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He started with "Why do political and religious discussions suck?" and ended up with a recipe to make oneself smarter. I wonder how many tens of millions of pe
by just_me 18y ago
He started with "Why do political and religious discussions suck?" and ended up with a recipe to make oneself smarter.
I wonder how many tens of millions of people have wondered that exact thing and ended up with "Well, some topics are just inherently controversial"?
- gnaritas 18y agoSorry, it just wasn't really particularly insightful. Buddhists have been teaching detachment for thousands of years, slow and methodical destruction of the ego until you become totally an observer, purely aware. You are not your car, you are not your job, you are not your religion, etc, etc, this is not anything new, and while it is wise, it's certainly not some stunningly brilliant new idea from Paul. I'm not knocking Paul either, I very much like his writing, some of his essays are fantastic, but c'mon, this isn't that great. The word fanboy'ism springs to mind.