Yikes!! Youre right..

Your attention is the fuel that expands what it is placed upon.

This is binary phenomenon or natural law. Attention causes growth, inattention withers.

The subject matter makes no difference.

Even your inadvertent attention, your unconscious attention, and especially your resistant attention expands those things.

No exception.

Contemplate this. Assess your uses of attention, how does it measure up to what you would rather see more of in life vs less of?

I still fall short of my own ideal use of attention, you likely will too. But it has slowly dawned on me that this is the highest leverage I have for changing my experience of the world.

Bout time. It’s hard to argue when the rates of ‘tism among the Amish is 800% lower than the general US population.

I appreciate this more nuanced and complete perspective regarding cash. Thank you Ape.

That audio clip is permanently engraved in my synapses.

Also, has a better audio platform ever been developed? Lightweight, no telemetry, clean UX, great audio linked visualizations.. I miss 2000

Sure enough, librekitty said it. It’s all been renamed and polished since I last looked in. Minetest is now Luanti, and the in game browser is where you can find the MC parity development called VoxeLibre.

Sure enough! It’s called VoxeLibre now. Looks like everything has been renamed since I last checked in.. that was probably 5 years ago. But it sure has developed some good polish since then!

“In general I don’t get involved in things I don’t understand” -Tucker

Thanks for being honest TC. Everything else he said about it sounded like noise to me.

Thankfully there is Minetest, an open source alternative that’s been around since 2010. Clearly it doesn’t have the same social pull that Minecraft has, but there is a nice little community that maintains MT and last time I checked there was an easy to add mod that attempts parity with all of Minecraft’s features.

Are those the new Sennheiser headphones every audio geek is talking about?

I’m afflicted with the same condition

Yes, and I’m glad you asked, I really enjoy engaging with this topic. Let me gather some resources for you, I’ll respond with those in a few days.

I’m also composing my own explanation that I will share here on Nostr as well.

Shoot, I’ve been sitting with your question for a couple days now, and I realize the answer isn’t straightforward as I first thought.

Forgive me, I am going to take a bit more time before I answer. I am energized by trying to get to a clear and concise explanation.

So true Jeff.

The most important skill I’ve learned is to treat the external world as a mirror.

I’m over a decade into this experiment and the emotional sobriety I now experience is priceless.

If one is brave enough to really commit and persist with this perspective they will absolutely transform their experience of reality, and of what it means to exist with it.

I would say almost complete deprivation. No light whatsoever.

And the idea is that there are no outside sounds either, except that the place I did it wasn’t completely sound isolated, though most dark facilities are.

There are food deliveries twice a day, and I have to admit how exciting that moment becomes after a couple days.

Recently I did a 5 day Darkness Retreat. No stimulus, absolute boredom.

I feel like my nervous system has down regulated significantly. My aperture for life has expanded. Looking forward to doing my next one.

Fun thought. I’m guessing you might be interested in dream yoga..

I recommend the most recent podcast with Aubrey Marcus and Andrew Holecek. Andrew is a decades long explorer of consciousness and dreams, and relates it in a fascinating way.

Some of us can, and are quietly noticing to what degree others are paying attention or not.

Then extrapolating to assess just how many of the general Nostr opinions are worth ignoring.

Isn’t it?

I mean it’s not ubiquitous, obviously, but it is being used as every day currency in some places already.

Bitcoin is one of the more powerful psychedelics I’ve ever taken.

See ya later Discord

Welcome Dune

Well said Andrey.

I came to say something similar but wouldn’t have written it so well.

I do want to reiterate your sentiment by saying that I don’t want to diminish The Wise Rabbit’s message, which is important. Though, whether we like it or not, Bitcoin is for everyone.

I’d recommend a powerhouse of a PC, then you can stream gaming onto even a mediocre laptop with incredible performance.

I was a holdout on streaming my gaming until I got a laptop with a higher refresh rate monitor (at least 120hrtz). Oh I get it now, this is what everyone is talking about!