Posts by Simon

I posted it to multiple boards to partially counteract the numerous negative posts on those boards; I wanted to make sure the people posting to each of those boards saw the post. I think the poll results mentioned in the article are accurate, since I know that the AP is a very reliable pollster.

Here's how it works:

You spam, I delete your spam, you do it again and I delete you.

Hope this is clear enough that even a "poll-believer" can understand.

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Why Is The Press Suddenly Exposing The Biden Family?

by minimus in

jw
friends

the new york post published how hunter biden was involved with many criminal activities.

they showed how big daddy biden was well aware of what was going on.

the post got called out for this “ non story “.

Simon

Biden's approval rating keeps on rising and not just with Democrats.

No one believes these polls. Why do they even bother?

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400 Rockets Hit Israel

by minimus in

jw
friends

israel retaliated and some are accusing israel of an “act of terrorism”.

evidently these rockets are trying to get to tel aviv but the dome is getting overwhelmed.. i wonder if the usa and other nations will come to israel’s defense..

Simon

In just 4 months Biden has given us sky-high gas prices, inflation, and now conflict in the middle-east.

So, "normal service" has been resumed.

Israel should show them what a real rocket salvo looks like.

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I am still not able to solve this God's name paradox...

by psyco in

i am finishing to read the entire bible (nwt 2013) for my first time (my fault) and i wrote down hundreds, maybe thousands, of questions not clear to me, but one especially came in my mind meditating on god's name.. if i wanted to summarize the entire bible in one phrase i would say (even before the kingdom): god’s name sanctification.. god is jealous about his name.

he does everything for the love of his name, and he wants to be called and prayed using his name.

no doubt about all this (repeated several times in the bible), but it involves the pronunciation of his name.. god left us his name in the form of יהוה which is unpronounceable.

Simon

Did any other cultures invent the "genius" idea of having writing that couldn't be read? Maybe Egyptian hieroglyphics?

And FYI, gods name is "Harold", everyone know that from the lords prayer:

"Our father who art in heaven, Harold be thy name ..."

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Anyone else selling stocks?

by mickbobcat in

i hit the highs yesterday and sold deep in the money calls.

this will protect my stocks while i still draw dividends.

anyone else hedging their stocks.

Simon

BTW: If anyone has a decent powered graphics card from the last few years, you can actually earn money mining crypto (usually Etherium). Even on an old RX580 I'm getting $8 a day. If you have one of those fancy RTX 30 series Nvidia cards you can double or triple that (which is why you can't find them in stores for love nor money).

If you do get into crypto and are in Canada, we have lots of ETF options for both BTC and ETH that can grow tax-free in a TFSA. There's also things like WealthSimple where you don't have to manage your own keys. You'll hear things like "not your keys, not your coins" but as long as you're dealing with a reputable company such as WS, or Coinbase or Binance (not some crappy little exchange, see "Quadriga") then you're probably at much greater risk from losing your own keys than them being hacked (and they are usually insured).

I actually just managed to crack a 9 year old blockchain wallet that a friend had, which they'd forgotten the password to in all that time. Unfortunately, they also mis-remembered there being much in it, LOL, but I was quite pleased that I managed to write an app to brute-force it in a few days (there was an open source tool but a bug in it meant it failed to work on old wallets).

BTC was first priced at 1,000 for $1, later 10,000 for 2 pizzas, and is now nearly $60k. Non-inflationary money for the first time in history.

Whether you want to ignore it or not, it's likely that central banks will issue their own digital currencies in the near future so you'll likely be using some form of it at some point. Although I expect the central bank versions to allow for the same unlimited money-printing that their fiat currency does.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuIjZF1FGrc

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Anyone else selling stocks?

by mickbobcat in

i hit the highs yesterday and sold deep in the money calls.

this will protect my stocks while i still draw dividends.

anyone else hedging their stocks.

Simon

I don't believe in Crypto.

I take it you mean as a worthwhile investment, not like "santa" or "the tooth fairy" ...

Yeah, I was very bearish on Crypto for a long time but there is so much institutional buying now from big, BIG financial companies, that the chance of it going to zero is probably zero.

In the meantime, the returns it provides and the potential hedge against inflation long-term are hard to ignore.

It's well worth putting some time in to learn about it, how it works and why it works, to better understand it properly. Your opinion of it may change when you do.

But you have to wade through the "to the moon!" crowd of shills to find those who really know there stuff. I can recommend watching talks by Andreas Antonopoulos which are very informative (aantonop on YouTube)

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Anyone else selling stocks?

by mickbobcat in

i hit the highs yesterday and sold deep in the money calls.

this will protect my stocks while i still draw dividends.

anyone else hedging their stocks.

Simon

Overall a lot of the money the US and others are printing will go into the stock market one way or another so I don't think there will be a crash unless they do something silly to cause it.

If you are concerned about high inflation you need to have assets that grow at around that rate or more to protect your wealth and the markets are one of the few places you can find that. The booming housing market is a sign that people are using that as an investment to store their wealth too. If you take it out and hold it as cash then you are accepting the devaluation rate.

The usual hedges, gold and bonds, don't look like the protection bet they once were.

Maybe DOGE coin is the answer after all - wouldn't that be a plot twist! But some crypto of some form that has actual utility (BTC, ETH, ADA, DOT) is probably one of the better options right now as an insurance policy.

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Remember how it felt before you woke up. Living forever in a Righteous World.

by pistolpete in

i woke up early in life.

it’s not because i was smarter than my brothers and sisters.

in fact, reflecting back, i actually don’t know why i didn’t embrace the watchtower teachings?

Simon

It's "The Matrix" conundrum - would it have been better to take the blue pill and live in blissful ignorance?

The trouble is that you imagine you could have continued in blissful ignorance. The truth is that I think everyone realizes at some point that it's all a lie and it's better to realize sooner than when you are 90 on your death bed.

At best it's the happy escapism of immersing yourself in a great sci-fi movie. A different life, a fantasy, for a short while.

Reality always bites.

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Black Hammer's Colorado Commune

by LoveUniHateExams in

yeah, so apparently there's a black separatist group called black hammer.

black hammer has raised money to purchase 200 acres of colorado land for 'colonised peoples' (black and native american people) and create a communist ethnostate (no whitey allowed).. it's may 11 so it can't be an april fool joke, lol ….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcijfj50uai.

Simon

It'll fall apart like these things always do because no one will want to do the actual hard work necessary for success.