Re:The Open Buddhist University
by fnordpiglet on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @06:28AM
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It’s just a title to a web page meant to be interesting. Regardless, he didn’t represent himself as a teacher. He didn’t teach. He represented himself as a curator of a webpage, and the tittle of the page I don’t think it meant to be misleading just compelling. It’s a bit of a stretch to take it any other way, and a shifting of the goal posts. I think if you agree he didn’t do as you said he did, it isn’t self diminishing (after all the self is an illusion!) to simply state there was a misunderstanding.
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Re:The Open Buddhist University
by throwawaylolx on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @08:35AM
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>It’s just a title to a web page meant to be interesting
It's called clickbait and it's widely acknowledge to be a dishonest method of promotion.
Re:The Open Buddhist University
by fnordpiglet on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @10:54AM
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Come now. Clickbait would be “You will never believe what the Buddha did when…”
This is just a title. “Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy” turned out to just be a book about a rather boring Englishman and his friend, not actually a pan galactic travel guide. Titles are allowed to be compelling as long as they aren’t outright BS. No one really thinks there’s a Buddhist university with degrees and graduation ceremonies and the promise of enlightenment with every degree. When I clicked on it I expected to see pretty much what I got.
> Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy” turned out to just be a book about a rather boring Englishman and his friend, not actually a pan galactic travel guide.
It is about the travelling guide. The Englishman is there just to vitalize the story. /s