EVENTUALLY http://meaningness.wordpress.com/ hopes to sketch NOT modern Vajrayana—too late!—but how it can help atomized global web-mediated culture
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The hippest Tibetan Buddhists are stuck in the 1980s.
@joffe_p may be the only person explaining Vajrayana who understands reaction gifs. - 5 more replies
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@joshwarren86 Uh… I used reaction gifs as an outlier example to be deliberately provocative. I think what I said is true but rxn gifs are >
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@joshwarren86 not a *central* example! Although I do hope to write them up as *an* example. General story starts athttp://meaningness.com/meaningness-history …
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@joshwarren86 Yes! Very much so
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@joshwarren86 The trick is to do that while recognizing that importance is necessarily nebuloushttp://meaningness.com/nebulosity
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@joshwarren86 Well… in this case optimism might be out-of-consensus, and might reveal something useful, whereas pessimism is a dead end.
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@joshwarren86 Asymmetrical risk/reward ratio, in this case specifically, in other words.
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@concutere (I do call myself a Buddhist!) Buddhism has to be constantly renewed—and I don’t see that happening now. Worrying.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@concutere Yes, absolutely, I’m a Buddhist with an asterisk leading to a lot of fine print disclaimers!Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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