Be kind to others, have a big heart for them & yourself. | Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. - Mahatma Ghandi
The tweet says "my first instinct is to immediately call them out." This rigid need for consistency is, in Daoism, a form of mental tension and attachment.
Zhuangzi explored the limitations of language. Human speech is inherently full of loopholes and contradictions. If you obsess over "unifying" everyone's logic, the world's absurdity will drive you mad. True wisdom is "blending with the dust"—allowing others to be logically messy.
The best attitude towards AI is treating it like a dumbass to bounce ideas off, which nevertheless helps you think of the correct answer. Much like how House treats his team
The people who feel most homeless may be the ones carrying humanity's future.
Most people spend their lives trying to fit into the world they were born into.
But Steiner suggested that some souls simply cannot.
He speaks of what translators call "homeless souls" — individuals who feel a profound inner estrangement from the assumptions, values, and worldview of their age.
Not because they are antisocial.
Not because they are incapable of belonging.
But because something in them refuses to live a merely inherited life.
Most of us naturally grow into the beliefs of our family, our nation, our education, and the spirit of our time. These become our psychological "home."
But some souls arrive with a different orientation.
They feel that something essential is missing.
Material success feels incomplete.
Inherited beliefs demand understanding rather than mere acceptance.
For Steiner, this is not a personality quirk — it is karmic.
These souls carry impulses that their surrounding culture has not yet learned to recognize.
From childhood they may feel inwardly alone even among friends.
Not because they reject the world — but because the world does not answer the questions they carry.
Steiner saw this not as a weakness, but as a responsibility.
Such souls are called to become inwardly free rather than merely adapted.
To seek truth through conscious spiritual effort rather than passive inheritance.
In this sense, Anthroposophy becomes a spiritual home built through knowledge, not tradition — a place where these souls can finally orient themselves.
The point is not withdrawal.
It is transformation of the world.
The deepest task of the "homeless soul" is to build inwardly what cannot yet be found outwardly.
Steiner compared such individuals to blossoms that appear before spring, or seeds that germinate before the soil is ready.
They arrive early.
They often feel misunderstood.
But their task is not to complain that the future has not arrived.
Their task is to help prepare it.
Whether one accepts Steiner’s worldview or not, the image remains powerful:
Feeling “out of place” is not always a sign that something is wrong with you.
Sometimes it is the first sign that you are searching for a home that has not yet been built.
People who are obsessed with being viewed as good people, are never good people. Genuine goodness does not need constant validation, attention, or performance. Truly kind people do what is right even when nobody is watching. They do not build their identity around appearing superior to others. The need to constantly prove goodness often comes from ego, not authenticity. Some people become more attached to protecting their image than protecting people's feelings. They fear being seen as flawed, so they hide benind carefully crafted versions of themselves. But real character is revealed in quiet moments not public performances. Good people are ,willing to admit when they are wrong, learn and grow from it. They understand that being human means being imperfect. And sometimes, the people who speak the least about their goodness carry the purest hearts of all.
Get rich the hard, slow, but guaranteed way. There are no lines at that counter.
If a good outcome is far enough out, humans discount its value to approximately zero.
This is why opportunity will always exist for those who can endure.
Why are there "no lines" at that counter? Because the masses, driven by greed, trample each other on the narrow bridge of "get-rich-quick." When you deliberately choose the "hard and slow" path, you execute a dimensional strike—you exit the low-level rat race (non-contention) and enter an uncontested blue ocean.
"Slowness" is not inefficiency; it is aligning with the Tao. The most solid wealth (great vessels) must be tempered by long years.
In the Tao Te Ching, Laozi elevates "water" as the highest good: "The highest good is like water." Water nourishes all things without contention, appearing as the softest and gentlest thing in the world.
Yet Laozi also warns that when water gathers into a flood, it can destroy the strongest fortresses. More importantly, in Chapter 67, he establishes a core principle: "Through compassion, one can be brave." It is precisely because they deeply cherish and protect something (morality and love) that they can erupt with the most extreme, fearless courage when threatened.
The "equally extreme other side" mentioned in the tweet is water's power to capsize boats. Their gentleness is water's default state, but it never means water lacks the capacity to unleash a tsunami.
An ancient Eastern poem says: "Originally there is not a single thing; where can dust alight?"
We feel heavy because we take the "emotional trash" others throw at us and treat it as our own "luggage," carrying it for miles.
You are the sky; their behavior is just the weather. Stop folding their storms into your identity. The ultimate sign of healing is allowing others to be themselves, and allowing yourself to be yourself. When their script no longer requires you to play the "victim," your life truly finds its freedom.
In the Tao Te Ching, Laozi left a timeless truth: "A violent wind does not last the whole morning, nor a heavy rain the whole day." Even nature's extreme states cannot be sustained, let alone a human being's.
Demanding to wake up "excited" and go to bed "tired" every day is essentially chasing a pathological, storm-like high. Taoism teaches that the optimal state of life is not a daily rollercoaster, but a "continuous and seemingly inexhaustible" gentle stream.
Equating "not being excited" with failure is profound ignorance of the value of "neutrality." True awakening isn't injecting yourself with hustle-culture adrenaline to find a "new direction"; it's accepting life's cycles and allowing days of calm, neutrality, and stillness.
i went to get a pizza at Dominos and on the board where the status of the orders are it said
"GIRL | STATUS: IN THE OVEN | READY IN 7 MINS"
why'd they just put me down as girl 😭😭😭😭
FromSoftware’s parent company, Kadokawa, has decided to keep CEO Takeshi Natsuno after shareholders voted against removing him.
The vote followed investor Oasis Management’s claim that the company wasn’t fully capitalizing on Elden Ring’s massive success.
They said Kadokawa was leaving money on the table by letting Bandai Namco publish FromSoftware games outside Japan instead of handling it themselves.
Although Natsuno kept his job, support for him dropped from 90% last year to 59.68% this year, investors are not happy
Kadokawa said it will now review its management, executive pay, and overall business strategy after the vote.
another cool thing about knights is that cs lewis wrote an essay about them
> The important thing about [chivalry] is, of course, the double demand it makes on human nature. The knight is a man of blood and iron, a man familiar with the sight of smashed faces and the ragged stumps of lopped-off limbs; he is also a demure, almost a maidenlike, guest in hall, a gentle, modest, unobtrusive man. He is not a compromise or happy mean between ferocity and meekness; he is fierce to the n-th and meek to the n-th. When Launcelot heard himself pronounced the best knight in the world, “he wept as he had been a child that had been beaten”.
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> Let us be quite clear that the ideal is a paradox. Most of us, having grown up among the ruins of the chivalrous tradition, were taught in our youth that a bully is always a coward. Our first week at school refuted this lie, along with its corollary that a truly brave man is always gentle. It is a pernicious lie because it misses the real novelty and originality of the medieval demand upon human nature. Worse still, it represents as a natural fact something which is really a human ideal, nowhere fully attained, and nowhere attained at all without arduous discipline. It is refuted by history and experience. Homer’s Achilles knows nothing of the demand that the brave should also be the modest and the merciful. He kills men as they cry for quarter or takes them prisoner to kill them at leisure.
the argument here is something like chivalry was an extremely intentional attempt to engineer the archetype that we now know as the superhero or shonen protagonist, the hero in the modern and not the classical sense, and that this archetype is civilizationally significant
> The ideal embodied in Launcelot is “escapism” in a sense never dreamed of by those who use that word; it offers the only possible escape from a world divided between wolves who do not understand, and sheep who cannot defend, the things which make life desirable.
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The very first line of the I Ching (Book of Changes) states: "As heaven maintains vigor through movement, a superior person should constantly strive for self-perfection."
The essence of the universe is ceaseless motion and creation. Confucianism deeply disdains "spectators" and "escapists," revering instead "entering the world." What does that mean? It means walking toward the mountain even when you know a tiger is there; rolling up your sleeves to do the work even when it’s painful and arduous.
When you choose to be an "active participant," you stop being the object of fate and become the "superior person" of your own life. Those uncomfortable challenges are the only proof that you are still "alive" and still "growing."
Aliens? Vegetables? Nope—they are myxomycetes, organisms that bridge the gap between the plant and animal kingdoms. Like mushrooms, they reproduce via spores, but they can actually move, hunt for prey, and seek out the ideal environment.
Myxomycetes move like massive amoebas or pulsating masses; their movement relies on microfibrils that closely resemble muscle fibers.
These "blobs" crawl at a speed of about one centimeter per hour. Engulfing bacteria, algae and other organic matter as they move. They digest their food and expel the waste along the way.
In the Tao Te Ching, Laozi left an eternal rule for preserving dignity: "Knowing contentment prevents disgrace; knowing when to stop prevents danger."
"Desperately trying" in a relationship is, in Taoism, "not knowing when to stop." The philosophy of water (the highest good is like water) is: flow around obstacles, move downwards, and never shamelessly knock on a door that won't open.
When you try to force a dead relationship alive, you go against "The Way" and naturally feel disgraced (losing aura). True "Aura" isn't proven by desperately holding on, but by the (effortless grace) of water: "If you don't care, I will flow toward the ocean."