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Governments claim expertise on the economy, but their policies widen inequality. Bitcoin returns control to the people.
🙏 Holding Kenya in the light.
Getting a nice thunderstorm with a gentle rain. Time for bed.
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I've been sleeping on the floor for over a decade now. Returned from a backpacking trip and just kept it going. Don't really miss the bed at all.
Fidele Nsengiyumva tirelessly advocated for HIV/AIDS awareness in the Evangelical Friends Church in Rwanda. After returning as a refugee in 2002 and learning he and his wife were HIV-positive, Fidele transformed personal turmoil into embodying hope. He spearheaded INACOS (Initiative of the Friends Fighting HIV/AIDS), supporting religious leaders affected by HIV/AIDS. As Co-Clerk of the FWCC HIV/AIDS committee, he drove adoption of resolutions promoting education, understanding, and inclusivity within Friends. Fidele's legacy of compassion and activism continued until his passing in 2012.
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https://www.quakersintheworld.org/quakers-in-action/155/Fidele-Nsengiyumva
It's up to us, that's for sure. I quit major social platforms because they felt anti-social to me. They fostered loose global connections but weakened local IRL relationships.
Few consider the true meaning of community. It's not always idyllic. It involves navigating conflicts together. These conflicts can reveal truths and challenge our perspectives. It's about balancing the individual with the group, but sacrificing neither. It's a process that requires trust, where trust cannot be minimized.
Building community is far harder than destroying it. This asymmetry means we need to practice "community" every day, in every post and reply ... even and especially when someone shades us.
(Common behaviors like trolling undermine community trust.)
"All time" claims often really mean "in living memory."
Take the Beatles being called the most famous band ever. Few under 20 feel that way now, and their descendants likely won't either.
Similarly, in the future, only basketball history buffs will care about Michael Jordan, much like how Wilt Chamberlain is remembered today.
It's definitely amplified online, but happens in real life, too. Watch a local town council meeting. Plenty of people arguing their position is perfect even when it's blatantly wrong.
A new issue of Quaker Studies is out...
Volume 29 • Issue 1 • 2024 • Summer 2024
Contents
-- Editorial (Rhiannon Grant)
-- ‘So Prays the Muse Unus’d to Artful Song’: Female Friends and Eighteenth-Century Poetry (Elizabeth Bouldin)
-- The Ends of Relief: British Quakers and the First World War in Vienna (Tammy Proctor)
-- The Religious Society of Friends and the Campaign Against Compulsory Military Training in New Zealand 1909 -1914 (Martin Crick)
-- George Fox the Younger: an early Quaker conservative? (Euan McArthur)
-- Research note: Two Early Quaker Pamphlets from the East of England (Euan McArthur)
-- Research note: Region, Gender and Family, Print Culture, and Radical Puritanism: A Conversation between Stephen Angell and Euan McArthur (Euan McArthur and Stephen Angell)
-- Research note: Giles Firmin’s Quaker Library (Stephen Angell)
-- Book review: Kacey Dowd Tillman, Stripped and Script: Loyalist Women Writers of the American Revolution Stripped and Script: Loyalist Women Writers of the American Revolution (Katy Telling)
-- Book review: Rachel Cope and Zachary McLeod Hutchins (eds), The Writings of Elizabeth Webb: A Quaker Missionary in America, 1697-1726 (Rosalind Johnson)
-- Book review: Carolina Fernandez Rodriguez, American Quaker Romances: Building the Myth of the White Christian Nation (Erin Bell and Erin Bell)
-- Book review: Sally Jeffery, Dissenting Printers: The Intractable Men and Women of a Seventeenth-Century Quaker Press (Rosalind Johnson)
Are mostr.pub posts an issue for anyone else? They feel like fake activity. Many users might not know their content is cross-posted here. Commenting on these posts typically leads nowhere.
Small dedicated groups inspire massive transformation.
😂 Here's what she posted:
"Curious to know if exploring these worlds requires an appreciation of bitcoin bc I do not have that and am not interested in changing my mind about it. Are there others with a similar stance on bitcoin here in however-we-describe-this?"
Nick Szabo's essay "Shelling Out: The Origins of Money". The origins of money trace back to ancient collectibles, which played a crucial role in human evolution and cooperation. Key points:
-- Collectibles: precursors of money, enabled early human cooperation
-- Properties: secure, hard to forge, easily measurable
-- Lowered costs in wealth transfers (inheritance, marriage, tribute)
-- Homo sapiens increased carrying capacity 10x over Neanderthals
-- Enabled food sharing between tribes
-- Used in dispute resolution and tribute payments
-- Flints may have been first collectibles
-- Attributes shared with precious metals and reserve commodities
-- Implemented proto-money functions purer than in prehistory
-- Modern collecting instincts may be evolutionary remnants
-- First secure forms of embodied value different from utility
-- Forerunners of today's money
-- Evolution chain: Collectibles --> Standardized jewelry --> Precious metal coins --> Paper money --> Bitcoin
John Woolman's "A Plea for the Poor" (1763) remains a powerful critique of wealth and inequality. Key points:
-- Wealth for its own sake hinders virtue
-- Large possessions in selfish hands lead to oppression
-- All people have a right to earth's sustenance
-- Criticizes exploitation of workers and animals
-- Questions morality of inherited wealth and large landholdings
-- Advocates for education prioritizing spiritual growth over worldly success
-- Calls for fair compensation to enslaved people and descendants
-- Encourages simpler living and just economic practices
Woolman challenges us to examine how our economic choices impact others and align with spiritual values. His words echo through time, urging us to create a more equitable society guided by universal love.
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Didn't know the markets had a rough day until I checked nostr a few hours after the close. Still not sure I care.