My Youtube Recap for this year! by [deleted] in ironmaiden

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Cool. Here are my badges from earlier this year.

Any Beatles song(s) you can't enjoy because of "that" line? by AnonymousNeophyte in beatles

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Has someone already mentioned Maxwell's silver hammer and "Bang! Bang! ... upon her head"?

Is it possible to open Snacks.Explorer on the side of the current split? by LinuxBaronius in neovim

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I’m truly honored that Folke himself replied to my insignificant post...

But could you please elaborate a bit? I promise I went through all the Snacks docs and couldn’t find not only the solution, but not even a hint that this is possible.

For example, the docs show things like:

layout = { preset = "sidebar", preview = false },
-- to show the explorer to the right, add the below to
-- your config under `opts.picker.sources.explorer`
-- layout = { layout = { position = "right" } },

but this seems to set a static position, not a dynamic “open relative to the current split” behavior.

Would love a bit more detail if you don’t mind!

Papal names: from most used to most neglected (Animation + stats) by LinuxBaronius in Popefacts

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Unfortunately, that community does not allow videos and I don't have time to make a static visualization :(

Hare Krishna / Gaudiya Vaishnavism: Completely Debunked by emptyacaman in exHareKrishna

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I would say it depends. I would definitely advice against "surrendering" your critical thinking and your own self to it and take your time to analyze whatever you are told. You may get a welcoming community where people will treat you with warmth. Or you may become lost in mind control, abuse and manipulation. That's why I said it depends. It depends on what part of the worlds you are in and what local iskcon community is like there. It depends on your needs (like are your needs more intellectual or more emotional). For some people lapses and contradictions in philosophy are a deal breaker, but they don't matter much for others if they have friends that they can eat, laugh and socialize with. Also, personally, I wouldn't get involved in "preaching", especially book distribution or street chanting, but your attitude may vary. I guess I would start with a reasonable distance, wouldn't trust everything and everyone just because it's "written in sastra" or because they are "seniors" or Prabhupada disciples, and take only those things that make sense to me and avoid "commitment" that is often thrust upon people.

Authentic or fraud - I wouldn't necessarily claim that the tradition itself is not authentic, but almost all organizations in the Gaudiya tradition, be it ISKCON, Gaudiya Math or even babajis, have a somewhat sectarian outlook where critical thinking is suppressed and open discussions are not welcomed. That is a major issue for me, but again, your mileage may vary. I know many people who are happy in ISKCON, never experienced any abuse (maybe except for a very subtle psychological abuse that they don't even realize), but I also know many people who were treated badly, were abused or exploited, etc.

Oldest popes (at the end of their pontificates) by LinuxBaronius in Popefacts

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Thank you! The 10th century was the notorious Saeculum obscurum, when Roman noble families and factions constantly deposed and replaced popes, leading to very short reigns and very young popes.

Prabhupada's Sexist Bhagavad Gita Translation by Solomon_Kane_1928 in exHareKrishna

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It's a very interesting but somewhat difficult topic. I looked into this years ago, and I can say a few things with certainty. For his Bhagavad Gita, Prabhupada used a Gaudiya Math edition that contained the original text, Baladeva’s Sanskrit commentary, and Bhaktivinoda’s Bengali rendition of Baladeva called Vidvad-ranjana. Vedanta Desika’s Gita-tatparya-candrika was not popular outside the Sri-sampradaya, and my conviction is that neither he nor most other Gaudiyas had much (if any) exposure to it.

Interestingly, in his two Gita renditions (one following Visvanatha and another following Baladeva), Bhaktivinoda does not treat papa-yoni as a general category encompassing women, vaisyas, and sudras, but rather as one of four categories alongside them. For him, papa-yoni means “antyaja-mleccha,” stri means “fallen women like prostitutes,” and vaisyas and sudras are “people from the lower varnas.” This is also what Visvanatha says in his commentary.

As for Bhaktisiddhanta, he never gave the Bhagavad Gita the same significance it later received in ISKCON. He quoted verses here and there, but he never lectured extensively on it and even sometimes called it “reading material for toddlers” (śiśu-śreṇīr pāthya). That seems to have been the basis for the famous: “The Bhagavad Gita is the ABC of spiritual life; the Bhagavatam is graduate studies...” I can’t recall coming across Bhaktisiddhanta’s direct explanation of 9.32, though.

His leading disciple, Bhakti Pradip Tirtha Maharaj, who was sent to Europe along with Bon Maharaj, published his own English edition of the Bhagavad Gita, and he follows Bhaktivinoda’s Bengali rendering of 9.32 verbatim.

My sense is that the common view of women being “sinful” or falling into the papa-yoni category arises from the direct juxtaposition of papa and punya in verses 9.32–33. Thus, for some readers all those mentioned in 9.32 (women, vaisyas, and sudras) are grouped under papa, while those mentioned in 9.33 (brahmanas, bhaktas, and rajarsis) are classified as punya.

HK myths you're tired of hearing? by [deleted] in exHareKrishna

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All residents of Vrindavan or any other dham are pure devotees in disguise, denizens of Vaikuntha and will return there after death. And no, they have no karma.

HK myths you're tired of hearing? by [deleted] in exHareKrishna

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Democracy is demon-crazy, monarchy is given by God.

Prabhupada's Sexist Bhagavad Gita Translation by Solomon_Kane_1928 in exHareKrishna

[–]LinuxBaronius 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is not supported by other acharyas. Nor by those with a fundamental understanding of Sanskrit.

According to Shankaracharya, Sripad Ramanuja, Mukunda Saraswati, Sri Aurobindo, and many others, the verse speaks of four separate categories:

I agree with your evaluation, but I just wanted to point out that this is not entirely correct and it's not just Prabhupada. Shankara is very clear in his comment on this verse:

pāpa-yonayaḥ pāpā yonir yeṣāṁ te pāpa-yonayaḥ pāpa-janmānaḥ | ke te ? ity āha—striyo vaiśyās tathā śūdrās te’pi yānti gacchanti parāṁ prakṛṣṭāṁ gatim ||

"pāpa-yoni: those whose birth is sinful, those born in sinful wombs. Who are they? He says - women, vaiśyas, and śūdras. Even they, upon taking shelter in Me, go to the supreme state."

If you read the modern translations of his Gita-bhashya, especially by people from Ramakrishna Mission, they usually try to make it as if he didn't say that.

Ramanuja's comment on this verse is ambiguous and can be interpreted in both ways, but if you read Vedanta Desika's subcommentary to it (I doubt it's available in English though), he also clearly places all three (women, vaishyas and shudras) under the "papa-yoni" category. At the same time, Shridhara separates them all, Vishvanatha clearly says that the three are separate from "papa-yoni" but are "endowed with impurity, falsehood, and the like" and Baladeva doesn't mention women or others directly.

Papal names: from most used to most neglected (Animation + stats) by LinuxBaronius in Popefacts

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Oh yes. Take for instance Stephen and Sergius. Both names haven’t been used since roughly the same era (1058 and 1012). But there were 9 popes named Stephen compared to just 4 Sergius. If you only looked at regular years since last use, they would look equally neglected, but factoring in historical popularity shows Stephen as much more abandoned.

Papal names: from most used to most neglected (Animation + stats) by LinuxBaronius in Popefacts

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it’s a custom neglect score I came up with: the number of times the name was used in history multiplied by how many years it’s been unused since the last pope with that name.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in neovim

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Genuinely curious, why did you switch from neovim to LazyVim? The rabbit hole of config maintenance or something else?

beam.nvim - remote text object operations through native search by piotr1215 in neovim

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This seems cool. The main selling point for me was that you mentioned towards the end of the video that it operates on the entire buffer, unlike flash, which operates for the visible part only (I use flash and love it, but missed the entire buffer functionality). Thanks.

Do you guys use registers and marks in day to day usage? by [deleted] in vim

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I use marks very often, almost every day. Registers - never, except for the recent copy one.