No, but I did know a sweet blonde from Mullingar. She worked in the states for a summer and we became very close. If I die with a smile on my face it could likely be remembering Her and that time.
If Elon is the last of the western soul then good riddance. I would say He is more a product of its decay. He betrayed what was the greatest flower of modern world civilization for wealth and notoriety. Most would not know or care about this, it would pain me to explain.
Noticing that few seem to get the nature of the question I will withhold my answer, only to say that China, India have been the periphery of the west for some time, there is no eastern civilization left to rise to replace the west in absolute or relative terms. Naturally, everything does eventually fall to pieces.
Much the same as in person, significant snark added for online stupidity I would like not engage in day to day real life but then most folks do not run around on all caps either.
Calling someone a Hindu, is like calling every indigenous person in North and South America Indians. A broad brush applied indiscriminately by Westerners that did not know or care to know about any of the peoples.
The majority of Buddhists do not worship Him at all. He is considered a sage, a purveyor of transcendent wisdom. Like Jesus in the Koran. There are cults that do worship the man or a transcended form of him, but they are the outliers.
I disbelieve in most of the gods and all of their prophets as most people do, I simply believe in one less god and set of prophets than you.
Have you lived a good life, done what is right, done what was expected of you by parents and society. Never gone too far, not engaged in risky behaviors, filled out all the forms, dotted the "i's" and crossed all the "t's", got the right job, never gone where you were not supposed to go, always got plenty of sleep and never stayed up too late, done what you were told?
RE: Can you know to much you go crazy?
I'll risk it.