What is Do 2 Earn - Making SOL on BULB
**Due to the overwhelming response,**
**And me as a fellow content creator not wanting you to miss out on an opportunity,**
**Here are some ticks and tricks to get ahead on BULB quickly.**
My previous post on BULB do to Earn did better than I ever expected: https://www.bulbapp.io/?referral_code=hidjl8
Do 2 Earn but How? (Can I Make SOL on BULB) https://read.cash/@BitcoinBaby/what-is-do-2-earn-and-does-doing-makes-me-sol-on-bulb-00cbcd0a
Over 100 likes, Me Like That. So Me Milk That!
**Milking The BULB D2E Momentum**
Quick summary for those who were too lazy to read the previous post.
On BULB you make tokens by writing, reading, and completing challenges.
And if you complete those challenges weekly you will double the amount of tokens per challenge each week. https://www.bulbapp.io/?referral_code=hidjl8
You can see it by the 5X etc behind the challenges, and as you can see I still miss one referral so if you are bored sign up and do me a pleasure.
The only thing you need to sign up is a Phantom Wallet:
Then you can start earning BULB, but if you want to write you need 200o BULB tokens. So that is about a $1.60 investment. You can just swap SOL for BULB in the wallet at hardly any cost.
But the question is how long does it take me to make back my $1.60 investment?
**The $1.60 Question**
That is exactly why I wanted to create this follow-up. Because in the previous post, I explained that there finally was liquidity and your BULB tokens are finally worth something.
But I also told you that writing is no longer free, it was so if you followed me you could have joined in time. But if you are late to the BULB party posting your article will cost you 2000 BULB tokens.
And I had no idea how long that would take, but I do now.
The first week I just did my challenges and I published 1 post and this is what BULB told me:
That means that currently, you will have that one-time 2000 BULB
investment takes only one week:
Because this was my weekly result:
As I have 100 energy for a noob that is finding its way it might be in 1-2 weeks with an article you got your investment out and you are a proud owner of some BULB, but do you want to ear BULB?
That´s up to you but let me give you some insight and tips that speed up things a little.
I found it was quite easy just refurbishing my articles on Read.Cash into BULB and getting more rewards for the same content.
**Is BULB very volatile?**
BTC at 67K:
BTC at 60K:
Not really, for a small coin, it has behaved very stable moving in tune with the market.
**So what if I post More?**
To answer that question I posted 3 articles in a week and it did make a difference but did not triple the previous week's results:
But it does allow for mo money. And I told you about staking, I staked 10K BULB what does that deliver in a week:
**What do I do with all that BULB?**
Well, I do a 50/50 thingy, because I want to BULB but I also want to be sure I take profit from all my hard work. So I swap 50% of my BULB to SOL at a very low fee, yes SOL might be a centralized piece of poo....but it´s fast and cheap. And easy using the swap in the Phantom wallet.
I plan to stake the other half again when I reach my next 10K. But I do take profit because you never know how long a pool has liquidity. But I made 200 BULB in 3 weeks of staking and the BULB BULL has not even started.
**Tips & Tricks to Complete Challenges**
Okay here come the tips I never had.
This is really helpful and allows you to speed up your BULB tourney. Let me walk you through the weekly challenges first.
**Challenge one**
This first one can be tricky, because how do you know if a post is great?
Well, there are some tells, it´s a 5-15 minute read. It´s not repetitive and contains multiple hyperlinks including links to previous posts.
You can check if you found one by placing the comment and then checking if the circle has replaced 1/5 of the grey with green.
After a bit, you can pick out those great and above articles easily and just leave a comment (my Monday post is always great & above).
And I think I found a loophole; if you respond the next day to a reply you get on your comment on a great article it counts again to complete this challenge.
I responded to the reply and Oops :
Challenge completed, next week 4X = 60 points
Reading and Responding is just about clicking the faces that you Challenge completed.
That 3X will be a 4X next week = 60 points
If you keep the weekly streak going those X´s will keep growing.
**Challenge 2 & 3**
Reading and Responding is just about clicking the faces that you get at the bottom of each post:
**Challenge 4**
**Receiving Page Views** requires you to create an affiliate link you can do this with your own or any other post you like to share:
If that link is used by 3 different people or 3 different private browsers (yup try it) the challenge is completed.
**Challenge 5**
Refer a new user, that is another tricky one, I still need one this week and all that you need is someone to sign up to BULB and link their wallet. https://www.bulbapp.io/?referral_code=hidjl8
**TIP:** Best to use the Phantom wallet I heard some complaints about the other two.
**Challenge 6**
Write a great blog, now this just takes skill and similar rules apply to the challenge one, where you need to comment on Great blogs.
Make it 5-12 minutes, do a bit of formatting, add several hyperlinks also to your previous work, and then check if BULB AI likes it by clicking **Get Tips** and BULB will tell you if you are Great, or even Amazing.
**Good is not good enough.**
And if you complete them all you get the last challenge for free!
**All That Doing Uses Energy**
Now just one thing, doing requires energy and as you are probably human you do not have an unlimited supply as you know:
Comments - 5 Energy
Reading & Reacting - 1 Energy
Posting - 30 Energy
Creating an affiliate link - 10 Energy
Energy replenishes every day so use it daily because spending energy adds points and therefore BULB Tokens.
Energy replenishes every day so use it daily because spending energy adds points and therefore BULB Tokens.
These challenges and spending your energy daily is what makes **BULB** **Do 2 Earn** and if you ask me, which you did not, that is just a bit more fun than reading & writing to earn. https://www.bulbapp.io/?referral_code=hidjl8
**Final Tip**
Do not be like me, but check this Journey under your profile each time you level up to get to 100 Energy ASAP.
As you see I did not and got them all the same day.
**Bikini Bottom Line**
So far BULB has been a great way to get some extra SOL out of my already-made content.
It actually been a fun journey and I met some interesting peeps along the way.
The interface is nice but a bit slow sometimes.
The claiming goes easy, swapping goes easy, and if something goes wrong you can raise a ticket in their Discord and they yes they respond and help you out.
Only risk remaining in my mind is the sustainability of the eco-system, hence me taking out at least half of my earnings each payday.
Guess that is about as Tipsy as I can get.
Start posting your read.cash post on BULB enjoy the SOL . Oh and please if one of you just signs up to BULB to help me out this week it will be much appreciated. https://www.bulbapp.io/?referral_code=hidjl8
If you want more: Do 2 Earn but How? (Can I Make SOL on BULB) https://read.cash/@BitcoinBaby/what-is-do-2-earn-and-does-doing-makes-me-sol-on-bulb-00cbcd0a
**Thank goodness you made it till the end Pees, Love and I am out of here!**
*[Source Pic](All pics by MYI & AI unless watermarked or mentioned)*
What Is Do 2 Earn & Does Doing Make Me SOL on BULB
**Guys and Girls I know I have not been here a lot but this is a good one.**
**Especially if you are still posting on Read.Cash. Because you can earn extra by posting the same posts on BULB.**
What´s D2E?
For a couple of weeks, I have been doing to earn (d2e) on Bulb. Doing is not playing, like I do in Gods Unchained, it´s not earning from only reading and writing as I do Publish0X, and it´s not a crazy on-chain mayhem like HIVE is. https://www.bulbapp.io?referral_code=hidjl8
It´s writing, reading, and completing tasks.
The more and the more frequently you complete those tasks the more tokens you take home. You don´t have to write, although writing makes you mo money.
But is it worth even looking at Bulb? https://www.bulbapp.io?referral_code=hidjl8
This time is different
This Time Is Different, is what I wrote three months ago. Then I thought, no not this time. Let me wait till I know more especially about the token because in the end money makes the world go round.
The fact that the UI is nice, the tasks are doable, and there is some interesting content does not matter if the tokens you make can not be monetized.
The BULB Token
Back then I could not find anything on The BULB Token other than it being an SPL (Solana Program Library) token and it being issued on the Solana blockchain. No liquidity pool, or way to swap my tokens. Just this FAQ and a Whitepaper https://www.bulbapp.io?referral_code=hidjl8
Till this week when I read that there would be a Liquidity Pool available. A way to swap my tokens, with low SOL fees, now we are talking, but the proof is in the dollars.
How Much Did I Make?
That seemed like great news because I had 20K tokens, it just meant I had to move some SOL to my Fantom wallet to pay for the fee. Which was close to nothing, so I did.
I had no idea what my months of work would bring me money-wise.
Unfortunately, it was not all good news this week. Especially if you did not join because with the Liquidity pool there came Pay2Earn.
If you would have followed me on Torum or Publish0X you could have joined and made those 2500 Tokens in no time. I calculated that you make about 1000 BULB a week.
I created 21 posts, and probably did the tasks for 12 weeks, making me 20K tokens so you would have needed 2 weeks and posts to pay those fees, but not anymore.
You can still do the other tasks or challenges as they are called, but the writing and the commenting now require an investment. 2.5K BULB is not a big deal it´s less than $2, but it might be just too much of a threshold for some to join, on the other hand.... that might increase the quality.
The Challenges
Those tokens earned per challenge seem pretty low, but every week you complete the challenge you add the initial value. Hence the 5X started 5 weeks ago at 30 tokens. Now quick math tells me that it will take 8 weeks to complete the challenges if you don´t want to pay for Challenges one and two.
So you have the option to buy 2500 tokens for $2 to start earning or spend two months to do your challenges and earn 2500 tokens before you start earning. Making 500-1000 tokens weekly, it would probably take 3 weeks to have a return on your investment. I get the idea behind it, but I really doubt if this will work drawing new people, and therefore money to the platform or if it´s just to stop the leeches.
Show me the Money
Now how much were my 20K Bulb tokens worth?
I made about a dollar per post, as I wrote 20 posts, but published one twice by accident.
And I started 4 months ago:
It makes me a little more than a post on Publish0x and a little less than an average post on HIVE.
That Poo will not do
A dollar per post is not bad, but is badly paid if your posts like mine take over an hour to create. Unless you are a content creator already and you only need to refurbish your posts a bit.
In that case, it is a nice little extra and you never know what a token like this will do when the bulls start bulling.
Hence if you are writing on another platform you might want to check out BULB. https://www.bulbapp.io?referral_code=hidjl8
Especially now you can really swap the coins for SOL, I did not check another option. But in your Phantom wallet, you can swap your SOL for ...a lot.
I swapped 8K for $8 worth of Solana, I used 2K to activate my writing..... again.... and I will use the 10K for staking.
Why Staking?
Because I like to gamble a bit, Bulb has been around for since 2022, but on the other hand.... the Liquidity might dry up soon. So I will just put those $10 back in and see what will become of it.
That way I do a bit of a 50/50 thing.
Or at least that was the plan, but my stake did not go through. So it might not have been meant to be and I will keep them with me for a bit.
Fails
It´s not the first time a transaction has failed on BULB. My initial 20K claim failed, and as I was unable to find a contact address I thought I was F´ed.
Till I looked a bit beyond, went to their Discord, went to the ask a question section, asked how to raise a ticket, put the transaction in the ticket, waited 36 hours, and had my tokens returned.
When I claimed them again I finally got them in my Phantom wallet. So it is a bit buggy, but then again this whole claiming circus has just gotten started.
The takeaway for me is that there is support, there is a way to monetize, and there is a community. A Community.....
The Community
As you know I am not the biggest people person, and I do prefer quality posts. That is probably why I only follow 8 people on Bulb so far. https://www.bulbapp.io?referral_code=hidjl8
There are a couple of good writers on there, most I know already from other platforms. But the rest, Chat GPT posts, Low-Quality Airdrop Shizzels, and other awful formatted rip-offs.
Finding good reads is probably the hardest part, but there are some gems out there.
If you are into airdrops....you have to join as there is an abundance of useful airdrop posts.
Bikini Bottom Line
Overall the money made is better than most platforms where I have only written for 4 months and 21 posts.The platform's UI is okay, the challenges not too bad, and until the liquidity pool dries up you can monetize your tokens.
The negative, some bugs, and a lot of low-quality posts and peeps just leeching around for the tokens. But maybe, just maybe those leeches will not pay 2000 tokens ($2) to activate the writing feature.
The biggest risk I see is the liquidity, so just make sure to swap your tokens frequently.... maybe that is why staking failed. In addition, I have my doubts about the impact of the 2.5K fees you need to pay before you start earning.
**EDIT: I was able to stake the next day.**
I shared the link for weeks so if you tried it and forgot about it go and claim your BULB tokens, or use them to pay the fees and keep writing and Doing 2 Earn.
Especially if you are writing about crypto, Bulb might be a nice second home for your posts. Just refurbish your Publish posts and share again, it´s not making us rich but it´s making us crypto. https://peakd.com/publish?draft=694d94e9-5587-4af8-9e35-ed5f599cbdeb
If you did not use my link, if you have to start from scratch, that is a tough one.
If you create more than one article per week and have $2 to spare I would **BULB****.** https://peakd.com/publish?draft=694d94e9-5587-4af8-9e35-ed5f599cbdeb
If you write less than an article a week, it might be too much of a hassle. Although you can get that money back in 2 -3 weeks and then earn $2 a week just refurbishing your content already created. And it lacks BCH Positive content!
If you like hustling free crypto you can always spend 8 weeks on the challenges, and if you like to take a $2 risk and make almost free crypto off the back of it it´s up to you to BULB or not 2 BULB. https://www.bulbapp.io?referral_code=hidjl8
FYI, there is no such thing as free crypto you always pay with your time, your data, or the risk to your investment!
**Thank goodness you made it till the end Pees, Love and I am out of here!**
What Is Do 2 Earn? And does Doing Makes Me SOL on BULB
**In my last post about Social-Fi I was already a bit hesitant and for a good reason. I just had my doubts and did not see it.**
**But this time it was different.**
Last time I might have jumped the gun a bit. But that wall idea was just bringing back too many memories. I really liked the nostalgia, for a week of three and I did not go back since.
**What´s D2E?**
For a couple of weeks, I have been doing to earn (d2e) on Bulb. Doing is not playing, like I do in Gods Unchained, it´s not earning from only reading and writing as I do Publish0X, and it´s not a crazy on-chain mayhem like HIVE is. https://peakd.com/publish?draft=694d94e9-5587-4af8-9e35-ed5f599cbdeb
It´s writing, reading, and completing tasks.
The more and the more frequently you complete those tasks the more tokens you take home. You don´t have to write, although writing makes you mo money.
But is it worth even looking at Bulb?
**This time is different**
This Time Is Different, is what I wrote three months ago. Then I thought, no not this time. Let me wait till I know more especially about the token because in the end money makes the world go round.
The fact that the UI is nice, the tasks are doable, and there is some interesting content does not matter if the tokens you make can not be monetized.
**The BULB Token**
Back then I could not find anything on **The BULB Token** other than it being an SPL (Solana Program Library) token and it being issued on the Solana blockchain. No liquidity pool, or way to swap my tokens. Just this FAQ and a Whitepaper https://docs.bulbapp.io/faq#how-does-refer-to-earn-work https://cdn.bulbapp.io/assets/documents/bulb_whitepaper_v6_0.pdf
Till this week when I read that there would be a Liquidity Pool available. A way to swap my tokens, with low SOL fees, now we are talking, but the proof is in the dollars.
**How Much Did I Make?**
That seemed like great news because I had 20K tokens, it just meant I had to move some SOL to my Fantom wallet to pay for the fee. Which was close to nothing, so I did.
I had no idea what my months of work would bring me money-wise.
Unfortunately, it was not all good news this week. Especially if you did not join because with the Liquidity pool there came Pay2Earn.
If you would have followed me on Torum or Publish0X you could have joined and made those 2500 Tokens in no time. I calculated that you make about 1000 BULB a week. https://peakd.com/publish?draft=694d94e9-5587-4af8-9e35-ed5f599cbdeb
I created 21 posts, and probably did the tasks for 12 weeks, making me 20K tokens so you would have needed 2 weeks and posts to pay those fees, but not anymore.
You can still do the other tasks or challenges as they are called, but the writing and the commenting now require an investment. 2.5K BULB is not a big deal it´s less than $2, but it might be just too much of a threshold for some to join, on the other hand.... that might increase the quality.
**The Challenges**
Those tokens earned per challenge seem pretty low, but every week you complete the challenge you add the initial value. Hence the 5X started 5 weeks ago at 30 tokens. Now quick math tells me that it will take 8 weeks to complete the challenges if you don´t want to pay for Challenges one and two.
So you have the option to buy 2500 tokens for $2 to start earning or spend two months to do your challenges and earn 2500 tokens before you start earning. Making 500-1000 tokens weekly, it would probably take 3 weeks to have a return on your investment. I get the idea behind it, but I really doubt if this will work drawing new people, and therefore money to the platform or if it´s just to stop the leeches.
**Show me the Money**
Now how much were my 20K Bulb tokens worth?
I made about a dollar per post, as I wrote 20 posts, but published one twice by accident.
And I started 4 months ago:
It makes me a little more than a post on Publish0x and a little less than an average post on HIVE.
**That Poo will not do**
A dollar per post is not bad, but is badly paid if your posts like mine take over an hour to create. Unless you are a content creator already and you only need to refurbish your posts a bit.
In that case, it is a nice little extra and you never know what a token like this will do when the bulls start bulling.
Hence if you are writing on another platform you might want to check out BULB.
Especially now you can really swap the coins for SOL, I did not check another option. But in your Phantom wallet, you can swap your SOL for ...a lot.
I swapped 8K for $8 worth of Solana, I used 2K to activate my writing..... again.... and I will use the 10K for staking.
**Why Staking?**
Because I like to gamble a bit, Bulb has been around for since 2022, but on the other hand.... the Liquidity might dry up soon. So I will just put those $10 back in and see what will become of it.
That way I do a bit of a 50/50 thing.
Or at least that was the plan, but my stake did not go through. So it might not have been meant to be and I will keep them with me for a bit.
**Fails**
It´s not the first time a transaction has failed on BULB. My initial 20K claim failed, and as I was unable to find a contact address I thought I was F´ed.
Till I looked a bit beyond, went to their Discord, went to the ask a question section, asked how to raise a ticket, put the transaction in the ticket, waited 36 hours, and had my tokens returned.
When I claimed them again I finally got them in my Phantom wallet. So it is a bit buggy, but then again this whole claiming circus has just gotten started.
The takeaway for me is that there is support, there is a way to monetize, and there is a community. A Community.....
**The Community**
As you know I am not the biggest people person, and I do prefer quality posts. That is probably why I only follow 8 people on Bulb so far.
There are a couple of good writers on there, most I know already from other platforms. But the rest, Chat GPT posts, Low-Quality Airdrop Shizzels, and other awful formatted rip-offs.
Finding good reads is probably the hardest part, but there are some gems out there.
If you are into airdrops....you have to join as there is an abundance of useful airdrop posts.
**Bikini Bottom Line**
Overall the money made is better than most platforms where I have only written for 4 months and 21 posts.
The platform's UI is okay, the challenges not too bad, and until the liquidity pool dries up you can monetize your tokens.
The negative, some bugs, and a lot of low-quality posts and peeps just leeching around for the tokens. But maybe, just maybe those leeches will not pay 2000 tokens ($2) to activate the writing feature.
The biggest risk I see is the liquidity, so just make sure to swap your tokens frequently.... maybe that is why staking failed. In addition, I have my doubts about the impact of the 2.5K fees you need to pay before you start earning.
EDIT: I was able to stake the next day.
I shared the link for weeks so if you tried it and forgot about it go and claim your BULB tokens, or use them to pay the fees and keep writing and Doing 2 Earn. https://peakd.com/publish?draft=694d94e9-5587-4af8-9e35-ed5f599cbdeb
Especially if you are writing about crypto, BULB might be a nice second home for your posts. Just refurbish your Publish posts and share again, it´s not making us rich but it´s making us crypto. https://peakd.com/publish?draft=694d94e9-5587-4af8-9e35-ed5f599cbdeb
If you did not use my link, if you have to start from scratch, that is a tough one.
If you create more than one article per week and have $2 to spare I would BULB. https://peakd.com/publish?draft=694d94e9-5587-4af8-9e35-ed5f599cbdeb
If you write less than an article a week, it might be too much of a hassle. Although you can get that money back in 2 -3 weeks and then earn $2 a week just refurbishing your content already created. And it lacks BCH Positive content!
If you like hustling free crypto you can always spend 8 weeks on the challenges, and if you like to take a $2 risk and make almost free crypto off the back of it it´s up to you to BULB or not 2 BULB. https://peakd.com/publish?draft=694d94e9-5587-4af8-9e35-ed5f599cbdeb
**FYI, there is no such thing as free crypto you always pay with your time, your data, or the risk to your investment!**
**Thank goodness you made it till the end Pees, Love and I am out of here!**
BitcoinBaby Went P2E - Does Investing In Gods Unchained Make Me Money?
**Why does it take me so long to follow up on some awesome advice?**
**Am I that Stubborn or just that Stupid?**
**Well, whatever it was it took longer than I wanted.**
**But I finally did it, no not IT, I finally listened.**
I wanted to do a monthly update on my travels through the realms of Gods Unchained (GU), but it took me six weeks to just take the advice I got from @kstreet . https://peakd.com/@kstreet
For improving your game, we all use:
https://gudecks.com/
Here you can see an analysis of the meta. For example, two power links are:
Top decks:
https://gudecks.com/meta/top-decks
Top players:
https://gudecks.com/meta/player-stats
You can click the player names to see what decks they are playing. Many of those decks are going to be expensive, but you'll discover some cheap ones that are still very effective. That's what I would build towards. Aggro-war decks are particularly effective and low-cost in the current meta.
Yes, that was the best bit of advice I got on my first GU post:
**BitcoinBaby went P2E - No clue what I am doing in Gods Unchained** https://peakd.com/hive-173286/@whywhy/bitcoinbaby-went-p2e-no-clue-what-i-am-doing-in-gods-unchained
**Next Step**
Still, it´s quite a step forward considering it took me 4 months to write that post and confess I was a little lost baby in a huge Gods Unchained world. So from that angle, I am making progress.
Now as said in the title, does investing in GU make me money? Now in that July post I showed I made 85 GOD in those 3 months.
Hence those first 3 months playing every night made me 15 cents per night.
**What Else Did I Do Those First Four Months?**
If you are to lazy to read that first post, let me quickly summarize how I got started:
I started playing without reading of watching any tutorials
I started selling without having a clue about prizes
I started asking around and got some useful links (https://tokentrove.com/ & https://guforge.com/)
I got better at selling
I learned how to forge
I thought myself some cobmos
I played four months with almost the same Deception deck.
I did not get past Rank 8 for the first 4 months, which I just learned is a Bot Rank??
Then I wrote my post and got that tip, it might be the golden tip who knows?
Of course, I don´t listen, or at least do not follow advice to the letter as I am too much in love or accustomed to my Deception deck which I have been playing every night for the last six months.
So no War Aggro for me, but let´s try:
**Aggro Deception**
*The one at the bottom*
I used the standard filters, hence the last 3 days, and Rank Mythic, *let me know what filters the pros use.*
Now I looked at the cards and noticed I was at least holding some, I liked that Kaya, Conduit of the Gods card. I checked the price and was like ....oops but okay.
I looked at Hortuk, Fallen Commander, and was not so impressed so I did not check the price.
What I did do was start to buy the required cards to mimic this deck.
**Baby´s First Shopping Spree**
The fact that I already had to buy several 1 Mana & 2 Mana cards told me that these probably were not your standard drops.
Last year I found out that investing in HP on Hive, pays out in the upvotes on your posts and I think that tactic is what @Protoaddict is directing me toward: https://peakd.com/@protoaddict
And when he told me this, I did not know how right he was on those "Dirt Cheap Cards"
Armor lurker, Stoneskin Poison, and Surprise Delivery are all dirt cheap.
Because I bought 2/3 based on the decks I wanted to mimic:
Now I am still doubting Surprise Delivery but still 2/3 ain't bad.
Just wondering why Shadow of Lethenon?
I mean I saw what it could do, but was not that impressed.
*Let me know what I am missing.*
**So What Else Did I Buy?**
I think I am gonna love this card:
Now I never got this Pickpocket, until I understood the strategy of this Deck. It´s Guild and with Stoneskin Poison I might be able to accelerate the order and start picking those random opponent cards.
With a guild-based deck, this card might be a cheap way to strengthen my hand. Let's see if it proves itself.
Because I know I definitely think I will need to fine-tune my poo deck.
With Order & Guild being the keywords these next two cards definitely made sense to buy:
Weirdly enough I was not holding them (yet), so I expect they will land in my hand soon. But who cares I was spending money to make money; so a bit more would not matter.
But I did doubt this next buy, two of these Spawns of Callaryn might give my Aggro that final push, but I doubt this card a bit.
Now this Looter Dude I bought times five as you can see;
For the simple reason I might just make a buck and get some return on my investment on the short notice;
So I put in on sale for:
That would get me 6 GODS back, 6 of the 60 GODS I spent on building this deck.
**Did I Mirror the Entire Deck**
After playing my own Deception deck for five months I am a little pigheaded. I am not going to copy the entire deck, I made some minor changes. And one big one.
**The Big One**
So I bought all the cards I was missing and now it was to buy Hortuk, Fallen Commander.
I expected it to be expensive, like double what I paid for Kaya.... it was not double....it was not even quadruple!
Okay, now I get why this was a $100 deck, because all other cards combined don´t even get close to the price of Hortuk.
**Above My Budget**
I did not even have the budget to buy this guy, but if anyone has a powerful cheapish 7 Mana card suggestion let me know, for now, I went with WitherFingers:
And I kept this lovely Deception card:
I also kept this combo; Dart Maniac & Uncanny Rogue because for six mana I can give a Deadly punch to the weakest card at the end of every turn.
Or use that Uncanny Rogue with the Vanguard Axewoman to quickly eliminate a strong opponent.
**Last But Not Least**
Last card I kept was:
Kept it just because it delivered in the past, but I might get rid of it in the near future.
So what cards did I not get from the deck I mimicked?
This guy never really got me, it´s just too little of a punch so I did not get any:
For now, I got only one of these and not two but as it´s Guild, Cheap, and only one mana I might get a second soon.
I also got only one Encumbered Looter, because I am not expecting to need to draw many cards with this deck.
So I did a lot of mimic and a bit of me, tonight I am gonna play and see.
If it works I will make sure to upgrade all to Meteor or More!
**Bottom Line**
Back to making money through investing.
I did notice that I almost doubled my GODS Tokens between the 20th of July and early September. Because I did 85 in 3 months and 65 in the next six weeks. That took me to 17 cents a night on average.
That increase was due to improving my deck and increasing the Shine (quality) of the cards in that deck. Now I invested 60 GODS tokens in new cards, and another 10 on upgrades to Meteor or More.
**What will that investment do?**
Will it drastically increase my stack of GODS or have I invested in all the wrong places?
At this moment I hold fewer GODS than I did six weeks ago. Now if this investment works I should make 65 GODS in under six weeks. My goal is to make those 65 GODS back before my next post. Which I promise to write in four weeks.
**Stay Tuned**
Come back in four weeks and see if taking advice and being a little Cocky will make 65 GODS & finally get me to Rank 10 and beyond.
For now, all advice is welcome.
Especially if someone knows how to refresh your Inventory without rebooting the game on a laptop. Because the cards I bought only showed up after rebooting the game.
I asked some questions throughout the post, but any tips are welcome, and will get a shout-out in my Next GU post. Your tips are not just for me, they are for all the little lost boys and girls wandering through those GU realms with no clue what they are doing.
**Thank goodness you made it till the end Peace, love and I am out of here!**
Bags To The Future - I have a Bull Market Plan
**Bags to the future?? What the hell is that for a title?**
**Well, it´s a title for a post I have been considering for quite a while. Because like many of you, I was left holding very expensive bags and seeing them melt. Melt in price and not increase in size. Bags I bought at the end of the bull run, or way too early on the way down.**
**What to do with my old bags?**
What did you do with those bags?
Sold at a loss?
Holding and Hoping they pump again next bull run?
If a coin pumped last run, that is no guarantee they pump again this run. You can definitely expect them to move, but they might not do that 10X you need to break even. Might, being an understatement.
Some narratives from the last run will not see a similar growth. Other narratives might not even take off again.
That doesn´t mean that many coins will probably set a new ATH. I expect blue chips such as ADA and MATIC to easily get to their previous tops and possibly go beyond. They will probably do that 15x without breaking a sweat.
But for example, a coin like Sand I see as a bigger risk.
The Metaverse narrative is as good as dead. Same goes for NFTs all magical words last run, and now they seem like signs of the time that has passed.
**What Shitcoins Am I Holding**
I have reviewed my bags and swapped them lately for more relevant narratives, Luckily, I held mostly layer ones, layer two´s, but still there was enough poo left that I felt like swapping for something more modern.
And swapping is not losing, you don´t lose a penny if you swap to a more promising narrative.
Of course everyone says AI is the new narrative, and it is but it also is a big risk. I don´t invest too much in AI until the bulls really start running because it´s shaky ground. SEC is going after AI, Crypto and AI are not a match made in heaven and just like NFTs this narrative can be gone before you know it....and certainly before we see BTC at a new ATH.
**If we get another bull run what is my strategy?**
Based on my previous article about seeing the future based on historical data I expect that we will see one more dip around the halving (26th April 2024).
That is when I will put my ear to the ground and invest in the narratives that are popular at that point in time. Of course only a part, I will diversify quite a bit.
In addition, I am holding 60% of my portfolio in BTC and a bit of ETH & BCH which I will not change. The exciting stuff sits with that 40%, those I plan to play with and invest in the below.
**Narratives I like:**
**Popular Layer Ones** (Injective Kadena Polkadot Radix FTM Phala Network)
**Layer two´s** (ARB, OP)
**Blue Chips** (ADA, ALGO, VET THETA)
**Some small caps** (MoonBeam, NGC, ROSE Opul LTO EWT)
**New Narratives** (DYDX CFX PBX KAVA RNDR)
So I know what I want to be holding, and I am pretty much on track. I am holding 12.5% of that 40% still in stables but with the dips I foresee I plan to have none left by May 2024.
**It´s a bit much!**
Yup, maybe my play portfolio as I like to call it is a bit much with 25 coins/tokens. But it´s already an improvement from what I had last time.
By the end of the last bull run, I was holding close to 70 tokens.
**Why Not?**
I thought it was smart to diversify, and if something sounded interesting I had to have it. And in the bull run that was okay, buy the dip sell it at 10-30% up, and repeat.
This did not work in the bear market and left me with some very expensive bags, bags that might never see a future. So far only one of them really died as it was delisted but costed more in fees to move than what was left of the bags worth.
But many of these bags potentially will never reach their ATH, so as I said I swapped most. Still holding some like QI and HOD hoping for a miracle.
**The Plan**
My master plan is to sell what I can sell from these old bags during the first ALTSZN. That would also apply to narratives that I expected to do good, but let me down a little
Ending up with a play portfolio with about 20-25 tokens. Because that is the max I can track. And when I see track it´s both prices and future developments. If I can get back to 15 even better.
**What happens in 2025**
Here is where my plan is still a work in progress. By mid-2024 I expect to be done accumulating, this is when prices should start to go up. When prices are clearly moving up, and BTC is and remains above 35K I stop investing and accumulating and start praying.
On my knees, hands stretching to the heavens hoping I at least bought some 1000X´s.
Why 35K, because I expect that to be 80% from the conservative top, meaning I expect BTC to top out at 175K at the least. I´ll get to where I get that number from in a minute, but it´s just math.
**That´s where it gets difficult**
As I always say I was born in a bull run and I traded my $200 dollars up to $2400 by selling on the way up and buying back during the dips.
That was because I missed out on the accumulation phase, now I have options.
**Will I go all Diamond Hands till November 2025:**
**Or time the dips and trade my way up?**
There are so many fanatic hodlers that claim they made more by holding than I could make trading the bull run.
When I say trading it´s really simple, I sell on the way up and buy back on the way down, because volatility is your friend in a bull run.
I did very well last time and did a 12X on my initial $200 investment.
Now I have not tried that hodl thing but it sounds boring. Still, I will need to figure it out for myself. Hence by Q3 of 2024 I will split my play portfolio into a hodl and a trade section.
It will at least give me the satisfaction of trading and the possible bigger returns on hodling.
**My next struggle is how long do I hold**
I got the selling on the way up and buying on the way down covered. **But how long should one hodl?**
Last time we did almost a 20x from the 3.5K bottom to the 68K top. So being conservative we can do a 10X BTC. 10X will do at least 150K.
That will be my call to look at my hodl portfolio and start selling. That should be around April 2025:
It would give me from April till November to get a nice price for the ALTS I have been holding.
While I would also ensure that I would sell my buyback the dip portfolio in this period.
**I love it when a plan comes together**
You need a plan & need to be flexible because a plan is only a plan on paper. If reality throws you lemons you make a Mojito without lime.
**But at least I have a plan:**
I know what Coins I want
I have time to accumulate
I can buy the bottom and sell on the way to the top
I trust in cycles and their timeline.
I know the top is the start of the bear market.
I know the bear-market bottom is always lower than you expect and higher than you hope
I trust that whatever top we reach the next bottom is about 80% of that top (e.g. the next bottom should be at least 36K)
**Bottom Line**
My Financial Advice check what you are holding from the last bull run. Swap the dead narratives for something more popular and then **make a plan!**
***Plan till when you will accumulate.***
***Plan your strategy, e.g. buy the dip sell on the way up, hodl, or a bit of both.***
***Plan your profit margins and timeline, e.g. when should I start selling & by when should it be sold?***
And most importantly, have a plan; stick with it, but be flexible.
**Thank goodness you made it till the end peace, love and I am out of here!**
*[Source Pic](All pictures are by Meme, MyI & AI)*
Can I Trust The BTC Chart That Predicts The Future?
**Last week I was talking about** **Crypto and trust.** **Well, more about how those two do not mix very well. Pointing out that you can not believe anyone in this space, because everyone has ulterior motives.** https://read.cash/@BitcoinBaby/in-cycles-we-trust-5d7ae76b
**The only thing you might try trusting were the cycles, but what if you make a model based on those cycles? Turn that into a chart, could you trust that chart?**
**What Chart?**
Don´t tell me that you have not found this magical mystery chart that predicts the BTC future.
Seriously, you never heard of the: Bitcoin cycle repeat chart https://charts.bitbo.io/cycle-repeat/
Well you have now, and once it´s seen you can´t unsee it so I hope you took a good long look and saw this coming:
Yup, Sugar we are going down, further down than SBF took us last year, all the way to 15K by March 2024.
Am I spreading Doom or Gloom or giving you hope that you can still buy cheap?
If it´s one of those you have not learned last week´s lesson;
**Don't trust anyone and nothing is for certain.**
But based on the fact I have some faith in that cycle thingy, so how accurate is that Cycle Chart? Can I do some short-term trading based on these predictions?
**Let me check it out and lose some money so you don´t have to!**
**For Example**
**Should I wait with buying any crypto till March 2024?**
Well who knows, nothing is impossible but and this is my favorite but the Big Butt:
But I did my checks. Now let me tell you what I found.
**I started my DYOR 18-April-2023**
At that point, it looked like we will hit 49K by the end of May, make sure I sell and go away.
And we would only be pulling up by mid-November, Sell in Jan 2024 as we have an eye on the dip mid-Feb.
In Reality, Nothing happened from April;
It was one big flatbread since March
**21-April-2023**
Expectations were a Low 27K in that first week of May while first going back to 30k.
**In reality, that was bloody accurate:**
We touched 30K ain't the end of April and went a little below 27K first 10 days of May.
**30-April-2023**
See how the expected before the blow-off top is melting from 49K it dipped to a little above 40K in just two weeks. Still, I am holding my bags to sell in May and go away because the next time we hit 40K will be in early August 2024. But the Dip in early May now shows 25.7 and as per our check, it did not go below 26.3.
**08-May-2023**
So now we should hit 33K in a week, but in reality:
We did not even get to 31K by the end of June.
**18-May-2023**
That 49K peak, went to 40K, and within a month it is 37K by the end of May, but as we all know even that did not happen.
**31-May-2023**
We had no blow-off top to sell in May and go away, and expectations are that by the end of June, we would hit a very low 24K. While in reality, the ETF story took BTC to 30K again.
**15-August-2023**
Now look at the future of Bitcoin:
We should hit 21.5K on the first day of my October Holidays, hence 12th of October, and a month later we should be below 20K again.
But in that October month, we would go back to 27K, so buy the dip mid-October, sell End October, buy the November dip, and then wait till after X-Mas for the next little pump.
Just to synch that with what the chart looked when I started my little test:
It looked like we were pulling up by Mid-November back then, but now that same Mid-November is a nice buy-the-dip opportunity.
So the dips might shift but the volatility makes sense.
**EDIT**
As I was working on this story we had that dip to 25K on the 17th of Aug; The initial part of that dip we expected to happen in the 2nd week of September. That September Dip is still there, it´s just a little less steep.
**21-August-2023**
**Bottom Line**
It´s very clear that in Crypto History does not repeat, but it does rhyme.
Short-term trades based on the Cycle Repeat chart seem to fail more often than they deliver. https://charts.bitbo.io/cycle-repeat/
What it does do is help you zoom out, see the bigger picture and understand that based on historical data 19K three months from now would not be weird at all.
It shows that even just before the halving there can be several opportunities to get in at the right time.
**No Financial Advice**
Best not to look at the dates too much, but keep your eyes on those opportunities.
Best not DCA all your dollars, but also keep a stash of dry powder to buy the real dip.....because Dip Is Coming.
**Thank goodness you made it till the end peace, love and I am out of here!**
*[Source Pic](All pictures are by MyI & AI)*
STV - Last Week I Opened Only 4 of the Seven Apocalyptic Seals
**I grew up religiously challenged, over time I gathered bits and pieces and after all these years I guess I can say I am a believer, may it not be in a man with a beard or in Justin Bieber.**
May it's the lack of religiousness that got me searching. Making me a skeptic who like Mulder in X-files wants to believe.
https://youtu.be/6K41r1ErC4E
I never found my book, but I have been curious and intrigued by many. The weirder the better, guess that's just so typical me (and Britney).
**Knock Knock Knockin**
https://youtu.be/Dmm8CRP7gjw
Now something has been happening lately, somehow a song last week pointed me to The Book of Revelations....which is also referred to as an ancient acid trip.
Revelations 6 talked about the four horsemen of the apocalypse, which was last week`s story.
Now totally unrelated another biblical inspiration crossed my path that same week.
It was the head of John the Baptist. Which is not in Revelations but made me encounter this awesome John song;
https://youtu.be/4lX9yYq6unQ
Causing me to write a biblical playlist (with the risk of sounding arrogant it´s one of my better playlists ever):
**Midnight Gems - Your Free Mix-Tape Show - E 23 "Revelations and other Biblical Beauties"** https://peakd.com/hive-192806/@whywhy/midnight-gems-your-free-mix-tape-show-e-23-revelations-and-other-biblical-beauties
**Which then led me to believe. ..**
To believe that songs with a biblical theme have a better chance of appealing to me.....
**Now why is that?**
Why do I love to hear about Lilith and the whore at Jesus' feet....not to mention that whore of Babylon.
And it seems I am not the only one. The Bible and especially the Book of Revelations have inspired so many.
It inspired believers and non-believers alike, why do those that are not in gods grace, that have not visited a church on Sunday for as long as they can remember get inspiration from the Bible?
**The Good Book**
For A so-called Good Book, it actually contains a lot of evil. I mean brothers killing each other, heads on plates, a whole planet drowning, cities crumbling, and the hero being tortured and eventually dying. That is a pretty good scenario, maybe they should turn it into a movie.
But my favorite part remains Revelations, the Magical Mystery Tour of the Bible. And as I said in earlier posts maybe I need to revisit that book. These little breadcrumbs on my walk of life were not dropped without a reason.
https://youtu.be/HS3pUgRKh_g
It´s not like I found divine inspiration, I think. But I am definitely curious to read those stories about the war in heaven, The Whore of Babylon, and the False Prophet once again.
Turning those stories into a little more modern format and adding songs that found their inspiration in Revelations origin.
Now I guess that will become a nice little series, so don´t hold your breath. Because on this lazy Sunday morning, I just want to finish last week's story:
**STV - Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse NOW** https://read.cash/@BitcoinBaby/stv-four-horsemen-of-the-apocalypse-now-176517b8
**Where Did I Pause?**
So we saw that there was a book with seven seals and a lamb that looked like it was slaughtered but still had its seven eyes
Then I saw a lamb standing in the middle of the throne, the four living creatures, and the elders. He looked like he had been slaughtered. He had seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent into all the earth. 7 He went and took the scroll from the right hand of the one who sits on the throne.
Just picture that a slaughtered lamb with seven eyes and seven horns still able to pick a scroll from God, that must have been a hell of a lamb, but well it wasn´t the *Agnus Dei* for nothing I guess.
Then I told you about four horsemen that came from the first four seals, right those were kinda cool. And though I know the post was well received, nobody asked the obvious question.....
What about those other seals, we ended the story having three sealed seals while we knew that the damn lamb had been chewing on all of them.
**So what happened next**
Don´t blame yourself Dear Reader, even I did not think about this obvious plothole, I guess we were in over our heads already. But I will make it up to you in this #STV post. https://peakd.com/trending/stv
But at the same time, we were left with three unopened seals and if the first four released the heralds of hell proclaiming the end of time this can only get worse. On the other hand many believe in the kindness of God so how bad can it really get?
So I let you hanging after God released the 4th Horsemen onto the world, the one on the green horse...Death.
https://youtu.be/L5gQSfUywas
**The Fifth Seal**
(Revelation 6:9-11): The opening of the fifth seal reveals the souls of martyrs under the altar in heaven. They cry out for justice, indicating the suffering of those who have died for their faith. They are told to wait until the full number of martyrs is reached.
What the bloody fluff did that do in the bigger scheme of things? We have Martyrs, must have been quite a few....but not enough. They need to wait till even more people spreading God's Vibe get wasted???
I thought the apocalypse was coming and Kingdom Come would bestow itself on Earth but Noooo. Well there need to be boring seals I guess, maybe the world will end at 6(66).
**The Sixth Seal**
(Revelation 6:12-17): The opening of the sixth seal brings about a great earthquake, the darkening of the sun and moon, and the falling of stars. People hide in fear, recognizing the significance of these cosmic events as a sign of divine judgment.
Oops there it is. It´s the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine. Well, actually I feel a bit curious as this sounds like the calm before the Kingdom.
https://youtu.be/jMUk1R_fKEA
**The Seventh Seal**
(Revelation 8:1-5): The opening of the seventh seal leads to a period of silence in heaven. It is followed by the introduction of seven trumpet judgments. The content of the seventh seal serves as an introduction to subsequent events.
Interesting, Seven Trumpets and subsequent events. What a lovely ending to this story, such an awesome anti-climax. Not gonna leave you hanging again this time Dear Reader.
https://youtu.be/p1wIHF8dNQ8
**This is the End, My Only Friend, The Trumpet.**
When those trumpets sound, that is when the party really gets started as they announce seven apocalyptic occurrences.
Each trumpet blast is more catastrophic than the previous.
**First Trumpet:** Hail and fire mingled with blood are thrown to the earth, causing destruction.
*Sounds like that first one sounded already; we saw a huge ass hailstorm in Italy, Vulcans are erupting, and temperatures are so high they are causing forest fires.*
**Second Trumpet:** A great mountain burning with fire is cast into the sea, causing a third of the sea to become blood and a third of sea creatures to die.
*Vulcanic Island sinking into the sea, isn´t that what they expect La Gomera (one of Spain's Canary Islands) to do in the possibly near future?*
**Third Trumpet:** A great star named Wormwood falls from heaven, poisoning a third of the Earth's freshwater sources.
*Okay we can stop this one, just stop giving stars names...especially names that translate into Wormwood in whatever language.*
**Fourth Trumpet:** A third of the sun, moon, and stars are struck, causing a decrease in light.
*These trumpets like to do things in thirds isn´t it, like a holy trilogy or something maybe?*
**Fifth Trumpet (First Woe):** A star falls from heaven, releasing locusts that torment those who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads.
*This explains another mystery or two, the seal of god on their forehead.... Is that why people are actually putting tattoos on their faces? Or is the seal the Bindi worn by Hindus, Jains, Buddhists, and Sikhs?*
**Sixth Trumpet (Second Woe):** Four angels are released le by Lucifer, leading to a massive army of horsemen that kill a third of humanity.
*A massive army of horsemen, so indeed those four from last week were indeed just the heralds of hell announcing many more to come before Kingdom Come.*
**Seventh Trumpet:** This trumpet announces the victory of God's kingdom and the judgment of the dead. The temple of God in heaven is opened, revealing God's presence and final judgments.
The Moment We All Have Been Waiting For, Not Holding Our Breath.
Guess that this would be the time that the Martyrs from the fifth seal celebrate justice, indicating the end of the suffering of those who have died because of their faith.
The defeat of Satan led to the establishment of a new heaven and new earth.
**The End**
*(Sneak Peek on what Revaltions is Holding for us in the upcoming series I plan to write)*
https://youtu.be/3ZqKRulyrsw
**Epilogue**
The Book of Revelations is more than any other part of the Bible subject to interpretation. I tried to stick as close to what is documented as I felt comfortable with.
*(This is How I Think That Last Part Should be Interpreted)*
Those who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads were swept up by Satan, as it´s documented that the Morningstar did not die in battle.
This is that New Earth;
The sealess are still living on new Earth, hoping one day the apocalypse will come again and they will be admitted to that New Heaven. But for now, there is no admittance and all are waiting for Kingdome Come.
https://youtu.be/mknLaFJZ4v4
Publish0X Has Great News If You Like Getting Free $OP
**Now I have been on Publish0x for as long as I am in crypto. And there was nothing wrong with the platform, The engagement, and content has always been pretty okay.**
**SO What´s Your Problem?**
My Problem always was with the bloody tipping coins.
Ample, who uses this weird semi-stable coin anyway?
Farm and IFarm, really I lost so much on those shitcoins.
Anyone Remembers $STA?
And lately, there was Spot, I did not even investigate how I could turn this into actual crypto.
But at least there was some $ETH to be made from tips.
I think it was since $STA that I learned that if you hold these shit coins long enough they will be replaced and swapped by another shit coin and so I saw my $STA turn to $SPOT.
But now there is really good news. Yes even in a downward spiral Boremarket like this one there can be some good news.
Now I am glad to see history repeating, but this is not repeating, this is history improving. Because Shitcoins $AMPLE and $SPOT both will be swapped to a coin I actually like $OP.
Now you can raise that $OP is not as good as $ARB but still it´s a Layer 2 with a future not the next poo coin.
Awesome news, all Poo SPOT gave me will be turned into Optimistic OP Poo.
Now I have not been writing a lot of crypto stuff lately, so my $SPOT balance is not crazy high but still happy to get it swapped to $OP.
Especially now I am getting back to writing crypto this is great, finally my tips are making sense.
Oh and tips are made by tipping others or creating content, just in case you never heard about Publish0X.
**Publish0X** https://www.publish0x.com/?a=l9avg4xnbG
The best and easiest way to learn about crypto and make free crypto is to follow me and join Publish0x, if you did not do so already. https://www.publish0x.com/?a=l9avg4xnbG
Publish0x is a platform not unlike this one, it allows blogs of any sort but you will notice that it´s very much focused on crypto articles. Now on Publish0x, you get rewarded for rewarding content. So all you have to do is join and reward to start making your first bit of crypto. https://www.publish0x.com/?a=l9avg4xnbG
Rewarding is done at the bottom of the post. You can give appreciation by a like or a dislike, and below the thumbs up/down feature you have the tipping option.
Now tipping does not cost you anything, but you can select how much you tip the creator. The default is 80% to the author and 20% to myself. But you can slide the blue dot to the left and change these amounts. At the max, you can give yourself 80% and 20% to the writer seven times a day.
**How To Join?**
Making Money Reading & Writing, or Learning & Earning and making $ETH & $OP just follow these simple steps:
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Publish0x is facing out Fakebook and X so just use your email:
**Become an author**
As many of you are already content creators, you can, once you have signed up, request to also become an author on Publish0x and earn even more crypto. Keep in mind that most publications are in English and regarding crypto, but as mentioned it´s mandatory.
Go to your Dashboard menu and click "Become an author". Send your application it normally is reviewed within 24hrs.
Next, you will need to create a blog first:
These blogs are not to be confused with a post. The blogs are like an umbrella to which your posts get linked. I for example have a blog for all my crypto articles and another blog for my music articles.
Your blog and Bio will show below your article.
As on any good platform stealing and plagiarism are not allowed and if caught you will lose your author license and the money your articles made. It is allowed to post articles you previously posted somewhere else *(like her on LEO, just put the OG Post at the bottom to avoid confusion)*.
Well, I guess you are now fully set up to start Publish**0X**ing, hope to see you there as well!
**Feel free to drop me any doubt or question you might have.**
**Thank goodness you made it till the end peace, love and I am out of here!**
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Beyond Doubt: Whispers of the Unseen - Chapter 11
*Dear Reader, I would like to share this story with you;*
**It will take you on a seemingly endless journey.**
**A trip that takes you places I might have visited many moons ago.**
**It´s a tale that came back to me when I meditated on one of my past lives.**
***Click here to Start with Chapter 1*** https://read.cash/@BitcoinBaby/beyond-doubt-whispers-of-the-unseen-chapter-1-2f6a6863
**Chapter** **11** https://read.cash/@BitcoinBaby/beyond-doubt-whispers-of-the-unseen-chapter-1-ab951810#chapter-2
*Dear Reader, you've been traveling with me for a while, are you starting to get into the rhythm a bit?*
*Then I hope that after today you will not give up and that you know that I am not out to shock you.*
*I only report what I hear and see.*
*To those of you who don't have a strong stomach, today may be the day to skip a step.*
*As I don't want to lose you Dear Reader.*
Flames blaze high, illuminating the night's darkness. They color the world orange-yellow and cast huge shadows on the ground. The fangs of the flames bite like the jaws of a huge dragon.
Jaws searching for things not yet destroyed by its unstoppable power. I hear the wood creak, here and there a jug cracks and I smell scorched flesh as the flames are fanned further by the wind.
Then I turn my back on the inferno. I see the remains of huts that once stood here. They are only smoldering piles that remain after having been engulfed by the conflagration. I hear screams, shrieks of terror that pierce my bones and leave goosebumps on my skin.
I run to where the sound came from. When I got there I stiffened. It is impossible to move as I watch a spectacle unfold in the dim light of the burning village.
Two men hold a woman to the ground by forcefully restraining her arms and legs. She squirms like an eel while the third strips her of her clothes and slaps her face. She spits, she misses, he spits. A big ball of green-yellow mucus drips from her eye socket past her nose and over her lips.
She screams in pain, but by opening her mouth to scream, the gurgle slips into her mouth and she chokes. Then she screams louder than before, in the orange glow I see that the third man has now penetrated her.
She calms down, looks at him penetratingly: "Now you feel like a real man, a hero. A hero with a cock so small that I don't even feel it."
The man now thrusts more aggressively than the first few times. The woman laughs contemptuously, louder and louder, almost hysterically.
I see the man picking up a knife with a short blade in the shape of a sickle. With a quick movement of his hand, he cuts the woman's throat. He thrusts twice more, then takes a deep breath. He places his index finger on the woman's lips and says "Sshhht," as the blood gushing from her neck surrounds her head.
"Who wants her now?" he bellows. The younger man holding her feet stumbles away out of sight, but I hear that he shares his stomach contents with the plants and animals in an unlit area.
The man who held back the arms raises his head, by doing this he looks straight at me. His surprised look lingers on me for a moment, then he speaks in a dialect I don't know and warns his companion. He turns around in a moment. With her blood still dripping from his face, he approaches me.
I'm still rooted to the ground. His arm is raised and the blade flickers in the light of the flames, gilded with a red sheen. I see the arm come down and raise my hand to defend myself, a burning pain goes through my raised hand and everything goes black.
I shake my head and open my eyes. I smell a burning smell, then I feel pain in the hand that was just hit by the knife. I look at my hand, it's on top of the half-burnt candle. A big black smear, a burn, and remnants of a blister around the rosy red wound.
My stomach goes weak for a moment, but I control myself, then fill a bowl of water with my good hand. I let my battered hand rest in it before I bind it with a mixture of herbs and oils.
The horror of the dream numbs the pain, while tending the wound I hardly feel it. All the more I feel sick of the events I have just witnessed. The realism of the dream is so lifelike, so oppressive. I can't get the images out of my mind. Slowly I remember earlier images of the same kind, less detailed, but absolutely connected to the dream I just had.
My mind searches, I dig deep and find what I was looking for. The thoughts had been superseded by the fact that it was Master Oniko's last day, the images of that meditation completely eluded me. Now they come back to me, the burning village, meters-high flames, the screams. Running people, trying to escape the slaughter that was going on. A massacre carried out by men in black on those tall-legged creatures.
Is it my imagination, my desire to find a clue? There, in the glow of the flames, I see the rugs that cover the horses. They are black, but they are clearly trimmed with gold. I try to make out the faces of the riders under their dark hoods, but something tells me it's not what I'm looking for.
My eyes wander from the hoods down. Their chests are protected by plates, on their arms the same black plates and there is relief in the plates. Then my eye catches a glint, an emblem on the right shoulder of one of the men, a golden flower surmounted by a black circle.
Gold and black, I had seen that combination before. But by throwing myself into the role of teacher and knight of Numico´s quest I had not thought about those terrible images or Master Oniko's last words.
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In Cycles We Trust
I learned life's biggest lesson a long time ago watching X-Files: **Trust No One**
**Sounds familiar?**
**Trust & Faith**
To Trust; is to believe that someone is good and honest and will not harm you, or that something is safe and reliable.
To Have Faith: is to believe someone; to trust someone to do or be what is claimed.
To trust is to believe, I believe a little in everything, hence it makes sense to trust no one. Or as King David said: “It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in man."
Trusting in the lord takes a lot of faith, as you will not meet him in this lifetime. But if it´s the good Lord he would probably not tell you to buy Bitcoin. Or swap your Bitcoin for some silly Altcoin.
I side with King David, mankind has a kind side. A friendly face, willing to help ......until there is profit to be made. At least the Lord does not care for profit. But many that speak on his behalf on Earth do.
**Ulterior Motives**
Okay enough Sunday school lessons, let me come to the point. In crypto you can trust No One. I mean we all trusted someone to get into this game, otherwise you would not be reading this. And many of those people were not aware of the ulterior motive they might have had to get you into crypto.
Maybe they were endorsed, maybe just spreading their affiliate link, maybe they actually thought they were helping you by sharing their endorsed affiliate link.
In this game everyone has an ulterior motive, knowing or unknowingly. And that is fine if you release that it´s perfectly fine. Because money making is a wonderful game & ulterior motives do not mean they automatically will get you REKT.
Not everyone is like Bitboy filling their own bags, some people don´t mind sharing their insights and actually help you grow. While they grow faster, but you can´t win them all.
**It´s not who but what to trust**
Now that we established that you can not trust anyone, what can you trust?
The easy answer is nothing, as nothing is certain although the chances that you die one day are probably the best odds you get in this life.
A less pessimistic view of crypto would be that there is something that might be worth having faith in.....
**Those GD Cycles**
Nope not that monthly cycle many ladies have to suffer and when they suffer their men suffer, but it´s probably not woke to call that out. What meant to call out are the BTC halving cycles.
If there is a clear and distinctive pattern in crypto it´s this one:
Now being a crypto baby and stuff I did not give these cycles too much thought. I was making Money! And it seemed that it was not gonna stop! If I knew then what I know now, I would have been much wealthier, but I guess that goes for all of us.
I had faith in people calling for a Super Cycle, a prolonged cycle, and even though I took my profit at the top of the Nov 2021 bull market.... that faith was very much misplaced.
I should have trusted the cycle, but hell I was so wet behind the ears it was like I just came from the pool. I wanted to keep making money, so that self-serving bias threw me for the lions that called for a prolonged cycle.
Even though I knew we should go down at least 80% I did not think the time was now, but it was.
**My Bad**
And so I started buying in again when we were down 30% at around 50K and increased those buys at 40K and kept going till my 10K profit was down 80%. At that point, I realized two things;
I should have had faith in the Cycle & this is probably near the bottom so I better start buying.
So far, I was correct on the first point, we were at 21K, and I had been investing as I already used up all my profits since BTC hit 30K.
**There is a catch**
I am gonna treat this cycle as if it will be the last. Because it´s hard to truly trust that this will continue once the market gets regulated and institutions are incorporated. But as things look now I think it´s safe to say I trust that we will have one more cycle.
And with the money I invested, I need to have faith that cycles are real. They have delivered every time so far and that is a great track record.
But what if they stop?
Then I lose what I was willing to lose, as that is the only true way to play the game.
**Bottom Line**
Nothing is for certain, but a good pattern holds much more value than any cryptofluencer, chart guru, or no-financial advice friend. Until now the cycle seems to repeat itself once again, if you want to know why there are a million people that think they know why. I just follow the pattern and have faith, what else does a human have?
**Thank goodness you made it till the end peace, love and I am out of here!**
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Beyond Doubt: Whispers of the Unseen - Chapter 10
*Dear Reader, I would like to share this story with you;*
**It will take you on a seemingly endless journey.**
**A trip that takes you places I might have visited many moons ago.**
**It´s a tale that came back to me when I meditated on one of my past lives.**
***Click here to Start with Chapter 1*** https://read.cash/@BitcoinBaby/beyond-doubt-whispers-of-the-unseen-chapter-1-2f6a6863
**Chapter** **10** https://read.cash/@BitcoinBaby/beyond-doubt-whispers-of-the-unseen-chapter-1-ab951810#chapter-2
*Dear Reader, Did you ever feel that when you have finally found what you have unconsciously been looking for, it slips away like fine sand between your fingers?*
*When it slipped away did you realize that it could not have gone any other way?*
*Realize that you cannot keep something so precious with you.*
*Realize you can not hold on to such things?*
*But the realization will be stored in your soul for a lifetime.*
Stretched out on the grass for a long time, we catch our breath, I put an arm around the boy's shoulders. Together we look at the immense mountains that surround the gorge. The starting green of the trees and the clear blue of the sky. Breathlessly we enjoy the awe-inspiring beauty that surrounds us.
"How can anyone explain all this as his possession? Can anyone climb all those mountains at once, and eat all the fruits that this land produces alone? It is a misconception of immense magnitude to reckon the whole world to be the property of one single man. He does not behold the beauty and the cruelty of the land he calls his own."
"Land belongs to the man who tills it, who in turn is morally bound to feed them without land. So far as the harvest permits. But even the farm laborer must acknowledge, that the land he tills was there before he was born, and that the land will be there even after his bones are dust absorbed by the soil," I pause and look at Numico.
Numico nods. "And yet this man thinks the world belongs to him. That where he goes and what he sees belongs to him. And he is so convinced that he has never doubted his ideas. It must be a lonely soul, who believes so firmly in his beliefs that there is no room for reflection."
"That's the main thing I feel, loneliness. Lost in a world without wishes, without dreams rudderless, emotionless, because nothing can measure up to him. Cold and frozen, scared of losing everything in the blink of an eye, everything that makes you who you are, because you only see yourself as the matter you own and the position you hold," he says.
"He sounds like a strange little man. I would like to meet him, a person like you or me could show him that the world has more to offer."
Numico agrees: "Yes, I feel deeply sorry for him, can we help him?"
"As soon as I know who it is we will try, such a person can cause a lot of pain and sorrow. Without being aware of it in the slightest. He who does not know feelings does not recognize the feelings of the world around him." We remained silent for a little longer and then we got up at the exact same time. Without a word, we both know it's time to return to the village.
When Numico walks in the direction of his parents' cabin, he turns around before entering. “Master, when are you going on a journey?” I can hear a bit of sadness, it´s in the way he asks it.
"Can I come with you, please?" I feel his wish not to have to let go of his newly found soul mate.
"I'm not going on a trip. What do you mean I have no such plans,” I say. I spoke true, I had no plans. “Master believe me, you are going on a journey. I too would like to make that trip. This village has few new things to offer me,” his eyes plead as he speaks.
“Numico my boy, I really don't know what journey you are talking about, but I understand your urge to get to know the world outside the village. I regard your premonition as a matter to be reckoned with. I promise you that as soon as I make plans to go on a trip, I will ask your parents if you can accompany me. But I have to abide by your parents' wishes. They might be reluctant to send their young son out into the world, from which so many have not returned. Please don't get your hopes up on this adventure. Your time will come. Patience is hard and patience is tested, but rewarded in the end."
I felt I was looking for excuses in the undertone of my answer. Numico probably heard it too.
Why was I looking for excuses, excuses for something I didn't intend anyway.
Tired and confused from the lack of sleep, I sit down at the low table in the corner of my cabin. I replace the last stump of the candle I blew out this morning with a new one, which I then light. Fire is a precious commodity, which 'makes life possible'. Musing on fire, its warmth, and the importance of such a gem to so many occupies me, until Numico's words come back to my mind. 'Master when are you going on a journey'.
Going on a trip, I wasn't planning that, was I?
The little man had said things before they were found to be true before.
Traveling?
Why, how, where would I go?
I had never been far beyond the village. Although when I made the map of the area I noticed that I was thinking about seeing all the things I documented with my own eyes. But I knew I didn't have the courage to actually consider such a trip.
I tried to distill the answer to Numico's question from the information obtained. But it turned out more and more that if I wanted to find the answer, I had to walk the walk myself.
Still, there was this urge to answer his question, it's like there's more to it than just the satisfaction of my own and Numico's curiosity. It's as if inaudible voices whisper; "find the answer." I feel a push as if the spirits attach importance to this quest.
The night without sleep must be catching up with me, making me believe in my own fantasies. While I know that my place is here, why should I go anywhere, I am no adventurer, no fighter.
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**God can be such an inspiration, or maybe I should say the Bible. I mean who doesn´t get that curious sensation when Revelation 6 tells of a book or scroll in God's right hand that is sealed with seven seals?**
**And if God locks something, certainly it will not stay locked forever.**
The story goes Lamb of God/Lion of Judah opens the first four of the seven seals. For those too lazy to Google that Lamb would be Jesus. This action summons four beings on horses, I guess kinda like My Little Pony as they ride out on white, red, black, and green horses.
*But this forgotten classic tells the story very well:*
https://youtu.be/3KCbqhJt16k
**A Revealing Story About My Little Ponys**
In John's revelation (not the Baptist John whose head ended up on a plate). Also not the Apostle John, but another John. A John that called himself A Prophet. And got his knowledge from talking in deep with the spirit of Yeshua AKA The Lamb of God.
https://youtu.be/CJLVQXgKfZA
Three Johns all entangled with Yeshua who´s also a Lamb, A lion, the son of God AKA Jesus. These must have been very confusing times, so I will try to keep it simple. I just want to talk about these four cool dudes on horses.
The lamb btw has seven horns and seven eyes symbolizing the seven spirits sent by God to the Earth, confusing times as I mentioned. Guess that is why the whole story has gotten distorted by the modern generations.
**The First, The Last, Eternity**
That first horseman, a nameless fellow wearing a crown and carrying a bow nowadays is nearly always interpreted as “Pestilence.” The Bible for that matter does not mention any connection to disease. Maybe because the first plague came an eternity (300 years) after Revelation 6 was published.
https://youtu.be/fECdKaiqA40
*And it would take another eternity till the true end would be insight but more about that later.*
**The White Horse**
This guy on the white horse (the white horse itself is a symbol of military victory) he´s often said to be the Anti-Christ, and his goal is conquest. Conquest will generate rotting bodies and we all know what can come from that....and that was a BAT not even a human #whuhan. https://peakd.com/trending/whuhan
**A Firehorse**
It gets confusing when the second seal breaks:
“When he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature call out, ‘Come!’ And out came another horse, bright red; its rider was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that people would slaughter one another; and he was given a great sword.”
Little foolish me thought Conquest could do that job as well, that would be more efficient but clearly God did not agree. He needed this guy on the red horse (the original text says pyrrhós, meaning “flame-colored”) to create conflict among mankind (Civil War).
**The Dark Horse**
The third rider on the black horse never made sense to me until I understood world economics. But lets look at what the Good Book said about him:
“When he opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature call out, ‘Come!’ I looked, and there was a black horse! Its rider held a pair of scales in his hand, and I heard what seemed to be a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, ‘A quart of wheat for a day’s pay, and three quarts of barley for a day’s pay, but do not damage the olive oil and the wine!’”
He does not sound so scary does he, but he controls the market. You hardly see him in times of abundance. But abundance is followed by times of extreme famine and scarcity. And then he will measure just how little you are supposed to get, it might be enough to not starve....it might not.
**And Then Death Enters the room on a Pale Green Horse**
“When he opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature call out, ‘Come!’ I looked and there was a pale green horse! Its rider’s name was Death, and Hades followed with him; they were given authority over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword, famine, and pestilence, and by the wild animals of the earth.”
Guess death needs no further introduction, those who have not met him soon will.
So we have; Conquest, Civil War, Famine, and Θάνατος (Thánatos). Yes, this last rider had a name that sounds like a Marvel Super villain but if you translate it he´s just called Death.
"They were given authority over a quarter of the Earth, to kill with sword, famine, and plague, and by means of the beasts of the Earth."
If you want to have a good look at these guys and how they were depicted in ancient writings click here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revelation_6#/media/File:Apocalypse_vasnetsov.jpg
**The Apocalypse**
This very random bunch of dudes that sprung from those seals gnawed open by a Lamb are nowadays supposed to bring the last Judgement to Earth.
They are portrayed to be the Apocalypse but as with many things these days that is oversimplifying it. The end of the world will not happen till the Dark Angel sings, and even then the end is just a phase.
https://youtu.be/QmQgIOaiqzY
These Four Horsemen are merely harbingers of the Last Judgment all getting a quarter of the pie called Earth on which to wreak havoc.
John the Revelator thought that he would be witnessing the End Of Days, boy was he wrong. Call me a pessimist but I think that it took about 2000 years before these heralds of hell came down here. Imagine how long it took that Lamb to bite through those seals.
**Spreading Apocalyptic Vibes On A Lazy Sunday**
Some of you might have started to wonder where this little Bible Lesson came from. As normally I start off with the trigger of my "Spread The Vibe" post. Not today, because the Book of Revelation is everything but normal. Guess that is also why it took me more than a lazy Sunday morning to write it.
One despairing commentator said that there are as many riddles in the Revelation as there are words, and another that the study of the Revelation either finds or leaves a man mad.”
But yes Dear Reader there was a post, and it had a Tune. A pretty cool tune and even though it´s said to be techno I hear a lot of synth-wave, and me like. Me also like the video @demiro it captured the modern horsemen very well. https://peakd.com/hive-193816/@demiro/four-horsemen-of-the-apocalypse-original-song https://peakd.com/@demiro
https://youtu.be/VpaejgMbz4s
I guess Death go~~d~~t the lead, but we see war, and nature causing famine. it lacks a bit of pestilence but who cares there is sufficientConquest for everyone.
And this video is not made 100 AD, when the story of the Horseman was written. This is now.
Pestilence and Conquest are a very human factor, as it tends to dominate the world order. The world has never been smaller, hence it has never been as easy to conquer.
It requires war and we have a surplus of those on many levels. Not just the flat-out missile wars, but false economic wars, and then the secret war.
The privacy war, the war that will try to overthrow us all. The war that tries to gain ownership of our last bit of autonomy.
It´s the war led by the least impressing Horseman, the one on the black horse. The merchant, he wants to control our financial freedom. Allowing the powers that be to spread their famine among all that do not comply with the new world order.
Strange isn´t it that those ancient horsemen are still among us? That the end of times has always been near and has never been nearer than it is today.
Strange isn´t it that from all the creations that God could choose from as a personification of the end of time.....he chose Humans.
If you can´t get enough of this story, this is how it should be narrated:
https://youtu.be/lIbnW_6SYX4
*(And Yes I deliberately did not use the Metalica song in this post because the lamb told me God thinks it sucks)*
To top of the love for these guys check out these works of art https://amisgaudi.artstation.com/projects/PmDv0n?album_id=8583314
**Thank goodness you made it till the end peace, love and I am out of here!**
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Beyond Doubt: Whispers of the Unseen - Chapter 9
*Dear Reader, I would like to share this story with you;*
**It will take you on a seemingly endless journey.**
**A trip that takes you places I might have visited many moons ago.**
**It´s a tale that came back to me when I meditated on one of my past lives.**
***Click here to Start with Chapter 1*** https://read.cash/@BitcoinBaby/beyond-doubt-whispers-of-the-unseen-chapter-1-2f6a6863
**Chapter** **9** https://read.cash/@BitcoinBaby/beyond-doubt-whispers-of-the-unseen-chapter-1-ab951810#chapter-2
*Dear Reader, do you follow your desires, your way, your dreams?*
*Are you rolling playing? Are you actually aware of the role that life has assigned to you?*
*What were your plans when you were a teenager, what were your wishes?*
*Did you come close to your dreams?*
*I didn´t, I am only now discovering my way.*
The answer I initially sought was very simple in principle but lost as I was, it remained completely invisible to my mind. The answer was that I don't really know anything.
The information I collected were just fragments of the answers to what I'm looking for.
Everything pointed to me having to go my way to find the answers. There was just one glimmer of light in this darkness if you connect the dots the only thing that stood out were the Black Gold Dressed travelers and I could only do one thing.....
Travel in the opposite direction.
No sleep and an intense morning had ruined my rhythm completely, I was not looking forward to the journey back up the stone stairs.
Near the edge of the meadow, I heard a bird. I realized that I had heard no song or chirping all the way and now so close to the settlement this beautiful song of a nightingale. And then a child's voice that replied to the chant as if they were actually conversing.
I stopped to listen as I recognize the voice, it is Numico: "You know for sure. It was the master, one hundred percent sure?"
The bird sings.
"All morning, crying?"
The bird replied, this time a little less melancholic than the first time, "I will do that, I will go right away to cheer him up a bit."
The bird took off and I see Numico coming my way.
"Numico," I try to sound surprised, "what are you doing here?"
I hoped he would lie.
“I was visiting Mr. Night, he is such a handsome bird, and sings so beautifully, but he´s also very wise. He knows everything, especially secrets that people would rather not tell.”
If the child is honest it would be very unworthy to lie to him now: "Ah Yes, I thought I heard something."
Numico looks at me a little shocked: “Did you hear us? No, have you heard everything?"
"I don't think so, but I know you know what happened to me this morning." Numico smiles just a little: "Sometimes these weird things just happen. I didn't know how to talk to you about it, and now it happens by itself."
“Boy,” I said, “what happened to me this morning is not entirely clear even to me. During my meditation, I ended up in a crystal room, with a girl, and when she began to sing the crystal cracked.”
After I got to the end of the story, Numico wore a blissful smile "Why are you smiling boy?" I ask incomprehensibly as it was at most a sad event, nothing to be cheery about.
“Master, do you know what has happened? You broke the glass. So far you have taken on a role, fulfilled it well, but have you really lived? Have you really followed the way of your heart, the way of your desires, however strange they may be?”
Unsure of who was speaking to me, I look into this child's deep eyes. There was no sign of Oniko. These words really came from a creature still far from adulthood. A kid who was said not to be the brightest.
“Numico, where do you find those wise words? In all honesty in class and according to your parents, you don't particularly excel. Yet you regularly surprise me by speaking about profound matters as if you were talking about an everyday event.”
Numico paused, he looks a bit doubtful, then cautiously: “Master, in all honesty, you, but certainly my parents are very nice people. But your way of thinking is not mine."
"I know they consider me weird because it took me so long to tie my shoelaces. And that you don't understand why I don't eat with the trident, but with my hands."
There are just so many stories going on in my head, my eyes beholding so many beings and my ears receiving so many messages. I like that much more than tying buttons or eating with cutlery because you can always learn to do that.”
“Besides, I get so caught up in those things that I forget how to use my hands and feet. It actually helps me. People don't look at me funny now because I'm different. They look lovingly and think oh, there goes that darling, that sweet slow Numico. Let's not bother him, he can't really help us anyway. All my brothers and sisters have chores and are regularly scolded, but Mum and Dad are happy when I get dressed after half an hour.”
“No one will notice if Numico is gone for half a day again, he must be dreaming somewhere. In this way, I can learn the lessons I hear from the animals, from the plants, and sometimes even from people. People that no one seems to see. I am a very good listener,” concludes Numico.
His eyes were aimed at the ground the whole time, I think out of insecurity. Now he looks up timidly, as if afraid of my reaction. "Your secret is safe with me. I will not betray you, but I am very glad that you trust me so much that you dare to tell me this.”
“That's what you get if you're honest with yourself,” Numico replies with eyes that show some relief.
A few meters behind the boy is a felled tree, it lies there so invitingly that I cannot resist the need to sit there for a while. I ask Numico to follow me.
Sitting silently on the old tree, the realization that Numico is a special person only dawns on me. A little shy, because I never recognized this in him. I look at him and 'coincidentally' he looks back at the same moment. Before we can speak, we both burst into laughter.
We laugh with relief because we can finally share our secrets. We laugh because without discussing it we know we have found each other. It almost feels as if a bond of a past life has been restored and that knowledge tickles our souls.
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After the Bear Market comes......The Bore Market
**Yup Yup, I am a Believer.**
**Bear Market Blues days are over, it´s done.**
**Time for something new.**
**Welcome to the Bore market!**
No, not a Boar Market although that would make more sense as we have a Bull and A Bear already. Although this Bear market for me was more of a beer market. I need lots of the juice to drink away the pain. But those times are behind us, so I will need to visit some AA meetings and get ready for that exciting era of accumulation also known as the Bore Market.
**Volatility has actually never been this low:**
Of course that is Youtube talking, it has been lower just have a look on GlassNode yourself, but the last time it was this low or lower was in Dec 2016 on 19 Dec just before the 2017 Bull run. That run took BTC from $750 on 19 Dec 2016 to 19K on 19 Dec 2017. A modest 22X in a year's time. https://www.coinglass.com/pro/i/bl
Looking at the cycles our current low volatility might not even be the actual Low for this cycle. If we follow the hypothesis that after the volatility low in the Bore market comes the Bull run. Because that volatility low happened 3 in October:
At that point in time BTC did go up from January $250 to $620 in October. Now of course those were other times but it tells me two things. If this is the volatility low we will see a nice Bull Market soon. If this is just a low volatility period and we trust the cycles.... we get another year of these volatility freezes before the bulls come in.
After messing up by not trusting in the cycles during the last bull run, I now have put more faith in them. Let's see how that gets me REKT. Probably less than Newbies like Snoop Cat on TORUM:
This cat put all his nine lives in the halving and not even the real halving but the halving of a conduit.
During every halving the price always pumps! Right?
Technically for BTC that is right of course. But asking this 2 days after the halving is kinda showing the problem with certain mindsets. The Halving is not a date, it´s a period in a cycle. And in general, you will see an incline in the price during this period. But of course, it dumps tight after.....sell the news dude, and buy it back when all the noobs are selling their disappointment. https://www.newsbtc.com/news/litecoin/litecoin-long-term-holders-smartly-exited-before-halving-data-shows/
But the real halving is still far away. BTC is in no-mans land atm. Trading in a range for 50 days. People keep screaming that something will break, but not while half of the world's population is taking a break. This is the harsh reality of summertime sadness. This is why you sell in May and go away, to not get bored out of your mind over the summer.
**Welcome to the Bore Market**
Since May we have been in a 28-31K range which means less than 10% up or down, that is great for stocks, but this is BTC bitch!
We are used to volatility, we don´t do 10% stability, although right now:
Only fools and horses are left trading, and it feels very much like the summer of 2021;
Going down to 31K in June and it took three months of nothingness to finally start moving again in September, but what a move that was. It was a quickie but it made me so much money. Unfortunately, I did not take everything out at the peak, as I thought that prolonged cycle narrative. While I took out most I started buying back in Feb when BTC was down to 40K.
**Mortgage Your House Now!**
Kinda like that XRP Dude, a Tik Tok Jock that mortgaged his house for $500K and put it all in XRP in Feb 2022. Money_talk_tok bought at $0.69 and has been at a loss ever since at some point even a 50% loss and that is still okay I have made investments that went to a 90% loss. Now the story does not say if he sold when the ruling was positive last month. I so hope he did otherwise he´s at a loss once again. https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/13tb04v/dont_be_this_guy_tiktokker_mortgaged_his_house_to/
I did quite nicely on my XRP bet. I bought it for about $250 of XRP and sold it for about $300, leaving me with a $150 bag of free XRP and a $50 profit. On the downside that was the only fun thing since this Bore market started.
But if you are thinking about selling your house to buy crypto, or mortgage it it does seems like this is the time. Not financial advice of course, but this accu¡mulation phase has lasted quite a while institutions seem to be buying and Blackrock is paying people to make crypto sound greener. So Public opinion is manipulated again into like the Digi gold, and once the holidays are done I am expecting that to show.
**Bottom Line**
This Boar Market will take us into September before I expect these very narrow Bollinger bands to expand a lot more, so I guess I need to get more Beer to deal with the Boredom for now. Although based on what I am seeing I expect that the boredom will die with a dip (manipulated for the rich to scoop up some more) and then the trajectory will be up and up because that is what happens every halving. And if I need to trust anything atm, it is the cycle. Although I do take caution if BR really plays dirty they pump the price, get everyone on board, dump the price buy even more, and then the halving happens.
**Thank goodness you made it till the end peace, love and I am out of here!**
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Beyond Doubt: Whispers of the Unseen - Chapter 8
*Dear Reader, I would like to share this story with you;*
**It will take you on a seemingly endless journey.**
**A trip that takes you places I might have visited many moons ago.**
**It´s a tale that came back to me when I meditated on one of my past lives.**
***Click here to Start with Chapter 1*** https://read.cash/@BitcoinBaby/beyond-doubt-whispers-of-the-unseen-chapter-1-2f6a6863
**Chapter** **8** https://read.cash/@BitcoinBaby/beyond-doubt-whispers-of-the-unseen-chapter-1-ab951810#chapter-2
*The world is so much bigger than we can grasp Dear Reader.*
*Our eyes limit us constantly. Fear and Greed keep us moving in circles.*
*Our souls are like wild animals in captivity.*
*Bound by being socially acceptable, politically correct, and generally desirable.*
*Are you free Dear Reader, do you even dare to really release your soul for just one second?*
Not remembering their names left a sour taste. I know that wisdom is often gained during periods of solitude and study. But it is also the duty of the teacher to inform those who do not know and to remain informed.
I hadn't counted any of these among my duties in recent months. I felt like an unworthy replacement for Master Oniko. My ego really got in my way too much to take the place of the master. Even during those last years that often chained him to his cabin, he knew better what was going on in the village than the gossiping ladies at the wash place.
When he was visited his listening skills were so good that he could pick up on layers the narrator did not know were in the message.
This way he remained aware of everything happening in the village. It enabled him to give advice that was not only for the benefit of those seeking help but which had a positive effect on many in the village in the longer term.
I arrived at my boulder and nestled among the tall reeds pondering on how I could ever be like that. The stone felt icy cold, but the sun already poured its first rays into the valley, so the temperature would soon rise.
The soothing sound of running water soon brought a pleasant vibration, helping me distance myself from the things that had occupied me for the past few moons. Lately, I had lost my balance and stared blindly at things that offered no relief.
I remembered a lesson from long ago: For those who are lost, there is only one right way. The road that leads to the top.
As soon as you rise above the tops of the trees, you will find the answer you were looking for.
I had been lost looking at the map for hours and not getting anywhere because I constantly placed myself at the center of the map.
After that little epiphany, my conscious thoughts started to fade.
Prisms dancing on a glass floor gave a caleidoscope view of a million rainbow splinters. When the images shaped a bit more I found myself in a crystal portal, filled with brilliant colors. In the middle, there was a being sitting in a lotus position.
Still partially blinded by the light from the prisms, it took me some time to reduce the shapes to what looked like a young girl. Her hands caressed the golden strings of a harp, the tones filling the room with a supernatural warmth. I walked up to her and tried to catch a glimpse of her face. But without moving she turns with every step I take. Whatever move I make only her long hair and slightly arched back remain visible.
A sense of recognition shoots through me but doesn´t allow me to recognize. The glare and reflection in this mysterious space make it impossible for me to focus on my past. I can only experience the now, disconnected from any memories.
Her head straightened as her voice struck the first note, so brilliant, so pure, so wonderfully beautiful. The vibrations flows through my entire body and then collide with the crystal walls. Hair-fine cracks occur in the crystal and spread throughout space. This sound was so full of warmth, love, and beauty that it hurt me in the depths of my core.
I recognize the voice.
Not the way it sounds now, but the memories bubbled up, memories that came from the darkest vaults of my heart. I finally am able to connect the dots and know who this sound belongs to, while the cracks in the crystal walls grow frighteningly large. Then like a volcanic eruption, my head gets flooded with memories of my sister.
Gasping for breath, I find myself back on the rock, surrounded by misty rippling water, with a heartbeat pounding in my temples and her voice still ringing in my ears. The memories, which were so clear a second ago evaporate at such a pace that before I open my eyes all have disappeared. Only the memory of remembering remains.
Completely confused, I try to regulate my breathing and force myself to calm down. The experience was so intense that I am still shaking. I take my time and finally regain my peace.
Slowly I become aware of what has just happened to me. I descended into the beautiful but most hidden chamber of my soul. That is where I keep my sister, that room with no door, no lock. Which had to remain unopened, because she's still alive there, because I'm holding her there. That room I would never have entered of my own free will because the memories of the love I felt for her were too painful.
Then tears pour from my eyes and stream down my cheeks. Again the memories surface, but this time in my conscious state. I have to let them in, resistance is futile. Like waves crashing on the shore, the memories invade my heart again. The sadness that comes with it rips open my soul. I feel torn. Never before have I shed a tear for her death, but now they are unstoppable.
I don't know how long I sat there, but I am cold and stiff when my tears dry up. Once more I take a deep breath, the sadness has cried out. It has given way to a somewhat sad, but certain smile. I remember her as a little girl dancing in the river. I watch her from the water's edge, see the innocence I now realize she never lost, preserved by prematurely exchanging this world for another.
It was only then that I began to realize that it is necessary for some souls, who dazzled dazzlingly, to pass over before they become infected with such things as hurt, jealousy, discontent, or betrayal. Those things that make a soul insecure, cast doubt on the childish idea that love is the greatest good. Something you want to share with as many people as possible.
It all dawns on me, the closed space was inside me. The memory freed me from a burden I had carried for so long. I feel lighter, more aware of everything, and at the same time, I can see myself from a greater distance.
I had already found the answer to my quest before I fell into a trance. I found that by placing myself outside my very small world. But subconsciously I had now found the key I had not been looking for. One that was so much more valuable and that gave me insight into why my world had become so small.
It was a confirmation that I myself created my world and that I had made it so small because the room in my soul had no room for more unprocessed grief. The room still existed, but it was cracked. There were openings that I could use to let the sadness flow away with all the tears I will shed and make room for something new.
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*Dear Reader, I would like to share this story with you;*
**It will take you on a seemingly endless journey.**
**A trip that takes you places I might have visited many moons ago.**
**It´s a tale that came back to me when I meditated on one of my past lives.**
***Click here to Start with Chapter 1*** https://read.cash/@BitcoinBaby/beyond-doubt-whispers-of-the-unseen-chapter-1-2f6a6863
**Chapter** **7** https://read.cash/@BitcoinBaby/beyond-doubt-whispers-of-the-unseen-chapter-1-ab951810#chapter-2
*Dear Reader, do you occasionally feel a sense of loneliness these days?*
*Or are you too busy with all the obligations and the wish not to have to stand still?*
*I will need to step into that loneliness as my endless journey is slowly starting.*
*At least if I manage to break out of this cell, which I have built up around me for years.*
*And you Dear Reader did you barricade your heart, and now feel trapped inside?*
I looked at the faces surrounding the fire. I taught some of these lads when I just started teaching. If some of that respect was still there it could give me some leverage. Well that along with a few glasses of rice wine to make them talk to me about things the older tribesmen would rather not hear about.
"SHHH calm down," I told the young man that probably had two too many.
The tribal elders were not supposed to learn anything from these conversations.
"How about strangers Arcano, and I mean stranger than the villagers you have met on your travelers? Did you ever meet people that traveled?"
I needed to cut him short as I was not so much concerned with who lived where and what trade could be conducted with them. A topic he kept going on about.
Ever since I started my little quest it seemed I was getting nowhere. All those who had traveled to other settlements were only interested in the women and herds they encountered.
"Strangers Martino?" He looked at me suspiciously. "You rather hear about strangers than about Sei and her sister?"
He shook his head; "Sei´s sister Anika told me a story about strangers. Strange travelers that had once passed through the village. They wore gold and black clothes and both their appearance and their weapons were nothing like the weapons her grandfather had ever seen before. They had spent the night in the settlement and exchanged two of the finest swords for water, food, and beasts of burden. The next day they traveled on toward the mountains. I have seen those Katanas with my own eyes, they are like...." He nodded his head and had an eager look in his eyes.
I left the young man alone with his wine and went home. This was the first time I heard about any travelers.
I didn't learn much more from the previous conversations. Although their stories did give me a good picture of the region and its composition.
In my hut, I started sketching on rice paper. I tried to map what they told me about surrounding villages and natural landmarks. I used the same detail as what was used when they were described.
I even added those things that had not been witnessed and were only hearsay. For example, the map even contained mythical figures, magical trees, and enchanted waterfalls. Which, according to lore, all had been seen by travelers exploring the edges of the known world.
I distilled a map of the area as far as we knew it, still, it didn´t give me any lead on where Numico's mysterious "boss of the world" might be. I was so engrossed in my search that I neglected my spiritual world. Actually, the neglect had already been set in motion by my master's death, but the current distraction provided a good excuse.
Meditating, collecting herbs, listening to guides and spirits of the forest, everything reminded me of Oniko. I had loved him more than I wanted to admit and now I stagnated.
Master Oniko's death had cut me off from the world within, even more than I already was. My soul now wandered in my personal abyss, chained to heavy steel chains, bound to balls of lead. So that I wouldn't have to see him, wouldn't hear him.
Since my sister's death, I had withdrawn from socializing with other members of my tribe. My mother and Oniko were actually the only ones I spoke to freely.
I knew everyone in the village, but mainly from my role as a teacher. This role I had adapted as a second skin. A skin that I could never completely shed. It protected me, protection from getting caught up in small-town issues, gossip, and relationships.
The latter in particular was something that I unconsciously kept wearing the skin for. Losing a loved one was a heavy burden that I didn't want to go through again. My mother's death didn't make it any easier.
Master Oniko's departure was different. His body announced his departure long before his mind did. But even in my relationship with the master, a distance remained.
Partly out of respect, but also out of self-preservation. Yet his death threw me even more back on myself, fortunately, I was able to devote myself to my research.
The spiritual stagnation of course reflect in the visible world as a stagnation of my research, it made me despondent. I thought about giving up and moving on with my normal life. After all, there was the gap left by the master. I toyed with the idea for a few moments until my eye fell on the low stone table.
The candle, which had been burning there all night, began to flicker signaling the first phase of its inevitable end.
The spectacle did not let go of my eye. The flame retreated into the candlestick, only to struggle out with renewed strength. This fight lasted for quite some time and it was only when the sunlight began to creep in through the seams of the cloth covering the door that the candle decided not to give up.
She chose the only other way. She formed into a small blue ball and could thus have lived her last hours in the safe shelter of the candlestick. Were it not that a single sigh from me put an end to it.
Tired but inspired I gathered some frankincense, a cloth, and a water jug. Then I made my way down to the valley. On my walk, I passed some of the men of the village. I knew their faces but did not remember their names and realized how withdrawn I had become.
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STV - My Modern Spy Movie (Soundtrack)
**And now for something totally different!**
**I have been sharing so many semi-Intelligent STVs I guess it´s time for just a very chill one.**
**Not that I planned it like that by the way.**
I guess we all have that, you are looking for a cool beer on a Sunday Morning and life give you lemons.
This means that you have no option but to make a lemon pie. That´s life right there for you, or as a very wise old man still sings: "You can´t Always Get What You Want" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqMl5CRoFdk
Now of course that was just a metaphor because I don´t drink. Not till at least the early noon of that lazy Sunday.
I was looking for inspiration, strolling through my favorite communities. Tripping over a lot of great posts, but nothing that untwisted the knot in my brain releasing that drug called inspiration.
So I thought let´s do it differently, I saw the search and I put in #Music just for fun. Not having any expectations, which is something I should practice more often irl btw. Having no expectations should be my best practice, but lets keep that for some other post. https://peakd.com/trending/music
#MUSIC Found me https://peakd.com/trending/music
That search delivered, or at least I found my inspiration in a weird place. I got triggered into it by @dbuzz . And I say weird place because it was probably just a prompt: https://peakd.com/@dbuzz
Thursday #Music 🎵 If you were an international spy, what soundtrack would ... https://peakd.com/hive-193084/@dbuzz/o8q3praguz4ir6gwdxd4yy
But it got me going, after weeks of why so serious I really felt like creating something fun. Creating a darkish exciting soundtrack fit for a spy movie.
**007 was my first love**
I mean 007 was my first.
My First Hero together with Indy (Indiana Jones) my hero´s way before I discovered Jean Claude Van Damme and Stalone.
And Yes I even have a favorite Bond song:
https://youtu.be/Id86fGqnxZQ
But most Bond songs are so outdated, and so is my fav.
I want a modern dark and mysterious soundtrack, maybe I just need a invent a new Bond.
**But not today;**
What the heck?
Seize the day, my international super spy is a modern androgynous version of old James. Getting rid of all those gender boundaries this James does everyone male or female just depends on the script.
**The Script (No not the band)**
To write that soundtrack I do need a plot, a setting, a blueprint for this story. A simple summary of a script would do, working title: **I think we´re alone now.**
**Where Are We**
So the setting would need to be cold and isolated, some former Soviet state. So we see the sun resolving the dawn and this plays.
https://youtu.be/9PYqflt39Qk
The villain, an ultra-rich oligarch has a master plan. We see him walking past some solar panels while the camera zooms out....more solar panels....we keep zooming out. But even from the drone view, all we see is solar panels, and then the camera swings and we see a glimpse of what looks like a satellite that reflects the light.
https://youtu.be/VCYNKEcHPbg
All seems okay he´s a celebrated personality that wants to save the world, until we see what this satellite is made of. A giant mirror facing earth. Why do we see it, because our lovely little Vilian Romanonov is testing his toy and destroying an island in the south pacific. Heat burns everything in sight even the camera recording it melts.
When the pictures return all is scorched and blackened.
https://youtu.be/BaXSbsZoYnU
**The End Of The World....Again**
MI6 is the first one to figure out that these solar panels can and will be used against nations.
Our hero has to sneak into this cold snowy Russian wasteland, guess a stealth helicopter drop would work.
Then our new Bond, let's call it Blond, Jamie Blond will need to get captured by a gorgeous girl working for the enemy.
Lucky Jamie got some hidden toys that will relieve him/her from this initial misery. And then meets an even more beautiful and slightly thick rebel that is out for revenge as the villain killed her father.
https://youtu.be/qRKk4jXPGyI
**No Spy Does Without IT**
They have hot sex in a cabinet surrounded by snow, and are woken up by bullets.
They escape and end up in the middle of the solar panel field. Those panels are being charged while our hero and the cute rebel girl get attacked by a huge helicopter and Bond is able to shoot it down by using a very modern C4 crossbow.
https://youtu.be/4Vv-zcAoer8
The bad guys go down and the exploding helicopter causes a chain reaction blowing up the whole field. Unfortunately, they released their charge already.
**Blond Timing**
Blond has exactly 1 minute to redirect the angle of the satellite. The Rebel girl helps out by telling about the backup satellite in case the first one gets destroyed.
Just in time bond is able to send the deathray from one mirrored satellite to the other that reflects it again and both blow up leaving beautiful fireworks.
https://youtu.be/Qf5n2Hl1mKA
MI6 tries to call Blond to congratulate them on a successful mission but we see a phone lost in the snow and slowly the camera creeps up on Blond and the thick girl that are going at it again in an igloo-like place. While this Tiffany song plays and the credits replace the picture.
https://youtu.be/5OIEE09BePs
**The End**
So like any good Bond movie, this was not about the story, it was all about the soundtrack.
Sorry to those peeps who expected another smartass post with expensive words. I guess my brain needed a holiday and I needed to do something different.
But I will be back with a normal #STV next lazy Sunday, that´s a promise. https://peakd.com/trending/stv
**Thank goodness you made it till the end peace, love and I am out of here!**
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STV - White Lies Matter
**On that lazy Sunday last week, I planned to write this post, and then life happened. I got distracted and tried to sound so artistic by sharing a horrible poem.**
**And then things went everywhere but here.**
Because when I saw this post:
**[Letters to Loreena] ❖ I choose not to know you but it's insane, and I forgive me ❖** https://peakd.com/hive-192806/@nanixxx/letters-to-loreena-i-choose-not-to-know-you-but-its-insane-and-i-for-give-me
I did not want to write about translations and how badly Google translates the intent of a poetic expression. But something made me do it and I ended up with this story;
**STV - L̶e̶t̶t̶e̶r̶ ̶T̶o̶ Content is not the same as Intent** https://read.cash/@BitcoinBaby/stv-letter-to-content-is-not-the-same-as-intent-220a7605
**So What Was The Plan Then Man?**
Well, I was triggered by the title before I got confused and that title contained two things. Loreena and Letter.
And that made me think about the last real letter I had written, many years ago. If you are curious what it was about read last week´s post. https://read.cash/@BitcoinBaby/stv-letter-to-content-is-not-the-same-as-intent-220a7605
But my train of thought continued and I thought about who I wanted to write a real letter at this point in time.
Not a virtual note, but a piece of paper with ink and its own smell.
The first thing I thought about was a letter to say I am sorry. Sorry, I messed up, not even that bad but I called your wedding cold and distant.
So Sorry I did that, it was your day and I should have not expressed my feelings. Not because I should deny them but first of all because it ought to be the most beautiful day in your life there in Sienna Italy.
I should not have compared it to my little intimate wedding, but that´s what I did because I did not know better.
It was not fair; it was your party, your style and it was awesome. Not my taste, but who the fluf am I to tell you that it wasn´t my choice. That I lacked a bit of connection, a bit of unity. That it felt that everybody there wasn´t there purely because of you two.
Back in those days I still thought that people would appreciate an honest opinion. I had to learn how to lie, because white lies matter, little white lies to make others feel good.
The world is full of them, white lies, dark lies, and people with an agenda...and when I realized that I knew who I would want to write a letter to.
**I would love to write ....**
A letter to my unborn self. To avoid my innocence being stolen too early in life.
https://youtu.be/wMhhMxHeX_c
Guess I am in a phase of my life where reflection is key, *reflections of the way life used to be.*
Does a Kid have expectations about the life ahead?
Dreams for sure, but expectations?
https://youtu.be/N8O4zjuu4zk
And that is a good thing. Because life will never turn out as you expect it to. So if I could give myself some advice for the next life what would it be:
**Trust Noone**
*Even the people closest to you have an agenda of which they might not be aware, it´s almost impossible to find someone that only has your best interest in mind.*
**Stay close to the mother**
*Not your mother, but mother nature. Humans disrupt the world and its harmony. Therefore find that balance between the distracting disturbances and the core of your being. Playing in nature and feeling her peace will allow you to grow up with a stable mindset.*
*And listen to your heart little me, I know you will have a very wise head on those small shoulders. But that head will make it difficult to reach your heart. Life is all about balance as I found out really late, and that brain will try to overrule the beautiful voice of your heart.*
*Make sure they connect, and become one. For it will allow you to enjoy life in a much broader manner.*
*Take care little me and do what you love.*
https://youtu.be/1Lh6kuTjTiU
**Guess I am just a bit** ***Special***
Giving myself advice for the next life is not new to me...if you´ve read my story:
**Providential (The Collection)- A true story you wouldn´t believe** https://peakd.com/ccc/whywhy/providential-the-collection-a-true-story-you-wouldnt-believe
Or are reading my current story:
**Beyond Doubt: Whispers of the Unseen** https://read.cash/@BitcoinBaby/beyond-doubt-whispers-of-the-unseen-chapter-1-2f6a6863
Then you know that nothing is impossible and maybe giving yourself some tips bridging several lifetimes is not as crazy as it sounds.
Or maybe I am just a little special thinking that this is an option, Thinking that the meetings I had, from which I learned that this was a message to the future me, were real.
As I wrote back then in those stories, maybe they played tricks on me. Maybe it was all make-believe. Still, the message from hundreds of years ago reach my clouded mind.
That message slowly worked its way into my being, into my mindset, and triggered this belief that it might very well be possible.
I have accepted the possibility.
I have accepted the messages I received from beyond without doubt.
Now I need to learn how to send these messages myself and this is sort of a first try.
Although this is not the message to my future self, this was the letter I would have written myself for this lifetime.
I guess that I still need to wait and contemplate the message that would be required for me in 2500AD.....or maybe I already sent that in another lifetime. When I was better skilled to bridge that time thingy.
Do I believe that this message on the blockchain would be around in 500 years to inspire the unborn me?
Not really, but hey at least I am trying.
I am sure that if I end up with a message that is meant to be delivered to me in an era or five, it will find me.
**Thank goodness you made it till the end peace, love and I am out of here!**
*[Source Pic](All pictures are by MyI & AI)*
Beyond Doubt: Whispers of the Unseen - Chapter 7
*Dear Reader, I would like to share this story with you;*
**It will take you on a seemingly endless journey.**
**A trip that takes you places I might have visited many moons ago.**
**It´s a tale that came back to me when I meditated on one of my past lives.**
***Click here to Start with Chapter 1*** https://read.cash/@BitcoinBaby/beyond-doubt-whispers-of-the-unseen-chapter-1-2f6a6863
**Chapter** **7** https://read.cash/@BitcoinBaby/beyond-doubt-whispers-of-the-unseen-chapter-1-ab951810#chapter-2
*Dear Reader, do you occasionally feel a sense of loneliness these days?*
*Or are you too busy with all the obligations and the wish not to have to stand still?*
*I will need to step into that loneliness as my endless journey is slowly starting.*
*At least if I manage to break out of this cell, which I have built up around me for years.*
*And you Dear Reader did you barricade your heart, and now feel trapped inside?*
I looked at the faces surrounding the fire. I taught some of these lads when I just started teaching. If some of that respect was still there it could give me some leverage. Well that along with a few glasses of rice wine to make them talk to me about things the older tribesmen would rather not hear about.
"SHHH calm down," I told the young man that probably had two too many.
The tribal elders were not supposed to learn anything from these conversations.
"How about strangers Arcano, and I mean stranger than the villagers you have met on your travelers? Did you ever meet people that traveled?"
I needed to cut him short as I was not so much concerned with who lived where and what trade could be conducted with them. A topic he kept going on about.
Ever since I started my little quest it seemed I was getting nowhere. All those who had traveled to other settlements were only interested in the women and herds they encountered.
"Strangers Martino?" He looked at me suspiciously. "You rather hear about strangers than about Sei and her sister?"
He shook his head; "Sei´s sister Anika told me a story about strangers. Strange travelers that had once passed through the village. They wore gold and black clothes and both their appearance and their weapons were nothing like the weapons her grandfather had ever seen before. They had spent the night in the settlement and exchanged two of the finest swords for water, food, and beasts of burden. The next day they traveled on toward the mountains. I have seen those Katanas with my own eyes, they are like...." He nodded his head and had an eager look in his eyes.
I left the young man alone with his wine and went home. This was the first time I heard about any travelers.
I didn't learn much more from the previous conversations. Although their stories did give me a good picture of the region and its composition.
In my hut, I started sketching on rice paper. I tried to map what they told me about surrounding villages and natural landmarks. I used the same detail as what was used when they were described.
I even added those things that had not been witnessed and were only hearsay. For example, the map even contained mythical figures, magical trees, and enchanted waterfalls. Which, according to lore, all had been seen by travelers exploring the edges of the known world.
I distilled a map of the area as far as we knew it, still, it didn´t give me any lead on where Numico's mysterious "boss of the world" might be. I was so engrossed in my search that I neglected my spiritual world. Actually, the neglect had already been set in motion by my master's death, but the current distraction provided a good excuse.
Meditating, collecting herbs, listening to guides and spirits of the forest, everything reminded me of Oniko. I had loved him more than I wanted to admit and now I stagnated.
Master Oniko's death had cut me off from the world within, even more than I already was. My soul now wandered in my personal abyss, chained to heavy steel chains, bound to balls of lead. So that I wouldn't have to see him, wouldn't hear him.
Since my sister's death, I had withdrawn from socializing with other members of my tribe. My mother and Oniko were actually the only ones I spoke to freely.
I knew everyone in the village, but mainly from my role as a teacher. This role I had adapted as a second skin. A skin that I could never completely shed. It protected me, protection from getting caught up in small-town issues, gossip, and relationships.
The latter in particular was something that I unconsciously kept wearing the skin for. Losing a loved one was a heavy burden that I didn't want to go through again. My mother's death didn't make it any easier.
Master Oniko's departure was different. His body announced his departure long before his mind did. But even in my relationship with the master, a distance remained.
Partly out of respect, but also out of self-preservation. Yet his death threw me even more back on myself, fortunately, I was able to devote myself to my research.
The spiritual stagnation of course reflect in the visible world as a stagnation of my research, it made me despondent. I thought about giving up and moving on with my normal life. After all, there was the gap left by the master. I toyed with the idea for a few moments until my eye fell on the low stone table.
The candle, which had been burning there all night, began to flicker signaling the first phase of its inevitable end.
The spectacle did not let go of my eye. The flame retreated into the candlestick, only to struggle out with renewed strength. This fight lasted for quite some time and it was only when the sunlight began to creep in through the seams of the cloth covering the door that the candle decided not to give up.
She chose the only other way. She formed into a small blue ball and could thus have lived her last hours in the safe shelter of the candlestick. Were it not that a single sigh from me put an end to it.
Tired but inspired I gathered some frankincense, a cloth, and a water jug. Then I made my way down to the valley. On my walk, I passed some of the men of the village. I knew their faces but did not remember their names and realized how withdrawn I had become.
https://youtu.be/ceL-ql383MM
https://www.youtube.com/embed/ceL-ql383MM
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*Picture By Me And My Artificial Intelligence*
Unpopular Opinion - NFTs Are Dead
**Crypto has been declared dead probably just as many times as it hit a bear market.**
**So let me cut myself off at the knees by saying that this could happen to NFTs as well.**
**But it does look like it´s Game Over for the NFT.**
**For full disclosure:**
**I am neither a fan nor skeptic when it comes to NFTs.**
**I am not a creator nor a collector although I hold quite some.**
**I have been trading/selling NFTs but I did not invest anything in them.**
How did you do that?
I made a little side hustle from gathering and selling free NFTs on WAX.t did not make me rich but it was fun and provided me with some free crypto. It also provided me with insights into how the market is doing. Not too pretty insights I might say.
Where I used to sell an NFT or three a month easily in the summer of 2022, I saw interest dwindle. I saw offers dwindle, I saw creators disappear as soon as the hype and the buyers did. By Feb 2023 I did not sell any for six months....that is when I started believing that NFTS are dead.
I am not talking about digital trading cards nor concert tickets, or the ones you get for free when you buy too expensive shoes.
Those all have some intrinsic value, some outside-world use case, or a keepsake status.
I am talking about digital art.
Silly Monkeys
The digital art market saw a Tsunami of artists during the Hype, people paid millions for silly Monkees....but well that proves once again that people themselves are silly Monkees.
There were silly Monkees creating digital art and even sillier ones buying that art. Some Monkees were worth millions some Monkees made millions, some Monkees are now holding Non-fungible JPEGS that they paid millions for.
The Tsunami took the market by storm and once the water started pulling back, people saw the mess they were left with.
Now I know there are some people that actual are digital artists that were able to use this hype to sell their work. But most were just there to make a quick buck. I mean even kids made millions selling Weird Whales. https://nypost.com/2022/02/03/meet-the-12-year-old-boy-who-became-a-millionaire-off-nfts/
And even old guys with weird hair started selling these blockchain pics.
But where are all those artists?
Or should I say, so-called artist? I see a few still around promoting their stuff probably against better judgment or hoping that the hype returns one day when the bulls start running.
Who knows maybe the silliest of Monkees have not learned their lesson and start spending millions again because they want to own a picture, a piece of art that is hard to differentiate from a screenshot.
I don't hold mankind in the highest regard, but based on the absolute lack of interest in digi-doodles I think that the market is dead....or thought.
Because while writing this story over this last week something happened. I found a notion of a pulse. I noticed a slight heartbeat when three NFTs sold in one month:
Is this the universe trying to tell me my unpopular opinion was the incorrect one, or was this pure coincidence? I mean I was holding those cool collectibles for over a year at least 2 from those 3.
Back From The Dead?
Are people actually spending WAX again?
Investing in those Digi-Doodles once more. It is hard to believe these Monkees did not learn their lessons. But maybe this Baby is just becoming a boomer. But with the whole AI picture-creating options we got lately we can all create art online, that was the last straw these artists were holding onto their digital creativity and it got rugged by a machine that can generate any idea andy image if you just use the right prompt.
Are we now gonna pay millions for using the right prompt to trigger a picture that others did not think of? I just don´t see it but then again I don't get Meme coins either. Am I getting too sour because I even agree that 80% of the altcoins have no use case and are only good for making more BTC and ETH when you can sell them with profit to another silly monkey that is looking for a pet rock?
In my opinion, there are too few real digital artists that create NFT art to validate the existence of even one platform for buying, selling, and trading art-based NFTs.
Now as I said this is an unpopular opinion, clearly people still see value in pixels on a blockchain, because when I polled an NFT-minded audience the results were clear.
Now maybe they are all deeply invested and at a loss, or maybe they understand and see something that I do not. Maybe I just don´t get art, even though I do like it I would never see the need to own it other than as an investment......
Bottom Line
Ooohhhh now I get it NFTs are not about art, but all about an investment.
Well, maybe something little lightbulb just went on above my head although I still prefer to invest in more traditional stuff such as bricks, mortar, silver, gold, Ethereum, and Bitcoin. Investing in Pixels on a blockchain is probably like investing in low-cap alts but somehow I feel more confident trading that market.
I will eat my words and apologize if I am wrong but for now, I think NFTs will never be as big as they were in the last months of 2021.
**Thank goodness you made it till the end peace, love and I am out of here!**
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Beyond Doubt: Whispers of the Unseen - Chapter 6
*Dear Reader, I would like to share this story with you;*
**It will take you on a seemingly endless journey.**
**A trip that takes you places I might have visited many moons ago.**
**It´s a tale that came back to me when I meditated on one of my past lives.**
***Click here to Start with Chapter 1*** https://read.cash/@BitcoinBaby/beyond-doubt-whispers-of-the-unseen-chapter-1-2f6a6863
**Chapter** **6** https://read.cash/@BitcoinBaby/beyond-doubt-whispers-of-the-unseen-chapter-1-ab951810#chapter-2
**Chapter 6**
*Dear Reader, do you ever feel that you know with a degree of certainty that something is true? That something is going to happen.*
*You see that cup and know it's going to drop, you might even see that the content will flow all over your laptop.*
*What do you do?*
*Feel free to dismiss this as nonsense and continue your business.*
*Or maybe just move that cup?*
Aware of my previous blunder with Numico, I didn't automatically assume that this was the result of his imagination. “I dare not tell you who he is. Do you know more about him? That would help me find out who he is,” I try.
“I have been dreaming about him for moons. But I don't know more than I've told you. He's standing in front of the window, he has a braid in his beard. He stares at the sun and exhales loneliness. As if he doesn't know his place, doesn't know what his role is and the search has exhausted him,” Numico looked at me while he spoke and did not even blink.
I did not expect so many words and sentences interspersed with insight from Numico. I had to be honest with this boy. “I doubt your words Numico, they don't suit you. They're like clothes many sizes too big,” I said softly.
Numico laughed. "And master, does that mean you don't trust the images that you get on your rock by the water?"
I look indignantly at this child who displayed a wisdom that really did not suit him. Deep in the child's eyes, I saw a sparkle, a look that awoke the little boy I myself still am deep inside.
"Master, you? Here?" I stammered, my eyes brimming with disbelief, "Son, whence this great astonishment at a simple movement of energy. I really thought I had educated you in the possibilities of the mind.”
“Master Oniko it really is you, excuse my surprise, but this form of transcendence has never happened to me before.”
"Son, you accept that your sister guides you in the form of a dragon, isn't that many times more astonishing than my spirit speaking through the mouth of an uninhibited and very talented child?"
Numico, well ehh Master Oniko gave me a penetrating look.
“Or is it important that an entity has its own form so that you can categorize it and combine it into something new? In that case, I am truly embarrassing you now. Because two different boxes together form a third, a third that is made up of parts of two fixed forms. That is not possible as long as you stick to the fixed forms."
This lesson the master had tried to teach me several times during his life, but the inquisitive registrar that I am and the teacher that resides within me had a hard job accepting things without classifying them.
And now, after his departure from this world, he came to enforce his words to such an extent that even an incredulous stubborn person like me had to admit that his insight was correct.
Forms are not fixed and the eye experiences only what it is used to. In this way it prevents the brain or the third eye from contemplating a new form, one made up of old images that already had their place.
Just like a son who has traveled the earth for ten years and after many wanderings comes home before his mother is still the boy who left. Her brain does not comprehend that this man is a stranger to her, because the picture has already been categorized.
"Master, I accept that a body is no more than a vehicle and that the soul temporarily controls this vehicle. But are you a thief if you use another's vehicle for your own purposes?"
Numico´s face smiled; "Technically I could be, were it not for the fact that I did ask this boy's permission. He lends me his body with all confidence. This child is more open and free than you and I ever were. He doesn't realize the limits of certain forms, so is not hindered by them either."
Oniko paused for a second; "He experiences with an open mind and accepts what comes to him on different levels, not only in sensory form but also in spiritual form. For him, one is not more valuable or more obvious than the other."
I nodded and Numico´s voice continued;
"What you can accuse me of is manipulating this child's dreams to get your attention. That's how I could put you on the right track since I'm not allowed to tell you anything according to cosmic laws. I'm not allowed to give you facts, only outcomes," Master Oniko spoke again in riddles.
"As if you have to make a calculation where you get the answer and have to come up with the problem yourself," I respond.
"Yes something like that, trust the things that Numico lets you know. You will find the man in his dream, that's where your part lies."
Numico's eyes fixed on me, the glare gone and a cautious smile appeared; "Master why are you looking at me like that, did I say something stupid?"
I shook my head, more to bring myself back to 'reality'. Quickly I searched for an answer to the question of the child, who was Master Oniko only seconds ago.
Many questions shot through my head, while it felt more empty than usual. I decided to keep them to myself for now. "No dear boy, I'll find it out for you. You've made me curious. But keep me informed if you dream something new about this strange man."
Thus I bestowed a quest upon myself, I would find out who this strange that Numico dreamed about was. A man, apparently so important that Oniko came back for it.
https://youtu.be/smSSSs46rng
https://www.youtube.com/embed/Zxc20saM8DA?feature=oembed
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*Picture By Me And My Artificial Intelligence*
STV - L̶e̶t̶t̶e̶r̶ ̶T̶o̶ Content is not the same as Intent
**I am so easily triggered.**
**This is great as it allows me to find the inspiration in HIVE posts every week to write an awesome** **#SpreadTheVibes** **rant.** https://peakd.com/trending/spreadthevibes
This week, I was captured by the title but got lost when I read the post. Which always happens when I read poetry and I think I can consider the post poetry. Even though ´based on the Title it should be a letter:
**[Letters to Loreena] ❖ I choose not to know you but it's insane, and I forgive me ❖** https://peakd.com/hive-192806/@nanixxx/letters-to-loreena-i-choose-not-to-know-you-but-its-insane-and-i-for-give-me
It made me think of that sweet song by Belle & Sebastian
https://youtu.be/weOQmcuTmEE
And about all the awesome songs Loreena made of course.
https://youtu.be/PUeymJ6JJno
**I am A Poet and I Know It**
Back in the days when I was still doing drugs other than Alcohol and Cafeïne I used to write poetry only.Partly because it was what came to me, and partly because I did not have the attention span to sit and write longer stories.
And I wrote amazing stuff...I thought myself back then.
Stuff that I still have a hard time comprehending nowadays and most of it in Dutch.
**Example**
Let me give you some examples:
**De Verneukte Verheerlijking Van Het Bestaan**
Het bestaan is als een banaan,
Zij zal nooit recht gaan.
Ze is vroegtijdig rijp en daarna snel onsmakelijk.
Even lijkt ze aantrekkelijk net als een vrouw tot een bepaalde leeftijd.
Daarna vervaagd die schoonheid snel, net als een vrouw van een bepaalde leeftijd.
Wat overblijft van de banaan is bruin en zompig.
Laten we hopen dat er van de vrouw iets langer, iets beters overblijft al geldt dat niet for alle.
Echter wel voor het bestaan,
Zodra de aantrekkelijke schil verdwenen is blijft er voor velen niks dan bruine zompigheid
Wasn´t that wonderful?
How do you mean you didn´t get a word of it, you don´t read Dutch?
Okay well this is how it translates:
**The Fucked Glory Of Existence**
Existence is like a banana,
She will never straighten out.
She ripens prematurely and quickly becomes unsavory afterward.
For a moment she seems attractive just like a woman up to a certain age.
After that, that beauty fades quickly, just like a woman of a certain age.
What remains of the banana is brown and soggy.
Let's hope that something longer, something better remains of the woman, although that does not apply to all.
However, for existence
Once the attractive skin is gone, for many, nothing but brown mushiness remains
**Now you got it?**
Did that help, did you get it?
No. You didn´t get it unless you understand Dutch.
You might have understood the content but not the intent, not the flow and its essence. Which is perfectly normal btw.
https://youtu.be/m755bA7qHXQ
*(Keep this one playing while reading it´s so relaxing)*
Translations ruin poems in general and especially if they are done by a machine. Machines don´t feel the intent the other tries to convey.
And that is often the essence of a poem, contrary to a story where it´s more about long lines and direction a poem uses words to aim at the head and heart directly.
I knew this already but it became extra clear reading the post by @nanixxx . Now I was not there when she wrote it, I was there to read it...the English version and I was wondering why she had chosen certain words and phrases.
Until I saw the sign: https://peakd.com/@nanixxx
**I saw the sign and it opened up my eyes, again.**
Of course, this is why I was feeling more lost than normal. This was the translation, human or machine I don´t know I wasn´t there. But I am quite sure the original version was written in Espanol first. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqu132vTl5Y
I am so lucky to be able to read about 4 languages because I did not need that translation and all of a sudden the Letter(s) made sense. The flow was wonderful, I felt the intent while reading the content.
**The Problem With This World Today**
https://youtu.be/3z5aFdvE2jc
It might of course be me, I was not there when this Letter to that lovely Loreena was written. But I clearly preferred the Spanish version. And I fully get the fact that if you write in Spanish you will do an English translation.
I am actually very happy that many do that @freakshow s post always provides me with a lovely Spanish lesson. And an English cheatsheet for when I am in doubt. https://peakd.com/@freakshow
But even when we try really hard, and are very much multilingual we can express intent best in our mother tongue, at least that is my opinion based on years of experience.
Now I would not translate any of my poems, for multiple reasons but quality is probably the biggest one. Secondly that it´s freaking hard to translate intent.
I have tried and even succeeded...I have come up with translations that actually made me proud. But it´s just a lot of work and the end result often does not resemble the original.
But I found it´s different for stories.
https://youtu.be/KLDFG5vm5kA
**Beyond Doubt**
Maybe I am wrong but I think it´s a little different for stories. In essence, it´s the same, a one-on-one translation from your mother tongue to English by a machine does more harm than good.
But, and this is again a big BUTT:
I think drafting the story in your mother tongue and then translating it by a machine does not do the same damage to a story as it does to a poem.
Like I said, editing a translated poem can give a great result but often needs a lot of work to capture the same intent if at all possible.
Lately, wile editing a translation of a story I noticed that it´s the other way around. The edited translation became more robust. It used words that describe the situation better than when I would have written it in English from the start.
I noticed that even though I use English at least 50% of my day, and it´s been my preferred language since I was sixteen still lacks the vocabulary expression that I have in Dutch.
Hence the editing I do when turning my Dutch draft into English gives me the best of both worlds. It allows me to correct the awful direct translations that Google Translate did. While it enables me to keep those words that describe the situation best but that I would never have used.
BTW I do my own translations for two reasons, first of all because I can´t pay someone, and secondly because I don´t think anyone can do it better than the author....if the author has a decent knowledge of the language and the right tools to translate.
**Why do you translate my story?**
**Why Do I**
https://youtu.be/yeqkaR1NL70
Thanks for asking because that is a nice segway to the actual post I was planning to write. The post that was triggered initially just by the title.
**[Letters to Loreena] ❖ I choose not to know you but it's insane, and I forgive me ❖** https://peakd.com/hive-192806/@nanixxx/letters-to-loreena-i-choose-not-to-know-you-but-its-insane-and-i-for-give-me
Because I was triggered by Loreena and writing Letters?
How long has it been that you wrote an actual letter Dear Reader?
Do you remember to whom you send it and what it said?
An actual letter, with a pen, on paper, that goes into an envelope?
It was such a gift to receive, it does not compare to the virtual trash I receive today in my (e)mailbox.
My last letter, my last actual letter I do remember...but it was nothing fancy. It was twenty-something years ago that I wrote a handwritten letter to a debt collector.
But I wanted this post to be about whom I would want to write an actual old-fashioned letter to if I would do so today. That was the thought that this post triggered....before it triggered this rant.
Guess after 1300 words this #STV post meets its bottom line, but I still owe you that letter Dear reader and it might be an interesting one so keep your eyes open for it, as I will write it as soon as life allows me. https://peakd.com/trending/stv
**Thank goodness you made it till the end peace, love and I am out of here!**
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Beyond Doubt: Whispers of the Unseen - Chapter 5
*Dear Reader, I would like to share this story with you;*
**It will take you on a seemingly endless journey.**
**A trip that takes you places I might have visited many moons ago.**
**It´s a tale that came back to me when I meditated on one of my past lives.**
***Click here to Start with Chapter 1*** https://read.cash/@BitcoinBaby/beyond-doubt-whispers-of-the-unseen-chapter-1-2f6a6863
**Chapter** **5** https://read.cash/@BitcoinBaby/beyond-doubt-whispers-of-the-unseen-chapter-1-ab951810#chapter-2
*Who are your heroes Dear Reader?*
*Gandhi, JFK, John Lennon, Justin Bieber?*
*What made them heroes to you? What does such a hero have that you don't?*
*Why did they only become real heroes after they died?*
*Aren't the real heroes right next to you, doing the right thing every day without anyone really noticing?*
Weeks after the departing ceremony I still struggled with what I´ve seen.
The meaning of the images was clear, a warning like Oniko said. But where was it?
Who were these men and what drove them to commit these degrading acts?
The realization that the white of the snake stood for pure had also crossed my mind a number of times as if it had been whispered to me. Something pure, pure power?
Was that what I was looking for?
The thoughts kept my mind occupied while I helped replenish winter stocks. We stored the dried fish and pickled vegetables in the deeper caves, where the cold was constantly present.
Seeds and bulbs were stored as dryly as possible in the shallower caves. This time of year flour and rice seemed so abundant, but come spring that always proved to be an optical illusion.
That afternoon near the end of the younger children's lessons, Numico asked a very interesting question.
Numico himself was already something. He was different, he was a little slow picking things up. His parents told me that he was late learning to dress himself. And during the games we played, he sometimes seemed not to follow what was going on.
Occasionally he would come to me after classes and tell strange stories, about our tribe's past, or about the animals of the valley.
At first, I assumed he had a vivid imagination and tried to impress me with his stories. But gradually I noticed that there was more. Mainly because of something that happened a couple of moons ago.
Numico said that the grass on the bank made the animals in the valley sick because the grass there was "dirty". I tried not to, but I had to smile because of the uncomplicated way he saw the world. I didn't laugh anymore when some animals turned out to be sick a few days later.
But Numico´s father being one of the men taking care of the animals could explain the story. When I confronted his father about this dirty grass story, he told wasn´t aware himself till two days ago. He had said nothing to Numico and certainly not about grass.
The next day I asked Numico how he knew the animals would get sick. He looked at me with wide surprised eyes: "Didn't they tell you, master?"
"No Numico, they didn't say anything to me."
He looked at me questioningly. “They always tell me everything, about the weather and the water. About boyfriends and quarrels and about the dirty grass.”
“Why is the grass dirty?" I asked him.
“Well, because the ducks are sick and they shit in the grass. The yaks are not smart enough to think about that, they just love grass a lot. So they eat the dirty grass and get sick too.”
“Who told you that Numico,” I ask to coax him out of which adult he heard this from. “The birds that eat the bugs off the cows, they are very smart, they always know a lot. Because they chat with everyone.”
Dumbfounded, I remained behind in the covered place, where I teach until winter. Numico happily walked out, as if nothing had happened, and in his opinion, it probably hadn´t.
In the following days, I visited the valley more often and kept an eye on the ducks. There was definitely something strange about them. A large group of ducks chattered louder than before, pecked themselves, and moved restlessly and uncoordinated. The other ducks kept their distance from this group.
I advised the drovers to keep the cows away from the water's edge and let them drink their water from the troughs. They looked at me strangely but took my advice to heart.
That was the advantage of being a teacher, because of your knowledge people trust you.
After a few days, the sick cattle were on the mend. The ducks, on the other hand, looked worse. Part of the sick group had recovered, but the rest looked lethargic and dull. Their eyes were glassy and their movements slow. Not much later, duck corpses lay here and there along the bank.
Fortunately, the children of the tribe were taught to leave dead animals alone. Out of respect for the deceased, but also from a hygienic point of view. Yet I mentioned in class that the ducks were sick and should not be eaten or touched.
One of the girls thought it was so sad and asked if there was really nothing we could do for them. "Guide them to the next level. Talk to them and explain to them that they can leave this world. That they can get ready for the next one," I said calmly.
She was happy to do something for those poor ducks. I was happy to instill in the children an understanding and respect for death.
So when Numico came up with his question my senses were sharpened, as I still wondered what was going on in his dreamy little head.
"Master, who is the boss of the world and why is he the boss? Where does he live and what does he do?" The questions followed each other rapidly, while Numico normally took his time when he spoke.
These were also really weird questions for a child of our tribe. None of us subordinated others to ourselves. We had our place, our role in the group, but that was about it. The concept of a leader or boss was something foreign and therefore the kids did not utilize it.
I tried to set him straight: "Numico everyone has a certain gift and it is best to share it, but nobody is your boss when you grow up".
Numico looked thoughtfully for a moment and then left with the rest of the class. Or so I thought, because when I left myself, but behind me I heard his voice.
"Master, I respect your answer, but I keep dreaming of a man who lives in a big tower. He has very nice clothes and people are very afraid of him. He feels lonely, but he does not know it. And if I ask in the dream, Who are you? He says, the master of the world. But that is not possible, even the gods do not call themselves masters of the world. How can a man, that is no god, call himself that?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHeeRnyZ2G0
https://youtu.be/Zxc20saM8DA
***Click for the Next Chapter*** https://read.cash/@BitcoinBaby/beyond-doubt-whispers-of-the-unseen-chapter-6-4d19cc1a
*Picture By Me And My Artificial Intelligence*
Midnight Gems - Your Free Mix-Tape Show - E 20 "Power (No Puff) Girls"
**For those of you that are new to my MidNight Gems series. Welcome to this nightly trip on which we will uncover & recover some amazing songs & covers.**
*I saw the sign and it opened up my eyes I saw the sign, remember that song? Well I am not gonna play it, but I did see a sign "Moto Motor" and being weird and slightly dialectic I was reminded of a song by Tracy Bonham, so I guess this trip will start with some cool chick songs.*
**Tracy Bonham - Mother Mother**
https://youtu.be/lORX6Va32OQ
Another one-hit wonder in my book was triggered right away, now these ladies might have a lot of greatest hits that I am not aware off...so forgive my limited musical knowledge and laziness to not research it tonight but it´s just getting to damn hot in here.
**Sandi Thom - I Wish I Was A Punk Rocker**
https://youtu.be/tLyw7jytykE
Talking about doing your research, I loved this song pretty much for the laid-back vibes and lyrics...but Edie...who the fluff is Edie. She not the Iron Maiden Eddie but little did I know...she is the Paul Simon Edie. Yup married to the legend.
**Edie Brickell & New Bohemians - What I Am**
https://youtu.be/tDl3bdE3YQA
Another laidback lady boss song from back in those days, Natalie might not be the most famous lady in the list but she is certainly one of my personal favorites.
**Natalie Merchant - Carnival**
https://youtu.be/VQ_Wqtnlv4U
I loved to play this song on a Saturday night, it was a bit on the edge as it was quite poppy for the place I used to DJ but it made the girly crowd move so nicely.
**KT Tunstall - Suddenly I See**
https://youtu.be/9AEoUa0Hlso
KT was definitely not a one hit wonder and from KT to Kate is only a small step, now I think Kate only had one real hit...but I prefer this one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQmDUEv939A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryH5cga0yUI&pp=ygUJa2F0ZSBuYXNo
**Kate Nash - Dickhead**
https://youtu.be/vf47u0ILfzE
And all of a sudden it was 2007 and there was this Scottish girl, whose debut album did not contain a single bad song. But I admit that This is The Life had a 2007 class but also carrying that 80s The Smiths Smell.
**Amy Macdonald - This Is The Life**
https://youtu.be/iRYvuS9OxdA
Amy almost made the same impression as this next lady. Anouk was the Dutch sensation late 90s. She also had a debut album that you can only dream of. But that first single....damn.
**Anouk - Nobody's Wife**
https://youtu.be/3RaHTDNude4
I did not want to play Lilly it was too easy, but fuck it. Playing Anouk who has a fracking huge attitude I just need to go Lilly Allen on your asses, predictable but so freaking freckle nice.
**Lily Allen | Fuck You**
https://youtu.be/yFE6qQ3ySXE
As always I would like to go out with a bang and if there was one lady that banged back in my DJ days it was Skin and this is just a personal fav.
**Maxim - Carmen Queasy (feat. Skin) [HQ]**
This might not have been a standard trip dear reader, this was a trip down my memory lane. Just in case one day those memories will be gone.
I hope it was as good for you as it was for me.
**Youtube Playlist**
All these gems were added to this week´s **YouTube playlist****.** https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXQdG71WNB5XenDe7ytjeJAlcjQQGXSHm
All Midnight Gems Playlist can be found **here** https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCW-PFikh6-VocGXA-mI7rQ/playlists
**Spotify Playlist:** **https://open.spotify.com/playlist/734hzM4SpacJp7ZSAQfxVU**
The Spotify playlist might not capture the whole show but is meant to represent it as well as Spotify makes it possible
**What the fluff is midnight gems?**
Somewhere lost in time, trying to escape out of the rabbit hole back into the rat race there is a vacuum..... that´s the place where midnight gems are found.
My Midnight Gems will try to uncover & recover those beautiful songs that nobody ever noticed or might have been forgotten.
**Who the fluff am I?**
Being a former DJ playing about everything and having an uncompleted study of radio journalism. I have been wanting to do this for years...Thought about it many nights and guess now it´s time to finally take it to the streets.
Hope you enjoyed this well-known wave of fantastic music and that you still feel like joining me on the next Midnight Gems Session coming soon.
BitcoinBaby - How My Crypto Newbie Actions Made & Lost Me Money
**Here we are at the end of the bear market (I hope).**
**And I am looking back to those awesome days when I had no clue what I was doing**
It was late 2020 and we had this crazy COVID bull market, that was when BitcoinBaby got born.
I got the heads up from a friend that I really needed to buy crypto, again (he had been telling me that for 6 months).
Well as I finally had no debts and got a nice birthday gift I did what he said, bought some BTC, and used 250 dollars for spot trading.
But most importantly I baptized myself BitcoinBaby (BTCB) and deep dived into the crypto-verse.
What Happened Next
What happened next was insane I was making money in crypto both by holding and trading, but I had no budget to increase my investment so I started looking for free money and I tried a lot of stuff.
One of the first things I did was join Noisecash, at that moment a nice community with a large crypto focus and giving BCH rewards. Over the next two years I must have earned over 1200 dollars in BCH I could use to make my crypto mistakes. Because I made a lot.
Some I made by accident like messing up transactions on Metamask because I did not know how to remove a transaction that failed but kept showing as pending. Others I made to show my readers what not to do like investing in scams like Safemoon.
I tried a million things some failed, some succeeded, and some scared me.
My Biggest Fail
Next to messing up Metamask one of my biggest failures being a noob was moving my BCH made from NoiseCash and ReadCash into Celsius. I did my research, they did not pay too much and they had been around since 2019 so I thought they were okay. Especially if I would not keep too much with them. So I started using Celsius and Celsius Monday was always nice. I withdrew a bit every now and then....and then I got busy and my BCH on Celsius started piling up.
I had almost 2 BCH on there and a bit of BTC that I got as a reward, and then Luna died..... I invested a bit in Luna during that death struggle I made like $50 profit in its dying days and invested that in LUNC again, today my LUNC is worth about a dollar. But that was only a side hustle, a side hustle that caused Celsius to fail and well you know the rest of the story. I still have about $450 stuck in Celsius that I probably never get back.
My Biggest Succes
Next to buying Matic and Theta low and selling them at the top, my biggest success was responsible for 40% of my All Time Portfolio High which was 14K. Yes, my small 2K investment ended up at 14K in November 2021. Now that success was due to another oh I am a noob let´s see what happens action. I saw a referral on Noise for TORUM, no clue what it was but I was looking for free crypto and they offered it. https://www.torum.com/?referral_code=bitcoinbaby
So I joined Torum just before the NFTs got big, and while their referrals were still high. You got up to 75 XTM for a referral but I didn´t get too many people joining. Then NFTs exploded and I had a nice little business hunting for free NFTs and selling those. I did quite well and must have made about $200 on selling free NFTs. My articles on where you could find the best free NFTS made probably $50. But with TORUM being one of the best places to find free NFTS my referrals shot up and I ended with 137 referrals worth about 5000 XTM, XTM I sold when it hit $1. My total XTM sales were about 6K before gas fees. https://www.torum.com/?referral_code=bitcoinbaby
CAKE & BAKE scared me https://app.bake.io/?ref=197670
One that scared me was Cake DFI; I had to input 50 dollars in crypto and I would get a $30 bonus. According to their calculator back then that 30 dollars could become 40K if I would lock it in their freezer for 10 years. I did not believe it, but $30 free crypto sounded wonderful. https://app.bake.io/?ref=197670
They made good on their promise, and I locked that $30 in a freezer for 10 years.
A couple of weeks later I did my own research and found the founder was a bit of a hustler, being a noob it scared me so bad that I withdrew my $50. There was no issue, my investment came back to Daddy but my free crypto was locked up.
Over time Cake DFI did the unexpected, they kept paying up and kept running, during the bull market I must have withdrawn $600 made from the bonuses I got for my referrals. https://app.bake.io/?ref=197670
The referral rewards bonuses were a great extra bit of free crypto, but the weekly referral rewards were low, a couple of cents. Probably because all my referrals did what I did. Put $50 in, take the $50 out, and leave the $30 bonus. But who cares, I got 10-25 dollars from each referral.
I expected Cake DFI to do a Celsius during the bear market, but they did not and the story gets weirder till December 2022 I got a 30 cents a week as a referral reward. But all of a sudden I started getting 5-10 dollars a week???
After a bit of research, I figured out that one of my referrals must have parked quite a bit of DFI with Cake. Not sure who did it, but if you are the guy or girl...thanks!
I sold a bit of the DFI, but lately, I just keep saving it up because the price of ALTS did dipperdydip so I will take the risk that it will go up and Cake will be around for another bull market.
So in the bull market, I had about 80 DFI locked up worth about $400. Now thanks to these weekly rewards I have 450 DFI generating interest half on Cake and the other half on Kucoin as you should not put all your cakes in one basket. So just in case DFI will do half of its ATH I have $1400 of Cake. $1400 by investing $50 and pulling it out three weeks later.
Now that is not close to that 40K their calculator told me I would make in 10 years but it´s a 27X on my investment or 1400X if you take into account I actually had no investment.
BTW Cake changed to Bake and keeps working on its offerings:
After several years of Cake, they feel like a good product, with a nice sign-up Bonus but still, I get the people calling it a pyramid scheme I just hope they take off next Bull run as I am growing big bags in this bear market.
If you are curious about BAKE have a look, but I think that at the moment the sign-up Bonus is only $10 so maybe you should wait till they have another $25 bonus. https://app.bake.io/?ref=197670
What´s Next?
I really wonder what the next bull market wonders will be and how I can get some free crypto out of it;
Noise App doesn´t pay anymore, NFTs do not sell anymore, and nobody is using my referrals anymore..... so what is the next big thing....what is the next place to make free crypto without becoming a Celsius Victim?
Other than still being on Torum I have no idea. Let me know in the comments where you are making your free crypto atm and feel free to drop your referral as this is the moment to get ready for the next big thing.
If you start saving now, you might be able to get a nice return 18 months from now. I will keep you all posted on what I think will be the next big thing as soon as I find it because I don´t see it right now.
Bottom Line
The fact I don´t see it annoys the hell out of me. As a Noob in the Bull Market, I just jumped in and well I had all kinds of experiences as you have seen. But right now it´s awfully quiet.
I guess I will have to do my own research, but why did these things hit me in the face when I was still a noob?
Or maybe it´s me not paying attention.
Or do these opportunities only start to bloom right before the next halving?
For now, I just keep my eyes open and do some spot trading to grow my balls eehhh bags.
Furthermore, I keep writing on several platforms. I have so many lessons learned I would like to try out next bull that only one thing worries me.......
**What if the bull never comes back?**
**Thank goodness you made it till the end peace, love and I am out of here!**
**Post Scriptum:** https://read.cash/@BitcoinBaby/30-cake-defi-for-free-heres-how-7c5df9fc#post-scriptum
**Platforms where I Earn Crypto for my Content (Affiliate Links):**
**Torum** - https://www.torum.com/?referral_code=bitcoinbaby
**NoiseCash** - https://noise.cash/u/BitcoinBaby
**ReadCash** - https://read.cash/r/BitcoinBaby
**Hive** - https://hiveonboard.com/?ref=whywhy
**Peaked** - https://peakd.com/register?ref=whywhy
**Publish0x** - *https://www.publish0x.com?a=l9avg4xnbG*
**Exchanges where I trade Crypto (Affiliate Links):**
**BitVavo Exchange**- European. Higher trading fees (0.25 %) & Great Customer Service - https://bitvavo.com/?a=C21A94C2FD
**Kucoin Exchange** - Hong Kong. Okay, trading fees (0.1 %) & Contains a lot of low cap gems. Customer Service takes time - https://www.kucoin.com/ucenter/signup?rcode=rJ821BX&lang=en_US&utm_source=friendInvite
**Bitmart** - Global (USA allowed) Low, trading fees if you use BMX (0.025 %) & Contains a wide variety of coins - https://www.bitmart.com/en?r=7XFCVy
**Places where I do Liquidity Mining and Staking**
**Cake DeFi**. Here you have to invest $50 dollar and you get 30 dollars for free. You can withdraw your 50 dollars at any time or use them for Liquidity Mining, Staking, or lending to earn more DFI rewards. The 30 dollars is locked for 6 months but earning you interest for the 6 months. https://app.cakedefi.com/?ref=197670
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Beyond Doubt: Whispers of the Unseen - Chapter 4
*Dear Reader, I would like to share this story with you;*
**It will take you on a seemingly endless journey.**
**A trip that takes you places I might have visited many moons ago.**
**It´s a tale that came back to me when I meditated on one of my past lives.**
***Click here to Start with Chapter 1*** https://read.cash/@BitcoinBaby/beyond-doubt-whispers-of-the-unseen-chapter-1-2f6a6863
**Chapter** **4** https://read.cash/@BitcoinBaby/beyond-doubt-whispers-of-the-unseen-chapter-1-ab951810#chapter-2
*What do you think now*
*What did you get into Dear Reader?*
*Does it remotely meet your expectations?*
*Or are you ending up in places you yourself would never go?*
*Maybe it will help you, like me, to stop and reflect on what is real and what is just your interpretation of reality.*
*I promise no dragons or murderous visions, for now, a chance to catch your breath before I drag you further in.*
After my sister disappeared, my mother put me in touch with Oniko. My sister's disappearance and the images I had seen were the last nudges she needed.
Oniko is the "teacher of many ways." He was impressed by what I foresaw at a young age, but most of all he was able to make me accept that my gift was part of me and my being.
Without realizing I was heading back to the settlement. I walked along the tall reeds and looked at the trees at the edge of the meadow. They started to discolor, their dark red slowly turning brownish yellow. Along their trunks gathered the exhausted leaves, which had lost their hold.
I noticed some movement between the leaves and looked at the place that had just moved. For a moment I couldn't see anything, and then a white viper, bigger than I'd ever seen before. It slid past my feet into the reed-lined bed of the river.
Animals that cross your path tell of things to come. A snake stood for strength, but also for danger. A white snake, what was white supposed to mean?
White?
This color snake was very rare, but what did it mean?
Pondering I ascended the stone steps and reached the dusty plateau. The rainy season would come soon, that was one thing that was certain.
Lost in thought, I took the path up the mountain. My own hut was second to last before the top. The cabin was not deliberately built next to Oniko's, but in recent years I had noticed that I was taking over more and more of his tasks.
According to him, it was no coincidence that we both lived on the highest part of the plateau. "Those who seek wisdom will have to live with their feet on the earth and their cerebral in the celestial," he had once said.
When I arrived at his hut I knocked on the door, waited a moment, and then let myself in. Once inside I walked to the back part of the cabin. There he lay on his stone cot, his head resting motionless on the cushion of straw.
He had aged quickly these last few years, but his eyes still radiated strength. A strength that I found awe-inspiring as a little boy, but the lines on his face betrayed the pain his body was now giving him.
His days of teaching were long gone, but many still visited him when they struggled with questions.
I probably visited him more than any other, he could show me things so clearly. He would wash away my interpretation and leave me with the raw experience.
Over the years I learned how to take those steps back myself, and detached from the crayons I use to color my world. I learned to see the world from that universal perspective, but none of that mattered this time.
"Master Oniko, Master I need to talk.' I spoke softly. He didn't move. I spoke a little louder; "Master Oniko."
His arm lifted a little off the bed and his finger pointed to the pitcher of water. I filled a bowl with water and knelt beside him. With one hand I lifted his head, while I put the cup to his lips with the other. After a few sips he coughed, moistened his dry lips, and fluttered his eyelids.
'You managed to keep the celestial bird of prey from my body for a while, son, but its claws have already lodged in my chest and its beak has already eaten away at my heart. My departure is imminent, but that is not why you are here. So speak to my son,” his voice was soft and creaky.
I told my story and even though it was not that long I had to wake him several times. After my last sentence, his strong gaze was aimed rigidly at the low ceiling.
“After many generations, destruction threatens again. It keeps moving, like the sea we once lived by. This time we have been warned and we have taken years of precautions."
"I think you are right, the destruction does not reach us. But will come very close and will certainly affect us. Know that this time it is a warning, the snake underlines that. The white of the serpent…”
Oniko drifted off, I heard his breathing slacken, becoming irregular.
No matter how I shook him he did not come to. A few minutes later I heard his breathing halt completely.
The celestial bird of prey had taken his soul to the eternal.
With the cessation of his breath, access to all his wisdom was taken away from me in one fell swoop, without the answers I so desperately sought.
I was left stunned. With his departure, I lost my mentor, my friend, and the closest thing I had to a father. My mother never spoke of my father, he was her only secret as far as I knew.
I engraved our last moments in my memory. Then I lit the fire, burning incense until the hut was filled with the sweet air of autumn, pines, dried fruits, and flowers to ward off the black entities.
While sitting next to Oniko I remembered the day he told me about the origin of this ritual.
When we withdrew into the mountains we could no longer send the dead on a burning raft out to the sea, where evil spirits could not reach. That was no longer an option, the river would push the raft upon its banks in no time.
Hence we started using smoke to ensure the soul of the deceased could enter eternity in peace. That they could not be followed or harassed by the black essenceless. Those who still wander on the earthly level and love to seduce the souls of the dead to stay here with them, or try to join the flight of the deceased in order to enter eternity.
https://youtu.be/m0NvJtDBje4
https://www.youtube.com/embed/WKjBvtxmnJY?feature=oembed
***Click for the Next Chapter*** https://read.cash/@BitcoinBaby/beyond-doubt-whispers-of-the-unseen-chapter-5-64ada710
*Picture By Me And My Artificial Intelligence*
Beyond Doubt: Whispers of the Unseen - Chapter 3
*Dear Reader, I would like to share this story with you;*
**It will take you on a seemingly endless journey.**
**A trip that takes you places I might have visited many moons ago.**
**It´s a tale that came back to me when I meditated on one of my past lives.**
***Click here to Start with Chapter 1*** https://read.cash/@BitcoinBaby/beyond-doubt-whispers-of-the-unseen-chapter-1-2f6a6863
**Chapter** **3** https://read.cash/@BitcoinBaby/beyond-doubt-whispers-of-the-unseen-chapter-1-ab951810#chapter-2
*What do you think now Dear Reader?*
*Game of Thrones, a song of ice and fire?*
*May I help you down from the cloud you are floating on, or do you prefer delusion to reality?*
*Dragons were around long before "Winter was coming," or do you see the dragon as a figment of my imagination?*
*Let me take you by the hand and further down this path. Or if you are getting anxious, feel free to get out while you still can.*
https://www.youtube.com/embed/FOkkE93coIg?feature=oembed
Dismayed, I stared at the water. Did I see the past, the Krotan Dua?
No, they came by boats and didn't have these long-legged animals.
The sun disappears behind the ridge and it´s cooling down quickly. Still, I am unable to move. The impressions were burned on my retina. I relived the images over and over until the message lost some of its ambiguity.
This was no ordinary meditation. Normally what I feel or see is more or less symbolic, and open to interpretation. This was different, I had only been through something similar once before.
That feeling of actually being there. Experiencing something as if it takes place in my own reality while knowing that it is yet to happen.The other time it happened my sister drowned.
It was night and from a distance I saw her silhouette come up from the river many times and then go down again. I tried to come closer as she went down again for what proved to be the last time.
I must have been twelve summers at the most, and those images sent me running toward my mother while tears streamed down my cheeks.
When I told her what I´d seen her face went white, fear clutched her heart and choked her veins. She stood motionless, speechless. It probably took a few seconds, to me it felt like hours. Then she walked to the space behind the curtain where the three of us normally slept.
She was sobbing softly. I could see her shadow standing over my sister, who had been ill for several days and was lying there alone. My mother kneeled beside her, wiping the sweat off her temples with a cool damp cloth, kissing her, then she got up and returned.
She walked to the fire and sat down cross-legged, with a wave of her hand she summoned me to sit beside her. When I sat down she took both my hands:
“Dear, your strength, your gift will enable you to help many people. You possess a very pure third eye. You are in harmony with the world around you. You are open to what she can and wants to tell you. This gift gives you the chance to perform small miracles. But, as you know, everything is at least twofold. You will have experiences, foresee things that are irreversible.”
She poured us both some tea and continued.
“Things never happen for no reason. The life of every being and the energy of every entity has a function. We will never be able to fully understand in our earthly body which one, but know that it is so. Some souls are only here for a very short time. Sometimes not long enough to learn from it themselves. Yet their arrival and departure will greatly impact their surroundings and sometimes far beyond.”
She looks away from me and stares into her wooden bowl of tea.
“Your sisters' life energy has never been strong. I often felt that she will have to leave us in due course. You witnessed her departure, to prepare, but also to learn. To learn that impermanence at this level does not mean it will be impermanent at other levels. You can't tell her anything. Trying to prevent what you saw will only make her parting harder and more painful. For you and her both. What is about to happen will happen, intervening in the course of things almost always exacerbates what is to happen."
The world didn´t exist, all I heard was her voice. She herself must have been in a trance because when she stopped talking I looked at her and noticed that her eyes had turned away in their sockets. I realized later that the calmness and certainty with which she told this was also not natural. These were not the words of a mother about to lose her child.
My sister got better. That summer she was lively and happy to be disease-free for so long.
I thought that finally, her illness had passed as in our tribe hardly anyone was sick. You were sick as a young child, but illness seemed to disappear entirely when you grew older.
My sister was different. She was gripped by one thing after another. We didn't know better than that she was sick at least half the time. Even the most potent herbs and ancient rituals did not restore her health.
Winter came, summer passed, and winter reappeared. The days had worn out the images in my memory, some days I forgot them completely.
Spring came and melted the ice caps of the distant mountains. This time of year the stream was at its widest. Soon the rice fields would be flooded as the fertile season followed that of the arid cold.
My mother and I came home after attending the village council. She walked to our alcove to check on my sister Chiara. Chiara had been ill for almost two moons now. She frequently ran a high fever which resulted in her being delirious.
Within a second she came back, her eyes wide, and her already pale face ash grey. She still held the curtain and I saw Chiara was not there. All those images, which had seeped through the cracks of my memory for months flooded back instantly.
Startled we ran into the settlement while calling her name. Soon everyone joined the search. However, they didn´t understand the fear in our eyes as nothing ever happened here.
I did not wait and ran down the stone steps toward the river. Along the stream, I met the herdsmen.
"Did you see my sister?" I asked out of breath.
They did not take me seriously.
“She must have gone for a walk, stargazing she does that often,” I heard for the umpteenth time. I knew she did enjoy the stars, but my gut told me this time was different.
With torches and a few men from the village, we searched along the banks. Our eyes pierced the darkness as we stared across the water hoping to find her, even I hoped against my better judgment.
By noon I found her wooden bead necklace, it lay among some pebbles on the riverbank near the rock where I now meditate. I never found anything other than her necklace.
That summer the dragon entered my meditations for the first time.
I named her Chiara.
https://youtu.be/WKjBvtxmnJY
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The Road Ahead Is Long So Shut Up & Drive
**Do you guys and dolls have that too?**
**Those What The Fluff moments when scrolling through communities or your Feeds here on HIVE?**
**It can be encountering something totally unexpected like a picture from a nearby village, or something that you think hey I just did that???**
Well Today it´s the latter and for a second I was really shocked (nah of course not I do not shock that easily but it is a great term to use to get you in the mood Dear reader).
I was scrolling through what seemed an interesting post **Music Monday | Songs for on the road** and then I saw this coming: https://peakd.com/hive-193816/@karinxxl/music-monday-or-songs-for
**Fracking Freckles**
I went like Freckle is this for real? I have not thought about that song for years ......till last week. How can out of millions and millions of songs this one Pop Up again? Because this song was the song that triggered last week's Midnight Gems Session. https://peakd.com/hive-192806/@whywhy/midnight-gems-your-free-mix-tape-show-e-18-pick-up-the-pace
Which already was a bit of a different session than usual as it was a hint and had a common theme. But that exact same song, I was glad that they did not bring up the Car Stereo commercial that I mentioned but still, I turned silent and I thought....
https://youtu.be/D4kGl3LYIUs
Did I inspire someone or is the universe trying to tell me something?
I am pretty sure I have read more by @karinxxl but I don´t think she is a regular visitor of my sessions, although she should be of course as you all should because they are awesome. https://peakd.com/@karinxxl
**What Are You Trying To Tell Me?**
So I guess that the Universe is trying to tell me something.
Maybe it´s telling me to get out of this place if it´s the last thing I ´LL ever do.
https://youtu.be/Ws9cW0SxVpI
Maybe it´s telling me that I need to take control, get in that driver's seat.
Or maybe I just need to focus on the road ahead, because that is the song that popped into my mind when I opened the article that triggered this Spread The Vibes post #STV. https://peakd.com/trending/stv
https://youtu.be/IN9jsx-Iu1o
It´s not even one of my favorite songs, I think it´s long and whiny but it might make sense.
Even though I still doubt about getting in that drivings-eat; I don´t think that is what the universe is trying to tell me. I got MY life on the road and I have a clear plan where I am going.
Of course, there is still much room for improvement but I am going fast forward!
https://youtu.be/KlKtnTR70m8
Hence knowing that and combining that with that song that popped up it´s about me understanding the road ahead is long. And that might just sound right. I think I am at that point where I feel like I have traveled for years and never took a pause to truly look around and see where it has gotten me.
**You Got Three Wishes**
That is why I am taking some time to reflect. Many things that got me here came from necessity and impulsivity. There was no plan, there were 3 wishes:
**I am probably a hallway and:**
~~Work in a Coffeeshop~~
~~Become A DJ~~
Write A Best Seller
I didn´t do too badly on my wishlist and those that follow me must have noticed I am practicing for that bestseller. Guess I did get most of my teenage wishes in already.
If I am halfway, the road ahead is definitely still long. It might be me maturing, but I would like to plan this second half a bit. I think that is definitely a sign of getting older.
If you´re not progressive when you are younger you don´t have a heart.
If you´re not conservative when you are older you don't have a brain.
That will raise the question do you do better with a plan and a brain or by being impulsive and agile?
https://youtu.be/7AS9r_E0PY4
**For Now**
For Now, I would say that having a plan and working against it has brought me more wealth and less adventure. That less adventure might just be temporary because once I achieved several of the milestones on my plan life will get lots more adventures.
More adventures but with a backup (plan), that first half I had to wing with no financial backup. Worrying about any unexpected cost that showed up.
I was always able to pay my rent, but guess that was it. If I had done it differently I might already own a beautiful Cortijo in the middle of nowhere. But I would not have lived a DJ life with sex, drugs, and Rock&Roll. It would have been a life that was planned from start to finish with an unadventurous first part and with a big chance that the second part would be identical.
Ten years ago I told myself to kick ass once more and see how far it could get me. I got a sort of corporate job and I have been growing, or at least my gross salary has been growing. Now will that gross salary buy me financial freedom?
https://youtu.be/lK0Lp43a8z0
**Did I Spend Wisely?**
Probably not entirely, but it did get me ahead and put me in a position that allows me to plan and build.
Build a diverse portfolio and plan a financial approach that should allow me a non-corporate future.
A simple future doing something in hospitality that pays the bills and leaves me enough for those unexpected bills. Doing something I really enjoy, building something that I think is cool and gives me fulfillment. Because right now the only thing that gets a bit fulfilled is the hole in my bank account.
It often causes me to doubt, whether this is what I really want. Then I need to remind myself that the years I spend are an investment because the road ahead is long. And you will need to invest that priceless commodity time to eventually get to where you want to be.
The fact that I question the wisdom of my investment probably means I am nearing the end, or at least past the halfway point some time ago.
https://youtu.be/u7ktfHM7rFo
Of course, like any investment, it´s a risk. You might have to get out of life early and waste all those corporate years. But then again it´s all about the risk-reward scenario.
**Risk-Reward**
That risk-reward seems right to me, knowing I took an advance on experience early in life to ensure that even an early ending would have allowed me to leave this rock in space satisfied.
So giving up the 3rd quarter to make sure you set yourself up for a great last inning seems like the smart thing to do. Basically, I have nothing left to lose, and everything to gain.
**Bottom Line**
The universe is probably telling me to have faith, to stay strong as the road ahead is long and this 3rd quarter does not last forever. There is so much coming just behind that bend up ahead.
**Or Maybe.... Just Maybe**
Maybe the universe is just telling me to get my driver's license finally.
https://youtu.be/z7PjTIG47kQ
Midnight Gems - Your Free Mix-Tape Show - E 19 "When in Rome"
**For those of you that are new to my MidNight Gems series. Welcome to this nightly trip on which we will uncover & recover some amazing songs & covers.**
*Last week:* *Midnight Gems - Your Free Mix-Tape Show - E 17 "Pick Up The Pace"* *was a bit of an odd session, but it had a fun theme and was a great hint...although nobody got it😁* https://peakd.com/hive-192806/@whywhy/midnight-gems-your-free-mix-tape-show-e-18-pick-up-the-pace
So to stay in last week's theme let´s take a road trip to Rome...nah let´s just listen to a band I just discovered with the same name.
I was looking for a song that spoke about losing hope to end Chapter 22 of my current story with Beyond Doubt: Whispers of the Unseen - Chapter 22 and this one felt like a perfect fit. https://peakd.com/hive-199275/@whywhy/beyond-doubt-whispers-of-the-unseen-chapter-22
Enjoy this dark and hopeless tune from a band I will need to deep dive into because damn they sound WOW.
**Rome - Hope Dies Painless**
https://youtu.be/NFTKgKvW13U
No worries I am not gonna do a dark song theme, but of course this trip has to flow so no bright lights yet...as we enter a Darkwood.
**Darkwood - Caucasian Tales**
https://youtu.be/u0Yg9-j0CRI
Okay, we will pick up the pace a little with Pussyfire oh no that is how I keep reading that name maybe it´s meant more as a persiflage on a pacifier. Whatever, it is done very well but it´s all smoke and mirrors just like most things in life.
**Puscifer - Smoke and Mirrors**
https://youtu.be/SwDfLtJuX98
I have a freaking good feeling about where this trip is going, such a great set of tunes so far I almost forgot to breathe and just wanted to keep going.
**Fleurie - Breathe (Legends of Runeterra Version)**
https://youtu.be/ZwI-Bm2TTio
Hey but that is the first girl song, so I am definitely not in my comfort zone yet, although London Grammar and I, we do click very well....even if they do not sound completely as expected.
**London Grammar - Hey Now (JOBE edit)**
https://youtu.be/Zl3Y5-Qrbk8
It´s unbelievable but I even found a way to sneak NIN into this journey without it feeling out of place here in outer space.
**In This Twilight - Nine Inch Nails (Brando Lupi rework)**
https://youtu.be/cfPK66Lp5HQ
As we started in Rome this trip has to end in Rome to come full circle and this little Gem does just that.
**Death In Rome feat. By The Spirits - You're My Heart, You're My Soul (Modern Talking - Cover)**
https://youtu.be/cfPK66Lp5HQ
**ENCORE**
Damn I found so much cool stuff on this trip that I normally wouldn´t share as it a bit of duplication. But these are just so cool hence an early encore with two wonderful tunes.
**Massive Attack - False Flags (UNKLE Surrender Sounds Session #2)**
https://youtu.be/yZSHfJzX498
Please if you never heard of this guy check him out, he is beyond awesome if you ask me.
**Mark Lanegan Band - Below The Cherry Moon**
https://youtu.be/cTis_9Pl3Ws
**Youtube Playlist**
All these gems were added to this week´s **YouTube playlist****.** https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXQdG71WNB5WVSmb_1Cy7sXcRyN2Vd0PL
All Midnight Gems Playlist can be found **here** https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCW-PFikh6-VocGXA-mI7rQ/playlists
**Spotify Playlist:**
The Spotify playlist might not capture the whole show but is meant to represent it as well as Spotify makes it possible:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5s7DvfVRhrzqQWrRt1sa5e
**What the fluff is midnight gems?**
Somewhere lost in time, trying to escape out of the rabbit hole back into the rat race there is a vacuum..... that´s the place where midnight gems are found.
My Midnight Gems will try to uncover & recover those beautiful songs that nobody ever noticed or might have been forgotten.
**Who the fluff am I?**
Being a former DJ playing about everything and having an uncompleted study of radio journalism. I have been wanting to do this for years...Thought about it many nights and guess now it´s time to finally take it to the streets.
Hope you enjoyed this well-known wave of fantastic music and that you still feel like joining me on the next Midnight Gems Session coming soon.
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Beyond Doubt: Whispers of the Unseen - Chapter 2
*Dear Reader, I would like to share this story with you;*
**It will take you on a seemingly endless journey.**
**A trip that takes you places I might have visited many moons ago.**
**It´s a tale that came back to me when I meditated on one of my past lives.**
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**Chapter 2**
*Dear reader, what would you do?*
*Would you hide, or display a show of force?*
*Man is often a fearful creature, his choices made upon mortality.*
*Are you different dear reader? Are you driven by curiosity?*
*Be honest, by whom or what are you guided?*
"The recently discovered settlement was not directly on the stream, but a bit inland and was smaller than ours. Perhaps that is why it had not been noticed on previous trips.
A dichotomy arose, should we make contact or avoid this settlement?
After many nights of meetings, it was decided that it would be better if we found them first, provided we did not let them know where we had settled.
The fear of the Krotan Dua, those diabolical people, was still rampant even after several generations. The elderly in particular were not in favor of the clever plan, but they also understood that in this world it was better to discover than to be discovered.
In the years that followed we found a few more settlements, all many times smaller than ours and only focused on their own survival. There was even some trade between us and a number of surrounding communities, although we remained unclear about where we had our settlement.
Years of hard work transformed this once impassable valley into an ecological marvel. Gradually, plateaus were created where rice was grown. The irrigation of the land was provided by placing weirs in the fast-flowing parts of the river, which flooded the plains.
The valley that had once been full of trees was now mostly flat. The wood was used for housing, stowage, and tools. The resulting plain was partly used for cattle. Livestock that descended from the animals brought back long ago and those obtained through trade. There weren't many, but enough to provide us with hides, cheese, and occasionally meat.
The rest of the plain was used for growing vegetables, fruits, and spices. Especially in the latter lay the strength of our tribe. Both men and women were very well acquainted with flavorful and medicinal herbs.
Generation after generation this teaching evolved. Our knowledge of health and healing was therefore highly appreciated. We were the ally against the ever-lurking diseases and unsurmountable death.
All this was way before my time, but knowing where our people come from is important. It shows where our roots lie. And unlike the tribes in the region, who are mainly concerned with survival, knowledge is seen as the highest good in our society. It enables us to survive but also to grow as a tribe, fight disease and make calculated choices."
I paused, how often had I told this story? Some of these children must have heard it at least twice before, and still, they remain silent.
I don´t mind telling this story over and over again. My tribe should not forget that the peace we perceive today is obtained without struggle. My students need to understand that harmony, which we strive for in everything, is not seen as a priority by all people.
That I took on the role of teacher and mentor is also no coincidence and not simply because coincidence does not exist. As a little boy, I listened to the stories of the village elders. My ears would be glowing, like a sponge I soaked up all their words.
Much later in life, I discovered that their stories were colored. Colored by their own imagination and the traditions passed down from generation to generation.
Anyhow these stories carried the essence of our ancestors, ideas, and wisdom, which are the basis of our current existence.
I dismissed the group and descended to the river. I passed the plain where the older boys were watching the grazing herd. Thick reeds grew along the bank, obscuring the view of the water. Soon I would reach the place where I meditated and contemplated my way.
Once there I waded through the water towards the large flat stone, which lay just outside the riverbank. I spread out the cloth I had brought and placed myself in the middle.
Surrounded by the rushing water, in which shoals of fish passing by glinted in the sunlight, I found my inner peace.
I tilted my head and thanked the gods, the vibrations, and the elements for this beautiful late summer day. I slowed down my breathing and felt the wind caress my skin. The river started to whisper and a fiery red dragon rose from the water, its head was larger than my body. Huge black eyes looked penetratingly into mine and its scales glittered like thousands of rubies caught in the sunlight.
I took my hands off my knees and folded them against my chest. I leaned forward and welcomed her. With her huge shiny eyes locked with mine, she showed me the approaching threat. The black spheres started to burn and when the fire died out, the images became crystal clear.
Ice, wind, snow; a cold hard winter, but that wasn't all. There was a scent of danger in her gaze, something not yet visible. I sensed a threat more deadly than the forces of nature.
I was right as soon as winter passed I saw flames, burning huts, and screaming children. Black shadows, mounted on high-legged creatures, raged like cruel destroyers through a fleeing crowd. Where they can, they separate heads from torsos and arms from bodies. Man or woman it made no difference, I even see children bleeding.
The images of burning barracks and bleeding bodies fade into the background, the screams die down while I try to make out the shapes surrounding me.
Despite my effort, they remain faceless shadows.
I do see buildings in the background, they looked nothing like our huts and I try to remember if I saw acquaintances among the bloody faces. I didn´t.
Nonetheless, I feel that this concerns our tribe after all, this is a warning and not a coincidence.
Because I am too busy tracing what I see, the images fade, until I am face-to-face with the dragon once again. She bends her neck and lays her head near my feet on the edge of the large stone.
I uncross my legs and in one fluid movement, I get into a kneeling position, then bend forward until my forehead touches the rug. I hold this pose for a few seconds. When I come up, I see the last tale scales disappear into the water without leaving a single ripple.
https://youtu.be/FOkkE93coIg
https://www.youtube.com/embed/UJOcZzGUxEk?feature=oembed
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