children used as guinea pigs in hemophilia experiments

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-68831061

Dickey Betts: The Allman Brothers Band guitarist and songwriter dies at 80

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68853477


my youth is disappearing
amazing i have lived this long

There is an adamantine Buddha Nature
Within the bodies of sentient beings.
Like the sun, it is essentially bright,
Perfect, and complete.
Although vast and limitless,
It is merely covered by the layered clouds
Of the five skandas.
Like a lamp inside a jar,
Its light shines nonetheless.

Sutra of the Ten Sages

The shadow of the bamboo
Sweeps the stair
All night long.
Yet not a mote of dust is stirred.
The moon beams penetrate
To the bottom of the pool,
Yet in the water not a trace is left.

~ Chikan Zenji

@drewnogal said
Enforced exercise?

lol
i'm just thinking out loud, please keep yer knives sheathed

let's MAKE EARTH GREAT AGAIN - MEGA
what needs to be done is go back in time to the great days of yore when men hunted and women gathered and children shut the heck up
no more machines!
no more computers!
no more silly games like chess and hide and seek!
i don't advocate for forced exercise,
BUT
if you don't you go hungry and die
life spans will go back to 40 years, total


oh dear
i just reread my rant and now i must croak

cya

@rookie54 said
Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.

~ Frank Zappa

i aim to misbehave

~malcolm reynolds

@rookie54 said
Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue.
It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made.

~ Oscar Wilde
The Soul of Man Under Socialism

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.

~ Frank Zappa

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue.
It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made.

~ Oscar Wilde
The Soul of Man Under Socialism

Inscribed on the Wall of the Hut by the Lake

If you want to be a mountain dweller,
No need to trek to India to find one.
I’ve got a thousand peaks
To pick from, right here by the lake.
Fragrant grasses, white clouds,
To hold me here.
What holds you there,
World dweller?

~ Chiao Jan (730–799)

@divegeester said
Not “unique username”

So who?

plot twist
trev stole trev's identity for entertainment purposes only

The great path has no gates,
Thousands of roads enter it.
When one passes through this gateless gate
They walk freely between heaven and earth.

~ Mumonkan

@martins said
How come a lot of forum posters haven't played a game of chess in over a 100 days?

chess is an evil distraction from the gawdly business of surviving this planet of doom upon which we all will die
i only engage in the "game" to hone my skills of infection

Upon the clatter of a broken tile
All I had learned was at once forgotten.
Amending my nature is needless;
Pursuing the tasks of everyday life
I walk along the ancient path.
I am not disheartened in the mindless void.
Wherever I go I leave no footprint,
Walking without color or sound.

~ Chikan Zenji

@Drewnogal

hear hear

made a playlist of gov't mule, a few clash selections, and the entire who catalog and listened to the app randomly choose what truths to drive me insane

gawd i love getting olde