Why zen doesn’t have anything to do with sitting meditation.

Although this tired old subject has been now been talked to death many times over on r/zen, and is no longer interesting, we still get trolls spreading religious misinformation on an almost daily basis.

As such, I’ve decided to collate all the crucial evidence in the “big debate” into one OP to make it easier to give people everything they need to know in one simple link, as opposed to repeating myself all the time.

Thus, welcome. This is a huge and tedious OP, but I think it’s necessary.

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INTRODUCTION

Zen has nothing to do with seated mediation. On the contrary, Zen masters warned people against trying to engage in seated meditation for zen purposes.

The reason so many people believe there is a link between zen and meditation, for that “zen” means “meditation” (it doesn’t) is that there are churches out there that have been actively spreading these lies and co-opting the zen name for their own weird nonsense doctrines for the last 1000 years.

Unfortunately for them, despite much being lost and purposefully destroyed, we still have a few records left from the real Zen Masters.

WHAT IS ZEN, THEN, IF NOT MEDITATION?

Zen is the name for an enlightenment school/lineage which was started in China by someone now referred to as Bodhidharma in around AD500. Unlike the various religions, philosophies and cosmologies at the time, Zen was radically different.

Zen is not a religion or a philosophy or certain practices or knowledge. Zen is, in a nutshell, about seeing your true nature. It’s about recognising what “Buddha nature” means. The penny drops, the cat is out of the bag. This is something that occurs in an instant. You see your nature and become a Buddha. This happens when all beliefs, ideas, concepts and practices are seen through as mere fleeting elements of One Mind.

Zen dialogues are all attempts at demonstrations and explorations of the dharma, as it were.

Buddha means “enlightened one”. The zen masters saw their enlightenment as the only true enlightenment, and the exact same one the “O.G” Buddha/Siddarta/Gautama/Sakyamuni experienced under the Bodhi tree. They retained the essence of it in their teaching, but Buddhists misunderstood and made a complex and nonsensical set of religions out of it, deferring to practices and beliefs, morality and the casting of the Buddha as a supernaturally gifted messiah figure.

Zenlightenment isn’t like that though:

*Enli

I was recommended to post this here from another sub. Unfortunately I haven’t got around to making a hundred of them. I have no doubt I eventually will so if I’m violating some kind of rule, I’ll be back. Some of these are funny some are wholesome and some are tragic and dark. Some are boundary-crossing territory, be sure to ask players what they’re okay with. Feel free to add your own.

1. The Toll

While making a crossing, a troll demands the toll for the upkeep of his bridge. The troll inherited the responsibility of the upkeep for this bridge and lives in a hovel nearby. Because it doesn’t technically fall into any city’s province no municipality is responsible. The troll demands very little, merely one gold piece. It is willing to accept food, particularly of the fey kind as payment for its work. The troll may speak giant or very broken common depending on the party’s language loadout. There are no significant consequences for either paying ignoring or attacking the troll it’s just a stand alone moral choice.

2. “Give me a good death”

An old paladin hobgoblin wants his ‘good death’. The hobgoblin has been looking for this death for quite some time in order to get into their order’s afterlife. They might phrase their proposal with the implication that the players should kill it. But in truth a self actualised hobgoblin of this obscure faction must only be killed by the one who knows them the most, themselves. Cut to the dilemma: the hobgoblin has rigged up some very elaborate means to commit suicide, it could be a Rube Goldberg Saw trap which ritualistically cuts the individual open seppuku style or a simple cliff edge with lots of spiritual meaning to the paladin; the problem is the hobgoblin needs an audience for its death or it doesn’t count. Though they might explain this in so many words, the players may still not be able to shake the feeling they are being tricked into an ambush.

3. “Tell my wife…”

The players have arrived just in time to witness a grizzly scene. Two travellers have met with an unfortunate accident. Their carriage flew too fast down a hill and has crashed into a fallen tree. One of the travellers who was manning the horse was flung forwards and has been impaled on one of the trees many sharp branches. The other who was riding in the car has been partially crushed by the carriage. Both are still alive, though minutes from death. However importantly they happen to be just out ears reach from each other. Cut to t

Dear Rick, Marty & Prometheus:

May we please ask you to have a detailed, professional evaluation done on Zena's French map and to report back the results on an upcoming episode? The evaluation could involve experts in Templar history, cartography, French history, and experts in the French language itself, including dialects and their evolution.

Zena's map has been referenced heavily on the show for a long time, and you all keep returning to it in the search. If the map is that important and central to the search, would you please have it evaluated by professionals, just as you do for all other artifacts and search clues on the show? It might help the search! Until now, the map has not been subjected to any detailed, critical evaluation by knowledgeable professionals associated with the show. This is not consistent with how the rest of the research is being conducted. Professors are called in for compositional analyses of metals and water samples. Tests are done to date wood samples. Historical libraries are consulted for pertinent past documents. Expert authors (Randall Sullivan) are called in, as are people who have familial connections to past searchers (McInnes sisters, the Restall progeny, & relatives of Samuel Ball). Professors and other experts are called in to evaluate book bindings, pieces of military shoes, coins, semi-precious gems, buttons, tools, the brass door knob, pottery pieces, ox shoes, metal implements and straps, shapes of stone pathways, the Tanit cross, the spurious Roman sword and more. But the show and research team have done no detailed, critical evaluations on the map.

The French map remains a central element of the show, but there are significant questions about it. These questions don't prove that the map is false, but they do warrant that the map should get the same due diligence as the other artifacts shown on the show. Here are some reasons to get the French map evaluated:

1. If the map were legitimate, wouldn't there be historians, academicians and museums intervening to study it and publish their results?
2. Rochefoucauld castle employees, in France, noted spelling errors during the episode in which they were shown the map. This was a cursory reading, not a detailed evaluation.
3. Marty himself said on camera that he had some problems with Zena's map during one of the episodes where the map was used (not evaluated) by GPS expert Erin.
4. **Couldn'

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So last Saturday, a few of us from /r/AcademicBiblical met up on Discord for a little casual chat and hang. Everyone was a genuine delight to talk to.

To give the meetup some structure, we had picked an article to read beforehand, as a bit of a bouncing-off point for the convo. This week the topic was the famously disputed 1 Corinthians 14.34–35, exhorting women to total silence in the churches/assemblies; and the article was Kirk MacGregor's "1 Corinthians 14:33b-38 as a Pauline Quotation-Refutation Device."

This post is both an extremely comprehensive overview of the text and scholarship on it. It also offers a number of new thoughts and interpretations, and gets pretty deeply into a bunch of other issues that we weren't able to touch on in time during the meetup.

Here's how NRSV translates these verses and the surrounding ones:

>29 Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others weigh what is said. 30 If a revelation is made to someone else sitting nearby, let the first person be silent. 31 For you can all prophesy one by one, so that all may learn and all be encouraged. 32 And the spirits of prophets are subject to the prophets, 33 for God is a God not of disorder but of peace. (As in all the churches of the saints, 34 women should be silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be subordinate, as the law also says. 35 If there is anything they desire to know, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is shameful for a woman to speak in church. 36 Or did the word of God originate with you? Or are you the only ones it has reached?) 37 Anyone who claims to be a prophet, or to have spiritual powers, must acknowledge that what I am writing to you is a command of the Lord. 38 Anyone who does not recognize this is not to be recognized

If anyone's previously familiar with these verses and scholarship on them at all, they'll know that 1 Corinthians 14.34–35 is widely thought to be highly intrusive in its context, and many scholars have proposed this as the clearest instance of a post-Pauline interpolation that we have in the Pauline epistles. Interestingly, though, recognition of an anomaly here, and even its spuriousness, isn't modern at all, but goes back to the early church.

In one of those rare instances where we have information about the original scribes who copied an

I guess the concept didn't work

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Most people are aware of the significant disparities between blacks and whites in the U.S. with respect to a wide range of important outcomes, such as income, education, poverty, incarceration, etc. For nearly every measurable metric of important life outcomes, blacks perform significantly worse than whites. In this post, I will cite studies showing that many of these disparities are mostly or entirely eliminated after controlling for performance on standardized test scores.

Note: due to reddit length limitations, this is a shortened version of a post from my website. To see the full post with more context and graphs, click here. Also, this post is agnostic with respect to the cause of the test score gap.

Preliminaries

The National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth

The relation between youth test scores and life outcomes in the U.S. is perhaps best demonstrated with data from the National Longitudinal Surveys published by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Most studies below rely on analyses of these surveys, so it will be worthwhile to explain this data. There were two separate longitudinal studies of two different cohorts: the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79) and the 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY97). Both surveys collected data on several thousands of subjects from a representative sample of the noninstitutionalized civilian population in the U.S. For both surveys, data was collected at the start of the survey when participants were in their youth (in 1979 or 1997). The participants provided additional information in repeated follow-up interviews about important life outcomes, such as wages, education, marital status, etc.

• The NLSY79 includes about 10,000 participants born between 1957 to 1964. Participants were aged 14 to 22 years old when first interviewed in 1979. This cohort was interviewed in 28 separate rounds, with the most recent round being in 2018.
• The NLSY97 includes about 9,000 participants born between 1980 and 1984. Participants were aged 12 to 17 years old when first interviewed in 1997. This cohort was interviewed in 18 total rounds, with the most recent round being in 2018.

The Armed Forces Qualification Test

Both cohorts of the NLSY completed the Armed Forces Qualification Test (AFQT) during the first interview. The AFQT is comprised of the following subsections of the [Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASV

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##Arizona Fraudit

After months of delay, the Arizona ‘fraudit’ conducted by the Cyber Ninjas has finally concluded with the release of a “draft” report finding that Biden, in fact, won Maricopa County - by a larger margin than the official count. The final tally, according to Cyber Ninjas’ opaque and questionable methodology, resulted in Biden gaining 99 votes and Trump losing 261 votes. It’s important to note that the so-called “audit” wasn’t needed to confirm Biden’s win. Nor was it about a legitimate counting of votes; the goal was and always has been undermining a Democratic victory⁠—any Democratic victory.

Thus, the group’s presentation before the state Senate glossed over their reinforcement of Biden’s win, choosing instead to focus on unfounded and hypothetical claims that fraud nevertheless occurred in the 2020 Presidential election.

>Officials with the review claimed that duplicate ballots might have been counted, that signatures on ballot envelopes were suspect, that 23,344 mail-in ballots might have come from wrong addresses and that 10,342 voters might have voted in multiple counties. They said (pdf) thousands of voters might have moved out of the county or the state, that mail ballots never sent to voters might have been counted and that 282 voters might have been dead.

Maricopa County election officials took to Twitter to live fact check these false claims during the hearing. The full threads can be read here and here.

>CLAIM: 23,344 mail-in ballots voted from a prior address.

>BOTTOM LINE: Cyber Ninjas still don’t unde

Legitimately wondering….I do it all the time but they just go away and I’ve never followed them to see the affects

Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.

THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB

Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"

I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual

So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes

r/unclejokes for dirty jokes

r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC

r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes

Punchline !

Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub

Edit 2: don't touch the thermostat

Do your worst!

Hello all,

I'm currently working on a project where I'm trying to perform key information extraction (KIE) and classification on rental property operating statements. My plan is to pre-train a model on a similar dataset (e.g. [IBM FinTabNet](https://developer.ibm.com/exchanges/data/all/fintabnet/), etc.) and then fine-tune on a custom dataset I'm creating. My task is to:

1. Identify the key:value pairs associated with each line item for each period in the statement. So for example, for the first line item, we'd have a 3-tuple of ('Rent income', 'Nov 2020', 21,428.03)
2. Identify the key:value pairs associated with the total for each line item in the statement. So for example, for the first line item, we'd have a 3-tuple of ('Rent income', 'Total', 322,872.36)
3. Automatically classify line items by their type ('income' or 'expense') and predict a category for them based on the line item description. So for example, in the attached screenshot, the 'Rent Income' line item is identified as belonging to the 'income' side of the statement and gets mapped to the standard category label 'rent'.

Based on the problem I'm thinking it's going to be important for the model to be able to learn a representation from the semantic content contained in the layout of the table in addition to language level content. Based on the literature it seems like this is a pretty new domain. I've been reading the papers on [BertGrid](https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.04948), [KIE](https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.14470), and some of the new table extraction/understanding research coming out of [Microsoft](https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.12537) and [Google](https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.398/). My main questions that I'm hoping for guidance on are:

1. Considering the task, does the annotation method I've outlined in the screenshot below seem sensical? I've also thought about just annotating the line items themselves and then just parsing that using some sort of delimiting heuristic.
2. The main thing I've been struggling with is how to create an embedding that combines the table structure with the text content. It seems like given cells indexed by row 'i' and column 'j', something with dimensions like (i, j, word_embedding) might work, but my gut instinct is that

How the hell am I suppose to know when it’s raining in Sweden?

Mathematical puns makes me number

Ants don’t even have the concept fathers, let alone a good dad joke. Keep r/ants out of my r/dadjokes.

But no, seriously. I understand rule 7 is great to have intelligent discussion, but sometimes it feels like 1 in 10 posts here is someone getting upset about the jokes on this sub. Let the mods deal with it, they regulate the sub.

They were cooked in Greece.

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

He lost May

Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?

Two muffins are in an oven, one muffin looks at the other and says "is it just me, or is it hot in here?"

Then the other muffin says "AHH, TALKING MUFFIN!!!"

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

u/LjLies here posing as the bot. I just have to tell y'all about this one.

So a while ago there was a big, probably harmless due to depth, earthquake in the Banda Sea near Indonesia, right?

Some 20 minutes later, at 19:08:07 UTC, I get this:

> 🌐 Earthquake! భూకంప! நிலநடுக்கம்! მიწისძვრა! 6.1 Mwp tremor, registered by early, occurred 24 minutes ago (18:43:24 UTC), during daytime, English, United States (38.18, -86.57), ↓479 km likely felt 290 km away (in Louisville, Jasper, Owensboro, Evansville, Paoli…) by 843100 people — Webcams: https://www.windy.com/webcams/1623089061 https://www.windy.com/webcams/1623081974 https://www.windy.com/webcams/1623081741 (webservices.ingv.it)

(still visible here)

I immediately think a few things:

• it looks like a very unlikely event, it's not on USGS, it's almost certainly spurious in some way due to the one in Indonesia;
• if it thinks it's in the US, why is it posting "Earthquake!" in a few Indian scripts?
• "English, United States" looks very suspicious, and reminds me of when I'd get earthquakes in "Earth, Texas" simply because a few people use "Earth" as their location on Twitter.

I hurried to remove the post here and on Twitter, but then I realized the event was actually posted on INGV, the Italian agency that the bot used as its source!

I stopped the bot (it isn't running now) and tried to tell INGV it was likely a spurious event, but their tweet about it even says "evento rivisto" (normally meaning "reviewed", as in confirmed by some human)... not quite sure what the human has been doing! Hopefully they remove it soon, because if I restart the bot without this event removed, chances are it'll start posting again. Luckily no one in that area was a designated DM recipient on Twitter, or I might have scared people for no reason.

But then the doubts about Indian languages and "English" remained. Well, English is a tiny town in Indiana, and 38°20′8″N 86°27′38″W actually

And now I’m cannelloni

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

But that’s comparing apples to oranges

And boy are my arms legs.

Put it on my bill

Heard they've been doing some shady business.

but then I remembered it was ground this morning.

Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me that my jokes aren't stale

Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments

BamBOO!

They’re on standbi

A play on words.

Calcium, nickel, neon

[removed]

My daughter, Chewbecca, not so much.

Now that I listen to albums, I hardly ever leave the house.

Cross-post from samharris

Most people are aware of the significant disparities between blacks and whites in the U.S. with respect to a wide range of important outcomes, such as income, education, poverty, incarceration, etc. For nearly every measurable metric of important life outcomes, blacks perform significantly worse than whites. In this post, I will cite studies showing that many of these disparities are mostly or entirely eliminated after controlling for performance on standardized test scores.

Note: due to reddit length limitations, this is a shortened version of a post from my website. To see the full post with more context and graphs, click here. Also, this post is agnostic with respect to the cause of the test score gap.

Preliminaries

The National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth

The relation between youth test scores and life outcomes in the U.S. is perhaps best demonstrated with data from the National Longitudinal Surveys published by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Most studies in this post rely on analyses of these surveys, so it will be worthwhile to explain this data. There were two separate longitudinal studies of two cohorts: the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79) and the 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY97). Both surveys collected data on several thousands of subjects from a representative sample of the noninstitutionalized civilian population in the United States. For both surveys, data was collected at the start of the survey when participants were in their youth (in 1979 or 1997). The participants provided additional information in regularly scheduled follow-up interviews about important life outcomes, such as wages, educational attainment, marital status, etc.

• The NLSY79 includes about 10,000 participants born between 1957 to 1964. Participants were aged 14 to 22 years old when first interviewed in 1979. This cohort was interviewed in 28 separate rounds, with the most recent round being in 2018.
• The NLSY97 includes about 9,000 participants born between 1980 and 1984. Participants were aged 12 to 17 years old when first interviewed in 1997. This cohort was interviewed in 18 total rounds, with the most recent round being in 2018.

The Armed Forces Qualification Test

Both cohorts of the NLSY completed the Armed Forces Q