I am a big member and supporter of the small words club

Small word easy understand

Also of note on OKC and some other sites that use gamified MBTI variants, the most common personality temperaments tend to be inclined towards social cliques of arrogant bullies, whereas the splinter uncommon types tend to be more concerned about civil rights and prtecting diversity.

@BobbyMack how do you have premises without first assuming existence exists? This was Ayn Rand’s first principle.

All she didn’t do was assume the premise that existence exists by some means. That means, whatever it is, is all we are calling God.

There must be a means by which existence exists, yes?

Nope

The means by which existence exists is consciousness

You believe existence stops existing if we can’t perceive it? Why would you believe that?

Ofc not.

Consciousness beyond human comprehension. Human Consciousness is just a small part of the Universal Consciousness. Which is not materialistic in nature, but can manifest materially, through the uncreated energies of God.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/04/business/pope-francis-market-capitalism/index.html

For the neo liberal dogmatics out there.

I don’t really care what Pope Francis thinks

Really? I sort of do. Even though I'm an atheist, he is a head honcho to many Christian's.

About a billion.

I'm not Buddhist. But the dalai lama has some good nuggets on occasion

Technically, about a billion people should be trying to overthrow capitalism now. Let's see if they do!

I hope they do. Neo liberalism is destroying humanity.

It should be pretty easy if they all work together.

"The encyclical, called "Fratelli Tutti," or "Brothers All," reiterated the pope's vision for a more communal society, which extends to the use of private property."

"...The Christian tradition has never recognized the right to private property as absolute or inviolable..."

That there's revolutionary talk!

I don't think there is a right to private property either.

https://tse1.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.NHHHbTz6iGQ9DYGf-ohVFgHaDf&pid=Api&P=0&w=358&h=169

That is correct. His mistake was not recognizing that the abolition of scarcity implies never yielding abundance. From his seat at the cusp of the industrial revolution I understand why.

Meanwhile I hear that the Pope has just handed over all church property to Oxfam. Good for him!

> Meanwhile I hear that the Pope has just handed over all church property to Oxfam. Good for him!
@ola
If they ever really did something like that, after years of using closet gay fake celibate clergy to ban inheritances outside the church, I'd suspect it was a molestation liability bankruptcy dodge.

They just lost another Archdiocese - the huge New York one, where they moved the Bridgeport, CT ArchBishop who helped them get convicted as felons, not for molestation but illegal discrimination in housing rentals. Nothing Facebook hasn't conspired in by how it markets targeted ads for users by whom that's criminal.

Hello @everyone I'm your local Buddhist Monk.

I'll be hosting an online Group Meditation beginning in just 15 minutes online through Zoom.

Welcome to join.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86817597540?pwd=bVBETkZrVW5FTDJuZUxQczM3Vm5rdz09

Password 31390 if needed

That's interesting

> Hello (everyone) I'm your local Buddhist Monk.
>
> I'll be hosting an online Group Meditation beginning in just 15 minutes online through Zoom.
>
> Welcome to join.
@Monk

Well, spotting a notice 150 of 15 minutes later is a Chinese curse of the net.

What's your path, lineage, or practice style?

WAG, you likely do activities regularly?


FYI, over-use of Everyone tags prodded me among others, to set the Discord option to suppress all at everyone tags. Travis's topic bombing contributed to that here, albeit there are some users and servers who are truly horrible about it.

@everyone



Beginning in less than 1 hour at 6am CDT

Metta meditation is a type of Buddhist meditation.

“Metta” means positive energy and kindness toward others.
The practice is also known as loving-kindness meditation.
The goal of metta meditation is to cultivate kindness for all beings, including yourself and all beings.

The main technique of metta meditation involves reciting positive phrases toward yourself and these beings.

Like other types of meditation, the practice is beneficial for mental, emotional, and physical health. It’s especially useful for reducing negative emotions toward yourself and other people.

While this is not a Book club persay we will be using the Book Loving Kindness in Plain English to guide our sessions.

If you'd like to read into the first chapter you're welcome to do so.
But regardless we will start the event by reading through it and than going into the practice.

Much like our Book club on Wednesdays we will have 2 sessions for Metta Mondays

The first will be at 6am CDT and the second will be at 10am CDT.

Hope to see you there.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87169440930?pwd=NkpWZ1Y1ZC85dDNKbk90aXdWb3VBQT09

That literally applies to you, too, Malachi

Oh? What's my religion?

Does anyone have an invite link to the Best Religious Debates server?

The anti-religion religion. Many here belong to it.

I used to think one could just "lack belief" or "lack religion" but, you seem as convicted of where the limitation of knowledge ends as any Christian I know, except your God is something approximating the self, or the collective consciousness of all selves.

From my perspective, that seems much more arbitrary than the notion that the source of all knowledge is **clearly** outside of humans and our consciousness. "Could God exist without humans?" Sure. It wouldn't be a very interesting Universe without us, but yes. God is that which allows for all things; that's, at the very core, how I see God.

What do YOU call "that which allows for all things"? Physics maybe? Or do you believe that nothing exists until we perceive it. Then where did "we" come from?

Anyway, tangent. Your religion is that of being against religion. That *is* a position. It's not a lack of one.

thats the biggest Oxymoron ive ever heard an "anti-religion religion"

a position on something isnt a religion

a religion is an attempt to explain nature and the cause of everything that we see around us and it is an absolute unchangeable truth

thats what a religion is