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Australian Open tennis men's event. I just saw the highlights this morning. The live event was from 12:30 am to 3:30 am in my time zone. https://apnews.com/article/rafael-nadal-novak-djokovic-sports-stefanos-tsitsipas-melbourne-c1e19f06e84abb79c6eb37f952576fe6 Novak Djokovic wins his 22nd Grand Slam...

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My foundation is in STEM, but I love the humanities. I agree. My foundation is humanities (social sciences and philosophy), but like STEM too, especially biology. It was not required for any of my degrees, but I voluntarily enrolled in every course I could find on biological evolution. I feel that ...

"Infinite monkey theorem" make sense. I would say, one day the monkey will beat Magnus Carlsen - due to randomness; not that monkey knows chess. There are 101 keys in the keyboard and valid chess moves at a given turn is much less than that; the theory says monkey can write Shakespears th...

There is something fundamental that is being completely missed in this conversation. There are no “beings”. There are only the conditions for the experience of ‘being’ to arise in awareness. There are no numbers to count. True, I thought about mentioning that too, but felt the OP might transform th...

“ He recalls to mind his various temporary states in days gone by – one birth, or two or three or four or five births, 10 or 20, 30 or 50, a 100 or a 1,000 or a 100,000 births, through many cycles of cosmic contraction and cosmic expansion . . . Now there comes a time, when sooner or later, after th...

Let me try differently. My interpretation of Thevara: 1. Sentinent beings are finite - you just transforming - cat to pig to human to pig so on. See the quote from above, Theravada does not say sentient beings are finite nor infinite. If these beings are growing then we will bust the Universe. How ...

The OP is a question that has been going around the internet on buddhist forums for several years now. The question is basically something like: "If we have all lived infinite lives, we should have all been enlightened by now, since with infinite lives, there are infinite possibilities, therefo...

I'm sure you've heard of the Infinite monkey theorem . The infinite monkey theorem states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type any given text, such as the complete works of William Shakespeare. In fact, the monkey would ...

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Timeless Time wrote: ↑Tue Jan 10, 2023 4:15 pm I am from the UK. I have questions concerning your tradition.

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Intelligent species on another planet would probably fall under the same category as manussa loka (humans) in the cosmology. Even though they are not human, they are similar in that they are the dominant, most intelligent species on their planet. https://www.dhammawiki.com/index.php?title=31_planes_...

Dhammanando wrote: ↑Sun Jan 01, 2023 11:33 am It would appear that both of our half-baked theories are in fact correct.

Cool, good find. Fascinating.

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Miorita wrote: ↑Thu Dec 29, 2022 10:10 pm Pelé, the Global Face of Soccer, Dies at 82

I’m stunned. R.I.P.?

Arguably, the GOAT (greatest of all time) for soccer and perhaps even for all sports.

.... Here is something I posted over at DWT: Here is an adaptation to the Zen story “Is that so?” I just created. :tongue: Oil was discovered and pumped from the ground, which led to the combustible gas engine and a very efficient means of transportation. Isn’t that great? Zen master: Is that so? M...