Are you ok?

I understand the question.

Oh good! 😮‍💨

OP is asking what the English variations there are throughout the world.

Then why did she ask about Norwegian? Why did she say “of your language” rather than English? Why did she answer my question by saying she means dialects from the Americas?

I am curious if Jamaican Patois would count as a different language entirely

There’s no academic/formal definition of what counts as a different language rather than a variant. Then it gets politically contested: peoples who want to assert their separatedness claim their language is totally different (e.g. Ulster Scots). That’s one reason if you ask “How many languages are there in the world?”, linguists tell ya “Between 4000 and 8000”

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How can yer memories possibly be this short? Why do ye think the Terrorism Act was passed?

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

OP what does the question mean?

Your post just asks what the Quebecois is, but you forget to say what it means to ‘be a Quebecois’

It’s funny that Kneecap have now gotten worldwide attention for Ulster dialect, coz Ulster dialect sounds weird to most of us.

Isn’t the correct answer that glucose-fructose syrup got subsidised?? (I might have my history wrong)

It’s funny how you never visualise the person on an internet forum as fat, but some of the people typing here are fat.

That’s not quite accurate. Only a handful of countries have exit visas.

Thanks for this comment, it really meant a lot.

Hi luv, thanks for the discussion.

A few things come to mind:

• Firstly, ‘the West’ doesn’t really exist, not in the very realist sense. It’s a label of convenience.

• Secondly, people dislike the West for exploiting (in other words expropriating, in other words taking) the wealth from the rest of the world. You mention ‘tankies’, who are materialists. Is it hard to understand why a materialist would expect an individual proletarian to follow the resources to the country that has accumulated them?

• Putting the above point more simply: UK extracted $64.82 trillion from India during colonial rule — which is the answer to both your questions. That explains both why people dislike the UK and why Indians have an incentive to move to the UK

If you think the West is evil, corrupt, racist, bad, why don’t you try moving out?

Have done. Loved it. Reluctant to give too many autobiographical details, but Africa is a wonderful place, people’s attitudes are more humane, less hurried and calculating.

We would love to hear your thoughts too. What are YOUR reasons for liking-or-disliking the so-called West and for living there or not?

First, I thought this was a reference to masturbation. My bad.

Deliberate.

Second, this a whole lot of effort

It’s none whatsoever. On the contrary, big time-saver.

that could be spent opposing capitalism as a whole instead of a specific albeit important flavor of it. Unless I’m missing the point.

We have always struggled against the empire on a cultural level and it’s worked well. Everybody knows that yanking yourself makes you go blind. And how can we fight imperialism we’re blind to the difference between garrison and Gael?

Passive voice fallacy… promised by whom?

I’ve lost interest 🥱

There’s not enough information in the top meme to know what theories it’s about.

Things vibrate in a way that isn’t obvious to an unexamined view. If I look at a pebble, it appears to be non-vibratory, still. But a mystic or scientist who has really investigated it closely, exposed it to close analysis, can tell you that the reality of the pebble is vibration, not stillness.

There are people who deny Reality is made of vibrations. They are absolutely deserving of kind & respectful correction, because it’s a wrong view.

World appears to be solid/stable at first but on closer inspection is actually vibratory.

It’s ok to have points of agreement. You don’t have to mock and bicker 100% of the time.

People live longer than most but not all animals it’s true.

Rebirths in hell are said to be pretty long:

• the Nandaka Sutta says says, “the complete lifespan of beings in that hell is one trillion years. Once they have suffered one hundred thousand years, suddenly they hear a strange sound. This is how they know they have suffered for one hundred thousand years.”
• “Sixty thousand years have passed while we have been boiling in hell”
• “I have been eaten by a dog with torn ears for seven hundred years”

My 888th post – seems auspicious

You’re equating not two but three concepts you should distinguish: complexity, respect, and the levels of suffering.

complicated and worthy of basic respect

Complexity is not the thing that makes beings worthy of respect. A chicken certainly has a less complex mind than a dolphin, but both have minds capable of pleasant and painful experiences. And so do I. Therefore, if I want my consciousness to be in nice states, and I believe feeling good is good, I should want that for the chicken and the dolphin too. Nothing to do with their complexity.

Nor is the ladder of suffering anything to do with respect. Some beings are suffering worse than others: for example I knew a girl who had mental illness and also a chronic pain condition in her knee that had her in 10/10 physical pain at all times. She’s obviously experiencing more pain than me, or the happy people I know.

The intensity of suffering varies. You don’t have to deny that in order to deny a hierarchy of ‘respect’.

In order to deny a hierarchy of ‘respect’, you acknowledge that all beings have Buddha-nature, which is to say that consciousness itself is capable of clarity, capable of experiencing joy and pain. And if you accept that anything with consciousness is capable of that, you accept that their happiness is just as important as yours.

In fact, if there were no differentiation of suffering, there would be no reason to act compassionately, as everything is going to suffer equally anyway.