I am here to make your forum great.

[retrofuturist]

Greetings,

These days I sport an uber fashionable shaved head, because I no longer care about hair and I don't have much of it to care about.

Metta,
Retro.

[tiltbillings]

I surprised the Boz' mugshot has not surfaced so we can add it to these greats:

[LauraJ]

Teehee

[Bhikkhu Pesala]

I don't know how you suppose this forum will be great by posting a whole load of samphappalāpa. A lot of great big egos doesn't make a great Buddhist forum. What I would like to see is some thoughtful posts and useful quotations or links.

[cooran]

I don't know how you suppose this forum will be great by posting a whole load of samphappalāpa. A lot of great big egos doesn't make a great Buddhist forum. What I would like to see is some thoughtful posts and useful quotations or links.

Hello Bhante,

Thank you for the reminder - too often we get carried away by, as you say, samphappalāpa. This is a new word for me - I'm only familiar with papañca (conceptual proliferation).

Bhante, your contributions and example are much appreciated here and on other lists, as well as on your website:
http://www.aimwell.org/index.html

Thank you for all the consistent and valuable work you do for the Dhamma.

with metta and respect,
Chris

[David N. Snyder]

Some amount of samphappalāpa (small talk) is to be expected in a sub-forum on Introductions; also in the Lounge, where we have threads, such as: Word Association Game, music game, etc.

But the points of both sides are well taken and this thread has run its course and so I am closing it.