I'm at @everybodhi@ohai.social - skeptical that twitter will stay in business. I'm a vegan, independent, secular Buddhist. Scientism is good, actually.
Herndon, VA
Joined July 2007
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Took almost 20 years, but I added a new blog post to my blogger
onelifebuddhism.blogspot.com…
Resummarizing Buddhist thought practice. Hardest part is disambiguating one Buddhism from another.
Matthew Martin Ⓥ ☸ retweeted
̷f̷o̷u̷r̷ ̷n̷o̷b̷l̷e̷ ̷t̷r̷u̷t̷h̷s̷ "the buddhist noble truth quadrilateral"
̷e̷i̷g̷h̷t̷f̷o̷l̷d̷ ̷n̷o̷b̷l̷e̷ ̷p̷a̷t̷h̷ "the buddhist noble path octolateral"
How am I going to fit this all on my arm?
四弘誓願
眾生無邊誓願度﹐
煩惱無數誓願斷﹐
法門無盡誓願知﹐
佛道無上誓願成。
Some characters repeat, should somehow exploit that fact.
Oh, great, twitter says I'm a bot and I'm being somehow muted, like small lesser used accounts really need any help squashing their reach, eh.
A central tenet of Buddhism is that there is no self/soul because of merelogical reductivism (you're a bunch of unstable parts with an unstable identity).
But the idea of emergence, says it is possible for new things to emerge in large systems where the tiniest parts don't...
People hostile to Buddhism (think that isn't a thing at all) get upset when they see people who are engaged in Buddhism, not treating it as if it is "one thing." It is a collection of philosophy projects.
Twitter has more Buddhist conversation than Mastodon, but Twitter's Buddhist conversation(s) were never all that much to write home about. I should pivot to blogging and just wallow the solipsism of it all.
this is what I'm talking about
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With the new policy to ban(?) or something(?) people who talk about mastodon, now is a good time to hurry up and run debirdify & set up your mastodon account before twitter is crippled.
I'm at ohai dot social at everybodhi
My bio still has a link, Twitter is now blocking links to competitors, so hand type this without spaces
https:// ohai . social / @ everybodhi
Epiphany: The the anger aroused from certain thought electrifies you with the joy of powerful emotions. Pretty much all partisan politics thoughts fall in this category and we mistake the strength of our emotion to be a meter of truth.
I get 20 (!) view per tweet here. I've lost 20 followers (closed accounts I imagine), so if only active accounts bother to close their accounts, I've lost half my audience.
I'm going to try to curate* the #SecularBuddhism tag on Mastodon
* follow
* post to
* follow people who post to the tag
ohai.social/tags/SecularBudd…
