GN #Nostr

No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell...

How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole…

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious…

Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event...

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves...

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people...

Jung on Shadow 🖤🪞🌈

I'm assuming that you aren't a wife.

My domestic life is always primary.

I don't like to be incoherent. Things must align.

Co-sign all of that. A big part of articulating a vision for the future I think involves understanding what was great about the past. I love Wendell Berry for this, but when I mention him in this context, people generally think I'm advocating a regression, not an advance. But I don't think Berry is merely nostalgic. I think he had a vision for life that was mostly unrealized, even in the past. The nostalgia we have for the past is in many ways the same as our hope for the future, because the past we remember never actually existed. But it could exist (in some form completely different from what we expect) in the future.

That's a decision above my pay grade, sir.

Wouldn’t be surprised if the next bull run ends with an egregious and bold, albeit futile, attempt at a ban in the US. When it gets really frothy and masses have no idea what they bought.

The fair weathers who bought the crack up boom a few weeks prior immediately panic sell because it’s just a few clicks on Coinbase.

Prayer helps.

I do a lot of praying.

And I do a lot of protesting and writing.

And I attend church services and volunteer.

And I speak up, in public.

And I vote for whichever party my husband suggests. Or I don't vote, if he prefers.

And I buy Bitcoin and gold, and work on Nostr.

And I have kids and have raised them to be sceptical of government.

And I live someplace where the local population is sceptical of the federal government, largely self-sufficient, and disinclined to tattle.

I am Christian and a woman, so I believe this is my proper place.

I don't know if it is a solution, but is not nothing.

I've always admired your ability to speak your mind without being a jerk. Always been a weakness of mine, even when unintended.

Bitcoin is a tool. A very useful tool. Probably one of the best (atm) tools. But I've been coding a very long time. Nothing avoids being replaced. There is no perfect software.

The values and philosophy behind Bitcoin is what really matters to me. Any system build on those fundamentals is something I can live with.

Privacy is an off-putting subject to me. The fact that I have to neuter my Internet connection and constantly play the "why the fuck doesn't this work" game with VPNs in order to keep some asshole online from attempting to fix me was enough I questioned my involvement in Nostr at all. I don't give a crap about Google knowing I like pimento cheese, or Amazon knowing I have an unhealthy addiction to t-shirts. I have no issue with Microsoft collecting data about my PC. I expect these things, and I use the conveniences granted by that data collection (yes, if I use an ad supported service, I would just assume the ads be relevant).

What I don't like is trying to use fundamentally worse software (SimpleX, Firefox, etc) *full time* for every single conversation I have with someone. I don't pay $1200 for a phone to reduce it to the feature set and convenience of a phone I bought 15 years ago. Then I scratch beneath the surface and find out the majority of these projects are funded by the same assholes I thought I was escaping.

There is toxic maximalism on a lot of subjects. People telling other people what they should or should not do without knowing the details of their complicated lives, their threat profiles, their needs... It all reeks of arrogance and hive mind behavior. It's not exclusive to Nostr, nor is Nostr especially bad in that regard. It's the whole Internet.

Thank you for being the person who shares the tools and benefits of using them so people can be informed, without making people feel stupid or small when they don't go as far as you do. It's one of your super powers, and why I always enjoy reading your posts.