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Enoch sounds more crazy scientist to me... is there a preference towards people who use the technology that they were given by nature (body/pleasure/Solomon) vs people who are more adroit with outer-technology (inventions/etc).

would you say he's acting in good faith?

I'm also fascinated by the King of Spain visiting for Bukele's inauguration. I was surprised to learn Spain still has a King, and I wonder if that means Spain has more unilateral decision making compared to Germany for example. If that's the case and they are also adopting bitcoin, it's almost like the Spanish empire rises again.

So Ray Dalio's arches of rising and failing empires would have a repeat Spanish arch several hundred years later.

I was fascinated by an article about him that described a meeting with his antagonistic cabinet while a crowd of people outside the doors who wanted him to force his changes already. apparently he prayed and asked for help/wisdom,and the answer he received was "wait".

I wonder if it was a calculated move to align with religious populace in a majority Catholic country. it would consolidate power under him directly to the people. If there is a higher power, it does seem like a brilliant move.

the only other story I've heard of this is King Solomon asking God for wisdom. he also got a lot of wives. I'm not sure if that was part of the deal.

mine was USPS ground. apparently common occurrence. I saw the message early in the morning before coffee and like a dummy I clicked on the link, filled out my correct address and put my credit card info to pay the $0.20 "resend" fee.

honestly writing this I realize maybe I deserve to be scammed and this is the universe reallocating resources to stronger hands.

I am still waiting to see if there's any mysterious charge on credit card but none so far...which makes me wonder what the point of it was.

someone with knowledge of international shipments tells me that the customs info is public, and this ships from Canada. I haven't looked into it anymore, but would be curious if this happens a lot.

I got one of these text messages on the same day I had a package out for delivery, asking for my address as the text claimed the package couldn't be delivered. it was the first message like this I have ever gotten, and the package was from Blockstream. so I was a bit spooked. other people tell me this happens all the time.

he's well spoken and good looking, I get where you're coming from. I knew an Italian Grandma that used to say of anyone who was good lookung, "he/she is so cute I want to eat em"

If the farmers market are a carrot, this threatening does seem to be a big "stick". However, the responsibility of the legal system is to investigate corruption and wrongdoing. I hope their legal system works well enough to protect the business owners where they are innocent.

At least any business moving to El Salvador gets to see quickly if this type of government action has some balancing justice or not.

one of the key things to understand about Christianity is that the central thing you need to understand is that what you fear, you must put it somewhere else, in the hands of someone else, who will carry it for you, someone who can carry the weight of the whole world

why is this important? because fear stops us from living, it stops us from learning, it stops us from having a future

> Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

- Phillipians 4:6-7

the other thing is understanding that part of that weight is something you simply cannot carry, and so you bumble along, under the weight of a yoke that you can't see, being driven like an ox to perform labor for someone who only wants to watch you suffer

you let go of that burden by saying "Jesus, take this from me, I cannot do this by myself"

last night it became lucid to me what this actually means, not just words that sorta wash past my ears and don't enter into my mind

i have been slowly poisoning myself because i can't carry that weight, for decades, and i'm finally fucking over it

sin is error, and we can't help but have some in us, all of us have errors in our code, and we can't see it properly by ourselves, and that feeling of doom that it's going to run you into the ground itself runs you into the ground even harder

it's been a thing for me anyway, today is a new day and the beginning of a new age of my life... in fact i am coming to my first Jubilee - in 11 months time, and it is past time to renew

prayer is such a funny concept. Has any physics/electrical genius ever tried to map out exactly what is happening and how it works. is it just self-soothing or is it actually connecting to something else.

and how in the world is there always a dial-tone when you pick up the phone.