Steve Jobs Reincarnated As a Warrior-Philosopher, Thai Group Says 223
Velcroman1 writes "When Apple founder Steve Jobs died after a long fight with cancer last year, software engineer Tony Tseung sent an email to a Buddhist group in Thailand to find out what happened to his old boss now that he's no longer of this world. This month, Tseung received his answer. Jobs has been reincarnated as a celestial warrior-philosopher, the Dhammakaya group said in a special television broadcast, and he's living in a mystical glass palace hovering above his old office at Apple's Cupertino, Calif. headquarters."
Who gives a fuck? (Score:5, Insightful)
We're really so obsessed with Apple that the after-life of it's CEO can make the front page?
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Thanks for that (Score:1, Insightful)
Doesn't this belong in idle?
Sociopath war monger idiot. (Score:1, Insightful)
He didn't play within the rules of society. He went against it.
He stole a liver to which he wasn't entitled. He declared a thermonuclear
war on android.
He was a sociopath. Society's laws didn't apply to him.
That makes him a sick guy like Iran, North Korea, and other nations that would threaten those weapons.
Steve Jobs is someone to admire if you're a sick apple fanboy thermonuclear war puppy.
Good thing he's dead. Now if only Achmedinejad and Kim Jong-Un could only join him, this Earth
would be a better place.
So long, Steve "Thermonuclear war" Jobs. Hopefuly your'e enjoying innocent kitties in hell.
Because you're not in heaven. And you can't rape anyone on this earth.
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Re:Thanks for that (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Sociopath war monger idiot. (Score:5, Insightful)
Karma (Score:5, Insightful)
If anything, he should be reincarnated as a Chinese iPhone assembly line worker.
Re:Who gives a fuck? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Who gives a fuck? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Jesus Christ... (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Who gives a fuck? (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Who gives a fuck? (Score:5, Insightful)
I'm reading the Jobs bio right now, and it really illuminated the fact that he was always a dick. From a very young age. But he was a dick who had vision. The Macintosh would've never even been made at Apple had Jobs not bullied and yelled his way to victory. But he had no scruples or ethics; he was like the personification of Nietzsche's works. It didn't matter how much you had done for him, he would turn around and stab you if he felt like you were no longer on 'his team'. He screwed Woz over so much that he refused to work with Jobs again. If Schmidt had done his research, he would've known how Jobs would react. It was another psychological trigger for his [biological] parental abandonment that this guy Jobs had welcomed on the board at Apple was now suddenly going to compete directly against Jobs. It was a constant in his life, finding these father figures who would then turn on him (usually because Jobs was an asshole) and he'd go insane. He should've known Jobs would go ballistic and press the red button.
So, you can hate Jobs for being a dick. He had a lot of character flaws: flaws that made him succeed as an outsider in a very tough corporate game, and made his teams create some stellar products, but also emotionally wound many people in his life. But Steve suing Android -- I think it was psychological stuff he never dealt with. He felt abandoned and attacked in his relationship with Schmidt, and so he lashed out with great anger, as he had done many times throughout his career. He was a brilliant but very psychologically troubled man.
I do think though that his trip to India and the LSD and Zen meditation, it was all kind of bullshit. The contradictions between that lifestyle and the way he treated others, it's inexcusable. But you know, many of his generation are the same way. They like to think they still embrace hippie culture, like they all share a secret everyone else doesn't have, but it's very superficial.
But to say Steve "got what he deserved" and attributing that to karma... man, Steve was not a great guy, but not someone that death should be wished upon. And that's not what karma is about. It's not some kind of cosmic schadenfreude. You seem to have a lot of anger in you that you'd be so worked up over a phone. There's more important things in life.
Re:The world is a better place with him dead (Score:5, Insightful)
Take responsibility in what way, exactly speaking? If an innocent man gets sent to his death, as has happened, who gets punished in what way? Does the jury follow him to the grave? Do all supporters of death penalty draw lots to see who gets to carry the responsibility of an innocent dying? And for that matter, should some philosopher/prophet/whatever come up with an airtight argument for death penalty being wrong even when the accused really is guilty of heinous crimes, will they all turn yourselfs over for whatever punishment murder would then get?
Or, as is usually the case, does "taking responsibility" mean absolutely nothing?
Also, I find your idea of sticking a zombie horde on the deserving intriguing. Does the amount of chainsaw fuel inversely depend on the seriousness of the infraction? Or should we simply vary the ratio of quick and slow zombies?