Banks can freeze your accounts without authorization. Is that the kind of financial system we want?

Has there ever been a time in history when people didn't feel the end was near?

An AI chatbot to primed to discuss Quakerism. https://georgefox.chat/

Mutual tolerance is the price of liberty.

Quakers don't have a creed. We believe the Spirit is dynamic and our understanding can change over time.

Nationalism overrides morality and becomes a religion stronger than any church.

We are not individuals; that's why death scares us.

Nothing learned from a book is worth anything until it's used and verified in life.

#poetry

Let's ask for things to do, not things to possess.

"We become better teachers not by filling the potholes in our souls, but by knowing them well enough to avoid falling into them." ~ Parker Palmer, #Quaker

Fedimints and Cashu are exciting for their their potential to create local, resilient, community-focused economies. Pairing that with the ideas of Will Ruddick from Grassroots Economics: "Here is a simulation of a transition from the current economic system into one that is more polycentric - via pooling vouchers of agents with mycorrhizal fungal network growth functions. In this simulation we look at the survival of nodes (via a heat map) in linear supply chains vs networks. With typical market dynamics local communities are vulnerable. With a web-like network you can provide a lot more economic security. "

"Who am I?" versus "Whose am I?"

Vocation is not a goal to achieve, but a gift to receive. It's about accepting our true self, not becoming something we're not. (Parker Palmer, #Quaker)