“Hoarders”
A Tweeted Essay by the @BadDalaiLama

1 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 excepciĆ³n. 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?
590 Nov 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.
608 Nov 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.
622 Nov 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.
636 Nov 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.
645 Nov 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.
660 Nov 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]
661 Nov 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.
696 Nov 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.
732 Nov 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.
753 Nov 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.
766 Nov 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. VoilĆ , 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 [ĖˆtruĖÉŖzəm]—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.
1008 Dec 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.
1057 Dec 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
1072 Dec 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.
1075 Dec 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.
1081 Dec 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.
1104 Dec 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
1123 Dec 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.
1148 Dec 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.
1161 Dec 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.
1180 Dec 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.
1182 Dec 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.
1197 Dec 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.
1203 Dec 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.
1205 Dec 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.
1210 Dec 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.
1217 Dec 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.
1227 Dec 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.
1259 Dec 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.
1268 Dec 19 2010: Chains are required on Donner Pass. http://twitpic.com/3hhrgb ←Live photo from the road! [location|more]
1269 Dec 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.
1272 Dec 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.
1291 Dec 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.
1296 Dec 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.
1301 Dec 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.
1309 Dec 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.
1324 Dec 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
1336 Dec 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]
1338 Dec 23 2010: Awesome shot from the Muslim Quarter of Old Jerusalem! Now adding more to FB album: http://j.mp/2uwh9g http://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.
1340 Dec 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/fW8YAw http://j.mp/fsOejd http://j.mp/goxIk0 http://j.mp/e5O1fC http://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 ...
1352 Dec 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]
1353 Dec 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!
1355 Dec 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]
1356 Dec 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?
1358 Dec 24 2010: RT @wistfuleden: @BadDalaiLama http://twitpic.com/3j4ruu - Beautiful shot. ←Live photo from the road! [location|more]
1359 Dec 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
1361 Dec 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]
1362 Dec 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.
1368 Dec 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-mĆŖme 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?!?!
1371 Dec 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!
1374 Dec 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
1378 Dec 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-mĆŖme 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.
1391 Dec 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.
1404 Dec 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.
1408 Dec 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
1419 Dec 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.
1422 Dec 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.
1428 Dec 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. ā™« http://blip.fm/~105uhc
1439 Dec 29 2010: Simple, haunting song that's a fav of His Holiness: Houdini's Box ā€“ Jill Sobule ā™« http://blip.fm/~105v1c
1440 Dec 29 2010: What does "Hotel California" mean? That's the beauty of it. It's an uncrackable mystery! ā™« 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.
1445 Dec 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.
1470 Dec 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.
1510 Jan 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 ā€“ 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.
1532 Jan 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.
1553 Jan 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.
1561 Jan 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. ā™« 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.
1571 Jan 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
1603 Jan 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. VoilĆ , 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 ā™« 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.
1642 Jan 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 —Ā 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.
1692 Jan 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.
1710 Jan 9 2011: His Holiness at Washington Reagan Airport. http://twitpic.com/3oioai ←Live photo from the road! [location|more]
1711 Jan 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.)
1725 Jan 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.
1730 Jan 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.
1736 Jan 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?
1752 Jan 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.
1761 Jan 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.
1785 Jan 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.
1788 Jan 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".
1792 Jan 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.
1799 Jan 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]
1800 Jan 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!
1803 Jan 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]
1804 Jan 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.
1816 Jan 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"
1818 Jan 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.
1821 Jan 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.
1828 Jan 14 2011: Covered parking. http://twitpic.com/3q0qtk ←Live photo from the road! [location|more]
1829 Jan 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.
1838 Jan 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.
1848 Jan 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]
1849 Jan 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.
1851 Jan 15 2011: Private dock. Everglades City, Florida. http://twitpic.com/3qcyo2 ←Live photo from the road! [location|more]
1852 Jan 15 2011: Airboat. Everglades City, Florida. http://twitpic.com/3qde08 ←Live photo from the road! [location|more]
1853 Jan 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.
1855 Jan 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.
1871 Jan 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?
1885 Jan 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!
1910 Jan 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.
1934 Jan 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.
1938 Jan 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.
1942 Jan 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!
1944 Jan 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
1952 Jan 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.
1956 Jan 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.)
1958 Jan 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.
1960 Jan 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?
1962 Jan 20 2011: Union Station, Washington. http://twitpic.com/3rse9g ←Live photo from the road! [location|more]
1963 Jan 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.
1966 Jan 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]
1967 Jan 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.
1974 Jan 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.)
1990 Jan 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.
2003 Jan 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.
2013 Jan 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]
2014 Jan 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]
2015 Jan 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!
2029 Jan 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.
2035 Jan 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!)
2046 Jan 24 2011: How to enjoy the social cache of the Mac at lowest cost: (a) take Apple decal, (b) place over Compaq logo. VoilĆ ! 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.
2057 Jan 24 2011: McLean, Texas. http://twitpic.com/3t2yxt ←Live photo from the road! [location|more]
2058 Jan 24 2011: Stopping for gas on Route 66. http://twitpic.com/3t2zfp ←Live photo from the road! [location|more]
2059 Jan 24 2011: The Leaning Tower of Texas. http://twitpic.com/3t3aai ←Live photo from the road! [location|more]
2060 Jan 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!
2070 Jan 25 2011: Atomic energy is a blast! http://twitpic.com/3tbsly ←Live photo from the road! [location|more]
2071 Jan 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.)
2075 Jan 25 2011: Four of the world's greatest scientists at your fingertips. http://twitpic.com/3tdmzi ←Live photo from the road! [location|more]
2076 Jan 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.
2078 Jan 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!
2080 Jan 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!
2082 Jan 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.
2089 Jan 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.
2093 Jan 26 2011: Down at the Roadkill Cafe, it's all fresh, never frozen! http://twitpic.com/3tl91p ←Live photo from the road! [location|more]
2094 Jan 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?
2099 Jan 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.
2101 Jan 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.
2105 Jan 26 2011: Cosmopolitan. Las Vegas' last megaresort. There won't be any more! http://twitpic.com/3to2iu ←Live photo from the road! [location|more]
2106 Jan 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.
2108 Jan 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.
2131 Jan 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.
2145 Jan 28 2011: San Francisco. Right now! http://twitpic.com/3u236a ←Live photo from the road! [location|more]
2146 Jan 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
2148 Jan 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.
2152 Jan 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]
2153 Jan 28 2011: Local resident of the Tenderloin. http://twitpic.com/3u5vpf ←Live photo from the road! [location|more]
2154 Jan 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!
2167 Jan 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.
2172 Jan 29 2011: Look at who I ran into at the Philadephia airport! http://twitpic.com/3uh8fz ←Live photo from the road! [location|more]
2173 Jan 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!
2181 Jan 29 2011: Florida Keys. Right now! http://twitpic.com/3umhta ←Live photo from the road! [location|more]
2182 Jan 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!
2184 Jan 29 2011: Dusk. http://twitpic.com/3un7cr ←Live photo from the road! [location|more]
2185 Jan 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.
2187 Jan 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
2190 Jan 30 2011: Not Sponge Bob, but another one. Key West. Right now. http://twitpic.com/3uomjd ←Live photo from the road! [location|more]
2191 Jan 30 2011: Dancing. Key West. Right now. http://twitpic.com/3uoq18 ←Live photo from the road! [location|more]
2192 Jan 30 2011: Mayor of the Key West Lime Shoppe. http://twitpic.com/3uoukt ←Live photo from the road! [location|more]
2193 Jan 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!)
2196 Jan 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.
2199 Jan 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."
2202 Jan 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.
2206 Jan 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
2213 Jan 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!)
2231 Jan 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.
2241 Jan 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!
2277 Feb 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!
2283 Feb 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.
2288 Feb 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.
2290 Feb 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.
2293 Feb 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!
2295 Feb 2 2011: Message to my snowbound northern friends: I feel your pain. http://twitpic.com/3vvxhp ←Live photo from the road! [location|more]
2296 Feb 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!
2298 Feb 3 2011: Representing America. http://twitpic.com/3vx8mi ←Live photo from the road! [location|more]
2299 Feb 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)
2301 Feb 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
2303 Feb 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!
2305 Feb 3 2011: Sunrise on Miami Beach. Awesome! http://twitpic.com/3w2lsm ←Live photo from the road! [location|more]
2306 Feb 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]
2307 Feb 3 2011: A little place on the beach. http://twitpic.com/3w2u8x ←Live photo from the road! [location|more]
2308 Feb 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 ā™« 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: ...
2317 Feb 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]
2318 Feb 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.
2328 Feb 4 2011: Bouteilles Ć  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!
2334 Feb 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?)
2343 Feb 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.
2352 Feb 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
2355 Feb 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]
2358 Feb 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.
2360 Feb 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
2364 Feb 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]
2365 Feb 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! ā™« 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.
2371 Feb 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.
2375 Feb 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?
2384 Feb 6 2011: Tropical dreaming in Chicago. http://twitpic.com/3x8wio ←Live photo from the road! [location|more]
2385 Feb 7 2011: Chicago reality. http://twitpic.com/3x8yw6 ←Live photo from the road! [location|more]
2386 Feb 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
2403 Feb 7 2011: Chicago. http://twitpic.com/3xe89d ←Live photo from the road! [location|more]
2404 Feb 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: Ā”No soy un Robot! Ā”Soy un Zombie!
2411 Feb 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.
2413 Feb 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"
2415 Feb 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. ā™« 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?"
2430 Feb 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.
2442 Feb 9 2011: Right now. Where am I? http://twitpic.com/3xxd9n ←Live photo from the road! [location|more]
2443 Feb 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]
2444 Feb 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]
2445 Feb 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]
2446 Feb 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.
2453 Feb 10 2011: Good morning, Istanbul! http://twitpic.com/3y77un ←Live photo from the road! [location|more]
2454 Feb 10 2011: Istanbul Travelogue, Part 1: Arriving in Taksim Square. http://youtu.be/f13ls-XzkTY (Video #36) ←Our original YouTube video [more]
2455 Feb 10 2011: I learned my first word in Turkish! "sĆ¼t" (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.
2459 Feb 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.
2461 Feb 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]
2462 Feb 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.
2467 Feb 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]
2468 Feb 10 2011: Trying to make sense of it all in Istanbul. http://twitpic.com/3yfs0a ←Live photo from the road! [location|more]
2469 Feb 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]
2471 Feb 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".
2473 Feb 11 2011: Morning at the Arch-Ist Hostel. http://twitpic.com/3yk2oo ←Live photo from the road! [location|more]
2474 Feb 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!
2478 Feb 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]
2479 Feb 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.
2494 Feb 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
2516 Feb 14 2011: Ağa Ƈırağı 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]
2517 Feb 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]
2518 Feb 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 GökƧen Uluslararası Havalimanı w/ 4 others) http://4sq.com/dKItZR
2525 Feb 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.
2527 Feb 15 2011: Mystery city. Where am I? (Taken one hour ago.) http://twitpic.com/407dpj ←Live photo from the road! [location|more]
2528 Feb 15 2011: Mystery city, photo #2. (Hint: Not Rome.) http://twitpic.com/407eec ←Live photo from the road! [location|more]
2529 Feb 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.
2536 Feb 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.
2543 Feb 16 2011: Naples in the rain. http://twitpic.com/40i9vf/full ←Live photo from the road! [location|more]
2544 Feb 16 2011: Naples in the rain #2. http://twitpic.com/40idx2/full ←Live photo from the road! [location|more]
2545 Feb 16 2011: Naples in the rain #3. http://twitpic.com/40ievt/full ←Live photo from the road! [location|more]
2546 Feb 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.
2548 Feb 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!
2552 Feb 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]
2553 Feb 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]
2554 Feb 17 2011: Naples: Laughing pigs and broken torso. http://twitpic.com/40ub8z/full ←Live photo from the road! [location|more]
2555 Feb 17 2011: A man in the street. http://twitpic.com/40udsq/full ←Live photo from the road! [location|more]
2556 Feb 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.
2560 Feb 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]
2561 Feb 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.
2563 Feb 18 2011: Video Postcard: Three minutes in St. Peter's Square, the Vatican. http://youtu.be/HhfDBWj7dUM ←Our original YouTube video [more]
2564 Feb 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]
2565 Feb 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
2569 Feb 19 2011: Roman legions. http://twitpic.com/41blpt/full ←Live photo from the road! [location|more]
2570 Feb 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?"
2575 Feb 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.
2591 Feb 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/bdy1b http://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-offā€¦ 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?
2620 Feb 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.
2630 Feb 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?
2639 Feb 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.
2649 Feb 23 2011: Breakfast with Bond. Right now! Four Queens Casino, Las Vegas. http://twitpic.com/42z4pw ←Live photo from the road! [location|more]
2650 Feb 23 2011: Rod Stewart. Right now! http://twitpic.com/430czg ←Live photo from the road! [location|more]
2651 Feb 23 2011: Sarah Palin. From where I sit. http://twitpic.com/430iau ←Live photo from the road! [location|more]
2652 Feb 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]
2653 Feb 24 2011: Britney Spears and her Bitch Kitties. (3 hours ago) http://twitpic.com/432sw5/full ←Live photo from the road! [location|more]
2654 Feb 24 2011: Me and Forrest Gump ponder the universe. http://twitpic.com/43640d/full ←Live photo from the road! [location|more]
2655 Feb 24 2011: Lady Gaga. http://twitpic.com/4367lo/full ←Live photo from the road! [location|more]
2656 Feb 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.
2661 Feb 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.
2663 Feb 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.
2665 Feb 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.
2668 Feb 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.
2672 Feb 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.
2675 Feb 24 2011: Making a point with Captain Jack Sparrow. http://twitpic.com/43d1pi ←Live photo from the road! [location|more]
2676 Feb 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.
2678 Feb 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?
2690 Feb 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.
2704 Feb 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]
2705 Feb 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.
2709 Feb 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.
2719 Feb 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!
2730 Feb 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
2732 Feb 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?
2738 Feb 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.
2748 Feb 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!
2755 Feb 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.
2757 Feb 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)
2773 Feb 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]
2775 Feb 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.
2777 Feb 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!
2785 Mar 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.
2798 Mar 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!
2821 Mar 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.
2844 Mar 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 ...
2939 Mar 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 ā€“ Winningā€¦ 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}
2945 Mar 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.
2995 Mar 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.
3017 Mar 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.
3022 Mar 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.
3063 Mar 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!
3076 Mar 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.
3106 Mar 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.
3126 Mar 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!)
3134 Mar 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!
3138 Mar 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 religiĆ³n 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 sĆŗper 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.
3191 Mar 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)
3201 Mar 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]
3202 Mar 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."
3230 Mar 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.
3243 Mar 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.
3247 Mar 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.
3249 Mar 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....
3274 Mar 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
3329 Mar 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
3331 Mar 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
3341 Mar 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
3343 Mar 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
3355 Mar 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 enseƱar 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 "enseƱar") 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????
3397 Mar 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.
3399 Mar 16 2011: Something about moving America. http://twitpic.com/49wg0r (U.S. Capitol, Washington. Jan. 20) ←Live photo from the road! [location|more]
3400 Mar 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
3479 Mar 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.)
3491 Mar 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.
3497 Mar 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.
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