I'll be more enlightened when people are less dumb
These gems of snark used to be on twitter, but using twitter now feeds a system that hurts people
| Fri Mar 26 15:07:36 2010 | I believe on average that humanity is good and constructive, but that the variance can be pretty large. |
| Fri Apr 30 04:41:11 2010 | Do not confuse the moon for the finger pointing at the moon. Some might do better to consider the Bible as more finger than moon. |
| Fri Mar 18 13:02:38 2011 | "I never trust anyone who's more excited about success than about doing the thing they want to be successful at." -- xkcd |
| Mon Dec 26 02:19:26 2011 | I talk a good game about compassion and kindness, but the satisfaction of smug elitism is pretty tempting. |
| Mon Dec 26 20:58:55 2011 | A few incidents might make one start suspecting that the world is a cruel, mean place. Beware confirmation bias. Hope is doubting pessimism. |
| Thu Feb 09 15:12:31 2012 | The future will still be there when I get there. |
| Tue Feb 14 20:30:09 2012 | Life is not graded out of 100 points. I'm not studying for any final test. And I'm not entirely sure what to do about that. |
| Mon Apr 16 03:43:02 2012 | What if we remade Left Behind but where the Buddhists transcended earthly existence and the Christians were left to reevaluate their views? |
| Wed Apr 24 04:02:25 2013 | If a Catholic person does something horrible, do we blame Catholicism? Is a Caliph who doesn't exist scarier than a Pope who does? |
| Wed May 22 20:15:59 2013 | How many survived in the tornado flattened elementary school? Let's be glad for preparedness and doing the right thing in an emergency #hope |
| Sat Oct 05 14:21:10 2013 | There are plenty of fish in the sea, but some of them are sharks |
| Tue Oct 08 18:23:37 2013 | If the glass is either half full or half empty, you might have the wrong size glass. |
| Tue Oct 15 11:35:09 2013 | Sufficiently weird art is indistinguishable from the numinous |
| Wed Feb 26 18:34:07 2014 | it's not that I'm not outraged because I'm not paying attention, it's just that I have outrage fatigue and need a nap |
| Tue Apr 22 14:53:18 2014 | maybe someone isn't particularly evil, just part of a large group being collectively wrong and bad #religion |
| Sat May 10 02:01:57 2014 | I'm trying to think "gosh this person is stupid" in a less value-judgemental way |
| Tue Jun 24 03:13:38 2014 | I'd be happier for your success if it weren't exactly the thing that I'm failing at. #vague |
| Mon Dec 15 16:22:06 2014 | Sometimes "sci-fi" is magical fantasy with technobable. |
| Fri May 08 01:53:44 2015 | Being an atheist is exhausting, there's so many religions to not believe in. #religion #atheist |
| Tue Jul 07 21:56:23 2015 | this tea contains only the finest modern herbal placebos backed up by the latest psuedoscience #science #placebo |
| Wed Jul 08 17:47:40 2015 | the ancient medical traditions have a huge head start in developing better placebos #placebo #science #medicine |
| Sat Jul 11 19:16:52 2015 | Sometimes a good day is like the universe is smiling at you ... and you suspect it is up to something. |
| Sun Jan 10 23:02:50 2016 | I hear people say “I wish there were an app for that” but I think they mean “magic”. I wish there were magic for that. |
| Thu Jan 14 14:45:25 2016 | Taoist laxatives: This too will pass |
| Thu Apr 14 17:37:26 2016 | sometimes the enemy of my enemy is just orthogonal to my interests |
| Tue Aug 02 17:24:12 2016 | Zen cookware practices non-attachment |
| Thu Aug 25 06:08:45 2016 | neurotic mindfulness is being aware of everything you do SO INTENSELY |
| Wed Nov 09 05:33:10 2016 | I'd be more enlightened if people were less dumb |
| Wed Nov 09 13:27:40 2016 | this too shall pass, though it may pass like a kidney stone |
| Sun Jan 01 17:54:33 2017 | Thai massage is not a joke, but it *is* pulling your leg |
| Fri Sep 22 12:46:39 2017 | Buddha vs. Lovecraft: Is Ultimate Reality good for your mental health? |
| Sat Sep 23 15:09:35 2017 | Sitting in awareness of body and breath, the growing pressure of a bladder that wants relieving; when to focus on meditation, when to pee? |
| Fri Sep 29 00:51:19 2017 | To get enlightenment shoved in your face is a rude awakening |
| Sun Nov 12 02:05:44 2017 | Ever have one of those days when you're all finger and no moon? |
| Fri May 25 22:37:25 2018 | I can't claim to be woke but I'm trying to not press the snooze button |
| Thu Aug 16 20:53:05 2018 | Too much magic makes muggles go blind |
| Mon Sep 24 20:03:13 2018 | You meditate with the self you have, not the self you wish you had. |
| Mon Oct 01 20:55:15 2018 | The zeroeth jhana is sleep. #Buddhism #meditation |
| Tue Mar 05 17:05:50 2019 | The one thing startups will never disrupt is capitalism |
| Mon Apr 29 23:53:53 2019 | I think I just listened to a #Dharma talk from the wrong end of the Dunning-Kruger curve |
| Mon May 20 01:48:49 2019 | went to a workshop where everyone was trying to let go of their shame, except one guy who could benefit from learning some |
| Mon May 20 15:00:45 2019 | ॐ is where the ‘art is |
| Mon May 20 16:05:01 2019 | Heroes do something outside the normal social script. So do Assholes. |
| Tue Jun 04 14:34:36 2019 | Reverse #Metta Meditation Think of all the beings in the universe who think you're okay and wish you well |
| Sun Jun 23 15:30:47 2019 | I've always been an overachiever, so if I'm going to be Good I may as well shoot for sainthood, right? |
| Sat Jul 27 13:12:23 2019 | We don't need "devil's advocates"; the devil's PR department is quite well funded. |
| Mon Aug 05 20:56:06 2019 | Awkwardly trying to mix the qualities of Zen Master and Chess Master: being present and thinking several moves ahead. |
| Fri Sep 13 00:50:13 2019 | Om Money Payme Om |
| Mon Nov 18 19:55:41 2019 | We Are Star Compost |
| Wed Nov 27 00:10:05 2019 | New Religion: Greed is the worst sin. Greed causes poverty and pollution to the point of war and ecological collapse. |
| Tue Dec 31 19:11:53 2019 | You eat the most delicious meal ever. It turns out it was tainted. You spend the next two weeks sick in bed vomiting. Eventually you get better. Was the meal still delicious? |
| Wed Feb 19 19:24:37 2020 | Billions of years ago a star lived and died, the collapsed remains of the star stewed for a few billion years, and here we are. We Are Star Compost. |
| Mon Mar 30 14:01:22 2020 | A whistling kettle is a nice meditation timer. I can sit those few minutes, and then I have tea! |
| Sun May 17 19:43:40 2020 | Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice |
| Wed May 20 15:20:56 2020 | There's a line from some version of the #Metta prayer, "May you be free of illusion". I wish it on one person as a curse so they can see what a horrible person they are. |
| Wed Jun 17 15:48:19 2020 | Life is mixed. Things come with tradeoffs. Great art can be made by problematic people. Great achievements may have exploited/polluted/suppressed something else. I don't know how to feel about it either. |
| Thu Jun 18 22:41:31 2020 | Problematic coping methods are the duct tape holding your soul together. |
| Tue Jul 21 17:12:45 2020 | let them eat cake the cake is a lie capitalism |
| Sat Aug 29 22:29:59 2020 | I bought a 9 hour audio book by Pema Chödrön, but some of that is dead air while we sit meditations. |
| Fri Oct 02 12:58:44 2020 | The Church of the Theological Mashup |
| Sun Oct 04 21:01:08 2020 | If you're worried about feeling too much schadenfreude, try more metta. |
| Tue Nov 10 14:46:50 2020 | BREATHING IS HAPPENING |
| Thu Dec 03 03:05:20 2020 | Sometimes it's easy to be an atheist because there are so many obviously wrong theologies |
| Wed Jan 20 14:56:39 2021 | Post-breakthrough is the new plateau |
| Sat May 08 10:27:16 2021 | RT @NightValeRadio: Death is only the end if you assume the story is about you. |
| Tue May 25 13:00:18 2021 | Grant me the strength to change what I can The grace to accept what I cannot The wisdom to know which is which And the foolishness to try anyway sometimes |
| Tue Jul 06 01:56:55 2021 | there are a few Buddhist shaggy-dog-koans I would like to change the ending from "... and they were enlightened" to "... and they were gobsmacked but on their way to enlightenment" |
| Thu Sep 02 14:34:08 2021 | If you think your religion wants you to endanger yourself or others, either you're wrong or your religion sucks |
| Wed Sep 22 18:32:40 2021 | Heaven is a marketing brochure |
| Thu Jan 13 12:55:18 2022 | I contemplate the universal love of all beings and my less-enlightened mind whispers, "except that guy, f' that guy" |
| Sun Mar 27 13:23:47 2022 | Public religiosity is the original virtue signalling |
| Tue Mar 29 11:53:44 2022 | You know that universal love of all people we're supposed to have? It's a little easier for you. |
| Mon Apr 04 04:35:58 2022 | We spend the first year of our life sucking and the rest of our life trying not to suck |
| Wed Apr 13 18:17:46 2022 | I want atheist televangelist sermons delivered by Max Headroom. Have you heard the good news that you don't need to be saved from anything? You can lead a purpose driven life by choosing your purpose. All the god you need may already be within you. |
| Wed Sep 28 16:28:23 2022 | Do we have a cult of The Algorithm yet? The Algorithm works in mysterious ways. Debates on whether The Algorithm is ineffable, indifferent, or Calvinist? |
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