Who’s zapping who tonight

Goodnight nostriches ✌️

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I’m honour of the anonymous ⚡️pper I’ll be ⚡️ping 44s for a while 😂

I am loving it too, today has been a positive record breaking 😂💜🫂

Damus really needs a gif keyboard

Got it to work 🤟⚡️

Wow, nostr is so fun right now 🤣🤣😂😂

Actually it didn’t. I could make custom amount but then when it went to try to send it said 1k. I was gunna zap you a smaller amount

Perfect the long hold worked

Why is my #walletofsatoshi not letting me customize my sat amount? Autos to 1k. Any help?

The Antidote to Nihilistic Narcissism

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“He’ll have a long life as long as he doesn’t know himself.”

In Greek mythology, this was the prophecy concerning Narcissus. Narcissus is better known for how the myth ends. He falls in love with his own reflection, which is where we get the word narcissistic. The ending refers back to the initial prophecy. When he saw his own reflection, he didn’t recognize it because he didn’t know himself.

In the middle of the myth is Narcissus rejecting the love of everyone else. The order matters. Narcissus only fell in love with himself after rejecting everyone. He didn’t reject everyone because he was in love with himself, but rather he fell in love with himself because he rejected everyone. His only target for love was himself.

I bring up this myth because this is the intellectual path that so many people take. They cynically reject belief systems one by one until they are left with nothing else. Lacking anything else to believe in, they turn to themselves and become completely self-centered. They become nihilistic narcissists.

Bad Parenting

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Look at the prophecy again. Narcissus will have a long life as long as he doesn’t know himself. Presumably, his parents made sure he didn’t know himself because Narcissus didn’t even recognize his own reflection. They did this with the best of intentions, to ensure he had a long life, yet clearly, a life staring into your own reflection is not exactly meaningful.

Think about what we tell our kids: “You can be anything you want to be.” “Go find what you’re passionate about.”

These platitudes specifically avoid giving children an identity. More subtly, not giving them an identity makes it harder for them to get attacked. We do this with the best of intentions, yet is this really what parents should be doing? To define yourself is an enormous burden, especially for children.

Nihilism as Default

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Think about the myth again. Narcissus rejected all would-be lovers.

Why?

He didn’t know himself. He didn’t have any basis by which he could even evaluate their fit. How could he since he had no self-awareness or self-understanding? He couldn’t solve for love because he didn’t know half the equation.

Identity is the basis of evaluating everything. Without grounding, nothing can be built. Without identity, belief is impossible and nihilism becomes the default.

The Appeal of Narcissism

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Nihilistic narcissism is a safe position. Because you never have to stand for anything and never take a risk, you can preserve your own ego, preserve your intellectual life as in the prophecy. The appeal is in preserving what you have, your own self, however empty and senseless you become.

But nihilistic narcissism completely strips meaning from life. You may live a long life staring into your own reflection, but it’s not a very fulfilling one. Lacking any sort of external north star, you are left with an internal north star, which if you follow, becomes navel-gazing. Ironically, narcissism is the end state of not knowing yourself.

Such a place is one of profound despair. There is no meaning and all you have to live for is yourself. Is it any wonder so many people are depressed?

Parents, give your kids the gift of identity. Your job is to help them know who they are. This should be natural, since the kids come from you. By knowing you, they learn to know themselves. By showing them who you are, you are really showing them who they are. By participating with them in community you are showing them who they are. By telling them your family history you are showing them who they are. Tether them to your identity so they can find meaning. Give them the solid foundation of knowing themselves.

Because identity is necessary to a meaningful life.

Dammit. You played me lol 😂

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Ok everyone here we go. I'm copying @hodl and zapping 100 sats to anyone who follows me and retweets this post over the next 24 hours or until I run out of the 300k sats I've been zapped on nostr, whichever comes first. I will send an additional 69 sats to anyone who tags @hodl in a post and sends him a dick pic. (Add to this post a link for credit - pictures of Richard Nixon are acceptable). And an additional 41 sats if you send @hodl or me a public death threat. You are not allowed to make good on the death threat, however. Goes without saying, but I know that most of you are storing your pee in bottles in your bedroom. So it needed to be said.

Ok everyone here we go. I'm copying @hodl and zapping 100 sats to anyone who follows me and retweets this post over the next 24 hours or until I run out of the 300k sats I've been zapped on nostr, whichever comes first. I will send an additional 69 sats to anyone who tags @hodl in a post and sends him a dick pic. (Add to this post a link for credit - pictures of Richard Nixon are acceptable). And an additional 41 sats if you send @hodl or me a public death threat. You are not allowed to make good on the death threat, however. Goes without saying, but I know that most of you are storing your pee in bottles in your bedroom. So it needed to be said.

True that but it’s not forgotten. We live by the laws of nature here 🤍

Indeed 🫂💜🫂

the more we give the more we receive... the forgotten law of abundance

what goes around comes around

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You deserve it beautifully man 🙏🫂💜⚡

He really does deserve all beautiful things

Thanks for the 100k my friend #[0] , it means a lot.

100k sats en route 🙏

tag a Nostr dev I should donate sats to

It's very common it makes cache for your followers profile pic and other stuff to make this app more efficient if you clear it, it will created again.

Nostr Amethyst...

1GB in cache...

1. why?

2. what will be the effects of deleting my cache on my nostr experience?

All ready for tonight full moon sound healing.

Zapping ppl into higher love vibration ⚡💖⚡🌕