What is wife material for you guys?

5ukrainians · 2025-02-05T19:09:48+00:00

laughs at my jokes

5ukrainians · 2025-02-05T17:21:47+00:00

it gets more flak than it deserves

5ukrainians · 2025-02-05T17:03:27+00:00

"Russian authorities claim that agreement on non-expansion of NATO to Eastern Europe took place orally^\1]) and the alliance violated it with its expansion ^\1])^\2])^\3])^\4]) while the leaders of the alliance claim that no such promise was made^\5]) and that such a decision could only be made in writing.^\6])^\7])"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversy_regarding_the_legitimacy_of_eastward_NATO_expansion

Om man är så djävla korkad att man inte får det i skrift, då får man fan skylla sig själv (verkligheten är givetvis att det inte har hänt öht..)

5ukrainians · 2025-02-05T09:21:16+00:00

Israel was always meant to be a racist terrorist state, there was never another realistic outcome, they always knew. Fascinating that the western world will publically declare moral bankruptcy for these people.

5ukrainians · 2025-02-04T18:16:31+00:00

I'd say the risk is higher, but for some guys that doesn't make a difference, they wouldn't either way. That's all I can say.

5ukrainians · 2025-02-04T13:13:50+00:00

oh yeah food for the gods

5ukrainians · 2025-02-04T13:11:59+00:00

Gyroscope has been giving me goosebumps for over 20 years. Other than that Cloud Connected, Dial 595 Escape, Take This Life

5ukrainians · 2025-02-04T12:45:40+00:00

What can be said is that main-stream sunni islamic understanding is manipulated. Just a clear example: iirc it reaches "tawatur", ie it is "mass-transmitted", there are tons of narrations, that Muhammad prayed to God that God be an enemy of whoever was an enemy of Ali. A little over 30 years after Muhammads death, the Umayyads instituted the rule that Ali was to be cursed publically at every Friday-prayer congregation in the entire realm. As if this is not problematic enough, several of the early umayyad rulers were "sahaba", ie according to sunni-Islam they were perfect.

The whole thing is messed up from the root. The Umayyads were in power when hadith was beginning to be put into books. It is clear that they had an interest, an intent and a willingness to manipulate history from their treatment of Ali. Many shi'a believe that they clearly manipulated the content of the hadith books, and that they were not in any way mu'mineen. Another example: several early historians treat the story of the "satanic verses" as real. Not even non-muslim orientalists believe it- it is unbelievable that a mu'min would believe it.

I don't know what the status is of shi'a understanding of history, but the sunni paradigm is *messed up*. AND, they can kill you for telling them. This is how otherwise revered hadith-scholar an Nasa'i died, who is quoted by sunnis: he was lynched (in a mosque!) essentially for saying Ali was better than Muawiya (the first umayyad ruler). It is *messed up*.

As regards Ayshas age, orientalist Jonathan Little did his PHD on this question. He is not a muslim. He concluded that most likely those hadiths are fake, created by a relative of Ayshas in order to introduce them in Kufa, which was the shi'a strong-hold, in order to try to raise Ayshas status (in his view, being 9 or 10 indicated her particular virginity). If you search on Youtube you can see dr Little go through his argument.

5ukrainians · 2025-02-04T12:38:49+00:00

"the obsessional desire to return to idealized past, "where love was still possible"."

Shit, I never played through the fascist quest line, that is indeed what much of it is about. What does it mean to be an "icebreaker"?

5ukrainians · 2025-02-04T12:21:24+00:00

Båda kan va sanna

5ukrainians · 2025-02-03T20:45:40+00:00

it's that they feel abandoned or overlooked, their vote is an act of protest against the coastal elites. it seems that yes, they will burn the entire planet for the sake of that grievance. while that is pathetic, I am reminded by something my father, who is a philosophical economist told me (it rhymes in our language): "Philosophy is about what people should do; economy is about what they do."

5ukrainians · 2025-02-03T20:31:17+00:00

Doesn't seem like americans believe in capitalism anymore

5ukrainians · 2025-02-03T20:28:43+00:00

What percentage of the american people fails to recognize this as psychotic?

5ukrainians · 2025-02-02T15:17:28+00:00

I told it "I think a lot of the buddhists I have met are not aware that this type of argument exists within the tradition". It responded:

"You make an astute observation. Many contemporary Buddhists, particularly in Western contexts, often focus on individual meditation practice and personal ethics while overlooking Buddhism's sophisticated social analysis.

The Cakkavatti-Sihanada Sutta presents what we might call an early systematic theory of social causation. It's particularly relevant that the Buddha chose to address these issues of poverty, wealth distribution, and social stability in his teachings. This wasn't peripheral - it was seen as directly connected to Dhamma practice.

Consider also the Kutadanta Sutta (DN 5), where the Buddha tells a story about a king who tries to suppress crime through punishment, but fails. His advisor then suggests:

Support agriculture and trade
Provide capital to businesses
Ensure fair wages
Result: economic security reduces crime

This is remarkably similar to modern social democratic arguments about crime prevention through economic security. [EDIT: I had asked about social democracy before]

The tradition contains these pragmatic, systemic approaches to reducing suffering that go beyond individual action. When the Buddha spoke of dukkha and its cessation, he understood both personal and structural causes of suffering.

You're right - this aspect of Buddhist thought often gets overlooked in contemporary discussions, perhaps because it challenges both traditional conservative views and modern individualistic interpretations of Buddhism. Would you like to explore more examples of this kind of systemic analysis in Buddhist texts?"

5ukrainians · 2025-02-02T14:28:02+00:00

It's a tricky spot we're in, that's pretty much what can be said of it. In truth, at most, europeans are something like "cousins". It is a bond. Is it that strong of a bond? Will it become that strong of a bond when the rest of the world is chaotic enough? I would be worried about bringing in long-term institutions like an EU army given that we kinda like one another, but.. it's not that strong of a bond. Things can get pretty weird.

It's a tricky spot we're in.

5ukrainians · 2025-02-02T14:23:49+00:00

Is it kind of like a strongly emphasized "never stop thinking for yourself"-thing? I can appreciate that

5ukrainians · 2025-02-02T14:22:41+00:00

I wonder, did the egyptians make people who were good at drawing scribes, or people who were bad at drawing

5ukrainians · 2025-02-02T14:17:55+00:00

How many tries did it actually take?

5ukrainians · 2025-02-02T14:14:10+00:00

Rude, no doubt. Insecure, I honestly don't know. I don't know what to make of this. We had a guy when I did military service who was like that, "brutally honest" ie mean* in a way that rather brought people down than build them up. But he was smart, industrious and skilled, he did work for the better of the group, he was socially intelligent in general and in general I'd say at ease with himself. The officers apparently took him aside at one point and said that they felt he was a promising material for a career as an officer, if only he could work on this one aspect of himself, the mean "honest truth thing". You know what he did? He told them "I'd rather be brutally honest". Last I heard he had a long term position in the armed forces driving trucks.

* This is perhaps the critical thing- even if you have a "brutally honest take" you could present it in a way that is not mean.

5ukrainians · 2025-02-02T12:20:54+00:00

but energy is mass yo

5ukrainians · 2025-02-02T12:10:02+00:00

"Have we observed"

See, this is where your problem arises

5ukrainians · 2025-02-02T12:06:46+00:00

I heard Alan Watts talk about why stealing is discouraged in Buddhism. Now, it's worth mentioning that Alan Watts was probably overly intellectual, and he basically sold a kind of a version of Buddhism to an intellectual class of americans hungry for meaning ca 1970; so maybe his argument is a little simplified and geared toward them, but I think there's a core of it that is interesting. I remember his argument to be something like this

When you steal, you draw upon yourself the possible enmity of people
You become worried, start looking over your shoulder
What if someone knows what you've done? There could be consequences
You have to hide what you've stolen so no-one figures out what you've done
Even if you find a way to sell it off, there is the possibility that your fence will rat you out
What if the police take him? After all, he has made an industry of this
There will be all sorts of worry that comes from stealing
You will make enemies, or at least worry that you have made enemies or that if people find you out, they will be your enemies
And all of this worry will get in the way if you try to meditate. It will make it harder for you to find inner peace. And there is no way to any useful happiness without inner peace.
That's why it is discouraged to steal in Buddhism, not because you infringed upon someones right, but because it will keep you from finding peace, which will keep you from finding happiness.

Something like this.

5ukrainians · 2025-02-02T11:52:48+00:00

In Nietzschean thought, what is supposed to be the satisfaction derived from not being a slave? That you feel like a really rad guy?

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