tired of being a consumer, wanting to be a producer;
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After reading the article, I think more likely it is Matthew 24:14 which explains the desire to "hasten the coming of Christ’s return". The verses says, in the NIV, _14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come._ I suppose he is equating "improve the quality of life of every human on the planet" with them hearing the Gospel.
Check out the wide breadth of tuts provided by Digital Ocean. This is just one post, misleadingly titled at that, whereas DO has LOADS of excellent and clearly explained tuts.
What I've read in his essay is that he piloted a flight simulator for most of his life, then read a manual and some things other people who wrote about flying and landing. So, yes, as I said, I prefer flying with pilots who have learned to land, are continuing to learn, and are getting better each time, with bigger planes and more people.
EP did not say he achieved #1; about #2, "I spent much of my
life in this state, and I know all about it."; "I first considered what seemed to be in my best interest, or, more often, gave no thought to the matter at all." is his take on #3; "my normal slouch" in #4; he makes no claim to have gained an eternal perspective, merely quoting others in #5; that "cloud of uncertainty" gives little confidence in #6; being 90, he had little to say about #7 sadly; the reader has to guess whether he was lucky or not in #8; and finally #9 is likewise devoid of actual personal recounting of what he has.
All in all, I find "advice" and "what I've learned" tomes by *older* people to be unhelpful. When someone has spent much other their life living contrary to the advice they are now dishing out, I question it. I prefer advice from someone currently living life, learning and adjusting and growing
now... not at the end when it doesn't matter.
I'm not sure you've understood the idea. While your values include not breaking certain rules of ethics, your value ALSO clearly extends to being offended by others when they do it. So your value isn't purely "don't break ethical rules", but, "observe ethical rules and react when they are broken, by me and by others". I think what the author (not OP) means is that once you are virtuously selfconstituted, your decision about these and what YOU do about it is not easily swayed or pushed around. In this sense, it shouldn't matter that _others_ are breaking rules... obviously it isn't an ethical rule for them... but that you are clear that you wouldn't do the same. Thus, if your activities at work relate to pursuing goals aimed at by these broken rules, then it is _work_, and you do your work.
Another way of interpreting what you've shared is that what you are stressed about is actually _not quite the value you think you have_, otherwise you would have walked away, self-assuredly, emotionally certain in the rightness of removing yourself. But you haven't. So it isn't a set value. Obviously another value like, "I have to eat" preempts this ethical value being broken at work. I'm not saying this is wrong or not, just trying to help you navigate your stressful environment.
Since we are talking about something as fanciful as aliens, consider this perspective: There are no aliens because their existence runs counter to what the Bible says about God.
Assuming the only creation God engaged in was planet earth, how he is described (as never changing) means that his revelation of himself in Christ (who was both human and God, in order that his death would be like our deaths, ((wages of sin is death)), but whose divinity would allow him to rise from the dead ((thereby proving the penalty of sin - death - had been paid for _eternally_ {{being God}})) means that any other creation in the universe would need to be in a similar situation as humanity on earth...otherwise Christ as God/Human is totally senseless and useless on these other planets...which can not be since God does not change. Thus, no aliens, anywhere.
Now before ppl go off screeching about religion, this is in no way an attempt to convert. It is just a perspective made possible by someone who reads the Bible and likes to try to place any modern idea against it, and maybe the same might help someone else grapple with the immensity of It All. It also doesn't mean that there is no need for humanity to keep searching and exploring the stars.
I spent a few years in Bayonne, France.... Pelote courts were all over the place, south towards Spain and inland into the low Basque Pyrenees, and often full of people of all skill levels playing variations of pelote and jai alai. If anyone wants to see it, wants to play it, go there! And equipment (for non-pros) is easily bought at local Decathlons (a sport store).
Too many parents think the goal is to have a baby sleeping through the night, or alot, as soon as possible. NO! The goal in the early weeks is to have a well-fed baby so it can grow. Feed it every few hours!
The baby has mostly heard mother's heartbeat. So when you hold it, be sure to place its head over your heart, or on your heart side.
Finally, you are also the parent. A dad never babysits his own kid. Own this!
“Metaverses need to look as good and play as well as AAA title games.”
Strange that this line has been misunderstood when ppl write that (of all thing) email has done fine in community building without looking great. I think it’s the perspective - metaverses expect us to be _inside_ looking around, not looking at it from the outside. Who hasn’t thought, while playing an AAA title game, “aw man, this would look so cool if I was IN THE GAME!” So with that perspective it makes sense that finally being offered the chance to “be inside the game” is disappointing when it looks terrible.
In my own experience, being a foreigner who (seemingly) doesn't speak a local language actually does open doors to unique insights - the people who do speak English are quite ready to tell all the ins and outs, pros and cons, ups and downs, subtleties, gripes, concerns, cultural tidbits exactly because they think I won't go around talking about what they said.
It's funny how the fairy ended up with three legs in the final frame. I've noticed AI seems to do that - generates an otherwise fantastic image but with one super odd addition.
The actual Swiss we interacted with were the most rude and dismissive hosts I’ve ever had to meet. The times when someone (at a restaurant, chalet, train station, truck/road stop) was kind and patient surprised us… and they always ended up being non-Swiss temp workers. I wonder where those workers will go; they are the ones who are going to need financial help with any transition because the Swiss will finally get what we heard many grumbling about - no more tourists.
I met our then-current chief at the band office up in Long Lac #58, and she shared with me this cool story. She said she had been chief before but near the end started feeling "burnt out", but she used terms like "disconnected", "not in touch", "something missing"; so you know what she did? She told me she packed up a few essentials and _walked for days into the bush_ until she found a spot that felt right. She set up camp. Hunted and gathered what she needed. She said she initially thought she might be out there a few day. It turned into weeks. The grounding and reconnection she was experiencing, with creation and the Creator, was too profound to leave. After a time one young lady, then another, then another came out looking for her, liked the atmosphere, and stayed too. After a time, there was a group of them, just (re)connecting. It was about a summer times length, I think. After awhile, she felt re-energized, strong, so she disbanded the camp and they all walked back. She then ran for, and was re-elected as chief (this was like 10 years ago) since she felt ready to do it again.
I often think of that. Not just that she had time to do it; but that she chose to do it, and left it unstructured, allowing for more time. I often think I need to do that, as I face the next (last) 25 years of my life. I need to be able to do it well, with strength, and grounding.
One aspect of flânerie is that it goes beyond strolling _for one's self_. The point isn't to stroll aimlessly with an empty mind. It in fact is to help one understand the city in which they are in, to better comprehend it, to feel it. You are in it in order to see it. I think the more often one practices flânerie the better they are at discerning what part of town they just wandered into, and can thus decide whether it is "safe" or not.
One of my favorite flânerie times was wandering from the Arc De Triomphe to the Sacre Coeur in Paris. It took hours. I saw amazing scenes I'd never seen before, moments of tranquility, of bizarreness, of beauty, just because I didn't take the metro or e-scooter. Snacked in a super cool cafe that I'm sure wouldn't have appeared in any travel guide. Meandered through parks that also get no mention but were swelling with local life. I highly recommend visiting places like this.
I suppose one difference is that the pieces from Perserverance were _supposed_ to land on Mars. Whereas this object ended up floating around uselessly, like so much other "space junk". And because they suspect it's origin as being China, it makes sense to write it that way. Chinese junk, American junk, Canadian junk, although even these could be softened by "Chinese space junk, American space junk"... I wonder though if it is also being used in a retro sci-fi manner, in that there are crafts called "junks", particularly in English, "Chinese junks". See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junk_(ship) and https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Junk_(ship)#:~:te.... Thus it is a chance to use the term for a sailing craft in a new context - a Chinese junk, but in space!