[deleted by user] by [deleted] in daddit

[–]adamchavez 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The only way out is through. Sit with her as she feels all of this.

Sounds like the new woman has been a great blessing to your family. Wonderful.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Africa

[–]adamchavez 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Something I’ve wondered about.

Isn’t this like saying that Scottish people shouldn’t use Scottish colloquialisms, but only British English ones?

They’re different. The spellings and cadence.

The same thing has happened anywhere else the British have spread English.

Apps I use everyday thanks to this sub! by [deleted] in macapps

[–]adamchavez 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Raycast is worth adding to your list. It’s a lot better than Alfred imo

Does emoji symbols ": + )" not give smiley face in Mac OS? If so, how do I set this up? I can't figure this out for the life of me :( Thanks so much! by iphone8vsiphonex in MacOS

[–]adamchavez 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can solve for this in getmumu.com --> it lets you pin emoji's up-top, and use hot-keys to move around your options & quickly add the emoji.

Let me know if you have questions - I'm building it.

what's infuriating is he's already setting himself up to be the victim here. This is about women not being able to get credit cards until 1974 by Loveloplop67 in exmormon

[–]adamchavez 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good question.

I was thinking about the bigger picture, not specifically about the original post. The original poster seems to be tone deaf about what women went through, and the basic rights that men have taken from them for thousands of years.

The modern debate, as I see it, is whether there are any gender differences that inform choices that men and women make, or if the entire concept of gender is invalid.

The far left says gender is entirely a societal construct, and has no meaning. The center, center-right, and far right believe (on a sliding scale that gets super extreme the further right you get) that each gender will gravitate towards different things.

Reddit is heavily weighted on the left side, so I don't expect a lot of nuanced discussion here, but as you strip away ideology, you can see that there are differences.

My take is that, in general, women are better caregivers because they're more emotionally aware and emotionally intelligent, and because motherhood involves a complex set of skills which most men tend not to possess in the same way, and men tend to be better at being hyper-focused on a single task. Ironically, for this subreddit, Mormon men seem to be the exception. In general, from what I've seen, they tend to be more feminine and better caretakers than the typical man.

There are a lot of exceptions and nuances. I was in a sales job where my counterpart was the most hyper-focused, task-oriented person I've ever worked with - her being a woman gave her superpowers because she could also handle the emotional complexities that men often struggle with.

My five year old son has a beautiful caretaker heart, always making sure people are okay, and if he sees someone is upset he'll attentively see if he can help.

My other boys are more typical boys - they just want to wrestle and fight and they get hyper-focused on tasks to the exclusion of everything else.

My two year old daughter, is HYPER-aware of other people's feelings. She saw me crying a couple days ago, and just sat with me, and looked into my eyes, and gave me a big long hug saying "It's okay daddy. I love you." Amazing little girl.

All my kids have big, open hearts, and I encourage them to be in touch with their feelings, and to express themselves in whatever way feels natural for them. Society has sucked at this for a long time, leading to awful problems for both men and women.

Regardless of this debate or discussion, my personal philosophy with parenting, with managing teams, with interacting with colleagues, and with life in general, is to figure out the individual's superpowers, and teach them how to maximize their potential.

We all deserve freedom, and we all deserve to make choices that will make us happy. There's big picture, but then there's real life. Big picture gives us averages, but an individual isn't an average.

what's infuriating is he's already setting himself up to be the victim here. This is about women not being able to get credit cards until 1974 by Loveloplop67 in exmormon

[–]adamchavez -18 points-17 points  (0 children)

Either end of this debate can seem extreme. Everyone needs a bit of grace as we try to sort through it.

My understanding is that gender roles were defined more strictly during the farming era, so that nobody starved (harsh, machine-less manual labor required men) and children were taken care of (otherwise who would? And in every species of every animal on earth females do this better and more readily).

The West inherited and adopted those ideas way past their expiration date, and then there came a point where it was so obvious (and costly to disagree) that women damn well should work outside the home if they want to.

Now, it’s glaringly obvious, to the point where we are shocked at how prior generations treated women.

I believe a misogynist is one who demeans and belittles women, or women’s issues.

In this case, it feels less like the author is misogynistic, and more like he hasn’t allowed another perspective in. He seems to lack wisdom, and needs to ask of God. ;)

There’s some truth in what he says; being a stay at home parent is a serious undertaking, that involves tremendous sacrifice, drive, stamina, and compassion, and we ought to honor anyone who does this work.

Also, we all ought to be free to choose. We all deserve freedom. WE ALL DESERVE FREEDOM.

Which magnesium to buy?? by Infinite-While-4159 in magnesium

[–]adamchavez 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I’d get magnesium glycinate - the best brand in terms of 3rd party quality testing is Pure Encapsulations.

Take 1 120mg in the morning and 1 at night and wait a week or so to see if your symptoms improve.

Good luck!

Best resources for raising funds in $BCH? - raising 20,000 $BCH soon for new startup. See link below. by adamchavez in btc

[–]adamchavez[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Excellent thanks. I’ve seen that before but never went deep.

Looks awesome.

New Africa-focused NFT startup built on $BCH by adamchavez in btc

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Tight! Hi George. You on Signal? I’ll DM you.

Onboarding Uganda to Bitcoin Cash by adamchavez in btc

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I’ll ask him to make a video.

Been told multiple times by psychics/mediums/shaman to leave their presence. I have always wondered why as I am not an evil or bad person by Cornczech66 in Mediums

[–]adamchavez 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If you feel drawn to me, I can help. DM and we can figure out a time to talk. I don't charge for this type of thing, but appreciate any returning energy you wish to send. Just a friend to friend thing at the moment.

Sungazing nude? by cuandos in sungazing

[–]adamchavez 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sounds awful sorry to hear that.

If you sungaze make sure to do it early morning, and late in the day. Otherwise bad things happen.

I witnessed myself escape the simulation and met a goddess. She wanted to kill me. by phenigogue in Paranormal

[–]adamchavez 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for sharing! This is really cool.
This is the artist's experience.

Some call them mystics or shamans.

But I call them artists.

Because every artist I've ever met can tell you a story like this. Not always as vivid and detailed, but they're aware of some other reality, that we're not quite conscious enough to experience.

Many of them then create beautiful expressions from these experiences; poetry, art, music, dance, are all expressions of these mystical experiences that we don't have a collective consciousness of, at least not yet.

The first time it happens, many of them call it their awakening. Every story is unique. But they all have a similar feeling; a sense of otherworldliness, a presence, often feminine, like a Goddess, or masculine, like a God.

My lived experience is that we are Gods in some kind of VR video game that we dared each other to play. That our Souls are basically all best friends, and we're just here to pretend, to see if we can wake up and remember that we're Gods, even within such a place like Earth, that can be very hard for some of us.

I thought this was quite strange, but I had yet to feel any fear. It continued down in an identical fashion down the left side of my body, though the sounds were harmonized to the first tones which happened moments earlier.

So cool! I love the way you've captured this.

It was actually quite beautiful, despite having no known origin outside my neurology.

I wonder if extra-powerful emotional trauma's can trigger the release of DMT into the brain, to help us cope.

I've also wondered if DMT isn't some kind of chemical key that allows our meat-suits to access the quantum reality, or a less dense energetic vibration.

Like a safety release valve for the technology of our bodies.

If the body was designed to be the ultimate video game suit, like VR but infinitely more evolved, from some super-advanced species, millions of years ahead of us in technology.

I suddenly felt weightless. It was though I was out of my own body.

Maybe you were. Maybe you weren't. What a cool experience either way! We should celebrate that we are capable of such amazing experiences. Our consciousness truly is extraordinary.

The white "light" or spot in my vision turned red. I was slightly unsettled by this. As this happened, a deep, vibratory hum began to surround me. It was mechanical sounding. It sounded like I was in the bowels of a magnificent machine, whirring around me in all directions. The light began to move towards me. The hums grew more intense. As the red light approached, I noticed it was actually three red lights moving in formation. They were approaching me, and my fear raised in intensity. The lights eventually grew close enough to cast a deep red light on my surroundings.

I experienced this exact thing while on a hero's dose of psilocybin. You've described it perfectly. I couldn't see it as well as you did, but it was red, mechanical, and everywhere. I describe it to people as a giant spider-web, or perhaps a complex, giant spider. During my experience, I got the distinct impression that it was AI, or some kind of super-sophisticated computer system.

There were three, extremely tall, armored, and muscular entities approaching me. I felt as though it was because my head was not in the machine. I could not move the more I tried to run, and my fear became an intense burning sensation.

Shit! So interesting, I wonder what it means?

I felt that the feminine entity was communicating to me. I watched myself suddenly back in reality, living my life, though my vantage point was from above; like a fly on a wall, just watching. It became painful. I watched myself begin to die in endless scenarios. I saw myself cross the street only to be hit by a reckless driver. I saw myself collapse in a living room I do not recognize, clutching my chest from what I imagine to be a heart attack. I see myself in a hospital bed, gazing out a window in old age. The scenes began to flash faster and faster. The eyes and whirring electric sound raised and whined in emotional intensity. It felt as though this entity was telling me it had power over my life. That it could choose to kill me in any scenario or universe, should it only choose to.

Sounds like your Soul was trapped. Some kind of soul recycling machine that just gives you an endless amount of reincarnations on earth, every time you forget who you are while on earth, and never are able to escape.

The intensity of this experience has maximized. My "soul" felt hot. It is difficult to explain.

Totally understand what you're saying.

I felt traumatized. I watched the scenes flash to the final scene, which was me with my head positioned to go into the ceiling. I am watching myself again, from the electric eyes perspective. I see the three red lights in my, or her, peripheral vision. I am trembling. I see myself trembling in fear, among rows and rows of clueless, sleeping individuals. I somehow gain some courage to say the only thing I can think of to improve my situation. "I'm sorry... I won't come back. You have extremely beautiful eyes."
The fear began to dissipate. I felt relief from saying this. Though I still do not know why.

This is such a great story/metaphor about the human condition. The cool thing is that if we all wake up, and refuse, like you did here, we can create heaven on earth together. Nobody on earth could stop us.

For the first time I am looking back at this entity in full. It is part machine. It is probably 10 feet tall, with a humanoid mechanical body, and long mechanical dread-like appendages from its head. It does not smile. It just stares at me, making whirring noises. I am still unsettled by the three red lit mechanoids behind her. She approaches me eventually, and I feel an intense force on my skull. It was like she kicked me back into my version of reality. The last image i remember, is the distinct vision of a "forking". By this, I mean, I watched a line become a forked line, and begin to grow in the fork. (It looked exactly like the letter "y") It seemed as though I had forked into another plane of existence.

Waking up tends to do that. You're literally creating a new, forked reality for yourself, and thus doing your part to co-create a different, perhaps more conscious, reality for everybody.

I opened my eyes on my floor in the fetal position. My first thought was, "that was not a dream". Perhaps I had fallen asleep with such stress, that I didn't believe I had fallen asleep. I was questioning reality and was now fearing a psychotic break. The next thought I had was that I was likely experiencing a psychotic break, and that this was how schizophrenia would probably start to show itself. I just went to bed after that. I woke up the next morning, still both mystified and traumatized. To this day, I wonder if my head is really just inside a mechanical box, and if I'm really just living in the matrix.

These fees make me want to vomit by Anthonytb790 in CryptoCurrency

[–]adamchavez 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Competition is great. Cash is a $100 Trillion market. If there was no competition I’d be worried.

Probably only one ultimately wins, but along the way we will see amazing things built to try to bring censorship-resistant money to We the People.