Yep... On Youtube, all the time... On nostr though???

Aliens are demons.

They are mostly after your faith. They try to inject lies like "we brought DNA to Earth (so we are the creators)".

Some fast moving flying objects may be angels or demons.

I know one, or more of you are responsible for this freshly handcrafted meme. You know what you did and yeah the power of prayer worked for you, but not for me. Still paying for it.

Sincerely, fuck you whoever you are.

“I remind you that more than 1 in 10 Americans today have no close friends. Single-person households now make up 29% of all households — up from 13% in 1960. We are more socially isolated than ever before. These are important facts for businesses to know if they are to understand their customers, but they’re also important facts in and of themselves.”

that's how i would approach it... adventures make people's brains more plastic, and give ample opportunities to make analogies in fireside tales

for the most part, "orange pilling" is just bashing your head against a brick wall... i've never been inclined to really try and i'm dealing with this pharmacist recently and she just doesn't grasp the value of it, even though her boss, and me both do

yes, there is times for speaking softly, with ominous confidence

and there is also times for saying "WTF BRO SERIOUSLY YOU FUCKING JUST SAID>>>>"

Probably not. The whole paradigm is probably like hitting a nail sideways. I see people who care a lot about their image/reputation, and people who don't care. The ones who care sacrifice themselves unendingly to be viewed as good/accepted/in/valuable - and it becomes self fulfilling. But its still a fantasy world

The “wealthy” are taking profits and rebalancing their brokerage portfolios while plebs around the world are saving more discounted sats. This is healthy.

I'm also from the South, but I'm weird... Introvert, would rather go to the dentist than meet new people. I usually have a New Yorker's directness and humor, though I hated NYC when I visited once

So Maybe "sweet talking" is not so good but there is a case to be made for "talking sweetly".

I also felt like a caveman compared to the Brazilian politeness.

However, I get it. Sometimes there is politeness in front of your face and there is backstabbing behind.

A lot of politeness is telegraphing intentions to strangers. Initial contacts with others have to result in exaggerated gestures until contact is established

Perhaps as they become friends there is more directness.

this sweet talking you speak of is a form of begging

and yes, of course it relates to the kind that manipulators use

it's very interesting how the posture for these things gets bedded into a cultural meme... people in the balkans have this meme about how saying what you think makes you more blessed (slav) - to the point where they have a policy where you don't use kind words when you beg, you just say "give me" (dai me) and this is also related to old latin words as well, in portuguese "daime" literally means give me, exactly the same as balkans

Elon kicked this off when he bought twitter , but it’s tied to the interest rates shooting up. They all overhired and overpaid during the COVID zirp era

Naw I wanted to check the vibes

I deactivated my LinkedIn again. Was too insufferable

In the past few days I think I've gone through a kind of psychological cycle. I was getting some validation from my spiritual musings, leading into religious stuff, but ended up reacting very negatively and harshly to someone for what I felt were domination tactics. You saw, no need for elaboration... Then, I think as a reaction, I started trying to remake how I interact with nostr. Basically tried to appreciate a more playful use of it. Doing so would fit with a longer term project I've had, which is to reduce my dependence on "left-brain" thinking, which means try to get more creative/intuitive. My problem there is that I still approach it in a logical/mechanistic way, but just fool myself into thinking its creatively expressive.

I've mentioned a few times on nostr my dislike of a particular religious group - the eastern orthodox. That's because, in light of this new love bombing information, they tried to love bomb me over YouTube. If they hadn't moved too quickly into the gaslighting phase, it might've worked. I guess my left brained approach to life saved me there... It certainly got a reaction from them.

I wonder... The EO cult may be a particularly bad offender, but they aren't the only ones... I think something like that is going on in all of the physical churches. So the emotional need that causes people to do that could be the reason Christianity has fallen so far from the original meaning. Its so bad, that most people who figure out the Bible end up quitting Christianity altogether. The problem is the people, not the beliefs. You tell anyone who thinks they're Christian what Jesus is actually saying, and they respond with intolerance. That may be because they are under a psychopath's control. What I described earlier as the forever narrowing of purity tests could actually be the gaslighting of "believers" to maintain control over them.

Anyways. Please do point out if I was doing any love bombing, or anything manipulative. There were a few things I said recently which I've been beating myself up over - showing too much neediness, basically.

Thought experiment.

Option # 1

Let’s say you have 10 bitcoin and we hit 2 million in the next few years.

You’re tempted so you sell it for 20 million dollars.

After taxes you’re be left with 16MM.

Which you use to comfortably generate 1.2MM a year in the tradfi markets.

So you take the money and retire.

Bitcoin crashes 60% back to 800k.

For a few years you feel like a genius. You enjoy your new rich person lifestyle.

You even buy back a few bitcoin. 2 to be exact. 20% of what you used to have.

Then bitcoin rises over the next decade to be worth 50 million per coin.

You’re worth 120 million now. And you decide to sell a little over half a coin and upgrade your lifestyle again to be able to generate an additional 2 million a year.

You’re now on paper worth 120 million, you generate 3.2 million a year (266k a month) and you’ve been largely stress free for the last decade.

Your kids will inherit roughly 1.62 bitcoin from you upon your death.

You have some level of regret about not hodling through, but you’ve been largely stress free and the mental health benefit was worth it in your mind.

Vs.

Option # 2

You have the same 10 bitcoin but you Hodl them.

Your stress levels are persistently higher.

You also decide to retire when Bitcoin hits 2 mil, but you decide to do so in bitcoin terms.

Your plan is to sell a little bitcoin as needed in order to fund your lifestyle.

This is roughly 1-3 million sats a month. Depending on bitcoin price.

Over the course of 10 years you end up selling or spending 2.4 bitcoin and are still left worth 7.6btc when bitcoin reaches 50 million.

Your net worth is 380 million.

You’ve reduced your lifestyle in bitcoin terms down to a million sats a month. (500k) or 6 million per year. You’re 46, Assuming you live until you’re 90 you will pass down 2.32 bitcoin to your kids.

You have no regrets about the way you played it, but your stress was consistently higher and there were a few scary months along the way.

Which option do you choose?

1 or 2?

Colossians 3:18-21

Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them. Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord. Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.

#bible #biblestr

We all have obligations to each other.

We belong to each other.

If we have no peace, it’s because we’ve forgotten that we belong to each other.