Nak Khid

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  1. If you have a username that does not indicate gender then how would you know if it is male dominated? Also there is now restriction on females to sign up yet they don't on their own volition. Is there a problem? And, there are new topics all the time deriving from current events, new technology, notable new people etc Suppose some random new person joins and gets on top of it before anybody else and they have studied the formatting well can they create the new article? Also if you look at any number of controversial topics that are locked can certain people still access them to put in new information? If you think about how to make it all work, it is very complex
  2. Would a spiritual person condone a mob action using physical confrontation whilst not getting their hands dirty?
  3. what are some of the commands and tools to get this circular formation of the lines
  4. I have edited articles, adding info and in some cases correcting information. Random people do it but it's not super easy until you learn some technical things about the formatting an proper referencing. If you edit and you make a lot of mistakes people may quickly simply revert the article to it's previous state with the click of a button
  5. Normally to get published you have to have credentials and submit your work to the publisher for review People who write articles there don't do it for the money. They do it either to help inform and help people or to try to instill their point of view on the subject or to like the fact that they have the status to be the authority on a subject What often happens is that after an article is written a lot of other people add to it or make corrections to it. So if you try to say something bizarre or with a heavy political slant other people will quickly edit it and challenge it in the talk commentaries attached to the article. If edit wars evolve an article could be come locked for further arbitrary edits. Anybody can writes an article but after they do thousands of other people who have signed up with wikipedia are looking and if they see what they thing is an error they might change it. This seems like an arbitrary situation but it has resulted in pretty good accuracy when compared to regular encyclopedias. The key are their reference at the bottom of the articles. If you make claims having a reference source is expected. The key to the success is the open participation made available and the apparent pretty good quality of the articles. Also the fact that things are updated frequently and many sub topic entries and branches get created extending a subject
  6. The protests in Portland are only partially like Martin Luther King peaceful protests. They also burn things each night , set off a lot of fireworks in the direction of these Fed agents, are trying to transgress a fence around a Federal Building, cover the place in graffiti and break things and this has been going on for 61 nights Trump however escalated the situation with the Fed Troops but these protest are only semi- peaceful and they are sustained over a long period of time Some argue civil rights improvement in the 60s were not just due to peaceful protests but also to a large number of riots all throughout the 60s starting in 1963 However this is a complex analysis of cause and effect and with a lot of consequences watch this now, LIVE , >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHLg8HK9GwM or multi angel view , hit full screen after link https://www.twitch.tv/woke
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  8. https://www.twitch.tv/woke Portland live feed , Day 61 7/28/2020 (hit full screen button, lower right) Multi screen view __________________________________________ Crowd, smaller than Saturday
  9. Look at this, scroll read the whole thing, very little text https://coercioncode.com/2016/02/05/joel-osteen-a-new-book-for-the-new-age-christian/ .
  10. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actual_infinity#Opposition_from_the_Intuitionist_school The mathematical meaning of the term "actual" in actual infinity is synonymous with definite, completed, extended or existential,] but not to be mistaken for physically existing. The question of whether natural or real numbers form definite sets is therefore independent of the question of whether infinite things exist physically in nature. Proponents of intuitionism, from Kronecker onwards, reject the claim that there are actually infinite mathematical objects or sets. Consequently, they reconstruct the foundations of mathematics in a way that does not assume the existence of actual infinities. On the other hand, constructive analysis does accept the existence of the completed infinity of the integers. For intuitionists, infinity is described as potential; terms synonymous with this notion are becoming or constructive.For example, Stephen Kleene describes the notion of a Turing machine tape as "a linear 'tape', (potentially) infinite in both directions."To access memory on the tape, a Turing machine moves a read head along it in finitely many steps: the tape is therefore only "potentially" infinite, since while there is always the ability to take another step, infinity itself is never actually reached. Mathematicians generally accept actual infinities. Georg Cantor is the most significant mathematician who defended actual infinities, equating the Absolute Infinite with God. He decided that it is possible for natural and real numbers to be definite sets, and that if one rejects the axiom of Euclidean finiteness (that states that actualities, singly and in aggregates, are necessarily finite), then one is not involved in any contradiction. The philosophical problem of actual infinity concerns whether the notion is coherent and epistemically sound.
  11. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRPonozrpZA Is he correct or is this an evil idea ? .
  12. Mahasamadhi is the physical death of the body intentionally caused by a guru through a special mediation upon themselves. Usually they are old or sick when they are said to have done this, saying they would die on a particular day and then doing so They are people that are said to have achieved God consciousness far prior to their Mahasamadhi
  13. Liver is higher in cholesterol than steak more likely than other meat products to contain high levels of pesticides (from animal feed), as well as antibiotics and other drugs that the animals may have been given.
  14. One example of structural racism is where you start out with a segregated neighborhood and this neighborhood is located at a further distance from the economic and governmental power centers. New York is an example. So after segregation is abolished the segregated nature of the neighborhood hood remains but with some gentrification on its peripheries as the majority might like to expand. So the neighborhood might not be entirely segregated but a great amount of it still is. Then you have capital. Inheritance has passed on profits of slavery and segregation generation to generation so that people are not starting on a level playing filed. Some overcome this, Jay Z, Oprah , Michael Jordan but the vast majority don't
  15. So in what American time period, according to Chris Hedges does the best America exist?
  16. Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing? Leo Gura Jul 19, 2020 _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ However in the video Leo says: " Everything is Nothing" and " there is no distinction between something and nothing " But the title does not say this. The title says that nothing exist only something exists. So where is the evidence that nothing exists other than "nothing" being an abstract dualistic concept but not a real thing? The title of the video is not " There is no Distinction Between Something and Nothing " Similarly Leo has said there is only Love and that hate doesn't exist and he justifies that because assuming nonduality is true then if we add hate to Love it's two things not one. ____________________________________________ So we return to the original title Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing? Prove that that is not true. That "nothing" doesn't exist. It's a mental construct. What about the idea Nothing is all there is , everything is an illusion? It doesn't matter, an illusion is not nothing. What about the statement alone Nothing is all there is ? That doesn't work because we experience different things. We only experience things, thoughts etc You go into a pitch black dark room insulated from sound yet you can sense your feet standing there, or your own breathing , thoughts memory etc. Just being alive you are experiencing and that is not nothing. Ok what about statements like Infinity is Zero Up is Down Hate is Love Everything is Nothing I am you You are Me If you take two words like this that are considers opposites and you put the word "is" or "am" in between. The are interesting because they doesn't make sense. They seem clever , paradoxical and your brain tries to make sense of them but it keeps looping an it can't In the video the idea is raise why does the universe have various things in it ? Wouldn't it be simpler and more elegant to have nothing? Hypothetically yes but that would be extremely boring. So we return to the original title Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing? Why wouldn't only something exist? Where is the proof that nothing exists? See, the intuition gets it right the first time. There is only something Then the mind comes in, intellectualizes and imagines that nothing also exists That's the minds illusion, nothingness. It's elegant in it's simplicity. However reality is not elegant in that way. Sometimes we find peace in simplicity. But that is because our minds can be overwhelmed if attempting to be aware of a multitude of things at once. To focus on on one sometimes is a needed relief from the whole universe Meditation is an artificial thing, But it is useful to use to step out of distracting, repetitive chatter We need to get away from "it all" sometimes ______________________________________________________________________ https://www.huffpost.com/entry/emptiness-most-misunderstood-word-in-buddhism_b_2769189 Emptiness: The Most Misunderstood Word in Buddhism “Emptiness” is a central teaching of all Buddhism, but its true meaning is often misunderstood. If we are ever to embrace Buddhism properly into the West, we need to be clear about emptiness, since a wrong understanding of its meaning can be confusing, even harmful. The third century Indian Buddhist master Nagarjuna taught, “Emptiness wrongly grasped is like picking up a poisonous snake by the wrong end.” In other words, we will be bitten! Emptiness is not complete nothingness; it doesn’t mean that nothing exists at all. This would be a nihilistic view contrary to common sense. What it does mean is that things do not exist the way our grasping self supposes they do. In his book on the Heart Sutra the Dalai Lama calls emptiness “the true nature of things and events,” but in the same passage he warns us “to avoid the misapprehension that emptiness is an absolute reality or an independent truth.” In other words, emptiness is not some kind of heaven or separate realm apart from this world and its woes. The Heart Sutra says, “all phenomena in their own-being are empty.” It doesn’t say “all phenomena are empty.” This distinction is vital. “Own-being” means separate independent existence. The passage means that nothing we see or hear (or are) stands alone; everything is a tentative expression of one seamless, ever-changing landscape. So though no individual person or thing has any permanent, fixed identity, everything taken together is what Thich Nhat Hanh calls “interbeing.” This term embraces the positive aspect of emptiness as it is lived and acted by a person of wisdom — with its sense of connection, compassion and love. Think of the Dalai Lama himself and the kind of person he is — generous, humble, smiling and laughing — and we can see that a mere intellectual reading of emptiness fails to get at its practical joyous quality in spiritual life. So emptiness has two aspects, one negative and the other quite positive. Ari Goldfield, a Buddhist teacher at Wisdom Sun and translator of Stars of Wisdom , summarizes these two aspects as follows: The first meaning of emptiness is called “emptiness of essence,” which means that phenomena [that we experience] have no inherent nature by themselves.” The second is called “emptiness in the context of Buddha Nature,” which sees emptiness as endowed with qualities of awakened mind like wisdom, bliss, compassion, clarity, and courage. Ultimate reality is the union of both emptinesses. Some Buddhist students think that a meditative state without thought or activity is the realization of emptiness. While such a state is well described in Buddhist meditation texts, it is treated like all mental states — temporary and not ultimately conducive to liberation. ___________________________________________________________ Reality is impermanent. Things come and go. When they go do they go into "nothingness? " No they disappear. They don't go into a place called "nothingness" Nothingness is the mental construct. That is the idealistic illusion things don't have "no" or "non" in front of them. Those are abstractions There is. There is no such thing as nonduality. Absence of duality is not a thing And because it's not at thing that doesn't mean duality is real. that is another construct There only are things And if you says there are only illusions of things illusions are not nothing They are something Welcome to somethingness