UnbornTao

Not sure about this. My perspective at this point is that telepathy is still a form of communication. If we say that language was never found in the medium through which it is expressed, like uttering sounds or drawing symbols on some surface, the point above still applies, whether or not telepathy exists. Telepathy presupposes the existence of language. I keep bringing this up because I find it genuinely interesting: we have a hard time imagining what living without language is like. I don't think that what we call thought could exist without it either.

What if we apply this principle to everything that is conceived and perceived?

One Penis to rule them all.

I'm not exactly sure what you mean by that, but that's using it, not understanding it. Without language you got no philosophy.

Japanese fans will leave the stadiums spotless.

If we don't understand language, sorting this out gets tricky.

Depends on what you're talking about.

Yeah. Last time they beat Spain and Germany in the group stage, though.

Netherlands vs Japan today - quite a match.

My dog is far-right.

A far-right politician.

The critique could better be directed towards faith-based thinking, which is the underlying activity of religion, scientism, spirituality, atheism, other isms, etc.

For those who use Arch btw, or derivatives, and have certain AUR packages installed: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1u4d7zb/arch_linux_now_believes_malware_incident_under/ Last episode of this experiment: And this just came out:

Let's keep the proselytizing going:

Imagine being the coach who benchs him from the start. He'll likely sub him off often, though. But seriously, even without Ronaldo, Portugal is a serious contender. I don't really mind the player. They just have such a solid team. Brazil plays today, in a few hours, I think. Against Morocco. This match could easily be one of the semifinals.

I don't think that's the main reason at all. Obviously he wants to win the tournament. If he can be an effective striker and score one of the three or four chances he gets, then that's enough. How many goals can you score in this cup? Five would already be a fairly decent amount.

With so many teams and the guarantee of the best eight third-place finishers advancing, the 'real' tournament starts in the round of 32.

Fantasy Awakening. I love that. I love these discussions because they're sometimes realer than the usual 'spiritual' interactions. They deal with the normal and boring stuff that's actually taking place beneath the rhetoric, the wishful thinking, the claims made, etc. It's just great.

Fair. Doesn't hurt, either.

Yes, master - it's not.

That's a lot to unpack, but a few things: If feedback is presented and ignored, then you're right, it's like pissing in the wind. But at least the feedback is presented, and some will listen (hopefully some already have, to a degree). The critique can also be easily misunderstood. Note that I've been a user here for ten years - this July. No need to go anywhere else except where you already are. Drop the ideal of "the Truth." You can just ask 'What is the case here?' And doing this is not limited to temples and zazen cushions. You can question at any time, even when it's inconvenient and feels pointless, or threatening to your own person.

You watch the videos and engage in this place, which isn't incompatible with pointing out what you deem as deception here. In theory this would be welcomed. Of course that pandering, agreeing, making each other feel special, being entertained, etc., doesn't generate as much noise and drama (and this is equally a function of the ego, by the way - it just isn't so explicit.) The real metric here would be: would you have brought out the same critique if there wasn't much drama, but with the pandering and cult dynamics at play, and with a vocal minority pointing them out? It isn't a convenient thing to look into, plus it is easy to dislike and feel invalidated by it. But the truth doesn't care about your life, or mine. It's just about what's going on. If Leo were the one saying these very same words, I bet many would start paying some attention.

It's not about the forum, it's about the people and the community (this was not written by GPT, I swear.) Use it as a case study for certain dynamics, spiritual pretension, curiosity, and so on. How about that?

Definitely.