[Buddha-l] Watching Heaven on teevee

[jkirk]

Tonight 20/20 is on about Heaven.
B Walters is the shill. I'm watching it because i heard HHDL would be among 
the people she interviews. Interesting montage: afte rhe intro, scene fades 
to a sentence featuring HEAVEN in large letters with a sentence underneath 
saying We will take you there, and then the word HEAVEN seqgues into the 
medication called ENBREL, which is followed by all the side effects you can 
have it you use it, followed by some peoples' idea of heaven: a gigantic 
Nissan pickup truck; plus an Estee Lauder cosmetics ad, then back to the 
program. It's going to be pretty awful, judging by the script that replaces 
the sound, having turned off the sound until HHDL comes on. But I pity him 
agreeing to be interviewed by the No1 Teevee shill of all network time, B. 
Walters. I wish that somehow he'd see his mission as less a question of 
familiarizing TV audiences with his ideas, since they are all contained in 
lovely books that people can read on their own minus commercials. But still, 
I can't pass up the chance to hear whatever he says.
Joanna