Dharma Wheel

To me, an economy that is based off of consumption and those who can potentially consume the most, i.e. the wealthy, hold the honor of "success" and/or "power" already seems to be starting off on the wrong foot. In a globalized, technically sophisticated world where abundance is easy to be had, the...

Freedom is not free, especially when Communist totalitarian China want to control Hong Kong: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-18/hong-kong-resets-democracy-push-with-peaceful-mass-march-in-rain?srnd=premium-africa How is China Communist? Literally what parts of it adhere to communist...

Ya, China is crazy again. I'm surprised more people aren't fleeing.

I would prefer not to coerced into a disease riddled interspecies sexual threesome thank you.

It is interesting that a tiny bindu perhaps as small as 17cm is now 93 billion light-years across. It took 47,000 years for matter to dominate photonic/neutrino interactions. One could argue the entire universe is the expression of a single bindu of light.

To do it well you need a teacher. There are invocations that should be transmitted and a basic training regimen to increase accuracy. Or just get "training" off the internet. There are no severe consequences for doing it poorly. If you get good spoilers can rob you of the joy of the unexpected. Who ...

I wouldn't build them in Australia either until the design gets cheaper. Here it's different though. We designed the best reactors in the world, have the existing infrastructure, the skill sets are still viable and the ground in parts of Ontario is quite radioactive anyway. Radon poisoning is a seri...

Means of storing energy, and there are many https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_storage Yes, and if you crunch the numbers they are mostly garbage. None comes close to a tank of gasoline so far. That isn't really the issue though. In my locale nuclear is the best solution. In yours probably not....

I've met some real hotties that started taking hormones since before puberty in Asia. Staying female is hard once the testosterone starts pumping. Going from female to male with hormones is pretty easy any at any age. Surgery is a hot mess. Wanting to "pass" is often very sad. Acceptance can make it...

Means of storing energy, and there are many https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_storage Yes, and if you crunch the numbers they are mostly garbage. None comes close to a tank of gasoline so far. That isn't really the issue though. In my locale nuclear is the best solution. In yours probably not....

The problem is capitalism can only produce. It cannot distribute in an equitable sustainable way. It will produce until we are all dead if we don't face this fact. There are no technological solutions to capitalism. This means taking power from the elite with capital and they prefer that we all die....

More energy falls on the world's deserts in six hours than the world consumes in a year, Desertec https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desertec How do you plan on transporting and storing it? ... I like the idea of a loose string of solar power plants along an East - West line in any country or group of c...

Dear Israelites, Please murder a plethora of goats today and collect the blood in a large bowl. Take a brush and mark my sign above your doorways as I am going to murder all the male babies in the city tonight and in my bloodlust would hate to murder your babies too. Don't tell any of those filthy h...

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Thu Jul 18, 2019 9:01 am

More energy falls on the world's deserts in six hours than the world consumes in a year,
Desertec https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desertec

How do you plan on transporting and storing it? You can also get 100MW from a single gram of water, theoretically.

The problem is that we live in a political world. I have met spiritually advanced people from almost all traditions. Some traditions produce more than others. Tibetan Buddhism excels at making yogis but it's inverse is it produced a weak system of state governance. Religion is easily corrupted. Some...

For the most part it is harmless to believe Pollyanna nonsense and make false equivalencies. Sharing a few traits does not make things the same. We may simply be forced to do this because of the current trend demonizing Muslims. Particularly by Christian Taliban in America. It sucks but fascists rui...

Many peoples actions indicate they think by strict behavior alone you can reach enlightenment. They become obsessed with purity. I would rather smoke weed once a year and have a glass of wine occasionally than think myself special. The question is how are these substances effecting you and your life...

Talking about genuine spirituality in Abrahamic religions is like me talking about the amazing academic training I received in the army.