Johannes Aaron

@HermesLux Thank you

@DJPlexiglass USAA

My goodness, this is too easy... I went with the 0% option until Jun 2027. For those interested, for the past 3 years, I've been flipping back and forth between two different credit cards at Citi (I also do this with other cards as well). Each time I do this, I get to deposit the funds into my checking account (2 business day transfer time). The first 18 months I borrowed at 0%, then 2.99% for a year, now 0% again. Citi collects their fee (ref. $526.54 below) so they're happy. I build credit and use the funds to my advantage, so I'm happy. Building good credit takes time, but it's well worth it.

@realpeteyb123 It's really hard with pizza.

Family ordered Roman style pizza. So unfortunately I ate 5 slices like a fat slob. I have zero defense for pizza.

@Gabepluguez Does it have, "Read the paragraph before a particular verse?" That's a classic.

Biggest takeaways so far: 1. Every word of scripture is the inspired word of God. 2. The Holy Spirit is a necessary factor in biblical interpretation. 3. The simplest thing you can do to accurately interpret the Bible is look up the meanings of the words in their original languages

@tyromper Yes! Our little guys loving us so much but not knowing basic things about us always cracks me up too.

Super blessed I got to lead prayer in my boys school this morning for our APPRECIATE DAD's & DOUGHNUTS event! It was so cute the kids made us dad coffee cups & the responses to WHAT WE DO FOR WORK were hilarious! Tyson thinks I'm 50 years old! The thing he says I say most is "I LOVE YOU!" BEING A DAD IS PEAK LIFE!!! God is great! Let's have a day!! ❤️🙏 *Kingston heroically stepped up & volunteered to eat my doughnut as I only wanted 1 bite :)

@Gabepluguez Cool business idea

I Pay $450/m for a gym membership with Child Care. We get 2 hours/ day. That same time is $14,400/ year with a nanny. We save more than 50% on the child care alone, have more investable funds to deploy into business and family + have scheduled time to train which keeps us accountable (and gives us a break from baby). Also, sweating with your wife is prime flirting opportunity. Watching either get sexy for each other. Things get hot and heavy. Baby usually falls asleep on the car ride home too... This IS marriage advice!

@JoshMandell6 That's exactly what Hal predicted.

Here's the question I have for the Bitcoin Illuminati: Why couldn't it be the case that Bitcoin ends up becoming the universal settlement rails, but not necessarily the payment rails? Bitcoin's got the strongest security and decentralization, making it perfect for settling big transfers like those between banks or countries. But for everyday small payments, might it be impractical? So, couldn't we have Bitcoin as the rock-solid base layer for final settlement, while other networks or second-layer solutions handle the moment-to-moment stuff on top?

@megha_lilly It's that spiritually, but physically it's like the trail in Pilgrim's Progress, complete with moments like that andg grueling moments and everything between at different times or stretches. Our 6th is coming today, Lord willing.

This is what I imagine it's like to have 5+ children.

@ZubyMusic Our son is being born today, Lord willing!

What are you currently excited about?

@Gabepluguez Will keep you in prayer. Do the same for us, as baby is on the way today!

I’m having an existential crisis. I don’t love golf. But I’m surrounded by people who love golf. My clients. My team. I do not want to conform to this pattern of the world. But I fear I have no choice. I’m being invited on golf trips. And my biology is reacting in a way in which it fears death from being casted out from the group, all because I don’t swing a club and hit a little ball. For any of my non-golf lovers, surrounded by Tiger Woods worshipers. Now would be a good time for me to ask for prayer🙏🏻

@jason_howerton 🙏They call me All-Day Aaron ❤️

@DJPlexiglass Let’s go!!!! Congrats. Get in the spiritual gym

“Christian Men should get married and have children.” As soon as you say this, division sowers will emerge with the old line: “But Paul didn’t get married! Are you saying Paul did the wrong thing?!” 🙄 A couple things: Paul had fear of God tattooed on his brain because Jesus appeared to him directly. He had a singular mission because of this and died for his cause. Paul is a legend. Living like he did is holy and good. But can we just be honest? 99.9% of men in 2026 are not built like Paul. Most childless men are not going to commit themselves to a lifetime of celibacy and growing a global ministry - they’re going to commit themselves to p*rn, video games, and cheap pleasure. For the .01% who are genuinely pursuing this celibate lifestyle, it’s honorable and I pray for your success. But the rest of you? Get married, have children. One more than you think you can handle. It will ignite something inside of you, an urgency in your spirit to make something of yourself and leave the world a better place than you found it because your kids and grandkids are counting on you. “Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one's youth. Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them!" - Psalm 127:3-5

@lymanstoneky Thanks for letting me know. We got ours setup in March but there's a shortage of gas cannisters here. We got 2 20-pounders online in April but they still haven't arrived yet. Expecting them by May's end, at which point I'll season it and fire it up for the first time!

Fellow middle aged dads, I bring you a message of great importance: The Blackstone is worth it.

@sweatystartup Are these all powders? I'd love to know more.

My 6 yr old son has had behavior problems. A week ago I started: 2.5 mg of creatine 150 mg of magnesium glycinate 200 mg theanine 500 mg sodium 200 mg potassium I mix it all into 6 oz water with the electrolyte stick for flavor (salt of the earth) in the morning. It has been a massive success. Behavior way better.

@shagbark_hick @Brumairian The Pilgrims' own move to America also had a commercial side. The whole expedition was sponsored and contractual, and had an economic goal alongside it. I think this is quite possible for you @shagbark_hick. What kind of industry or business could we setup for potential families?

@Brumairian This is the best insight I've had on this train of thought in a very long time. I think you've cracked the code here. Still, fairly shocking how universal the "gold rush drive" seems to be. Seems like there are just... not very many high-agency marginal types anymore.

I hear this a lot, as if it's some kind of great scandal or hypocrisy. But frankly I find the criticism to be obtuse. I moved to a place where they're giving away housing, and now live mortgage-free. We have no crime, no migrants, no ugly human monoculture, beautiful rural scenery, and endless wilderness. When I moved up here (just a couple hours from where I grew up) I knew the place was dying. Went into this with full knowledge of the situation. But between reading Twitter and talking to people IRL, I'd gotten the sense that there were droves of young people who: 1. Were angry about the high cost of housing 2. Wanted cheap housing 3. Wanted to get away from cities, crime, and migrants 4. Wanted to live a more rural, homestead-ish type life 5. Wanted to form religious communities, particularly Catholic communities, and revive dying Parishes 6. Were probably smart enough to figure out how to make a living without a conventional job 7. Were mad enough about their complaints with Main Street America that they might actually take action, move house for it, etc. So I found a town with move-in-ready homes for sale under $50,000, in a fairly isolated rural area with next-to-no crime, favorable demographics, stunning scenery, no migrants, and a beautifully restored "trad Novus Ordo" Catholic Parish that was, up until recently, offering daily Mass and confession. The town is actively dying, but I assumed that if I could find perhaps 5-6 young Catholic families who wanted to live mortgage-free, we could save it, and by having large families, we could eventually "take it over" Amish-style. Given how often I read complaints about the cost of housing, and how passionately people complained about that topic, I assumed this would be fairly straightforward to do. My error was in assuming that when people complain, they actually want the problems about which they are complaining to be SOLVED. I furthermore erred in assuming that those complaining might be willing to take some pretty robust action in order to solve those problems, including moving to a town like this one. If that were true, these dying towns in deep rural Northern NY would be some of the best value propositions imaginable. We have bridges, dams, storefronts, roads, town water, town sewer, library, Church, bars, wilderness trails, excellent trout streams, you name it. All up for grabs at dirt-cheap prices; just add young pilgrims and pioneers and we'd bring it back to life and set a fantastic example for rebuilding the American heartland. It's still possible, too. But this is one of those ideas that ONLY works if you've got a half-dozen like-minded families who share a faith, work together, stick around, and are savvy enough to make a living in a place with no jobs. Sort of like the old frontier that many people pine for, except easier. So I'm in "limbo" here. If we can find even 2-3 families who are interested in such a thing, we'd stay. Or perhaps if one of the larger towns around here appealed more (such as Tupper Lake or Ogdensburg) and a few families took a genuine interest, we'd move there. But barring participation from at least a few young Catholic families, our options are either to leave or to stay out here alone, watching this place die. And by the way, the death of this place is not something I'm overstating. Median age is over 60. ALL the children move away. There are no jobs within 35min of here on clear roads; in winter, that drive might be 50min. We get hardcore winters. The school (largest employer in town) has lost over 50% of its students in the last 20 years. There is no tourism to speak of, and extremely unlikely that there could be as we're so isolated. The town is going broke and can barely keep the water system working. Taxes go up every year. If the town is to be saved, it's really now or never. Same with many many dozens of similar towns up here. I thought I'd try to turn that around, and still think it could happen. If the scandalous hypocrisy is found in trying to save a beautiful old piece of the American heartland -- I'm guilty as charged. The peanut gallery can laugh it up but I love this state and I don't want to see it die.

@shagbark_hick @Brumairian The gold is the way of life, which is the truest gold anyway.

Man I think you're spot on. I do not care about getting rich and never did, and a plain reading of the Gospel tells me I ought not go out and try to get rich. So the possibilities I see here are really geared toward sufficiency, enough, a nice little life and not more. You cannot really get rich here, period. It's even pretty tough to scrape together enough to meet the new 21st-century standard of what's "normal," what with big huge HVAC house, two car payments, endless hot water and heat, big expensive trips to the market, etc etc. This is a great place for those who want definite contentment at the cost of never getting rich, and Americans just don't seem to care about that sort of thing. Especially conservative Americans who might like the culture here.

@AJA_Cortes I love a Christian brother of mine from that area. He came to serve with us in Suriname in two years, but went back to India last year. He told me all about what you're saying, and that the locals still know the street St. Thomas was dragged down.

One of the oldest Christian communities in the world is in India The St. Thomas Christians of Kerala trace their founding to 52 AD, when the Apostle Thomas is said to have landed on the Malabar Coast When the Portuguese showed up in 1498, they found a Church already 1,400 years old, worshipping in Aramaic

@shagbark_hick @neipate96 True. Stick to Florida (MA), or Clarksburg.

@neipate96 I've always liked it, though I think it's now turned into a kind of "spillover zone" for those who can't afford Northampton

It is very funny, I hear many people saying bad things about Massachusetts, but honestly MA is much better than Upstate NY in many ways. NY is #2-highest overall tax burden in USA. MA is #21-highest. The Cato Institute ranks NY at #50, or dead last, in overall personal freedom. It ranks MA at #26. People in MA are friendlier overall. The scenery in rural Western MA is fantastic. The cost of real estate is comparable in rural areas (slightly higher in MA but fairly reasonable IMO). And in many towns in deep rural Western MA, the local authorities can have a surprisingly laissez-faire mentality about property owner rights. I know of at least a few towns where the codes enforcement is extremely lax or bordering on nonexistent, where quite a lot of shenanigans are tolerated. You really just have to avoid the rich liberal areas and you'll find people are not really that rulesy. Moreover, MA people tend to be pretty educated and I find that they are 10x more social than Upstate NY people. We just visited some friends in rural W. MA and even at the local dump, everybody's just chilling out and socializing. There's a big crew of young men that get together at the local pub weekly without fail. Unheard of where we live in NY. MA's rural parts also seem WAY younger than NY's. Quite common to run into friendly, well-read folks in their 30's out in the hill towns -- and once you get away from the bigger cities and college towns, they do not tend to be uniformly liberal or woke. Usually more "independent". In other words, NY is so bad for so many things that someone from Upstate NY would put themselves way ahead by moving to MA. And I find that while MA real estate is pricier than NY's, you can get cheaper real estate overall in MA than in VT or NH. There are a lot of "sleeper" options in that state, and none of them are *that* far from some really excellent amenities and communities.

@nicholascarrigg Wow, same here. Middle school in MA and everything. One difference is he really didn't like me, but I didn't handle it well and instead turned it back on him to a much higher level, getting friends in on it, etc. Regret it completely now, such a shame.

One time in middle school, we had this substitute teacher that we absolutely ragged on. He was gentle, older, and wore tweed. We thought we were so funny being little jerks to him. 5 years later, I saw him pruning hedges outside a tidy little house near the town landing. My heart sunk, remembering how rotten we were to this elderly gentleman who clearly was just trying to keep busy in his retirement and give back. I'm sure he's dead now, and the hedges are gone. But whenever I drive past that house, I think of him. I'm sorry, sir. May you rest in peace.

@ZynxBTC Sata is now paid weekly (or maybe twice monthly).

Obviously I have no idea what Strive / $ASST have planned for us tomorrow. At this point, it's been a good marketing ploy because we're all talking about it. Apparently it is "world changing". If it's not M&A and not the STRC/SATA ETF, than what is it? Give your best guess.