#is like. nil. highly implausible.
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Me, every time anyone says anything about "waiting for The One God has for you"/romantic soulmates/etc: Stop, stop, stop! Why are we implying that everyone has a soulmate when everyone does not have a soulmate? God's going to get nasty letters saying "Where's my soulmate? Why haven't I found my soulmate?" and do you want Him to have to deal with that? I don't think so! Stop spouting heresy being so silly!
#This came to me while I was eating my salad#salt and light#But seriously like the idea that there's only one person for any other person no more no less because ~God says so~ is absolute nonsense#Because *waves my hands towards everyone who's ever wanted to get married but never found someone ever*#and the “no marriage in heaven” thing because some people end up falling in love again after death parts them from their first spouse.#I would really really love to find someone and settle down in the future#but it is absolutely not guaranteed and the odds that God is just going to drop my ~one and only~ in my lap#because I could ~never be fully happy with anyone else~#is like. nil. highly implausible.#Love is a choice and and action and I won't deny that many people are incompatible with many other people#but like. there's not just one person ~Guaranteed and Divinely Intended~ for you.#That's just not how it works.#God can set the perfect guy/gal down in front of any of us and we could screw it up. This whole thing leaves no room for human agency man.#Free will* exists and I will die on that hill#*human free will is not the same thing as Divine free will and will always have some limits placed upon it by our nature as limited beings#but I don't believe our whole course was charted divinely for us at the beginning of time either (hi Arminian here)#but that's a whole other debate lol#Yeah. All that to say. We are not promised a spouse.#And that's okay.#As this coming Sunday reminds us we have something far better offered to all of us.#Trite as it may be to say... He should be what we look for.#Anything else is an add-on.#...holy cow that was a rant in the tags but I stand by it.#Starlight's Nonsense
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Investing.com – Cryptocurrencies tumbled Friday morning in Asia after reports linking some initial coin offerings (ICO) to frauds, implausible returns and plagiarism.
Bitcoin dropped 4.47% to $3,594.6 and Ethereum slid 11.8% to $114.47 at 10:55PM ET (02:55 GMT). XRP plummeted 10.17% to $0.33742 on the Poloniex exchange while Litecoin also lost 8.18% to $27.961.
The Wall Street Journal analyzed 3,291 “white papers” of cryptocurrency projects that launched new ICOs and reported that 16% of those papers included instances of plagiarism, identity theft and false promises of too-high returns. The white papers are informal information documents used to market ICOs.
More than 2,000 of the white papers analyzed included sentences with terms such as “nothing to lose” or “guaranteed profit” as well as “highest return”, “high return”, “no risk” or “little risk.” Some 343 crypto projects were linked to fake team members.
Regulators in the U.S. cracked down on ICOs and cryptocurrency-related investment products in August as part of an initiative by the North American Securities Administrators Association. Currently, more than 200 projects under investigation by regulators.
“Investing in an ICO is like speculating in a highly promoted junior gold mining company where the prospect of finding actual gold is nil. There will be price volatility and plenty of promises made. But in the end, the investment is worthless. And it was always going to be worthless,” Jon Markman, president of Markman Capital Insight, wrote in an article on Forbes on Thursday.
Japan’s Mizuho Financial Group, on the other hand, is backing cryptocurrencies and planning to introduce in March its own digital tokens that can be used via its smartphone application, according to the Nikkei Asian Review. The digital currency will be pegged to the Japanese yen and retail shops that use the new tokens may be charged fees lower than those charged by credit cards. Mizuho also intends to bring 60 regional banks on board with this new currency.
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