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Here’s my story.

I grew up with a very intelligent father, loving mother, and a Sister 10 years my senior. I was an accident, and another brother I would have had was stillborn.

My family was very religious, they still are, but I am not. After my then wife force-fed our kid over and over my objections, I left her and the church, never to return.

I also left investment banking after Covid, never to return.

I started learning about Bitcoin in February-April 2021. And I haven’t looked back. Not like I could. My retinas are wasting away.

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My story —

Grew up in a Catholic family. Went to mass every Sunday. Believed in God as it was portrayed by the Church.

As a teenager, I began questioning religious dogma, and came to the conclusion that it’s all nonsense. There is no God. There is no afterlife. Credulous people are simply engaging in wishful thinking, as a way of coping for their inevitable death. I became a staunch atheist, and scoffed at religious people all through University.

As an adult, I started exploring Eastern philosophy and religions, starting with the Bhagavad Gita. This led me to the works of Alan Watts. I realized I was missing half the picture. God needn’t be thought of as some external ruler pulling the strings from afar. God is better thought of as the divine essence that dwells within every being and non-being. In this sense, it’s true that you cannot die, because “you” are everywhere and everything. In the words of Alan Watts, “You are IT” aka “Tat Tvam Asi.”

At the same time as I was reading Alan Watts, I had a series of profound religious experiences of my own, wherein I experienced the oneness of being firsthand, which eviscerated any strains of atheism or alienation from existence itself altogether.

This search for the Truth continued, and is what has led me to #Bitcoin.

So if you are reading this, and are an atheist, all I can say is that you are on the right path — and that it’s good to question every assumption — but you are not there yet. Keep searching. nostr:note1kddrhz9hg25tzmyx6dz9903pv252ga83un8jqjl9xpqg6kkcqneskc84tq

Nice story. I’ve had some religious experiences, grew up in evangelistic churces. Turned to agnosticism when I realized my prayers were not being answered or acknowledged, and it’s not like I was praying for a lot of Bitcoin. More like that my ex wife would listen to me and stop abusing my son. Shit happens, and I learned that is there is a god, their character is not what I thought it is. That doesn’t prove that there is no “God” but if there is one, I’m not interested. If you are, more power to you.

Wars didn’t used to last 20 years like in Afghanistan. In fact, Keynes wrote a book titled”How to pay for the war”.

This is why we say fix the money fix the world.

Explain how printing fiat enables extended wars.

On my trip to Bermuda

My wallet’s working, not damus

I am not now areligious man.

But when I was little, my mother would pray with me every night at bed time.

And I would pray every night, to be at the right place, at the right time.

GM & PV.

It’s a new day to do the right thing.

Lets go.

After fiat mining perhaps go pick up some pork and lamb from a new local farm.

And plan a trip for this weekend for my 6th anniversary.

The freedom afforded by Bitcoin comes at the expense of personal responsibility - der gigi

Anyone heard of LNP? I heard LNP does smart contracts the best.

No reason for any atomic finance in the real world.

I don’t see well so reading an actual book is slow and tedious for me 21 lessons is on audible tho, so I got it there about a month ago. Been following the man on twitter a couple years. Always a treasure.