Adapting to Life Down Here

This has taken me nearly 20 years, and I am not finished yet. Because the world I left behind has been changing.

I am sitting here, in my pajamas, in front of three laptops, only one of which is working. I just finished reading, for the second time, The Year in Ethereum.

My old brain can barely understand what this is saying, but it can understand one thing: something important is going on here. That most people do not understand in the least.

They are making a new world, that requires new people, to make it work.

When I came down here, in 2001, I was a refugee from Silicon Valley. I had only one thing going for me: my Social Security retirement payments, that came once a month, like mana from Heaven.

I lived with a local family: Marielos and her son Agusto, for five years. In the Central Metropolitan Area, where most of the county lived. It was overcrowded and dangerous, and I wanted out.

I traveled in Nicaragua, the country to the north, and Panama to the south, looking for a good place to live. No luck. Then I saw the Valley of Orosi, moved here, and stayed here.

I was still in pretty good shape and rode my Bicycle everywhere. Then my body went to pieces, and I suffered from Seizures. All of a sudden I would lose consciousness, fall down, and could not get up.

They called an ambulance, and off I went to the Hospital in Cartago! Ray showed up and he had a long conversation with the doctor, in Spanish, and they decided I was having Seizures.

This diagnosis did me no good because it did not tell me what caused them, or how to avoid them in the future. I kept having them, and I came up with my own solution.

If I paid close attention to my body when I was walking, I could tell when I got tired. If I sat down, right then. I would not have a Seizure. I could call a taxi, and it would take me home.

The Community of Christ is de-emphasizing its Mormon Connections

It is doing this quietly, however, and to the best of my knowledge has not made this a written decision.

The history is clear: first the LDS church, then the RLDS church, then the Commutyof Christ, that automatically acquired all of the RLDS membership and property.

The theological changes were less clear, and they had formed a committee (that included my cousin Florence) to ask God what these changes should be.

People who are interested in Technology

These people like to use their heads, while most people like to use their guts.

I noticed this when I looked into Erhereum. The people there, are very interested in their technology. I noticed their interest more than their technology itself, which is very technical.

I also noticed this when corresponding with my brother. He is now working as a volunteer for his church and is thrilled to be doing this. I sometimes make some suggestions about how he could do his job better, which he ignores.

Why? I ask myself. And the answer is obvious: he doesn't want to do things better. He is a typical American, who is destroying America. And can see nothing wrong with this.

The deadly feedback loop

Americans hate America and are destroying it.

This situation has happened in two steps. First, they notice they are being treated badly. Second, they respond by destroying it.

And they are not aware of most of this. They know something bad is going on, but they do not want to know that it is caused by them.

The Falsie

The grocery store I usually go to is operated by Chinese. And they have a young woman operating their check-out counter.

Her breasts have grown recently, and I was puzzled by this, what was going on? Then the light dawned on me: she was wearing falsies!

I haven't seen these for quite a while, but there they were, bigger than life!

Is the Human Race Finished?

I used to think not. As the oceans rise, we will move to higher ground. We can live without Miami.

We can even live when surrounded by people who do not like us. We have been doing that for some time.

The latest virus will greatly reduce our numbers. This has happened before.

Even a combination of things we cannot imagine. That leaves us with 0.1 percent. That is still a lot of people.

One thing may finish us, however: our ability (and desire) to destroy ourselves, that has been growing.

With Crypto, you Own the Bank

But that might not help that much.

The banks have money (that is what they are for) but they don't have anything else.

"But money is so handy," You may reply. "You can easily exchange it for anything else!"

Not everything else, perhaps, but damn near everything else.

What's the deal with this Crypto stuff? Isn't it nothing but Code? Yes, but the right kind of Code.

Code has the advantage of being easily checked. If you put the right kind of Code, in the right kind of Machine, you get useful results, worth money. This what makes computer companies so rich!

The right kind of Code.