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Title: Vietnam burning monk - inner strength or stupidity?
Post by: Deicide on October 23, 2010, 03:42:22 AM


This has got to be one of the greatest acts of inner strength and concentration ever performed by a human being. Imagine sitting there calmly as you burn to death in agonising pain, yet you don't even blink. Seriously hardcore!  :o
Title: Re: Vietnam burning monk: most hardcore thing ever done in recent history?
Post by: spinnis on October 23, 2010, 03:43:54 AM
I often think about that actually. Hes gotten his mind into a place where hes just accepted killing himself, and not just by going "BOOM" but by fucking BURNING do death without making a sound.

in-fucking-credible

didn't it actually result in something good also?

the mind is the most powerful thing ever.
Title: Re: Vietnam burning monk: most hardcore thing ever done in recent history?
Post by: Deicide on October 23, 2010, 03:45:07 AM
I often think about that actually. Hes gotten his mind into a place where hes just accepted killing himself, and not just by going "BOOM" but by fucking BURNING do death without making a sound.

in-fucking-credible

didn't it actually result in something good also?

Dude, it wasn't mere suicide. He did it to protest the war and yes, it got results, the whole world paid attention to what happened after that.
Title: Re: Vietnam burning monk: most hardcore thing ever done in recent history?
Post by: freespirit on October 23, 2010, 03:45:24 AM
America has not won the Vietnam war, and will not win in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Title: Re: Vietnam burning monk: most hardcore thing ever done in recent history?
Post by: spinnis on October 23, 2010, 03:46:07 AM
Dude, it wasn't mere suicide. He did it to protest the war and yes, it got results, the whole world paid attention to what happened after that.

when did I say it was just a suicide? i know exactly what it was  :P

I should have added that in my response though lol
Title: Re: Vietnam burning monk: most hardcore thing ever done in recent history?
Post by: Deicide on October 23, 2010, 03:46:31 AM
America has not won the Vietnam war, and will not win in Iraq or Afghanistan.

Uhm, ja....oorlog!!!!
Title: Re: Vietnam burning monk: most hardcore thing ever done in recent history?
Post by: MuscleMcMannus on October 23, 2010, 03:50:04 AM
Dude, it wasn't mere suicide. He did it to protest the war and yes, it got results, the whole world paid attention to what happened after that.


LMAO!.......Yeah the world paid attention and then they went back to doing what they do best.........waging war.  I agree it's a pretty amazing feat.  But I've also come to the conclusion that the world is going to move into the direction it wants to and there isn't a damn bit of difference some fucking monk, mother Teresa, Martin Luther King, or joe schmoe can really do about it.  Maybe it's because the people who run the world are all fucking evil tyrants worshiping a wooden owl and molesting children in their spare time or maybe that's just human destiny....who the fuck knows......but has ANYTHING really changed in the thousands of years since the dawn of man?  
Title: Re: Vietnam burning monk: most hardcore thing ever done in recent history?
Post by: Deicide on October 23, 2010, 03:52:31 AM

LMAO!.......Yeah the world paid attention and then they went back to doing what they do best.........waging war.  I agree it's a pretty amazing feat.  But I've also come to the conclusion that the world is going to move into the direction it wants to and there isn't a damn bit of difference some fucking monk, mother Teresa, Martin Luther King, or joe schmoe can really do about it.  Maybe it's because the people who run the world are all fucking evil tyrants worshiping a wooden owl and molesting children in their spare time or maybe that's just human destiny....who the fuck knows......but has ANYTHING really changed in the thousands of years since the dawn of man?  

No, didn't change much but it is still impressive as hell...
Title: Re: Vietnam burning monk: most hardcore thing ever done in recent history?
Post by: Fallsview on October 23, 2010, 05:12:29 AM
If the monk did this to himself, this is not a true buddhist view.  You cannot take your own life-you MUST stick it out and face your karmic predicament.
Title: Re: Vietnam burning monk: most hardcore thing ever done in recent history?
Post by: Stark on October 23, 2010, 06:50:06 AM
America has not won the Vietnam war, and will not win in Iraq or Afghanistan.

I think if we would have really cared to "win" the hearts and minds of the good people of Iraq and Afgahnistan we would have
done it.
However its far more sporting and fun to keep killing them.
Title: Re: Vietnam burning monk: most hardcore thing ever done in recent history?
Post by: Army of One on October 23, 2010, 06:53:46 AM
He might be able to set himself on fire and not flinch but I dont think he could handle being flamed by Getbig and not flinch.
Title: Re: Vietnam burning monk: most hardcore thing ever done in recent history?
Post by: UGMT on October 23, 2010, 06:56:33 AM
Jan Palach lives forever...
Title: Re: Vietnam burning monk: most hardcore thing ever done in recent history?
Post by: Ex Coelis on October 23, 2010, 06:58:11 AM
I think if we would have really cared to "win" the hearts and minds of the good people of Iraq and Afgahnistan we would have
done it.
However its far more sporting and fun to keep killing them.

who's "we"?

I didn't see you over there
Title: Re: Vietnam burning monk: most hardcore thing ever done in recent history?
Post by: Ursus on October 23, 2010, 07:43:20 AM
America has not won the Vietnam war, and will not win in Iraq or Afghanistan.

You cannot win a war against an army that is made up of the people and who mingle with teh people. The British army could not defeat the IRA, the Brits failed in Afghanistan in the 19th Century. America failed in Vietnam and I also believe they will fail in Afghan and Iraq.
Title: Re: Vietnam burning monk - inner strength or stupidity?
Post by: Rami on October 23, 2010, 07:46:06 AM
example of how versatile the human mind is. can be molded / programed into anything.

merely a computer.
Title: Re: Vietnam burning monk: most hardcore thing ever done in recent history?
Post by: DK II on October 23, 2010, 07:47:47 AM
If the monk did this to himself, this is not a true buddhist view.  You cannot take your own life-you MUST stick it out and face your karmic predicament.

Bullshit, this WAS his karma.  :o
Title: Re: Vietnam burning monk: most hardcore thing ever done in recent history?
Post by: freespirit on October 23, 2010, 07:51:42 AM
I think if we would have really cared to "win" the hearts and minds of the good people of Iraq and Afgahnistan we would have
done it.
However its far more sporting and fun to keep killing them.

Leave that to the idiots who joined the military.
Title: Re: Vietnam burning monk: most hardcore thing ever done in recent history?
Post by: spinnis on October 23, 2010, 07:57:04 AM
Leave that to the idiots who joined the military.

anyone can pretty much be fooled into doing anything
Title: Re: Vietnam burning monk - inner strength or stupidity?
Post by: YngiweRhoads on October 23, 2010, 07:57:10 AM
He would've made a great contestant on Fear Factor.

Title: Re: Vietnam burning monk - inner strength or stupidity?
Post by: pedro01 on October 23, 2010, 08:51:03 AM
Mental illness, morphine, gasoline & some seriously fucked up friends.

Ain't nothing but a peanut.
Title: Re: Vietnam burning monk - inner strength or stupidity?
Post by: Stark on October 23, 2010, 08:53:53 AM
war is the only way Americans learn geography :D
Title: Re: Vietnam burning monk - inner strength or stupidity?
Post by: Voice of Doom on October 23, 2010, 08:58:00 AM
the world is a burning house - Buddha

 :-X >:( :o ??? :) ;D 8)
Title: Re: Vietnam burning monk - inner strength or stupidity?
Post by: spinnis on October 23, 2010, 09:01:35 AM
war is the only way Americans learn geography :D

hahahahaha
Title: Re: Vietnam burning monk - inner strength or stupidity?
Post by: makaveli25 on October 23, 2010, 11:19:16 AM
How the fuck do you pour gasoline on yourself and light a match  :o !! That would be scary as fuck. How the fuck do you just sit there and not run around screaming looking for water to dive into!
Title: Re: Vietnam burning monk - inner strength or stupidity?
Post by: Disgusted on October 23, 2010, 11:40:30 AM
Fuckingg stupid.
Title: Re: Vietnam burning monk - inner strength or stupidity?
Post by: Nirvana on October 23, 2010, 11:45:43 AM
Inner stupidity
Title: Re: Vietnam burning monk - inner strength or stupidity?
Post by: Bflex on October 23, 2010, 11:59:52 AM
Darwin Award.
Title: Re: Vietnam burning monk - inner strength or stupidity?
Post by: Tapeworm on October 23, 2010, 12:14:49 PM
And now you can go there on a surfing holiday.   :-\
Title: Re: Vietnam burning monk: most hardcore thing ever done in recent history?
Post by: Fallsview on October 23, 2010, 01:27:14 PM
Bullshit, this WAS his karma.  :o

NO Donkey Kong, you have much to learn about Samsara and damma.  In that type of buddhism, they believe in this ritual after enlightment.  Whether this monk had reached it is neither here nor there.
Title: Re: Vietnam burning monk - inner strength or stupidity?
Post by: Fatpanda on October 23, 2010, 02:41:14 PM
impressive from the monk - such a selfless act to end an a war.

his karma is surely massive now.

if he comes back and does not ascend to a heaven realm he will surely come back as a prince or multibillionaire  8)
Title: Re: Vietnam burning monk - inner strength or stupidity?
Post by: spinnis on October 23, 2010, 02:48:55 PM
someone that couldn't handle the heat  ;D

http://www.nothingtoxic.com/media/1255480440/Protester_Instantly_Regrets_Setting_Himself_on_Fire

edit* damn not the one I thought it would be.

WHY CANT I USE THEIR media player anymore? =(
Title: Re: Vietnam burning monk - inner strength or stupidity?
Post by: benchmstr on October 23, 2010, 02:53:50 PM
..
Title: Re: Vietnam burning monk - inner strength or stupidity?
Post by: NarcissisticDeity on October 23, 2010, 02:55:01 PM
..

lmao
Title: Re: Vietnam burning monk - inner strength or stupidity?
Post by: benchmstr on October 23, 2010, 02:59:43 PM
lmao
answers a lot of questions doesnt it?

 ;D

bench
Title: Re: Vietnam burning monk - inner strength or stupidity?
Post by: Fallsview on October 23, 2010, 03:39:15 PM
impressive from the monk - such a selfless act to end an a war.

his karma is surely massive now.

if he comes back and does not ascend to a heaven realm he will surely come back as a prince or multibillionaire  8)

Fat Panda you know nothing about karma-When people say "Karma's a Bitch" they are being ignorant.  Karma that happens in this life is a result of what you did in your previous life.  So if you do wrong now, you won't pay for it until next life.  People blame surroundings, people, etc.etc. for all there misdoings and shortcomings while it is a direct result of there last life. Everyone gets what's coming to them. 
Title: Re: Vietnam burning monk - inner strength or stupidity?
Post by: Lundgren on October 23, 2010, 03:39:25 PM
war is the only way Americans learn geography :D
Lol you should say learning place names. Most american's could never spot vietnam, iraq, and afghanistan on the map.

You cannot win a war against an army that is made up of the people and who mingle with teh people. The British army could not defeat the IRA, the Brits failed in Afghanistan in the 19th Century. America failed in Vietnam and I also believe they will fail in Afghan and Iraq.

That's because it's not a war, it's an invasion.  The only way to conquer is to decimate the people, however this can't be done because the un is watching america's every move. Iraq was the stupidest fucking thing in existance. All you gotta do is look at any country in africa and it becomes very simple. mixed populations can't have a democracy. It just don't work. The only reason europe cleaned it's act up was because all the german's were removed from eastern europe, all the jews were dead, and the rest were taking care of by the Soviet Union.
Title: Re: Vietnam burning monk - inner strength or stupidity?
Post by: Fatpanda on October 23, 2010, 04:05:04 PM
Fat Panda you know nothing about karma-When people say "Karma's a Bitch" they are being ignorant.  Karma that happens in this life is a result of what you did in your previous life.  So if you do wrong now, you won't pay for it until next life.  People blame surroundings, people, etc.etc. for all there misdoings and shortcomings while it is a direct result of there last life. Everyone gets what's coming to them. 

perhaps you have mistaken me for donkeykong. i did not use the term karmas a bitch in this thread or context.

i know a lot about buddhism, an awful lot, and i know exactly what karma is and how it works.

perhaps you should search through some of my posts. i have posted many interesting things about the topic.

just to advise you - you are wrong about your understanding of karma. there are different types of karma, some that you pay back in this life, some you are paying for from previous lives and some rewards you get in this life and the next. it is not as black and white as you have to pay back in the next life. you may be paying back from 3 or more lives ago. it has no set rules.

i hope this has been of some help to you in your quest for enlightenment, i wish you well on your journey.
Title: Re: Vietnam burning monk - inner strength or stupidity?
Post by: Parker on October 23, 2010, 05:29:47 PM
..
Dude in the background looks like Scorpion from Mortal Kombat.
Title: Re: Vietnam burning monk - inner strength or stupidity?
Post by: Ursus on October 23, 2010, 06:33:12 PM
If you pause at 33 seconds you can see some woman walking past on a cell phone.
Title: Re: Vietnam burning monk - inner strength or stupidity?
Post by: benchmstr on October 23, 2010, 06:34:44 PM
Dude in the background looks like Scorpion from Mortal Kombat.
cause it is ;D

bench
Title: Re: Vietnam burning monk - inner strength or stupidity?
Post by: Fallsview on October 23, 2010, 06:44:06 PM
perhaps you have mistaken me for donkeykong. i did not use the term karmas a bitch in this thread or context.

i know a lot about buddhism, an awful lot, and i know exactly what karma is and how it works.

perhaps you should search through some of my posts. i have posted many interesting things about the topic.

just to advise you - you are wrong about your understanding of karma. there are different types of karma, some that you pay back in this life, some you are paying for from previous lives and some rewards you get in this life and the next. it is not as black and white as you have to pay back in the next life. you may be paying back from 3 or more lives ago. it has no set rules.

i hope this has been of some help to you in your quest for enlightenment, i wish you well on your journey.

Mr.Panda, you have a very healthy ego.  Lose the "I" on your journey.  Just like Christianity, there are different offshoots of buddhism.  True buddhism only reflects karma from previous lives.  We are forced into this life BY karma-that is the reason you were born, that is why we are obliged to pursue this life to the best of our ability.  It is what you can call a "Karmic DNA" that creates and disignates life's challenges.  Mr. Panda, you need to know you arrived here on the scene/mother earth full of errors that need to be rectified.  All of us carry a long, long, long history of mistake making.  This is what your present life offers you-remedy of your past mistakes.  So there is alot to forgive and acknowledge.  This is what is called a Karma-driven life. If  whatever you believe helps you on your path to that overly used word called Nirvanna, then be it.  As long as you get there full of peace and love to all mankind, then it really doesn't matter what you believe.  

Remember that age old phrase;  What did you do BEFORE enlightenment?  I lifted weights and drank protein shakes.  What did you do AFTER enlightenment?  I lifted weights and drank protein shakes.

Good luck.  
 
Title: Re: Vietnam burning monk - inner strength or stupidity?
Post by: DK II on October 23, 2010, 07:36:23 PM
Mr.Panda, you have a very healthy ego.  Lose the "I" on your journey.  Just like Christianity, there are different offshoots of buddhism.  True buddhism only reflects karma from previous lives.  We are forced into this life BY karma-that is the reason you were born, that is why we are obliged to pursue this life to the best of our ability.  It is what you can call a "Karmic DNA" that creates and disignates life's challenges.  Mr. Panda, you need to know you arrived here on the scene/mother earth full of errors that need to be rectified.  All of us carry a long, long, long history of mistake making.  This is what your present life offers you-remedy of your past mistakes.  So there is alot to forgive and acknowledge.  This is what is called a Karma-driven life. If  whatever you believe helps you on your path to that overly used word called Nirvanna, then be it.  As long as you get there full of peace and love to all mankind, then it really doesn't matter what you believe.  

Remember that age old phrase;  What did you do BEFORE enlightenment?  I lifted weights and drank protein shakes.  What did you do AFTER enlightenment?  I lifted weights and drank protein shakes.

Good luck.  
 

I think fatpanda will be reborn... well yes, as a fat panda in his next life.
Title: Re: Vietnam burning monk - inner strength or stupidity?
Post by: Straw Man on October 23, 2010, 07:41:51 PM
An American did the same thing 2 years later outside the Pentagon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Morrison
Title: Re: Vietnam burning monk - inner strength or stupidity?
Post by: wes mantooth on October 23, 2010, 07:47:08 PM
he should have considered making a tshirt with a catchy phrase....to make a statement
Title: Re: Vietnam burning monk - inner strength or stupidity?
Post by: Figo on October 24, 2010, 06:39:07 AM
he burned for you bitches
Title: Re: Vietnam burning monk: most hardcore thing ever done in recent history?
Post by: Figo on October 24, 2010, 06:41:07 AM
I often think about that actually. Hes gotten his mind into a place where hes just accepted killing himself, and not just by going "BOOM" but by fucking BURNING do death without making a sound.

in-fucking-credible

didn't it actually result in something good also?

the mind is the most powerful thing ever.
probably consumed a mind altering substance before-hand
Title: Re: Vietnam burning monk - inner strength or stupidity?
Post by: Firemuscle on October 24, 2010, 08:37:07 AM
 I don't see how anybody could say that's stupid.

 You would have to be a complete meathead dumbfuck to not appreciate the awesomeness of what that monk did.
Title: Re: Vietnam burning monk - inner strength or stupidity?
Post by: Fallsview on October 24, 2010, 09:07:24 AM
All you need to know...

Title: Re: Vietnam burning monk - inner strength or stupidity?
Post by: wes on October 24, 2010, 09:22:09 AM
If you pause at 33 seconds you can see some woman walking past on a cell phone.
She was just a passing time traveler.
Title: Re: Vietnam burning monk - inner strength or stupidity?
Post by: SgtSpar on October 24, 2010, 09:32:08 AM
I don't see how anybody could say that's stupid.

 You would have to be a complete meathead dumbfuck to not appreciate the awesomeness of what that monk did.

What was awesome about it?  It didn't change one single thing, therefore, it was not only stupid, it was utterly pointless.  If he wanted to make a difference, he would have done volunteer work in a hospital caring for victims of the war.
Title: Re: Vietnam burning monk - inner strength or stupidity?
Post by: Purple Aki on October 24, 2010, 09:48:37 AM
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1krRU2sgGgk/S_50AtFc51I/AAAAAAAAAR0/WZTRJY3X_FM/s1600/fire5e2.jpg)


*adopts best Austrian accent*

"What a hothead"
Title: Re: Vietnam burning monk - inner strength or stupidity?
Post by: noworries on October 24, 2010, 10:00:41 AM
 ;D
Title: Re: Vietnam burning monk - inner strength or stupidity?
Post by: Figo on October 25, 2010, 01:24:00 AM
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1krRU2sgGgk/S_50AtFc51I/AAAAAAAAAR0/WZTRJY3X_FM/s1600/fire5e2.jpg)


*adopts best Austrian accent*

"What a hothead"
the cop in above pic looks like he needs a light for his cigarrette
Title: Re: Vietnam burning monk - inner strength or stupidity?
Post by: noworries on October 25, 2010, 09:21:06 AM
 ???
Title: Re: Vietnam burning monk - inner strength or stupidity?
Post by: The Showstoppa on October 25, 2010, 09:24:55 AM
Don't get so fired up.....cooler heads will prevail.
Title: Re: Vietnam burning monk - inner strength or stupidity?
Post by: Fatpanda on November 13, 2010, 01:40:02 PM
Mr.Panda, you have a very healthy ego.  Lose the "I" on your journey.  Just like Christianity, there are different offshoots of buddhism.  True buddhism only reflects karma from previous lives.  We are forced into this life BY karma-that is the reason you were born, that is why we are obliged to pursue this life to the best of our ability.  It is what you can call a "Karmic DNA" that creates and disignates life's challenges.  Mr. Panda, you need to know you arrived here on the scene/mother earth full of errors that need to be rectified.  All of us carry a long, long, long history of mistake making.  This is what your present life offers you-remedy of your past mistakes.  So there is alot to forgive and acknowledge.  This is what is called a Karma-driven life. If  whatever you believe helps you on your path to that overly used word called Nirvanna, then be it.  As long as you get there full of peace and love to all mankind, then it really doesn't matter what you believe.  

Remember that age old phrase;  What did you do BEFORE enlightenment?  I lifted weights and drank protein shakes.  What did you do AFTER enlightenment?  I lifted weights and drank protein shakes.

Good luck.  
 

you are very wrong.

i suggest you read the pali canon instead of nonsense about karmic dna.
Title: Re: Vietnam burning monk - inner strength or stupidity?
Post by: Fallsview on November 13, 2010, 01:42:40 PM
Haven't you left this board yet?  Oh Brother!

Brutal, coming back to a thread one month later.

Godspeed!!!!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: Vietnam burning monk - inner strength or stupidity?
Post by: tallgerman on November 13, 2010, 01:49:21 PM
have to call stupiditah this time sire!

(http://az7t1.com/fattythumbs.com/t/570491.jpg)

(http://az7t1.com/fattythumbs.com/t/482941.jpg)
Title: Re: Vietnam burning monk - inner strength or stupidity?
Post by: phyxsius on November 13, 2010, 03:16:54 PM
(http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=352932.0;attach=388279;image)

FINISH HIM !!!
Title: Re: Vietnam burning monk - inner strength or stupidity?
Post by: DK II on November 13, 2010, 08:46:42 PM
Haven't you left this board yet?  Oh Brother!

Brutal, coming back to a thread one month later.

Godspeed!!!!!!!!!!!!

He is fat, do i need to say more?
Title: Re: Vietnam burning monk - inner strength or stupidity?
Post by: Bix on November 14, 2010, 06:06:22 AM
Complete moron.
Title: Re: Vietnam burning monk - inner strength or stupidity?
Post by: Fatpanda on November 14, 2010, 11:47:10 AM
He is fat, do i need to say more?

no you have said quite enough.

your stupidity could not be made more clear.
Title: Re: Vietnam burning monk - inner strength or stupidity?
Post by: Cleanest Natural on November 14, 2010, 11:59:02 AM
Fuckingg stupid.
thank u ..finally someone with common sense