In general, I like it, but many newbies aren't set up with sats and a lightning wallet yet. That makes them unable to pay to follow and makes them leave. Until it is a little easier to setup a wallet and zap really easily, that would just drive people away.
The other problem is what happens when bitcoin sky rockets and a sat is real money? We don't want to force something that causes problems later. I suppose if it was optional, it might be OK.
That being said, I'd definitely be willing to pay a sat to follow someone.
Explicit taxes are way more than 10%. They just collect a huge number of smaller taxes to hide how much they are really stealing. Of course inflation steals more and then they tax capital gains that aren't real gains, but are just apparent gains caused by the reduced purchasing power of the fiat currencies.
Most people follow the crowd or the popular people unless they stop, consider and find a really good reason to not follow them. My gut always tells me to do the opposite and stay away from the popular and only do as they do if given a really good reason.
I doubt it is good to be either extreme, but I do think following the crowd and the popular is more likely to get you in trouble.
Dairy/calcium only clogs arteries if you don't get enough vitamin K2. The K2 puts the calcium into your bones and teeth. We all need a balance of calcium, magnesium, vitamin D3, and vitamin K2. They work together. It is getting out of balance that causes problems.
I'm still trying to figure out optimal. I was very low carb (<15 g/day) for 4-5 years and felt good, got to a healthy weight, etc. After a while I got to the point that I would gain weight if I ate more than 1600 calories a day, my gut got really messed up, I started having food sensitivities, and I had trouble with high cortisol in the morning waking me up early feeling like a furnace, so I was unable to get enough sleep. Raising my carbs (vegetables & fruits only. I still don't do grains or processed food other than 88%+ and usually 92% chocolate sometimes) and upping my fiber, helped with all of those problems. My gut isn't fully healed yet, but the other issues are gone.
I have verified the cortisol issues are due to my blood sugar being low in the early morning, so my body produces a bunch of cortisol to convert protein into glucose to fuel the parts of my body that need glucose. Overall, I feel a little better with more carbs (but still much less than the standard American diet). I agree 100% on avoiding grains, seed oils, and processed food, although I'll admit to breaking down and eating sushi (including rice) up to 4x/year.
As part of celebrating my 25th anniversary, we decided to do a longish hike. The hike ended up being very strenuous and harder than expected. We almost turned around before the end, but ran into some people that encouraged us to continue because the view was worth it. We felt every one of those 25 extra years, but the view at the end was so worth it. The peak had shear drop offs on 3 sides and 360 panoramic views of the entire valley of Estes Park, CO. The tall peak is Long's Peak which is one of the fourteeners (peaks over 14,000 feet high).
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The hike was actually to the top of Lily Mountain. I hiked a 14er (Mt Elbert) when I was younger. I think my 14er hikes are over, but we made it just shy of 10,000 feet and it was very steep with a hard rock scramble at the top, so I feel good about it and even better that I'm able to move the next day.
Every single person who votes themselves "free" stuff is supporting slavery. They are forcing other people to work and not receive the benefit so they can receive the benefit and not work. They are acting as slave owners, but they use government as their proxy so they can feel good about stealing from others.
Israel seems to be sending a message. Is it related to the news I heard that Iran is only about a month away from having multiple nuclear bombs? I don't know.
And people used to be able to provide for themselves and used to have deep relationships with their neighbors. If things even get close to as bad economically as the Great Depression, it is going to be really bad (at least for all of the unprepared Americans).
At this point the only thing the Fed might be able to affect is whether we get hyper inflation or stagflation and whether things collapse quickly or slowly. I definitely think they kicked the can down the road too long and it can't be fixed without some really hard times. There are some things that could be done , so we could fairly quickly (a few years) come out of the collapse and get better, but all of those are hard and will cause an immediate collapse, so no one will have the courage to do them. I expect hard times to come and stick around. Most likely things will go from bad to worse and not improve until Jesus's millennial reign.
I think it is wise to not give young kids cell phones, but when you do decide it would be nice to have a way to communicate with them, if don't want them wasting their time online or doing other crazy stuff, you can get a Gab phone. It looks like a smart phone but doesn't hook to the internet. It does calls, text (if you want), calendar, alarms, and other basic features. It is cheaper for the phone and the service than most phones. It is a good option if you want to protect your kid.
There are definitely lots of subscribers from other countries. I interact with them regularly. I do think they tend to self organize. Those that speak English use English relays and those that speak other languages use relays that are predominantly their language. Because so many people around the world speak English, the English relays actually get a fair amount of people whose primary language is something other than English, so we benefit from their posts.
I think we are living in the last days. The church will be raptured and the world will see how bad things get without God's restraint against evil. All of the power structures, technologies, and cultures necessary to make the end times prophecies come true literally seem to be coalescing. Suddenly Biblical end times prophecy makes sense.
That depends on the kid and their age. Young kids need lots of help. Older kids, if you have instilled a love of learning and responsibility, are capable of learning on their own.
I will say, that it does make a difference when a kid has a parent (or someone who loves them. Some friends of ours have grandma homeschooling) helping them. It builds closeness. It helps the kid if they are having problems. It helps the kid stay on track. Learning together is fun.
Personally, I don't like dumping a kid in front of a screen, even if it is a lesson from the best teacher on earth, for hours of learning. If there is a subject you don't feel qualified to teach, making use of online classes is handy. I've used some online classes, but I've never had the kids do all of their learning online.
The trick in life is being able to ask the right question.
At my business, before having kids, I was the fixer for every problem. I figured out everything and nobody else seemed able to think for themselves or get answers. When I was pregnant with my first kid, I gave most of my employees the help number for the main program we use at work so they could call when they needed help instead of going to me because I didn't know how available I would be. Even with the helpline, the majority of the time they had trouble with getting an answer because they would share assumptions instead of facts and not ask the right questions. It blew my mind that most of them couldn't give the basic facts to get an answer. Luckily, we seem to have a better quality of employee now and I'm not involved in every little detail anymore.
There are lots of ways, but no guarantees without spending a bunch of money, which is unlikely to be worth it. As much as I hate traditional social media, it is a good way to get the information out on this. Think about places that the well-to-do frequent and see if you can hang flyers at any of those places. Tell everyone you know to tell anyone they know about it. I think some grocery stores have a board for flyers. Are there any big businesses where potential clients might work? You could ask if you could hang flyers there. "We can cook for your employees so they can work longer," is a good motivation for the business to allow you to hang flyers. There also might be some older people who would like the service, so maybe a senior center.
When Benjamin Franklin was asked about how to stop poverty, he said (paraphrased) "The best thing we can do for the poor is to make them uncomfortable in their poverty." He said this because many needed to become uncomfortable in order to motivate them to stop being lazy and using others. If they were really uncomfortable, they would do what was necessary to improve their situation.
In the same way, we don't want to make people comfortable in their obesity. It is hard work to turn things around when you're addicted to carbs and toxic chemicals, flavors, and colors. It is hard to change when you feel bad and therefore don't have motivation. We shouldn't be mean, but we don't wan the obese to be comfortable because that is not for their personal good.
Them refers only to Adam and Eve, not to some random other people. Genesis 1 is a summary of God's entire creation. Genesis 2 is the details of how He created the first man and the first woman. They aren't a sequence. They are Him going into more details about His special creation of mankind, which was the purpose of His whole creation.
"12Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned— " (Romans 5:12). The first sin was committed by Eve and then Adam. Sin led to death. Therefore there was no death before Adam and Eve, so there can not be people before Adam and Eve. God tells exactly how He created Adam and Eve. They did not come from other people or animals.
"So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living soul.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit. " (1 Corinthians 15:45) This verse explicitly says Adam was the first living soul.
"But from the beginning of creation, God made them male and female. For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother, and the two shall become one flesh; so they are no longer two, but one flesh." (Mark 10-6-8) This New Testament verse not only talks about man and woman being created "from the beginning of creation", but also quotes Genesis 2:24 as fact.
What's the deal with all of the spam bots that just duplicate posts? There are a bunch of them and they seem pointless other than to just be annoying?
I guess I shouldn't complain when God's word is copied.
At first there was one name, but attached to multiple different relays. Now the spam bots have multiplied and they are spamming everything. Lots of posts have 2-5 different copy replies. I think yours only had 2.
"Scientists" saying that there was nothing, nothing happened, and then everything just look like fools. Saying there was an explosion and the gases coalesced into stars when everyone knows that gases expand to fill the space (even more so with an explosion). The whole naturalistic, big bang theory is nothing but story telling with big words and math.
God told us how he did it. I take Him at His word.
When I was first reading Genesis 1, it seemed so strange that God went into what seemed to me the wordy, "It was evening and morning the first day." "It was evening and morning the second day." etc. Now I know why He said it that way. He knew that people were going to say that He created over billions of years and He wanted to make Himself perfectly clear. Yes, "Yom" (the Hebrew word for day) can mean an indeterminate period of time, but whenever it is used with a number, the word morning and/or the word evening, it always means a literal 24 hour day. He worded Genesis 1 to make sure you had to 100% ignore His words to believe anything else.
There are also little details like the Earth being made before the Sun and stars (unlike in the Big Bang Theory) and plants being created before the sun (which works for 24 hours but not millions or billions of years.
Scientists that believe in a literal 6 day creation have done a much better job of predicting what evidence we will find than those who believe in the Big Bang and billions of years. They've been saying the Big Bang is settled science for many decades, but they have to change it every couple of years to make it sort of match the evidence. The same is true of Darwinian Evolution (and its various spin-off forms of Evolution)
The more science I study, the more I think the Big Bang and evolution are a religion and anti-science story telling. When I was in high school, a bunch of things didn't make sense, but I just assumed that there were things I didn't understand and the specialists had figured it all out. Then I found out that almost all scientists are specialists. They all assume someone else figured it all out (especially with evolution). The biochemists think the biologists figured out how life came to be. The biologists think the paleontologist figured out how life came to be and the paleontologists think the biochemists figured it out. The truth is that a cell is so complex and especially irreducibly complex that it is incomprehensible to believe life happened by chance.
I actually really like the taste of manuka honey 263 MGO (although the super strong stuff 1122 MGO can get a bit of medicinal taste), but it is stupid expensive, so I only allow myself to splurge when I have a sore throat or something and then only a teaspoon.
I don't know how to react to this quote because my reaction depends on exactly how I interpret this quote. We are told to pray continually, so I agree 100% with that principle. We should also have the nonstop attitude of repentance and gratitude that we are forgiven sinners, so I agree 100% there.
If this quote is saying to just continually repeat the words, "Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner," then I disagree because Matthew 6:7 says, "“And when you are praying, do not use meaningless repetition as the Gentiles do, for they suppose that they will be heard for their many words."
When it comes to UFOs, it depends on what you mean. I do NOT believe there are little green men from planets many light years away visiting our planet, but there does seem to be unidentified stuff going on (some is hoaxes, but not all). I tend to think (but am not dogmatic) that they are trans-dimensional beings that are otherwise known as demons. The uptick on sightings and governments becoming open about it is setting up the world for the rapture.
I never understood how the rapture of the church could happen and the world not turn instantly to God, but if "aliens" (aka demons) suddenly appeared in the sky announcing they had removed the unenlightened people so the world could progress, people would shrug and go on with their lives happy that they were the ones chosen by the higher beings.
Just a theory, but it matches with the evidence.
What's going on with the Coracle feed. I used to love it? Now every time I refresh, I have to go chose follows/followers or I get a feed I don't care for. Is Coracle now using some algorithm to feed me what it wants to?
I've written and submitted for publishing one book, "Why I Need Jesus". It is available in ebook, but I'm having some issues with publishing the paperback that is causing a delay in availability online (although I bought 20 author copies to sell or give away locally).
I'm a glutton for punishment, so I just finished the first draft for a second book, "Joy in the Storm: Growing my faith in a very good God." It will still take several months to tweak, proof, and format the book and is likely to take ~6 months before I can hit publish, but it still feels good to complete the basic book.
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This link shows all of the places where it is available as an ebook, but I'm having an issue with the printer for the paperbacks. I'll post links when it is available.
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I've got some rubber boots for chores like that. If they get dirty, I just hose them off and move on. Nothing damages them. I've had them for 8 years and they are as good as new. I guess the only issue is if it is really hot, my feet get sweaty. Since I'm not in a hot climate, that is only really an issue 3 months out of the year. They handle, mud, snow, brambles, weed eaters (put my boots between bushes and weed eaters to get closer with girdling the bush/tree), and just about anything else.
You are quite right that the rock layers are made by the violent flood and the "breaking up of the waters of the deep."
- Most fossils are either marine fossils or land and marine fossils mixed together. This makes much more sense if the layers were caused by a global flood.
- Most animals don't become fossils when they die. For fossils to form, it requires the animal to be buried quickly (so not even bacteria can break them down) and to be exposed to mineralized water (like sea water or volcanic water).
- There are lots of places that sedimentary rocks were significantly bent (even 90 degrees or more) without cracking. If they were soft mud at the time, this makes sense. If they were lithified, they would crack. Frequently people will say they bent because of heat, but heat metamorphizes the rocks and that hasn't happened. These rocks layers were clearly bent while wet.
- When "scientists" say the rocks were formed over millions and billions of years, they will point to "gaps" in the rock layers. They will point to a knife thin border between rock layers and claim there are millions of years missing, but this is nonsensical. If millions of years have gone by, you would expect to see erosion, with gullies and even valleys, but you see perfectly flat, even borders between layers. You don't even see animal or insect burrows. The most likely explanation is that the layers were laid down only hours or days later, not the purported millions of years.
FYI, diamonds have been found to have C-14 in them, so they can't be billions of years old. Even if they were formed as 100% C-14, there would be none left.
It is pretty interesting in genetics. Scientists (including secular scientists) have looked at mutations in the mitochondrial DNA that is passed down from mother to child through the egg. Their calculations say the first female mitochondrial DNA was about 7,000 years ago (awfully close to the Bible's 6,000 but based on assumptions that might not be accurate). They also looked at mutations in the Y chromosomes passed down from father to son. These calculations came out to 4,500-5,000 years which is about the length of time since the flood.
Since the men on the ark were Noah and his 3 sons, you would expect all Y chromosomes to go back to Noah ~4,500 years ago. Since the women on the ark were 4 unrelated women (Noah's wife and each of his son's wives), you would expect their mitochondrial DNA variation to trace back to Eve ~6,000 years ago. Science matches the Bible.
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