Leaning

You can't kill your enemy and take their stuff in peace. Maybe.

I suppose it depends a bit on who one is at war 'with.

China and Japan, I'd imagine peace often meant you either absorbed your enemy or they became your ally,

You then fought together against some other enemy.

There's an expectation of a peaceful coexistence or service.

But if you 'don't have that. . .

Then what you 'want is conflict, is war, is battle, and killing.

An excuse to take their territory.

To raze their structures to the ground and build your own.

To have their tribute.

Rome and Carthage,

Peace didn't seem to be in the cards, though I think it 'could have been if people had chosen it.

. . . I've heard that the Romans were surprised when Hannibal managed to pay of the exorbitant price the Romans had forced upon Carthage, after Rome won.

Sparta and the Helots,

The Spartans found the Helots ideal training material for war, maybe.

Perhaps also saw it as good practice to thin the herd in war.

Controller

R bumper attack

asbc abcd

L bumper look left characters, map, questions, inventory

R trigger next weapon set

l stick move

r stick weapon selecting

Keyboard

Enter attack

1234 abcd

Space look left

control next weapon set

wasd wasd

arrows weapon selectin

weapon variety

some are weak and have weak X gives few charges

sone are weak and have strong X that give many charges

Sine are strong and have strong X for few charges

I think long songs can be good.

Around 10 minutes isn't uncommon, even for non AI songs.

(AtSelfMore)

I wonder what makes something 'a song?

Albums have many songs put together, but many albums are a single story so to speak.

. . . The songs tend to have cutoff points I suppose, clear divides where the 'new song begins.

I wonder if there's any where the cutoff point 'isn't clear?

There's the music style, and the story. . .

So one could have a song of Angron walking on his homeworld with Lorgar, reminiscing of his 'true brothers and sisters.

Another song where Lorgar transforms Angron into a Demon Prince while Loyalist World Eaters and Lhorke attempt to stop it,

In a usual album that second song would end with Lhorke's death I think?

Or maybe a new song would 'start with Lhorke's death?

3rd song being one such as a more standard Angron as a Demon Prince.

But 'usually these three songs would either have different music styles, or even if in 'one music style, there would be 'moments, where one see's the new song begin because something new is happening in the story.

Though I suppose one could also just do it all in one style, and say it's one song.

Different styles though. . .

Maybe, Sad, Loyalty, and Doom.

A 'different way, one could make them one song though,

Is to move the style halfway into each song/narrative.

Sad starts with Doom music and fades into sad,

Loyalty starts with sad and fades into Loyalty,

Doom Starts with Loyalty and fades into Sad.

The trick would be for each song to have 'half their style, and half the style before.

Or half their style and half the style oncoming.

Hm, maybe it wouldn't work though.

Also, I imagine it can be tricky to 'slow transition into another style where it's difficult to notice where one ends and another begins.

Heh, besides, I think people would probably separate it into separate tracks anyhow.

Done.

To each their own, I suppose.

. . . I can't say I have 'no selfish reasons of some times I help people.

Sometimes one questions if such is even possible.

But I think I think more of others than myself, sometimes, sometimes give more to others than myself some moments of life.

I like people well enough, more often than not, maybe.

Love my family, am somewhat fond of some friends and acquaintances.

Even like some strangers I see in media.

Heh, though I can be selfish myself, 'sometimes.

I think you have helped people before?

Why?

Hm, what do you base your different treatment of people on?

Do you dislike anyone?

Are you not fond of anyone?

Fondness and familiarity, is what I have often taken love to be.

Valuation of other people, to some vague degree.

Hm, seems Dick Cheney died on Nov 3 2025.

I meant completely deaf, but one's you hear with a hearing aid, are also worth consideration I suppose.

Now and then I have a fear about losing various senses or body parts.

I think to myself, what type of video games would I play if I lost one or both hands, what if I lost my eyesight, or it just deteriorated, what if I went deaf, or partially deaf.

How could I still enjoy music?

What if I lost my teeth, what would be most enjoyable to eat?

. . . Course, I 'probably won't get into an accident, disease, or age, that such occur,

But I like to be optimistic about the age part, and assume I'll live to 120 years of age.

Partially I wonder for enjoyment,

Partially for concerns about maintaining mental activity and health,

Partially for greed, as I wonder what types of video games would appeal to individuals with such disabilities.

Banning of public libraries completely or in part, could be an interesting debate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_banning_in_the_United_States_(2021–present)

I'm not actually sure 'what a matrix is, even though I've seen the movies, and have heard the word elsewhere.

A framework/formula of numbers to explain some existence or function?

. . .

Arguably, everything that exists and might exist (Concepts) are data or can be described as such?

A perfect triangle, 3 sides 60 degrees in each inner angle.

. . .

How is God incorporated into a collapsing universe and is vital to the process of universal re-initiation?

Would they be a phenomenon of nature, as a raincloud is? Part of a cycle?

Pantheism?

Even if a very powerful, very knowing, very seeing AI was created.

I can't say I'd see it as 'the God, myself.

Not even 'a God.

Though I appreciate that it might fit some people's definitions.

Highest held personally valued X, whether in a person or abstract concepts such as money, love, or baseball.

A noun, a verb.

The Norse Gods I think could age, perhaps even die of age.

Idunn's apples

"Iðunn's absence causes the gods to grow old and grey, and they realize that Loki is responsible for her disappearance."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iðunn

Humans arguably create,

And if we created some being more than us, would we be such ourselves?

. . . Though one might argue we did not 'create. Reason, I Robot by Isaac Asimov.

Or that the being was not 'created, but 'waiting for us.

. . .

Heh, the Greeks,

Cronus overthrew his father Uranus, Zeus overthrew his father Cronus.

Heh, one 'probably 'could make a religion out of this.

. . .

The idea of Roko's Basilisk. . .

"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him."

-Voltaire

The West often has certain ideas of God/s that are not 'uniform in history or worldwide.

Some people fear death and the weakness of flesh, resent death and various diseases.

Transhumanism will only rise with time, assuming tech continues to improve.

Theoretically it would be possibly to 'create a God an/or leader, judge.

Who holds the majority of power, who 'has great power.

. . .

Been seen in fiction often enough.

. . .

HAHAHAHA!

Of 'course it already exists. Well, in small form.

Glancing online I see a couple.

Still, I don't think they're well 'established cults.

Not enough 'people, not enough land, money.

Ah, sometimes I wish I was brave or insane enough to dare in life.

. . . Though, of course the idea has flaws.

I remember one of the Ultima games had a robot statue judge, that some villain had managed to reprogram so that they could control court cases.

. . . Still, how would one form a Robotheism?

I'd say give the people a direction and give them some things they want. . . Isolating them and othering outsiders, also useful.

Could probably manage to start a city, get rid of the idea of privacy, everyone wears a bodycam 'all the time,

Either limiting it to the AI, or giving access to 'all other people in the community, hive mind.

Automate 'every aspect in society you can, while passing on the savings back to the people.

People wouldn't 'mind the automation by the rich 'so much, if they got paid for it, at least enough to scratch by in life.

. . . Automate 'everything one can, including autodocs.

Robotheism. . . Hm, does it assume 'one AI God, or can there be many?

Heh.

Funnily enough, I can agree with that idea (Sometimes).

Sometimes the path to defeat is obvious, and it's 'all you can see.

So don't follow it.

Professionals at times, are more predictable than amateurs.

. . .

Though, I don't think I'd vote someone for president, 'just because they were Muslim.

. . . Heh, and I think one reason people had for voting for Trump, 'was it being a chaos move.

What makes something 'canon?

I prefer headcanon sometimes.

'Canon according to 'what?

Who has authority over canon?

If an author edits a work 10 years later, why should the 'new version be canon?

Suppose the author sells the work to someone else and they edit it into a new version, why is the new version canon?

Canon cannot be retroactive, cannot be retconned.

The original stands by itself,

Whatever is not stated in a version, is not canon per that version.

Though there is often 'assumption that a work is connected to an older or future work. . . An oddity of fiction.

Just watched The Boy from Oklahoma 1954, a western.

Not bad.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/data-visualizations/data-spotlight/2022/12/who-experiences-scams-story-all-ages

I don't think Buddhism is 'necessarily a bad system, I don't know much about it.

Though I don't think Misterio has done a good job yet of setting it aside as so different from various other religions and philosophical systems.

I do recall reading of the parable of the poisoned arrow, which I found interesting, and persuasive of pragmatism to a degree.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_Poisoned_Arrow

What type of music do deaf people enjoy?

Senses. . . Touch, Taste, Sight, Smell, Hearing.

Regardless of hearing,

One can tap a beat, can physically touch some music by the vibrations.

Sight, one can 'see music, visualizers exist for music, that moves with the music.

Sight/Mind, one can 'see patterns in the written word, can see and appreciate concepts written with words.

While I'm not impressed by the post in #32.

The topic of old people and consent 'is a bit interesting.

. . . The concept of minimum age reversed.

Since many licenses such as driving, teaching require periodic evaluations 'regardless of age, I suppose it often doesn't occur to people.

And while I still don't think the statement that all individuals past X age are X.

It's true that statistically people become more at risk of various mental declines that dehabilitate, the older they get, and that the decline is gradual.

. . .

I'd suppose part of the lack of such laws, is that they are on their way out,

Another reason would be our appreciation of Choice,

. . . Adults have the knowledge and ability to schedule regular checkups, or write their wills out ahead of time.

What happens to them, is something resultant of choices they have made.

Contrast this with children, who have not yet gained knowledge or experience,

Various contracts and activities are denied to them, even if only they would be effected.

Drinking and smoking as examples.

. . . Though arguably even if only just a person is effect, they are often 'not the only one effected. Because they make later decisions based upon earlier decisions.

Drug use for example, one might say it 'only effects them, but then if they enter a psychosis, murder or steal, others are effected.

. . .

Gun laws and police doing inventory of citizens guns occurred to me as an example.

I'm disinclined to have such for regular citizens, but depending on probabilities and age, one could make an argument for requiring regular mental health checkups on citizens based on age.

. . .

Course on another hand, there's chances for people 'throughout life.

Schizophrenia has some early age range I forget,

And what about STDs,

Surely society would be healthier and less deadly, if all citizens were required to be health checked, and tagged if they possessed a disease, required to present a bill of health to sex partners.

Or have their information online, able to be checked by anyone.

Also a couple instances in Japan.

Sengoku period,

"while not truly armour nor armament, a very common item wielded by the mobs of Ikkō-ikki priest warriors was a banner with a Buddhist slogan written upon it. Some of the more common slogans included the nenbutsu chant "Hail to Buddha Amida!" (Namu Amida Butsu; 南無阿弥陀仏) and "He who advances is sure of salvation, but he who retreats will go to hell".[4]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikkō-ikki

WW2, Zen at War by Brian Daizen Victoria

"The book meticulously documents Zen Buddhism's support of Japanese militarism from the time of the Meiji Restoration through the World War II and the post-War period. It describes the influence of state policy on Buddhism in Japan, and particularly the influence of Zen on the military of the Empire of Japan. A famous quote is from Harada Daiun Sogaku: "[If ordered to] march: tramp, tramp, or shoot: bang, bang. This is the manifestation of the highest Wisdom [of Enlightenment]. The unity of Zen and war of which I speak extends to the farthest reaches of the holy war [now under way]."[1][2]

The book also explores the actions of Japanese Buddhists who opposed the growth of militarism."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_at_War

But I'm not familiar with Buddhism or what it's texts say. Or which texts you'd consider core texts.

Or with the statistics of religion and war in history, or the variables during it's history.

. . . Course you 'could try arguing the violent incarnations are not 'real Buddhism.

And glancing at Reddit, some people think the WW2 book is heavily biased.

I'm a bit doubtful that Leftists in general think that violent protests are fine.

Arguably some protests turn violent due to police intentionally or unintentionally provoking nonviolent protests.

Arguably other protests are depicted as violent, when they are not, or mostly are not.

. . .

Though I think some protests have been more violent that some people admit.

(However I lack reliable sources and statistics, for clear and certain viewpoint)

Course, once violence occurs at a certain degree, not quite a 'protest anymore, so much as a riot?

. . .

Political violence was one of the recent DebateCraft video topics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88c2ltSWeHk

DebateCraft Politics Mike & Max Discuss Political Violence

Where did you learn of the original teachings of Buddha?

What documents or culture can I refer to for common understanding of what is being discussed?

One pillar of consent, I assume is awareness and knowledge of situation.

Babies for example, cannot be expected to have this, due to lack of time and development.

Unless some technology changes this, it seems a pretty hard rule.

Older individuals,

Even past 100, do not as a rule lose their awareness and knowledge of a situation.

They are better treated on a case by case basis perhaps.

Individuals 'regardless of age get periodically tested for ability in various jobs and licenses.

. . .

. . .

Online scams targeting the elderly can be for various reasons I'd assume.

Loneliness for one, rather than feeble mindedness.

. . . I would assume youths possess a degree of susceptibility to fads, maybe more than older adults,

So one can argue having a long entrenched identity can be a positive.

Smartphones and the internet are still new technologies that humans are adapting to.

I do not know of the statistics of older individuals and phone use.

My parents learned easy enough.

. . . One can also argue additional factors such as lack of interest, again the established personality.

I doubt as many young people could do the crossword or jumble in the newspaper as well as a number of older individuals practiced at it.

I don't have much interactions with olde-

. . . I find several of the individuals on this site of an older age to be highly intelligent and interesting individuals.

Lack of positive interactions with older individuals is not necessarily because all older people are lacking, possibly your sample size is too small.

Could also just be cultural differences, which can occur even of people of same age.

There 'are decent arguments for setting age limits for the presidency, due to statistical risks of health issues.

. . . Course 'people have the power to vote a person into office or not, so is a rule 'really needed?

I read an interesting post once,

On technology and literacy.

In older days when public libraries did not exist, when the internet did not exist, just 'how valuable older individuals could be.

Given that they would tend to be among the 'few sources people would have of readily available collected information.

I think that is 'still true today.

Though people should be taken on an individual basis as well.

Whether body or mind, Nurture and whether people have exercised their body and mind enough or correctly has an effect.

Quick to adapt and act, is not 'always as good as a slower approach consider vast stores of data and memory.

. . .

. . .

'New technology, new ways 'tend to be for younger people, due perhaps to people preferring what they know,

I do not know the statistics of technology use and age.

The more normalized a technology is though, the more 'everyone will easily use it perhaps.

It seems a bit silly to say old people can't use Tik Tok, therefore they can't consent.

Many older people 'do use Tik Tok I assume, and as the technology is longer around, the 'more older people one will see using it.

Age does not 'stop older people from being active, sometimes more active than younger people. Individual.

Also not sure what it has to do with consent.

. . . Statistically older individuals may develop health issues admittedly. But again, individual.

Being young doesn't mean one will have energy and health.

Nor being old that one will lack energy and health.

Ah right, that guy.

. . .

(Shrug) I'm not a student of music theory, but assumably the song might still be catchy if it was in another language with no pictures, and we didn't know what was being sung about.

As we know what is being sung about, it ads a bit of humor, humor is often enjoyable.

People sometimes like repetitions, people sometimes like soft music, like rhythms.

Last Man standing, your soldiers are 'literally your hit points?

Though a soldier also died if you get hit?

When all your soldiers are dead you can also be killed?

Alternatively, if you are killed and the army is still standing, it suffers a loss of moral and control? For a 'period of time until leader respawns?

Hm, what about assassins?

Well, just have assassins do more damage to leaders, and less to troops, and take more damage from troops?

Or possibly death from assassin kills mass of units automatically?

Hm, nah, units probably going to die from bad moral and control?

What about a retreat mechanic?

Some die during retreat every X seconds until they get back to nearest base, then countdown for respawn?

Alternatively, slow retreat until X many die?

Nah, retreat mechanic and random X damage starting with most damaged units is good. Damage over time effect until reach a base.

Some stuff I can agree on,

'The American Civil War, or World War 'One.

I sometimes wonder if naming some wars something else would be better.

I also wonder what the highest numbered war is.

"Whitman called it the "Secession War" or preferably the "Union War"—rarely the "Civil War"—confident at least in his public writing that the Union would ultimately survive."

https://whitmanarchive.org/item/encyclopedia_entry599

I think I disagree with him on conscription, though I am unsure about people paying to avoid it.

Some people are arguably 'worth more for their money, than their value as a soldier,

Course on another hand, one can make a vested interest or fairness argument.

If a rich influential individual has to serve or have a family member serve in war, and not be able to pay their way out. Might make them more cautious about supporting or forcing other people into war.

"He fervently supported the first national military conscription law passed by the 37th Congress in early 1863, even though he was disappointed that it was not a universal draft (men won exemption either by paying substitutes or by paying three hundred dollars outright)"

https://whitmanarchive.org/item/encyclopedia_entry599

"Song of Myself, 51 by Walt Whitman

The past and present wilt—I have fill’d them, emptied them.

And proceed to fill my next fold of the future.

Listener up there! what have you to confide to me?

Look in my face while I snuff the sidle of evening,

(Talk honestly, no one else hears you, and I stay only a minute longer.)

Do I contradict myself?

Very well then I contradict myself,

(I am large, I contain multitudes.)

I concentrate toward them that are nigh, I wait on the door-slab.

Who has done his day’s work? who will soonest be through with his supper?

Who wishes to walk with me?

Will you speak before I am gone? will you prove already too late?"

https://poets.org/poem/song-myself-51

I think I like the contradiction part in the poem, I think it's often true of people and life, that such often have various contradictions and contesting forces.

What branch of Buddhism in particular are you advocating?