It was never about massages. But... Thailand.


Idk but maybe the YouTube channel "bitcoin university" has something on it.


Been reading about Enoch Burke, a teacher who is in jail for using the correct English, "he," instead of a student's preferred pronoun of, "they."

Jail. For a word.

And as usual, it's a teacher that's being targeted.

And he seems like a really great teacher, too, from what he says.

https://www.newsweek.com/irish-teacher-enoch-burke-jailed-transgender-pronoun-dispute-timeline-1947864

#clownworld #massmentaldisease #fiatbrains #tyranny #christian


Man has never been “a part of nature”. Man was created by God as described in Genesis, and the only laws he is governed by were written by God, and those laws are under God’s absolute control.

It is not true that distractions distance us from what is real; the problem with “modern man” is that he is extremely and willfully ignorant, and always eager to believe any lie that is told to him. He loves evil and lies rather than good, lies rather than the truth, and speed rather than punctuation.

The problem modern man faces is The State, just as the USSR suffered under Communism, modern man in the West suffers under Crony Capitalism, The State, and the Federal Reserve system. These are discrete problems all of which are completely soluble without resorting to cereal box philosophies, navel gazing and pointless dead end abstractions and avoidance of bitter hard truths.

The State as a “construct” in the modern era is almost totally evil, as described by Murray Rothbard in his  “Anatomy of the State”:

https://mises.org/library/book/anatomy-state

Ignorant people who don’t know the fundamental basis of everything cannot begin to unpack the present situation man is in and identify the true source of the problem. They have to resort to hand waving, Fruit Loop Logic and nonsense, none of which provides a clean, practical way out based only on the truth.

And yes, there IS absolute truth; it is discoverable and communicable and not hard for ordinary people to understand. Refusing to face this fact is pure thumb sucking infantilism and cowardice, two of the basic plagues suffered by coddled, weak and ineffectual Western men.

People talk about things not being grounded in reality, but when that reality is exposed to them, they refuse to accept it, shrink away from it like worms that have had salt sprinkled on them, and not only that, they choose to go along with the evil and support it and the State that is the main distributor of it. They refuse even to tell anyone that the evil exists and that they hate it. To add insult to injury, they wax vaguely with half baked philosophies that are dead ends because they communicate nothing, show no way out, are habiutally non specific and greatly unhelpful.

Modern day financial systems are completley corrupted by the State, especially the Federal Reserve Dollar which is so pernicious and toxic, the destruction of it was in his own words the greatest triumph of Andrew Jackson who declared, “I killed the bank”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTPopNG6LRM&ab_channel=JackoTV

Today, the weak men can barely take their chubby, grubby fingers to clack out its name on their keyboards as they Virtue Signal to stupefied drug addle fans while collecting people’s government documents just so they can use “their own money”.

If the truth must be “handed down by a CEO” then let it be handed down by a CEO. This is infinitely preferable to a CEO who does not believe that there is such a thing as truth, and even worse, a CEO who  knows the truth but goes along with evil for expedience and keeps his silence. And furthermore, the truth is not rooted in who man is; the truth exists outside of man, and is imposed upon him by his creator.

Bitcoin as money (it is not money, it is a database that can be used AS money) is a powerful tool precisely because it denies weak men the opportunity to corrupt it, just as they abuse consumers by forcing them to obey the evil and unethical rules laid down by the Fiat State. There is no getting around this, and “I was only following orders” will not cut it either when the records are examined.

Bitcoin spreading everywhere through Ethical Bitcoin companies and tools are what is going to change everything, and as everyone has seen, it only takes a handful of CEOs to make global unambiguous beneficial change happen for hundreds of millions of people. This work is in progress.

Believing in fantasy will not help anyone. Pouring hope onto tools that cannot work is infantilism and ignoring reality. It is ignoring the problem and running away and hiding from it, just as the Cereal Box philosophers ignore the nature of the State and refuse to put it in its place as the true source of of the fiat problem and the war machine problem and the distortions, perversions, poisoning and dumbing down of all mankind.

This refusal to face reality head on is why Bitcoin had to be written in the first place; generation after generation of weak, distracted infantilized men who refuse to think and solve problems made it necessary for machines to solve their problems for them. Bitcoin is one such machine, and you can be sure more are coming, because man would rather run away and hide from solving his problems rather than take his medicine and lead.

Bitcoin removes the power of the State to lie about money. Communication tools that allow anyone to say anything do not solve the problem of the character of man or solve the problem of The State; men of good character can facilitate free communication, so all that is needed are a few good men. Computer solutions can’t solve the problems caused by the character of man. In the case of Bitcoin, they can constrain man’s ability to cheat, but man is still a liar and cheater by nature. That will not change in this world.

A platform that is built to carry any lie to anywhere is not a solution that can fix the world’s problems. Of course people who think the back of a box of Frosted Flakes is the ultimate source of truth cannot understand this. And no one needs them to be able to either. Bitcoin was written to supersede these weak people and to constrain them and their “votes” and it will succeed. Just watch.

In the meantime, by all means waste your time on niche fad networks that will not move the needle, while men with huge platforms and guts liberate hundreds of millions of people to change the world. One man with guts and a vision can change everything; this has been proven again and again. Men who run and hide cannot change anything and never will. History will judge them accordingly, if they are even remembered.

No amount of fad citing and fashionable talk can substitute for real contributions to the problems faced by man. Only action can help, and refraining from evil. These are the unavoidable facts, and the way the world actually is. If you refuse to face this, you are part of the problem, and will be swept away with the Statists. That is your fate, and you will deserve it, because you were warned, and refused to rise to the challenge.

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🤔 never thought of mammals that way before... But I like it...


Other countries have box thingies at the front of the bus. You put in coin, it beeps, you go on bus. Takes less than a second. Bus driver doesn't have to do anything.


America has a chance to avert disaster while reclaiming the title of champion of liberty of the world. We will do it.


So many boosts, that looking at who boosted it causes amethyst to crash 😂


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A bit of a downer now, just thinking that if that fact doesn't wake people up, literally nothing can. The state murders people in their living room for lighting up. Not even doing anything. Experiencing life as a piece of Jello... What's jello going to do to anyone? But no one bats an eye when a psycho playing cop murders someone for that.


In 10 years I'll send a video of my spaceship launching from my citadel.


Totally agree. But there's a point when the danger the friends put you in make you make some hyper-rational calculations. For me, it was my friend walking around a legit communist country with a joint. Like, dude, cool it, do that in the States - a year or two before, an American had been executed for having weed. They don't F around. The state department won't lift a finger for you. That wasn't the only dumb shit that guy did... I got to negotiate with F'n mafia because of that dipshit on a totally separate occasion.


Eh? I'm in. What, I just repost this?

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Isaiah 30:21
New International Version
21 Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way; walk in it.”

#Biblestr #bible #God


I had real freedom before bitcoin. I learned to let go, and I tested myself by travelling "naked" - no luggage, no contacts, no language, just my wits.

If monero succeeds, the world will be better for it. That also means it will be there if needed. I'm focused on bitcoin, and I'm a "burn the ships" kind of person. I'll conquer or I'll die trying, and that's true liberation. Shitcoins, hopefully, were the last piece of the compromise mentality that had to die.

A bit of an ego spew, that, but no lies.


I don't laugh at monero bros... I dislike some of the influencers lying about bitcoin, but I like monero and want it to succeed.


Invest also in your ability to travel fast and light and preferably anonymously. At least be able to appear like a typical fiat brain while being fast enough to disappear within minutes. A "go bag" is a must. A USB stick with Tails on it. I have no idea what would cause me to want to disappear fast, but its a comfort knowing I can.  Actually I do have an idea... A CME would be a heck of an opportunity for a government to go all North Korea on people.


Finally posted it right... apologies to anyone that saw this 3 times already...


Tell your evangelical friends that Christians don't support murder, much less genocide. If they think its an "us vs them" thing or that Muslims are bad, tell them to leave the judgement to God. Our job isn't to fight or support anyone fighting. Being a follower of Christ is a simple formula - you seek the truth, you withhold judgement, and you be charitable and merciful. I wish so much that churches would tell you this.

Seek the truth - Jesus told you specifically to seek truth within yourself. But also, in the modern context, that means we have to oppose all censorship.

Judge not - no team mentality. "Us vs them" earns you a judgement.

Be charitable - maaaaaan do we need to improve this. Be nice. Give the benefit of the doubt. Offer help without caring about any details other than that help is needed.

Okay, enough of my own spin, look at the thingy...

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Yeah I remember you mentioning xapo bank, but idk anything about it, didn't know they could hold btc. There's a whole 'nother level of criminality and "then they fight you" that's coming when the world understands that its bitcoin or nothing and fiat brains have most of their btc in banks. That's when it gets nasty. All the power in the world is built upon usury, all the banks are only profitable when they can charge interest on interest. You can't charge interest on interest in btc. So they'll steal from whoever's the lowest on the ladder, meaning normal people, and they won't do anything cuz they never do, but it won't be enough and the next rung of the ladder gets "bailed in," and so on until... It collapses into war. Very very very slim chance we get through it peacefully. Our best bet is for the etf's to get 6102'd, the sooner the better. I'm thinking action/reaction, not right/wrong. People that lose now will learn while the lesson is cheap.


I was almost like, "supercool water, dafuq is this shit?" And then I remembered a little magic trick I used to play... I would put bottled water in my freezer and leave it indefinitely. Something about this freezer caused it to never transition to ice, despite the temperature. I would get a bottle out, take a sip, then whack the bottle and it would instantly freeze solid.


Unfortunately, I don't think it ever will be common to be able to fund your own interests. If you rely on interest payments in a btc bank, you will get rugged. This isn't speculation - the math of bitcoin banking doesn't work, it cannot last forever. Maybe they get a decade or two out of it. I wouldn't risk it. Not saying I think you're doing that, but it made me think of it. A lot of people are going to come into bitcoin thinking they'll leverage perfect property to get cashflow - they will all lose all of it.


I like it (your note), but technically capitalism is just having property rights. What we built, the false god, this Moloch beast, is really the opposite of capitalism - usury is a violation of property rights.


I think of my present situation as already holding everything in btc. Yes, I could have more by figuring out all the Stupid I set up ages ago... But seriously, I'm feeling nauseous already from just thinking about it. I would literally, for real, have to go vomit to purge myself.


You see, the problem isn't knowing that... Its having to look at them. Its easier to let them go to zero than to feel disgusting from touching them.


Seemed smart at the time. Do you think the Freemasons have learned not to mess with politics?


European websites are the worst... Basically none are accessible over VPN or Tor. They were already especially abusive with their cookies popup that didn't let you decline anything.

I think we're just going to have to rebuild the internet. I'm not giving up on Tor. I just won't give the abusers my attention or business.


Well, now I have to stop my podcast and listen to that song... Its already playing in my head


One last hurrah for 58k?

🤗😉😅


One last hurrah for 58k?


Sorry, its me. Thanks for reminding me to get it working


Thank you. Its a beautiful morning and coffee is good.


I lol'd at the top bit about how the Chinese treat "poc" s - which I had to look up. I had a friend in China who was a black South African, and he got a new job and moved to a new city, and when he went to work, they wouldn't let him in and they called the cops on him and fired him - just for being black. Apparently they hadn't done a webcam interview, which is standard for Asians, even here in the US...


The current year, lol


GM ☕

Power must be exercised, or it disappears.

That's why our government kills people. There's details, incentives, reasons and stories - but the fundamental reason underlying it all is the necessity of exercising power.

He who is willing to do the most difficult thing is the most powerful. Your "significant other" may be willing to leave you if you don't conform to her wishes - she is powerful. An army is willing to kill people if they don't conform and flow according to the needs of the army - that's power.

Socialists make a study of power - I've picked up a copy of the Jacobin magazine (more like a light book, tbh) and every single page was an essay on power. Every page must have had the word 'power' on it over a dozen times. And that mag has been publishing regularly for something like a century... Maybe two? And we've all seen what they're capable of.

I'll repeat : power must be exercised or it disappears.

So, practice doing powerful things.

Use the word, "No." Use it just to use it. See how many times you can insert "no" into a conversation. No shame in changing your mind afterwards.

Find your friend who likes shooting and go hang out with them. Bring your women folk along - they need to know how to shoot more than you do, and they won't learn it unless you make a project out of it.

Make a bitcoin transaction. Just move a utxo to another address if there's nothing you want to buy. Teach self custody to someone. This is one instance where power is not zero-sum ; your power as a bitcoiner grows as other people's bitcoiner power grows.

Put some kind of Linux on a USB stick to make a bootable stick drive thingy. Just fart around on Linux for a few minutes. That grows your power.

Plant a little garden without using fertilizer or pesticides - being able to make something edible without buying *anything* is power.

Etc.

#gm #power #anarchy #freedom


GM ☕

Power must be exercised, or it disappears.

That's why our government kills people. There's details, incentives, reasons and stories - but the fundamental reason underlying it all is the necessity of exercising power.

He who is willing to do the most difficult thing is the most powerful. Your "significant other" may be willing to leave you if you don't conform to her wishes - she is powerful. An army is willing to kill people if they don't conform and flow according to the needs of the army - that's power.

Socialists make a study of power - I've picked up a copy of the Jacobin magazine (more like a light book, tbh) and every single page was an essay on power. Every page must have had the word 'power' on it over a dozen times. And that mag has been publishing regularly for something like a century... Maybe two? And we've all seen what they're capable of.

I'll repeat : power must be exercised or it disappears.

So, practice doing powerful things.

Use the word, "No." Use it just to use it. See how many times you can insert "no" into a conversation. No shame in changing your mind afterwards.

Find your friend who likes shooting and go hand out with them. Bring your women folk along - they need to know how to shoot more than you do, and they won't learn it unless you make a project out of it.

Make a bitcoin transaction. Just move a utxo to another address if there's nothing you want to buy. Teach self custody to someone. This is one instance where power is not zero-sum ; your power as a bitcoiner grows as other people's bitcoiner power grows.

Put some kind of Linux on a USB stick to make a bootable stick drive thingy. Just fart around on Linux for a few minutes. That grows your power.

Plant a little garden without using fertilizer or pesticides - being able to make something edible without buying *anything* is power.

Etc.

#gm #power #anarchy #freedom


An invite. Also it would've been cool to get some confirmation that I am actually on the waitlist - enter email and hear nothing back at all feels kinda poopy.


Italian is definitely the best sounding language


YouTube algo:
"Don't forget to be outraged! Don't you want this nice outrage bait? Nice, yeah? This? How bout this one? Get mad, yesssssss"

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Catoshi Meowmoto


The problem is spectator culture. Everyone is waiting, their whole lives, for some kind of movie to play out. They think they'll get to watch it and have popcorn and tell their grandkids about the hero they elected and aren't they just great for voting and breathing at the same time? Only they don't think it - all they think is what they're told to think. The screen tells them they're heroes. The screen tells them someone will do the hard thing for them. And they die, and their grandkids are less free because of them. And they can't hear the truth.

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If this is what it takes to get America to stop supporting Israel, I'm fine with it. Israel never wanted peace. They want all of "greater Israel" - that's Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, and at least part of Egypt. And after that, they want 4k gentile slaves for every Jew. They said this, its on video. So... Steer more blame, please.


Eeeeeeexcellent


Looks like a good place for my future citadel. Which state do I have to oust from my land?


I'm listening to it now


Is that separate from his YouTube channel? I'm gonna look for it


Suspicious.


Never believe the lie that the earth is running out of resources, or that we can't be wealthy or the pollution will destroy the planet. Nonsense. That's a big fuckin lie. We can each live like gods. There's enough for all of our wants, and we can do it without harming nature. We have the technology. We've had the technology for a hundred years. But a free market, a free people, and the surpluses they generate are just too tempting to the criminal mind. And so we pay ~half of all we earn to criminals, and those criminals control armies and news companies and elections, and all technological progress is relegated to software, which is still too difficult for them to squash, and we don't have a solar civilization or the magic and power proper to such productive and intelligent beings as ourselves. We deserve better.

#Anarchocapitalism #anarchy #freedom


Right!?


#freepalestine

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#freepalestine


Seems like further evidence that Milwaukee isn't real. 32 years....


Wow, cool history lesson from the melting man


I'm just bad at names


I think developers and architects need a rule - if it doesn't make the land more beautiful, don't build it.


Who's that?


Is Milwaukee a real place? I don't think I've ever met someone from there. I wonder how much of the map is entirely fictional...


I wish they'd hurry up... Their slowness and timidity is testament to how our empire uses terror to get compliance. IMO BRICS should move faster - competition is good for end users.


I got a taste of that in China, when I tried sending my savings home to my American bank. It took months... I was so mad... It wasn't until way after I left China that I found out it was all because of US regulations, and frankly the Chinese were saints for doing business with me at all. More and more banks just won't touch Americans because of our toxic regulations. I'd bet what the EU is doing is all just to comply with US regulations.

That's what taught me the value of bitcoin... There was a point where I literally yelled out, "I should just use bitcoin for this!" And that surprised me, because I don't know where I got that. I hadn't thought one single thought about bitcoin since my econ professor told me it was a scam in 2009.

Are you still waiting on that blockchain sync to recover your wallet?


Eventually, they'll obey by using bitcoin. They won't know or care, but they'll do it.


0445 stars, coffee, and a hammock!


Don't tip. Break tipping culture. Force restaurants to pay employees adequately. Tipping should be illegal.


Yeah. They just disqualify themselves from doing business with me.


Yeah. They just disqualify themselves for doing business with me.


It is absolutely astonishing thats signing up for things still requires phone numbers. I no longer keep a number. I refuse.


Fixed it for ya

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It was so bad... But I like to think he's just super aware of who his audience is. Saif's audience is us. Saylor's is powerful people who know usury is what their power is built on.


I'm a gassy orc 💨


mstr and all the etf's exist for one reason - to get 6102'd when the gov freaks out. Bitcoiners should be able to see it coming...


The best conspiracy theories have no conspirators. Tell whoever calls that a conspiracy theory that horseradish contains no horses.


Wait, I said something smart?


Writing or reading?


Idk, but the day is rapidly approaching when I can order a pizza to be delivered directly from Rome to me in Texas via automated elon rocket, ordered with sats from a nostr integrated menu, which I will then refuel with methalox from my algae vats at my citadel.


Why not use the wallet.dat in sparrow and just point sparrow at someone else's node?


It has to be some kind of spell. Those weird leader puppet human-suits are always casting spells on people via movies. And they eat babies...


What do you think of lisp?


Frank Herbert for sure. And Tolkien, for totally different reasons, and how Tolkien was dismissive of Herbert


Frank Herbert for sure. Tolkien, for totally different reasons, and how Tolkien was dismissive of Herbert


Well now I'm imagining your icon avatar with antennae coming out his forehead. It would be a perfect addition...


Hey, thanks, I don't think I've read those, so that's potentially a goldmine.

I actually specifically don't want to emulate the authors I've read, except for their ability to draw a believable new paradigm. If what I turn out is another rehash of space battles and aliens, then there's no point. But that's the general direction, except I have no intention of including aliens and I see the space battles more as board room intrigues that involve a problem I see us hitting in the next couple hundred years. Space features prominently, but not freely accessible space - its more of a representation of possibility, which is also how I see the ocean. I can't say any of this will make it to the final version - I'm at the stage of ideas on a mind map and bashing my head on a wall hoping a plot falls out of it. Dry prose - easy ; something enjoyable to read - not easy.

mleku will be fine. I get the impression he has the kind of temperament that can rebuild itself after a setback.


Hmm. I might have to just make do with his stuff on YouTube. Signing up to listen involves interacting with centralized identity thieves.


Yes, I love Pageau's talks. Its been a while, so maybe I could learn more by returning to the material.


Yes, I believe that. But its multidimensional (meaning, axis, not universes) and I'm not satisfied with simply believing.


Maybe. Depends on which aspect of God you're looking for. Saying more than that is difficult because so much of it is your subjective experience, your own mutating relation with the ineffible. An unobserved reality could just be that matter behaves in different ways under different conditions. A hand phone is a miracle to anyone more than a century ago. But another unobserved reality emerges from consensus. Market interactions are value consensus, and that example proves the maxim of "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts." There's no telling what other mechanisms exist, without personal interaction.

The only part of God that I can confidently say I've interacted with is the holy spirit, or the tao. The spirit is called the helper for good reason - when you call on it, it responds. How can it be described in materialist terms? Idk. The first step is knowing that the map isn't the territory. That's a linguistic statement. Parts of the Bible seem to be a repeating pattern of people falling into idolatry, and God going all Ezekiel on them. Idolatry is the mistake of thinking the linguistic object in your mind is the thing itself. But its not. Everything (everything) you see is filtered through layers of interpretation, starting from the light reflected, to the eyes' interpretation, to the nerve transmission, to the decoding of the signal off the nerve, to the visible object representing it in your mind, to the spoken language you use to describe it - and only AFTER the linguistic recognition are you consciously aware of it. At every step is a chance to lose information. Skipping all these interpretive steps would involve direct sight of your spirit, which would be union with the wiggly world. So, I deduce that the path to direct sight is to deal in representative symbols first, so that the linguistic model in my mind can accommodate qualities that would be lost in all the lossy encryption and transformation along the path to "me."


The angle I'm taking to approach God can be summarized as training myself to recognize the emergent phenomena that symbols represent. And that just started as a quest to learn how to write fiction... I can write dry prose all day, but good fiction is amazingly difficult. So far, it has really only leade back into dry prose.


I tried to keep it simple this time. I have too much of a tendency to go on and on... But the tradeoff is compactness is harder to process


Can a court figure out the value of a thing better than a market? That would depend on the number of participants in the market, and a comparison of the incentives of the market participants vs the incentives of the court participants. I'm not ruling out the possibility of a court arriving at a more accurate valuation, but I can't think of such a situation.


GM ☕

A miracle is just something that hasn't happened before.

Its reality expressing itself in a way that doesn't fit your linguistic model of it. If the real world exists, and if your mental model of the world is not a perfect copy of the real, then it follows logically that there must be unobserved qualities of the real.

#gm #god


Okay, sounds familiar. I'm reading stuff now, but what I'm trying to find is - is it only the wallet that's HD or is there a difference in initial key generation that allows HD derivations


Over ate, can't breathe. Ughh I'm dying....


Yeah, now that you mention it...


Thats okay, I enjoyed it


Agreed. Improve the world - fart more.
💨 👃 👄


There's a lot I don't know, but one thing I do know is, you still have a chance. A good chance. My thinking is, I don't know who or how, but I'm gonna make it my job to ensure that someone never feels alone or unsafe.


I would never run a private key through a printer. Those things are so sketchy...

Also... common sense but I'll say it anyways... Don't run that thing off github if you're connected to internet. After you find your keys, do the whole offline new wallet ritual, before connecting anything, and evacuate.


I would never run a private key through a printer. Those things are so sketchy...


You got the .dat file? What else is needed? This is all new to me. After you restore the wallet, can't you fetch addresses until you find all the utxo's?


Update?


Maybe you jotted it down and forgot. Anyways, keep us posted. Sounds like I could learn from this.


Huh. This is beyond my level... How does the HD-ness make a difference? I thought that meant your wallet software could generate random strings for addresses.


You got this. Will be watching for good news in a few min


No, I use cream


It was a real theft. The story is amazing. The dude went to Yemen, got some plants, risked death to smuggle them out, got shipwrecked, and one plant survived the journey to the Caribbean. Iirc... Probably some details are off.


Yeah. Thanks Prestor John, ☕


One could argue that western civilization didn't really begin until they stole the coffee plant from the Arabs.


Link the app to home camera system, if button pressed, live recording streams on nostr while saving somewhere


10 kuai not bad


10 quai not bad


No, you!


Where do I buy pirate clothes? I'm being asked to wear formal attire, but I hate formal stuff. It might be bearable if I get those loose armed shirts with the loose twine holding the buttons together, and a worn tricorn hat with a feather.


99% of gettin stuff done is just preparing to get stuff done later. The small step of preparation opens the door to, "why not?" And then its done without thinking.


Its purely driven by spite or panic or envy - the Laffer Curve proves it. ~20% is the optimal point to maximize tax receipt - beyond that is willfully choosing to destroy the economy.


Its purely driven by spite or panic or envy - the Laffer Curve proves it. ~20% is the optimal point to maximize tax receipt - beyond that willfully choosing to destroy the economy.


The UK doesn't deserve you. Pick a place to bless on your terms.


GM ☕

Fear is the mind killer.

I bet you thought of something scary when you read that.

Let's neutralize that... The opposite of fear is, "I am." Say it loudly in your mind : "I AM"

Maybe there's also imaginary thunder and quaking in your mind... But hold the thought a for a second.

The reason "I am" is the opposite of fear is, the mechanics of fear is the belief of, "I can't." And carrying on from yesterday's stream of consciousness, that's nihilism. But there's another layer to nihilism, and that's the implied belief that a thing is only what you see. To say, "that is... {anything}" is always false. You're limiting the thing to a belief ; that is to say, you're limiting an aspect of your world to your own limitations. But you can't know a thing in its entirety. You can get more information about how it functions in relation to your observation, but to know IT - the thing itself - is impossible without actually being it. So, in making a statement about something, you're saying a few things unintentionally.

First, that you are not it.
Second, that you know everything - for to know one piece of the whole in its entirety, you would have to know the entire entirety.
Third, the thing has limitations, which are excluded from it by its definition.
Fourth, you, the observer, inherit the limitations of the thing.

And maybe there's more, but that's enough. All four statements are false. All fear is based on the assumption that your limitations will bring you harm. All knowledge, except for one piece and for as long as we're imprisoned in the six walls, contains limitations and exclusions. Thus, to say, "that is," is to engage in nihilism. You could differentiate it as outwardly projected nihilism, but that statement is itself nihilistic for these same reasons.

Replace fear with affirmations.

"I am happy."
"I am at peace."
"I am competent and capable."
"I am ready."

And if you're really adventurous... "I am you."

#gm #philosophy #wisdom #god #christ #consciousness #christconsciousness


I'm amazed you can remember your writing from 9 years ago... And I feel compelled to look up that address...


GM ☕

Fear is the mind killer.

I bet you thought of something scary when you read that.

Let's neutralize that... The opposite of fear is, "I am." Say it loudly in your mind : "I AM"

Maybe there's also imaginary thunder and quaking in your mind... But hold the thought a for a second.

The reason "I am" is the opposite of fear is, the mechanics of fear is the belief of, "I can't." And carrying on from yesterday's stream of consciousness, that's nihilism. But there's another layer to nihilism, and that's the implied belief that a thing is only what you see. To say, "that is... {anything}" is always false. You're limiting the thing to a belief ; that is to say, you're limiting an aspect of your world to your own limitations. But you can't know a thing in its entirety. You can get more information about how it functions in relation to your observation, but to know IT - the thing itself - is impossible without actually being it. So, in making a statement about something, you're saying a few things unintentionally.

First, that you are not it.
Second, that you know everything - for to know one piece of the whole in its entirety, you would have to know the entire entirety.
Third, the thing has limitations, which are excluded from it by its definition.
Fourth, you, the observer, inherit the limitations of the thing.

And maybe there's more, but that's enough. All fear is based on the assumption that your limitations will bring you harm. All knowledge, except for one piece and for as long as we're imprisoned in the six walls, contains limitations and exclusions. Thus, to say, "that is," is to engage in nihilism. You could differentiate it as outwardly projected nihilism, but that statement is itself nihilistic for these same reasons.

Replace fear with affirmations.

"I am happy."
"I am at peace."
"I am competent and capable."
"I am ready."

And if you're really adventurous... "I am you."

#gm #philosophy #wisdom #god #christ #consciousness #christconsciousness


Context is important. Almost all of Nietzsche's writing is railing against nihilism. He blames the church for nihilism, for denying life. He asserts that Jesus was the first and only Christian. This is correct... Everyone is an Antichrist. Correct. Nietzsche was an Antichrist, and so am I and so are you and so is Seraphim Rose and so is everyone. Because we indulge in nihilism.


Context is important. Almost all of Nietzsche's writing is railing against nihilism. He blames the church for nihilism, for denying life. He asserts that Jesus was the first and only Christian. This is correct... Everyone is an Antichrist. Correct. Nietzsche was an Antichrist, and so am I and so are you and so is Seraphim Rose and so is everyone. Why? Because we indulge in nihilism.

That's what its all about. But Nietzsche doesn't write for people who don't look deeply. This might be because prideful people don't deserve his message. That's not a judgement on them - that's just the nature of pride. Rose didn't look deeply. He claims he read Nietzsche when he was younger - IF that's true, he only found his own thinking in it, instead of what Nietzsche was actually saying.


Tree fiddy


Eh... I actually did think of Seraphim Rose while writing. I have a hard time with his writing because he calls Nietzsche a nihilist, which is an unfortunate misunderstanding.


What's AP? It sounds like a good evening. I'm reminded of walks by the canals in Suzhou, which I used to go out of my way to walk along. Lots of bats. Dimly lit gardens.


Affirmations can have such an effect


Ya know what we're really fighting against? Its not fiat money. That's a symptom of the real disease.

The real disease is fiat thinking. AKA nihilism. Its saying to yourself, "I can't" - and then you think up some reasons.

Most people are nihilists, unfortunately. This is why a bunch of people voting on stuff seems to only turn nice ideas into garbage.

What's the opposite of nihilism? Faith. What's that? Its the acceptance of the knowledge that things work. The application of faith can be called 'skill' or expertise or "know-how." Cuz stuff works. That's it. In the spiritual sense, you know that stuff works because you can see the bigger picture.

Notice the word, "acceptance," above. Its not knowledge itself, its not belief, its not magic, and it's not horror or disgust or rebellion. You're not at war with the world, you're not at war with God, or science, or yourself.

Now, unfortunately, this is more a matter of habit than decision. Seeing it and deciding is certainly one of the steps, but its not going to help unless you habitualize it. This is why cultivating a positive environment, free of mental thorns or pollutants (like swearing and envy) is so important - both for yourself and for anyone you are teaching or want to have a nice relationship with.

This is why fiat world, or clown world, is so degrading. It lacks any kind of mechanism for self control. Nihilism is the main input, so its the main output too.

Ritual can help, if you can preserve the meaning of it. Anything can be a ritual.. A walk can be purifying. Sorting your mail can be a daily ritual. Small actions combined with a mindfulness, sorting and clearing, accepting that things in the bigger picture will work. Stuff works. Its all copacetic, man. Or it can be.

It is absolutely not a coincidence that so many of us found bitcoin at the same time that we found God. We need both for the same reason. In a world of nihilism, the fiat world, we needed hope. 'Hope' is the rescue rope thrown down into the pit of despair, and we grabbed it and climbed up into the light of day - faith. Nihilistic people won't understand this, and they'll say, "but you can have faith in anything!" No, you can't. Faith isn't belief. You can believe anything you want, at least for a while, but faith is knowing that stuff works. Don't trust ; verify. They, the fiat brains, don't trust themselves ; can't verify themselves.

Anyways... Just giving myself a little pep talk.

#bitcoin #faith #fiat #thinking #peptalk #hope #ritual #optimism #nihilism


I just realized I was actually thinking of pickled okra - and that's amazingly good. But pickled zucc is probably good too. Pickled anything (except eggs) is good.


And enjoy things


I vote walk.


I'm a big fan of pickled zucchini and zucchini bread.


One thing I think is interesting is : libertarians are now so close with conservatives. I don't think that's how it was in the 90's. That shows how much libertarians have been winning. Or how far left the left has gone... Or both.


Yep. Spaceships. We need to colonize oceans to find spaceships.


Listening to 'A Lodging of Wayfaring Men.'
The dinner double date at the beginning of chapter 2 is a little slice of heaven. All four people are competent, and they close out their week with a satisfied acknowledgment of their accomplishments that week. That serves as a prayer, and they all say "Amen" to close that piece of business. It tells the reader that meaningful work is sacred. The two protagonists are developing a relationship, and their thoughts show their hope and fear wrt each other, not knowing the other is having similar thoughts. You can feel the energetic potential building between them. Separately, they each must be feeling a kind of agony, but the reader, with a God's eye view of it all, experiences the situation as a perfect dew drop of heaven.


Listening to 'A Lodging for Wayfaring Men.'
The dinner double date at the beginning of chapter 2 is a little slice of heaven. All four people are competent, and they close out their week with a satisfied acknowledgment of the accomplishments that week. That serves as a prayer, and they all say "Amen" to close that piece of business. It tells the reader that meaningful work is sacred. The two protagonists are developing a relationship, and their thoughts show their hope and fear wrt each other, not knowing the other is having similar thoughts. You can feel the energetic potential building between them. Separately, they each must be feeling a kind of agony, but the reader, with a God's eye view of it all, experiences the situation as a perfect dew drop of heaven.


There is a sane reason to... If you're a computer nincompoot like me and there's a guide for doing it that way


Seems sensible. This is probably a good place to admit my tendency to swat away all popups - I don't remember doing this, but it is entirely possible it tried to alert me this way.


I wonder if he's trying to make it obvious how dumb androids are...


What's an OOM kill?


Some AI generated electronika thing on the interwebs.


Mixed thoughts on it. I love the basic assertion.  It includes some dogma that I don't think stand scrutiny. The standard stuff protestants correctly point out. Some maryology being the most ludicrous. But its a good book, with a fascinating history. The Chinese artists employed all converted after it was explained to them.


Apparently there was another miracle that we all missed - he died 33 years after dying!


Androids are stupid. The humanoid machines, not the phone os.

Spend decades and basically infinite money developing a thing that is just a copy of people? JUST PAY A PEOPLE!!

This is fiat disease.

And its proof that fiat requires slavery to work.

#elon #robots #fiat #fiatdisease #bitcoinfixesthis


GM ☕

#startos really ought to warn you when you're about to 100% your raspberry's ram... Or just not do it. Or give a popup asking you what to deprioitize or something. Idk. Its a startos morning.

(Don't be put off buying/building one because of this - its worth it)


GM ☕

#startos really ought to warn you when you're about to 100% your raspberry's ram... Or just not do it. Or give a popup asking you what to deprioitize or something. Idk. Its a startos morning.


Ha, I have that book right here...


Something broke...


DOOOOOM!!!!!


I'm going to vote as hard and as many times as I can! I'll use every single unsolicited ballot they send me. All of them.


This is good to know. I should look for a super light weight client as preparation for the next adventure.


Maybe bitcoin will fix democracy. Maybe democracy was doomed to end in tyranny, but now the missing piece is added and incentives align to empower small communities and protect private property.

That's my hope, at least. Also a bit of playing devil's advocate.


I'm all for it, keep it cheap


If I was a country thinking of attracting these wealthy individuals, I'd legally expand the definition of "refugee" to someone being taxed for leaving, and grant asylum to them and their wealth.


Yeah I think digital gold is a great way to introduce it. Also showing them nostr and zaps could work.


Now we're talkin! Thanks


They should stipulate that Palestinians will be hired for reconstruction work and Palestinian banks will be allowed to make loans for reconstruction. These details are what solve conflicts or cause them to repeat.


Good start ; need more


Need


2 Corinthians 3:6
New International Version
6 He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant—not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

--------------------------------------

Maybe others, like me, need a little backup when encountering our literalist evangelical relatives. Symbolism is the key to understanding.

#bible #wisdom


Gimp! Excellent. Don't wanna buy anything. Not worth money, just a thought in 2d form


What's some good software/tool to draw with?

Prefer FOSS.

I had an idea that I can only explain visually. I drew it out, but my drawing is awful. Would be cool to do it without any jank.

#software #foss #art


States at war with people,
States at war with God,
States of equilibrium are unequal.

#poetry #badpoetry #musings
#gm #writing #thinking


Wow, gorgeous... Where is this?


Summary : stay humble, stack sats


Sorry. I put my name on the getalby wait list and forgot about it


That's what the 58k gang is for - improving our efficiency. No need looking.


GM ☕

I've been listening to "A lodging for Wayfaring Men," thanks to this note that's linked.

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I just heard an interesting line... It said something like, "intimidated people ask few questions."

That might be the thing I needed to orange pill my boomers. My gripe with them was, they never ask questions. I considered it a defect of the boomer generation, some kind of pride. Maybe they're just lost in a sea of techy stuff they don't understand, and nothing I'm saying makes sense because they don't have the first building blocks to understand it. Maybe I'm coming off as intimidating...

Okay. Some events are coming up. This time, 'gentle stream,' not 'surf the avalanche.'


GM ☕

I've been listening to "A lodge for Wayfaring Men," thanks to this note that's linked.

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I just heard an interesting line... It said something like, "intimidated people ask few questions."

That might be the thing I needed to orange pill my boomers. My gripe with them was, they never ask questions. I considered it a defect of the boomer generation, some kind of pride. Maybe they're just lost in a sea of techy stuff they don't understand, and nothing I'm saying makes sense because they don't have the first building blocks to understand it. Maybe I'm coming off as intimidating...

Okay. Some events are coming up. This time, 'gentle stream,' not 'surf the avalanche.'


I'd've just left.


No.


And they cut their nuts off.


That's beautiful... I really wanna get a longboat out in that and shout, "heave! Ho!"


I'm now a Titcoin maximalist.


Yeah, interesting ☕


You could tell people it's dragon scale armor


Yeah. A splinter shaped like rage. Also, heroes.


Cool. Cheap sats?


Narrative control. Always appear to be setting the terms.


Huh. If they include Orban in that list, I now have to question the other three.


Someone got a "always was" meme?


Pretty crazy how Palestine is literally just down the road from Egypt, but they got lost for 40 years. But I guess they were cool with it, since they were getting free food from the sky.

I'm actually quite partial to the argument that its a big metaphor for their shift from polytheism to monotheism, that it was a decision to do so and not all of their society was on board. But... I don't really want to be the one making that assertion.


Pretty crazy how Palestine is literally just down the road from Egypt, but the got lost for 40 years. But I guess they were cool with it, since they were getting free food from the sky.

I'm actually quite partial to the argument that its a big metaphor for their shift from polytheism to monotheism, that it was a decision to do so and not all of their society was on board. But... I don't really want to be the one making that assertion.


They dug up a Bible somewhere. Is it archaeoillogical?


I didn't even know milkton was happening until I saw your posts


Let's have more conferences


PV 🌞🌀🦋

Why not today? https://image.nostr.build/981bfecc077fc7c259fd8221d26a3bd14f9dbbc20f9c8b677160a8e02d92fd98.jpg


I'm fantasizing. Would love a legit excuse to do that crazy dance and stick my tongue out at people


I guess we better start tattooing holograms on our faces to F with it. Maybe that's how Maori started doing it...


That teacher was a dickhead...


You had a good education. I never heard that term (1st principles) until Elon Musk started saying it. McKenna and Alan Watts were my two best friends while in China - for three years, I listened to them every night. Recordings of them on YouTube was literally the only reason I needed a VPN.


We're all antichrists when we choose pride ; we're all Christs when we choose humility.


We're all antichrists when we choose pride ; we're all Christ's when we choose humility.


Agreed. It is a single thing, when you remove the overlay of the mental process. I see it as infinitely expanding and unfolding, rather than converging, but all points are derived from the same sameness. Kinda like key derivation... I'm definitely not the right person to take it in that direction, but it seems analogous.


Crowley's metaphysic is a pain in the ass. Maybe there's something to it, but maaan do I have a hard time with it. Anyways, ultimately you gotta just build your own metaphysic.


Compare:

John 15:5
New International Version
5 “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.

With;

Dao de Jing, ch. 34

The great Tao flows everywhere,
both to the left and to the right,
It loves and nourishes all things,
but does not lord it over them.

And when merits are accomplished,
it lays no claim to them.

My thoughts :
The operation of the Spirit is the cause of material happenings. The symbolic precedes the material. Material things are rational things - all things are divided from things. Being and nonbeing are only differentiated by the rational mind. The rational mind holds things in place by way of linguistic objects. The map is not the territory ; the real world is wiggly.

Condensed into something actionable : expand. Human expansion is expansion of the rational, thus the expansion of logos, thus we are conduits of spirit. Pour it into everything. Build. Multiply. Go to the stars. Grow that vine everywhere.

The thing stopping growth is nihilism. Don't give it any ground.

No idea if this is relevant. I forgot what you said and amethyst doesn't let me look.


Something to build... 🤔


Not done reading it, but gotta point out the nihilism in that demiurge belief of the internet gnostics. Nihilism might be the root of all inversions. IMO, internet gnosticism is not the real gnosticism. Its very analogous with the inversion that's taken place wrt to name "jew." The modern meaning is not the meaning. Those nihilistic internet gnostics are leading people into this trap :

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2012%3A30-37&version=NLV

Or Matthiew 12:30 if the link doesn't work


Not done reading it, but gotta point out the nihilism in that demiurge belief if the internet gnostics. Nihilism might be the root of all inversions. IMO, internet gnosticism is not the real gnosticism. Its very analogous with the inversion that's taken place wrt to name "jew." The modern meaning is not the meaning. Those nihilistic internet gnostics are leading people into this trap :

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2012%3A30-37&version=NLV

Or Matthiew 12:30 if the link doesn't work


I think we need a new naming convention. If a name is a duplicate of an old world name, replace the first letter with the letter of the state its in.

Just guessing Naples is in Florida. So that makes it Faples.


Oh cool, I didn't know there were organic LEDs. So they mimicked the properties of sunlight? Is it still energy efficient, like other LEDs?


Gotta admit, I don't know what those acronyms stand for...


Yep. Apparently John of Damascus neither understood what idols are, nor what faith is. So ironic.


eeeeexcellent


Oh wow. Kruse says blue light disrupts iodine absorption. Another point for the red light team


Do you have a natural source of potassium, since potatoes and bananas are out?


Yeah, the idolatry... So much idolatry. Its more than the statues for the Catholics and the bad art of the Orthodox - giving authority to {anything} is idolatry.

(Edit - God's authority is not the same, but that's also kinda a play on words, since yielding to God's authority requires humility, and the humility comes first - there's a psychological path dependence)

When it comes to teaching, the big unsaid question is - how do you evoke the knife's edge of rationality, such that it leads to faith?

And I always point out that faith isn't belief. Those two words lead in different directions.


Yeah, the idolatry... So much idolatry. Its more than the statues for the Catholics and the bad art of the Orthodox - giving authority to {anything} is idolatry.

When it comes to teaching, the big unsaid question is - how do you evoke the knife's edge of rationality, such that it leads to faith?

And I always point out that faith isn't belief. Those two words lead in different directions.


IMO, the nondenoms are failing miserably. The first thing we all need is a solid education in what the bible says, and where it comes from. Self study is ridiculously difficult. I'll give credit to the political church, both of them, for doing a much better job of structuring and maintaining spiritual curricula.

I don't agree with their dogma, but I might actually just go to learn.


GM ☕

Got church stuff on my mind again.

Our entire F'd up modern world is an unfolding of events from a single accretion - the assertion that there should be an organized "church" with political, in other words 'coercive,' power, and the radically dubious idea that men could inherit spiritual authority of Peter, and wield the keys of heaven as a bludgeon.

The one saving grace that allowed Christianity to survive this attack was the fact that a lot of well intentioned men made sure to moderate this beast from the inside.

And although this political church, this principality, has always had real Christians in it, that has not stopped the chain of reactions that lead to the secular political beast we now suffer under. The error is the politics, not the secularism. I'll credit the political church for guarding against accretions, but it did a poor job (none at all, really) of removing accretions from its own body. These built up over time, necessitating the Reformation. It was the political church's intractability, its unwillingness to reform, that led to the 30 years' war. The 30 years war ended in the peace of Westphalia, which is the official starting point for the secular state with powers derived from the will of people (who are retarded) instead of the love of God. In ancient times, a man who paid one fifth or more of his product to a master was called a slave. Now the state requires double the amount a slave would pay, and that's without estimating the compounding extraction from sales and capital gains. And still, the beast is hungry. The more you feed it, the hungrier it gets!

This is ultimately the fault of the first heresy - a heresy against the spirit itself, unmediated by human error. When you organize politically, you give special importance to human error. And the church, under Constantine, was a political organization. The true church is of the spirit.

My point is... We're trying to build a better world. What we build cannot be disentangled from the chain of cause and effect set in motion 1700-ish years ago. But the degree of success will depend on some kind of balance between values and awareness of past mistakes. I think it would be a profound mistake to run back to the wolves who started this giant problem.

#gm


Orthodoxy is a very well prepared trap. Be careful with your heart.


Agreed. Accretions lead away from God.


It'll be okay.

#hope


That's a handsome kitty


Got it working on PC. Feels really weird doing anything nostr on PC.... but I hear y'all


Can't get cornychat to work. No sound. Sorry I missed it.


Aha! I did it!!!!


Comte de Sats Germain

Pleb
geo-linguistic adventurer
Probably immortal

Everything in the universe is an expression of language. Knowledge approaches the limit of Truth asymptotically. You can't reach Truth, but Truth may choose to reach you.


#nostrbiblestudy on Cornychat in 30 minutes!

#Christian #Jesus #Bible #faith


Whatever they are, they look yummy


I like it


Oh nice, this is on my book list. Not for much longer!


Wait... Bitcoin comes in bars?


Seems like maybe I did, in a previous life...


I just wanna say Thanks for spelling "voluntarism" correctly.


It makes me wonder : if we hadn't had the decades of fiat, would we still have gotten bitcoin?


I don't think Hebrew and Greek are close enough for that to carry through... But I'll also admit I've never seriously studied either. So... maybe?

Some of my divided thoughts on this... There are a few things that I think must be literal codes, written for someone who has no reason to tell us what they mean. Another thought is, it sure seems to be saying something about the rational process... Rational thinking, the sword, is either paired with pride or humility. Humility is the path that leads to God. Linguistically, humility is the recognition that the words are not the thing. Pride is the default, confusing the words for the real thing. So there's a battle between the people of the city, Zion, which is a spiritual thing and not the physical mockery of the real Zion, versus the enemies of God, who are confused about what's real. That's kind of a summary of how I read that and some other parts of that book I avoid, Revelations. It's just too much of a firehose...

Here's an article I found about it, which I find rather inconclusive and I think really reinforces the notion of it being used as a code for someone:
https://www.bibleinfo.com/en/questions/gog-and-magog


Is this same group your QR code linked to?


FREEEEEEEEEDOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMM!!!
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It used to be much more evenly distributed. Sometimes a country decides to get rid of a time zone. Russia axed a whole time zone a few years ago. China runs their whole country on one time zone, even though Russia has like 4 for the same distance.


Here's another thought - you have two possible psyops. One psyop tells everyone the world is a globe, even though its not. The other psyop tells people its flat, even though its not.

Which psyop is more expensive to do?


This video is exploiting a misunderstanding of how science works. The scientific method doesn't involving proving positive statements. A positive statement is a hypothesis, and all science is DISproving the hypothesis.

We didn't arrive at a heliocentric model by proving that assertion. The assertion was that it is earth-centric, and that was disproved. I think Newton gets credit for that.


I'm listening. But here's another thought - you have two possible psyops. One psyop tells everyone the world is a globe, even though its not. The other psyop tells people its flat, even though its not.

Which psyop is more expensive to do?


Its simple. You're right that we don't have all the history. There have been several ice ages. We're in an ice age now. In between glacial maxima, there have been other civilizations that got to similar technologies. Then they got wiped out. Eventually we'll be wiped out, unless we can think really really out of the box about how we build.

But the earth is a globe. Use that to build.


Time zones are not necessary. We could become a slightly more efficient civilization by getting rid of time zones entirely. We can have just one time, for everyone. Instead of the sun rising at ~0600 for everyone, maybe where I live it rises at 1730.

You could be on a call with people in different parts of the world, with no possibility of confusion about the time to make the call. You could order something to be delivered on another continent and know exactly the moment its delivered without having to go online and convert times.

I actually think this is inevitable. We tolerate the confusion because its kind of easy to think the sun always rises at the same ish time. But someday, people will live in orbit, and then in colonies close to the sun, and then other parts of the solar system. Nobody will care about earth time zones.


Actually, there was one really weird thing I noticed on one such flight. I was looking down somewhere over northern Alaska, and there was a town buried in snow. It was clearly a town, the buildings and roads were quite obvious - just under at least a few feet of snow or ice.

If there were any people living down there, they were encapsulated in their buildings. No way anyone was getting in or out of those buildings. I saw no lights, no movement. No trees nearby. Not near a coast. I could not figure this place out. I can only speculate that it was built when the earth was a lot warmer.


Actually, there was one really weird I noticed on one such flight. I was looking down somewhere over northern Alaska, and there was a town buried in snow. It was clearly a town, the buildings and roads were quite obvious - just under at least a few feet of snow or ice.

If there were any people living down there, they were encapsulated in their buildings. No way anyone was getting in or out of those buildings. I saw no lights, no movement. No trees nearby. Not near a coast. I could not figure this place out. I can only speculate that it was built when the earth was a lot warmer.


So the plane is just hovering, doing nothing, for the sake of keeping us all ignorant of the Glorious Flatness?


I love how they wear a uniform - the thick rimmed glasses - so everyone knows there's an avalanche of Stupid about to come out their mouth.


Go on a flight to the other side of the planet. Should take ~18 hours. Watch the flight path, compare with what you see out the window. You will notice that you fly north, almost to the north pole, before coming south to your target.

When I first flew to Asia, from Texas, the plane went over Canada, then Alaska, then Russia, the landed in Japan, where I got a connecting flight to go further south.

The plane does not go in a straight line across the pacific, which would be more direct if the world was flat. Arcing to the north is more direct because the world is a globe.

You can also see the curvature of the horizon with your own eyes if you do this.


No yapping mutts, indeed! If a dog can't hunt, the dog is food. Hunting dogs are not yapping dogs.

Also part of why I hate roads is that community is sacred. A marketplace or a council or a church - all are profaned by ease of access. An hour to walk to a gathering is an hour of either meditation or conversation with your people. Driving invokes rules, invites attackers, and minimizes the opportunity for contemplation. Utter profanity.

Solitude is also sacred. The value of both community and solitude are reduced by roads. IMO. And the value of both is increased with a walking stick. And they'd be even more valuable with a cloak. We have to being back cloaks.


Who's the more delusional - the persom with an idea, or the person unwilling to try the idea?


Yep. But I enjoy seeing people cooking, especially healthy attractive people, like that one Italian lady with a cooking show that I haven't seen in years


Grrr


That's a good analogy


Idk, I haven't watched a new movie since the Matrix


Only if wonder woman is hot


But I also like cities in Asia. Not cities in America. Never been to Europe. I need all three, with reasonable assurances that nosy criminals that wear ties are properly dealt with. Asia city, rural homestead, experimental seastead. All extremes, and everything in between the extremes is an abomination. Suburbia should be bulldozed.


I like Wyoming too. We could be neighbors. By neighbor, I mean a radius 10 miles of blessed emptiness around me, at least. And no roads. I hate roads.


Well we don't really know when the magnetic field will drop, or for how long, or how much warning we'll get. Maybe its next year, or maybe we still have a couple hundred years. I think the most important thing is to EXPAND humanity (caps just for emphasis, I'm not shouting). I think we're rational beings, and we should push our inventions as far as we can imagine. Someday, we might colonize other worlds - but to do that, we have to prove that we can colonize the more favorable conditions on earth, like the deep ocean and Antarctica. I'm all forcolonizing Mars, but if we haven't even tried colonizing the oceans, much less Antarctica, then we simply don't have the know-how to do it. And its more than just living there - it has to be self sufficient, meaning local manufacturing.

The potential radiation issues can be engineered around. A wire cage over the whole top could be enough to protect the more delicate electronics. The most important thing is to start doing it. Next time someone tries it, they need to bring bazookas, to keep the governments off their backs.


Excellent ideas! I really want to get in the water and start trying things out. That's part of why I was looking at moving to Hawaii.

Between wave action, solar, and OTEC, I think these structures would have more energy than they'd know what to do with. That energy could pulse parts of the structure needing reinforcing - no reason I say pulse, but I suspect you can make it more efficient that way - or mine sats, or do energy intensive chemical conversions, which will be needed for converting algae-oil (can't remember the more official name) into a variety of useful products. Have nearby mariculture cages for food. Grow living reefs on some part of your home structure. Float out in deep water for OTEC but also because its basically free real estate, in that there's nothing living out there to potentially mess up. And there's enough open water out there, this method of homesteading - self sufficient, energy rich, seasteading - could easily accommodate the entire human population at current levels, leaving biodiverse areas like estuaries (where we built all of our cities) to nature. Of course, we won't, but its possible.


There's a trick to it. You can run a current under sea water, and calcium carbonate builds on either the anode or cathode - forgot which. Some rebel scientists have been using this to build coral reefs, since its the same thing, and the corals happily attach to it. The mainstream scientists tried to shut it down, but I think now they're trying to pretend they always did it.

Use that to build structures. You build a wire cage in the shape you want, electrify it, and in a few days you get a shell stronger than concrete, and watertight if you do it right. This part is 100℅ my own idea. You could use this for underwater construction. The shape matters a lot, too. Barges can't go to sea because waves wreck the flat shape. So make it a vertical pile, with more underwater than above. Waves can't do much, if anything, to that shape.

Its a lot of stuff that hasn't been done yet, so right now it would be more difficult than finding a nice cave, but I think it can be easier, once it's all figured out. And it scales almost infinitely. And it gives easy access to food.


There's a trick to it. You can run a current under salt water, and calcium carbonate builds on either the anode or cathode - forgot which. Some rebel scientists have been using this to build coral reefs, since its the same thing, and the corals happily attach to it. The mainstream scientists tried to shut it down, but I think now they're trying to pretend they always did it.

Use that to build structures. You build a wire cage in the shape you want, electrify it, and in a few days you get a shell stronger than concrete, and watertight if you do it right. This part is 100℅ my own idea. You could use this for underwater construction. The shape matters a lot, too. Barges can't go to sea because waves wreck the flat shape. So make it a vertical pile, with more underwater than above. Waves can't do much, if anything, to that shape.

Its a lot of stuff that hasn't been done yet, so right now it would be more difficult than finding a nice cave, but I think it can be easier, once it's all figured out. And it scales almost infinitely. And it gives easy access to food.


The Dao is the holy spirit. Same thing, described by two different cultures


If a cave protects from UV/cosmic rays, surely water can too. I'm thinking the way to survive is to seastead - just make sure you can go under


My trick is to get rid of the pillow. Nice flat ground is best.


This is, by far, by orders of magnitude, the best sermon I have ever heard.

https://youtu.be/sww66LdHKt0


I'll set a reminder


I think I see your bible group. And I see Tuesday is nearly upon us...


Got it. Had to allow JavaScript JIT. Apparently allows websites to compile code in the website or something.


I just tried two browsers and now fiddling with settings.


Webpage won't load... Seems to always happen with nostr based things


What's cornychat? Sounds corny!


Yeah that's a deal


I'd love to tune in, but I'm nostr only now. The stuff they put on YouTube is pretty good

Edit - really good. Not pretty good. Really.


Ross and Assange are already victories. They're alive. That's 100℅ because of the internet. I'm very optimistic. All we gotta do is keep doing what we're doing - which is talking, vibing, having ideas, building, prepping, etc


Tbh that's not as bad as I thought. How much does the range cost?


Build... something. We can fight, or we can build. Look at nostr - people are building this. Look at that meshtastic thing people are doing. Idk what I'll build, but I know thats the only option other than fighting.


Have you seen anyone with guns? Did these measures basically end practical gun ownership? Not on TV - actually see with your own eyes.

Regardless, these rules are completely unacceptable. Its absurd to agree to a thief's demands to only defend yourself in certain ways.


I'm wondering... If the Earth didn't have a magnetic field for a while, how deep would a submersible need to be to be protected? Like, in the ocean.

According to this article, there was a period of 400 years, 42k yrs ago, with basically no magnetic field, and it caused people to start living in caves.

https://www.npr.org/2021/02/18/969063568/ancient-trees-show-when-the-earths-magnetic-field-last-flipped-out


I'm wondering... If the Earth didn't have a magnetic field for a while, how deep would a submersible need to be to be protected?

According to this article, there was a period of 400 years, 42k yrs ago, with basically no magnetic field, and it caused people to start living in caves.

https://www.npr.org/2021/02/18/969063568/ancient-trees-show-when-the-earths-magnetic-field-last-flipped-out


I'd love to tune in, but I'm nostr only now. The stuff they put on YouTube is pretty good


I remember Australia's gun grab. Lots of people here in the US predicted Australia's current state.


The Tao Te Ching was libertarian like 2,500 years before libertarianism became a thing.

Chapter 75: Stephen Mitchell translation:

When taxes are too high,
people go hungry.
When the government is too intrusive,
people lose their spirit.

Act for the people's benefit.
Trust them; leave them alone.


Planning on leaving over and over, since I like travelling, and not dying.


Is Spaces a TwitterX thing?


Thanks, Pastor


Looks like you got it


Ah crap... I'm doomed then. I'm always the worst candidate.


They reissued the currency and repaid debt with hyperinflated paper, while confiscating the property of anyone they could "other" in any way. It was a regime built on theft. The clearing of the debt was not their doing - Weimar marks were already worthless, they were already at rock bottom. They retook the rheinland, which was the industrial base, and I don't blame them for taking back their own land, but it had nothing to do with socialist policies, and they cancelled war reparation payments - which I also don't hold against them, but it has nothing to do with socialism.

But their mass theft was still not enough to fund themselves, even in peacetime. So, when they invaded countries, they went straight for the gold reserves and the bank vaults, stole everything.... And even THAT still couldn't fund their government, and their economy was collapsing at the end of the war, and would have collapsed regardless of the outcome of the war.

Plenty of resources available to learn this. Here is one, please read it and then find more, because the research is there and it is plentiful..

https://mises.org/mises-daily/why-nazism-was-socialism-and-why-socialism-totalitarian


Socialism is socialism. Which color gun do you prefer pointed at you? Doesn't matter.


Congrats! How long did it take to get the invite? I got on the list yesterday. Over 10k people in front of me, though.


W...t..F.... F'n sock puppet...


Yep


Great ideas. I was also just thinking we could make an "adopt a community" program, where a tech savvy person takes on the responsibility of being a local teacher and organizer. Like, say you are a dev or just fairly knowledgeable and you live in Bangkok, cuz that's where the jobs are, you could pick a community somewhere nearby and be "that bitcoin guy" for them.

I say "we" but I'm not really in any "we." That's the first hurdle.


Its looking like communications is the main concern


Today's learning objectives :

If I showed up in a remote village, what tools would I need to onboard them to the #bitcoin economy?

Azte.co is certainly one.
What else?
I'm going to get everything I can find and put it on tails thumb drive ( https://tails.net/ )


This is so relevant to what I was saying yesterday - let the real estate scammers get it last. I'm a little ashamed of the scarcity mindset, but I'm looking at the BILLIONS of people who need #bitcoin and don't even have a bank account. They NEED it. Real estate people don't. I don't want to squander this opportunity to reduce inequality. I don't mean that in a droopy cross-eyed lefty way. Everything we do to reduce inequality only exacerbates inequality, if we do it with fiat. Bitcoin can actually do it. But its up to us to make the actual moves to teach and deliver where it can make the biggest impact. Forget number go up. It got us here, it chose us, now move on to what really matters, which is healing the world.


Yeah, that's another good one. I'm gonna have to repost this note because, as usual, I forgot to label it

Edit.. Well, it has #bitcoin , I guess its labelled enough.


Yeah, that's another good one. I'm gonna have to repost this note because, as usual, I forgot to label it


Currently researching Azte.co
This is genius.
This is efficiently delivering the REVOLUTIONARY FORCE of #Bitcoin to anyone, anywhere. Not mediating the brilliance of #Bitcoin, not putting up a hand saying, "hold on just a minute" ... its WHAM! You got it. This thing is pure unadulterated anarchy power.

Thanks, nostr:nprofile1qqsvvgymtym2afgf9enhuwqhkffjnc0mtusxa29ca979n49txkkxurqppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp086ssse


Good insights, both of you. Lots to learn here


Need more info. Iran backed Azer recently when Azer attacked Armenia... didn't it? Could've hallucinated it I guess


Idea, need a coder

Probably pretty easy... A little program that takes all the verses from biblegateway (or similar) and makes each verse a note on nostr, with its own label, so a # makes every verse searchable.

we could do other books like this too...


If you haven't brushed your teeth yet, try doing it with the other hand 😜


Need more info. Iran backed Azer recently when Azer attacked Armenia


Now look closely at the southern border


That guy taught me a lot. Eventually moved on, but he was one of the people that got my attention


Not necessarily. I'm not taking a side, just saying... The tissue problem is still a problem if they died thousands of years ago. It still shouldn't be there. Maybe they died a century ago... Idk


Honestly... this is pretty compelling. That's unexpected. I'd love to see a scientist on the other side offer an explanation (if they could do it without straw manning or demeaning this guy - that's 90℅ of why no one trusts scientists anymore, they don't respond in good faith.)


Anyone else think it would be cool if conversations didn't mostly take place on big influencers' notes?

#nostr


Kinda depends on what "liberal" means. If modern liberals were as they were in the 90's, I'd be one of them. That's not even all the way back to classic liberal, but close enough. Modern liberals, though, are not critical thinkers, and their efforts have destroyed too many lives.


Its extremely uncomfortable... I won't be teaching any bankers or other criminals how to bitcoin. Let them figure it out last.


If that's what it does, it might not be as simple as Hillary bad... which she is, don't get me wrong. I'd agree that a business should be able to set the terms of doing business, and shouting obscenities is a good reason to show someone the door, but we don't have a business relationship with these platforms that are censoring us. Its the equivalent of a public square. If you're not paying YouTube/FB/etc and they aren't paying you, and the only exchange of value any where to be found is them monetizing your attention and data, without you getting any of it - that's not a business relationship. All you are doing is talking, mostly to strangers. Its the public square. Its the only public square. People generally don't hang out on the street and have conversations with strangers. If speech isn't protected by the first amendment online, then basically there is no first amendment.

That said... Can't wait for that evil bitch to retire.


Yep


I'm pretty sure American chestnuts have already developed natural immunity. They just haven't grown everywhere yet.


How long did you wait before you got the alby invite? Sorry to change the subject. I did my 3 hours of analysis paralysis last night and settled on self hosting alby. I'm # 10k-something in line, though.


Well... I'm less certain now. The beauty of bitcoin (or, one of the many beauties) is that it transmutes greed into a good thing for everyone.

I'm just mad at the mentality. They truly don't deserve it, I stand by that, but we'll be okay.

No, houses would still be expensive. Maybe less expensive in places that are popular with foreign investors, like Vancouver. With the money losing value, expensive immovable objects have to accrue in price.

I still think they should be last. But we'll be okay.


Rascality would be a good nostr name


Could be billion territory. Idk. I suspect there are some effects in there that economics hasn't seen before.


You're right. It doesn't change my anger, though. Man... If I'm not careful, I'm going to broadcast a rant nostr:nprofile1qqstm84k2lp9knmvmf5gw88zvfvar7duvfpqfplryfystdn55ug2gksprfmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68yurvv438xtnrdaksz9thwden5te0wahhgtnwdaehgu3wwpshyareqyg8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnhd9hx2j8uly5 style, and a fraction as coherent. I love his rants. I got some angst today...


Its the mentality that makes me mad. I studied it. I excelled in my finance classes, which divided their attention between real estate and options. I hate it all. They tell you you have to do it to not lose to inflation, but then roll right into how to gain advantage using debt, and its limitless, and you can write off expenses and get out of taxes - great, but taxes are paid, either directly or by debt, and these people build their whole lives around being the exception and taking advantage, and then justify it like psychopaths, which they are, saying you have to do it to beat inflation. They could have bought gold and beat inflation. They could have started a business with a real service and easily more than beat inflation. Instead they did the most parasitic thing they could find in the whole economy.


Here's my longer thoughts on it :
nostr:nevent1qqs266ad0tn53rzwe474x777c5qs5pj6c0jld66y9stx7k35xzm7swqppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qgs9tatnkeg7lu63mdtmqcqayvpzmrzn97vztkcs54ena0eehe92yxcrqsqqqqqp5hj8w6

Further : how do you teach "goodness"? How do you know if someone has learned the good? Is it appropriate to throw pearls before swine?


Here's my longer thoughts on it :
nostr:nevent1qqs266ad0tn53rzwe474x777c5qs5pj6c0jld66y9stx7k35xzm7swqppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qgs9tatnkeg7lu63mdtmqcqayvpzmrzn97vztkcs54ena0eehe92yxcrqsqqqqqp5hj8w6

Further : his do you teach "goodness"? How do you know if someone has learned the good? Is it appropriate to throw pearls before swine?


Here's my longer thoughts on it :
nostr:nevent1qqs266ad0tn53rzwe474x777c5qs5pj6c0jld66y9stx7k35xzm7swqppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qgs9tatnkeg7lu63mdtmqcqayvpzmrzn97vztkcs54ena0eehe92yxcrqsqqqqqp5hj8w6

If that works... Making my own little leap of faith...


#getalby #alby

I like fully sovereign ; I don't like fiddly. Should I choose LND on this server or the embedded light mode option? Tradeoffs not well documented up front.


I'm a humble orc, eating my humble pie.


Ermagerd, squee squee SQUEEEEE
I found my password to my server.

It was on a piece of paper crumpled up in a corner.

Typical.


There's an implied assumption that Israel doesn't place military targets close to civilians. Maybe its true - idk. Can you verify that Israel is different?


How did video guy know to record that?


I'm no fan of the Taliban, but I'm really liking how that big barbarian nonconformist sticks out from that crowd.


Yes. A poor alternative, but morally superior to using debt and tax breaks to steal in a round about way. Gold. Poor alternative, but still an alternative.


Good. Criminals balancing criminals.


#GM ☕

Its frustrating when people we love don't listen to us about #bitcoin .

But please, don't teach just anyone. Have standards. Yes, bitcoin is for everyone, is for enemies, yes yes... But that doesn't mean we need to offer such an advantage to objectively evil or parasitic people. They'll figure it out. They don't need it before honest people who have been crushed by the system.

Choose people who deserve it.

Real estate investors are parasites. They don't deserve it. Let them be late.

Socialists are parasites. Let them be late.

It feels good when people listen to us. That's ego. We want to have influence. We want the validation of someone telling us we're right. And for whatever reason, family won't do it.

But if you teach the parasites, you are murdering the people you love. People who should exist, who would exist if their parents were prosperous, won't exist. You want a big family, full of love and joy and experiences of life? Make your family prosperous. More for them, less for the bad guys. Don't be naiive. There are bad guys out there. Most of them have figured how not to appear as bad guys. Moral camouflage stalks the good.


Personally, I'd prefer the parasites learn it last. Teaching these people is a disservice to all the plebs and people who could be plebs that don't have a parasitic mindset.


The beautiful thing about democracy, from the statists' point of view, is that you can always blame the people, even if there's no way to verify voting results. While you blame people for voting poorly, the psychopaths have easier access to their victims, the people who didn't vote poorly - and kill, in this case.

I think the most correct starting assumption, wrt democracy, is that votes don't matter.


Socialist thinking always results in mass extermination. Always.


Are they wrong? We do all that stuff. And the US executes far more people, in both absolute and relative terms.

I'll add that Iran also has elections, and whether or not they're credible elections, what I know is that OUR elections aren't credible. Meanwhile our media calls them a dictatorship.

Iran is inconvenient because it shows America's hypocrisy.

God bless America.


Both... If you're normal.


Part of this is part of why I'm so against Zionism. Yeah, the people in the old testament frankly a bunch of fuckers. To me, it seems like the only reason for the chosen people to be chosen is because they are literally the worst people on the planet. What could be more meaningful than to take the absolute worst people and use them as the vehicle of redemption for all of humanity? And they're still the worst, if we must insist that everyone calling themselves Jews are actually Jews. They are not. That name is reserved for people who have a special relationship with God, and a people who commit genocide or rob the world via usury are not in a relationship with God, they are mocking the name of Jew and the people who actually have a right to the name, who, according to Paul, are believers in Christ.

A little bit of venting here. I don't dislike them. I'm not one of those. I just don't think the people in Israel are them.

But I'm also frustrated with Christians for apparently never bothering to read past the Gospels.

Eh... People.


Yeah I wanna see those aurorae pics. Very curious to see how strong and how far from the poles it'll be visible.

I don't think the flood was literally flowing water. We know for certain that most of the earth has been covered in ice, which is water, several times, and many if those times while homo sapiens have been here.

Africa becomes jungly when the earth is hotter - the heat causes increased evaporation off the ocean, which dumps over land. So there's an easy way to mess with the CO2 narrative - periods of low CO2 cause desertification, as the Sahara proves. Supposedly. I can believe ice cores, but there's no ice cores in north africa.

The bible leaves a couple really good clues about the Ark. One is the fact that it has exactly the same design as a synagogue. This is something I need to do more research on, because I suspect synagogues have the same layout as Egyptian temples. Even if not, it symbolically links the physical church with refuge, which is pretty cool.

And another weird clue is, the inside of the ark is bigger than the outside. So if this is a physical thing, its bending space or something. It makes me wonder if its the same ark they dragged around the desert was what Noah used to skip the "flood." That would make the part with directions on how to build the ark an embellishment, and there are scholars that specialize in spotting embellishments in parts of the bible. So there could be ways to test the hypothesis.


Did a little digging, got this:

Zayin is the 7th Hebrew letter. Ancient Hebrew evolved out of pictograms. Zayin is the sword. The sword in the bible is often symbolic of rationality. So Adam was in Eden for the amount of time it took to become rational. Also some kind of farming connotation.

https://image.nostr.build/87132f2ae81ef651adf9255e261de7f9757f05f5313dcfa37f5ba5bec0929879.jpg


7 is always symbolic. It could mean he was there a long time, or that he wasn't actually there at all, because 7 is symbolic of self, especially the male self.

The way I interpret Eden is, its a controlled experiment to see if the participant is sentient. If you created a being - a robot maybe - and your goal is true sentience, then you couldn't just ask it if its sentient, and the Turing test wouldn't work because a good fake is still a fake. You would need to set up conditions where the created being is responding to stimuli and incentives, and most importantly, generating its own creative responses. The goal is to get him to feel embarrassment and lie. But you can't program it to lie - it has to be authentic, self generated. That's the only way I can think of to know if a thing is actually sentient.


I predict plebs will launch their own moon missions from their citadels within this century.


It probably won't be enforced. The government likes dictators, or anyone, investing here. Also might be counterproductive, if it means they have less leverage to use on foreign officials.


Looks like it just allows us to deport lawbreakers. I'm shocked this bill is needed.


Ha, accused. Not very subtle, Alan...


Hello from another pixel running grapheneos


Would be great to know how to control what relays do without having to be a super user. Surely it exists...


I like to think of that story as probably being retold over and over before they got around to writing it. You'd get the telephone game effect.

The sacrifices are meant to teach people to be productive. When Able sacrificed his best sheep, that was pleasing because it took work to produce and will take work to replace, and the sacrifice is proof of producing a profit from your work. Its training to get to abundance. Its also proof of faith - knowledge (of abundance/grace) multiplied by self discipline. Cain's sacrifice was displeasing because it was easily replaceable. A bunch of vegetables or grain or whatever it was is valuable for its non-uniqueness, it's the materia to produce specialness or beauty, not the thing itself, and its like budgeting the highest good as a line in your balance sheet.

Abraham's son was his highest good, which he prayed for for his whole life. Without his son, it was all for nothing. The story had to culminate in the supreme proof of faith and humility.

God is not moral. He's just - everything fits in the correct place - but morality is a human concept that can only exist because of time. Time imparts value to beings in scarcity. But scarcity is an illusion. The truth is abundance and ever-presense - the cornucopia of fractal, multidimensional grace. Being outside of time, nothing God does can be called moral or immoral.


Reminds me of this sculpture :
https://image.nostr.build/8cd869be0487b5d18df85b143f9981f16819672f3cc26122d0e4afe2c7505356.jpg

But no, I'm not there. Hope you find some peeps!


YW. I'm on the same journey.


I don't see that in the pictures, but if you see it, it probably has that meaning.

Meaning, symbolism, and grace are the same infinitely multidimensional fractal cornucopia. Seeing that is the meaning of the fear of god - "fear" should have been translated as "awe" but I understand the need to emphasize the trembling that comes with glimpsing the thing.

What I see is an expression of unity, like a snapshot of the logos that is understandable in this form. The two Johns is more of a statement of fact, but the Egyptian picture is that plus a guide. Redemption/rebirth/reincarnation is the process of self discovery. So it would make sense to see that story on a temple or burial - maybe acting as a prayer.

The more I think about it, the more I like the roman version. Drunken revelry seems like the best way to worship God. We should bring that back... Jesus' first miracle was turning water into wine at a party, after all, after being prodded to do it by Isis/Mary (not saying it didn't happen - symbols and reality are different locations on the same fractal), and not only was it wine, it was the best wine!


And the Hindus state the whole picture with one sentence we all know, thanks to Allen Watts - "tat tvam asi"

If I spelled that right...


The shepherd John reinforces the Janus symbolism - I haven't been around Catholics much, so I didn't know he is depicted like that. Jesus is also depicted as a shepherd. Endymion in Greek mythology is the same symbol. Now I'm gonna get lost in hours of reading, trying to link Endymion with Janus...


Juicy melon is exactly fitting for Chinese highschool boys. And girls are always a little better at English than the boys, probably because they have a crush on their foreign teacher and then later all the foreign guys want to talk to them.


Oh yeah. Fosho. Chinese don't give a F about phone etiquette


Here's Janus. Janus... John... The J was pronounced like we pronounce Y. Its the two lions. The left facing Janus looks like Pan or maybe Dionysus, representing one side of the Logos' personae. The right face, though masculine, is from the Isis in the Egyptian picture. Its one person, who has been here since before "creation" - in quotes because its another symbolic event. Past and future are one event.

Actually, upon closer examination, it might still be female. Not really sure...
 https://image.nostr.build/f39fd064a619d65c21e76b6dd9d335c5d4c8431525877eff158bcf4e1e10d2b3.jpg


Here's Janus. Janus... John... The J was pronounced like we pronounce Y. Its the two lions. The left facing Janus looks like Pan or maybe Dionysus, representing one side of the Logos' personae. The right face, though masculine, is from the Isis in the Egyptian picture. Its one person, who has been here since before "creation" - in quotes because its another symbolic event. Past and future are one event.
 https://image.nostr.build/f39fd064a619d65c21e76b6dd9d335c5d4c8431525877eff158bcf4e1e10d2b3.jpg


All things arise mutually. Unity becomes duality.  But I don't think they intended it to say anything about evolution. Its a statement - on the right is your internal duality, which realizes itself in Horus, seeing its present eternal in the dung beetle's ball.

The more recent version, with the two johns, is much easier to read, IMO. The two johns are equivalent to the lions, the stone is arranged so you notice it, the two parallel lines are equivalent to the Isis in the Egyptian version, and the book is positioned to show equivalence with the unity below it. The book is the bible, or more probably the logos, since its a really realllllllly old picture.


All things arise mutually. Unity becomes duality.  But I don't think they intended it to say anything about evolution. Its a statement - on the right is your internal duality, which realizes itself in Horus, seeing its present eternal in the dung beetle's ball.

The more recent version, with the two johns, is much easier to read, IMO. The two johns are equivalent to the lions, the stone is arranged so you notice it, the two parallel lines are equivalent to the Isis in the Egyptian version.


Oh good eye, I didn't notice his hands. Anyways, I think its even more obvious when you read it from right to left. Idk where they found the image, but I found it in a book.


GM ☕

morning thoughts... There's an eternal, invariable present outside of time. The thought is pure ; the speech conveying the thought is irredeemably incomplete. The symbol, which only exists in completeness below the surface of thought, is the true form.

The rational is built upon the irrational. The value of Pi is an attestation that the curve can never be known by the polygon. The materialist cosmogeny is a house of cards.

Found an image that states the whole idea as a picture. Amazing symbolism - the two Johns, which have the same meaning as the Roman god Janus, and the whole thing points to Mark 4:9

https://image.nostr.build/d44234515fc4abf11eb1b084e56272a2f78d2f306d1e4d3f26111dcb24685459.jpg

And then I was reminded of another symbolic image, which tells the same story through a different mythos :

https://image.nostr.build/803869d6faf71dbea0e3479fbe9dd47a20602b25c2e4473a6e51bb912f0620d6.jpg

#gm #symbolism #wisdom #god #christ

(Symbolic points if anyone can tell me where Christ is in the images)

((Yes, I reposted this, I'm sorry, I forgot the labels and added labels aren't searchable))


GM ☕

morning thoughts... There's an eternal, invariable present outside of time. The thought is pure ; the speech conveying the thought is irredeemably incomplete. The symbol, which only exists in completeness below the surface of thought, is the true form.

additional : the rational is built upon the irrational. The value of Pi is an attestation that the curve can never be known by the polygon. The materialist cosmogeny is a house of cards.

Found an image that states the whole idea as a picture. Amazing symbolism - the two Johns, which have the same meaning as the Roman god Janus, and the whole thing points to Mark 4:9

https://image.nostr.build/d44234515fc4abf11eb1b084e56272a2f78d2f306d1e4d3f26111dcb24685459.jpg

And then I was reminded of another symbolic image, which tells the same story through a different mythos :

https://image.nostr.build/803869d6faf71dbea0e3479fbe9dd47a20602b25c2e4473a6e51bb912f0620d6.jpg

#gm #symbolism #wisdom #god #christ

(Symbolic points if anyone can tell me where Christ is in the images)

((Yes, I reposted this, I'm sorry, I forgot the labels and added labels aren't searchable))