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Yeah it's all pretty exhausting, but uni work is. Am I wrong ?
The film has a cult following. We are not really a cult.Lebowskiists are too wrapped up in quoting from the film, and think that's what Dudeism is about.When I look at the Facebook group all I see is a bunch of people calling themselves "The One True Dude", or "The Only Real Dude", and quoting "Careful there's a beverage over here! LOL" too much.Here in the forum you get a much better level of conversation, a more reasoned argument.I think generally we see Dudeism as being a name to describe the way most of us have lived our lives.Oliver (the Dudly Lama) went out to Asia backpacking and never really came back again having studied Buddhism and Yoga, and some other stuff (including Taoism), whilst over there he came upon the revelation of the concept of Dudeism as marrying the ancient principles of Zen and Taoism with the modern western Slacker ethic.I as a teenager studied Zen, Yoga, and Taoism (mostly from books initially) spent a lot of my early life trying to find a balance between what saw as my ascetic inclinations, and my belief that I should remain in the "real" world rather than retreat to a monastery.From an early age my family and friends of the family called me things like Dylan (yes after the rabbit).I have spent much of my life interested and investigating my spirituality. My family (in that wonderful confusion where you never change from your teenage years) still think I change religion on a regular basis. I never did but when you visit Sufi groups, lead Zen groups, and similar they think you are changing to that religion.I do profess to be a Pagan though this is an even more complicated situation.When I found the video of Oliver made by the car company it gave me a title that wrapped all my previous thinking and investigation together. It is this title I use for my poor confused family. Who think I have changed my religion again, really all I've done is find a title that I can comfortably use, and a group of people who I can spend time arguing over the minutiae of what we are and how best we should present ourselves, whilst all agreeing on the majority of how we represent, because we were all doing it before we came to know that we could call it Dudeism.
For me it's all about being chill and zen, aka, abiding (at least that's my interpretation). While I really enjoy the movie, I don't watch it fanatically, but still find the Dude to be a great example of how to abide.
Quote from: Koog-meister on April 18, 2012, 08:40:10 PMBummer. I wrote a long thing but I timed out. I noticed that in the settings section, there is a check box to stay logged in all the time, and also a box to alter the time limit before it auto-logs you off. Hope this helps!
Bummer. I wrote a long thing but I timed out.
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