You can. I go on a 2 week Mahasi vipassana silent meditation retreat each year and each time the release notes make it worth the time and effort. Also like running defrag on a disk that has been defragged regurlarly, it runs smoother each time, making the whole experience much more pleasurable.

Release notes last retreat:

• Fixed approval seeking issue due to lack of approval by clueless dad during teenage years
• Reduced day dreaming by 10% by recognizing mechanisms that lead to day dreaming
• Optimized routines for dealing with tough situations
• Increased mindfulness by eliminating several mechanisms that lead to mindlesness
• Discovered access to high concentration states that likely will lead to more discoveries
• Fixed loneliness issue due to missed update
• Fixed part of a (self and others) judgement issue. More work on this issue needed.

The above is a pretty accurate representation of the results I got.

She is psychologically healthy. Even more so than I am.

If Reddit does turn into another right-wing hellscape then people have even more reason to flock to the fediverse

Thanks for reminding me! … Done and I’m a backer now :)

12 years. I was part of the Digg migration. I used to love Digg. Then a bunch of corporate asshole decided to run Digg into the ground and a new found love for Reddit slowly bloomed out of that. I am still hoping to find that love for Lemmy. It’s not quite there yet, but it is only a matter of time as I really appreciate the good vibes here.

Ugh, I can imagine. I think gnostic $anything$ would be unpleasant to talk to.

Do gnostic atheist even exist? I think the distinction is only there to tease people who think that you can really know anything…

That’s what most people think, but when you go on long meditation retreats the experiences that you can have are quite profound and very far beyond being calm and in control. Those experiences are transformative. Spiritual is not really a bad word for it, except that with meditation it is all so very clear. You can explain exactly what happened, what the transformative insight was and how it changes your perspective. It is spiritual, yet lucid and repeatable.

I practice meditation quite seriously, but I stopped telling people I’m spiritual. I really am not interested in ghost stories, gods and angels at all.

I reject any argument based on something supposedly being natural. Who draws the line? And nature is a bitch anyway.

Hahah woopz :)

I always did this on Reddit too and it saved my ass a couple of times. Especially because Reddit disallows comments that are too long. The web UI will just silently fail and your long ass comment is gone.

It’s so awesome with a bit of kala namak on it. Mjam!

No. Recently asked the same question to an expert. She told me that they are shit.

Flossing is not done to prevent cavaties, but is done to remove plague. If you never floss, plague will build, your gums will become inflamed, your gums will pull away from your teeth and your jaw bone will deteriorate and at some point your teeth will become loose, painful and ugly. So if you want good teeth until old age you need to floss. Brushing only takes away 80% of the plague. Flossing removes the other 20%.