Gary Poppins

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2024-07-29 20:47:55

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I can already assure their parents that the dating pool knows how to:
1. shoot a gun
2. plant a garden (or have the likely interest in figuring it out)
3. fundamentals of economics
4. do 100 pushups and 100 pullups
5. ...
wow, seems like a home run

2024-07-29 20:33:53

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you just gave me a great idea for my unattached female cousins. onboard them here and boom.

2024-07-29 20:28:13

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It does seem that way.
Mostly people are meeting each other at work, where dating is kinda taboo. But spending a full day at work, and then having to do a second job of filtering candidates...seems like an impossible task.
Here, however, it's like a return to a college dorm environment where there is comradery. You learn more about people around you naturally with no pressure. I've heard of college dorms in Germany after the WWs where each room was shared by a college student and a trade apprentice. So the trade apprentices got the benefit of the college parties, and the college student got the benefit of odd jobs I think.
Nostr is similar to that model where creatives and builders of all types can congregate.
The only thing that's missing is questionnaires about what is important to people. But that might be hard to get out of people.
Some people here may not even say what their favorite flavor of cake is lest it reveal a vulnerability.
I need to look up a book on compatibility. What makes people compatible.
Years ago OKCupid had a compatibility score and I always found it was inversely related to how much i enjoyed the other person. The more similar they were to me, the quicker we said goodbye on the first date.
NostrCupid

2024-07-26 19:12:37

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do you have any age range, like are you wanting to have kids, or you just want a partner.
how do you know you would find someone whose an intellectual match .
this is making me think of Pearl S Buck, "THe GOod Earth" for some reason. I've got to look that up again. It's all about coupleship and changing fortunes affect it.

2024-07-26 18:01:27

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yeah, that's an interesting meme. i would say that's more Whole Foods perhaps

2024-07-26 17:59:34

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That's an interesting link between customer service jobs and people pleasing behavior. It probably trickles into the relationship and makes it harder to set boundaries and communicate directly.

2024-07-26 17:44:53

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I like your reframing.
We have swallowed the "sex-positivity","you can have it all" vibe for too long.
I do think there are still a lot of people finding each other by the number of hand-holding that I see walking around.
And it's about the cars too:
guy in BMW: red flag.
guy in F150/ Honda Accord-- could go either way, leans positive
Guy in Toyota Corolla, Prius. if he's not a delivery driver -- grab him. clearly doesn't have issues.
I think it's important to be philosophising and shitposting while you're waiting for God.

2024-07-26 17:15:18

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do women want to be treated badly like that? you would think that they would get wiser quick.
I know a cocktail waitress who always fall for the worse men. it's like she's stuck in taking care of a bad brother mode.

2024-07-26 16:56:56

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a female friend of mine joined Tinder and said the expectations and interactions with the guys made her feel like a whore. she ditched it after just a week.
so i wonder, what women can you find on Tinder?
she ended up dating a coworker

2024-07-26 15:27:35

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every other coder who looks at someone else's code always rolls their eyes and says how horrible it is.
i say:
1. everyone can sing ( Florence Foster Jenkins (film) - Wikipedia)
2. everyone can code
3. everyone can be a supermodel
the audience for each may change.
a project that has a bad coder who is really motivated to learn will be better served than a project that has a master coder who is bored.

2024-07-25 16:58:20

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the moral arc of the universe is long and bends towards humbling everyone, or?

2024-07-25 16:47:12

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is that today sometime?

2024-07-25 14:21:52

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i don't know what this means but I like it.

2024-07-25 14:18:33

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i suppose what she says and what she does will be two entirely different things

2024-07-25 14:15:55

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i love the idea of a open source workplace suite of Apps, and payroll is naturally built in.

2024-07-25 14:09:05

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grateful to hear success like this

2024-07-24 19:52:08

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have you figured out a name for your GUI client?

2024-07-24 19:05:10

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so the target is women but what are they selling them?

2024-07-24 18:51:27

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bizarre. i would have thought that what sells more would win the day.

2024-07-24 16:59:49

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that sounds like an example of "Soft War". CHina has turned off their Bitcoin mining machines so they could produce porn-AI. They don't even need to bounce an electric death ray off the moon.

2024-07-24 15:42:47

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I have great respect for this meme as it saved me several times with the exchange collapses.
But what should I be worried about on this one?

2024-07-23 05:13:41

"Page d’écriture"
Jacques PRÉVERT
Deux et deux quatre
Quatre et quatre huit
Huit et huit font seize…
Répétez! dit le maître
Deux et deux quatre
Quatre et quatre huit
Huit et huit font seize…
Mais voilà l’oiseau-lyre
Qui passe dans le ciel
L’enfant le voit
L’enfant l’entend
L’enfant l’appelle :
Sauve-moi
Joue avec moi
Oiseau!
Alors l’oiseau descend
Et joue avec l’enfant
Deux et deux quatre…
Répétez! dit le maître
Et l’enfant joue
L’oiseau joue avec lui…
Quatre et quatre huit
Huit et huit font seize
Et seize et seize qu’est-ce qu’ils font ?
Ils ne font rien seize et seize
Et surtout pas trente-deux
De toute façon
Et ils s’en vont.
Et l’enfant a caché l’oiseau
Dans son pupitre
Et tous les enfants
Entendent sa chanson
Et tous les enfants
Entendent la musique
Et huit et huit à leur tour s’en vont
Et quatre et quatre et deux et deux
A leur tour fichent le camp
Et un et un ne font ni une ni deux
Un à un s’en vont également.
Et l’oiseau-lyre joue
Et l’enfant chante
Et le professeur crie :
Quand vous aurez fini de faire le pitre!
Mais tous les autres enfants
Écoutent la musique
Et les murs de la classe
S’écroulent tranquillement.
Et les vitres redeviennent sable
L’encre redevient eau
Les pupitres redeviennent arbres
La craie redevient falaise
Le porte-plume redevient oiseau.

2024-07-22 17:58:48

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omg, you killed me

2024-07-22 16:27:37

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i'm slowly getting to this opinion too.
I'm trying to prove it out in my head why nations states owning bitcoin should put chills down our spines.
i'm to the point where i think it's because the bitcoin could become the elite broker chips where they divide the world between them.
The rest of the population would have CBDCs that have zero peg to bitcoin, and they will end up enslaved or fodder for kinetic wars. for the poker games the bitcoin-owning elite would continue playing

2024-07-21 16:37:38

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i love how when he's at his "Theramapist" talking about the 5th thing he loves about Bitcoin and he holds up his 4 mascot fingers

2024-07-21 12:54:18

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is that like what a corporation is?

2024-07-21 11:57:02

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what a funny story.
celebrities who teach things

2024-07-18 16:20:32

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yes, you have to get on a different timeline. There's a movie about this where you just need to change 1 thing to change everything else. If you were planning to go the post office, go to the ice cream shop instead. There you will meet the love of your life.

2024-07-18 12:43:19

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i'm not sure whether to feel offended or appreciated but this "non-excellent" descriptor is making me laugh.

2024-07-18 12:37:50

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> genetics of these aliens is chinese/mongolian and irish/iberian, which is completely consistent with the claims of Apocalypse
what are the claims of Apocalypse?

2024-07-18 12:28:46

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so i read this "hair of the alien" book. It definitely sounded silly from the title but the author is well written. The stories themselves are "gripping" as a review said, and it's a page-turner but in a stomach-turning sort of way. I almost feel sorry for the author for having this affliction of needing to write about this topic but glad that someone empathetic to these experiencers exists. At some point I got nauseous and it feels like just reading the stories is a funhouse that's just not fun because none of it makes sense.
thankfully the stories near the end from China, Basque, and Ireland are less lurid and more along the lines of fairies and folktales which are easier to just dismiss. His overview is something along the lines of there's a race allowed to live on top of the ground (us) and below ground who are more powerful.
By the end, i just want to dismiss the whole thing as altered states of consciousness that humanity is susceptible to. the only physical evidence from all these stories collapses to 1 hair tested long ago and found to be unusual.
And then this morning I read this:
2:9 And the LORD said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land for a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession.
I'm thinking "Yay Moab, you must have done something right. I hope this is me some day"... and then...
2:10 The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; 2:11 Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites called them Emims.
and then in some more detail:
2:20 (That also was accounted a land of giants: giants dwelt therein in old time; and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims; 2:21 A people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; but the LORD destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead:

2024-07-17 18:37:43

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ok, cool my library has Hair of the Alien. I read a book recently that I couldn't put down. If i remember the title I'll add it. Oh yeah, it was called “The MANIAC” by Benjamín Labatut
the other one that was a fun listen while working was “The Believer: Alien Encounters, Hard Science, and the Passion of John Mack,”

2024-07-17 18:10:55

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same problem. I have Carl Jung sitting on the shelf and I'm on here instead.

2024-07-17 17:46:16

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would you recommend this book to as a way for someone who is interested in geopolitics to learn about bitcoin?

2024-07-17 15:26:19

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is he trying not to give away the recipe or what are you suggesting?

2024-07-17 15:07:47

#asknostr
how do i make sure my feed is SFW on coracle/primal ? i haven't clicked on the GLobal tab since a few months ago

2024-07-17 14:39:22

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the meek shall inherit the earth. i see them building in this Texas heat and I think will they ever be able to afford what they are building. But I think they must be able to afford it some day because there aren't enough heirs for all the baby boomer's houses. also, the only person i successfully convinced to buy bitcoin underwent the 80s Mexican peso crash when overnight all the cash stuffed in grandma's mattress became worthless. they know what's up.

2024-07-17 14:22:15

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i would love some fresh fruit. do they take lightning zaps?

2024-07-16 19:39:28

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Who would be "they" in this case?

2024-07-16 19:30:01

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yeah, that's the problem, i don't think it's advanced enough to do that. It doesn't actually show the seed. I need to dig into it more...

2024-07-16 18:45:18

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ohhh. the Bitkey is so tempting though for 25$ especially for new folks.

2024-07-16 18:26:50

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mine was frozen a couple months ago because I used Strike a couple times pulling from CashApp account. Any direct deposits all were rejected as well as any bill payments. CashApp unfroze once I showed them statements of where the money was going. I think they were checking to see if i was still in control of the account?

2024-07-15 15:07:11

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who is she and what is she admitting ?

2024-07-15 12:29:53

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>Chemicals in your home & personal care products
what would I replace them with? vinegar? it smells so bad

2024-07-14 23:11:34

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what do you think mortgage rates in the US will look like in a few months?
dumb question, but is it possible for mortgage rates to remain high even if the fed rate lowers?

2024-07-14 23:04:51

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https://image.nostr.build/8013ac29faf5712041662013bf4826fa46399f49461e1eee2cd3e5a006f75508.jpg

2024-07-14 19:15:08

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I'm guessing you mean the surprise targeting of the Iraqui General when Trump was president?

2024-07-14 18:59:45

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yes, and I got the same response for the chart for house prices versus interest rates, that i believe was from Fred!
It almost feels like I have a mystical power now to actually understand graphs that other people are just refusing to look at or understand.
"yes, but it's more complicated than that..." "you're just repeating what you hear from websites you visit"

2024-07-13 16:28:43

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it's ok, i guess i shouldnt be stereotyping

2024-07-13 15:42:11

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i thought bitcoin has high ownership in Germany. it's the land of common sense and responsibility and saving.

2024-07-13 15:11:17

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where does it go once they convert to euros... are there German bonds?

2024-07-13 14:24:20

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i'll try that one out. thank you

2024-07-13 14:14:03

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the dog and I have an unspoken agreement. I stand guard when he poops, and he stands guard when I go.

2024-07-13 14:09:22

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how do i follow hashtags of themes... looking on coracle for this

2024-07-13 14:03:26

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yes Jane Austen settles each of her characters with a man and a fortune according to her merits. Like Ms. So and so married Mr. So and so and settled with 50,000 pounds a year.
and the worse characters get worse yearly stipends of pounds.
I liked CS lewis. Perelandra is interesting. I should go back and try to read it again. naked astronauts, because it keeps the space ship lighter.

2024-07-13 13:54:39

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sounds lovely. once in a rainforest i saw an earth worm that was as big as a snake sliding through the leaves. gave me quite a scare since I'm from cold climate.

2024-07-13 13:31:51

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I keep sharing with friends in Germany and they don't seem to care. Are the local papers picking this up? Is there any controversy at all in Saxony/Germany.

2024-07-13 13:27:16

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mountains between dry flat and coastal subtropical... you are very lucky as I don't think this is a very common geography to grow up in. California, Australia, Mediterranean...

2024-07-13 13:22:23

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I just read the wiki synopis of THX113... very interesting. I do love that it has BART tunnels when Bart was new, first automated metro in US. I try not to think too much in these terms, as i don't want to lend compute to the computer that's birthing that dystopia. may cleanse myself with some Jane Austen or something.

2024-07-13 12:54:37

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lush volcanic landscapes are so beautiful
Pico Ruivo - Google Maps

2024-07-13 12:50:24

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yes, brazil is where i had it. at little food stands with sandwiches and fruit juices. I'm looking at where Madeira is on a map.

2024-07-13 12:48:14

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I'm just a polyp on Elon's intestine.
and maybe Elon does suck up all the best talent and quash their ideas and make them produce horribly toxic battery vehicles when we could have zero-point energy vehicles instead.
he also was very dismissive of bitcoin. he could have had it all, Bitcoin, the world's sexiest company, and a rocket company.
I do like the fact that his Human robot pays homage to humans. When you steal a design, you might as well steal God's design.
that boston dynamics dog robot is scary because, what useful thing can a dog do, besides herd?
who are they planning to herd? so the worker humans will be working with dog overlords.

2024-07-13 12:10:54

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hehe, i agree with the space issue. My favorite theory is that the astronauts found spaceships on the moon. My other favorite theory is that the astronauts didn't even go to the moon.
however, I get totally confused when people don't give Elon some credit for both liking humans and being smart enough to figure out some solutions for driving safety.
In the US, 40,000 lives per year die on the road, mostly for preventable accidents. Just by updating the dumb cars to have the ability to not run into the back of a another stopped car has the net effect of saving so much of humanity.
His company raising the bar for safety is going to save a lot of lives and a lot of unhappiness.

2024-07-13 11:31:02

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Cashew juice always struck me as funny since it tastes a lot like the cashew nut but it is sweet/tangy.

2024-07-11 21:45:23

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do you remember anything else after the. mushrooms?

2024-07-11 17:28:53

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so you don't envision a war between evil Hodler OGs wanting to keep their hold on precious Blockspace so they can charge fees on custodial platforms and earn yield and the many others.
if 51%of people total say "we're increasing the blocksize" then it happens, right, regardless of what people who hold the most bitcoin say ?

2024-07-11 17:17:56

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I will attach some paintbrushes on the bottom and draw some Art.

2024-07-11 17:16:07

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i heard an interesting idea this week from a Hodler who was worried that in 50 years, when each Hodler is a bank and there is little blockspace for opening/closing lightning channels and not all 9 billion people on the planet will have access to the non-custodial version of Bitcoin.
I haven't gamed it out more than: ~1,000,000 transactions per day
9 billion people.
I don't know how many transactions per lightning channel.
The idea is that eventually there will be a big base of population who will want to self custody their Satoshis, but they will not be able to due to the fees and small UTXO sizes even on Lightning.
So it will be the Satoshi-poor masses advocating bigger blocks versus the rich OG bitcoin hodlers who will want smaller blocks to keep all the little guys on their custodial platforms.

2024-07-11 17:00:40

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what do we know

2024-07-11 16:56:30

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that would be fun. it would slide around if there was ever an earthquake

2024-07-11 16:51:44

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did it involve blindness?

2024-07-11 16:32:35

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sounds very exciting. i hope you weren't on the way to persecute anyone

2024-07-11 16:17:05

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it would be so fun though to click submit on a Nostr & lightning -workday timesheet and the day's payment goes immediately to my Lightning wallet.
and maybe there's Satoshi rewards for Jira tickets closed. i would not dislike Jira in that world.

2024-07-11 16:11:09

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i'm afraid i force price this in by wasting a lot of time until i start doing my timesheet, and then I get productive.
Maybe there should be a new Nostr-enabled Workday where each person has an account jar of satoshis and they can tip their coworkers when they complete tasks that they need.
Managers would basically become the person that collects the most Sats and can then pay the most Sats out to allocate work.
this sounds like a toxic workplace BTW, and I would NOT want to work there. sign me up for a obfuscated salary/output ratio with the 1 month pay check

2024-07-11 02:12:14

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thanks! 1st zap ever haha

2024-07-10 20:20:08

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those monthly paychecks are a bear

2024-07-10 20:11:39

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is this the same for men and women?

2024-07-10 19:41:50

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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).

2024-07-10 19:37:54

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i just might have to give that one a read then...

2024-07-10 19:01:07

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I thought he was at least respected. I meant the comparison to be complimentary for Bukele. got some rereading to do.

2024-07-10 18:49:29

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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.

2024-07-10 16:24:12

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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.

2024-07-08 17:02:36

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I did the same a year ago. I had to get to the point where I was like "I can't do this on my own. If you want to help me, God, I can't do it on my own."
it was only after that i could break the habit. Then i started to take God more seriously. I do agree it's like demons. At times i felt like i could almost see a black shadow sliding across a doorway.

2024-07-07 20:14:23

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that reminds me of hiking with a classmate from Czech Republic who introduced me to sardines on baguettes. my silly granola bars were no match for the energy output of sardines.

2024-07-07 20:12:27

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sounds incredible. are there paths to walk other than the railroad tracks or the highway?

2024-07-07 17:47:51

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do madeirans get island fever? like the feeling of being stuck on an island?

2024-07-07 17:43:15

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that's quite the walk! was this over several days?

2024-07-06 18:22:49

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why is telepathy, remote viewing, always mentioned with aliens

2024-07-05 16:07:33

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i wonder how much personal space a human needs in an ideal world

2024-07-05 16:04:32

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where does God fit into this

2024-07-05 15:37:57

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deep

2024-07-05 15:34:03

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satellites falling would be good for your kavaling

2024-07-05 15:31:54

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so love and sharing resources are really not related. it's just a forced situation bc of the amount of theft. I see

2024-07-05 15:12:59

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wow, ok, love this explanation. hope this goes into the "Book of Nostr" someday

2024-07-05 13:11:52

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I miss having a backyard to burn stuff in like cardboard and things feels so good.

2024-07-05 13:10:10

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apparently there is a book of Satan. a friend told me it's not half bad. main thrust is "everyone makes mistakes and such".
Is it true that God made Satan, so Satan is part of God's consciousness? perhaps it's a whole other route for people to come to God.
If Satan is the smartest creature out there, it would seem natural that God would keep him close just because otherwise God could get bored. So it makes sense to me that they could be friends.

2024-07-05 12:59:21

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zero electric life is OK, as long as you have a fresh waterfall in your backyard.
I spent 2 weeks without electricity in a community in Brazil. There was a waterfall in the woods behind the community (thankfully uphill and upstream). the whole community neighborhood naturally figured out times for men and women to go wash clothes and take showers.
without the electricity, i got better sleep. However as soon as the water stopped flowing into the sink from the gravity tanks (electric pump dependent), i had the thought "why am I living here".

2024-07-05 12:30:49

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all the smoke from a fire will make the food (including cowboy cake) taste so much better

2024-07-05 12:25:43

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what would be your explanation?
is it miner capitulation or is Bitcoin being a canary in the coal mine for broader stock market dip? or something else?

2024-07-03 13:33:51

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100% aloe and a lidocaine spray if it's itchy