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Re: Vassa Dhamma Challenge
@Bunks said:
Hi all
Sorry to be a party pooper but I started this thread to track progress and share my experiences during the upcoming Rains Retreat period.
Happy for anyone else to join in too but would appreciate if we stay on topic.
6 days until it begins. 😃
You iz having a party? 🫂 nobody told me 🥳 I'll bring the whine and tantric beer, heresy, naughty vampires, trolls, disgraced sangha, ex spirituals … and our very own naughty corner 😇
Will there be plates or precepts to break? Can hardly wait … let the goodly times reign 🤓
lobster
Re: Funny Stuff
A vampire bat came flapping in from the night, covered in fresh blood. He parked himself on the ceiling of the cave to get some sleep.
Pretty soon all the other bats smelled the blood and started hassling him about where he'd got it. He told them to piss off and let him get some sleep, but they persisted until he finally gave in.
"Okay, follow me," he said as he flapped out of the cave with hundreds of bats behind him.
Down through a valley they went, across a river and into a forest of trees.
Finally he slowed and all the other bats excitedly milled around him.
"Now, do you see that tree over there?" he asked.
"YES, YES, YES!" all the other bats screamed in a frenzy.
"GOOD," shouted the bat, "BECAUSE I FUCKING DIDN'T!"
lobster
Re: The straightjacket of scientific thought
Um... so you fell asleep, had a dream, and because of it you throw out centuries of evidence-based science?
This kind of thinking is why the world is doomed.
Sam8
Re: Just for fun: the random, useless announcements thread!
Garlic is one of those things that I enjoy eating (cheesy garlic bread, minced garlic with some fried vegetables) but then when I smell my or someone's garlic breath, I tend to recover my draculesque abomination towards it.
Kotishka
Re: Getting better "blog"
@Kotishka said:
One step forward...two steps back!
I believe you’ll find what you wanted to say was “Two steps forward, one step back” 
Jeroen
Re: Just for fun: the random, useless announcements thread!
In my island, they call you "mi niño" "my boy". Don't know what is worse... haha
Kotishka
Re: Just for fun: the random, useless announcements thread!
Not sure about other countries but I’ve noticed young women in cafes having a tendency to call me “Love” when they serve me.
Maybe it’s just me but a 20 year old girl calling a 50 year old man “Love” doesn’t quite feel right.
Probably just the generation gap…
Bunks
Re: Atisha on death and the meaning of life
@lobster said:
@federica We haz plan!Atusha (bless you) updated:
- All of us are alive
- Your life span is unknowable
- Life is here
- Your life span is fixed
- Existence has many causes
- Your body is strong and vulnerable
- Love life
- Your material possessions can help you live
- Your mind cannot help you when death comes
and now back to real life and dog recipes
The Hotdog sutra. Thank you!
Kotishka