Husband and father of 3 boys under 5. PNW native loving life in the South. Convert to Christianity. Love exploring self-sovereignty, theology and philosophy
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Last Notes npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick That’s awesome. Metal recycling going to be a great income stream moving forward npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick We haven’t added that capability yet, but it’s on the radar for near-future npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick Melted down a bunch of sterling silver this weekend at the shop. Ended up with this 17 oz. bar npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick "The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently but to live manfully" npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick I'm a fan now! Had never heard of these guys, but this song is beautiful, deep and resonant. Appreciate you putting me on Travis! npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick Very well said, brother. npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick This is a great point. Couldn't agree more. npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick What a small, beautiful act of creating. Stuff like this makes life so much more full. You guys know how to live a great life! npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick As an American, I absolutely believe this. China has invested so much more in real industry, energy build out, etc. and they took their medicine with the housing market. They have exponentially more engineers and it's much more of a true meritocracy. In the US we've papered over all of our problems so that the elite can continue to extract more and more from the common man. We don't have "free market capitalism" we have fiat corporatism. npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick This was true yesterday, it's true today and it will be true tomorrow npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick If you find yourself excusing genocide and pedophilia, you can be sure that you have absolutely no moral compass. npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick 100%. As an American I can attest to how deeply ingrained this way of thinking is in an overwhelming majority of the population here npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick Confident it will help you see the problem we already see even more clearly. Plus the way the solutions are articulated are incredible npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick This account is quickly becoming nothing more than sharing quotes from Modern Chains lol. Can't recommend this enough to Bitcoiners or to any one who cherishes freedom. @nprofile…0w9j book is a game-changer. More from chapter 1: npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick More absolute BARS from @nprofile…uh5m book Modern Chains. Hands down the best bitcoin / monetary system book out there. The depth is incredible. He gets to the heart of the fact that our fiat system is a literal form of enslavement: npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick "Silence in the face of evil, is evil itself. God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act" npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick Thank you! Had never heard of it but about to devour it lol npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick Not gonna lie these are some BARS 🙏🏻😂 npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick https://blossom.primal.net/0c5f8e4b64d2a7db1bed641d8fa936c6b10483c6996d2aa64fb9ec21a4ba1b7a.jpg npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick It’s truly an insane time we’re living in. For almost a decade I didn’t vote (and still think voting is minimally impactful) and had almost no role as a citizen because I was so disgusted with it. npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick Beautiful! You guys know how to live life well npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick The feeling doesn’t get old. It’s the best npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick What an incredible experience! npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick The hardest I’ve laughed at a meme in a minute 😂😂 npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick 🎯 npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick This is one of my favorite follows on Nostr. Whether its wearing a cool Bitcoin shirt or having beautiful Bitcoin art at your house when you have people over, it’s by far one of the best ways for conversation about BTC to get started npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick The haters: “There’s no such thing as a perfect metaphor” npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick People constantly say that because Satoshi was mysterious he must be CIA. My response is always “you have no idea how much bitcoiners value their privacy and freedom” npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick This 4 minutes was some of the best stuff I’ve heard in a LONG time. Appreciate you blessing the timeline with it 🙏🏻 npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick Wow, what a wild turn of events. Hope you guys are back on the road and all is good now. What a great example of hospitality too. Such a good reminder of how many good people there are out there. And that sign is beautiful! Can already tell they are highly likely to be some real deal Christians npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick Absolutely. Most of the time when I’m actively watching games now I instantly mute when it goes to commercials. Seeing all the brain-dead stuff, ads that are supposed to be funny that aren’t, fat people dancing around promoting some diabetes med for big pharma, etc. just throws me off. I’ve definitely become the “get off my lawn” guy lol npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick Couldn’t agree more. Honestly I have no problem with price staying low to stack as much as possible. You will never see me getting excited about governments buying Bitcoin either. I want as many common people to stack as much possible before governments and powerful institutions start stacking. npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick The local news came on after a football game I was watching and it was the first time in years I paid any attention to it. I couldn’t believe the amount of pure propaganda and fear mongering I heard in the first 15 minutes. npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick https://blossom.primal.net/921b4ff208f2f9bdfc22213f2bb511d0ee662c19a213ff07fbc6cc1575e54d78.jpg npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick Saturdays are the absolute best npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick 🫡 npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick Can’t wait. Hoping to not just read it, but to truly absorb it npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick Exactly! It is not all doom and gloom either as he later in the book very clearly lays out a better path forward npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick I prefer “pattern recognizer” 😂😂 npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick Wow!! Never made the connection between why trick or treating has become so non-existent in many neighborhoods. This makes perfect sense npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick 100%. Hard for many to imagine a post-nation state world because it’s what we were born into, but it is an absolute disaster. The random lines drawn all across the Middle East by Europeans post WWI are probably the best example of the chaos this has caused npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick My family is Irish and I grew up hating the Brits because of what they did to my family in previous generations. Didn’t take long to realize they did variations of the same thing to peoples all throughout the earth npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick 😂😂😂 npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick This is awesome. Do you know where I can buy this? npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick Absolutely. No one better than articulating this that I’ve come across than Neal npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick I never recommend books before I finish reading them, but I have to make an exception for @nprofile…0w9j and his book Modern Chains. Only through the introduction (!!) and outside the Bible I think will be the most important book I’ve ever read to date. “Number go up” bitcoiners won’t be interested because they overlook the much more important moral and ethical foundations. However, the real ones will be thoroughly enriched through this book. npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick Let me drop $5k on an operation for my dog who is twelve years old and can’t control his bladder so that he can suffer for another 4 months to help me with my loneliness lol npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick You have to get a wallet setup btw! Tried to zap your comment some sats but wasn’t able to npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick 100% It’s a sign of despair when people idolize their pets npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick Absolutely. I learned a lot about training, etc. that bleeds over into parenting (and other areas of life), but your point about clearly indicating where the parallels end is well put npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick Smh. Lord have mercy! npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick 😂😂😂 npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick My kids have noting in common with your labradoodle lol npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick https://blossom.primal.net/921b4ff208f2f9bdfc22213f2bb511d0ee662c19a213ff07fbc6cc1575e54d78.jpg npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick One of the many signs that western culture is broken is that people equate owning animals with raising children. Dog “moms” and cat “dads” gotta be one of the most backwards things I’ve ever seen. npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick https://blossom.primal.net/9fe79e3493ea82ccb6deb83b70073d489ce4cf3dfb7c03648769ab71a1ae127c.jpg npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick Wow, that sentence is absolutely packed with truth npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick This is unreal!! Hope you guys are having a blast on the road trip. Have no doubt you are! npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick Couldn’t agree more! npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick Oh cuz my wife is black. Lol got it. The funny thing is you probably think I’m some thin skinned snowflake. I hate Zionism and understand the dilution of the white race. I’ve thought it about it a lot the last couple years as I’ve come to the realization of how true it is. It’s not a conspiracy, it’s very real. That said, I have no regrets about who I married or the fact that God blessed me with amazing boys through my wife. You’re gonna have to move on cuz your not gonna trigger me like you think you will npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick “A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central bank” npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick Heaven on earth. Wow npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick Retarded bitcoin tribalism in action. Absolutely awful stewards for further adoption. You just turn people off to it npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick The unfortunate part is that all Bitcoiners should be the best at seeing the value of gold, even if we believe Bitcoin is superior. You see the same type of blindness and tribalism that we clown people for about not understanding bitcoin npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick We need a modern Dostoevsky npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick Cool that you guys acknowledged gold one time after it’s dominating every other asset. The unfortunate part is most Bitcoiners only capitulate to admitting gold has any value once the entire world has already recognized it. We lose credibility when we dig our heads in the sand npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick What a retarded title. I love Bitcoin, but gold has been money for 5,000 years and is being remonetized again. You act like there is only room for one asset and are incredible left-brained and make Bitcoin look like a joke when they see dumb comments like this. Here’s some perspective. Every generation going back thousands of years considered gold money, retarded fiat shapes minds for 2/3 generations don’t think it’s money, next hundred generations will all consider gold money. No wonder so many people write off Bitcoin when influential voices like this say stuff like this. npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick Totally agree npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick NOSTR CIRCULAR ECONOMY EXAMPLE #7692: My wife and I recently sold our house to cash out because of concerns about the housing market in the near-term (before they run the printers and inflate everything away again in the medium-term after the dip). We're renting for the next year and working with @nprofile…mmzl and his team at HODL House (www.hodl-house.com) on the most personalized, low time preference home design process imaginable. npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick I love Eastern Orthodoxy though I myself am not (yet). Disproportionately have the best posture towards the world of any group of people I've met. The more Orthodox writers I read and the more Orthodox people I meet, the more sure I feel that they are walking the path of truth as demonstrated by the fruit in their lives. npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick Music often captures the mood better than any other medium. Every word of this song resonates. The right v. left divide is much less important than the sovereign v. slave master divide. As @nprofile…0w9j has said, we need to not only emphasize the sovereign individual but the SOVEREIGN COLLECTIVE. There is real strength in numbers and networks. Nostr is a beautiful demonstration of this principle in action. Love this place. npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick Twitter sucks so bad lol. My whole feed is full of people losing their minds over some young dudes throwing around racial slurs in a private group chat. npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick Can’t tell you how much this resonated. I just wrapped up my Master’s of Theology and want to pursue a PhD down the road on something related to our money, Bitcoin, Nostr, etc. If you ever come through Atlanta let me know! Would love to connect npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick PHENOMENAL conversation fellas. Gonna buy the book now @npub18zs…lyv6 I too came to Bitcoin through theology / philosophy. Strongest foundation you can have for long-term adoption when it’s an ethical position and not NGU. npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick Long story, but had the most amazing conversation with a boomer last night. He’s a conservationist (in the healthy sense, not a purple haired environmentalist) who is helping to bring back mining to a beat up former logging and mining town called Libby, MT where I’ve got some family. npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick Beautiful npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick Grew up completely non-religious in Seattle like everyone around me. Getting baptized into Christ and trying to faithfully walk with him was by far the most radical and rebellious thing I’ve ever done. npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick Sometimes I wish I could turn the noticing off, but it’s relentless npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick https://blossom.primal.net/440c279792c6307220bf84411a118c9d5297c22a7c69345757ef5cd835a654c3.jpg npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick Pattern recognition becoming increasingly important skill if you want to cut through propaganda and get to the truth npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick “Great truths can only be forgotten and can never be falsified” npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick 100%. The best thing for the average American (not the elites), is a more multipolar world. Our government and its leaders have grown way too strong and they clearly believe that we serve them, not the other way around. npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick All this resonates. Life is beautiful npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick “The only people who don’t see the non-violence in Jesus are Christians” npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick Always encouraged to see new people join Nostr! First time I joined I got no traction and left, second time has been completely different. I know how powerful one positive interaction can have on here. Don’t know anything about your background, but welcome! Nostr is the best if you can stick with the initial difficulty in getting traction. npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick Yeah I’ve tried so unsuccessfully to orange pill people on bitcoin (had a couple family / friends I’ve won over). But realized that a lot of people are just not that interested in the philosophical stuff, they need just simple use cases to get their foot in the door. Once they experience a couple powerful uses cases then they really are open to exploring more of the foundational concepts. npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick Couldn’t agree more. NGU honestly piss me off and hurt long-term adoption. Nostr is so key to allowing people to see what something closer to a Bitcoin standard looks like. I made a handful of Lightning transactions before I came on here, but now I’m making hundreds of transactions a week. Mostly zaps, but I also pay for multiple monthly expenses (like VPN service) and have made a bunch of one off purchases. npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick Another big blow to USD reserve status and the power to manipulate that comes with it. Also always good to see banks getting crushed. Moving toward a more multipolar world where hard assets matter and currencies will be at least loosely backed by something. npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick Both honored and terrified on multiple levels 🫡 😂 npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick 😂😂😂. Whole family is Irish, finally got sober a couple years ago. Half our family is or was alcoholics npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick All Bitcoiners should be paying attention to what is happening in the silver market right now. It is literally history in the making. npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick Great post. Theology and philosophy were considered the king and queen of learning and building a solid foundation for a good life for thousands of years. npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick When I was a pleb, I often use to respect people in positions of power because they had power. npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick Just looked him up and can’t wait to look into it more. Small world too. I have connections to main person who is behind creating College of St. Joseph the Worker in Steubenville, OH. Had a cousin that went to Franciscan too npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick Totally agree. First month or so I would get discouraged, but I actually love the quietness on Nostr at times. Think people on here disproportionately have meaningful lives outside the internet, which is also a great sign. npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick Great input. Especially on the void. npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick Love my Palestinian brothers and sisters. Some of the most courageous people on the planet. npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick Love this posture 🫡 npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick Beautiful conversation @npub1dtg…up6m and @npub1cj8…rz4u Everything about this conversation resonated. Especially loved that idea of the SOVEREIGN COLLECTIVE. Never heard this term but man did it hit. npub1ka7qhgven2xrj634n5yreje0ch7uyfaly2ppqzs4ac8g9zx5ppnsfj5z0s Mick This is EXACTLY right. We need to focus on helping people understand the idea of why Nostr is so powerful and give them concrete, tangible use cases they can understand.
