Thank you. I would zap you but my zapper is currently down due to the switch.

I'm certain I missed a number of you but here's a first pass at a "Mystics of NOSTR" follow pack.

I'm not sure how these things work but if you want on or off of this one, let me know. I think I can edit it but I don't know how all of the editing permissions work with this.

https://following.space/d/79zc5df2sjx8?p=1549ed4be71d1a70ea2dca4596cd0c54c61aea485c6e4e5a8ca463758c98dd4a

Riding thermal updrafts is the best. No effort. Just elevate.

There are 2 main conversations to have regarding Faith and Bitcoin that I can think of:

1. Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and how it applies to "the Bitcoin metanoia".

2. How the Golden Rule shows up in EVERY faith tradition, how to live the Golden Rule in everyday life, and how Golden Rule orange pilling is the META - most effective tactic available.

I get your main point and it's a great case study for all to consider but what's up with the 2007 and 2008 data?

I'm more concerned by their inability to recognize greatness when presented with it.

Maybe if math tried harder to understand people, people would try harder to understand math.

Yeah, compared to Firefox, Brave, and Tor.

There are probably others that deserve a place on this list.

Mostly just curious how many people are big tech browser disrespecters.

Preliminary developments are in the works.

Website and podcast coming.

Those developments will serve as a fire under my ass to work more on the book and get it published.

It was confusing because the install button on Knots doesn’t appear until you uninstall Core. I barely know how to do anything on a node let alone UNinstall something. That’s brand new territory for me. Doing things with nodes is the most advanced computer shit that a lot of Bitcoiners will ever do especially when considering the financial implications of screwing up.

The problem is that the Knots screen needs to have an Install button whether or not Core is already running. If Core is already running, the Install button on Knots needs to still be present but it needs to be greyed out and inactive and next to it needs to be text that reads something like “to install Knots, uninstall Core by selecting Core, scrolling down to the Actions menu, and selecting Uninstall”.

That would be clean.

That’s fine but noobs don’t know what steps to take to make it work and we are intimidated by advanced options and menus filled with such options.

There needs to be an Install button on Knots even if Core is installed and running.

That install button doesn’t need to be operational but it needs to be there and perhaps it should be colored grey or something to indicate that the button is not yet functional for a reason. Then, when users see the button, they go to click it, and it doesn’t do anything. They ask “Why didn’t the button work?”.

Then they see words that the devs could choose to display that say “in order to install Knots you must uninstall Core. To uninstall Core, select Core, scroll down to Actions, and select Uninstall”

That would be clean.

I don't understand your question but I will assume that's your way of asking what the consensus opinion is on NOSTR for the best browser?

If that is your question, I'm not the guy with the answer.

I'm just thinking that Bitcoin/crypto people don't like Microsoft or Google or big tech because big tech are fascistic privacy invaders and we don't like that.

There are tax services that are geared towards Bitcoin/crypto people and these morons don't test their product on browsers that Bitcoin/crypto people would be more likely to use like Tor, Brave, or even Firefox. They also don't make sure their site works while using a VPN.

It amazes me how stupid these people are...like...you're selling a service to a very niche market and you don't know how to tailor your product to that market in ways that are compatible? Who is making the decisions at this place?

What percentage of Bitcoiners do you think use Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome?

At least that's not a live stream of authoritarians on a network populated by anti-authoritarians.

No one likes cops in any form.

You'd have been better off playing the David Cross movie Run Ronnie Run.

I hate you and Sergio and streams and stream notifications.

Make the bad man stop.

Yes. I know that, functionally, I have a lightning node that I was able to get running with the help of friends. Mind you I was confused the entire time this was being set up. I have multiple programs downloaded onto the Start9 that, to me, seem connected to Lightning. I don’t know which of those things is the lightning node.

Also, I don’t know how to interpret “running”. All I know is right now Knots is doing shit and several programs on my Start9 have yellow triangles with an exclamation point inside of them and they all say “Running…” but I don’t know if that means “fully operational and set up” which would be my definition of “running”. I don’t understand how my lightning node could possibly be running if Knots isn’t even synced yet.

All of this confuses me.

I would answer you if I knew how but I don’t know what exactly that means.

No

I found some help.

Basically I think Start9 is dumb because when Core is running, there is not an Install button on Knots. When Core is uninstalled, the Install button for Knots magically appears.

My gripe is why couldn’t Start9 program their user interface such that Knots had an inactive, greyed out Install button with a message explaining how to activate the Install button and instructions on how to uninstall conflicting software implementations.

Also, there is not an uninstall button on the main “page” for Core on Start9. Uninstall is buried under the Actions menu. I had, in my mind, encoded all of the menus as “shit I don’t know shit about” so I didn’t look through any of them. I assumed that the devs would have put an uninstall button somewhere near the bottom.

Sometimes, in order to simplify, you must first complicate.

Sometimes, in order to climb the mountain, you must first come down off of the hill.

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You spell "hawk snack" weird.

Thank you. Your patronage of Nya contributed to Nya's spiritual development in important ways. Nya likely achieved the spiritual accomplishment of "self awareness" while in your care. This is the case for many pets and that's a good thing.

And what is "God"?

Everything.

That means truth is everywhere including in code.

It is up to the will and the eye of the beholder to discern and distill the truth found everywhere.

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Twitter declared me an "inauthentic user" because I blocked a bunch of blue check XRP accounts and because I excitedly shared a breakthrough I'd had about how sarcophagi were used in ancient Egypt with a number of friends via DMs.

That theory is about to bring unity to the battle between religion and science.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/kVP13d5MZe0

It requires humility to say "Maybe everyone I ever trusted about money was wrong and they were just faking competence on that subject."

Bitcoin is an ego test.

Join us 25 hours from now (noon Eastern US time) as we continue studying "The Law of One” which is a series of 106 conversations that occurred from 1981-1984 between a physics professor & the entity known as Ra who had previously tried to spread the Law of One in Ancient Egypt with mixed results.

Last week, we covered:

-the logical fallacy known as “Reification",

- the preface and Chapter 1 from "A Channeling Handbook",

-Session 60 of the Law of One,

-personal research updates from study group members along with discussion

This week we plan to cover:

-the logical fallacy known as “Retrospective Determinism",

-Chapter 2 from "A Channeling Handbook",

-Session 61 of the Law of One,

-personal research updates from study group members along with discussion

Link to join the "Flight Club" study group Clubhouse:

https://www.clubhouse.com/house/flight-club-aeg58h1l7sb6?chs=QKlU4Z4pWa%3A162m6aw2UBc-Y_38pxL36vmjIQ78UBQVqgi1qMuq7KQ

Link to RSVP for the upcoming study group session:

https://www.clubhouse.com/invite/DwdIrg2YpQb7W5q72j2Lwge1RQgahGkGd08:l61qBzL-1kPPEvMdU6sPNFeXHTx9b5rxSmT9aKECTK8

Disagreeing with people for the sake of being disagreeable is pathological.

Willful ignorance is definitionally closed minded. If every scientist immediately disagreed with every whitepaper that every other scientist published no ideas would spread. Open mindedness is important but so is discernment. Prejudicial dismissal of ideas is dumb.

My next, yet-to-be-released episode with nostr:nprofile1qy0hwumn8ghj7en0deehgu3dw3jhxapwdah8yetwv3jhytnrdakj7qgcwaehxw309a5hxmrpdejzumn0wd68yvfwvdhk6tcqyzaz7w2gxdjcga0fz6qt3x8ehc83mpgpvmr2swwmuzzdqfn26m3q54mhg79

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Theta neural oscillations

Years ago I did a walk through of the old abandoned Sun Theater down by the Fox. This would have been the perfect place for a high school Halloween party growing up. It was abandoned and creepy.

There was evidence that someone had been squatting there in the dressing room offstage.

Hilariously, there was also evidence that this squatter had been contending with a local crackhead: a cut off broomstick hanging by a lanyard from a nail on the wall with the words "crackhead-be-gone-stick" written on the wall nearby.

Cigarettes are absolutely disgusting. Good job.

Now you won't make everything around you smell horrible.

Also, you can stack harder now.

🫡

I bet that hat smells horrible.

Surrender...the key that unlocks the 3rd eye.

It's funny how perfectly the concept of "surrender" countervails the concept of "attachment".

🙏

Agreed.

From my December 2023/January 2024 article:

“Whether the next evolutionary leap made by any individual is spiritual, biohacking, or otherwise, one thing is clear about Bitcoin: there is such thing as a Bitcoin metanoia. Hat tip to John Vallis for confirming that he refers to this same observed phenomenon as a Bitnoia. When someone really understands Bitcoin and the laser eyes turn on fully for the first time, a few things happen. First, the person realizes they need to get as much value as they possibly can into Bitcoin before the next bull cycle pops off. Second, they realize that, by sacrificing a certain amount of instant gratification now for a few years, they can leverage orders of magnitude more delayed gratification. In other words, they figure out low time preference. The third thing they figure out is that, if gratification is delayed for a few years, it would be nice to make up for lost time by tacking on a few more years of life at the end. In order to achieve that goal, Bitcoiners often pursue the betterment and optimization of their body and mind by modifying their diet, adopting an intelligent exercise routine, and by curating for themselves a higher quality mental diet of news and voluntary studies of interest. They tend to turn off the mainstream propaganda and tune into other plebs offering signal in a world filled with noise. By finding good information, eating healthy, and exercising intelligently, we should be able to live longer, fuller lives.

Bitcoin has a tendency to get people in shape physically and mentally. Very often Bitcoin drives hodlers to, eventually, seek higher order spiritual truths. This is a very common trend. Many find or re-find religion or spirituality after falling down the Bitcoin rabbit hole. This is well explained by Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. As a no-coiner matures in perspective and as time passes, eventually they find themselves sitting on a life changing amount of purchasing power. This reduces anxieties over basic survival needs and allows the hodler to aim at higher order goals like professional accomplishments, validation, friendship, love, and ultimately, self-actualization.”

Perhaps the point is that the only difference between a flower and a weed is judgement.

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Correction:

This week we covered the "Proof by Verbosity" logical fallacy.

I forgot to edit the copy/paste when I posted initially.

Also, this week we got through the 2nd half of session 57. We will continue with session 58 next week.

*correction: Glory is not Chesed. That was a morning brain fart.

Glory is Hod.

Years and years ago I randomly found myself talking to a salesman about long term disability insurance and some other financial products he had available.

Years later, I'd gotten into Bitcoin. At one point, he and I were talking, as he was trying to pitch me something but I was already into Bitcoin so I explained to him what I was doing and why.

Suffice to say, he didn't get a sale out of me that day but we maintained our relationship. In early 2020, he texted me asking if I had a couple grand he could borrow for a week for some downtown residential real estate investment.

I had no interest in his proposition whatsoever, despite his offering a reasonably lucrative interest payment. My decision was definitely lockdown related, but also Bitcoin knowledge related. So many people want to leave the population dense areas behind now that the idea of buying urban or suburban real estate seems like a bad idea.