“When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming self-sacrifice, you may know your society is doomed.” - Atlas Shrugged, 1957
Life is precious. Invest in relationships. Turn your heart’s gaze up and out to your Creator. Count your blessings and let your suffering produce great endurance and patience. Love is the way.
Surfing has been and continues to be a great blessing! After many years of bearing an allostatic load, it helps me stay in the moment and in my body (multi-sensory engagement). I’ve spent hours with Yeshua out on the water with the wind, waves, fish, sharks, turtles, stingrays, dolphins, pelicans, gulls, ospreys, terns, sandpipers, and looks. 
Our crazy boy 
Yes. It is a great depiction of the human bonds forged in and through suffering. It shows how harsh that war was.
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What I heard:
1. We need to examine our motives, especially in the initial mystifying phase.
2. We are prone toward self-deception.
3. Our initial justification and explanation of a desire may self-deceiving.
My observation: Introspection can be a great place to start. If it leads me to the truth that the creature is part of creation and cannot lift itself out of its self-deception.
However, it often keeps the gaze of oneself bent towards itself. This ends up leading to practicing the “presence of self.”
It is only in looking up, that I find deliverance from self-deception. In losing my life in Yeshua, I find the only life worth living, the Life.
This is just my experience.
Happy Father’s Day to all the fathers out there! Strong, healthy, and mature masculinity is absolutely necessary for any society.
I was fatherless until our Heavenly Father drew me to Him. He is not far from any of us. In Him we live, and move, and have our being. Acts 17.
Grateful for each day. 
"Nothing spoils a good story like the arrival of an eyewitness."
-Mark Twain
A quiet paddle on the kayak this morning. Grateful for Jesus, family, health, the sun, this beautiful planet, and all those working to create things like Bitcoin and Nostr! 
I’m grateful for Bitcoin. It challenged and continues to challenge conventional wisdom. Conventional wisdom often seems like “mindless ideas traded between the conventionally wise.”*
Bitcoin represents hope for the world and for the future. It emerged onto the scene in the wake of financial chaos caused by the central planners, at least in part. I have been watching the U.S. Debt Clock since 2000.
I was taught how to think about whole-of-government solutions and Instruments of Power as a U.S. military officer. One of the things we talked about in the academic environment was the debt as a national security issue.
The little I know about money, economies, world-reserve currencies, changing world orders, big governments, and the “great game,” tell me that we must challenge conventional wisdom.
*John Kenneth Galbraith coined the term, “conventional wisdom”. He described it as: “Beliefs that are at any time assiduously, solemnly, and mindlessly traded between the conventionally wise.”
More often than not, safety isn’t realized even when promised anyway. Give me liberty and I’ll live with the risk!
The surf was good today 
Major General Smedley Butler once said “war is a racket.” Craig Whitlock just published The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War. Central bankers and a few others profit off of war. Bitcoin can help address this.
From Maj. Gen. Butler:
“WAR is a racket. It always has been.
It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.
A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small "inside" group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.”
“WAR is a racket. It always has been.
It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.
A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small "inside" group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge
Thx. I’m so new to anything other than hodling. How do I know if it is set up? I selected my newly opened strike wallet.