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We should have luxury cooperatives

Like, most of the time, you don't need to be using a luxury good. It's a luxury /because/ it's a some-of-the-time thing. Jewelry, silks, fine china, sefer torah, and perfumes. Your church shoes and wedding dress. Movie, museum, theatre, and concert passes. Prime, Netflix, and Spotify. Even a car if you're in a city with good transit (SF, NYC, Minneapolis).

All of these are things that are easy to share if different people use them at different times. If we just had groups of like 20 people who meet in a bar and agree how to share their keys and their Netflix, we could all be living la dolce vida for a tithe. Versace for the squad at a tenth each.

Who's with me?

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If you're with me and in San Francisco, we can meet at the Revolution Cafe (ie, 'The Rev') in the Mission near 24th.

If you're with me and in Berkeley, we can meet at the REACH. (We're even on Google Maps now because fuck yeah)

If you're with me and in New York, I'm afraid I'm not in New York, but this is so obviously a New York thing that it has to work there. Ray has Bay'd, but I think @wearsshoes is a good coordination point.

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Training Your Child Means Watching Over Their Soul

by J.C. Ryle

Precious, no doubt, are these little ones in your eyes; but if you truly love them, then often think about their souls. Nothing should concern you as greatly as their eternal destiny. No part of them should be so dear to you as that part which will never die.

This is the thought that should be uppermost on your mind in all that you do for your children. In every step you take about them, in every plan, and scheme, and arrangement that concerns them, do not leave out that mighty question, ‘How will this affect their souls?’

A true Christian must not be a slave to what’s currently ‘in-fashion,’ if he wants to train his child for heaven. He must not be content to teach them and instruct them in certain ways, merely because it is customary, or to allow them to read books of a questionable sort, merely because everybody else reads them, or to let them form bad habits, merely because they are the habits of the day. He must train with an eye to his children’s souls. He must not be ashamed to hear his training called odd and strange. What if it is? The time is short—the customs of this world are passing away. He that has trained his children for heaven, rather than for the earth—for God, rather than for man—he is the parent that will be called wise in the end.