The man stopped and asked, “My friend, what are you? Are you a celestial being or a god?”
“No,” said the Buddha.
“Well, then are you some kind of magician or wizard?”
Again the Buddha answered, “No.”
“Are you a man?”
“No.”
“Well, my friend, then what are you?”
The Buddha replied, “I am woke.”
No, u’r wrong 😜
Different format of discussion.
Social media: people trying to win binary points 👍👎
Wikipedia, scientific discussion, or a deliberative assembly: slow process towards writing a statement of a position, with lots of study along the way
People are trying to ‘win the argument’ for personal satisfaction. They’re not trying to self-correct or seek the truth.
I think I’ve only blocked a handful of people over a decade
I’m the opposite; I have hundreds of people blocked, mostly because they are bores.
I say! Smashing machine old.chap!
Gotta hit that gym to catch up with your partner: https://i2-prod.irishmirror.ie/showbiz/irish-showbiz/article21161137.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/1_JS201982061.jpg
The article is basically correct: everyone’s got a better life than their grandparents.
However, a few notes:
And a positive he missed: we are arguably the best welfare state in the world, measured by taxing the rich and redistributing to the poor.
Isolate Israel
Pity he was banned. I was curious to see what his specific points were.
There’s some interesting discussions to be had of Marx’s writings on electoralism, revolution, and republics.
What thinking did he criticise so literally?
What’s that im reference to?
Even in the US of A a (proportionally) smaller amount of total wealth is controlled by the 1%.
The bourgeoisie are the main threat to Europe.
Modi is shorter than I’d realised.
The whole entire point of free software is trustlessness.
Is the political disagreement around surveillance or something related?
She’s an “analog astronaut”, i.e. earthbound
Or “take the red pill”
Any time someone says something like that, they invariably mean “start believing what I believe”