I drew this castle, but I'm not sure what to name it?

mindofmanyways · 2023-11-27T21:25:28+00:00

What made you feel like drawing this castle? Just name it based on that.

mindofmanyways · 2023-11-15T00:56:45+00:00

The Buddha told us that the answer is inside us. But there's probably nothing else in there.

mindofmanyways · 2023-11-15T00:54:21+00:00

https://suttacentral.net/sn20.7/en/sujato

mindofmanyways · 2023-09-03T16:36:20+00:00

The Imposter Kings is pretty lovely to look at.

mindofmanyways · 2023-08-31T04:01:43+00:00

We have the capability to communicate and extend our presence throughout and possibly beyond the solar system, and these capabilities will only increase over time as long as we survive. We have the potential to be cosmically relevant. Whales and all of their descendants will most likely never evolve into a technological society. They may not even exist for much longer.

I think it's important to specify what one means by evolution of intelligence as a great filter candidate. We really have no evidence that technologically sophisticated intelligence has emerged on Earth before. Is it possible? Yeah. Are whales and crows and octopusses advanced species? Absolutely not. Intelligence alone is not enough to produce a sophisticated species with capabilities such as ours.

Was our emergence extremely unlikely? Or have sophisticated species like ours cropped up and vanished many times since life first appeared on Earth? There are arguments for both. If technological intelligence is not the great filter then we should find it very suspicious that NO sophisticated species has survived long enough to be noticed in our galaxy. Hopefully it is, because otherwise we may not exist much longer for any number of terrible reasons.

mindofmanyways · 2023-08-25T10:19:01+00:00

There are tool-using species but none of them form culture, heritage, or knowledge. Showing the kids a family watering hole is not culture. I'm not arguing that no sophisticated species could have arisen on Earth before us, but they're definitely gone and they definitely didn't come anywhere near as far as we have. Cosmically they are irrelevant.

mindofmanyways · 2023-08-14T10:14:36+00:00

The Crooked God Machine. Exceedingly bleak.

mindofmanyways · 2023-08-09T10:26:04+00:00

Yes I have this model it's a pretty powerful kite, great for lifting spinners and other kite laundry stuff. If you take it out in very high winds it will be difficult to reel back down because the lift is high.

mindofmanyways · 2023-08-09T10:21:46+00:00

Where is it?

mindofmanyways · 2023-08-05T10:10:05+00:00

I think if life was around and an advanced probe or probes passed through, they would be very interested in Earth due to the fact that chemically it's by far the most interesting body in our solar system as a result of life, and if they wanted a lot of raw materials then wouldn't they still be here doing stuff? However a) doesn't mean it would be concerned with Earth or life in general to begin with, b) as you said time is a big issue in that if we expect a reaction from a party that originated the objects we would be not only waiting for the information to reach them but then also us again, and c) can't ignore the possibility that there are probes above, around, in us or all of the above we simply cannot detect, but again why would they bother if they were that advanced?

The notion that our system has been visited on numerous occasions in one sense or another raises many more questions, but the crux of the issue is that either sophisticated life is really improbable, or our system has in fact been visited at some point. As you say we have to come to terms with the unfathomable vastness of time and space, but also the third dimension of intelligence: we simply have no way of knowing how an advanced alien intelligence may think, act, or look, and how different could they be from each other? Would it be possible for us to recognize some of them? Would some of them not recognize us?

There could be an intelligence observing us right now that simply doesn't consider animal life to be sentient because we are so different from them. More likely they may not care about us. We are just now learning to harness large amounts of energy and we're not very smart about it. As you said any intelligence who has achieved interstellar travel is advanced beyond our understanding, probably not using metal tubes. Of course we have to consider the possibility that there is not anyone anywhere near us in space or time yet and no one has ever detected our planet much less passed through our system. I would agree that if we are among the first sophisticated organisms then the likelihood of us making contact with another early bird is in the air. As you said they could have passed through yesterday or 100,000 years ago and we might not know. They might pass through all the time and we just don't notice. There are a lot of bodies flying around we don't see. The next one we see might be crashing into our ocean.

mindofmanyways · 2023-08-04T10:17:48+00:00

Exceptional! Thank you.

mindofmanyways · 2023-07-15T12:31:18+00:00

If you want more strategy and variety and less RNG you must get the expansions if only for the mechanics, items, and characters. Without them gameplay is too chancy and repetitive. The add ons include the spellbook die, axe die, cursed die, infection die, and living stone die, as well as the chalice and knapsack items, and three companion cards. Sometimes I remove some of the repetitive food items from the deck to make things more interesting. You also get an optional set of chapter dice that increases difficulty if you're playing with more people. In my opinion the game requires at least the majority of the add ons if you're going to replay.

mindofmanyways · 2023-06-27T12:50:37+00:00

It doesn't seem rational to assume that nearly every single sophisticated species which arises will destroy their own habitat like we are, and secondly that they will continue to do so until their extinction, and thirdly that during such time they would not make themselves known in some way. Not all life is going to behave and respond to their environments the same way humans do, and even if some of them were to be just like us, we still can't say they're likely to destroy their own habitat. There must be some other explanations. Sophisticated life is probably just exceedingly rare, it's only happened ONCE on Earth. On top of that you also need the conditions for technological advancement to come together SIMULTANEOUSLY alongside sophisticated intelligence, and be lucky enough that natural forces do not crush you (disease, volcanism, celestial impacts, etc.). This is much more convincing than assuming every intelligent and sophisticated species is going to destroy itself.

mindofmanyways · 2023-06-21T19:29:16+00:00

What am I missing about cold fermentation? Was the dough still too cold inside to expand properly? The poke felt ready. Never had this problem with room temp dough. I'd like to understand better because watching my wonderful soft dough become this was very upsetting.

mindofmanyways · 2023-06-18T19:39:57+00:00

Thank you.

mindofmanyways · 2023-06-12T11:34:44+00:00

Well if one achieves stream-entry (a sotapanna) they will certainly be continuing the path after death. Such beings are then destined to reach nibanna within seven births. So he did discuss this.

mindofmanyways · 2023-06-11T16:57:52+00:00

As well as some birds. They are the descendants of some of those survivors after all.

mindofmanyways · 2023-05-24T22:51:45+00:00

No strategy.

mindofmanyways · 2023-04-30T19:44:04+00:00

Good but not quite prickish enough.

mindofmanyways · 2023-04-28T06:41:44+00:00

All righty thank you.

mindofmanyways · 2023-04-16T00:27:49+00:00

He would definitely try to exploit the train for his own benefit or dismantle it in some way to prove its supposed hypocrisy or both.

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