@Rah1woot xD

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@gg12 Well, my mood is fine. But if someone were to look from the outside, they'd likely see my situation as terrible. But I'm moving forward.
Yes, I'm a NEET. I can't do work or go to school in my current condition.
While, to say the least, things could be much better, I wouldn't necessarily say that I'm tired of it. It feels more like there's only one direction for me to go, and I'll eventually get where I want to be, no matter how long it takes or whatever temporary problems arise or are currently present.
I doubt I'll talk on Discord anytime soon. The level of socialization I engage in on this forum feels enough for now. Using Discord in addition to that would feel like too much.

I didn't expect to feel something from another person expressing care, but... I have to admit that it does feel good. Thank you. I wish you well too.

Here And Now
by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Here, in the heart of the world,
Here, in the noise and the din,
Here, where our spirits were hurled
To battle with sorrow and sin,
This is the place and the spot
For knowledge of infinite things;
This is the kingdom where Thought
Can conquer the prowess of kings.

Wait for no heavenly life,
Seek for no temple alone;
Here, in the midst of the strife,
Know what the sages have known.
See what the Perfect Ones saw-
God in the depth of each soul,
God as the light and the law,
God as beginning and goal.

Earth is one chamber of Heaven,
Death is no grander than birth.
Joy in the life that was given,
Strive for perfection on earth.
Here, in the turmoil and roar,
Show what it is to be calm;
Show how the spirit can soar
And bring back its healing and balm.

Stand not aloof nor apart,
Plunge in the thick of the fight.
There in the street and the mart,
That is the place to do right.
Not in some cloister or cave,
Not in some kingdom above,
Here, on this side of the grave,
Here, should we labor and love.

@eduardo-crispino didn’t majority latino men vote trump XD what is real life rn bro. This is gonna flip a culture on its head bro 😄

@random its a good one to watch fully in evening mostly for entertainment / fascination and maybe more idk yet. hes a great explorer the moon mysteries one was wild

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"Drawing does indeed involve thought, and it is an effective and efficient method for perceptual training. And perceptual knowledge can impact learning in all disciplines."

"Learning to draw may uncover potentialities that are unknown to you right now. The German artist Albrecht Dürer said, 'From this, the treasure secretly gathered in your heart will become evident through your creative work.'"

"Research on brain-hemisphere aspects of visual perception indicates that drawing a complex realistic image of a perceived form is mainly a function of the right hemisphere of the brain . . . it appears that the right hemisphere perceives — processes visual information — in a mode suitable for drawing, and the left-brain mode of functioning (L-mode) may be inappropriate for the task.

"As our hemispheres gather in the same sensory information, the task may be shared, each handling the part suited to its style. Or one hemisphere, often the left, can 'take over' and inhibit the other half. Remember, language dominates!"

" . . . it seems probable that you have all the brain power needed for drawing, but old habits of seeing interfere with that ability and block it. The exercises in this book are designed to remove that interference and unblock it."

Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (the definitive 4th edition), pp. XIX, 7, 31, 36, 5
Betty Edwards

@NoeticJuice said in Did you replace Dr. Ray Peat after he died or are you living gurulessly? (pls include serviceable rayplacements):

@dapose said in Did you replace Dr. Ray Peat after he died or are you living gurulessly? (pls include serviceable rayplacements):

We need to be painting and playing music and making art.

I'd like to see more art here: Sketch thread

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Energy and structure are interdependent at every level.

Besides the usual Canon of ML thought. I would recommend reading Paul Cockshott: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44676165-how-the-world-works

@ThinPicking Pretty much right. Jeff Bezos has done more to develop and organize the real productive forces than any college campus Leftoid.

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https://www.celebheights.com/s/Donald-Trump-126.html

Ivan Illich

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Important works

1970 - Illich, Ivan - Deschooling Society
1970 - Illich, Ivan - The Church, Change and Development
1970 - Illich, Ivan; Toynbee, Arnold; Goodman, Paul - The Great Ideas Today
1971 - Illich, Ivan - Celebration of Awareness
1972 - Illich, Ivan (foreword); Hancock, Rose Mary (translator) - Letters from the Desert
1973 - Illich, Ivan - Tools for Conviviality
1974 - Illich, Ivan - Energy and Equity
1975 - Illich, Ivan - Medical Nemesis - The Expropriation of Health
1978 - Bradshaw, John S.; Illich, Ivan - Doctors on Trial
1978 - Illich, Ivan - The Right to Useful Unemployment
1978 - Illich, Ivan - Toward a History of Needs
1980 - Bracher, Karl D.; Illich, Ivan - Der Mensch und seine Sprache
1982 - Illich, Ivan - Gender
1982 - Illich, Ivan - Im Weinberg des Textes
1986 - Illich, Ivan - H2O and the Waters of Forgetfulness
1987 - Illich, Ivan et al. - Disabling Professions
1988 - Illich, Ivan - ABC - The Alphabetization of the Popular Mind
1991 - Illich, Ivan et al. - Was macht den Menschen krank - 18 kritische Analysen
1996 - Illich, Ivan - Klarstellungen
2002 - Illich, Ivan; Hoinacki, Lee; Mitcham, Carl - The Challenges of Ivan Illich
2011 - Illich, Ivan; Cayley, David - Ivan Illich in Conversation
2012 - Illich, Ivan - In the Mirror of the Past
2018 - Illich, Ivan - Shadow Work
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Videos

Ivan Illich - Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health
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Ivan Illich on Water and the History of the Senses - 1984
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Other Texts

https://www.untergrund-blättle.ch/gesellschaft/panorama/technisierte-hoelle-ivan-illich-corona-krise-7875.html

Excellent, thanks. Fascinating development.

@Rah1woot said in My thoughts on Le Great Reset:

But computers aren't real anyways.

All computers are Danny Roddy actually. Remote Roddy.

I won't use the magic words to bring the heat on but that would definitely bring to mind connections between yi long ma's companies and a certain US government research organization

lol

@gg12 these are all white people

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South Americans

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bri'ish

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@bio3nergetic
Yes the mk uktra controllers even use their own family and friends to maintain power and spread delusion. Sick.

lol very fitting, unfortunately. For now.

@Rah1woot said in just3another3normal3person:

you basically have to go to coded objective materialism whenever you have to do anything in the real world or reason about it

I'll also be needing a chat with my pals ("comrades", whatever).

@Nomanarch said in just3another3normal3person:

internally coherent

If only they and I could be this. Nevermind the dream.

Death comes for everyone, but the Bible is clear that it is appointed for man to die once, and then comes the judgment (Hebrews 9:27-28).
I don't fear death because I know Christ imputed His righteousness on me and His blood has cleansed me of my sin. There is a second death the Bible talks about (Revelation 20:14-15), and it's for those who reject Christ's free gift of salvation, the forgiveness of sins, which leads to eternal life. This second death is eternal separation from God.

If you don't want to fear death anymore, and want to have your sins forgiven, submit your life to Christ! Jesus saves 🙂

John 3:16
New Living Translation
16 “For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life."

Why do.you seems partly hostile even tho we were having friendly convs last Times we spoke?

He's not. It's just nautical weather.

Have you read the Sun Eater series by Christopher Ruocchio?
Made we wonder about our place in the universe and the host of unknowns in it, even if you dont believe in space as it is portrayed in our society. The main character has some strong hero characteristics but also some anti-heroism. You want the main to succeed but he doesnt always and if he does there's always a doom element in it, yet he never gives up on his beliefs and his pursuit of the truth about himself and the universe (not in a boho hippie way).

If you like antihero dark epic fantasy then maybe The Broken Empire trilogy by Mark Lawrence is your thing. It's been a long time since I've read it but I remember the main character being strongly anti-hero with an interestingly dark mind. Also some gore. Should read it again soon