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Re: Important Stuff
Welcome to the Darkside
Just for Easter Sunday. Christ, Buddha and assorted godlies and goodlies will be back shortly. No doubt...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-32929855
lobster
Re: Just for fun: the random, useless announcements thread!
Jeesh, @Shoshin1 , I clearly don't get out enough...! The most exciting thing I did today, was water plants - we need rain!
federica
Re: Truth: the language of the heart
Seeing Jesus in a piece of toast can motivate someone to great deeds, if they believe it in their heart. It could change their lives, if their faith was true.
Jeroen
Re: Buddhist quotes
- You may abandon your own body but you must preserve your honour.
Nah!
When you abandon your body, your honour is gone too...
- Do not collect weapons or practice with weapons beyond what is useful.
Different times, bro! No need for weapons except a sharp mind these days... Not that I have either... 
lobster
Re: Which book are you reading?
I had been contemplating beginning just such a thread as this for some while, but my basement's been flooding, the house been trying to return to the soil, and time has been sadly lacking.
I submit Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind by Peter Godfrey Smith.
. . . focuses on the evolutionary developments that shaped our brains, and no matter how much you think you know about these developments, his book will deepen your understanding . . . ―Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, The American Scholar>
Also, Sediments of Time by Meave Leakey, and Lab Girl by Hope Jahren.
ps - @lobster might like the first book - it's got crustaceans in it.
Fosdick
Re: Funny Stuff
Mulla Nasrudin listened very attentively while a stranger told a long story in the coffee-house. But the man spoke so indistinctly and muffed his punchline so badly that the story was not funny at all, and except for the Mulla no one laughed. But the Mulla laughed heartily.
"Why did you laugh, Nasrudin?" I asked him afterwards when the stranger had left.
"I always do," replied Nasrudin. "If you don't laugh, there is always the danger of their telling it over again."
Jeroen
Re: Buddhists & Easter
QCH2002