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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Florida becomes second state to ban adding fluoride to drinking water⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
I like the idea. And if you want fluoride you can buy it in a red bull or whatever.

I don’t trust the gov an inch. You?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everybody here is subject to scrutiny and debate except the mods, who are arguably those most in need of scrutinizing and debating.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Address my actual point
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everybody here is subject to scrutiny and debate except the mods, who are arguably those most in need of scrutinizing and debating.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
You know as well as I that moderators are not named in the modlog.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everybody here is subject to scrutiny and debate except the mods, who are arguably those most in need of scrutinizing and debating.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Nobody will offer an actual argument. It’s weird
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everybody here is subject to scrutiny and debate except the mods, who are arguably those most in need of scrutinizing and debating.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Moderators are not named in the modlog. Thus anonymous.

We already have a mechanism for debating things, it’s called Lemmy. No conversations with “admins” necessary.

Offer a real argument.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everybody here is subject to scrutiny and debate except the mods, who are arguably those most in need of scrutinizing and debating.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Address the point
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everybody here is subject to scrutiny and debate except the mods, who are arguably those most in need of scrutinizing and debating.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Address the point.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everybody here is subject to scrutiny and debate except the mods, who are arguably those most in need of scrutinizing and debating.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
No. Their action is anonymous. Thus no scrutiny.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everybody here is subject to scrutiny and debate except the mods, who are arguably those most in need of scrutinizing and debating.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Specifically.

Moderator action is anonymous.

Moderator action is not subject to public debate.

Moderator action history is not visible.
Everybody here is subject to scrutiny and debate except the mods, who are arguably those most in need of scrutinizing and debating.
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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wonder if antivax kids are OK getting a cootie shot?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
(from the modlog) reasor: Foolish + misinformation

I guess the mod didn’t like what I was saying.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wonder if antivax kids are OK getting a cootie shot?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
They mods censored me.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Todays touchscreen UI's are so forcefed with slide-options, widgets, AI assistants, popup UI's and auto- correct/translate...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I think that the UI designers aren’t clear on what exactly they are designing.

A good ui has like 5 branches at every node of the tree.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wonder if antivax kids are OK getting a cootie shot?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
About the vax.

When did pharma companies become our trusted friends?

Ditto the government.

Am I the only one alarmed that almost literally everybody swallowed the official narrative hook, line and sinker?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Todays touchscreen UI's are so forcefed with slide-options, widgets, AI assistants, popup UI's and auto- correct/translate...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
What’s the contraction of “UI is”?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meditation is like drugs but better⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
That is a decidedly uncool reply.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meditation is like drugs but better⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Yes scant and born of conventional thought. You talk like a guy who just finished reading a pop-psychology book on meditation.

And your retort consists of “well no kidding” (so we agree, right?) and “it isn’t a grand cosmic revelation” (which I didn’t say).

Look, if your reality consists of what you see, deliniated by what you don’t see, and attention draws that line, then yes, I’d say that “axis of reality” characterizes that nicely.

And if your attention is bound by, say, a thousand habits, and meditation removes those habits, replacing them with intelligent action, then yes, “wings” fits nicely too.

As for the difference between drugs and meditation. You are splitting hairs. I’d call the one splashing on the shore and the other going for a swim. Same ocean tho.

But you think I’m overstating it and my metaphors are overblown, well, that’s just your opinion.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meditation is like drugs but better⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Meh. Your view is born of merely conventional thought and scant experience.

Here’s better.

Meditation is a thing that you do with your attention (aka awareness, sati… depending on who you talk to).

By attention I mean what you direct when you pay attention, what do you concentrate when you concentrate and what gets jerked around when you are distracted.

Attention is the axis of your reality. Its action determines what is visible and invisible, what is important and unimportant. Its shape determines your perspective.

We basically have 2 forms of meditation. 1) a refined form of concentration 2) sortof the opposite.

Drugs influence the attention via the flesh. Like a rough road bounces the driver by bouncing the car.

Meditation addresses the attention directly.

Drugs are limited the way any device is limited. It is crude the way any dumb machine is crude. It is weak as all dumb things are weak. Weak borroed wings

Meditation is not limited this way. Meditation shows you your own wings and then you pump up those wings and make them strong.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meditation is like drugs but better⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Gimme your better explanation please.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meditation is like drugs but better⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Elevated mood combined with strange perceptions.

Or, to explain by example. You ever used weed, cocaine or shrooms? It’s in that general vicinity.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meditation is like drugs but better⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
To the passenger it’s all about the exotic destination. To the pilot it’s a whole world of weather, physics, mechanics, skill and discipline. That’s a big difference.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meditation is like drugs but better⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
The smile at the end makes all the difference.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meditation is like drugs but better⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I think that people who have experience with drugs are good candidates for learning meditation. Autists, spergs and ADHDers too.

Drugs are like an airplane ride to an exotic destination. Meditation is like getting a pilot’s license.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meditation is like drugs but better⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Well it gets me high. It’s a standard result of meditating.

And yes, drugs, like meditation, alter your awareness. Not saying they do it exactly the same way but yes, the same stuff, altered.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meditation is like drugs but better⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Well meditation gets me high.

Well meditation, like drugs, alters your awareness.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meditation is like drugs but better⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I’ve been meditating for a while. And I’ve done a variety of drugs. So I speak from experience.

Meditatation, like drugs, gets you high and changes your perceptions.

Meditation, unlike drugs, takes effort and practice. It’s also way way smoother. And there’s no ceiling.

And here’s a thing. Consider the act of concentrating your attention. The control, clarity and depth if perception that it brings. It’s something that we all use. Every scientist, engineer and artist uses concentration as his main tool, without which none of that would be possible. Concentration is the backbone of our culture.

One meditation technique (we basically have 2) takes that further. It takes that awesome power of concentration to very deep and strange places. Magical even. But still, it’s just that same old familiar magic that we all depend on, just taken further.

And then there is another meditation technique too.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meditation is like drugs but better⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Meditation doesn’t get you high?

Drugs don’t alter your awareness?
Meditation is like drugs but better
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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We are the aliens. We alternate ten-thousand years in the dreamworld with 80 years here. And spend every moment here homesick, trying to turn the material world into the dreamworld.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I’d hesitate to draw a firm line between them.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We are the aliens. We alternate ten-thousand years in the dreamworld with 80 years here. And spend every moment here homesick, trying to turn the material world into the dreamworld.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
We clearly shower differently.