"he has lost his privileges" lol

I think that's right. Interesting coincidence, I just read that in my book :

They already have body tracking. It's REALLY hard to mask your bone structure and how you walk.

Visiting the Last Spike and this passing train went on for about 10 minutes.

My best stab at your ending questions are : I think the link between technology and consciousness are much deeper than the materialist assumption. Technology doesn't only come from ideas expressed in material form - they're an extension of our consciousness itself. I think the whole world, to some degree, in some way, is a product of our minds. The spooky action of quantum physics seems to support this.

IIRC the army that marched around Jericho had the ark with them. The ark did all sorts of cool things, but it seems like it was just a box made of wood (I want to say Cedar, but Acacia would make more sense) with some gold artwork on it. But the ark was a symbol, and everyone believed in its power or holiness, so in a way, it was technology. It was conscious intention stored up somehow like potential energy and it did work in the real world.

This fits with my theory about the Jews - that they were actually the entire priest class of Egypt. Or maybe the Levites were the priests themselves and the other tribes had something to do with organization. I have no support for this theory, and it could be formulated in a million ways, but that's just how it seems to me. They claimed they were in bondage in Egypt - "slave" is used, but that wasn't like slavery in the US was. In Egypt a slave paid 20℅ of their product to their master, but was otherwise mostly free. But a priest would equate worldly life with bondage, so it could have meant that, too. Now, if you look at the "King's chamber" in the great pyramid at Giza, there's a broken stone box that archaeologists claim held a sarcophagus. But its too short. It looks to me like it would hold the ark perfectly. I'd really like to go measure it... Bucket list. When the Jews left Egypt, the pharaoh was determined to stop them. People moved around a lot - a lot more people were nomads back then. I doubt the pharaoh got pissy every time some nomads crossed his land. He seemed too upset in the story, like he was losing the most valuable thing he had, maybe the source of his legitimacy. That would be the priests, the magicians. "Moses" is a very Egyptian name, and he was a priest. So Moses was taking the magic out of Egypt. And we see that magic at Jericho. We also see it on the cross. "Christ" is also an Egyptian name. Most people think its Greek, and it is, but not originally. The word comes from the Egyptian initiation ritual. I don't know what it meant to them, but it was used after the initiate passed the stage where they see Osiris' mummy.

For me, these things actually strengthen my belief in Jesus Christ, even though they aren't taught in church.

I forgot most of what I'm responding to, but I remember you said something about charity potentially causing companies to not want to hire Christians. I'd agree, if the Christian employee has a misunderstanding of what charity is. Its not necessarily selfless giving. In one sense, Christian charity means giving the benefit of the doubt and being civil, usually in conversation. And you can give away things and call it charity, but only if its not pity. And most importantly, selling things in a free exchange is also a form of charity - that's actually the easiest way to begin to see the unseen world. If its a free exchange, both sides would say they profited. The end result is a whole greater than the sum of its parts. Simply moving things around and getting paid for being a merchant is creating an increase in wellbeing in the world, so that's charity. The word got maligned after it got a legal meaning, which flattened it and made it a target.

yeah, i don't mind the dry, wet you have mosquitoes and fungus and shit, parasites everywhere

and yeah i'm looking at utah also, that whole region is now on my radar... i think i need to get there, set up in a little town somewhere, fiat mine and stack sats and get my papers and a motorcycle or car or something and do a lot of driving around to see... there is green patches everywhere, around the edges of mountains, and the dry places are still good too, a bit easier, i really think it's something that has to be seen before you know where you are gonna plop yourself

the more i think about it the more it seems obvious this is where i'm heading... madeira is nice but i would love to live in a country where english is the spoken language, and somewhere that i can easily get into guns is a huge plus, also, access to beef... that's another big one... the entire midwest is beef country, above all else

if i have options then probably the one i'd pick out of them all is the one where owning guns is relatively easy...

i'm not so much interested in the marauding hordes or invading scenario, honestly i doubt the modern economy can really pay for a serious war other than the one they are kicking off in eastern europe... no, it's because bullets keep working for decades, don't need power, and can net you food out in the wild, and maybe once in a while scare off some dumbasses trying to rip something off... plus also lots of fun, and something i've hankered for since i was in my mid 20s... australia is fucked up about guns, it's one of the biggest red flags, i mean literally, for any place, bad gun laws, bad place to live

also, these features make it very desirable for me... i like cold and wind... just to figure out how i can go about acquiring full control of a piece of land... i mean, i guess probably it's possible to register a corporation as a foreigner and put the title there... or maybe just even long term rent off someone, by the sounds of it main thing is i need a patch with a well or where i can get one bored out

Truly amazing if you think about this

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If you don't want to be in the big cities, you might be better off in Wyoming than Colorado. The Colorado state government has gone full tyrants, but haven't stopped Venezuelan gangs from taking over apartment complexes by force. Also, Wyoming doesn't have a state income tax and has lower sales tax. Of course Wyoming is a little colder and a lot windier, so you have to be tough. Bonus is that Wyoming has so many areas where there are too few people around to care who you are or what you are doing there. Make sure any place you find has proper water.

This week I've booked two morning to go sailing, which I haven't done enough of these past couple months during the peak of the summer. I'm trying to cut my teeth, learn... the ropes... as much as possible while the good weather lasts.

September even this early is still hot, 30 C and above is normal, but because the sea is so warm after months of heavy sun, the arrival of a high altitude depression from the polar jet stream which are so hard to predict because they are not reflected in "normal" surface weather maps, can cause quite sudden and violent storms.

Similarly, this time of the year we start to get cyclones south from here, which bring in warm air from Northern Africa that go around the NW Med unimpeded, loading up with heavy rain, and turning into really bad north-easterly gales with very long fetch, i.e., really bad waves, 5-6 meter-high. Episodes with waves 8, 9 and even 10+ meter-high are relatively frequent.

People have this conception of the Mediterranean Sea as this sort of placid little lake, and it can be and often is. But I tell you, it can get very violent and very unpleasant, very quickly.

I thought Christmas is in December? Why is stuff being stocked already?

Anyway, I like these cookies and rather have them now than in thee months 🤷🏼‍♀️

They never took accounting . It’s insane how many ppl don’t understand assets vs liabilities

Some kind of relay thing. My notes stopped doing weird stuff when I started using my own relay.

Also, did you stop believing the Jericho story? Seems plausible to me. But also seems plausible to be symbolic

I wish I could easily show you some of my work. I love showing off my TIG welds.

yeah, i hadn't drank any artificial sweetened stuff until 2021... it probably was the early early stages of onset of type 2 diabetes that was causing the - at the time - mild symptoms like cramping and peripheral neuropathy

now i know what it all is... all that seed oil fried potatoes for 20 years and energy drinks for a lot of that time, and then the additives kept on stacking up, the maltodextrin, the drinks with sugar but also artificial sweeteners, probably colors and flavors have been involved too, there is so much shit in the food these days that never was there 20 years ago, or at all 40 years ago

and on top, i've had celiac the whole time, but the odd thing is that the rash from it didn't start to happen until i was in my late 20s, 2006 and after... so it's probably GMO wheat or some shit, combined with all the other shit, probably glyphosate in the seed oils, so many easy things to point at, and bugger me hard shit to avoid now

you might check out sparrow wallet. it’s very good at giving you full visibility and control.