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Re: Just for fun: the random, useless announcements thread!
Found this 60 year old news footage on YouTube. Shows how insular the world used to be. How could some of them not know what language we speak in Australia haha
Bunks
Re: Where is everyone?
Looking for fresh acolytes : NB cult!
For more information --> Lobster us 
Kotishka
Re: No Buddhist Quotes
The Catechism according to Saint Dawkins:
- Who made me?
Evolution made me.
Why did evolution make me?
- To annoy Catholics. 😝
Re: Covid Cabin
@Shoshin1 said:
The population of the island I live on is around nine and half thousand, I asked one of the staff at the local vaccination centre ( we only have one centre ) how many vaccines have been given since the start of the vaccination programme, he said around four and half thousand, however I remember him telling me when I had my first shot that non locals were coming over from the main land to get their shots, because anybody could just turn up and if there were any spare vaccines they could have their shot (It turns out that if you call into the centre at either 9.30am or 3.30pm Monday to Friday and the people who were booked in didn't show then you could get their shot) ...So even though four and half thousand have had a shot, not all are locals....There will no doubt be quite a few locals who won't take one for the team...He also said they were averaging 120 vaccinations a day with just two nurses carrying out the vaccinations....
What you need is an outbreak of Covid and a lock down. That'll get the locals off their butts 
Bunks
Re: What music are you listening to?
Pulled this one from the archives for my son last night. Response? “Dad, that’s horrible!”
Bunks
Re: Letting go of control
Everyone knows that it's only real meditation when you stand on your left foot and pat your head and rub your stomach at the same time while chanting GATE GATE PARAGATE LOBSTERSAMGATE BODHI SVAHA 42 times.
Jason
Re: Sam Harris on the perennial philosophy
@DairyLama said:
@Jason said:
@Kerome said:
@DairyLama said:
Anyway, I'm not critisizing your personal choices, I'm critisizing the perennialist attitude, and the assumptions behind it.
I'm not really a Sam Harris fan, but I think his assessment is basically correct on this question.I think as soon as we limit the perennialist statement to just the mystical traditions, it is a lot more defensible. Certainly many of the main religions appear different enough that they don’t seem to be going in the same direction: Buddhism vs Islam vs Hinduism don’t seem very compatible at all.
They are surprisingly compatible, at for those who make the effort.
I don't think they're compatible at all, and I reckon if you made a comment like this on Hindu and Muslim forums, you'd get very short shrift. And on most Buddhist forums too actually.
Good thing I ignore those kind of people, keep an open mind, and trust my experiences.
Jason
Re: Buddhist quotes
“If you prefer smoke over fire
then get up now and leave.
For I do not intend to perfume
your mind's clothing
with more sooty knowledge.
No, I have something else in mind.
Today I hold a flame in my left hand
and a sword in my right.
There will be no damage control today.
For God is in a mood
to plunder your riches and
fling you nakedly
into such breathtaking poverty
that all that will be left of you
will be a tendency to shine.
So don't just sit around this flame
choking on your mind.
For this is no campfire song
to mindlessly mantra yourself to sleep with.
Jump now into the space
between thoughts
and exit this dream
before I burn the damn place down.”
― Adyashanti
Jeroen
Re: Buddhist quotes
Oh no, it’s Leo! You didn’t really expect us to watch that hour long video did you @lobster
Jeroen