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Steve Jobs Reincarnated As a Warrior-Philosopher, Thai Group Says
Velcroman1 writes "When Apple founder Steve Jobs died after a long fight with cancer last year, software engineer Tony Tseung sent an email to a Buddhist group in Thailand to find out what happened to his old boss now that he's no longer of this world. This month, Tseung received his answer. Jobs has been reincarnated as a celestial warrior-philosopher, the Dhammakaya group said in a special television broadcast, and he's living in a mystical glass palace hovering above his old office at Apple's Cupertino, Calif. headquarters."
The early 1980s was an interesting time. I remember Microsoft being our bulwark of defence against the evil IBM empire while Apple were playing panflutes in apple groves and suing the pants of anyone who made anything vaguely compaitible. By the late 1980s there was one very prescient scribe, I can't remember his name because all I get is Dvorak but that is a keyboard and not journalist, who said that he had seen the future and that MicroSoft (they spelled it that way then) would be the one Boss, the True Boss and the only Boss and that William Gates III would be the Dark Overlord. It seemed laughable at the time - but it nearly came to pass.
I said - don't look Ethel!..., but it was too late..., she'd already looked.
Karma is when the stupid decisions you make in life (trying to treat cancer with herbal remedies) leads to reality kicking your butt (you die).
It's not judgmental. It's just fact.
Then who deserves to die? You are just another wannabe hippy. Someone who doesn't love all but who is just to afraid to just admit some people deserve dead. Your like those people who are against the death penalty, not because they believe in human beings but because they don't want to take responsibility.
We are talking about a man who parked in handicap spaces when he could have build his office to have a drive in office if he wanted to. This person had zero morals and zero empathy. The only people that love him, everyone close to him (READ the reactions to his dead carefully) pretty much said "interesting guy, but ain't gonna shed a tear). Their would have been more reaction of a toaster had stopped working. A human being did not die, a thing died that made some fancy gadgets that will only be remembered in marketing books.
People say that nobody says that on they wished they spent more time in the office on their deathbed. I think Steve Jobs wished he did.
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
That is one interpretation. Depending on the school of Buddhism or Hinduism the interpretations vary. As Alan Watts has pointed out, "Karma" means work or action and that's all it means. Whether the results of your karma are tit-for-tat, nonexistent, on credit or part of a divine system of justice really depends on which robed figure you follow and which mythical creatures you believe in.