@sarahdoingthing Also, what sort of people you get, and what you have to do to keep them. It tends to wind up being bullying sheep.
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@sarahdoingthing You do get to have sex with some good-looking sheep, plus a decent living, but you are still surrounded by talky sheep. :-(1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@Meaningness a legitimately hard problem. how much of it do you think is just extreme hypermobility/atomization? i.e. no real communities1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@sarahdoingthing Don’t know; have never experienced a real community. Is the Christian Midwest still functional? Maybe. Do pay pastors OK.2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
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@sarahdoingthing Asians have no problem paying Buddhist holymen well, but they think they are buying merit, so that doesn’t work in West.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@sarahdoingthing Rabbis also have a working economic model, including among hypermobile urban Jews. How does that work? I dunno.2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
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@sarahdoingthing Feedback loop: as charging for priesting starts to seem dubious, only the worst people do it, further worstening perception1 reply 1 retweet 2 likes -
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@sarahdoingthing Also competent potential priests see that it doesn’t pay and get jobs in finance instead. Leaving only incompetents, >1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
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@sarahdoingthing > so that public perceived value of priesting is accurately low.2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
@sarahdoingthing Have draft of page on “why you don’t want to be a Buddhist teacher” about this; may send you if I find not too incoherent.
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@Meaningness cc@sarahdoingthing Thank you. Your perspective really, really appreciated re deep memetic history/threads/harm on all this.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@meditationstuff@sarahdoingthing Oh, good. One of the few advantages of being old is having already seen old versions of new things.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like - 2 more replies
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