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It is absolutely true that compassion is central to Buddhism, even compassion towards aggressors. Buddhism undoubtedly tells you to be kind towards others, even to the point of sacrificing your life for them. However, as an orthodox Buddhist, you cannot demand that someone else make the tiniest sacr...

Hahahaha! And another one bites the dust!

Just finished a project. I'm almost as happy as when I read this paper: https://husant.github.io/Xpander/files/xpander-full.pdf

You have mentioned a few times 'societies centered on meditation' or similar expressions. What do you mean by this? Which societies would be examples of this? To which extent would meditation be widespread in such a society? I'm talking about societies that honored or still honor Asian meditation t...

I don't think meditation is necessarily associated with prayer or Tibetan logic or any such thing. 'The Willpower Instinct' by Kelly McGonigal is more relevant to my meditation than anything remotely religious. Automatically associating meditation with religion is also not necessarily appropriate b...

Changes to your life needn't take time out of your day. Even just a minute a day can work wonders. I didn't want to make this about other people, but the fact of the matter is that I've talked to groups that have practiced meditation for years. Like every other group, they are not a happy bunch beh...

I'm not sure I'd describe coasting on stubbornness and undying umbrage as ability, but thanks for the vote of confidence.

I offer the idea of turning your computer off before midnight, and going straight to a good book after breakfast and meditation. Nah. Each to his own, but I believe in emotional excess moderated by reason alone as a positive value, with minimal affective training like meditation. Mainly because I r...

Denise Herzing: "Dolphin Communication: Cracking the Code" | Talks at Google: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mfb6zoB_yII Damn, I have machine learning algorithms I want to try on dolphin speech patterns. I don't think they have scratched the surface of everything that could be tried. Isn't their da...

Recognition is the first step to healing. i.e. take this problem seriously. Thanks. I nearly bled to death through my nose two times in succession in 2006. Whether it's because of emotional trauma or brain damage, since then I haven't been able to remember what I'm doing or concentrate on what I'm ...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9f/St_benedict_medal-2006_04_24.png http://divinerosarybeads.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/41avCbCPPbL.jpg Hopefully that disperses any lingering pollution. Anyway, the main reason the right's characterization of the left being aloof and out of touc...

hwhatting wrote:Now you made me curious what kind of question could have warranted that kind of intervention...

You haven't worshiped Satan long enough to be granted access to that kind of knowledge.

(Edit: Never mind. On a second reading, I think the randomness is introduced from gambling on the significance on the event. That makes more sense. I also found Being and Event online, which is what I should have looked for in the first place, so feel free to delete this thread. Edit: "ZFC" makes no...

I don't worship Satan long enough to have that particular set of skills. You will come around to our side eventually, but that's beside the point. I'm only repeating what my idiot told me. (In case I didn't make it clear before, that little story isn't what onset my panic attack — I have no darned ...

A few days ago I was taking a train back to the city where I study and work. On board the train I overheard some young people talking — apart of exchanging a few occasional homophobic/transphobic jokes, one of them recounted his experience regarding the recent Independence Day. (A bit of context: e...

I'm an Indian male who doesn't play or watch cricket, or watch Bollywood hits, the pillars of modern Indian culture. (I wish this were an exaggeration.) Two other groups I know of who are like that are religious fundamentalists and those pretentious ultra-Westernized people who hang out in nightclub...

I believe most Americans are of German ancestry. (Not true the way I worded it: German Americans are the largest ethnic group in America, but they're only 14.4% of the population.) It'll take time for me to imagine what contemporary America could be like without German cultural influences. But the p...

If you want to avoid pointless foreign influences, then create more new things. They don't have to be brand new. Just reinvent Christmas celebrations by inserting references to topical events or something. People get bored living the same way forever. Your choice is between new things coming from ho...

Religions of future earth The strongest human-majority countries in post-apocalyptic earth are two nations, Kandit in southern Spain and Kapal in southwestern France, both of which use dialects of Val, "city (language)", a distant Yoruba/Yoruboid descendant with a heavy Romance substrate as their of...

Yeah see, I honestly wasn't sure if it was perverted or not. Since Vijay is a native English speaker, now I'm even more confused.

(I think I would at least say "getting off work", just to avoid the double entendre.)

I just went to a food place with an Indian professor, and he asked the server whether they are "getting off" for Thanksgiving. Is it just my perverted mind, or do "getting time off" and "getting off" mean completely different things?

Wishful thinking?

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... -8xoqZns6i

Does anyone know of really good recorded campaigns?

Edit: Finished. Since they mentioned Patrick Rothfuss plays DnD, moving on to one of those: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... 4DCuyjVKSl

I wish I could afford to retire.

For my new conworld, I'm using this discussion as a starting point to craft stories at the personal level: https://samzdat.com/2017/08/28/the-uruk-machine/

Pole, the wrote:So, Shakespearean English was basically Scottish?

Can't deny the thought crossed my mind. :p