ei8htohms

horologer, compassion enthusiast, connoisseur of awareness, friends not food Ⓥ, ecstatic noise, more data please

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Meditation Meta-Thread - Disclaimer (1/2) I've been meditation for something like 37 years at this point, but have not studied any particular form of meditation with a tremendous amount of rigor or structure. h/t @thesravaka https://t.co/cPrtn8nIon

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okay, meditation thread. the goal is to discuss some forms of meditation i do. this won't be super structured, so feel free to ask questions or whatever i guess.

disclaimer: i am a largely autodidact practitioner without any formal lineage. i am not a teacher. i am a moron.

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@callanable @GeneralAntilles many joyous returns!!!

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@IE_Capital @eigenrobot so it's 100% lecun's fault then? ouch

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@SpannersReady

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hey google - how long is a quarter in basketball?

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gonna watch the sportsball match (and it's not soccer) - excite

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@monk32

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impressive the lengths people go to for this bit (like it's a real thing)

[brooke - vibecamp 6/18-21 @gptbrooke]

'what's vibecamp?'

A short video by @Ahmedhassanf1. Snippets from interviews he, @_tedks & co recorded last year!

🚨🚨 Organizers and volunteers will ALREADY BE ONSITE in ONE WEEK !! 🚨🚨

if you're still on the fence, now's the time to get yerself off it

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@eigenrobot

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@breaking2morrow bro

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@herbwarning @TheAndrewNadeau

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. There is a white sauce here that the people pour upon everything, with the devotion of a sacred rite. I have become a believer.

I noticed it slowly. A bowl of it beside the vegetables. A cup of it beside the bread. Beside the meat. Beside the other sauce. Children dipped fruit in it. A grown man beside me poured it onto a slice of pizza that already had a sauce of its own, closed his eyes, and sighed like a man coming home.

I asked its name. They told me with a small reverence: ranch.

For it is written that every great people anoints its food with one sacred thing — a drop of gold pressed from olives, a paste of beans aged in cedar. This nation has chosen a cool white elixir, and it anoints not one dish but all dishes, holding nothing back. For to leave a single food unblessed would be the deeper impiety.

So I anointed. Everything. The vegetable, yes. But also the rice. The egg. The morning fish. I would not be the one barbarian who left his plate unblessed while a whole nation dipped in joy around me.

And here my heart rose, and I declared the thing a calmer man would not:

"I will pour this holy elixir upon every food beneath the heavens — the noble and the humble, the savory and the sweet — until I find the one dish it cannot improve. And on that day I will know I have reached the very edge of the world, for everything within it has been made better by ranch."

The teenager refilling the dip station watched me anoint a bowl of rice.

"...that's a lot of ranch, my guy."

"It is the correct amount," I told him, "for a god."

I have not yet found the dish it cannot improve. I have stopped looking. So I brought a great vat of it to the next gathering and set it at the center of the table, and the whole room descended upon it with cries of joy, and a woman I had never met looked at me and said, "okay — YOU get it."

I have never felt more accepted.

So tell me, America.

You call it ranch. A condiment. A thing on the side.

I call it the one sauce a whole nation agreed to love together —

and I dip, with all of you,

gladly.

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@eigenrobot

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long ago is calling you

https://t.co/YLXkf3lB6o

[Lovable Liberal and his Old English sheepdog @DougWahl1]

I am impressed!

I was sure Donald Trump would never post anything about pride month. And then he posted this!

Clearly, I was wrong!

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@eigenrobot naughty 'nuff naughty in yr life

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@breaking2morrow I learned about bosoms from a book too

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@breaking2morrow @nikitabier check one two

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@OneEyedAlpaca ok, obviously i can reply sometimes, lol

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yeah, i'm not able to reply at the moment either, grr

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@OneEyedAlpaca mobile only, may have to try t'other