Lost in Translation

Would you support this " Should Medical Science be used to make them transabled. Is this different from gender dysphoria. My prior answer on this subject stands. If a person chooses to unnecessarily make himself crippled then that is on him. I disagree with that choice but I acknowledge that it is his choice to make.

I don't say "I am this" or "I am not that", therefore I can be what I choose to be when I choose to be it.

This. Set a drive encryption at boot. If you lose your drive (easy on laptops or usb/thumb drives) then thieves have a much harder job. I also recommend removing yourself from local admin group. Run as an unprivileged user and change to admin only when needed. It's less convenient but it adds another level of security.

It's an old joke... https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/thats-what-she-said

That's what she said!

Learning is a funny thing. First you teach with words. Words piled upon words. And they are just that, words. Then the student tries and fails. Failure piled upon failure. But it's just practice. Then maybe, just maybe, there is the "A ha!" moment when all the words crystallize into understanding, and all the practice becomes silly, since it's not really practice but doing. Doing after doing. And the doing becomes not doing. Before enlightenment, carry water. After enlightenment, carry water.

Taxes and regulations upon taxes and regulations .... why won't they stop? They might stop if they got what they wanted and needed but they don't, so they keep going. The government is hell bent on doing things that purport to support the general welfare but don't. Unless you fix that, it doesn't matter how many regulations you write or how much you tax, just doesn't matter.

I really could not resist...

Here is a short (7 minute) video by Dr. Robert Saltzman, Psychologist and author, about the nature of the present moment. I think it is worth watching.

What is Spontaneous Five Animals? From your description of the tiger and the centipede it sounds like shamanism.

I don't want to derail your thread, but I think this might apply. Lots of folks talk about non-duality, that the ultimate reality is a perfect union where all separateness is realized as illusion. Let's posit that is the case. Who are you praying to? Well, yourself! Right? And since you are praying to yourself you really are doing it alone, right? That being the case you might as well pray, since it's fundamentally no different than when Brad Pitt, beat up and bloodied, handed the Fight Club lessons over to Ed Norton for the night...

One need not pray to Kuan Yin per-se. One could pray to Jesus, or Krishna, or whomever. The important element is to realize that one cannot do it alone. Any attempt to do it alone is doomed to failure. Heaven provides much help to those who genuinely seek. Take advantage of it, that's why it's there!

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I love this! I would pay money to eat this. $$$

'Uncarved woodness' is wood in its natural state, i.e. exactly what the tree wanted it to be. An 'uncarved block' is wood with a (human) purpose that has not been defined yet.

Pooh is also a cute bear.

We all speak a different "spiritual language." What is simple to one person is nonsense to another. That said... Pray to Kuan Yin. Receive her limitless compassion. Be reborn in Pure Land. Rinse. Repeat. Done.

Perhaps the word "master" is to blame. Let's replace that with "competence." The sage develops sufficient competence to do whatever needs be done. If he needs master level competence then he develops that. The takeaway is not specific skill level but rather sufficient skill level.

https://apfc.org/who-we-are/ I might be able to get behind this, but we first must decide how the initial fund gets created, who pays into it, and who is paid out of it. It basically sounds like a quasi private version of social security.

Long ago I read somewhere that the sage is a master of many things. Whereas some people master a narrow subject and others gain shallow skill across a great swathe, the sage masters the great swathe. This idea has stuck with me, that the sage is a master of all things, and this goes hand in hand with both P'u and Wu Wei. It goes hand in hand with P'u in that the sage does not define himself as either this or that. As a result he can be both or neither. Once mastering a skill he is not "a master of a skill", thus he can master other skills too, as he sees fit. It goes hand in hand with Wu Wei in that the sage acts naturally, flowing through life, doing what needs to be done with whatever level of skill is required and is not confined by preconceived notions.

The U in UBI is Universal. If we, for example, want to give everyone in society a $1000/month stipend then we need to tax everyone $1000/month to pay for it. Obviously not everyone will pay $1000/month. Some will pay $200/month, others will pay $5000/month, and others will pay nothing. How is this not taking from some to pay others?

I see . You and I are essentially in agreement apropos transgender women in sports, Our difference of opinion lies in the societal reaction to transgenders. I accept that there are cases where the best option for a person suffering from gender dysphoria is gender reassignment. It seems you do not. This is fine. Now we understand each other.

My copy of The Shambala Dictionary of Taoism defines P'u as "rough timber, an unhewn block." It also mentions "new-born child" and "raw silk." The idea of raw silk is new to me. I guess I don't frequent those particular circles...

Fine, we'll play this game. I don't care what an adult of legal age and sound mind chooses to do with their own body as long as they do not expect me to pay for it. This is the same as your first question only worded differently. I'll include my response here again as a courtesy. Please let me know if this answer is not to your satisfaction.

TL/DR: No I already answered this at length. If you don't care to read what I wrote then that is your choice.