That’s it I’m selling all my corn for gold

When on the road, the last thing I want to experience is food poison

That's the value proposition of national chain restaurants

Constancy

Day 3 of no nicotine

Most people online mention day 3 as the worst day, so wasn't looking forward to today. But it's been way milder than day 2.

Hopefully over the worse of it.

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Michigan Department of Education considers updating health standards to include gender identity topics starting in 6th grade.

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Day 2 of quitting nicotine, still.

Feels like day 8 tbh 🙄🙄🙄🙄

Apparently it gets worse too.

I remember quitting a long time ago, lasted for about 3 months. Can't really remember how it went, but so remember the feelings of disconnection from reality being similar lol.

#DigitalIdentity let's the ruling class punish, reward, and shape the population from a distance.

⚡️🇺🇸🌲 NEW - At a high school in Maine, students who are punished walk in the forest instead of being grounded. This original measure was devised by the 54-year-old guidance counselor, who is passionate about hiking.

Detention has been replaced by 5 km walks, where discussions, poetry readings, and nature take the place of classroom walls, much to the students' benefit.

Looking forward to this.

#ToChristAlone

Really enjoyed this prayer to the Holy Spirit

Life is really confusing. And Christianity even more so.

The plain truth of Christianity becomes easily obscured by the chatter of the various “Christianities” and especially the chaos of easily falsified interpretations that have become the norm online. If you find yourself engaging in this chaos, repent, this is not truth-seeking, and it is certainly not Christ that you are participating in.

The very existence of the different denominations, all the way back to the great schism, is heartbreaking, tragic beyond measure, that our pride (east and west and every reformer) our own egos and political ambitions, became more important than Christ who is in our midst. If we want iron to sharpen iron, it must begin with humility to Christ.

In His mercy God allows these harmful schisms (harmful to us), a divine patience that is impossible for me to understand.

Like with the parable of the prodigal son, neither brother was “right”, the older brother was rebuked, and only through profound humility did the younger find his way back to the loving embrace of his father. And when I see sincere Christians misrepresent or ridicule other Christians, assured their interpretation is “right” and all other denominations are wrong or that you just need a Bible (or inversely, pretending they’re all right), we may need to stop and reflect that we are *all* wrong (all of us), for if truth was on our side who could be against us? There wouldn’t be schisms if truth was what we were seeking.

All lies die. Only truth remains in the end.

Only through profound humility can one even find truth.

You cannot debate or ridicule or coerce or deceive your way to truth (those just put more beams in your eyes). And yet how often do we faithfully acknowledge or even understand truthfully other denominations? How often do we misrepresent other interpretations, or criticize them while being blind to the faults in our own?

All it takes is ONE passage in scripture to falsify your interpretation, yet people will cherry pick only what serves their interpretation, their ego as judge of Christ and His message.

Obviously the schisms continue to exist because of this— truly it is a way to humility.

Let yourself be proven wrong, whether your non-denominational or reformed or Baptist or Catholic or Orthodox — let yourself *be* wrong, because you are not God, for only Christ is *right*, and to the degree you are actually right, you are at best the older brother to the prodigal son, and at worst lost in outer darkness.

These days, the world has no God and everyone does what was right in their own eyes

if great ghee was a horse

Columbus was a great man and Christian hero whose reputation and legacy, like so many great Christian men of ages past, was intentionally and unjustly tarnished by lesser men with wicked agendas and a lot of shiny academic credentials. This particular instance of character assassination was carried out by so-called historians like Howard Zinn.

Imperfect though he was, Columbus represents Western civilization itself, which is to say, Christendom and all that was built upon its foundations. He represents the desire that faithful European Christians had to spread the Gospel to news lands and peoples.

And he represents America as an indespensible part of our existence and heritage.

He is worthy of our honor and our remembrance.

#Columbus #America #ToChristAlone #grownostr

Water lily bloomed!!! Hope we get some frogs.

They’ve built the perfect tyranny….mass death, total surveillance, economic control and then convinced us the real danger is ‘theocracy.’ This is psychological warfare. The current regime can handle any earthly challenger, but they lose their minds at the mention of transcendent authority. Why? Because tyrants throughout history have claimed divine right, but only One actually conquered the grave to back up the claim.

They’ve built the perfect tyranny….mass death, total surveillance, economic control and then convinced us the real danger is ‘theocracy.’ This is psychological warfare. The current regime can handle any earthly challenger, but they lose their minds at the mention of transcendent authority. Why? Because tyrants throughout history have claimed divine right, but only One actually conquered the grave to back up the claim.

This week in #bitcoin

What do you why "we" can't go over it.

Me and you? Well I don't have a private boat and plane to go there and inspect. Do you? You need lots of money too. If you get a team let me know because I also want to know what's over there.

I never really have been religious, as I mentioned I grew up in the Mormon church, I left a long with some family when I was a teenager because it didn't feel right, I read a lot and decided it wasn't something I felt right about.

Since then I just haven't been religious at all, I'm not atheist because I believe there must be something or someone who started this life on earth, but I can't see myself aligning with any religion I have heard about.

Even when I was a kid I was always questioning stuff in my religion and didn't think it made sense.

I am open to being proven wrong, but religion is mostly based on faith as opposed to proof of science which is why I have a hard time believing it's real.

I believe Jesus Christ was probably a real man but have a hard time believing he is the son of a god.

If this happens everyone on Nostr would be worth hundreds of millions to billions of dollars.

Most anti-government revolutions, protests and movements also tend to make a region revert back to previous conditions or likely leave them worse off than before because they are moved by bad, incomplete or inconsistent ideas.

Bitcoin is a good idea. It will win and is winning without the need for violence. It's unique like that.

Natural rights, sound money, free speech, private property, voluntary contracts, free markets, free banking, common law, economic specialization, division of labour, self-ownership, right to self-defense, freedom of trade, natural justice are good ideas.

Economic planning, price controls, central banking, fiat money, forced wealth redistribution, arbitrary expropriation of property, egalitarianism, state-granted monopolies, positive law and social justice are bad ideas.

It's not some inevitable 'power vacuum' that a state fills.

It's a vacuum of good ideas about how humans ought to organize, interact, cooperate and resolve conflict that get filled by bad ideas about the same.

The extent to which the people in a region adopt a good idea or a bad idea determines their standard of living, level of civility, economic advancement, stability, peace and prosperity. I'd go out on a limb and add moral and spiritual advancement as well.

People in civilised and advanced economies, societies and cultures are lucky enough that they can peacefully advocate for the good ideas without starting from scratch, since they are already recognised and widely accepted to a certain extent, atleast implicitly.

Those who aren't as fortunate will have to do a lot more intellectual brunt work. Possibly, they would face some degree of violence and threat to their livelihood as well.

Thus, it isn't surprising that certain regions remain unstable, poor and uncivilised no matter what, while others do fine in this regard.

It's always the ideas that make or break a society.

H/T Murray Rothbard

Apparently that doesn’t matter

You gotta be kidding me…

"Nintendo granted patent for summoning characters that fight for you.

Evil company. This was filed in 2023 while games like WoW and Diablo have had summonable fighting pets for decades.

The patent covers summoning a companion, having that companion fight enemies for you, and following you when not in combat, either auto attacking or directed to attack."