Re: Intellectual debate on DnD
Reply #7 –
I think his screen-name was Pesala… He was a Brit and a monk, but not Christian - rather, Buddhist.
He'd done some good work customizing pre-Chrome Opera browsers, and -sometimes-responded to questions from others… (In his world-view, I'm not sure there is any room for "others"… ) He has not "migrated" to DnD, as far as I can tell.
But he never rejected the "better never to have been born" response to the human condition, that traditional Buddhism espouses. (No, Belfrager, that doesn't mean "marries"… Linguistic similarities are only hints, and you have to be smarter than the hinters! Or at least as smart.)
What Pesala said was simple: Die; die. Die, even if you don't have to…That's what you were meant to do.
(That's unfair, in the sense that he never put it that way. But it's also quite fair — in the sense that he has no argument against it; indeed, he has argued for it: Gautama is dead — and not— and since we worship ******** we should emulate him!
Why?)
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I don't expect him to return: He doesn't like discourse; he prefers lecturing… (I do, too! But noone will let me get away with such, here! )