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."

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Who gives a fuck?

[RobinEggs]

This isn't even posted under Idle; it's posted under Apple.

We're really so obsessed with Apple that the after-life of it's CEO can make the front page?

News for Nerds, Stuff that Doesn't Fucking Matter At All

Re:Who gives a fuck?

[gagol]

For the record, I used to admire the guy and even dreamed to work with him. His decisions and general attitude in the last years of his life made him look (in my light) worse than the "evil ibm" he was fighting against in early 80's. The single fact he once stated he would sue the hell out of android with every penny of his personal fortune really helped me put things in perspective, and I pretty much hate him right now... one have to realize the "illusion of grandeur" he was suffering from... and he died from it too by exclusively using alternative medicine to treat a cancer. That says a lot to me, and I think he got what he deserved... Something called Karma maybe?

Re:Who gives a fuck?

[Beefpatrol]

Looks like Microsoft decided Apple is currently a bigger threat to them than Android. They're wrong, of course, but they might not yet know why.

Re:Who gives a fuck?

[DNS-and-BIND]

*sigh* no...Karma determines what happens to you in the next life. It has zippo to do with this life. In this life you accumulate karma (or don't, that's why priests sit on mountaintops and do nothing, to avoid karma) and it determines what you become after your death.

Re:Who gives a fuck?

[petsounds]

I'm reading the Jobs bio right now, and it really illuminated the fact that he was always a dick. From a very young age. But he was a dick who had vision. The Macintosh would've never even been made at Apple had Jobs not bullied and yelled his way to victory. But he had no scruples or ethics; he was like the personification of Nietzsche's works. It didn't matter how much you had done for him, he would turn around and stab you if he felt like you were no longer on 'his team'. He screwed Woz over so much that he refused to work with Jobs again. If Schmidt had done his research, he would've known how Jobs would react. It was another psychological trigger for his [biological] parental abandonment that this guy Jobs had welcomed on the board at Apple was now suddenly going to compete directly against Jobs. It was a constant in his life, finding these father figures who would then turn on him (usually because Jobs was an asshole) and he'd go insane. He should've known Jobs would go ballistic and press the red button.

So, you can hate Jobs for being a dick. He had a lot of character flaws: flaws that made him succeed as an outsider in a very tough corporate game, and made his teams create some stellar products, but also emotionally wound many people in his life. But Steve suing Android -- I think it was psychological stuff he never dealt with. He felt abandoned and attacked in his relationship with Schmidt, and so he lashed out with great anger, as he had done many times throughout his career. He was a brilliant but very psychologically troubled man.

I do think though that his trip to India and the LSD and Zen meditation, it was all kind of bullshit. The contradictions between that lifestyle and the way he treated others, it's inexcusable. But you know, many of his generation are the same way. They like to think they still embrace hippie culture, like they all share a secret everyone else doesn't have, but it's very superficial.

But to say Steve "got what he deserved" and attributing that to karma... man, Steve was not a great guy, but not someone that death should be wished upon. And that's not what karma is about. It's not some kind of cosmic schadenfreude. You seem to have a lot of anger in you that you'd be so worked up over a phone. There's more important things in life.

Re:Thanks for that

[shugah]

Only because there is no category for stupid.

Re:Sociopath war monger idiot.

[dyingtolive]

And to make it worse, people won't stop fucking worshiping him.

Karma

[Viceice]

If anything, he should be reincarnated as a Chinese iPhone assembly line worker.

Re:Jesus Christ...

[Pseudonym Authority]

No, in Christianity, you don't become an angel after you die. You become a subject (read: subject, not a citizen) in the Kingdom (not a Republic, so you won't be hugging Jesus like most think; it's a fucking monarchy for Christ's (get it?) sake) in the kingdom of heaven, where you spend eternity trying to fix God's low self-esteem.

Re:The world is a better place with him dead

[ultranova]

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.

Take responsibility in what way, exactly speaking? If an innocent man gets sent to his death, as has happened, who gets punished in what way? Does the jury follow him to the grave? Do all supporters of death penalty draw lots to see who gets to carry the responsibility of an innocent dying? And for that matter, should some philosopher/prophet/whatever come up with an airtight argument for death penalty being wrong even when the accused really is guilty of heinous crimes, will they all turn yourselfs over for whatever punishment murder would then get?

Or, as is usually the case, does "taking responsibility" mean absolutely nothing?

Also, I find your idea of sticking a zombie horde on the deserving intriguing. Does the amount of chainsaw fuel inversely depend on the seriousness of the infraction? Or should we simply vary the ratio of quick and slow zombies?