I agree. The energy behind NGU is what really matters to me. Seeing someone all hyped up about the price just makes me feel bad for them. I ran a Bitcoin meetup through a couple bull/bear cycles. Actually started it because I didn't know how to handle those feelings in my first bull run. Lucky for me, this one guy showed up to snap me out of it. Everyone else was "to the moon" though. Their vibe made me feel sick. And man, did they sure did have it rough when the bears came around.
NGU without adoption is hollow.
NGU with adoption is the tide that raises all boats.
Technology should empower, not control.
True change starts from within.
I must be willing to find out that I'm wrong.
"Monastics should diligently cultivate silence at all times."
~ St. Benedict, Rule, chapter 42
How do we experience God in an increasingly secular world?
#Quaker
quaker.org/2024/07/18/my-soul-thirsts-for-god/
"It is much easier to put this ceaseless love on trial and nail it to a cross than hear it and feel open to change."
#Quaker
summeroflove85.wordpress.com/2017/05/01/it-takes-guts-to-believe-that-god-loves-you/
Sometimes we can feel the world's too messed up for God to love us. Grace challenges our instincts and offers a transformative view of humanity.
"[If] 'man is a wolf to man' ... how can that be reconciled with the human-positive language of the Gospel? Are Freud’s ravenous apes the same creatures worthy of having their hairs counted by God (Matt. 10:30)? Are these monsters the same creatures of which God says, “I will be a Father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters” (2 Corinthians 6:18). Are these designers of bombs and missiles really the meek sheep which Christ will gather back (Matt. 18:12–14)? "
#Quaker
summeroflove85.wordpress.com/2017/05/01/it-takes-guts-to-believe-that-god-loves-you/
What do Quakers really mean by "that of God in everyone"?
https://postmodernquaker.wordpress.com/2012/03/27/that-of-god-and-the-other/
An atheist finds welcoming community among Quakers. Their principle of "absolute perhaps" accommodates inquisitive nonbelievers, encouraging them to delve into spirituality with silence, openness, and by embodying values such as simplicity, peace, and integrity.
#Quaker
It's folks like Andreas Antonopolous and nostr:npub1trr5r2nrpsk6xkjk5a7p6pfcryyt6yzsflwjmz6r7uj7lfkjxxtq78hdpu who got me into Bitcoin and keep me in Bitcoin. The space is so noisy with grifters, influencers, doomsdayers, ngu, btfd, moon. But there are also a lot of people humbly walking the path of truth and genuinely helping others along the way. Here's to humanitarians, cypherpunks, privacy advocates, artists, philosophers, dreamers, pragmatists, disruptors, innovators, activists, free speech advocates, node operators, community builders, teachers, and anons.
As a Quaker, I believe in every person's inherent worth and dignity. A cease-fire represents more than policy; it's a choice to abandon deadly violence as a means of change and embrace a world that truly values human life.
People forget how much freedom of religion helps Christianity remain vital. Christians hold a wide range of views on the Bible, often disagreeing strongly about its interpretation and application. Who's view would be taught in schools?
"The moral urgency of a ceasefire is painfully clear. But it’s crucial that Congress also recognizes that ending the war is vital for our own national security."
https://www.fcnl.org/updates/2024-07/how-gaza-war-harming-us-security
"As a Quaker organization, opposing all war is a foundational moral principle. Yet, this message is not only rooted in faith, but also pragmatism. Time and again, we’ve seen war-based solutions to security challenges fail, all the while inflicting a terrible human toll.
What’s worse, research shows that the use of military force has not only been costly and ineffective, but deeply counterproductive, perpetuating cycles of violence while neglecting the root causes of conflict."
https://www.fcnl.org/updates/2024-07/if-wars-not-answer-what
https://www.fcnl.org/sites/default/files/2024-06/AlternativesToWar.Report.web_.pdf
"The moral urgency of a ceasefire is painfully clear. But it’s crucial that Congress also recognizes that ending the war is vital for our own national security."
https://www.fcnl.org/updates/2024-07/how-gaza-war-harming-us-security
"Wherever two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in their midst."
~ Matthew 18:20
For Quakers, worship begins when two people gather to be in the presence of God.
https://bibleopenings.com/2024/07/23/the-presence-in-the-midst/
I'm leading a discussion with teens soon about "What is the Truth?" It's more important now than ever. We're surrounded by so many people noisily trying to gain clout, likes, and follows. It's easy to think that how you get ahead in life. But it's all shallow and the success will ultimately feel hollow.
“Peace is not just about the absence of conflict; it’s also about the presence of justice. Martin Luther King Jr. even distinguished between ‘the devil’s peace’ and God’s true peace. A counterfeit peace exists when people are pacified or distracted or so beat up and tired of fighting that all seems calm. But true peace does not exist until there is justice, restoration, forgiveness.
Peacemaking doesn’t mean passivity. It is the act of interrupting injustice without mirroring injustice, the act of disarming evil without destroying the evildoer, the act of finding a third way that is neither fight nor flight but the careful, arduous pursuit of reconciliation and justice. It is about a revolution of love that is big enough to set both the oppressed and the oppressors free.”
~ Shane Claiborne, Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals