@happyme - This is important. You say, "There is very little noticeable difference for the average person, but nevertheless, there IS a difference." I suspect that you may be an HSP (Highly Sensitive Person). What you receive "vibrationally" when I say, "God bless you," or when another person sends you a hug is much more than your imagination. It is the actual heart-wish and emotional energy that the sender feels for you personally. As a Luddite who avoided all social media platforms for years and had never sent an e-mail, my views on this subject were prejudiced. I believed that authentic human interaction without eye contact and body language was not credible and could not be validated. Then I began to read and write comments in the YouTube comment section and discovered that the unfathomable negativity of trolls is an "energy field" of pure hatred that can be felt. Before realizing that, I could not grasp the psychological effects of cyberbullying. Why would vulnerable teens commit suicide just because a stranger in cyberspace suddenly "un-friended" the victim and wrote the words, "Go kill yourself"? I was forced to admit the existence of an invisible but powerful spiritual reality. I knew that God is unseen but omnipotent. I knew that Satan exists, but I had never contemplated his avenues of influence. Jesus said, "The flesh profiteth nothing; the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit and they are life." - John 6:63 So, I am learning.
Many thanks for help with formatting. I've actually written the introductory blog (finally), but just thinking about adding the artwork gave me a headache. Really. I believe the proper term for this is "mental block."
Congratulations... I'll have to check out your first blog post!
Actually, adding the artwork is quite simple and once you get the hang of it, you will do it without a 2nd thought. I personally use Notepad++ to write and save my blog posts (especially important now that Steemit is so unstable) then simply copy and paste from there. All the stuff I regularly use is now used as a template for future posts! All I need to do is alter the text while leaving the rest there and I have a new, fully formatted and pretty post! You could use notepad or any other text editor to do the same thing, but you don't want to use any of the fancy word processors that try to think for you! They mess up all the mark-down coding!
I believe that Satan is a human creation. When God says that Satan will be vanquished one day, that day will be the day that no human manifests Satan by thinking evil thoughts.
What you described above about real vibrations is practically the same thing. Our energy is much more powerful than most people can imagine or believe. We manifest our own destinies by the way we feel, and we create the evil in this world. All my worldly experiences (and some perhaps otherworldly experiences) have brought me to this conclusion. Of course the mind is very capable of playing tricks on us, so I could be wrong in my conclusion.
@happyme - Re your thoughts on the existence of Satan, it seems that "my mentor" agrees with you. Another meeting of minds? I hope this link eliminates that endlessly long thread preceding Carl's "Open Mic" original song, "You Are Not Alone." I wanted to avoid the unrelated comments and offer a link that is much closer to the performance. Not sure if that's possible. Maybe all comments and replies on the original post are inseparable, but what I'm trying to do is cut the thread. If it worked, enjoy! If it didn't work, scroll down a few miles and enjoy!
https://steemit.com/steemit/@carlgnash/my-upvote-and-resteem-service#@carlgnash/re-sarahspeaks144-re-carlgnash-re-sarahspeaks144-re-carlgnash-re-sarahspeaks144-re-carlgnash-my-upvote-and-resteem-service-20171012t025835139z
Your link worked perfectly. I didn't know you had a specific link in mind and were asking me how to grab it. I guess you found out how. I've never actually done that myself.
Seems I was lucky in my guess about why people choose certain names. His ideas of demonizing older Gods is slightly different than what I have in mind, but they are close.
I used your link to listen to the song, but also scrolled way up to read about his service. I'm thrilled to read that he does NOT use a bot and that his service is free. In his post he listed his SP and it is half of mine and I also have delegated SP of another 1,000 steem. It still gives me just 13 cents at best. It's a long road to becoming a Dolphin, never mind a Whale! I'm not even considered a minnow yet; I'm still just a Redfish. I actually prefer the term, Plankton; I think it more accurately reflects our relative size.
It seems Carl is quite the catch as far as a mentor goes. I agree whole-heartedly about the comment you made to him regarding the number of intelligent people found on this platform.
@happyme - No, I don't think Carl uses bots at all. He does everything himself or with the help of human assistants. He also has a family and has helped me just as you have. Where does he find the time?
I'll admit that I'm a very poor businesswoman. I launched a nonprofit which plunged beneath the ocean though my reputed "big heart" was certainly in the right place. But my thoughts about Matt and "The Mindshifters" probably had a particular imaginary objective in my head by which the group might conceivably need and purchase voting power on a critical issue. Such as what? I don't know. It was just a vague hypothesis. If an underrepresented minority IRL needs the voice of a trustworthy candidate to faithfully represent matters of concern, that minority group might pool its resources to ensure the election of its candidate. Likewise, if "The Mindshifters" as a group wish to elect a witness whose voice will be their voice, then "The Mindshifters" might consider a one-time lease agreement for the critical use of SP. But I don't have a specific idea in mind, only an embryonic thought. I certainly respect your decision to avoid that route. And I hope that I didn't misrepresent Matt. He thinks like a businessman with a conscientious heart and a sensitive soul. Any inadvertent distortion of that image is on me. My bad.
(Your chat room attempt to initiate a conversation was successful. I was notified when I woke up this morning. Much love, your friend The Plankton.)
OK @happyme , I'm getting there. I've found my artwork. Haven't used Notepad since I learned to use Word, but I suppose Word would be one of those fancy word processors that ruins Markdown coding. So I'll paste your instructions in a single document, take a long, therapeutic, preparatory nap, and try to post. Thank you so much and keep your fingers crossed!
(Don't forget to talk to @mattclarke about leasing SP for your group, which I've just named, "The Mindshifters," if that name isn't taken.)
I misunderstood... I thought you had already posted your article.
Yes, WORD will definitely ruin your mark-down.
I'll take a donated/borrowed delegation of Steem Power, but I will not pay for it (lease). I also refuse to buy votes. If someone is interested in supporting my cause and promoting the platform's growth then they can freely contribute to the cause. Otherwise they are just a business using their wealth to make their own pockets fatter and that is not what spreading the wealth is about. If mattclarke wants to help, he can contribute just a single full-power up-vote just once per week. It costs him nothing to do that unless he's using his VP to self-vote, in which case he's just another one of those who are draining the reward pool in an un-ethical way.
It's a strange distinction isn't it.
The community seems to despise self upvoting, but praise delegation leasing, which is really the same thing but with an extra step.
It's true. The community is funny that way. Not everyone, but many don't see the similarities.
I find it odd that more people don't see the damage that is being done by all these vote-bots. They seem to think that these things will bring them prosperity. I don't see how having a ton of Steem that is worthless will bring any prosperity at all. Steem has to have real value in order for its accumulation to bring prosperity. The platform needs to survive in order for Steem to have value.
https://steemit.com/smt/@mattclarke/introducing-equalitycoin-the-only-smart-media-token-you-ll-ever-need
I'm not sure what you are trying to say with your satire.
I'm not sure what you are trying to say with your satire.