BTW, an example of a psychic phenomenon occurred today. I mentioned psy phenomena in my reasons why free will exists. These things are everywhere, but you don't notice them until you notice them. This video starts off with a piece of a piano music that was playing in my head this morning, and I can't recall ever having it in my head before. It wasn't until evening that I started listening to these lectures. It **_could_** be random... But how many such random events can happen? These things happen.
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All of this actually reminds me of Ram Dass
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ahaha, nice today i learned that Richard Alpert, who i know of from his work with Timothy Leary and LSD, is Baba Ram Dass.
i for some reason connected it to Raja Ram of Sphongle, but they are not connected in so far as yes both of them were into psychedelics in some way.
I had my own psychedelic/deja vu/psychic phenomena from Ram Dass flashing back to the note I posted earlier today:
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that has been a tacit and eventually explicit understanding for me, as until january 2022, as i realised at that time, i had been pretty much going from one parasite to another, every time fleeing when it became oppressive, and walking straight into another one.
the predators are among us, and sifting through the people to find the ones who are not predators is a very challenging task. this is my defense now. as soon as i feel that stress that marks that i am being fed upon, i leave a lot sooner now. only took a little over a month in the most recent incident. this particular predator was superficially different from the others in that she wasn't so aggressively trying to manipulate me, but she was, nevertheless. fortunately my friend is sorting out the only loose thread that concerned me, my cat, who i promised myself i would not abandon as i have had to do several times, at age 21, 36, then again in 2022, and now in 2025.
as of this past month, i have shifted from a passive posture to taking the initiative, and the people i have found my self surrounded with now, are all cheering me on.
I suppose too “good” a time would have created too “weak” of men? I am sorry though that those things happened.
i don't really think it per se is about whether fortune is good or not but fortune does tend to breed complacency, and as well, dims curiosity and initiative.
that's why you see so many people on nostr talking about space travel - there probably isn't anything more dangerous i could imagine doing.
like, think about the effect that seed based agriculture had, in addition to what can be made from it... high starch diet is very filling but without hard labor, makes you fat, and in general, shortens lifespan because of the oxygen radicals in sugars, it reduces stature because it is low protein and low quality and low in saturated fats, reducing intelligence, strength, and stature.
compared to herding, fishing and hunting/trapping, it is easy, especially if you get cows to do most of the heavy lifting. in addition, the silos attract vermin, which lead to epidemics, as well, and the long term storage of the seed leads to fungal organisms which also reduce health. ah but it's "easy". that's why the empires of the last 10,000 years favored wheat and rice and corn, depending on which continent.
and because of this cheap but crappy food supply, population rises, but the quality of the population continues to decline over the centuries as it continues.
if i was to be in charge of starting up a new civilization, i would absolutely forbid seeds, at all. the blades of the plants are for cows, not the seeds for men. it's not even good to feed to fowl, or ruminants, and that's partly why the european and american food supply is so messed up now, then add GMO to it for good measure.
when people are lured into the convenience of this lifestyle, they are easy to turn into slaves, as well, and because they become stupider, the emperors have to cull the population periodically to weed out the ones that degraded the most.
so, it's not just that ease makes for complacence, it also degrades the mind, body, and soul of the population.
name one society of history whose primary food was bread or rice, that didn't go down the toilet after maybe 400-800 years. i'll wait.
easy is always poisonous.
I like imagining how many Genghis Khans there must've been before Genghis Khan. Their ancient way of living had to have survived from the very beginning, in roughly the same form. There's at least 20k years of lost history - that's the bare minimum. Every time the strong nomads found themselves surrounded by weak and stupid slave populations, they stopped their infighting and rampaged across Eurasia. It had to have happened over and over, considering how many civilizations disappeared, how much history is lost, and the simple fact that nomads still exist now. Persians, Greeks, and north Indians are all descendants of some nomadic progenitor culture that utterly wiped out the populations that previously existed there. The standard academic history says they were farmers displacing non-farmers, but that's obviously wrong - grain fed populations are too weak to kill off other grain fed populations, much less nomads. History's endless recurring wars that almost never moved borders attest to that. American history attests to it resoundingly - 5k Comanche warriors held the southwest against **_millions_** of grain fed settlers. The only real advantage the settlers had was that they could make guns, whereas the Comanches had to trade for their guns or steal them. And before that, it took about 250 years of coastal settlement before any European made it past the Appalachians, and then only because they had "gone native." French traders up the Mississippi were hardly French at all - they were only able to do that because they mixed and learned from the stronger natives. And the current relative weakness, both physically and mentally, of Americans is because of the government's decision to turn **_the entire_** Mississippi basin into a giant farm. But backing up a bit, those Comanches could have pulled a Genghis Khan if they had their own supply of horses and guns. I think history has a clear lesson : if you want to be in the "winning" group, don't eat carbs (sin is death! carbs are sin) and make sure you own and understand your own production.
and have lots of the best weapons you can get.
and that's not even actually that hard for anyone with elementary highschool chemistry. birdshit (keep pigeons) charcoal (build a charcoal kiln, it has many uses not the least of which cooking) and sulphur (which is used to inhibit mold on brassicas). voila, make appropriate devices, probably need to find some magnesium. well, aluminium and iron filings will work, just need some goop to stick it to some cord.
uh oh, i just told you a bomb recipe!
trebuches are pretty easy to make too, just rot down some animal carcasses, and voila, bring all the dirty varmints with diseases to the party.
what else is there. hmm. see, those indians needed science. that's how the relatively peaceful europe produced conquerors.
and yeah, as sun tzu explains, using unconventional warfare techniques to acquire weapons from the armories of the enemies is the correct way to do it. stealth, distractions, most important is scouts, you need scouts creeping around as close to the enemy as possible and relaying that information as quickly as possible to the planners.
also, it really reinforces the point. you can win with soft war and unconventional techniques, under some circumstances, but generally, when that fails, you have to have blades, projectiles and incendiaries, and men trained to use them, as well as men trained to make them.
there is no way to overthrow a dictatorship without breaking some eggs, burning some houses down and knocking down bridges.
My highschool chemistry wasn't nearly as good as your highschool chemistry... And that's with the advantage of being a chemistry nerd from a very young age... Probably about 7 years' headstart. 🤔 Of course it didn't really start fitting together in a potentially creative way until I discovered the electronegativity chart, which was notably absent from all my classes, even in college, which is kinda concerning.
Yeah that level of chemistry - making things pop, basically, combining exotherm with pressure - I really think should be common knowledge. I think a decision has been made to occult useful chemistry because that keeps people incapable of resisting control. And its not only about violence - wanna turn a motor? Need something to push it. 'They' want us so retardedly incapable that we have to find a property with a natural pusher, water or wind, and then pay some licensed jackass to build a system. Boomer mentality. The least individually capable people in the world. They want everyone that incapable.
yeah Baron Mayer Rothschild literally said that "smart enough to do the work, dumb enough to not question why they are doing it"
also, yeah, i was the last generation that was taught old school trivium "first principles" science. that's why i (along with my high intelligence) have the capacity to understand this stuff. i don't have much practical experience though, but i know pretty much the basics of how to produce all kinds of thermo/explosive basics, it's not really the most interesting part of the subject for me though. when i was in highschool, i was fascinated by organic chemistry, specifically polymers. as i've got older, i'm much more interested in things like soap and cleaning agents, fuel production, distillation, simple organic synthesis, and inorganic chemistry (of which largely the things that go bang or get very hot are about).
i'm most focused though, on understanding, now, what the essentials are for agriculture and hunting, and processing the production into food, and how to store it. but weapons are also very important, basic for hunting, but i want to have the lowest level fallback i can get. how to make a basic longbow, for a start, and then, how to craft a recurve bow. crossbows are only a small extra element of trigger mechanism and string puller, but can be made much larger for much longer range. and how to make various types of tips, what you can make the stick thing out of (i know there is a proper name) and in general the whole thing of fletching, putting the flights on the end, the proper ways to put the notch, and then, of course, how to use it effectively. it's something i plan to do in the near future. including the basic precursor, which is a knife. you need a knife to make a bow. knives are primary tools.
Bolts - the stick thingy, in crossbows and arbalests. For knives, the simplest and most effective route is flint knapping. Skipping the whole metallurgy chain let's you get to skinning and carving faster, and flint knives are sharper than metal knives anyways.
Intelligence wise, for me it's a curse. I'm not claiming to be a great wizard or anything, but I've got enough to know when I'm being excluded out of envy, and have to tactically pretend to be dumb so that people don't ostracize me right away. This "lived experience," to borrow a commie term ironically, is how I know that humanity is getting dumber over time - civilization commits a slow genocide against intelligence by ostracizing intelligent people and thus denying them the opportunities that would allow them to reproduce.
Social-natural selection selects for workers that don't think. Its shockingly evident in the chikdren of immigrants that come up from the south here - after generations in this environment, their modern descendants are, at best, programmed into belligerent social justice warriors, making all conversations with them a dangerous waste of time. And what story does their ancestry tell? Subjugation only, first as unquestioning catholics, and then as the survivors of encomienda. Compare with the population of North America - we mixed with natives, learned from them, and did not enslave them and exterminate them, which was the 500 years process in the Latin countries. The European settlers were largely from nobility - second sons with no inheritance other than their wits, which were substantial, and that's why they were nobility, mixed with undomesticated native Americans, and notably excluded catholics, who were and are so domesticated that they fail to question the obviously lying and corrupt clergy. The result was a warrior poet north vs a subservient horde of unthinking workers in the south. I doubt a sharper divide can be found anywhere on earth.
Anyways. None of this is intended to say that any human beings are less valuable than others. A being is a being, regardless of details.
That summarizes ever grad student I've ever met
yeah, i was surrounded by people like this. i called them "nerds" because they were conformist, unquestioning, and seemed to be far more interested in D&D and various minutiae of these silly games. and nowadays, it's more about people talking about movies, i couldn't yawn more.
we got much bigger fish to fry and childhood is over. if you aren't already planning towards how you are going to weather the global war that is coming, are still living in a city, and prepared to be able to survive without electricity, you are not ready, and i'm not even close to ready yet with that. grateful to nostr for giving me a thing to get really good at building stuff so i can make enough money to buy the fences, sheep, chickens, repairs, build the stuff to teach myself how to do stone age chemistry, weapons production and use, and military strategy (really need to get a paper copy of The Art of War).
I've got a copy of it right here, the same copy I've had since I was 8 years old. Its my most prized book.
it's a very important book, one of the most important ever written.
easy to get it free on the internet, probably can even get english and croatian and make a two column side-by-side so that i learn a bit of croat in the process.
yeah, ok, you convinced me, i need to get a laser printer, and some binder things to make books. there is SOOO many i could think of to have a hard copy that are free to download. only hard part is finding versions that haven't got awful OCR errors that weren't corrected. but i could probably even get claude to do that for me, if i can't find a clean copy of anything.
Haha, you convinced yourself, I'm just happy yo have been present for it.
Hey, make its a trilinear translation, if you can get an llm to do the heavy lifting - Chinese, for referencing the original (Chinese is only difficult because of the characters - if an llm is taking care of that, then the grammar is a piece of cake), English in the middle, and Croat below.
I hope I don't jynx it by saying this, but I've been feeling like I need to learn Sumerian writing. Those sticks look useful for a dense but readable way to encode information, like it could sit right in the sweet spot between machines and humans.
yeah, babylonian numbers are also very interesting, base 60. more than the number of letters in most modern alphabets.
after reading the book Hair of the Alien, in which it describes the results of using PCR on carefully treated samples of hair that were reported to have appeared - wrapped around a man's penis who claims to have been visited by two strange looking women, who seemed to be alien, but very close to human, one tall and blonde, with very fine hair, and another, shorter and quite dark skinned and somewhat asian looking, i just want to focus on the dark skinned one, but the "nordic" one, she had genetics which are found in the iberian/north african (berber) and irish (i think it was irish), but the other one had genes that matched most closely to modern mongolians.
in The Apocalypse of Yajnavalkya, he suggests that the pale, tall one was an atlantean, and the dark, shorter one, was a lemurian.
sorta makes a lot of sense now i think about it, with you bringing up the matter of Geghis Khan, that the mongolians are probably the remnant of the lemurians, whose domain was basically east asia, and that likely they appeared earlier than the atlanteans. this would be how the mongolians have their martial culture and ethics and why they were so successful at what they did.
there isn't as much said about either the lemurians or the atlanteans and war, because mostly it's lilly livered pacifists who are interested in them. but the war of the titans implies that very likely, they had a culture similar in principle to the original ideas of the founders of the USA, stipulating that everyone is responsible for security against incursions by enemies.
what i would just add to that, is that it's not just about ballistics and tactics, its' also about narratives, deception, i mean, look at what is happening now with russia. nato and ukraine started persecuting ethnic russians living in the east, on the borders with russia, and just like Genghis, the neighbours are getting hoity toity and think they can just run around ethnically cleansing russians. and then, they just keep on dragging it on, so russia is now in attrition warfare mode. at some point, it's going to become obvious that these spiteful little shits, who are just poking and poking and poking the bear, are gonna get the swatting of their lives.
but, i think the actual situation is that the chain of command goes from the shadows behind putin, and from his networks to brussels, and the whole EU project has all along been softening up europe in order to be able to do the ideal of Sun Tzu, to conquer an enemy with very little resources spent. at this point, they are in defensive mode, but in the shadows, they have been orchestrating the collapse of the european union, in order to claim all of europe as their domain.
i'm not saying that's good, because it's not. but it's incredible how easily europe was lulled into a pacific, disarmed sleep.
the same thing has been happening to the USA as well, and all of the commonwealth nations.
when i was in prison, a cellmate had an interesting book that had the thesis that in fact, since the beginning of WW1, it has in fact been a constant war.
i think that actually, it goes way way further back, tens of thousands of years, to that war in heaven/war of the titans, and we are now at last in the final act, with a tri-polar power structure just like Orwell described, and also, similarly, the contested zones between, most of africa, india, and west asia, are all and have been long battlegrounds between these three dynasties.
it is truly a blessing from God that our star is about to give them a good roasting. whether or not anything else happens, those who survive, will be able to possibly institute a more stable world order where every village is an army, and nobody tresspasses on anybody, without getting immediate retribution. those dynastic power families, playing chess in their vendettas with each other, don't have a guaranteed survival out of what's coming. they are decrepit, inbred and so complacent in their success at enslaving humanity, that more likely a dozen genghis khans appear and hunt every last one of them down and remove them from the face of the earth.
Man I hope so...
My main interest, though, is continuity of production after whatever reset event happens. Its wayyyyy too centralized now. Like, look at silicon chips - everyone is chasing the newest and smallest, but who's securing the old tech tech that maybe could be produced locally and would be necessary to rebuild if the main factories or foundries were taken out? Nobody... I don't need this spiffy phone with the nice touchscreen - what I couldn't live without is the ability to compute in less volume than a truck. Old tech, but its unreachable. If a major solar event happened today, we would have to redo the whole last century, at least.
just need all the necessary science and instructions for manufacturing the parts, starting from how to acquire the raw materials. that's out there, easy enough to find. this is something that i want to do, also, acquire such a library, ideally several copies of everything, stored in three separate locations.
also, physical objects that are critical to being able to do the math manually are critical. slide rules, abacus, and devices for writing and materials to write on. automation techniques for all of the steps should also be part of it, so you can scale up production faster.
idk how big such a library has to be, to get you to the point you can make a programmable calculator, but i would bet it's at least a meter thick of paper.
We need that, and we need to organize our tech into a system analogous to ecosystem trophic levels. Like, here's a metal plate with microscopic engravings that encode everything needed to establish the lowest trophic tech level, then there's another plate for the next trophic tech level after the previous one is established, etc, add in exceptions, loops, branchings, and make that the widespread physical encyclopedia thats hard to destroy.
The more you know 🌀
I know others disagree on this, but IMO Mr Rammed Ass was a charlatan.
so was timbo the "psychologist" leary, friend of the CIA.
almost everything in the sixties was a psyop to create boomers.
These sounds lot of ad hominem labeling/name callings. I trust you, but there’s no way to verify 😄
You can verify, I just can't verify for you
One of the beautiful thing with bitcoin is it’s easy to verify. This other chain… I don’t know looks like a shit coin 😄
If you mean the chain of 60's charlatans and modern churchy equivalents, yes, its a shitcoin for most people, because they don't personally verify.
Suppose the labels are true. Does it change his rules?
I am thinking say you find Satoshi Nakamoto on the Epstein files, does it change the Bitcoin rules?
who cares who satoshi was, although that it is someone who is a public figure, or the CIA/NSA, is extremely implausible. consider, that Jack Dorsey was involved in the cypherpunks mixnet mailing list. So was Dan Larimer (bytemaster). guaranteed that there was CIA/NSA guys on that list too, 100% certainty, considering the subject matter (studying what is out in the field).
what matters about bitcoin is the game theory. the game theory works, for now, but what are its failure modes. to pretend that it has none is superstitious, non-engineer talk. systems that are engineered with errors in their design, even if they work well in most conditions, have conditions in which they fail. the obvious one is grid down. if that happens you better have some cash and gold/silver/copper stashed.
I agree, it doesn’t matter who he/she/it was. Even if they were from the CIA. It doesn’t change bitcoin rules.
The CIA/NSA thing is the least plausible. The group theory is the next least plausible, and if combined with the government idea, you have to multiply the implausibilities like fractions - you get a much smaller fraction / chance / plausibility. Governments don't put literal centuries into building an empire and then risk it all on some speculative idea. Groups don't produce simple and elegant solutions. It was one dude or dudette, ain't no effin way it was gubmint or a team.
also, it's pretty likely that they came from a commonwealth nation or at least maybe somewhere like belgium or the netherlands.
Why's that?
he wrote in fairly idiomatic british english, so, likely he either learned english at a british language learning school or was from a commonwealth nation where that is taught and used.
He could've been doing that to obscure his identity
i personally have now spent so much time in several countries, learned a smattering of the languages, picked up many new idioms and i now write text that often mixes up many from many different languages. he was definitely not american, and by the likely age of someone who can write bitcoin from scratch, he was likely around the same age as me, and in my highschool days, they used to teach proper science. it was precisely about that time they started all this woke shit, my school implemented a social credit score system.
my personal most likely candidate for satoshi was Len Sassaman, and he is dead. he was known to have lived in a place where the dominant english idiom was like what they speak in belgium.
Sassaman was employed as the security architect and senior systems engineer for Anonymizer. He was a PhD candidate at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium, as a researcher with the Computer Security and Industrial Cryptography (COSIC) research group, led by Bart Preneel. David Chaum and Bart Preneel were his advisors.
i mean, he could have been american, but the belgian university he would have been speaking constantly with people speaking, basically, british english.
so long as satoshi's coins never move, i am gonna be pretty much convinced it was him.
🤔 tbh, it is hard to imagine him being an American. So maybe it was that guy. I hope he uses his coins to pull a Genghis Khan on the world.
nah, he was american, but he was studying at a belgian (flemish, northern) university at the time. and cryptography and security were his subjects. and he was known to be part of the cypherpunk mailing list, under his real identity.
anyway. meh. the superstition that has built up around bitcoin is starting to get tiring to me. i think it's important, and i use it all the time as money, but i don't have a lot of faith in the majority of software projects working with it, or the increasing financialisation and paperification that is going on. these people are obviously doing it wrong because otherwise, why is self custody still so rare? and why are so many of them building sidechains or bank integrations?
i'm more interested in stacking survival skills and good friends now than anything else. bitcoin is part of that but the people are much more important.
100%. I'm here to add my voice to the bitcoin movement, but ultimately bitcoin can't be what its about. We got real world stuff to do too. I kinda find the superstition entertaining tho. I'd be all over a church of satoshi. Candles, incense, chanting, humming, rocking back and forth like retards - the whole shebang, it'd be lit.
yeah, hypnosis. lol. no thanks.
i prefer karma yoga.
i think it is superstitious to claim that bitcoin is the be-all and end-all of freedom money. despite the fact that maybe thousands of clowns got into it to milk retail. but idgaf honestly, the way i have designed jericho it will not be untoward in respect to bitcoin. it's just a set of corrections and as someone suggested to me, it will have a genesis block that anyone who still has unspent coins prior to segwit, can immediately use the new chain.
i know only the "blinking" bitcoiners of whom a lot are here on nostr, might be interested, i'm deliberately making the design so it only appeals to bitcoiners. you are one, of course, but network effect is critical to making it happen, i have to try and divide my time effectively to actually do the implementation.
Yeah, it doesn't matter who he was. But I also just wouldn't believe it if he was in the Epstein files. They've had more than enough time to cook up whatever narrative they want.