How scary is the situation when 100+ million Americans have proven that they would rather be tracked and spied on than have to hear a single opposing viewpoint?
#grownostr #privacy #sovereignty
I'm reading a very interesting book, called "The Great Controversy". It was originally written in the late 1800s, but this is a more modern version. It starts with some great history of the church. It then gets into some eschatology and the author's interpretation of prophecy and end times. (I haven't finished yet, so I don't know for sure what the great controversy is).
Although the author does a fantastic job using scripture to support his theories, based on what we know now and what is happening in the world, I'm pretty positive many of his conclusions and interpretations of prophecy are incorrect, but it is interesting how and why he believes what he believes. So far, my biggest take-away is to be careful being dogmatic when interpreting prophecy, especially end-times prophecy. Even with some disagreements, I am learning a lot and getting a lot out of the book.
I think the author's biggest problem is not thinking about end times prophecy as being as big as reality will be. He equates smaller, more local events as what is predicted by the Bible where I believe the true events will be worldwide or even universe wide events. So often we look at God and his actions as small, but they aren't small at all.
#bible #christian #biblestudy #endtimes #prophecy
My eldest heads to college to study computer science in under a month, but I just figured out that I only have 4 days of time at home with him left. He is spending this week and the next at a quantum computing camp on campus. We get a weekend with him before going out of town for a bit over a week and then we get 2.5 days at home before my husband and him drive to college in an extended road trip. I sure am going to miss the guy, but I know he is ready to be on his own. His leaving is bitter sweet. I am so proud and yet I'm not sure how I am going to function without his help. You've never met a kinder, more helpful teen in your life.
#grownostr #proudmomma
I don't loan money. I either give it to them or don't. I never lend because I know I could lose a friend if they don't pay me back. If I can't afford to lose it, I probably shouldn't lend it anyway.
#grownostr
I protect both.
Even if a company is currently trustworthy, what happens to my data if another company buys them out or if they are given a court order by the government.
I'm not sending my DNA to anyone. I don't trust any of the DNA companies.
I don't think we have that long, especially if the next election is fixed like the last one.
The whole climate change CO2 thing has made all of the environmentalists focus on stuff that doesn't matter (and helps those in power) instead of the stuff that matters. Taking care of the environment is a good thing, but somehow most environmentalists act emotionally and typically make things worse instead of better. In the best case, they don't make much difference.
New BRICS Gold Currency? -Bitcoin University
https://odysee.com/@TraderUniversity:a/new-brics-gold-currency:2?r=8T2xqWjtafHWYGxQBSsrbw1wQPm7sWRq
"In this video, I discuss the BRICS proposal to issue a new trade currency backed by gold.
There are many pitfalls that cannot be avoided by a gold-backed currency: gold is expensive and difficult to store, assay, and move around to settle trade imbalances. It is outdated 19th century monetary technology in a digital world.
The gold standard has already been tried and been found wanting. A gold standard always inevitably leads to massive centralization, as well as having to trust governments and central banks that they won't print more money than they have gold to back it.
But aren't central banks loading up on gold?
Yes, they certainly are, but remember that these are highly politicized entities that are not investing for returns, but usually with more geopolitical objectives.
And they have an abysmal track record. If you loaded up on US Treasuries when they did, your returns have been terrible. Central banks are loading up on the one asset that will be the first to be demonetized by Bitcoin, which is the ultimate in economic poetic justice.
Unlike gold, Bitcoin is modern monetary technology. It is easy to store, verify, and zap around the world.
The BRICS countries would be much better off just using Bitcoin, rather than trying to reinvent a system that has already failed before."
That is 100% true, but I would still prefer a gold backed currency to the US's debt backed currency and it isn't even close.
I agree. I don't use social media on my mobile. I'll admit I put a NOSTR client on my phone for the rare instance when I want to post a photo, I took with my phone, to NOSTR. It saves me time over having to email it to myself, download, and then upload. I don't check NOSTR on my phone ever.
Maybe sometime when I'm on vacation I might check it, but that may never happen. It hasn't at this point.
And it tasted really good, too.
I also added some garlic scapes, 2 pea pods, and two tiny heads of broccoli, from my garden to the soup. I'm a long way from fully feeding my family, but every little bit helps.
Well, yesterday we butchered our first rabbit we bred and grew out. It was much harder (emotionally) than killing and cleaning a deer or butchering a chicken. It took way too long, but now that we know what we are doing, the next one should take less than half of the time. I regret buying such a cute and friendly breed of bunny.
I have creamy italian rabbit stew in the crockpot ready for dinner (I just have to add the cream and parmesan when I get home and cook an extra 5-10 minutes). I'm really looking forward to eating our own home grown meat.
We lovingly call it Stuart Stew because we named every single baby Stuart to remind us that they will all become stew, but to make it easy to refer to them. It is a bit confusing because all of our babies were female and Stuart makes me want to call them "he/him".
#grownostr #rabbits #livestock #foodstr
This article has an excerpt out of Benjamin Franklin's autobiography on how he categorized and sought after virtues. He also talks about how hard it was to live up to these virtues.
I think there is a lot to learn from his words, but, as a Christian, I do think his one mistake was not relying more on God and trying to be good solely by his own power.
By his attempts, successes, and failures, we can learn a lot about human nature and virtue.
#grownostr #virtue
Dogs are definitely stronger than people. Some years ago, we had a Samoyed who we got fixed when she went into heat. We then realized we had scheduled climbing a forteener (mountain over 14,000 feet in Colorado) the following weekend. We really wanted to do the hike and decided to try figuring we could carry her down if we had to. She ran around enough to climb the mountain 3 times. We kept fighting over who got to hold the leash for our Alaskan Malamute because he would help pull us up the mountain.
His statement is particularly bad because he never defines Nazi. Right now anyone the left disagrees with is called a Nazi, so he seems to be justifying violence against everyone with which he disagrees.
I am currently reading a book "Great Controversy" or something like that, which goes through church history, especially during the protestant reformation. Although there are times God clearly protected men from those trying to stop them, God seems to frequently use men's unwavering faith in the face of unbelievable persecution to lead people to Him. In that respect, "we lose", but ultimately we definitely win.
Since everyone here is mentioning, I am definitely a pre-trib believer. I think it best fits what the Bible explicitly says as well as matching his character.
I don't understand people today being amill. I used to not understand how the things predicted in Revelation about the Tribulation could come to be. Today, all of the technology necessary to make it a reality exists. A rapture of His followers, followed by the wrath explicitly described in Revelation, followed by a return of the church and the millenial reign makes perfect sense. I can understand the amill beliefs for people in much of the past because Israel was no more, and it was impossible to see how people could see what was happening across the globe, buying and selling could be controlled, and people could be tracked.
Historically 6.8% is pretty normal. You only think it is criminal because interest rates have been artificially low for the past 30ish years. The market should set interest rates, not the government and not the Fed. If the market says it should be 1%, then that is fair. If the market says interest rates should be 20%, then that is fair. When the government or Fed says interest rates should be something, it is pretty much guaranteed to be unfair and a benefit to them.
Sounds like your wife made a poor decision on college (probably because she was told she had to go to college if she wanted to be a success and most kids don't question all of the authority figures speaking this message), but I highly respect the two of you doing the hard thing to get it paid off and taking responsibility for your commitments and promise to pay. (All of us have made multiple bad decisions. Some just hurt worse than others). I wish more people treated their promises like you two did and more people were willing to do the hard things now, so they can have an easier time later. We need more people with a good work ethic and morals like you.