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By default, my brain is wired to be self centred, assign malice to others and be pessimistic (thank you, my Eastern European overbearing borderline narcissistic mother). So I don't know if I sharing my thoughts and feelings is good at all. This inevitably limits the depth of relationships you can d...

To summarize the above: Complex Adaptive Systems are alive. I have contemplated on mapping the different sectors of our global economy to my own body to a remarkable degree. I found: Mining & AG = digestive tract, cardiovascular system = transportation networks, nervous system = communication ne...

I'm coming from Eindhoven. If you would like to tag along, PM me.

June last year, DGF and I got a bunch of free wool from sheep and alpaca. We originally intended to use the wool as mulch for the garden. Things have taken a bit of a turn. The really filthy bits went into the garden. The nicer bits we started spinning and felting. In the past six months, we have fe...

For a comprehensive overview of the difficulties with fusion, read the summary of articles over at https://energyskeptic.com/2021/why-fusi ... ears-away/

I'm interested as well. Though I'm not sure yet if I'm able to come. Traveling time and costs are my main concerns which bring me to the following: If anyone else is joining from the Dutch south or Belgian north (I'm from Eindhoven), contact me to see if we can share a ride.

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Wed Oct 27, 2021 7:12 am

This simpler consciousness manifests as physical laws, e.g. quantum mechanics. This belief aligns the subjective with the objective without contradicting it as far as I can see.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2zokTZXIPQ

This interview with Dr. Stuart Hameroff touches on these same notions.

@G+J I found the article from AppleSeed Permaculture on eight forms of capital to be very enlightening.

@jacob, So the problem at level 9 becomes more a question of: "How do I identify individuals at the same level of systems integration?" or, reversed: "How do I advertise my level of systems integration so others at the same level can find me?" Maybe you're not the right person to...

I have been doing daily morning pages for almost three years now. It's a practice I picked up from Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way . It involves writing three pages of longhand, stream of consciousness early in the morning. I typically write just after waking up in the morning. I rarely read my wri...

I have been looking at NVC in relation to the ERE Wheaton levels. NVC talks about universal (human) needs . We all have them and each person will develop different strategies for getting their needs met. Conflict arises when a strategy interferes with the need(s) of another person. By finding the ab...

The whole dictionary is now also posted online: https://leanlogic.online/

I started out with https://open.oregonstate.edu/courses/permaculture/ It provided me with a good basis for further study.

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The way I understand kombucha is: the yeasts in the SCOBY turn sugars into alcohol + CO₂, then the bacteria in the SCOBY turn the alcohol + O₂ into acids. Take away the oxygen, as you do in any alcohol fermentation, the conversion into acids will not happen and you are left with carbonated alcohol. ...

I have made an adjustment to the way the session is validated. The board is now more lenient in changes to your IP address. I hope this reduces getting logged out.

I wonder why you call it "my food budget". Maybe make your husband responsible and see how this affects his choices.

Tim Morgan - https://surplusenergyeconomics.wordpress.com/

Actually it is due to a recent upgrade of phpBB. I'm not sure what exactly changed. The previous option for loading and using avatars got removed. If I have to venture a guess, linking remote images got more and more unreliable. Jacob and I have enabled uploading a (small) image file (JPEG or PNG) f...