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Old 04-08-2005, 11:09 PM   #16
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Don't feel lame. Feel smug because you still have over a month to write your paper, while my skill at procrastination and an immense dislike for this topic have led me to write this paper the weekend before it's due.


And is it in progress yet?
Negative. I've been studying for a test Monday. I'm gonna start the paper tomorrow and finish it Monday and Tuesday. The assignment is actually quite humorous, so for your edification...

"Suppose you are talking to a friend and your friends says, 'I want to have a good life. I want to have a lot of money so I can buy everything that I want and fill my life with material things while ridding it of inconveniences. This is the American dream and it will make me happy.' Now suppose you are a Buddhist. Using the texts we have read, be a proselytizing Buddhist. Convince your friend that he will only be happy as a Buddhist and that if he pursues his current path, he will enter an endless cycle of suffering.

Your essay should be a monologue, and should conform to all of the guidelines on the syllabus. This is an exercise in persuasive argument. You should refer to Keown, but focus more on the Dhammapada. Your essay should be around three pages long. Do not use an overly conversational or chatty tone, as in, 'Hey dude, why don't we chill at my pad and meditate.' The length should be around three pages."

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Old 04-08-2005, 11:09 PM   #17
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Daniel: "A Buddhist walks up to a hotdog stand and says, 'Hey, make me one with everything.' " I dare you to turn that in as your paper.
You'd have to use a REALLY big font, of course.
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Old 04-08-2005, 11:10 PM   #18
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"Suppose you are talking to a friend and your friends says, 'I want to have a good life. I want to have a lot of money so I can buy everything that I want and fill my life with material things while ridding it of inconveniences. This is the American dream and it will make me happy.' Now suppose you are a Buddhist. Using the texts we have read, be a proselytizing Buddhist. Convince your friend that he will only be happy as a Buddhist and that if he pursues his current path, he will enter an endless cycle of suffering.

Your essay should be a monologue, and should conform to all of the guidelines on the syllabus. This is an exercise in persuasive argument. You should refer to Keown, but focus more on the Dhammapada. Your essay should be around three pages long. Do not use an overly conversational or chatty tone, as in, 'Hey dude, why don't we chill at my pad and meditate.' The length should be around three pages."
Hahahahaha. I've never met a proselytizing Buddhist. Proselytization seems to really be limited to Christianity and its offshoots. Then again, I haven't met many Buddhists anyway.
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Old 04-08-2005, 11:14 PM   #19
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You'd have to use a REALLY big font, of course.
LOL!! I should work that in somehow.
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Old 04-08-2005, 11:17 PM   #20
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Dude. Don't even start talking about papers that are due until they're less than a month away.

Daniel: "A Buddhist walks up to a hotdog stand and says, 'Hey, make me one with everything.' " I dare you to turn that in as your paper.
that was really funny, maybe the fact its 1:20 am had somthing to do with it.
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Old 04-08-2005, 11:33 PM   #21
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The assignment is actually quite humorous, so for your edification...

"Suppose you are talking to a friend and your friends says, 'I want to have a good life. I want to have a lot of money so I can buy everything that I want and fill my life with material things while ridding it of inconveniences. This is the American dream and it will make me happy.' Now suppose you are a Buddhist. Using the texts we have read, be a proselytizing Buddhist. Convince your friend that he will only be happy as a Buddhist and that if he pursues his current path, he will enter an endless cycle of suffering.

Your essay should be a monologue, and should conform to all of the guidelines on the syllabus. This is an exercise in persuasive argument. You should refer to Keown, but focus more on the Dhammapada. Your essay should be around three pages long. Do not use an overly conversational or chatty tone, as in, 'Hey dude, why don't we chill at my pad and meditate.' The length should be around three pages."
That is pretty funny. Mine goes something like:

"The largest question we can ask of Tocqueville concerns democracy; the problems of democracy and the adverse effects democracy. Tocqueville sees certain long-range, undesirable consequences of democracy. What are they? What are the democratic safeguards Tocqueville found in Jacksonian America? Do they still exist?"

It goes on like this for a while. Oh well. I'm about 450 words into it, and I'll stop for the night somewhere between 500 and 600. My last paper for the class came in at 1300-ish.
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Old 04-08-2005, 11:36 PM   #22
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I'm here. what more could you want??
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Old 04-08-2005, 11:37 PM   #23
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I'm here. what more could you want??
I'm honestly not sure.
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Old 04-08-2005, 11:39 PM   #24
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Candy. Chocolate candy.
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Old 04-08-2005, 11:40 PM   #25
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hmm... yes... that would be good...
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Old 04-08-2005, 11:41 PM   #26
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Candy. Chocolate candy.
I have some dark chorcolate and almond swoops.
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Old 04-08-2005, 11:43 PM   #27
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I have some dark chorcolate and almond swoops.
I have no chocolate candy.

I did have some Red Vines around earlier, but they got digested after dinner.
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Old 04-08-2005, 11:49 PM   #28
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I'll give ya some swoops. *gives*

*passes em around the room*
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Old 04-08-2005, 11:51 PM   #29
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*takes swoops* *enjoys eating them*
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Old 04-08-2005, 11:51 PM   #30
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I'll give ya some swoops. *gives*

*passes em around the room*
Nice.

Gracias! *Passes around some soda to accompany the swoops*
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