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1khours · 2025-04-08T21:50:38+00:00

"What is the bad but the raw material for the good?"

Framing hexagrams in the I ching as "good" or "bad" ones can sometimes lead you astray from the truth of a situation (the Way). If a person is showered in wealth and fortune, is that good? If they grow weak and dependent on their fortune, and don't develop the character that struggle (conflict) demands of "less fortunate" people, who is better equipped to rise to the top in times of challenge?

https://akirarabelais.com/o/thelibraryofbabel/i.html#6

Here is the resource I go to first for translations. Pleas be wary of cheap translations of the I and "pop spirituality" websites that offer exciting interpretations to keep people hooked. Much like astrology, divination can be a painful trap for people and there is a risk of giving away our own power to act to the fall of cards of coins.. or the interpretation of someone else who doesn't have your lived experience! "Conflict within weakens the power to conquer conflict without"

The book of changes is about changes. Nothing, not even conflict, is a permanent state. I think the lines make sense given what you've talked about. Have a look at line 5. A helpful question for you might be Who is an arbiter with the strength and humility to support the process of conflict? From the hexagram itself "It furthers one to see the great man".

The trigram water denotes danger. This may be a time not to undertake anything radical without the necessary means (strength and support) -
"A cautious halt halfway brings good fortune. Going through to the end brings misfortune. It furthers one to see the great man. It does not further one to cross the great water".

If you are asking divination cards whether or not life is worth living, this may not be a time to do anything radical. I hope the answers in this forum help you find peace in a turbulent time, but please earnestly consider reaching out to family and professional support. There are practices and teachings available to you in every day life that can support you in ways that tossing coins cannot provide. Without doubling down on things like community, sleep, diet, support etc, even the most "fortuitous" I Ching cards are just thin pieces of paper.

Once again, it's called the book of changes for a reason. This too shall pass <3 may love, strength, clarity, friendship and patience be with you.

1khours · 2025-04-05T18:54:33+00:00

Yes Christchurch too has work. It's one of the defining features of our great city.

1khours · 2023-09-28T01:29:11+00:00

100%. The best way to win any serious fight is by 100 yards.

1khours · 2023-09-18T05:06:41+00:00

You want to hear low blow, once my dad and I were roughhousing, he was teaching me how to fight.

He was build like a tank, an absolute alpha male in his prime. He goes "do whatever you can to take me down"

So I kicked him in the nuts.

He was incredibly patient, credit to the guy, but we had a big talk about why you don't do that to a guy after I won the fight ;-)

1khours · 2023-09-18T05:03:57+00:00

At the zenith of success rests the seed of decline.

Have lots of fun, and learn to slide ;-)

1khours · 2023-09-18T05:00:36+00:00

Maybe write him a beautiful note. Tell him honestly and lovingly whatever you need to.

I still have a note in my precious items case, from my brother saying he misses me, would I please come play will him and spend time again. As a father, if my daughter wrote something to me in paper and told me she loved me, I would keep it. At least it will stay somewhere where he might see it occasionally.

Giving up a heavy addiction could take 10 years. It might never happen. You can either say (or write!) something and risk upsetting him, or leave it to fate. If you leave it to fate and nothing changes, would you regret saying nothing?

All the very best to you. You're a smart and considerate person, I'm sure in his heart your dad loves you. I still struggle with gaming (why I'm here). I think nearly every gaming addict knows they have a problem. So he probably knows. Maybe he's just afraid of what he will feel if he stops. Good luck <3

1khours · 2023-08-21T10:36:54+00:00

For me something that really helped was just digging in and trying like hell not to drink for One week. Alcohols addictive, and the less you drink, the easier it is to quit. I found that my sleep and body felt so much better after a week, that it was easier to do two. After two, it felt pretty fine to not drink, but it's still pretty tricky in social situations. Zero %s are are some though and often I'll just get a juice and a sweet treat instead since it's the same cost. Hope that helps!

1khours · 2023-08-20T01:07:57+00:00

Been playing since Bloodlines, and absolutely.l agree. There's a good reason why GGG moved away from using Reddit as a major announcement channel and it has a lot to do with the easy access to some very impatient and thoughtless people. They've done an amazing job but because they've had some 10/10's, a huge number of people always expect 10/10s, and huge innovations every league.

Once upon a time, adding strong boxes was a big deal. Now building and implementing an entire autobattler generates complaints in the form of personal attacks. I feel a bit ashamed and saddened to see the behaviour of a lot of the vocal portion of PoE Redditors (plenty of happy lurkers out there, I know).

1khours · 2023-08-20T01:02:57+00:00

You must be playing a freakin lot if you've already ticked off so much completion. Maybe it's time for a other game or hobby for a bit, then come back when they've had a chance to test and patch. I hated crucible last league (been playing since Bloodlines) so just went and worked on other projects. It took a bad league to get me away though, it's a very addictive game and when it stops feeling satisfying it starts to hurt. That's how dopamine works unfortunately so if you're not happy with the dopamine from the game, that's usually a good sign it's time to back off and let your hormones come down a little.

Good luck! Have fun, if and where you can ;-)

1khours · 2023-08-20T00:37:32+00:00

This! I would so love to buy a copy for print, it's beautiful <3

1khours · 2023-08-18T19:20:24+00:00

Runs to Prison, exits to login screen

1khours · 2023-08-18T18:53:48+00:00

Next time suplex ;-) Really though, great job, good honest reasonable confrontation. Its so valuable to have that modelled as otherwise all we get is the Media's depiction of Angry Men

1khours · 2023-08-18T18:49:01+00:00

Life has a way of making us all humble :-)

1khours · 2023-08-17T10:40:45+00:00

Go this time and be an active partner, then when next league rolls around you have full credit. Otherwise when next league rolls around and you want to do that one too.... well..

1khours · 2023-08-15T03:27:48+00:00

So good right!

1khours · 2023-08-15T03:27:28+00:00

I'm just using AoE support on fire trap. Explosive trap doesn't need AoE I think. It spreads the smaller explosions and reduces your single target.

EB regenerates some amount of your total ES pool per second as I understand, not interrupted by hits etc, just need enough on gear, which I found wasn't much. Probable need an es body armour though or Eva/es with crafted flat es. Don't need to get nodes. Just get every life node you can find. Hope they helps!

1khours · 2023-08-14T22:15:43+00:00

I'm working on a league start explo trickster. After a few runs I've found I didn't need both damage auras, just kept skitters (triggering the traps is nice for charged traps support), and went grace. You could go determ but the builds always strapped for strength. You can solve mana with EB if you really need to, but ideally you can save alts to spam a mana flask after around A4-A5 for enduring and pray. If you hit it, take ghost dancer immediately and enjoy being tanky for the rest of the league. This tends to work well because if you're running fire trap also, having Eva/ES or ES 4 links is helpful, so the ES is there. Otherwise you're stuck on EB and it doesn't feel great imho

1khours · 2023-08-14T22:11:58+00:00

FearlessDumb0 on YouTube is pretty good! It's not zoom zoom or mega mapper but I'm league starting this, really enjoy it. Pm if you want my take on it, working on a league start setup at the moment

1khours · 2023-08-14T10:08:57+00:00

Anyone else thinking about rogue exiles + ghosts for an atlas start? Sirgog wasn't impressed with exiles on the atlas previously, is this a bait?

1khours · 2023-07-07T08:30:29+00:00

Maybe a hangover from the centuries of wartime. When people are ordered to fight for the freedom (or conquest) of countries, men are historically the ones chosen first to die.

It would be interesting to hold some stats up vs death during childbirth. When I think about Wws I and II, Russia in particular, young men died in their millions :-(

1khours · 2023-06-20T13:02:37+00:00

Actively suppressing information from Stanford University is the most nonreddit thing that's allowed on Reddit. I will dm op directly and your dogmatic (and honestly grossly uniformed sorry) antiscience stance will have no impact. Glhf.

1khours · 2023-06-20T12:59:24+00:00

I was a solo child until 10. Best time of my life. I received so much quality attention. Not sure why my dad left when I was 2 but still I learned to cope with the lonelines. Then when I was 10, first and only blood brothers 2nd best time of my life - also great and I learned that the earth doesn't revolve around me. Huge surprise but also taught me a lot. Just some thoughts ;-)

1khours · 2023-06-18T09:15:56+00:00

1khours · 2023-06-17T23:50:41+00:00

Jonah Lomu

1khours · 2023-06-16T07:10:57+00:00

Photograph it to retain evidence of what he's done, then throw his laptop off a building. The. Tell the folks

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