Didn't know the markets had a rough day until I checked nostr a few hours after the close. Still not sure I care.

Technology should empower, not control.

True change starts from within.

I must be willing to find out that I'm wrong.

"Monastics should diligently cultivate silence at all times." ~ St. Benedict, Rule, chapter 42

Center for Action and Contemplation

The Gift of Silence

Monastics should diligently cultivate silence at all times. —St. Benedict, Rule, chapter 42  For Richard Rohr, silence is a foundation upon wh...

How do we experience God in an increasingly secular world? #Quaker quaker.org/2024/07/18/my-soul-thirsts-for-god/

"It is much easier to put this ceaseless love on trial and nail it to a cross than hear it and feel open to change." #Quaker summeroflove85.wordpress.com/2017/05/01/it-takes-guts-to-believe-that-god-loves-you/

Sometimes we can feel the world's too messed up for God to love us. Grace challenges our instincts and offers a transformative view of humanity. "[If] 'man is a wolf to man' ... how can that be reconciled with the human-positive language of the Gospel? Are Freud’s ravenous apes the same creatures worthy of having their hairs counted by God (Matt. 10:30)? Are these monsters the same creatures of which God says, “I will be a Father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters” (2 Corinthians 6:18). Are these designers of bombs and missiles really the meek sheep which Christ will gather back (Matt. 18:12–14)? " #Quaker summeroflove85.wordpress.com/2017/05/01/it-takes-guts-to-believe-that-god-loves-you/

What do Quakers really mean by "that of God in everyone"?

The Postmodern Quaker

“That of God” and the Other

In particular, it seems easy for us to slip into a New Age kind of definition of “that of God” as a divine essence, a divine identity or true n...

An atheist finds welcoming community among Quakers. Their principle of "absolute perhaps" accommodates inquisitive nonbelievers, encouraging them to delve into spirituality with silence, openness, and by embodying values such as simplicity, peace, and integrity. #Quaker

Friends Journal

Can A Quaker Be Agnostic or Atheist? - Nontheists and Quakerism

Read about the spiritual journey of one man who transitioned from atheism to agnosticism and eventually finds that "there is that of God in every m...

It's folks like Andreas Antonopolous and @gladstein who got me into Bitcoin and keep me in Bitcoin. The space is so noisy with grifters, influencers, doomsdayers, ngu, btfd, moon. But there are also a lot of people humbly walking the path of truth and genuinely helping others along the way. Here's to humanitarians, cypherpunks, privacy advocates, artists, philosophers, dreamers, pragmatists, disruptors, innovators, activists, free speech advocates, node operators, community builders, teachers, and anons.

As a Quaker, I believe in every person's inherent worth and dignity. A cease-fire represents more than policy; it's a choice to abandon deadly violence as a means of change and embrace a world that truly values human life.

"The moral urgency of a ceasefire is painfully clear. But it’s crucial that Congress also recognizes that ending the war is vital for our own national security."

Friends Committee On National Legislation

How the Gaza War is Harming U.S. Security | Friends Committee On National Legislation

The moral urgency of a ceasefire is painfully clear. But it’s crucial that Congress also recognizes that ending the war is vital for our own nati...

"Wherever two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in their midst." ~ Matthew 18:20 For Quakers, worship begins when two people gather to be in the presence of God. https://bibleopenings.com/2024/07/23/the-presence-in-the-midst/

“Peace is not just about the absence of conflict; it’s also about the presence of justice. Martin Luther King Jr. even distinguished between ‘the devil’s peace’ and God’s true peace. A counterfeit peace exists when people are pacified or distracted or so beat up and tired of fighting that all seems calm. But true peace does not exist until there is justice, restoration, forgiveness. Peacemaking doesn’t mean passivity. It is the act of interrupting injustice without mirroring injustice, the act of disarming evil without destroying the evildoer, the act of finding a third way that is neither fight nor flight but the careful, arduous pursuit of reconciliation and justice. It is about a revolution of love that is big enough to set both the oppressed and the oppressors free.” ~ Shane Claiborne, Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals

"Tell me how much a dollar cost It's more to feed your mind Water, sun and love, the one you love All you need, the air you breathe" ~ Kendrick Lamar "How Much a Dollar Cost" |To Pimp a Butterfly

"There is a spirit which I feel that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things, in hope to enjoy its own in the end. Its hope is to outlive all wrath and contention, and to weary out all exaltation and cruelty, or whatever is of a nature contrary to itself. It sees to the end of all temptations. As it bears no evil in itself, so it conceives none in thoughts to any other. If it be betrayed, it bears it, for its ground and spring is the mercies and forgiveness of God. Its crown is meekness, its life is everlasting love unfeigned; it takes its kingdom with entreaty and not with contention, and keeps it by lowliness of mind. In God alone it can rejoice, though none else regard it, or can own its life. It’s conceived in sorrow, and brought forth without any to pity it, nor doth it murmur at grief and oppression. It never rejoiceth but through sufferings; for with the world’s joy it is murdered. I found it alone, being forsaken. I have fellowship therein with them who lived in dens and desolate places in the earth, who through death obtained this resurrection and eternal holy life." ~ James Nayler (1660) #Quaker

"My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself and the fact that I think I’m following your will does not mean that I’m actually doing so. But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you. And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing. I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire. And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road though I may know nothing about it. Therefore, I will trust you always. Though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death, I will not fear, for you are ever with me and you will never leave me to face my perils alone." ~ Thomas Merton, Thoughts in Solitude

Consumerism corrodes the soul.