#layman — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #layman, aggregated by home.social.
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CW: blasphemy and kink
I know how jacked up we get on Vimalakirti in the West, because he was a layman who went into the brothel and what not.
But he still preached the sinfulness of sex. (According to the text that I do have.) So he still fell short in my book.
Blasphemous!
I much prefer my approach. Enter the brothel, and help my kinky siblings reach the other shore.
Upaya!
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really a fine presentation of a #masterpiece of #philosophy
... imop suited as well for the #academic #philosopher as for the deeply interested #layman [but] with an elsewhere well trained mind ...
... for such audience it may even be rewarding to drift through this twice ... before attacking the text of book III in detail or leaving the scene ...
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The A to Z of economics
Economic terms, from “absolute advantage” to “zero-sum game”, explained to you in plain English
https://www.economist.com/economics-a-to-z -
Explaining something to #layman... or even doing something in front of not tech savvy poeple can be funny.
me: *connects HSM to my laptop*
my mother: *thinks I am going to seriously harm myself*
my mother: *gives me terrified look*
my mother: No, don't do this if you don't have to.Mum, I'm fine and I didn't lose my head, mind, soul or something else...
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