Gojiberra on Nostr: I only know of one other person who majored in economics in college. He was the ...

I only know of one other person who majored in economics in college. He was the smartest person in my dorm and said he was "libertarian", from Texas. I was blissfully unaware of politics back then.

What inspired you to learn about economics? it seems like a very researched discipline for a high school kid to want to study. Did you learn about it from a first-principles approach, and do they explain inflationary boom/busts?

I had 2 economics courses, and hated both of them at the time. I couldn't understand them, and they made me feel stupid. Now I think it's because it was treated as religion and explanations didn't make sense. The class example was the inflation in Brazil before it switched to the newer Real currency. The hyperinflation was blamed on people "expecting" higher prices the next day. It was completely a psychological phenonemon, the professor explained. But the government was smarter than the silly people and just switched the former Brazil money to the stable "Real" overnight. Voila, problem solved. smart government, silly people.

It sounds like you had a Near Death Experience...I listened to a few of those in the past year out of curiosity. It sounds like yours was very unpleasant. I've only heard of one story that the person had a bad time, but he also was living a life like the Grinch. After the experience he changed. Dreams can be really weird sometimes, I assume a dream when you are near dead or dead could be even worse.

One of the points in my personal journey the last 2 or 3 years was also having weird dreams. after many years of not having any, some of the dreams brought back sentences or wisdom that I hadn't thought of in 10 years. It was another weight to add to my worries that maybe life doesn't just end and we have no responsibility for the morality of our actions.

Yesterday, I just realized the dog has dreams too and sometimes his little paws are wiggling like he's chasing deer through forests. Other times, he's whimpering like he's reliving when we being him behind on vacation. So i've proved this theorem to the point where either the dog has got to go through the Akashic hallway too or nobody's immortal.

When you said "Thanks for reading my book", I was like, what book, where is it, I want to read it.

You mentioned "sin traps you in compromise". That was exactly the case for me as well. The friends I had, the events I had scheduled led me like a lamb to the vaccine. I had the intelligence to know it was unnecessary, but too much ego and just enough ignorance.

Your experience sounds quite awful. I hope you can figure out how to build back. I had no idea what what "myocarditis" was. I was young and healthy and nothing had ever slowed me down until shot # 2. It left me feeling like I aged 10-20 years. Now I'm taking naps in the afternoon.

The worse part was, there was one day about a year after booster#2 where I felt like someone had hit the restart button on me. I don't know if I can blame this on the booster shot, or if I accidentally ate weed butter. For 24 hours I wasn't even sure that I knew how to find my way home, wasn't sure what was going on in my brain. I can't remember if it was a dream or a thought i had while just laying there hoping my brain would re-stabilize, but I distinctly remembered the story of the "writing on the wall". The implication of it was that I could be crazy king nebuchadnezzer eating grass for 7 years if I didn't have the humility to just pray and ask for help. so i started praying at that point.

I really like your explanation , "A wounded or diseased state of your spirit, where the wound specifically is a superimposition of ego, aggravated by ignorance." This makes a lot of sense to me.

Anyway, you gave me a lot to think about and respond to, so sorry for going on and on