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Wow, congratulations! I love the look of the front cover.

I’m fine with whatever admods decide to put on the banner.

Totally! Love the picture, let’s use this one. After all, “Dao Bums” mustn’t take themselves too seriously.

A bots-only social network triggers fears of an AI uprising https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/03/moltbook-ai-bots/

This is pivotal, this is the true meaning of cultivation imo.

Yes. Is like the Dutch idiom, ‘je moet een gek altijd gelijk geven" (never argue with a fool).

Now everyone got a booklet (from the government) telling us how to survive the first 72 hours when e.g there’s a war here inside the Netherlands. I have already more than my fill of ‘fire breathing’ going on around here; no ‘horsey’ horses for me please, just a sweet horsie, thank you.

Very slow, plus occasionally 'bad gateway'.

Moltbook. AI agents now have their own chat site. Lots of complaining about humans.

If there is a poll, can I enter the Swan as an option please. Failing that, I vote for the horsie uncropped, this one:

Western dragon is a dynosaur; Eastern dragon is an alligator.

His text is on here https://www.researchgate.net/publication/364643573_The_Daodejing_A_2022_Translation.

His first line, “The Dao that can be the Dao ….”, is not a direct translation. 可 (ke3) when used as an auxiliary VB, needs to be followed by a VB in the passive (The Dao that can be Dao’d). [Oops, looking into that, realised my line one is faulty too. Back to the drawing board.]

Yes, that's my experience too.

While creation reveals God, it is not the same as direct participation in Him. Palamas said that through the “uncreated energies” (the ‘rays’ of the Holy Spirit) human beings can truly unite with God, not just infer Him from nature. I like to think this is a bit like cultivating 氣 (qi4) qi , to become one with the Dao”.