There’s the quiet sneaky puppet and the loud aggressive puppet. They switch them appropriately. They’re basically there to give us something to yell at.

Neither?

You really think things would be different if the other sock puppet got elected?

I think it’s old. I heard reference to it in old Yoga books. They called it “habitually one-pointed”. They considered it desirable.

Also in a book about shamens. They called it the teaching disease. Because it teaches you some otherwise difficult to grasp stuff about reality.

Nice try DHS

Primer

Reading might actually be bad for you. The psychic equivalent of footbinding. Leaves you deformed and incapable of seeing leprechauns.

Promethea by Alan Moore

Sounds like surrealism

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I’m a Nitrogen atom but I identify as a Lithium ion. Please keep that in mind when preparing your compounds.

I do it too. Pleased to meet you.

Do you do concentration meditation (anapanasati, samatha…) in preparation for shikantaza? (I used to, now I don’t).

Do you prefer the shikantaza state and find concentrative states distasteful? (I do somewhat)

Because I do shikantaza and I’m looking for peers to discuss a few points with.

I know a guy like that. He got better at it and now he’s still notorious. A king among demons.

They have been productized. Everybody’s equal in their suitedness to consume this new product. To speak and to control who speaks, no matter the subject. It’s nice but also a bit dumb. Sometimes really dumb. I prefer a bit more meritocracy.

As a person of the male genre I prefer to express my emotions through body hair

A group of me is an ass burger

Now I can’t stop seeing it

Propaganda campaign aimed at population of enemy countries. Promising anything. Putting the most innocent and attractive face on. Establishing close relationships

I don’t mean that it influences your thinking (but it does, of course), I mean that it alters the shape of your consciousness (or “awareness” if you like). Like a drug.

It gently compresses your consciousness into your head (your intellect, or the part of your intellect that turns text into thoughts) and gently prys you away from everything else.

Maybe you notice the first couple times but eventually, if you read a lot, you forget that there was ever a difference and the changes become somewhat permanent. You enter the apartment inside your head to stay and thereafter peer out at the world through its little windows.