mkrazzledazzle

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Comment · 5 years ago
So what? This news reads to the rest of the world as.. Europeans squabbling between each other as to who amongst them first visited a continent they'd previously not known about, already brimming with other populations of humans. End of story. It's 2021 folks, no one cares about eurocentric land grab claims.
Comment · 5 years ago
Again, this is another instance of the descending world's needless doom and gloom portrayal of nations of the ascending world. India's human scale is enormous, while the case rates have been increasing at an alarming rate, India has the pharmaceutical infrastructure to deploy vaccines in billions scale. The Serum institute of india has been the world's largest producer of vaccines and has selflessly helped out countries like brazil during their worst times.

All this when some nations have imposed strict restrictions on the export of raw materials for producing vaccines, their own infra crumbling, selfishly procuring 10x the number of vaccines than necessary etc.,

Ok. We get it, Sure.

Comment · 5 years ago
Interesting, how did it just end up in the british library? Why is there an aspect of romanticization to the fact that it is in a british library? Why isn't it in a library in indonesia? Let me guess..if it were not for the british having looted it with the express purpose of "preservation", the world would not have come to know about this.
Comment · 5 years ago
How is it fair to pick up/completely ignore published experiential observations, in continued practice for millennia from another culture elsewhere in the world, conduct a/b tests and publish results without credit? I'm pretty sure the western world is going to continue swindling wellness techniques/practices from ancient texts, quickly run half-baked experiments, cherry pick data to suit a result and "publish" findings.

When these techniques were in development, in the golden era for spirituality, most of the rest of the world were still hunter-gatherers. Empirical rigor was just not a thing.

It's a question of providing due credit for those who developed and practice these techniques as a way of life. If not share some of the capitalistic spoils in the billions from delivering stress relief(meditation based content) through shiny, addictive apps (Yes, meditation apps can be addictive! Surprise! i.e, Headspace, Calm), At least provide credit where it's due.

Comment · 5 years ago
This was discovered thousands of years ago in the east(indian subcontinent) by meditation practitioners(i.e Buddha, Mahavira etc) solely through thousands of hours of practice and self-realization. These have been codified into various texts which form a major part of vipassana teachings.

Interesting how scientists in the west either conveniently pick up the theory, conduct some a/b tests and publish them as new discoveries without credit. Even if they had arrived on these conclusions, independently on their own, it's important to understand the mind boggling amount of progress in psychology, neuroscience that was made with the limited knowledge of scientific rigor in the east thousands of years ago.

Comment · 6 years ago
Bruh you just don’t get how funding works
Comment · 7 years ago
EVM with Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail(VVPAT). Worked in India, at scale.
Comment · 7 years ago
Cult Commandments

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