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It’s shameful. When he claimed the files don’t incriminate him, he squirms and then claims that Epstein conducted a conspiracy to frame him. He looks ...

Guns.

Yep, they’re propped up on an AI bubble right now with the administration enabling corruption on a grand scale. What could possibly go wrong?

Yes, so my intuition is actually an acceptance (or realisation) of a deeper understanding underlying these religions. That they are playing a role in ...

Yes, my position is more on the Hinduism side of the issue (via Theosophy) Assumed for the purpose of discursive discussion. One is going through a pr...

Yes, that’s it. It can also be approached from the opposite direction, as I see it, i.e. nirvana would inevitably pervade all of existence. Thus would...

Yes, or that there is an inner most part of* us which is in some way present in nirvana. Perhaps like a seed. Going back to what I was saying about th...

I was probably continuing the thought in my head following my reply to Wayfarer. Namely that we don’t know whom experiences nirvana, but in a sense, w...

I think people are still digesting what was released last week. Also there are sources you can go to find out all this stuff. But I wouldn’t start goi...

On the contrary, I see little point in there only being one life for each being. It would be like introducing a whole lot of interesting threads and b...

Thankyou, that is an interesting read and I do relate to the idea of strategy here. (I noticed the reference to a Buddhist centre in the south of Fran...

Thankyou, that was illuminating. I think we do know the answer to my question, but just can’t put it down on paper, it always misses the mark. But in ...

Thanks, that chimes with how I see it and where I was heading in this line of questioning. I just wasn’t quite sure what Buddhism has to say on it. Fo...

The problem with this is that it is difficult to determine what is going on in videos, or what that is saying about a community. There are a lot of vi...

Yes, I think I’m getting the feeling for it now. My first thought is a reference to a transfiguration of the aspect of the self which is constituted o...

I had a look, but got stuck on the meaning here; (The second paragraph in the Stephen Collins section) Is it suggesting that ultimate meaning (paramat...

That is just orthodoxy, it works for some and not for others. Very much so, as I say, a strict approach will work better for some than others and a pi...

I was just poking the troll. Sorry.

It never was Spain that was great, it was Portugal.

Yes, I hope so, I doubt it would work, but then I’m reminded about what authoritarian leaders do when they can’t get something to work. They just atta...

I think it’s time to play Tom Waites; The Piano has been Drinking. Joking aside, Zeno’s paradox is an anomaly, just like infinity, they’re both anomal...

Yes, I thought so. Joking aside, I expect anything salacious will have been redacted. But at least we will have Melania’s movie to watch instead.

Have you been leafing through those files?

Well the problem with this is that enlightenment as an idea and a goal was introduced in a system which took the supernatural for granted*. Although, ...

These are rare extremist lone wolf, or small group actions. If we’re talking about this kind of extremism. It has been on the rise since the allied at...

looks like their looking for ways to back up Trump’s claims that it was via postal votes that the 2020 election was rigged. It follows the pattern in ...

Yes, I think this is getting to the nub of it. The phenomena of the majority of the population addicted to social media, where they get their dissemin...

Yes, he gave ICE agents federal immunity, https://www.fox9.com/news/trump-adviser-stephen-miller-tells-ice-have-federal-immunity-when-dealing-proteste...

Thanks for the comments. I do agree with what you say about free speech on social media. As it’s a new thing, and society and the authorities are stil...

Well ideally I would agree with you here. But there are differences in the effects of the speech on the public. So there is a difference. Also, I am a...

Yes, agreed. There probably does need to be a distinction made between the two.

For the analogy to work, it only has to demonstrate that more people will be exposed to the material than if it were expressed in private. It is self ...

Correction, freedom to publish.

Cool, that’s your prerogative. I didn’t see an issue particularly when I first took to social media. But then I kept hearing stories of posters being ...

You can say anything you like, or teach your dog anything you like in private, or in a non public space. When you do it in a public space there may be...

He’s talking about naturalised Sudanese U.S. citizens, who are being targeted by ICE.

There are lots of people who would be of interest to ICE hold up in their houses in Minneapolis having to have food delivered by friends. They’re too ...

You know where he got the idea that many of them come from insane asylums. They’re asylum seekers. Who came from asylums.

I agree with your premise, but would suggest that this system is better than all the others (except perhaps some forms of socialism, which are rarely ...

I answered that earlier in the thread; If you can give an example of speech which is becoming more restricted I’d be interested to know. Then we would...

Except he’s a Klutz, just look at his performance at Davos. Mark Rutte patted him on the back and pretended to make a deal, so Trump could save face. ...

He’s a troll, best left alone.

That’s not what I’m saying, I’m saying it isn’t about free speech, but rather about public order and the authorities grappling with the recent develop...

And the riots were incited through social media groups and the tabloid press. Now what are the police supposed to do about that? Just sit back and let...

Only one South American country and two African countries. That’s a poor turnout, it looks as though South America and Africa favour China in the shak...

It isn’t, it’s a culture war fabrication whipped up by the tabloid media and populists.

Not snuck, it’s also a public order issue, because it spreads easily and once embedded is very difficult to dislodge. Take the case of the Southport r...

Quite, so it’s not applicable in the case of the U.K. then. And with regard to the press, in the U.K. the press is shouting the loudest about protecti...

As they are by the authorities. Unfortunately the tabloid press and the populists don’t operate to the same high standards.

I’m shaking in my boots.