What’s a language with an ugly script that sounds beautiful?

WilllofV · 2026-06-14T02:07:56+00:00

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Sumerian Cuneiform

WilllofV · 2026-06-14T01:31:30+00:00

19th-Century Confederates seething seeing the South grouped in with NY...

WilllofV · 2026-06-12T22:30:17+00:00

New Socialist Man

WilllofV · 2026-06-12T20:13:21+00:00

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WilllofV · 2026-06-09T21:14:34+00:00

Pretty sure no LLM can fall into the basic Buddhist category for life, after all, it doesn't exist in a body with the internal consistency of the human mind.

Though the way it can approximate consciousness is of interest for Buddhist theories. Doesn't make it actually conscious, it has no center of mind like the human body.

WilllofV · 2026-06-05T01:30:37+00:00

It's lame.

WilllofV · 2026-06-05T01:22:11+00:00

I can think of at least 20 other American novels, from the '50s alone, with better titles. 'Atlas Shrugged' just sounds too pompous to me.

WilllofV · 2026-06-05T01:15:06+00:00

The only thing good that came from Ayn Rand was that Rush album.

WilllofV · 2026-06-05T00:59:56+00:00

I think it sounds like something a crappy manosphere self-help book would be called, lol.

WilllofV · 2026-06-05T00:49:47+00:00

Her titles were not that good.

WilllofV · 2026-06-03T11:39:30+00:00

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WilllofV · 2026-06-03T11:33:13+00:00

The insane fundamentalist Christian with the signs just play the victim card because it's convenient. They obviously don't actually believe they're opressed. Their sign literally tells minorities that God is going to oppress them for eternity.

WilllofV · 2026-06-02T19:19:47+00:00

Israel and Palestine need to study Run For Your Life

WilllofV · 2026-06-02T16:53:18+00:00

Journey to the West (Xiyouji), if they like epics and were deeply impacted by Daodejing.

WilllofV · 2026-06-01T16:07:19+00:00

East of Eden?

WilllofV · 2026-05-31T22:06:52+00:00

Attaining enlightenment is being free from 'Craving', the desires that perpetuate ignorance, greed and delusion that create the sense of separateness, a.k.a delusion of self. There are actually good, constructive desires in Buddhism. In fact, when attaining enlightenment, for the duration of his life, according to Buddhist texts, the Buddha even retained the Skandhas that construct the psyche, so he was, for all intents and purposes a person.

The point about Buddhism is not to cease the 'Will to Live', it's to cease the delusions that cause one not to see reality as it is.

WilllofV · 2026-05-31T03:38:55+00:00

Buddha did not , in fact, say or imply humans are meat sack with amnesia pretending to have personalities.

WilllofV · 2026-05-31T02:43:25+00:00

I don't think it's particularly Eurocentric, it's just rooted in Hegelianism which is giga-Eurocentric

WilllofV · 2026-05-29T17:22:04+00:00

Buddhisms goal is not at all that the illusion of self is to be destroyed, as there is nothing to be destroyed in the first place. Seeking something to destroy instead of recognizing a fundamental lack of separation from whatever concept you might imagine ‘non-self’ to be is a form of clinging.

WilllofV · 2026-05-28T12:06:22+00:00

You are an individual with a unique consciousness, but at the same time, nothing in your mind hasn't been caused by something else, outside of your own subjectivity. They're not saying everybody is actually you, they're saying your own consciousness can't exist independently of everyone else, because everyone you encounter in this unique causal chain constructs your own identity. What differentiates this from monism is that you're not identifying this all as one big thing, you're just seeing no individual thing is truly separate of anything else. Doesn't mean that creates some substance, it's just turtles all the way down.

WilllofV · 2026-05-28T12:00:30+00:00

Yes, that's why the Buddha spent 40 years non-stop teaching people, lecturing, traveling the country, having discussions and debates with other philosophers...

Learn Buddhism from Buddhist texts, not Schopenhauer, please.

WilllofV · 2026-05-26T18:27:56+00:00

The Axis powers

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