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Re: Just for fun: the random, useless announcements thread!
This is is is supposed to be the season of blossoming and promise
(Or of shift to preparations for winter coming, between the heat of Summer and the Chill of winter.) Either way, a season of change, beauty and celebration or contemplation.
Given the idiocy of fools in high places, it can be difficult at this time, but do try to enjoy even a moment of peace, beauty, and celebration of life.
Peace to all
Lionduck
Re: Change is Inevitable ...(Levels of) Suffering Optional
Change is a never ending process.
With it is the choice. It is not a choice of rejection or acceptance.
The choice is to grow, learn, awaken
Or to walk in darkness
The choice to embrace life or to suffer in the darkness of ignorance
The choice to live or to merely exist
The choice to embrace and celebrate this which we call life.
Ther are those who would have us surrender, to stumble , to give up the power we each possess.
"I know and you don't"
"I only can save you"
"Trust me, not yourself or others"
Your choice - to empower yourself or to surrender your power to another
Your freedom - to grow, to embrace life in all it's complexity, to celebrate your life and all life to take responsibility for your life. To grow to love yourself that you may love others. To see all life as treasures. To honor your life and to equally honor others.
To recognize change as opportunity and celebrate.
Peace to all
Lionduck
Re: Does reading about spirituality make any sense?
It is like watering a plant. We have to be fertile (ready). Everything is ready to improve the soul... sorry soil.
https://www.earthroverprogram.org/
lobster
Re: Change is Inevitable ...(Levels of) Suffering Optional
The mind is the cruise ship . The body is the anchor. Awareness is the captain .
Shoshin1
Re: Change is Inevitable ...(Levels of) Suffering Optional
For those suffering with anxiety (1in 5 people in the UK and rising)
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/mar/16/i-couldnt-stop-worrying-until-i-learned-about-the-630pm-rule
lobster
Re: The AI tsunami
If you use the Claude app, the usage limits are somewhat relaxed? It seems to allow 30-40 paragraph length queries per day on the Free version, though it says that if you use a lot of long conversations it reaches the limits earlier because it has to do more processing.
Jeroen
Re: Cherishing and protecting one’s joy
I just had an interesting chat with Claude.ai, in which it suggested that my reduced joy was likely because of grief not just from my father, but also my stepfather, aunt and uncles. It also suggested that I try finding a creative project to help regenerate my inner joy. That was the first really helpful discussion I’ve had with ai, it was quite insightful.
Jeroen
Re: Cherishing and protecting one’s joy
Funny that you should mention sorrow, @shoshin1, my mother suggested it might be an after effect of my father’s death. That grief over his passing is blocking my joy.
Jeroen