I’m suggesting something orthogonal: I’m suggesting specifically rTorrent hosting.
Apparently rTorrent provides the maximum GB served per unit of CPU used, & since seedbox hosting is on such pathetic virtual-machines, this can matter.
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Please, I beg you, invest in https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/ayurvedic-healing-a-comprehensive-guide
& do the experiment of making yourself pairs of dishes with 1/2 of each pair being the most-pacifying-for-your-metabolism ingredients & the other being the most-aggravating-for-your-metabolism.
The experience was shocking as hell for me, when I did it.
It may identify the “system” underlying what ingredients you need to understand, in order to liberate your healing into your life.
Salut, Namaste, & Kaizen,
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It absolutely can work, so long as it isn’t allowed to run the show: harnessed, constrained, controlled capitalism, with no concentration-of-wealth-archy machiavellianism, can work.
But to do that, then you have to make the pay-ladder be proportionate to difficulty-to-replace, & not a means of “legal” embezzling, you have to make accounting unbreakable ( blockchain, ALL entries getting into an Algorand-type blockchain that all businesses in the economy & the gov’t all have servers participating in ), you have to make Human Capital Investment ( NOT consumable-human-resources: wrong model/paradigm! ) work properly, etc, etc, etc.
A Japanese keiretsu is an example of a semi-autonomous-economy which proves that capitalism can work ( capitalism works within the keiretsu ), & Toyota is a vertical-keiretsu ( profit-efficient ) & Panasonic, Sony, etc, are horizontal-keiretsu ( marketsaturation efficient ).
Another problem is that market-speculators, like those “candlesticks market-timing” people, enforce market-volatility, as a means of harvesting money from others, & that is an antipattern.
Worker-owned-business is the bedrock of it, too…
which unions & political-ideologues hate…
Put ownership, accountability, responsibility, & authority, all unitary!
Anyways, there are ways of making it work, but I think it’s just too … “Japanese” ( in terms of how thorough the management-paradigm has to be, to even understand the system ) … for any Western-mind to think of it properly.
No matter: soon a not-for-profit will begin demonstrating how this all works, later this year, I think…
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When I was young, used to believe that social-pressure could make everybody behave/conform.
Understanding the existence & approximate-nature of psychopathy, now, & KNOW that that’s suicidal naive-delusion.
Hard-walls are required for many, & permanent-segregation is REQUIRED for some individuals.
I wish serial-rapists & serial-molesters were segregated as systematically as serial-killers ( where the lives killed were “in their way” ) & serial-murderers ( where the murder is the point ).
Their prey deserve to NOT be their prey, & social-making-believing/pressure isn’t good-enough.
NO amount of social-pressure’s going to make people conform, if they just aren’t wired that way.
( the left consistently assumes that social-pressure cannot be disobeyed, & that is about to cost the US everything, as total-dictatorship’s going to be activated shortly.
It’s currently at the point where the Democrats are utterly-powerless to impeach Trump, because the hour they table the beginning of that process, Trump invokes the Insurrection Act, & then it’s done, & probably, the Dem electorate are executed. )
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Were she to oppose, not back, Netanyahu’s genociding, … I think she’d be good.
But there won’t be any 2028 elections, of course, because Trump’s going to be removing all such “woke” democracy, this-year…
so this is just fantasy-indulging,
but as a thought-experiment, it’s fine.
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I used to live in emacs, back when emacs stood-for “Eight Megs ( RAM ) & Continuous Swapping”.
( the 386-486 days )
Morass-of-capability.
Then, after being fought-off by Vim a couple times, I read, in “The DESIGN of Everyday Things”, that humankind has a mental-defect which causes us to NOT change-levels, when we NEED to have changed-levels.
People who speak louder, when the hearer doesn’t even know the language, are doing this, e.g.
& after that, I encountered a good explanation of Vim’s modality, & found out about vimtutor…
& tried it, again…
& then understood that by forcing my self to keep using Vim ( I’m autistic/woodenheaded, so forgetting what mode I’m in is much more frequent than it would be for neurotypicals ) applies-force to help break my unconscious-woodenness-of-mind, making my mind more levels-agile.
Through the years, it has worked.
I’ve not used Helix, which apparently is a modern improvement/replacement for Vim ( without much of the damn cruft ),
but modal editors do help make one’s mind more levels-agile, & THAT is immensely worthwhile: it is competitive-advantage that few others invest-in!
No, I’m not recommending Vim: I’m recommending modal-editors.
Find the one which works rightest for you, & let it keep bashing your unconscious-mind’s stuckness default-habit, & eventually you’ll be cornered by fewer bugs, be broken to failure less often, etc.
Morass-of-capability felt nice, but it was solving the wrong problem.
Modal-editing corrects one’s human mental-defect of not-changing-levels, to some extent, & that’s like being ambushed by a gang, except that one’s got what Crocodile Dundee called “a knife” on one…
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There’s a former therapist on yt, who quit the industry because of the evil “therapists” & the toxic culture.
AND people change.
Please look around you, at the someones in your life, & see if several are changing in a drastic unhealthy way: our current zeitgeist is … doing something profoundly-strange to some people.
If you see it, then please invest in your autonomy.
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The original FAQS.org site.
( nowadays, the awesomest lifesink is TVTropes.org , btw, for all the people needing a fix of interestings : )
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Authenticity is AI’s “kryptonite”.
AI is THE best brainstorming-help ever invented on Earth, period.
But the majority of users are instead using it to substitute for authenticity, so they can … I gather there was a movie about that? “fast forward” through their lives ( or was it that “Stainless Mind” movie? … don’t care, personally: don’t do movies! )
So, there’s a kind of division/segregating going-on, where the ones who prefer inauthenticity & convenience are polarizing ( like your friend ) to AI, whereas others are working at limiting it, & harnessing it, using it for us, instead of using it in place of us, if you see.
Does anybody believe that AI would have produced that magical image of the olympic skating woman jumping so totally happily, on the podium?
Authenticity isn’t as fakeable as appearances are, see?
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NEARLY right, but not quite:
the problem was that “technical” “surrender” is what the confederates did, & now they’ve earned a reverse-takeover, & once the dictatorship is activated, vengeance begins, wholesale.
It wasn’t punishing being a confederate that was required, it was systematically dismantling confederate-nationalism, through dispersion, through not allowing citizenship for anybody who wouldn’t vow loyalty to the union, etc.
Unfortunately, since human-animals are ideological 1st, rational distant-2nd, then it is the imprinting-mind, the lower-forebrain which has to be broken from its programming, & that requires systematic imprinting.
It is the same with mere-animals, & with ideologues.
There was an article on KyivIndependent, about a prison for Russia-collaborators, & one of the women there knows that it was Russia which was doing the bombing, but she blames Ukraina & is loyal to Russia.
You simply can’t allow that kind of ideological-programming to have citizenship in one’s country, XOR the consequences are going to be nationally-fatal.
Exactly as the US’s highjacking by Trump-cult is demonstrating.
EITHER viability XOR ideological-nationalism.
At this point, I’d require that all young-adults experience living in at-least 4 culturally-different regions of North America, or Europe, before they can have voting-rights: they have to experience cultural-diversity, THEMSELVES, in order to understand what it actually means.
None of this “I’m born here: I’m entitled, & if all others need eradicating, that’s my religion!” ideological garbage.
EITHER be a proper, upright, culturally-cosmopolitan citizen, XOR be managed, as a person who WON’T KNOW other’s validity, & that’s fine: every person ought choose their way.
That the christofascists hold that they have the right to enforce their religion on all the lives they can, & so do the zionists, & the islamists…
there isn’t any point in pretending that ideological-totalitarianism can “coexist” with civilrights.
That’s intentional-delusion, as the evidence shows.
Only competent citizens ought have voting-authority.
& that includes critical-thinking.
Exactly the same as only competent pilots ought be piloting aircraft, over our heads.
It has to be requirement, not “if political-will wills it” bullshit.
& that includes sufficient cultural-perspective to actually-understand what other perspectives means, in civil society.
Etc.
Anyways, the ideologues will never tolerate responsibility-archy to rule, so this won’t happen, but humankind’s facing extinguishment, this century, & maybe some, decades from now, will value humankind’s life enough to orient to objective-requirements, instead of ideological-dogma.
Not my problem: I intend to be gone from your world well before it gets to that degree of enforced-transformation, through Liberation, if possible.
He’s got a few wrong:
the “mortal head wound” in Rev 13 has nothing to do with that rifle-bullet which didn’t get blood on Trump’s ear: that was from the Secret Service agent’s tackling him…
the “mortal head wound” has to do with the stroke ( remember the droopy-mouth? ) & the dementia, treated monthly with drugs, which is why he’s cycling into/out-of dementia/derangement.
THAT is what gets suddenly-cured, shortly.
The one where it talks about “he likes winning”, or however he phrased that one, is misrepresenting the original-texts: those speak of CONQUERING, not winning: his strike on Venezuela, & then declaring himself the president of Venezuela was demonstration of what the Christian bible was talking about.
etc.
Yeah, it’s coming true, & there are probably only days left, before the “1st Seal” is opened, but since humankind won’t grow-up on its own, then forcing-the-issue is required, right?
So, it’s all for the best, obviously…
< shruggeth >
Oh, the biblical people for some reason won’t understand something fundamental: the “demon thrown from heaven to earth” is what makes each of the “seals” worse: evil’s more-completely-thrown from … wherever “heaven” is, to Earth, with each “seal”.
So, 1st “seal”, then 1st “measure” of evil.
2nd “seal”, then 2nd “measure” of evil.
etc.
it ramps up, so that it’s survivable, if a portion of humankind evolves, fast-enough.
The biblical-types pretend that it happens all-at-once, & is over in 3.5y.
No, the 7/2y thing happens in several different ways ( like how long the root-guru of the Christians was operating in Judea, & how long I expect Trump to be operating, & how long, in the 2070’s, that I expect the everything-dead stage to last, etc ).
It’s the same thing as having 4-decades be the duration that Moses kept the “lost” in the desert, & the duration for the WAR stage: resonance.
Anyways, yeah, that page’s important, but it’s an oversimplification, kinda dumbed-down…
Oh, here’s another error in it, I remember: his position is that the good-guys win the Americas war.
That ISN’T what the actual-text says: it says it continues “until it is finished”, NOT until the-good win.
For anybody wanting clean texts to consider, please hit biblegateway.com
and rely 1st on CJB, then on EXB, then on AMP.
Since I don’t understand the Jewish jargon in CJB, I have to use the others to decrypt stuff, but the others are prone to over-interpretation ( presuming that prophecies were already fulfilled historically, when they actually pertain to the End Times ).
Also, that site’s got a feature where you can have 1 single verse shown with ALL the renditions they’ve got, so that you can see all the different translations/interpretations, to discover which it is that LivingSpirit’s trying to get you to see…
Here’s Rev 13:
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+13&version=CJB
Here’s that mortal-head-wound verse, shown in all possible variants:
https://www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/Revelation 13:3
( that site is annoying, in that it’s nearly-impossible to get that feature?
I have to edit the book-name & the chapter-number & the verse-number in the address-bar, because search NEVER gets me there, on that site: I only discovered it existed through DuckDuckGo )
The Conquering Time, the white-horse, begins … probably within a week.
it’ll last 7-ish years, then WAR’s time ( WW3 begins in the early 2030’s: this current next-stage is only the Regional Consolidation stage ).
That’ll last 4+ decades.
then the food-chain(s) die.
Forced-growing-up, whole-planet-species scale.
The Great Filter.
Prep, especially psychologically: this isn’t going to end in our lifespans.
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Someone my age ( 0.6 century ) forming someone half their age to be their pet/toy/partner IS grooming, even though the younger one isn’t a minor.
As Robert Kegan understood, and has written books about, unconscious-mind-development has multiple stages, & old/young relationships where 1 is 1 or 2 unconscious-mind-stages beyond the other, ARE profoundly assymetric-relationships: it doesn’t matter that a person is xyz-number-of-years, it matters what their unconscious-mind-development is! Domineer+doormat is a too-damn-normal “relationship” dynamic, “traditional”, but not healthy.
Please scroll down on this page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kegan#The_Evolving_Self & see the table.
Some people are in what I call Kegan3, the absorbing-experience stage of unconscious-mind-development, until they die of old age.
Other people go into Kegan4 young.
It isn’t clock-years, it is unconscious-mental-development that’s the “age” that’s pertinent.
Ignoring that is like choosing to be colorblind, when all the capsules of medication one is sorting for one’s patients are only identified by colors.
That is important, & I wish I’d seen it without it being pointed-out to me.
I do not accept that that is a wrong-use of the word, or that it was insignificant: it was core to what was going on.
That is normal, but modern society exponentiates that with filter-bubbles, algorithmically-amplified ideologies, etc.
Since that’d now be 120-yo, there’s obviously no point, anymore, so I’m aiming at parting my personality from the soul/continuum caught-in-it, so as to release this-continuum/soul from its current stuckness/prison, through the concentrations/meditations.
That can’t make any sense to people who live in materialism’s world, but it’s real for some.
There’s no inner-age equivalent/match, so … there’s no partner.
It’s just a sick joke, after awhile.
The last person I spoke with who understood … was my 106-yo grandmother.
Oh, and a guy who’d spent 3 decades being crushed by cancer also understood, so there’s 2, in the last decade.
How can people partner with someone who’s mentally … not in one’s frame-of-reference?
( all the “daddy/little” stuff just feels wrong: like indulging in mental-illness or street-drugs, or something )
“The Coddling of the American Mind” is a book on how preventing entire-generations of population from actual-growing-up creates PROBLEMS, & I’ve not read that book, but the concept it’s on, absolutely is true.
It’s why the naive are such easy prey for human-traffickers/organized-crime.
Cultures that work to ensure that their people are incompetent, are … normal, nowadays … & the evil they make their people easy-prey-to oughtn’t be helped by ignoring/denying culture…
Have you ever wondered that all sorts of countries won’t tolerate youngsters to have social-network-sites for themselves … but they WON’T legislate against the hypersexualization of those same kids, through advertising, mass-media, manga/anime, etc??
Selective “vision”, that has huge costs…
Sorry this isn’t precise, more rambling, but yes, “grooming” & “predator” are blunter instruments than the “only applies to specific clock-ages” principle wants to believe, & I’m backing that with Kegan’s understanding of unconscious-mind-development.
Please read “Immunity to Change” on our unconscious-mind’s fighting-off of growing-up, & the tools/levers required to get past that, to have our lives grow-up…
Their ( Kegan & Lahey: he’s the theorist, she always figures-out how to make new theory testable ) book is important-enough that I want it being required for all graduating highschoolers, so that when they NEED the levers in that book, then they’ll KNOW to go digging into it, again, & wrest their lives free from the won’t-grow-up mechanism wired fundamentally into our minds.
Greater racial-maturity would be worth more than a trillion dollars, for this planet.
Some grow-mature young ( usually as a result of hardship, & it pretty-much ALWAYS has profound psychological-costs of that-path ), some NEVER grow-up.
That must be understood in one’s framing of “grooming”.
There are immature 87-year-olds in our world, who aren’t competent to understand & be-responsible-for life-decisions.
It isn’t that they’re psychiatrically-disabled, it’s that they never grew-up to the degree that they could go against social-pressure ( which is Kegan4, as I call it ).
Anyways, maybe you find none, or some, of this to be well-grounded meaning…
if so, hold-to the meaning, not to “me”: what is true is true, itself.
Be free, & realize as much of your meaning as you can, if that’s what you want.
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That is terrifying:
it means that the “nuclear” option is coming, shortly, & civilrights won’t mean anything, then.
( I think it’ll be the invoking of the Insurrection Act, then using his de-naturalization law to remove citizenship from all non-Republicans, instantly giving all non-Republicans to ICE, as “illegals” )
He never gives-up, he just progresses other ways … & the pseudojournalism isn’t doing more than sensationalism/distraction/normalization, now, so this is going to “surprise” them all.
All dictators do a PURGE, in order to “clear the decks” of restraint/threats, & their legal-liberty is directly-proportional to the completeness of that purge.
& the Republicans have been working-on & fantasizing-over their PURGE plan, for years, openly…
This is bad.
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Ah: somebody who actually understands that the country is in the process of being highjacked…
Too little, too late, I’m afraid, but glad somebody got it!
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The present is never a waste-of-time: one can be improving one’s inner-balance, at any time, if one is committed to owning one’s own mind.
It may not be your future-marriage, but are you learning & growing within it, even-so?
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Give it a robot that can read your handwriting, & write snail-mail lettres to it?
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That’s funny-as-hell: whatever culture my soul/continuum’s previous human-category-life was in, being called young was an insult.
I’ve never understood why anybody would want to be “young” instead of “old”, because when you’re old, you’ve outgrown foolish-nonunderstanding/ignorance…
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what it’s really saying, is that we’re all inherently sinners, & purification is a pointless intent.
“we live in hell” … no, we don’t: wait until the 3rd yang-stage of The Great Filter, & THEN hell’ll be on Earth. We haven’t even got in the 1st yang-stage, yet!
happiness can be centered on external-basis, like Instagram, or possessions, or social-attention, or whatever, XOR happiness can be internally-centered, on intrinsic-nature ( earned, not just happenstance/luck ), & that difference is what separates the unconscious from the conscious/evolved.
You’re spot-on by identifying the problem with “give up: embrace debauchery”: it’s actually an intent which creates greater-future-suffering, both at individual-scale, global-scale, & reincarnation-scale.
religion is just an ideology-veneer on actuality: universe recycles continuums & meanings, exactly as it does matterial-energy & plain/massless energy, but the “religious” rendition of that is, e.g. in the root-guru of the Christian’s religion’s words, “what a continuum/soul sows, that continuum/soul reaps” ( it simply doesn’t match evidence, if the only-single-incarnation frame-of-reference is held, & once the all-of-eternity/universe-perpetually-recycling-all-energies perspective is adopted, then it’s inescapable ).
To throw-away all the religiosity-gunk, one ends-up with: “continuums/souls which emit meanings, have to reabsorb those meanings”, which … isn’t what ideology is made-of, is it?
“hell” is a sentience-state, not a real-estate-location: people being destroyed by abuse are in hell. People enjoying enforcing abuse that is destroying someone, are in false-heaven. They are states, not locations.
Continuums/souls are emitted by OriginOfAllSouls, and are “children” of it. OriginOfAllSouls is what some call G-D. The ancient-Jewish label for G-D, “Adonai Elohim” included the information that it is MADE OF souls: Elohim means roughly “spirits, plural, male”, but the “male” part was just their prejudice ( presuming that souls/continuums are animal-male is idiocy: their language-formed-minds wouldn’t permit them to understand the truly-beyond-form/truly-beyond-animal-nature of the truth, is all ), but the “spirits/souls” part & the “plural” part are both accurate: OceanOfAllAwakeSouls is … zillions of 'em. It is unitary, AND it is infinitude, simultaneously.
Since the Jews ditched that name for their G-D, there’s no remaining identification, in the Abrahamic religions ( that I know-of ) of that specific nature of G-D.
But the Dharmic religions, of the Indian subcontinent, have that meaning still available in them.
When one’s continuum/soul “returns home” to use the “Prodigal Son” parable’s symbol/label, one’s continuum “dissolves, like a drop of essence-of-water into an infinite-ocean-of-essence-of-water, becoming indivisible-from-all”, so there’s no separateness-from-G-D/separateness-from-OceanOfAllAwakeSouls/OceanOfAllBuddhas ( Buddha means AwakeSoul ), anymore.
So, what some call BuddhaNature, others ( Abrahamic-Religion types ) would call Divine-Spark, or Divine-Truth, or Divine-Nature, underlying all the guck of ignorance & karma, see?
So, it’s actually the opposite, that is true: we’re temporarily sinners, & our outgrowing being sinners is what our soul’s origin, G-D, asks of us.
I don’t remember who it was who pointed this out, but iirc they were Hindu.
There are many important & profound insights in many different religions, & not 1 of them has any “exclusive monopoly” on G-D’s countless truths.
Anyone who values spiritual health/vitality of wisdom, I recommend Eknath Easwaran’s books, his “Dhammapada” for anybody wanting a taste of Buddhism, his “Bhagavad Gita” for anybody wanting a taste of Hinduism ( he’s Hindu ), & his “Upanishads” for a more in-depth taste of Hinduism.
For anyone wanting some non-Buddhist source for the dissolving-into-G-D end-state that souls/continuums do, please read “Maharshi’s Gospel” about the teachings of Hindu Ramana Maharshi, as it gives this plain.
It’s using language in a way utterly-confusing-&-alien to a Vajrayana like me: we say “mind” to mean all-3 dimensions of mind, soul/continuum, LifeMind, which begins in conception & shatters in death, AND SurfaceMind, the mirage projected by ego that we call “consciousness” … whereas Maharshi apparently uses “mind” to refer only to the 2 incarnation-specific ones, & refers to soul/continuum as “self”, then speaks of the profoundest level of meditation-AWARENESS as being no-self, only G-D, … but G-D is MADE OF souls, … so … to me that’s a peculiar & confusing way of rendering it.
However, I’ve no proof he was speaking English, & it may simply be a translation-difficulty!
Anyways, the underlying-principle’s the same: separate-from-G-D awareness, ie “self”-based awareness, is temporary, & it “sins” in proportion to ITS ignorance ( soul-ignorance ), & eventually it outgrows that, returning “home”, dissolving into OceanOfAllAwakeSouls.
The “Jacob’s Ladder” symbolization represented the endless-stream of souls/continuums, climbing “down Jacob’s Ladder” ( immersing themselves in individual-soul-experiencings, in universes ), then turning ( from outer-basis-for-meaning to inner-basis-for-meaning ) climbed up again ( returning home ).
The “Prodigal Son” parable symbolized an individual-soul doing this same thing, & the change from The Kingdom of Establishment, Without to The Kingdom of Souls, Within, is rather more explicit in that representation.
The “baptism” symbol-enactment is simply because unconscious-LifeMinds can only work-with symbol-enactments: they can’t think in cognitions.
So, to get an unconscious-LifeMind to begin working on understanding the concept of a soul/continuum immersing itself in universe, then coming-up again, afterwards … simply have unconscious AnimalsAndTribesTime people enact baptism, & it’ll help their unconscious-minds to understand the concept, & that’ll help them evolve to where the coming-out-from-the-stuckness-of-unconsciousness is more possible, see?
So, all 3 of those biblical tools/meanings were actually on the same single underlying-thing.
Another, unrelated, is the Book of Truth that John of Patmos was given, in Rev, to eat…
He ate it, & in his face, it was syrupy-sweet, but in his belly, bitter: exactly as symbol-truth is simplistic/idea/sweet, but experience-induced-understanding is bitter.
That is 1 of the profoundest psychology-truths in the whole world, & it’s hidden right-there, in plain sight, in their bible.
Truths abound!
We only have to see them for what they are, eh?
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“Pastafarians believe in a heaven after death, with a volcano that spews forth delicious beer instead of dangerous lava and a factory that produces enough strippers for everyone.”
I remember when, years-ago, I looked-into what they were holding to be true, & they had ZERO respect for the validity of women: it was frat-house shit they were embodying.
They seem to have cleaned-up a bit, through the years, but…
https://www.dailynebraskan.com/pasta-and-pirates-the-religion-of-the-flying-spaghetti-monster/article_3c9a0974-d459-567d-8e3d-e4563460ed81.html
The Western religions all presume that there’s no POSSIBILITY of any truth being uncovered in doing the meditations-experiment, oneself, so … axiom/prejudice based, as usual.
Downvote away, since what I just said matches evidence, but contradicts belief…
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