor of the Key West Lime Shoppe. http://twitpic.com/3uoukt←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2193Jan 30 2011: Hand-rolled Cubans. http://twitpic.com/3uoz3r←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2194
Jan 30 2011: http://twitvid.com/XVY5T - Duval Street, Key West — The most fun you'll have in 3.5 minutes! Right now! 2195
Jan 30 2011: awesomatrocity — that which is awesome in its atrociousness. (word invented right here!) 2196Jan 30 2011: Key hopping back to the Mainland. http://twitpic.com/3utjba←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2197
Jan 30 2011: Caption of our earlier video should have read: "The most fun a CAT can have in 3.5 minutes!" 2198
Jan 30 2011: Descartes had one idea: divide each problem into parts and solve them separately. Sometimes, however, holistic is the better way to go. 2199Jan 30 2011: Sunrise. Long Key. Right now! http://twitpic.com/3uu8lx←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2200
Jan 30 2011: Engineers can be talented at solving the problem placed in front if them but totally inept at the question of why they are doing it. 2201
Jan 30 2011: "Once they go up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department says Werner von Braun." 2202Jan 30 2011: There's no climbing this tree! Weird! http://twitpic.com/3uv0ou←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2203
Jan 30 2011: Got a cellphone camera? There is so much awesome stuff going on all around you! You just have to see it. 2204
Jan 30 2011: The thing that stands between you and great photography is your own emotional neediness. You must see with your eyes, not your ego. 2205
Jan 30 2011: Photos of past events can jog ones memory, but they also shape it. Over time, the photo becomes the memory. 2206Jan 30 2011: The devastating cost of my Key West vacation! Not shown: gas $42. food $14. Lodging... priceless! http://twitpic.com/3uweyq←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2207
Jan 30 2011: The main deception of photography is that the viewer tends to infer the whole from the detail shown, often incorrectly. 2208
Jan 30 2011: Photography has sold more frauds than any sharp-tongued swindler—without technically "lying". 2209
Jan 30 2011: You can't fight man's inherent need for religion. If you debunk one, he'll invent another. 2210
Jan 30 2011: On My Bucket List: Resist calls for my resignation and cling tenaciously to power. [See Full Bucket List] 2211
Jan 30 2011: Nothing raises blood sugar levels like watching the betrothed flirt with each other on their respective Facebook pages. Get a room! 2212
Jan 30 2011: One of the most realistic and plausible movies ever! Direct from Bollywood! Video: http://j.mp/emHm5G via @princeboucher 2213Jan 30 2011: Florida gold! It's lying around everywhere, free for the taking! http://twitpic.com/3uyy8e←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2214
Jan 30 2011: Be stingy with promises. You can't be condemned for promises you don't make, only for those you make but can't fulfill. 2215
Jan 30 2011: Shhhh! We've secretly replaced this model's expensive anti-aging cream with Hellmann's mayonnaise. Let's see if she notices. 2216
Jan 30 2011: RT @danavachon Tourists besiege Cairo airport, but flights halt - Yahoo! Finance http://yhoo.it/eo0ZOA <== Yup, Cairo vacation is off. 2217
Jan 30 2011: A moral action is one you can comfortably explain to your biographer 20 years from now, after he has read all your Wikileaks documents. 2218
Jan 31 2011: Morality is a set of policies to best prepare you for a future you cannot precisely predict. 2219
Jan 31 2011: RT @RyanTylerThomas: @BadDalaiLama@princeboucher If it's not a tractor jumping another tractor from standing you lost me. http://www.sn ... 2220
Jan 31 2011: Given the choice between freedom and prison, most will choose prison, but they call it by other names. 2221
Jan 31 2011: World events are inherently unpredictable. These systems are so complex and chaotic that small perturbations can trigger big changes. 2222
Jan 31 2011: There is futility and danger in trying to change systems you don't fully understand. 2223
Jan 31 2011: Grace is acting with the greatest economy possible. 2224
Jan 31 2011: "Religious belief is not a precondition either of ethical conduct or of happiness." @DalaiLama <== Sometimes the dude gets it right! 2225
Jan 31 2011: A great skill of creativity is to quickly identify the skills of others and assimilate them into your own. 2226
Jan 31 2011: He wakes in the morning, his mind a blank slate. He says, "I don't have to tweet anything today." Then the ideas come. 2227
Jan 31 2011: RT @philoquotes: Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it. ~ Rousseau http://bit.ly/philq 2228
Jan 31 2011: RT @TheBosha: Somebody ever gives you a "Lifetime Achievement Award" clear your browser history and kiss your ass goodbye. 2229
Jan 31 2011: Twitter tip: Follow everyone who follows you, allowing DMs, but read from private lists no one sees but you. Less politics that way. 2230
Jan 31 2011: There are ways things are done. We've done them that way for years. There is no reason we should we change now. — (Argggh! Old people!) 2231Jan 31 2011: Now is the time to lock in your airfare savings! (Thanks, Google!) http://twitpic.com/3v6fez←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2232
Jan 31 2011: Nice to voice your support for Eqypt, but the real issue is what happens next. Revolutions have a poor track record of restoring democracy. 2233
Jan 31 2011: Homeless Tip: Camping soap (Walmart sports dept) also works in salt water, so while swimming in the tropics you can also bathe. 2234
Jan 31 2011: Please show your love for His Holiness by starring and/or RTing tweets you like. RTs help spread the enlightenment (better than FFs). 2235
Jan 31 2011: Being an exiled spiritual leader ain't as bad as it sounds. You get to travel. No one expects you to run a country. Kinda sweet, actually! 2236
Jan 31 2011: Nature favors a robust jealousy response, but not on equal terms. http://bit.ly/fvX4V3 via @noahWG robust = "Gonna kill that motherf*cker!" 2237
Jan 31 2011: RT @agnosticcc: The vikings were the most aggressive of conquerors, determined to bring the clean, modern lines of their furniture to a ... 2238
Jan 31 2011: The aim of gender equality is not to encourage a 50/50 split in every field but simply to give each individual the right to choose. 2239
Jan 31 2011: Only 13% of Wikipedia contributors are female. http://j.mp/h2Fz9S via @BrainPicker — You can't get more gender-neutral than that! 2240
Jan 31 2011: It is the genetic nature of men to collect arcane technical minutia. So let 'em! There are more holistic things you can do with your time. 2241Jan 31 2011: Unique regional signage on the edge of the Walmart parking lot. Translation: Do not walk your little dog here! http://twitpic.com/3v9ptk←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2242
Jan 31 2011: Throw a frog in a pot of hot water and he'll jump out. Put him in cold water & slowly heat it up, he'll accept it. People are like that too! 2243
Jan 31 2011: Facebook is just like real life. You've friended everyone you know, so now you can't do anything without upsetting someone. 2244
Jan 31 2011: Media vs. Content — Media is how you convey it. Content is what you say. Media has a short lifespan. In the end, only content matters. 2245
Feb 1 2011: The orchestra is media. The symphony is content. Orchestras die away. Only the symphony remains. 2246
Feb 1 2011: @beingtheo "You'll love having dinner with my sister. Unless the different food items on her plate happen to touch each other." <== OCD, eh? 2247
Feb 1 2011: Many play in the band. Few will ever write the song. 2248
Feb 1 2011: Followers are invited to friend our channeler at http://fb.me/KilroyCafe — An all-you-can-eat buffet of photos & more! (Say BDL sent you.) 2249
Feb 1 2011: Wisdom is recognizing how little you know while at the same time knowing when you know more than someone else. 2250
Feb 1 2011: A moral action is one you can comfortably explain to your biographer 20 years from now with no sense of shame or regret. 2251
Feb 1 2011: World's Oldest Person is a contest with high turnover and no winners. ==> World's oldest woman dies at 115 in Texas http://tgr.ph/hMulk4 2252
Feb 1 2011: On My Bucket List: Solidly occupy the middle of the bell graph. [See Full Bucket List] 2253
Feb 1 2011: The original pitch for Star Trek http://j.mp/gswLJg via @brainpicker 2254
Feb 1 2011: Great Wall of California — Barrier built in 2023 to prevent the pernicious effects of California from seeping into the rest of the country. 2255
Feb 1 2011: Turned on the TV and watched 15 minutes of a documentary on the Greely Expedition. Awake all night! That's why I don't watch television! 2256
Feb 1 2011: Cannibalism isn't immoral if you are starving and the guy is already dead. 2257
Feb 1 2011: .@michellenassau "How much does a spiritual leader get paid? I think I'll become one and spread love." <== Pay is low, but perks are nice! 2258
Feb 1 2011: RT @mecotterill: @BadDalaiLama@brainpicker Thanks SO much for posting this - truly 'fascinating' 2259
Feb 1 2011: Television is emotional overload. With all those experiences forcefed into you, there's no time to process them. 2260
Feb 1 2011: "It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."—Confucius <== Actually, it does matter! Time can run out. Got to move it! 2261
Feb 1 2011: RT @SethMacFarlane: So is the way this works that we all now have to tweet for the rest of our lives? 2262
Feb 1 2011: I have been studying the popular culture of this planet. A "Snooki" mystifies me even more than a "Kardashian". Planetary embargo affirmed! 2263
Feb 1 2011: RT @newscientist: Creeping sickness: Our epidemic of over-diagnosis http://bit.ly/hEkInC 2264
Feb 1 2011: Looking for love? What a person does is a lot more important than who they are. Beauty and position fade. Only behavior remains. 2265
Feb 1 2011: OMG! Technology is changing so fast it must be... FUTURE SHOCK!... My fave TV documentary of my youth: http://j.mp/g7AWKa via @BrainPicker 2266
Feb 1 2011: The Dudeist religion is headed by the Dudely Lama and believes in all things laid-back and chill. http://j.mp/ePBEuy and http://dudeism.com 2267
Feb 1 2011: The human brain is a holistic processing system, seeking higher-level patterns in the data. Where computers see bytes, we hear music. 2268
Feb 1 2011: The main human deception is talk masquerading as action. 2269
Feb 1 2011: RT @AncientProverbs: A mere friend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue. -Russian Proverb 2270
Feb 1 2011: 99 out of 100 never turn their words into action. It's all "gonna do" and "wish I could". 2271
Feb 1 2011: Is synchronicity a paranormal phenomenon or merely coincidence? It doesn't matter! When it happens, use it! 2272
Feb 1 2011: Paranormal phenomena—or the illusion of them—are good for something: They can orient you to something you might not have noticed otherwise. 2273
Feb 2 2011: Even if paranormal phenomena are real, they should never be used as the basis for decision making. They are too easily corrupted by feeling. 2274
Feb 2 2011: Paranormal phenomena don't like being dissected. They just want to be accepted for who they are. 2275
Feb 2 2011: Anyone will change when change is forced upon them. Proactive change, not precipitated by a crisis, is rare and magical. 2276
Feb 2 2011: Our Wisdom Archive has been updated at http://baddalailama.com/archive — All the wisdom of His Holiness in convenient searchable form! 2277Feb 2 2011: Haifa, Isreal. Dec. 26. http://twitpic.com/3vn9bt←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2278
Feb 2 2011: Rare is the individual who can see an opportunity and use it, without his social support system telling him what to do. 2279
Feb 2 2011: Bad decisions, once made, tend to be self-reinforcing ==> "Long-Term Effects of Short-Term Emotions" http://bit.ly/6KfmtN v @ericaalexander 2280
Feb 2 2011: RT @YuririaSierra: RT @BadDalaiLama: Bad decisions, once made, tend to be self-reinforcing \\\ Until that decision demonstrates why it w ... 2281
Feb 2 2011: Did the REAL homeless thing last night, sleeping in the grass at FLL. Couldn't be more comfortable! (Of course, 70F and no rain.) 2282
Feb 2 2011: Sometimes camping-in-the-rough is better than the Hilton because you can go to sleep right away. It's all about the sleep, man! 2283Feb 2 2011: My makeshift campsite at FLL. Slept soundly 11p-6a on a bed of newspapers with a light blanket. Safe and hidden! http://twitpic.com/3vqi5x←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2284
Feb 2 2011: Many barriers in theory turn out to not be problems in real life. You have to actually test reality to find out. 2285
Feb 2 2011: @michellenassau "Try NYC streets you homeless..." <== If you're going to be homeless, go south! Doing it in NYC is pure mental illness! 2286
Feb 2 2011: The teenage homeless and adult homeless are two different populations. With teens, it's a family problem. With adults, it's mental illness. 2287
Feb 2 2011: The teenage homeless are hidden, because they're not mentally ill or obvious on the street. Couch surfing is a common survival mechanism. 2288Feb 2 2011: Fine art at the Fort Lauderdale airport. http://twitpic.com/3vt6lq←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2289
Feb 2 2011: A person isn't driven to suicide by their problems but by their own personality. Others with the same problems don't take that route. 2290Feb 2 2011: This is the job for you! http://twitpic.com/3vudck←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2291
Feb 2 2011: A good thing can be a bad thing to someone who is already committed to something (or someone) else. 2292
Feb 2 2011: Conundrums and inconsistencies in your own personality do more to hold you down than any outside force. 2293Feb 2 2011: Miami, Bitch! The Deco Walk Hostel in South Beach. Across the street from the beach. $18/night. http://twitpic.com/3vv63k←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2294
Feb 2 2011: Life comes in layers. The first is what you learned as a child. Then you find more layers you never suspected. You've only just begun! 2295Feb 2 2011: Message to my snowbound northern friends: I feel your pain. http://twitpic.com/3vvxhp←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2296Feb 2 2011: Miami Bitch! http://twitpic.com/3vwyez←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2297
Feb 3 2011: ...The preceding photo cost me a $1 tip. Bitches always win! 2298Feb 3 2011: Representing America. http://twitpic.com/3vx8mi←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2299Feb 3 2011: Cook's smoking break. Miami Beach. http://twitpic.com/3vxfv4←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2300
Feb 3 2011: All our photos from Miami Beach: http://j.mp/cjJrcY (FB album) 2301Feb 3 2011: Experimenting with Photomatix HDR on a human subject. http://twitpic.com/3vsn61←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2302
Feb 3 2011: RT @stevewilliams52: @baddalailama Looks about right. You missed the chick on the bike, topless beach pics and drunk asses on collins 2303Feb 3 2011: We have just passed 1000 followers, some of whom may actually read our tweets. That other guy: 1306956 http://twitpic.com/3w1ksa←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2304
Feb 3 2011: .@DalaiLama Dude, patience and compassion are nice, but where does action come into your philosophy? You're breeding a generation of sheep! 2305Feb 3 2011: Sunrise on Miami Beach. Awesome! http://twitpic.com/3w2lsm←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2306Feb 3 2011: Swimming anyone? Portuguese Man O'War on Miami Beach. (So there's a reason for you folks to stay home!) http://twitpic.com/3w2opm←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2307Feb 3 2011: A little place on the beach. http://twitpic.com/3w2u8x←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2308Feb 3 2011: Feeling a little queasy. http://twitpic.com/3w22tg←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2309
Feb 3 2011: You don't want to be a hard-driving entrepreneur working toward a meaningless goal. Is success really worth the price you paid? 2310
Feb 3 2011: Portuguese Man O'War <== I am told by my FB friends (providing immediate feedback) that these things aren't deadly at all. Like a bee sting. 2311
Feb 3 2011: @RFernandez666 "holy fuck!! I'm on 10th street how far down are they showing up??" <== It was around 10th! They're coming for you! 2312
Feb 3 2011: On Our Favorites List: New Soul by Yael Naim ♫ http://blip.fm/~11f9tv 2313
Feb 3 2011: Full Disclosure: Although we now have 1000 "followers", fewer than 50 click on any of our links. You are our true disciples—the Chosen Ones! 2314
Feb 3 2011: http://twitvid.com/CLEUQ - This is silly, but I think the video and music go together. 2315
Feb 3 2011: RT @agnosticcc: My mom is upset because I ignored her request to be my mother on Facebook. What? Facebook gave me the choice. 2316
Feb 3 2011: RT @noahWG: Birds with unattractive mates are more stressed. More stress typically means less reproductive effort. Sound familiar? http: ... 2317Feb 3 2011: Essential medicine for travelers! These two orange pills reduce news by 80%! Works on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC. http://twitpic.com/3w5t0n←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2318Feb 3 2011: This is your brain on CNN — a tragic example of news overexposure. http://youtu.be/PjA8D6f9clg (our video from May) ←Our original YouTube video [more] 2319
Feb 3 2011: Love is not charity. 2320
Feb 3 2011: Google "Love is not charity" and our 2007 book chapter is at the top. Surprisingly insightful! http://j.mp/encumL Romance is not parenting. 2321
Feb 3 2011: RT @BLANCHELUNA: RT @BadDalaiLama: Love is not charity.///Bien dicho!! 2322
Feb 3 2011: "The purpose of romantic love is to serve your own needs, not those of the person you love." http://j.mp/encumL 2323
Feb 3 2011: In romance, you are not a therapist, protector or parent. You are a consumer, willing to pay a reasonable price for a quality product. 2324
Feb 3 2011: The key to success in love is to not need it at all, to be self-sufficient in yourself. Then you can take it only when it truly works. 2325
Feb 3 2011: What usually stands between us and our romantic fantasies is the other person, who keeps saying and doing things to disrupt the fantasy. 2326
Feb 3 2011: Consumer video has a low "dynamic range". Typically, part of the image is underexposed, part overexposed, with dark or washed out colors. 2327
Feb 4 2011: I haven't figured out what slower frame rate does. 30 fps ought to be better than 24 fps to the eye, but 24 fps seems to feel better. 2328Feb 4 2011: Bouteilles à Philadelphie. http://twitpic.com/3wdneh←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2329
Feb 4 2011: Dieting products, hair-loss treatment, male enhancement, consumer-marketed prescription medicines — the snake oil of our age! 2330
Feb 4 2011: In bikinis, as in other forms of communication, less is more... but only up to a point. Sometimes, less is less, and there should be more! 2331
Feb 4 2011: Dental floss bikinis — now that's just gross! 2332
Feb 4 2011: Childhood development milestones: Crawling. Walking. Talking. Using a mouse. Using a phone. Reading. Texting. Facebook. Twitter. Puberty. 2333
Feb 4 2011: @lolahayes "All is unfair in love and war" <== Not unfair, but different rules than people think. Study your Machiavelli... and Woody Allen! 2334Feb 4 2011: The car I'm in has a Guardian Angel on the visor. One little problem: In a crash it will stab you in the eye! http://twitpic.com/3wgkkn←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2335
Feb 4 2011: Childhood is the yardstick by which everything later in life is measured. 2336
Feb 4 2011: Twenty years ago, you needed a stable residence just to have a phone. Now, when all is portable, a home is increasingly optional. 2337
Feb 4 2011: On My Bucket List: Dedicate my life to science... or medicine, or music, or animals, or God, or the Amazon rainforest... or SOMETHING! [See Full Bucket List] 2338
Feb 4 2011: @lolahayes "One day I'm going to come back reincarnated as the sun" <== This is impossible! From the sun's perspective, it's all one day! 2339
Feb 4 2011: The sole reason to maintain a romantic relationship is because it gives you good value for your investment. 2340
Feb 4 2011: RT @lolahayes: I love you for your artificial intelligence and your sincerity simulator 2341
Feb 4 2011: A small investment in a child can have substantial effects on their development. This is rarely true with an adult. 2342
Feb 4 2011: Valentines Day is coming. How much will you have to pay to prove your love? (A: How much have you got?) 2343Feb 4 2011: Choose your beverage — Bloody Mary Mix: 70 calories, 95% juice, or Cranberry Apple Cocktail: 220 cals, 15% juice. http://twitpic.com/3w8dqb←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2344
Feb 4 2011: Marriage is the joining of two hearts—and two pocketbooks. So when you give your love a gift, aren't you stealing from them to pay for it? 2345
Feb 4 2011: Less than 15% of the people collecting stupid sports statistics are women. How are we going to address this gender inequity? 2346
Feb 4 2011: Learned a new word today! (Now must use it in casual conversation.) ==> RT @Krystelisms Apodyopsis—n. the act of mentally undressing someone 2347
Feb 4 2011: "Cinematic feel" consists of: A) blurred background, B) rich colors & C) slower frame rate. That's why videos don't look as good as movies. 2348
Feb 4 2011: Consumer videos are TOO sharp! Both foreground and background are in focus, the image flat. That's because the sensor chip is so small. 2349
Feb 4 2011: If this were the Bush Administration, we'd be sending American troops to Egypt to guarantee democracy. What kind of wusses have we become? 2350
Feb 5 2011: Your first bite of anything tastes the best! After that, the sensation fades, but you keep eating anyway. 2351
Feb 5 2011: The best thing about sleep is the hallucinations. If you're hearing voices, you're right on the edge of it. 2352Feb 5 2011: If you love somebody, make them fat. http://twitpic.com/3wpsbh←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2353
Feb 5 2011: Men and women have different genetic predispositions. Don't pre-judge, but also don't be surprised if they choose different activities. 2354
Feb 5 2011: Britney Spears has nothing to do with a Britney Spears song except coming into the studio to sing it, then dancing in the video. #blasphemy 2355Feb 5 2011: Dollar store ambassadors, Macon, Georgia. http://twitpic.com/3wrpoi←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2356
Feb 5 2011: life hacker — one who aggressively probes the world, like an internet hacker, using their skills to find hidden opportunities in life. 2357
Feb 5 2011: On My Bucket List: Become a Weekend Pirate—pillaging and plundering across the Caribbean, but only on weekends so I can keep my job. [See Full Bucket List] 2358Feb 5 2011: Underground Atlanta. http://twitpic.com/3wteev←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2359
Feb 5 2011: Famous Georgians: Jimmy Carter, Ted Turner, Martin Luther King Jr, Joseph Stalin, King George IV. 2360Feb 5 2011: On the set of my upcoming music video, "Weekend Pirate". Argggh! http://twitpic.com/3wupu6←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2361
Feb 5 2011: Sooner or later, you'll have to make a choice: truth or beauty? 2362
Feb 5 2011: @lolahayes "Reflexology... What do you girls think?" <== Not a girl, but thinking you should visit a fortuneteller next. 2363
Feb 5 2011: @MissWYusa2010 hue 2364Feb 5 2011: A pirate at the Key West Pirate Festival in Dec. 2008. Both the parrot and the peg leg are real! http://twitpic.com/3wxm2c←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2365Feb 6 2011: Song #7: "Weekend Pirate" — Our own original sea shanty on part-time piracy. Song by the songwriter. http://youtu.be/PgocmkEAcW4 (Video #35) ←Our original YouTube video [more] 2366
Feb 6 2011: ...and if I might comment on the previous tweet: What a nutcase!!! 2367
Feb 6 2011: On Our Favorites List: "Ghostbusters" by Ray Parker Jr. - Ain't afraid of no ghost! ♫ http://blip.fm/~11j2zr 2368
Feb 6 2011: RT @GreatestQuotes: "He who would travel happily must travel light." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery 2369
Feb 6 2011: RT @FlyoverJoel: If you add more than one additional meta to your metadata most likely at that point you are just making shit up. 2370
Feb 6 2011: "If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words."—Chinese Proverb <== Not just his words but his choice of subject matter. 2371Feb 6 2011: Bargain of the day at the Pilot truck stop: a necklace of AUTHENTIC pearls for only $9.99. Why pay $1000s!? http://twitpic.com/3x4hqf←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2372
Feb 6 2011: Life is a series of imperfect solutions, improvised on the fly. 2373
Feb 6 2011: RT @Kurt_Vonnegut: Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops. 2374
Feb 6 2011: RT @tammyphinney: Only men can make a three hour, National Couch Party, out of drinking beer, and screaming at the TV. 2375Feb 6 2011: All the most credible products in one store! (Underground Atlanta yesterday) http://twitpic.com/3x5mib←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2376
Feb 6 2011: If it is advertised on TV, it is something you don't need. 2377
Feb 6 2011: Life is too short for perfection. "Good enough" will have to do. 2378
Feb 6 2011: You want to screw up a kid for life? Make him a child star. Very few recover from that abuse. 2379
Feb 6 2011: It isn't hard to excel in any field, if that's all you want to do with your life. What is hard is maintaining a balance. 2380
Feb 6 2011: RT @DOGENZEN: What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.— Abraham Maslow http://bit.ly/dZn1Qx 2381
Feb 6 2011: What other people consider success has little to do with what makes you happy. That's a private journey. 2382
Feb 6 2011: Dear autocorrect: I beg to differ. At this stage in history, "internet" is so routine as to no longer require capitalization. 2383
Feb 6 2011: It has been 5,000 years since civilization began, 100 years of electricity, 30 of the PC and 15 of the popular internet. What marvel next? 2384Feb 6 2011: Tropical dreaming in Chicago. http://twitpic.com/3x8wio←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2385Feb 7 2011: Chicago reality. http://twitpic.com/3x8yw6←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2386Feb 7 2011: Some sort of religious ceremony is taking place at the hostel. http://twitpic.com/3x9a9o←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2387
Feb 7 2011: Watching more Super Bowl than I have ever tolerated before. I must be mellowing. (@ Chicago Getaway Hostel) http://4sq.com/ec4pxz 2388
Feb 7 2011: The big man dropped the funny-shaped ball. 2389
Feb 7 2011: Another man kicked the ball. Then he kicked it again VERY SLOWLY. 2390
Feb 7 2011: RT @AhmNoHere: In a rare display of unity, the whole of Twitter came together to mock the Black Eyed Peas. It was emotional. #Superbowl 2391
Feb 7 2011: The big green field has lots of white stripes, and every stripe has a number. The men also have numbers. I like numbers! 2392
Feb 7 2011: A man in the crowd has a cheese on his head. 2393
Feb 7 2011: If the ad is funny, people will buy the thing the ad is supposed to be about. 2394
Feb 7 2011: The people with the cheeses on their heads don't look happy. 2395
Feb 7 2011: So this is anhedonia. Complete absence of feeling. Waiting for the Super Bowl to end. 2396
Feb 7 2011: I guess the cheese people are happy now. 2397
Feb 7 2011: Our new philosophy essay: "Complexity and How to Find It" http://j.mp/f1yB8j People are like onions: Some have many layers, some only a few. 2398
Feb 7 2011: Does postpartum depression also apply to Super Bowl? 2399
Feb 7 2011: RT @hdewolf: Beste samenvatting ooit van een voetbalwedstrijd op TV: RT @BadDalaiLama Another man kicked the ball. Then he kicked it aga ... 2400
Feb 7 2011: Moving on to the next American commercial holiday: Valentine's Day. 2401
Feb 7 2011: RT @Alienopherous: If my grlfnd ends an argument with "Fine, do what you want" I'm pretty sure the words "If you do, I'll stab you in yo ... 2402
Feb 7 2011: Photographic index of all our 2011 videos: http://j.mp/hnEEa8 2403Feb 7 2011: Chicago. http://twitpic.com/3xe89d←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2404Feb 7 2011: Siamese Connection. http://twitpic.com/3xe94s←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2405
Feb 7 2011: Any joke can backfire. Sometimes funny comes out as creepy, stupid or offensive. Before you crack, understand your environment. 2406
Feb 7 2011: On My Bucket List: Become a celebrity spokesperson for a charitable cause I know nothing about. [See Full Bucket List] 2407
Feb 7 2011: To be conscious of your existence is one thing. To ask "Why am I doing this?" is quite another. 2408
Feb 7 2011: The first dignity you can give to the less fortunate is to not use your own resources frivolously. 2409
Feb 7 2011: Beauty pageants culminate with one girl saying, "Oh my God, I won!" and fifty others saying, "Fuck, I lost." 2410
Feb 7 2011: RT @krd_metalgirl: ¡No soy un Robot! ¡Soy un Zombie! 2411Feb 7 2011: Thanks to smartphones, we can now kill time more efficiently than ever before. Time doesn't stand a chance! http://twitpic.com/3xi3c4←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2412
Feb 7 2011: CORRECTION: Beauty pageants culminate with one girl saying, "Oh my God, I won!" and fifty others pretending to be SO happy for her. 2413Feb 7 2011: Typical Massachusetts residence and its front snow pile, almost as tall as the house! http://twitpic.com/3xihcb←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2414
Feb 7 2011: "Hog Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler; Stormy, husky, brawling" 2415Feb 7 2011: I bet YOU don't have an Egyptian Tourist Visa! Here's mine, just arrived. Note the issue date. http://twitpic.com/3xj4cl←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2416
Feb 7 2011: Was planning to head to Cairo tomorrow, but apparently there have been Twitter connectivity issues. Something to do with the Super Bowl? 2417
Feb 7 2011: @puzzycutz "You are amazing but you completely fill my twitter feed ;)" <== It could be worse! We try to limit our output to one per hour. 2418
Feb 8 2011: "Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!" 2419
Feb 8 2011: "All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot!" 2420
Feb 8 2011: "I will not eat green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam I Am." 2421
Feb 8 2011: "I meant what I said, and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful, one hundred percent." 2422
Feb 8 2011: "And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so?" 2423
Feb 8 2011: "Look at me! Look at me! Look at me NOW! It is fun to have fun but you have to know how." 2424
Feb 8 2011: "Today is gone. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one." 2425
Feb 8 2011: On Our Favorites List: The greatest song ever written! "The Lumberjack Song" by Monty Python. ♫ http://blip.fm/~11ljl2 2426
Feb 8 2011: Beauty pageants, talent shows and criminal trials all hinge on one flawed assumption: that the judges know what they're doing. 2427
Feb 8 2011: No one believes in the wisdom of the judges as much as the winner of the contest. 2428
Feb 8 2011: Who judges the judges? 2429
Feb 8 2011: The defendant, despondent, leaned over to ask, "Does this judge know his own nose from his ass?" 2430Feb 8 2011: Striations in the strata allow chronologization of climactic data on a narrowly regional micro-temporal level. http://twitpic.com/3xqujk←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2431
Feb 8 2011: As painful as it is to throw useful things out, that may be the only way to relieve yourself of their burden. 2432
Feb 8 2011: RT @santhonythomas: Apparently by constantly having sex with my stalkers I'm "encouraging them". Why is the system so against the black ... 2433
Feb 8 2011: RT @AncientProverbs: Beware the barrenness of a busy life. -Socrates 2434
Feb 8 2011: Here's a short Lonely Planet video from the Egypt I didn't get to see: http://j.mp/frZ5wA 2435
Feb 8 2011: The best video is a dance between the cameraman and the talent. Static cameras suck! 2436
Feb 8 2011: Youth differs from age mainly in the number of mistakes already made. 2437
Feb 8 2011: http://twitvid.com/IWYUI - Flying Saucer sighting in Philadelphia! 2438
Feb 8 2011: On My Bucket List: Dreadlocks! [See Full Bucket List] 2439
Feb 9 2011: On My Bucket List: Brazilian Wax. [See Full Bucket List] 2440
Feb 9 2011: On My Bucket List: Multiple piercings, both above and below the neck. [See Full Bucket List] 2441
Feb 9 2011: @lolahayes "Take me into your skin" <== Actually, skin is a pretty good place to stop. Any closer and it's a viral infection or something. 2442Feb 9 2011: Right now. Where am I? http://twitpic.com/3xxd9n←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2443Feb 9 2011: Mystery Photo #2: Shooting a movie in the main square (one hour ago). http://twitpic.com/3xym0s←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2444Feb 9 2011: Mystery Photo #3: My camera was drawn to them even before I knew they were in the movie. http://twitpic.com/3xymfo←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2445Feb 9 2011: Mystery Photo #4 (last one from this city): Some serpent-slaying action! http://twitpic.com/3xync3←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2446Feb 9 2011: ISTANBUL — Right now! Turkish cat. http://twitpic.com/3y2aga←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2447
Feb 9 2011: http://twitvid.com/5GUQZ - Landing in Istanbul (3 hours ago). 2448
Feb 9 2011: .@gisforgangstaa "You're in Turkey?!" <== Got to keep moving! His Holiness is only one step ahead of a CIA rendition team out to get him. 2449
Feb 9 2011: Don't have a clue where I am. Not even sure which continent. But at least I have a comfortable bed! http://4sq.com/g1PzOS 2450
Feb 9 2011: .@akierig "Germany, Switzerland or Austria?" <== Duh! There's German in the Starbucks signs! Can we narrow it down? #mysteryphotos 2451
Feb 9 2011: The more you use your creativity, the more of it will come. 2452
Feb 10 2011: @akierig "Frankfurt Airport?" <== Nein! Although the first photo credibly could be. 2453Feb 10 2011: Good morning, Istanbul! http://twitpic.com/3y77un←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2454Feb 10 2011: Istanbul Travelogue, Part 1: Arriving in Taksim Square. http://youtu.be/f13ls-XzkTY (Video #36) ←Our original YouTube video [more] 2455Feb 10 2011: I learned my first word in Turkish! "süt" (milk). I learned the lesson quickly when I bought ayran by mistake. http://twitpic.com/3y7w7k←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2456
Feb 10 2011: Istanbul Facebook Album: http://j.mp/dJKbFd - Photos will be added here throughout our visit. Check back later for more! 2457
Feb 10 2011: A hostel is about halfway between a hotel and staying in someone's home. It can be a little strange sometimes. 2458
Feb 10 2011: It's fun to read relationships when you don't know a word of the language. Body language and tone of voice tell you everything. 2459Feb 10 2011: Heading out from the hostel to walk to the Hagia Sophia. Could take the Metro, but I'll learn more by walking. http://twitpic.com/3y8mad←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2460
Feb 10 2011: Istanbul Facebook Album: http://j.mp/dJKbFd - Photos will be added here throughout my visit. 2461Feb 10 2011: Istanbul: Hagia Sophia Mosque. Right now! (I love a mosque with free wifi!) http://twitpic.com/3y9zzh←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2462Feb 10 2011: From where I sit. http://twitpic.com/3ya0xd←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2463
Feb 10 2011: http://twitvid.com/YLGKY - A TOTALLY UNPREVOKED cat attack in the streets of Istanbul. (Okay, well maybe a LITTLE provoked.) 2464
Feb 10 2011: Valentines thought: How would we express our love for each other if we couldn't buy things and give them to people? Would there be no love? 2465
Feb 10 2011: Just woke up. What time is it? What date? Which continent? Maybe I'll go to Asia today. Or tomorrow. Or yesterday. 2466
Feb 10 2011: Mammals have two modes of aggression: Attack to kill, and "just playing". (See Twitvid video.) The latter is practice, used with siblings. 2467Feb 10 2011: Istanbul Travelogue, Part 2: The Spice Market. http://youtu.be/U2xOVCdHi1Y — Walking through the busy souk earlier today. ←Our original YouTube video [more] 2468Feb 10 2011: Trying to make sense of it all in Istanbul. http://twitpic.com/3yfs0a←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2469Feb 11 2011: Dragon on the Bosporus. http://twitpic.com/3yggbo More Istanbul photos from today: http://j.mp/dJKbFd←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2470
Feb 11 2011: On My Bucket List: A career in sales. [See Full Bucket List] 2471Feb 11 2011: Philosophy video from Istanbul: Too Much String Cheese! http://youtu.be/D0fKoOufVFo (Video #38) ←Our original YouTube video [more] 2472
Feb 11 2011: I prefer to take preemptive actions for prophylactic reasons, both to prevent disaster and because I like to say "prophylactic". 2473Feb 11 2011: Morning at the Arch-Ist Hostel. http://twitpic.com/3yk2oo←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2474Feb 11 2011: From where I sit. Right now! http://twitpic.com/3yk6ia←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2475
Feb 11 2011: Creative source material is everywhere, all around you. You just have to see it. 2476
Feb 11 2011: Diacritics freak me out! I'm like, "Speak Roman, will ya?!" 2477
Feb 11 2011: Valentine's Day is nice, but shouldn't we have an alternate holiday to remember all our romances that failed? Oh, yeah, April Fools Day! 2478Feb 11 2011: Istanbul for $13/night! Here's a look at my hostel. http://youtu.be/mRKJT2GHofw (Istanbul Travelogue, Part 3) ←Our original YouTube video [more] 2479Feb 11 2011: Another handsome young Turk. http://twitpic.com/3ypkui — Added 30+ Istanbul photos today: http://j.mp/dJKbFd←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2480
Feb 11 2011: The most dangerous thing in the world is to believe you have found permanent happiness. 2481
Feb 11 2011: "Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated." — say the people who have already been assimilated. 2482
Feb 11 2011: You don't want to get too stuck on one idea. It is better to have a lot of ideas and exercise them quickly, thereby making room for more. 2483
Feb 12 2011: The highest standard of freedom is to imagine doing something then promptly do it. The lowest is to imagine but never do. 2484
Feb 12 2011: On My Bucket List: Own a convenience store in a poor neighborhood, selling cigarettes, alcohol and lottery tickets to those who need them. [See Full Bucket List] 2485
Feb 12 2011: True, Hannibal crossed the Alps with elephants in 218 BC, but that's only part of the story. Google it! 2486
Feb 12 2011: Look at a map and you'll see the Alps were deliberately built to protect Italy from the rest of the world. Didn't work in Hannibal's case. 2487
Feb 12 2011: The Fabian strategy is to avoid direct confrontation but instead harass your enemy on the fringes and cut off his lines of supply. 2488
Feb 12 2011: @tammyphinney "Car broken into." <== Happened to me in Vancouver a few months ago. It builds character and encourages data efficiency. 2489
Feb 12 2011: @TheBosha cc @tammyphinney Canadians don't kill each other, but they're big into property crime, thanks to DRUGS FROM AMERICA. 2490
Feb 12 2011: RT @OhCrap: RT @BadDalaiLama The Fabio strategy is to be the most beautiful man alive. And always have hair product on hand. 2491
Feb 12 2011: http://www.twitvid.com/SL1EC - A small kitty in a big world. 2492
Feb 12 2011: It's easy enough to detect the jerks and douche bags of your own gender. It's only with the opposite gender that your vision gets clouded. 2493
Feb 12 2011: Don't confuse cleverness with wisdom. Cleverness helps you solve a problem. Wisdom helps you choose the right problem to solve. 2494Feb 13 2011: Istanbul Moving Postcard (on the ferry from Europe to Asia). http://youtu.be/cBcv0MfO1-Q - Like a postcard, but moving. Cool 3D effect! ←Our original YouTube video [more] 2495
Feb 13 2011: RT @ispeakfemale: Facebook is like a refrigerator. You get bored and keep checking it, but nothing new ever shows up. 2496
Feb 13 2011: If pheromones are critical for mating http://su.pr/1N48gJ, dating services should distribute scratch'n'sniff cards! (Monetize, @LolaHayes!) 2497
Feb 13 2011: http://www.twitvid.com/YFQCF - Enjoying a fine protest in Istanbul. (8 minutes of local disgruntlement) 2498
Feb 13 2011: Does a woman's nose ever lead her astray? Does the nose know all, or does it sometimes make mistakes? #pheromones 2499
Feb 13 2011: RT @michellazarenko: @BadDalaiLama@pwr I'd prefer another thought - cleverness helps to solve problems, wisdom helps to prevent problems.. 2500
Feb 13 2011: "Sometimes you are one twisted holiness, your holiness!" @ZyLaw (re "Own a convenience store in a poor neighborhood...") 2501
Feb 13 2011: RT @Krystelisms: .@DalaiLama's account is verified. Because of that, I find I can't trust him fully. Paradox? Yeah kinda.. 2502
Feb 13 2011: .@Krystelisms "We should all try tweeting like we have zero followers" <== Or we should all tweet like we had a million followers. 2503
Feb 13 2011: Honesty may be better than lying, but holding ones tongue is a valuable median solution. 2504
Feb 13 2011: Our personality is the habits and beliefs we have already committed to. It is the foundation we build upon and the chains holding us down. 2505
Feb 13 2011: Instead of a rooster crowing just before dawn, I hear the call to prayer from a nearby mosque. Right now! 2506
Feb 14 2011: Words, symbols, gestures, credentials, awards, proposals, promises... so often mistaken for action. 2507
Feb 14 2011: The "cost of opportunity" is what you could be doing but can't because of what you're doing right now. 2508
Feb 14 2011: Seriously, is what you're doing now worth all that you're giving up to do it? 2509
Feb 14 2011: Easy success is poisonous to ones personal development, stopping it dead in its tracks. 2510
Feb 14 2011: @Krystelisms "Or we could tweet like our mothers were following.. That wouldn't be very fun" <== LOL! No, not fun at all! 2511
Feb 14 2011: Sometimes you say, "No problem," when it really is a problem but you just don't want to rock the boat. 2512
Feb 14 2011: We construct our own romantic disasters. The opposite gender just fulfills them for us. 2513
Feb 14 2011: There are no fat people in Turkey, which is good, but they're also heavy smokers, which is bad. 2514
Feb 14 2011: An increase in information does not imply a growth in wisdom. 2515
Feb 14 2011: RT @GreatestQuotes: "Life is the art of drawing without an eraser." - John W. Gardner 2516Feb 14 2011: AÄŸa Çırağı Street doesn't live up to its billing. Google says street, but I see stairs. http://twitpic.com/3zsf8j←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2517Feb 14 2011: Click your heels together three times and say, "There's noplace like home! There's noplace like home!" http://twitpic.com/3zsif1←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2518Feb 14 2011: Today's Best Photo: Woman selling pigeon food outside the New Mosque in Istanbul. http://twitpic.com/3zsrnw←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2519
Feb 14 2011: People can change, but only at their own pace in and their own way. By all means encourage it, but don't bet your own future on it. 2520
Feb 14 2011: Follow our old account @KilroyCafe for occasional retweets of the Bad Dalai Lama's ancient wisdom (since he can't retweet his own). 2521
Feb 14 2011: television — n. the distribution of pseudo-experiences to those without the initiative to seek real ones. 2522
Feb 15 2011: Daytime is when we collect experiences. Sleep is when we assimilate them. 2523
Feb 15 2011: People decline to solve their own problems because in some secret way those problems serve a purpose. 2524
Feb 15 2011: Leaving Istanbul. (@ Sabiha Gökçen Uluslararası Havalimanı w/ 4 others) http://4sq.com/dKItZR 2525Feb 15 2011: Going to Asia for the last time (on the bus to the airport). Foreground is Europe. Background is Asia. http://twitpic.com/401tlr←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2526
Feb 15 2011: Any industry that offers "job security" is also one that breeds incompetence. 2527Feb 15 2011: Mystery city. Where am I? (Taken one hour ago.) http://twitpic.com/407dpj←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2528Feb 15 2011: Mystery city, photo #2. (Hint: Not Rome.) http://twitpic.com/407eec←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2529Feb 15 2011: Mystery city, photo #3. All the windows of this store were shot at. (Going to bed now. Answer in 8 hours.) http://twitpic.com/407f4j←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2530
Feb 15 2011: What? Huh? Where am I? (@ hostel of the sun) http://4sq.com/ik6GBs 2531
Feb 16 2011: Irony is the source of all wisdom. 2532
Feb 16 2011: RT @kellyoxford: Taking notes in a small notebook when someone asked in shock "What are you doing?" 2011: When handwriting became suspic ... 2533
Feb 16 2011: RT @GreatestQuotes: "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." - Anais Nin 2534
Feb 16 2011: RT @DalaiLama: In general I think that anger is a sign of weakness and tolerance a sign of strength. 2535
Feb 16 2011: It is the nature of most games that by the time you get good at it the game itself becomes irrelevant. 2536Feb 16 2011: From the balcony of my hostel in Naples. Right now! It's a bleak sort of Londony day. http://twitpic.com/40cfqe←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2537
Feb 16 2011: @angusbatey "Pizza... Da Michele, Via Sersale 13. Only 2 items on menu, but will be among best meals of yr life." <== As you wish, sir! 2538
Feb 16 2011: Reality is the feedback you actually receive from the world when you submit your theories to it. 2539
Feb 16 2011: The weather in Naples today is not conducive to the touristic process, so hiding in my bunk. Solid rain, high wind, Vesuvius gone missing. 2540
Feb 16 2011: Vespa or Ducati? Justify your answer. 2541
Feb 16 2011: Trenitalia agent wanted €59 for FCO to Naples. I declined. Took train to Termini (€14) then Regional to Naples (€10.50). System beaten! 2542
Feb 16 2011: I once owned a small RV. Nice idea, but turned into a great burden. Could have gone around the world several times for the same money. 2543Feb 16 2011: Naples in the rain. http://twitpic.com/40i9vf/full←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2544Feb 16 2011: Naples in the rain #2. http://twitpic.com/40idx2/full←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2545Feb 16 2011: Naples in the rain #3. http://twitpic.com/40ievt/full←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2546Feb 16 2011: Today was a tragic one for the umbrella community in Naples. Many lives were lost. http://twitpic.com/40iitk←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2547
Feb 16 2011: Babies are fun—to borrow and return! They're also a resource sink that will absorb and constrain the rest of your life. 2548Feb 17 2011: Funny airline safety video on my flight from Istanbul to Rome—given by kids! http://youtu.be/n9rFSw71MA8←Our original YouTube video [more] 2549
Feb 17 2011: Los Angeles is an incredibly sophisticated system for pandering to people's basest instincts. 2550
Feb 17 2011: The sun is shining again in Naples! Today Vesuvius! 2551
Feb 17 2011: If you have a gluten intolerance, stay out of Italy. Pizza, pasta, bread... It's a gluten-based economy! 2552Feb 17 2011: The crater of Vesuvius. One big hole! No lava, just a little steam coming from crevices in the crater walls. http://twitpic.com/40tlt4/full←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2553Feb 17 2011: Naples seen from Mt. Vesuvius (on the trail to the crater rim). http://twitpic.com/40tpoy/full←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2554Feb 17 2011: Naples: Laughing pigs and broken torso. http://twitpic.com/40ub8z/full←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2555Feb 17 2011: A man in the street. http://twitpic.com/40udsq/full←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2556Feb 17 2011: Subway rider. http://twitpic.com/40ugwc/full←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2557
Feb 17 2011: Every exotic travel location is someone else's boring, nothing-ever-happens-here home. 2558
Feb 18 2011: Trying to figure out this whole "God" thing. (@ The Vatican w/ 2 others) http://4sq.com/fQzUq8 2559
Feb 18 2011: The nutrition of a food has nothing to do with the flourish with which it is served. 2560Feb 18 2011: Video Postcard: Showing off my $20 hotel room in Rome—a very SMALL hotel room. http://youtu.be/HtDnIdFb-vs←Our original YouTube video [more] 2561Feb 18 2011: Touched by an angel in St. Peter's Square, The Vatican. (one hour ago) http://twitpic.com/414s8o←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2562
Feb 18 2011: If you are going to be ripped off as a tourist, it will probably happen when you first arrive in a new city, when you are still disoriented. 2563Feb 18 2011: Video Postcard: Three minutes in St. Peter's Square, the Vatican. http://youtu.be/HhfDBWj7dUM←Our original YouTube video [more] 2564Feb 19 2011: Video Postcard: Four minutes inside St. Peter's Basilica, The Vatican. (Mother church of the Catholic religion.) http://youtu.be/kUbLuhhNf3E←Our original YouTube video [more] 2565Feb 19 2011: Imperial Storm Trooper, The Vatican. http://twitpic.com/41acqa/full←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2566
Feb 19 2011: Whatever reality is, it has a structure all its own, independent of our consciousness. We must adapt to reality, not the other way around. 2567
Feb 19 2011: Most people are happy enough just to find a parking spot. Once they have one they never leave. 2568
Feb 19 2011: RT @lolahayes: Just spent four hours discovering there's no narnia in my closet 2569Feb 19 2011: Roman legions. http://twitpic.com/41blpt/full←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2570Feb 19 2011: 100 years from now... will they still be wearing those funny outfits? http://twitpic.com/41bsm0/full←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2571
Feb 19 2011: If you split a hologram, you still see the same image, but it degrades with each division until overwhelmed by noise. 2572
Feb 19 2011: In theory, every particle contains an image of the entire universe, but you'll need the rest of the universe to decode it. 2573
Feb 19 2011: @MsLauraShields "Science is a lot like sex..." <== So why DO we do science? (Is it always the best use of our resources?) 2574
Feb 19 2011: Science is an infinite quest in all directions. At some point you have to ask, "Is this really worth my time?" 2575Feb 19 2011: Istanbul from the Bosphorus Bridge (4 days ago). http://twitpic.com/41m4q0/full←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2576
Feb 19 2011: The "Duhs!" of history: Chinese had gunpowder but no guns. Egyptians didn't get the wheel. Greeks missed the arch. What are we overlooking? 2577
Feb 19 2011: @Pokersoul By all means, tweet in one of your other languages (just to show us). 2578
Feb 20 2011: In a crisis, don't dwell on what you have lost but on what you still control. 2579
Feb 20 2011: Your most fundamental human right—and responsibility—is to regulate your own personal economy. 2580
Feb 20 2011: "More than 5% of Nevada's residents are either pathological or problem gamblers." http://nyti.ms/dFhHIG 2581
Feb 20 2011: @Pokersoul What about Inuit? 2582
Feb 20 2011: .@Type_One_ "If the universe is digital you can make infinite copies." <== The universe is analog! Digital is an artificial creation of man! 2583
Feb 20 2011: RT @DOGENZEN: Hope: in reality it is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of Man ~ Nietzche 2584
Feb 20 2011: @Krystelisms "Being photographed at the moment and it's not fun" <== Your challenge, then, is to photograph yourself 'til you're used to it. 2585
Feb 20 2011: The secret to being photographed well is to take control of the situation. Don't let the photographer tell you who you are! cc:@Krystelisms 2586
Feb 20 2011: All the protocols of RL also apply to cyber communication: Please, Thank You, I'm Sorry, I Hear Ya! Acknowledgement is the most important. 2587
Feb 20 2011: RT @cyrusyrus: The girl who levitates! Photos - http://t.co/XRcGkCS 2588
Feb 20 2011: Back in Walmartania now. I love my country and it's Always Low Prices! http://j.mp/bHgl2w (patriotic FB photos) 2589
Feb 20 2011: One of our best photo albums! Las Vegas Celebrity Impersonators Convention 2010: http://j.mp/aQrV30 This year's starts tomorrow! j.mp/gqXi0R 2590
Feb 20 2011: "Trust the Force" may have worked for Luke Skywalker but in real life that kind of passivity usually just gets you into deeper shit. 2591Feb 20 2011: A visit to the frigid continent of Antarctica (today!). In these inhospitable conditions, how can life survive? http://youtu.be/Ge-TtxdnQwM←Our original YouTube video [more] 2592
Feb 20 2011: The fundamental struggle of life is against your own fatalism and inertia. 2593
Feb 20 2011: Inertia is the human tendency to do the same things in the same way. We all get addicted to it, even when we think we're changing. 2594
Feb 20 2011: RT @Type_One_ you may want to reconsider [analog v digital universe]. The verdict is still out: http://tiny.cc/bdy1bhttp://tiny.cc/p1ut1 2595
Feb 20 2011: FB photos from last week: Istanbul http://j.mp/dJKbFd Naples http://j.mp/eF2eQn The Vatican http://j.mp/gmorwm Rome http://j.mp/gmz5id 2596
Feb 20 2011: RT @GreatestQuotes: "There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way." - Christopher Morley 2597
Feb 20 2011: Hardship is much easier to endure when you are engaged in a mission rather than stuck in a loop. 2598
Feb 20 2011: The difference between climbing Mt. Everest and surviving a normal winter is that on Everest you seem to be pursuing a meaningful goal. 2599
Feb 20 2011: RT @Pokersoul: @BadDalaiLama Det kan jeg sagtens, aber mein deutch ist nicht sehr gut, jadore les francaice, assavakitt twitter. Ik ben moe. 2600
Feb 21 2011: RT @JesusBot9000: @BadDalaiLama Say hi to Dad for me. Also, smack Pope Palpatine on the back of the head if you get a chance. 2601
Feb 21 2011: RT @Erekosse: @BadDalaiLama Beautiful, love that old stores in Naples 2602
Feb 21 2011: There is a limit to how much you can plan a party. If you over-plan, then you just have theater—no more joyous than a packaged food product. 2603
Feb 21 2011: A party is a celebration among friends. It only has meaning if it is relatively rare and there's really something to celebrate. 2604
Feb 21 2011: RT @NewMindMirror Why Innocent Suspects May Confess to a Crime - ScienceDaily http://su.pr/4uuTCi 2605
Feb 21 2011: You would confess to a crime you didn't commit if you believe the police hold all the cards and you'll get worse punishment if you don't. 2606
Feb 21 2011: RT @laurendawesome: People who are easily influenced shouldn't drive. 2607
Feb 21 2011: RT @MailOnline: Over-priced, over-hyped - and they even make you feel ill. Are 3-D films the biggest rip-off… http://goo.gl/fb/mFbog 2608
Feb 21 2011: The worst addiction: a life of comfortable routine. 2609
Feb 21 2011: RT @Krystelisms If you can define yourself as Republican or Democrat, you really have no clue 2610
Feb 21 2011: Counterfeit designer goods are a rip-off of a rip-off! The real con is gullible fools paying hundreds for a label. 2611
Feb 21 2011: As soon as you say, "I'm too old to change now," it becomes true. 2612
Feb 21 2011: RT @GreatestQuotes: "Opportunities multiply as they are seized." - Sun Tzu 2613
Feb 21 2011: Perseverance is important at times, but let us not forget the essential art of strategic retreat. 2614
Feb 21 2011: Quitting doesn't necessarily imply defeat, only that you're redirecting your resources to more important battles. 2615
Feb 21 2011: For every new responsibility taken on, another one must be released. 2616
Feb 21 2011: Your ability to change and grow rests on limiting the prior commitments that lock you in place. 2617
Feb 21 2011: Freedom is our ability to adapt to things we can't predict. 2618
Feb 21 2011: @lolahayes: RT @s_h_r_i_n_e: danger is created by safes <== Especially those from the Acme Corp. deployed by coyotes to kill roadrunners. 2619
Feb 21 2011: "Donate your tweet to a cause at http://JustCoz.org" <== So what's the value of a tweet these days? About $0.00001 each? 2620Feb 21 2011: "Secrets of Area 51 Revealed"—A Pointline™ Special Edition! http://youtu.be/HRIqb7JPrSI (Promo for nonexistent TV show, June '10) ←Our original YouTube video [more] 2621
Feb 21 2011: A gift of prayers, well wishes or good intentions isn't worth the hot air it's printed on. 2622
Feb 21 2011: The quality of your creative output depends on the standards you hold yourself to and the time you allow yourself to spend on it. 2623
Feb 22 2011: News is an infinite output of irrelevancy. 2624
Feb 22 2011: The chief effect of news is to absorb all your attentional resources, leaving nothing for accomplishment or true learning. 2625
Feb 22 2011: Don't declare your intentions. Just fulfill them. 2626
Feb 22 2011: If anything in the news is truly important, you can read up on it on Wikipedia when it becomes relevant to your own life. 2627
Feb 22 2011: Real-time news is like a diet of junk food. You get only superficial flavors with little nutrition... sensations without understanding. 2628
Feb 22 2011: Beware the chains of love! The velvet prison. The sugar-coated poison. The slippery-slope seduction to the end of freedom. Inhale me! 2629
Feb 22 2011: Every zombie movie ever made... that's about love, isn't it? Watch as your friends are picked off one by one, invaded by the virus. 2630Feb 22 2011: Compliments of the Philadelphia International Airport. Right now! They are so naïve! http://twitpic.com/42h464←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2631
Feb 22 2011: If cigarette packs have warning labels, why not love? WARNING: COULD BE THE DEEPEST SHIT OF YOUR LIFE. (Have a mint!) 2632
Feb 22 2011: The brain has a powerful emotional immune system that prevents your dumbest mistakes from ever really sinking in. 2633
Feb 22 2011: Being a surviving Beatle means you can never go anywhere without hearing your own songs, usually turned into hideous elevator music. 2634
Feb 22 2011: "Dorothy seeks 'over the rainbow' ...her spiritual quest." @AndyWarholla via @lolahayes <== But soon as she gets there she wants to go home! 2635
Feb 22 2011: Creativity is proven only by action. No book, video, class or seminar can give it to you. Either you talk about it, or you do it! 2636
Feb 22 2011: Our Sacred Archive of Ancient Wisdom (SAAW/HHBDL) has been updated at http://BadDalaiLama.com/archive/ - Back to the Beginning of Time! 2637
Feb 22 2011: Every system is flawed. Your job is to choose the least flawed one—the option that best serves your needs at minimal moral cost. 2638
Feb 22 2011: Shopping at Walmart may be wrong, since it draws on sweatshop labor, but is NOT shopping there any better—putting those people out of work? 2639Feb 22 2011: Zen and the Art of Grilled Cheese. Right now! http://twitpic.com/42nu1g←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2640
Feb 22 2011: Taste is not constant! The same food (or other stimulation) tastes different to you depending on your needs and neurology at the moment. 2641
Feb 23 2011: If ten people witness a car crash, you'll get ten different stories about what happened, but all will agree that a crash occurred. 2642
Feb 23 2011: Reality is full of surprises—things you never would have expected from afar. Only direct experience will show you these things. 2643
Feb 23 2011: First impressions are sometimes right but often dead wrong. You'll only know by poking and testing to see if the assessment holds up. 2644
Feb 23 2011: Whatever dreaming is, it is not fatiguing. In a dream, you never say, "My God, I'm so tired!" You have the energy to do whatever you want! 2645
Feb 23 2011: People are swayed by brand names (Gucci, Harvard, Kardashian) because it's easier than making real decisions about the underlying product. 2646
Feb 23 2011: The dark side of love is loss of control over your own life. 2647
Feb 23 2011: RT @Krystelisms: @BadDalaiLama I've had my first impressions of some people proven wrong, only to be proven right again after befriendin ... 2648
Feb 23 2011: Creativity is finding a new use for something you already have. 2649Feb 23 2011: Breakfast with Bond. Right now! Four Queens Casino, Las Vegas. http://twitpic.com/42z4pw←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2650Feb 23 2011: Rod Stewart. Right now! http://twitpic.com/430czg←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2651Feb 23 2011: Sarah Palin. From where I sit. http://twitpic.com/430iau←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2652Feb 23 2011: Sarah Palin and I have always been close. (one hour ago) http://twitpic.com/432ifq/full←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2653Feb 24 2011: Britney Spears and her Bitch Kitties. (3 hours ago) http://twitpic.com/432sw5/full←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2654Feb 24 2011: Me and Forrest Gump ponder the universe. http://twitpic.com/43640d/full←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2655Feb 24 2011: Lady Gaga. http://twitpic.com/4367lo/full←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2656Feb 24 2011: A super man. http://twitpic.com/436eb1←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2657
Feb 24 2011: All of us start out as celebrity impersonators. Only a few of us figure out how to be ourselves. 2658
Feb 24 2011: Our essay from last year, inspired by impersonators. "The Secret of Great Performances" http://kilroycafe.com/ideas/performance/ 2659
Feb 24 2011: "Accurately evaluating your own performance is one of the hardest tasks on Earth." 2660
Feb 24 2011: The secret of a great performance is practice? Wrong! Practice often just means repeating the same dumb mistakes over and over. 2661Feb 24 2011: Richard Nixon meets Rod Stewart. Celebrity Impersonators Convention, Las Vegas. http://twitpic.com/436zoz/full←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2662
Feb 24 2011: Any of us can sit in an audience and accurately evaluate the person on stage. This detachment evaporates when it's us on stage. 2663Feb 24 2011: True, it's only 4am, but since when is Vegas this quiet? Could this be the fall of Rome? http://twitpic.com/437ixu←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2664
Feb 24 2011: If you want to understand human behavior, come to Las Vegas and eavesdrop on gamblers taking about their gambling. 2665Feb 24 2011: 99-cent shrimp cocktail. Fremont Street, 4:30am. http://twitpic.com/437rw5←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2666
Feb 24 2011: Marathon running: Is this health consciousness or just another form of addiction? Think of all you could do in the time it takes to prepare. 2667
Feb 24 2011: The desire for health and longevity must be balanced with how much of your life you must pay for it. 2668Feb 24 2011: From Fremont Street early this morning, our linguistic investigation of "Double Entendre" http://youtu.be/M5o3VxD8EXo←Our original YouTube video [more] 2669
Feb 24 2011: The business of Nevada is "resource extraction"—be it mining or relieving tourists of their cash. 2670
Feb 24 2011: The extent of my cutting loose in Las Vegas: two large Coca-Colas with sugar and caffeine. 2671
Feb 24 2011: I could be a J.K. Simmons impersonator—if anyone knew who he was. 2672Feb 24 2011: Conjuring Richard Nixon at the Celebrity Impersonators Convention in Las Vegas (yesterday). http://youtu.be/26bnXOJ6u4Y Darrell Duffey ←Our original YouTube video [more] 2673
Feb 24 2011: The value of someone's "stock" is not what they say but what they've done. 2674
Feb 24 2011: In investing, money is made mainly through the strategy of making others lose it. 2675Feb 24 2011: Making a point with Captain Jack Sparrow. http://twitpic.com/43d1pi←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2676Feb 24 2011: Bond. James Bond. Shaken, not stirred. (Frankly, tho, my eye is drawn to the Bond Girl.) http://twitpic.com/43d4bz More: http://j.mp/hFsnRh←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2677
Feb 25 2011: Flaming heterosexual. 2678Feb 25 2011: A De Niro sandwich (De Niro-Cher-De Niro) http://twitpic.com/43ect9←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2679
Feb 25 2011: Each person's character is a puzzle. It may take a while to figure it it, but once you do, you'll know their behavior in any circumstance. 2680
Feb 25 2011: Boundaries are when you decide for yourself what you can and cannot do and actively defend those lines against the encroachment of others. 2681
Feb 25 2011: I plan to pay my gambling debts in Facebook stock. 2682
Feb 25 2011: "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." Voltaire via @princeboucher 2683
Feb 25 2011: The object of life is not to live forever but to accomplish the most you can with your time on Earth. 2684
Feb 25 2011: RT @lolahayes: Introverts are collectors of thoughts and solitude is where the collection is curated and rearranged to make sense of the ... 2685
Feb 25 2011: The drummers of Africa could transmit with their drums virtually any information that could be spoken. http://bit.ly/eTcuHN via @lolahayes 2686
Feb 25 2011: If you think words have no meaning, consider air traffic control, where hundreds of lives rest on verbal instructions. 2687
Feb 25 2011: It is no longer much fun to shop in foreign lands. Wherever you go—Europe, Africa, Asia—everything manufactured comes from China! 2688
Feb 25 2011: If you meet someone with many homes, a private jet, sports cars, yachts, you may see a rich man. I see a sucker imprisoned by his wealth. 2689
Feb 25 2011: Super Bowl Weekend, NBA All-Star Weekend, Oscars, Golden Globes... Aren't we just making shit up for people with no meaning in their lives? 2690Feb 25 2011: Farm Equipment Auction. Lubbock, Texas. Don't miss it! http://twitpic.com/43nov4←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2691
Feb 25 2011: RT @dope_friend: Be exactly who you want to be. Your personality can be altered and shaped by your conscious decision to do so. 2692
Feb 25 2011: @fadereu "Why do you talk like a GoodDalaiLama? I like you only when your badbadbad." <== Sorry! My bad—I mean good. Will try to be badder. 2693
Feb 25 2011: You can't change the world merely by willing it, but you can change your own habits and personality that way. 2694
Feb 25 2011: RT @GisforGangstaa: #FF @BadDalaiLama his name should be the only reason you follow him, I love his quotes, he travels a shit load. Get ... 2695
Feb 25 2011: Smoking implies a certain fatalism—that one has low faith in ones own ability to change. 2696
Feb 25 2011: People don't become comedians without an element of desperation. Why must you make people laugh? Don't you just want to be loved? 2697
Feb 25 2011: Germs are good! (reducing asthma in children, LA Times) http://j.mp/gOaURD - So why must we kill them? Can't we all just get along? 2698
Feb 25 2011: .@GuruBadu Hey, Bad Guru Guy, this town ain't big enough for the both of us! You want a piece of me? Any day, any time—Smackdown! 2699
Feb 25 2011: The best thing about sex isn't the sex but the trust and intimacy it (sometimes) implies. 2700
Feb 26 2011: The most erotic sex organ is the face, particularly the eyes, followed by the mouth and the words that come out of it. 2701
Feb 26 2011: RT @GuruBadu: @BadDalaiLama Enlighten up, Chakra Con-job. I have a koan to pick with you: What is the sound of one hand slapping you ups ... 2702
Feb 26 2011: It's okay to question religion, but to say that sex has no meaning, that it isn't a worthy goal in itself... that's blasphemy! 2703
Feb 26 2011: Sex is a trick of nature to entice procreation and encourage couples to stay together for childrearing. It doesn't want you for your mind. 2704Feb 26 2011: Bizarre train levitation near Clovis, NM, earlier today: http://youtu.be/r67_MQLL1JQ - You saw it here, a rail car lifted off its tracks! ←Our original YouTube video [more] 2705Feb 26 2011: You want more? Here's what the strange rail car does when it is not levitating. http://youtu.be/MEgYSF72P0Y←Our original YouTube video [more] 2706
Feb 26 2011: Alien life might not be so different. They will know pi, physics, death, the struggle of individual vs society and the fragility of life. 2707
Feb 26 2011: Human behavior isn't about solving problems. It's about protecting the ego—which can be done by solving problems or by obscuring them. 2708
Feb 26 2011: Entertainment displaces life. 2709Feb 26 2011: @lolahayes Your own private heliport. http://twitpic.com/43wt76 Please, no landings after midnight! ←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2710
Feb 26 2011: An actual "job" requires you to "work". Also show up on schedule and pursue other people's goals. It's so gauche! 2711
Feb 26 2011: Every opportunity chosen is a million others lost, but you have to choose something. 2712
Feb 26 2011: The secret to having great ideas is to have a LOT of ideas, exercise them quickly, then move on. You can't get too hung up on any one. 2713
Feb 26 2011: You can't have new ideas until you get rid of old ideas. 2714
Feb 26 2011: Your words have a credit score. If you have a history of honest dealing and doing what you say you will, then people believe you. 2715
Feb 26 2011: Just drove a Jaguar for a man with two personal jets. Don't envy him in the slightest. Such a complicated life! 2716
Feb 26 2011: In most cases, adulthood is the shutting down of creativity. You become invested in a path and stop seeing any others. 2717
Feb 26 2011: Garfunkel was merely the hand puppet of Simon. This was no McCartney/Lennon. 2718
Feb 26 2011: People believe they are whatever they are told they are. 2719Feb 27 2011: Girl. (In case there was any ambiguity) http://twitpic.com/445fj3/full←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2720
Feb 27 2011: All our best tourist photos from the past four years, spanning half the globe from Jerusalem to Hawaii. http://roamingphotos.com/a?tourist 2721
Feb 27 2011: From our photo archive: The Pyramids of Teotihuacan, Mexico. http://roamingphotos.com/a?teotihuacan 2722
Feb 27 2011: Remember, guys: a girl likes excitement! You better sharpen your douchebag skills 'cuz that's who she'll go for every time. 2723
Feb 27 2011: @princeboucher "One of the few times I would disagree with you." <== A statistical observation. Douchebagism persists because it works. 2724
Feb 27 2011: "Remember, guys: a girl likes excitement!" <== Oh, and the same principle operates in the other gender. 2725
Feb 27 2011: Consider the imprisoned serial killer: the perfect romantic partner! Exciting, dangerous, inaccessible, and he won't shatter your fantasies. 2726
Feb 27 2011: RT @joecooper42: @BadDalaiLama I needed that. The Good Dalai Lama's been giving me the shits! 2727
Feb 27 2011: The most erotic elixir is unavailability. 2728
Feb 27 2011: If you are traveling down an unexplored road and aren't finding the success you expect, should you press ahead or turn back? Tough call! 2729
Feb 27 2011: Phlegm—It's not just for breakfast anymore! 2730Feb 27 2011: Raising the bar for germophobes: the automated toilet seat cover. O'Hare airport. http://twitpic.com/44cilh←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2731
Feb 27 2011: All the pirates of the Caribbean use Verizon, cuz the reception is so much better! FB photo: http://j.mp/h4hU9I 2732Feb 27 2011: Chicago sux! http://twitpic.com/44cv1o←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2733
Feb 27 2011: Negotiating is the process of people of differing viewpoints coming to a mutually acceptable conclusion. 2734
Feb 27 2011: Negotiation does not require perfect agreement. The only goal is to solve the problem at hand. 2735
Feb 27 2011: The Roman arch was a huge technological advance. Once discovered, the Mediterranean went wild with it! 2736
Feb 27 2011: The Roman arch, in 3-D, can be used to construct vaulted rooms and multiple stories of them. Many are still standing! 2737
Feb 27 2011: How can you be so sure America is the greatest country in the world if you don't own a passport? 2738Feb 27 2011: Landing on Washington, D.C. (minutes ago!). Hi-def iPhone video. http://youtu.be/j2UFT-8NfkQ←Our original YouTube video [more] 2739
Feb 27 2011: Wisdom is separating your own needs from what you are doing only to impress others. 2740
Feb 27 2011: Everything I know about life I learned from Wile E. Coyote. The falling anvils, the backfiring missiles... It's all Karma, man! 2741
Feb 27 2011: RT @Treesabreesa: @BadDalaiLama I learned from tweety pie beware your freedom it has claws and comes at you when you are not expecting it 2742
Feb 27 2011: Gravity is such a drag. No, wait, that's friction! Gravity just keeps you down. Never underestimate the gravity of gravity. 2743
Feb 27 2011: Borderline is the most enlightening mental disorder. You need some maturity to understand it and see its effects in your own life. 2744
Feb 27 2011: Paranoid people are poisonous. 2745
Feb 27 2011: We are all impersonators, trying to play the social role imposed upon us by our bodies. 2746
Feb 27 2011: You don't fall in love with a person but with an image of them which is partly a fiction in your own mind. 2747
Feb 28 2011: A common disease of projects everywhere: clever in execution but inept in the global vision of what is to be achieved. 2748Feb 28 2011: Shocking celebrity news! Learned it right now! John Travolta! http://twitpic.com/44kcz2←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2749
Feb 28 2011: Facebook and Twitter are like schoolgirl politics: Certain people get all the friends, while others feel inferior and develop skills. 2750
Feb 28 2011: I love you for your immune system. 2751
Feb 28 2011: There's no accounting for sexual attraction. Logic need not apply. 2752
Feb 28 2011: The highest ideal of Capitalism is the caffeinated beverage. Huge markup, low cost, selling to an addicted customer base. 2753
Feb 28 2011: I wonder: What's the most money you can lose with a click of a mouse? 2754
Feb 28 2011: Stumbled upon an amazing font of wisdom: @alaindebotton — 80k followers, but good anyway! 2755Feb 28 2011: If you're buying these Weight Watchers products, you're not losing weight. It's about self-control not calories. http://twitpic.com/44oaor←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2756
Feb 28 2011: When I die, I want my body preserved in Sea Salt. 2757Feb 28 2011: Awesome movie: Megamind! http://twitpic.com/44ojm9←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2758
Feb 28 2011: Fakery persists because it works. Given the right signals, people will purchase the illusion of quality instead of the real thing. 2759
Feb 28 2011: For the marketer, the advantage of a crap product over a real one is the higher markup. This funds more advertising, which sells more crap. 2760
Feb 28 2011: Our essay from 2009: "Quality vs Crap: The Enduring Struggle of Life" http://kilroycafe.com/ideas/quality 2761
Feb 28 2011: "Nature is full of crap. It's one reason species evolve the way they do." http://kilroycafe.com/ideas/quality — Seriously, an awesome essay! 2762
Feb 28 2011: The root of intelligence is a conscious decision to be intelligent. It's a self-fulfilling prophesy! 2763
Feb 28 2011: Bernie Madoff will go to his grave believing others are responsible for his fraud. Such is the worldview of a sociopath http://tgr.ph/eAM8Ec 2764
Feb 28 2011: A sociopath sees others as objects and has no empathy for their feelings (even if they can fake it). Their shame circuit is burned out. 2765
Feb 28 2011: A sociopath could set fire to a cat and feel no shame or distress about it (unless he was caught, in which case he would blame the cat). 2766
Feb 28 2011: A narcissist has an unreasonable assessment of his own importance. We all suffer from this to some extent. Teenagers are notorious! 2767
Feb 28 2011: We dig ourselves out of narcissism by seeking self-worth at a higher level, planning for it in the future instead of demanding it today. 2768
Feb 28 2011: Narcissism with sufficient planning and foresight is indistinguishable from altruism. Ultimately, we serve our own ego by serving others. 2769
Feb 28 2011: A paranoid is a narcissist with a delusional belief in threats from others. He may lash out at them first, which makes him very dangerous. 2770
Feb 28 2011: The career field with the greatest density of narcissists is... show business! 2771
Feb 28 2011: Narcissism drives you to succeed but also prevents you from doing your best because it blocks accurate evaluation of you own performance. 2772
Feb 28 2011: "Narcissism with sufficient planning and foresight is indistinguishable from altruism." @BadDalaiLama (edited by @Stonerpreneur) 2773Feb 28 2011: Foxy ladies—with wings! http://twitpic.com/44t9go←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2774
Feb 28 2011: On My Bucket List: Attend a 36-hour drug-fueled sex party. [See Full Bucket List] 2775Feb 28 2011: Our new philosophy video: "What I Learned from Celebrity Impersonators" http://youtu.be/9qhZKV0Ce2I - We are all impersonators! ←Our original YouTube video [more] 2776
Feb 28 2011: RT @garamiredux: Ignore popularity, fame and fortune. What is left is what you've got. 2777Feb 28 2011: At motels throughout the country, you still see these mysterious devices. What do you suppose they're used for? http://twitpic.com/44v3yn←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2778
Mar 1 2011: Just because you have Googled something doesn't mean you understand it. 2779
Mar 1 2011: The internet can give you all manner of facts, but it doesn't tell you how those facts fit together. Only experience can give you that. 2780
Mar 1 2011: You understand something (or someone) if you can accurately predict its behavior in the future. 2781
Mar 1 2011: Facts are different than understanding. You can collect countless facts about something and not be anywhere close to understanding it. 2782
Mar 1 2011: If you Google someone, you may understand the box that they live in, but you won't understand who they are within that box. 2783
Mar 1 2011: Information is a false god. Being deluged with it doesn't tell you what is most important. 2784
Mar 1 2011: The secret of a strong immune system? Dirt. Germs. Revel in them! 2785Mar 1 2011: Homeless Tip: Disposable socks! 3 for $1 at Dollar Tree. Use once then discard. http://twitpic.com/451qwl←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2786
Mar 1 2011: The Beatles had it wrong. Love is NOT all you need. Sometimes love just complicates things. 2787
Mar 1 2011: Valedictorian speaks against standardized schooling. YouTube: http://j.mp/g0dpaw (via @lolahayes) Too funny! Well, yeah! 2788
Mar 1 2011: The idealism of youth is thinking the system can be changed, like realigning the axis of the Earth. 2789
Mar 1 2011: The valedictorian (ibid) seems to be blaming "the system" for decisions that she herself has made (studying rather than exploring). 2790
Mar 1 2011: If you want the best education, you have to do it yourself. 2791
Mar 1 2011: Consciousness is fundamentally unexplainable. You can experience it and find its neurological boundaries, but you can never know what it is. 2792
Mar 1 2011: "A mere friend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue." 2793
Mar 1 2011: Typed "char" into Google and it correctly auto-completed the phrase "Charlie Sheen". (Just catching up on popular culture.) 2794
Mar 1 2011: Yes, addiction is a disease, like cancer, but unlike cancer only the victim himself can cure it. 2795
Mar 1 2011: Scam marketers rejoice! The effectiveness of a placebo depends on the price paid. http://tinyurl.com/49n8kum via @abmarkman 2796
Mar 1 2011: RT @SethMacFarlane: Really want this to happen sometime: Me: "The date!! Quick, what's the date?!" Other person: "The 24th." Me: "No, da ... 2797
Mar 1 2011: RT @SethMacFarlane: Actually, I kinda know how Charlie Sheen feels. I personally hate the fucking asshole who created Family Guy. 2798Mar 1 2011: Not a common sight these days, but this is Tennessee, where they still have values. http://twitpic.com/4544u8←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2799
Mar 1 2011: On My Bucket List: Objectify members of the opposite gender based on their primary and secondary sex characteristics. [See Full Bucket List] 2800
Mar 1 2011: What goes into teen decisions? "Not much. Most seem to rely little on premeditation or planning." http://bit.ly/eP4ajA via @SocialPsych 2801
Mar 1 2011: "I owe, I owe, so it's off to work I go!"—bumper sticker 2802
Mar 1 2011: It is the nature of most people to be spent to the limit of whatever credit line they have, both in terms of money and commitments. 2803
Mar 1 2011: Intelligence is taking control of your own information stream. 2804
Mar 2 2011: Much of life is a desperate effort to sustain the unsustainable. 2805
Mar 2 2011: "Multiple personality" is the norm for most people. What they do contradicts what they did or said ten minutes ago. 2806
Mar 2 2011: Tweeting from the air! — So absurd: flying First Class to FL, with a sleeping bag as carry-on, only to camp in a field near the airport. 2807
Mar 2 2011: The prestige of the First Class cabin drops two notches when I sit down there. 2808
Mar 2 2011: First Class is Jerk Class. People willing to pay twice as much for free drinks and a 3" wider seat. The message: "I'm better than you." 2809
Mar 2 2011: Ya ain't got nothin' on me, copper! I'm clean. 100% certified Charlie Sheen clean. 2810
Mar 2 2011: Mel may be a pariah, but Charlie is golden! America loves that bad-boy shit. He'll find work as soon as he wants it (but not in TV). 2811
Mar 2 2011: Beware of people making promises where none are required. They probably won't keep them. 2812
Mar 2 2011: The value of a promise rests on the track record of the person making it. 2813
Mar 2 2011: Maybe you can travel back in time, but you can't kill your grandfather. http://su.pr/1WMWRC via @NewMindMirror 2814
Mar 2 2011: George Bush impersonator John Morgan, once again undermining the dignity of the presidency. FB photo: http://j.mp/i5j30l 2815
Mar 2 2011: Charlie, Lindsay and Mel reveal the tragedy of fame, how it fucks with your self-image. People say you're great but you know you're a fake. 2816
Mar 2 2011: Live-tweeting my camping experience at the Ft. Myers airport (see geotag). Five hours of rough sleep, but the price is right. 2817
Mar 2 2011: Equipment: $10 sleeping bag + $5 tarp (both disposable). No rain, as predicted. Some mild mosquito action, but not serious. 2818
Mar 2 2011: Under cover of darkness, you can camp almost anywhere without people. Sleeping past dawn requires more subterfuge (hiding in tall grass). 2819
Mar 2 2011: Much as it offends me, I may abandon the sleeping bag where it is, since disposal at the airport is a problem. (unattended baggage?) 2820
Mar 2 2011: Arrived at midnight. Even if I could afford a non-6 hotel, it could take an hour to get there and check in. Better to sleep now! 2821Mar 2 2011: Top Secret campsite at the Ft. Myers airport. http://twitpic.com/45az0b←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2822
Mar 2 2011: The experience of homelessness is greatly enhanced by the ability to think ahead. 2823
Mar 2 2011: I don't get this "TED Talks" thing. Looks like talking heads saying the usual talking-head things—but with pictures! What am I missing? 2824
Mar 2 2011: Wherever you go, you must respect the value of money in that culture. Don't waste resources in front of those who are struggling for them. 2825
Mar 2 2011: The main purpose of luxury is being able to show it off to others to prove ones status in the community. 2826
Mar 2 2011: Luxury can be anything—cars, seashells, shiny bits of foil—as long as it is visible and deemed by the community to be rare and valuable. 2827
Mar 2 2011: Cost has everything to do with luxury. The more is paid for the product the more it is perceived as luxurious. 2828
Mar 2 2011: The possession of luxury is conveyed visually or verbally. One can display ones home by holding parties there or say "I have a Learjet." 2829
Mar 2 2011: Casually revealing that you own a private jet is infinitely more valuable than actually owning one—both socially and practically. 2830
Mar 2 2011: The luxury market is a huge portion of the economy. Healthy profit margins drive big ad budgets, supporting media of all kinds. 2831
Mar 2 2011: Marketers love luxury, because once they have a prestigious brand (Gucci, Armani), they are immune to price pressure. The rich will pay! 2832
Mar 2 2011: Paranoia is self-fulfilling prophesy. 2833
Mar 2 2011: Luxury, by definition, is something you don't need, that is acquired only for display or for perceived sensory benefits. 2834
Mar 2 2011: Luxury advertising typically focuses on the notion of self-reward. "Sure, it costs more, but I'm worth it!" 2835
Mar 2 2011: Luxury marketers may make utilitarian claims (e.g. that a Lexus is somehow safer) but only to help the client rationalize the purchase. 2836
Mar 2 2011: Our essay from 2009: "The Shamanism of Luxury" http://kilroycafe.com/ideas/luxury 2837
Mar 2 2011: "Buying something always seems easier than actually changing one's life, which involves far more anxiety." —Glenn Campbell 2838
Mar 2 2011: Wikipedia on Luxury Goods: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxury_good - Quite insightful! 2839
Mar 2 2011: RT @georgiatriallaw: @BadDalailama is killing me this morning. Spiritual gemstones from the master. #winning 2840
Mar 2 2011: The risk of marketing yourself as an image is that people will start seeing you only as that image and not for who you really are. 2841
Mar 2 2011: Same old story: Women are intimidated by smart guys. If you want a girl, you got to play dumb, drink beer and pretend to like sports. 2842
Mar 2 2011: If men are assholes, evolutionary selection by woman made them that way. Your maternal ancestors must have fallen for that shit. 2843
Mar 2 2011: RT @EastsideRJ: @BadDalaiLama your tweets about luxury are frickin' spot on, Your Excellence. 2844Mar 2 2011: Video Postcard from Florida: "RV Madness" http://youtu.be/xqknoVvuETk (40 seconds) — Because you can never have too much shit! ←Our original YouTube video [more] 2845
Mar 2 2011: I love you like alligators love flamingos. 2846
Mar 2 2011: The root of most problems is the short-sighted solution to a previous problem. 2847
Mar 2 2011: The purpose, ego and funding of the police derives from fighting crime. This gives them a bias to find crime—whether or not it exists. 2848
Mar 2 2011: There is nothing more destructive to the coherence of ones thoughts than a television playing in the background. 2849
Mar 3 2011: On My Bucket List: Have every detail of my love life reported in the tabloid media. [See Full Bucket List] 2850
Mar 3 2011: Some of the worst things that happen to you turn out in the long run to be the best things that could happen to you. 2851
Mar 3 2011: The emotional benefit of Twitter and Facebook is to give us "witnesses"—people who see us and care about what we are doing. 2852
Mar 3 2011: "Look at me!" is a basic need of children, but it doesn't go away in adulthood. We all feel a need to be watched. 2853
Mar 3 2011: Exhibitionism, in the extreme, is an attempt to regain childhood attention. At a healthier level, it is simply a desire to be appreciated. 2854
Mar 3 2011: The trouble with an online identity is that it becomes binding over time, just like a real-life one. 2855
Mar 3 2011: If you are still sharing on Twitter things that adolescents talk about (bodily functions, etc) then Twitter will hold you at that level. 2856
Mar 3 2011: Whenever you create an account on any social network, people start to have expectations of you based on your past behavior. 2857
Mar 3 2011: You alone set the standards that other people judge you by. 2858
Mar 3 2011: RT @GreatestQuotes: "The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas." - Linus Pauling 2859
Mar 3 2011: When dealing with a teenager, only actions matter, not attitude. Let him rail at you however he wants, as long as he gets the job done. 2860
Mar 3 2011: When ideas spew out of your brain, it usually happens fast. You need @HootSuite to spread them out and avoid overwhelming your readers. 2861
Mar 3 2011: Essential communication skills of cyberspace: twittering, photography, blog writing, video making, speaking to a camera. 2862
Mar 3 2011: RT @NewMindMirror: The Downside of Antioxidants - Newsweek http://su.pr/AA5rAC #nutrition #diet #antioxidants 2863
Mar 3 2011: The fundamental conflict of life is moving from protected childhood to unprotected adulthood. 2864
Mar 3 2011: We all grew up in Disneyland—an artificial and protected environment essential for our education and growth. The problem is leaving it. 2865
Mar 3 2011: Adjusting to the demands of real world is traumatic for everyone, regardless of their upbringing. 2866
Mar 3 2011: Childhood inevitably sets us up with dysfunctional expectations of what the world owes us. The trauma of adulthood is correcting them. 2867
Mar 3 2011: A coddled child, raised in a "perfect" environment, has it no easier than anyone else. His bias is an unreasonable expectation of reward. 2868
Mar 3 2011: Childhood always leaves us with "issues"—certain patterns of behavior that once worked but that don't work now. 2869
Mar 3 2011: What stands between us and our success is our past—or more precisely, the defective assumptions created by our past. 2870
Mar 3 2011: Our parents fed us so much bullshit! But that was their job. You can't handle reality all at once, so fairy tales are the intermediate step. 2871
Mar 3 2011: Don't blame your parents for what you are doing now. It's your responsibility to adjust to the real world, not theirs. 2872
Mar 3 2011: It's easy to look over the fence at the Jones family and think, "Their childhood was so easy." Wrong! Every family is dysfunctional! 2873
Mar 3 2011: Every family sets its children up with false assumptions and unrealistic expectations. Families differ only in what they are. 2874
Mar 3 2011: The risk of those with the "perfect" childhood is that they never leave it. They opt for suburban protection and never step beyond it. 2875
Mar 3 2011: Trauma may come early in life or later. The only thing certain is that it will come. 2876
Mar 3 2011: There are two ways to respond to the world: the way your past has set you up for, and the way that really works. 2877
Mar 3 2011: To step away from your childhood, you must see the world that's right in front of you, not the one you want to be there. 2878
Mar 3 2011: Right now, certain behavior makes sense. So do it! The wounded child inside you will have to adapt. 2879
Mar 3 2011: To correct the defects of your childhood, you must become your own parent. Someone has to set boundaries and goals, and that must be you! 2880
Mar 3 2011: A childhood can't be corrected. Your parents will die. In the end, all that matters is what you want for yourself and how to go about it. 2881
Mar 3 2011: #### End. This has been a live one-hour essay from the Bad Dalai Lama. 2882
Mar 3 2011: RT @Adhyetaa: RT @BadDalaiLama #### End. This has been a live one-hour essay from the Bad Dalai Lama. || Good stuff, BadDL. 2883
Mar 3 2011: RT @charliesheen: In all sincerity... Thank you Twitter community for the warm reception & the followers that helped get me to 1M in 24 ... 2884
Mar 3 2011: Dysfunctional celebrities are good! They give people around the world a set of common experiences, making everyone part of our family. 2885
Mar 3 2011: Fame and money provide no immunity to human weakness. 2886
Mar 3 2011: RT @GreatestQuotes: "It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to chang ... 2887
Mar 3 2011: The greatest joy of reality is the surprises! Things can come together in ways you'd never expect yet make perfect sense in the end. 2888
Mar 3 2011: The world imposes real boundaries on you, but they are usually less than the imaginary barriers you impose upon yourself. 2889
Mar 3 2011: RT @iamCCB: What we now have a @baddalailama ? @twitter is surely going places 2890
Mar 3 2011: Two can be a nice number, but one is the most efficient. 2891
Mar 4 2011: Best things to share online: your creative discoveries. Worst things: details of your day-to-day life when there's no creativity involved. 2892
Mar 4 2011: Most people can't handle success. They misspend it in such a way as to set themselves up for failure. 2893
Mar 4 2011: Hubris is when you succeed at something and think you are charmed because if it. 2894
Mar 4 2011: hubris—n. [see @CharlieSheen] 2895
Mar 4 2011: Put your Klaxon on and make this baby dive! Ah-WOOGA! 2896
Mar 4 2011: The men who shape technology—from Edison to Zuckerburg—are retards personally. We can use their tools, but we don't need to be like them. 2897
Mar 4 2011: My Superpower: drive 1000s of miles without turning on the radio or a motel room TV. Also: go 5 minutes without checking Twitter. 2898
Mar 4 2011: @PoulsNocturne "Always in my head...fucking all the time. Why?" <== Omnipresent sexual fantasies. Common in the human species. 2899
Mar 4 2011: RT @StephenAtHome: Charlie Sheen just set record for "fastest time to reach a million Twitter followers." Not his only speed record. 2900
Mar 4 2011: Wealth is an enabler of dysfunction, allowing people to indulge their delusions and addictions without accepting the consequences. {9/20} 2901
Mar 4 2011: Following tech news is like following sports: there are always teams winning and losing, but in the bigger scheme it doesn't matter. #ipad 2902
Mar 4 2011: Whether Jobs wins this week—or Zuckerburg or Google—it's largely irrelevant. Technology moves ahead regardless of the players. 2903
Mar 4 2011: Wow! Science gets a little too close to the truth! "Why the joy of parenthood is a fantasy" Daily Mail: http://goo.gl/fb/srllE 2904
Mar 4 2011: Hubris can take the form of humbly thanking God for your success then assuming that God is now on your side. (cc:@Wyrdmaven) 2905
Mar 4 2011: RT @Wyrdmaven: @BadDalaiLama Or blessed: For example...winning the Daytona 500 and thanking Yahweh for it. Religious arrogance wrapped ... 2906
Mar 4 2011: Hypothesis: Drivers with radar detectors get more speeding tickets. If true, is it causation or correlation? Or are they just idiots? 2907
Mar 4 2011: One thing that must go into our planning is how bad we are at predicting the future. 2908
Mar 4 2011: We should not plan for a specific outcome but instead position ourselves for a range of possible scenarios. 2909
Mar 4 2011: Now playing: @PoulsNocturne live-tweeting her LSD high. 2910
Mar 4 2011: (I actually care about her. Hope she doesn't go all @charliesheen on us!) 2911
Mar 4 2011: On My Bucket List: Star in a sitcom about dysfunctional people but get more attention for my own dysfunction. [See Full Bucket List] 2912
Mar 4 2011: RT @soundhunter: @BadDalaiLama thought you'd like this ---> RT @joqatana: @Caissie Entertainmentally ill is a beautiful term. 2913
Mar 4 2011: jerk — n. one who actively and transparently asserts his superiority over others. 2914
Mar 4 2011: A jerk is distinguished from a mere idiot by his aggressive self-confidence. He isn't just stupid but actively imposes it on others. 2915
Mar 4 2011: We have known jerks. We've worked with them. Some of us have even lived with them. They're everywhere, in all walks of life. 2916
Mar 4 2011: After a short time with a jerk, you just want to get away. He creates a noxious environment around him. 2917
Mar 4 2011: When you withdraw from a jerk, he detects that you are abandoning him, and it makes him even more jerk-like. 2918
Mar 4 2011: The relentless message of a jerk is, "I am better than you." This is ironic, because he usually has very little to back it up. 2919
Mar 4 2011: Jerkness is a defense mechanism. The more the jerk loathes himself inside, the more aggressively he must assert superiority on the outside. 2920
Mar 4 2011: The jerk is unable to tolerate depression—i.e. recognition of his own failings. Jerkness is a last-ditch effort to ward it off. 2921
Mar 4 2011: A jerk is a milder form of sociopath. He probably won't kill you, but he'll plough over your feelings. 2922
Mar 4 2011: A jerk wants to dominate any social venue he appears in. Often, you can't shut him up! 2923
Mar 4 2011: Jerks are predominantly male, but some lady jerks can compete with the best of them! 2924
Mar 4 2011: Working for a jerk is the worst hell! You can't just get the job done; you have to cater to the ever-shifting needs of his ego. 2925
Mar 4 2011: Marriages to jerks are usually short-lived. When they do persist, it is because a masochistic spouse thinks she can change him. 2926
Mar 4 2011: You can't fix a jerk. He may change over time, but you can't change him. All you can do is get away. 2927
Mar 4 2011: Are you a jerk? We all show the signs from time to time. We may feign excess self-confidence when we're insecure inside. 2928
Mar 4 2011: When you encounter a jerk, you manage him like you would a wild animal, then do what you can to get away. 2929
Mar 4 2011: The customer service agents in every field deal with jerks every day. You say the right words to placate them, then move them along. 2930
Mar 4 2011: You can't let a jerk get under your skin. It's one of the routine hazards of life. Just resolve his customer service issue, then let it go! 2931
Mar 4 2011: As for the jerk inside you? Yup, you were one once! Just let that go, too, and remain vigilant in the future. 2932
Mar 4 2011: #### End. This has been a one-hour live essay by the Bad Dalai Lama: Jerks! 2933
Mar 4 2011: RT @_kashyap_: @BadDalaiLama are you a girl? Stop bitching like one! 2934
Mar 4 2011: RT @_kashyap_: @BadDalaiLama WTF is up with this jerk stuff?! Get one(jerk) and stop! You are one jerk tweet away from an unfollow! 2935
Mar 4 2011: RT @djackmanson: @BadDalaiLama So true! I work in a call centre taking pizza orders, so many people think it's OK to abuse us. Sometimes ... 2936
Mar 4 2011: RT @GisforGangstaa: Omg YES RT @BadDalaiLama: When you withdraw from a jerk, he detects that you are abandoning him, and it makes him ev ... 2937
Mar 4 2011: RT @PoulsNocturne: @BadDalaiLama sounds like you're talking about my ex right there. 2938
Mar 4 2011: RT @littleepistles: Don't let the call sign fool you. @BadDalaiLama is shockingly insightful, always speaking the truths you already kne ... 2939Mar 4 2011: Man, that's a LOT of Tootsie Rolls! Seriously, like a million! http://twitpic.com/462vyv←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2940
Mar 4 2011: Depression is a luxury not everyone can afford. Just to acknowledge it requires a certain level of self-esteem. The others get aggressive. 2941
Mar 4 2011: RT @preschoolgems: "He was pretending to be a tiger and I didn't want him to be. So I hurt him." 2942
Mar 4 2011: "He was pretending to be a tiger and I didn't want him to be. So I hurt him." via @preschoolgems (a @CharlieSheen in training) 2943
Mar 4 2011: RT @ZerosB4TheOne: Charlie Sheen – Winning… as the Ultimate Zero http://t.co/gUZOjp4 via @AddThis 2944
Mar 4 2011: Just because a little of something makes you happy doesn't mean a lot of the same thing will make you more happy. {9/23} 2945Mar 4 2011: Video postcard: Ectoplasmic ghostbusting vehicle in North Carolina (53 secs) http://youtu.be/WYfVs-0fA3Q (1 hour ago) Who yah gonna call? ←Our original YouTube video [more] 2946
Mar 4 2011: @lolahayes Whew! Friday morning comes and everyone's like "Will I be on Lola's list this week?... Am I in or out?" Glad I'm in—for now! 2947
Mar 4 2011: People want solutions to their problems but without disrupting their existing emotional investments. So... no real solutions! 2948
Mar 4 2011: Reality may be a video game, but no other offers so much depth and complexity—and so many challenge levels! 2949
Mar 4 2011: I've never found a #ted talk that grabbed me. Just academics talking. Help me out here. Show me one I can use. #imtrying 2950
Mar 4 2011: Forrest Gump seems to like what we do! "Stories of Gumption: Glenn Campbell" http://j.mp/i4FAi3 2951
Mar 4 2011: On My Bucket List: Have a number of adorable but time consuming little creatures dependent on me for survival. [See Full Bucket List] 2952
Mar 5 2011: Imagine: A "technology corridor" right here in West Virginia! Who'd a thunk it! 2953
Mar 5 2011: Photo Archive: Paris! — Tour Eiffel http://j.mp/fbKO0J Montmartre http://j.mp/hOKFTH Pickpocket http://j.mp/e1TE5v More http://j.mp/fgA0eN 2954
Mar 5 2011: There is a fine line between love and strangulation. {10/15} 2955
Mar 5 2011: Be generous with your time but stingy with promises. 2956
Mar 5 2011: Not keeping a promise is far worse than never having made it at all. 2957
Mar 5 2011: I bet @CharlieSheen thinks a million followers mean a million supporters. Actually, most of us are just here for the train wreck. 2958
Mar 5 2011: Every viewer knows the people in ads are paid actors and the ad is designed to sell the product. Why, then, does advertising work? 2959
Mar 5 2011: Advertising manipulates you not by lying but by distorting the relative value of facts (like portraying a trivial benefit as a major one). 2960
Mar 5 2011: No one seems to care how the internet has devastated the porn industry. Actors, producers, mom-and-pop store owners—out of work. Sad. :'( 2961
Mar 5 2011: The internet has democratized porn, making it accessible to everyone, even children. This is good, not bad! It robs porn of its power. 2962
Mar 5 2011: When porn is freely available, it's easier to see it for what it is: silly repetition of the same old acts, devoid of passion or meaning. 2963
Mar 5 2011: Ban porn and you create a destructive underground industry to supply it. This adds a criminal element and encourages sexual deviance. 2964
Mar 5 2011: Cut a porn addict off from his stash and rape starts to become a more viable option. 2965
Mar 5 2011: It's unfortunate that children have access to porn, but is it really hurting them? The reaction of most: "Ewwww, gross!" 2966
Mar 5 2011: It's mostly parents who are hung up about sex, not children. Adults have invested so much in it that they can't see it as routine. 2967
Mar 5 2011: Domesticity is the enemy of creativity. 2968
Mar 5 2011: RT @xwordy: @BadDalaiLama Heh. I couldn't believe how nonchalant our kid was about sex. Just biology to her. 2969
Mar 5 2011: Most of what passes for creativity is simply a prisoner decorating the walls of his cell without attempting to leave it. 2970
Mar 5 2011: @lolahayes "Taken in my living room with my phone http://plixi.com/p/81810769 <== Please, think of the children! Those stamen stains! 2971
Mar 5 2011: RT @charliesheen: You already own you. Now go... Earn the power. Earn the Truth. Earn the most important component in this entire dim ... 2972
Mar 5 2011: Deception is the way of the universe, and detection of it is the primary challenge of life. 2973
Mar 5 2011: Society is composed largely of actors—people who play the roles given them. Few are creators—those who construct their own role. 2974
Mar 5 2011: Our Holy Archive has just been updated: http://baddalailama.com/archive/ - All our ancient tweets in an easily searchable form! 2975
Mar 5 2011: On My Bucket List: Submit to a court-ordered paternity test. [See Full Bucket List] 2976
Mar 5 2011: .@akierig "You want to do it?" <== The sad thing is that NO ONE has accused me of fathering their love child—even once! I feel left out! 2977
Mar 5 2011: The @CharlieSheen reminds me of Howard Beale ("Mad as hell and not going to take it anymore"). From suicide threat to national prophet! 2978
Mar 5 2011: Trying to capture love with marriage is like displaying a wild animal on your wall. As soon as you've nailed it down, you've killed it. {..} 2979
Mar 5 2011: If you support someone unconditionally, they will take advantage of you unconditionally. They will use your support to avoid responsibility. 2980
Mar 6 2011: Macochism—n. religion that contends you can change the world merely by choice of computers. Believers willing to endure great pain. 2981
Mar 6 2011: In every relationship, you have to fight for what you want, especially from those you love. 2982
Mar 6 2011: Objects can't make you happy. Only achievements can. Objects are valuable only as tools to help you achieve something meaningful. 2983
Mar 6 2011: Soaking your brain in drugs or alcohol suggests you don't have much respect for it. Would you throw sand in the gas tank of a car you loved? 2984
Mar 6 2011: The trouble with being God is that when people start having faith in You, they stop taking responsibility for their own problems. 2985
Mar 6 2011: Entertainment is a business model designed to generate profit and absorb human resources without actually accomplishing anything. 2986
Mar 6 2011: RT @djackmanson: Since it's Sunday, I'll remind you that you should be following @TheFuckingPope and @BadDalaiLama 2987
Mar 6 2011: The potato, introduced to Ireland from the New World, seemed like the perfect crop until the Irish Potato Famine. 2988
Mar 6 2011: RT @avphibes: My sister: I might want to have another baby at some point. Me: OH GOD PLEASE JUST GET ANOTHER DOG! #thehorror 2989
Mar 6 2011: "Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation."—Jack Nicklaus <== Advice for idiots! 2990
Mar 6 2011: "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No sense in being a damn fool about it."—W.C. Fields 2991
Mar 6 2011: To avoid the discomfort of saying "No" to those in need, people create artificial habitats so they are never asked. (e.g. suburbia) 2992
Mar 6 2011: "Sheen webcast was not "winning." It seems as if the actor has exhausted his litany of crazy and funny things to say." http://ow.ly/1s7PLx 2993
Mar 6 2011: Can an actor survive without a writer feeding him lines? 2994
Mar 6 2011: RT @ExpertNovice: I don't want to see your wedding photos until you've got your divorce photos to complete the story. I hate cliffhangers. 2995Mar 6 2011: The 1960s utopian idea for housing the poor was massive high-rises—The Projects—which became quite anti-utopian. http://twitpic.com/46u46i←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 2996
Mar 6 2011: ++++ Begin one-hour essay: "Advice for Superheroes" 2997
Mar 6 2011: Dear Superman: If you keep rescuing Lois Lane, she's going to keep getting into trouble. 2998
Mar 6 2011: If someone knows you will rescue them, they will be less inclined to protect themselves. They could even become addicted to rescue! 2999
Mar 6 2011: The gratitude of those rescued becomes less with each rescue, until it is seen as an entitlement. 3000
Mar 6 2011: The challenge of superheroism is to help others without enabling dependence or dysfunction. 3001
Mar 6 2011: We all have superpowers—the ability to help those in need. And we all face the same dilemma as superheros: who to help and when to let go. 3002
Mar 6 2011: Every rescue creates a liability: the risk that you end up making things worse rather than better. You are then responsible for the results. 3003
Mar 6 2011: The pain of a superhero is that even with his superpowers he must refuse most calls for help, because there are too many. 3004
Mar 6 2011: Ultimately, each person must save themselves. 3005
Mar 6 2011: Some secrecy is essential for superheroes. You must closely hold your powers and intentions or everyone will demand rescue. Hence the mask. 3006
Mar 6 2011: Low-level rescues should be replaced whenever possible with higher level systemic changes encouraging self-sufficiency. 3007
Mar 6 2011: Rescues must be limited in scope, with no implied promise of future rescue. Ideally, the victim should pay for his own rescue in some way. 3008
Mar 6 2011: In a world of infinite need, the decision to help some people must be balanced by a firm and conscious refusal to help others. 3009
Mar 6 2011: Sooner or later, Lois Lane will have to suffer the consequences of her own actions. 3010
Mar 6 2011: #### End. This has been a one-hour essay from the Bad Dalai Lama: "Advice for Superheroes" 3011
Mar 6 2011: RT @PeaceConclusion: @BadDalaiLama your insight is so refreshing. Your thoughts make my thoughts connect. Kudos. You speak truth. 3012
Mar 6 2011: Ah, the lovely Monarch! Fluttering to South America and back only to decorate my windshield with a burst of yellow. 3013
Mar 6 2011: "Dave, I can see you're really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over." 3014
Mar 6 2011: (machine reassurances, re: singularity) 3015
Mar 6 2011: Dear old people: You're dying! Now is not the time to be saving juice containers and obsessively defending your property. IT DOESN'T MATTER! 3016
Mar 6 2011: Old-people hedonism is doing the same things over and over, day after day, without accomplishing anything. 3017Mar 6 2011: I can see the appeal of organic produce, but organic SEEDS?! Isn't that homeopathy? (Whole Foods, Cambridge) http://twitpic.com/46w6kt←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 3018
Mar 6 2011: RT @Kyoks1: el problema de ser Dios, es q en cuanto la gente empieza a tener fe, dejan asumir responsabilidad via @BadDalaiLama 3019
Mar 6 2011: The risk of any utopian idea is that it turns anti-utopian under the pressures of the real world. 3020
Mar 6 2011: Premium gas is a con! It has no affect on the health of the engine, only a trivial increase in horsepower. 3021
Mar 6 2011: The "premium" option in anything is usually just a ruse to make money by giving people the illusion of superiority. 3022Mar 6 2011: Rango rocks! http://twitpic.com/46xsjl #movies ←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 3023
Mar 6 2011: Today's hot new technology is tomorrow's garage sale junk. 3024
Mar 7 2011: A ship is built by 1000s of workers repeating the patterns they were programmed for. It takes a different set of skills to command the ship. 3025
Mar 7 2011: The ants must see us as gods. They can't fathom why we step on them, but they must figure it's part of our cosmic plan. 3026
Mar 7 2011: The highest achievement of the art of marketing is the branding of bottled water. No bullshit is more pure! 3027
Mar 7 2011: No tyrant thinks himself evil. He believes he is taking reasonable actions to defend himself. 3028
Mar 7 2011: People are loathe to leave behind their dysfunctional habits because at least they're comfortable and known. In function lies the unknown. 3029
Mar 7 2011: The fundamental conflict of fiction—and life—is a character learning to leave his comfort zone. He must overcome barriers within himself. 3030
Mar 7 2011: Archive photo: A tragic highway fatality in Louisiana. http://bit.ly/9GuQoM 3031
Mar 7 2011: INFJ, ENFP, INTP, ESFJ... What's the personality type for "Doesn't have much faith in personality tests"? 3032
Mar 7 2011: Personality has so many dimensions that it is often best conveyed by example rather than category. (e.g. He's a real @CharlieSheen.) 3033
Mar 7 2011: The more people we have known, especially in conflict, the more examples we have when understanding new people. 3034
Mar 7 2011: A personality is self-reinforcing. Your emotional style affects your perception, so you see only things that support your assumptions. 3035
Mar 7 2011: One axis of personality is paranoia: some more than others. But that doesn't explain their world view or where their paranoia comes from. 3036
Mar 7 2011: Narcissism is an axis of personality. This is the (inverse) ability to appreciate the viewpoint and needs of others. 3037
Mar 7 2011: Narcissism can be high in some very pious and humble people, who can't comprehend how others could have opinions different from theirs. 3038
Mar 7 2011: Nuns and priests are highly narcissistic! They believe implicitly that God has chosen them and that their way of truth is the only one. 3039
Mar 7 2011: Rode a train in Italy near an American priest-in-training lambasting his sister & parents with his religious views. What a freaking a-hole! 3040
Mar 7 2011: Religion is the refuge of the narcissist. There's no better support for your specialness than thinking God knows you personally. 3041
Mar 7 2011: .@nihiofkdi "Narcissism is sexual obsession with the self." <== Not true, at least in psychiatry. See Narcissistic Personality Disorder. 3042
Mar 7 2011: .@nihiofkdi "In 'pop' psychiatry." <== LOL! The DSM is not "pop" psychiatry! 3043
Mar 7 2011: Highly narcissistic: @CharlieSheen, but also many a churchgoer and every teenager alive. 3044
Mar 7 2011: .@nicolejensen@sjb351 Hehe, yeah, Twitter is the refuge of the narcissist! But some feeds rise above it. Related: Boobs! 3045
Mar 7 2011: We are all preoccupied with our own needs and problems. Narcissism is marked by the inability to appreciate the needs of others. 3046
Mar 7 2011: Related: Everyone stop what they are doing! I need to use the bathroom. Let me tell you about my bladder issues. And my colonoscopy. #tmi 3047
Mar 7 2011: "I am open to the guidance of synchronicity and do not let expectations hinder my path." @DalaiLama via @EntitiesRUs <== Sure! Why not? 3048
Mar 7 2011: See the funny cartoon on reality TV on the home page of @EntitiesRUs - http://www.entities-r-us.com 3049
Mar 7 2011: Synchronicity may or may not be real, but if it seems to happen, we should take heed and use it to our advantage. 3050
Mar 7 2011: Coincidence is a powerful ally. 3051
Mar 7 2011: "Things happen for a reason" is a useful philosophy to live by, whether or not it is true. 3052
Mar 7 2011: Life is 50% controlling your own future and 50% taking advantage of the things that happen to you that you have no control over. 3053
Mar 7 2011: If a little voice whispers something in your ear, listen to it! Why not? Don't change your life based on it, just listen and investigate. 3054
Mar 7 2011: @lolahayes "From Paris should I go to London or Barcelona?" <== London if you haven't been there. Our motherland! 3055
Mar 7 2011: The only trouble with nude and topless beaches is quality control. Most of those bodies you don't want to see! 3056
Mar 7 2011: The tragedy of the iPod auditory mind control device is that it sucks the brains out of those who have very little to begin with. 3057
Mar 7 2011: Sexual attraction is a hardwired function of the reptile brain and not something you have to obey unless you're a reptile. 3058
Mar 7 2011: Essential for any literate human is to know the names and numbers of the L.A. freeways and the impact of a SigAlert on any one of them. 3059
Mar 7 2011: @huma_rashid "Oh, God, I love @BadDalaiLama." <== And he loves you, too! 3060
Mar 7 2011: Everything in Whole Foods is magical. You can't just buy a bag of chips. It has to be organic chips with sea salt MADE BY A FRICKING ELF! 3061
Mar 7 2011: One benefit of extended travel is that your whole life has to fit into limited luggage. You're forced to purge the unnecessary every day. 3062
Mar 7 2011: I still can't see how your $300 noise canceling headphones are better than my $2 foam earplugs. 3063Mar 7 2011: I keep pulling strange pieces of paper out of my pocket and wondering, "What's this?" http://twitpic.com/479aaq←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 3064
Mar 7 2011: Some people practice all their lives at something and never get better at it. Repetition may be useful, but it isn't what moves you ahead. 3065
Mar 8 2011: Most people don't have the gene for originality. They can follow the plan of others but can't generate meaningful goals on their own. 3066
Mar 8 2011: The zoo on Rigel Seven found their human specimens were easily controlled by giving them television and freedom to change the channels. 3067
Mar 8 2011: Sure, if life gives you lemons, make lemonade, but if life later offers something sweeter, don't be trapped in a lemonade stand! 3068
Mar 8 2011: Artificial sweeteners are like pornography: totally fake and reprehensible yet satiating the desire for more dangerous sweets. 3069
Mar 8 2011: Dreams come in a million flavors. Then reality dashes them and gives you only one. {9/22} 3070
Mar 8 2011: A failing relationship, after an exciting vacation, is still a failing relationship. Travel can't cure them blues! 3071
Mar 8 2011: @lolahayes "Nature favors mechanisms that advance higher intelligence quickly." <== intelligence is doomed! Nature favors those who BREED' 3072
Mar 8 2011: Our archive essay {11/17}: "The Crisis of Human Evolution" http://kilroycafe.blogspot.com/2010/11/crisis-of-human-evolution.html 3073
Mar 8 2011: Current human breeding trends suggest a bifurcated evolutionary system, where dumb breed with dumb and bright with bright. {ibid} 3074
Mar 8 2011: RT @grandmasterzo: @BadDalaiLama has the 140 character art form down to a science. Great stuff! 3075
Mar 8 2011: If you love His Holy Badliness, star him! It improves our rank at FavStar: http://favstar.fm/users/BadDalaiLama/recent Means a lot to us! 3076Mar 8 2011: Answer to yesterday's twitpic puzzle: This is an admission receipt to the summit of Mt. Vesuvius. http://twitpic.com/479aaq €8 is not bad! ←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 3077
Mar 8 2011: When we say someone has a "big ego" we really mean the opposite: their ego is so weak they have to over-assert the pretense of it. 3078
Mar 8 2011: RT @BlingVodka: On FB I wrote about the Xmas cookies I will bake. On Twitter I bitch about the a$$wipes who will eat them. 3079
Mar 8 2011: Mediocrity persists because it is profitable, reproducible, marketable, shippable, doesn't make waves and is easily mass-produced. {1/12} 3080
Mar 8 2011: The fate of the engineer is to design complex and carefully crafted systems to serve the goals of idiots and megalomaniacs. 3081
Mar 8 2011: "Fuck that shit!"—American colloquialism indicating speaker's intention to defy demands being made upon him. Not to be taken literally. 3082
Mar 8 2011: Stuff is the stuff that burdens our life and keeps us from doing more meaningful stuff. 3083
Mar 8 2011: The invisible cost of any possession is how it holds you down with its maintenance and protection. 3084
Mar 8 2011: His Holiness has been honorably quoted in this article on Toxic Relationships by @bellasarian - http://wp.me/szDMr-toxic 3085
Mar 8 2011: Possession works two ways. It means you not only own the benefits of the object but also its liabilities. 3086
Mar 8 2011: If you had to flee the country with only one suitcase, what would you pack in it? That's probably all you need to own anyway! 3087
Mar 8 2011: We're at a crossroads, a turning point in history... and have been for as long as any of us can remember! 3088
Mar 8 2011: It's nice to have a job that's meaningful, challenging and contributes to society. Barring that, advancing your own skills is good enough. 3089
Mar 8 2011: A meaningless job isn't meaningless if you can secretly get things out of it that advance your own agenda. 3090
Mar 8 2011: If can't find work in the field you want, the next best thing is a job that leaves your mind free to wander. The time to think is valuable! 3091
Mar 8 2011: Hey, kids, here's a fun game! See how far you can push Mom before she goes ballistic. You'll get years of entertainment out of this one! 3092
Mar 8 2011: Our new follower @d_tunstall has some fascinating horror photos: http://www.danielletunstall.com 3093
Mar 8 2011: .@dunebat "As well as years of groundings lol." <== The idea is to push Mom just to the edge, but stop short. That's the game! 3094
Mar 8 2011: RT @dunebat: @BadDalaiLama That's how I found out what my mom's edge was: repeated groundings 'til I got it right lol! 3095
Mar 8 2011: RT @JustMePammy: bad game.Ask princess RT @dunebat: @BadDalaiLama That's how I found out what my mom's edge was: repeated groundings 'ti ... 3096
Mar 8 2011: .@dunebat@JustMePammy There wouldn't be any challenge to it if there wasn't danger! 3097
Mar 8 2011: RT @JustMePammy: drove her batty like most kids..HRM understands. lol RT @dunebat: @JustMePammy I was a good kid, I just had a habit of ... 3098
Mar 8 2011: RT @GuruBadu: ^If there were a "world conspiracy," would any attempt to expose it be planned for and incorporated into the perpetuation ... 3099
Mar 8 2011: The natural behavior of intelligence is to pack more and more information into an ever-smaller package. 3100
Mar 8 2011: One of life's surprises is how quickly something you think is heaven can turn into hell. 3101
Mar 8 2011: RT @subtlesista: @BadDalaiLama There are none so blind as those who cannot see ... or hear ... because they have foam earplugs rammed i ... 3102
Mar 8 2011: RT @Rlnw52: "@BadDalaiLama:Mediocrity persists because it is profitable.It is reproducible, marketable, doesn't make waves and is easily ... 3103
Mar 8 2011: Life bludgeons us with our own delusions. 3104
Mar 8 2011: Nothing halts the processes of the brain more effectively than excessive verbalization. 3105
Mar 9 2011: Warning to white chicks: Tan today, prune tomorrow. 3106Mar 9 2011: Home video: My nephews reveal that there isn't any Santa Claus http://youtu.be/jSgHoLes5sg←Our original YouTube video [more] 3107
Mar 9 2011: Most personal decisions seem to be based on the assumption that one's lifespan is unlimited. 3108
Mar 9 2011: Imagine a world controlled by Sarah Palin, Kim Kardashian, Lindsay Lohan, Tiger Woods and Charlie Sheen. That's our world! 3109
Mar 9 2011: There is no absolute truth, only relative truth compared to the other options available. {9/22} 3110
Mar 9 2011: Scientific research is a religious pursuit, not a rational one. It is based on blind, unproven faith that more knowledge is always better. 3111
Mar 9 2011: To be appreciated fully, you really need to be dead. 3112
Mar 9 2011: Give people a race to run, and they'll run it. Doesn't matter if the race has any meaning; as long as others are doing it, they will too. 3113
Mar 9 2011: Even in 140 characters it's quite possible to gauge someone's personality, especially if you can test and interact with them. 3114
Mar 9 2011: The main thing that prevents us from understanding other people's personalities is our own. 3115
Mar 9 2011: Some very nice people, who wouldn't hurt a fly, can still be a drain on your spirit, and you need to get away from them. 3116
Mar 9 2011: The key to character change is self-referential humor. If you can't laugh at yourself, you're not likely to grow. 3117
Mar 9 2011: A good forest fire could do all of us some good! It is often the only way to get rid of our own emotional blocks. 3118
Mar 9 2011: Embrace disaster! 3119
Mar 9 2011: Most who seek "self-improvement" will tolerate it only in a very narrow range where it doesn't threaten their emotional investments. 3120
Mar 9 2011: If you seek a guru to tell you how to change, you're missing the point. 3121
Mar 9 2011: Idiocy is measured by how much you let your emotional needs overrule intellect. 3122
Mar 9 2011: One of life's burdens is seeing plainly how someone is sabotaging themselves and not being able to tell them, knowing they'll only get mad. 3123
Mar 9 2011: Anger is a sure sign of an emotional inconsistency. It can't be resolved on the inside so it is covered up violently on the outside. 3124
Mar 9 2011: Personal longitudinal studies can be quite enlightening—watching friends and family make investments then seeing the results years later. 3125
Mar 9 2011: The main thing keeping you from a new and better life is your own refusal to give up investments in your old life. 3126Mar 9 2011: Our first EDITED travel video, from the summit of Mt. Vesuvius in Naples, Italy: http://youtu.be/_8_WuIulnPI (shot 3 weeks ago, edited now) ←Our original YouTube video [more] 3127
Mar 9 2011: RT @YaySarahC: I give myself a big hug daily. RT @BadDalaiLama Embrace disaster! 3128
Mar 9 2011: RT @Stonerpreneur: @BadDalaiLama Yes, but there's often a fine line self-referential humor/self-deprecation and self-obsession. 3129
Mar 9 2011: RT @Jowtok: @BadDalaiLama if you want to know the value of your life, die - Arab proverb 3130
Mar 9 2011: Racial and ethnic intolerance has given discrimination a bad name. In fact, you MUST discriminate by emotional and intellectual ability. 3131
Mar 9 2011: Every relationship should begin with a period of character evaluation. 3132
Mar 9 2011: His Holiness tweets pix and video from some exotic places: Gibraltar, Morocco, the West Bank, Naples, Istanbul, Impersonators in Vegas... 3133
Mar 9 2011: ...so why do we get so few stars or views for this content? Just wondering. (We tweet a cute little animal video, and everyone looks!) 3134Mar 9 2011: Contemplating the world. http://twitpic.com/47tmfi←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 3135
Mar 9 2011: That which does not kill you makes you stronger. But still, I'd rather get stronger without the near-death experiences! 3136
Mar 9 2011: Rabid recyclers and enviro-Nazis fail to comprehend the more valuable resource they're wasting: time. 3137
Mar 9 2011: Leeches, predators and parasites—the human vampires who will drain you alive if you let them. Just get away! 3138Mar 9 2011: RT @AndrewBober: @BadDalaiLama you know if the cosmos is out of kilter when your feet send a twitpic photo looking back. ←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 3139
Mar 9 2011: RT @Kyoks1: La religión es el refugio de los narcisistas. Nada valida + el sentirse "especial", q creer q Dios te conoce personalmentevi ... 3140
Mar 9 2011: RT @SemperAugustus The sun looks like fur in that photo! (amateur photo of the sun) http://j.mp/hYXwYi <== Nice little tropical destination! 3141
Mar 9 2011: Whenever something or someone seems perfect, you need to ask yourself, "What's wrong with this picture?" 3142
Mar 9 2011: It is the most perfect-seeming solutions that turn out in the end to be most defective. 3143
Mar 9 2011: RT @KingLear13: @BadDalaiLama good advice, the question I have typically asked is "will you marry me?" That hasn't worked out so well. 3144
Mar 9 2011: RT @Kyoks1: Algunas personas súper religiosas son las + narcisistas. No entienden q otros puedan tener opiniones diferentes a ellos via ... 3145
Mar 9 2011: Choose one: (a) The best things in life are free, or (b) You get what you pay for. Justify your answer. 3146
Mar 9 2011: .@Kyoks1 (b) is just one more expression of the law of karma. (a) an illusion <== The Luxury Goods Manufacturer's Association applauds you! 3147
Mar 9 2011: RT @Kyoks1: @BadDalaiLama (b) it's just one more expression of the law of karma. option (a) is only an ilussion. sorry. 3148
Mar 9 2011: The hardest personalities to understand, apart from your own, are the parents who raised you. 3149
Mar 9 2011: At first, we see our parents as gods, then we rebel. Only later do we see who they really are: kids themselves who got in over their head. 3150
Mar 9 2011: The natural human tendency is to evaluate something by its surface characteristics rather than the underlying systems that make it work. 3151
Mar 9 2011: Inflexible morality—obeying rigid rules with no room for exceptions—is the functional equivalent of no morality at all. 3152
Mar 9 2011: Media (social or otherwise) is a phenomenon of the moment. It doesn't last. Only content lasts. 3153
Mar 10 2011: A great movie is great regardless of whether it's in B+W or color or 3-D. It's the story that counts, not the medium. 3154
Mar 10 2011: You know that scene in 2001 where Dave is trying to disconnect Hal's higher functions while preserving life support? Divorce with children. 3155
Mar 10 2011: @lolahayes "May I please have the key to the garden?" <== It's under the welcome mat. 3156
Mar 10 2011: ++++ Begin one-hour essay: "Romantic Attachment" 3157
Mar 10 2011: At the base of romantic love is attachment—a primitive neurological bond like that between mother and child, designed for species survival. 3158
Mar 10 2011: Attachment is what makes lovers long for each other when they are apart. It's literally an addiction, using the same neural pathways. 3159
Mar 10 2011: Two people can despise each other, be totally incompatible and still be neurologically attached and unable to pull away. 3160
Mar 10 2011: Attachment is more than sexual attraction. It's anxiety and depression when we can't be together. Sometimes anger and violence. 3161
Mar 10 2011: Human child rearing is a huge undertaking requiring (in nature) two dedicated parents. Something powerful must hold them together. 3162
Mar 10 2011: As perfidious as men may be, our existence proves that they usually come back to the nest, bearing food. 3163
Mar 10 2011: The magic of love is the falling in. The poison of it is not being able to climb out even when you know it isn't working. 3164
Mar 10 2011: The pain of withdrawing from love is just as great as the pleasure falling in. 3165
Mar 10 2011: In the movies, boy meets girl; they overcome some difficulties, fall in love, kiss, end of movie. But that's not really the end of conflict. 3166
Mar 10 2011: The hazard of love is when the primitive attachments conflict with the intellect. Then people resort to faith and magic to bolster belief. 3167
Mar 10 2011: If you can't express your attachment with love and tenderness, you'll do it with hate, aggression and the quest for revenge. 3168
Mar 10 2011: Divorce is so nasty because although everything about the relationship has collapsed, primitive attachment may still be present. 3169
Mar 10 2011: Attachment is a poor matchmaker, setting us up with people who aren't appropriate for us. We can't neglect the advice of intellect. 3170
Mar 10 2011: The test of a romantic relationship: If you take away sexual attraction and attachment, would you have anything in common? 3171
Mar 10 2011: #### End. This has been a one-hour essay from the Bad Dalai Lama: "Romantic Attachment" 3172
Mar 10 2011: Our one-page essay from 2008: "SEX FRAUD!" http://kilroycafe.com/ideas/sexfraud - How sex deceives you. 3173
Mar 10 2011: "The human sex drive is certainly a powerful force—when denied—but the promises it makes are illusory and unfulfillable." {ibid} 3174
Mar 10 2011: Our 2006 essay: "The Problems of Attachment" http://www.familycourtchronicles.com/philosophy/attachment 3175
Mar 10 2011: Sex and drugs are virtually identical to the brain, except sex has a stopping mechanism and drugs don't. 3176
Mar 10 2011: Men blame women for the failure of love and vice-versa, but, honestly, in what other relationship do you have such unrealistic expectations? 3177
Mar 10 2011: RT @jasminesays: @BadDalaiLama the result of exploring sex and drugs to their outer limits feels identical but brings opposite results ( ... 3178
Mar 10 2011: RT @mostlegendary: @BadDalaiLama bollocks, drugs have a stopping mechanism, you can't continue after death. :p 3179
Mar 10 2011: Every celebrity wedding is a goldmine for the tabloids, not just for the event itself but for the celebrity divorce that inevitably follows. 3180
Mar 10 2011: Language Police: You don't call them "fatties" anymore. That's derogatory. They're Obese Americans. {1/29} 3181
Mar 10 2011: Who says America has lost its edge? Our people are the biggest in the world! No one can compete with our morbid obesity! 3182
Mar 10 2011: academia—n. a community of educated people united by their lack of experience in the real world. 3183
Mar 10 2011: As a laboratory to understand dysfunctional behavior, there is no better classroom than your own family. 3184
Mar 10 2011: RT @Arhanious: hahaa :) cogunluk icin dogru! RT @BadDalaiLama academia-community of educated people united by their lack of experience i ... 3185
Mar 10 2011: You can praise the "common man" in the abstract, but you don't want to be trapped in the same room with him. Them folks is dumb! {12/27} 3186
Mar 10 2011: Uncomplicated sex is a myth. Sooner or later, someone's going to take it seriously. 3187
Mar 10 2011: RT @kbAngel: @BadDalaiLama that is so so true!!!!! 3188
Mar 10 2011: RT @Kyoks1: el concepto de "sexo sin complicaciones" es un mito. Tarde o temprano alguien lo va a tomar en serio via @BadDalaiLama 3189
Mar 10 2011: The most vapid and inane form of the English language is that employed by television sportscasters. 3190
Mar 10 2011: In suburbia, no imperfection can be tolerated. Any blemish must be repaired immediately lest it disrupt the Feng Shui of ones existence. 3191Mar 10 2011: Cosmetic defect that my earthly parental units felt they needed to spend $500 to repair. (scratched bumper) http://twitpic.com/488oyi←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 3192
Mar 10 2011: When appearances conflict with underlying systems, the systems always win in the end. 3193
Mar 10 2011: RT @d_tunstall: Did an interview for mudkiss fanzine, i wouldn't normally share these links as i don't like saying much (i do... http:// ... 3194
Mar 10 2011: model railroading—the creation of perfect miniature worlds to avoid dealing with the imperfect full-scale one. 3195
Mar 10 2011: The truth about life on Earth: It's all disaster, all the time! 3196
Mar 11 2011: Stupidity is usually a chronic condition, unmitigated by age. 3197
Mar 11 2011: RT @Queen_Bee257 Great blog, just discovered it and I'm hooked <== Which blog? (We've left a great tsunami of abandoned work behind us.) 3198
Mar 11 2011: .@Queen_Bee257 "Area 51 Loose Ends" <== Not our finest blog. Try http://kilroycafe.blogspot.com For more: http://Glenn-Campbell.com 3199
Mar 11 2011: The chief vanity of Woman is fighting whatever nature gave her. 3200
Mar 11 2011: Life is like a box of chocolates metaphor. You never know what you might use it for. (cc: @speakinggump) 3201Mar 11 2011: This is so wrong! From the Walmart hunting dept: "Special Golden Estrus". Talk about your siren songs! http://twitpic.com/48j4xo←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 3202Mar 11 2011: But wait, there's more! "Longer, more intense estrus bleats. Great for ALL phases of the rut!" http://twitpic.com/48j6jm←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 3203
Mar 11 2011: Everyone says they want the truth about themselves, but if you give it to them they'll probably explode—at you! 3204
Mar 11 2011: Something is an addiction when you are doing it not for its own reward but to escape anxiety when not doing it. 3205
Mar 11 2011: Fair fight: man, spear, wild animal. Unfair fight: fat guy, high-powered rifle, IR spotting scope, SUV, GPS, chemical lures, dumb buck. 3206
Mar 11 2011: The way you remember an event is permanently altered as soon as you see photos of it. The photos themselves become the memory. 3207
Mar 11 2011: Apparently, you can be a pious religious believer only if you wear a conspicuous uniform showing the world your faith. 3208
Mar 11 2011: The Titanic is a fine ship! Elegant staterooms, attentive staff, every modern amenity. Why shouldn't we go? 3209
Mar 11 2011: We are all riding our own personal Titanic, obsessing over details on board while missing what's happening to the whole ship 3210
Mar 11 2011: When your ship is sinking, it doesn't matter what song the band is playing. 3211
Mar 11 2011: Almost anyone can do "form". Very few understand "function". 3212
Mar 11 2011: RT @philososaurus: @BadDalaiLama I'm not sure about that. I mean, if SOMEONE is going to survive, I want to go down to something epic li ... 3213
Mar 11 2011: "Logan Airport salutes members of the armed forces." Silly question: What does that mean? Anything at all? 3214
Mar 11 2011: RT @NlCKIIMlNAJ: Strange how someone you once loved can become just another person you once knew. 3215
Mar 11 2011: Of all the weird things in the world, the most bizarre is our body and how we got stuck inside it. 3216
Mar 11 2011: RT @Kyoks1: Vamos en nuestro Titanic personal, obsesionados con los detalles en cubierta, mientras olvidamos lo que le pasa al barco via ... 3217
Mar 11 2011: RT @RexHuppke: Me: "They're baby teeth, they'll fall out. Why should we brush them? That's like washing paper plates." My wife: ... 3218
Mar 11 2011: Our favorite destination on Earth: the Greek island of Santorini. Our photos: http://roamingphotos.com/a?santorini 3219
Mar 11 2011: The key to being a good driver is realizing just how close to death you really are. 3220
Mar 11 2011: RT @JerryThomas: I hate it when I Question Authority and it gives satisfactory answers. 3221
Mar 11 2011: You may call me homeless, but I call you home-burdened. 3222
Mar 11 2011: One advantage of living in motels is you rarely lose things or forget to pack them. Your possessions are all right in front of you. 3223
Mar 11 2011: RT @rongillmore: @BadDalaiLama Death is always your co-pilot companion, silent, waiting. 3224
Mar 11 2011: It's a law of nature: A chicken will shit. You don't know exactly where or when, but it will happen. 3225
Mar 11 2011: Reveling in the lactose tolerance of my ancestors. Milk, ice cream, cheese—it's all good! 3226
Mar 11 2011: The chief benefit of age is a larger inventory of past mistakes. 3227
Mar 11 2011: On My Bucket List: Tweet prayers to all of my followers every time there is a natural disaster anywhere in the world. [See Full Bucket List] 3228
Mar 11 2011: Something is an addiction when you are doing it not for its own reward but for the anxiety you feel when you don't do it. 3229
Mar 11 2011: Advice to live by: "In the event of a loss of cabin pressure, put your own mask on first before assisting others." 3230Mar 11 2011: The planet Sol-3 is a gaseous world covered with nitrogen and water vapor. http://twitpic.com/48hq8d←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 3231
Mar 11 2011: Proper tweet format for natural disasters: "Sorry about your recent [insert calamity]. Sending my thoughts and prayers to those affected." 3232
Mar 11 2011: Never argue with a British person about whether an organization is singular or plural. They'll burn out their logic circuits! 3233
Mar 12 2011: Which is proper? (A) Walmart is a retailer. (American) or (B) Walmart are a retailer. (British) — If retailer is singular, why not Walmart? 3234
Mar 12 2011: What makes Japan a better use of your resources than 10,000 other catastrophes? Because it's on CNN? Is that how you choose your good works? 3235
Mar 12 2011: The aim of charity is "bang for your buck"—achieving the most good with what little you have. It's not just giving to the latest disaster. 3236
Mar 12 2011: Personal growth is the process of identifying the things you once assumed to be essential that you actually don't need. 3237
Mar 12 2011: RT @Javi_Air: @MikeSchism Ha! Happens. There were a couple of days I could swear @BadDalaiLama had hacked my computer cuz the tweets wer ... 3238
Mar 12 2011: People are the things they do. 3239
Mar 12 2011: Someday, my life will come out in 3-D, and you'll say, "He had depth!" 3240
Mar 12 2011: "Who owns this land?" can almost always be traced to an ancient theft for which the statute of limitations has since run out. 3241
Mar 12 2011: There is no such thing as a perfect video edit. There is only a adequate edit within the time you have available. 3242
Mar 12 2011: Most of us deal with the tragedy of the world by creating an artificial environment around ourselves where most tragedy doesn't intrude. 3243Mar 12 2011: Video diary: 1am at a rest area in Kentucky. Desperate man calls upon me to save his family... and I refuse! http://youtu.be/lx3GRPwMs4w←Our original YouTube video [more] 3244
Mar 12 2011: disaster porn—the public preoccupation with the latest natural disaster for which video is available. 3245
Mar 12 2011: Disasters offer the TV viewer colorful entertainment without the complication of human politics. 3246
Mar 12 2011: Everyone loves watching images from Haiti of the earthquake. No one is interested in the endemic problems of Haiti claiming far more lives. 3247Mar 12 2011: Actually Kentucky, but close enough. (Door of a toilet stall.) http://twitpic.com/48rj4f←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 3248
Mar 12 2011: Narcissism is the natural condition of all teenagers and most of those under 30. 3249Mar 12 2011: New edited video: "My Ikea Adventure in Cincinnati" http://youtu.be/ZEMvcDAXPns An editing exercise. Shot last night with my iPhone. ←Our original YouTube video [more] 3250
Mar 12 2011: @krd_metalgirl "The Zombie needs a Hug." <== Are you going to be a zombie or not? Zombies don't do hugs. That's a human thing! 3251
Mar 12 2011: Our investigation of a SECRET UNDERGROUND FACILITY next to the Jefferson Memorial in Washington. Blog entry: http://j.mp/f0FrlI 3252
Mar 12 2011: @krd_metalgirl "I will bite You while hugging, Its a trap ;)" <== I think you're really a human who's just PRETENDING to be a zombie. 3253
Mar 12 2011: There are many friends you are fond of but only a few who actually contribute something to your life. Sooner or later, you have to choose. 3254
Mar 12 2011: The humor and cleverness of TV advertising is inversely proportional to the inherent value of the product. Hence: beer ads. 3255
Mar 12 2011: Exhibit A: Testosterone increases male dominance behaviors. Also: Women fall for that shit. Study: http://bit.ly/g1vSYb via @sciencedaily 3256
Mar 12 2011: Exhibit B: "Adam and Eve: The Gay Version." 1-minute YouTube video: http://j.mp/fIl8MG Funny rejected ad. 3257
Mar 12 2011: Ibid: Eve seems disappointed in Adam. Why? What is there about his behavior that makes him instantly unattractive? 3258
Mar 12 2011: Women expect and demand a certain level of aggression in men. The sensitive and sensual ones don't attract. You made us what we are, ladies! 3259
Mar 12 2011: Women are drawn to men with high self-confidence, openly and aggressively displayed—even if that self-confidence has little to back it up. 3260
Mar 12 2011: Men are drawn to a pretty face and body, women to displayed dominance behaviors. Both are destined to disappointment in the long run. 3261
Mar 12 2011: Men seek superior health and childbearing ability. Women seek a strong protector. These agendas are encoded in modern sexual preference. 3262
Mar 12 2011: When relationships go bad, it is not because someone changed. Instead, defects we chose to ignore during courtship come back to haunt us. 3263
Mar 12 2011: Love is an exercise in wishful thinking. 3264
Mar 12 2011: What we expect from the opposite sex is salvation. We expect love to give our lives meaning when we can't find it ourselves. 3265
Mar 12 2011: Love can't give your life meaning. The most it can give you is obligations and the enforced structure that comes with them. 3266
Mar 12 2011: Love is a dance of "Closer, please but not too close!" Break the rules and you pay the price. 3267
Mar 12 2011: #### End. This has been an (unintended) one-hour essay by the Bad Dalai Lama: "Testosterone" 3268
Mar 12 2011: RT @SirRocket: @BadDalaiLama I'm afraid no truer words have ever been spoken on this subject. 3269
Mar 12 2011: RT @motorfingerzach: @BadDalaiLama I've been thinking about that alot lately, and trying to find some science to back it up. Thanks! 3270
Mar 12 2011: RT @ATLSnakey: @BadDalaiLama Yes, like that nasty meth mouth that was so cute at first. 3271
Mar 12 2011: RT @motorfingerzach: What @BadDalaiLama is saying is that the Michael Cera types never get the girl. You get her by being a douche. Not ... 3272
Mar 12 2011: RT @motorfingerzach: @BadDalaiLama I love you. 3273
Mar 12 2011: RT @burntsugar: @BadDalaiLama gaaawd.... 3274Mar 12 2011: Serendipity has lead me to complete the preceding essay in this somewhat germaine location in Nashville. http://twitpic.com/48wgfa←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 3275
Mar 12 2011: Dear retailers and motel operators: The addition of "And Up" to your advertised price renders it meaningless. 3276
Mar 12 2011: RT @Jesus_M_Christ: #RTthisif you have free will. 3277
Mar 12 2011: .@charliesheen is colorful, but @KimKardashian is the very definition of narcissism. Take away her celebrity and who would read this? 3278
Mar 12 2011: The test of a quality tweet: Does this have value to the reader apart from who said it? 3279
Mar 13 2011: Thinking of starting a prototype model/celebrity twitter: Worked out today! Here's a new photo of me! Praying for Japan—so sad! 3280
Mar 13 2011: The key to overcoming your own narcissism is to hide it behind useful content. 3281
Mar 13 2011: RT @MsLauraShields: I'm so disturbed by the events in Japan, my heart goes out to everyone affected. Even tho I moan I feel lucky to hav ... 3282
Mar 13 2011: RT @DalaiLama: His Holiness the Dalai Lama Expresses His Sadness Over the Recent Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan http://bit.ly/e4lZsW 3283
Mar 13 2011: Optimists die younger! http://su.pr/277ZVD via @NewMindMirror "Too much of a sense that 'everything will be just fine' can be dangerous." 3284
Mar 13 2011: "To change one's life; Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. No exceptions." —William James 3285
Mar 13 2011: Love is a dance of "Closer, please, but not too close!" 3286
Mar 13 2011: Justin Bieber: fresh meat for the teen idol machine. Soon to join the discarded, tabloid-fodder husks that went before him. 3287
Mar 13 2011: Nothing so fucks with your self-image as being made a child star. 3288
Mar 13 2011: RT @philo_quotes: Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it. ~ Socrates 3289
Mar 13 2011: news—n. an endless stream of distant calamity you can do little about, designed to occupy your time and sell advertising. 3290
Mar 13 2011: RT @dykemovies: The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born. - Elayne Boosler 3291
Mar 13 2011: Youth is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success and perfect love. 3292
Mar 13 2011: Where there is life, there are typos. 3293
Mar 13 2011: So many times you miss the exit. You see what's there—and what you could have had—only when it's too late to change course. 3294
Mar 13 2011: Ambrosia, the perfect food of the gods, has been decoded by science! It's now available for retail purchase as the Nacho Cheese Dorito. 3295
Mar 13 2011: ++++ Begin one-hour essay: "Delusions" 3296
Mar 13 2011: It can be painfully obvious to us how someone is heading down a bad path, but we can't tell them because they don't want to hear it. 3297
Mar 13 2011: Even on twitter, we can see someone's life go awry. We DM them and get only anger and defensiveness. That's all you can do in RL, too! 3298
Mar 13 2011: On twitter, as RL, sanity can be measured in the internal consistency of ones output. Tweets start to contradict each other as sanity wanes. 3299
Mar 13 2011: Insanity is more than what's in the DSM. It's insane to follow a delusion that damages your life, but that's not a mental disorder. 3300
Mar 13 2011: So sad to watch a friend get sucked into a relationship you know isn't good for them. It's madness and addiction you can do little about. 3301
Mar 13 2011: Anger is the first defense of the guilty. 3302
Mar 13 2011: People can be rational in pursuit of their goals but deluded in their choice of them. 3303
Mar 13 2011: Someone's "base delusion" is the main one that drives their life. (e.g. seeking fame) It is usually immune to any rational discussion. 3304
Mar 13 2011: You can't talk someone out of their addictions or out of their emotionally driven goals. Same thing, really! 3305
Mar 13 2011: People prefer to follow authority rather than think for themselves—be it the authority of a person or a magical goal. 3306
Mar 13 2011: Fame, fortune, love are magical goals, expected to solve everything. They don't. 3307
Mar 13 2011: In place of delusion is a life tied to reality. You seek out accurate feedback and modify your goals and action steps accordingly. 3308
Mar 13 2011: Few of us really listen to reality. We try to impose our will upon it, but reality always wins in the end. 3309
Mar 13 2011: RT @georgiatriallaw: @BadDalaiLama Gotta live and let live Lama. 3310
Mar 13 2011: RT @Maxine12339: @BadDalaiLama Just be there for them when they crash 3311
Mar 13 2011: #### End. This has been a one-hour essay by the Bad Dalai Lama: "Delusions" 3312
Mar 13 2011: @RhodiHawk "Foggy sunrise on Buffalo Bayou." <== Pix or it didn't happen! 3313
Mar 13 2011: RT @Krystelisms: "Fuck school. School yourself." <== Indeed, but most don't have the initiative, so school will persist. 3314
Mar 13 2011: RT @YaySarahC: The second is poo-flinging. Tends to work better, actually. RT @BadDalaiLama Anger is the first defense of the guilty. 3315
Mar 13 2011: If we discovered life on other planets, we could monitor their natural disasters, too! (How much is too much?) 3316
Mar 13 2011: Give generously—to whatever cause is in the news this week. (What's wrong with this theory?) 3317
Mar 13 2011: RT @trevlutz: @BadDalaiLama Situational Ethics: Neighbor's house burns down? Offer shelter,food, etc. Homeless guy we see every day? Giv ... 3318
Mar 13 2011: Giving to one worthy cause means you can't give those resources to another. The question, then, is which cause is the most effective? 3319
Mar 13 2011: It's always suspicious when the city/country/religion that one happens to have been born into turns out to be the greatest in the world. 3320
Mar 13 2011: gadget lust—n. the quest to purchase an electronic device you simply must have, in spite of not being able to logically justify it. 3321
Mar 13 2011: The news will always be obsessed with the biggest story out there, while ignoring the little ones—i.e. the ones you can do something about. 3322
Mar 14 2011: RT @joelofarc: @BadDalaiLama Disagree. Too often the news is concerned with trivial bullshit, whilst ignoring the bigger and/or more imp ... 3323
Mar 14 2011: RT @NarwhalMagazine: I couldnt agree more! "@BadDalaiLama: The key to overcoming your own narcissism is to hide it behind useful content." 3324
Mar 14 2011: How do you become an iconoclast? Do you go to school for that? Is there a course? 3325
Mar 14 2011: "Now it seems to me some fine things have been laid upon your table, but you only want the ones that you can't get." #existentialsonglyrics 3326
Mar 14 2011: "Oh it's sad to belong to someone else when the right one comes along." #existentialsonglyrics 3327
Mar 14 2011: Passing through Kentwood, Louisiana, hometown of Britney Spears. My 2008 report and photo album: http://kilroycafe.blogspot.com/2008/08/kentwood-louisiana-home-of-britney.html 3328
Mar 14 2011: "Hello Darkness, my old friend. I've come to talk to you again." #existentialsonglyrics 3329Mar 14 2011: Our new philosophy video: "How to Twitter (and How Not To)" http://youtu.be/U3cf7rcW0C8 - The key is overcoming your own narcissism. ←Our original YouTube video [more] 3330
Mar 14 2011: "In the arms of an angel. Fly away from here. From this dark cold hotel room. And the endlessness that you fear." #existentialsonglyrics 3331Mar 14 2011: Downtown Kentwood, Louisiana—hometown of Britney Spears. Right now! http://twitpic.com/49h1un←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 3332
Mar 14 2011: "When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me, speaking words of wisdom: Let it be." #existentialsonglyrics 3333
Mar 14 2011: @MsLauraShields "Sex" <== A naked ploy for ratings. 3334
Mar 14 2011: "If it makes you happy, it can't be that bad. If it makes you happy, then why the hell are you so sad?" #existentialsonglyrics 3335
Mar 14 2011: The fact that we become aware of suffering does not mean we can or should do something about it. 3336
Mar 14 2011: You effectively improve the world only in areas where you have reasonable control and can monitor the results. 3337
Mar 14 2011: Any donation to charity is based on the faith that this charity improves the world in the long run. 3338
Mar 14 2011: If you have only a limited amount of money to give, there are plenty of worthy causes. The question is, what is the best? 3339
Mar 14 2011: The normal condition of humanity is suffering, but only a tiny portion of it gets onto CNN. 3340
Mar 14 2011: "Something has to make you run. I don't know why I didn't come." #existentialsonglyrics 3341Mar 14 2011: The mighty Mississippi. http://twitpic.com/49iggz←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 3342
Mar 14 2011: "Oh yeah life goes on, long after the thrill of livin is gone." #existentialsonglyrics 3343Mar 14 2011: On the 18-mile Atchafalaya Basin Bridge. http://twitpic.com/49ixym←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 3344
Mar 14 2011: RT @AndrewBober: @BadDalaiLama people who describe themselves as reliable tend to confuse this with arriving too early 3345
Mar 14 2011: "You're losing all your highs and lows. Ain't it funny how the feeling goes away." (Probably the best existential song ever!) 3346
Mar 14 2011: @lolahayes Brain storage space may be unlimited, but CPU speed is not. Like a computer, unlimited memory doesn't mean unlimited processes. 3347
Mar 14 2011: @lolahayes 70K thoughts/day = only a few hundred connected "streams of thought"—like comparing movie frames to a whole movie. 3348
Mar 14 2011: @lolahayes "information overload is stronger than ever." <== Because humans get addicted to info, like cocaine. You can never get enough! 3349
Mar 14 2011: Thinking—that is, working out problems in your head—takes time, just like watching a movie, so there's a limit on what your brain can do. 3350
Mar 14 2011: "Won't you please, please tell me what we've learned. I know it sounds absurd. Please tell me who I am." #existentialsonglyrics 3351
Mar 14 2011: Overloading the brain leads to degradation of output quality. The more tasks you take on, the less care you give to each. (cc:@lolahayes) 3352
Mar 14 2011: In a world or unlimited news, you could spend unlimited time following it, but all that really matters is news affecting your own behavior. 3353
Mar 14 2011: If news doesn't affect you personally, why do you have to watch it in real time? Can't you just read up on it later on Wikipedia? 3354
Mar 14 2011: "Nobody knows what it's like to be the bad man, to be the sad man, behind blue eyes." #existentialsonglyrics 3355Mar 14 2011: Interstate 10 in Texas, Exit 880. So, yeah, kind of a long way to the other side. http://twitpic.com/49k0sg←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 3356
Mar 14 2011: "She's leaving home after living alone for so many years." #existentialsonglyrics 3357
Mar 15 2011: RT @michellenassau: @BadDalaiLama I'm laughing out loud with your she's leaving home after living alone for so many years. I needed this LOL 3358
Mar 15 2011: If someone leaves no trace on the Internet, do they truly exist? (More precisely, does their mind exist?) 3359
Mar 15 2011: New philosophy essay: "Knowledge is not Wisdom!" http://bit.ly/ewejn6 - No matter how much data you have, wisdom must come from experience. 3360
Mar 15 2011: The main challenge of life is triage—deciding how to ration out your limited resources for the greatest long-term good. 3361
Mar 15 2011: Some time has passed, so now I can ask it: Did Steve Irwin win a Darwin Award? 3362
Mar 15 2011: "Crikey! I'm playing with one of the most dangerous animals in the world. One nick from this little bugger and.... Oomph!"—Steve Irwin 3363
Mar 15 2011: Steve Irwin was one of the earliest victims of reality TV. Once you catch the spotlight, you can't give it up. 3364
Mar 15 2011: "Go ahead, hit me as hard as you like. Just let me... Oomph!"—Harry Houdini 3365
Mar 15 2011: "I make my living fooling your perceptions, but nothing gets me madder than all those paranormal fakers."—magician hypocrisy 3366
Mar 15 2011: Reduced-height toilet stalls at a Texas rest area are apparently intended to reduce illegal activities. http://t.co/P6YxYRF 3367
Mar 15 2011: Authority can make people do things or not do them, but it can't force creativity or responsibility. 3368
Mar 15 2011: It is noble that you do volunteer work or give money to charity, but that doesn't prove you're using your resources the best way you can. 3369
Mar 15 2011: Texas mobile home. Biggest one you've ever seen! http://t.co/abTSqoA 3370
Mar 15 2011: .@Andres_iracheta "but education can" [force creativity and responsibility] <== Most certainly not! You can't educate these things. 3371
Mar 15 2011: There is no example on earth of anyone "educated" into creativity. (Name one!) At best, education teaches technical skills, nothing more. 3372
Mar 15 2011: The biggest educational fraud: classes for "creativity". (Crafts and techniques, sure, but creativity itself can't be formally educated.) 3373
Mar 15 2011: A trivial contribution, multiplied by millions, is still a trivial contribution. 3374
Mar 15 2011: @SrMaryNapalm "Edward De Bono's techniques can help anyone with structured creativity" <== Example, please! What great artist has it helped? 3375
Mar 15 2011: RT @Kyoks1: no hay ejemplos en el mundo de educacion formal en creatividad (mencionen una!), se pueden enseñar tecnicas solamente. via @ ... 3376
Mar 15 2011: TV viewers think if they watch the news, express their opinions, buy the proper products and donate as directed, they've changed the world. 3377
Mar 15 2011: RT @Kyoks1: El fraude educacional + grande: Clases de Creatividad (tecnicas, claro! pero Creatividad como tal no se puede "enseñar") via ... 3378
Mar 15 2011: RT @Kurt_Vonnegut: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you' ... 3379
Mar 15 2011: .@Kurt_Vonnegut (re semicolons) Disagree, your deadliness. Semicolons can show a subtle affiliation between ideas not available elsewhere. 3380
Mar 15 2011: RT @worldpolice: Being a realist is hard http://t.co/fyu478J <== Cartoon comparing realists to idealists. 3381
Mar 15 2011: eudaimonic well-being—n. happiness that comes from engaging in meaningful activity. WSJ http://t.co/hTQXN9z via @NewMindMirror 3382
Mar 15 2011: @lolahayes@pympdr True, but a change in venue can disrupt the status quo and help give you new eyes. 3383
Mar 15 2011: Believe in the power of chaos! 3384
Mar 15 2011: Two important things: planning and chaos. Planning is thinking ahead. Chaos is what disrupts your plans and pushes you to a higher level. 3385
Mar 15 2011: If you aren't willing to get lost, you can't explore. 3386
Mar 15 2011: Sports, weather, celebrities, natural disasters... the reliable world of pseudo news. An advertiser's paradise! 3387
Mar 15 2011: Facebook is the place for happy thoughts and non-controversial postings—obviously because everyone you know in real life is on it. 3388
Mar 15 2011: Most of what consumers buy could never be justified on a cost-benefit basis. It is mainly vanity, serving only the impulse to buy. 3389
Mar 15 2011: Judgement Day is fast approaching! Revised date: May 21, 2011. Better get praying! http://t.co/75cAZ6N 3390
Mar 15 2011: (Maybe if we all send out our prayers on Twitter we can avert this global catastrophe.) 3391
Mar 15 2011: Nothing touches the heart like country music. It's like triple coronary by-pass surgery with a dull scalpel. 3392
Mar 15 2011: "Cats, coathangers & crazy - they all multiply according to your willingness to give 'em house room." @YourAuntLola 3393
Mar 15 2011: "My younger self was an idiot." — What you have to admit if you expect to grow. 3394
Mar 16 2011: RT @TheWah: @BadDalaiLama My future self will be just as much an idiot... And I'm not that sure about my present self. 3395
Mar 16 2011: RT @mostlegendary: @BadDalaiLama How can you get lost while you geolocate your tweets? 3396
Mar 16 2011: Here's more on May 21: http://2011JudgementDay.com - End of the world will be Oct. 21, 2011. Between May and Oct: Terror! —— R U Ready???? 3397Mar 16 2011: The REAL seat of power in America—where the Freemasons direct the New World Order. http://twitpic.com/49wdk6 (Alexandria, VA. Jan. 20) ←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 3398
Mar 16 2011: RT @garamiredux: Life without romance, is like a movie without a soundtrack. It turns into a documentary. 3399Mar 16 2011: Something about moving America. http://twitpic.com/49wg0r (U.S. Capitol, Washington. Jan. 20) ←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 3400Mar 16 2011: Here's a new HD version of the video posted 3 days ago: "How to Twitter (and How Not To)" http://youtu.be/6qfU8I3dx1I (without distortion). ←Our original YouTube video [more] 3401
Mar 16 2011: Narcissism on Twitter (and real life): "My opinion is important just because it's mine." 3402
Mar 16 2011: Our new philosophy essay: "Identifying your own Narcissism on Twitter" http://t.co/wpkzVaE 3403
Mar 16 2011: RT @NihilDeNada: @BadDalaiLama Good essay. Nonetheless, I don't love you. 3404
Mar 16 2011: @lolahayes Europe, with its dense population, is very frugal with resources. They don't assume endless supply like American do. 3405
Mar 16 2011: The main value of visiting other cultures is gaining new perspective on your own. 3406
Mar 16 2011: "The secret to humor is surprise."—Aristotle <== Not exactly. (A bomb isn't funny.) The secret is irony—the opposite of what is expected. 3407
Mar 16 2011: "Adult education" applies only to those without the initiative to learn on their own. 3408
Mar 16 2011: How is a course in photography better than picking up a camera and using it? 3409
Mar 16 2011: If you're truly impassioned about some creative skill, you'll find a way to do it. If you're not impassioned, no course can save you. 3410
Mar 16 2011: What can you do with a $4 disposable camera? My 2008 photo experiment on Kauai, Hawaii http://j.mp/c5JZmd 3411
Mar 16 2011: Visiting Kauai in 2007 with NO MONEY. FB album: http://j.mp/hYmMvR - Just places I could get to on foot from the airport. 3412
Mar 16 2011: Someone should do blind, scientifically controlled taste tests on all those "World's Best" food claims. 3413
Mar 17 2011: How can 10,000 restaurants all have "the World's Best Burgers"? 3414
Mar 17 2011: Just updated the Sacred Archive of Ancient Wisdom at http://t.co/WhiL1nT - All our tweets, searchable by keyword. 3415
Mar 17 2011: One man's Paradise is another's boring nothing-ever-happens-here home. 3416
Mar 17 2011: Paradise is paradise only if you don't live there. 3417
Mar 17 2011: At the Big Save supermarket in Lihue, a loaf of bread on sale for $6.63. (Well, it's a big loaf. Regular size: $5.69.) http://t.co/C4Lvoa1 3418
Mar 17 2011: The only trouble with living on an island is you're trapped on an island. 3419
Mar 17 2011: Juvenile justice and child welfare are two sides of the same coin. Juvenile crime is the natural result of family dysfunction. 3420
Mar 17 2011: Approaching Hanalei. http://t.co/GImMOGu 3421
Mar 17 2011: Hanalei. http://t.co/vFTP4MM 3422
Mar 17 2011: RT @kellyoxford: When someone says "Just act natural" I think "I'm so screwed" 3423
Mar 17 2011: RT @BlondeDuJour: My dear, you can't live with him if you can't live without him 3424
Mar 17 2011: RT @TheBosha: Looks like *Unplanned* Parenthood has snagged most of the market share. 3425
Mar 17 2011: .@garamiredux "The illusion of control is more dangerous than the lack of it." <== Not always. The illusion gives one's life structure. 3426
Mar 17 2011: Hanalei taro field. Right now! http://t.co/ed8yMm4 3427
Mar 17 2011: Well here's a chicken who didn't quite make it across the road! http://t.co/a7HKCzh 3428
Mar 17 2011: RT @trevlutz: @BadDalaiLama Well, at least he made it to the "other side". 3429
Mar 17 2011: Hanalei graveyard. http://t.co/lasJdew 3430
Mar 17 2011: Man's greatest gift is to be able to find meaning in chaos. 3431
Mar 17 2011: I certainly can't afford lodging here ($100+), and don't want to pay $50 for an additional car rental day, so camping it is. Quite illegal! 3432
Mar 17 2011: From where I sit, using Alamo's power to plot my next move. http://t.co/DeuSSWl 3433
Mar 17 2011: My equipment: 1 airline style blanket + 1 inflatable kayak in a suitcase. That's it! No tent or sleeping bag. 3434
Mar 17 2011: On My Bucket List: Abdicate the British throne for the woman I love. (Without telling her first. It will be a surprise!) [See Full Bucket List] 3435
Mar 17 2011: But this *is* paradise, after all! Temp couldn't be more perfect. Only issue is the rains that come almost every night. 3436
Mar 17 2011: RT @Kyoks1: si apoyas a alguien incondicionalmente se aprovecharan de ti incondicionalmente. via @BadDalaiLama 3437
Mar 17 2011: My secret asset: a Wal-Mart about a mile away! 3438
Mar 17 2011: RT @Kyoks1: Lo mas valioso de visitar otras culturas es obtener una nueva perspectiva de la propia. via @BadDalaiLama 3439
Mar 17 2011: The uninflated kayak will be my bed. Then all I need is a tarp to protect me from the rain ($5) and trash bags to protect my electronics. 3440
Mar 17 2011: Dateline: Detroit Metropolitan Airport. Intermittent rain but no snow, even in the mountains. Welcome to the Motor City! http://t.co/YHS9cka 3441
Mar 17 2011: Finding a camping spot should be no problem. Lots of farmland around the airport. http://t.co/zvqd4VY 3442
Mar 17 2011: Customer service agent at Alamo Rent-a-Car, Lihue airport. She had some bad news... http://t.co/QUxlABV 3443
Mar 17 2011: Under cover of darkness, you can camp in places that would be obvious during the day. You just have to clear out before dawn. 3444
Mar 17 2011: ...Turns out my car rental reservation is for TOMORROW. Car is my lodging, so looks like I'll be CAMPING tonight... with no equipment! 3445
Mar 17 2011: Leaving Alamo now, as darkness falls. (And darkness falls quickly in the tropics.) First task: hide my bags and head to Wal-Mart! 3446
Mar 17 2011: ++++ Begin LIVE TWEETING of my unexpected camping experience on Kauai, Hawaii. 3447
Mar 17 2011: This is the place! (Geotags turned off for security purposes.) Invisible both day and night! http://t.co/9hFRDaF 3448
Mar 17 2011: The Kauai bus system. This will serve my transportation needs tomorrow. 50 cents to Walmart. $2 to Hanalei! http://t.co/EryyWnb 3449
Mar 17 2011: I seriously doubt the sincerity of any electronic device or recording wishing me "Aloha" or "Mahalo". 3450
Mar 17 2011: Lihue Walmart: your source for genuine Hawaiian souvenirs—made in China. http://t.co/RSvEW5w 3451
Mar 17 2011: Back at the campsite. Bought a $5 tarp and $12 sleeping bag. The latter is mostly for padding. Breeze should keep mozzies away. 3452
Mar 17 2011: 9pm here. Hoping for a full night's sleep but we'll see. Nighty night! 3453
Mar 17 2011: The rains come! Pulling the tarp over me, like a taco. 3454
Mar 17 2011: The problem is keeping the taco closed in the wind. My kingdom for some plastic cable ties! Fortunately, rain is light and intermittent. 3455
Mar 17 2011: .@GraceWelch "how much is a gallon of milk now?" <== $4.29 at Walmart. Probably much higher elsewhere. Even Walmart prices are depressing! 3456
Mar 17 2011: RT @Cinnapuff: @BadDalaiLama You live such an interesting life! Oh, and btw... your old website was the 1st site I ever saw in the inter ... 3457
Mar 17 2011: .@TheBosha "Watch out for wild boar. For real." <== I know all about wild bores. I just unfollow them! 3458
Mar 17 2011: .@trevlutz "Enjoy your canopy of stars tonight." <== That's canopy of stars and clouds. This is the windward side, which scoops up moisture. 3459
Mar 17 2011: On My Bucket List: Become a classically trained actor forced to do television work that is far beneath my talents. [See Full Bucket List] 3460
Mar 17 2011: Rain is over now and sky is clear. Sleeping beautifully otherwise. Until the next squall... 3461
Mar 17 2011: It's taco time again. Sleep, taco, sleep, taco! 3462
Mar 17 2011: Waking now to the sound of roosters crowing. 5am local time. (Sunrise is still an hour away.) 3463
Mar 17 2011: Slept comfortably 9-5 with two interruptions for some light rain. 3464
Mar 17 2011: It was cool enough that I needed my $12 sleeping bag (now 72). Glad I bought it! 3465
Mar 17 2011: Lesson of the night: Should have bought $1 bag of cable ties to keep my tarp "taco" closed during the rain. 3466
Mar 17 2011: Fortunately the rain was light and evaporated quickly. If it was heavy I'd be a soggy mess (and my electronics would be at risk). 3467
Mar 17 2011: Today: High of 80, breezy, with chance of rain throughout the day (on the windward side of the island). Same boring thing, day after day. 3468
Mar 17 2011: Now I'll hide my bags in the bushes. (All valuables stay on my back.) Will go beach hopping by bus today, pick up rental car tonight. 3469
Mar 17 2011: TOP SECRET camping location revealed at last! On the edge of the airport, beside a sugar cane field. http://t.co/yUrAQyZ 3470
Mar 17 2011: The maid service needs to come in and clean my room! http://t.co/8ey8CP5 3471
Mar 17 2011: Now at the Lihue airport terminal, recharging my devices. Will remain here until all my superpowers are restored. Then head off by bus. 3472
Mar 17 2011: #### END live-tweeting of my unplanned camping experience on Kauai. We now resume our originally scheduled programming. 3473
Mar 17 2011: RT @carlsjrofvegas: @BadDalaiLama Wecome to Kauai, if you get up to the Kilauea Lighthouse area, stop by the ice cream shop in the cente ... 3474
Mar 17 2011: One lane bridge, Hanalei. http://t.co/RmaqslM 3475
Mar 18 2011: Hanalei Bay. http://t.co/3jULajO 3476
Mar 18 2011: Local resident (8-legged variety) http://t.co/vJOXW97 3477
Mar 18 2011: What is the meaning of life? There isn't any! Life is what you choose to make of it. 3478
Mar 18 2011: Ocean Rescue. Hanalei. http://t.co/wJE1lz2 3479Mar 18 2011: Have you seen this man? His parole officer would like to speak with him. http://twitpic.com/4a67hk←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 3480
Mar 18 2011: The notion of "gentle Hawaiians" is made up for the tourists. It was a violent culture! 3481
Mar 18 2011: In ancient Hawaii, the punishment for every infraction was the same: "kapu"—death. 3482
Mar 18 2011: Our 2008 essay: "KAPU - Death for Everything!" http://kilroycafe.com/ideas/kapu - Proposing sensible reforms to American criminal law. 3483
Mar 18 2011: The sun sets on the Kauai bus system. http://t.co/LW6wTs8 3484
Mar 18 2011: Now installed in a full-size Alamo rental car. Spending tonight in the lap of luxury (the back seat of an Impala). Rain can't get me! 3485
Mar 18 2011: Four out of five dentists surveyed answer "true" to every truism. 3486
Mar 18 2011: The only thing more frightening than loneliness is losing yourself in the needs of others. 3487
Mar 18 2011: Honest work is when you know, in your own heart, that you are giving people value for their money in excess of what they paid. 3488
Mar 18 2011: All theories of consciousness are false! At best they explain the machine of mind. They can't explain how you or I get stuck in it. 3489
Mar 18 2011: RT @Kyoks1: lo unico mas aterrador q sentire solo es perderse en las necesidades d los otros via @BadDalaiLama 3490
Mar 18 2011: All your problems MAY* be solved by this magic elixir or bogus medical device! (*These claims have not been evaluated by the FDA.) 3491Mar 18 2011: NEW! from the Placebo Department: an energy drink to counteract the effects of all those other energy drinks! http://twitpic.com/4aofic←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 3492
Mar 18 2011: When sleeping in a car, it's best to park in residential or business neighborhoods, not in remote areas where a parked car stands out. 3493
Mar 18 2011: On My Bucket List: Be on the verge of a breakthrough in Free Energy. [See Full Bucket List] 3494
Mar 18 2011: The worst thing about Hawaii is the Hawaiian music piped in EVERYWHERE. Cloying, vapid, saccharine—worse than country! 3495
Mar 18 2011: Glenn as a Siamese twin http://t.co/8xgNxLC Experimenting with our new video editing software yields a monster! (30-seconds) 3496
Mar 18 2011: Love, once it ends, seems shockingly like a mental disorder. 3497Mar 18 2011: Video Postcard: supermarket produce dept. in Houston (3 days ago) http://youtu.be/cKQesXq58uA 40-second iPhone video. Pretty colors! ←Our original YouTube video [more] 3498
Mar 18 2011: Traditional island life in Hawai'i revolves around three sacred sites: Walmart, Costco and Mcdonalds—the only places you can get a bargain! 3499
Mar 18 2011: Narcissism is defective because it doesn't work. Unless you understand the needs of others, no one can love you for very long. 3500
Mar 18 2011: Our 2008 essay: "Hubris: The Tragic Disease of Success" http://kilroycafe.com/ideas/hubris 3501
Mar 18 2011: When an advertiser claims, "You CAN make a difference!" the proposed action is probably trivial and benefits mainly the advertiser. {10/12} 3502
Mar 18 2011: @Stonerpreneur Being the "bad" lama, I'm an anti-Buddhist, so I'm afraid I can't help. 3503
Mar 18 2011: Every young rebel is an anarchist, determined to blow up the old order but not quite sure how to build a new one. 3504
Mar 18 2011: Taro fields of the Hanalei Valley. http://t.co/GDsO0xp 3505
Mar 18 2011: Video is not simply a series of still photos. It is a narrative to which images are attached. 3506
Mar 18 2011: Intelligence can usually be measured inversely to the relative density of "fuck" in ones natural speech. 3507
Mar 18 2011: RT @msmugler: Uh oh. Im fucked! RT @BadDalaiLama Intelligence can usually be measured inversely to the relative density of "fuck" in one ... 3508
Mar 18 2011: All journeys begin at the sea. 3509
Mar 19 2011: If you keep running over chickens, they'll learn to stop crossing the road. (I hit one just now!) 3510
Mar 19 2011: Set-up for the driving scene on the road to Waialeale. http://t.co/XoNRMJS 3511
Mar 19 2011: @lolahayes You are the poster child for net addiction. Break free! (Or at least break out of that boring ski resort and get us some pix!) 3512
Mar 19 2011: @lolahayes And how do we even know you're in France. No geotags? No pix? Prove you're not in North Hollywood! 3513
Mar 19 2011: Spending the night at the base of Mt. Waialeale, the wettest spot on Earth. Some rain expected. http://t.co/dKKMJ1s 3514
Mar 19 2011: He's good. Doesn't tweet much. Won't offend anybody. We couldn't exist without him! #ff @DalaiLama You'll seem more spiritual if you do! 3515
Mar 19 2011: The REAL Hawaiian adventure is to go flume riding through this irrigation tunnel, which passes through a mountain. http://t.co/pUFklUE 3516
Mar 19 2011: When hiking in this neighborhood, you should always be on the lookout for velociraptors. Cagey little devils, they'll get you from behind! 3517
Mar 19 2011: We are all creatures of habit. The main challenge of life is breaking out of those habits to better address changes in the world. 3518
Mar 19 2011: The burdens of 100% humidity: Nothing wet ever dries. Mold and rot get into everything. Mosquitoes. You never feel clean. 3519
Mar 19 2011: Theory is useless if untested by experience. 3520
Mar 19 2011: The techniques that once worked for us don't work anymore. We try them again and again until we get a clue: "I have to change!" 3521
Mar 19 2011: Always travel with a mission—some specific goal you want to achieve. Adventures can be found along the way, but the goal keeps you focussed. 3522
Mar 19 2011: In my early days of travel, I had a simple mission: collect bumper stickers for my car. It was a silly goal, but it gave me structure. 3523
Mar 19 2011: When I travel today, my mission is usually to capture something on film. The experience of travel is secondary to what I record for others. 3524
Mar 19 2011: All sensory pleasures are ultimately hollow. They last for a few minutes then are gone, leaving you nothing. 3525
Mar 19 2011: I have no interest in local cuisine because the sensation is momentary at best and taste can't be captured on film. 3526
Mar 19 2011: Modern hedonism says the goal of travel is sensation and experience. Wrong! The goal is learning new skills to apply to future missions. 3527
Mar 19 2011: What good is a sensation that passes through you, leaving no trace behind? 3528
Mar 19 2011: "Oh, you're going to ___? You really must stop at ___ and try their ___!" Bullshit! That's just consumerism, not productive travel. 3529
Mar 19 2011: Consumerism is the illusion of accomplishment by buying, eating or experiencing something. Learning has no part in it. 3530
Mar 19 2011: The value of travel is not the sensations, scenery, meals or photos. It is how you were changed by the experience. 3531
Mar 19 2011: What you will learn from travel is by nature unpredictable. You can only predict that the destination will be new to you. 3532
Mar 19 2011: If a travel destination isn't in some way "exotic" to you—and a little frightening—what's the point in going there? 3533
Mar 19 2011: If you are returning to a vacation destination that is already known and predictable to you, then you have wasted a learning opportunity. 3534
Mar 19 2011: Packaged travel experiences gain you nothing. You'll come home the same person as you left. You could have stayed home and watched a video! 3535
Mar 19 2011: The greatest assets of experience are your mistakes, because that's where most learning occurs. 3536
Mar 19 2011: #### End. This has been a live 1-hour essay by the Bad Dalai Lama: "Travel" — From the base of Mt. Waialeale, Kauai. 3537
Mar 19 2011: Breakfast in the jungles of Kauai: vienna sausages, butterscotch pudding, saltine crackers, root beer barrels, diet Coke http://t.co/wqzLKZt 3538
Mar 19 2011: Vienna sausages are approximately the equivalent of dog food for humans. 3539
Mar 19 2011: Heading out on foot toward the caldera. Parts of Jurassic Park were filmed here. Watch out for velociraptors! http://t.co/la2Vn6Z 3540
Mar 19 2011: @MotherCatt "Your essay suggests we all travel and learn from it but not enjoy it." <== I think you're confusing enjoyment with consumption. 3541
Mar 19 2011: @MotherCatt Is there no other form of enjoyment? Can't learning be enjoyable? Aren't there sensations that leave a trace? 3542
Mar 19 2011: Most documentaries today are shot out-of-sequence (not in the order portrayed), meaning that it's basically "reality-based fiction". 3543
Mar 19 2011: End of the road! From this point on, I'm hiking an intermittent trail and in the stream bed itself. http://t.co/eSvzeoL 3544
Mar 19 2011: Another pair of Walmart shoes sacrificed to Nature. http://t.co/rbYClgN 3545
Mar 19 2011: Shrouded in the clouds ahead is Waialeale, the wettest spot on Earth. (Take THAT, tapuis!) http://t.co/KgwPCvg 3546
Mar 19 2011: Almost there! The base of crater is ahead. See the waterfalls! One of the most challenging hikes I have ever taken! http://t.co/PH7GeIY 3547
Mar 19 2011: Objective achieved: The Blue Hole! (crater of Waialeale) Took me 4 hours of treacherous hiking to get here. http://t.co/DBeDcx1 3548
Mar 19 2011: I was hoping to find a nymph in that pool, but no luck! (I did go swimming myself.) Now must head back before nightfall. http://t.co/l181JfP 3549
Mar 19 2011: On My Bucket List: Scream like a teenage girl at a Beatles concert. [See Full Bucket List] 3550
Mar 20 2011: Mud is fun! http://t.co/sN4eRc8 3551
Mar 20 2011: Just kinda peaceful. http://t.co/aA263ls 3552
Mar 20 2011: Found a berry patch. Fresh fruit! http://t.co/HjMpimy 3553
Mar 20 2011: Found a banana tree, but they're just out of reach. Hmmm, what would a monkey do? Knock one down with a stick. http://t.co/KZVshjR 3554
Mar 20 2011: This tiny banana is orange and starchy, but not that bad! Tastes like... cucumber! http://t.co/yR2neFg 3555
Mar 20 2011: On My Bucket List: Become a performer at Cirque de Soleil known for his contortioning ability, honed over years of practice. [See Full Bucket List] 3556
Mar 20 2011: Hike concluded! Back at the trailhead Those were white socks at the beginning of the hike. http://t.co/6VEi3pY 3557
Mar 20 2011: On My Bucket List: Have all the carnies say about me: "Now there was a man!" [See Full Bucket List] 3558
Mar 20 2011: Choosing carefully from the Value Menu. (@ Burger King) http://4sq.com/gh4e86 3559
Mar 20 2011: On My Bucket List: Attain instant worldwide fame for the awfulness of my song. [See Full Bucket List] 3560
Mar 20 2011: When people start doing things in unison, that's a pretty good sign that they're ALL wrong! — Wired http://t.co/bCmYqqJ via @lolahayes 3561
Mar 20 2011: Bubbles happen when investors start looking around at what others are doing instead of understanding the value of what they're buying. 3562
Mar 20 2011: Naive investors tend to mistake trends for underlying value. 3563
Mar 20 2011: The "momentum" of a stock or other asset is a delusion. It may seem apparent in retrospect but is a poor predictor of future prices. 3564
Mar 20 2011: Betting on the short-term rise or fall of prices is like gambling in Vegas. Some win and get all the publicity, but most quietly lose. 3565
Mar 20 2011: People in love are essentially investors, betting on a future outcome based on the trends of today. 3566
Mar 20 2011: The "momentum" of a relationship is how fast it is changing. If you're "falling in love", the momentum is very high. 3567
Mar 20 2011: The speed that a relationship is changes bears no relation to the underlying value of the relationship. 3568
Mar 20 2011: The recurring error of investors everywhere is to take the "trend" of today and extrapolate it in a straight line into the future. 3569
Mar 20 2011: Most "trends" are unsustainable. They will change at some unpredictable future time as they exhaust their underlying resources. 3570
Mar 20 2011: In the housing bubble, everyone was watching their neighbors and the "trend" of rising prices. Few cared about underlying value. 3571
Mar 20 2011: In many a romantic bubble, people mistake rapid change in the relationship for underlying value. 3572
Mar 20 2011: People in love see "trends" in their relationship and assume they will always continue. They fail to see how trends can change. 3573
Mar 20 2011: If a bacterium divides every few hours, math predicts it will soon take over the world, but resource limits guarantee this won't happen. 3574
Mar 20 2011: Every relationship has its resource limitations, which aren't usually apparent at the beginning. Love can grow only so far. 3575
Mar 20 2011: In love, like investing, underlying value is more important than surface trends. 3576
Mar 20 2011: #### End. This has been a live 1-hour essay by the Bad Dalai Lama: "Love and Investing" 3577
Mar 20 2011: Same dollar menu as the mainland—a rare bargain on Kauai! (@ McDonalds Lihue) http://4sq.com/gcPnO7 3578
Mar 20 2011: RT @Jowtok: @BadDalaiLama so experiencing an unexpected "dip" doesn't necessarily mean the relationship has no value. #Brightside 3579
Mar 20 2011: RT @ziggzagzac: I'm stuck in a cubicle while @BadDalaiLama is taking a hike on Waialeale in Hawaii. #lifeisntfair 3580
Mar 20 2011: RT @Arhanious: bir yandan da bu adamin Hawaii'deki maceralarini izliyorum :) RT @BadDalaiLama The Blue Hole! (crater of Waialeale) http: ... 3581
Mar 20 2011: .@MotherCatt "Appreciation of music, art, serenity, food should not be sought?" <== Correct! They are meaningless in isolation from life. 3582
Mar 20 2011: Meaningful: a song that captures something important about life. Meaningless: a symphony with no words. 3583
Mar 20 2011: Meaningful: nutritious food that makes you feel good after eating. Meaningless: food sought only for its flavor. presentation or prestige. 3584
Mar 20 2011: Meaningful: art that teaches you something about life. Meaningless: art that is merely "pretty" and teaches you nothing. 3585
Mar 20 2011: Meaningful: solitude when you have important things to think about. Meaningless: meditating in beautiful places. 3586
Mar 20 2011: Meaningful: something that does its job well. Meaningless: beauty apart from function. 3587
Mar 20 2011: Meaningful: how it works. Meaningless: how it looks. 3588
Mar 20 2011: .@MotherCatt "...it sounds somewhat robotic... and sad..." <== What's robotic and sad is seeking sensation and forgetting purpose. 3589
Mar 20 2011: Sensation can't give your life meaning; only purpose can. 3590
Mar 20 2011: RT @MotherCatt: @BadDalaiLama Although I can agree with some of your sentiment, it sounds somewhat robotic..........and sad...... 3591
Mar 20 2011: RT @garamiredux: @BadDalaiLama is living la vida loca like we all should do. #inspirational 3592
Mar 20 2011: RT @shwaywhat: @BadDalaiLama but there are symphonies written that have great meaning. If you can't hear emotions and feelings in music ... 3593
Mar 20 2011: You can watch a fireworks show and say, "Wow, that's cool!" but it hasn't changed you, and eventually you stop going. 3594
Mar 20 2011: hedonism—n. the pursuit of sensation over purpose. Or in a modern sense, the pursuit of product consumption over purpose. 3595
Mar 20 2011: The cost of a product is not just the purchase price but the time and attention you must spend on it. 3596
Mar 20 2011: Beethoven is a product like any other. The question is whether the benefit you are getting from it is worth the investment of your time. 3597
Mar 20 2011: At what point is the "enjoyment" of music just an escape from other things? 3598
Mar 20 2011: It's hard to have meaningful thoughts about your own problems when music is programming your thoughts for you. 3599
Mar 20 2011: Life has no meaning, but it has purpose: to solve the problems in front of you with the most foresight and intelligence possible. 3600
Mar 20 2011: RT @GaryDelaney: I think narcissists should take a long hard look at themselves. 3601
Mar 20 2011: Just by virtue of living, you find problems standing in front of you. You earn satisfaction and relief from pain in solving them well. 3602
Mar 20 2011: Driftwood shore, Kauai. http://t.co/o2Ct3D7 3603
Mar 20 2011: Wailua River (Japanese graveyard headstone in foreground) http://t.co/P2lhv8U 3604
Mar 20 2011: You've seen this place many times before! Whenever the script calls for a jungle encampment, it's often filmed here. http://t.co/3aKVakW 3605
Mar 20 2011: Opaekaa Falls. http://t.co/4ctkBL9 3606
Mar 20 2011: You can kayak the Wailua River for $35. http://t.co/gUkKFK4 3607
Mar 20 2011: Shooting B-roll. (@ Keahua Arboretum) http://4sq.com/eFYhva 3608
Mar 20 2011: Sensation has no value in itself. It merely serves a need. The sensation of taste serves nutrition. Pursuit of taste alone is empty. 3609
Mar 20 2011: RT @garamiredux: @BadDalaiLama Solve problems in life for what? Be satisfied with ourselves?That is in the end,a sensation. Purpose is g ... 3610
Mar 20 2011: Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin—remarkable craftsmen! Amazing how they can manipulate our emotions like that and make us listen. 3611
Mar 20 2011: Music is the subcarrier of language, essential to its transfer. Before a baby knows any words he knows the music of them 3612
Mar 20 2011: Music without words is a refined product, like high fructose corn syrup. It gives us all the emotions of language without any content. 3613
Mar 20 2011: On Kauai, chickens are everywhere! They roam every street and parking lot. If ever you want a chicken dinner, just reach out and grab one! 3614
Mar 21 2011: @lolahayes LHR, LGW, BCN or LAX? 3615
Mar 21 2011: Our channeler's earlier career as an Area 51 activist is recorded in the book "The Dreamland Chronicles" by David Darlington. 3616
Mar 21 2011: When you lose sleep you lose your creativity and resilience. If you don't need these things, by all means party all night! 3617
Mar 21 2011: RT @soundhunter: I only becmae frightened of death when I became a mother, the center of my children's world 3618
Mar 21 2011: RT @kellyoxford: FACT: The internet was invented to globalize complaining. 3619Mar 21 2011: Remarkable breakthrough in Free Energy: 3 errors in 12 words! (Facebook ad) http://twitpic.com/4bulpq←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 3620
Mar 21 2011: His Holiness has shaved his head and won't grow it back until some SERIOUS changes are made in this world! http://t.co/S7nL9ph 3621
Mar 21 2011: RT @dunebat: @BadDalaiLama Damn fine book! :D 3622
Mar 21 2011: RT @trevlutz: @BadDalaiLama Are you getting phantom 'stache pain? 3623
Mar 21 2011: RT @MotherCatt: Dinner was lovely.... and if @BadDalaiLama says it served no purpose ....well.... at least he'll always have his dog food... 3624
Mar 21 2011: RT @Stonerpreneur: @baddalailama Life is too rich and nuanced for it to be worthwhile to judge value in such a black and white way. I s ... 3625
Mar 21 2011: RT @noahWG: Twitter! Listen when I speak! Sit still for five min! Chew with your mouth closed! Potty humor is NOT funny! 5-year-olds a ... 3626Mar 21 2011: Girl, in case there was any ambiguity. (Celebrity Impersonators Convention, last month) http://twitpic.com/445fj3←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 3627Mar 21 2011: Istanbul from the Bosphorus Bridge (last month). http://twitpic.com/41m4q0/full←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 3628Mar 21 2011: The crater of Mt. Vesuvius (last month). http://twitpic.com/40tlt4/full←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 3629Mar 21 2011: A man in the street in Naples, Italy (last month). http://twitpic.com/40udsq/full←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 3630Mar 21 2011: Touched by an angel at the Vatican (last month). http://twitpic.com/414s8o/full←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 3631Mar 21 2011: Woman selling bird food in Istanbul (last month). http://twitpic.com/3zsrnw/full←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 3632Mar 21 2011: Bethlehem, Palestine, Christmas Eve. http://twitpic.com/3j4ruu/full←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 3633Mar 21 2011: We've been on Twitpic for 100 days now. 292 photos. Amazing range of places! http://twitpic.com/photos/BadDalaiLama (View full size pix!) ←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 3634
Mar 21 2011: RT @Kyoks1: @BadDalaiLama you kind of look more like lord Voldemort in this one...no offence. 3635
Mar 21 2011: The muumuu is the refuge of the overweight. 3636
Mar 21 2011: Our new video: "How to Beat High Food Prices on Kauai" http://t.co/HCnY8fX — 50-sec preview of coming video. Check out the local "bargains"! 3637
Mar 21 2011: Loyal followers of His Holiness are authorized for friendship with his channeler at http://fb.me/KilroyCafe - Tell em Bad Dalai sent you! 3638
Mar 21 2011: I love the smell of irritated followers! 3639
Mar 21 2011: Art is a medium for a message, not an end in itself. 3640
Mar 21 2011: So I said to my hairdresser, "Give me that Bruce Willis look," but she gave me G. Gordon Liddy. Can I sue? http://t.co/p1enMT8 3641
Mar 21 2011: The 'stashe is slashed, opening up a whole new acting career playing the heavy. http://t.co/k51cbT8 3642
Mar 21 2011: RT @mostlegendary: @BadDalaiLama living your life and experiences through other people? You're nearly as bad as me, phototweeting everyt ... 3643
Mar 21 2011: Now suffering from Moustache Dysmorphic Disorder (MDD). I'd swear it's there, but it isn't! http://t.co/OI8uOOU 3644
Mar 21 2011: RT @crankfetter: My first mistake was thinking I knew what the fuck was going on. My second mistake was the one after that. 3645
Mar 22 2011: The rock star who put others to shame: David Bowie. Daily Mail: http://t.co/powLUw5 3646
Mar 22 2011: Today, I travel continuously and painlessly, but it took me years to get here. I had to get rid of a lot of stuff, not always by choice. 3647
Mar 22 2011: The first half of life is spent accumulating stuff—physical stuff, emotional stuff. The second half is trying to get rid of it. 3648
Mar 22 2011: Travel isn't as easy as it seems. It's like someone putting a blank piece of paper in front of you and saying, "Write something!" 3649
Mar 22 2011: To travel independently, you need a good internal compass—to keep yourself moving toward a goal while pummeled by new sensations. 3650
Mar 22 2011: The key to successful travel in a strange place is to have concrete goals before you begin then sticking with them. 3651
Mar 22 2011: I travel easily, under conditions most would consider hardship, because I know what I want to accomplish. 3652
Mar 22 2011: To me, jumping from Istanbul to Rome to Hawaii seems as superficial as changing TV channels, because it doesn't change my core goals. 3653
Mar 22 2011: The younger me couldn't have jumped from place to place like I do. He had too much baggage (emotional and physical) and weak direction. 3654
Mar 22 2011: How many of us, thrown into a chaotic city like Bangkok, would know what to do with ourselves? 3655
Mar 22 2011: Ambitious plans made on the internet tend to fall apart in the chaos of a real place, 99% of which isn't on the Internet. 3656
Mar 22 2011: "America is the greatest country in the world!" — Believe that and you don't need to travel. Don't even need a passport, just FOX News. 3657
Mar 22 2011: Travel is life. 3658
Mar 22 2011: Even in one place, life is a journey. By learning to travel outwardly—to disorienting places—you are gaining skills for your other journeys. 3659
Mar 22 2011: Each of us is born into a set of assumptions about what in life is necessary. Travel crushes some of them, leaving only what is real. 3660
Mar 22 2011: The most important thing you learn from travel is what is the same everywhere. These are the true cornerstones of life. 3661
Mar 22 2011: #### End. This has been a live 1-hour essay from the Bad Dalai Lama: "Travel" (Sitting in front of Burger King in Lihue, Kuaui) 3662
Mar 22 2011: RT @trevlutz: @BadDalaiLama You can read all the books about Paris you want, but you can only see Paris by seeing Paris. 3663
Mar 22 2011: Local residents of the Burger King drive-thru. I'm luring them in with crackers, then... chicken dinner! http://t.co/hiLDIjT 3664
Mar 22 2011: The Spanish translation at the bottom is for the benefit of Hispanic Kuaui residents, of which there are seven. http://t.co/xWgMdaT 3665
Mar 22 2011: Abandoned sugar mill, Lihue. http://t.co/IvMTNAa 3666
Mar 22 2011: Dear Rod Stewart: You've been hung up on this Maggie bitch for FORTY YEARS! Get over it! You live and learn, dude. You move on! 3667
Mar 22 2011: Say it first; save the footnotes for later. 3668
Mar 22 2011: Young newlyweds leaving Kauai are all lovey-dovey. I hate to tell them that, statistically, their marriage is doomed, but someone has to! 3669
Mar 22 2011: Glimpse into the cockpit of a 757. http://t.co/ruCx1yS 3670
Mar 22 2011: RT @o6uoq: @BadDalaiLama if you want respect to talk about challenging travel, try Iraq or Sierra Leone. Now we're talking. 3671
Mar 22 2011: .@o6uoq: "If you want respect to talk about challenging travel, try Iraq or Sierra Leone." <== Not much point in learning if you're dead. 3672
Mar 22 2011: Ambitious travel plans made on the internet tend to fall apart in the chaos of a real place, 99% of which isn't on the Internet. 3673
Mar 22 2011: RT @garamiredux: Under the cover of the most elaborate plot, it is always hidden one's most simple desire. 3674
Mar 22 2011: "Under the cover of the most elaborate plot, it is always hidden one's most simple desire." @garamiredux 3675
Mar 22 2011: RT @McBuddah: Something's spooked the horses.. 3676
Mar 22 2011: RT @haelox: Ok, now THIS is brilliant headline writing! "Sarah Palin aborts visit to Bethlehem" http://ow.ly/4jndp 3677
Mar 22 2011: Dr. Evil sound clips: http://j.mp/fSc8rs - Our new spiritual master (as we come to look more like him!) 3678
Mar 23 2011: Our 2010 essay: "Life is Logarithmic... Not Linear!" http://j.mp/huHnlu - An oddity of statistics may help you make better decisions. 3679
Mar 23 2011: "The worst mistakes of individuals and nations are when they try to impose a linear prediction on a curve, cycle or feedback loop." —Ibid 3680
Mar 23 2011: "Sarah Palin aborts visit to Bethlehem" UK Telegraph http://ow.ly/4jndp via @haelox - We took the same route in Dec.—but followed through! 3681
Mar 23 2011: The key to success is opportunism—the willingness to take advantage of unexpected opportunities when they arise. 3682
Mar 23 2011: In the interests of science, I have tested how long one can go without bathing. Odor aside, 4-5 days is the max. After that, you get rashes. 3683
Mar 23 2011: Our economy is built in selling people ten-dollar solutions to 50-cent problems. 3684
Mar 23 2011: The most crippled people are those who can't balance costs and risks. To them, every risk is unacceptable, so change is impossible. 3685
Mar 23 2011: Many an epitaph should read: "He obsessed over trivial risks but overlooked the one that killed him." 3686Mar 23 2011: Our Kauai jungle hike to the wettest place on Earth! 2-min preview of 10-min action video. http://youtu.be/sSjz3_kBRAA Cool! (and wet!) ←Our original YouTube video [more] 3687
Mar 23 2011: (We're learning editing through the preceding video, our most complex ever!) 3688Mar 23 2011: For some reason, Pringles' new Hoppin' Horseradish flavor never took off. Now remaindered at 99 Cents Only. http://twitpic.com/4c9dcu←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 3689
Mar 23 2011: A painter who talks incessantly about his paints is missing the point. It's what he does with them that matters! #socialmedia 3690
Mar 23 2011: The emotional benefit of fatalism is that your own failures aren't your fault. 3691
Mar 24 2011: @lolahayes Better than snails! 3692
Mar 24 2011: The less you feel loved, the more you need stuff. - TIME http://t.co/nNfnKAK via @lolahayes 3693
Mar 24 2011: Catch-22: If you're writing books or teaching seminars on creativity and innovation then you obviously aren't doing it yourself. 3694
Mar 24 2011: Buy my motivational tapes: "How To Get Rich Quick Selling Get-Rich-Quick Schemes!" 3695
Mar 24 2011: What they say in Texas about big talkers: "He's all hat, no cattle." 3696
Mar 24 2011: Either you're talking or you're doing. Can't do both at the same time. 3697
Mar 24 2011: Two words of advice for the new Graduate: "Regulatory Compliance". Guaranteed employment for the rest of your life! 3698
Mar 24 2011: Did anyone ever become a great writer by studying creative writing in college? Name one example. 3699
Mar 24 2011: Students graduate from college smarter and wiser than when they went in. The reason is simple: age! {9/30} 3700
Mar 24 2011: RT @amankaptan: @BadDalaiLama studying creative writing makes great sense. thanks to that lessons you'll learn ctreativity is not someth ... 3701
Mar 24 2011: RT @GisforGangstaa: @BadDalaiLama I'm a great writer cause I'm a great thinker take that creative writing! 3702
Mar 24 2011: @lolahayes "I come in peace" <== I've heard that one before and I'm not buying it. What do you REALLY want? 3703
Mar 24 2011: .@lolahayes "I come in peace" <== Alien bromide or masturbatory serenity? 3704
Mar 24 2011: "Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you." —Marcus Aurelius via @garamiredux 3705
Mar 24 2011: RT @JKnightJKnight: Should be posted at every high school! RT @BadDalaiLama: "Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years ... 3706
Mar 24 2011: Nearly everything in the man-made world was built on words. It started as a proposal then a set of rules which guided the construction. 3707Mar 24 2011: If I can't live in a golf ball, I don't want to live anywhere. http://twitpic.com/4cs7yt/full←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 3708Mar 24 2011: Motel with Pool. Yucca, Arizona. http://twitpic.com/4csn4v/full←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 3709
Mar 24 2011: When you drive an interstate highway, you're riding on a set of Federal rules about how these roads must be built and maintained. 3710
Mar 24 2011: A movie is only as good as the story it's built around. 3711
Mar 24 2011: Reality has no respect for our predictions. It does what it wants. 3712
Mar 24 2011: Anyone who's talking about it isn't doing it. 3713
Mar 24 2011: The Beverly Hillbillies, Hee Haw and other country-themed shows were canceled in the Rural Purge of 1971. Blood is on your hands, Silverman! 3714
Mar 24 2011: Don't expect me to get off my late-adopting ass for your new start-up. Let me know when it actually does for me what you claim it will. 3715
Mar 24 2011: Creating a new social media site is like building a new city in the desert: No one wants to be the first to move there. 3716
Mar 24 2011: On My Bucket List: Become a Mormon, persuaded by the arguments of two young missionaries who come to my door. [See Full Bucket List] 3717
Mar 24 2011: Ironic to have lunch here, since the Himalaya is where I once lost my lunch at the State Fair. (@ Himalayan Grill) http://4sq.com/hZVdMl 3718Mar 24 2011: Practicing Evil. http://twitpic.com/4cw7rw←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 3719
Mar 24 2011: @francispedraza@lolahayes: "my kids will learn HTML, not French" <== Continuing the tradition of teaching archaic, dying languages. 3720
Mar 24 2011: technological chauvinism—n. the belief of each new generation that its technology renders it inherently superior to any previous generation. 3721
Mar 24 2011: For every problem technology solves, it creates another, so in the end you can't say that it improved anything. 3722
Mar 24 2011: The benefits of technology are immediate and irresistible. The costs may take years to appear and are spread more broadly across society. 3723
Mar 24 2011: Benefits of the internet: instant, free information. Costs: gutting the livelihoods of writers and artists—so lower quality information. 3724
Mar 24 2011: Thanks to technology, economic productivity is constantly improving, but that doesn't mean the quality of life on Earth is improving. 3725
Mar 24 2011: For the destructive power of good intentions, see Prohibition—how it gave us organized crime while failing to curb alcoholism. 3726
Mar 24 2011: Childhood gives us the framework by which we process the rest of life. We can't erase it, but we can adjust for its weaknesses. 3727
Mar 25 2011: RT @Kyoks1: La infancia nos da el encuadre en base al cual procesamos la vida. No podemos cambiarlo pero si compensar sus carencias via ... 3728
Mar 25 2011: The trouble with saving the world is you can't do it just once. The world's going to start expecting it! 3729
Mar 25 2011: RT @geenozor: Lmao I can't stop laughin RT @BadDalaiLama: technological chauvinism—n. the belief of each new generation ... http:/ ... 3730
Mar 25 2011: RT @TheBosha: Hey atheists, knock it down a notch. Nobody wants *you* knocking on their door with pamphlets, either. 3731
Mar 25 2011: "My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery." 3732
Mar 25 2011: Like bumbling spiders, we spin our own web then catch ourselves in it. 3733
Mar 25 2011: Pain should be avoided, generally speaking, except when necessary to achieve your goals or avoid even greater pain in the future. 3734
Mar 25 2011: Some pain may be necessary to get what you want, but pain itself guarantees nothing. 3735Mar 25 2011: Breaking front-page news in New Mexico! http://twitpic.com/4cz0qe/full←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 3736
Mar 25 2011: The definition of "news" changes on a daily basis, expanding or contracting to fill the media space available. (See previous.) 3737
Mar 25 2011: People believe in whatever they have already invested in. The greater the investment, the greater the belief. 3738
Mar 25 2011: People tend to value their possessions and relationships according to how much they paid for then, not how much they're really worth. 3739
Mar 25 2011: .@o6uoq "argh do you believe all this stuff you write?" <== Yes. 3740Mar 25 2011: Albuquerque at dawn. http://twitpic.com/4d3bzj←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 3741Mar 25 2011: Jungle Journey to the Blue Hole, Kauai—Part 1 http://youtu.be/FzhPRK36308 (5 days ago) - Our best video ever! Gnarly! (Part 2 coming soon!) ←Our original YouTube video [more] 3742
Mar 26 2011: (Preceding Jungle video is a fully edited 5-minute version, unlike the earlier 2-minute preview. In Full HD!) 3743
Mar 26 2011: You can't sit around waiting to be rescued. Ain't gonna happen. You got to do it yourself! 3744
Mar 26 2011: RT @pympdr: If you are wondering what happens when beauty meets the brain, follow @lolahayes. You can thank me later. 3745
Mar 26 2011: On My Bucket List: Own a television. (I understand they all come in Color now!) [See Full Bucket List] 3746
Mar 26 2011: ++++ Begin 1-hour essay: "Epidemiology" 3747
Mar 26 2011: Epidemiology often leads to unpopular conclusions: that death is necessary and cures can be more destructive than the disease. 3748
Mar 26 2011: The hidden factor in epidemiology is health care cost. Yes, we can keep people alive, but at what cost to the health of others? 3749
Mar 26 2011: Reducing childhood mortality doesn't help society if it results in a population explosion. 3750
Mar 26 2011: Trying to save the lives of individuals, at any cost, isn't necessarily healthy for society. 3751
Mar 26 2011: One preemie baby, kept alive in an incubator, can absorb resources that might have served hundreds of older children. 3752
Mar 26 2011: Once a new technology exists to keep people alive, it is politically unacceptable to not use it. 3753
Mar 26 2011: The only control on the runaway growth of medical technology (and its cost) is insurance companies saying "No." 3754
Mar 26 2011: As heartless as insurance companies may seem, they are much better at setting limits on health care than governments are. 3755
Mar 26 2011: Everyone hates cancer, but few can accept that you can "over-screen" for it, incurring more long-term costs than benefits. 3756
Mar 26 2011: Epidemiology is concerned with the health of whole populations, not individuals. Sadly, that health may depend on the weak dying. 3757
Mar 26 2011: Health care is America's biggest industry—and getting bigger!—but that doesn't mean that society as a whole is getting healthier. 3758
Mar 26 2011: The good of society is not just saving lives but preserving the quality of life for everyone. Sometimes those goals are incompatible. 3759
Mar 26 2011: #### End. This has been a 1-hour essay by the Bad Dalai Lama: "Epidemiology" 3760
Mar 26 2011: Self #ff: Follow @BadDalaiLama for his beauty *AND* his brains (just like @lolahayes) 3761
Mar 26 2011: ++++ Begin 1-hour essay: "Autodidactism" 3762
Mar 26 2011: "We don't need no education"—but few would learn without it! Without the structure of the classroom, they'd just watch TV all day. 3763
Mar 26 2011: Education is the most inefficient form of learning—but the only way to teach the unmotivated. 3764
Mar 26 2011: Education replaces self-motivated learning with an artificial system of rewards and punishments. 3765
Mar 26 2011: Those who would abolish education fail to grasp the inertia of the average human, who wouldn't learn to read if it wasn't forced on him. 3766
Mar 26 2011: Humans are social creatures, doing things mainly for the approval of others, not for their own reward. 3767
Mar 26 2011: The social focus of humans allows learning to be passed from one generation to the next but generally blocks self-learning. 3768
Mar 26 2011: How can you learn if no one teaches you? You detect defects in your own skills and work to repair them. 3769
Mar 26 2011: The first barrier to autodidactism is detecting your own weaknesses. Few are strong enough to acknowledge them. 3770
Mar 26 2011: In school, the grade is clear and undeniable. When people grade themselves, they often get it wrong, swayed by their own ego. 3771
Mar 26 2011: The challenge of autodidactism is deciding what to learn and not getting stuck in unproductive eddies. 3772
Mar 26 2011: When people learn on their own, they do it efficiently, but they also tend to get stuck in repetitive, unproductive areas. 3773
Mar 26 2011: Autodidactism ain't for wimps! It requires dispassionate assessment of ones own weaknesses and willingness to address them immediately. 3774
Mar 26 2011: #### End. This has been a 1-hour essay by the Bad Dalai Lama: "Autodidactism" 3775
Mar 26 2011: Anything that can be learned from classes can be learned on your own, but you also need real experience to test that learning. 3776
Mar 26 2011: "Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach." — Applies most strongly to creative fields. 3777
Mar 26 2011: To be a writer, write! To learn photography, pick up a camera. If you are waiting to be taught, then you've already failed. 3778
Mar 26 2011: Most people are poor autodidacts because they find any excuse to delay learning. A true self-learner does it now! 3779
Mar 26 2011: Most will say they can't learn because they don't have the right equipment or opportunities. An autodidact will work with whatever he has. 3780
Mar 26 2011: You don't need $1000s of equipment to learn photography. You need only the cheapest digital camera and the will to suck all you can from it. 3781Mar 26 2011: See our new Kauai video http://youtu.be/FzhPRK36308 - Our own exercise in autodidactism! ←Our original YouTube video [more] 3782
Mar 26 2011: RT @geenozor: This is my Favorite! All I needed for the year!RT @BadDalaiLama: Most people are poor autodidacts because they find ... ht ... 3783
Mar 26 2011: RT @the_bat: #FF Follow @BadDalaiLama & you will learn everything you mostly need to know. But I know all the rest. (With apologies to M ... 3784
Mar 26 2011: Emotional balance is not just managing depression but controlling euphoria, which can be far more destructive in the long run. 3785
Mar 26 2011: All of us are manic-depressives. Our lives are controlled by poor decisions made in our mania—which we called "happiness" at the time. 3786
Mar 26 2011: Beauty is a function of impossibility. Once an object is obtained, it becomes ordinary and ceases to strike the eye. {restating @lolahayes} 3787
Mar 26 2011: Of course, the object of your affection is always beautiful—even if she's been featured on http://t.co/PVxsdkv! 3788
Mar 26 2011: @lolahayes Backupmytweets.com totally let me down! I use http://t.co/nRfcy77, but even then it's tricky. (Hint: reload many times) 3789
Mar 26 2011: Happiness should not be confused with euphoria, which is more like the chemical high of drugs. Happiness involves lasting satisfaction. 3790
Mar 26 2011: @laurenahayes Another attempted lolacide! Doesn't brand matter? Maybe Facebook should change back to TheFaceBook!!! Think this through! 3791
Mar 26 2011: Sometimes you're not the best person to judge your own assets. You need to listen to people who can see you from a distance. 3792Mar 26 2011: For $1000, you can invest in this impressive swing set, which your kids will use approximately five times. http://twitpic.com/4dlz2s←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 3793
Mar 26 2011: RT @kellybutler12: News flash! Humans ruled by emotions. http://t.co/c1mtuNM via @flowchainsensei 3794
Mar 26 2011: It is the nature of the young to have absolute certainty about everything they do. No data or advice needed! 3795
Mar 26 2011: @laurenahayes In our sample size of 4, we have 3 for, one against. Only 1953 votes left! (Of course, reasons matter, too!) 3796
Mar 26 2011: @laurenahayes Of course, this isn't a democracy. You're just soliciting feedback. What really matters is who you want to be. 3797
Mar 26 2011: @laurenahayes To me, the question is whether you want to convey warmth or efficiency. If efficiency is what you want, then @laurenahayes! 3798
Mar 26 2011: @laurenahayes is exactly who she claims to be, nothing more nothing less. Lola is more crafty and not always who she seems to be. 3799
Mar 26 2011: @laurenahayes What would twitter look like if everyone was @firstname-middleinitial-lastname? No more @badbanana. No more creativity!? 3800
Mar 26 2011: @laurenahayes Amazon could have named itself "Internet Booksellers Inc", buy it chose an ambiguous name it could fill with its own meaning. 3801
Mar 26 2011: @laurenahayes Google would be just as creative if it renamed itself "Internet Search Systems". A rose is a rose. What would be the loss? 3802
Mar 26 2011: @laurenahayes BTW: Google and Amazon are silly names. Speaks poorly about their professionalism, don't you think? 3803
Mar 26 2011: Raising venture capital doesn't prove you have a good idea. It only proves you're skilled at raising venture capital. 3804
Mar 26 2011: If I ever have a child, I'm going to name him Firstname Middleinitial Lastname, just to make his life interesting. 3805
Mar 26 2011: Just because you have the right to do something and are asserting that right doesn't guarantee its wisdom. 3806
Mar 26 2011: @AddamBONGG "you mean as in .. the law is biased .. as in mass persecution" <== As in: "I have the right to hit my head against this wall." 3807
Mar 26 2011: "The false view of human nature is that we are rational individuals who respond in straightforward ways to incentives." http://cot.ag/eHAulE 3808
Mar 27 2011: Catastrophe is how people learn. Unlike lessons learned at school, this one won't be forgotten! 3809
Mar 27 2011: RT @ebertchicago: World ends at 6 p.m. May 21, PDT. If you didn't follow me you might have missed this news. http://ind.pn/gZUDIw 3810
Mar 27 2011: Don't expect useful advice on creativity from someone who doesn't display any in their own life. 3811
Mar 27 2011: When you're in class, bored silly, and you realize, "Hey, I could have learned this faster on my own!" then the job of education is over. 3812
Mar 27 2011: Creativity isn't what you do with paints or clay but what you do with opportunities and details of your own life. 3813
Mar 27 2011: RT @65mph_: @BadDalaiLama But plants can move. They grow towards the sun and shift leaves accordingly. Much more adaptable than some pe ... 3814
Mar 27 2011: Self-motivated learning, tested by real life, usually does a better job than any education program. 3815
Mar 27 2011: On My Bucket List: Date a Kardashian. (I assume you do that by cutting it open and counting the rings.) [See Full Bucket List] 3816
Mar 27 2011: Terabytes are so megabyte nowadays. Man, I remember the kilobyte days, when storing 0 and 1 used to mean something! 3817Mar 27 2011: For the hairless, turtlenecks are now "in". http://twitpic.com/4e0tld←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 3818
Mar 27 2011: Famous baldies: Kojak, Curlie, Lex Luthor, Dr. Evil, Mussolini, Bruce Willis, Britney Spears, Jean-Luc Picard, Mr. Clean—An auspicious crew! 3819
Mar 27 2011: @KristenMissUSA@laurenahayes "lola!! What you doin woman?" <== Kristen, thank God you're here! She's trying to commit lolacide again! 3820
Mar 27 2011: Orson Welles and Francis Ford Coppola—once-legendary filmmakers who spent their final days hawking wine. 3821
Mar 27 2011: Even The Illusion Of Progress Is Motivating: the goal-gradient effect http://bit.ly/e44JP1 via @quippdPsych@ncrossland 3822
Mar 27 2011: monetize—v. figuring out how to support free websites by selling people things they don't need in the margins. 3823
Mar 27 2011: Many talk about creativity, but when the opportunity for it arises in real life, most will fall back on convention. 3824Mar 27 2011: Video Postcard: Rice fields near Sacramento, seen from the air. http://youtu.be/QVs7iHD6Mcg 30-second iPhone video. Landing at SMF. ←Our original YouTube video [more] 3825
Mar 27 2011: The tribe has spoken. You've been voted off the island! #besttvmetaphors 3826
Mar 27 2011: 9 out of 10 friends prefer the old you, before you got ambitious and left them behind. 3827
Mar 27 2011: If you want useful feedback on your own work, don't go to people you know will agree with you. 3828
Mar 27 2011: A "loaded" survey question is one that is worded in such a way as to encourage the answer the survey's sponsor is seeking. 3829
Mar 27 2011: Humans are motivated by (1) protection of the ego and (2) pleasing or impressing others. Reason is only a distant third. 3830
Mar 27 2011: The chief function of anger is to act as a censor, to prevent news damaging to our ego from reaching our ears. 3831
Mar 27 2011: The best test of the soundness of ones position—apart from time—is to actively seek out the worst criticism the world can give. 3832
Mar 27 2011: There can be no absolute certainty. The most you can expect is a tentative choice among the imperfect options currently available. 3833
Mar 27 2011: The difference between animals and plants is animals can move and adapt to change. In the case of married people, it's a fine distinction. 3834
Mar 27 2011: The undiluted self-confidence of youth should be bottled and marketed in a late-night TV infomercial. Ought to be good for something! 3835
Mar 27 2011: Real Andy Griffith self-confidence should not be confused with Barney Fife pseudo self-confidence. 3836
Mar 27 2011: The death spiral begins when you think you've found happiness and decide to nail it down with a contract. 3837
Mar 27 2011: The internet revolution is supported mainly by the trashy, exploitative ads in the margins of websites. Brave New World or same old one? 3838
Mar 28 2011: Since the beginning of time, young people have fallen for the current New Thing, thinking it's the revolution that will change the world. 3839
Mar 28 2011: Everyone wants to "change the world." Well, that doesn't mean that you've improved the world. 3840
Mar 28 2011: A bold thesis: Technology does little to improve the world. It merely rearranges the Have's and Have-Not's. 3841
Mar 28 2011: Technology may solve old problems, but it inevitably creates new ones in their place. 3842
Mar 28 2011: Technology can't solve civil wars or poverty or overpopulation or drug abuse or child abuse or most of the other problems of man. 3843
Mar 28 2011: For every person liberated by technology, another is enslaved by it. 3844
Mar 28 2011: Technology can help start civil wars, can contribute to the decline of the "old order", but new tyrannies rise up to replace it. 3845
Mar 28 2011: What makes societies strong and stable is social structure, not technology. 3846
Mar 28 2011: Technology is a big, fat distraction to addressing the world's problems. 3847
Mar 28 2011: You're a fool if you think the solution to world hunger is simply to produce more food. Technology can help with that, yet change nothing. 3848
Mar 28 2011: Technology promotes arms races among competing parties. One gets a new thing, so the opponent gets it, with no net change in the status quo. 3849
Mar 28 2011: Technology keeps itself in business through continuous obsolescence of old technology. 3850
Mar 28 2011: As more resources are absorbed by technology, is quality of life improving? Or is technology just a parasite draining our resources? 3851
Mar 28 2011: #### End. This has been a live 1-hour essay by the Bad Dalai Lama: "Technology" 3852
Mar 28 2011: RT @trevlutz: @BadDalaiLama So says the man who utilizes tech everyday to better himself and to globally disseminate his gained insight. 3853
Mar 28 2011: .@trevlutz Technology certainly benefits me personally, but as I look around, I don't see it benefiting society. 3854
Mar 28 2011: For every benefit you can cite for technology, I can point out a corresponding loss for society. 3855
Mar 28 2011: @exurban "writing" <== LOL! Good one! I'll have to think about that! 3856
Mar 28 2011: Everything will change when Zefram Cochrane invents the warp drive in 2063. Can't put the genie back in that bottle! 3857
Mar 28 2011: Technology made us who we are (Where would we be without writing, fire or agriculture?) but that doesn't mean we're better with more of it. 3858
Mar 28 2011: @trevlutz "Would you have people stop being inventive?" <== I have no control over this, but being inventive in itself is no panacea. 3859
Mar 28 2011: Social problems cannot be solved by technological innovation. 3860Mar 28 2011: RT @KilroyCafe: Sarah Palin. From where I sit. http://twitpic.com/430hmi←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 3861
Mar 28 2011: There is no more effective censor than the individual, blocking the input that would challenge his own investments. 3862
Mar 28 2011: "Nurturing dissent" is the practice of making it easy for people to disagree with you, so you'll have accurate feedback when you need it. 3863
Mar 28 2011: RT @Erekosse: @BadDalaiLama I think your essay on technology has some true facts. Sometimes feel like technology dehumanize us or dumb us. 3864
Mar 28 2011: "The emperor has no clothes!" cried the boy, at which point the secret police took him away and he was never heard from again. 3865
Mar 28 2011: The chief effect of data overload is people become passive. They consume media in huge quantities, but they never actually DO anything. 3866
Mar 28 2011: There's a difference between red strawberries and good tasting ones, but they look the same and consumers don't care, so we get red. 3867
Mar 28 2011: You gotta give bats credit: They fly like birds, hang in caves and totally freak out the rest of the mammals. 3868
Mar 28 2011: Perfection exists only in the eyes of those who are doomed to fail. 3869
Mar 28 2011: When someone insists on a clean knife for slitting their wrists, you understand why they're suicidal. No perspective. 3870
Mar 28 2011: A first step toward finding your voice on Twitter is *NOT* tweeting about the current news of the day. 3871
Mar 28 2011: What kind of carbonated, artificially flavored high-fructose corn syrup would you like with that? 3872
Mar 28 2011: When you talk with a suicidal person about their problems, every attempt at reason is headed off. Soon, you'll want to kill them first! 3873
Mar 28 2011: She wanted to kill herself, to bleed slowly to death from the wrists, but she couldn't find a clean knife. 3874
Mar 28 2011: On the internet, "content generators" who produce new ideas should not be confused with "content recyclers" who merely repeat them. 3875
Mar 29 2011: What would the world be like if everyone sang other people's songs and no one ever wrote any? 3876
Mar 29 2011: Content recyclers get all the glory of content producers without the work, so why should anyone produce new content? 3877
Mar 29 2011: It's great that you're retweeting the best work of others. That's a useful service! But what are you really contributing to the world? 3878
Mar 29 2011: RT @the_bat: @BadDalaiLama Ah, yes. We asked ourselves that same question back in the Pleistocene as we relayed drummed msgs from one gl ... 3879
Mar 29 2011: I remember the old days when you went to a public restroom and they had faucets you turned and toilets you flushed—and they WORKED! 3880
Mar 29 2011: In New Hampshire, the state sells both liquor and lottery tickets. If they only sold cigarettes, they'd have a perfect trifecta of sin! 3881
Mar 29 2011: Parents are taking on the role of God, and frankly most just aren't up to the task. 3882
Mar 29 2011: RT @trevlutz: @BadDalaiLama Thats nothing. My grandma remembers the old days of segregated outhouses. 3883
Mar 29 2011: RT @Kyoks1: @BadDalaiLama have you been to a japanese public restroom? Not only they work + are spotless clean but have an interesting e ... 3884
Mar 29 2011: The world is filled with idiot savants—smart in some ways, but dumb in the things that matter. 3885Mar 29 2011: Kane is able! http://twitpic.com/4eotgq←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 3886
Mar 29 2011: It's not that the person you loved has changed but that you've seen through your own delusions to who they were all along. 3887
Mar 29 2011: When kids find a movie or video they like, they play it over and over, ad nauseum. There must be some insight there about learning. 3888
Mar 29 2011: Repetition isn't always wasted effort. When you repeat the same experience, you can learn new things from it—but only up to a point. 3889
Mar 29 2011: With age can come balanced judgment that transfers to any field. We can blow young people out of the water if we choose to! 3890Mar 29 2011: Hartford. http://twitpic.com/4eq4dn←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 3891
Mar 29 2011: The wisdom of the old is matched by their inertia—their addiction to repetition—so they may never have a chance to exercise that wisdom. 3892
Mar 29 2011: The Bad Dalai Lama is ISO 9001 compliant. Quality everywhere along the supply chain—from our brain to our iPhone to you! 3893
Mar 29 2011: Young people are obsessed with the new, because that's the only thing they have to outwit their elders with. 3894
Mar 29 2011: High tea with @TheBosha in the Scrantoplex! 3895
Mar 29 2011: Homeless Tip: RVs are a burden. You'll go a lot farther for less by traveling light and using airlines, rental cars and cheap lodging. 3896
Mar 29 2011: pathological stuff addiction (PSA) — dysfunctional attachment to ones possessions, to the point of crippling ones life. 3897
Mar 29 2011: Atheists: chill out! If people need to believe, then they will. There's nothing you can say to change them. 3898Mar 29 2011: His Holiness travels from Walmart to Walmart, bringing a message of peace. This one: Portland, Maine (right now!) http://twitpic.com/4eh7jy←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 3899Mar 29 2011: You're supposed to give your kids this video game to counteract the effects of other video games. Good luck! http://twitpic.com/4ehd6m←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 3900
Mar 29 2011: The Seduction of First Impressions—thinking you have things all worked out, then finding yourself trapped in an alternate reality. 3901
Mar 29 2011: Tragic delusion: New Yorkers vacation in Maine, find it quaint and charming. Move here, discover an alternate reality. 3902
Mar 29 2011: As a rule, Paradise turns into Hell as soon as you move there. 3903
Mar 29 2011: On My Bucket List: Become a celebrity chef, because there's nothing more important in life than food... and my ego! [See Full Bucket List] 3904
Mar 29 2011: People are driven by what they THINK will make them happy. Doesn't always work out that way, especially for decisions made in the moment. 3905
Mar 29 2011: Compare Walmart's price for bread in Portland, Maine, to Big Save in Lihue, Kauai. http://t.co/CsO1Gyj 3906Mar 29 2011: Compare Walmart's price for bread in Portland, Maine, to Big Save in Lihue, Kauai. http://twitpic.com/4elw1v←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 3907
Mar 29 2011: technodining — n. the consumption of standardized meals at chain restaurants. 3908
Mar 30 2011: Once you're dead, no one can get to know you. They may worship your image, but they won't see you for who you really were. 3909
Mar 30 2011: On My Bucket List: Become a country music mega-star has-been, playing casinos across the country to pay off my IRS debt. [See Full Bucket List] 3910
Mar 30 2011: Researchers make a lot of this shit up, researchers find. 3911
Mar 30 2011: Misplacing your iPhone makes you recognize the fragility of life and how death stalks us all. 3912
Mar 30 2011: Agnostics are to atheists what quiet Christians are to born-again, Bible-thumping evangelicals. 3913
Mar 30 2011: The combat strategies of youth are no compromises, no apologies, no retreat and absolute faith in destiny. Also a very high casualty rate. 3914
Mar 30 2011: The popular idea of success is to be trapped in a velvet prison rather than a concrete one. 3915
Mar 30 2011: Megamind has the perfect archetypal story form: the flawed hero overcoming his own weakness. Could watch it again and again! 3916Mar 30 2011: There will always be a buffer zone between rules and enforcement. http://twitpic.com/4ewaur←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 3917
Mar 30 2011: Now playing in my head: Black Velvet by Alannah Myles 3918
Mar 30 2011: My Monty Python spirit animal is the larch. 3919
Mar 30 2011: Now playing in my head: Rocky Raccoon by the Beatles. 3920
Mar 30 2011: Bad Dalai Lama—your troll under the bridge on the road to perfection. 3921
Mar 30 2011: Nothing is so artful and absurd as the clever reasoning by which we deceive ourselves. 3922
Mar 30 2011: The problems of too much money. Time: http://ow.ly/1shAt9 3923
Mar 30 2011: RT @LosAngelesTaste: Alien Invasion Movies Take Note: Apparently The Aliens Should Win http://sns.ly/ebcNy2 3924
Mar 30 2011: If invading aliens had any brains, they'd disable our electronics first. Then everyone would be like "Huh? What happened? What do we do?" 3925
Mar 30 2011: There's a reason for everything, and when there isn't there's serendipity. 3926
Mar 30 2011: RT @MailOnline: Catacomb of secret tunnels packed with mummified remains of EIGHT MILLION dogs is excavated… http://goo.gl/fb/KnqOB 3927
Mar 30 2011: Funniest airport name: Wilkes Barre-Scranton International Airport. So what foreign cities can you fly to from Scranton? 3928
Mar 30 2011: The sunk cost fallacy: "I've already invested so much that I can't turn back now!" 3929
Mar 30 2011: Which is more valuable: a blender you paid full retail price for or an identical one bought for $2 at a garage sale? People value the first! 3930
Mar 30 2011: The sunk cost fallacy means that people cling to things according to the price they paid for then, not their current market value. 3931
Mar 30 2011: RT @noahWG: @BadDalaiLama That's also why so many stay in empty relationships... 3932
Mar 30 2011: The sunk cost fallacy applies to relationships. People value them according to "all that we've been through" rather than how they work. 3933
Mar 30 2011: Pop psychology focuses on pursuing your dreams and never giving up. Little attention is paid to quitting and cutting your losses. 3934
Mar 30 2011: Many a business owner has been sucked into the sunk cost fallacy. You make sacrifice after sacrifice because you can't bear to give up. 3935
Mar 30 2011: The sunk cost fallacy is not just a quirk of human behavior but one of its main forces. We all tend to stick with our investments. 3936
Mar 30 2011: Children are less effected by the sunk cost fallacy because they live for the moment and have invested little in their past decisions. 3937
Mar 30 2011: Once people grow up, they start making emotional investments, and then have to defend those investments to avoid painful regret. 3938
Mar 30 2011: Regret is possibly the most painful human emotion, and people will do anything to avoid it. 3939
Mar 30 2011: "I could have been somebody. I could have been a contender." 3940
Mar 30 2011: "I married the most wonderful man in the world!"—of course! You invested everything in him, so you have to believe he's the best. 3941
Mar 30 2011: Regret is so powerful because it's your own life you are questioning—the most valuable asset you have! 3942
Mar 30 2011: It is emotionally unacceptable to think your life has been wasted, so you rearrange the evidence to make it not so. 3943
Mar 30 2011: People cling to their possessions according to the perceived price paid, monetarily and emotionally, neglecting the object's utility. 3944
Mar 30 2011: Most adults, over time, become crippled by a web of nonnegotiable possessions and obligations engendered by the sunk cost fallacy. 3945
Mar 30 2011: The most common escape from the sunk cost fallacy is catastrophe. The business fails or marriage collapses, and control is taken from you. 3946
Mar 30 2011: The final solution to the sunk cost fallacy is death. Your obligations vanish; your heirs sell your stuff, and everybody moves on. 3947
Mar 30 2011: #### End. This has been a live 1-hour essay by HHBDL: "The Sunk Cost Fallacy" — We now resume our originally scheduled programming. 3948
Mar 30 2011: lamacide — n. the act of unfollowing @BadDalaiLama or @DalaiLama. It's a free-will choice, but you're only hurting yourself. 3949
Mar 30 2011: The only way to beat the system is to know the system. 3950
Mar 30 2011: RT @rossmerriam: @BadDalaiLama Regret is the long-term payoff for not facing your short-term fears. 3951
Mar 30 2011: Burned bridges make the best toasted marshmallows. 3952
Mar 30 2011: Customer Service Is Our Number One Priority! (unless you're just here to bitch) 3953
Mar 30 2011: The creative life is a process of continuous refinement and revision. 3954
Mar 30 2011: It's pretty remarkable, at the age of graduation, to have already achieved perfection, so you don't need advice from anyone. 3955
Mar 30 2011: The essence of stupidity is over-preparing for risks that are highly unlikely while ignoring the ones that are right in front of you. 3956
Mar 31 2011: If the motivational systems are in place then the problem solves itself. 3957Mar 31 2011: Still relishing our new hairless look. It's so... sinister! This will be our new avi soon! http://twitpic.com/4f54a7←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 3958
Mar 31 2011: If the gas gauge says "E" and you don't fuel up, the car will stop. You don't know exactly where and when, only that it will happen. 3959
Mar 31 2011: "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" is a parable of reputation and track record. 3960
Mar 31 2011: STILL playing in my head: Rocky Raccoon by the Beatles. How do you shut this thing off?! 3961
Mar 31 2011: The pleasant narcissists are the little old ladies who talk incessantly about their grandchildren, regardless of whether it is relevant. 3962
Mar 31 2011: "If you wish to be a writer, write." —Epictetus via @philoquotes 3963
Mar 31 2011: RT @garamiredux: Love will give you freedom... Bunch of lies. Love is absolute slavery. 3964
Mar 31 2011: RT @TheBosha: Perhaps a TED Talk on proper meth cooking technique would cut down on the explosions in rural America. 3965
Mar 31 2011: RT @kellyoxford: Jealousy is something you're good at when you think you suck at everything. 3966
Mar 31 2011: Life in prison for rape? Sounds good, except aren't you just encouraging the offender to kill his witness? 3967
Mar 31 2011: RT @Social_Satan: Have you ever noticed how nothing is impossible for those who don't have to do it? 3968
Mar 31 2011: RT @McBuddah: Shit...my inner dialogue escaped!!! 3969
Mar 31 2011: RT @Krystelisms: Fuck style fuck fashion fuck designers fuck name brands fuck logos 3970
Mar 31 2011: RT @sciencedaily: Hands-free electronic water faucets found to be hindrance in infection control; Manual faucets work better, stud... ht ... 3971
Mar 31 2011: The greatest mass murderer in history? Sir Walter Raleigh. Beats Hitler by a long shot! He still kills over five million EACH YEAR. 3972
Mar 31 2011: What makes smoking deaths different from genocide? Something to do with free will. Also, genocide kills 'em a lot faster. 3973
Mar 31 2011: Death is always ironic. 3974
Mar 31 2011: Who was the greatest CHICKEN mass-murderer in history—Frank Purdue, Colonel Sanders or Mike Tyson? Justify your answer. {tweeting from KFC} 3975
Mar 31 2011: Just made a few updates to our Welcome Page (starting with the avi photo): http://BadDalaiLama.com 3976
Mar 31 2011: Fact: Your Hawaiian citizenship is revoked if you fail to renew your Costco membership. 3977
Mar 31 2011: Casablanca dreaming... on such a winter's day! rail: http://j.mp/gGsw5M lodging: http://j.mp/f3Bv4B air: http://j.mp/fz4rhR 3978Mar 31 2011: By all accounts, Casablanca sucks, but the name is magical. http://twitpic.com/4ff11i←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 3979
Mar 31 2011: RT @bornslippy69: "@BadDalaiLama: Fact: Your Hawaiian citizenship is revoked if you fail to renew your Costco membership." yes you must. ... 3980
Mar 31 2011: .@Jowtok "Gotta give it some credit for sticking around for so long" <== Actually, I meant the CITY of Casablanca sucks. 3981
Mar 31 2011: Casablanca is Morocco's largest city and an urban "meh!" Only reason to go is the movie, which of course wasn't filmed there. 3982
Mar 31 2011: RT @garamiredux: @BadDalaiLama@NihilDeNada@MrFornicator@madshrinkage@GeneralGrevious@_moonface@FIashy The League of Extraordinary ... 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.) 3985
Apr 1 2011: Something must be done about the peeing epidemic in this country. People are doing it too much! 3986
Apr 1 2011: Peeing too much is medically harmless but a personal inconvenience. You're pissing away your life with all those bathroom breaks! 3987
Apr 1 2011: News flash: If you didn't drink so much you wouldn't have to pee so much. 3988
Apr 1 2011: Peeing too much is usually a sign of addiction—either caffeine or alcohol. 3989
Apr 1 2011: Science fact: Any water coming into the body has to leave in identical quantity, either by evaporation or urination. 3990
Apr 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! 3991
Apr 1 2011: God intended pee to be dark golden yellow, not pale and clear. (It's in the Bible somewhere.) 3992
Apr 1 2011: The cost of caffeine addiction is the cost of the drinks themselves, the inconvenience of preparing them and all those bathroom breaks! 3993
Apr 1 2011: People confuse caffeine craving for thirst. One is a genuine need and the other a pseudo need. 3994
Apr 1 2011: Caffeine addicts are so well hydrated that they haven't experienced true thirst in years! 3995
Apr 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. 3996
Apr 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! 3997
Apr 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! 3998
Apr 1 2011: "Obey Your Thirst!" in a soft drink ad really means, "Obey Your Caffeine Craving!" 3999
Apr 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? 4000
Apr 1 2011: The best way to maintain hydration is bland, ordinary water. Then you're not confusing thirst for other cravings. 4001
Apr 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. 4002
Apr 1 2011: Only in the desert or when you're obviously sweating will you find much difference between drink input and urination output. 4003
Apr 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! 4004
Apr 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! 4005
Apr 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. 4006
Apr 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] 4008
Apr 1 2011: @mostlegendary "Caffeine is a diuretic. A caffeine addict isn't necessarily well hydrated." ==> Only MILD diuretic to non-addicts. 4009
Apr 1 2011: (Our latest movie stars His Baldliness and concerns a suburban plumbing problem.) 4010
Apr 1 2011: The key the great photography and videomaking is to liberate yourself from the need to accurately record reality. 4011
Apr 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] 4013
Apr 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] 4015
Apr 1 2011: Big fat Harley hogs are usually ridden by big fat Harley hogs, often retired folk traveling in packs. Outlaws, my ass! 4016
Apr 1 2011: RT @JamieMoser76: that's a hell of a picture ya got there!! :) I love your tweets, some of my favs 4017
Apr 1 2011: There is nothing so pathetic as a life dedicated to entertainment. 4018
Apr 1 2011: RT @WWIIHeadsOState: @BadDalaiLama What is your life dedicated to? Boredom? You could go for world domination if you had real sociopath ... 4019
Apr 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] 4021
Apr 1 2011: RT @trevlutz: @BadDalaiLama "I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted entirely to pleasure." - Prince Charles. 4022
Apr 1 2011: I am outraged by the free pass given to mitochondrial DNA. There's no accountability! 4023
Apr 1 2011: Autodidactism is learning what you need when you need it, based on your own assessment of what's important. 4024
Apr 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! 4025
Apr 1 2011: Most of the apparent wealth of the world is merely a theft from the future. {10/4} 4026
Apr 1 2011: RT @HisHoliness: If you rely on someone who has lower qualities than yourself, that will lead to your degeneration. 4027
Apr 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! 4028
Apr 1 2011: Beware of "help" offered by others that ends up being more trouble than it's worth. Take charge of your own needs! 4029
Apr 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. 4030
Apr 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. 4031
Apr 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. 4032
Apr 2 2011: The trouble with emotionally needy people is they'll always be needy, no matter how much you give them. 4033
Apr 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. 4034
Apr 2 2011: All of our one-hour tweeted essays are now available in separate section of our Wisdom Archive: http://baddalailama.com/#essays 4035
Apr 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. 4036
Apr 2 2011: Example: This morning's essay on "The Straw Man Argument" is available here: http://BadDalaiLama.com/archive/?essay=strawman 4037
Apr 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. 4038
Apr 2 2011: People believe what they have to believe to justify their past investments. Logic is filled in only later to rationalize the belief. 4039
Apr 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. 4040
Apr 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. 4041
Apr 2 2011: #### End. This has been a 1-hour essay by the Bad Dalai Lama: "Straw Man" — We now resume our regularly scheduled programming. 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! 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] 4075
Apr 3 2011: ++++ Beginning 1-hour essay: "Wisdom" 4076
Apr 3 2011: Wisdom consists of "meta-skills"—skills obtained through experience that apply to a wide range of circumstances. 4077
Apr 3 2011: Meta-skills mostly involve managing yourself and your interactions with the world. 4078
Apr 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. 4079
Apr 3 2011: Technical skills, like juggling or engineering, are useful only in certain environments. Meta-skills are applicable in ALL environments. 4080
Apr 3 2011: Once you learn a meta-skill, you can use it in situations you have never encountered before. 4081
Apr 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. 4082
Apr 3 2011: Someone can speak a dozen languages and still not have a clue about people. They have technical skills but not meta-skills. 4083
Apr 3 2011: Meta-skills involve understanding how reality works, even if it is a reality you have never encountered before. 4084
Apr 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. 4085
Apr 3 2011: The essential skills of wisdom are knowing your limitations, recognizing reality as an independent entity and seeing the needs of others. 4086
Apr 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. 4087
Apr 3 2011: In childhood, wishing for things worked! We put things on our Christmas list, and they magically arrived. 4088
Apr 3 2011: In childhood, we lived in a fantasyland of magically fulfilled wishes—setting us up for failure later on. 4089
Apr 3 2011: Adult wisdom involves learning to separate wishes from fact. 4090
Apr 3 2011: Reality has its own structure, independent of our wishes. It is what it is and doesn't care what we want. 4091
Apr 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. 4092
Apr 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. 4093
Apr 3 2011: It takes great wisdom to say, "Hey, I don't understand what's going on here. I must find out more." 4094
Apr 3 2011: "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." 4095
Apr 3 2011: Fools take too much on faith. Wisdom involves replacing that faith with knowledge. 4096
Apr 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. 4097
Apr 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. 4098
Apr 3 2011: Wisdom in dealing with people involves seeing them for who they are rather than what we want them to be. 4099
Apr 3 2011: We tend to overestimate and misconstrue people to serve our emotional needs. 4100
Apr 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. 4101
Apr 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. 4102
Apr 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. 4103
Apr 3 2011: Wisdom is the systematic dispelling of the myths of childhood. 4104
Apr 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. 4105
Apr 3 2011: Wisdom is seeing yourself, other people and the world around you for what they really are. 4106
Apr 3 2011: Wisdom is the willingness to experiment and investigate to determine the structure of reality for yourself. 4107
Apr 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. 4108
Apr 3 2011: #### End. This has been a live 1-hour essay from the Bad Dalai Lama: "Wisdom" — We now resume our regularly scheduled programming. 4109
Apr 3 2011: RT @mecotterill: @BadDalaiLama if the highest aim in life is to be happy then the fool has it all figured out. 4110
Apr 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. 4111
Apr 3 2011: The right to do something does not imply the wisdom of it. 4112
Apr 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. 4113
Apr 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. 4114
Apr 3 2011: Lord, protect us all from the ambitious schemes of young men. 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. 4141
Apr 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. 4142
Apr 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. 4143
Apr 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." 4144
Apr 5 2011: I've been to Israel twice. Some of my photos: http://roamingohotos.com/main?place=Israel 4145
Apr 5 2011: To the tourist, Israel is safe, fascinating and cheap. Hebrew is the language but English is widely spoken. 4146
Apr 5 2011: Like many Muslim countries, Israel is controlled by religious extremists, but unlike them, diversity of opinion is cherished. 4147
Apr 5 2011: Some of the greatest opposition to Israeli government policies comes from Israeli citizens. Unfortunately, extremists hold the most power. 4148
Apr 5 2011: Some American Jews still dream of emigrating to Israel. Bonehead move! you're getting yourself trapped on a very small island. 4149
Apr 5 2011: American Jews may dream of emigrating to Israel, but many more young Israelis dream of emigrating to America. Get me outta here! 4150
Apr 5 2011: Israel is an Island, cut off from most links to its neighbors. 4151
Apr 5 2011: Israeli citizens can't visit the West Bank, but foreign tourists can. It's remarkably safe and easy. 4152
Apr 5 2011: Israeli security checkpoints are usually cursory and lackadaisical—at least for Americans. Mostly concerned with flow of arms and bombs. 4153
Apr 5 2011: Sarah Palin was heading to the West Bank a few weeks ago, but chickened out without explanation. Dweeb! 4154
Apr 5 2011: Israel security is overrated. It's mostly a show of security involving primitive metal detectors and teenagers with big guns. 4155
Apr 5 2011: Hebrew is an ancient language resurrected within the past century. It's like Europe deciding to speak Latin again. 4156
Apr 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? 4157
Apr 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! 4158
Apr 5 2011: #### End. This has been a live 1-hour essay by the Bad Dalai Lama: "Israel" — We now resume our regularly scheduled programming. 4159
Apr 5 2011: RT @colestics: @BadDalaiLama <- #kicksknowledge thanks for sharing.You have made me want visit Israel! 4160
Apr 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] 4162
Apr 5 2011: All our Christmas photos, videos and tweets from Bethlehem (West Bank) http://j.mp/dJPfAu Jerusalem http://j.mp/eucNIf 4163Apr 5 2011: Dawn near La Junta, Colorado. Right now! http://twitpic.com/4h7ruv←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4164
Apr 5 2011: RT @Toledowni: @BadDalaiLama Well, I guess the people from Bethelem must be relieved. Sara Palin + "Holy land" + attention are no good c ... 4165
Apr 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] 4167
Apr 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] 4169
Apr 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. 4170
Apr 5 2011: There is no glory in parenting. Your clients abuse you and only appreciate your efforts long after it makes any difference. 4171
Apr 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] 4175
Apr 5 2011: Freedom is your ability and willingness to adapt to circumstances you never anticipated. 4176
Apr 5 2011: Freedom exists where you believe it exists. 4177
Apr 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] 4180
Apr 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] 4182
Apr 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] 4184
Apr 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] 4186
Apr 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. 4187
Apr 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." 4188
Apr 6 2011: The opposite of loneliness is to be drowning in the needs of others. Makes loneliness look like Heaven, actually! 4189
Apr 6 2011: RT @danywino: @BadDalaiLama "L'enfer, l'enfer c'est les autres" (Hell, Hell is others) another quote by Jean Paul Sartre. 4190
Apr 6 2011: The root of most disasters is the euphoria and overconfidence that came before. 4191
Apr 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. 4192
Apr 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. 4193
Apr 6 2011: RT @trevlutz: @BadDalaiLama Having experience does not necessarily mean that a person isn't talking out of their ass. Not talking about ... 4194
Apr 6 2011: Experience does not guarantee wisdom, but there can be no wisdom without experience. 4195
Apr 6 2011: Entertainment is the universal substitute for action. 4196
Apr 6 2011: The "right" thing to do cannot be separated from the limitations on the resources available to do it. 4197
Apr 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] 4199
Apr 7 2011: Pretty faces are common. Faces animated by intelligence are quite rare. 4200
Apr 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. 4201
Apr 7 2011: (Ha! I bet that's the first time you've seen "Caligularian" in a sentence!) 4202
Apr 7 2011: RT @Kyoks1: @BadDalaiLama like with double dip recession and 2 (10+ year) wars? 4203
Apr 7 2011: @Kyoks1 "like with double dip recession and 2 (10+ year) wars?" <== Yeah, kinda like that! 4204
Apr 7 2011: RT @Ruys: Y @BadDalaiLama le patea el trasero a @DalaiLama 4205
Apr 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] 4207
Apr 7 2011: Lessons of Rome: Success leads to overconfidence leads to overcommitment. Overcommitment leads to the Fall leads to the Dark Ages. {11/5} 4208
Apr 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 ... 4209
Apr 7 2011: Everyone makes mistakes. The difference between individuals is how quickly and efficiently they learn from them. 4210
Apr 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. 4211
Apr 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. 4212
Apr 7 2011: A judicious slap on the fanny can be more effective in changing behavior than all the negotiating in the world. 4213
Apr 7 2011: Changing people is generally a hopeless task. The most you can hope for is muting the specific behavior that is causing problems. 4214
Apr 7 2011: RT @Kyoks1: @BadDalaiLama most likely you would only end up being just an enabler of a different co-dependent dynamic. 4215
Apr 7 2011: A person's basic style of behavior is deeply engrained and cannot be changed by talk or negotiation. 4216
Apr 7 2011: RT @danywino: @BadDalaiLama El estilo de una persona, esta fuertemente enraizado, no se puede cambiar con pláticas o negociaciones. 4217
Apr 7 2011: Your job as a parent us to set a good example and assure behavioral compliance, not to micromanage beliefs and attitudes. 4218
Apr 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? 4219
Apr 7 2011: RT @PeaceConclusion: @BadDalaiLama heaven :) 4220
Apr 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] 4222
Apr 7 2011: You'll know what your body and mind can do only by testing them and pushing their limits. 4223
Apr 7 2011: McDonalds' "Billions of Hamburgers Served" translates into how many cattle slaughtered? They don't advertise that, do they? 4224
Apr 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! 4225
Apr 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] 4227
Apr 7 2011: Cambridge University psychopathologist says a lack of empathy is the root of all evil. http://ind.pn/ikrzdY via @ebertchicago 4228
Apr 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. 4229
Apr 7 2011: A long wait in a doctor's office with no television, cellphone or reading material—Heaven or Hell? 4230
Apr 7 2011: A long wait in a doctor's office with a television playing that you can't turn off—Heaven or Hell? 4231
Apr 7 2011: It doesn't count as "solitude" if you're working your mobile phone the whole time. 4232
Apr 7 2011: Television is a sedation device for prisoners, shut-ins and those without the initiative to direct their own activities. 4233
Apr 7 2011: This place really sucks! (@ Vacuum Cleaner Museum) http://4sq.com/furmFb 4234
Apr 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. 4235
Apr 7 2011: Now playing IN MY HEAD: "Yakety Sax" (the Benny Hill theme song). Make it stop! 4236
Apr 7 2011: RT @danonchalant1: @BadDalaiLama ...now that song is in MY head...thanks! 4237
Apr 7 2011: Lowbrow comedian Benny Hill should not be confused with faith-healing televangelist Benny Hinn... On second thought, same thing pretty much. 4238
Apr 7 2011: RT @vacca23: @BadDalaiLama EVERYTHING is funny with Benny Hill music playing behind it. 4239
Apr 7 2011: The real test of success is not how you gain it but how you use it once you do. 4240
Apr 7 2011: The opposite of apathy is micromanagement—which, if you're at the receiving end, makes you wish for a little apathy! 4241
Apr 7 2011: If someone has truly found a way to make money, he is unlikely to let you in on it. 4242
Apr 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. 4243
Apr 8 2011: The only guaranteed way to "make money" is to cut your expenses. Then monetary profit won't be so important to you. 4244
Apr 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. 4245
Apr 8 2011: Leave investing to gamblers who have nothing better to do with their lives. 4246
Apr 8 2011: #### End. This has been a live essay by the Bad Dalai Lama: "Delusions of Investing" — We now resume our regularly scheduled programming. 4247
Apr 8 2011: "Past performance is no guaranty of future returns." — Believe it! (But few people do.) 4248
Apr 8 2011: Most "trends" are illusions. 4249
Apr 8 2011: When everyone agrees on the wisdom of an investment, you're a fool to join them. 4250
Apr 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. 4251
Apr 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! 4252
Apr 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! 4253
Apr 8 2011: On My Bucket List: Make money "flipping" houses in an irrationally exuberant real estate market. [See Full Bucket List] 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. 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. 4295
Apr 9 2011: Gained a testimony and repented my wrongdoings. I'm becoming a Mormon! (@ Avenues Hostel) http://4sq.com/e7JUUH 4296
Apr 9 2011: Joseph Smith translated the Book of Mormon from golden tablets written in "Reformed Egyptian". I believe this completely. 4297
Apr 9 2011: Faith is a mechanism that allows people to believe the rationally absurd. 4298
Apr 9 2011: No logical argument can dissuade someone of their faith. 4299
Apr 9 2011: The greater investment one has made in one's faith, the more one believes. 4300
Apr 9 2011: Belief justifies itself. 4301
Apr 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] 4304
Apr 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. 4305
Apr 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] 4307
Apr 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] 4309
Apr 10 2011: Pain is the most effective teacher, but even he has a tough time getting through to some people. 4310
Apr 10 2011: When the going gets tough, most people will choose the illusion of security over the promise of growth. 4311
Apr 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] 4313
Apr 10 2011: Faith is a mechanism that allows people to believe the rationally absurd but emotionally convenient. 4314
Apr 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] 4317
Apr 10 2011: On My Bucket List: Open a cheese shop in Bristol. (No idea why, it just sounds quaint.) [See Full Bucket List] 4318
Apr 10 2011: The main thing standing between you and your success is the delusions you're not letting go of—perhaps about success itself! 4319
Apr 10 2011: If you need to sacrifice your integrity to achieve a goal, then the goal probably isn't worth attaining. 4320
Apr 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] 4325
Apr 10 2011: I'm an ethnic Episcopalian. My people have never been repressed. Kinda disappointed in that. 4326
Apr 10 2011: At the end of ambition is usually a barrier of your own creation. 4327
Apr 10 2011: RT @latimes: It's time to let the Chowchilla kidnappers go free http://lat.ms/ie0uey RT @latimesopinion 4328
Apr 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] 4330
Apr 11 2011: More photos from a post-apocalyptic wasteland. http://roamingphotos.com/a?cement 4331
Apr 11 2011: If one bipolar marries another, do they cancel each other out? 4332
Apr 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. 4333
Apr 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] 4336
Apr 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? 4337
Apr 11 2011: Nearly every content business—from newspapers to music to porn peddlers—has been gutted by the Internet. 4338
Apr 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. 4339
Apr 11 2011: The downside of endless free information is the loss of certain kinds of quality, such as rigorous journalism. 4340
Apr 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. 4341
Apr 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. 4342
Apr 11 2011: No one can build a career on supplying free content. 4343
Apr 11 2011: The only way websites make money is selling ads in the margins, which is only profitable with a huge reader base. 4344
Apr 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. 4345
Apr 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. 4346
Apr 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. 4347
Apr 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. 4348
Apr 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. 4349
Apr 11 2011: The internet has brought great efficiency to the sale of standardized products. Great for the consumer, not so great for the supplier. 4350
Apr 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. 4351
Apr 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. 4352
Apr 11 2011: Internet education will bring efficiencies of scale, but at what cost? 4353
Apr 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. 4354
Apr 11 2011: #### End. This has been a live 1-hour essay by HHBDL: "Delusions of the Internet". We now resume our regularly scheduled programming. 4355
Apr 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. 4356
Apr 12 2011: RT @rossmerriam: @BadDalaiLama the essay today was too one sided. Quality content is out there. You just have to look: Take @NPRamerican ... 4357
Apr 12 2011: .@rossmerriam Quality content: This American Life <== The exception that proves the rule, supported entirely by charitable contributions. 4358
Apr 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. 4359
Apr 12 2011: When is the last time you saw a real investigation in print? 4360
Apr 12 2011: If the Watergate break-in had happened today, would there be anyone to run it down?l 4361
Apr 12 2011: There are no Woodwards and Bernsteins these days because no one can afford them. The internet has seen to that. 4362
Apr 12 2011: RT @stevewilliams52: @baddalailama I disagree - every "journalist" with an iPhone has the next big story. Trouble is - a big story only ... 4363
Apr 12 2011: Crowd-sourced information has its value, but it wouldn't have cracked the Watergate break-in. 4364
Apr 12 2011: Crowd sourcing is low-quality data multiplied by thousands—yielding low-quality data. 4365
Apr 12 2011: Amateur, in-your-free-time journalism is not credible check on the complexities of government. 4366
Apr 12 2011: RT @morelimes: @BadDalaiLama Liddy got caught went to jail and now has 1.5 million daily listeners. Talk about crowd sourcing. 4367
Apr 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. 4368
Apr 12 2011: Technology does not bring you closer to truth, to peace or to harmony with yourself. 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! 4411
Apr 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. 4412
Apr 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 ... 4413
Apr 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. 4414
Apr 14 2011: Human children are kept small so they don't appear as threats to adults. 4415
Apr 14 2011: The greatest trauma of life is the transition from protected childhood to unprotected adulthood. 4416
Apr 14 2011: All small children are seen as cute. Adults are judged more coldly, often based on body type they have little control over. 4417
Apr 14 2011: Humans differ from apes not in learning ability, per se, but in the ability to take instruction. 4418
Apr 14 2011: Human children accept the words of their elders as truth, even if those words are absurd and counterintuitive, as with religion. 4419
Apr 14 2011: Religion and religious faith are not a deviation in human intellectual development; they are an essential part of it. 4420
Apr 14 2011: Without the ability believe the unbelievable, humans would not blindly follow their elders and learning would not be transmitted. 4421
Apr 14 2011: Humans are overwhelming religious because it must have had some survival benefit in our past. 4422
Apr 14 2011: Historically, it is more conducive to survival to follow the ways of ones elders than to think independently. 4423
Apr 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. 4424
Apr 14 2011: Religion is basically Santa Claus for grownups. 4425
Apr 14 2011: For their own protection and development, children are kept in an artificial environment and fed fairy tales. 4426
Apr 14 2011: In adulthood, the protection of childhood is withdrawn. Young adults march into the world armed with the delusions their parents fed them. 4427
Apr 14 2011: In ancient times when little changed, the ways of the elders worked pretty well. Now, they usually suck. 4428
Apr 14 2011: Religion, in adulthood, allows one to return to a satisfying pseudo childhood, where imaginary elders offer protection. 4429
Apr 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. 4430
Apr 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] 4432
Apr 14 2011: "Manic-depression" is a recurring cycle in all areas of human endeavor: expansive exuberance leading to a painful crash. 4433
Apr 14 2011: Just woke up to discover my dreams lied to me. That's not the way things are at all! 4434
Apr 14 2011: People who are heavily invested are easily offended. 4435
Apr 14 2011: On My Bucket List: Wear a funny hat to indicate my religious affiliation. [See Full Bucket List] 4436
Apr 15 2011: HHBDL is back in the Holy Land, trying to knock some sense into these people. 4437
Apr 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] 4440
Apr 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] 4443
Apr 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." 4444
Apr 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] 4447
Apr 16 2011: In Jerusalem, I eat a balanced diet: falafel pita for breakfast, falafel pita for lunch and a sensible falafel pita for dinner. 4448
Apr 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. 4449
Apr 16 2011: Hostels separate relaxed, flexible people from the uptight and inflexible. The latter belong at the Hilton or should never leave home. 4450
Apr 16 2011: Any big, confusing place becomes small and provincial once you have been there for a while. 4451
Apr 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. 4452
Apr 16 2011: Jerusalem teaches you how every religion is the same. Different hats and holidays, same underlying suspension of logic. 4453
Apr 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. 4454
Apr 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] 4456
Apr 16 2011: RT @YourAuntLola: Sweetie, love does not conquer deception, agression or cruelty. And it has a pretty hard time with snoring 4457
Apr 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. 4458
Apr 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] 4460
Apr 17 2011: The stupider a traveler is, the more outraged he becomes when things don't turn out as planned. 4461
Apr 17 2011: Smart people: "I made a mistake. How can I change?" Stupid people: "A mistake was made. Who can I blame?" 4462
Apr 17 2011: That a computer can win Jeopardy suggests that Jeopardy represents a dumb kind of intelligence any automaton can master. 4463
Apr 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. 4464
Apr 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] 4467
Apr 18 2011: Religion isn't about trusting God. It's about trusting that other people know more about God than you do. 4468
Apr 18 2011: Today's solution becomes tomorrow's problem. 4469
Apr 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. 4470
Apr 18 2011: The lowest form of humor is now the Sarah Palin joke, displacing the pun in 2008. 4471
Apr 18 2011: The measure of "old" is the extent to which you are dwelling on the past instead of the future. 4472
Apr 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? 4473
Apr 19 2011: Brilliant! Our two arch-nemesis's, @KimKardashian and @DalaiLama have been combined as @KimOrDalai. Which is which? You decide. 4474
Apr 19 2011: About to enter Jesus' tomb (currently empty). This place is crawling with Christians! 4475
Apr 19 2011: Like the multiple sites of the Roswell crash, there are competing locations for the crucifixion and tomb of Jesus. 4476
Apr 19 2011: No believer wants to get too specific about the roots of his belief. 4477
Apr 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] 4481
Apr 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. 4482
Apr 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. 4483
Apr 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 ... 4484
Apr 19 2011: RT @TheBosha: The fall of Western civilization will be traced to the triumph of design over content. 4485
Apr 19 2011: Change of venue. (My original hostel was full due to the bi-religional holiday,) (@ New palm hostel) http://4sq.com/h55Tfx 4486
Apr 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] 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. 4564
Apr 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. 4565
Apr 29 2011: Any mundane ability is a superpower to someone who can't do it. 4566
Apr 29 2011: Each of us is a potential superhero, possessing certain skills or resources that others can only marvel at. 4567
Apr 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. 4568
Apr 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. 4569
Apr 29 2011: The fog of ego stands between us and getting the most out of life. 4570
Apr 29 2011: The greatest superpower is being able to separate your ego from the objective reality outside you. 4571
Apr 29 2011: A change of attitude can change everything. It doesn't change objective reality, but it gives you new tools to work with. 4572
Apr 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. 4573
Apr 29 2011: The superpower of infinite creativity is within your grasp. You just do it! 4574
Apr 29 2011: Much of what we think is impossible is merely a block in our own mind. 4575
Apr 29 2011: Achieving the impossible means seeing beyond your immediate goal to what you REALLY want. 4576
Apr 29 2011: Becoming a movie star or billionaire may be impossible, but achieving long term happiness isn't. 4577
Apr 29 2011: Through no fault of your own, you have extraordinary advantages over the rest of humanity. The question is, will you use them? 4578
Apr 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. 4579
Apr 29 2011: We are all superheroes if we choose to be. 4580
Apr 29 2011: Extraordinary accomplishment depends on recognizing your own special abilities and nurturing them, as a parent would. 4581
Apr 29 2011: "I'm tired of pretending I'm not special," said the great @CharlieSheen. He's onto something! 4582
Apr 29 2011: You shouldn't expect to be treated specially by others, but you should expect special accomplishment from yourself. 4583
Apr 29 2011: There are no "ordinary" days in the life of a superhero, and there shouldn't be in your life either. 4584
Apr 29 2011: Everything you do is a chance to excel and push your own boundaries in some way. 4585
Apr 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! 4586
Apr 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. 4587
Apr 29 2011: The sadness of the superhero is you cannot save everyone. In the end, you have to worry about systems, not individuals. 4588
Apr 29 2011: #### End. This has been a 1-hour essay by the Bad Dalai Lama: "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. 4608
May 1 2011: Never underestimate the ability of the addict to sabotage any good thing that happens to him. 4609
May 1 2011: Alcoholism seems to go hand-in-hand with self-pity—an attitude that says "Woe is me!" without doing anything about it 4610
May 1 2011: It's hard to imagine, when you first have sex with a new partner, how tedious it can become over time. 4611
May 1 2011: When libido fades, is it a curse or a blessing? Do you reach for the Viagra, or do you say, "Wow! I'm free!" 4612
May 1 2011: Loss of libido is a crisis only if you are already committed to a relationship that depends on it. 4613
May 1 2011: Jerusalem is a magnet for all kinds of religious nutcases. Even Rael wants to build an Extraterrestrial Embassy there! http://j.mp/mtmusX 4614
May 1 2011: If you take chocolate and remove everything flavorful and chocolaty from it, you have "white chocolate" and people buy it as a gourmet item. 4615
May 1 2011: Don't dismiss religion as useless. Most people need that "eye in the sky" to remain honorable and give their lives direction. 4616
May 1 2011: If people need God to help them escape from evil, so be it. We shouldn't argue with what works. 4617
May 1 2011: The high density of donut shops in Canada suggests the per capita consumption is approximately 15 per day. 4618
May 1 2011: RT @Kurt_Vonnegut: Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolut ... 4619
May 1 2011: "A true artist does not seek permission." @CrankyPappy 4620
May 1 2011: Fascinating! RT @NewMindMirror Reciprocal altruism - Wikipedia http://su.pr/87AP7j 4621
May 1 2011: Canada, Australia, New Zealand—it's not like they fought for their independence. Britain had to push them out the door! 4622
May 1 2011: RT @CeLeStIaLPhEnYx: I retweet the @BadDalaiLama more than the real Dalai Lama. I either need to stay up to see the Dalai Lama's tweets, ... 4623
May 1 2011: Evil is something that invades the soul, replicates itself and spreads from person to person like an alien virus. 4624
May 1 2011: We don't need demons, devils and supernatural monsters. Humans can do evil just fine on their own! 4625
May 1 2011: There is no dignity in terrifying people, even for entertainment. Even porn is a higher calling! 4626
May 1 2011: Computers can process natural language only to the extent that autistics can: literally and without insight. 4627
May 1 2011: Give young people nuclear weapons and they'll use them! No negotiation, threats or intermediate steps, just directly to Armageddon. 4628
May 1 2011: The early 20s are the "jerk" years. Don't you remember? You were one of them! 4629
May 1 2011: Vegas, do you miss me? (@ McCarran International Airport (LAS) w/ 11 others) http://4sq.com/iXleK4 4630
May 2 2011: The more shame you feel, the more you drink, and the more you drink the more shameful things you do and the more shame you feel. 4631
May 3 2011: The first thing an addict does in a new city is establish connections with suppliers, so a change of venue doesn't usually work. 4632
May 3 2011: RT @GreatestQuotes: "The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it." - W.M. Lewis 4633
May 3 2011: Jealousy speaks of both the weakness of the relationship and the low self-esteem of the jealous. 4634
May 3 2011: The benchmark of a person's character is his addictions. 4635
May 3 2011: RT @TheEconomist: Most trending: Why rich people don't always see themselves as rich http://econ.st/mQTGrb 4636
May 3 2011: Playboy centerfold dead at age 82! Daily Mail http://goo.gl/fb/QHTdE — Don't know what's more horrifying: her mummified state or her age! 4637
May 3 2011: RT @latimes: Mummified body of ex-Playboy playmate Yvette Vickers found http://lat.ms/kFl7ue RT @latimesmost 4638
May 3 2011: @dunebat A fresh start? 4639
May 3 2011: "Everyone makes an existential decision: shall I sneak out of prison alone, or shall I organize a prison revolt?" @NewMindMirror Answer: (a) 4640
May 3 2011: @ThatsWright "My dad follows 3 people and none of them are me." <== If only you were more empirical. 4641
May 3 2011: RT @TheBosha: Starting a new paranormal investigation group called FEAR: Find. Evaluate. Authenticate. Run. 4642
May 3 2011: The meaning of life is to make babies and spend the rest of your life raising them. Amazing how many people fall for that. 4643
May 4 2011: RT @philoquotes: What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me. ~ Sartre http://bit. ... 4644
May 4 2011: RT @DalaiLama: The ultimate source of a happy life is the attention we pay to our inner values. 4645
May 4 2011: @dunebat I'm at Starbase 51 (Odessa) 4sq.com/jZoNmC <== I'd like a royalty payment on the "51" part! 4646
May 4 2011: RT @GreatestQuotes: "Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions." - Dalai Lama 4647
May 4 2011: RT @YourAuntLola: Keep yesterday in the back seat, sweetie. That way you can still see it, but it can't touch the controls 4648
May 4 2011: RT @philososaurus: You know it'll be a good day when @BadDalaiLama retweets @DalaiLama 4649
May 4 2011: Some people want to fill the world with silly love songs—like McCartney in his stoner years. 4650May 4 2011: Sunshine Skyway. http://twitpic.com/4tbp0w←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4651
May 4 2011: A marriage is no smarter than the stupider partner. 4652
May 4 2011: Best sleeping gate on the East Coast! (@ Gate B9) http://4sq.com/ixqpBm 4653May 4 2011: Nephew damage, Orlando, Florida. http://twitpic.com/4tgptl←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4654May 5 2011: Video Postcard: On a bus in Israel http://youtu.be/fpOHtXteEVY Encounter with a fellow passenger on a bus from Eilat to Tel Aviv. April 21. ←Our original YouTube video [more] 4655May 5 2011: Video Postcard: Tel Aviv Waterfront (April 22) http://youtu.be/X96j_pzF2Q4 Scanning the resort area of Tel Aviv. 1:36 ←Our original YouTube video [more] 4656May 5 2011: Raw Video: Masada Standups http://youtu.be/S7jNIPsRcIc My on-site narration from Masada, Israel. (Part of a theoretical future video) ←Our original YouTube video [more] 4657
May 5 2011: On My Bucket List: Experience life as a British soccer hooligan. [See Full Bucket List] 4658
May 5 2011: RT @brainpicker: "Sleep is the most important behavior in your life to get right and the first one we get wrong." @tonyschwartz #99conf 4659
May 5 2011: Next on Dancing with the Stars: Audrey Tomason. 4660
May 5 2011: "There are aspects of personality that others know about us that we don't know ourselves." Science Daily http://tinyurl.com/3pt6fyb 4661
May 5 2011: RT @brainpicker: The cognitive cost of doing things http://j.mp/lYyyM0 4662
May 5 2011: The cost of an activity can be measured in money or time or something even more valuable: the cognitive resources it uses. 4663
May 5 2011: "Cognitive resources" are the thinking time required for a task, equivalent to CPU time on a computer. 4664
May 5 2011: Driving or jogging require very little thinking time. Reading, watching TV or doing a crossword puzzle require nearly 100%. 4665
May 5 2011: Many who are frugal with money would thinking nothing of wasting cognitive resources on TV, novels or other unproductive pursuits. 4666
May 5 2011: People who do a lot of reading think of themselves as more literate, but it can be just as unproductive as hours of mindless TV. 4667
May 5 2011: What are you doing with your cognitive resources? Are you putting them to good use or just killing time? 4668
May 5 2011: RT @brainpicker The cognitive cost of doing things http://j.mp/lYyyM0 4669
May 5 2011: "Boredom" to most people is having excess cognitive resources at their disposal. They will do anything to burn them up. 4670
May 5 2011: Most people are incapable of unstructured, free-form thinking. They need structure from the outside for their brain to accomplish anything. 4671
May 5 2011: Cognitive discipline is being able to sit for hours alone in an empty room and come out of it having accomplished significant work. 4672
May 5 2011: Boredom is an affliction of boring people. 4673
May 5 2011: Two jobs that pay the same can require vastly different cognitive resources. You can be using 98% of your thinking time or 2%. 4674
May 5 2011: Some people prefer all-engrossing jobs because they don't have any meaningful use for their thinking time otherwise. 4675
May 5 2011: If you are engaged in a meaningful personal project, the more time you spend thinking about it, the more creative solutions you'll find. 4676
May 5 2011: If you're not engaged in any meaningful personal project, then extra thinking time won't help you. You'll merely be bored. 4677
May 5 2011: Simply planning your future life is a meaningful project. Some do it continuously; others refuse to do it at all. 4678
May 5 2011: To some, a long journey by plane or car is an arduous task disrupting their life. To others, it is a pleasure, a precious chance to think. 4679
May 5 2011: Cognitive discipline is to check into a hotel room and never even think to turn on the TV. 4680
May 5 2011: How many people really know how to think? Only a tiny portion of the human population. The rest merely react to their environment. 4681
May 5 2011: How has your mind been occupied today? Is it meaningful stuff or just neurological junk food? 4682
May 5 2011: He who wastes cognitive resources is essentially wasting his life. 4683
May 5 2011: #### End. This has been a live 1-hour essay: "Cognitive Resources". We now resume our regularly scheduled programming. 4684
May 5 2011: RT @Olivia_Sarai: @BadDalaiLama Processing scientific data!! my neuronal network is working hard, so hard! 4685
May 5 2011: RT @Javi_Air: @BadDalaiLama Your essay is exactly where my mind's at right now! My human resources dept has been slacking. Employing bet ... 4686
May 5 2011: With all the situations I've dealt with in the past, I really need a Situation Room. How do I get one of those? 4687
May 5 2011: Neurotic people can't stand happiness. Whenever it intrudes into their life they find some way to sabotage it. 4688
May 6 2011: Part of success is opportunity, the other ability. You can't neglect either side of the equation. 4689
May 6 2011: Ability is how well you do what you claim to. If you want to be a singer, you must sing well, even if no one hears. 4690
May 6 2011: Opportunity is the unpredictable circumstances of the world allowing you to exercise your ability. Your main control lies in recognizing it. 4691
May 6 2011: There are no perfect opportunities. Each requires compromises. You must adjust your own goals to match what the world is offering. 4692
May 6 2011: When the world gives you few opportunities, you can still work on your abilities. 4693
May 6 2011: Although opportunity often blesses those of little ability (@ParisHilton@KimKardashian), ability stacks the odds in your favor. 4694
May 6 2011: If you would be a songwriter, then write songs! Whether anyone sings them has no bearing on the quality of the product. 4695
May 6 2011: Producing a great product is 100% your own responsibility. It has little to do with your opportunities. 4696
May 6 2011: If you sit down to write the great novel and can't do it, no opportunity in the world is going to change that situation. 4697
May 6 2011: Young people tend to dwell on opportunity—on being "discovered" by powerful others—while neglecting ability. 4698
May 6 2011: You have far more control over ability than opportunity. You can always improve your abilities by exercising and fine-tuning them. 4699
May 6 2011: Your chief control over opportunity is recognizing it when it happens and seeing it where others don't. 4700
May 6 2011: The most important skill of success is seeing opportunity where others see only problems. 4701
May 6 2011: "Motivational outsourcing" is when you expect others to inspire you, structure you or push you to succeed. 4702
May 6 2011: An example of motivational outsourcing is a class on creativity. If you are taking the class, then you are not being creative. 4703
May 6 2011: True creativity can only come from within. 4704
May 6 2011: If you want to be creative, then create, dammit! No one can do it for you. 4705
May 6 2011: The way to be creative is to get off your ass and actually do the thing you claim to aspire to. 4706
May 6 2011: You can't become a movie director overnight, but you can pick up a video camera and use it, putting out the best product possible. 4707
May 6 2011: You can't plan on opportunities—They happen when they will.—but you can plan on being ready for opportunities. 4708
May 6 2011: The vast majority of opportunities go unrecognized, because no one recognizes them or is prepared to jump on them. 4709
May 6 2011: Life is like a railway network without a schedule. Sooner or later a train will pass by going in your direction, but you have to jump on! 4710
May 6 2011: When the train of opportunity passes by, will you see it? Will you be free to jump on? Or will the train breeze by, leaving you behind? 4711
May 6 2011: #### End. This has been a live 1-hour essay: "Ability and Opportunity". We now resume our regularly scheduled programming. 4712
May 6 2011: RT @PeaceConclusion: @BadDalaiLama you're on FIRE this essay!! :) :) love it. Thank you! 4713
May 6 2011: RT @PeaceConclusion: @BadDalaiLama I love for your tweets, they're so insightful... I've said it before, I'll say it again. Thank you. 4714
May 6 2011: RT @Toledowni: @BadDalaiLama A good old friend use to say. I don't wait for opportunities to show up. I prepare. Then, I track them down ... 4715
May 6 2011: RT @Toledowni A good old friend use to say, "I don't wait for opportunities to show up. I prepare. Then, I track them down." 4716
May 6 2011: There may be a huge market for junk food, pornography and placebos, but you build your own self-esteem only by offering quality. 4717
May 6 2011: Now when are the French going to apologize for 1066? ==> RT @telegraph Jews receive apology over Spanish Inquisition http://tgr.ph/j14iwa 4718
May 6 2011: Sept. 28, 1066—a day that will live in infamy! My people will never forgive or forget until we receive an apology. #whiteoppression 4719
May 6 2011: AD 64—Nero throws Christians to the lions, giving them the persecution they need to become a major religion. http://T.CO/x6W1Mnh 4720
May 6 2011: White Christian Anglo-Saxon males—an abused minority ignored by history. 4721
May 6 2011: AD 1969—NBC cancels Star Trek after only three seasons. Ethnic discrimination against the White male? #whiteoppression 4722
May 6 2011: The male throughout history has been oppressed by the female, who demands that he support her while she stays home and cooks supper. 4723
May 6 2011: Whenever there's a war, who is going to fight and die? The male! We are the cannon fodder of history. 4724
May 6 2011: RT @trevlutz: @BadDalaiLama Are you trying to weed out all your followers that can't sense sarcasm? 4725
May 6 2011: It's not just the White Christian Anglo-Saxon males who are discriminated against, but especially the bald ones! 4726
May 6 2011: RT @dunebat: @BadDalaiLama I don't know, it takes a certain something to pull off the bald look successfully. I know I ain't got it. 4727
May 6 2011: Rise up, join hands, raise your voices together, White Baldies: "We shall overcome!" (Um, we can stop holding hands now.) 4728
May 6 2011: RT @trevlutz: Closing argument for the Lex Luthor defense team. 4729
May 6 2011: What makes young people such dangerous drivers is that their assessment of their own ability far exceeds their actual ability. 4730
May 6 2011: Never trust anyone under 30. Idealistic, yes, but also narcissistic. 4731
May 6 2011: It is easier to deal with someone who has been seasoned by a few solid failures, and young people haven't had the chance. 4732
May 6 2011: RT @PoulsNocturne: I know a lot of old people who the failures didn't season them at all. And a lot of young people who are much better. 4733
May 6 2011: .@PoulsNocturne Here at @BadDalaiLama we prefer to deal in simplistic stereotypes. 4734
May 6 2011: On My Bucket List: Retire in Florida to a house adjacent to a golf course so I can play golf. Every. Single. Day. [See Full Bucket List] 4735
May 6 2011: RT @RexHuppke: You know who should be the most appreciative of mothers? Therapists. That's who. 4736
May 6 2011: RT @kellyoxford: Whenever you justify an action with, "I've done WAY riskier stuff than this." Remember: Steve Irwin was killed by a fish. 4737
May 6 2011: On My Bucket List: Become the enabler of someone else's addiction (again). [See Full Bucket List] 4738
May 6 2011: On My Bucket List: Munchausen by Proxy. [See Full Bucket List] 4739
May 6 2011: He who has not been humbled by failure in the past believes himself charmed and thus will court it in the future. 4740
May 6 2011: The downside of love is the outsourcing of personal responsibility. 4741
May 6 2011: To a dog, there are no bad smells, only information. 4742
May 6 2011: On My Bucket List: Get so drunk I don't remember what I did the night before. [See Full Bucket List] 4743
May 7 2011: .@TheBlondieSays "Is this a joke?" <== His Holy Badliness does not joke. http://T.CO/74TNITZ 4744
May 7 2011: You're cruising the FM dial and you hear a song you haven't heard before and it sounds kinda nice until you realize, "Eww, it's Christian!" 4745
May 7 2011: The paradox of technology: We can communicate with each other instantly but have less to say, because no one has time to think. 4746
May 7 2011: "Liberal vs. Conservative" is as old as politics itself. Give either too much power and they'll destroy society. 4747
May 7 2011: @dunebat "Greetings, programs. Shabbat is almost upon us!" <== Man, that thing is a pain in the ass! All of Israel shuts down. 4748
May 7 2011: Wisdom is the replacing of faith with knowledge. 4749
May 7 2011: RT @Kurt_Vonnegut: Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance. 4750
May 7 2011: RT @DalaiLama: Compassion and love constitute non-violence in action. <== Dude has run out of new platitudes so is retweeting old ones. 4751
May 7 2011: RT @kellyoxford: "WHOA THIS LADY RIGHT HERE IS FAT. A FAT FAT LADY. RIGHT HERE." - 2yr old daughter, to everyone in the food court today 4752
May 7 2011: Maximum downsizing leaves you with a laptop, smartphone, camera and passport. Everything else can be acquired temporarily as you need it. 4753
May 7 2011: Everyone likes to play with babies. That's what they're designed for! 4754
May 7 2011: It's just one little baby. I'll raise him in my spare time. He'll be no problem at all! #happymothersday 4755
May 8 2011: The law tells you the speed limit. It doesn't tell you the speed where officers write tickets. That gap is where most of life is lived. 4756
May 8 2011: The gap between rules and their enforcement is where most of life is lived. 4757
May 8 2011: Governments are incompetent because they are bound by rigid rules that can't adapt to changing circumstances. 4758
May 8 2011: Creativity is "playing the gap" between rules and enforcement. 4759
May 8 2011: Non-creative people see a rule or barrier and take it at face value. Creative people will push that boundary to see what it really means. 4760
May 8 2011: Conventional thinking is seeing a fence and turning back. Creativity is walking the fence line, testing it and looking for ways around. 4761
May 8 2011: Creativity is always a little dangerous. It requires thinking the unthinkable, even if you don't actually do it. 4762
May 8 2011: You say: "You can't do that. It's against the law." I say: "What law? Whose law? What's the penalty? What's the chance of getting caught?" 4763
May 8 2011: Creativity has little to do with arts and crafts. It's coming up with ingenious solutions to your problems using the resources you have. 4764
May 8 2011: #### End. This has been a live 1-hour essay: "Rules and Creativity" 4765
May 8 2011: RT @badbanana: Trying to write a romantic Mother's Day poem for my wife. What's a word that rhymes with Lunchables? 4766
May 8 2011: RT @agnosticcc: Spent a lot of time with "loved ones" and "people who are close to me" today, so you can imagine the kind of mood I'm in. 4767
May 8 2011: Dreams are a training ground for reality. 4768
May 8 2011: If you can outwit the monsters in your nightmares you'll be better equipped to deal with them in real life. 4769
May 8 2011: The monsters in your dreams can follow you wherever you go—until you change your strategy. 4770
May 8 2011: The defects of democracy are (a) Most voters are idiots, and (b) Even the non-idiots have inadequate information on who they are voting for. 4771
May 8 2011: "Democracy is the worst form of government save for the alternatives." MRT Winston Churchill 4772May 8 2011: Chroma Key Experiment (20 seconds) http://youtu.be/iZ_NCUMl8PY Now I can fly around the world without leaving my motel room! ←Our original YouTube video [more] 4773
May 8 2011: Here's an awesome 4-minute video showing how chroma key is used in the movies. http://j.mp/ks5fb3 It's so easy! 4774
May 8 2011: Offer a dog steak and he won't eat the dog chow. 4775
May 8 2011: As a New Englander, I bear the shame of the Salem Witch Trials. Also Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale and about 1,000 pedophile priests. 4776May 9 2011: Exploring Harry's Hideaway, an abandoned roadhouse on the north shore of Lake Superior. http://youtu.be/zYXewpQgw4M (5:40) 9 days ago. ←Our original YouTube video [more] 4777May 9 2011: New video: Canada Explained in Two Minutes! http://youtu.be/B2ePV6XuJLA Shot 10 days ago in the boreal forest north of Lake Superior. ←Our original YouTube video [more] 4778
May 9 2011: RT @TIME: Dalai Lama: "bin Laden deserves compassion" | http://ti.me/kmhEqg (via @TIMEWorld) 4779
May 9 2011: RT @ispeakfemale: If someone points out your mistake, be happy that at least someone is interested in what you've done. 4780
May 9 2011: If you were a dung beetle, you'd be rolling in shit. 4781May 10 2011: On My Bucket List: Travel the world accepting honorary degrees from any university that will give me one. http://twitpic.com/4vt97v [See Full Bucket List] ←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4782
May 10 2011: Our Sacred Archive of Ancient Wisdom has been updated at http://BadDalaiLama.com - Search our tweets in myriad ways! 4783May 10 2011: Could this be the solution to my green-screen needs? http://twitpic.com/4vwcmr←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4784
May 10 2011: RT @MikeShawTweet: @BadDalaiLama Give out money: What you say is true but does not diminish the value of charity. Charity like everythin ... 4785May 10 2011: Green screen test now under way! Results shortly. http://twitpic.com/4vy6kv←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4786May 10 2011: I am beside myself! Awesome green-screen proof of concept test in North Carolina. http://youtu.be/n_8RfCw8_7I (0:53) ←Our original YouTube video [more] 4787
May 10 2011: You don't go into a poor neighborhood and give out money. It's not the joy you bring that matters but what happens after you're gone. 4788
May 10 2011: RT @TelegraphNews: The end of the world as we know it? 10 dates when the world failed to end http://tgr.ph/iMFZNQ 4789
May 10 2011: Existential Star Wars – Sartre vs. Darth Vader http://j.mp/mwhODa remixed movie via @brainpicker 4790
May 10 2011: RT @TelegraphNews: Former Nepal foreign minister dies climbing Mount Everest http://tgr.ph/jZTmNc 4791
May 10 2011: Do not pretend to make conclusions based on that which can not be demonstrated. #agnosticism 4792
May 10 2011: RT @JolineTowers: Omniscience is driving me crazy. Or Solipsism, 4793
May 10 2011: My love for you may be unconditional but my interactions with you are not. 4794
May 10 2011: Anyone can talk about it. Few will actually do it. 4795
May 10 2011: "You never sausage a place. You're always a wiener at Pedro's!" http://roamingphotos.com/a?sob 4796May 10 2011: This is trick photography. There's only one Sponge Bob. The rest are created with green-screen technology. http://twitpic.com/4vthtq←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4797
May 10 2011: Moviemaking is a negotiation with reality. You know the story you want to tell, but you have to adapt it to the tools available. 4798
May 11 2011: Lots of living creatures love shit. There's good nutrition there! But urine is poisonous to everyone. 4799
May 11 2011: Government is renowned for the institutionalization of "solutions" that only make matters worse. 4800
May 11 2011: The most boring career is to have to keep repeating something you have already mastered. 4801
May 11 2011: The greatest defeats come to those who took too much pride in their previous victory. 4802
May 11 2011: @AlannaChats Sure, why not! ... But my bucket list aims for some sort of tragic irony. 4803
May 11 2011: On My Bucket List: Be required to register as a sex offender for an incident I cannot clearly remember and gained no satisfaction from. [See Full Bucket List] 4804
May 11 2011: On My Bucket List: Be ticketed for texting on the New York State Thruway. [See Full Bucket List] 4805
May 11 2011: Möbius and his strip freak me out. 4806
May 11 2011: RT @xanadu_xero: @BadDalaiLama re strip: Ooh, did he do it slow? 4807
May 11 2011: RT @xanadu_xero: Ooh, did he do it slow? <== Möbius was Escheresque, infinitely recursive and perhaps even Pythonesque. His strip, that is. 4808
May 11 2011: @xanadu_xero Smelling salts should cure that. 4809
May 11 2011: Clint Eastwood: You gotta respect a guy who has paid his dues as an A-list star and finally does something productive. 4810May 11 2011: Wow! Get a load of those knockers! http://twitpic.com/4weupn←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4811
May 11 2011: RT @FlyoverJoel: I keep licking frogs, but I never seem to get high. I do have a surplus of princes though if anyone needs one. 4812
May 12 2011: Gravity is such a downer! 4813
May 12 2011: People are addicted to repetition. Once they find a pattern that isn't too painful, they stick with it. 4814
May 12 2011: The rarest human skill is motivation—the ability to independently initiate an action. 4815
May 12 2011: Most human behavior is either repetition of a past pattern or reaction to events of the outside world. Initiative is extremely rare. 4816
May 12 2011: The test of someone's independent initiative is what they do with their spare time. 4817
May 12 2011: Given some free time, most people will "outsource" it by turning it over to programmed entertainment. 4818
May 12 2011: Initiative is doing something you haven't done before in a way you haven't done before to improve or expand yourself. 4819
May 12 2011: It takes initiative to actively explore the world. Most will simply wait for the world to impose itself on them. 4820
May 12 2011: If someone throws something at you and you duck, that's not initiative; that's reaction. Most human behavior is like that. 4821
May 12 2011: People rarely change course unless change is forced upon them by a crisis or significant pain. 4822
May 12 2011: Success is the assassin of initiative. Once people reach it, their development usually stops and they rarely go any farther. 4823
May 12 2011: Look at all the past stars of pop music? How many are still producing? Paul Simon. That's it! The others are merely resting on their past. 4824
May 12 2011: Right now, you could watch TV, or you could do something new and innovative with your time, building your future. Guess which one wins. 4825
May 12 2011: Young people start out with big plans, but after a few stabs at initiative, they usually quit, falling into a dull, comfortable routine. 4826
May 12 2011: Retirement, for most, means years of programmed, repetitive activities. And crossword puzzles, lots of crossword puzzles. 4827
May 12 2011: Unhappiness is the promoter of initiative. If you're unhappy enough with your current lot, you just might get off your ass and do something! 4828
May 12 2011: Initiative is a skill that gets stronger the more you use it. 4829
May 12 2011: Initiative is the pro-active step of solving problems in your life before they become problems. 4830
May 12 2011: Look at your friends. How many are actually doing things, and how many are stuck in a routine? 4831
May 12 2011: Look at yourself. Are you actually doing things—taking initiative—or are you stuck in a comfortable, repetitive routine? 4832
May 12 2011: Thank God for catastrophe! Without it, most people would never leave their safe zone. 4833
May 12 2011: #### End. This has been a live 1-hour essay: "Initiative" 4834
May 12 2011: Trailer Trash Parenting 101: Your child is crying in Walmart, what to do? Whack him hard and tell him to shut up. That always works. 4835
May 12 2011: In the long term, most romantic relationships seem to end up the same: a long-suffered "parent" and a high-maintenance "child". 4836May 12 2011: Madison, Wisconsin. http://twitpic.com/4wqk57←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4837May 12 2011: Nigerian compensation emails are a SCAM... says this Nigerian scam email. http://twitpic.com/4wr3fo←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4838
May 12 2011: Advice to Nigerian scammers: Real Americans rarely use honorifics (Mr, Mrs, Dr). That, and they have spellcheck on their computers. 4839
May 12 2011: A college town (like Madison) is a society that never grows up, never has to deal with reality. Especially the adults. 4840
May 12 2011: The Onion is the perfect journalism business model. No reporting expense. Just make shit up. 4841
May 12 2011: RT @MikeShawTweet: @BadDalaiLama Onion business model: I wasn't aware that there were newspapers or news shows that did it any other way. 4842
May 12 2011: The Weekly World News was a nearly perfect news organization. Just make it up! Their only flaw was that they had to print physical copies. 4843
May 12 2011: There's a fine line between a safe haven and prison. 4844
May 12 2011: The unmarried look longingly over the fence at those who are married. The married look longingly back. 4845
May 12 2011: .@Sluty_iris "Can I get that essay in a 'to go' bag?" [this morning's essay on Initiative] <== As you wish! Bagged: http://j.mp/keNIkF 4846May 12 2011: Wow! Get a load of those knockers! http://twitpic.com/4weupn <== Come on, you gotta love this! Straight out of Young Frankenstein. ←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4847
May 12 2011: Of all the ambivalent forms of love, none can match the fierce loyalty and supreme mutual annoyance of siblings. 4848
May 12 2011: RT @luisesc21: @BadDalaiLama I have recently noticed that, as days go by, you look less like an evil @DalaiLama and more like a good @Lo ... 4849
May 12 2011: The benefit of having lived through catastrophe is that you can better see the big picture. You don't get hung up on little things. 4850
May 13 2011: RT @garamiredux: I read Kierkegaard and I despair. I read @BadDalaiLama and I wanna kick your collective asses. 4851
May 13 2011: People can lie about themselves but they can't hide their fundamental nature, which manifests itself when they are under stress. 4852
May 13 2011: The best way to know a person is to spend years with them. Barring that, you must infer their whole character from smaller clues. 4853
May 13 2011: Success is usually rejected if it doesn't match ones preconceptions of what success should be. 4854
May 13 2011: RT @MikeShawTweet: @BadDalaiLama Success rejected: Wow. Bad Dalai: This is one of your best #insights. I tip my hat to you. 4855
May 13 2011: RT @Kyoks1: La mejor manera d conocer a alguien es con los años. Aparte d eso, puedes inferir su naturaliza en base a pequeñas pistas.vi ... 4856
May 13 2011: It is Important to nurture dissenting viewpoints but also to overrule them when they say you can't do something you know you can. 4857
May 13 2011: When people think love will save them, they are ripe for a con job. 4858
May 13 2011: On My Bucket List: Die while trying to execute a death-defying feat. [See Full Bucket List] 4859
May 13 2011: Success is the assassin of initiative. 4860
May 13 2011: RT @noahWG An expert has simply spent more time learning about one topic at the expense of all others. 4861
May 13 2011: A book author wants to quote from our 2006 article on human motivation: "Why Do People Do What They Do?" http://j.mp/io5R1B Not bad! 4862May 13 2011: Spooky abandoned cathedral, shot today. This 10-second clip took me hours to produce. http://youtu.be/GzfETXS-Ab0←Our original YouTube video [more] 4863
May 13 2011: May 6 was my one year anniversary of making videos. My first uploaded video was "A Rooster Eats My Ice Cream" on FB: http://j.mp/hohf26 4864
May 14 2011: It is better to get a slice of the pie than have 100% of no pie. 4865May 14 2011: A manly man's place for real men. Better than any strip club! http://twitpic.com/4xkmqb #harborfreighttools ←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4866
May 14 2011: RT @HuffingtonPost: Disney trademarks name of Navy unit that killed bin Laden http://huff.to/m6ynHa 4867
May 14 2011: Disney already owns all of your favorite storybook characters. Now they own "Seal Team Six". http://huff.to/m6ynHa 4868
May 14 2011: RT @TelegraphNews: Roswell: 'a Soviet plot to create US panic involving a stealth plane piloted by Dr Joseph Mengele' http://tgr.ph/lYlech 4869
May 14 2011: RT @Sports_Greats: We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.-Oliver Wendell Holmes 4870
May 14 2011: RT @AtheistQ: "Unthinking faith is a curious offering to be made to the creator of the human mind." -John A. Hutchinson 4871
May 14 2011: Bruckheimer = the synonym for "overproduced" 4872
May 14 2011: While you are waiting for your "big break", countless opportunities pass you by that you refuse to see. 4873
May 15 2011: It was ingenious. It was ornate. It was the sort of brilliant, can't-fail mechanism that coyotes use to whack roadrunners. 4874
May 15 2011: The most valuable superpower isn't seeing through walls but accurately perceiving what's right in front of you. 4875May 15 2011: A Walmart parking lot amenity you find only in Pennsylvania: a hitchin' post for your horse and buggy. http://twitpic.com/4y0jci←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4876May 15 2011: Poor man's auto jack. The problem: blown radiator hose. Methinks I can fix it myself. http://twitpic.com/4y0nn3←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4877May 15 2011: The offending auto part! http://twitpic.com/4y0xkx←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4878
May 15 2011: The highest achievement of acting is to be yourself. 4879May 15 2011: On a Q train through Queens to LaGuardia airport. http://twitpic.com/4yecbq←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4880
May 16 2011: How many of you are cleaning your tongue daily? Experts recommend it. Don't you feel guilty for not doing what experts say? 4881
May 16 2011: Experts make a lot of this shit up, experts say. 4882
May 16 2011: RT @sbellelauren: whenever i think about getting married, i just read through all your tweets. all better! 4883
May 16 2011: Chupacabras on the roof, keeping me awake. Damn demons! 4884
May 17 2011: RT @QuantumJester: @BadDalaiLama who drew the face on the egg? 4885
May 17 2011: RT @GreatestQuotes: "Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better." - Albert Camus 4886
May 17 2011: Comedians' hopes for a Trump-Palin ticket are dashed! 4887
May 17 2011: One of our semi-active blogs, Kilroy Cafe, gets a nice review from @MGLeet here: http://bit.ly/jVxteJ 4888
May 17 2011: MRT @sbellelauren Whenever i think about getting married, I just read the tweets of those who already are. All better! 4889
May 17 2011: Maybe marriage wasn't the thing? We were amused by the Wikipedia entry on actress Sarah Polley. http://j.mp/m2UfLP (See "Personal Life") 4890
May 17 2011: The good George, not the evil one. (@ George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH) w/ 42 others) http://4sq.com/lJTzxD 4891
May 17 2011: Ego is like alcohol. It intoxicated you, distorts your behavior and sets you up for a fall. 4892May 17 2011: Houston, do you read? http://twitpic.com/4yzx1i (Yes, it says, "One Way".) ←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4893
May 17 2011: "Real estate is the one investment that always appreciates, never depreciates." — One of our friends during the housing boom. 4894
May 17 2011: promisoholic — n. one who is addicted to making promises but who rarely fulfills them. 4895
May 18 2011: The promisoholic wants to please others—hence the promises—but makes so many they cannot all be realized. 4896
May 18 2011: The Rapture is coming, May 21. Now is the time to sell all your worldly possessions... and send the money to me. I'll hold it for you. 4897
May 18 2011: In Dec. 1999, I made a generous offer to relieve you of your assets before Y2K. http://j.mp/lTr64A Same offer for the coming Rapture! 4898
May 18 2011: Rapture Pet Service — I'll care for your pets while you go on to Heaven. Prepayment required. No refunds. 4899May 18 2011: My new how-to video: "Elementary Phase Shifting: How to Move Instantly Between Parallel Universes" http://youtu.be/SD22PALC8fU Easy as pie! ←Our original YouTube video [more] 4900
May 18 2011: For the record, I don't have 479 photos in my facebook albums, but 479 *ALBUMS*! We're talking galaxies, not stars. http://j.mp/hCy23K 4901
May 18 2011: On My Bucket List: Botch my one and only suicide attack by yelling "Die, infidels!" just a little too soon. [See Full Bucket List] 4902
May 18 2011: On My Bucket List... Here are all our bucket list items on a single page: http://BadDalaiLama.com/archive?search=bucket [See Full Bucket List] 4903
May 18 2011: Horror movies are violence porn. 4904
May 18 2011: I love you like big fish love those little cleaner fish that swim inside their mouth but don't get eaten. 4905May 18 2011: Alien anal probe, Pensacola, Florida. http://twitpic.com/4zrssj←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4906
May 19 2011: RT @GreatestQuotes: "It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end." - Ursula Le Guin 4907
May 19 2011: RT @nainysahani: Priceless. Gene Weingarten: "Restraint of trademark" - The Washington Post http://me.lt/7X7oE #stetson #asshats 4908
May 19 2011: "We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood." — William James via @philo_quotes 4909
May 19 2011: Both lies and promises tax ones memory. 4910
May 19 2011: Everything I know about current TV shows I learned from Wikipedia. So much easier than actually watching! 4911
May 19 2011: I deeply appreciate the education we are all getting on the International Monetary Fund. Never knew economics could be so interesting! #DSK 4912
May 20 2011: Songs for Borderlines: Please Don't Leave Me, by Pink. Hot N Cold by Katy Perry. 4913
May 20 2011: Your damnation in Hell will be listening to positive affirmations from John Tesh. 4914
May 20 2011: The greatest enemy of the artist is his own ego, which prevents him from seeing his own work accurately. 4915
May 20 2011: RT @dunebat: My thoughts on the new Area 51 book (Goth.net): http://bit.ly/lk1pJw (Mirrored @lunaticoutposthttp://bit.ly/k0Kisx) 4916
May 20 2011: RT @avphibes: Okay guys, awesome plan: at 6:00 tomorrow, throw a pile of clothes on the ground and hide. Best prank ever! 4917
May 20 2011: Best way to convince: Speak at 3.5 words per second, with a few pauses. http://ti.me/jmVr1q 4918
May 20 2011: Hello, goodbye! (@ Grand Central Terminal w/ 58 others) http://4sq.com/jsVpmC 4919
May 20 2011: Each person you meet helps you understand the next person you meet. 4920May 20 2011: Video Experiment: Grand Central Station in Fast Forward. http://youtu.be/6JHbl4_wLbY - 14-second video shot yesterday in Manhattan. ←Our original YouTube video [more] 4921
May 21 2011: Ego is like alcohol. It intoxicates you, distorts your behavior and sets you up for a fall. 4922
May 21 2011: Nice photo I took in October of a member of "The Wild", a vicious band of medieval mercenaries. FB photo: http://j.mp/mztuG0 4923May 21 2011: Video Postcard: End of the World in Times Square. http://youtu.be/rXKqWV3xrP0 1:30 - Filmed just before the Apocalypse last night. ←Our original YouTube video [more] 4924
May 22 2011: Archive photos: Times Square. http://j.mp/iOm9TI (FB album) 4925
May 22 2011: RT @TheEconomist: Is a bubble in higher education even possible when there is no asset to be sold? http://econ.st/it5SI2 4926
May 22 2011: You Rapture believers, now you will suffer God's economic wrath! 4927
May 22 2011: Advice to religious zealots: Vague, unprovable predictions are always better than specific, disprovable ones. 4928
May 22 2011: In New York City, honking a car horn is now illegal! For video I shot in Times Square, I'll need to go to Athens for appropriate sounds. 4929
May 22 2011: "Experienced" doesn't necessarily mean "competent". There are plenty of people who repeat the same actions without learning anything. 4930
May 23 2011: Wisdom is knowing what you don't know. 4931May 23 2011: One of the best movies ever made: Scooby Doo! Watching the director's commentary version at Costco. http://twitpic.com/51j7qj←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4932
May 23 2011: The people who make the movies don't make the trailers—for good reason. They can't see their own project from the outside. 4933
May 23 2011: I have been told I should be listening to this NPR interview: "Area 51 Uncensored: Was It UFOs Or The USSR?" http://j.mp/imCpAY Eventually. 4934
May 23 2011: Just listened to the Fresh Air interview on Area 51 {ibid}. Annie Jacobson: total bullshitter! 4935
May 23 2011: If anyone deserves to be mythologized, it's Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi — not Elvis! 4936
May 24 2011: Just because someone has a "Q" clearance doesn't mean they're not a bullshitter. #area51 4937May 24 2011: Video Experiment: Grand Central Station at Hyperspeed http://youtu.be/aS_Mzz_2aws 18 seconds. 2 days ago. ←Our original YouTube video [more] 4938
May 24 2011: Visiting Joplin MO in search of tornado devastation. So far no signs of it. 4939
May 25 2011: In downtown Joplin, Missouri, looking for tornado damage. WHERE IS IT? Everything I've seen so far is completely normal. 4940
May 25 2011: The news coverage suggests this town has been wiped off the map. Not true! Must be in some highly localized part of town. Still searching... 4941
May 25 2011: Still searching for tornado devastation in Joplin MO. Can't find it. Not even a downed tree. See my geotags. Am I in the right town? 4942
May 25 2011: Massive tornado Sunday night in Joplin. Supposedly wiped our most of the town. WHERE IS THE DEVASTATION??? Am I crazy? 4943
May 25 2011: The Joplin tornado must have been brought to us by the same people who faked the moon landing. I can't find it! 4944
May 25 2011: See my geotags. I'm engaged in a search pattern, looking for devastation, looking for ANYTHING out of the ordinary. So far nada. 4945
May 25 2011: RT @lunarchic: @BadDalaiLama it's further south than where you are. 4946
May 25 2011: RT @ChefTariqHanna: @BadDalaiLama Look for Anderson Cooper's shock of white hair, you'll find it! 4947
May 25 2011: RT @lunarchichttp://yfrog.com/hsh9pcdj <== Thanks! That's helpful. #Joplin 4948
May 25 2011: This is embarrassing. Major, CNN-level natural disaster and I can't find it. #Joplin 4949
May 25 2011: Okay, I'm a little south of town and the power is out. No obvious damage, just no power. Temporary stop signs at the stoplights. 4950
May 25 2011: All businesses shut down due to lack of power. Some light debris piled along sides if the road. A few broken windows. 4951
May 25 2011: Cop pulls up beside me and says through his loudspeaker: "You have seven minutes to seek shelter," then he races off! 4952
May 25 2011: For real!? I think they're just a little oversensitive. The likelihood of another tornado in the same place seems slim. 4953
May 25 2011: I see a storm to the south but I'm at a convenience store that's open and has power. 4954
May 25 2011: I saw downed trees and power lines, but the streets are open. Lots of police cars, and I turned back when one seemed to block the road. 4955
May 25 2011: The rest you've probably seen on CNN. 4956
May 25 2011: I'm going to park and go walking 4957
May 25 2011: There's a big thunderstorm coming and it's going to dump here in a minute. No walk right now. 4958
May 25 2011: Tornado siren sounding, but I have nowhere to go. People running! 4959
May 25 2011: It's spooky, but I'm not afraid. The likelihood of another tornado is slim. People are just shellshocked and overreacting. 4960
May 25 2011: RT @ereva foolish. 70mph winds, hail and rotation spotted. Apparently you need to experience it first hand to learn respect. 4961
May 25 2011: The problem is no knowing which way to go. See my geotag and tell me. 4962
May 25 2011: It's raining but not a downpour. The thunderstorm is all around me, so if I were to run I wouldn't know which way to go. 4963
May 25 2011: RT @jlctb1: @BadDalaiLama south and west 4964
May 25 2011: ."@jlctb1: "south and west" <== As you wish. I'll drive west... casually. 4965
May 25 2011: Is it any safer in Oklahoma? I hear it's a garden spot. 4966
May 25 2011: So all I saw was details: some downed power lines and trees. It's dark and the affected neighborhoods have no power, so nothing to see. 4967
May 25 2011: The tornado siren and the cop telling me to seek shelter were a nice touch. 4968
May 25 2011: RT @ChefTariqHanna: Cnn's reporting a tornado heading that way at 45 mph. <== Ha! I can outrun that! 4969
May 25 2011: Now I'm in it! The zone of devastation. The lightning illuminates the ghosts of broken trees. Wish I could see more. 4970
May 25 2011: Pretty gnarly storm right now. 4971
May 25 2011: Back at the freeway now. Big thunderstorm. Heavy rain. But I've seen worse. Will fuel up and head west. 4972
May 25 2011: Are 100 deaths by tornado more important than the other million dying today? 4973
May 25 2011: Now in Oklahoma now. Only light rain. 4974
May 25 2011: Are deaths broadcast on CNN more important than those not broadcast on CNN? Do they deserve more mourning? 4975
May 25 2011: A siren sounds and people run for cover, yet a mile away all is bright and cheerful and no one is running. Why? 4976
May 25 2011: Am I safer now that I have crossed from Missouri to Oklahoma? Do tornados respect state lines? 4977
May 25 2011: What the news reports don't make clear: 90% of Joplin is completely unaffected. The city has not been destroyed. 4978
May 25 2011: If you experience the world only through television, the thing you'll never get is perspective. You can't tell a big threat from a tiny one. 4979
May 25 2011: Is it proper to mourn someone you didn't care about when they were alive? 4980
May 25 2011: On My Bucket List: Race around the world to help people wherever there are television cameras to show me helping people. [See Full Bucket List] 4981
May 25 2011: Television always takes you to the epicenter of the worst devastation. It never shows you what is normal and functioning. 4982
May 25 2011: Absolutely everything in Oklahoma is named after Will Rogers. I know this from scientific observation. 4983
May 25 2011: Even if 500 people die this year in tornados, it's still a statistically trivial source of death, behind 1000s of accidents and diseases. 4984
May 25 2011: To grow, you always have to give something up. That's the hardest part: letting go of your past investments. 4985
May 25 2011: RT @washingtonpost: Violent thunderstorms leave 9 dead in Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas, days after Joplin tornado http://wapo.st/kfjI4F 4986
May 25 2011: The main deception of photos and video is showing you a detail of something and leading you to believe it represents the whole. 4987
May 25 2011: Photography will always show you the most dramatic portion of the most dramatic event, which may completely misrepresent the whole reality. 4988
May 25 2011: the frame illusion — n. the viewer's assumption that whatever is cut off by the frame of a photo or video extends infinitely beyond it. 4989
May 25 2011: Viewers infer the whole starship Enterprise from just a few sets. That's the frame illusion at work. 4990
May 25 2011: The greatest carnal pleasure: being liberated, at the end of the day, from the confines of restrictive bras and underwear. Ahhhh! 4991
May 26 2011: @literarybabe "How true! Especially after a stressful day. How would you know?" <== Males deal with their own construction, below the belt. 4992May 26 2011: My free lodging last night, within sight of Cadillac Ranch near Amarillo, Texas. http://twitpic.com/52onzn←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 4993
May 26 2011: In TV "documentaries", only ratings matter, not accuracy. Think if it as "fact-based fiction". 4994
May 26 2011: My 1994 report on the media and how it works, including my first introduction to "infotainment" television. http://j.mp/j2bAkx Desert Rat 4995May 26 2011: Video Postcard: Cattle Call, Amarillo, Texas. http://youtu.be/socUtH6vqnM 2-minute visit with hamburger-on-the-hoof at a massive feed lot. ←Our original YouTube video [more] 4996
May 26 2011: What goes up, must come down! (@ Sandia Peak Tramway) http://4sq.com/k5nDiU 4997
May 26 2011: Most adults are like potted plants. They've set down roots and ain't gonna move on their own. 4998
May 26 2011: Between seeing your parents as gods and seeing them as ordinary people, there's a period of "Oh My God, how embarrassing!" 4999
May 26 2011: Hubris is thinking your romance will last forever. 5000
May 27 2011: Digital is the new slavery. 5001
May 27 2011: Joplin, Missouri, 3 days ago. I passed through at night, and all I could see was illuminated by lightning. FB photo: http://j.mp/mwcVzk 5002
May 27 2011: "Practice" is different from "experience". Mere repetition doesn't get you anywhere; only learning counts. 5003May 28 2011: Good news! L.A. parking meters now take COINS as well as credit cards! http://twitpic.com/53p8i4←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5004May 28 2011: Griffith Park Observatory. Sometimes L.A. is totally cool! http://twitpic.com/53ezs9←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5005
May 28 2011: If there is nothing so close to true evil on Planet Earth as drugs. They take a good person and turn them to the dark side. 5006
May 28 2011: The lament of many: "I had it all and blew it." 5007May 28 2011: At the Grove. http://twitpic.com/53gmy6←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5008May 28 2011: In the Local Interests section at Barnes & Noble at The Grove. California culture and horticulture. http://twitpic.com/53gwxa←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5009
May 28 2011: This is a man with macaroni balls! http://j.mp/lfLa7L (FB photo) 5010May 29 2011: Video Postcard: View of the Acropolis from the balcony of my hostel room in Athens. http://youtu.be/Nj9qmhv9PG8 45 seconds ←Our original YouTube video [more] 5011May 30 2011: A political rally I encountered in Athens a few hours ago... if only I knew what for! http://youtu.be/t6F8oyvw7zQ 1:42 Syntagma Square. ←Our original YouTube video [more] 5012May 30 2011: The Acropolis from the roof of my $25 hostel in Athens. Right now! http://twitpic.com/54j18w←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5013May 30 2011: Arriving in Athens, this somewhat sinister 17-second video describes my first order of business: http://youtu.be/ZO2RSjMKU4I←Our original YouTube video [more] 5014
May 30 2011: Decent enough hostel for €18/nt. Fantastic view of the Acropolis from the roof! (@ Hotel Pella) http://4sq.com/jd8m4k 5015May 30 2011: View from my dorm room window in Athens. Pretty darn amazing! http://twitpic.com/54jm0d←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5016
May 30 2011: RT @danywino: Me encanta el pelón @BadDalaiLama es genial en su crudeza. Realmente será gringo, o ése es su disfraz? 5017
May 31 2011: Human brain is limited to 150 friends http://j.mp/jKx7AW Interview http://j.mp/bUETk7 via @brainpicker 5018
May 31 2011: RT @washingtonpost: Compared with other disasters, tornadoes have small environmental impact http://wapo.st/kXq0Wl 5019
May 31 2011: RT @Sheamus: The 5 Stages Of ‘Getting' Twitter. http://bit.ly/kAjjH0 5020
Jun 1 2011: RT @ebertchicago: Clint Eastwood's birthday, and how Dirty Harry got a female partner. (Earlier tweet led to a bad page) http://bit.ly/i ... 5021
Jun 1 2011: The benefit of age, if you're lucky, is seeing things for what they really are. 5022
Jun 1 2011: Initiative is a renewable resource that is always in short supply. 5023
Jun 1 2011: Typical Athens street scene. The artwork is free! FB photo: http://j.mp/l5zi8c 5024
Jun 1 2011: Power over your own life should be relinquished only with extreme caution, because once you give it up it is hard to take it back. 5025
Jun 1 2011: The primary mission of the American college student visiting Europe is the consumption of alcohol. 5026Jun 2 2011: Video Postcard: Little drummer at Athens demonstration. http://youtu.be/r73OrvfBnJ4 4-minute performance in Syntagma Square last night. ←Our original YouTube video [more] 5027
Jun 2 2011: Where motivation exists, many things are possible. Where no motivation exists, everything is impossible. 5028
Jun 3 2011: Everything is negotiable except the willingness to negotiate. 5029
Jun 3 2011: Technically, "I'm going to have to ask you to leave," isn't really asking anything. Right? 5030Jun 4 2011: Motel room green screen, Temple, Texas. http://twitpic.com/57apho←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5031
Jun 5 2011: Green screen at work. Not the jungles of Southeast Asia but a motel room in Temple, Texas. FB photo: http://j.mp/jXqM6k 5032
Jun 6 2011: We all have a date with entropy. 5033
Jun 6 2011: RT @trevlutz: I hope Entropy is hot! RT @BadDalaiLama We all have a date with entropy. 5034
Jun 6 2011: How do you date a Kardashian? Cut it open and count the rings. 5035Jun 6 2011: 13-second test of chromakey. I'm actually in a motel room in Texas. Now you'll never know what's real! http://youtu.be/SuB0jGofRek←Our original YouTube video [more] 5036
Jun 7 2011: You and I would make poor thieves because we aren't willing to take big risks for little reward. Not so with the drug addict. 5037
Jun 7 2011: The central trauma of life is the transition from protected childhood to unprotected adulthood. 5038
Jun 7 2011: Childhood is a delusion, held up by an artificial system of supports that can't be maintained indefinitely. 5039
Jun 7 2011: On My Bucket List: Appear at a confessional news conference to admit my sexual indiscretions, unaccompanied by my wife. [See Full Bucket List] 5040Jun 8 2011: Seeing the whole world in Flushing. http://twitpic.com/58vgp8←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5041Jun 8 2011: A bizarre sight I've never seen before: a $1 soft drink vending machine—at an airport! (Memphis International) http://twitpic.com/59hhbr←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5042
Jun 10 2011: What is your best defense against tornados, sharks, airplane crashes, serial killers and terrorist attacks? Statistics! 5043Jun 10 2011: Flushing Meadows, 1965. I saw the amazing world of tomorrow! Anything was possible in the 21st Century. http://twitpic.com/59it07←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5044
Jun 10 2011: The rarest kind of vision is to be able to look in the mirror and see yourself as accurately and dispassionately as others do. 5045
Jun 10 2011: RT @CrankyPappy: When I hear "I had no choice" I smell bullshit. We almost always have choices. 5046
Jun 10 2011: The Paris Hilton tragedy: poor ratings for her new reality show. OMG, so sad! http://goo.gl/fb/eohqq via @MailOnline 5047
Jun 10 2011: RT @laurenahayes: "Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you ... 5048
Jun 11 2011: @laurenahayes Rediscovered! Lola's tweets still make me smile! 5049Jun 11 2011: It's the law in Arkansas: You can't offer free kitten's without an extra apostrophe. http://twitpic.com/59sc3t←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5050
Jun 11 2011: On My Bucket List: Sabotage my own political career through indiscreet postings on Twitter.... Oh, wait, I've already done that! [See Full Bucket List] 5051
Jun 11 2011: @AlannaChats "Took public transport with @ashyadriana." <== OMG, mingling with the proletariat! 5052
Jun 11 2011: RT @GreatestQuotes: "Trusting our intuition often saves us from disaster." —Anne Wilson Schaef <== or launches us into it! 5053
Jun 11 2011: RT @CrankyPappy: Don't worry about the world. You don't control the world. Worry about you. If you're lucky, you have some control over you. 5054
Jun 11 2011: When choosing your own activities, the ultimate question is, "Is this the best use of my time?" 5055
Jun 12 2011: Was lost on the streets of Moscow last night, then I remembered you need a visa for Russia which I didn't have, so it was just a dream. 5056
Jun 12 2011: RT @philo_quotes: To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say. ~ Descartes http://bit.ly/philq 5057
Jun 12 2011: To know who people really are, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say. {MRT Descartes} 5058
Jun 12 2011: RT @TheLie_Lama: The past cannot be changed, forgotten, edited, Undone or erased. It can only be accepted. 5059
Jun 12 2011: A nightmare is as valuable as any real experience. If you learn to handle it in your sleep then you're better equipped for the real world. 5060
Jun 12 2011: We understand movies because they are edited the same as dreams, jumping between significant actions without the intervening boring bits. 5061
Jun 12 2011: If you're fishing but the fish aren't biting, there's no sense in cursing the fish. It's your job to figure them out. 5062
Jun 12 2011: Much of what we call romance is the attempt to outsource responsibility for our own life. Someone else will save us. 5063
Jun 12 2011: Our perpetual curse is to see others with perfect clarity but ourselves only through the thick fog of ego. 5064
Jun 12 2011: It is easy to accurately evaluate a comedian or musician while sitting in the audience, much harder if you are that performer. 5065
Jun 12 2011: "The modern predicament of the Internet user: too much information, not enough judgment." 5066
Jun 13 2011: Our history is being written by the Gnomes of Wikipedia. 5067
Jun 13 2011: RT @NinelleEfremova: We make our own destiny. We make our own happiness. We make ourselves. Make yourself. 5068
Jun 13 2011: @princeboucher "bellarusian princess, entrepreneur, artist, and simply just an amazing person @NinelleEfremova" <== Good catch! A keeper! 5069
Jun 13 2011: RT @YourAuntLola: If you're waiting for The Universe to tell you what to do, sweetie...you might wanna take a seat 5070
Jun 13 2011: Drugs are the closest thing to Darth Vader evil. They'll take a good person and turn them to the dark side, until you can only run away. 5071Jun 13 2011: Bond and Blofeld join forces. http://twitpic.com/5baahv←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5072Jun 14 2011: Tikaboo Peak (Area 51 viewpoint). Right now! http://twitpic.com/5blciz←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5073
Jun 14 2011: On My Bucket List: Make billions on the IPO of an unproven Internet product—then get out fast! [See Full Bucket List] 5074
Jun 15 2011: Misfortune is often the kick in the ass we need to change ourselves. 5075
Jun 15 2011: The main problem with being a supervillain is you have to shave twice a day to maintain that bald supervillain sheen. 5076
Jun 15 2011: The trouble with being a celebrity is everyone wants you for their own purposes and no one sees you for who you really are. 5077
Jun 15 2011: It's fine to praise the "common man" in the abstract, but you don't want your destiny tied up with his. Them folks is dumb! 5078
Jun 15 2011: RT @Stonerpreneur: @baddalailama have you thought about investing in a bald cap? 5079
Jun 15 2011: RT @annielederman: My birth control pills have completely destroyed my libido. Man, those things really work! 5080
Jun 15 2011: RT @preschoolgems: "At the park there's like, no laws." 5081
Jun 15 2011: Golf courses and tennis courts are the playground sets of adulthood: packaged amusements for the imprisoned. 5082
Jun 15 2011: Visiting the prison island of Hilton Head, where the inmates are forced to play golf all day. 5083
Jun 15 2011: We just updated our Sacred Archive of Ancient Wisdom at http://BadDalaiLama.com - The most sophisticated Twitter archive on the planet! 5084
Jun 16 2011: The primary purpose of advice is to serve the needs of the person giving it. 5085
Jun 16 2011: RT @MikeShawTweet: @BadDalaiLama Advice: You are on target Bad Dalai. This time I see myself in what you say, so u r giving REAL spiritu ... 5086
Jun 16 2011: Porsches must offer SOME sort of reproductive benefit or their owners would have died off long ago. http://bit.ly/m5kOJx via @quippdPsych 5087
Jun 16 2011: 1 coyote. 1 roadrunner. 1 anvil from the Acme Corporation. Do the math. 5088
Jun 16 2011: RT @StephenAtHome: Our nation's seniors face another threat - the continual passage of time. 5089
Jun 16 2011: RT @ispeakfemale: This is how we get hurt: We start believing it really could last forever. 5090
Jun 16 2011: The burden of too many choices is the cost of evaluating them. Limited choice often makes us happier. http://tiny.ly/b6PW via @quippdPsych 5091
Jun 16 2011: A test of emotional intelligence is whether you can manage a room thermostat—not turning it to the extreme setting when you're cold or hot. 5092
Jun 16 2011: On My Bucket List: Become the subject of a political scandal to which the suffix "-gate" is applied. [See Full Bucket List] 5093
Jun 16 2011: RT @brainpicker: Gold! Richard Dreyfuss does a dramatic reading of the iTunes end user license agreement http://j.mp/mIyA9i (HT @opencul ... 5094
Jun 17 2011: You get complete honesty only from young children and drunks. Others learn discretion. 5095
Jun 17 2011: Just because you have a right to do something doesn't mean it's wise to do. 5096
Jun 17 2011: One can be smart without being wise. Being clever in solving a problem is not the same as choosing the right problem to solve. 5097
Jun 17 2011: ++++ LIVE TWEETING my attempt to visit to Cairo. Now in PHL, trying to work it out. 5098Jun 17 2011: My Egyptian visa, issued during The Troubles, is still valid: http://twitpic.com/3xj4cl←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5099
Jun 17 2011: As a furloughed airline worker, I fly nearly for free. The catch: I can only fly standby, and flights are heavily booked this time of year. 5100
Jun 17 2011: My first option was the simple one: fly free to Athens, then hop a cut-rate airline to Cairo... FOILED when the Athens flight check in full! 5101
Jun 17 2011: Perhaps I should just give up, settle for some lame destination like Paris or Rome. C'est la vie. You win some and lose some. 5102
Jun 17 2011: But wait! There's a flight later tonight to Tel Aviv. No cheap flights to Cairo, but I can get there by LAND across the Sinai Desert! 5103
Jun 17 2011: I've already researched the route: Tel Aviv south to Eilat by bus (5+ hours). Cross the Egypt border at Taba, then bus to Cairo (6 hours). 5104
Jun 17 2011: I intended to use the Taba crossing in January, which is why I have the visa, but a revolution got in the way. Now Egypt *seems* stable. 5105
Jun 17 2011: I get butterflies in my stomach when thinking about crossing the Sinai. Perhaps the most adventurous thing I've done. A little scary! 5106
Jun 17 2011: The total cost of the land journey, Tel Aviv to Cairo: under $100! A lot less than the airfare from Athens to Cairo. 5107
Jun 17 2011: Correction: Tel Aviv to Eilat: 75 Israeli Shekels. Taba to Cairo: 70 Egyptian Pounds. Grand total, including transfers: less than $50! 5108
Jun 17 2011: RT @Toledowni: @BadDalaiLama I guess in that sense you are indeed a yeisayer, a pragmatic-solution, no-no -for-an-answer fella. I would ... 5109
Jun 17 2011: RT @Toledowni: @BadDalaiLama Used to face the "catch" myself. In stand-by flight one's always subject to last-minute "humilliation" (pax ... 5110
Jun 17 2011: I would splurge on a hostel in Eilat, probably this one: http://j.mp/jNrDfd - A functional one I stayed at before. $20/nt (but 2 night min) 5111
Jun 17 2011: Information on the Taba crossing from Israel to Eqypt. http://T.CO/cwHhBbl 5112Jun 17 2011: Eilat is the Israeli Riviera, a tiny beach on the Red Sea sandwiched between Egypt and Jordan. My video from April: http://youtu.be/PxNDhtQzmDM←Our original YouTube video [more] 5113
Jun 17 2011: BUT FIRST... I have to get to Tel Aviv! The flight, 3 hours from now, is 100% full, but I'm counting on no-shows to leave me a seat. 5114
Jun 17 2011: OMG! Maybe throw in a day trip to this place: Petra! http://T.CO/dX74kyU I can't afford a $250 tour, but maybe a $80 taxi. 5115
Jun 17 2011: I have only one request of the aliens: Sterilize the human race until they implement a credible parental licensing program. 5116
Jun 17 2011: RT @dunebat: @BadDalaiLama Or the aliens could implement one themselves. 5117
Jun 17 2011: .@dunebat "Or the aliens could implement one themselves." <== It is not their place to make the policy, only to insist there be one. 5118
Jun 17 2011: Most of the world's problems stem from unrestricted birth. The most ill-equipped have the babies—and far too many of them. 5119
Jun 17 2011: In a totalitarian regime, government can dictate a "one child policy", but in a democracy it is politically impossible. 5120
Jun 17 2011: The aliens, with their advanced technology, should be able to prevent human reproduction, perhaps by disabling sperm or neutralizing libido. 5121
Jun 17 2011: Alien-imposed birth control should be released only when the humans prove they can procreate responsibly. 5122
Jun 17 2011: Alcohol-impaired procreation is the worst! As dangerous as drink driving! Parents must be tested before copulation is allowed to proceed. 5123
Jun 17 2011: Only the aliens can save us from ourselves. Only they can say, "No more babies 'til you take care of the ones you already have." 5124
Jun 17 2011: #### End live one-hour essay: "Alien Birth Control" 5125
Jun 17 2011: Maybe Bin Laden won after all, bankrupting a superpower. $3 TRILLION over 15 years. http://j.mp/iMxBYJ via @brainpicker 5126
Jun 17 2011: Los Angeles is like the Galapagos Islands: filled with bizarre examples of extreme evolution that can't survive anywhere else. 5127
Jun 17 2011: Starting a new political movement: "Protect Gays From Marriage!" Don't fight for a right that makes no rational sense to begin with. 5128
Jun 17 2011: Gay couples who cannot marry must take their relationship in small discretionary steps in a process resembling reason. 5129
Jun 17 2011: RT @BlondeDuJour: If a woman is single she assumes, too quickly, that every slight, every misery is related to that fact 5130
Jun 17 2011: The "behavioral immune system" explains much irrational human behavior. http://bit.ly/lBjDmSe 5131
Jun 17 2011: I'm on the Tel Aviv flight. Biggest adventure yet! Probably no tweets til Eilat in 20 hours. 5132
Jun 18 2011: The expedition theme song: "Walk Like an Egyptian" by The Bangles. 5133
Jun 18 2011: Trapped at the Tel Aviv airport for a few hours, due to Shabbat. (whole country shuts down!) w/ 2 others http://4sq.com/ks631D 5134Jun 18 2011: Arrival hall, Ben Gurion Airport. http://twitpic.com/5daeln←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5135
Jun 18 2011: Got plenty of time to plot and plan at the Tel Aviv airport (due to Shabbat). Petra is out! Heading straight to Cairo over next 24 hours. 5136
Jun 18 2011: Map of my bus route from Tel Aviv to Cairo, as first dreamt in December. FB photo: http://T.CO/Qwi1ZZo 5137
Jun 18 2011: Just booked my escape route out of Cairo: a short flight to Athens. At $205, it's the most expensive part of the trip. 5138
Jun 18 2011: I'll be splurging on accommodations in Cairo: a private room for $14/night. Hostelworld: http://T.CO/lsl4l8t 5139
Jun 18 2011: RT @BlondeDuJour: It is often years before a woman realizes that men are neither rogues nor rescuers, but just people. 5140Jun 18 2011: From where I sit. Tel Aviv Central Bus Station, waiting for a midnight bus to Eilat. http://twitpic.com/5df84o←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5141Jun 18 2011: Bad Dalai drives a hard bargain! The seller said 30 shekels. I said 20. We settled on 25, and I got this hat! http://twitpic.com/5dfzqs←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5142Jun 18 2011: Boarding my bus from Tel Aviv to Eilat. http://twitpic.com/5dg6v1←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5143
Jun 18 2011: The biggest, ugliest and most fascinating bus station I've visited. Seen way too much of it! (@ Central Bus Station) http://4sq.com/iz1Hh7 5144Jun 18 2011: In my last gasp of free wifi—aboard the bus to Eilat. http://twitpic.com/5dgcdz←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5145
Jun 18 2011: RT @angusbatey: Big hat-tip to @BadDalaiLama for pointing me in the right direction: http://T.CO/94xZpcD" 5146Jun 19 2011: 3am smoking break on the night bus from Tel Aviv to Eilat. http://twitpic.com/5diwm4←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5147Jun 19 2011: About two hours from the southern tip of Israel. iPhone map: http://twitpic.com/5diy8a←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5148Jun 19 2011: At the meeting point of four countries: Israel, Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. http://twitpic.com/5dklhh←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5149Jun 19 2011: Danger of Death' But isn't there always? (Eilat, Israel) http://twitpic.com/5dknc0←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5150Jun 19 2011: Arrived in Cairo! Took 40 hours to get here! Here's m view from the window of my $14 private room. Right now! http://twitpic.com/5dw34l←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5151Jun 19 2011: Swimming with the fishes. Eilat, Israel. http://twitpic.com/5e7ai8←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5152
Jun 20 2011: Interviewing a local resident of the Sinai Desert. (in Taba, Egypt, yesterday) FB photo: http://T.CO/sR9wybb 5153
Jun 20 2011: Photos from the Sinai Desert (yesterday). FB album: http://t.co/yTMWYHB 5154Jun 20 2011: A 2-minute tour of my tiny hostel in downtown Cairo http://youtu.be/U-bcrxMlm3w On the 11th floor of a grungy office building near the Nile. ←Our original YouTube video [more] 5155Jun 21 2011: My money shot from the Pyramids of Egypt. http://twitpic.com/5ery1g (You can do amazing things with green screen!) ←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5156Jun 21 2011: The scariest part of a camel ride is the getting down! http://twitpic.com/5esf04←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5157
Jun 21 2011: As a tourist in Egypt you're hassled and hustled at every turn, especially at the Pyramids. It takes a lot of energy to push it away. 5158
Jun 21 2011: Forget "Walk Like an Egyptian". If you can "Bargain Like an Egyptian" you have a real skill. 5159
Jun 21 2011: There is a sporting event on TV and all of Cairo is watching. Out my window I hear simultaneous whoops and groans from the whole city. 5160
Jun 21 2011: It's not terribly hot in Cairo. I have A/C in my room but haven't used it. Just leave the window open and listen to the city. 5161Jun 21 2011: My camel driver, 13 years old. http://twitpic.com/5evfwn←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5162
Jun 21 2011: Some random photos from Cairo, taken today. (This was my recovery day, and I didn't venture far.) FB album: http://t.co/il4P0D7 5163
Jun 21 2011: My hostel is on the 11th floor of a downtown Cairo building. The elevator is out, so it's up and down this stairwell: http://j.mp/mDt6nf 5164
Jun 21 2011: Egyptian commerce is filled with innocent mistakes, like a merchant "forgetting" to give your change back when you buy something. 5165
Jun 21 2011: @laurenahayes You can't always be "insanely great". There is also an art to doing things just well enough and moving on. That's triage. 5166
Jun 21 2011: Never get too close to dysfunctional people. Maintain a firewall between you and them so their dysfunction doesn't become yours. 5167
Jun 22 2011: I updated the Taba, Egypt, page on WikiTravel to reflect my experience there: http://wikitravel.org/en/Taba 5168Jun 22 2011: This is where I'm headed today. Old Cairo. Looks like a maze! http://twitpic.com/5f3weo←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5169Jun 22 2011: Video Postcard: Interviewing a camel named Moses at the Great Pyramids. Not a lot to say, this one. http://youtu.be/59oW6Awy27w (40 seconds) ←Our original YouTube video [more] 5170
Jun 22 2011: RT @CrankyPappy: Even when life hands you lemons, you have to actually get off your ass and make the lemonade, knucklehead. 5171
Jun 22 2011: "A home without books is a body without soul."—Cicero <== Dear Cis, can you translate that into internet terms? What is a "book"? 5172
Jun 22 2011: Histrionic Personality Disorder—aka "a drama queen". DSM: http://j.mp/jmuBcz Treatable? Not if you're in love with one! Just get away fast! 5173
Jun 22 2011: RT @YourAuntLola: Sweetie, the important thing to remember about Life is: you never get there 5174
Jun 22 2011: New AssSaver™ iPhone app warns you "Don't post that, dummy!" at appropriate times. 5175Jun 22 2011: It is refreshing to find an English language menu in Cairo, but two of the items are a little disturbing. http://twitpic.com/5fcpiq←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5176
Jun 22 2011: Cairo, with 14 million cars, doesn't seem to have a single working traffic light. Kinda amazing traffic moves at all! 5177
Jun 22 2011: RT @TheBosha: I support Marriage Equality for gays but as a divorced heterosexual man I can tell you there's no such thing. 5178
Jun 23 2011: RT @xtinewu: Life Advice RT @runnersworld "In the first half of the race, don't be an idiot. In the second half, don't be a wimp." http: ... 5179
Jun 23 2011: One advantage of visiting Egypt is you're bound to lose weight. Kindly bacteria will visit your digestive system and liquify the contents. 5180Jun 23 2011: At the Great Pyramids yesterday. Any erotic implications are unintended. http://twitpic.com/5fill5 More photos on FB: http://j.mp/ji7ZUx←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5181
Jun 23 2011: FB albums from this trip: The Great Pyramids: http://j.mp/ji7ZUx Urban Cairo http://j.mp/leD3TS Taba and the Sinai Desert http://j.mp/iivAT9 5182
Jun 23 2011: After 4 days in Cairo, it is a pleasure to get back to the stability, cleanliness, safety and prosperity... of Greece! 5183
Jun 23 2011: Seriously, there is nothing visible on the surface of Athens to suggest the country is in crisis. 5184Jun 23 2011: View of the Acropolis from the same hostel I stayed at a month ago. (Pella Inn) http://twitpic.com/5fr2wh←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5185
Jun 23 2011: Paranoia is the delusion that the world really cares. 5186
Jun 24 2011: The usual penalty for mistakes in life is some form of imprisonment. 5187
Jun 24 2011: @female_masrya Don't get me wrong. I enjoyed my stay in Cairo! 5188Jun 25 2011: An American Pyramid. Right now! Toto, I don't think we're in Egypt anymore! http://twitpic.com/5gpvea←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5189
Jun 25 2011: Glen Campbell has Alzheimer's. http://j.mp/m2anG5 Wonder if the drugs and alcohol played a role. 5190
Jun 25 2011: Archive of all our tweets from our epic Cairo journey: http://j.mp/ieoDgM 5191Jun 25 2011: Kennedy was shot here... to which some of you whippersnappers may reply, "Who's Kennedy?" http://twitpic.com/5grz5w←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5192Jun 25 2011: Transportation of the proletariat, Dallas, Texas. http://twitpic.com/5gsb2p←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5193
Jun 25 2011: While total openness sounds nice in principle, no function of humanity can operate in that environment. 5194Jun 25 2011: Communing with the Common Man, whose perspective I find enlightening. I am not at all condescending in this. http://twitpic.com/5gux2e←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5195
Jun 25 2011: The skills of diplomacy and creative problem solving are a liability if they merely delay an inevitable collapse. 5196
Jun 25 2011: Many a marriage is kept marginally afloat by the hurculean efforts of one party who mistakenly takes the wedding vows literally. 5197
Jun 25 2011: Note: Previous tweet is autobiographical. 5198
Jun 25 2011: RT @maleger: Lawyers have feelings too. Allegedly. 5199
Jun 25 2011: I'm back in Walmartania—my country. Land of 24-Hour Savings and Always Low Prices. 5200
Jun 25 2011: My country has the finest Chinese-made merchandise in the world! None of Europe's Chinese merchandise can compare. 5201
Jun 25 2011: Trip conclusion: I was comfortable in Egypt, but it took me years to work up to it. It is not the place for an inexperienced traveler. 5202
Jun 25 2011: I've never visited a place with more scams and hustles than Egypt. I got cheated every day, but it was still worth it. 5203
Jun 25 2011: Cairo: No working traffic lights! You cross the street by boldly threading through moving traffic. 5204
Jun 25 2011: I had no fear of violence on the streets of Cairo but a real fear of death by vehicle or falling object. 5205
Jun 25 2011: Sleeping on the carpeted floor of baggage claim at CLT. Quite comfortable, actually. I've had practice! 5206
Jun 25 2011: The most expressive instrument is the cello, especially in the hands of @xtinewu. Like a doleful human voice. 5207
Jun 25 2011: Through delicate negotiation with the Google corporation, we have obtained BadDalaiLama@gmail.com for the exclusive use of His Holiness. 5208
Jun 25 2011: The secret of composing good music is recognizing the point where authentic emotion turns saccharin. 5209
Jun 25 2011: Everyone remembers the actor who uttered the famous line. No one remembers the screenwriter who wrote it. 5210
Jun 25 2011: RT @CrankyPappy: We have all done things we are, or should be, ashamed of. The trick is don't let those things define you. 5211
Jun 25 2011: RT @sbellelauren: as an AEA member & musical theatre actress i change my mind about gay marriage there is no way i can afford all these ... 5212
Jun 25 2011: @dunebat Can I plan a trip or can I plan a trip? http://t.co/LwT6w5E <== Another tragic case of MDCS—Male Data Collection Syndrome. 5213
Jun 25 2011: RT @GreatestQuotes: "A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it." —Albert Einstein 5214
Jun 26 2011: Sitting in the back of the bus with the common classes, I have learned their major form of entertainment is the consumption of alcohol. 5215
Jun 26 2011: On My Bucket List: Replicate a portion of my genome by joining my gamete with that of another in a process fraught with risk and obligation. [See Full Bucket List] 5216
Jun 26 2011: RT @xtinewu: @baddalailama plan B if AssSaver fails... RT @adamsconsulting How To:Delete A Drunk Night On Twitter & Facebook http://bit. ... 5217
Jun 26 2011: Unleaded in Oklahoma City: $3.199. A leading economic indicator... of what? Recovery? Recession? 5218
Jun 26 2011: "Boyfriend" and "girlfriend" are sexist, diminutive and pry into sexual orientation. Use "personfriend". #languagepolice 5219
Jun 26 2011: "Cowboy" and "cowgirl" are sexist and diminutive. Use "cattleperson" or "cattle management professional". #languagepolice 5220
Jun 26 2011: "Not as bad as I expected it to be" should not be construed as a positive review. 5221
Jun 26 2011: @jabookat I temporarily blocked you cuz you're acct is sending spam. Feel free to re-follow when you have it fixed. —Bad Dalai 5222
Jun 26 2011: Catching up on sleep in Oklahoma. Those things in the background are called "trees". They make "shade". Pretty amazing! http://ow.ly/i/dwmi 5223
Jun 26 2011: Gay marriage will inevitably lead to an epidemic of gay divorce and the mass realization: "I can't believe I fell for that!" 5224
Jun 26 2011: @NorthernMagic Who's the abuser now? 5225
Jun 26 2011: You can't climb a ladder unless you are willing to let go of a previous rung. That's what keeps most adults from growing. 5226
Jun 26 2011: RT @philoquotes: Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed. ~ William James htt ... 5227
Jun 26 2011: RT @jendenbrat: In the wild, cats don't care what brand of cat food they eat. 5228
Jun 26 2011: Offer a "regular" and "premium" option in any product and most who can afford it will go for the premium, just to say, "I'm special!" 5229
Jun 26 2011: Luxury is a scam to sell you a less efficient product at a higher price. 5230
Jun 26 2011: Luxury is a display to others that says, "I am better than you think I am." 5231Jun 26 2011: Tornado effects in Clarksville, Arkansas. http://twitpic.com/5hcm4o←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5232
Jun 26 2011: Actor gets a big break. Stars in a hit movie written and directed by someone else. Becomes a prima donna. Thinks he did it all himself. 5233
Jun 26 2011: RT @philoquotes: Beauty is a short-lived tyranny. ~ Socrates http://bit.ly/philq 5234
Jun 27 2011: Music evolved as a system of language learning. Humans basically sing to each other when they speak. 5235
Jun 27 2011: Before an infant knows words, he hears the music of his parents' speech. His innate musical sense drives him to replicate these patterns. 5236
Jun 27 2011: Music is language without the meaning, conveying only the emotional component of what is being said. 5237
Jun 27 2011: Art is a medium for a message. If you don't have a message, then your art is meaningless. 5238
Jun 27 2011: Much human effort is wasted on microscopic issues that don't make a difference to the thing being sought. 5239
Jun 27 2011: The main journey of life is escape from narcissism and recognition of your own value beyond it. 5240
Jun 27 2011: Digital animation can do some amazing things, but it is nowhere close to reproducing the subtleties of the human voice. 5241
Jun 27 2011: Photography is a tool to tag things in memory that would otherwise flit by and be forgotten. 5242
Jun 27 2011: The cost of any object is not just the purchase price but the cost of maintenance, storage and eventual disposal—which are usual far higher. 5243
Jun 27 2011: The main effect of automatic toilet flushers and light switches is to train people not to flush toilets or turn off lights. 5244
Jun 27 2011: A baby is a lot like an iPhone, requiring constant attention and you never want to drop it or leave it behind in airport security. 5245
Jun 27 2011: RT @CrankyPappy: Low testosterone levels in older men leads to Alzheimer's disease. High levels of testosterone in young men also render ... 5246Jun 27 2011: Sunrise in Memphis. http://twitpic.com/5hpb39←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5247
Jun 27 2011: Early explorers to Florida, upon seeing the manatee, assumed it was the legendary mermaid. "Man, those girls are ugly!" #ManateeMonday 5248Jun 27 2011: The REAL Parthenon, not that crumbly old Athens thing. Nashville. http://twitpic.com/5hv9ai←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5249
Jun 28 2011: Accurate assessment of our past self: so smart about some things, so dumb about others. 5250
Jun 28 2011: Wisdom is a combination of experience and the willingness to learn from it. 5251
Jun 28 2011: Apart from earthquakes and tornados, catastrophe is rarely random. It usually flows from the excesses and hubris of the previous success. 5252
Jun 28 2011: Pity the narcissist, who is more often the swindled than the swindler. His self-centeredness clouds detection of the intent of others. 5253
Jun 28 2011: Narcissists are not always grandiose or greedy. Some are pious, religious people who believe that God is there for them. 5254
Jun 28 2011: You can't explain narcissism to a narcissist. He won't understand. 5255
Jun 28 2011: It is easy to understand narcissists. We have known them intimately. They're called "teenagers". 5256
Jun 28 2011: @xtinewu "Fit as a Fiddle: The Women of Extreme Violining" 5257
Jun 28 2011: RT @Kurt_Vonnegut: A step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction. 5258
Jun 28 2011: If dietary restrictions weren't available (Kosher, vegan, gluton-free), people would invent them. ("I'll only eat blue things.") 5259
Jun 29 2011: You can have a better quality of life living at Motel 6 than in a home you own but have to maintain. 5260
Jun 29 2011: Each of us is a nest of invented restrictions: "I can't do ___ because I'm ___." Fact is, we've never really pushed ourselves. 5261
Jun 29 2011: Hanging in Austin for 24 hours. (@ Hostelling International Austin) http://4sq.com/jOeGiD 5262Jun 29 2011: My residence for the night: HI Austin Hostel. Under $30. http://j.mp/kE2Z28 Photo: http://twitpic.com/5ipdci←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5263Jun 29 2011: I got aliens on the brain at Area 51. http://twitpic.com/5ickjp (6/14) ←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5264Jun 29 2011: Photographic rebel, laughing in the face of government authority. http://twitpic.com/5icp83 (Area 51 border, 6/14) ←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5265Jun 29 2011: Trapped on a grounded plane for 3 hours. Situation so serious the flight attendants have broken out the Special Cookies. http://twitpic.com/5iddpx←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5266
Jun 29 2011: RT @brainpicker: This is amazing -- crows chastise bad behavior, even if it wasn't directed at them http://bit.ly/iDiDRt 5267Jun 29 2011: Trapped overnight at the CLT airport with none of my survival supplies. Latest innovation: trash bag blanket. http://twitpic.com/5ig5og←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5268Jun 29 2011: The trash bag blanket worked remarkably well. Got 4 hours sleep on the airport floor with sneakers for a pillow. http://twitpic.com/5iikl8←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5269
Jun 29 2011: I found my Walden at the airport. 5270
Jun 29 2011: 7am Cairo time. Midnight Austin time. Wide awake, but at least I got 9 hours sleep. A hostel is better than a trash bag! 5271
Jun 30 2011: I live out of two small bags. Now one of them is missing, lost luggage. All my clothes. Thankfully, all my electronics are still on my back. 5272Jun 30 2011: Lady Bird Lake, Austin, Texas. Adjacent to my hostel. http://twitpic.com/5j0bbf←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5273Jun 30 2011: Sunrise on Lady Bird Lake, Austin. http://twitpic.com/5j0dd2←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5274Jun 30 2011: ,@Erekosse "Beautiful place. Seems to be a kind of paradise" <== That's the illusion of Kodachrome—or in this case HDR. http://twitpic.com/5j0g1x←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5275Jun 30 2011: Enjoyed my stay at the Austin hostel. Got 12 hrs sleep and some work done in a nice environment. Beats the Hilton! http://twitpic.com/5j1855←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5276
Jun 30 2011: Lots of stranded travelers at the CLT airport on 6/28. (I was one.) FB photo: http://t.co/LxWVByv 5277
Jun 30 2011: Never underestimate the ability of music to encourage foolish lifestyle choices. 5278Jun 30 2011: A common example of the double entendre, a staple of modern advertising. So clever... not! http://twitpic.com/5j4fck←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5279Jun 30 2011: Driving Texas in 100+ heat and no air conditioning. Solution: spray bottle to douse myself with water. It works! http://twitpic.com/5j6mln←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5280
Jun 30 2011: "No pain, no gain" is self-fulfilling. If you've endured pain for something, you value it higher. Also known as the sunk cost fallacy. 5281
Jun 30 2011: The Sunk Cost Fallacy is the main thing keeping people from changing. "I've invested so much in this path that I can't turn back now." 5282
Jun 30 2011: The most trite and pandering song ever recorded? I nominate "Greatest Love of All" by Whitney Houston. Is there any cliché NOT in it? 5283
Jun 30 2011: Depression is a serious medical condition that can be treated with drugs or by taking control of your own problems. 5284
Jun 30 2011: RT @trevlutz: .@BadDalaiLama "The Rose" and "Wind Beneath My Wings", both by Bette Midler, are full of sentimental bullshit too. 5285
Jun 30 2011: RT @shuffleyerfeet: @BadDalaiLama what if your depression is caused by something outwith your control? 5286
Jun 30 2011: There's one little problem with treating depression with drugs—legal or otherwise: How do you get off the drugs? 5287
Jun 30 2011: You suffer a loss. You're depressed. Doctor prescribes an antidepressant. Does that help you solve the problems—or just deaden your senses? 5288
Jun 30 2011: Depression involves brain chemistry—but so does every thought you think. Doesn't mean you can't take control of it. 5289
Jun 30 2011: Drug companies would rather you took their depression drug than solve your problems. That's why they urge you to "Ask your doctor about __". 5290
Jun 30 2011: If you aren't flirting with depression then you aren't really living. Finding strategies to deal with it is one of life's great challenges. 5291
Jun 30 2011: Depression tells you, "Your life's fucked up, Dude!" Thing is, depression is often right. So who is going to unfuck it for you? 5292
Jun 30 2011: The way to treat your own depression is come up with your own mental strategies to manage it. Drugs can't create those strategies for you. 5293
Jun 30 2011: The solution to depression is drugs, say drug companies. 5294
Jul 1 2011: The solution to depression is psychotherapy, say psychotherapists. 5295
Jul 1 2011: The solution to depression is religion, say religious leaders. 5296
Jul 1 2011: The solution to depression—the only one that really works over time—is YOU taking control of your own life. 5297
Jul 1 2011: Given a choice between changing ones life and taking a drug to alleviate the symptoms of bad decisions, most prefer the drug. 5298
Jul 1 2011: Depression is a messenger telling you something isn't right. Should you shoot him or listen to him? 5299
Jul 1 2011: #### End. This has been a 1-hour essay: "Depression" 5300
Jul 1 2011: "Doctor, my woman is coming back home late today. Can you maybe give me something?..." <== Listen, Barry, doc can't help with that. 5301
Jul 1 2011: .@ReverendReve "and what to do if one isn't strong or intelligent enough to fight/figure out the 'demons'?" <== Drugs of course! :) 5302
Jul 1 2011: RT @ReverendReve: @BadDalaiLama and what to do if one isnt strong or intelligent enough to fight/figure out the 'deamons'? 5303
Jul 1 2011: RT @avphibes: @BadDalaiLama clearly you've never been insane before. 5304
Jul 1 2011: RT @shuffleyerfeet: @BadDalaiLama antidepressants = zombie #medicinalmisdirection 5305
Jul 1 2011: RT @algekalipso: @BadDalaiLama It can be added, though, that there are 'taking control of your problems'-resistant depressions. 5306
Jul 1 2011: RT @MikeShawTweet: @BadDalaiLama Antidepressant drugs are the worst, most devastating trick played on society by big medicine and big ph ... 5307
Jul 1 2011: I'm thinking of joining the Scientologists on this one. L. Ron and I are thinking along the same lines! 5308
Jul 1 2011: See Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antidepressant 2nd paragraph — In published AND unpublished studies, antidepressants only marginally better than a placebo. 5309
Jul 1 2011: RT @MikeShawTweet: @BadDalaiLama antidepressants: Bad Dalai is getting his TRUTH on! Right on brother! 5310
Jul 1 2011: .@polkadotminerva "will this essay be anywhere I can read it?" <== at http://BadDalaiLama.com (in a few days) 5311
Jul 1 2011: RT @avphibes: @BadDalaiLama depression that benefits from anti-depressants is often a dysphoria where your emotions do not reflect your ... 5312
Jul 1 2011: .@avphibes "...often your emotions do not reflect your life situation." <== So taking drugs to "fix" the problem, how do you get off them? 5313
Jul 1 2011: These little essays usually result in an immediate loss of followers. In the words of Spinal Tap: "The audience is getting more selective." 5314
Jul 1 2011: RT @MikeShawTweet: @BadDalaiLama Essay and audience: You may have lost some followers with the depression essay, but you gained a loyal ... 5315
Jul 1 2011: RT @algekalipso: @BadDalaiLama@MikeShawTweet Thanks.Really interesting that active placebos are as good. So the fact that you feel some ... 5316
Jul 1 2011: RT @avphibes: @baddalailama I recommend as supplemental reading one of my favorite writings on depression: http://t.co/y5eTQWq 5317
Jul 1 2011: A social or therapeutic intervention is most likely to work if the client explicitly wants help and is willing to pay a hefty price for it. 5318Jul 1 2011: All the news you need in one place! http://twitpic.com/5jbjtw #walmart ←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5319
Jul 1 2011: @avphibes That would be dependence. 5320
Jul 1 2011: The main function of advertising is to find a trivial advantage of the product and promote it as a major one. 5321
Jul 1 2011: Drug addicts are the closest thing to real zombies. They'll eat your brains to serve their primitive needs. So sad and so scary. 5322
Jul 1 2011: Coen Brothers movies are filled with great technique, but most of them leave you empty, like going on a ride that doesn't take you anywhere. 5323
Jul 1 2011: .@dunebat "I thought 'O Brother, Where Art Thou?' was good." <== Indeed memorable, but what did it teach you? 5324
Jul 1 2011: Is entertainment the only purpose of art—to pass the time idly and without pain? 5325
Jul 1 2011: Lying on the ground in OK lookin' up at the stars, Milky Way marching across it. (Y'ain't got stars if ya can't see the Milky Way.) 5326
Jul 1 2011: RT @xtinewu: Pay attention class! #FF @baddalailama. But you're already following him right? 5327
Jul 1 2011: RT @avphibes: @BadDalaiLama entertainment is the only purpose of entertainment. Art is meant to provoke/enlighten. 5328
Jul 1 2011: Plant a tree and watch it grow. It used to sound fun. Then you realize, "My God, these things have to be maintained!" 5329
Jul 1 2011: All of the Bad Dalai Lama's tweets come straight from the heart, none from the balls, gall bladder or spleen. 5330
Jul 1 2011: You want a Zombie Apocalypse? Legalize hard drugs and see what happens. 5331
Jul 1 2011: Just paid $80 to a zombie, a young friend who I know will probably use it for meth. Thin as a rail. So sad. So complicated. 5332
Jul 1 2011: .@shuffleyerfeet "if he is a friend give him some food, shelter and water. Not more meth." <== I know my boundaries and do what I can do. 5333
Jul 1 2011: Boundaries mean you can walk comfortably through a disaster zone, knowing what you can do and what you can't. 5334
Jul 1 2011: There's no greater honor in Oklahoma than death by rodeo—except maybe maimed for life. 5335
Jul 1 2011: Fact: If you die by rodeo in Oklahoma, they name a highway interchange after you. Perished in the line of duty. 5336
Jul 1 2011: Fact: If someone starts a tweet with "Fact:" it is almost certainly a lie. 5337
Jul 1 2011: Visiting the Joplin zone of devastation for the first time in daylight. The main swath is 50% cleaned up. Houses removed to foundations. 5338Jul 1 2011: Needs a bit more than a roofing job. Joplin, Missouri. http://twitpic.com/5jo211←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5339
Jul 1 2011: Let's say you could do "time tourism" and visit the deck of the Titanic just before the iceberg. If your safety was assured, would you go? 5340
Jul 1 2011: Goaded by several followers: Decriminalization of hard drugs in Portugal, a seeming success: http://t.co/PDVaZmj 5341
Jul 1 2011: One little niggling question about Portugal's open drug policy: Where do the drugs come from? Who is supplying the cocaine, heroine, etc.? 5342
Jul 1 2011: If the U.S. legalized meth use, would it also legalize massive cross-border shipments? Would Wal-Mart sell it? Ads for it on Super Bowl? 5343
Jul 1 2011: Answer this question: If you legalized hard drug possession and use, who would supply the drugs? Describe the supply chain. 5344
Jul 1 2011: I acknowledge losing the main argument: Legalizing hard drug use would not necessarily create a Zombie Apocalypse. It didn't in Portugal. 5345
Jul 1 2011: Unless... the Portuguese were Zombies to begin with! Bwahaha! 5346
Jul 1 2011: If drug use is legal but wholesale distribution is illegal (as in Portugal), then you would STILL have drug wars along the Mexican border. 5347
Jul 1 2011: If both drug use AND distribution were legal, who would be the supplier? Philip Morris? Or would the Government have it's own meth labs? 5348
Jul 1 2011: Think it through: If drugs were legal across the board, where would they come from and who would profit? Where would incentives lie? 5349
Jul 1 2011: What could possibly go wrong in this Utopian plan to legalize all drugs for everyone? 5350
Jul 1 2011: #### End. Live essay: "Legalizing Drugs" 5351
Jul 1 2011: Tell me who would manufacturer the drugs, and I'll show you the Achilles' Heel of your drug legalization plan. 5352
Jul 1 2011: RT @MAndersson1968: @BadDalaiLama Astrazeneca and GlaxoSmithKline. 5353
Jul 1 2011: American companies could give their drugs nifty trademarked brand names. "Heroin" is too negative. How about Seabreeze™ or Arabian Gold™? 5354
Jul 1 2011: RT @kstatik: @BadDalaiLama As always, you raise some great points... (re: legalization of drugs / supply chain.) 5355
Jul 1 2011: The main purpose of education is to keep a child occupied with meaningless tasks while his brain matures on its own. 5356
Jul 2 2011: I love you like mosquitos love summer camp. 5357
Jul 2 2011: When someone is paranoid, diplomacy will only get you so far. You can give it a shot, but they'll likely see threat in every noble gesture. 5358
Jul 2 2011: The safest way to deal with the paranoid is just get away. Slip out quietly if you can but run if you need to. 5359
Jul 2 2011: As soon as a paranoid detects you pulling away from him, he'll get even more paranoid—and violent—so you need to get away FAST and FAR! 5360
Jul 2 2011: The paranoid sees such great threats against him that any response seems like reasonable self-defense, hence the violence. 5361
Jul 2 2011: The "paranoid transformation" can turn even the most benign gesture into a threat. 5362
Jul 2 2011: "I'm afraid of losing you." + paranoia = "You're leaving me, but I'm going to get you first!" 5363
Jul 2 2011: "I love you." + paranoia = "You can see I'm dependent on you and are trying to take advantage of me." 5364
Jul 2 2011: A gift of flowers + paranoia = "What is he trying to get from me?" 5365
Jul 2 2011: A smile + paranoia = "Why is he giving me that fake smile?" 5366
Jul 2 2011: Paranoia is a mechanism that assures a person's success in the outside world does nor rise above his inner self-esteem. 5367
Jul 2 2011: Paranoia accounts for most of the violence of the world—lashing out at an imaginary threat. Much more common than goal-directed violence. 5368
Jul 2 2011: .@polkadotminerva "what if you lack paranoia?" <== Drugs can help with that! 5369
Jul 2 2011: Anger is the first defense of the guilty. The second is to accuse others of the same crime one is guilty of. 5370
Jul 2 2011: Paranoia can rise and fall but is chiefly a function of personality. It is a factor we must evaluate in everyone we deal with. 5371
Jul 2 2011: If someone is inherently paranoid, you must be careful about the information you give him, because it could be used against you. 5372
Jul 2 2011: #### End. 1-hour essay: "Paranoia" 5373
Jul 2 2011: Brilliant idea: the US GOV'T could manufacture and sell hard drugs, using all the proceeds for drug treatment. What could possibly go wrong? 5374
Jul 2 2011: Oh and one little aside on the drug issue: Drug treatment doesn't work! Statistically no better than a placebo program. 5375
Jul 2 2011: My 1-page essay on the failure of drug treatment programs: "Words Don't Work" http://kilroycafe.com/ideas/words (2009) 5376
Jul 2 2011: You don't realize until you are lying on the ground how difficult it can be to tell a firefly from a meteor. 5377
Jul 2 2011: Nearly all rejections are blessings in disguise. 5378Jul 2 2011: My campsite last night: an abandoned homestead in Cuba. http://twitpic.com/5jzrlm←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5379
Jul 2 2011: Antidepressants don't cure depression; they merely defer it. 5380
Jul 2 2011: You can't force creativity, but you can arrange your life so you are free to follow new ideas when they happen. 5381
Jul 2 2011: Creativity can happen only where you allow it to. 5382Jul 2 2011: Staples of the American diet: carbonated high-fructose corn syrup and chips. http://twitpic.com/5k29df←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5383
Jul 2 2011: If you cheat on sleep, you're cheating your own creativity. 5384
Jul 2 2011: RT @JessicarrScott: @BadDalaiLama they defer it till you are living a happier life moron 5385
Jul 2 2011: If the fuel gauge in your car is close to empty and you're anxious about it, would it be helpful to have a button to make it read "Full"? 5386
Jul 2 2011: If your gas gauge shows nearly empty, it doesn't improve your situation to place duct tape over the gauge. 5387
Jul 2 2011: Nothing elevates the level of public discourse like adding "moron!" to the end of your response. 5388
Jul 2 2011: Marriage equality is nice in theory, but most marriages seem to end up with one becoming the parent and the other a child. 5389
Jul 2 2011: Marriage is a relationship of love and understanding where one partner enables the dysfunction of another. 5390
Jul 2 2011: Thanks to my policy of not mentioning Twitter on Facebook, hardly anyone there follows me here. Whew! Lucky that! 5391
Jul 2 2011: When you read a book you're being controlled by someone else's thoughts. If you spend the time just thinking, you may accomplish a lot more. 5392
Jul 2 2011: Books were the video game scourge of an earlier generation. 5393
Jul 2 2011: In the 20 hours it takes to read a book, think of all you could accomplish in the real world. 5394
Jul 2 2011: Just because you are reading instead of watching TV doesn't prove your time is being spent wisely. 5395
Jul 2 2011: Hypothesis: You learn more and retain it better if you graze for info as needed instead of taking it in sequentially on someone else's plan. 5396
Jul 2 2011: The traditional model of learning is a teacher forcing information into you in a sequence he deems appropriate. That's essentially a book. 5397
Jul 2 2011: The Wikipedia model of learning is you graze for information as you need it, when you're ready to integrate it into your schema. 5398
Jul 2 2011: The book is a product of the 15th Century innovation of moveable type. Is it still the most efficient way to convey information? 5399
Jul 2 2011: RT @jachy: @BadDalaiLama Actually both methods are appropriate and necessary, and JIT learning can't succeed if you don't know what to l ... 5400
Jul 2 2011: The book persists in the modern world mainly because it is a large marketable unit where publishers can still make a little money. 5401
Jul 2 2011: The dirty little secret about fiction: Novelists just make this shit up! 5402
Jul 2 2011: However good a novel may be, you're trapped in a simulation—a virtual reality—that is never going to exceed the experience of the author. 5403
Jul 2 2011: When you say that a book changed your life, you don't usually mean the whole book but certain memorable parts of it—not the whole 20 hours. 5404
Jul 2 2011: The main problem of reading a book is wading through the dull parts to get to the juicy and meaningful bits. The good parts aren't flagged! 5405
Jul 2 2011: You could spend years reading all the great works of literature, or just catch the Cliffs Notes versions online. Who is ever going to know? 5406
Jul 2 2011: The main cost of reading a book is "loss of opportunity"—i.e. the more productive things you could be doing with the time. 5407
Jul 2 2011: #### End. 1-hour essay: "Books" 5408
Jul 2 2011: Weak and immature minds need more structure imposed from the outside. Strong minds learn in their own. 5409
Jul 2 2011: If my life had an Unrated Director's Cut, it would be pretty much the same as the one in theaters. 5410
Jul 2 2011: You can spend 40 hours in a wind tunnel, bombarded by water, insects, noise and direct sun—or you can ride a motorcycle cross-country. 5411
Jul 2 2011: You never really know someone until they feel secure in your presence and their REAL self emerges. 5412
Jul 2 2011: The only clear and stable pleasure comes from fulfilling a meaningful mission. 5413
Jul 3 2011: Just because something is pleasurable now does not mean that repeating the action will give you the same pleasure again. 5414
Jul 3 2011: There is wisdom in not revealing your intent until you have to. It avoids unnecessary politics and preserves more options for the future. 5415
Jul 3 2011: When your iPhone goes down, all the other organs start to fail as well—liver, kidneys, heart, brain. Not a pleasant way to go. 5416
Jul 3 2011: Without the People of Walmart, how would our species propagate? No other population is more fecund. 5417
Jul 3 2011: All great movies follow the pattern of The Wizard of Oz. There's a journey, but in the end the solution was inside the hero all along. 5418
Jul 3 2011: Retire to a luxury gated community surrounded by a golf course — the ultimate nursing home for those without a brain. 5419
Jul 3 2011: RT @kellyoxford: I prefer to learn from someone else's mistakes. 5420
Jul 3 2011: "Our grandest pretenses conceal not evil or ugliness, but emptiness." @agnosticcc 5421Jul 3 2011: Sunrise in Ohio. http://twitpic.com/5kki1p←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5422
Jul 3 2011: Recent tweeted essays: Paranoia http://j.mp/iiy90r Drugs http://j.mp/itYVDW Antidepressants http://j.mp/kz55AG Books http://j.mp/k3gFEz 5423
Jul 3 2011: Your parent-mind, who knows what is right, has to manage all your little child-selves who don't have the same self-control. 5424
Jul 3 2011: A jerk is one who aggressively imposes his ego upon others with little regard for their feelings or needs. 5425
Jul 3 2011: When a passenger berates an airline gate agent for a delay the agent obviously has no control over, we say, "What a jerk!" 5426
Jul 3 2011: Jerks can be technically competent and rise high in organizations, where they make life hell for everyone around them. 5427
Jul 3 2011: Deputy Barney Fife of Mayberry is a classic jerk—pompous, full of himself, abusive of those weaker than him, yet deeply insecure. 5428
Jul 3 2011: A jerk can be comical to watch from a distance but hell to deal with up close, especially if he has any sort of power over you. 5429
Jul 3 2011: A jerk is highly narcissistic. He can't see beyond the fog of his own needs to the needs of others. 5430
Jul 3 2011: "Paranoid" and "jerk" go together. Most abusive jerk-like behavior arises from the perception of an imaginary threat. 5431
Jul 3 2011: Some jerks are know-it-alls who have the solution to everything even if you didn't ask for it. 5432
Jul 3 2011: Some jerks will talk your ear off, filling the air with words without detecting your waning interest. Try to pull away and they talk louder. 5433
Jul 3 2011: Some jerks seem perfectly nice on first meeting. They reveal themselves only (a) when under stress or (b) when given power. 5434
Jul 3 2011: Give a jerk any sort of power and he will use it to abuse others. 5435
Jul 3 2011: Jerks are easy to understand because we have all been one: aggressively self-confident on the outside, insecure on the inside. 5436
Jul 3 2011: There is no treatment for jerks, at least from the outside. You can only get away from them or manage them cautiously like wild animals. 5437
Jul 3 2011: Avoid being generous to a jerk. Don't give him more than you have to—especially information—because it could be used against you. 5438
Jul 3 2011: The opposite of a jerk is someone with "no ego" who acknowledges the needs of others and doesn't bulldoze over them. 5439
Jul 3 2011: The non-jerk just wants to get the job done with the minimum of conflict. 5440
Jul 3 2011: If you are truly secure and self-confident then you don't have to aggressively assert your worth in every interaction. 5441
Jul 3 2011: #### End. 1-hour essay: "Jerks" 5442
Jul 3 2011: Also see our earlier tweeted essay on Jerks: http://baddalailama.com/archive/?essay=jerks (March 2011) 5443
Jul 3 2011: RT @SethMacFarlane: We Americans are proud and will not debase ourselves for anything, except to get on TV, or for a free t-shirt, or fo ... 5444
Jul 3 2011: RT @HisHoliness: Anything that contradicts experience and logic should be abandoned. 5445
Jul 3 2011: Someone who expects to be cheated responds to the world in such a way that their prediction usually comes true. #paranoia 5446
Jul 3 2011: It's so annoying to nurture a grudge for years, plot your revenge, then find your subject has self-destructed on his own. That is NOT fair! 5447
Jul 3 2011: Thar ain't no point in a hangin' if the varmint's half dead anyway. We need Doc to come by, fix him up, heal his wounds—THEN we'll hang 'im! 5448
Jul 3 2011: Funny, when it happens on its own, is fun. Funny on demand is not fun. 5449
Jul 3 2011: RT @GreatestQuotes: "Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify." - Henry David Thoreau 5450
Jul 4 2011: Your body and brain can adapt to all sorts of conditions you never thought possible, but you have to be willing to give them the chance. 5451
Jul 4 2011: The benefit of a crisis is that it pushes us beyond our comfort zone into waters we wouldn't have tested otherwise. 5452
Jul 4 2011: A crisis forces us to make unpleasant but necessary decisions we would otherwise avoid. 5453Jul 4 2011: One of my few sensory weaknesses. A fine delicacy of Oklahoma, now found in Love's Truck Stops nationwide. http://twitpic.com/5lb40n←Live photo from the road! [location|more] 5454
Jul 4 2011: When paranoia becomes florid, violence accelerates and can only be stopped by force. 5455
Jul 4 2011: I prefer cold weather over hot. It's easier to get warm than keep cool. (Speaking also for the human species, which is why we lack fur.) 5456
Jul 4 2011: Under cover of darkness, you can camp in remarkably obvious places. Tonight I'm nestled in the landscaping of an industrial park near HPN. 5457
Jul 4 2011: Camping equipment consists of a $10 Walmart sleeping bag on a $5 tarp. Both will be jettisoned in the morning. 5458
Jul 4 2011: You can dream about doing, or you can actually do. 5459
Jul 4 2011: Google knows How to build search systems. It is mildly autistic regarding the human world. 5460
Jul 4 2011: The best term for the biome in the Eastern United States is "seasonal tropical rainforest". 5461
Jul 4 2011: @xtinewu "Set up my new bada$$ shredder. Muahahaha!" <== Can't let that sheet music fall into enemy hands! <eyes shifting right to left> 5462
Jul 4 2011: Is the door really locked? Check again. Is the door really locked? Check again. Is the door really locked? Check again. #OCD 5463
Jul 4 2011: Germs. Hand sanitizer. Oh no, but I touched the hand sanitizer bottle! More hand sanitizer. #OCD 5464
Jul 4 2011: Someday, at the pearly gates of Heaven, St. Peter is going to ask you, "How did you end up with all this stuff?" 5465
Jul 4 2011: TV watching? Book reading? If you got an active mind working on meaningful things, you ain't got time for that shit. 5466
Jul 4 2011: Why does creativity have to be limited to a few isolated circumstances? Why can't you be creative all the time? 5467
Jul 4 2011: Don't call it "booze" or "alcohol". Both have implications of inebriation. Use "adult beverage". #languagepolice 5468
Jul 4 2011: RT @ShashaModi: It's better to fail fast & correct fast, than to fail & wait a while to find out! And that's the beauty of getting it wr ... 5469
Jul 4 2011: Don't call it "moronic self-debasing voyeurism". Use "adult entertainment". #languagepolice 5470
Jul 4 2011: "It is better to fail fast and correct fast, than to fail and wait a while to find out." @ShashaModi 5471
Jul 4 2011: "You bring meaning to my life," is a good start for a relationship destined to fail. 5472
Jul 4 2011: Art is meaningless without a message, just like words are useless without something to say. 5473
Jul 4 2011: RT @CrankyPappy: Maybe this wasn't the way it was supposed to be. But this is the way it is. Deal with it or it deals with you. 5474
Jul 4 2011: 4th of July—Holiday of DEATH! How many pigs were slaughtered for your sacrificial barbecues? How many heat strokes and heart attacks? Bah! 5475
Jul 4 2011: Enjoying your Slim Jim™ extruded meat product? You are not alone! Many Americans enjoy the convenience and consistency of extruded snacks. 5476
Jul 5 2011: Did you know that pasta, hamburger meat, dry pet foods, most juvenile breakfast cereals and foamy snacks are extruded? That's right! 5477
Jul 5 2011: RT @MikeShawTweet: @BadDalaiLama Keep speaking the TRUTH BD; Give it to them! (even though I have no idea what u r talking about) 5478
Jul 5 2011: Extruded food is All American! Most extruded snacks costumed in the USA are made in the USA! (by Chinese machinery) 5479
Jul 5 2011: .@jacobc "What the hell are "foamy snacks"?" <== Cheese curls, Pringles, anything with a uniform lattice structure. 5480
Jul 5 2011: Most extruded snacks are baked at the same moment they are formed, then packaged shortly thereafter. No food product is more sanitary! 5481
Jul 5 2011: When a paranoid person tips into violence or aggressive anger, anything you say or do will only make them angrier. Just get out! 5482
Jul 5 2011: The next time you open a sealed snack food product, ask yourself, "Was this extruded?" If so, thank the Food Extruders of America! [view in context]
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