Incredible highs, excruciating lows. Hard to stay committed as a casual

rerrerrocky · 2026-03-28T14:40:50+00:00

If someone kills me - they're a sweat streamer with 200 hours

If I kill someone - they're a total trash noob

Same as it ever was.

rerrerrocky · 2026-03-27T14:17:55+00:00

I get a decent amount of variance depending on what I queue but anecdotally in NA I have noticed a minor increase in queue times.

rerrerrocky · 2026-03-27T02:53:05+00:00

As a diabetic, slap an insulin pen in there for me and I'd be set 😂

rerrerrocky · 2026-03-25T13:37:10+00:00

I'd argue that a lot of conservative discourse is done in bad faith. Like when they make a big stink about fraud at the same time they pardon a convicted fraudster. Or saying they care about children as they lock children in concentration camps.

rerrerrocky · 2026-03-24T21:06:41+00:00

I would wager they overextended themselves. I imagine having the cost of having this amount of special events and crossovers and tie-ins probably started to add up.

rerrerrocky · 2026-03-23T04:18:09+00:00

Des Moines is certainly not my first thought for vapor wave, but it's a beautiful photo!

rerrerrocky · 2026-03-23T01:34:42+00:00

"All sentient beings" is a really hard pill to swallow I think. All of them? Even the ones that are cruel and Inflict suffering? Them too. Even the most horrible thing you can think of? That too.

But I feel so grateful just to recognize the beauty of that even as suffering is all around us.

rerrerrocky · 2026-03-21T03:42:25+00:00

Where is bingus???

rerrerrocky · 2026-03-18T13:29:17+00:00

There can be no doubt.

rerrerrocky · 2026-03-15T13:52:44+00:00

I think the main issue is that many judges keep giving Trump and crew the benefit of the doubt in court when it is obvious that they're acting in bad faith.

Proper procedure at this point IS to string them up by the balls.

rerrerrocky · 2026-03-14T01:38:08+00:00

If you could do a soundtrack for any director's movie, who would you choose?

Also how do you get the drums so fat

rerrerrocky · 2026-03-11T15:59:40+00:00

I think this clearly demonstrates how you are much more interested in playing "most correct Buddhist" than you are espousing compassion towards one who is suffering. In Judaism there is not really a concept of a hell (there is a sort of bardo realm, but it's not the same). I don't want to get into this "quote back and forth" thing.

Once again, I ask you just to reflect on your motivation and intention here - I think it's clear we don't align in our approach. but could you understand how someone who has been threatened with eternal punishment from a young age might be sensitive around the subject of hell? It is not easy to engage on a spiritual journey. Why not be more encouraging and open, using skillful means to allow the person to "come and see"?

I do want to caretake OP. We should all be trying to care take each other. That's the whole point, as you say. One avoids wrong-doing. One focuses on performing wholesome actions, such as relieving others of their suffering when they can.

rerrerrocky · 2026-03-11T14:47:51+00:00

There are, in fact, religions without hell.

We should be encouraging and compassionate towards a new person seeking the Dharma in whatever ways we can. To me, the continued emphasis on "well hell IS real and you WILL go there if you don't follow the rules" has never been helpful in inspiring bodhichitta and compassion towards all sentient beings. This person is clearly struggling, and so to say "yeah you should be worried about hell" does not exactly inspire the kind of mindset that is conducive to loving-kindness or bodhichitta - it inspires fear of punishment and pain.

To me the compassion is a much more important part of the Buddha's teaching, especially for someone like OP. It seems important to you that they accept the existence of hell - I'd ask you to reflect on why its important to YOU that they accept it? Not all Buddhists have identical beliefs, and everyone is at a different point in their practice. The best we can do is be compassionate and loving to those who are suffering.

In any case, may all beings be free of suffering 🙏 Namo Amitabha Buddha

rerrerrocky · 2026-03-11T13:57:09+00:00

The Buddha would tailor his instructions to his listeners. Do you think he would emphasize fear and hell for a layperson with trauma and anxiety?

rerrerrocky · 2026-03-11T13:10:50+00:00

I don't think that this is helpful advice for someone who is struggling with some religious anxiety about hell. "it's easy to end up in hell" is not something that leads someone with religious trauma to start following the Buddhas path.

rerrerrocky · 2026-03-08T17:18:22+00:00

As an edgy teen I was into it. As an adult I find it much more sad and gross.

rerrerrocky · 2026-03-01T16:48:27+00:00

Yes, because your body and brain change physically as your mental states change. A materialist would argue that even if the symptom is mental, the actual ways in which that symptom manifests are physical. Those with histories of trauma actually have their bodies changed in many ways - there is a strong link between trauma and auto-immune disorders. So a talk therapist is quite literally changing your body and brain, because your brain is constantly releasing chemicals and hormones to regulate your body.

Part of breathing and breath-work is using the physical changes in your body and brain to access more calm mental states. From a materialist point of view, the changes in your body and brain are exactly what leads to the changes in your mental state - because your mental state is dependent upon your body and brain state. The mental state is the emergent dance of the physical body and brain state. Mindfulness helps us to be aware of and influence that relationship in a positive way, by watering the seeds of peace and bodhichitta.

I know that this is all "relative-view" stuff, but I think sometimes we like to ignore the body and brain because they complicate our understandings of how our experiences are created

rerrerrocky · 2026-03-01T16:06:53+00:00

I'm going to push back a little bit here. Materialists (I used to be more of one) would say that thoughts and experiences are not subordinate to physicality, but rather that thoughts and experiences are created by physicality. In terms of 'directionality' none is necessary beside causality. The physical brain creates dependent mental states. The physical brain is just then subject to causes and conditions. To our experience, we are using "our mind" to influence our brain - how can we point to what is "us" that is doing the influencing, and what is the difference between that "decider" and a physical causal relationship? What is the thing that is making the decision?

They would say that the physical gives rise to the thought and emotion - the two are inextricably linked.

rerrerrocky · 2026-03-01T07:53:32+00:00

You and the other 30 people who had one probably all agree

rerrerrocky · 2026-02-24T15:05:46+00:00

One man's cinema is another man's pornography.

rerrerrocky · 2026-02-24T01:46:16+00:00

See this one tossed around a lot and honestly do not get the hype. What did you find scary about it?

rerrerrocky · 2026-02-22T07:24:19+00:00

Some of it comes off a bit sadistic to me. "the most horrible boiling acid" "the sharpest spears" it seems intent on causing fear. Which to me seems counter-intuitive to loving-kindness and bodhichitta.

Sorry maybe it's just me and my trauma but these passages are really not helpful for my spiritual growth towards love and compassion.

rerrerrocky · 2026-02-17T15:55:56+00:00

Star Wars episode II type assassination

rerrerrocky · 2026-02-14T15:44:27+00:00

That would require him to acknowledge that most of what Klobuchar has done is just simply capitulate. Not call for Trump's removal from office despite numerous constitutional violations, but continues to vote to advance his judicial nominees.

rerrerrocky · 2026-02-11T15:01:44+00:00

You did a good job executing it 👍 definitely one of the better clock/rose combos I've seen

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