This aged well.
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> Remember, I am no teacher; I can merely be a signpost for a traveler who is lost. It is up to you to decide on the direction. All I can offer is an experience but never a conclusion, so even what I have said needs to be thoroughly examined by you. I might be able to help you to discover and examine your problem by awakening your awareness. A teacher, a good teacher that is, functions as a pointer to truth but not a giver of truth.
>
> — Bruce Lee
#Ikitao #Quotes
#Tao Te Ching: Chapter 80
If a country is governed wisely,
its inhabitants will be content.
They enjoy the labor of their hands
and don't waste time inventing
labor-saving machines.
Since they dearly love their homes,
they aren't interested in travel.
There may be a few wagons and boats,
but these don't go anywhere.
There may be an arsenal of weapons,
but nobody ever uses them.
People enjoy their food,
take pleasure in being with their families,
spend weekends working in their gardens,
delight in the doings of the neighborhood.
And even though the next country is so close
that people can hear its roosters crowing
and its dogs barking,
they are content to die of old age
without ever having gone to see it.
I agree with you about borders, and the division of people. As human beings we should not be confined to the place we were born. We should be free to travel and live anywhere we choose on planet earth without invasive government gatekeeping.
This verse carries with it a very Libertarian sentiment. There are many translations. This is a commentary on the D.C. Lau (Academic Translation). Hopefully this will shed some light on the English translation. https://www.centertao.org/essays/tao-te-ching/dc-lau/chapter-80-commentary/
For more info on the philosophical depth of this text and why it is so challenging to translate into English, I wrote a little about it here.
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It can be. Though comfort and true inner contentment are not the same. Please see the link in my reply here for the nuance of this verse that is admittedly not so apparent in this particular translation.
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> To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
>
> — William Blake
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I haven't verified this. But Claude Sonnet had this to say about it.
Yes, Block, the company co-founded by Jack Dorsey, is indeed winding down its crypto unit known as TBD. This decision comes as part of a broader strategy to scale back investments in other areas, such as TIDAL, in order to focus more on Bitcoin mining initiatives.
The company has indicated that this shift will allow it to allocate resources more effectively towards its core interests in Bitcoin, which has been a significant part of its business model.
* I'm too busy ATM to fact check it, so you'll have to do the leg work. *
You bet.
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As Bitcoin becomes more and more a part of the system it was designed to overthrow—because people would rather see 'money go up' than stick to its original cypherpunk manifesto and bake in privacy at a protocol level (as Snowden has been cautioning the devs to do for years).
Similar to election cycle gas price manipulation, I am confident that this ATH bull run was not an accident.
I am reminded of the parade scene from Batman, where the Joker attempts to lure the citizens of Gotham by throwing money at them in a sinister plot, just before he gasses everyone.
https://file.nostrmedia.com/p/4eb88310d6b4ed95c6d66a395b3d3cf559b85faec8f7691dafd405a92e055d6d/cfe016cd1d300dfe3adac4cc42ee7d01e2686d1dd98b6771f5db5137296bcf1f.mp4
Don't get me wrong, I am a Bitcoiner. It has proven to be an historically well performing commodity/asset, and has certainly been a benefit (mostly on an individual level) in countries with high inflation or unstable currencies.
However, I have the awareness to see what is happening—and I am not alone in this sentiment—which is why I also believe in and USE #Monero—a true privacy-focused digital CURRENCY.
I doubt Trump would sell it. It's his only place to go when he starts butting heads with his "dream team."
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#Tao Te Ching: Chapter 79
Failure is an opportunity.
If you blame someone else,
there is no end to the blame.
Therefore the Master
fulfills her own obligations
and corrects her own mistakes.
She does what she needs to do
and demands nothing of others.
Not quite like this :)
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> Hard work may be important, but it's not the secret. If hard work were the secret to wealth and abundance, most people in the world today would be rich.
>
> — Matt Furey
#Ikitao #Quotes
#Tao Te Ching: Chapter 78
Nothing in the world
is as soft and yielding as water.
Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible,
nothing can surpass it.
The soft overcomes the hard;
the gentle overcomes the rigid.
Everyone knows this is true,
but few can put it into practice.
Therefore the Master remains
serene in the midst of sorrow.
Evil cannot enter his heart.
Because he has given up helping,
he is people's greatest help.
True words seem paradoxical.
Leftists are some of the fiercest Monero-using, E2EE privacy advocates I know. During the BLM protests, it was quite revealing to see far-right protesters having their texts leaked on Twitter in real time because they were using Telegram, while those on the far-left did not suffer from the same fate because they had already been using Signal and other more private forms of communication for quite some time.
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#Tao Te Ching: Chapter 19
Throw away holiness and wisdom,
and people will be a hundred times happier.
Throw away morality and justice,
and people will do the right thing.
Throw away industry and profit,
and there won't be any thieves.
If these three aren't enough,
just stay at the center of the circle
and let all things take their course.
I don't often read fiction, but this looks interesting and has great reviews. Thank you for the recommendation.
Love this quote:
Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal.
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