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by lcall 5y ago
If you decide to look for a job, there are resources here to help w/ the job search (edit: do a ^F for "identifying"): https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/share/church-resources?l... But: carefully and
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FWIW, my church has an excellent 12-step program also, free, with online materials (ducuments, videos), and meetings (including phone/video), for individuals, affected spouses & families: https://addictionrecovery.churc
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by lcall 5y ago
Related, busier thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28113852
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While it is important to be good stewards and not pollute etc, and I respect & admire the scientists and others working to help us do better -- I don't think we are competent to solve climate issues as a whole, when we can't t
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by lcall 5y ago
And: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28113852
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(update: it was age 16. And a correction: his dad & bros might be rated; I heard a # for one of them once)
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I know someone (a little) who is a grandmaster. He obtained the title maybe around age 17 (+/- 2y) after doing it basically full-time through his youth, with strong family support, after showing strong promise at age 3. I'm pret
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by lcall 5y ago
Fwiw, I have learned for myself that we can be with our beloved family members forever, if we and they want, and do what is needed for it. All the best. (slightly more in my other comment on this page; thoughtful comments appreciated with
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I expect to live a long time yet, but have chronic illness that severly limits me, and life can be good, and it can be hard. I have also learned for myself that God is real, cares, life has a purpose and extends before & after this mor
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There are many problems. But we can be ok.
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While it is important to be good stewards and not pollute etc, I don't think we are competent to solve climate issues as a whole, when we can't trust each other to keep our word (so much of the time), and especially when we have r
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Late to this, but to be sure: I have learned for myself that God is real, cares, life has a purpose and extends before & after this mortality, questions have answers, each person including you is of infinite worth, and you never truly h
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Carefully and well-choosing a purpose in live helps with so many things. To be successful, we must learn to act rather than being acted upon. To bring joy and stability, I think it needs to be realistic and at least partly or largely unse
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justserve.org can be a good resource for individuals and/or organizations -- all free, it lets them coordinate by location etc. Edit, from my related commend in another part: Justserve.org can be a good resource for individuals and&#
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by lcall 5y ago
This. One site that can help is justserve.org . Edit: There are also others like it I noted and could hunt up if needed.
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Late to this, but to be sure: I have learned for myself that God is real, cares, life has a purpose and extends before & after this mortality, questions have answers, each person including you is of infinite worth, and you never truly h
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by lcall 5y ago
I hope not. Partly because I'd like to learn how to do what they do. Oh well.
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Does anybody know if such people (of whom I have been very envious) have lower life expectancy or any other correlated problem?
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"Follow your dreams" -- might be valid at some level (not sure), but markets don't care what you are dreaming. If you want to make a living, you have to provide useful services to someone. The dreams can be hobbies.
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Related links: https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/sports/2020/09/10/je... Has a bit more detail than the OP login-less WSJ link, maybe: https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story&
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Basketball Pro Spent Eight Months in Secretive Detention(wsj.com)
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In my church/beliefs, if one prepares, receives the proper ordinances from the proper authority (given by God), and is faithful, then family ties will last beyond the grave -- in other words, you will see them and other loved family me
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Yes, that is what I came to say, especially about skimming. I don't normally advocate "speed reading", but the "Skimming" section of this page seems helpful to me (I wrote part of the little section): https:&#x2F
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The article says some very positive things. Now, if several or more people similarly had such an experience (or similar enough), without drugs, and all came out of it saying ~ "God seriously spoke to us, and this is His plan that he wa
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I heavily use the desktop program at http://onemodel.org (AGPL, I'm the author). I hope in the future to make it easier to install, and move it from scala to rust (edit: and hopefully from postgres to sqlite). Feedback we
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Chromium (or iridium), while having other downsides, makes it somewhat convenient in the settings to specify per site whether JS, cookies, or images are allowed or blocked, and also lets one leave separate config tabs open to toggle images,
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I forgot to mention: some of this can be done on Linux also, but another nice thing about openbsd is its ~ "only 2 remote holes in the default install", since ~ 1996. I've had to learn some things to use it effectively, but
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I realize I am late in replying. What I do, while using OpenBSD, is limit which users access which apps, dividing my activities by user according to risk level and which apps a given user uses and sites that user browses to (some user accou
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In agreement, there is a paragraph at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skimming_(reading)#Skimming_an... ...that if read (uh, slowly, for that first paragraph or 2 in that section on skimming) has ideas that help me a l
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In agreement: I think the coach John Wooden said ~ "The trouble with all the good new books, is that they keep us from reading all the good old books." Edit: I have very many thoughts on this (at my web sites), and I use www.onemo

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