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How to tell if you're dealing with a MAGA folk?
Do you think auto-pen Biden betrayed Americans, voters, America...the world with his fraudulent coverup of his fraudulent presidency and his undeniable mentally cognition crisis and this likely cancer coverup? You think thats NOT betrayal. Biden should add "betrayal" to his legacy alongside the auto-pen legacy. -
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If there is no life after death...
If you ever dabbled in chemically altering your consciousness, you begin the first steps to question the nature of consciousness: what it is, how it arises, what are its boundaries. Most people never take the step. Nor do you need to. You can accomplish that investigating through meditative practices. Granted, it takes longer, but you arrives at some interesting insights. I was raised Catholic but I always found the religion to be a rather grotesque death-cult. Especially the “stations of the cross” which are predominant in all Catholic churches, where the murder of a man preaching compassion by torture and crucifixion is glorified. “But He arose from the dead!” Of course, and it was codified under Roman Emperor Constantine during the Council of Nicaea in the 4th century AD. After that - “Believe it or else.” I’ve never responded well to threats. I gave it up as a teenager around the same time as I had the NDE. In my late teens I began exploring Eastern religions. And why not, as they were an exploration into consciousness. I began meditation practice over 50 years ago and later sort of naturally gravitated to Theravada Buddhism which is the form practiced in Thailand, which meant taking up the study of Buddhist texts and sutras, as well as commentaries in various Buddhist traditions including the Vajrayana (Tibetan) tradition. One of the things that you can subjectively verify for yourself. There are various states of consciousness which can be encountered in meditation. Some are incredibly profound, like watching what we call "self" fabricate itself. Buddhist texts provide a road-map of consciousness. If you spend most of your life practicing meditation, you will encounter the "landmarks" which delineate various states of consciousness from the gross to the most subtle. For all of the skepticism by those who "embrace science," meditation is quite empirical in an anecdotal manner. Granted, it's subjective, you can't measure states of consciousness directly although you can implicitly and indirectly inferred by the state of the body while in meditation, just like you can measure bodily reactions during sleep. Which is why I have no problem fathoming what occurs during near-death experiences. I nearly died when I was a teenager. I remember the effect on consciousness crystal clear. Decades later I found that the shifts in consciousness that I experienced mapped exactly to the stages of death outlined in the Tibetan Buddhism commentaries on dying. That was a rather profound eye-opening. So what does it mean? It means that I could empirically verify that the stages of dying according to Tibetan Buddhist texts. If I can do that, then I have "faith" that in the reality of rest of the stages of death as outlined in the Bardo Thodol (Tibetan Book of the Dead) as that "faith" is experiential, it's based on my previous experiences with NDE and meditation. It's not the blind faith you find in other religions, i.e., "I believe because it's written in my religion's scriptures which I’m told to believe by my religious leaders – or else." I believe because I can empirically verify to myself that my experiences match the "landmarks" of consciousness found in Buddhist text. So I have no problem with those who believe that consciousness snuffs out with bodily death. If that’s the case, fine – why worry? Eat, drink, and be merry. Embrace hedonism and greed. Screw morality. Why not? Ya only live once, 'eh? Then you wonder why the psychopaths in organizations like the WEF gravitate to trans-humanism where they actively seek a "scientific" way to transfer their consciousness to a machine. Gawd - talk about a living Hell. And well deserved. In a sort of Philip K. Dick manner I don't discount that eventually man will create semi-synthetic life, i.e., androids, and those life forms may actually be capable of sentient, consciousness. But I seriously doubt that consciousness can be mechanically transferred from one life form to another. Yet the same people who believe that consciousness winks out at death, also harbor hope that a mechanical method of consciousness transfer can be developed. The irony of holding those two disparate ideas is rather amusing. But though my own anecdotal experiences, I don’t buy the nihilistic view that consciousness winks out at bodily death any more than I buy the view that Big Daddy in the Sky is going to throw all non-believers into a pit of fire forever and ever. So I take a very Buddhist view of the eternal nature of consciousness and the continuity of consciousness from life to life across a pantheon of sentient beings. And as a Buddhist, I attempt to take the steps to break that cycle. Dualistic consciousness as we experience it becomes irrelevant once the cycle of birth and death is broken. But that’s a whole different conversation. -
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Pinkeye
I got minor conjunctivitis a couple weeks ago, coincidentally after I went to a hospital for an eye test and you use those machines, my guess is I caught it from a machine. We know they are good at cleaning floors but other things not so good -
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Dating 22-Year-Old Thai Bubble Tea Girl - She Just Asked for 30K/Month – Am I Being Played?
It's an outrageous request any way you look at it, no matter if it's coming from her or if the idea was put into her head by her family. At her salary level, her potential to help her family is less than 5,000 baht per month, so anything more than maybe topping it up to 10,000 baht per month would be excessive. What would they need more money for, anyway? If there's no debt, drugs or gambling involved. As she's 22, it doesn't seem likely that her parents deserve a free ride (retirement) already either. -
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Do you love your Toyota Hybrid? You should
Just answering a reply, about someone's concern of battery warranty and replacement cost. An intelligent person would buy one that has a lifetime warranty. Just passing info, facts from manufacturers, not opinions, that some folks might not know about. I believe that's the whole purpose of the forum. -
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Cheap International Phone Calls to the U.K. Using A.I.S.
My AIS mobile is post paid and the sim is enabled. Yes it works for me, though I don't make that many international calls/ It works with DTAD as well but perhaps with different prefix numbers. For True and anybody else I have no idea.
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