Civilizations are organisms that follow a mammal's life cycle. Birth, infancy, youth, maturity, senescence, and final breakup. Final break-up is another term for death, one I like because it expresses what happens as our bodies disintegrate into parts. I prefer to think of my body as a
I keep seeing think pieces, vlogs, and essays on the death of the Internet. The narrative goes like this: The Internet in the 1990s was a Wild West where humans were the creators of all content, and it was unpredictable, zany, engaging, and adventurous. Then corporations, via social media, began
For most of Christian history, it was accepted that baptism by water and the Spirit were absolutely essential for salvation. The words come from Christ in the Gospels: Verily, verily I say unto thee, unless a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the
I've reached a critical juncture in my life, where I'm chomping at the bit to leave my corporate job and become a full-time day trader. This sounds like a bad idea and probably is, but this year, I've been making okay money. Nothing
For the past several years, I've been a TV addict. I have a nice large TV with bright, vibrant colors, and it streams all sorts of stuff. My primary use has been YouTube because it, of all Mara's devices, is the most interesting to me. It&
I took a break from practice a few weeks ago. My exercise schedule and general busyness meant that when I sat down to meditate in the evenings, I would nod off. Meditation for someone with no commitments to a wife or children can still be difficult. That's one
Just dropping this here, the latest in all things economically ruinous and Indian. Terms have the same meaning. Bankrupt Microsoft-Backed 'AI' Company Was Using Indian Engineers To Fake It: Report Valued at $1.5 billion after a $445 million investment by Microsoft, the company claimed to leverage
Having been an addict for nicotine, caffeine, and alcohol at various points in my life and having cut those off with no real struggle several years ago, I still have one quasi-addiction: carbohydrates. When I went off alcohol for good, I was using several bottles of wine a week
In the Brahmajala Sutta, the Buddha outlines sixty or so errors, the kind which might constitute Wrong View. Right View is, in contradistinction, one of the Eight Noble Truths, without which suffering remains on the menu, all served as different dishes. These errors generally pertain to questions about life after
Life can be weird. Jung talked about synchronicities. Maybe what I relate here is that or maybe it's just a coincidence. I was an avid user of the Foreman grill and around the turn of the century, I watched him on infomercials grilling steaks, burgers and bacon. I
Not pretending to be the only one who predicted this, but as I'm not an X or Facebook, I don't know who else has characterized Musk's DOGE as a dry run for a much larger displacement of human white collar workers in a couple
There is an objective reality out there and it's all in your mind! I've been reading up on early archaeology in Israel and its relationship to the Bible. Let's just say that the writers of the Bible were not always devoted to representing history