One of the things I like about nostr is that we have a billionaire here who is active on the platform and doesn’t take it personally when their vast wealth is impugned.
I’d be remiss if I didn’t point out the similarities between “crypto” and “spirituality.”
Both have charlatans, salesmen, and aspiring influencers. Ultimately, it’s up to each individual to avoid identifying with the spiritual path, or relying too much on the student-disciple frame, or become trapped by a guru or specific teaching, and, instead, to see for themselves, directly. In a way, you could say that consciousness is “open source,” in that it’s available for anyone to inspect the code of perceptual/conceptual reality for themselves.
Anyone can sit down and, after settling into stillness, look for what’s looking.
It’s just that few do.
Man, you libertarians are so funny with your “do not bend the knee” ethos when, in the face of POTENTIAL retaliation from Trump, Bezos “obeys in advance.”
People are right to be upset when national newspapers decline to endorse because they are afraid of the consequences, especially when Bezos explicitly promised to never interfere with the WaPo.
*Conscious awareness* is the prior condition in which everything occurs.
Thoughts, judgments, opinions, sensations — literally everything you experience takes place in the space of conscious awareness.
If you can quiet your mind temporarily, to see what happens BEFORE the mind creates a thought, it’s kinda mind blowing to see what’s there. And, in truth, what’s there is actually there all the time! We’re just too busy (thinking, planning, problem-solving, and defending ourselves from imaginary threats and perceived worries) to notice it.
These kids, and their degenerate music! And it’s always too damn loud!!
Suck it, Arch Bishop.
Jazz & Swing were good then, House & Hip Hop are good now.
It’s every generation’s duty to make music their parents/grandparents don’t understand.
Kids will be on some new shit in the coming decades that I probably won’t like, but I’ll never say it came from Satan.
(unless it sounds like Dub Step)
Yoga daily, good food, good sleep, a few good friends, financial stability, time to contribute meaningfully to a small corner of society, the presence of mind to let go of things and handle inevitable tragedies.
Not much more to life.
Many such cases.
You don’t decide your parents.
You don’t decide your country.
You don’t decide your cultural/social influences.
You don’t decide your genetic predispositions.
You don’t decide your hormones.
You don’t decide your sexual orientation.
You don’t decide your desires.
You don’t even decide your next thought.
“The world is a stage, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
Enjoy the ride.
Krishna says to Arjuna,
“I am come as Time, the ultimate waster of people, ready for the hour that ripens to their doom. The warriors, arrayed in hostile armies, facing each other, shall not live, whether you strike or stay your hand.”
#BhagavadGita #Yoga
SRSLY.
I actually read a transcript of the conversation they had. It was something like…
Prof. Mora: The Bitcoin network is a waste of energy. I assign you to prove it in a short paper and encourage you to make any assumptions you want about growth without researching the difficulty adjustment, hardware efficiency upgrades, energy markets, stranded energy, the mempool, load balancing, or renewable energy sources. Really, just extrapolate however you want. Don’t bother interviewing anyone who actually uses or secures the network. Bitcoin is bad and, remember, it’s a waste of energy. Also, does anyone know a guy named de Vries?
Et al: Aye Aye, Captain! Wow, data science is easy!!
Hard pass! For my money, Batman, The Animated Series was far better.
The character development, from Bruce Wayne, to the villains he faced as the Batman, to the challenges he faced as the Batman, himself, was excellent. The animation was smooth. The plots were full.
https://youtu.be/rrmUk2YUm14
No harm in trying again as an adult! It’s on Amazon. Beginning with the first episode, it jumps right into moral ambiguities for the audience to consider.
Yeah, no arguments here about that at all. I’m just asking why there is an @america handle in the first place. I never knew about that, or any other country having their own handle. I didn’t know that was a thing, or when it became a thing, or why that thing would be a good thing to exist, at all.
This feels like it’s crossing the line of the 1993 National Voter Registration Act (NVRA). Voter registration drives are allowed as long as they are conducted in a non-partisan manner and do not mislead or coerce individuals into registering. In other words, the person offering the commission must not be affiliated with a political party and must not pressure or deceive people into registering.
100%
Few hold the title of “great American novelist” and DFW is one of them.
From “Consider the Lobster” to “Shipping Out” to “Infinite Jest” to “Everything and More, a Compact History of Infinity.
The man was a genius in every sense of the word.
For anyone interested in a collection of his short stories, find “A supposedly fun thing I’ll never do again”
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