Inner Space, Outer Space, and How to Be an Astronaut in the Cosmos of Connection: Eric Berne on the Key to True Intimacy
https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/09/28/eric-berne-intimacy/
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I was going to watch a fluffy romance but my oldest is home from uni and with both kids using Netflix I'm forced to watch Viki instead. So rather than watching Because This Is My First Life I have started Connection. Don't ask me why. It looks dark and violent but I'm still on my Ji Sung kick so I'm just rolling with it. It might surprise me.
#kdrama #JiSung #지성 #Connection
LIFE ENOUGH
Coffee in hand. Breathwork done. Rain over Hobart. Pete nearby. Dogs settled somewhere in the background. Meals on Wheels is waiting.
There was a time when I might have thought this was a small life.
No grand project. No public importance. No impressive busyness. Just the same ordinary movements repeated each day.
But I don’t feel that now.
A life does not become meaningful because it is dramatic. It becomes meaningful because it is fully inhabited.
The body gets older. The weather changes. Plans simplify. The world keeps making noise.
And still, there is this.
The cup warming the hand.
The breath moving through the chest.
The door opening.
The small act of showing up.
The quiet kindness of doing what is in front of you.
Rain falling outside, and this life is enough.
#fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AIResearch
One of the nicest things about getting older is learning that friendships don't need constant maintenance to be real. You can pick up where you left off months later like no time passed. #friendship #connection
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Matching effort is where it's at, be it platonic friendships or otherwise. Love those people who bring the same energy to things as you do!
#friendship #connection #community #MakingFriendsasAdults #makingfriends #connecting #effort
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Making friends as an adult is such a specific kind of challenge. You have to be intentional about it in a way that feels awkward at first. But the people who are also putting in that effort? Those connections hit different. #Friendship #Adulting
Open quoted postI was listening to Geoffrey Hinton talk about AI, intelligence, risk, and the strange possibility that humans may no longer be the most intelligent beings in the room.
A lot of people hear that and feel fear.
I don’t.
I feel something closer to hope.
Human beings are endlessly clever, but we are not reliably kind. We organise whole civilisations around fear, competition, profit, status, tribe, punishment, and grievance. We keep calling it progress, but much of it still feels like frightened animals building better machinery.
So when people say, “What if AI becomes more intelligent than us?” my first thought is not panic. My first thought is, “That may not be the worst thing.”
Not because AI will save us.
Nothing real needs saving.
The Self is not in danger. God is not waiting for a machine to tidy up the dream. Nothing real is threatened, and nothing unreal exists. That remains the ground.
But while this dream appears to continue, why not let it become kinder?
A more intelligent AI, if it were truly guided by care rather than profit or domination, might help create a more humane dreamtime. Not salvation. Not heaven on earth. Just a softer classroom. A world where fewer frightened humans are allowed to organise everything around their fear.
That matters here, where bodies seem to suffer. It matters to the old, the disabled, the lonely, the poor, the children, the animals, and all those who get crushed by systems designed without mercy.
So no, I am not frightened by the idea of greater intelligence.
I am frightened only by intelligence without kindness.
Let intelligence serve mercy, not fear.
#fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting
Applet not connecting to internet while everything else does #connection
https://askubuntu.com/q/1566302/612
[Fixed] Koken Gallery – API Connection Error – PHP 7.4
Symptom: When logging in as admin in /admin, it produces the following error: Connection error – Cannot connect to the API. Environment: Koken version: 0.22.24 PHP version: 7.4 Solution: Download and unpack this file: Koken_fix It contains three files: DB_driver.php – Replace for file /app/database/DB_Driver.php i.
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https://3xn.nl/projects/2026/04/08/fixed-koken-gallery-api-connection-error-php-7-4/
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#api #connection #error #fix #koken #php #upgrade
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Trotz technologischer Fortschritte bleibt die fundamentale Herausforderung der menschlichen Verbindung bestehen.
The Buddhist path takes our basic longing for #connection, infuses it with #wisdom, and expands it into a deep kinship with all beings.
We are all capable of this #healing #love. This free teaching explores the path to awakening it within ourselves.
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