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Who is the shirtless guy?

Are we mixing philosophy and biology

I am not sure I mixed in much philosophy. I gave a scientific explanation because most people prefer it.

If we let go of all attachments in this perspective, we let go of life itself

We don’t let go of life but our attachment to it. You train to watch it happen and end like a spectator. Then you won’t feel a rush when good things happen which inevitably leads to a low (suffering) when they end. You will also accept the bad things beyond control without suffering.

You will be in a steady state of happiness and peace.

there are other ways to avoid suffering

Like?

You can’t avoid losing everything you call yours—including your loved ones. You can’t avoid sickness and death.

My sanity. Imagine how bad it’d be if I went into the streets one day and started talking nonsense and throwing stones at people.

Just a small addition if you don’t mind—we don’t know whether the universe is finite or infinite. Intuitively, I prefer a finite universe because I can’t wrap my head around actual infinities.

Locally flat or curved regions are possible in both cases.

Not necessarily. There can be meaning in suffering. You learn and change through it. And sometimes that’s a positive change.

Physical pain is a signal in your brain telling you to stay away from electricity, sharp objects, and fire etc. It also tells you when something important for survival is absent like food leading to hunger headaches.

So basically all physical pain is caused by you (the brain) being attached to survival.

Physical pain has a huge emotional component. That’s why we can train pain tolerance. Placebos and holding a loved one is sometimes as effective as morphine in reducing pain.

So all in all suffering is due to attachment. If you let go of the attachment by training your mind you can end suffering. That’s what Buddhism is all about.

That doesn’t sound like acid. On psychedelics you see bright colors and fractal shapes.

I’ve stopped taking acid for this reason. You can never guarantee what’s on the tab and whether it’s safe. If you can get locally grown magic mushrooms that’s way better.

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Username: admin
password: 123
host: 127.0.0.1

By fast I mean by touchscreen keyboard standards about 20-30 wpm.

I have used Flickboard too and I like both of them.

Flickboard is more advanced and supports a lot more customization. For example, it has macros which expand to symbols and text. You can create shortcuts for your email, math and currency symbols etc.

IME thumb-key is minimal, updated more frequently, and looks better out of the box. So I prefer it.

thumb-key by one of the creators of Lemmy. It’s also very lightweight and snappy.

It took me a few days to learn though. Now it has become my 2nd nature. I type fast and effortlessly with it. I don’t even look at the keyboard anymore while typing.