Joe Cecil

Meta-self-righteousness

Lately I caught myself thinking meta-self-righteous thoughts: Man I wish that person wouldn't speak so self-righteously. Don't they know their view isn't the only one in the world? It's driving me up the wall. I keep so quiet about that stuff they&

Just build it out of Thatldu

The Minecraft modpack Cuboid Outpost gives you a way of producing a full stack of diamond-like material every second, called Thatldu, for nothing. Literally zero cost except five stacks of the material for a singularity plus a bit extra to build the machine. This is only in the first five

The worst thing about reading a meditation book

Me while meditating: Remain uninvolved. Also me while meditating: Hey, how do the six realms and the five skandhas fit together? This is really important. I should figure this out right now. Wait, I was supposed to be remaining uninvolved. Hey, and how do the five elements figure in? Right,

Only Murders in the Building

It's a pretty good show. Poor Evelyn.

Prayer in The Magic of Vajrayana

In The Magic of Vajrayana, Ken McLeod seems to be very big on prayer. One of the chapters at least is devoted to a translated text called The Magic of Faith, which I think is supposed to function as a prayer although I don't recall exactly. Even the

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