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What is the Deadpost Intitiative?
The Deadpost Initiative is an attempt to give love to some posts that were overlooked during their short 7 day life span, a chance to bring your old posts back to life and maybe make some friends in the process. The goal is not only to share some love with SBD but also by engagement to generate discussion.
Last week
Due to a lot of events that I am organizing in my physical life I was a bit late this week again, but deadpost is still alive and kicking. Some common themes showed up in our deadposts this week, technology and how it leads to alienation being the most notable.
Last Week's Winners
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@whitelightxpress - $4 SBD prize
While I try to focus on the positive aspects of the internet, how it's brought us a kind of access to other cultures that we've never had before, there are certainly it's negative aspects and learning to avoid those aspects will be important for us as we move forward. @whitelightxpress does a great job highlighting the things we need to be careful of in order to stay balanced in this high-tech world.
Our Crumbling Communities: Disconnection and Lost Empathy in the Age of Connectivity
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@virtualself - $4 SBD prize
@virtualself writes of a kind of "culture shock" that comes from not having a cell phone at your side. I know what this is like so it was a fun post for me to read.
#ulog 17 : Living without a smartphone
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@stitchybitch - $3 SBD prize
This is a gruesome one! Not something I like reading about but a great post nonetheless! An in-depth look at an interesting serial killer, very well written!
Serial Killer Saturdays- The Ax Man of New Orleans
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@artofwisdom - $3 SBD prize
A well presented photo blog of one of those cities everyone wants to go to, still haven't been there myself.
One-of-a-kind city. We're talking classics.
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@fjmb86 - $2 SBD prize
This is an important question! Are you just enjoying yourself or are you addicted? Spending time in different cultures can really make this a confusing question to answer, this is a very interesting topic of conversation and a great post!
Test: Am I an alcoholic or a social drinker?
Week 35
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Share your best Deadpost in the comments!
The best posts will be rewarded with the fluid payout from this post (split between winners) and will be featured in a future post.
Rules
•Please only submit 1 post.
•Posts must have a payout of less than $5.
•Posts must be at least one month old.
•I recommend you don't enter the same post twice in the same month if you didn't win the first time.
•Vote for 1-3 post by others. Please share WHY you liked their posts. If you don't vote for someone else's post by commenting you will not be eligible to win.
•Winners will be chosen based on how original, creative, informative and well written their posts are, as well as how well received they are in the comments. I will use the quality of comments as the main factor in judging who wins.
•There will be a slight bias towards smaller accounts but large accounts are welcome to join and compete or join just for fun and to share their old work.
•There may also be prizes for stellar comments and engagement.
•There will be 2 or more winners depending on how big the payout for this post is and depending on how many quality posts are entered into the contest.
Please upvote generously on your favorite post in the comments below, we'd like to generate a sense much support as possible for all participants and the prize pool is still growing.
Upvote and resteem to help us raise our reward pool! And remember to comment and upvote on comments in this post please to show support for deadposts! :-)
The prize pool will be the fluid rewards from the post plus any donation to the initiative.
I'm still looking for more SP delegation to offer larger upvotes on all submissions. Thanks to @krnel for his delegation and @tribesteemup for their trail support.
This is not merely a contest, this is an opportunity to have your material read and an opportunity for us to really discuss each other's posts.
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This is my entry. For me it is a very controversial issue today: “Homo selfie ” 📷
https://steemit.com/life/@fjmb86/homo-selfie
Maybe I am just getting old but I never understood the selfie culture. I think that you may be right about it being part of a change in the culture.
Yes, it has been a rising trend in a very short time. Social networks have greatly influenced diverse cultures worldwide.
I don't really understand selfie culture, either. It used to be that we'd participate in events and there would be pictures of groups of people/friends enjoying themselves. Now everything is so SELF-oriented.
Actually the cell phone connects us cybernetically and takes us away from the real world. Now the meetings between "friends", most are using and pending your phone. We must rescue sharing without elements that distance us.
Digging below the selfie-mania - it is simply the form of narcissism...
Everything is a world and you see it in your own way. That is autonomy.
I like very much this type of selfies, of adventure, in extreme, they are very good! More than all of landscapes. Of parties or urban not so much. Although there are people who abuse him.
We all have different personalities and we do what we want with our photographs. That is autonomy and respect.
Wasn't hard to find a dead post, but it took some time scrolling for it so here it is:https://steemit.com/philosophy/@acesontop/you-ve-changed-when-you-no-longer-fit-patterns
Hope it fits the topic. Great initiative by the way. Hope to see some more like yours on Steem in the future.
"That happened especially a few years ago when I became a vegetarian and started to take care of my body and mind more than I used to [...]." I noticed a similar issue when I started getting into shape years ago. I think people come to expect you to be a certain way and when you stop being that way it makes them uneasy.
Anyway, good post.
People always love to control or know your move in life, when you are off their hook, they feels uncomfortable with your ways.
Yeah, that seems to be a part of the human experience. Breaking away from the status quo presents as a challenge to the status quo. If you choose to become healthy and fit in a group of pizza-eating, beer-swilling co workers, their realities feel challenged.
Good post!
'' The Only Thing That Is Constant Is Change ” - Heraclitus.
I will give this a try again. https://steemit.com/psychedelic/@artisticscreech/psychedelic-comedy-and-learning-to-laugh-at-life
This is a post about psychedelic laughter and I was feeling a little more creative than usual when I wrote it but it, sadly, it only made .90 when everything was said and done.
Learn to laugh at life ... imagine yourself in a country like mine: Venezuela. We have learned to survive, to reimagine ourselves, to recreate, to innovate with what little we have, always with a positive mind and fighting for the country and giving a smile to others, simply contagious. Laughing about life should be contagious.
Agreed. We have to laugh at the horror and sadness in the world because if we don't we drive ourselves crazy. Sometimes we can't fix someones problem but we can make their life a little better by bringing humor to it.
Completely agree with you. It is a way to de-stress and bring some meaningful joy to others.
i did mushrooms few times years ago, the ones that grows naturally in the polish mountains, of Psilocybe semilanceata species, and i could say - it is not for party people and laughter, rather the shamanic experience for people seeking answers... but i think the uses are many. Beside that i think the skill of laughing at yourself is the skill worth of gaining - by any means.
Haha Well I certainly wouldn't call them party drugs but I think the laughter and the way it comes and changes one's view of things can be part of the shamanic process.
Definitely a worthy post; sad that so many people automatically "tune out" as soon as there are drugs involved.
A few years back, I spent almost two weeks at Burning Man (I was part of both the "before" and "after" crews), and there's little doubt that I was "changed" by the experience, and much of it involved laughter.
Thank you. Haha yeah that seems like a good place for that type of change lol. I never made it to a Burning Man. When I was younger and more willing to go to that type of thing, I always had classes to go to and as I got older I became more of a hermit lol.
First off, thank you for choosing my post as a prize winner in the last round! That was unexpected, and actually is serving as inspiration for getting back to a more regular posting schedule — my inspiration has been waning, lately.
So I thought I'd try again, with another old post that just didn't go very far.
This one is about success, and whether the quest to become "successful" actually serves to make people happy. Or does that quest actually make us UN-happy?
https://steemit.com/success/@whitelightxpress/what-is-success-really-in-life-does-it-make-us-happy
Don't feel too bad. I think that everyone has been seeing pretty low payouts lately.
I tend to think the quest for success does drive people over the edge sometimes. Even the concept of needing a purpose can lead to some pretty negative outcomes in some cases (I wrote about that a few weeks ago).
Anyway, have my last vote on this contest and good luck.
first of all - no one ever defined happiness... so it is a relative (subjective) term... as for the success - i think that this quote defines it well:
'' Success is a progressive realization of the worthy ideal '', where an 'ideal' is '' The idea that one falled in love with '' - Earl Nightingale.
https://steemit.com/aswcontest/@artofwisdom/forest-gems-of-ww2-abandoned-shit-weekly-10-entry-23-photos
You got a 100.00% upvote from @pavanghanate2018 courtesy of @akkighanate2018! send 0.001 SBD with URL in memo to pavanghanate2018 and get upvote for upcoming Post
This is a great initiative, i came across this project months ago, but i lost track of it...
Thanks for the deadpost ressurrection;
Steemit necromancer......
Here is my deadpost link...:
https://steemit.com/christian-trail/@princluv/mind-your-companion-and-be-selective-in-the-choice-of-friends-but-be-extravagant-in-showinggod-s-love-to-others
Hope it will meet the requirement.
It is better to rely on 'synchronicity' from above than on one's mind judgements aka selectivity.
Hi! This is my entry:
https://steemit.com/nature/@apple96/why-are-there-no-volcanoes-in-venezuela
Venezuela has a privileged location before the world.
Interesting post.
This is my entry I know this very essential and helpful to others but what happen is it never earn a lot and not all people view it
https://steemit.com/byte/@garygabby/tutorial-how-to-create-a-byteball-account-and-receive-rewards-based-on-reputation-and-user-referrals
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I love what you do here - it's inspiring. Just wanted to say you are really, really valued.
Thanks! I forget sometimes ! <3
Thank you so much! More power to this movement!
Thanks!