#FreeSchool ⬅️ (see hashtag) @freeschool@qoto.org

"That's the kind of relationship I wish to have with the Earth, and be that as if in love..."

"This lifestyle we live seems right to me, both from a intellectual viewpoint and feeling... much more in tune with birds, bees, weather... the Earth"

https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=sfhrZAfYZ9c

"Political, social decision... to understand what sustains us..."

Relativity and Relationship with Earth... as if in love... with Earth and it's People.

#Scything #Farming #Quotes in "Living Lightly" #Film...

Love is also a type of giving / receiving... We all want to be loved.

#Love and Be #Loved

Websites you can move around, drag/drop GUI interface for creating websites:

https://hotglue.me/ (open source)

https://mmm.page/ (not open source)

http://walky.space/ (open source I think)

#Website #design #GUI #HotGlue #WalkySpace #Alternative #Software

#Scything + #Farming quotes in "Living Lightly" #Film...

Any scything girl or guy that knows how to sharpen a blade gets big credit from me! Not too many scything or farming today!

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"There needs to be more farmers than there are"

"The earth gives us everything and there is so little we can give back... but what we can do in honour is to take as little as we can "

"You don't do it for a practical purpose... but for the love for the Earth..."

"That's the kind of relationship I wish to have with the Earth and be that as if in love..."

"Learning to appreciate those gifts and living lightly."

"Political, social decision... to understand what sustains us..."

"People doing things that brings them close to what brings them sustenance"

"This lifestyle we live seems right to me, both from a intellectual viewpoint and feeling... much more in tune with birds, bees, weather... the Earth"

"The scythe is a symbol of life we want to live... living more simply, making a smaller ecological footprint on the earth, living more mindfully"

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SCYTHE RACE at 18.33mins! Link below
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https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=sfhrZAfYZ9c&t=18m33s

Yin-Yang meaning...

" Here is what I see in the Yin-Yang image:

Nothingness and existence (alternatively, two opposing ends:

Yin 阴 means darkness
Yang 阳 brightness), which are represented by the black and white colors, are embedded in each other and are interrelated.

Change and movement: nothingness engenders existence, and vice versa; this transformation happens all the time.

Harmony and balance between Yin and Yang, which is represented by the perfect circle and the overall symmetry of the image.

My interpretation is influenced by the books on Taoism that I’ve read and by the Chinese culture.

You probably see something different, given your Greek background and your personal philosophy. Now, it’s your turn to share. :) "

- from a correspondent on https://protesilaos.com/commentary/2022-07-15-yin-yang-interpretation/

#YinYang #Tao #Taoism #Balance #Harmony #LightDark #Chinese #Culture.

Anonymity and community

Sharing a coffee with a local is not about the drink per se. It is a ritual of sorts. A rite of passage from stranger to acquaintance.

The person got to know me better. I can expect that through the power of gossip this knowledge is already spreading among others and each such encounter will reverberate across the community. To this end, I am not surprised when someone I do not know greets me with “you live down the river, right?” They know. And I have learnt that it is all about keeping the windows open.

Being a member of the community means that you have the responsibility to contribute to the common good. At minimum, you must conduct yourself with integrity and not violate the prevailing norms. Rules matter greatly, regardless of what we may think of them. They cannot be altered unilaterally and must thus be taken as immutable in scenaria where only a single agent opposes them. Norms are still human in origin, hence mutable. That they may appear sacrosanct is due to their shared presence and affirmation in the minds of the community’s members, who will act in a way that enforces the substantive parts of the rule. Norms form the basis of the community’s identity. To question them is to confront the community as such, which will practically result in the marginalisation of the offender.

The benefit of belonging to a community is that you get support from volunteers who are eager to help without asking for anything in return. Each member of the community has a duty to do some public service for the continued wellness of the commons. Concretely, I was at home the other day and was working on the computer. A villager drove by, parked the car in front of the hut, came to my room and told me that they brought some construction materials that I could use to seal off my walls for the coming winter. I never asked for any of this and did not tell this person about my needs (I must indeed reinforce the construction and make all sorts of improvements, which is apparent from the outside). Yet it happened and I am thankful to have received this kind of help.

Exchanges of this sort are not transactional. I do not have to give anything back to that person. Instead, I must learn from their example. When I have the chance, I too will offer something to someone who may be in need of it. Perhaps I can train their dog, fix their computer, provide a helping hand in some construction work… It does not matter what it is. The importance is to not be a strictly private person in a milieu where anonymity is perceived as a threat. Participate however you can, even a little bit, and be relaxed about it.

Anonymity and community

https://protesilaos.com/commentary/2023-09-19-anonymity-community/

"I have learnt to accept humanity and thus to live in the here and now. Fundamentally, I have managed to overcome self-inhibitions by asking “what do I have to lose?” I pose this question without violating the principle of practicality."

https://protesilaos.com/commentary/2023-11-11-living-undisturbed-where-the-eagles-fly/ #Quotes

"...keeping myself in a virtuous cycle of excitement and discovery"

(A good way to deal with #boredom.)

https://protesilaos.com/commentary/2024-01-09-re-boredom-ability-think/

"Caring can be a good thing because it shows you are sensitive to what is happening around you. The key, however, is to care with moderation, i.e. to recognise the “too much” and know it is harmful. This is easy to say, but hard to do. Be mindful of it though and try to practice where possible."

https://protesilaos.com/commentary/2024-01-01-knowledge-ignorance-acceptance/ (last paragraph)

Life Coach / Tutor / Emacs, Linux, etc... more here:

https://protesilaos.com/coach/

#Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life?...

🔮 The Universe, and Everything IS YOU! 🔮 🌎 🔁

(don't ask me more than that!
just make it happen)

🎤 Audio talk about moving jobs and even country *right now*...

https://bin.dembased.xyz/helpmefindajobpersonalstoryaboutcvprotesilaoscomv3freeschool.mp3

⬆️ Desperation put into a constructive audio talk / introduction.

https://protesilaos.com/ for more info,

#Job please #Programming #Jobs #Fedihire #Fedijobs

#Clojure #Lisp #GNU #Emacs #Packages #Python #Computing #Cyprus + #Remote #Work

Something for everyone to consider in the future.

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#Quotes below I personally thought interesting for future:
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"I decided I needed to quit that career path altogether."

"I quit and came to Cyprus to the mountains and cured my depression."

" Now I am in a great state... in a physical peak and my mind as sharp as ever"

"There is no other way out"
Working seasonal jobs

"Since my 20's I have nothing I can show for it formally... no stamps of approval"

"What I did was part-time jobs like foraging grapes and doing related farming jobs... stuff you don't consider and just get food on the table and don't really think about"

"My CV is underwhelming...I have been learning programming... EMACS LISP... I maintain several packages, you can check the authors file for my name there..."

"Is EMACS something that can go into my CV and marketable, I don't think so..."

"I need to skip any automated process for CV evaluation, because I will be rejected... and I cannot afford to be rejected... I have exhausted my options here... I am desperate for another way out... There is no other way out... but I prepared for the consequences... so I must do this video and hope for the best"

@protesilaosstavrou and his original post here:

https://qoto.org/@freeschool/112249714549824767

"Use cases"

Enterprise
Small business
Creative professionals
Fitness
Faith
Education
E-commerce
Real estate

Vimeo.com

#American filing their taxes right now makes me think of them collectively pouring huge pots of gold towards more #arms #tanks and heavy ammunition...

❓ How do you solve giving money to Government and *hoping* they don't spend it on #war ⁉️

#USPol #Politics #Tax #Genocide
#Peace #Palestine #Israel #Vote #JillStein #USA #War #Machine #Taxes

Still in bed with google / youtube?

use #Invidious #Privacy #Links

If you expect someone to summarize themself in a sentence you're doing it the shallow way.

Imagine that you can't always change industry for the better - because the controlling parts of hierarchy don't want it that way round.

We (you) have to grow out and over what they offer us because they are always traps / sneaky profit / misleading THEIR creations - and we start to grow something new for ourselves and less theirs as possessions owning our digital lives, which they take away from us any time.

#Power #Struggle #Capitalism #Grow #Ownership #Out #Overgrow #Replace #DIY #eID

Picture is deliberately of bacteria "Culture" - but growing ideas of the mind not just more immature physical babies . #FreeSchool

Film Review Best bits for:

"I’m Thinking of Ending Things"

- "I liked the film's dreamlike insanity and symbolism,..."

https://letterboxd.com/metinseven/films/reviews/by/activity/

- "Kaufman once again proves he's a master of the subconscious and all of its abstract intricacies."

https://letterboxd.com/film/im-thinking-of-ending-things/

and the title for multiple reasons.

⚠️ Haven't watched this btw but I liked these 2 reviews - that are in full below

#film #review #comments
#movie #ratings

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Metin gave it ★★★½
Watched 05 Sep 2020

"Kaufman is a very original, unconventional filmmaker, which is admirable. I'd describe I'm Thinking of Ending Things as what would be born if Lynch and Fellini would get hammered in a late night bar and create a script together. A fascinating film with plenty of poetic, often dark-toned food for thought, but it also has muddled moments of intellectual rambling.
I liked the film's dreamlike insanity and symbolism, but it did leave me somewhat unsatisfied in the end."

https://letterboxd.com/metinseven/films/reviews/by/activity/

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review by gal pacino ★★★★½ 58

while iain reid's novel extracts horror from blood and dread, charlie kaufman's interpretation extracts it from existentialism, from the unavoidability of aging, from the unease of being perceived, from the eeriness permeating the claustrophobic atmosphere. they both tell the same story in completely different ways, which is exactly what a book-to-film adaptation should aim to do.

in the book, there's a fascinating passage about how humans need allegory and metaphor in order to more comprehensively understand the world around us. this is the most central idea of the film, i think: our tendency to tell ourselves stories in order to live (a personal fav sub-genre of mine, thank you joan didion). especially as it seems to function as an unexpected reckoning of film history, with lengthy homages to golden-age musicals and parodies of contemporary cheesy studio dramas -- a character even directly quotes pauline kael's controversial review of A Woman Under the Influence during a conversation about cassavetes (🥰).

here, kaufman once again proves he's a master of the subconscious and all of its abstract intricacies. "you can't fake a thought." our thoughts silently exhibit us at our most authentic, most private, most vulnerable. the only other people who have access to our psyches are generally our partners, and even they can't see it all. we can choose to find either terror or comfort in that. or, we can sequester ourselves by idealizing strangers so we don't have to form real connections and risk heartbreak! but i suppose that's just choosing terror.

https://letterboxd.com/film/im-thinking-of-ending-things/