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I plan on voting for Jill Stein. I'm not in a swing state so my vote doesn't count for much nationally. California doesn't get to vote until June anyway.

And as far as the "spoiler" effect is concerned, that's been disproved.

http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/polisci/facu ... eform9.pdf

You can donate to the Thai bhikkhunis through Ven. Pannavati's website.

http://pannavati.org/donate/

Happy Birthday SDC

In fact, post-test results showed that mindfulness training was associated with increases in both work exhaustion and disengagement. One could speculate that mindfulness training increased an awareness of just how exhausted these employees really were; their response was to withdraw and disengage f...

I've been following Buddhist Insights and Bhante Suddhaso on Instagram. They are doing a lot of great things

Ben wrote:Remember, you heard it first here.

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I apologize for giving the impression of having taking over the thread. I would be very pleased if someone else contributes with further information or different points of view. I will provide the latest news update without pictures or links, to avoid hurting sensitivities. The situation today is l...

Perhaps gender fluidity is a better term than sexual fluidity. Possibly it is more to do with identification and roles rather than sex (the act). I think you are correct. I remember reading somewhere that there are some people out there who don't identify with any gender at all. I forget what the w...

I think sexual fluidity is all about encouraging straight people to be more gay, and not at all about encouraging gay people to be more straight. Putting it that way presupposes that there are only two sexual identities, 'gay' and 'straight', and that everyone fits neatly into one or the other - an...

Kim OHara wrote:I guess this would be out of the question in any major US city, then?

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-02-27/g ... ey/7205162


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They might be able to get away with it in San Francisco or LA or NYC maybe

Would there be much difference in this regard between East Coast and West Coast? :coffee: Kim My family and I are East-Coasters, Kim (Northeast, to be precise). My sense is that one could find attitudes similar to the author's in more abundance on the West Coast. That is just my impression, though,...

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Yes, luckily we still have the suttas so that we don't need to pay attention to publications that consistently pour out such literature. Despite what we're told these days, we don't need to look outside of the suttas, or to those whose teachings contradict them, for guidance. Some good examples of ...