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 Love Thy Neighbor


Why Bitcoin is good for your soul. 


If the world is falling to pieces, it isn’t because we’ve run out of money, or space, or matter - it’s because we have run out of Love. 

Within the infinitude of suffering, lost causes, and hopelessness that embeds our human experience - the remedy can only be more, not less - love. 

In the Western world, (I cannot speak for the east) we keep running into this limit, we can seemingly overcome any challenge, but we are rapidly running out of steam. 

We demand people adopt our Hebreic/Christian moral system, and we are eternally puzzled by the chaos that erupts all around us. 

We have succeeded in our crusading only by virtue of our superior use of violence and technological prowess, we have beaten the world down over hundreds of years into submission. Being all the while oblivious to the example we are setting. We are quite unconscious that we are giving the world a lesson in how to get what you want, you use force.

What we call ‘democracy’ is merely a front for subjugating entire people groups that we consider different from ourselves. Since it has become unfashionable for unbridled blood-shed (or perhaps not so unfashionable lately) we use another kind of violence. 

We send in the IMF to lend you money, in a system of fascistic monopoly that we have designed to take your energy whether that be land, resources or food, and put it in our storehouses. 

We get our sense of moral superiority from the Bible, though we don’t admit it. Even the post modernists and left wing ‘radicals’ are seeking the moral high ground, only because we have been brainwashed into thinking that the UniVerse is a celestial monarchy, with a very defined moral framework of right and wrong, punishment and reward.. We also believe we are separate from each other and naturally free from the consequences of violence - but we’re not. 

We Are One. To those of you who know this, or know that you know - I need not explain. To those who don’t know - you cannot be shown with words.

The thing that I speak of is the power behind Bitcoin, and all good things. It’s the glowing feeling we get when we recognise a friend. We could call it love - or passion. Satoshi could have used his talents to benefit himself, maybe joined wall street, and amassed yachts and houses and material wealth - but instead he chose to fix our money. This was a relatively thankless task - until he left us. We can see his actions as echoes of our friend Jesus - when he said that ‘greater love hath no man, than he lay down his life for his friends’.
I believe that what our community needs now more than ever is more positive intention and love. This isn’t just new age nonsense, but a very real substance that improves our world that is often left out of our Western physicalist worldview. 

The Global Consciousness Project, funded by the Institute of noetic Sciences conducted many experiments showing that meditative intent can affect the output of random number generators, even when the target is ten years in the past. Quantum physics is not witchcraft, but is lifting the veil on the primary substance of our UniVerse - that we are in a mental or consciousness construct - as opposed to a material realm.  

What has this got to do with Bitcoin? It’s simple. Bitcoin success isn’t based on it’s mathematical merits - but on the faith (or positive intention) of it’s HODLers. 

If you take anything away from this post, take courage - and remember - all we need to do is stay positive, and we will change our world from the system we don’t want - to a fair and equitable realm that is enriched and enchanted with joy, freedom and prosperity for all. 

I would like to thank  nostr:npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe for opening my eyes to the ideas that I have here presented, thanks everyone

Luke (Bitcoin Mystic)

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