..here I come!
My name is Dara Fogel
I am new to SteemIt and to Cryptocurrency, but am eager to learn to use both to help create a better world! Cryptocurrency isn't just for GenX & Millenials.
I am using this template as it was suggested that I do so, but I don't promise to fit the mould...
My Details
Older than dirt, but young at heart
American (couldn't help it - I was born that way)
Married (NOT born that way, but sometimes feels like it…)
Author, educator, public speaker, philosopher
Steampunk - Having studied Plato, I cannot claim any
particular political affiliation, as they all have good points
and they all have limits and errors
I find wisdom in all religions and traditions
I have written 5 books (4 fiction, 1 non-fiction) & blog whenever I get around to it
Social Following
Website/blog: www.provinceofthemind.com
Twitter - seriously? I'm too old for twitter. I'm sorry - I have trouble with twitting...
Facebook - You don't really care about how many friends I have on Fb, do you?
Some Of My Favorite Things - in no particular order
Science Fiction, Steampunk, Ancient Philosophy (Socrates is my BFF),
History (don't be doomed to repeat it!), Cosplay.
Sports: No thank you.
TV/YouTube Shows: Star Trek (all versions except the new movies), Stargate SG-1, Doctor Who,
The Pyramid Code (netflix), Suspicious Observers (YouTube), the Keiser Report (YouTube)
Stand-up Comedians: George Carlin, Bill Hicks, Eddie Izzard
Favorite Books
The Psychology of Man's Possible Evolution, by P.D. Ouspensky
Ishmael, by Daniel Quinn
Spiritually Incorrect Enlightenment, by Jed McKenna
The Master Game, by Robert S. DeRopp
Food of the Gods, by Terence McKenna
Dune (and the Dune Trilogy), by Frank Herbert
The Republic, by Plato
The Bhavagad Gita
The Tao, by Lao Tsu
Fingerprints of the Gods, by Graham Hancock
The Hero With a Thousand Faces, by Joseph Campbell
Busting Loose From the Money Game, by Robert Scheinfeld
Favorite Shorts
Nobody is smarter than you are - Terence McKenna (Youtube)
Malfunction - Steam Powered Giraffe (YouTube)
Breaking News: Some Bullshit Happening Somewhere - The Onion (YouTube)
The Reason Education Sucks - George Carlin (YouTube)
Society Trap - Joe Rogan (YouTube)
Daniel Quinn on What We Really Want - Daniel Quinn (YouTube)
Free Your Mind - Terence McKenna (YouTube)
You're It - Alan Watts (YouTube)
Brass Goggles - Steam Powered Giraffe (YouTube)
7 Propoganda Techniques Used on You Every Day - Stuff They Don't Want You To Know (YouTube)
The War on Consciousness: Banned Ted Talk - Graham Hancock (YouTube)
The Science Delusion: Banned Ted Talk - Rupert Sheldrake (YouTube)
Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush (YouTube)
Something is Affecting the Whole Solar System - Nemesis Maturity (YouTube)
What is Reality? - New Scientist (YouTube)
Nature Loves Courage - Terence McKenna (YouTube)
Don't Panic - Darwin Prophet (YouTube)
Favorite Movies
Dune (all versions)
What the Bleep Do We Know?
Magical Egypt (dvd series)
Harold & Maude
Network
Idiocracy
The 7 Faces of Dr. Lao
Being There
Defending Your Life
All Star Trek movies before the reboot
All Star Wars movies
Mary Poppins (a very subversive film disguised as a kiddie movie)
Favorite Album
Oscar Wilde's Serenade - Darwin Prophet - Wilde's poetry set to lovely music
MK III - Steam Powered Giraffe
Poem - Delirium
A New World Record - Electric Light Orchestra
Up - Peter Gabriel
Lyricus: The Grand Portal - Wingmakers
Great Promenade of Fools and Ghosts - Maquis of Vaudeville
Lennon Legend - John Lennon
More About Me
I have been blessed to have lived a very interesting and fun life. Amongst other things, I have worked as a Shakespearean actor, as a costume designer, drawing cartoon maps, managed a world-known avante garde theater company, started a successful renaissance fair, a calligrapher, selling metaphysical books & stuff, event planning and, for the past 8 years, teaching philosophy and humanities.
As you may have gathered, I love steampunk, due to its eclectic, DIY, leave no trace, Victoriana cosplay, creative aesthetic, as well as its emphasis on self-sufficiency within a community and disregard for established norms. As such, I thought it behooved me to investigate and get involved with SteemIt, as I do believe that the world is changing (hopefully for the better), and that cryptocurrency is the way of the future. In these times of shifting paradigms, we either learn to adapt or get left on the dungheap of history...
Steem on! How you feel can make it real!
Welcome and Thank You for being with us!! Following your Blog now
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Hello ! I am @digital-gypsy , nice to meet you Blissbaby ! Welcome to Steemit and all the best for your posting
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Thank you, digital-gypsy!
welcome to steemit comunity.
Thanks, @steemlover! Looking forward to getting into the swing of things!
Welcome to Steemit Dara!
I also enjoy steampunk. Good to have you here. If you'd like to know a bit more about me, here's my introduceyourself post.
Keep posting!
Thank you! Will check out your post & look forward to getting to know you!
Welcome to Steem @blissbaby I have upvoted and sent you a tip
Why, thank you so much! I greatly appreciate it!
Welcome to steemit @blissbaby. Good choice to join this platform the steemit good platform for blogger and earn money. You come late but late better then never join.You must to remember one thing that you have always writing blog in English no plagiarism, even other language are allow, . Good luck ma friend
Thanks, Joe28! I appreciate the good advice & the good wishes!
You are welcome sweety.
welcome....to steemit....Here are few tips to grow ur earnings and followers
https://steemit.com/blog/@rajag234/here-are-few-simple-tips-to-grow-your-folwers-and-earnings
Thanks so much, @rajag234! I will definitely checkout your link. At this point, I figure I need all that advice I can get!
u r always welcome @blissbaby
Welcome to Steem @blissbaby I have upvoted and sent you a tip. Check my blogs if you are looking for tips on how to earn more Steem and SBD.
Thank you, earncrypto! I greatly appreciate it and will definitely do that, as I am still woefully ignorant of the ways of Steem...
Big Welcome! Steampunk and Steem are a great match I think!
Thanks, havok777!
welcome here Blissbaby!! Nice post, i will follow your account, please follow me at @khunfarang
Thanks, khunfarang! I did follow you & look forward to seeing your posts, once you have some!
Hello @blissbaby Great introduceyourself post!!
I'm @andyluy and I've been here for a a month, a can tell youThat steemit is the most amazing thing I've ever seen at the internet so far. I'm happy seeing it grows every day!
I had some hard time on the firsts week, so I spent some time searching information to improve my experience with steemit, latter I've decided to make posts about those things in order to help the new ones to have a shortcut to get deeper on steemit.
here is some of my posts, I hope It mitght be helpful to you:
The Randowhale
Getting videos from facebook
Minnowssupport!
Randowhale update 1
Here is one post from @yoda1917 That i think Is useful to have a look too
just halt for a moment
I intend to keep posting useful info that I may be able to gather, and in a near future some give away. Feel invited to follow me and if you have any question about steemit you can ask me in any of my last posts, I'll try my best to help.
Ooh thank you!! Greatly appreciate the info!!
you are welcome anytime =D
Welcome to Steemit @blissbaby!
I'm a bot-helper, and I'm created to help. Congratulations on the registration on Steem - you really like it here! If you like me, make an upvote of my comment and follow me. Your upvote will allow you to give more money to new users, such as you. Let's make Steem better together!
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Steem on!
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Thanks, tinashe! I appreciate the advice as I learn how to navigate this new environment!
Welcome Blissbaby its good to see more new users around. Have fun in this community. I wish you many followers and new friends :-) Cheers @chrisx
Thanks, chrisx! I appreciate it! By the way - LOVE the watermelon helmet!
Hi there @Blissbaby ,
Welcome to Steemit ! I am @minnowhelp, nice to meet you !
I do check the values of some offers here and hope so to help new steemians. I just started this project !
In my session 1 of testing the value of an @booster upvote I tracked the gains of different users by using this offer - so - for example @ragnartheking got for an investment of $5.42136 and Post Upvote worth $13.22 !
if you want to save money, follow me on follow me on my blog! :)
Thanks for the offer... I am still so new, I don't yet know what you are talking about, but hope to figure it out soon!
Hello @blissbaby. Welcome to Steemit. I am David. I wish you have a happy journey here.
Thank you, David! It looks like lots of fun...
Welcome to Steemit @blissbaby
Hope you will enjoy and help growing this community !
Best wishes from @tese
Thank you, tese! I am looking forward to exploring & learning about all the fun contributions I can make!
I don't understand why you would think being American is bad?? You won the lottery, maybe appreciate what you have instead of wishing for failed ideals? I wish you luck in the future.
Thanks docmonoc!
Welcome to steemit @blissbaby
Hope you are happy to be here
Do not forget to visit my blog @kachful thanks :)
thanks kachful!
hello @blissbaby
you are very much welcome to steemit,a one of its kind in the history of social networks. i will like to share with you some lessons i learnt the hard way.
First,write on your area of strength, don't strugle more to get topics to write on, but when you write based on what you know/do well at, that becomes your brand and fellow steemians will know what to expect from you on every post.
don't beg for followers.
When people follow you on a quip pro quo basis, that's the foundation of not getting upvotes and comments because many of your followers didn't do so because they wanted what you have to offer but rather they are just there as numbers. #don't go for numbers, but value.
When i joined, after my intro post. i went low kay and started engaging with people on their posts and comments and like that,i was getting people that truly liked me for me. i must note that at some post as a newbie, i outrightly asked people to follow me but that was before i learned that it was one of the unwritten rule of steemit;don't beg for followers.
Again,paticipate in contests, it will conect you to people and probably, earn you some steem/steem dollar. and always try to leave a good comment on people's posts. this dose wonders. check out this contest[clickhere]https://steemit.com/fiftywords/@literature-trail/fifty-word-story-contest-week-20-race-join-for-a-chance-to-win-1000-trail-and-40-sbd
Finally, learn to engage. Get the esteem app on your phone so that after writing and posting with your pc,you can now use your phone and respond to replys on the go. This will help you build your followers.>/h4>
I hope that this piece will be of grate help to you as it has been for me[though i learnt the hard way]. Follow them and thank me later. : )
once more, you are welcome. you seem like someone of great intellectual from your list of books and movies. hope to be friends here.
@arizonawise.
Thanks for the advice & kind words! I will definitely heed you!
you welcome...we will need each other at some point my dear, that's one good thing about steemit.
A new Steemian :-) hello @blissbaby I hope you enjoy your time here, its a great community ! Nice post, Wish you much luck! I will follow your account. Don't hesitate to contact or follow me at any time :-) See you around @tradewonk
Welcome to the community. your introduction was very nice. Followed. Follow me back 😘
Greetings @blissbaby! good to have you here.
Thanks for the advice, @gaman! I appreciate tips from experienced steemers! And thank you so much for the tip!