User:Alma
Account for the person who plays Alma and Zohal. long time ago she was in college for a while and studied psychology together with computer science. She likes thinking of cognition and sapience in all forms, not just in primates. Alma is her first mage character and she picked a corvidologist because of the whole cognition and sapience in non-primates thing.
- maitri: the intention and capacity to offer joy and happiness. loving kindness
- karuna: the intention and capacity to relieve and transform suffering and lighten sorrows
- mudita: joy
- upeksha: equanimity, nonattachment, nondiscrimination, even- mindedness, or letting go
Samkhya is one of the six āstika schools of Hindu philosophy.
one of the many things I dug up while looking into the concept of Pakriti to figure out whether my character would ever learn the Matter sphere.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anekantavada
Anekāntavāda (Sanskrit: अनेकान्तवाद, "many-sidedness") ...The ultimate truth and reality is complex and has multiple aspects. ... "intellectual Ahimsa" ... According to Jainism, no single, specific statement can describe the nature of existence and the absolute truth. ... All knowledge claims, according to the anekāntavāda doctrine must be qualified in many ways, including being affirmed and denied.[9] Anekāntavāda is a fundamental doctrine of Jainism.
Cort, John (2000). "Intellectual Ahimsa revisited: Jain Tolerance and Intolerance of Others". Philosophy East and West. University of Hawai'i Press. 50 (3): 324–47. JSTOR 1400177.
An Inchoate Universe: James’s Probabilistic Underdeterminism, Kyle Bromhall (pdf)
stuffyshirts https://runningahackerspace.tumblr.com/post/168084177185/we-came-up-with-a-bunch-of-rules-for-this-thing
On urban farming and 'colonialism' in Detroit's North End neighborhood
