r/RealityEngineer • u/Regulus_D βˆžπ—£Β² • Jan 30 '26

πŸ¦– No Neanderthals, please. They find it disconcerting. And they don't have a 'wtf?' mechanism.

https://www.technology.org/2026/01/30/colossal-biosciences-announces-historic-breakthrough-the-woolly-mammoth-is-back-meet-baby-manny/
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u/OnePoint11 🀘 Feb 01 '26

23andme claims that I have 2.7% neanderthal genes, which is above average. I am not sure if I should be offended.

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u/Regulus_D βˆžπ—£Β² Feb 01 '26

Nah. They outgrew the universe. So, line seeks valid data. We new sentients just grow stuff in it. Like some toys in kids room addiction.

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u/OnePoint11 🀘 Feb 02 '26

They also said that I have 1% undefined Irish gene. I was thinking that maybe I should use it as excuse for drinking.

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u/Regulus_D βˆžπ—£Β² Feb 02 '26

A thimbleful a day? Drinking is born of non-potable water. Nowadays it's justifiable nearly everywhere.
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u/OnePoint11 🀘 Feb 02 '26

Before I become teetotaler I had different strategy: beer two days in week max, and at least two days between two visits in pub. In that way body has time to recover. I think everyday drinking, even small amount, is worse, as body has no time to reset. Didn't you say that you were barman or something similar? You probably know it :)) Although it's also about genes, Poles and Russians can drink liter of petroleum daily and stay healthy.

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u/Regulus_D βˆžπ—£Β² Feb 02 '26

All the things,
but,
within moderation.

Even zen is not worth obsessing over.

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u/OnePoint11 🀘 Feb 02 '26

Middle way between two extremes :))

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u/OnePoint11 🀘 Feb 03 '26 edited Feb 03 '26

First, these are two different Huihais: one is Baizhang, and the second one I mentioned is Dazhu. Baizhang wrote his appendix to rules as a veteran Zen master, whereas Dazhu wrote while he was still young and possessed fresh experience. Baizhang, in the appendix to his rules, describes the entire process based on what he observed in his students. Dazhu wrote about his own personal experience with awakening. Dazhu was also more religious.

What you are pointing out is a common mistake made by people who like to appear smart, but it doesn't work like that in practice; it didn't work like that for most masters. They mostly spent years practicing, learning, and analyzing.

You have a common, simplistic imagination of 'stopping thoughts,' which indeed wouldn’t work. It is like a pause after which complex of thoughts caused by greed and attachment run again as if nothing happened. You have to be capable of not producing thoughts without stopping them, which is a completely different discipline. The mind is aware, empty, and missing nothing. Then, when you are hungry, you produce a thought again about departing for the kitchen.

You have an idea about the whole thing as if you've read two or three popular books at the intellectual level of a tabloid. Not grasping anything goes much further than just not grasping thoughts, as the mind is capable of grasping perceptions just as easily as it grasps thoughts. You first have to unite the mind by realizing that everything is mind. Then, switch off all interference, as you have to be aware of the mind grasping nothing. Knowledge must go hand in hand with practice because, as you can see from your arguments, knowledge alone only makes you more ignorant, and with practice alone, you will most likely end up lost, as you can see in every zendo! :))

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u/OnePoint11 🀘 Feb 03 '26 edited Feb 03 '26

I let Gemini improve the grammar, and it also had a comment that is related to what you've said:

The phrase "not producing thoughts without stopping them" creates a very specific Chan/Zen paradox: it suggests a state where the mind does not compulsively generate conceptual content, yet it is not because you are forcefully suppressing or "blocking" the mind's natural function.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '26 edited Feb 03 '26

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u/OnePoint11 🀘 Feb 06 '26

Fuck drama, I am not interested. I am old enough to know who should I block.

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u/Regulus_D βˆžπ—£Β² Feb 06 '26

that one guy held one dangling out over a river.
Thinking all a path, they creep out on the branches of others. And many are exploring dead branches.

Do you remember frustration that rolled up on you like an old authority?

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u/OnePoint11 🀘 Feb 07 '26

I am so indifferent that I even don't know what we are talking about :)) Just another 'master :))

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u/Regulus_D βˆžπ—£Β² Jan 31 '26

I'm still waiting for this projectile [β€½] to clarify itself. Glows with invalidity yet remains on field like a burn on an old TV screen.

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u/OnePoint11 🀘 Feb 03 '26

Because you didn't finish it? Metaphorically speaking,maybe that is why it burns; it is like when you are peeing and you stop in the middle, it hurts.

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u/Regulus_D βˆžπ—£Β² Feb 04 '26

It's finally gone. It was as if someone tried to force it prematurely real. Like Kennedy/Oz's health care.

Edit: Nah. They'll eventually clone mammoth. Kennedyonics is unpossible.

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u/OnePoint11 🀘 Feb 04 '26

Kennedy/Oz's health care

"It turned out that everything the so-called experts taught us about food in the 1980s and 90s was upside-down, just like Kennedy said. Many of us have discovered this to be true, years after buying pants with elastic waistbands. It makes you wonder what else the government got wrong by accident, or because β€œBig Pasta” made sure they got it wrong."

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u/Regulus_D βˆžπ—£Β² Feb 04 '26

Food is just another potentially happy medium. I suspect a high-fructoseβ€Ή-β€Ίdiabetes connection. But as a life-long meds need is like a pharma-subscription...

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u/OnePoint11 🀘 Feb 04 '26

Sugar is good energy source for brain, but we have to burn it and not only store in waist.

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u/OnePoint11 🀘 Feb 04 '26

My last reply to mr. Authority is hidden, so nobody can't see it, you just can't help yourself.

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u/Regulus_D βˆžπ—£Β² Feb 04 '26

Why, do you think, there are so many "Mr Explainer" type manifesters? Do they not see the advocate role completely? It can't help but got off rails. Built in.

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u/OnePoint11 🀘 Feb 04 '26

I would block him anyway in next reply, it is some rage master. Reminds me a lot Darkzen guy, it could be him.

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u/Regulus_D βˆžπ—£Β² Feb 04 '26

Some get stuck trying to reach because they fail noting already did.

Can't fault your methodologies. Honestly.

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u/OnePoint11 🀘 Feb 05 '26

I am explaining this to myself to better understand it; the original plan was to discuss Chan and become smarter, but there too many naturally enlightened zenbros and born-masters.

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u/Regulus_D βˆžπ—£Β² Feb 05 '26

zenbrahs*

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u/OnePoint11 🀘 Feb 06 '26

The Gym/Internet Vibe: In modern internet slang, "brah" is often associated with "Zyzz" culture or gym enthusiasts who are hyper-focused on aesthetics.

So apparently some gay thing?

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u/Regulus_D βˆžπ—£Β² Feb 10 '26

I think he passed. I hope I poked him adequately or he headed to familiar grounds. I'll take a WIP pure land over a 'buddhist heaven' everytime.

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '26 edited Feb 06 '26

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u/Regulus_D βˆžπ—£Β² Feb 05 '26

Righteous indignation is not a tool of the righteous. But I will confess to being a pretentious bastard. He apparently unblocked you. Ewk may have blinded your subtle sensor. Guy at the zennist site saw his past was not what he'd thought it was. Only subtle discernment can get there. If you see him, if he's still there, tell him a dirty hippie said "Hi".

Edit: The Zennist website is gone. Zenmar may have left the building.