How advanced, or what types of advancement, would it take to convince you to get a cybernetic brain implant in the future?

-Substantially improves a major disability (blindness, paralysis, brain damage, etc)

-Boosts sensory abilities beyond normal (eyesight, hearing, etc).

-Boosts IQ or some other meaningful metric of intelligence and computation, thereby increasing your competitiveness in multiple fields. Becomes basically necessary for some fields due to many others doing it.

-Lets you enter VR with all five senses in a way that feels like 80-90% realistic but can be any environment/context. People make increasingly awe-inspiring virtual experiences/worlds, only accessible this way.

-Substantially increases the bandwidth with which you can interface with computers. Like, lets you download a ton of info quickly.

Guys be honest, are y’all real?

Or am I talking to myself and some bots???

There are atheists and there are atheists, just like there are Christians and there are Christians.

My view is that as long as one is humble enough to know that there is a creative and destructive force greater than ourselves, this makes oneself aware that we're part of something greater.

For many Christians, a person cannot be "saved" if they do not invite Jesus into their heart and say some key phrases and I forgot what else.

My nephew is severely autistic. My daughter's ex fiancé and life partner of almost 9 years was an atheist. He died Christmas day after, literally, medical negligence murdered him.

He was supposed to have a routine outpatient procedure which ended up putting him in life support for over a week until his parents had to decide to remove him of life support.

We're still devastated by this.

I've never seen my daughter in this much pain.

We loved him as our son.

My nephew wouldn't ever be able to utter such "invitation" and thus he'd be "not saved." Matt didn't even get the chance to have a conversation about whether or not he'd ever consider or reconsider his status of ... hmmmm... faith?

I've seen things in this life that absolutely have proven to me the existence of a God ( Godess, universe, whatever anyone wants to call him...)

We're talking stuff that's really out there and as life altering as it can get. I've also lived and experienced the abandonment that comes from asking God where he's been and why he's let me go through a lot of things I'd rather would have gone without.

One could easy cancel the other.

But I am a relentlessly optimistic person. I have to be.

One day I wasn't.

My older sister found me convulsing next to an empty medicine cabinet.

I was 13.

I am extremely fortunate she was sober and scared enough to take me to the hospital. After they pumped me full of lord knows what, they also discover I was having peritonitis on top of my attempt to say arrivederci to this world.

They cut me open as if having a c-section, and had to keep me open like that for days.

Today, I still struggle, like most, really. I've seen folks down in half empty cups.

Today I rely on a couple of simple prayers:

Is what I am doing or saying showing love for my neighbor as I love myself?

And

God, grant me the strength to change the things I can. The serenity to accept what I can't. And your wisdom to know the difference.

Be well my "atheist" fren!!!

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I need a good laugh after this shit week.

Comment your best joke pls!!!

Take responsibility,

stay open to self reflection,

be confident, and stop getting offended by everything

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blame yourself for everything,

take shit from people,

and be a masochist.

The cloud sinking down with the bolt is a bit weird though.

Yes!!!

I can't remember if it was before 2008 or 2010, but I had seen a photographer's book at a Borders. I wish I remembered the name of it,but the concept was not too dissimilar to arsehole Warren Buffet's acknowledgement of the womb/ovary lottery.

The book was nothing but pictures of happy wealthy babies compared to those of babies born and dying in poverty or war torn countries.

We forge the parts of our lives/destinies that we can, but we must also understand chaos is NOT non-existent.

There is such thing as the unexplained, mystery that we will never comprehend.

The New Thought Order wants us all to think WE ARE 100% responsible for what we attract.

This is a fallacy.

We do, and are responsible for attracting some things, events, and even people into our lives. But to deny the Great Mystery is to be an atheist which in itself contradicts their own atheism. As by removing the belief on a greater power, they've made themselves into the God they claim doesn't exist.

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So true.

When one has been wronged, or witnessed someone being wronged; sometimes their defense mechanism is victim blaming.

Similar to "she died of diabetes complications, she must have not been disciplined enough to eat right and exercise..."

This judgement can come from a desire to criticize without edification, ignorance, or fear.

We all fear something bad happening to ourselves, so we tend to blame the victim.

"She should've kept her mouth shut...

"He shouldn't have run out to the street so fast...

"Maybe they shouldn't have been so flamboyant...

I think this fear we all have sometimes causes us to want to distance ourselves from the person who got hurt. We want to be...uh... u like them, because in a very ignorant or fearful mentality we think that might just keep us from going through the same.

I feel like many of us who are empaths believe there may be a "somewhere" where we could kinda escape this type of thinking.

But I'm guessing it's just anywhere fear itself can go.

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Thor, perhaps - it looks like it's just lightning filmed with a camera that doesn't capture the color very well, and then slowed down.

The Wrath of God? nostr:note1ymjr7fu4xll8ycnnkr8rrglphl9z4pvl67eud6aq7pn2vm82hg4svkvtkp

Edited, wrong username in text.

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Exactly!

One line I remember both Stacy and Max Kaiser repeated over and over was that bitcoiners have a "slay your heroes" mindset.

To me, that includes any of them.

I can do the mental gymnastics of why they worship Michael Saylor and Bukele, and anyone else who may go in that list; because to slay a hero you have to have one to begin with.

Someone's words and actions today will make us admire them, love them, etc...

As long as we have the sane and self-edifying understanding that those same people can and will say and/or do something that will disappoint us, we will be OK. Especially if we find ways to hold them accountable within the scope of what we're able.

If we can't succeed at informing and/or convincing someone of their wrong, we must dust our feet and move on.

Tolerance and adaptability go hand in hand.

I understand what nostr:npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev 's point was, but learning is NOT a one way street.

My degree was in pedagogy, philosophy, letters, Greek & Latin etymology.

I tutored advanced algebra, calculus, trigonometry, biology, English as a second language and chemistry by the time I was 15.

I had students who were lawyers, doctors, children of lawyers and doctors trying to get their toefl and their SATs high enough to get into US colleges I'd never dream of being able to afford.

Despite the extreme abuses me and both my sisters endured, the three of us were highly functional individuals with what would be deemed high IQs.

But all three do suffer panic attacks, insomnia, my little sister sleep walks a lot, we don't relate with each other well at all, & do struggle with other physical issues. I mention this because a lot folk don't grasp what victimhood is.

Like many compound words out there, it's meaning has been multiplied and people now use any words they want however they like.

We were victims, and depending on how our minds and bodies sync, our night terrors re-victimize us. But there is a place and a time for EVERYTHING under the sun. We're fortunate. Very. To be alive, 1... But also to have anger and even wrath inside us that keep us alive and fighting for ourselves every day.

Learning, as a teacher, as a tutor, and as a student, was never a one sided thing.

For a teacher to teach, they have to learn FROM THEIR STUDENT the tacticality needed for that student to comprehend what is being taught.

I feel like there was only one winner in that interaction between Guy and mystery man. Guy learned to try be more concise. Mystery man learned nothing.

Guy missed the opportunity to also provide mystery man with a teachable moment of his own.

This is solely based on the very limited information of that hidden interaction.

I don't stand to know what Guy feared to lose by standing up for himself or by informing this individual about his abruptness.

There is also that old saying about choosing one's battles. He might have felt he would gain more, and compromised, than if he had informed that individual that they simply had no need to be rude.

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Huh?

Is this nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg walling me out or another issue? I’m finding myself curious what nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg hides me from or hides from me.

I feel like one thing which may permeate everything, even our bitcoin and/or nostr enclaves is the sense of belonging or acceptance.

I'm sure I'm guilty of it too.

They may not perceive it that way, but you're right about how there are trending behaviors in groups/cliques.

When you're dependent of an income which is affected by others' perception of you, your behavior is affected overtime. Even when one resists it. All our livelihoods depend on that in most instances, I'm sure there are exceptions, hence the existence of so many assholes in the world.

It may be innate to the majority of us just from the fact that we try learn quickly as little children what will hopefylully get us acknowledged and accepted by those who are meant to care for us.

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The key missing piece on a lot of communication too is inflection too.

We all forget that by not having something spoken, a lot of the intent gets lost in how we "heard it."

Whether I'm right or wrong, I read your reply with kindness.

What is your favorite bitcoin related podcast? #asknost

Over explaining can be a symptom of trauma. I have a traumatic brain injury resulting from early childhood thru my late teens physical abuse.

It was not only the beatings, but it was the fact that I wasn't ever heard.

Not being heard, even in a "non- abusive" household will develop connections in our brains that prompt us to communicate one way or another.

You were empathic to try comprehend where their impatience with you came from. This doesn't free them from also having a responsibility to exercise the same consideration towards you.

There are ways to tell someone: this is too long for me, I can't read it all. Could you summarize?

If they were tactful with you, I'd understand your excusing them. But just as I need to push myself harder and harder as I age to be concise; people need to learn to respectfully consider other people's ability or inability to communicate.

My two sats.

What happens if someone slaps you at high frequency?

It Hertz