steve

That's fantastic! Congratulations @dwai Is it available anywhere other than Amazon?

Me too, again

Sending you good vibes and warm friendship @Cobie

🤣 I was kidding about the poll but … 🤷‍♂️ I still like Taomeow’s horsey best.

I think we need to set up a poll

And it would fit well in that bottom right corner

My favorite

Two things occur to me from this comment. Do you spend much time in nature? This is a place where quiet and boring can come alive and transform into love. Have you considered cooking as a hobby or career? It’s good to cultivate the things that give us a little joy. The absence of joy and boredom in life are often casualties of the over-stimulation of technology and disconnection from people and the natural world. They can also be signs of clinical depression. Talking to a mental health professional could be helpful if you find the right person. Methods like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance Commitment Therapy can be transformative. I experienced a lot of benefit from the latter.

I think it's pretty evident that the best and worst aspects of religion are simply expressions of the human heart and mind. Not the other way 'round. Again, just my blasphemous opinion fwiw.

I like listening to Christopher Hitchens' take on biblical morality. Basically, most advances in modern morality have been through emancipation from biblical (im)morality. Genocide, slavery, patricide, filicide, infanticide, rape, pedophilia, incest, torture, mutilation... all described, instructed, demanded, sometimes celebrated in the bible. The idea that modern day society derives from biblical standards of morality is laughable to me. Just my personal slant.

frocks

Currently reading a long but good one

I appreciate @bradley's weird thought... mine is similar. Karma to me is simply the causal connection between actions and outcomes. I once had a deep insight into karma in my own life and experience that informed my understanding of the concept. I could see very deeply and clearly how every action and interaction throughout my life have come together to bring me to precisely where I am at that very moment. I could see how different choices on my part, or that of others, and my situation would be completely different. I could see the pattern of cause and effect extending back before my birth and beyond my death. I could see the web of interaction extending out in all directions, across vast distances without boundary. Most of all I could see the sheer scale and complexity of this intricate web of activity and how this makes it so difficult to always appreciate the direct connection between a given action and its effects. Dharma has many meanings in a variety of religions and contexts. It can mean something that is firm and stable, suggesting a foundational or organizing principle or law of existence. It can refer to the way we, as individuals, relate to the world and to others and varies at different stages of life. It is often used to refer to the teachings of Buddha Shakyamuni. For me, the most meaningful and useful interpretation relates more to the truth or the absolute nature of being. In the tradition I practice, the ground of being is considered the source of all teachings and all possible manifestations; so that coming into relationship with this fundamental experience of our nature opens us to our full potential as human beings.

Almost forgot to mention their mascot shits rainbow ice cream!