Are you willing to actually gift someone else a generous chunk of #BTC? Consider doing so, now that #Lent is about to start. It could be a way to help yourself detach from an inordinate desire to HODL. It's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for an obsessive stacker to enter the Kingdom of God.

What do normal, everyday Bitcoiners use #Bitcoin for? What do you do with it? (Not Lightning, but regular ol' #BTC.)

Anyone here use nostria.app on the web? I'm partial to Jumble, Primal, and Coracle, but I just discovered Nostria and it looks kinda fancy. Wondering what other people's experiences are with it.

#Logseq and #Obsidian are my favorite tools for notes. Logseq is incredible for actually taking notes of any kind throughout the day for home and/or work. Obsidian is what I use for journaling or other long-form writing. I get way to excited about Logseq. This video should excite you, too, if you're halfway curious:

In case anyone ever wonders, I am not Bruce Lee. I'm not even Asian. It's just an avatar I use. I'm a fan of his movies.

When the price of #Monero is down, I hate to spend much because my XMR drains too quickly. But still, I used it today to buy a lifetime license for #Cryptomator for Android. Cryptomator.org is free on the desktop. It's a marvelous tool to encrypt folders for the cloud. That means, if you wanted, you could use Google's generous cloud storage but they can't decipher your files, which are encrypted on your device (i.e., E2E encrypted).

When I proofread hardcopies at work, I mark either OK or Corrections at the top. I proofed a flyer for a so-called gender-affirming surgery clinic. Horrible details. With no grammatical errors, I simply marked it "OK" (w/ quotes) on 1st page. I was reprimanded for the quotes. #tolerance

I saw a video of an angry black woman on a subway loudly referring to a nearby white woman as "Miss Vanilla," clearly intending it as a racial slur. Is anyone really offended by being called a flavor or a food item? I can't imagine losing my cool at being called vanilla, white bread, or cracker. Seems silly. I'm not very offendable. But it's probably hate speech to call someone else dark chocolate, burnt toast, or graham cracker.

When people die -- especially those we have been close to -- I think it's good to remember they are not "gone" or " out of the picture. " They don't exist merely in our memories, but in reality. They still exist consciously, though outside of the body until the resurrection. Meanwhile, unlike us, their eternal fate is sealed. There is no reversing course. That's great for those who died in friendship with God. Tragic for those who are condemned. We can always change and repent, but they have no more hope. They've had their opportunity. They are eternally doomed. We need to make the right choices now while we still can. Love God and love neighbor.

I refuse to have my lexicon edited by the thought police. I learned that "tranny" is a forbidden slur, while "transphobe" is not. The people who are so hung up on what they perceive as slurs are the ones who decide for everyone which words are slurs. (As if "slurs" are the greatest of all societal evils.) Not that I'm not offended at being called a transphobe. In fact, it's an opportunity to set the record straight and begin a fruitful dialogue. Gone is the generation who believed "sticks and stones may break my bones...." Now we have a generation of trannies who, if your words disagree with theirs about the nature of human beings, are quick to literally pick up sticks and stones to break some bones. Even so, again I say, I refuse to have my lexicon edited by the thought police.

I just asked Grok: "If I invested $1000 five years ago in #monero and $1000 in bitcoin, what would each be worth today?" Its answer, in part, was: Current approximate values of your $1,000 investments: Bitcoin investment: 0.02622 BTC × ~$64,000 (midpoint estimate) ≈ $1,678. Monero investment: 6.452 XMR × ~$320 (midpoint estimate) ≈ $2,065.

I like Candace, but... Yeah, she's getting to be a little coo-coo for Cocoa Puffs. She should focus on making her husband sandwiches and being a good wife and mother.

"Obedience" in the context of the Church is good -- unless your superior is a gay pervert who's bent on subverting the teachings and mission of the Church, and even subtly tries to lead you down a path contrary to what the Church has traditionally stood for.

If Bitcoin does not promise to skyrocket in price -- and instead stabilizes long term -- what advantage can it have over #Monero? The beauty and advantage of XMR is that no matter its price in relation to fiat, it works as private, fungible, digital cash. That's its one job. That's what it does well. Any fiat price gains it has is a bonus, not its promise. In the end, we value "gains" in wealth less than the gain of freedom and #privacy.

There is no such thing as "gay sex." Sex is not merely stimulation and orgasm, but rather two people joining their reproductive organs in a way that completes the reproductive system. Other systems (circulatory, nervous, endocrine, respiratory, etc.) are fully contained and function according to their purpose within each body. But the reproductive system is unique in that it requires two bodies in order to do what it's ultimately ordered to do. Joining part of the reproductive system to one end of the digestive system, for example, is not sex. It's fake sex, and it's a significant health risk from a medical perspective.

I liked the look of the old Netscape Messenger (email). I liked AOL IM. I was even somewhat OK with Yahoo! Messenger. I liked online forums and message boards. I miss some of the old Internet.

Listening now to Tucker's interview with Peter Schiff. Schiff is anti-Bitcoin because (for one) he says the reason everyone buys it is they think they will get rich, though it doesn't have inherent value. Tucker reminds him of crypto's original intent -- to be a permissionless private digital currency that circumvents third-party intermediaries. There is truth in both statements. We have to evaluate ourselves, our motives, our goals and purposes -- and ask #WWJD. #Bitcoin #Monero

The streets of Minneapolis are infested with demons.

Only Jesus. (Blessed be his holy name.)

Question for Protestants: If a Protestant pastor criticizes "revolving-door salvation," do you take that to mean he believes in "once saved, always saved"? Not sure what he means.