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- Comment on people who drink, how long do your hangovers last? 10 hours ago:
After 24/25 drinking more than 2 drinks guarantees I feel bad the next day. I noticed that if I want to drink that much, I have to drink earlier, before 8pm, drink water too, and space them out. If I drink 2-3 starting late at night 10pm or later I will feel horrible the next day.
- Comment on What is your methodology behind note taking and other research related services you host? 1 day ago:
That’s super smart!
- Comment on CAPTCHAs are 'a tracking cookie farm for profit that made us spend 819 billion hours clicking to generate nearly $1 trillion for Google 1 day ago:
It’s true. They make us work to identify data, we are checking for them not confirming, then they also track us.
- Comment on Do you know a finance related community on the internet with light moderation? 1 day ago:
I will note that I think their philosophy is most likely the best for the average investor. Ie anyone that you will ever meet in your entire life. It’s based on Jack Bogle the founder of Vanguard’s thoughts.
- Comment on Do you know a finance related community on the internet with light moderation? 2 days ago:
There’s the boggleheads forum if you subscribe to that philosophy
- Comment on Why is it called Lemmy 🤔? 3 days ago:
It is old that it’s time to move on.
- Comment on Why is it called Lemmy 🤔? 3 days ago:
No, I’m here for self hosting. Not the cringe Reddit hate fest
- Comment on Why is it called Lemmy 🤔? 3 days ago:
Please stop. This is cringe and old. Not everyone is here for that.
- Comment on Why is OCR for handwritten content still that bad? 4 days ago:
Good question though. I was wondering too!
- Comment on Why is OCR for handwritten content still that bad? 4 days ago:
I can’t even read this
- Comment on How realistic is the threat of the government remotely manipulating digital devices you own and planting evidence? 4 days ago:
lol I really don’t know 0_o
- Comment on How realistic is the threat of the government remotely manipulating digital devices you own and planting evidence? 4 days ago:
Im saying any device that is used within Chinese internet or data can have its root changed account to my uncle. As I said in my original comment I wonder if that’s possible and if it was why wouldn’t the NSA do it too. Or is it just redscare? He’s the head sysadmin for a large multi branch company BUT his field isn’t China, he got that from a colleague. So idk what to do with that info. My university has teams in China and they don’t worry about this. I decided to not worry about it.
Tin foil hat on it sounds possible and I’m sure it could be done in the US too but I am not an expert at all.
- Comment on How realistic is the threat of the government remotely manipulating digital devices you own and planting evidence? 4 days ago:
My sysadmin uncle worried me about this when I was coming to China this time stating that all devices that enter the Chinese network have something on the root changed so that it calls home and even reinstalling the OS can’t fix it. I had two thoughts, one if this is possible I bet the NSA would do it does the same thing. Two, this felt like modern redscare to me.
I spoke to my university IT team and they said as long as I practiced internet safety like using a VPN this would be fine.
That said, I do see this as a valid threat. I believe using my own FOSS services over others makes this threat smaller to some degree. Encrypting everything. And when in doubt write it down on paper. The less tech you use the less this threat exists.
In a perfect world I wish I had a Linux portable device where I could manually turn off wifi and data.
- Comment on How realistic is the threat of the government remotely manipulating digital devices you own and planting evidence? 4 days ago:
Steve Huffman? The language guy?
- Comment on What is your methodology behind note taking and other research related services you host? 4 days ago:
Sorry idk if it’s worth cross posting here or not. I don’t want to spam but I want to contribute to this community being active too :)
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- Comment on How can a US citizen invest outside the reach of the federal government? 1 week ago:
:)
- Comment on How can a US citizen invest outside the reach of the federal government? 1 week ago:
I’ve also wondered this. Want to move and be vocal but scared of this threat.
- Comment on The first cult is the deepest 1 week ago:
I’m sorry but I think you missed my point. Religion is cult plus time is not a helpful framework.
- Comment on The first cult is the deepest 1 week ago:
Since Lemmy should promote fun dialogue I am gonna reply one more time with something fun I learned. My prof from an undergraduate course on religion said we should have a more unbiased definition of cult. An unorthodox group that claims to have a novel, truer interpretation of an already existing tradition with a charismatic central leader. I find it interesting because many religions can fall under this category such as Christianity. Cult is also used to describe certain groups within a religion like the Buddhist cult of Guanyin. This use also has no negative correlation, instead pointing towards the groups focus on Guanyin. Wonder how one would add onto this term to specifically mean negative groups that try to control their members and draw others in? Simply having new teachings doesn’t do it for me. There are many Buddhist dharma doors that have very different teachings but what marks NKT as cult? Is it just what I added or something else as well? They certainly fit both definitions.
- Comment on The first cult is the deepest 1 week ago:
lol
- Comment on The first cult is the deepest 1 week ago:
You all might enjoy this book on SGI written by a prof I know:
McLaughlin, Levi. Soka Gakkai’s Human Revolution: The Rise of a Mimetic Nation in Modern Japan. Germany, University of Hawaii Press, 2018.
www.google.ca/books/edition/…/AVgEEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&…
It’s an unbiased view on SGI. McLaughlin’s position as the religion as a mimetic nation is quite interesting too.
- Comment on The first cult is the deepest 1 week ago:
That’s interesting! Never heard of this sort of group
- Comment on May not be the right place but here it goes. One of my brothers passes or get extremely tired if he sees porn. Even a sex scene in a movie he has to go lay down. Is there something wrong with him? 1 week ago:
Within looking at my sources my immediate answer is the eight consciousness or storehouse consciousness. As explained by in Yogacara there are the five senses, the six one being thought or the mind, the seventh one being the formation of the self or I, and the eighth one being were karmic seeds are planted and continue in the mind stream. In my understanding it is therefore only these positive or negative seeds along with causes and conditions that interdependently move forward. It isn’t me in any sense of the term as we imagine it.
Here a good link: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_Consciousnesses#China
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Insane haha
- Comment on im soooo normal 1 week ago:
lol you can use them for messaging
- Comment on When a country is ruled by a dictator, does it matter which party he belongs to? 1 week ago:
Dictatorship of the people versus Fascist dictatorship does matter.
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Like mormons they shun the outside world and those who leave their group. Their street missionaries are meant to show their members how outside people are bad not convert people. Best to be nice to them to show them it’s a lie.
- Comment on Anon introduces himself 1 week ago:
I consider myself libertarian (small l, the Libertarian Party is just conservatives who like weed these days). I’m not anti-government or anything, I just think simpler is generally better, and I’m against big changes like limiting speech just to reduce perceived harm to some demographic.
Makes sense to me :)
Ask any minority and they’ll say they don’t need a savior, they need respect. I should know, I’m married to a first generation POC immigrant, and I’ve been corrected a few times. If you act like you’re pulling someone up, that means they’re below you, and it’s just as hurtful (and sometimes more) than pushing them down. I understand the desire to help, but sometimes the best course of action is to leave them alone if you’re not willing to genuinely become a friend.
That’s good to know.
I’m a huge proponent of DEI, but only in the way the company I worked for handled it, which was asking minorities to share their experiences. There was no mandated speech adjustment, hiring quotas, or anything like that, just understanding, and it was 100% optional (free lunch though). We even had professional speakers (in addition to our own panels) come and explain the issues they dealt with, with absolutely no call to action, and from diverse backgrounds (professional white women, black people of both genders, immigrants, etc). We had a decent turnout, and I was sad that they discontinued it.
That does sounds beneficial. What sort of things would be shared?
Understanding is how we solve these types of problems, just changing the labels we use feels like progress but doesn’t really help IMO.
The correct term is African America but we still enslave millions in prisons across the country, right? lol
- Comment on May not be the right place but here it goes. One of my brothers passes or get extremely tired if he sees porn. Even a sex scene in a movie he has to go lay down. Is there something wrong with him? 1 week ago:
Part 2
What made them click moving from Christianity?From as in where I started, not where I left. I’d still consider myself a Christian, just not a traditional Christian, and probably not a trinitarian. But I don’t know how one can be a nondualist and a trinitarian. Haha. Meister Eckhart got in a lot of trouble back in the day, and I’m sure that was part of it.
I’m sure eastern orthodox has such a tradition of thinking of Jesus as a flame within your heart, never being separate from him.
I like this metaphor!Me, too! Linguistics was the other great love of my teen years, so it helps me to think in those terms.
Did you study any languages that you maintain today? What about Sanskrit for your religious interess.
That’s the thing, though, I don’t think there are that many radically different core beliefs. Even something as inherently dualistic as Gnosticism has nondualist branches. I think ultimately there is far more in common, at the core, than there is in difference. It’s the trappings, the metaphors and the explanations that differ. We use different stories to explain similar concepts, and we end up with radically different traditions, but the basic concepts are often very similar. I mean, I’m not suggesting they’re all identical or the same, or even that all different faiths or traditions are ultimately compatible, but that many, many, many of them are trying to say the same thing, it’s mainly the vessels that are change.
I think this is a good approach world religious harmony across the world :) I don’t take this cosmological view because I think it’s important for my practice but I can understand it.
Honestly, yeah, I am completely and totally bastardizing everything. Haha. I am well aware of it. But I also attempting to do so in a way involves actual academic study and a more fleshed out understanding of a tradition before going all shopping cart religion on it. I think that what we find when we do any kind in depth study on the philosophical side of most traditions, as opposed to the practical, lived side of things, is that most of traditions have had at least a few people who stumbled or found their way to the idea of nonduality, or something similar to it.
This is smart! Then you don’t go down the hippie path of just making up your own thing without taking the traditions seriously.
From what I understand (which, again, not a lot) the buddhist concept of emptiness is also compared to the Advaitin idea of nonduality, just, obviously, nontheistic. Can you help me understand Emptiness? I’m at a bit of a loss on it, to be honest.
One of the main points of emptiness is that everything even the dharma is empty of intrinsic nature. Reading the heart sutra and the diamond sutra will explain it more clearly. The five senses are empty and there is no self, these are to emptiness based ideas. Everything arises from causes, conditions, and interdependence. Things do conventionally exist but not ultimately. Things have no ultimate existence. There is no deeper self.
Here is an interesting read on it: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Śūnyatā#Chinese_Buddhism There is a part on advaita!
Oh and I didn’t say but I would just say I am a Mahayanist. Early on I would try to find a specific Buddhist identity but outside of cults and Japanese unique Buddhist history that’s quite unique. All 84,000 dharma gates lead to the same dharma as is traditionally said.