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Replying to Avatar Dr. M

They assigned him the number: 119104.

But what they tried to kill most in him was what ultimately saved millions of lives.

1942. Vienna.

Viktor Frankl was 37 years old. A distinguished psychiatrist, a promising career, a nearly finished manuscript, and his wife Tilly—whose laughter could fill an entire room.

He had a visa for America. The door to freedom was open.

But his elderly parents couldn't leave.

He stayed.

A few months later—the Nazis came.

First Theresienstadt. Then Auschwitz. Then Dachau.

The manuscript he had been working on for years was carefully sewn into the lining of his coat.

It was taken from him within hours of his arrival.

His work. His meaning. In ashes.

They took his clothes. They shaved his head. They erased his name.

Only the number 119104 remained on the paper.

But the guards didn’t understand one thing:

Everything can be taken from a person — except what they carry inside them.

And Frankl knew something about the human spirit.

Something that would save his life — and change psychology forever.

He noticed a pattern:

the prisoners didn’t die of hunger or disease.

They died when they lost their reason to live.

When a person lost their “why,” their body would give up within days.

The doctors called it the disease of giving up.

But those who had something to hold on to —

the woman they wanted to find, the child they were expecting, the book they wanted to write, the promise they had to keep —

managed to survive the unthinkable.

Frankl decided to conduct an experiment.

Not in a laboratory. But in a barracks.

He would approach people on the verge of despair and whisper:

“Who’s waiting for you?”

“What task do you still have left?”

“What would you tell your son to survive this day?”

He could give them neither food nor freedom.

But he gave them something that could not be taken away:

a reason to wait for tomorrow.

Someone remembered his daughter—he survived, to find her.

Someone else—an unfinished theory—he survived, to write it.

Frankl himself survived by rewriting his manuscript in his mind—page by page, paragraph by paragraph.

April 1945—liberation.

He weighed 37 pounds. His ribs were poking through his skin.

Tilly—dead.

His parents—dead.

Brother—dead.

Everything he loved-destroyed.

He had every reason to give up.

And yet—he sat down and began to write.

Nine days.

That was how long it took him to rewrite from memory the book that the Nazis had burned three years earlier.

But now it had something the first one didn’t have:

proof.

Proof that his theory worked.

He called it logotherapy—therapy through meaning.

A simple but revolutionary thought:

“He who has a why can bear almost any how.”

The book was published.

Publishers first rejected it: “Too dark.”

“Who would want to read about the death camps?”

And then — it spread around the world.

Therapists cried, prisoners found hope.

People after loss, illness, divorce—were discovering that suffering can have meaning.

Over 16 million copies sold.

Translated into 50 languages.

One of the ten most influential books in American history.

But real influence is not in the numbers.

It is found in every man who, in the darkest night, reads his words and decides to stay — one more day.

For Viktor Frankl proved that a man can be taken away from everything — freedom, family, hope, a future —

but not how he responds to it.

We cannot control what befalls us.

But we can always choose what we do with it.

Today, Viktor Frankl is gone.

But his words still resonate in hospital rooms, prisons, and the silence of our hearts: “When we cannot change the situation, we must change ourselves.”

“A man can be taken away from everything — except one thing: the freedom to choose his attitude toward what befalls him.”

The Nazis gave him a number.

History gave him immortality.

The man who lost everything — discovered the one thing no one can take away from us — meaning.

Prisoner 119104 didn’t just survive.

He turned suffering into hope.

And somewhere, today, someone standing over a precipice will read his words and decide — to endure another day.

It is not just survival.

It is victory over death itself.

Funny how life works.

I had read his book " Man's search for meaning" some years back. Now some random guy on nostr is bringing it up. 🤗

Replying to Avatar Bitcoin News

Since Trump got elected last November and BTC ran from $60K to $100K, Bitcoin has been shaking out the weak and testing the patience of the strong.

For months, OGs holding thousands of Bitcoin have been selling, happy to have held until the $100K milestone and convinced we were near the top of the 4-year cycle.

Over 5.5 million Bitcoin, about 27.5% of the 19.9 million in circulation, have moved at least once at prices above $100,000.

Those coins are moving out of the hands of individual whales and into the hands of convicted HODLers, institutions, and the wealth they represent.

This rotation has helped Bitcoin build one of the strongest bases in its history, sitting just a few percentage points from all-time highs while Twitter cries boredom.

The bears made one final stand on October 10, that violent flash crash that wiped out more leverage in a single day than the first 4 months of the year combined.

It was the bears’ last shot.

And they fired it.

Yet here we stand at $115,000.

Right now, Bitcoin sits in a position that is statistically rare.

The largest positioning rinse in crypto’s history has collided with a macro Goldilocks backdrop.

The Trump–Xi trade deal framework is finally taking shape after 6 months of tension.

Over the weekend in Malaysia, both sides confirmed major progress.

Bessent said the agreement would spare China from 100% tariffs, while China’s rare-earth export ban will be delayed for at least a year, giving the West a crucial window to rebuild supply chains.

At the same time, the Fed is preparing to end quantitative tightening while signalling they will cut rates into a market already at all-time highs.

Trillions of dollars are still sitting in money-market funds, waiting to move back into risk.

All of it adds up to one thing: the world’s biggest markets are turning the corner.

The cloud of uncertainty that has hung over Bitcoin all year is finally lifting.

And as Asia opened last night, we saw it unfold in real time.

Gold is falling, down over 2.5% overnight and 8% since it peaked last Tuesday.

Bitcoin is up 6% and October is officially in the green.

The rotation is on.

The torch is being passed.

When gold topped in 2020, Bitcoin launched within 2 months, rising more than 400% in the following half year.

We could be setting up for a similar story now.

Bitcoin is the next man up.

This could be the moment the world realizes that the 4-year cycle is a thing of the past.

The greatest opportunities in Bitcoin do not come when it is cheap.

They come when the last bear gives up, and the last skeptic runs out of excuses.

This is the setup that only comes around once every few years.

Bitcoin’s time to launch is here.

who are OG's?

how is it a joke? I dont understand..

Is it working in Signal already?

when Trump goes social, I smell opportunity. BUY!!!

Replying to Avatar heatherm

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