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Re: Have Taken Up Farming

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Post by mlrtime »

moron4hire wrote: post #38
Tade0 wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I didn't read the article, but a quick Ctrl+F confirmed my suspicions. I was raised Roman Catholic and to me it was always a head scratcher why would someone insist on a certain translation which is at least two languages away from the original. It's a whole field of study and there's broad agreement that as language evolves translations need to be updated, otherwise you'd have to become an expert in that old languag…

From the article: > I finished reading the Bible. It resonated with me in a way nothing else had before. Having been raised in a Christian tradition as well, I don't get this. I don't get how you can, as an educated, rational, thinking adult, go from 0 religion to learning about Christianity and saying, "yeah, that sounds plausible." The only reason I stuck to it so long was familial fear mongering and cultural momen…

Many aren't reading the bible and thinking it's plausible, or fact driven.

However people read it and find connection to their past/present and somehow brings them peace. No different than any other old philosophical old book.

When I hear these rants against people deciding to choose a reglion, I hear projection. I hear people struggling to come up with their own belief system (maybe a little here as well)

Re: Have Taken Up Farming

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Post by mlrtime »

moron4hire wrote: post #73
ironbound wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think therapy was the first step here.. but some people have to find the "answer" even if it's the man in the sky saying he loves you very much xD

He loves you and only he can truly love you. And if you don't love him first, you're the problem and you're going to end up in a place of eternal torment. Don't make him do this to you. He doesn't want to send you to hell. Oh wait, no, he's not the one sending you to hell, he's just not going to save you from hell. Yeah, that's it. Only his love can save you from yourself , see. It's a cult. If God were real, he'd be…

Sounds like you had a hard time with this, thankfully not everyone feels this way.

Re: Have Taken Up Farming

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Post by darkwater »

ironbound wrote: post #7

So they hit a mid-life crisis, and rather then take small steps they read the bible and move to an island to start farming, I wish them luck.

Reading the description of his previous life, I think there is some background issue/reason that should have been addressed, rather than just go farming. I hope he is and will be happy for a long time now though.

I have an acquaintance - not into IT at all - that did something similar, went to work in a solo eco-farming project (no fertilizers, just let the soil rest, no pesticides obviously, I'm not sure if he went as far as no artificial irrigation either though) and now after a few years he decided he wanted to come back to civilization and he is now working in a factory, in an assembly line.

Re: Have Taken Up Farming

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Post by dbeley »

Thanks Dylan for all your work over the years. It has been very influential from Neofetch, Wal/Pywal, KISS Linux, to your own Bible, the Pure Bash one!

Wishing you all the best for the future, may the Greek weather keep you happy!

Re: Have Taken Up Farming

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Post by dbeley »

ironbound wrote: post #7

So they hit a mid-life crisis, and rather then take small steps they read the bible and move to an island to start farming, I wish them luck.

Not sure about mid-life, he is still in his early twenties. He was a gifted programmer with very popular open source projects early on.

Re: Have Taken Up Farming

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Post by laszlojamf »

DrewADesign wrote: post #46
lukan wrote: post #22

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I have the feeling, they do not make a profit out of it. This blogpost might generate more profits, but I doubt they are even close to being profitable and have other income/savings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentleman_farmer

the dream. Ben Hunt over on https://www.epsilontheory.com/ used to have great anecdotes, but they've gone mostly paywalled since

Re: Have Taken Up Farming

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Post by abc123abc123 »

reincarnate0x14 wrote: post #6

I'm happy this person found a way to live that's meaningful to him, but I grew up as a farmer. You're coming back to something we've known a long time. If a god is what let's you get there, then good, let god keep you whole. But this is what the classics of stoicism (in the literal sense of both) have been telling us the whole time. We make our own meaning, and money isn't it. Go and grow things. Raise things. Build…

Every son of a farmer I ever met, _never_ want to go back to that crappy life of sleepless nights and hard toil.

Every Web 3.0, leftist, tech bro I ever met, idolize the farmin lifestyle and see before them a hippy commune where free love is practiced.

I never ever seen that, or heard about the leftist tech bro who actually did it.

Re: Have Taken Up Farming

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Post by whamsy »

This is a great read, and, no offense to others, not one I expected to find here.

I think that this path is best; one where you recognize the problem and solve it. He knew he was lost in an occupation that was not good, so he dropped that and found his purpose.

Not everyone can pack up their family and be a farmer in Greece, and even if you can, this path is still not easy. Many others may assume you’ve become lost. Life may seem great like this post and later be difficult.

But it’s great that this person found their purpose and know who they are.

I associate being stuck in the Level 5 or 6 trough that Richard Rohr describes. There is purpose waiting, but I don’t have the guts to do anything more than pretend I’m a good servant while being miserable with what I feel I must do.

It doesn’t matter if I attempt to be stoic and sometimes pull off looking that way, I’m self-obsessed since I wallow in self pity while having a martyr complex, and I can hate myself and diminuate myself as much as I want, to believe that I’m nothing and only God exists, but I couldn’t be more lost than I am and am only fooling myself to believe otherwise.

Re: Have Taken Up Farming

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Post by tock »

Achieve FIRE. Then you can afford to explore different lifestyles without fear. The software industry will always exist if you want to come back.

Re: Have Taken Up Farming

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Post by mfru »

moron4hire wrote: post #73
ironbound wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think therapy was the first step here.. but some people have to find the "answer" even if it's the man in the sky saying he loves you very much xD

He loves you and only he can truly love you. And if you don't love him first, you're the problem and you're going to end up in a place of eternal torment. Don't make him do this to you. He doesn't want to send you to hell. Oh wait, no, he's not the one sending you to hell, he's just not going to save you from hell. Yeah, that's it. Only his love can save you from yourself , see. It's a cult. If God were real, he'd be…

Also, he loves every human the same, but children still starve, people get genocided and nature gets wasted. He works in mysterious ways, you know. Sometimes that means thousands of people being bombed and killed in tents
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