As to video, I believe Odysee runs on a blockchain-like network, Libry
I just discovered that my best friend in the world betrayed me today. He's been stealing from my family for weeks, hiding and watching as I've blamed others for the damage his ongoing actions have done.
I'm really struggling with it. Any advice on how to forgive is appreciated. https://nostr.build/av/nostr.build_135aa61c43493c2d9374ce97cac6c61a2b9c128cff5928b6055fcf8211e8c3cb.mov
?cid=2154d3d79nestfi9byq85w027bdql18qxpu319yiaa1rx5aa&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g
?cid=2154d3d7249b5vcqi9ystqll676s4vagshr1430hlx17gtgb&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g
terrifying. 😳😟😰
Thank you!
?cid=2154d3d73o5bp59ixu41j8jiphm5mx7wf10vy5jpf3fze8vz&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g
Fascinating. 🧐🤔
Definitely ripe opportunity for some competitive diversity in a market environment 🤙
?cid=8af52e94wg047rujpv1tn9skanh62ftp67rdyvfq7paxe12q&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g
Question, for um… anyone out there?
#plebechain #plebchain
I’ve noticed that posts I’ve reposted, liked, etc. don’t show that data when re-examined later — is this a client thing or a relay thing?
Secondary question, as to the relays: if a post is made to relays “A” and “B”, liked two times on each, will a client show the net total, all four of those likes? Or just the two added from within each relay?
In other-words:
how does the nature of NOSTR relays change the terms/nature of social engagement across the network?
Ok, I didn’t exactly mean “🤙” as a reaction to this post… 😅🥵
?cid=2154d3d79dupsrmtcu2cy7xosdbyku0qj948oo98yha68uc6&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g
Ditto. Well, after trying it myself. 🤣
Then I had to understand more about it. 🤷♂️😌😂
Certainly, to a limited degree. Incentives matter… tho choices much more.
Hard to believe that people are really just “better people” (like some sort of spontaneous-saint-creation) just because modern homicide rates* are proportionally lower.
*(within presence of rule of law)
I do understand your concern tho: a submission to something external must be exactly that, and many in their religious practice(s) simply rewrite, rename, and grant excess authority to their own (albeit “higher” in some sense) whims.
So I do think this is a valid and sound concern…
Nevertheless, to make it a rule or principle presumes total knowledge of the data. If even one religious experience is legitimately-divine, this is not the case, and to ignore such a possibility is to presume your own conclusion, i.e. the fallacy of begging the question.
As I like to say, “If the universe is a self-driving car, you might as well call it KITT.”
😉🏎😂
Fair warning tho, that might be understood or spoken of as pantheism, which I don’t think is quite what you mean, altho about as close as traditional monotheism. Or maybe, something quasi-platonic? Socrates’ agnostic monotheism, but more impersonal and absent like Plato’s forms?
😬🤔
Not speaking for/from the op, but:
Proverbs 3:5-6 (the verses you referenced) in context seem to be broadly an appeal to humility*, to know that you do not know, like Socrates.
But also an appeal to the true source of wisdom: a genuinely external force, source, or really, entity, that is YHWH.
If this entity is not real or cannot be communed with, then this is obvious absurdity.
BUT… if He is real, and we CAN know Him… then hypothetically, nothing could be better, and no greater state of humility exist than submitting oneself directly to He who is above all things.
*(this seems to be exactly what the aforementioned “trust the science” crowd, and bad-science in general, is lacking: you cannot search for what you think you already have)
No, that’s kinda the point. Nobody can take your will from you. (see: Epictetus, etc. ancient Stoics)
You only control four things: opinion, pursuit, aversion, desire. “Or in a word… everything of your own doing.”
Whatever the external results (which might inform the use of all of the above) you still are who you choose to be.
That doesn’t mean anything goes: that means everything BUT that one thing can and will be taken from you, even if it SHOULD be, in some sense, respected by society.
These are not mutually exclusive. It’s better for both if the business is able to remain open, EVEN if I (the disabled) am not able to personally attend this specific instance. My friends and neighbors will have jobs, possibly me indirectly even, and takeout will still be available to me.
More importantly, incompatibility with the state-designed plastic solution doesn’t mean that there is no other solution pursued, innovated, and implemented, dare I say probably a better one.
Most places (at least in my localities and experience) especially local institutions like schools and churches, already have some individual restrooms available for families (diaper-changing) and the handicapped. Implicitly this would already be available for other unique situations,
are you saying they’re not superfluous enough, or that some whole-new fourth category should be made?
For one… Because as someone who has been “one of those people” for most of life, I’m telling you those kinds of solutions don’t work and tend to make things worse. I don’t wanna be called out, nor fit in arbitrarily. I want to make my own choices and live my own life. No matter the society or community or era of history, there’s always been a possibility of persecution* in response to my choices. Only I can make them, w the possibility of changing minds and worlds, but irregardless, keeping my wits and will about me and living virtuously.
I.e. Expect all hurt and blame from oneself. Be invincible.
For two… that’s impractical. For this specific issue, or all of the category, much less all within society.
Again, most people might be initially uncomfortable in the boys locker room.. you get over it, learn the way of things, what to avoid, where to go, etc.
If every one got a new private room for every possible discomfort, that’s all there would ever be, and that’d be a looooot of rooms.
You’re better off, and I mean that as genuinely as possible, working through this on your own and thereby being prepared for the multitude of similar issues you’ll encounter in society throughout your life.
I’m not saying there can/could never be such a thing, just that as earlier post mentioned, it’s more of a niche, local, unique solution as completely necessary. And that this is the wrong reason and context to implement an absolute solution.
That’s a rather bizarre, almost realistically-inconceivable hypothetical, but while presuming it to be true, this is yet another (if basically all) societal problem that would be solved with a better principle of private property*, than some vague unreal sense of public-ownership.
Now if 👁 was in that scenario, I would probably do I what would and have in any other uncomfortable situation: either learn to bear it, and become a better person by it, or if necessary for practical or safety reasons, pursue the simplest alternative.
Changing in the women’s bathroom would DEEEEEFinitely not be that… in fact that’d be way more uncomfortable.
*(this is basically the point of private property. The results of your work doesn’t effect mine, your choices are separate from mine, and so on. Better incentives that way, better opportunity to avoid conflict.)
My presumption is, and this seems to be backed by clinical evidence, well sexuality issues may be relatively common and questioned*, often a perverted response turns them into body dysmorphia. A young girl who otherwise would’ve simply been a tom boy or lesbian, now might suffer from body dysmorphia, surgery, hormone distortion etc.
That does seem to be legitimate issue to me, however inappropriate some of the responses might be.
Personal stories were requested, will return w details later. Preferably in a Session chat if possible.
*(altho these also should be questioned, and chosen; not pseudo-mystical “destiny” or necessity as the culture implies)
I do believe this is a fair point for those in the public light, and some local social situations, but I’ve also seen its effects overestimated and applied to localities where its clearly irrelevant, and there is no trend or concern whatsoever.
Be wary to be the more reasonable party — not just in position but in manner as well.
Perhaps even, in approaching every individual interaction with humility, reasoning towards truth along with the your associates, you might not only avoid malevolent agitation, but even show them an inkling or glimpse of light, of reality that they’ve been starving for.