Despite the demise of the Stewards of Gondor, the Stewards of Terra Mater will continue. However, I may have to re-evaluate the level of support as my upvote is only worth $0.02 right now. So expect changes. Until then, here is how everyone is doing.
A few days ago I added two new members to the team. I encourage people to visit their blogs and if you like what you see, then pay it forward and upvote their work.
I really liked @mistermercury's blog post https://steemit.com/life/@mistermercury/i-died-a-hundred-deaths. He sees his relationship between spirit and his physical vessel in very much the same way as I do. Welcome to the team @mistermercury!
@borrowedearth was introduced to me by @goldendawne and I liked what I saw as she was moving off grid and working really hard to have a healthy relationship with Mother Earth (Terra Mater). Her journey fit in very well with the intent and spirit of the group. I hope you enjoy her blog as well.
The Team
Current members:
@earthmother
@skycae
@carey-page
@harvardhomestead
@realtreebivvy
@salmanbukhari54
@mistermercury
@borrowedearth
Honourary members:
Please feel free to visit any of these individuals as they explore life as they live off the grid or are well on their way to getting off 'the grid'. May Creator bless you all with peace, freedom, prosperity, joy and love.
While i'm grateful to FTG for his delegation and including me in the SOG team, i cannot in good conscience support his actions or war as it now seems to be called, it just makes me very uncomfortable with what is happening and i'd rather leave my days of conflict in the past where they belong and steer clear.
Please feel free to take back the delegation brother - i believe you can reach a lot more people than me and i'm happy to support the great work that you do - and support you any way i can in spreading peace and harmony to all.
i don't think a delegation is what makes this a great team - it's our beliefs that hold us together and makes us a team with our respect for all - it's a great team....You guys are awesome :)
Back to the stats - Big welcome from me to the new members "HELLO"... there have been some great reading and interactions, so keep it up and keep paying it forward...love to all, i'm going fishing :)
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Ohhhhh i love the way you think!!! Xoxo
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Very well said and I agree with you....G-friend @realtreebivvy
We are strong in our solidarity... And if we keep going that way, we'll be stronger.
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I guess I missed something. I'm at the bottom of your graph. Should I be upvoting more or giving steem away or...? I do want to fulfill the "mission" of Terra Mater. Please excuse my ignorance. Trying to get it all figured out!!
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I just provide the graph to show how people are doing along their trek to become a minnow (500 steem / 1Mvests). I'm working to support new users to get established with their blog and to goal is to become a minnow. No worries my friend. If you have questions, please don't hesitate to ask.
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The way to grow your account is write great content and interact with people. They will upvote your content and I encourage you to upvote others as well. But you have to govern yourself as you don't want your steem power to get too low. steemnow.com is one tool you can use to monitor your steem power. As your posts pay out you can draw the money our or convert it into steem and power up. That will then provide more influence and higher voting power on your votes. It will also increase your mvests to rocket you towards being a minnow.
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Ok. Thanks. Appreciate the tips. Blessings.
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I have been absent a fair bit these past couple of weeks. Processing a lot of things.
This whole "war" business can suck the life out of you, and no one wins.
It is my experience that where there is light, the darkness diminishes. Where there is love, hate diminishes. All exist... but i choose to feed light and love.
Welcome @mistermercury and @borrowedearth!!!
It has been great to follow your blogs so far!
Congratulations!
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On knees...
This!
Mmwwwaaaa!
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Xoxo
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I did a post yesterday about what changes may occur and... there are none.
I will still be doing all my mentoring, guiding, contests, etc including adding my fourth Golden Ambassador later today.
I hope everyone continues on as they have before. I would be terribly saddened to see such great work being on stand-by.
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Bravo to you @goldendawne! I agree. It would be terribly sad if we all disbanded. Kudo's to you for keeping going!
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Oh!!!
I am so tempted to share a crazy creation tomorrow.
The SOG inspired a fun bit before I realized the whole of the situation, I was just riding the gratitude I initially saw.
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I am wondering where @wisewoof is?
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She joined the war, so I removed her from the team.
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I'm not sure how it constitutes as a war, it's simply a theme from LOTR to rally support. Ultimately we are making a stand against theft from the Steemit platform and in the end making it a better place and prolonging it's surivival. I will not stand idly by whilst the reward pools are stolen and accounts such as Lyndsays are attacked for no reason. I find it hard to believe you would do nothing if your family/friends were being attacked. Having a difference in opinion should not be a valid reason to oust anyone. The Stewards of Terra Mater was founded upon those on a spiritual journey and/or living offgrid. In no way am I not on that path by sticking up for what I believe in. But it's your choice to do as you please. It's just sad you would make an example out of and shun me for this.
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ahh, I see, that is sad indeed. I honestly want them to get rid of the abuse, but will not be flagging people. Its dangerous, and my votes are better used elsewhere.
I am honored, as always, to be part of the stewards of terra matter, and I am going to keep most of my delegations in place as well. I suppose I will rely on @treeplanter more to send good upvotes to good content!
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I haven't flagged anyone in my time on Steemit, not even once. I am no different from you Cae in my stance, voicing my opinion on the matter and showing support for those who can/will do something about it.
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"joined the war"...whats that?
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You are better off not knowing @mistermercury.
As you can guess it is not founded in love.
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I disagree, my participation is founded on love for Steemit and to protect those that have been attacked without even having participated.
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I understand that.
I love my cousin who was attacked and raped without any provocation. I felt very vindicated if getting a hold of her rapist and torturing him until he begged me to kill him.
Now because of my love for her, I deliver that same sentence to other rapist.
My motives are completely out of love....
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Let me be clear, I haven't
attackedflagged anyone. My opinion on the matter is no different from skycae or many others, so for me to be ostracized is unwarranted.Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
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It's an honor to be included in this team.
I'm very much looking forward to getting to know everyone.
As for the rest, follow your heart.
Much Gratitude.
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Hi @wwf
You are really doing a good job to help keeping this community growing.
It is good to know that Stewards of Terra Mater is expanding. Keep the fire burning.
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Oh, and you were so generous to me, would it be good if I gave you back 250 steem power or more? Just tell me how to do it. Maybe we can all pitch in and help out.
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It is all good my friend. I'll work it out. I just had somebody delegate 2500 steem to me. So I'll keep everything the way it is.
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Good job. my brother
Also, I really liked @mistermercury's blog post
Now I've got $147 in steem power... Can I help with something?
And I can deliver it to $170.
If we don't stop these things from now, it's going to get worse. We have to do something for our community.
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@taskmaster4450, thank you for the steem delegation. <3
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You are welcome...I cant think of a better place for it.
As I noted in a comment elsewhere, when you walk with principle, you never walk alone.
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thank you @taskmaster4450 so much
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brother @wwf Now I've got $147 in steem power.... i don't know how i send it to you
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Good group of posters!
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