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 The manifestation/creation and expression of your thoughts going into that note is just as interesting to me as where the decision came from for the actions you’re taking towards sovereignty. 

Lately I can’t stop considering the reasons why we do anything. 
Is that moment of “is-ness”, truth and manifestation something you have “decided” to make happen? Or are you just experiencing it? Isn’t it just a result of every experience you’ve ever had? Most of which are a consequence of events that are downstream of dominoed moments from before you are born? 

Through that lens I see bitcoin as something even more beautiful. It’s a result of everything that came before it. A result of all the tyranny, suffering and devastation in history which bitcoin aims to overcome. Are all the bad things the only reason we can have bitcoin? This isn’t original obviously, this concept of good and evil toying with each other and reality being manifest outside of our will is where every religion comes from. 

To be seeing the potential for such a huge shift in society, right before our eyes, as a reaction to so many negatives in history. I’m so grateful for this. 
 This is beautifully put — I think often about the interplay between choice and “karma” (in reference to fhe interdependent lines of cause and effect, rather than the personalized caricature of karma).

If everything is part of an energetic whole, and our consciousness too is a part of it, then every instance of being is simultaneously chosen and determined/dependent on the prior moment, with no paradox. Panentheism in philosophy, unified field theory in physics, “it’s/we’re all one” in meditation (and psychedelics)… the duality is complete, and the paradoxical views are consistent with one another (a paradox within itself), and it’s an absolutely beautiful thing to contemplate.

Thanks for your reply; thanks for being here 🫂