Thank you for your reply and for thinking about what I wrote.

I am the first to admit that I don’t know anything for certain. In fact, if I ever become certain about anything, it’s usually the first sign of being wrong.

As a person with kids, I applaud your ability to even think about whether it was the right decision. With something so permanent and consequential as creating another life, one that must live in the world around us and then (in the best case scenario) become old, frail, and ultimately say goodbye to everyone and everything they love, I can see why that would be a very tough thing to do.

Having grown up very poor, it has become obvious to me over time that the perspective poverty offers relative to my now very comfortable life has been a necessary condition for my overall happiness.

Had I grown up middle or upper class, I would have faced many of the same challenges (school, figuring out jobs, relationships, etc) but would have struggled only to regain the security that I knew as a child, not capture said security for the first time.

Poverty also means that you have to become pretty creative to still find joy in life (you can’t just buy an ersatz version), and this was truly useful for me. It was how I found nature, exercise, creativity/art, good relationships, accomplishment, efficiency, etc. All the actual sources of joy that life has to offer.

Also, since humans do far better with improving circumstances than deteriorating ones, poverty has been a distinct advantage for me over many middle class people I have known. My life has been a steady state of leveling up instead of just a slow grind or decline towards death.

I am becoming more aware that people who have only known wealth and security simply don’t know how to be happy, so they do the things society tells them will bring happiness (like having kids, believing in God, consuming garbage products and experiences, practicing brand and political tribalism, etc).

They then get trapped by the system that knows exactly what it’s doing. The kids they bring into the world keep these people distracted and obedient, as do their political and religious leanings, and the debts they incur to afford all the other garbage they bring into their lives. They are creatively barren, and most can’t even start to think for themselves, let alone begin to examine their own behavior so that they may one day escape the prisons they live in.

It’s sad to watch really, and there’s really nothing that can be done about it.

Good luck out there.

#grownostr

#thinkdangerously

Well I just witnessed someone using witching sticks to locate a water line, and now I'm a believer. #grownostr #WitchingSticks

Good morning nostr, gonna need another cup of coffee this morning. I overslept, and that always makes me feel rushed and in catch-up mode. Mornings like this I'm really glad we installed the automatic chicken door in the coop. So today we're having a friend come look at the new water meter to see what materials it will take to connect to the cabin water line. We'll have to rent a trencher of course, its a pretty long run of pipe. Just more expenses to satisfy the water company, even though the one meter has worked just fine for years. Other than that it'll just be the usual work around here. Gotta continue watering trees and plants mainly. So yall have a great Thursday nostr friends, and remember that today is a gift. #coffeechain #grownostr #countrylife #homesteading

"If I thought I was going to die tomorrow, I should nevertheless plant a tree today." Stephen Girard

I want to know more about nose breathing, mindfulness, breathing techniques that can upgrade your progress in workouts,..

Give me your best recommendations 👇🏼

Every. Single. Bog.

Something I love about #Nostr is that when comments are hidden from me it's not likely to be the result of some manipulative & centrally planned algorithm, it's just a spam account that I (or maybe lots of people I follow) have flagged or blocked.

80's film bad guys made extensive use of choppers 🚁

#lethalweapon

So I was talking on my cell today about something and that something was reflected on the first ad I got on IG. I am so done.

Questions:

Is getting off IG enough?

Does an Above Phone solve this?

Or do I need a cell At All.

#realquestions

#asknostr

Back to my blackberry pie now...

This made me hungry.

I’m curious to see how price is impacted by ETF shorting and other shenanigans whenever those go through. Hopefully it can’t be as manipulated as other markets like commodities since there are so many hodlers to buffer that bs

#memestr

$1.5 billion of #Bitcoin was sold and the market only went down by 5%.

Demand is impeccable.

And by the way 1 BTC = 1 BTC