Thank you very much to all you Steemians who care to give your attention to the content I post; who upvote and comment with feebback and insights to help us all learn more about what is going on -- both in the world and within human consciousness. Thank you for being there and helping to grow the knowledge about ourselves, and that can help us to heal our various forms of suffering, be it individual or collective.

I had around 1300 followers before I cam back to Steemit in June. In just over a month I have almost doubled that number which took me 7 months to get to. Thanks everyone :)

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Contests

I have made two components to the celebration contest:

1. Easy SDB GiveAway
2. Harder Psychology Writing Contest

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SDB GiveAway - $5 and $3 SBD

If you are already one of the 2500 followers, then you're eligible to receive the SBD giveaway prize for being one of those followers :) I can check when you started following, so please no cheaters ;)

All you need to do is comment why you like to follow my work. I will pick 2 winners that will receive the $5 and $3 SBD prize. Just be honest. Use flattery to your own detriment.

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Psychology Writing Contest - $20 SBD and Resteem

I want you to write something about psychology, psyche, mind, etc.; something that shows an aspect of what humans are capable of -- right or wrong, good or evil. Please share some self-knowledge about the human condition. :) If you go get some material from a source other than your own thinking, please make sure to reference it as a link somewhere in your post.

Submissions

Make the post on your own blog and link it to this post as a comment, or post it as a comment here alone, up to you. I will pick a winner who also gets a resteem of their own post in addition to a $20 SBD prize. *Note that I may also split the prize between two winners if I can't clearly decide (10/10, or 15/5, etc.)

Your entry should be a minimum of 500 words, and maximum of 2000 words.

You can only make one entry to the contest, and post it once here. You can use any tags you want like any normal post. As a suggestion for a tag, you can optionally use #krnelcontest if you want. That way if anyone wants to see all the submissions, they can easily do so with a tag rather than look at this comments of this post.

EDIT: You need to write something fresh, not just grab an old post you already made ;)

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Deadline

You have until the payout for this post completes to submit your entries.

Remember, you need to have been one of the first 2500 followers for the SBD GiveAway. If you followed afterwards, then better luck next time, sorry ;)

Thank you all for participating. Good luck!

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