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I'd imagine, though, that just as the historical base of Dudeism, standing as it does on Lebowski-the-Younger, is in some manner inextricably entwined with the thesbian exploits of Mr. Bridges,...
Live your life like the Dude don't try to become the Dude.
[Bruce] Lee said: "Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it."Never one for pretense, the Dude was always at ease with himself and had obviously spent much of his life avoiding the square community's ideas of success.
I vote this thread "The Best Fucking Forum Conversation To Date". Rev, Andrea, Meekon - Y'all get awards for helping define and galvanize what all this abidin' is about. I'm thuroughly impressed.
But this simple dude does have some thoughts:The effort to differentiate between a religion and a belief system goes beyond (what I think) is the intent of being a Dudeist priest, as I don't think (...correct me if I missed something), the Dudely Lama envisioned such hair splitting. I see it all as a lark; something to harpoon real religions (Christian or not), placing " abiding" at the core; using an ethos to replace dogma. Those wanting to separate the two are taking it seriously beyond the founder's goal and vision, which is my interpretation of the whole Dudeism thing. To me, taking it further and SERIOUSLY being a dudeist priest, hanging a shingle identifying oneself as such, going full boat... Personally, who would take you seriously as a philosopher, stating your values are based on those of a character of a movie. Ya, OK, there's people who claim to be Jedi, but who doesn't smirk behind their backs? Having a core set of values that may PARALLEL those of a pop culture icon is the fodder for doctorates, not the other way around.
Personas hook us into emulating what we approvingly perceive, but we're left to act upon only our own reflection... or is that too Shinto?
Anyhow, what I am abided most by, thusfar, in my admittedly nascent Dudeist sojourn, is the humour of the play... I would hope, at least, that it is appropriate to suppose that any Abidism which disdains The Dude (I can't yet speak of The Dowd) is simply unabideable. We're not supposing a mission to include everyone, are we? Inclusion is a nebulous concern, ...but that's like just my opinion...
Quote from: Hominid on September 06, 2011, 10:57:34 PMI vote this thread "The Best Fucking Forum Conversation To Date". Rev, Andrea, Meekon - Y'all get awards for helping define and galvanize what all this abidin' is about. I'm thuroughly impressed.I'll try not to take it too personally that I was left out of those name-checks....
Quote from: Rev. Ed C on September 07, 2011, 07:57:18 AMQuote from: Hominid on September 06, 2011, 10:57:34 PMI vote this thread "The Best Fucking Forum Conversation To Date". Rev, Andrea, Meekon - Y'all get awards for helping define and galvanize what all this abidin' is about. I'm thuroughly impressed.I'll try not to take it too personally that I was left out of those name-checks....By the gods you don't half whinge sometimes mate.I think the "rev" bit was actually aimed at you (Hominid possibly not realising there's a few "rev's" here abouts)Too quick to leap on your soap box as usual. You passive aggressive types make me itch.(now there that was picking on you, happy now).Personally I think it's a throw back to not getting enough attention from your parents.
Rev. Ed C: yes, you were included. You react too quickly....I challenge everyone to cut their posts down to no more than 50 words.I just woke up with a hangover, so go easy on me...
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