Posts by snailenthusiast@varishangout.net
(DIR) Post #AVxqeGKz8jXrrjjC1A by snailenthusiast@varishangout.net
2023-05-24T01:15:48.214182Z
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@SerfnUSA @William_The_Dragonborn From what I know, Xenogears is mostly downstream of very depressed 19th century German philosophers. Maybe someday I'll emulate them to see what the fuss is about, get the feeling there's probably something interesting there the series dropped along the way
(DIR) Post #AVxrllTpqlxOR00bYG by snailenthusiast@varishangout.net
2023-05-24T01:28:21.707328Z
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@WashedOutGundamPilot Can't believe I've been engaging in political boycotts for years without even knowing it
(DIR) Post #AVxroykixai0T0RP0K by snailenthusiast@varishangout.net
2023-05-24T01:28:56.269752Z
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Star Trek TND is my favorite series
(DIR) Post #AVxs344lxsT11zXExM by snailenthusiast@varishangout.net
2023-05-24T01:31:29.133969Z
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@synapsid Oh, you need a cover letter? How about I cover my dick with your entire ass, faggot?
(DIR) Post #AVxvuedR4MBHcxzfEm by snailenthusiast@varishangout.net
2023-05-24T02:14:45.935899Z
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@nugger @borzoi_ebooks Berserk already ended though: Miura died and whatever his friends are up to is basically fanfiction
(DIR) Post #AVyqzpHoael5UsUHQ0 by snailenthusiast@varishangout.net
2023-05-24T12:54:24.371030Z
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I have almost finished my transition into boomerism: I mostly use the internet for looking at cute animal videos latelyThe future of the internet is in the past
(DIR) Post #AVywnAOtNPDAwS913A by snailenthusiast@varishangout.net
2023-05-24T13:59:19.276346Z
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I'm going to be nice and say Attack on Titan's only political ideology was "sucking"
(DIR) Post #AVyzxa1vF0nBBl3cye by snailenthusiast@varishangout.net
2023-05-24T14:34:49.695569Z
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@Saber @SerfnUSA @TornadoOfTerror @Twoinchdestroya @WashedOutGundamPilot @monsterislandcolonizer At least Code Geass was relatively short and managed to be entertainingly fucked up. I get the impression the writers genuinely stopped caring about whatever "themes" they were trying to convey and decided to just shitpost after a certain point, and it was amazing
(DIR) Post #AVz0POcNGSJxu3N596 by snailenthusiast@varishangout.net
2023-05-24T14:39:52.420934Z
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@SerfnUSA @Saber @TornadoOfTerror @Twoinchdestroya @WashedOutGundamPilot @monsterislandcolonizer I had a fun time with it in hindsight, though I was stupid enough to get invested enough in the plot to actually be upset by the story's self-immolation. I'd say it's worth a watch if you don't expect it to follow through on any of its good ideas and accept it as pure spectacle
(DIR) Post #AVz1WLBEXnk1DqYGrQ by snailenthusiast@varishangout.net
2023-05-24T14:52:19.838600Z
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Not a huge fan of the idea that there's nothing but a war of all against all and things couldn't be any other way desu
(DIR) Post #AVz3JKIwgjToeO55hg by snailenthusiast@varishangout.net
2023-05-24T15:12:23.700965Z
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Sometimes I worry my view that you should avoid Tibetan exegeses of key Buddhist concepts while learning them is too extreme or even disrespectful, but then I remember Khenpo Shenga throwing out 1000 years of Tibetan polemics and basing his commentaries entirely on Indian treatises & commentaries when he reformed the shedra curriculumThe svātantrika–prāsaṅgika distinction is only a dispute over how to establish the view, Bhāvaviveka and Candrakīrti had the same view of ultimate truth, don't even @ me
(DIR) Post #AVz5JJIicTmNRi5x4a by snailenthusiast@varishangout.net
2023-05-24T15:34:47.757377Z
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>The various traditional accounts of Asaṅga’s life suggest that he was a man not so much born with a mission as conceived with a mission, for among the people deeply concerned with the situation of Buddhism in fourth-century India was his mother. As a young nun, she bemoaned the fact that she lacked the scholarship and eloquence of the paṇḍitas at the Indian Buddhist universities and the meditative accomplishments of Buddhist hermits. She realized, however, that there was one thing she could do that no paṇḍita could—bear children, even if it meant taking the drastic step of giving up her monastic vows. Praying fervently that her offspring would be able to make the teachings flourish once more, she proceeded, through successive liaisons with three men, to give birth to three sons who she hoped would fulfill that historic destiny. Of the three boys, the eldest was Asaṅga and the second was Vasubandhu, who later became Asaṅga’s foremost disciple, and they were indeed to make their mark on the development of Indian Buddhism over the next few centuries.That's one hell of a conversation to have with your son, I have to say
(DIR) Post #AVzqq15s1wGgNZBObo by snailenthusiast@varishangout.net
2023-05-25T00:27:16.226623Z
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@WashedOutGundamPilot People look down on you if you marry damaged goods, people look down on you if you stay single forever, absolutely nobody escapes criticism
(DIR) Post #AVzry2nDhFI1v5qoMK by snailenthusiast@varishangout.net
2023-05-25T00:39:59.776782Z
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Overall I think I became more at peace mentally when I decided I'll just try and fully accept whatever happens, if I'm doing my best I have no reason to be upset about it. Call it a defeatist or cope-fueled mindset, there's no further point in seething over bad situations. It's not like anyone was ever owed an ideal world, you know?
(DIR) Post #AVzsaPZJSuj3YsdnTE by snailenthusiast@varishangout.net
2023-05-25T00:46:51.251342Z
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I didn't feel the need to specify what I meant by "whatever happens" because these are very scary times, so it applies to many things
(DIR) Post #AVzveosHcVDz4FJ8U4 by snailenthusiast@varishangout.net
2023-05-25T01:21:19.956364Z
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Have a good night, everyone
(DIR) Post #AW11wBrOCtzqA6W2QC by snailenthusiast@varishangout.net
2023-05-25T14:06:22.742590Z
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@RealRaul I can't believe the Mossad have taken over Raul's account, can't trust anyone lately!
(DIR) Post #AW14KwoRUSmgdn4Pnk by snailenthusiast@varishangout.net
2023-05-25T14:33:17.244233Z
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>One may think: “We concede that our decisions are unreliable, but when we follow the decisions of the Buddha, we are infallible.” Then who decided that the Buddha is infallible? If you say, “The great scholars and adepts like Nagarjuna decided that he is infallible,” then who decided that Nagarjuna is infallible? If you say, “The Foremost Lama Tsong khapa decided it,” then who knows that the Foremost Lama is infallible? If you say, “Our kind and peerless lama, the excellent and great so and so decided,” then infallibility, which depends on your excellent lama, is decided by your own mind. In fact, therefore, it is a tiger who vouches for a lion, it is a yak who vouches for a tiger, it is a dog who vouches for a yak, it is a mouse who vouches for a dog, it is an insect who vouches for a mouse. Thus, an insect is made the final voucher for them all.
(DIR) Post #AW15SbacNf055corNg by snailenthusiast@varishangout.net
2023-05-25T14:45:53.849338Z
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Chophel is one of the exceptions to my general stance re Tibetan works on madhyamaka, probably the most recent & innovative philosopher of that tradition, and a good poet besides. Check out the Madman's Middle Way by Donald S Lopez, it has a translation of his Ornament of Nagarjuna's Thought >To the sharp weapons of the demons, you offered delicate flowers in return. When the enraged Devadatta pushed down a boulder [to kill you], you practiced silence. Son of the Śākyas, incapable of casting even an angry glance at your enemy, what intelligent person would honor you as a friend for protection from the great enemy, fearful saṃsāra?
(DIR) Post #AW16EMgh5aEclvR1RQ by snailenthusiast@varishangout.net
2023-05-25T14:54:29.449280Z
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>An amazing example of a majority in agreement dismissing the minority as false is set forth by the master Candrakirti. Aryadeva’s Four Hundred says: “Therefore, why is it incorrect to say that the whole world is insane?” The commentary on that [by Candrakirti] says: “Once, in a country, there was an astrologer who went before the king and said, ‘Seven days from now a rain will fall. All those whose mouths the water enters will go insane.’ When the king heard that he carefully covered the mouth of his well of drinking water and none of the rain fell into it. His subjects were unable to do the same and so the water went into all of their mouths and they all went insane. The king was the only one whose mind remained normal. In that country the way of thinking and the way of speaking of all the people did not agree with the way of thinking and the way of speaking of the king. Therefore, they all said, ‘The king is insane.’ In the end, not knowing what else to do, the king drank the water, whereby he came to agree with everyone else.”