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- Fri Mar 29, 2024 1:37 pm
- Forum: Suggestion Box
- Topic: Moderation, bias, etc.
- Replies: 59
- Views: 735
Re: Why are DharmaWheel and DhammaWheel separated?
Posting somewhat out of order (sorry) because the conversation roared ahead without me - The Dharma is infused in everything though. Politics is life. There could be a Dharmic perspective to anything in life. Is it? Then one who is posting it should explain the particular connection of the topic to ...
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 6:01 am
- Forum: Games & Humour
- Topic: Daily Laugh Thread
- Replies: 849
- Views: 263429
Re: Daily Laugh Thread
Something seasonal...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 5:11 am
- Forum: Games & Humour
- Topic: Daily Laugh Thread
- Replies: 849
- Views: 263429
Re: Daily Laugh Thread
On a similar theme...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 1:14 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Favourite Sports
- Replies: 25
- Views: 615
Re: Favourite Sports
Other: Ice figure scating and snooker. What is snooker? The game I know as snooker is like a more complicated version of pool, played on a full-size billiard table with 15 red balls worth one point each, half a dozen 'colour' balls which are worth more, and a white cue ball. I played it a fair bit ...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 6:22 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: [Survey] Study on changes in the sense of self due to meditation - Call for participants
- Replies: 3
- Views: 216
Re: [Survey] Study on changes in the sense of self due to meditation - Call for participants
Some of us will have difficulty disentangling the effects of meditation from other changes over years of practice. For instance, I know I am who I am because I got back into meditation nearly 20 years ago, and I only got back into it because of my experience of it 20 years before that. But how well ...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 8:31 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Favourite Sports
- Replies: 25
- Views: 615
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 5:18 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Favourite Sports
- Replies: 25
- Views: 615
Re: Favourite Sports
I ticked "other", as I so often do. :tongue: I play an Olympic sport (at far below Olympic level, of course) which holds regular national and state level competitions (which I could maybe qualify for if I worked really hard, but I won't) and gets almost exactly zero coverage on mass media ...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 3:06 am
- Forum: Games & Humour
- Topic: Daily Laugh Thread
- Replies: 849
- Views: 263429
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 11:03 pm
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Act- and Rule-Consequentialism: The Mahayana Debate About Ethics
- Replies: 21
- Views: 589
Re: Act- and Rule-Consequentialism: The Mahayana Debate About Ethics
Interesting discussion. I have always been an act-consequentialist. Sets of rules followed by rule-consequentialists are justified by the rule-maker because the actions they specify are intended to be act-consequential. In other words, rule-consequentialism is derivative. It is the "intended t...
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 4:59 am
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Act- and Rule-Consequentialism: The Mahayana Debate About Ethics
- Replies: 21
- Views: 589
Re: Act- and Rule-Consequentialism: The Mahayana Debate About Ethics
I think Buddhist ethics is more like "upside-down" consequentialism. Consequentialism says actions are bad because they have bad consequences. But Buddhist ethics says there are bad consequences because bad actions were done. :rolleye: "actions are bad because they have bad consequen...
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 3:52 am
- Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
- Topic: Act- and Rule-Consequentialism: The Mahayana Debate About Ethics
- Replies: 21
- Views: 589
Re: Act- and Rule-Consequentialism: The Mahayana Debate About Ethics
Act-consequentialists rank acts according to how good their consequences would be and then hold that the permissibility of acts is a function of this ranking. For instance, maximizing act-utilitarians rank acts according to how much utility they would produce and then hold that an act is permissibl...
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 11:00 pm
- Forum: Games & Humour
- Topic: Daily Laugh Thread
- Replies: 849
- Views: 263429
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 7:48 am
- Forum: Games & Humour
- Topic: Daily Laugh Thread
- Replies: 849
- Views: 263429
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 10:56 pm
- Forum: Engaged Buddhism
- Topic: Buddhism Green Anarchism: Opinions?
- Replies: 69
- Views: 3072
Re: Buddhism Green Anarchism: Opinions?
BUDDHISM AND ANARCHISM – REFLECTIONS ON THE ECO-ANARCHISM OF GARY SNYDER , Brian Morris, 2020-11-10 Again, not a recommendation or even a comment as I have not read completely through the article, but a possible discussion point. It is of interest that the words “anarchism” and “revolution” were bo...
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 11:38 pm
- Forum: Engaged Buddhism
- Topic: Buddhism Green Anarchism: Opinions?
- Replies: 69
- Views: 3072
Re: Buddhism Green Anarchism: Opinions?
Gary Snyder is someone whose work I have always liked but never known very well.
I will get back to these when I have time.
Kim
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 5:52 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Poll (ANONYMOUS): Are you Male / Female / Other?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 942
Re: Poll (ANONYMOUS): Are you Male / Female / Other?
Yeah, why so many dudes? Or, alternatively, why so few ladies? This came up on another Buddhist group I'm on, mostly men, which does not seem to reflect irl buddhism (so I hear, tbh I don't interact with buddhist groups irl much, but I do participate online, ...I don't know if that is related or no...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 11:33 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Poll (ANONYMOUS): Are you Male / Female / Other?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 942
Re: Poll (ANONYMOUS): Are you Male / Female / Other?
Yeah, why so many dudes? Or, alternatively, why so few ladies? This came up on another Buddhist group I'm on, mostly men, which does not seem to reflect irl buddhism (so I hear, tbh I don't interact with buddhist groups irl much, but I do participate online, ...I don't know if that is related or no...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 5:17 am
- Forum: Games & Humour
- Topic: Daily Laugh Thread
- Replies: 849
- Views: 263429
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 11:16 pm
- Forum: Suggestion Box
- Topic: Poll idea - male / female / other
- Replies: 19
- Views: 471
Re: Poll idea - male / female / other
If knowing my (or anyone else's) age, wealth, nationality, skin colour or gender identity is important to you, it's probably because you will respond differently to me or them because of those characteristics. Kim Hey, Kim, I fully agree with what you said, and I definitely do not want to behave di...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 1:42 pm
- Forum: Suggestion Box
- Topic: Poll idea - male / female / other
- Replies: 19
- Views: 471
Re: Poll idea - male / female / other
I dont know how about you, but I (a male) feel like other people are also males, but that is just my stupid assumption / preconception. I think, since I am male, I am more likely to assume the other person with unisex nickname is also a male. This assumption from my side is especially stupid since ...