PEEKING IN 'POSSUM POUCHES WHILE THE STEEM DRAMA RAGES....
At this point, I will not be resigning from my position as @papa-pepper....
It's been interesting to sit back and watch all that been going on. A lot of various claims, assumptions, and actions had lead to a very volatile situation around steemit these days. Part of me wonders if it was all a "self-fulfilling prophecy..."
ARE BABY OPOSSUMS CUTE / UNDERSTANDING SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECIES
So we'll start with a photo my eight year old daughter "Red-Pepper" took last night, while our nine year old daughter "Pinkie-Pepper" was peeking in an opossums pouch. But before we jump into that (no, we won't actually fit inside of her pouch, I was speaking figuratively) I'll make mention of some things to help people understand what I mean when I speak of self-fulfilling prophecies.
That video above (created in early 2018 by @papa-pepper and uploaded to YouTube for the purpose of sharing it as original, educational content on steemit because steemit is the "spider" that got me caught in the world wide web) possibly relates to our current steemit situation rather well. In the video I mention how a fear of the perceived threat that snakes pose often lead to the snakes defending themselves from an attack, which is interpreted as an attack by the afraid person, and basically ends up being a "self-fulfilling prophecy."
Far, far too often, a person encounters a snake that has no ill-will or nefarious intentions. Since the person believes the snake is a threat, rather than leaving the snake alone to mind its own business, they attack it. Then, when the snake is attacked, it defends itself and bites the attacker. Then the attacker stands back and says, "See, I told you it was dangerous..."
This video above also covers some of this same scenario, and in a humorous way I attempt to illustrate and contrast the perception of the fearful person vs. the perception of the snake. That said, I wonder if that is exactly what's happened between the steemit witnesses and Justin Sun. I'll leave that where it is as a possibility, and simply state that I've never met Justin Sun and have yet to see what his actual intentions are with steemit, but I'm willing to give him a chance. I'll be reading and researching more later on and checking my witness votes as well, but simply offer up this "self-fulfilling prophecy" possibility as some food for thought.
That said, last night I was still out in the woods being @papa-pepper, living life to its fullest and allowing my @little-peppers the opportunity to experience things most never will. Because of the outlet that steemit provides me, I'll share some photos here, and whosoever desires to can live vicariously through us. Perhaps we'll put out a more educational post about baby opossums later.
For the moment, I'll continue to be @papa-pepper, active on the steem blockchain and steemit.com, and I'll continue to provide you all with rare, original content to help enhance your online experience on steemit. Papa Out!
Until next time…
Make today special!
Thanks for you being, well you....Shalom Brother!
what have I missed? the good old trusty "works by peddling hard" computer died, a couple of months later when I am up and running again, all sorts of things have happened.
as an old voice on here, what happened? there appear to be even more bots than there used to be, so that is the same, please update me
Basically.... Justin Sun bought steemit inc and the witnesses soft forked to prevent him from using his STEEM for voting, etc... Justin responded by convincing some exchanges to power up STEEM and voted for new witnesses, granting him access once again to his STEEM.... or so I'm told...
Thanks for the update, glad to see you are still here doing the "Papa" bit
those kids keep on growing, which is also great to see.
Sure thing. that was the "condensed" version.
there must be money in Steem after all. otherwise, there wouldn't be this takeover, way down below the grassroots, with very little to lose, it looks like a "keep your head down until the BS stops flying" routine.
if they get rid of the bots it will be a good thing.
Basically, we should always mind our business if we come across snakes.....
It’s not that easy, there’s an instant threat that the sight of snake alone poses to many that makes it seems like you’re already in a war front
Indeed, hopefully everything will pan out here on steemit....
I agree, Justin Sun is like a snake that if left alone would be harmless, but if provoked, he'll strike with venom. Now we're rushing to the emergency room.
Some say Justin struck first by declaring on Twitter that he's moving dapps to the tron blockchain and issuing steem token swaps.
Then he backtracked and assured everyone on the AMA with Ned that he would support the STEEM chain, but then when asked this:
He said " ...at least now we don't have any plan to use our stake to vote for the content or the witness"
This was the beginning of the whole mess. It came down to the witnesses' interpretation of three words: "at least now". They believed he plans to vote out the witnesses... just not now. So they flipped out and implimented the soft-fork, preventing Justin from using his stake that he purchased with real dollars and the rest is history.
So did Justin really strike first? The witnesses clearly believed that a "hostile takeover" was imminent. Before they knew it, a hostile takeover happened. Self-fulfilling.
nice
Hello @papa-pepper
Thank you for choosing project.hope HIVE, however I would need to ask you not to post within project.hope HIVE/community if your publication is not related to topics such as:
technology,
steem,
blockchain,
artificial intelligence
machine learning
economy,
business,
marketing
Posts in ENGLISH ONLY.
Otherwise you may unfortunatelly end up making our little community looking little messy. Hope I'm making sense?
However if your publications are related to any of those mentioned topics, then please feel free to post it within our HIVE and I will gladly support it with some decent upvote.
yours,
@project.hope team
Okay... but as the author, I thought this post was about STEEM.
It covered my interpretation of what may have happened between the STEEM witnesses and Justin Tron, and also covered my plans to continue to share original content on steemit despite all of the drama. While it did provide evidence of my plans to continue by including the photos of the baby opossums, that whole "self-fulfilling prophecy" part was solely focused on the current STEEM/TRON - Witnesses?Justin Sun situation...
Did you even read my post?
Either way, I can unsubscribe to your community and find other ones to share my thoughts on STEEM/steemit in....
Hi appreciated @papa-pepper, Brother!
It was a pleasant surprise for me to notice that you had published in Project Hope. It is an honor to have you here.
I see that you managed very well to frame your publication within the topics we handle. You are very clever!
That comparison of the snake with the current situation of Steemit was great.
I am your follower for years. I know what your style of publications is and that's why I felt surprised. Please continue posting on Project Hope. Welcome to the family!
Your friend, Juan.
Thank you kindly for that reply. Glad that you appreciated the comparison. When I post in Project HOPE I'll keep the posts relevant. I just chose Project HOPE over the other STEEM/crypto hives because you had HOPE in the name, and I always HOPE the best to steemit.
In Project Hope we have strived to create a feeling of true community. One of the most important points for us is the support and complementation of the posts with valuable comments.
Our achievements have come out of the blockchain and we have managed to help Venezuelan families. We certainly feel proud of what we have achieved so far. And as you said, we convey a message of HOPE to many.
You are always welcome brother "papa".