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Nine Alternatives to Ethical Non-Monogamy

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Sat, 14/01/2023 - 00:00

1. Unethical Non-Monogamy (cheating)

2. Ethical Monogamy (both partners constantly trying to solve the trolley problem)

3. Unethical Monogamy (when you keep a man locked in your basement)

4. Ethical Lawn Monotony (a cul-de-sac in a leafy township)

5. Oedipal Mom Monogamy (when you’re faithful only to your mother)

6. Unethical Ron Taxonomy (when you’re dating three guys named Ron, and your friend asks you to rank them)

7. Ethical Mob Monogamy (when you must swear absolute loyalty to your capo)

8. Unethical Combat Monologue (when your dad won’t stop talking about World War II at dinner)

9. Ethical Stop Monopoly (telling someone it’s time to stop playing Monopoly, because they’re getting too competitive)

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Fri, 13/01/2023 - 19:00
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Almost Nothing

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Fri, 13/01/2023 - 18:25
Almost Nothing

Words are always a problem, and never more so when discussing spirituality/meditation/cultivation.

There are many, many different types of meditation, designed to do very different things. There are forms of breath meditation whose primary purpose is to calm the body. When you do so, you may notice certain things about reality/yourself, but knowing “how to meditate” doesn’t mean you have achieved any level of insight or awakening; it’s just a technical skill.

But almost all of what I would consider real spirituality is about “knowing thyself.” This is primarily about observation; about noticing facts about yourself that you hadn’t before, and then noticing them over and over until something clicks and you start perceiving your existence in different ways than the norm.

How close did we come to nuclear war?

https://digbysblog.net/2023/01/12/how-close-did-we-come-to-nuclear-war/
Created
Fri, 13/01/2023 - 11:30
Closer than we knew Vanity Fair looks at the 13,000 addendum to the new paperback release of NY Times reporter Michael Schmidt’s Donald Trump v. The United States: Inside the Struggle to Stop a President featuring a long profile of former Chief of Staff John Kelly: Last March, shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine, Donald Trump reportedly told a room full of Republican National Committee donors that the US should “put the Chinese flag” on a bunch of military planes and “bomb the shit” out of Russia—and afterward, “we say, China did it, we didn’t do it, and then they start fighting with each other, and we sit back and watch.” Maybe you remember this, because it was a fucking insane thing to say. Or maybe you don’t, because Trump has said and done fucking insane things on a near-daily basis for many years now. Either way, it seems that this was not a one-off, and that suggesting the US attack another country and blame it on someone else is reportedly very much the 2024 presidential candidate’s thing.

Transitoriness — Brian Romanchuk

http://mikenormaneconomics.blogspot.com/2023/01/transitoriness-brian-romanchuk…
Created
Fri, 13/01/2023 - 11:28
The latest CPI report for the United States suggests that the inflation spike after 2020 was transitory in the rather weak sense that I understood the term “transitory.” I am curling in a bonspiel over the next few days, so I do have a long time to spend on this article, so I just want to outline my thinking on the topic of “transitory.”...
Bond Economics
Transitoriness
Brian Romanchuk