@_space_punk_@schuchert That is a rude response for him to make.
If it helps, by "body" I think he meant the physical human body and its biological processes. I'm not sure how "all sentient beings" or Mount Meru are relevant?
@_space_punk_ Oh I see. When I lived in China, I liked visiting Buddhist temples there - very peaceful - and they always had offerings of fruit and incense in front of statues. I don’t live near any temples now in the U.S., but that’s a good idea.
@_space_punk_ I'm unfamiliar with omniscience in a Buddhist context (although I'm interested to learn), but from my perspective, no one is omniscient? An entity charging money for something doesn't know that you specifically don't have money. They're just charging money for some good/service.
it’s true that before a very recent epoch, nothing beautiful was ever built without blood being shed. it is sad to me that people would rather reckon with this by declaring a crusade against beauty instead of against bloodshed.
Maybe I'm just a weirdo but sometimes I think about dead technology while it's still alive.
Every night, my watch takes a few minutes out of its little schedule and it starts to listen for a radio signal from its friends at the world's atomic time clocks.
Eventually those signals will be shut down or upgraded in some way that fundamentally changes them so old receivers can no longer pick them up. There will come a night where this watch hears that signal for the last time ever. The watch has no way of knowing this is the final time, and it will keep listening for that series of pulses until it's no longer capable of listening.
Because this watch is solar powered (and because it's a Casio so it'll live forever) some archaeologist hundreds of years from now could probably dig up my skeleton and take my watch and wear it for the rest of their life, forever wondering what that little "RC" message means at night.
By the way, if you're really interested in Chinese-style liminal spaces, there is actually a game about Chinese liminal spaces during the Y2K era—and it's not a horror game.
https://t.co/S2iA1bGK6b