gailstorm

Could be...I've only met him in passing at SGATLiens events and honestly was generally too busy chatting up the ladies to pay much attention.

[Edited on Feb 09, 2005 6:09AM]

Yup! Ya go and tip them and they'll sing. At some Coldstones, like ours, we also sing during "special occasions" like when someone gets a banana split or a sundae (it's pretty rare).

It was great meeting you! K is a helluva guy!!

And I definately have to come by sometime and hear you sing.

...yup, I think "llama" is a good word to describe what ya looked like.

the music was pretty loud but it was mostly 80's music so it was ok

Yeah, I never said the sushi was -good-. But I have it nearly every day. That's awesome about the resturant! I live in Smyrna, like two minutes away from the Smyrna Village, so I'm like supa close. w00t.

hey it was nice making faces at you

awwww

ps- i get in my correct lane wayyy before the actual exit too! haha

whas CNY mean?

Chinese New Years party..

yay congrats!!

will you be at the Chinese New Year gig>

I want to be! And I'm planning on it.

Shh! We can't talk about her unless she's online!

ahahahahaha

Yes, I have a hard time fitting in in buddhist things because I'm a buddhist who is an american but not an american buddhist. I'm theravadan.

But I must argue... buddhism is not about culture. Buddhism did not reall much change the culture of the places it touched. Buddhism... compliments most cultures and a lot of religions. In the south, they kept the prostrations of hinduism and islam who were around that area. In the north, they kept their elaborate traditions (speaking of tibetan here) and hierarchies and... well, gaudiness. And in japan, they kept their simplicity and soft wit. And tea! Tea is a huge part of japanese buddhist ceremonies, but it's no where else, really, in buddhist ceremonies.

So, in short, buddhism is definately not about the culture. Buddhism is not a religion that stomps over culture or creates new culture like others may.

you misunderstand my comment about culture. (btw, it helps to comment in other peoples' journals!!!!!)

when i say that it is a cultural thing, i mean that in the sense that all cognition is a cultural thing. the meanings that we take things to have are a result of certain dispositions that we fall into as soon as we are born (within 3 months, the behaviors of babies born in eastern countries are visibly different from those born in western civ--just an example; my point is philosophic rather than sociological...). my point is that the meanings of words and practices vary from culture to culture, and there can be no real sharing of religions of the kind where we shop around and find one that best falls in line with what we "believe."

basically, im just arguing for the primacy of action and behavior over and before language and thought. (thats fancy philosophy talk--think body before mind, not mind before body). inasmuch as i understand buddhism, it seems to fall in line with what i am here arguing for: thought is accidental, meaning springs from practice, language as well, if that is so, then language and meaning are varied just so much as cultures are, even moreso individually, and, with respect to religion, one can only hope to find the vague religious truth within their own humble beginings (cultural heritage). i am guessing this is one reason why buddhists arent big evangelicals. i am also guessing that our cultural heritage as arrogant americans is one reason that so many americans feel they can leap frog thousands of years of history and culture, and translate all that REAL meaning into crappy selfhelp books and retreats into the hills of LA.


(please comment in me journal rather than yers, otherwise i'll never see it.)