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by gnosis 14y ago
I've read HN over RSS for years. It's perfect for that. Firefox isn't very well suited for keeping up with blogs and news sites like HN because it's so damn bloated and slow, and you can't really save any articles for later reading without
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by gnosis 14y ago
Wow. That sounds like a very intense experience. Could you elaborate on what that was like and why you found it wasn't for you?
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by gnosis 14y ago
"the notion that inanimate objects and even trees have feelings is fundamentally unsound" It may seem unsound from the perspective of ordinary waking consciousness, and certain materialistic[1], physicalist[2], or naturalistic[3] philosop
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by gnosis 14y ago
"Did you find any practical purpose to the "altered" states of consciousness?" Yes. I found them very useful for understanding myself. They confronted me with many unpleasant (and pleasant) but important parts of my life and feelings th
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by gnosis 14y ago
Altered states of consciousnes and shamanism are fascinating subjects. I have studied and have experience with a wide variety of altered states and methods for inducing them, from psychedelics to meditation, drumming, strobe lights, flotati
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by gnosis 14y ago
Could you elaborate a bit more on the details of your breathing exercise? Do you do: 5 second inhale, 5 second exhale 7 second inhale, 7 second exhale 10 second inhale, 10 second exhale 5 second inhale, 5 second exhale 7 sec
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by gnosis 14y ago
I definitely had trouble sitting for long periods in the lotus or half-lotus position. Due to a year's worth of stretching, I'm easily able to get in to these positions, but my knees and back start to hurt after a while -- and this makes i
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by gnosis 14y ago
"This is a shame. Within the frivolous details we debate so much religion holds a wealth of wisdom and value that anyone can apply to their lives and benefit from." I have to agree. Many of the fruits of the Enlightenment[1] have been ve
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by gnosis 14y ago
It's true that part of the attraction of meditation for a lot of Westerners is that it seems "exotic" and "different". However, I would strongly disagree with you that such an attraction to exoticism is a reason for completely disregarding
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by gnosis 14y ago
A lot depends on how you define "thought". If you define "thought" as any kind of mental experience (including "sensory" experiences such as simply experiencing the external world), then I would agree that our minds are "cluttered and chao
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by gnosis 14y ago
"Technically (within the yogic meditation tradition), 'concentration' is defined as..." Which yogic meditation tradition? There are dozens if not hundreds of them, interpreted in a myriad of different ways by thousands if not millions of
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by gnosis 14y ago
I recently started meditating, using the method in "Mindfulness in Plain English". So far, I've been able to meditate for between 1 to 3 hours at a time, every day. I do feel quite a bit of calm afterwards and during the deep parts of the
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by gnosis 14y ago
I have never tried it, and have no interest in it.
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Poll: Do you meditate?
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I meditate two or more times a day.
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I meditate once a day.
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by gnosis 14y ago
I meditate two or more times a week.
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by gnosis 14y ago
I meditate once a week.
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by gnosis 14y ago
I meditate once a month.
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by gnosis 14y ago
I meditate often, but not on a regular schedule.
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by gnosis 14y ago
I rarely meditate.
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by gnosis 14y ago
I tried it once or twice, but it wasn't for me.
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by gnosis 14y ago
I tried it once or twice, and want to do more.
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by gnosis 14y ago
I have never tried it, but would like to.
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by gnosis 14y ago
"How would my phone know what I'd read on my computer if I'd already left the house?" Your phone could just contact your home computer via IP address (or maybe domain name, dynamic or otherwise) your home computer has. Your home computer
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by gnosis 14y ago
Don't forget the massive advertising and PR budgets that corporations like Google have, vs zero advertising and PR budgets of most open source projects.
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by gnosis 14y ago
Saturate your bandwidth by polling RSS feeds? What do you use to connect to the Internet, a 300 baud modem?
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by gnosis 14y ago
I don't see why an RSS app that resides 100% on a mobile device couldn't sync directly with another RSS app that resides 100% on your home computer or your work computer. No external RSS service necessary. That said, I understand that some
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by gnosis 14y ago
"I'm pretty sure one day we'll get some "Gnus meet StackOverflow" webapp which is going to rock our world. I can't wait for the next big thing" At the pace corporations "innovate", and considering their tendency to dumb-down interfaces in
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by gnosis 14y ago
Gnus wasn't the only Usenet news reader that had advanced features like that. Other news readers, like Pan[1] did too. Many mail clients, like mutt[2] and claws[3], were also pretty advanced in the ways they let the user score, filter, an

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