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Jesus' friend, husband to @AnnSofiNovelist, father, ENTP, author, former teacher/tutor/professor in South Korea/China/ Saudi Arabia. My books provide a path to personal freedom if you dare to walk it, at http://FikaTimeBooks.com. Writing a 5th book called, "How to Build Deeply Authentic Relationships with Yourself and People." I'm also a highly skilled English language teacher/tutor, accepting more clients (30,000 sats per hour), with a Master of Arts in TESOL. 한국, 한국어, 그리고 한국사람을 정말 사랑해요. Author of four books. Book(s) available for sats and fiat through http://FikaTimeBooks.com - How to Become Extremely Intelligent - Benefits of Bitcoin - Beneficios del Bitcoin, Spanish translation - Fördelarna med Bitcoin, Swedish translation The Nature of Reality Abundance: Your Path Out of Poverty To support my work, on-chain... bc1qdy0h8ulkzma08zs45pg9zusy8qqcuu058zuce4

Dude, you're shitting on Elon Musk and almost telling him to go back to South Africa, one of the more foolish mistakes you've ever made. I've lost almost all respect for you.

It's depends on the quality and skill of your water boarding.

One of the differences between Bluesky and Nostr, is on Bluesky this hilarious and true meme would probably get the account banned in about 3 seconds, whereas on Nostr it can't be banned and lives on in perpetuity.

I'm excited to show y'all my appearance on the Jake Woodhouse Podcast! We had an interesting and authentic interaction, discussing my newest book, how Bitcoin improves relationships, how God wants to be my business partner, and how to connect with God personally.

Enjoy!

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I'm 45 years old today.

Over the past year or two I've...

- built an off-grid home (not house) on 1.31 acres debt free

- written and published my 4th book, Benefits of Bitcoin

- built out a 6 to 5 kilowatt pv, 20kwh 48 volt solar power system

- expanded our crypto mining passive income

- watched out book sales passive income become more steady

- started working on my fifth book, "How to Build Highly Authentic Relationships"

- moved to Kingman, Arizona

- done business in Flagstaff, Kingman, Scottsdale and north Scottsdale, Peoria, and Glendale Arizona, and also California, from Redding to San Diego

- finally obtained my wife's green card

- achieved a 1511 day streak on Duolingo, mostly learning Korean

- started a business tutoring Koreans in English (very fulfilling!)

- watched many Korean TV shows, acquiring Korean in the process

- became a Bitcoiner even harder

- started going on podcasts

- became a father

- learned so much about forgiveness, and interacting with God

I'm halfway to 90 years old, and excited about arriving at this age, and looking forward to the years and memories to come.

I'm most excited about welcoming our son John this coming September. Becoming a father has been a dream of mine for most of my life and I've worked on becoming the kind of man who would be a good father. I'm grateful to God and my wife for this opportunity. Here's to another 45 years and beyond!

Replying to Avatar BitcoinBadger

I'm the one who started the sharing of this meme (this go around, at least). And I replied to this thread with "always".

I will not call this flawed - but oversimplified. And context and nuance matter, of course.

I never consider myself a great man - but I am a GOOD man who was incredibly harsh on himself for most of his life. But I never projected that hardness on others. Because I came from an abusive background, I sought to protect my family from the rage that constantly simmers below the surface with me.

Over time, I've softened. I've always realized the blessed life I've had for the entirety of the 36 years of marriage I've had...with two beautiful daughters and grandkids. Even then, I could realize it with one breath...and rage in the next. I've made substantial progress in being gentle with myself over the last 5-7 years. Some of that corresponded with retiring and focusing on coaching high school tennis as well as teaching tennis year around...primarily to juniors. And my wonderful wife makes it easy to always come back to centered.

Coming from the abusive background (ran away a couple times...grandparents took me in when I was 12), I've always had a heart to build up juniors' self-esteem, confidence, work ethic, and resilience. Believe it or not, I've always done it with a smile and a lot of laughter while coaching tennis, soccer, judo...even singing at Vacation Bible Schools.

I was just always my worst judge and critic. Had people tell me at a young age that I'd never amount to anything. Rather than buckle, I fought back...and unfortunately carried that fighting mentality most of my life. I've been known to scream at inanimate objects (when nobody is around) if they aren't performing to my expectation. I was a developer, founding partner in a software/analytics consulting company, etc. So a lot of those screams were directed at the screen when trying to problem-solve. I coud always come up with a solution, but it took some cursing along the way.

And nope - never screamed at my wife, my kids, my employees...just myself or obstacles to my goals. Meanwhile, I knew weak men who screamed at their wife, their children, their employees, etc.

Thank you for sharing your journey. I was raised in an abusive, codependent, likely narcissistic household and was divorced in my early to mid twenties, and unlike you, I struggled not only with being super critical and abusive towards myself but also others. It took many, many miracles of God's love, attending Codependents Anonymous on and off for twelve years, deliverance ministry, therapy, and inner healing ministry and books to help me learn to love and be compassionate and kind with myself, and therefore to be the same way with others. I learned that buried feelings never die, so it took me many years to sort through and feel and release my many unfelt feelings, and find the truth from God about His true love, care, and kindness towards me. He still fathers and the Holy Spirit still mothers me to this day.

So when I critique this graphic (not your life) and its implication that it's good to be hard on oneself, I'm going to push back on it because it's not true. I'm really proud of you for not taking out feelings of angry on your family or people. Sincerely, well done. But you also deserve, because you're a precious son of a kind, good, empathic God, to interact with yourself and your heart with gentleness and truth and empathy, so you can find the healing your heart may still need.

Thank you for sharing your story and what you've done to find healing for yourself.

I've listened to this album many times, and this song. Excellent in beauty. I discovered Alexi Murdoch watching a movie with John Krasinski in it, called Away We Go, a relatively lovely film.

Abortion is a shitcoin.

When we say, "Bitcoin fixes this," what we really mean is Bitcoin fixes the incentives and constraints that were perverse under fiat currency to be healthy and functional under Bitcoin as truth money, which in turn people make choices in relationship to, and therefore improve the state of the world to convert Earth into Heaven.

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In Amythyst I disable the automatic image and video loading ( to stop porn from auto loading), then browse the global feed for interesting comments and profiles.

I would also humbly recommend following me and my wife nostr:nprofile1qqs88rmcwwkzcm9hwq0rz5rpdt7gysmekyetgea6t2zzn4vkftcmzdspremhxue69uhkummnw3ez6ur4vgh8wetvd3hhyer9wghxuet59urnr6r8 because we're awesome. :)

“To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.”

― Thomas A. Edison

I wrote this acoustic instrumental about 11 years ago. Enjoy!

#acoustic #acousticinstrumental #proofofwork #grownostr

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Thanks! It's been a nice upgrade from living in our van!

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For instance, human suffering as the problem and Jesus as the solution.