Don't be a fool. Emotions are the key to awakening. Study Zen. Sit and observe. Your soul depends on it.
Wisdom has nothing to do with how smart you are, nor life experience. It's awakening to your inner truth. Something we all have access to
I'd rather not have even more of my wealth stolen. Any solution that achieves long lasting peace must involve the defending of those who seek to start and maintain wars. Under that scenario, long term it doesn't matter who has the land now. Russia, Ukraine, EU... All ideas, none real. All falsehoods shall fall before the truth that is we are not separate. Stop war now by any means. There are no winners.
He's not wrong. Don't know where you are but it's the same here in Germany. We earn very well and still can't really afford much of a lifestyle. We're also getting raises well below inflation.
Stoicism is great but it is just a pointer to direct experience. This may sound odd but long story short, that Buddha guy was right. What you think you're experiencing is just layers of thought. When they fall away something truly wonderful happens. Something unimaginable and indescribable.
Know who lost their shirts in the dot com bubble?
Know who bought all the toxic assets before the GFC?
Know who signed off their energy security to the Russians?
Germany has had a death wish for a while now. It's the self hatred percolating through unconsciously.
In a culture of shame, this will never be spoken of.
This is fine.
Demonetisation comes when the bank doesn't allow it but then I buy your 1m quid house for 500k and then a utxo changes hands.
What do you mean the property market is tanking!?!
Politicians can only slow it down.
Yeah, I came to it via this book, which I loved
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1742577.The_City_of_Words
Its cool to hate.
This is a psyop.
All it does is reveal your self hatred.
There is no "other"
Haven't you read The Epic of Gilgamesh?
If that humble, no-self will permeate being and of you there shall be nothing.
Ah right, yeah well, yeah tgen im with you. Mind identification is the problem.
The religious are as guilty of that as the non religious.
Both think belief has something to do with it.
It does not.
Well, luckily I don't have to. Apparently I'm a gnostic according to some guy who doesn't understand what no thought means. So there you go. Burn me because I touched the face of god without a book.
I studied physics. All it does is try to describe what things do and categorise them accordingly.
Pretty fast, it becomes clear words are useless to describe even that.
To conflate that with some form of philosophy is an error. And to confuse it with reality beggars belief. That's why all data has error bars. Physics wasn't created, it's the best we can do to describe what things do. Not what they are.
Still not sure I get what you're saying.
Jeff went downhill once he started trying to monetise Eurodollar University. I watched it often when Emil was there. Now it's all nonstop doom. Unsubscribed.
The bitcoin conference is fast becoming a political circus for people who believe their politics and bitcoin are somehow aligned.
Bitcoin isn't like anything else. That's the point.
Stop believing a politician gives you a sense of safety and control.
You're deluded.
If that upsets you. That's the delusion.