The earth evolves as we do.

Our final form, which only arises via the evolution of our species, will happen on earth alone.

If you die off planet, your soul will not reincarnate here.

The earth is our mother.

Don't abandon her in her time of need. 🧵 👇

Beautiful 🤩 cards

Totally think for yourself. My mom used to say GOD knows what's in your heart and to beware of hypocrites. Idk what you know, but I definitely enjoy this conversation.

Angel is a messenger of GOD. Angels visited Mary and Joseph. I've no idea how many there are, but as a human we can't actually comprehend what space even is. Angels aren't supposed to be worshiped so we don't focus on their names, or them too much. There's a whole host who simply praise GOD and his glory shouting "HOLY HOLY HOLY". Like if you get shocked by something and you say "holy shit", like that but so immense that all they can say is HOLY.

Fallen are those 1/3 of the heavenly host who rebelled, lost, and then were cast down. The war of Lucifer vs Michael.

No, once they leave GOD/fall they are referred to as demons. They're in darkness. Their sin took place in eternity so they can't be forgive or expunged for it. We are mortal so we can die and leave that life behind. Hence why and how GOD still has domain over them.

Lucifer was the angel, the most beautiful. GOD loved him, and said he was perfect. But inequity was found in him, and Satan is the same being after falling. Satan was proud and wouldn't bow to humans, therefore disobeyed GOD. Though you can argue, oh after that decision are you the same? But yeah same thing, but different times. Like how Saul's name was changed to Paul. Simon became Peter. Names have meaning and they change once you become that new thing.

According to modern society valuations, the property and this piece of garden has almost no value. It doesn't hurt to be out of step with what the mainstream thinks!

I used to think that too, and that's how I see it like oh it's all the same. It's the one creator of all. But I've also heard things like in Islam that the devil is a djin, not a fallen angel.

I think we can agree that there's a range within each religion. There are probably Christians who are more Muslim than Muslims and vice versa.

i prefer it to a phone number

used it recently to attempt to coordinate a purchase of some local home-grown eggs

i missed the email though because i so rarely get them but i hate phones worse than i hate email so idk...

in general, notifications are a real problem... the more places you have to look, the less likely you will see them, and the more you get, the less likely you are to disable DND on your device and miss messages... so, can't win lol

but i'd rather email than a call

i probably need to try and do something about notifications, they tend to just be so noisy when you enable like two things to do it and then suddenly everyone tries to get at you

If value for value #v4v is legit, then the content creator is acting out of need to create, and zapping is a personal reaction.

The way zaps are displayed and promoted, v4v is in danger of being a jumping on the bandwagon gimmick.

Seeing a mega sats count for a post puts me off zapping. The post has been validated, well done, moving on.

I get the validation value of seeing a high paid post, so I'm not dissing the concept of zapping, but displaying how many #sats are received for a post is rather vulgar, nouveau riche.

Why not display number of zaps and not the value? This also adds to #privacy

Contrarían view from someone finding their way.

Another big issue that has been bothering me this week is living in cities.

A good friend has offered me their place in town over Xmas, to chill, watch movies, be warm, have a break from rustic life.

Two days in, I'm sorry, but I feel stressed, and not a little dead inside. The house is modern with the usual mix of comfort and gadgets. But even with the heating off, the neighbours are cranking out so much, it is soporific unless the windows are open.

And cooking on electric, jeez, that's not cooking. And the fridge is full.

And at night, it's a choice of a million movies and TV channels, and food and..nodding off.

There's no connection to outside, can't see the sky, it's an effort to walk to a park to see green. The air is full of diesel. The noise my god, there is no let up.

And now the comfort is doing my back in.

And what is lost on my friend is that I have animals, so there is no break as such, I still have to leave town to look after them.

And in less glam conditions in a stone caseta I don't fall asleep in front of TV, and can just step out and breathe clean air and spot the Plough and listen to the wind and go to sleep in a cold, completely dark and silent room and wake up refreshed.

And I can cook on gas for next to nothing and store all the food I like in a space that gets naturally cold in winter with zero refrigeration tech nexessary. And no gadgets to break down and require calling in a service company because that's all you are allowed.

Modern idea of good living conditions in cities is mental. It's false. No wonder there are so many cost and anxiety issues in society.

Or maybe I have it all backwards.

#asknostr

i personally barely see like 3 emails a day, and most of them are work related

using nostr and preferring to work with nostr and lightning email is becoming less and less important to me

email was captured, pretty much, by google, and proton is basically squeezing the people who don't want to be locked into google's spy machine... notion killed that other proton competitor, i forget what it was called, they had a credible competitor for gsuite and now gone, gee i wonder why they did that

fuck them all, we making sovereign internet and their cattle yards will be vacant pretty soon

Grand Rising 🙌🏾

On a bitcoin standard you wont need to check emails. 😏 i see a lot of people worry about emails. Thats how important life has you. Im not important so i dont have to check emails but i cant see myself asking for a bot to read my emails thats a little extreme maybe slow down i dont know

Hahaha legend. That book always blows my mind and gets my imagination churning about seafaring explorers of the past.

Which is insane in its own right. But the guys doing it with no complete maps of the world, nothing digital, no radios or safety measures at all, usually at war with other countries and at war with pirates. They were just so badass and insane. One of my favorite periods of history is the human exploration of earth by sea. Ever read Shogun?

GM

There are sequences that execute within us in an autonomous fashion. Programs that run automatically & largely unassisted. The outcomes are known. It's just how it's done. You get up, take a piss & put on the kettle.

I've become very aware that I explain things to myself by explaining things to others. I talk about the things I want to gain clarity on. I know it can sometimes seem arrogant & disrespectful.

Becoming aware of something running autonomously allows you to bring it into your consciousness. You can choose to continue continue acting out what was previously unconscious. You can also choose something else.

Just bringing that autonomous program into your consciousness, makes it perform better. It doesn't want to be removed. It's like an irrational, limiting belief - it'll hide & camouflage itself to avoid being discovered.

Thank you for listening to me talk to myself. It's clarified a few things.

Never take anything that's said personally. We're all just essentially talking to ourselves.

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I keep hoping they actually will shut it down for a bit. Congress is required to meet for at least two weeks a year, according to the US Constitution. They should go home to their regular jobs for a while. Maybe they should be limited to only two weeks as a Congress Critter, and spend the rest of the year as corporate whores elsewhere for the rest of the year. 😉

I’ve gone on many impassioned monologues about the absolute ferocity and courage of the humans who sailed across oceans on wind powered boats. Those men and their accomplishments are remarkable beyond what I can describe.

It does look like a cake 🍰. Not really my 'cup of tea', but it's original and different, which the world needs more of. 🙏

Its the same God. If the Islamic God is different than the Christian God, then we also have to say the Christian God is different from the Jewish God. The arguments for one works for the other too.

So either we do that, or we've made an error in our conception of God. Humanity has, not Christianity specifically.

One possible error is to believe that God is Good - to the exclusion of the Bad. Those are human concepts. A perfect being has no need for those categories ; what a human sees as bad can be good if you look at a larger picture, or visa versa, and even that is just a human rationalization and is completely unnecessary to a perfect being.

Another possible error is to believe that God can be limited in any way. You hear people say "God can't _____." Or "God needed to ____." Any such construction is nonsense. Getting that will require a shift in understanding Jesus, from what the churches teach. If Jesus is God, he isn't reliant on some formula of dying to do something, and it doesn't matter what some human wrote a long ass time ago. I am not denying Christ - everyone wants to jump to silly conclusions... Holding certain things constant, a different understanding must pop out.

And another possible error is to believe that God is at a specific place - in Heaven, for example. The Bible explicitly tells us both God and Heaven are within us, not a place. Islam and Judaism also make this mistake, possibly moreso.

The difference between Islam and Christianity, besides Jesus, is the acceptable conditions to do violence. Islam imagines itself to be a rebellion against oppression, and violence is acceptable in fighting oppression - but only then. Similar to Christianity, Islam also characterizes sin as oppression, and a "jihad" is meant to be an internal struggle. Obviously its not only limited to internal work.