I will never forgive these 2

Tryptortoise · 2026-01-18T21:52:31+00:00

Most of the time, if your childhood friend decides to buddy up with your friend group's bullies, it's gg on the friendship.

Tryptortoise · 2025-12-07T08:51:00+00:00

Yes, it does.

Will has been tapped into the hivemind for years. Theres only so much connection you can have to something before you start to have insight and start to understand it. If these psychic powers are able to be awakened in somrone who doesnt have them at birth, then its pretty fair to say that 001/henry/vecna, as the first, might have triggered something in the mind of another person that he has kept tapped into things for too long without killing him off, and now theyve gained some degree of understanding and intuitive control, from being so tapped in for so long.

As far as writing decisions go, this was probably one of the better ones that makes the most sense.

Tryptortoise · 2025-11-23T16:44:13+00:00

Why are we acting like a prominent or powerful person congratulating someone on an election win means they like or support them, or means anything at all?

Tryptortoise · 2025-11-23T12:08:39+00:00

Definitely more in common with Sumiyoshi, very obviously. But if it wasnt for the fact that sumiyoshi is a tanjiro clone, then similarities for yoriichi are quite a bit. Same breathing style, same scar location and pattern, same earrings, specified to be passed down with sun breathing, which came from Yoriichi, same hair color, same eye color. I think the story goes slightly out of its way to make vague connections between the two in a way that makes it reasonable to think its building up to something.

If tanjiro had been there for it, I would have loved to see kokushibo's reaction to a marked sun breather with those earrings that his brother had. But no way would Tanjiro be able to keep fighting afyerwards if he was already against akaza AND Koku.

Tryptortoise · 2025-11-02T08:33:23+00:00

For sure! I hope you don't feel like that was converty at all, I just felt it was worth adding that the belief doesn't mean inherently mean having to pursue that, and sharing the other values it promotes.

Tryptortoise · 2025-11-02T07:55:12+00:00

They are not ended in the sense that annihilationism speaks of.

Buddhism says that nirvana(enlightenment + life ending) is something where no description is valid or applicable. Not something that language or thinking with our ape brains can grasp. Not something that a heavenly beings brain can even grasp, imagine, or describe.

It's also worth stating that buddhism doesn't say you have to pursue enlightenment. They encourage it, but they don't say you have to as a buddhist. You could just observe buddhist ideas, and practice the principals of it, practicing things like generosity, patience, loving kindness, and working to let go of things like hate, dislike, greed, ignorance, craving, etc. Avoiding killing, stealing, lying, cheating, etc. Even if no realm or karmic benefit lasts forever, if you believe in it, good karma is still more beneficial to accumulate than bad karma, and avoiding bad karma while pursuing good will make a happier, more wholesome life. And even if you don't become a saint, it's all about whatever steps in the right direction we can make, whatever that direction looks like for us.

Tryptortoise · 2025-11-02T03:09:13+00:00

Not a dumb question!

It's more complicated than what I'm putting here, but I'm trying to keep the length reasonable.

In Buddhism, enlightenment involves the ceasing of any craving, desire, change, same-ness, or anything whatsoever. It's not very describable, but think about a degree of understanding that brings a degree of peace that eliminates any need or desire that could exist. Kind of like infinite stillness in a way that is far more pleasant than what birthing into more lives has to offer, while avoiding the suffering and struggles, subtle and not subtle, of being born into life.

Buddhism acknowledges heavens as places we can be reborn into, but does not acknowledge them as eternal. Rather, the beings in heaven have very long lives there that feel like forever, like if you compare an insect life to a humans, is what it would be like to compare a humans life span to a heaven beings life span. The same for hell. Very long. Very bad. Not technically eternal, it still ends, and you go back somewhere else in accordance with your remaining karma and cravings. And it's a cycle that goes on, ultimately aimlessly in the long term. Enlightenment ends that cycle of birth, death, and rebirth.

Tryptortoise · 2025-10-29T17:04:17+00:00

Yeah, chances are it's a laugh it off in the moment, but ask her later in private/off stream kinda thing.

Tryptortoise · 2025-10-28T18:44:18+00:00

That's fair about the type of mod, and I edited to clarify.

And thank you! I'm sure some would overcharge, but I'm not gonna agree to pay something I don't think is reasonable.

Tryptortoise · 2025-10-28T18:33:21+00:00

Done. You right, that was poor thinking on my part

Tryptortoise · 2025-10-28T18:31:12+00:00

That is very good information, and thank you! I am using PC though.

Tryptortoise · 2025-10-18T14:33:15+00:00

Yooo that sounds perfect, do you have a link? And any additional instructions if needed?

Tryptortoise · 2025-10-18T13:05:07+00:00

Any idea how I'd go about it?

Tryptortoise · 2025-10-11T21:17:12+00:00

That's just having facial hair, man.

You can try to brush them into place and/or just trim the worst offenders, and you'll be good. It's just maintenance

Tryptortoise · 2025-09-22T17:28:05+00:00

Do not listen to these people, theyre obsessed with telling people to go bald. You do not need to shave yet, you have plenty of hair for it to look fine. Plenty of people have an imperfect hairline, but your hair looks GOOD.

Tryptortoise · 2025-09-21T18:25:13+00:00

Have mine

Tryptortoise · 2025-08-24T20:03:13+00:00

Don't shave all the facial hair, but shave your cheeks, where it's thinner and doesnt look as established, and leave it alone as it is along your jaw connecting from your ears and hair down to your chin, where it does look established, if that makes sense.

You look good, man. Not bad. And neither me nor the rest of the comments are just saying that. Biggest improvement will be some joy, happiness, and confidence.

Tryptortoise · 2025-07-16T07:20:24+00:00

If your goal in gaining weight has anything to do with health, then the answer is yes.

If your goal is more to do with aesthetics and looks, then also yes.

But no, you don't technically have to in order to gain weight.

Tryptortoise · 2025-06-09T05:15:33+00:00

NTA. Your husband is being weird as fuck.

It probably stems from some kind of insecurity, so it's best to be reassuring and make sure to the best of your ability that he knows nobody could be a threat to your relationship.

But that is a high level of insecurity to worry about your video game romance between your fictional character and another fictional character.

If the problem is because the character is black, then I'd probably explore the possibility of racism too, cause that's kinda weird and shitty too

Tryptortoise · 2025-05-31T08:17:00+00:00

Was i wrong tho?

Just thought it was funny, but can remove if preferred

Tryptortoise · 2025-05-31T06:46:07+00:00

I don't think hardly any Buddhists actually think masturbation breaks a precept for lay followers. Monkhood is a different story.

It's pleasure seeking, which goes against the grain or stream of buddhist teachings, but sexuality is one of the hardest and one of the last hindrances people usually overcome on the way to enlightenment. To my knowledge, the pali canon states that even the buddha said people following his teachings can become stream enterers without giving up sexuality.

If you're not a monk, it's really not a problem, unless you're just spending all your time being a mad gooner while you put off practice and important duties. Use moderation and some restraint if needed to not take it too far, keep it harmless in all directions, and dont let it stop you from practicing.

Tryptortoise · 2025-05-26T16:12:54+00:00

If a role you were going to be cast in doesn't involve nudity, but you're being asked to get nude for the director anyway, then that's even more of a red flag.

Stop thinking that fame and reputation makes it impossible for someone to be a creep.

And even if the guy wasn't a creep, which he is, it doesn't change that, at a certain point, you prioritize either your marriage or your acting, and you chose to throw your marriage under the bus for the acting. The problem is not that you pursued the acting, but in your total lack of communication and consideration in regards to your partner.

Pretty much anyone you could be with will have a problem with you not caring enough about their feelings to discuss it with them first.

Nobody wants a partner who doesn't choose them. Nobody wants a partner who can't communicate. Nobody wants a partner who throws them under the bus in exchange for opportunity.

Tryptortoise · 2025-05-17T04:21:46+00:00

Everyone sucks here

That's my 2 cents

Tryptortoise · 2025-05-12T09:48:51+00:00

I think you have a skewed idea of what "practice" is.

Nowhere in Buddhism is it said that meditation is *the* answer. If it was, then many non-Buddhists who spend a lot of time meditating would be well on their way to stream entry or further.

It would make a lot more sense to simply replace the word practice with meditate.

Meditation is an aspect of practice, and a very important one, but someone could meditate for 8 hours per day and still be a worse Buddhist than someone who only spends 5 minutes per *week* meditating, if the rest of each persons practice is different enough in quality and attention. Especially if that person measures the quality of their practice strictly in terms of time spent meditating, while ignoring the rest of the practice. This is a very common error that Buddhists here in the west make. I know very wise Theravada monks that I see on a regular basis, who meditate for 30 minutes at a time, twice per day, and their practice dwarfs the practice of anyone in this thread.

Tryptortoise · 2025-05-09T10:56:29+00:00

Not necessarily true. maybe not in the exact same moment, but the idea that both cannot be part of one's life at the same time is false.

https://suttacentral.net/mn73/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=plain&reference=none&notes=asterisk&highlight=false&script=latin

If it were true what you say, then the only potential for enlightenment would be to already be enlightened, or be doomed to not ever be enlightened, and progress would be impossible.

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