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Jeff
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Roughly similar stats where I’m from. Religion has a grip on community but it is definitely not what it was. I often wonder if this is my attraction to bitcoin - some certainty in an otherwise multifaceted and inconclusive world. It’s one of my worries that I’ve just joined a cult rather than being early to a monetary renaissance.. while the bitcoin network is damn near perfect, it just may end up on the shelf

I really appreciate this note. Your last sentence is critical and it is something that I’ve recognised as I’ve matured. I once was vey anti-theist but am now much more comfortable with the views and beliefs of others. The lead C++ dev on one of my teams is also a Russian orthodox priest and I have some really deep conversations with him (deep for me anyway!). I’m much more likely to stand up for the rights of religious people now than when I was younger - with the caveat that they’ll also allow me to live my own life without interference

Yeah, so I’m cutting myself off from this - at least I have done so far. I’d feel like I was being dishonest

There are a lot of people in Ireland who just go with the flow and are cultural Catholics. They get married in church, their kids go through communion/confirmation etc and they go to mass and do the standard stuff - yet they don’t really believe. That’s the kind of stuff I mean by faking. And I’m probably missing out on aspects of my community due to cutting myself off from this. That’s what I was trying to get at in my previous comment.

I’m still an atheist. There are many benefits of religion that I’m missing out on but I just can’t fake belief

I distinctly remember being mocked by a friend’s father for answering some question by saying “I read it in a book”. I was probably 9 or 10 at the time. Most of the guys that ended up on drugs (addicted that is - I experimented myself!) just weren’t curious people. We always had books at home - not necessarily good ones but I had a big encyclopaedia that I’d devour and a 40 volume set of books called the joy of knowledge. Honestly, just reading and being curious was the secret weapon. It took me into my mid 20s to sort myself out properly though!

Your story seems similar to mine (though mine’s 20 years ahead) - my father (a gardener) used his hands to feed his 5 kids. You sound a lot more mature than I was in my mid 20s though!

I luckily ended up getting into tech and ended up making my way using my head rather than my hands.

This isn’t me in the pic but that’s where I grew up in the 1980s. Rough as fuck - I had some great friends and was terrorised by others. Bar a very small handful I’ve seen almost all my peers either die from drugs, suicide or are still there looking at least 20 years older than they should. Keep that focus young man

Cheers. I’m nothing special but I’m consistent

Sounds like that’s in your DNA -the frugality. It’s hard to shake that. I’ve never spent more than I’ve earned, even when earning a pittance. It has worked out well for me financially over the past 25 years as it should do for you. I’ve gone from quite a poor working class background to living a very comfortable middle class life purely on the back of that behaviour. Although sometimes I think my time horizon is too far out.. I’m so used to denying myself that I don’t really want anything and will probably end up leaving it all to my kids (who’ll piss it up the walls😆)

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(Posted on Twitter because it’s more relevant there, but I won’t link to it so you don’t have to experience that place 😂)

The great insanity of our time has been:

The idea that facts cannot be shared or discussed, if they don’t support “the correct conclusion.”

People who want to discuss a major topic or problem honestly, are met with extreme hate and vicious denouncement if the truth or facts they find aren’t perfectly aligned with The Narrative.

• Are deaths and injuries from all weather and climate related issues plummeting and projected to continue? This is “dangerous” and makes you a “denier” and must be censored. Not because it isn’t true, it’s because it questions the “final solution” that has already been decided by the political class.

• Are there 10s of thousands of reports of deaths and extremely serious injury associated with the vaxzein? If you say anything at all other than “safe and effective” or even talk to someone who has been injured, you are a literal murderer of innocent old grandmothers & you’re probably racist too.

• Does a woman have a vagina? This is so profoundly evil that each utterance of it is literal genocide of trans people.

The words literally slice through the air like crazed dementors on the hunt and cut down trans people like word demons, blood flying everywhere. The horrors of such a grammatical tyranny can never be recovered from. It’s instant death to 1000s.

EVERY issue seems to be met with this same stubborn and narcissistic box that is riddled with lies, twisted statistics, & half truths. And it’s being used to excuse the most horrible forms of censorship violations of individual rights.

Step outside of the approved box with even the most utterly basic of facts, and you’re an evil, racist, treasonous conspiracy theorist (or literally any other disgusting label they can conjure)

This does SO much damage to the discussion because not only are people not allowed to hold a sober, nuanced position on anything, but when you hear someone spread blatant lies and then they start screaming like a lunatic when you point it out and call you a murderer - then what remotely intelligent or sensible person would believe absolutely anything that person says again?

It has led to the total breakdown of trust in our institutions that is so bad that people will literally believe *any* crazy story for no other reason than they are certain they are being lied to with the “approved narrative.”

The establishment losing their minds over people believing anything they find on the internet, need to look in the mirror. They have been pouring gasoline on this fire for *years.*

The establishment has made it perfectly clear, over and over again, that truth is subject to any change necessary so that it aligns with “the good guys’ [insert approved conclusion]”

Problem is, as I see it, knowingly lying, censoring the truth, & viciously attacking - even putting people in cages - for speaking the truth, has never been what “the good guys” do.

Hope you have a great day 😁👍🏻

Thanks for nothing. I’ve been just gone outside asking all the women I came across whether they have a vagina or not and now the police want to speak to me

Mid 20s, I assume living at home.. supportive father.. I’d be pretty close to 100%. Hopefully not bad advice but it’s the truth! I’m putting away enough for it to be noticeable (I’ve other responsibilities) - plan to do this for years