GM fellow travelers - who else occasionally pinches themselves that we get to be alive at this time in history??
I can exchange my life energy for a leak proof money that I can send to my parents 11,000 kms away for a fraction of a cent at the speed of light without the Australian Govt calling to ask me why I send their aud shitcoin to South Africa every month (true story), while refusing to answer why I was locked in my home and coerced into taking an experimental and now conclusively shown to be dangerous inoculation (I did not!).
My parents can exchange that energy for groceries (steak and eggs) at the Pick n Pay supermarket in South Africa (shout out for accepting Bitcoin for 2+ years now) without having to explain to their bank where they got it in order to convert it into their zar shitcoin, and eat in spite of a corrupt system having stolen all the economic surplus of the 50 years they both worked.
And then I can share a post about it on a platform that the parasites cannot censor, shut down or manipulate.
Our ancestors longed to see this day!
"who controls money can control the world" - Kissenger
"The plebs shall inherit the world" - Jesus (Nakamoto translation ;-))
"With e-currency based on cryptographic proof, without the need to trust a third party middleman, money can be secure and transactions effortless." - Nakamoto
"Free the money, free the world" - plebs
If I could venture an answer…
Don’t trust, verify.
Faith is the Greek word pistis from the root pisteo, meaning to be persuaded by evidence. It is passive, it happens to us and cannot be drummed up. My advice is to let the evidence do its work.
Every time I work from first principles I end up at this person of Jesus of Nazareth being by far the best explanation for what the bloody hell we are doing here! The arguments from cosmology, teleology , biology, morality and history are overwhelmingly persuasive to me.
Put all options on a level playing field and it is very apparent that there is no second best (see what I did there ;))
Then watch The Chosen series.
“Be a force of nature, instead of a clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world does not devote itself to making you happy”
George Bernard Shaw
3000 every second.
That is how many ‘average’ human lives are extinguished a second to cover current interest on the global deficit we’ve accrued through the use of counterfeit monetary energy issued by fiat.
Have I got it wrong? I can’t sleep.
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Thank you. I remember that video well. A truly sad day. Btw: I didn’t realise the zap I sent was labelled “party time”. It was intended to show appreciation for the first honest reporting I found regarding that awful day! I’d hate it to appear facetious.
Today, I ended my x subscription and deactivated my account.
No doubt, the hundreds of gorgeous young Asian girls following me are devastated by the abruptness of my departure, and for that I am sorry.
Elon - I love and respect you bro, but this is the way..
Hey Jimmy. Apologies for slow response! No final straw as such, more that I’m increasingly drawn to living in and from the world I’ve seen and increasingly see. It’s almost abrahamic this bitcoin journey! The breaking news is a conundrum though and I confess when the assassination attempt broke the first thing I wanted to do (and I confess did via a new account) was jump on x to see it unfold!
I then spent hours reading the same facts from multiple sources. I found that frustrating as I lost momentum on the things I care about. Perhaps i need an aggregator to monitor the feed and consolidate anything truly new that comes out.
Today I sent my 80 yr old father some sats to spend at pick n pay in South Africa.
Talking him through setting up a lightning wallet : 2 minutes
Talking him through sending me an invoice: 2 minutes
Sending the sats: speed of light for fraction of a cent
At which point he asked me “that’s cool, and how do I convert this to real money?”
Processing just how deeply lodged in our collective psyche the fiat illusion/delusion is: work in progress!
That question from a man who’s read the creature from Jekyll island and understands the problem!
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“Every society honours its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.” Marshall McLuhan. Why does this seem to be so true?