I have a billionaire friend that I talk about this topic with often. We call it the wizard staff. You plant the wizard staff in the ground and watch reality bend around you. Or I have another mental model called the cardboard mall. Imagine a mall full of cardboard cutout people, who are only as real as you allow them to be. At any point in time you can simply decide to run through the mall at a full sprint knocking down every cardboard person in your way. The cutouts jeer at you. They make mean faces and murmur about you. They’re not pleased to be knocked down, but in the end they’re made of cardboard and there’s nothing they can do to stop you.
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That's really powerful imagery!
The cardboard mall is incredibly disturbing, but... yeah... oddly accurate.
I guess the cardboard cutouts are analog to the concept of NPCs. Why are people non-playable characters? Because you can't activate them to accomplish something. They're like part of the scenery.
Having the same thoughts and opinions as the majority locks you into some sort of mental pattern where you can’t deviate. You become locked like an npc, but it also becomes easy to route around you.
Or perhaps the majority opinion is held by the majority because that's the way most peoples' brains work, and we're generic sports that Nature allows for, to give humanity a way out of mental traps.
Like the prophets of old.
I personally don’t like to conceptualize myself as special in any way. Probably an American thing. We all want to view ourselves as self made people who pulled ourselves up from the earth and carved ourselves out of clay.
That said you may be right and it’s possible that neurotypical people are actually just incapable of changing the world or even their immediate environment.
Nah, you ain't special. Funny AF at times though. Merry Xmas A.Hodl. :P
They have other talents. It's not as if prophecy is always a pleasant occupation. Arguably the worst, of the talents.
Think of Jonah, who preferred to risk drowning, than tell people things they didn't want to hear. Remember what Christ said, about the thankless job of being a prophet.
Prophecy , though I’ve never made it an occupation could have easily been my way.
But as one, I knew the future of the #USA & let’s be honest … #Christians fight enough amongst theirselves , as if they haven’t continued to kill humanity too.
The danger of refusing the label of "specialness", exceptionality, or being set apart by Providence, is that you are still left to explain the chronic dichotomy, and you will tend to accuse everyone else of simply being inferior and to rage at them to become more like yourself, even though they might not be able to.
God made you the way you are because He thought you would be useful for Himself and to others, by being that way. Humility is not found in denying this, but in acknowledging that it comes from Him and that it is meant to serve some purpose.
If you are a prophet, what purpose does your prophecy serve? Have you done all you can, to warn others? I think, we can never have done all we could do, and that is the misery and the tragedy of the prophet. Prophets perpetually grieve.
I think I believe this to be true, but for some reason still find myself resistant to the idea of thinking I am special or unique in some way. Maybe it’s cultural conditioning. Maybe I just think I’m still not living up to my full potential and so don’t deserve the classification. 🤷🏻♂️
I have a rich friend who always says things like this to me. “You’re special, you were anointed” etc… and I always recoil at it. Feels smugly congratulatory or something. Like if I believe it I immediately lose my edge.
Well, Jesus was very special and they nailed him to a cross for it, so your mileage may vary.
It's possible that you're subconsciously afraid of the terrible fate that oftens awaits the anointed. I also fear it, but I am doomed to prophecy.
Probably so. I do have and always have had an overwhelming sense that my life is building to something large. Not sure what, but I have an internal sense that it’s about 20 years away still. Right now I’m sort of wandering the desert. In my case both literally and figuratively lol 😂
None of us are seperate from the all that is. At our highest level, we are all God. When you feel that power & play with it, you can experience feelings of being special. You've remembered who you are but everyone else seems to have forgotten or not yet remembered.
I'm convinced this feeling causes a great deal of confusion for many. They become unable to function, to walk unnoticed among the cardboard cutouts. The people around them get worried for their & others safety. Many end up in mental institutions which do nothing for their confusion.
Yes you are special. You've remembered who you really are. You are One with everything & not seperate. It is everyone's destiny to awaken & remember/rediscover this. Your job is to know & to feel you are God without seperating yourself from that oneness. To experience the pain & joy of forgetting & rediscovering. To hold the frequency of light & love.
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To change your mind—to learn—requires a willingness to venture into the unknown. The unknown is where all the monsters and dragons live, which is why most avoid it, but the hero knows that behind the dragon there is treasure (knowledge).
Important to remember that you can still be a normie in a subset of humanity that is non-normie… I.e. the unthinking simps in the bitcoin community that simply parrot the talking points. I think on a relative basis there are fewer among us. I think it’s also true, and perhaps more of a risk when you find yourself in a successful heretical movement, that at any point you can begin sliding into the normie mold. Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom… on both the individual and macro scale
Love your framing.
I love this.
My team always called it the "founder's reality distortion field."
Cardboard cutout framing is awesome.
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
hi Rod. nice to meet you. 🫂😇
thanks Gigi. awesome repost.
My mom absolutely hated after I read that quote as a teenager. 😂
I dont like this statement. It assumes that all adaptations inflicted on the world are positive ones.
It is unreasonable and arrogant in many cases, to presume that nature is imperfect, and that it can be improved on.
Some of the most destructive adaptations have arrisen through the arrogance of the medical fraternity.
The Godly man lives in the kingdom of Heaven
In changing yourself, you change the world. And the one thing you can master is yourself. So that's backwards, isn't it?
A couple of cycles in bitcoin gives you the foundation to do this. It's amazing how much you can shape your reality when you apply yourself.
Try to get your billionaire friend to do less of this metaphorical discussion and more factual literal discussion of reality. Could undermine their billionaire sickness and strengthen their mental health, which does the world a lot of good when you do it for anyone, but billionaires have even more impact than the average person.
Only gay losers mute people.
Sorry nostr:nprofile1qqs8wakr9493685t725kh2ltgwke4hs400fk8kymslak8eh3g42c3zqprpmhxue69uhhqun9d45h2mfwwpexjmtpdshxuet5qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uq32amnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwv3sk6atn9e5k7tc7ztvdw, I can't be bothered to do more.
Nah. A clean feed is a clean mind. I choose what I engage with. That’s the beauty of nostr. Some people provide no value to me. Others negative value.
I wouldn't brag about having a smooth brain. The only "negative" value a person can provide to me is posting something that I'm too stupid to be able to cope with. Otherwise, "ignoring" has another interpretation besides pressing a button on a screen.
Reading mentally ill ramblings is net negative. I’ll pass thanks.
I just muted scoundrel😂. Imagine thinking everybody is obligated to sort through whatever drivel someone tries to insert into the feed 🚁🙄
I don’t blame you lol It’s a super retarded position to hold
Yes, that would definitely be a pretty retarded position. Did I say anything about an obligation to read posts or an entitlement to have one's posts read?
Why not just ignore them manually then? Do you have self control? Why don't I seem to have the same problem as you?
You have a small account dude.
This will be remembered.
For posterity's sake, here's my initial reply as well nostr:note1wch379wsfgppmcpkwa3y903txn0w6e6md7yvevvrkgs8f66rys0qavqzm8
I do!
How does that relate to my desire to keep certain peoples' posts in my feed?
It just means you don’t have as many schizophrenic people following you as I do.
I've seen plenty of retarded, trash, and schizo posts. I've never encountered a person I'd benefit from muting. My mind doesn't need protection, and muting someone would just be an insulting myself. You seem pretty insistent that you aren't less capable than me, but what else could it be? Is there a difference between your schizos and mine?
lmao thanks
In book form.
