Jack the Ripper A-Z

[lynn cates]

Buddha

Hello Tom. They seem to be picking up on the Buddha's ontology in that he claimed there was no self (ie, ego).

I had a student once who claimed that the problem of self-identity was best solved through the Buddha's position that there is no self. It was a fairly well written paper and he would have gotten top mark, but, as I pointed out to him, I had difficulty assigning the mark since he had no self. As I recall, the lad changed his mind.

Cheers.
LC

[Stewart P Evans]

Don't Worry

Don't worry lads - you'll get over it.

[Rob Clack]

They wouldnt do that.

Monty

I would.

Incidentally, the text is searchable on Amazon's website, which makes it easy to see that there are 11 occurrences of "Robert Clack," 5 of "Philip Hutchinson" and 4 of "Robert Linford."
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/1844...ref=sib_dp_ptu

Thanks Chris, something to casually mention to Philip

Rob

[Tom_Wescott]

I have friends. Begg, Fido and Skinner must like me to mention me 8 TIMES their book, so NYUUUUUUUUHHHH!.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

P.S. I don't get the Buddha/misheard joke.

[The Grave Maurice]

I'm ego free

Isn't that Spanish for "friendless"?

[Stephen Thomas]

I think you must have misheard that.

Nice one, Chris

The batteries in my hearing aid aren't too clever.

[Chris]

My, my, Tom. You're a veritable Buddha aren't you?

I think you must have misheard that.

[Stephen Thomas]

I'm ego free and personally don't care how many times I'm mentioned.

My, my, Tom. You're a veritable Buddha aren't you?

[Robert]

Westcott knows his stuff, but I'm not sure about this guy Wescott.....probably trying to bask in Westcott's glory.

[Tom_Wescott]

Westcott = Grrrrrr!

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

[Chris]

Now if someone could please run that free word search on 'Wescott' and post the count here, that'd be great.

Seven mentions as Wescott, and one as Westcott.

[Tom_Wescott]

I'm ego free and personally don't care how many times I'm mentioned. Now if someone could please run that free word search on 'Wescott' and post the count here, that'd be great. Not for me, of course, because I have no ego and couldn't care less...but my legion of fans might be interested.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

[Robert]

I can't abide huge egos.

By the way, if they only mention me 4 times then it's a rotten book and I hope no one buys it ever, ever, ever.

[Tom_Wescott]

Oh yeah, cuz Rob and Philip don't have huge ******* egos.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

[Monty]

Doubtless Rob Clack and Philip Hutchinson are going through it with a fine toothed comb to see which of them got more mentions.

They wouldnt do that.

Monty