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La vie est un mystère qu'il faut vivre, et non un problème à résoudre.


Citation extraite de "Religion and Personality" d'Adrian van Kaam (1964).

Adrian van Kaam était un prêtre catholique néerlandais de la Congrégation du Saint-Esprit, un professeur d'université, un psychologue existentialiste et un écrivain sur la spiritualité formatrice.

Cette citation était parfois affichée dans des hôpitaux et des lieux de vie.

Extrait de "Religion and Personality" de Adrian van Kaam (1964):

Alors que la première chose à savoir dans une crise technique est l'information exacte sur l'instrument concerné, la première chose à savoir dans les problèmes de la vie est que nous ne savons pas. La vie est un mystère à vivre, pas un problème à résoudre. Devant ce mystère, nous nous tenons dans l'admiration et l'abandon. Nous n'imposons pas nos catégories mesquines au mystère de la vie; nous ne forçons pas la vie à s'adapter à nos préjugés étroits; nous ne nous plaignons pas que la vie est trop vaste pour nous ; nous savons que la vie échappe à notre emprise. Nous nous inclinons avec révérence devant le mystère de l'Être; nous acceptons avec humilité le fait que nous ne pouvons pas comprendre où la vie nous mène ; nous apprenons la vertu de la patience à l'école de l'aventure de la vie. Car nous sommes comme des marins sur un navire dont la destination est inconnue sur une mer inexplorée.


|La vie est un mystère qu'il faut vivre, et non un problème à résoudre.|



Quand tout va bien on peut compter sur les autres, quand tout va mal on ne peut compter que sur sa famille.


"Proverbe" dont le sens est introuvable avant 1980 aux États-Unis et plus tard en France, ce qui témoigne d'une évolution frappante des mentalités occidentales.
Cherchez la phrase "only count on your family" et "on ne peut compter que sur sa famille".


|Quand tout va bien on peut compter sur les autres, quand tout va mal on ne peut compter que sur sa famille.|



On a dû te dire qu'il fallait réussir dans la vie; moi je te dis qu'il faut vivre, c'est la plus grande réussite du monde.


Citation extraite du récit et essai "Les vraies richesses" de Jean Giono (1936).

Il faut vivre en personne vertueuse, car vivre dans le vice ce n'est pas recommandable.

Extrait du récit et essai "Les vraies richesses" de Jean Giono (1936):

On a dû te dire qu'il fallait réussir dans la vie; moi je te dis qu'il faut vivre, c'est la plus grande réussite du monde. On t'a dit: «Avec ce que tu sais, tu gagneras de l'argent.» Moi je te dis: «Avec ce que tu sais tu gagneras des joies.» C'est beaucoup mieux. Tout le monde se rue sur l'argent. Il n'y a plus de place au tas des batailleurs. De temps en temps un d'eux sort de la mêlée, blême, titubant, sentant déjà le cadavre, le regard pareil à la froide clarté de la lune, les mains pleines d'or mais n'ayant plus force et qualité pour vivre; et la vie le rejette. Du côté des joies, nul ne se presse; elles sont libres dans le monde, seules à mener leurs jeux féeriques sur l'asphodèle et le serpolet des clairières solitaires.


|On a dû te dire qu'il fallait réussir dans la vie; moi je te dis qu'il faut vivre, c'est la plus grande réussite du monde.|



Subway Tooter & Foggy Minds


Tried logging on to here via Subway Tooter, which I use for Mastodon. It's supposed to work with Friendica too. I tried the Friendiqa app but it doesn't even recognise this site exists. Anyway it appeared I'd logged on successfully but when I went to look at my feed I got a very long error message. The folks on Subway Tooter's help forum said it was a server issue and to contact the server owner.
in reply to Vanessa

@Vanessa That would be me for future reference (in the menu under information it has a lot of the server details and in there is a link to my profile as well as my email address)

If you look further down on that error message where it says HTTP 502 Bad Gateway it tells me the server might have been having issues at that point in time. In all honestly it's kinda unavoidable at the time due to resource constraints, sites currently on a rented dedicated server until I fix my housing situation (current ETA is late october when I can work on putting it back on my own, more stable, hardware again), so it probably was just having issues loading that page at that time.

There's not a lot I can do with troubleshooting clients, but let me know if it keeps having trouble and maybe I can work with you to find some answers?

in reply to Vanessa

I've got it partially working. The feed doesn't work but the notifications do and I can boost/repost posts from my Mastodon accounts onto my Foggy Minds account





I don't think it's talked about enough tbh.
When my egg cracked, there was a sense of dread... because once I knew there was no going back. My life would never be safe again.
Do I regret it? Not one bit, I'm genuinely happier now, but I do miss safety...

reductress.com/post/trans-woma…

#trans #LGBTQIA #LGBT





A First Post


As I move into my 40s, and contend with the dynamic tension of both more time, money, and capability; against higher demands on those very resources. I've been looking for a new place to do my social networking. I don't need the massive social networks of the past, since most of my community is well established at this point. It's nice to have federation, so my more distant friends can still see my posts without having to maintain or check a specific network just on my behalf. It's a little disappointing to find the landscape of self-hosted or federated social networks so barren, but Friendica seems like a solid option. The federated landscape makes it easier to try a platform, knowing that my work will not be forever vendor-locked into that platform.



Slightly sketchy account makes me uncomfortable and others report it... I politely give them a warning to migrate before shutting them down...

Day and a half later "Protocols of the Elders of Zion"... whelp, that's an immediate delete...

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new work


আজকে এটিই আমার প্রথম পোস্ট। দেখি কেমন হয়?


Long time no writing here


I started to digging into my latest hobby of #bookbinding (but it's not the only one i assure you)
And made several pamphlet, with also some custom design.
I recently made couple of handmade hardcover journals. One using a custom hero-quest character sheet, the other one is just a lined notebook.
More info for who is interested are available here: ko-fi.com/post/Two-more-bookbi… (don't worry all my posts on #ko-fi are free)
It also gave my a nice surprise of receiveing the first donation ever (even if it will be the last it still made me happy! :) ) Any opinion comment is appreciated.
These are couple of pictures of my latest works:

Image/Photo

storage.ko-fi.com/cdn/useruplo…
any comment/critics is appreciated.



Hey there, I'm Kees (they/them/their, ne/nem/nir), a 30-something bug living in California. I'm hoping to make this my public facing account to share my art and generally interact with the rest of the fediverse.

I'm an amateur naturalist (I like BIRDS and BUGS, especially parasitic wasps) and I do art in various media (digital, watercolor, acrylic), usually of birds or original characters from an ARPG I help run. #tokipona li pona. Aaand I don't know what else to put in here so I'll stop ha.



Hello world. Just doing some testing with how this interfaces with Mastodon, and the various privacy options
This is meant to be a public post with an abstract/CW




Hello there. Glasgow calling.
I'm an analogue digital hybrid who cares about mental health issues, music, photography and art.
I'm deeply suspicious of ducks (in a less than serious way) and although I exist on Mastodon I'm keen to migrate to Friendica.
Best wishes all.





Mist and fog clouds over this domain. The thoughts of raceme flowers and pinnated ferns hang over my minds eye as I walk with covered pupils. The hard dirt feels rock like, with an occasional trip over roots.

Pulling me down a pathway of cedar and pine, nesting in its canopy, birds orientated skywards to a plateau of limitless sky. Just out of reac- war̓n̼͚͜i̴͈ng,͈͑̌ l͓̀o̩͋ͬw̦͊ b̵̍a̶͋͂t̫tê̾̍r͉̔͠y

O̪͉p͎e̜̽n̡ ỳ̬o̲ur̘̥ e̫͌yē͌ͅs̵͗̿, O̪͉p͎e̜̽n̡ ỳ̬o̲ur̘̥ e̫͌yē͌ͅs̵͗̿, O̪͉p͎e̜̽n̡ ỳ̬o̲ur̘̥ e̫͌yē͌ͅs̵͗̿.




Listened to a command on the internet informing me how to remove dependencies using pacman on arch. Ended up removing ca-certificates and fucking my system. Had to reinstall those packages from cache.




It's just too warm to do anything... I loathe this heat. I want the winter temperatures back... 😩

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Still don't understand what the differences between the 3 timelines "latest posts", "latest creation" and "latest activity" in Friendica are. 😆
in reply to Shiri Bailem

@Shiri Bailem Thank you so much for the detailed explanation! It’s been very helpful in understanding the differences between the individual timelines.
in reply to Charline

@Charline glad i could help! Friendica is powerful but it's far from the easiest to understand.


Since nerdica.net collapsed, I was searching for a new Friendica instance. I've finally found one.
in reply to Shiri Bailem

@Shiri Bailem Yeah. They messed something up with their backups while updating Friendica or something like that. They couldn't manage to restore everything and gave up, sadly. But I'm glad I've found your server! 😀
in reply to Charline

@Charline yeah, these databases get huge and it becomes a lot harder to restore. a month or two ago I lost a few days to a database crash, this morning's database backup was 4GB. It takes like half an hour to start the database if it's not a clean shutdown (and about as much time to cleanly shut down).

It's kinda a nightmare lol