RE: My Response to @lydon.sipe's "Yes, I am a Christian, and I Drink"
People can become addicted to just about anything - alcohol, sex, food, shopping... Separation from God (aka sin) will happen when a person takes a good thing and makes it into an ultimate thing. Any good thing can take the rightful place of the God that made all of those things in the first place.
Some of those things are more destructive than others. Some of those things are mostly self destructive, and others have more potential to be very destructive to other people.
I am blessed to be able to freely enjoy alcohol without feeling that i am becoming controlled by it, but I try to be sensitive to those that have to fight that demon. I have plenty of "demons" of my own that I have to fight, that just happens to not be one of them.
And, might I say, now that I have stumbled upon your Library - WOW!!! Incredible work you have done there! That's some impressive stuff.
Thank you, @sminchow, for your spot-on observations. Yes, we humans are capable of idolizing just about anything.
You've spoken words that I could quote directly as my own. Great way to look at it. I too have my own fights in other areas.
Why, thank you so much for the kind compliment! In my spare time I hope to update and upgrade the library, but in the meanwhile, I hope you enjoy browsing it in its current form.
So, how go the efforts to drive Steem to be more main stream - more used day-to-day? And, are you still in a position to be able to offer to trade Steem for fiat $?
I've been interested and investigating crypto for almost a year now, but I still haven't even signed up with any exchange. Part fear of being scammed and part fear of just doing something stupid. Yeah well, I'm an accountant - what can I say? All of the SP I have has been self-generated - using only comments, no original posts, believe it or not. But I think I'm at the point where I'd like to put some of this fiat to work by powering up a bit. Although, it doesn't seem like it would be a good time to be selling Steem, for you, considering that it is currently cratering. It doesn't need to happen now.