If you want, I can leave an unhinged rant here and you can delete it and ban me. I hate to see someone left out of the fun.
@Vimalajāti such kindness [lobster wipes away fake salty tear]. 
Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s fiends.
John 15:13
We haz plan! … and now back to the common dharma karma …
lobster
@federica said:
@Bunks said:
Damn! I wish I'd seen it.....If it's any consolation, I too missed all the fun. Here I am, your dedicated and constant Guardian, Dutifully eliminating all spam applicants on a daily - sometimes hourly - basis, but otherwise bored out of her skull with nothing else to find to do - and the one day I take leave of absence, @Jason comes galloping in, like a knight in shining armour, brandishing his Sword of Righteousness (also known as 'Take that, you Fucktard!') and heroically banishes the mouthy mysoginistic racist miscreant, with one fell swoop!
If you want, I can leave an unhinged rant here and you can delete it and ban me. I hate to see someone left out of the fun. We'll have to agree on a time and date however, lest Jason swoop in and ruin your chance!
Rather than run-of-the-mill racism, I'm thinking something spectacular would be a treat for a change. Maybe it'll start with "I'm thinking of converting to the Westborough Baptist Church!" Or maybe a thread called "Are the Spanish even worth it?" These are all just ideas. Nothing's yet put down in stone.
I'm thinking it's been a while since a "Sovereign Citizen" has darkened the door. I could pretend to be one of those.
@Bunks said:
Damn! I wish I'd seen it.....
If it's any consolation, I too missed all the fun. Here I am, your dedicated and constant Guardian, Dutifully eliminating all spam applicants on a daily - sometimes hourly - basis, but otherwise bored out of her skull with nothing else to find to do - and the one day I take leave of absence, @Jason comes galloping in, like a knight in shining armour, brandishing his Sword of Righteousness (also known as 'Take that, you Fucktard!') and heroically banishes the mouthy mysoginistic racist miscreant, with one fell swoop! There's your hero!
I shall just keep sweeping the floor and evicting dust bunnies...
federica
Sorry, @lobster. But you know how us commies are really into purging. 🤷♀️
Jason
@Jason said:
I took the liberty of banning the member for an extraordinarily racist post. Feel free to comment and continue the discussion here, but be aware that the member is no longer able to participate.
Sadly that outrageously ridiculous post has been deleted.
This was our 'best' troll ever. I wanted to keep it … but as usual, request denied.
How am I ever gonna start being a Mahayana Bodhisattva if I can not have trolls to experiment on … [lobster grumbles off into the Purelands … ] 
Trolls, racists and communists are all sentient beings and potential Buddhas.
lobster
Well ain't Karma a bitch?
federica
@Jeffrey said:
How to Meditate by Kathleen McDonald when I was 25The Chuang Tzu when I was 21
On the Road by Jack Kerouac when I was 16
Not a bad selection @Jeffrey. We don’t tend to encounter so many life changing books when we are older but what we read as a young adult can have major influences.
I’m reminded of this quote by John Rogers: “There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings [by Tolkien] and Atlas Shrugged [by Ayn Rand]. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."
I’ve never actually read any of Ayn Rand’s books, but its interesting that people would call them life changing.
Jeroen
"Dad... I'm sorry, but... I think you're gonna get a letter from school...."
"Oh crap, Jimmy, what the heck you gone done now?!"
"Well... I was in the line in the canteen, ya know? Linin' up for lunch, an' I passed a bowl of apples..."
"So...?!
"Well... it had a note on it, read - 'only take one, God is watching!' but I didn't want an apple..."
"...and?"
So further along, there was a big tray of cookies, an' I wrote a note for them..."
"...?"
"I wrote - 'Take as many as you want, 'cos' God is watchin' the apples..."
federica