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Rich Lassiter
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ER Doc bringing the medical community to bitcoin.

It seems implausible to be in Bitcoin for a decade and NOT have changed your mindset.

It only took a few years for me. 🤣

Replying to Avatar Wicked

You know this is AI bc Luke doesn’t look like he spent the night on the streets.

I need to consolidate 6.15 to one UTXO for a steak dinner. 👍

Yes, it was about me, but directed at you, because you were mentioning the guilt. I referenced the bitcoin because to me there is an analogy with regards to ‘everyone’ believing in the old system, but after you discover the old system is wrong, you don’t need to be burdened by the belief set (guilt) of bad system.

I really like the way Jeff Booth frames this in the sense of not solving the problems of the old system within the framework of the old system. The new system/paradigm fixes the problems. And also how he talks about wanting to help bring the new system to fruition so he moved his time and energy into the new system.

Replying to Avatar HannahMR

I once heard someone say “god is the blanket that we throw over the mystery of the universe” and that really stuck. Yes, we don’t, we can’t, understand the universe, but we need some way to process it, some way to deal with the uncontrollable nature of it, and so we call it ‘god’.

I read a book on happiness once that told a story about a young couple who had lost a child. They were religious and took great comfort in the idea that this was “all a part of god’s plan”. I have very mixed feelings about that. We can examine the seeming cruelty of ‘god’ in that situation, but we can also appreciate that they found a way to come to grips with the lack of safety in the world, and the uncontrollable nature of our universe.

‘God’, or religion, really does give a lot of peace of mind to a lot of people in crisis. The concept is a hack for learning to "let go." But there are down sides. No one wants to be a passenger in car when the driver says “Jesus take the wheel!”

And this is just such a constant wrestling match in my head. How do you be a responsible person, how do you keep planning for the future while knowing, while holding the knowledge that you live in a universe without safety? A universe that you can’t control, where tragedy is always possible. How the fuck do you do that?!?!

I do have some idea. I know that planning is entirely necessary in this life, and so you gotta keep doing it. And also, you have to hold the reality that there is some percentage, some amount of the situation that is, from our perspective, totally random and uncontrollable. I am now capable of intellectually acknowledging that, and I’ve been learning to decouple tragedy with shame or guilt, or even failure, in my thought processes. But I haven’t found a way to emotionally hold this reality.

Ideas?

For me, it was verify, don’t trust.

I grew up being told that Christianity was the truth, and had a difficult time trying to find ways to squeeze objective truths (dinosaurs, the age of the Earth, where the other people came from that Adam & Eve’s kids married, etc).

After understanding that the Creation story was drafted by people who clearly did not have omniscient knowledge of history, it led to understanding many other aspects of the religion were created by humans for their own motivations, and then to realizing all of it is.

Removing the ‘problem’ of the inconsistencies of religion makes life simpler.

It was difficult for me bc everyone else in the family/community/whatever still believed in the truth as told by the Bible. But letting go of it bc it cannot objectively be true undoubtedly later helped me to question the reality of our financial situation and why ₿ is so important. The ‘leaders’ in my financial community/family were telling that this system based on trust is the way to go forward, but objectively, the system based on math and physics is obviously going to win. Honestly it surprises me when I encounter so many Bitcoiners that are still devoutly religious. But, everyone is on their own journey, and it generally is not harmful for people to believe in a religion that allows them to take the weight off their mind. (Caveat: Some religions/subsects of religions are harmful to others.)

TLDR; try to let go of the religious guilt that you are saddling yourself with. The universe is random, and everyone in it is looking out for their own interests.

There is no ‘us’ and ‘them.’ There’s only people. Racism is a thing people are taught, not born with. Racial Purity is simply racism. People can love whoever they want.

Bitcoin is the sly, roundabout way that we take control of money away from the government.

It’s the thing Hayek was talking about.

Bitcoin is the trojan horse that will reign in spending.

BlackRock’s quants put out a paper in Feb 2022 suggesting a conservative portfolio had an 85% ₿ allocation.

Aggressive portfolio is 106% ₿.

He’s not even keeping up with BlackRock! 🤪

Here’s the paper:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4042239

I found the Skull of Satoshi

Thanks to my ₿ hat, I met a new Bitcoiner in the area while waiting for my plane to Vegas.

Together we orange-pilled the pilot, and tried to orange-pill someone from the wake of the BitBoy chaos. 🤝

I’m on my way and wearing the shirt you talked me in to buying in Miami right now.

You can just do things, like make a phone case that helps to onboard people to ₿itcoin…

A 10 sat zap ⚡️ feels a lot better than someone handing me a penny.

😎

I’m selling all my ₿ at $84K today.

Thanks y’all, it was fun!