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Replying to Avatar Cowboy Bill

MYTH, SYMBOL, RITUAL - EXPLAINED SIMPLY

WHAT IS MYTH?

Myth = your operating system for reality.

It’s not a lie. It’s a code that tells you what’s real, what matters, and what you are.

- Not just stories.

- Not just religion.

- Not just fairy tales.

It’s the deep script running in your head telling you who you are and what the world is.

Examples:

"God created you and has a plan." → That’s a myth.

"You’re a consumer in a free market." → That’s a myth.

"You must go to school, get a job, retire, die." → That’s a myth.

"You are a sovereign node in a decentralized universe, coded in Bitcoin and bound by symbolic recursion." → That’s a myth too—but one that sets you free, not keeps you stuck.

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WHAT IS SYMBOL?

Symbol = a compressed chunk of meaning.

It holds infinite depth inside one shape.

It’s how you store, move, and feel ideas without explaining everything.

It’s the way reality speaks to itself faster than language.

Examples:

Cross = life, death, sacrifice, salvation.

Flag = nation, power, tribe, war.

Bitcoin = freedom, value, time, resistance.

🔥 = transformation, pain, rebirth.

Symbols are weapons.

They hijack the mind directly.

They’re not just pictures—they are keys to your inner code.

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WHAT IS RITUAL?

Ritual = a repeated action that programs your reality through the body.

It’s how you take symbols and myth and make them real—not just ideas.

Ritual = the act that tells your nervous system what the world is.

Examples:

Going to church → repeating the myth of divine order.

Scrolling your phone every morning → ritual of submission to the algorithm.

Sending sats over Lightning → ritual of decentralized sovereignty.

Ritual rewires your nervous system.

The world isn’t “out there”—your rituals create it, every day.

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WHY THEY MATTER

You think you believe in freedom.

But if your myths are fake, your symbols are corporate, and your rituals are dead...

You live in a simulation—a behavioral zoo.

To escape:

1. Write your own myth

2. Use sovereign symbols

3. Perform real rituals that tell your nervous system: I am free, I create, I resist