If it works for you, stick with it.
Works is a feature, not a bug.
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Paragone
joined 11 months ago
I'm a braindamage survivor.
You need to communicate your values, and why they are your values.
You need to communicate who you are, via the most-significant-moments/events you experienced: the most-significant-for-you meanings, see?
As for you disappearing, the Soul/CellOfGod/ChildOfGod/Continuum ( whatever you want to call it ) that causes the molecules in your body to continue-living ( yes, there is a physics-level cause for the anti-entropy behaviour expressed as living-organisms, and it isn't there, when those same molecules are doing the disintegrating-corpse thing, obviously )
That cause is unkillable.
It keeps getting caught in conceptions/lives, through endless-stream-of-Universes's perpetual recycling/churning of ALL energies ( including meaning! ) contained within it.
It isn't the-individual-life that is the center,
it is the Soul/CellOfGod/ParticleOfBrahman that is.
IT experienced some of ITs growing-up, in/through your-life.
With you, your Soul got a gift, fersure.
My life's been hell, & I'm glad:
nothing like aversion-therapy to force a Soul/CellOfGod to grow-up, eh?
The Soul that had "me"-personality won't ever make that mistake, again.
: )
If you've still got any ability to read, or to have someone read to you, please have someone get Elisabeth Haich's "Initiation" into you:
it is likely that only part of the book will be important for you, but that part will likely be IMPORTANT.
The world her Soul 1st inhabited was something like 10,000y ago ( it hasn't rained much there, since then ).
My Soul's spent most of its time inhabiting insect-lives, or particularly-stupid-fish-with-bad-eyesight.
It's been centuries since it had been in a human-category life ( the Catholicism I was pressed into, by mom, got nuked when I discovered those strange-memories were memories of my Soul's having lived in other kinds of lives.
Not only did it nuke all the Abrahamic religions, but it forced me to accept that ALL lives are lives because they have a Soul underlying them, and there isn't anything "special" about the life of a human, except for our Potential & our Opportunity, which most take for granted, including me, in my younger days ).
Anyways, you can't unexist, from Eternity.
You'll always have-been, see?
The Soul/CellOfGod who had you has YOU in it, indestructibly.
I'm earning removal of me-personality now ( should be days ), so the nervous-system currently having "me" can get that "me" ripped-out & can replace it with a better personality ( it's a Buddhist technique, apparently nobody remembers it, in the modern version of Buddhism, for some reason ), so you can stack multiple personalities/someones into a single incarnation, to get-through multiple-lives of lessons/growing-up crammed into a single incarnation/life.
It works, but it takes work to force one's own identity-death, or removal of the instance-of-ego underlying one's personality...
There are 3 kinds of mind that death-itself has difficulty "gripping" on:
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Wisdom-realizing-that-all-phenomena-are-empty-of-self-inherent-existence
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immeasurable-compassion for all sentiences ( but tempered by wisdom )
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Faithing, which is the simultaneous surrendering-to higher-power, relying-on higher-power, and gratitude-to higher-power.
Faithing on one's own CellOfGod/Soul is perfectly find/workable.
It has BuddhaNature/GodNature, so all you have to do is orient to that aspect of its nature, and then faithing is powerful/valid, see?
Guru-yoga, is faithing.
"a faith", ie noun, .. isn't what the original texts said, btw.
Anyways, I hope something in this helps, gives you leverage.
Either way, our Souls will meet again, after "us", sooner-or-later...
Salut, Namaste, & Kaizen, Hoomin!
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I'm Buddhist, so I'm answering this question from my real-life standpoint:
Authentic Realization of one's Ultimate ( original awareness ) Nature.
What could be more precious?
Given that ALL of one's unconscious-mind's mechanisms exist to block that from happening, to protect unconsciousness's Eternal unbroken dominion, what could be more difficult to earn/obtain?
All the distractions in the world, "helping" one to NOT earn one's deepest profoundest Truth...
All the profits that cease, should one get anywhere in self-realization...
You simply don't need any external resource, for there to be a most-precious-resource, you know?
I've been told that to start a fight in Francophones, just demand to know whether grapefruit ( pamplemousse, iirc ), is male or female...
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The book "The Alphabet Versus The Goddess" by Leonard Shlain, makes the point that women's-rights simply don't progress as quickly, in countries which have gendered languages...
So, Anglo cultures pushed women's-rights, whereas Latin cultures .. won't, don't, drag their heels, etc...
That book is now a couple ?decades? old?
It's still true.
Conditioning an entire population's System-1 ( Daniel Kahneman's "Thinking Fast & Slow", the System-1 is the default-instinct & the trained-now-automatic-expertise system, it also is the system that is both addiction & prejudice ) into gendering everything, automatically, may well prevent equal-validity from ever having place...
Mind you, I now want to see which Nordic/Scandi languages are gendered, & which Middle-East languages are gendered, to see if that holds in those parts of the world, not just in the Americas...
... digging ...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_in_Danish_and_Swedish
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_gender
( that isn't a quick read... may come back to it some day... )
Bingo!
"The grammatical gender of nouns is one of two: a noun may be masculine or it may be feminine, and there is no neutral option. Moreover, masculinity is the default grammatical gender in Arabic and a word does not have to have anything special in order to reflect this. Femininity, on the other hand, is not default and a noun would have to have something special to reflect this gender in Arabic."
from
https://www.learnarabiconline.com/gender/
So, there is ZERO hope of equal-validity in Arabic culture, because the language programs Arabic people's System-1 into 2 exclusive validity-categories, with male being inherently more-valid, by established language-habit.
What about Hebrew?
No wonder women can't get equal-validity in Jewish culture...
( I read a Jewess's writing ~ Nobody EVERY celebrated the birth of a Jewish girl: only boys are celebrated ~ .. which explains the damage in the stereotypical "Jewish mother", a woman whose validity has been contempted by all in her culture, until the damage is her most defining feature... )
So, it looks like equal-rights/equal-validity for women is .. baseless, in some/many cultures...
Interesting, but depressing.
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I haven't read the article, but yes, wars do have time-limits:
Once a war becomes domestically impossible to participate in, Vietnam as 1 proof, then the-course-of-war changes.
Economic-collapse means that Biden's hosed in 2024, and the Republicans are Russian allies, not NATO allies.
Yes wars have time-limits.
Simply wait & see: by the end of 2025, NATO will be gutted, Trump will have been crowned GEOTUS ( a term they already use for him ), and Trump will ( passively, at least ) back Russia.
Sickening, but it looks like that's the fact of the unfolding global/geopolitical near-future.
Go read McMoneagle's book of predictions: it is awefully wrong.
Remote Viewing is a modified kind of dreaming:
Remote Viewers are in dreams, and their ( very primitive brain, it seems ) ESP is patching-in pieces of what it perceives, but .. it is patching those things into a dream, so the result is .. rather groundless, with fragments of truth in it.
I trust the hard photos from NASA & ESA more than I trust McMoneable's dreams..
Yes, the youtube vid of him being interviewed about his helping Japan find sites that archaeology says did have to do with an early royal of theirs ( an Empress? ) is convincing, but I've not fact-checked it.
It may well be spot-on: ancient Japanese history isn't my interest.
If he was predicting people living on Mars, the same Mars that sometimes comes up to warm-enough to melt water, but has dry-ice on the ground, in the winters at the poles, and planet-scale dust-storms, and CO2 lasering in its atmosphere, and an atmosphere that is 1/1000th as thick ( from the aviation perspective ) as ours, with nearly-no oxygen loose in it...
I'm sticking with the machines that map & photograph the things.
from the article...
"Imperative Readability
< snip >
How does the function execute its logic?
What are the specific steps taken by the code?
Which operations are performed in what sequence?
How are state changes managed and tracked
< snip >
Declarative Readability
On the other hand, declarative readability (or readability-d) uses abstractions and architectural layers to manage complexity. It seeks to answer very different types of questions:
What is the intent of this function or module?
What business rule or domain concept is this code encapsulating?
What is the end goal or output of this code, in terms of the domain?
What are the high-level policies or constraints that this code is adhering to?
... I've no interest in learning Scala or Closure, but damn that is an important differentiation...
IF by "security" one means bugs have been prevented from living in it, there is one coded in Haskell, it may be named XMonad or something...
( .. digging .. )
Yep:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xmonad
from there:
"Due to the small number of lines of code of the Xmonad application, the use of the purely functional programming language Haskell, and recorded use of a rigorous testing procedure it is sometimes used as a baseline application in other research projects. This has included re-implementation of xmonad using the Coq proof assistant,[31] a determination xmonad is an imperative program,[32] and studies of package management relating to the NixOS linux distribution.[33]"
Dig: 2000-ish lines of code.
Hoomin, if you can, please read Daniel Kahneman's "Thinking Fast & Slow, and also Kegan & Lahey's "Immunity to Change".
Your Kahneman System-1 has decided some of your life for you, and your unconscious-mind is fighting-off-adapting, to protect inertia/deadness, and that costs.
You don't have to accommodate your unconscious-mind doing that: you can change the rules, but it means using the actual leverage of understanding to cause change...
Life happens. Shit happens. Some of us have been set-up to fail. Some of us have set ourselves up to fail.
The fools who pretend that Free Will doesn't exist, don't understand that free will exists in time, and your life-vector IS your determination, not today, or this-minute, but your ongoing determination.
Earn your life: change rules in your own unconscious.
The "rat race" won't do it: it wants to consume your life.
Parents can't do it for one, one has to do it one's self.
Friends can't do it for one, for the same reason.
Give it a shot.
Libraries exist, and maybe they can get the books for you.
Try farming chickens without contianment: a fox will kill all of them in a single night.
Wolves & coyotes require 1 large-ish animal per night for a pack.
Every night.
That means that within earshot of where I sleep, about 730 ungulates per year ( 2 per night, avg ) die, their bellowing reaching my ears.
Multiply that by the factor of difference between the small area I hear vs the large area of the portion of North America that animal farming is happening in...
Nature is dynamic balance, we threw that out the window, and our excess-meat eating is part of that culture.
Buddha Shakyamuni stated repeatedly that non-consentually slaying animals for mere meals couldn't be justified.
I'm beginning to agree with him.
IF you want Steam, THEN please consider every variant in the official Ubuntu family.
Steam-support told me in their system, iirc in early 2023, that they ONLY support the Ubuntu family ( directly ).
As Linus Torvalds noted, it isn't possible to release software that is going to work on all distros.
Even glibc has been broken by one, in that talk of his, and it wasn't a niche distro, either, iirc.
Pick which subset you CAN afford to support, and do not add to that subset until you're rolling in money, from your linux-customerbase.
( slight sarcasm on the last line, but business is business: destroying-resources costs, and if there is no benefit, it isn't sane to continue doing it. )
Decide which capabilities/functions/apps you NEED, and then don't even consider distros that break your required-set on you.
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