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Shortness of Life (Stoic)
Seneca wrote that it's not that we have too little time—it's that we waste much of it. Life is short; we should use it well. Gratitude sharpens that awareness: when we're thankful for each day, we don't want to waste it. We're awake to the gift of time. Thankfulness and the sense that life is short go together—both call us to pay attention.
"It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it."
— Seneca, On the Shortness of Life
https://gratefulday.space
In all fairness here. You’ve come to this kind of interpretation how exactly? You’ve been influenced by who? What have you read that has led you to a more perfect understanding of scripture than the early Church, those people who knew the apostles themselves, St. John -> Saint Polycarp of Smyrna (martyred) -> Saint Ignatius of Antioch (martyred) for example?
Where exactly in history have you pinpointed the departure from the “real” teaching of Jesus?
This is a great rabbit hole.
So the official narrative more or less is that the templars built all the cathedrals and whatnot using certain techniques and sacred geometry. For those who don't know, the templars were structured (most likely restructured) in the 12th century AD, then hunted down beginning with 13th of October 1307. Tracing their lineage back to immemorial times, they imply even John the Baptist (master) and Jesus (top of his class) were of them.
Now of course, I'm not here necessarily to cast any judgment because it's very hard to tell what's what when everything you can experience with your senses can be hacked or altered.
Despite all this, the search for the Truth is rewarding in itself. If you have the opportunity to experience the ineffable there is nothing that can convince you otherwise.
Coming back to the great buildings of the 1800s, but more importantly from way before, there is no way those were built by ignorant or primitive men using horses and carriages. With all due respect, this is naive reasoning.
Therefore definitely go research and see for yourself.
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As you say, she was the one you found _most beautiful_ among a particular subset, rather than in comparison to all women on the entire planet. And you still remember that positive comparison.
With me, it was the man I thought was the _hottest guy on the village football field_. 😁
We are bi-winning, Robert!
Listening to marketers is always so insightful because they understand decision-making more than anyone. How do you get someone to select something and feel good about sticking with that thing, instead of switching to something else or despairing that they should have kept looking for something better?
You give them a narrowed selection of choices, make the differences clear and transparent, and allow them to select the best of that selection. Then they feel satisfaction and that feeling remains over time.
Who is most unhappy with their selection?
1. People with no options.
2. People with too many options.
3. People who think they were tricked into selecting one option over another, better option.
And this explains why modern women often have such seemingly haphazard simply arbitrary "selection criteria". They have so many men to choose from (or, at least, that is how they feel the situation is; it's their subjective impression of the dating market), that they struggle to figure out which subset to choose from, so they just go for whatever they think might be generally attractive or create artificial criteria that are effectively random and irrelevant.
He must be 6 feet tall and make 6 figures, is the classic, as if a man who is then 5'11,5" and $99,999.00 in income would be completely out of the question. She wouldn't even be able to determine the difference, in actuality, and he could be quite far away from those stats and still provide her with the same "girlfriend experience". (Which is why so many men simply lie about it, as she can't tell the difference, anyway.) But men also get rejected for seemingly random, one-off things like, "His opening line was only mildly funny." or "He had some spinach between his teeth after dinner." or "He drives a Ford instead of a Toyota."
This "pickiness" is the typical behavior of people who have no branded sub-selection to help them make a decision. They start comparing the penny price per liter, reading the ingredients list and obsessing over tiny differentials like this ketchup as 14 g of sugar and this other one is much much better with its 13 g of sugar. Oh, I don't like the font on this label...
Yeah, that's why I'm spending the day thinning out my app. I don't understand what is going on, anymore, and it was starting to become a mysterious no-man's-land of contradictory spaghetti, rather than my own architecture.
The tax we pay when building with AI. Comprehension debt. The mental modal of a how a system works.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv6rwHTGT5w
Own your code.
https://dri.es/never-submit-code-you-do-not-understand
I was thinking about what he says here, regarding decision-making, and how no one is truly happy with a decision until they have done a sort of market-survey to see what the various _appropriate_ choices are, on offer, and get to select the most-appealing one from among them.
Seems relevant to women's modern dating behavior. Especially in a country (such as America) with highly-anonymous and socially-isolated populations and no acknowledged socio-economic classes. That leaves women facing The Entire Male Population as the selection of _possible_ husbands, and each woman has to sort of sift through that mass of men to narrow down the _appropriate, possible_ husbands. And then she still has to test and examine from that narrowed selection, to find the one she can finally "settle" on. She has to sort of iterate her way down, and it typically takes years and lots of women just give up.
The more a woman is grounded within a particular class (subset) of the population, the smaller her iterations are and the faster she can discover the Final Four and then pick the one she likes best because he has the nicest teeth and goofy humour, or whatever the winning trait is, and finally move on with her life, with the feeling that she got a good deal within her personal budget.
Her dating experience is akin to the struggle to purchase a bottle of ketchup at the grocery store. There is no readily-apparent indicator for why one bottle is more appropriate than another. You can stand in front of that stand for 3 hours and just give up and go home without ketchup. Or you find some brand, that speaks to you because of some previous association, and then you just need to select one of their sub-brands, for a bit less sugar or curry-flavor, or whatnot.
Or, to put it differently, most women start "shopping", thinking they have champagne taste and a champagne budget, but they eventually get mistreated by enough champagne-guys that it finally dawns on her that she's more of a craft-beer girl, and then she can finally concentrate on picking her favorite craft beer and just ignoring the champagne stand. And then she finds a craft beer that looks appealing and happily heads to the register.
What social classes, religious sects, guilds, villages and neighborhoods, and similar subgroups provided, was the ability for craft-beer girls to start out looking only at the craft beers and ignoring the champagne. If you were the miller's daughter, you would tend look around at the various miller's sons and throw a fit if your parents tried to pawn you off on Tom Miller instead of Stefan Miller. That was the hill you were going to die on and if they acquiesced and let you marry Stefan, then you felt like you were winning. That someone else was marrying the king, was something far off, abstract, and completely irrelevant to your own existence. At the most, you were eying the butcher's son and weighing if you could level-up like that.
Other something vaguely like that.
https://youtu.be/QBznUHAopxU
#society #dating #marriage
How do we keep the slop still human?
The one that is a wedge in my butt 🤣
Bam!!! Love Orthodox chant.
“Burden of proof” already assumes reason, logic, truth, and intelligibility. I’m asking what grounds those things. I’m not asking you to believe my word; I’m asking whether your worldview can account for the very conditions that make proof possible.
So when you ask for proof, what kind of proof do you mean? And what, in your view, sufficiently grounds reason’s reliability and reality’s intelligibility if not God?
If you think this is wrong, address the actual question: what grounds reason, truth, and intelligibility on your view?
Nah, print more money just to be extra safu.
Rock Paper Scissor
Schizo Psycho Normie
Choose wisely 🐸
GM fellow autists! https://blossom.primal.net/9b4d9295797051ab6e7aa565176fb2346c9ad5a665618cdba49279b577a01c55.png
Because he is salty he still has to rely on .gov for his retirement 🤣
Wasn’t it long and drawn out? You wouldn’t even notice it
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I’m looking forward to meeting the hybrids 🤣
DGX Spark so tempting…
But you know the moment you buy that there will be a new 10x version 😂
I hope we get a pic of the slingshot soon!
Kimchi seems like the final boss. Watched a recipe other day, and it's like kraut, but with a fairly elaborate "rub" recipe added
Yeah, that could happen too. I get around from time to time
lol, nice work, I'll admit. New contender for my thirst trap pfp/alt. Saved for future use, regardless
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I trust you did, but we're talking about Nintendo stuff here, there's always a big chance for a fan project to disappear
Kind of been thinking same lines. USA secured some extra uranium by just taking Venezuela's. Need some kind of agreement with china to look like a win and back out of this. Not good for mid terms. Question is always Bibi psychopathy stirring shit up
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If you’re looking for a twin peaks-athon, enjoy them all!
https://nostr.build/davidlynch/
Some are confused with our blossom server naming ‘https://blossom.band’
This is us and our attempt to uniquely separate Blossom.
To avoid confusion we also use https://blossom.nostr.build
Same thing.
Now here’s a pretty video
https://v.nostr.build/RL8J5JBA9vPE0cki.mp4
We are now at 100,000 live accounts! (99,520 we purchased from ourselves)
Yes. No. Maybe. I take the 5th
Very true. So sell or borrow?
“I don’t trust the government” 😂 😂 🤣
Saving it for Stache, seems fitting somehow
i use it all the time at https://theyellowhouseri.com
Sell some of your Bitcoin for an incredible deal on a house, pay the taxes, or use a Bitcoin backed loan? I would say pay taxes BTC is high, but Bitcoin has already dropped a lot, chances of a loan liquidation are fewer. Also, interest on the BTC backed loan is significantly better than a house mortgage..
I know I know ‘never sell your bitcoin’ but just go along with me here.
This dude cracks me up
“Dad gum it!
https://youtu.be/sKwq7mpBTrY
What would she do for 0.2?? 👀 🤣 😂
Remember, I offered to show you how to use it when you were generating your new keys?
If there is, frankly, I don’t give a shit. If I die of a mysterious virus so be it but I’m not doing diddly squat to accommodate anyone’s wishes