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Re: Kagyu Samye Ling monastery, Scotland, caught in the middle of a firing range.
The sum total of human existence from the galactic travel guide.
TERRIAN TRAVEL ADVISERY NOTICE! Like some other hell realms, visiting is not recommended.
Human beings appear to be so fearful of their own mortality that they are constantly perfecting their skills in ending the lives of select groupings of their own species in the delusionary belief that this somehow extends or improves the lifespans of those remaining.
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Re: Just for fun: the random, useless announcements thread!
I did this, one summer morning, very early.. I got up as the sun was JUST beginning to warm the air, it was silent, fresh, invigorating and blissful..., I wandered round my garden, barefoot, connecting with the Earth, feeling the fresh, cool, morning-moist grass beneath my feet, between my toes...drinking in the peace, solitude, beauty and marvels of nature... damn little critters bit my feet to pieces. 67 bites, I counted. God I scratched for days!!
federica
Re: Just for fun: the random, useless announcements thread!
AAAND another thing. I received a text from my bank informing me that a payment - attempted on 2 cards of my accounts - had failed. I didn't recognise the payments. I got into the chat room with my bank, Turns out Amazon was trying every which way to exact payment for a Prime account... The bank attempting to take the payment is in LUXEMBOURG. Where taxes are minimal. Shafting tax-avoiding bunch of B.......
federica
Re: Just for fun: the random, useless announcements thread!
I have been banned for 25 days for calling someone a brainless idiot. The fact that he was effing and jeffing everywhere, using single letters and sounding ignorant ("U r f***Ing moron, u don no nuthin dipshit" type of stuff) and is still posting on line.... Ok, right....
Gotta ;love those algorithms!
federica
Re: We do not own anything, we just borrow...
@Kerome said:
@David said:
Personally, I think "pink" is more accurate and as a bonus it ruffles the feathers of many racists.I wouldn’t mind being called pink or possibly light beige. But personally I don’t like thinking of people in groups, we are all unique individuals and comparison isn’t a good way to go.
You're speaking my language but I don't mind comparison so much because our diversity is part of our beauty and our usefulness to the whole lies in our uniqueness.
It is when our differences are made out to be fundamental and "better than" that I get nervous and when we identify by tone of skin, we put up barriers. Our skin is definitely borrowed so what does that say about the many shades?
It is not the same as recognizing and taking responsibility for our blood line as the blood lines flow like rivers back from a single source if the most current and widely accepted model is correct. That divergence is not at all implied and is rather lost when we identify by skin tone. It implies a more stark, opposing and fundamental difference than is the reality. Unless one lives with albinism, we have shade and tone to our skin and the term "white people" only serves to make us appear as "other".
Very unhealthy.
And beige? I guess it works better than "white" but I am looking forward to calling out the pink supremacists for some absurd reason.
Re: Pure Land Buddhism
Just discovered the temp above what my thermometer can actually register in my new cold frame and 52 of my new transplants fully cooked. I guess a soil warmer should be off during the day in a small cold frame when it's sunny outside.
Back to square one again.
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