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Tuesday, May 20, 2025
Friday, April 5, 2024
A new kind of PORN? 🍆👩🦽😲 (video)
Lady Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson has criticized 'virtue signaling' (YouTube.com/The Telegraph)
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[“Porn” has many meanings and seems to be able to refer to anything we obsess over or fetishize. Disasters, doom-scrolling, torture, music, manga animation, anything that excites interest. But inspiration?]
She added that the reality is there are some disabled people who will struggle to get out of bed in the morning and struggle to work.
“There’s also a lot of non-disabled people [who] will struggle with that.
“As much as I loved the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics, I worked on the bid, and I worked on delivery, and I worked on legacy. It was amazing. That has not changed the world for disabled people.”
“Train access hasn’t improved, inspiration porn hasn’t improved, education for disabled children is still a struggle, access to sport facilities is still a struggle.” Source
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| Sophia Leone dead in the Age of Selfishness |
Paralympian Baroness Grey-Thompson has said disabled people are not all “heroes,” as she pushed back against the concept of “inspiration porn.”
The 54-year-old wheelchair racing champion said disabled [or otherwise-abled] people were often treated as if they were “brave and marvelous” simply for getting up in the morning.
The Welsh life peer recalled how her wheelchair-user friend who is an accountant was once described as an “inspiration” by a stranger.
She told the Desperately Seeking Wisdom podcast: “I was with a friend a little while ago, who is a wheelchair user as well, and somebody came up to her and they recognized me as an ex-athlete and that was lovely.”
“And they said to my friend, ‘Oh, you’re inspirational as well.’ And she’s an accountant. I’m not sure you generally call accountants ‘inspirational.’”
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| Lady Grey-Thompson, who amassed 11 gold medals over 16 years, said this perception “gets a bit complicated” when it comes to sporting figures (Andrew Yates/AFP/The Telegraph). |
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| Now that's porn I can sit behind! |
“Just because we have an impairment, it doesn’t mean to say we’re heroes.”
The former athlete went on to voice her annoyance with “virtue signaling” and the misconception that the 2012 Paralympics “changed the world” for disabled people.
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| Power sports to politician |
“People say, ‘Oh 2012 changed the world,’ because it makes them feel better.
“Well, it’s almost like we don’t have to do anything else because we had the Paralympics in the UK. And I get really annoyed by that.”
Lady Grey-Thompson said the “reality” is that people don’t know “how hard life can be for disabled people.”
“You know, making trains step-free is going to be expensive and a lot cheaper if they started it 30 years ago. So it’s things like that.
They say magic is unreal, so was this just good timing? Why does she stiffen?
It's a man's world? Pay the toll or Troll says 'no go'
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| I may be a superheroine, but not for this chair. |
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- The Telegraph, 4/5/24: ‘Inspiration porn’ (The Telegraph via MSN)
- Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Monday, August 28, 2023
Tech: AI and future of Walking Meditation
Amber Larson, Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven, Wisdom Quarterly
Walking meditation was recommended by the Buddha for calm exercise while keeping the breath in mind rather than always only sitting still.
Or it can be a continuation of mindfulness-of-in-and-out-breathing, taken off the mat and into the world, usually a parikrama or dedicated walkway for meditation.
(Wiki) Walking meditation, sometimes known as kinhin (Chinese 經行, Pinyin jīngxíng, Romaji kyōgyō, Korean gyeonghyaeng, Vietnamese kinh hành), is a practice within several forms of Buddhism that involve movement and periods of walking between long periods of sitting meditation [1].
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| Rumi: "Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it." |
It was made more popular in recent times by Vietnamese American monk and Nobel Peace Prize nominee (by his friend MLK) Thich Nhat Hanh.
It can be its own contemplative practice. There are, after all, four positions of the body to be mindful of in sati-sampajanna, "mindfulness and clear comprehension" -- walking, standing, sitting, or lying down.
Mindful of each intention and bodily movement, one can mentally note, "Intention to lift foot, lifting lifting; intention to place foot, placing placing," and so on very slowly for each movement. This keeps one in the present moment.
- Sati is "mindfulness" in Buddhism
- Mindfulness has four kinds of development
- (Not to be confused with Goddess Sati female self-immolation)
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| Rev. Dr. MLK Jr. with Thay (Thich Nhat Hanh) |
It is usually done slowly, very slowly, and calmly, remaining mindful (non-judgmental bare awareness of what is with extreme acceptance of all that is at this moment).
How is that going to work when we're all riding AI roller-skates that speed us up while keeping us from falling with no thought of balance?
The AI will balance for us like a gyrating Segway (standing two-wheel transport that doesn't fall over due to the practical implementation of a physics principle utilizing centripetal force).
AI and the coming Singularity
SINGULARITY: A possible future timepoint that occurs when technological advancement becomes unstoppable and irreversible
How to
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| Zen monastics circumambulate empty space? |
In different forms, the practice is common in various traditions of both Theravada and Mahayana Buddhism.
Practice
Practitioners typically walk clockwise [keeping to the right a revered person or object, originally a stupa or pagoda] around a room while holding their hands in a gesture with one hand closed in a fist while the other hand grasps or covers the fist (Chinese 叉手, Pinyin chā shǒu, Rōmaji shashu [2]).
During walking meditation each step is taken after each full breath [3]. The pace of walking meditation can be either slow (several steady steps per each breath) or brisk, almost to the point of jogging [2].
Etymology
The term kinhin consists of the Chinese words 經, meaning "to go through (like the thread in a loom)," with "sutra" as a secondary meaning, and 行, meaning "walk."
Taken literally, the phrase means "to walk straight back and forth." More
Thursday, July 30, 2020
Monday, July 13, 2009
Dick in a Dress: Sarah Palin
Palin’s Long March to a Short-Notice Resignation
ANCHORAGE (NY Times) — In late March, a senior official from the Republican Governors Association headed for Alaska on a secret mission. Sarah Palin was beset by such political and personal turmoil that some powerful supporters determined an inter-vention was needed to pull her governorship, and her national future, back from the brink.
The official, the association’s executive director, Nick Ayers, arrived with a memorandum containing firm counsel, accord-ing to several people who know its details: Make a long-term schedule and stick to it, have staff members set aside ample and inviolable family time to replenish your spirits, and build a coherent home-state agenda that creates jobs and ensures re-election.
Like so much of the advice sent Ms. Palin’s way by influential supporters, it appeared to be happily received and then largely discarded, barely slowing what was, in retrospect, an inexorable march toward the resignation she announced 10 days ago. More>>
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