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Knowing a thing and being told a thing are different and most people can’t tell which. Reformed Christian, Nostr class of 23, I think Host of The ContraCast Podcast https://fountain.fm/show/XRuDwbnAzVdjjchD4Veq
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Contra 1 month ago
Get’n out for a bit with my boys. image
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Contra 1 month ago
There is a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in something, you do it only when it's convenient. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.
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Contra 1 month ago
Clown world is what you get when a civilization rejects the order underneath everything and then acts surprised when nothing works. Fake money made fake institutions. Fake institutions made fake leaders. Fake leaders made fake crises and solved them with fake solutions. Somewhere in there they also decided that the people noticing were the problem. It’s not chaos. Chaos is random. This is inversion. Wrong is right. Weak is strong. The credentialed are incompetent and the competent are locked out. The guy who built something real gets taxed to fund the guy who broke something on purpose. And the kicker is you can’t even say it out loud without getting the label. So most people just go quiet. They see it, they feel it, they say nothing. That silence is the product. That’s what they’re farming. The ones who started laughing figured something out. You grieve it or you mock it. Grieving it hands them the win. So you honk. Not because it’s funny but because the honk is the only honest response left to a world that stopped being able to hear a straight sentence. That’s clown world. Anyone have some other takes?
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Contra 1 month ago
“Accept everyone as they are with no intention of changing them” - - - okay but that’s also just a policy for never saying anything real to anyone you care about. You can hold your ground and still hold the door. Those aren’t opposites.
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Contra 1 month ago
Most people treat knowledge like inventory. But it’s more like soil. What grows next depends entirely on what you put in before.
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Contra 1 month ago
The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in long term is key to success.
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Contra 1 month ago
Life is indeed beautiful. It's times when we sink into our hectic and stressful lifestyles when we get blinded and fail to see what we have.
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Contra 1 month ago
Gm and happy Bitcoin 🍕 day! image