Why bikes are cool
Treehugger.com had a blog entry recently that asked people to send pictures of celebrities riding bikes. Hollywood "entertainment" usually portrays people who ride bikes as losers, but in reality some cool and very fashionable people use them all the time to get around in a pollution free way.It's my own feeling that life is too short and precious not to ride a bicycle.
I really like this video blog by Daryl Hannah about bicycling, it about sums up all that is wonderful about urban riding. I never thought I would have this much in common with celebrity types, and these blogs make them seem like they are actually interesting people.
Burn fat not oil!
posted by M Dangermond at 12:29 AM
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And what makes you so sure that it's round???
8:54 PM
The question "And what makes you so sure that it's round???" coming from anyone other than the blogmaster of Buddhist Jihad might be written off as either a juvenile jest or the ravings of a Crappy Christian stuck in a 14th century mentality, so, to paraphrase and butcher the words of Dogen, better to josh with ones more learned than to excel in jokiness among fools.
It is difficult, in your brief question, to determine the point of your subjectivity that identifies the point of ours, that being something being round. Do you mean the wheels of bikes? The feeling that bikes are cool? Or the larger question of Round Earth Theory? Or the Round Earth League itself?
As for bikes, I leave that to the League's member dcarto, an avid atheist, promoter of science, living in harmony with the ecology, and bike enthusiast. Perhaps he can address the roundness of that (those) points.
As for the League itself, it is three members, as in three points on a circle, therefore round, an entirely subjective construction. If Buddhist Jihad were to join it would be four points, still a circle, still an entirely subjective construction.
As for Round Earth Theory, we can only point to mountains of scientific observations that go back to the ancient Greeks, to Copernicus, Gallileo, and continue into the present. Although I understand the Earth is not strictly round, being slightly ovoid. As Buddhism teaches, nobody's perfect.
Finally, however, it is but a leap of subjective faith, perhaps, just as the three astronauts of Apollo 13, stranded in their pride in technology, used their faith in the Dao of gravity between celestial bodies of rather round formation to bring them home again just as ancient sailors threw themselves to the mercy of the winds to circumnavigate the globe
Or, in the words of Ta-sui,
"If objective reality is not manifest, what awakening at all is there to talk about?"
Or, to adapt the words of Pai-Chang on Practice to the art of riding a bike, one may dwell in detachment, reading scriptures, and the studying of doctrines while riding a bike, but even those in the tenth stage cannot escape the flow into the river of traffic and avoid the cycle of birth of death.
Forgive my wordiness, but I am greatly inspired by a far better writer, Younghill Kang (strongly recommended).
BTW, for what it's worth, both dcarto and I admire your efforts at your blog Buddhist Jihad. In a word, "Keep on Truckin'"
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6:08 PM
We're on board a spaceship baby!
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