@obu - AMAZING comprehensive FREE online courses on a variety of topics. I'm doing one on the words of the #Buddha and I am loving it. #Education#OnlineLearning
And as @zenartcenter has noted, there are female Bodhisattvas within the #Mahayana tradition.
This is not to say that there are not problems. But I've always thought religious communities are so diverse. Consider #Christianity - you can have hardcore Christian nationalists in the US and you can have radical peace churches like the Quakers, Mennonites, and Amish within the same tradition.
The key is to not see religious traditions as monolithic and to understand that there are many traditions operating simultaneously within the larger umbrella and which can become more important in certain places, times, societies, and contexts.
@Sibshops@Wikisteff@Andres@pikesley I am "on the autism spectrum" (that is, I'm autistic) and I can confidently say I would not score a point against Serena. I also find the typical male ego ludicrous and obnoxious, despite being male myself.
Now I'm wondering, why did autism get dragged into this?
@hosford42 Yep, my son is barely on the autistic spectrum.
It wouldn't be out of character for him to say "I don't know" or "I don't think so." if I ask him if he would be able to get a point against a tennis pro.
@Sibshops That's a common misconception. The spectrum isn't a fade from full-blown non-autistic to full-blown autistic. It's more like a color wheel, with twenty different hues of autism, none of which is closer than any other to being "normal". I look and act neurotypical to most people, until they get to know me better, so people tend to call me "high-functioning" or otherwise water down my autism, but I'm every bit as autistic as any other autistic person. What most people see as more or less autistic is actually more or less able to pretend to be normal.
On May 29, 1787, The “Virginia Plan” written by #JamesMadison was proposed by VA #Governor Edmond Randolph, and included the proposal “... that the members of the first branch of the National Legislature ought to be elected by the people of the several States [and] to be of the age of _____ years at least …”.
Madison’s proposal literally had a ‘blank’ for how old a member of the #HouseofRepresentatives should be.
What was the decision of the Convention?
A. 25 years
B. 30 years
C. 35 years
Add your guess below!
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The Constitution Quiz of the Week is made in collaboration with Robert H. Smith Center for the Constitution at James Madison's Montpelier.
In Aug. 1828, the Madisons’ friend Margaret Bayard Smith wrote a vivid description of her visit to #Montpelier :
“The drawing-room walls are covered with pictures, some very fine, from the ancient masters, but most of them portraits of our most distinguished men, six or eight by Stewart...
"...The mantlepiece, tables in each corner and in fact wherever one could be fixed, were filled with busts, and groups of figures in plaster, so that this apartment had more the appearance of a museum of the arts than of a drawing room.”
Photo by Jenniffer Powers, courtesy of The Montpelier Foundation
For the future, it’s probably best to post to Lemmy communities from a Lemmy, kbin, or Friendica account; otherwise you risk the formatting of your message getting badly messed up, as it has here. It’s cool that you can post here from Mastodon but that doesn’t make it a good idea.
It would also have helped if you included some description with your link.
You can actually write posts from a Mastodon account that look well on Lemmy. All you have to do is follow a few basic rules.
Your post must include a line break. Everything above the break will be converted into the title of the post, everything below into the body.
Don’t put any hyperlinks into your title. That includes hashtags and @ mentions. See the original post for why
Keep your headline short. Lemmy has a character limit for the headline and if you exceed it your title might just end mid sentence
Put the @ mention of the community at the end of your post. It’s nothing but a technical necessity, so treat it as such and hide it away at the bottom of your post
If you follow these rules you can write posts from Mastodon
@darth That’s exactly what I have done 10 years ago. Got a good PC, and setup year after year all emulators for games I owned or I am interested in. In my opinion, those games are part of our culture, and they should be freely available to anyone at some point. It’s really a shame that doing so is illegal, but we cannot rely on those corporations to keep video game history safe.
gibt es hier bestimmte hashtags mit denen es sich besser miteinander vernetzen lässt? / hab mich schon vor längerem angemeldet, war aber so inaktiv das das #neuhier noch zählt 😅 und gehen hier threads wie bei twitter? also direkt weiteren tweet anhängen? (tröt anhängen klingt echt unfein 🤭)
From what I've seen from Euphoria, the cinematography is really good, but between the gratuitous nudity, and S02 sucking, I don't want to watch it. Are there any shows that were shot in a similar way?
The neon aesthetic seems like a newer trend (a trend that I love) and I see it most on these HBO shows that tend to have nudity. It’s not new and it’s not neon, but Breaking Bad has some incredibly creative cinematography, especially in the later seasons.
Weird that the neon and the nudity tend to go together.
Do most HBO shows have nudity? I know that Game Of Thrones has its reputation but I didn't hear about The Last Of Us having any nudity, Succession had basically no nudity and I really enjoyed the HBO Film Bad Education, which also had no nudity.
I've generally thought that HBO's penchant for nudity is a bit overblown, but I could be wrong.
We did Elder Scrolls tier lists on Discord so I figured I'd share my terrible opinion on here.
Honestly, Morrowind could probably drop down one slot, but I'm too nostalgic for it. I think each game does something different really well. I don't think there's a "best" TES game.