Imagine this book morphing into a real-life friend: it will make for an earnest and sincere Buddhist companion, never preachy, though with a tendency to ramble on at times – understandably, like many well-intentioned people. For it is a book that comes to life, made accessible to modern (in particular, Western) readers by its affable readability, [...]

From Channel TitTatTot @ http://www.youtube.com/user/tittattot, the love-hate relationship between humans and machines, adapted from http://moonpointer.com/new/2010/12/are-machines-reliable

A Tit for a Tat (198) Tit: (Sipping) This lemonade is very sour! Tat: Stir it then! Tit: That would make it more sour! Tat: Not really more sour – just more evenly sour. Tit: It’ll still be more sour than now! Tat: Better evenly sour now than super sour at the end! Next aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2011/01/what-is-pretty [...]

A Tit for a Tat (197) Tit: I wonder if I should teach more teachers or more students. Tat: Why? Tit: Because teachers can be harder to teach than students! Tat: But these teachers can better teach more students! Tit: Only if these teachers are good students! Next aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2010/12/super-sour-lemonade Previous aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2010/12/teach-the-teacher About aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2010/02/logo-for-a-tit-for-a-tat-series

A Tit for a Tat (196) Tit: I wonder if I should teach some teachers. Tat: When they teach some stuff wrongly? Tit: Yes. Tat: Why not try? Tit: Because some are so attached to being teachers that they are no longer students! Next aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2010/12/teach-more-students Previous aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2010/12/middle-path-of-train-entry About aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2010/02/logo-for-a-tit-for-a-tat-series

A Tit for a Tat (195) Tit: If you enter the packed train at the last second, you might not get in in time! Tat: If you enter the packed train too immediately, you might not get out in time! Tit: Only if you enter the packed train at the right time, you can get in [...]

A Tit for a Tat (194) Tit: How do you judge a book? Tat: Er… by its cover… at first! Tit: How superficial! Tat: How do you judge a book then? Tit: By its contents of course. Tat: In a bookshop with countless books, how do you pick a book to browse? Tit: Er… by [...]

A Tit for a Tat (193) Tit: I think good and evil is balanced in this world. Tat: If so, for every murder, someone is saved? Tit: Er… why not? Tat: If so, for everyone saved, someone is murdered too? Tit: Er… Tat: Why save anyone then? Next aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2010/12/by-its-cover Previous aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2010/12/gimme-a-haiku About aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2010/02/logo-for-a-tit-for-a-tat-series

A Tit for a Tat (192) Tit: Let’s compose a haiku! Tat: … says Tit… Tit: How about this? Next aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2010/12/balance-of-good-evil Previous aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2010/12/more-surreal About aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2010/02/logo-for-a-tit-for-a-tat-series

A Tit for a Tat (191) Tit: Normal bright white lights make everything look so real. Tat: What about the many colourful shimmering Christmas lights then? Tit: They make things more surreal! Next aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2010/12/gimme-a-haiku Previous aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2010/12/past-great-hits About aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2010/02/logo-for-a-tit-for-a-tat-series

A Tit for a Tat (189) Tit: When I listen more intently to songs I liked in the past… Tat: … you relish them even more? Tit: Yes, as I appreciate them more mindfully. Tat: For me, some great hits become less great… Tit: … because you hear them more clearly too! Next aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2010/12/more-surreal Previous aT4aT: [...]

A Tit for a Tat (188) Tit: What’s wrong now? Tat: I don’t know. Must there be something wrong? Tit: There must be something wrong… Tat: Why? Tit: Even if there is really nothing wrong, me thinking ‘there must be something wrong’ is already something wrong! Related Article: Troubling-ness http://moonpointer.com/new/2010/12/troubling-ness Next aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2010/12/past-great-hits Previous aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2010/12/are-machines-reliable About [...]

A Tit for a Tat (187) Tit: Humans are sometimes unreliable. Tat: What about machines then? Tit: Well, they are made by humans… Tat: Which makes them also sometimes unreliable? Tit: Yeah… In fact, they can fail any time! Tat: Yeah… In fact, just like humans! Tit: But humans can repair machines. Tat: Does that [...]

A Tit for a Tat (186) Tit: To prevent unfair demonisation by generalisation, I try to use ‘some’ instead of ‘all’. Tat: But in ‘some’ cases, it’s really about ‘all’! Tit: Yes, so my rule of generalisation applies only to ‘some’ cases! Next aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2010/12/are-machines-reliable Previous aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2010/12/car-number About aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2010/02/logo-for-a-tit-for-a-tat-series

A Tit for a Tat (185) Tit: Look at that amazing car number! Tat: Wow! So… what can it do? Tit: Er… It can impress us… like it just did? Next aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2010/12/demonisation-by-generalisation Previous aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2010/12/like-dislike About aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2010/02/logo-for-a-tit-for-a-tat-series