Sure. It’s all an opinion. That makes sense. Thank you for explaining how it isn’t based on logic, data, or really any methodology at all. Just people arguing chocolate or vanilla or strawberry ice cream.

Including buying karma

Aligns with their religion:

https://suttafriends.org/sutta/sn11-16/

The boss of all the gods in heaven is lectured by the Buddha who states that giving stuff to his monks results in more merit than any god.

To be clear this was kinda a big deal for those polytheists. Giving a sacrifice to a god was a transactional act. I burn this incense or leave this bowl of food out for you, you make sure my kid doesn’t die from this illness. When Buddhist pushed people to instead view the Sangha as the place for donations they weren’t simply asking people to switch which shaman they were going to, they were asking them to shoulder on another one.

Tibetan Buddhism is the Catholic Church of Buddhism, far off the track, festooned with rituals and beliefs, all the same failures that accompany a religion as opposed to a practice.

I don’t often see people gatekeeping a religion as open-ended as Buddhism but here we are.

This is never not going to be weird to me.

Umm so they did have a major one and didn’t tell anyone.

A bit of a challenge

This is like Saul Goodman levels of bullshit

Is your Facebook page full of you trying to look macho while holding guns?

has the power to bring such amazing change

Everyone where told me it was fake marketing hype.

I love how the enemy is all powerful and easily defeatable at the same time. LLMs are singularity creating AIs, useless, hallucinating, job destroyers, potentially do everything, all at once.

It’s Botox+surgery+concealer, right?

Credulous as well. Conspiracy theory and aliens magazines used to have tons of ads for scams.

Sigh. Do you want the answer we are supposed to say or the answer we secretly want to say?

I hate the neoliberals more than any other political faction.

Where is this anger coming from? You got your bump stocks.

Might have to start revisiting capital punishment if governors/presidents continue to use sell pardons.

And yet Tik Tok is going to be banned since it is too dangerous

They provide it because there aren’t enough white ones, on account of the war

and eat raw onions like apples.

My father’s mother could do that and we would all chant “do it do it”. Was so cool to watch.

Stone looks like the bad guy from Star Trek: Generations on a prosperity gospel infomercial trying to sell you on a scam.

When I get old I am just going to look old.