blue eyed snake

Those dams were removed or demolished to give the water more space at places were that water has space to spread out without hurting human buildings. Same process is going on here in the Netherlands. Without deliberate interventions/ water management the damage would have been worse

here, the Netherlands it's too warm for the time of year, should be around freeze point but we have temps around 16 now. All over europe there are floods, Spain has had a lot of it, earlier central europe and now Wales. how about this one, changes in our local 'loop' of the gulfstream AMOC will cause major cooling and extreme weather in Nordic countries. https://mitechnews.com/science/gulf-stream-collapse-could-devastate-european-climate-agriculture/ Cold, very cold, thus problems with agriculture aka food. sadly have to agree, do not understand how humanity is soo stupid agree, I had a nice run here but time to leave will be soon now

Boudica, ruler of the Iceni art: Armand Laroche

That would be naive my little country is now ruled by some fascist idiots who are looking for loopholes in the law to deport immigrants with dutch nationality. I've no doubt about the ways they're gonna treat people who are not heterosexual once they decide it's time to do away with us. remember the fate of the institut fur sexualwissenschaft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut_für_Sexualwissenschaft

dear Maddie, I so hope you can leave and find a safer country

Newspaper article from the Netherlands, see for yourself, written in English. https://www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v/2024/the-outside-world-knows-wim-hof-as-the-eccentric-iceman-his-family-suffered-domestic-violence~v1176564/

the DDJ stranger in a strange land by Heinlein The wisdom of insecurity by Alan Watts the secret of the golden flower

frothy current flows the winds of change enfold me freedom is calling

yes, never had it explained like this but is nice I do have the awareness, but not the ability to manifest it anymore. being the subject of the extracorporeal chi of a master can be quite baffling

't was a close call

would like to have access to the current events forum.

quick search in dutch language came up with this (quora)

the Dutch still have the lion

to me it also the way @ChiDragon speaks as if he is an authority. He's not, you're not and I am not either. It is his opinion, that opinion runs contrary to a gazillion different schools and lineages that describe chi as something that does cause tangible sensations. So let's not sell our opinions as truth and be clear they are opinions. getting back to the rules of DDB i read:

the first session in the dojo, i was like whew, how can i have missed this all those decades before

Hopeful dawn, unknown future, unfolding lightly wu wei flows through me

Interestingly, the other 2 Abrahamic religions hold different views. In the Islam it is believed that the first 4 months of pregnancy the fetus is not yet ensouled. ( were those modern cristians want us to believe a child is in the uterus 2 weeks before conception ) Although they are strict on abortion, In general they deem the life of the mother more important than that of the child to be. The jewish religion also puts the life of the mother above that of the child to be. When the US went backwards and Roe versus Wade was undone, they went to seek exception because this went against their religious beliefs. and then a little tidbit of info from a 100 years ago which 'pagan religion' would tell mums to not breastfeed because a bared tittie is sinful. https://web.archive.org/web/20230528132442/https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2019/01/24/in-brabant-stierven-babys-door-taboe-op-borstvoeding-a3651624