everydayDonut

I've always wanted to make a 4d space in VR. That way it's only one dimension higher, technically. Could help to visualize it in a way that hasn't been done yet

I like the movie metaphor, some turn out to be very different from the original and I don't always like that.

This seems like a great list you've compiled, thank you. The deeper dives you've recommended sound very interesting too. I think I'll bookmark this

That's exactly how I feel about it, you just put it in better words.

Thank you for the recommendation

Wow thank you for this! I suppose that's what the answer could have been for me, a kind of bridging between my lifelong reverence and pursuit of reason, and the passion or intuition that I didn't understand in others or myself.

I'm still early into reading the James Legge translation, but I've heard that there are many interpretations of the original. Is the tao of pooh not even close to daoism then?

I've practiced mindfulness and meditation for many years until I found "The Tao of Pooh", which, if you're not familiar, outlines the basic tenets of taoism. It has completely changed me and made me feel whole for the first time in my life, and I don't have to practice anything to achieve it.

Early on in my life I was drawn in by proverbs and other pieces of wisdom, in an attempt to fill in the gaps of what I thought was missing, to fix myself and make me feel whole. Then mindfulness presented itself to me and it gave me a feeling that everything just worked - it was simple and applied to everything; but I couldn't hold onto it. I wanted to just be, and be ok. Non-dual mindfulness felt like the answer to that problem, but while it sounded right in theory, I still felt that it was something I had to achieve or maintain.

When I read The Tao of Pooh, everything clicked for me. I could be myself without trying. My whole life has become open-ended. It also helped me to understand something that always nagged at me - how could some people appear to be mindful from birth, without having read anything about mindfulness? - People who seemed to always grow and learn in a way that upends their nature continually (nature vs. nurture?), while I felt that there was always something I was missing.

The answer(for me) was 2 things -an ability to see myself as whole, despite the capacity for personal growth; -and complete/lazy faith in my intuition.

(Intuition being this kind of thing that everyone is born with - and so in my view, the only thing that could transcend the differences between every living being. The differences in access to teachings, wisdom, philosophies, religion, culture, etc.)

I'm curious if anyone here has felt similar with meditation/mindfulness, or has had experience with both that and taoism and what that journey was like for you.

The answer is obvious - legislate pagination options for all social media. We can't handle it the way we can't handle added sugar in our diets. China is already taking the lead by banning AI from setting prices dynamically.

Why do people use paid password managers when you can just use firefox's?

Yours is the first story I've read that's close to mine. I was sure that I had ENS after because it was so bad that I wanted to die. I told my ENT about my concerns and he said it wouldn't be possible because it was just a 25% reduction in turbinates.

It got better, but now I can't fall asleep if the air temperature isn't just right, and my chest gets really tight when I'm breathing cold air. For me it was worth it overall, but the nonchalant attitude from the ENT specialists is insane.

I wish we just said 'ten-four' etc. instead of 'fourteen' which sounds almost exactly like 'fourty'. Especially over the phone someone could easily mistake one for the other

It seems to me that you can contribute a lot of the toxic behavior on twitter to the lack of nested comments.

How can you ever have a healthier discussion when you can only ever reply directly to a tweet?

It would be great if they let you customize the start menu tiles. All my videogames looked like crap, unless they were from xbox gamepass. It takes a lot of work to use third party tile apps, and you can't even pin a UWP app through it

I don't understand how he takes no meaning out of this. The meaning is clearly that there shouldn't be a gaping hole on the top of a 5 story building that people can access. Or at least that you shouldn't walk around a building you're not familiar with at night.

Anyone who thinks there's no meaning to take from these kind of events is wasting a huge opportunity to learn that small things like a gap in a roof can mean life or death

And he goes back at the end! He feels the fear like he should, looks at the gap and is more concerned that he'll learn the wrong lesson than learning no lesson!

With a 25" wall mount arm attached to the side of the tower, the screen hangs right over my bed. It does take a bit of balancing though depending on the weight of the screen and computer. I've got a 27" monitor on the side with the longer legs, and a large desktop on the opposite side near the ground