aftoprokrustes

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by aftoprokrustes 3y ago
There is a lot in your comment that resonnates with my way of practicing, and I will not be able to answer everything, but I feel like I need to try. What the article gives is a very formulaic correspondance table between emotions and &quot
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by aftoprokrustes 3y ago
As far as I understand a Hefeweizen is put into the bottle with live yeast, which continue the fermentation and create the characteristic thick foam. So indeed, in that case, you cannot have that effect without alcoholic fermentation. But I
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by aftoprokrustes 3y ago
I do not know. First, I take it just as a way to deny responsibility for any consequence of the advice in the article, the same way one starts with "I am not a lawyer" before giving half thought out legal advice. But second and mo
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by aftoprokrustes 3y ago
I would advise against this kind of "intellectualizing" of emotions, particularly if you are a "brainy" person. Decoding the emotion as an intellectual puzzle can feel comforting, because juggling with concepts and theor
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by aftoprokrustes 3y ago
Actually, my impression is that the main driver of that "alcohol free beer taste" is the absence of the taste of alcohol. I kind of want to test this hypthesis by adding pure alcohol to an alcohol free beer, but pure alcohol is no
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by aftoprokrustes 3y ago
Another formula I heard that fits your situation is "be hopeless, but not helpless". The idea ia that if you go into activism with the aim to move things and change the world, you will likely burn out fast. Because, as you mention
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by aftoprokrustes 3y ago
That's funny, I have exactly the opposite effect with meditation: in the last two years I have been following teachings with which I resonated a lot and helped my meditation deepen a lot, and I attribute my newfound sports skills to th
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by aftoprokrustes 3y ago
Slightly off topic, but I recently started Kickboxing, and I finally have the impression that I start to understand the connection between martial arts/combat sports and spirituality as it is emphasized in e.g. Bruce Lee's movies.
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by aftoprokrustes 3y ago
I think that the interest in Sufism comes from the fact that people interested in learning about various religions tend to be of mystical personality, in the sense that they are interestes in mystery and contemplation. This is why we (I am
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by aftoprokrustes 3y ago
The way you use orientalist seems like a strawman to me. I am all about being careful of orientalism as a search for exotism rather than serious intellectual and spiritual inquiry. But using terms such as "wahabi" or "conserv
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by aftoprokrustes 3y ago
This trend is visible in more than Islamic poetry: any spirituality that is not "secular" is seen as suspect and potential brainwashing. One can also see this kind of effect in "secular buddhism", which is presented as &
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by aftoprokrustes 3y ago
Also, for anyone interested in learning more about the various currents and authors of Islam, I highly recommend the youtube channel "let's talk religion": https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1Y159eb4Y50VDguvr
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by aftoprokrustes 3y ago
Being honest does not mean having no filter. I have a colleague who is brutally honest on work related topics. If he does not like something, he is not afraid to say it without wrapping it in empty polite statements. But if he likes somethi
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by aftoprokrustes 3y ago
The awareness of the innevitability of death can actually be freeing and help give more depth to life. For instance Maranasati practices in most branches of Buddhism or the "Memento Mori" of the romans and middle age christians. I
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by aftoprokrustes 3y ago
Totally agree. When he started saying "just write books and readers will come" I had to think about https://xkcd.com/1827/ Not to say that all he says is rubbish. "Pennyless beats bitter" is a good
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by aftoprokrustes 3y ago
> This strikes me so hard because I have been considering prayer in exactly these terms in recent months. I think we need to reconceptualize prayer and move away from the new-age conception of mindfulness. And I mean "prayer" d
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by aftoprokrustes 3y ago
I use my e-reader a lot, as I only have limited shelf space at home, and like to be able to take my whole library with me in the train. For most books, I am fine with having them only available on my device. Bit once in a while, I wish ther
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by aftoprokrustes 3y ago
Without the need to agree or disagree with the ruling itself (which I cannot read about, as the article is behind a paywall, and I expect that the ruling is more nuanced than what the clickbait title suggests), the fact that a person was co
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by aftoprokrustes 3y ago
I am genuinely curious: can you give examples of illegal content a EU based server would not be allowed to display/link to but a US based would?
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by aftoprokrustes 3y ago
Re politics: it really depends. I work in a field tightly linked to policy, and have contacts in other fields linked to the ecological transformation. Lots of them post politically loaded posts related to their area of expertise (some even
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by aftoprokrustes 3y ago
What I really "like" about the footage of the launch is how the commentator says "every parameter nominal" literally as the thing is blowing up. This is a great illustration of how fast the system failed.
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by aftoprokrustes 3y ago
So much of how difficult suffering is comes from how we relate to it. I have one close relative diagnosed with incurable cancer, just one year after we lost his wife to another type of cancer, after a difficult 2 years long fight. I learned
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by aftoprokrustes 3y ago
This is funny, I come from a different angle and see almost the opposite of what you see (being overly caricatural on purpose): - where you see the dropping of an old cynicism, I see a lot of capitalist cynicism: where spiritual masters wou
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by aftoprokrustes 3y ago
Actually, I do not think that a strong secular education makes it more difficult to achieve your two goals than a strict religious education. Just pointing at the fact that one of the extremes you want to avoid is framed with religious voca
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by aftoprokrustes 3y ago
As you mention Buddhism, there are actually a few things both in the Pali canon and modern teachings that come to mind and illuminate the present discussion: - in the Pali Canon (the oldest recollection of "discourses" attributed
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by aftoprokrustes 3y ago
as an addedum, here is an article that I found well written about the equilibrium between formulaic and "freestyle" interaction with inner images: https://inthewilderless.substack.com/p/inner-wilds-alchemy-c..
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by aftoprokrustes 3y ago
Good advice, though in the end ot still boils down to "accept yourself", which is the kind of advice she said she found unhelpful at the beginning... I think this is kind of a "Monad tutorial situation", were the importa
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by aftoprokrustes 3y ago
My understanding is that a lightning rod can only protect a maximal radius of 60m (see https://what-if.xkcd.com/16/ ). This would mean a mximal distance of 120m between rods in the areas you want to protect completely.
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by aftoprokrustes 3y ago
Addendum: I now read the article from which the citation comes, and the similarities with "imaginal meditation" and "soulmaking dharma", both in terms of experience and in terms of insight are striking. Pretty much every
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by aftoprokrustes 3y ago
Do you have any references about this "repeatability"? Is it repeatable for a given person, or across persons?

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