I just don't favour the 'one strike you're out' way of dealing with bigotry. — Janus

Fair enough. I propose two strikes for the repentant misogynist and one for the unrepentant.

Admittedly banning is easier, but I think deletion of offensive posts would send an equally clear, and more compassionate, message. — Janus

Such posts would be seen and they would offend. Don’t you care about that? They would also promote bigotry, and by allowing them the forum could be perceived as supportive. Does anyone follow up on what posts are deleted? My own posts could be deleted and I wouldn’t know.

Banning them might just make them double down, which won't be the forum's problem, because they are gone from here, but it may become a greater problem for their partners, family or society. — Janus

So you want the mods to vigilantly moderate self-professed sexists, or whatever-ists, in good service to society? Banning is much easier, and it sends a very clear message.

You didn't get the point. — dimosthenis9

Thankfully.

You definitely demonstrated that slippery slopes can be funny.

Rules as laws should be forced and read under their general spirit not by the book. — dimosthenis9

The forum generally lacks the misogynist spirit, fortunately.

Real men are secure. Baby men are misogynist.
— praxis

Thought crime! Stereotyping, ageist and offensive to cis-males who identify as anxious.

(There is no escaping, is there?) — apokrisis

I was using Zwingli’s own persuasion technique in an effort to counter what he was promoting.

Show me how you get that.
— tim wood
From my read, the bolded qualifier is an espousal in the form of an implicit normative:

"I am an unrepentant misogynist. For me, the concept that a woman should be considered the equal of a man, if he is any kind of man, is simply fucking ludicrous." — Michael Zwingli — 180 Proof

Real men are secure. Baby men are misogynist.

I think the basic difference is between supporting inequality and merely stating your dislikes.

Life is not on fire. Life is homeostatic.

As can be seen from the following analysis, Xtrix maintained a lead from beginning to end. I resigned when it looked like no hope remained. :fear:



Game can be reviewed here:
https://www.chess.com/game/daily/367297963

Thanks for the challenging game, @Xtrix !

Making shitty memes is the politics of the proletariat. — StreetlightX

Yes, meanwhile, Amazon pays an unlivable wage and Jeff sends Captain Kirk into orbit for shits and giggles. Great politicking!

Maybe instead of sticking up for bloodsucking politicians consider putting away your high-nosed class pretentions? — StreetlightX

I haven’t stood up for any politicians in this topic, with my nose or any other part of my anatomy.

I would hope that a civically educated citizen would know how to spend their time more productively. In any case, it takes very little education to manipulate anime video so childishly.

Civically educated people effectively spend their time producing and publishing threatening anime memes directed at politicians? Shouldn’t they know it’s a felony?

Easy to say, but like you point out, not so easy to do! The Buddha also realized the difficulty and came up with an eight fold path to help people obtain the right state of mind, but it isn’t easy and human nature, being what it is, is always looking for an easy solution. — Present awareness

I like the way you say this too, as though if there were an easy solution, a Buddhist would still do it the hard way. That suggests to me that it’s really not about a solution but rather all about the way.

If one may simply enjoy the moment as it comes, without attachment, there will be a willingness to let things go, once they are gone. — Present awareness

I like the way you say this, as though it were the simplest thing in the world to do, a piece of cake, or easy peasy lemon squeezy.

If they’re so weak-minded it should be easy for someone such as yourself to change them. — NOS4A2

You don't understand what influence is?

It’s nonsense — NOS4A2

It may be nonsense for people who can think for themselves, but Gosar has influence over weak and potentially violent minds.

The interesting thing is that I think it can be merely an attitude, and an attitude where, for example, you could see you own life as a game, or conversely, regard a game too seriously and it no longer be enjoyable.

This is self-contradictory, if people don’t benefit from cooperation then they don’t cooperate.
— praxis

I might be wrong, but I don't view the matter thusly, thinking that the motive behind all cooperative behavior is selfish. — Michael Zwingli

I don’t see how we’re in disagreement. Cooperation isn’t necessarily selfless or selfish, though as I mentioned, people realize that they may personally benefit from cooperation so they cooperate out of self-interest.

When people cooperate with others, they do so utterly for their own benefit, no mutuality necessary. — Michael Zwingli

This is self-contradictory, if people don’t benefit from cooperation then they don’t cooperate. Mutuality is necessary, and our natural capacity of reason allows it.

So not the queen’s gambit but some other nail biter of an opening that I’m not familiar with. :grimace:

I find that being in a relaxed state promotes a meditative state of mind and that's why breathing (slow, through the nose, and with the diaphragm) is so important. Sometimes before sitting I'll listen to a hypnosis tape for relaxation, and it definitely helps.

I go the other direction in meditation because it’s naturally relaxing, stimulates the somatic nervous system and that helps to suppress the DMN (default mode network or ‘monkey mind’), and go down to one or two breaths a minute.

Uh, my rocket science is a little rusty.

I think they call that holotropic breathwork.

Mankind did not evolve as a being which is devoid of desire and/or agon. We evolved from former social mammals which were competitive to the core of their psyches, and which subdued that innate competitiveness only insofar as was necessary to coexist within an evolutionarily advantageous social group. Within the group, competitiveness reigned, as it still does within the core of the human psyche today. Because of this, I feel that Buddhism preaches an essentially unnatural doctrine. I'm not saying that this doctrine is inherently "bad" or "evil", just that it is unnatural. — Michael Zwingli

This is silly, as it’s obvious how natural it is for people to cooperate for mutual benefit.

Because you're white? I thought it said that it was randomly selected. In any case, I'd like to play against the queen's gambit.

You’re playing white so it’s your move. :point:

I see that you have a significantly higher rating so I wouldn’t be a challenge in blitz. Maybe a long (days) game if that interests you at all.

Learn how to relax.

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You have two choices, Outlander, either stalemate or resign. I suggest the that you chose the latter, not out of honor or good sportsmanship but simply because I like to win.

Dear Jundo has been repeatedly banned for heresy, essentially, and general creepiness, online and in person. And this person given the stamp of approval from Gudo Wafu Nishijima. Hmm… make you wonder, right? It should.

I used to sit with a group that met monthly which was lead by another Nishijima devotee. Kevin Bortolin, a philosophy teacher at the local JC and someone I met at one of Brad’s sittings, practiced in Japan with Nishijima but never finished the program (whatever that entails). Cool guy, and I’d much rather sit though one of his talks than Brad’s.

I miss Jundo. :lol:

I'm reading a pop-Zen book by Brad Warner, There is No God.
— Shawn

with the subtitle 'and He is with you always'. Read the intro, totally get it.
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I had a debate with I Like Sushi recently where he was insisting that Buddhism is 'theistic', because of the worship of deities such as celestial bodhisattvas and meditation Buddhas - even though Buddhism has always eschewed any notion of creator-God. But because those figures are seen as deities, then Buddhism is stereotyped with the Biblical religions where really the underlying belief-structures are entirely different. — Wayfarer

Funny that you "totally get" Brad's 'no God and He is with you always' but don't get I Like Sushi's 'theistic' interpretation. Anything that spills forth from a Zen priest must be legit, I guess. :grimace:

… maintaining with premium THC & CBD edibles. — 180 Proof

If they come in sour grape flavor perhaps it could be said that many Western Buddhist’s are sourgraping. :blush:

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I'm reading a pop-Zen book by Brad Warner, There is No God. It's kind of cool how practical Zen can-be. — Shawn

:lol: If Brad were at all practical he'd be a MUCH better meditation teacher.

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