The Deadpost Initiative - Week 32 - Share your most undervalued work (All SBD rewarded to participants)

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Join us at The Steemit Zombies and Deadpost Initiative chat in the Steemit Community Catalyst discord channel

What is the Deadpost Intitiative?

The Deadpost Initiative is an attempt to give love to some posts that were overlooked during their short 7 day life span, a chance to bring your old posts back to life and maybe make some friends in the process. The goal is not only to share some love with SBD but also by engagement to generate discussion.

Last week

This past week we had many introspective posts that examined what drives us, in writing, in life, in dreaming. It's interesting to see how some weeks seem to be about a particular theme and this is one I personally love to read about. I have to apologize for the delay on this post, I've been quite busy with 3D stuff, but hopefully it was worth the weight. We should have more consistent payouts above $7 SBD from now on, super ultra thanks to @kennyskitchen for offering an extra upvote every week from @tribesteemup for this post. Also thanks to @krnel for some delegation, I will be more careful to upvote a few great submission comments with that.

Last Week's Winners

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@alignment - $3 SBD prize

This is a concept that I am very much interested in and one whose time has come. We fill our minds with crap and rather than trying to cover it with more crap, we might as well clean it up and get rid of what doesn't serve us. Very great article by @alignment, someone to follow on steemit.

Introduction to unlearning and why it is critical for personal growth. Why is it as important as learning?

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@fjmb86 - $2.5 SBD prize

This was another great one. As most of us are content creators here, it's really interesting to ask ourselves and others "What motivates us to do what we do". I was expecting a rather simplistic article from the title but this is a pretty nice analysis that uses some ideas from George Orwell. Great post @fjmb86!

Why I write

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@antigenx - $1 SBD prize

@antigenx provides a kind of guide to those who are not sure what they are doing here on this planet. Thanks for the tips.

Finding your purpose in life- A short recap.

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@liverussian - $1 SBD prize

Is pet poetry a thing? This is the second winner of the Deadpost Initative in this genre! It's a great post though, nice winning streak @liverussian.

[To those who make our lives whole

](https://steemit.com/poetry/@liverussian/to-those-who-make-our-lives-whole)
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Week 32

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Share your best Deadpost in the comments!

The best posts will be rewarded with the fluid payout from this post (split between winners) and will be featured in a future post.

Rules

•Please only submit 1 post.
•Posts must have a payout of less than $5.
•Posts must be at least one month old.
•I recommend you don't enter the same post twice in the same month if you didn't win the first time.
•Vote for 1-3 post by others. Please share WHY you liked their posts. If you don't vote for someone else's post by commenting you will not be eligible to win.
•Winners will be chosen based on how original, creative, informative and well written their posts are, as well as how well received they are in the comments. I will use the quality of comments as the main factor in judging who wins.
•There will be a slight bias towards smaller accounts but large accounts are welcome to join and compete or join just for fun and to share their old work.
•There may also be prizes for stellar comments and engagement.
•There will be 2 or more winners depending on how big the payout for this post is and depending on how many quality posts are entered into the contest.

Please upvote generously on your favorite post in the comments below, we'd like to generate a sense much support as possible for all participants and the prize pool is still growing.
Upvote and resteem to help us raise our reward pool! And remember to comment and upvote on comments in this post please to show support for deadposts! :-)
The prize pool will be the fluid rewards from the post plus any donation to the initiative.
I'm still looking for more SP delegation to offer larger upvotes on all submissions. Thanks to @krnel for his delegation and @tribesteemup for their trail support.

This is not merely a contest, this is an opportunity to have your material read and an opportunity for us to really discuss each other's posts.

The Steemit Zombies and Deadpost Initiative discord channel

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I had not heard of a string of holistic care providers being killed. Could you share links to some of those news reports?

Congratulations to the winners. Here is my contribution for this week
https://steemit.com/shareinspireconquer/@cheekah/overcome-that-hate

I agree people, especially young people, are too quick to throw around the word “hate” when they really mean dislike. I also agree that when we identify something that needs to be changed, it is useless to just complain about; do something or find the right people to do something to effect change. I also agree that too many of us remain stagnated in hatred and do not examine the real root causes.

However, You point out several examples of when someone “hated” something and it motivated them to invent something to bring change. I have to say I think that’s an over simplification of the motivations for inventors. The sad truth is, for most humans, taking action on their hatred leads to horrors perpetrated against fellow humans. History is rife with horrific events, like genocide, that were fueled by unchecked haty.

What we need to do when faced with hate, is to find out the real reasons behind it. Those reasons always include fear, and almost always presumes a sense of superiority and societal privilege, and a set pervasive self-imposed delusions that their hate is justified or even scientifically or religiously supported. Real hatred is, in my estimation, a mental illness and requires substantive and qualified psychiatric care, as well as intensive education.

Most humans are afraid. The fear of what they hate spurs them to create horror. Why don't we find something positive about the object of our hatred and bring something good out of it. Thanks for your comment.

I agree. But, the folks who hate have not been taught the tools of critical thinking to permit them to find the positive in what they’ve learned to hate. They’ve grown up and lived lives enveloped in fear of the other. It will take far more than us just showing them the positive in others. They’ve been programmed to believe their hatred is right – even ordained. It will take reprogramming to change that, and that means psychiatric and/or psychological treatment. It also means teaching critical thinking to kids from the time they start school, truly educating them rather than just teaching to the tests.

Awesome post! I feel the same with people. Why would people hate so much and do nothing about it? If you hate it that much why shouldn't you prevent it in the future by changing something or at least try to change it and see what happens. I see so much people hating each other and just wasting time and energy on the hate when they instead can just transform the time and energy into something positive for all of us. I am not saying hate is not necessary. Hate should be used only to identify where to change the game. The aspect of the game. You hate for example the president, so assassinate him. I am just kidding, but you get the point. Stop the hate and start the change.

Thanks for helping motivate and enlighten people. The world needs more people like you.

I really liked this post, it was very empowering.

Remember what you said in your post. You said that nothing is random so here I am expressing that this is not a random reply from a random stranger. Anyways you are right about that. No man is an island an entire in itself...

Wise words and sage advice:

Every second you receive a gift. That gift is to live. How you use it depends on yourself.
You will fail a lot …trying to be somebody …make mistakes. …learn from them …you should not even think about succeeding when you start something. Because it won't happen in the near future. Your goal should be to improve yourself with each day. Step by step. Until you finally reach your goal.

Your post is my favorite so far. I'm a strong believer that the universe doesn't make mistakes. Following for sure.

I never thought of using those techniques.

I hope you've learned something new from my article :)

Thanks i learned something new. I'm going to try to make a blackout poem from newspapers.

Check out my post about a recent pencil drawing "Akasha";) It took me many years to complete it, and it was created entirely in surrender for the sound::: https://steemit.com/art/@astraeir/akasha-pencil-drawing

Your art is amazing. You most certainly are a pencil dancer. Please keep making more like that. I would love to see some in color too. I'll be watching your etsy.

Thank you so much!;) yes, of course! I keep them coming! check out my Tumblr for more pieces in color: http://katiastraeirart.tumblr.com You can find more on my FB and Instagram​. I need to create the new website soon!

Fantastic work. Astraeir. So glad I checked it out:)

Thank's so much for taking your time to explore!;)

Routine is comfortable, even when it’s a routine of depredation. We get into the flow of “the way things are” and resist change. Maybe that’s because we’ve learned to fear that change may mean loss. But, we cannot stop change from coming into every life. Life is change.

Isn’t it confusing and frustrating how so many folks take creationism literally rather than seeing it for the collection of allegories it must be. For example, I cannot think of a more elegant allegory for the Big Bang than “And God said, ‘Let there be light.’”

Here is my contribution about my life in a nutshell. A journey that is still in progress, https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@mariusclaassen/samech-coming-full-circle

Thanks for teaching me something new. I respect your self determination and love for your family. Welcome to steemit. I wish you the best of luck.

I hope your journey leads you to fulfillment and prosperity.

Intersting essay. Does using cold storage mean the value does not increase or decline?

It increases and declines in terms of fiat value while the Litecoin is not going to fluctuate plus you hold the private keys.

Your post is only 16 days old. I think it needs to be a month or older. I enjoyed the post though, very informative and eloquent. I'll make sure to follow.

Oh, a thousand apologies, I read wrong: / I thought it should be less than 1 month.
Can I still participate, with a post longer than 1 month? Obviously eliminating this entry.

An incredible vista.

I agree with the main thrust of your essay, that we have to try and try our best with all our personal resources. However, I think it’s important too to recognize what your real talents are and to cultivate those, rather than trying to be mediocre at anything else.

Yes we have to arrange regularly all the talents possessed for all the activities we want to try to exclude the talent they have

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