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by Kim O'Hara
Thu Mar 28, 2024 5:11 am
Forum: Games & Humour
Topic: Daily Laugh Thread
Replies: 848
Views: 263053

Re: Daily Laugh Thread

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by Kim O'Hara
Wed Mar 27, 2024 1:14 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Favourite Sports
Replies: 24
Views: 549

Re: Favourite Sports

Other: Ice figure scating and snooker. What is snooker? The game I know as snooker is like a more complicated version of pool, played on a full-size billiard table with 15 red balls worth one point each, half a dozen 'colour' balls which are worth more, and a white cue ball. I played it a fair bit ...
by Kim O'Hara
Wed Mar 27, 2024 6:22 am
Forum: Lounge
Topic: [Survey] Study on changes in the sense of self due to meditation - Call for participants
Replies: 3
Views: 209

Re: [Survey] Study on changes in the sense of self due to meditation - Call for participants

Some of us will have difficulty disentangling the effects of meditation from other changes over years of practice. For instance, I know I am who I am because I got back into meditation nearly 20 years ago, and I only got back into it because of my experience of it 20 years before that. But how well ...
by Kim O'Hara
Mon Mar 25, 2024 8:31 am
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Favourite Sports
Replies: 24
Views: 549

Re: Favourite Sports

Jacobcz wrote: Mon Mar 25, 2024 8:00 am Well I complement my dharma practice with yoga. Every second day, hopefully in the future daily. Does it count as sport?
So do I, once or twice a week, but I don't think it counts as a sport.
But chess apparently counts as a sport, so who knows?

:coffee:
Kim
by Kim O'Hara
Mon Mar 25, 2024 5:18 am
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Favourite Sports
Replies: 24
Views: 549

Re: Favourite Sports

I ticked "other", as I so often do. :tongue: I play an Olympic sport (at far below Olympic level, of course) which holds regular national and state level competitions (which I could maybe qualify for if I worked really hard, but I won't) and gets almost exactly zero coverage on mass media ...
by Kim O'Hara
Mon Mar 25, 2024 3:06 am
Forum: Games & Humour
Topic: Daily Laugh Thread
Replies: 848
Views: 263053

Re: Daily Laugh Thread

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by Kim O'Hara
Fri Mar 22, 2024 11:03 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Act- and Rule-Consequentialism: The Mahayana Debate About Ethics
Replies: 20
Views: 581

Re: Act- and Rule-Consequentialism: The Mahayana Debate About Ethics

Interesting discussion. I have always been an act-consequentialist. Sets of rules followed by rule-consequentialists are justified by the rule-maker because the actions they specify are intended to be act-consequential. In other words, rule-consequentialism is derivative. It is the "intended t...
by Kim O'Hara
Fri Mar 22, 2024 4:59 am
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Act- and Rule-Consequentialism: The Mahayana Debate About Ethics
Replies: 20
Views: 581

Re: Act- and Rule-Consequentialism: The Mahayana Debate About Ethics

I think Buddhist ethics is more like "upside-down" consequentialism. Consequentialism says actions are bad because they have bad consequences. But Buddhist ethics says there are bad consequences because bad actions were done. :rolleye: "actions are bad because they have bad consequen...
by Kim O'Hara
Thu Mar 21, 2024 3:52 am
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Act- and Rule-Consequentialism: The Mahayana Debate About Ethics
Replies: 20
Views: 581

Re: Act- and Rule-Consequentialism: The Mahayana Debate About Ethics

Act-consequentialists rank acts according to how good their consequences would be and then hold that the permissibility of acts is a function of this ranking. For instance, maximizing act-utilitarians rank acts according to how much utility they would produce and then hold that an act is permissibl...
by Kim O'Hara
Wed Mar 20, 2024 11:00 pm
Forum: Games & Humour
Topic: Daily Laugh Thread
Replies: 848
Views: 263053

Re: Daily Laugh Thread

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by Kim O'Hara
Wed Mar 20, 2024 7:48 am
Forum: Games & Humour
Topic: Daily Laugh Thread
Replies: 848
Views: 263053

Re: Daily Laugh Thread

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by Kim O'Hara
Mon Mar 18, 2024 10:56 pm
Forum: Engaged Buddhism
Topic: Buddhism Green Anarchism: Opinions?
Replies: 68
Views: 2969

Re: Buddhism Green Anarchism: Opinions?

BUDDHISM AND ANARCHISM – REFLECTIONS ON THE ECO-ANARCHISM OF GARY SNYDER , Brian Morris, 2020-11-10 Again, not a recommendation or even a comment as I have not read completely through the article, but a possible discussion point. It is of interest that the words “anarchism” and “revolution” were bo...
by Kim O'Hara
Sun Mar 17, 2024 11:38 pm
Forum: Engaged Buddhism
Topic: Buddhism Green Anarchism: Opinions?
Replies: 68
Views: 2969

Re: Buddhism Green Anarchism: Opinions?

:thumbsup:

Gary Snyder is someone whose work I have always liked but never known very well.
I will get back to these when I have time.

:namaste:
Kim
by Kim O'Hara
Sat Mar 16, 2024 5:52 am
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Poll (ANONYMOUS): Are you Male / Female / Other?
Replies: 19
Views: 932

Re: Poll (ANONYMOUS): Are you Male / Female / Other?

Yeah, why so many dudes? Or, alternatively, why so few ladies? This came up on another Buddhist group I'm on, mostly men, which does not seem to reflect irl buddhism (so I hear, tbh I don't interact with buddhist groups irl much, but I do participate online, ...I don't know if that is related or no...
by Kim O'Hara
Fri Mar 15, 2024 11:33 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: Poll (ANONYMOUS): Are you Male / Female / Other?
Replies: 19
Views: 932

Re: Poll (ANONYMOUS): Are you Male / Female / Other?

Yeah, why so many dudes? Or, alternatively, why so few ladies? This came up on another Buddhist group I'm on, mostly men, which does not seem to reflect irl buddhism (so I hear, tbh I don't interact with buddhist groups irl much, but I do participate online, ...I don't know if that is related or no...
by Kim O'Hara
Fri Mar 15, 2024 5:17 am
Forum: Games & Humour
Topic: Daily Laugh Thread
Replies: 848
Views: 263053

Re: Daily Laugh Thread

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by Kim O'Hara
Thu Mar 14, 2024 11:16 pm
Forum: Suggestion Box
Topic: Poll idea - male / female / other
Replies: 19
Views: 465

Re: Poll idea - male / female / other

If knowing my (or anyone else's) age, wealth, nationality, skin colour or gender identity is important to you, it's probably because you will respond differently to me or them because of those characteristics. Kim Hey, Kim, I fully agree with what you said, and I definitely do not want to behave di...
by Kim O'Hara
Thu Mar 14, 2024 1:42 pm
Forum: Suggestion Box
Topic: Poll idea - male / female / other
Replies: 19
Views: 465

Re: Poll idea - male / female / other

I dont know how about you, but I (a male) feel like other people are also males, but that is just my stupid assumption / preconception. I think, since I am male, I am more likely to assume the other person with unisex nickname is also a male. This assumption from my side is especially stupid since ...
by Kim O'Hara
Wed Mar 13, 2024 4:19 am
Forum: Lounge
Topic: AUTHETNIC Buddhist Quotes
Replies: 5
Views: 265

Re: AUTHETNIC Buddhist Quotes

https://fakebuddhaquotes.com/ will give you the genuine quotes, if any, behind the fake ones.

:reading:
Kim
by Kim O'Hara
Tue Mar 12, 2024 7:12 am
Forum: Engaged Buddhism
Topic: Buddhism Green Anarchism: Opinions?
Replies: 68
Views: 2969

Re: Buddhism Green Anarchism: Opinions?

:reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalist_Realism If capitalist realism is "the widespread sense that not only is capitalism the only viable political and economic system, but also that it is now impossible even to imagine a coherent alternative to it," then I'm not (quite) a capi...

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