[Buddha-l] The arrow: its removal and examination

[Chan Fu]

On 6/25/07, Richard Hayes <rhayes at unm.edu> wrote:

<elsewhere>

> Strange as it may seem, ending suffering is not, and need not be, everyone's
> goal. Most modern philosophers are not especially interested in that goal.
> Neither, for that matter, are most linguists, archeologists, mathematicians,
> political scientists, baseball umpires, and cordon bleu chefs. So it may be a
> bit silly to say that all these people are doing badly what you think they
> ought to be doing. Why not give credit where credit is due, acknowledge that
> many of these people are doing rather well what they actually are trying to
> do, and acknolwege that your interests are so restricted that you fail to
> appreciate anyone who does not pursue your goals?

"In Case of Suffering Emergency, Break Glass"

I must ask you to define the phrase, "political scientist" without
using the words, "bribe", "god", "issue", "war", "peace", "economy",
"tax", "morals", "power", or "family".

On a different note - how can realtime network eclipse coverage be so
frikkin' amateurishly jittery and out of focus?  Nice eclipse, tho. Penguins
seemed unimpressed...