A Tit for a Tat (100) Tit: Everyone should see someone as special. Tat: Only one? Tit: If not, that person wouldn’t be special. Tat: Isn’t it more special to see two or more than one to be special? Tit: Sounds like promiscuity! Tat: What if everyone is seen as equally special? Tit: Sounds like [...]

A Tit for a Tat (99) Tit: I wonder why people wear toupees when it looks so obvious that they are doing so. Tat: As a rule, those who you spot to be wearing toupees must be obvious toupee-wearers. Tit: What do you mean? Tat: As a rule too, those who you don’t spot to [...]

‘The Serpent and the Rainbow’, which is supposedly based on a true story (By Wade Davis) tells of a terrifying Haitian semi-scientific and semi-voodoo drug, that can induce a fake death syndrome, where the ‘deceased’ is seen to be thoroughly dead medically, who is not so at all. One might then be buried alive, but [...]

A Tit for a Tat (98) Tit: He’s breaking up with her. Tat: Why? Tit: Because she doesn’t want to have a baby with him. Tat: That’s it? Tit: Uh huh… Tat: Looks like he loves his non-existent baby more than his existing lover! Tit: Now his lover doesn’t exist either! Next aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2010/02/why-people-wear-toupees Previous [...]

A Tit for a Tat (97) Tit: How’s your sore throat? Tat: It’s better but am not sure if it’s permanent. Tit: As if you will never get a sore throat again in your life! Next aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2010/02/bizarre-baby-love Previous aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2010/02/help-more-readily

When you’re born a lover You’re born to suffer Like all soul sisters and soul brothers… I’m not looking for an easy ride True happiness cannot be tried So easily – Depeche Mode (Goodnight Lovers) We are reborn as lovers of Samsara, and suffer, sometimes willingly and more often unwittingly, even as we seek love [...]

A Tit for a Tat (96) Tit: Why don’t you help more readily? Tat: Because it’s not so easy to do so readily! Tit: Because it’s too easy to think so readily! Next aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2010/02/its-better-but Previous aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2010/02/a-greater-desire

What if you said what you really want to say? What if you did what you really want to do? Will the world become a better place? If the world will not become a better place, there is something wrong with what you are thinking of saying and doing. If so, why not change your [...]

The truthful are truthful, whether they believe in God or not. The good are good, whether they believe in God or not. Truth and goodness is truthful and good, whether one believes in God or not. As such, belief in God is of arbitrary importance. – Stonepeace A good theist respects a good atheist. A [...]

A Tit for a Tat (95) Tit: Do you still have any desire for meat? Tat: A little… but I have a greater desire. Tit: What’s that? Tat: The desire of not wanting animals to die for me. Next aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2010/02/help-more-readily Previous aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2010/02/would-it-be-stupid

A Tit for a Tat (94) Tit: Now that my old shoes are worn out, would it be stupid to buy the same ones again? Tat: It would be stupid if there are tougher shoes out there. Tit: If not? Tat: Then not only would it not be stupid, it would be wise to buy [...]

Lawrence: [Seeing gun and bullets] I didn’t know you hunted monsters. Singh: Sometimes monsters hunt you. ‘The Wolfman’, like all good monster movies, be they remakes or not, remains a cautionary tale. If we take the wolf half of a wolfman (aka. werewolf) to represent the inner beast, the raging animal aspect of us seething [...]

Each year a new year, each month a new month, each week a new week, each day a new day, each moment a new moment. May we treasure each moment to learn, practise, realise and share the Dharma well, making this a truly happy [lunar] new year. Amituofo! (Greetings from TheDailyEnlightenment.com & Moonpointer.com)

[A concise version of this article is available at http://tinyurl.com/ronytan2] Though Pastor Rony Tan has already apologised for his gross misrepresentations of Buddhism in his video interviews, many of these misrepresentations remain unclarified in a point by point manner. As the videos are publicly viewable, clarifications on them should be publicly available too. Since the [...]

I: In case you are not aware, has G passed you an envelope with your name on it this morning? There is a packet of snack and a card inside. See you next time. Thank you. S: Thank you for the gift :-] Aiya… no need for gifts in future la… It’s my pleasure to [...]