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MrFunkEdude

@ MrFunkEdude @piefed.social

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Rational man with an absurdist kink. Toot curator. Cynical Optimist. Grounded Psychonaut. Livestreamer. Maker of bread. Writer. Zombie killer. Amateur photographer. Will create for food.

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  • Do you meditate?

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  • For the last year and a half. I started with Transcendental meditation. Then Vipasana in January and right not I’m learning Zen from “The Way” meditation app by Zen master and poet Henry Shukman. It’s actually very good and instructional. He’s created a series of paths that teach you step by step not only how to meditate but also how to expand awareness.

    The first 12 are free and then there’s a monthly subscription. If you don’t have the money you can tell them and they will offer a much lower yearly discount or give it to you for free.

    I highly recommend it.

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  • You can only do what you can when you can. When it's time too vote, vote. When it's time to help your community, help them. When it's time to lend your voice to the cause, then do so.

    But most importantly, stay safe. Protect your loved ones. Do what's needed to keep them safe even if it means finding safety elsewhere. People have survived this kinds of political authoritarianism before. People have survived fascist regimes before. You can too.

  • Do you believe in free will?

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  • Thanks for the reply.

    "inherently probabilistic and can't be determined" is just another way of saying "random" or "we don't know yet".

    If reality was not deterministic, the reliability of models and predictions in physics would be upended.

  • Do you believe in free will?

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  • In a deterministic reality, where all things are due and subject to causation, there can be no free will. If we did not live in a causal reality, we'd never be able to make accurate predictions or models.

    "Randomness" is not free will either. If you're not in complete control of your influences, then you can not be said to have free will. Randomness does nothing to help the argument for free will.

    With that said. Regardless of the existence of free will, what does exists is your awareness of what it's like to be you. To be in the circumstances that currently govern your life. And in that awareness exists the boundless capacity for compassion. Once you understand that no one is in control of their lives, that all things are causal, it allows you to be less judgmental.

    "If a man is crossing a river and an empty boat collides with his own skiff, he will not become angry. He will simply guide his boat around it.

    But if he sees a person in the boat, he will shout at the other to steer clear. If the shout is not heard, and the boats collide, he will curse the other person.

    Yet, if the boat were empty, he would not be angry."

    — Chuang Tzu (Zhuangzi)

    I wrote a simple explanation of determinism in a blog post earlier this year (there's an audio version available as well.) https://mrfunkedude.wordpress.com/2024/12/03/following-the-strings/

  • Meditation is like drugs but better

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  • The fact that people in this thread are bitching at each other and calling each other names over how they approach meditation is sad. Over the last year I have practiced Transcendental Meditation, Samitha, Vipassina, and I am now working on Zazen. I practice for two hours each day. Once in the morning and once in the late afternoon.

    From all of them the one thing I have taken away is an increase in empathy and compassion. By calming the mind and noticing the impermanence of thought and coming to the realization that the majority of people suffer from their thoughts which they have little control over, I was able to extend compassion and widen my capacity for empathy. So I don't understand the vitriol being tossed around by those professing to know what meditation "really is".

    If someone is saying that they meditate and it's as good as drugs for them, then who am I to judge? If someone says that they meditate and it's not as good as drugs, who am I to judge? If someone says that they meditate and that it doesn't increase their capacity for empathy and compassion, again, who am I to judge?

    There is a Zen saying... "Practice like a blind person in a dark room.” I encourage everyone to meditate on this informal Koan.

  • Why do you use the distro you use?

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  • I've been using Mint for a year now and I just got a second laptop and the first thing I did was Wipe Windows 11 off of it and install Mint.

    It does everything I need it too.

  • Fediverse @lemmy.ml
    MrFunkEdude @piefed.social

    Is live streaming on the Fedi rising?

  • Loops finally sent out emails: I have early access

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  • I've been testing it this morning. Obviously not a lot of content so I've been uploading some old content of my own.

    It is VERY bare bones. Still needs a lot of work and effort. You can't even upload an avatar yet. And the character limit in your bio is only 80? Should be at least 250.

    It's just going to take some patience. It's only (I think?) two people working on this? So development is going to be sloooooooooow.

    Still, I think it's worth the effort. Alternatives to centralized apps are important. Social media deserves to be in the hands of the people and the more we can take away from centralized services, the better.

  • The popularity of Minecraft has probably led some children to believe you can swim up waterfalls

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  • Wait. YOU can't ?