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Guess this basically covered by What is Nirvana? thread. _______ The Fire Sermon (?dittapariy?ya Sutta) The Buddha approached Gaya on his palanquin, f...

Nirvana is probably a mundane state of equanimity, where the person has skillful control over their reaction to mental/physical content and can easily...

Are you confusing the 1st and 2nd laws of thermodynamics? All multiverses belong to the same universe which is undergoing a transition according to th...

Not sure there is much significance to saying numbers "really exist" or viruses are "alive". It doesn't change the useful or empirical nature of these...

Was just trying to give a safe obvious and uninteresting answer, minus the eternal return bit. Pain and pleasure must also mediate the reason folks wi...

Pain and pleasure give life its value otherwise we would not be motivated to live at all. Life is not rare from the standpoint of being since there is...

Sounds like an eerie conspiracy. Govt. is too uncaring and incompetent to employ such a malicious conspiracy for average joes. If you're dangerous and...

We're to weave a mythic narrative, a tapestry, that hides or fills the horror vacui, whether embracing agency as the hand that paints itself or as the...

It's probably more immoral on the whole to be interesting/variable, since ever the ratcheting adaptation of the human race is an existential threat no...

Why a tesseract specifically, rather than some other geometry projected to the 4th dimension? Why not a hyperpyramid or a hypersphere?

Careful guys, there is a mirror dimensional dream entity called Nil, kind of like Freddy Kreugar or It but far less suburban, more ancient, who is dra...

Halloween isn't a holiday. Holidays are days on which no work is done. Therefore holidays don't exist. Can you imagine a day on which no work is done?...

Seems like a coin toss whether God can defy logic at this point. God, come down and show yourself, and settle the issue hand to hand. Can you create a...

We've gone from Lynch's extravagant Baroque style to Villeneuve's minimalist Brutalism. The characters resemble and are coterminous with the sand, bui...

Determinism seems like it has less the connotative religious/mythic baggage than fate. Fate sounds like there some iffy precognition (or self-fulfilli...

You might like the Rime of the Ancient Mariner. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODXT3kjZBss

Try to persuade your farmer/owner not to turn you into bacon to buy more time. I'm sure they'll spot an exceptionally bright pig with the help of some...

Thanks Hasui Kawase (1883-1957) for all the landscapes. https://i.imgur.com/aU4qZSK.jpg https://i.imgur.com/KGWcEX5.jpg https://i.imgur.com/SCOZ1DR.jp...

Why not go the brain tumor made me do it route? There were a couple anecdotes from Robert Sapolsky, one about a guy who shot a bunch of people, murder...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=To_RJ_mPNqM Are these Sauron folk evil because they are ugly? Otherwise we might think the war was unnecessary. Poor K...

I wouldn't say the posture corresponds to an immoral act. Only cartoons/caricatures probably accept bribes that way. It's not very surreptitious at al...

Nice list. :up: So the whole of our human economy is and has always been subject to this widespread frailty, where the pursuit of self-interest is pri...

Radioactive fiestaware should complement Squashtatues™. Maybe you can induce polyploidy in the seeds with those plates. Get yourself a lead china cabi...

Maybe the popular term that covers some of your concern is creative destruction? The price for ever greater efficiency from business competition resul...

Horticulture (Gardening) The new economic boom ushering in a new golden age will result from custom 3d printed squash molds. Everyone will store stran...

Thanks to the hardworking USPS who is probably so tired of delivering an infinity of boxes by now to shitty entitled customers that they've decided to...

Another unanswerable question is how to apply such advice, if such advice could be vetted to be uncommon and wise, while having no will to do so whats...

As a blessed figure myself, I give away free post attention to the needy in exchange for their sins. Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy na...

Thank you angry sperm whale who rammed and sunk the whaling ship Essex in 1820. Otherwise we might not have the horrendous account of survival from it...

The grass is questionably greener on the counterfactual side of the fence.

I thank all involved in De Niro's portrayal of Travis Bickle in the 1976 movie, Taxi Driver, even though I never saw the movie and just read the plot ...

Surely more than just prayer affects Cheeta and Croc Christian Karma bank accounts even if such a system were true. What are the demographics of Chris...

Yes, it's all entirely possible and it's entirely possible it's all relative up to the ruling consensus of those who call themselves normal, just and ...

That doesn't make any sense Clark. How could there be a second opinion if there was no first opinion? Covid tests don't produce opinions.

How much of the Bible is hearsay?

Animals have no souls so they are purely a means by which humans (God's chosen species in the image of the One Creator) can accomplish the will of God...

Gwada fanna ledo foop. Cesca denudo sek sek roo, kanak dej du ankh.

What are the particulars behind the OP and what are the solutions that ought to be pursued?

Every cause is fundamentally an uncaused cause if so willed and taken on faith by the bullshit maker. Every act is an act of God, the 1st cause and th...

Down Under Rules Always use a franger when touching a drop bear. Never go unprepared into the never never. Fossicking in Tasmania requires a permit. R...

Bah! Nothing wrong with masturbating for eternity alone. The only tension resolved is the kind caused by a ceaseless and irritating horniness. :eyes:

It's a myth. You can just as well retell it how ever you'd like, like you just did.

Here come the sexy Bangles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv6tuzHUuuk

A morale helper, a support cushion, a superhero mask, a dream to keep oneself alive? Imagine the terror of the opposite: the self as a useless, ugly a...

Add in Phthonus (Envy) and Nemesis (Revenge) to the pool party. Sounds like a recipe for humanity. If I can't be of value by measure of what the group...

Rule 67879777 On the Subject of Toilet Paper Etiquette All toilet paper rolls on a dispenser should have their paper ends face outwards toward the use...

I'm thankful that we're all effectively addressing climate change and that we're innovating toward a stable state economy. Really makes me feel good. ...

A bit harsh. No one knows what it means to "take the game seriously" since the rules won't stick. So we have a strange paradoxical thing on our hands:...

Seventeen persons have lost their life because of the failed emergence (and utility) of this game. You maybe thinking this is absurd and impossible. I...

Is it any more useful to get specific about the tit-for-tat in question. Folks drink ground water laced with hexavalent chromium for years from a leec...