Dan

Is there anything to read about that?

You’re using a gif of a man who very much believed in Jesus.

Who’s “they”?

Thanks.

Out of interest, how do they determine that copies have been made? I’d have thought quite difficult.

In the service of getting completely wasted.

The BBC framed it as “working class people” voting for Reform and “Urdu speakers and students” for Green, on the one o'clock national news.

And if you recognise the anti- vote for all the parties, Labour came third. How is this helpful, to spin it as something that didn’t happen?

A fox looks at the photographer from a nest of haphazardly arranged hire scooters.

Fox last night.

Well, I basically agree on that. I'm horrified that governments seem to be so impressed by it. With trillions of dollars invested, there is a big pressure for the techbros to get people to use this thing.

I think you’re right. A great deal is made of this but it’s completely correct to see they are just different words for the same thing.

By the way, I think to repeat my “funnily enough” - in that context is pretty dark. Do you think many ordinary people in BlueSky deserve that treatment? I think the incident with the floor collapse that you mentioned occurred in 1184 by the way.

You relate that to the Council of Nicaea 1600 years earlier, and you didn’t specify, so my comment was reasonable. Don’t presume I’m ignorant of what you speak. I did say “until early modern period”, and a lot has happened since then. You think you can just blame all that evil on some institution?

Funnily enough, until the early modern era the Church had a track record of intervening to prevent persecution of alleged witches. So I tend to believe it’s not as simple as that.

Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

It’d be a strange move if someone said: “B teaches no-essence, therefore B doesn’t have an essence, therefore I can call my own thing B.” The Buddha taught in conventional terms because that’s where we are. To have any hope of realising ultimate reality we have to start there.

But now rather than asking if it’s okay for people to claim it for their own blends of spirituality, you’re asking if non-self undermines Buddhism itself, a different question that becomes a debate about the truth of a key Buddhist tenet. But if it did, that’d just be another reason not to claim it!

They work for both Theravada and Mahayana schools. Masters sometimes use them as the basis for public talks in the west, like here. sakyatradition.org/wp-content/u...

‘The Four Seals’ are a way to distinguish Buddhist from non-Buddhist teachings. “All conditioned phenomena are impermanent. All contaminated phenomena are suffering. All phenomena are without self. Nirvana alone is peace.” That could be one way of answering.

No it’s not okay. They can do what they like just stop calling it Buddhism.

I think I might want to dispute that…

Having to sell a couple of things.

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/18806912... (1st US ed of Tarantula 2nd printing)

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/18806919... (magazine with Smiths flex-disc)

There's a couple of other things.

"This is fine."

Having to sell a couple of things.

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/18806912... (1st US ed of Tarantula 2nd printing)

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/18806919... (magazine with Smiths flex-disc)

There's a couple of other things.

I bought that album when it came out and it’s my favourite. I started a chronological marathon a few years ago. A good experience which has stalled because the quality definitely weights towards the earlier part of their career.

Doesn’t this need scare quotes around the word “repealed”? Are you stating it as fact?

Saying they might perpetrate something is one thing. Stating that they are doing it right now on that basis only isn't helpful in my opinion.

It’s the longest A road in the country, so it’s likely you would have.

That’s a weird assumption to make.

And both main parties have moved massively to the right.