Re:Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time
by bopbeepboop on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @09:41PM
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I can’t tell you what to do with your life.
My solution to encountering outdated beliefs with great utility was to try and update them — to retell Kung fu (and Buddhism) in that new world view. Buddhism has a maxim to keep what’s useful and discard the rest.
What does “ki” mean in physics?
I think it’s more than esoteric luggage, but a class of physics equations which are nasty to write down because they’re complex differential equations — and the numerics don’t matter to the practice, just the behavior of the system.
So you give a name to that behavior and model it experimentally, describe it euphemistically, etc.
I get spending the time to learn multiple models and translate between them isn’t everyone’s idea of fun, though. Those people reasonably make different choices than I did.
My solution to encountering outdated beliefs with great utility was to try and update them — to retell Kung fu (and Buddhism) in that new world view. Buddhism has a maxim to keep what’s useful and discard the rest.
What does “ki” mean in physics?
I think it’s more than esoteric luggage, but a class of physics equations which are nasty to write down because they’re complex differential equations — and the numerics don’t matter to the practice, just the behavior of the system.
So you give a name to that behavior and model it experimentally, describe it euphemistically, etc.
I get spending the time to learn multiple models and translate between them isn’t everyone’s idea of fun, though. Those people reasonably make different choices than I did.