How about Jesus...the real one

[Dude1967]

Buddha, you may have a point, man...

How hard is it to be OK to your fellow man?

Really?

The ultimate lesson of Take it Easy, Man.

You have more than rocks in your skull, guy.

just fom observing, I'd say it's pretty hard to do, unless you're an achiever

[bobdole]

  jesus was like all dude, he drew a line in the sand and it only got crossed twice, the second time he did nothing and died, plus he was a jewish king who tried to take controll through passive resistance

[El r0mserino]

jesus was like all dude, he drew a line in the sand and it only got crossed twice, the second time he did nothing and died, plus he was a jewish king who tried to take controll through passive resistance

Jesus never claimed to be the king of the Jews, thats what they called him.

He didn't roll on Shabbos, though.

[DigitalBuddha]

Buddha, you may have a point, man...

How hard is it to be OK to your fellow man?

Really?

The ultimate lesson of Take it Easy, Man.

You have more than rocks in your skull, guy.

New shit has come to light..................

So dudes, I have a few more observations from the good book suggesting that JD  (Jesus Dude in the parlance of his times) might have been the ultimate forerunner of our very own Dude of Lebowski fame. Check it out...

...... He hung out with a couple of women that were his special lady friends (The whole Mary and Martha thing going on in the gospels),

...... He had visions much like when the dude took a slug on the jaw and road the magic carpet over Los Angeles,

...... He got totally pissed off at the human paraquats of his time that were ripping off poor dudes in the temple; I talking here about the time he grabbed himself a whip and turned over the fucking gold bricken' nihilist money changer's tables in the local church...just like the dude when he busted the big Lebowski in the fucker's pad shouting "Where's the fucking money, Lebowski!?"

...... He called himself "The son of man," That was his was of saying "I'm the Dude, so that's what you call me."

...... He was baptized by a radical dude named John the Baptist as was the dude in his tube...hey, this is a private residence, man.

...... As far as I can tell, he had spirit dudes called angels following him around, kinda like the Stranger who shows up and says a few words to the dude, JD (Jesus Dude) spoke to Moses and Elijah on the mount. Very dude like, talking to historic dead dudes.

...... Jesus Dude said to a few dudes that he was God or divine, just like our dude who called himself El Duderino (EL in Hebrew means "God").

...... JD was a peace maker, our own dude said "Will you just take it easy, man," and "put the piece away, Walter..." And also the dude said "Hey Walter come on, it's just--hey man it's Smokey.  So his toe slipped over a little, you know, it's just a game, man."

...... JD had Jewish friends, so did the dude (fucking Walter)

...... JD had a Jewish  team member named St. Peter who was ready to kick some ass for his master with his trusty sword when the nihilist Romans came to fuck with JD, ...the dude had a team member named St. Walter who had no problem with pulling out a piece (Colt .45 in the bowling alley and his Uzi with the ringer, didn't think he was rolling out naked, do ya?).

Fucking a, dudes, Jesus Dude seems to be the inspiration of our very own El Duderino. Any other dude or dudette abide with what I'm saying? Shit, man, they even look alike..........

[Tiki Dude]

Hi everybody! I'm new here.  My wife and I run a goofy little tiki store in Portland Oregon called the Freaky Tiki.  Tiki is cheesy, fun and all about good karma.  Very dude like.  I notice that the Dude has a tiki bar in his bungalow.  As to my nomination as to who qualifies as a great dude it would be Albert Einstein.  I can't think of a quote of his that wasn't dude like! A true pacifist.  And by the way, although he didn't believe in a personal god per se and wasn't a Christian he was very big on Jesus. A lot of people don't know that.  Now do you care if I do a jay?   

[Andrea D.]

Do you have any kalhua?

[DigitalBuddha]

Do you have any kalhua?

Dude, its the 15th, rents due, just slip it under the rock.

[DigitalBuddha]

Hi everybody! I'm new here.  My wife and I run a goofy little tiki store in Portland Oregon called the Freaky Tiki.  Tiki is cheesy, fun and all about good karma.  Very dude like.  I notice that the Dude has a tiki bar in his bungalow.  As to my nomination as to who qualifies as a great dude it would be Albert Einstein.  I can't think of a quote of his that wasn't dude like! A true pacifist.  And by the way, although he didn't believe in a personal god per se and wasn't a Christian he was very big on Jesus. A lot of people don't know that.  Now do you care if I do a jay?   

Welcome to the pad, mang, do a j for the team   

[Tiki Dude]

Thanks Digitalbuddah! What it was that Einstein said about Jesus was that he was 'enthralled by the luminary figure of the New Testament'.  He also made it clear that he felt that Jesus was a real person and no myth.  (Remind me to work the words 'enthralled' and 'luminary' into future rhetoric.)  That aside,  in my fevered little brain I've thought that there are overtones of Christianity in the Big Lebowski in that the stranger (Sam Elliot) seems almost like God the Father with the Dude being His Son.  Is it possible the Cohen brothers intended this? Or have I toked up one too many times.     

[DigitalBuddha]

Thanks Digitalbuddah! What it was that Einstein said about Jesus was that he was 'enthralled by the luminary figure of the New Testament'.  He also made it clear that he felt that Jesus was a real person and no myth.  (Remind me to work the words 'enthralled' and 'luminary' into future rhetoric.)  That aside,  in my fevered little brain I've thought that there are overtones of Christianity in the Big Lebowski in that the stranger (Sam Elliot) seems almost like God the Father with the Dude being His Son.  Is it possible the Cohen brothers intended this? Or have I toked up one too many times.     

Einstein was a dude for sure, mang. The E-dude abided. I'm not sure if the Coen's had JD (Jesus Dude) in mind when they wrote the script for The Big Lebowski; I do think that they understood universal dudeness that a few people have always had and they wrote about that. Dudeness is not a recent thing, man, it was around 2000 years ago, JD was a dude who abided and that is one reason why we still read of him.

Can one toke up one too many times? 

[Tiki Dude]

I just reread the 'take it easy manifesto' and have to say that it is fucking brilliant man! I am becoming more and more proud of having become an ordained minister of The Church of the Modern Day Dude now that I'm actually taking the time to learn about it. (I tend to do things bass ackwards- in the parlance of our times.)  I also liked Andrea Dudette's image of JD in His whites.  They appear much cleaner than those Walter stuffed the ringer with.     

[Andrea D.]

  Hey.  At least I'm housebroken.