Meijer musing

When I was walking through the wine and cheese aisle at the grocery store today, I was blocked by an employee loudly yakking with one of the food sample station workers on one side, a couple of oblivious college students on the other, and a big trash container on wheels in the middle. I was thinking how useful a taser would have been right about then.

Destructive emotions

As part of my book on CD kick, I'm reading "Destructive Emotions." It's about the overlap between Buddhist philosophy of the mind and neuropsychology, and I'm gaining new respect for Buddhism and the Dalai Lama. I think it's especially neat that he thinks that if science proves a tenet of Buddhism wrong (for instance, when he was a boy, Buddhist cosmology still said the earth was flat), then Buddhism should change to align itself with the science. He's doing that to make Buddhism relevant and creditable in the modern world, and I think that's pretty cool.

I think novapsyche would like this book a great deal.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0553801716/103-9190195-0501447?v=glance