Use a chair and sit upright. Plenty do this, monks included. Buddhism isn't asceticism The main thing is to keep your back straight, lazy...
Buddha, didn't remain silent on the topic of God. Having approached the priests & contemplatives who hold that... 'Whatever a person...
Honestly, the day hippies start telling me what jokes I can and can't tell, is the day I start burning them. If the guys on the radio had...
I did Glastonbury through Workers Beer. You need to be 18 when you do it, but well worth it. Really nice facilities, lots of free drinks and...
I suspect they would enjoy that to be honest. Reacting angrily to these jokes fuels them, and empowers the kinds of mentality that creates them....
I'm marginally involved in the South Cambs party, but don't know anyone in the central cambridge party. I should be more involved really. The only...
Pluto seemed unfazed when we thought it was a planet... it seems unfazed now. Pluto is totally cool, so if Pluto is OK with it, I guess I am. I'm...
:s I tried, but I've never even heard of Henkel... which makes it hard to answer the questions, because I can't associate any of those products...
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Howdy. I've been ambling around the forums without aim or purpose for a little while now, so I thought I should afflict you all with a proper...
The people before Jesus were called Jews. According to the Torah and Tulmud, all "virtuous gentiles" (people who obeyed the 7 Noahide laws) were...
Given that (according to all Iraqi sources) Iraq is lawless, unsafe and engaged in a de facto civil war, I can't really see that withdrawal is...
well this issue could be a semantic one. If you're talking about a centralised power-wielding entity with a monopoly on force that operates its...
Love him, a major influence on me. Small Gods is probably my favourite, and Night Watch always a winner. He is like dostoyevsky but with jokes.
Well the economic elite do rule us already, the governments are in their pockets. Workers rights, suffrage, all those things were won from the...
"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows." -- 1984, George Orwell
They're idiots, and everything they touch turns to dust. Anything good that happens is without fail the work of a citizens, not governance, but...
Well actually, money is really just based in the good faith of those that exchange it. The old Iraqi currency technically became worthless after...
Beard thickness is to do with folicle spacing on your face, nothing you can do if it is patchy. But if you're young give it some time. I was...
Hmm, I would second the point about the "thou". There is nothing wrong with thou in the right context, but you actually use thou and you in the...
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