@KevinH_PhD Cancer clinical trials, breakthrough research, and future cures are being delayed or destroyed by shortsighted NIH cuts.
If you read even one story about what’s being lost, it becomes impossible to defend this approach.
This is not fiscal discipline ,it’s reckless negligence.
@redneckskeptic I’m tired of politicians acting like the debt crisis is someone else’s fault.
Trump added $8 TRILLION in 4 years , now he’s upset about the interest payments?
We’re not stupid. Own it.
"Existing in the Gap of Choice"
We are always choosing. Open your eyes or sleep for another five minutes, reply or remain silent, get close or leave, say love or remain silent. Day after day, choice is like time itself, quietly constructing who we are.
But we rarely stop to think: Are we really "choosing"? Or are we just being taken away by choice?
Philosopher Heidegger said that people are "thrown" into this world. As soon as we open our eyes, we have woken up in a certain family, a certain language, and a certain era. We did not choose to be born, let alone choose a name. We did not even choose our original beliefs and fears. So some people began to doubt: Is freedom just an illusion? Is choice just a menu designed by fate?
But it is precisely between these countless unfreedoms that our consciousness begins to show its edge.
Because of consciousness, there is struggle. Because of struggle, we begin to doubt, refuse, and say "no". It is when we begin to question inertia and question "taken for granted" that a true "I" can be carved out - just like a statue in a stone, which can only be revealed by removal.
The more awake we are, the more painful the choice is. A truly free person often has to bear the deepest loneliness. Because the price of freedom is the loss of excuses.
But this is not a tragedy. On the contrary, it gives human dignity. Machines will not hesitate, only humans will; animals will not introspect, only humans will ask: "Am I doing this because I choose it?"
We are not perfect, we often regret, escape, and compromise. But as long as we still ask "Is there another way", it proves that we are still there - not alive in the biological sense, but awake in the spiritual sense.
In thousands of ordinary days, true freedom is not to have countless choices, but to live out your own annotations in the unchanging.
Maybe someone has already set a path for us, but the moment you turn the corner, you turn the steering wheel yourself.
What you said — ‘Vince Culture means Culture of Bodhisattva’ — sounds really interesting! I haven’t heard of ‘Vince Culture’ before though. Is it a concept you came up with yourself, or does it come from somewhere specific? I’d love to hear more about how you connect it with Bodhisattva culture
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