What is currently on your mind?

[timothyu]

Lots of people still do here. They do not want to be tied to tech when it comes to important payments.

You may not have heard that most businesses spurred on by a cashless period during the pandemic, seemingly at the behest of the WEF, are saying they will no longer be accepting cheques shortly. This of course to further advance digital identity in all it's oppressive glory

 

[Paidiske]

I guess we've become so used to everything being done that way that even people like me, who were cautious, just go with it as this is how things are now.

 

[timothyu]

That is how the Adversary works, slow and easy so folks take no sudden notice of how the world changes

 

[Michie]

Set my clocks ahead. Waiting for warm weather so I can take my walks along the river.

 

[Paidiske]

That is how the Adversary works, slow and easy so folks take no sudden notice of how the world changes

That may be true, but in this case, I don't equate one system of moving money around with the Adversary, more than another. The culture which encourages us to worship money, in whatever format, however...

 

[MehGuy]

Man, it would be nice if I didn't have so many psychological issues. Especially when I feel that some people do not take them seriously enough.

 

[MehGuy]

Wish power indicators were more accurate... been like 12 hours and my headphones still say at 100% charged.

Unless the batteries are just that good.. lol.

 

[timothyu]

The culture which encourages us to worship money, in whatever format, however...

Any culture that promotes self interest at the expense of others first.

 

[Robban]

Any culture that promotes self interest at the expense of others first.

A waterwheel, instead of paddles it has buckets,

the wheel turns and the buckets that have emptied out and are now submersed

come up full they reach the top and tip out contents and proceed down again.

If the buckets do not empty they go down full and come up full,

but with the same they went down with.

Who wants to live on stale food, it gets moldy.

 

[Paidiske]

That reminds me of a poem by Rumi:

Stay together, friends.
Don't scatter and sleep.

Our friendship is made
of being awake.

The waterwheel accepts water
and turns and gives it away,
weeping.

That way it stays in the garden,
whereas another roundness rolls
through a dry riverbed looking
for what it thinks it wants.

Stay here, quivering with each moment
like a drop of mercury.

 

[Robban]

Set my clocks ahead. Waiting for warm weather so I can take my walks along the river.

Saw today a little string of crocus, they saw a little weak, even a little bee buzzing around them.

The grass looks as dead as ever though.

 

[mama2one]

Saw today a little string of crocus, .

also, crocus in our yard this past week
now covered by snow!

 

[Robban]

also, crocus in our yard this past week
now covered by snow!

That's dissapointing when that happens.

 

[Robban]

That's dissapointing when that happens.

Though can be seen as a deposit on things to come.

 

[Michie]

So I’m kind of hyped up and nervous. My stepdad’s hands and feet are going numb. I think it is a side effect of the chemo but not sure. We definitely need to bring it up Monday with his doctor. Trying to get my mind off of it but it’s difficult to do.

 

[Robban]

So I’m kind of hyped up and nervous. My stepdad’s hands and feet are going numb. I think it is a side effect of the chemo but not sure. We definitely need to bring it up Monday with his doctor. Trying to get my mind off of it but it’s difficult to do.

Frustrating.

"Deep calls to deep"
Psalms 42:7

Rashi- When one calamity is almost over it is as if it calls for the next one to come.

 

[Paidiske]

Well, that's depressing.

 

[Robban]

Well, that's depressing.

No one promised life would run on rails.

 

[Paidiske]

True; but I'd like to hope that one might at least get little pauses between calamities!

 

[Robban]

True; but I'd like to hope that one might at least get little pauses between calamities!

Well, it was not meant to sound indifferent, more as a comfort.

But we all tick differently, would seem.