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Jerry Allen
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· Dec 2
What is good is what benefits the well-being of all beings. What is evil is what benefits the well-being of some at the expense of others. If your God is biased, your God isn’t God, only an excuse for doing what you want. -- Rami Shapiro
#wisdom #quotation
#wisdom #quotation
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April 22, 2025 at 6:53 PM
We’re so glad Bluesky appreciates The Conversation’s approach to journalism. And we get 3.6x the readership from Bluesky that we get from X.
But many people don’t know about us yet – if you think your followers would appreciate our links in their feed, please let them know about us.
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"The Buddha spent years of his life examining the nature of existence. He explored the innate qualities and dispositions of mind itself. He did not learn from a book or a god or a superhuman entity. He proceeded by long and direct examination of experience." —Douglas Penick
Exploring What Is
Buddhism advises us to accept everything in our experience, pleasant and unpleasant, as our own. One practitioner on using the Buddha’s first teachings as a lodestar during the frightening uncertainty...
tricycle.org
April 21, 2025 at 12:26 PM
"The Buddha spent years of his life examining the nature of existence. He explored the innate qualities and dispositions of mind itself. He did not learn from a book or a god or a superhuman entity. He proceeded by long and direct examination of experience." —Douglas Penick
"Find the good. It’s all around you. Find it, showcase it and you’ll start believing in it." -- Jesse Owens
#quote #quotation
#quote #quotation
March 31, 2025 at 9:30 AM
"Find the good. It’s all around you. Find it, showcase it and you’ll start believing in it." -- Jesse Owens
#quote #quotation
#quote #quotation
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Today I’m not taking it for granted that it’s permissible to say such things in a university library
March 20, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Today I’m not taking it for granted that it’s permissible to say such things in a university library
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Happy birthday, BF Skinner! (1904-1990)
This quote, which rings even more true today than ever, is from Contingencies of Reinforcement: A Theoretical Analysis (1969)
This quote, which rings even more true today than ever, is from Contingencies of Reinforcement: A Theoretical Analysis (1969)
March 20, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Happy birthday, BF Skinner! (1904-1990)
This quote, which rings even more true today than ever, is from Contingencies of Reinforcement: A Theoretical Analysis (1969)
This quote, which rings even more true today than ever, is from Contingencies of Reinforcement: A Theoretical Analysis (1969)
"When you hate, the only person that is suffering is you because most of the people you hate don't know it and the rest don't care."
- Medgar Evers
#quote #quotation
- Medgar Evers
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February 5, 2025 at 12:29 PM
"When you hate, the only person that is suffering is you because most of the people you hate don't know it and the rest don't care."
- Medgar Evers
#quote #quotation
- Medgar Evers
#quote #quotation
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H. L. Mencken
H. L. Mencken
January 31, 2025 at 4:38 PM
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H. L. Mencken
H. L. Mencken
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Some folks are pretty good seeing things coming.
December 18, 2024 at 11:37 AM
Some folks are pretty good seeing things coming.
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These privacy-protecting browsers are what we currently recommend for standard/non-anonymous internet browsing on desktop systems.
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December 12, 2024 at 12:26 PM
If you don't need anonymity, these are the best privacy-protecting browsers that we currently recommend for desktop
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What is good is what benefits the well-being of all beings. What is evil is what benefits the well-being of some at the expense of others. If your God is biased, your God isn’t God, only an excuse for doing what you want. -- Rami Shapiro
#wisdom #quotation
#wisdom #quotation
December 2, 2024 at 3:12 PM
What is good is what benefits the well-being of all beings. What is evil is what benefits the well-being of some at the expense of others. If your God is biased, your God isn’t God, only an excuse for doing what you want. -- Rami Shapiro
#wisdom #quotation
#wisdom #quotation
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Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else. Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
-- Hermann Hesse
-- Hermann Hesse
December 1, 2024 at 11:53 AM
Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else. Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
-- Hermann Hesse
-- Hermann Hesse
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Thanks BlueSky for bringing back the spirit of early Twitter!
November 28, 2024 at 6:18 PM
Thanks BlueSky for bringing back the spirit of early Twitter!
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"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person." - Mother Teresa
November 28, 2024 at 2:27 PM
"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person." - Mother Teresa
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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
-- William James
-- William James
November 28, 2024 at 3:47 PM
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
-- William James
-- William James
“All life events are formative. All contribute to what we become, year by year, as we go on growing. As my friend the poet Kenneth Koch once said, “You aren’t just the age you are. You are all the ages you ever have been!”
From
The World According to Mister Rogers
Fred Rogers
#quote #wisdom
From
The World According to Mister Rogers
Fred Rogers
#quote #wisdom
November 27, 2024 at 10:18 PM
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Maybe the fear is that we are less than we think we are, when the actuality of it is that we are much much more.
-- Jon Kabat-Zinn
-- Jon Kabat-Zinn
November 25, 2024 at 5:21 AM
Maybe the fear is that we are less than we think we are, when the actuality of it is that we are much much more.
-- Jon Kabat-Zinn
-- Jon Kabat-Zinn
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You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.
-- Alan Watts
-- Alan Watts
November 25, 2024 at 4:40 PM
You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.
-- Alan Watts
-- Alan Watts
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As long as you are breathing, there is more right with you than wrong with you, no matter how ill or how despairing you may be feeling in a given moment.
-- Jon Kabat-Zinn
-- Jon Kabat-Zinn
November 26, 2024 at 3:33 AM
As long as you are breathing, there is more right with you than wrong with you, no matter how ill or how despairing you may be feeling in a given moment.
-- Jon Kabat-Zinn
-- Jon Kabat-Zinn
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And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.
-- John Steinbeck
-- John Steinbeck
November 26, 2024 at 9:42 AM
And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.
-- John Steinbeck
-- John Steinbeck
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My 7-year-old was given a prompt at school to write what she would do if she were a Thanksgiving turkey. Her answer is, legit, amazing. #proudmom
November 23, 2024 at 3:28 AM
My 7-year-old was given a prompt at school to write what she would do if she were a Thanksgiving turkey. Her answer is, legit, amazing. #proudmom
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Tech influences the way we talk. From the printing press, to social media and AI, our language absorbs these changes, for better...and worse. Is our language becoming shallower, more incoherent? What we say influences how we think and what we do. #AIEthics
www.newyorker.com/culture/open...
www.newyorker.com/culture/open...
Why Do We Talk This Way?
Technology is dramatically changing political speech, rewarding quantity and variety over the neat messages of the past.
www.newyorker.com
November 24, 2024 at 7:46 PM
Tech influences the way we talk. From the printing press, to social media and AI, our language absorbs these changes, for better...and worse. Is our language becoming shallower, more incoherent? What we say influences how we think and what we do. #AIEthics
www.newyorker.com/culture/open...
www.newyorker.com/culture/open...