23 dharmic trolling - dharmic leadership - universalism - war | a secular dharma
Channel: a secular dharma?
Date: 2021-01-01

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00:00 dharmic trolling - spiritual superiority
06:00 terminology, responses in secular buddhist forums
16:30 'scientism'
19:30 stephen batchelor and secular buddhism
23:40 why dharma?
28:00 dharma in everyday working life
30:30 dharmic leadership - self-transforming leadership
36:30 warfare 
40:30 dharma and universalism
43:20 how to make men kill
48:30 role of dharmics, psychopaths in human evolution

'dharmic trolling' refers to an experiment undertaken by Gary:

i've been doing some trolling on the interwebs.  dharmic trolling, to be sure. but trolling nonetheless.

this article appeared before me on xmas day:
https://www.psychnewsdaily.com/study-links-mindfulness-meditation-to-narcissism-and-spiritual-superiority/

which referenced this study:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ejsp.2721

i immediately saw the possibility that this would trigger 'something' in certain types of people.  (this is called sledging, an ancient australian tradition.)

just to be clear, the survey does have shortcomings, as freely acknowledged by the authors in the original paper.  i am more focussed upon people's reaction to this article, rather than the findings of the study.

so, i shared/posted it on three fb private forums, and after 36 hours, the reactions/responses were as below.  the response figures are extremely crude measures, but may mean something maybe. 

"Robert Sapolsky Discussion Group"
(note: this forum was created and is administered by me.)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/robert.sapolsky.discussion/permalink/10157824972997776/
~7,000 followers
82 "Likes" (response 1:85)
59 comments

"The Psychology of Stoicism, Buddhism & Epicureanism, Etc."
https://www.facebook.com/groups/202443453796593/permalink/691179391589661/
~59,000 followers
532 "Likes"  (response 1:110)
374 comments

"Secular Buddhism"
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1011471792220314/permalink/3928483927185738/
~9,000 followers
51 "Likes" (response 1:176)
103 comments

the comments were a little polarised, as i sort of expected, with many taking it as a personal attack upon themselves or their particular dharmic practice.

hypersensitivity was quite evident in a proportion of people in all these forums but mostly within the secular buddhism forum.


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