I think as you said it is a survival instinct. It is easier to know what you want to run away from than it is to know what you want to run towards.

I also think that when we depict hell we imagine physical suffering which is easy to visualise and conceptualise. In contrast when we imagine heaven we think of a deeper satisfaction than something physical. A vast sense of boundless love and gratitude and connection. Who has any idea how to depict that? How do you conceptualise and convey true unbounding love and connection on the scale of the infinite?

I was glad to listen to something different.

That's why I asked for the recommendations.

My basic understanding is that I am living under the thumb of a cartel who have the ability to rob me due to their monopoly on coercive violence.

A great analogy.

A quote that builds on this idea:

"Plant a thought and reap a word;

plant a word and reap an action;

plant an action and reap a habit;

plant a habit and reap a character;

plant a character and reap a destiny."

Thanks for the recommendations. I had never heard of any of these before.

I listened to Charm.

Not a style I would usually listen to but some nice chill vibes for the drive home.

A song recomendation for nostr:

When the Frayed Wind Blows by Matt Pless

It covers so many great points about our world.

What are you listening to?

Any song or album recommendations?

#asknostr

The name has a good ring to it.

#zapatcha

Someones house is about to smell good.

True.

A different use case and I totally agree aoit the annoyance.

And they keep getting weirder and weirder.

It started with traffic lights and now it's clicking on psychedelic AI animals.

In the future I am not sure what the norm will be.

I worry that sats to view pages could make the problem of clickbait and click farming worse and more profitable.

I like the idea of paying to unlock a page to prove you are a person but then at the end of the article having an option to return your sats if you did not find the page valuable

Essentially a money back guarantee.

I recently tried to help someone buy a hardware wallet online.

After putting in all his details the card transaction was rejected.

We tried again and this time the bank sent a 2FA code to him. We entered the 2FA code and the bank froze his card 😂

I explained how much easier a lightning transaction would be.

Great orange pill moment.

Taxes suck!

Sats has far less friction than going through the hassle of KYCd credit card entry.

That being said we are deep in a minority.

One day sats will built in to every browser though and that will be different.

Truth.

And we have to stay humble and find our way back to the path when we have strayed.

They have a lot of good people but sadly I have not seen a powerful leader from them charismatic enough to capture the Australian public.

Many Aussies are primed for political change but they need someone to get behind.

"And then they fight you" comes when the state enters survival mode.

And the state doesn't care about the host.

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It is easy to admit our governments commit atrocities overseas. We know they conduct violent revolutions, assassinations, bombings of innocent civilians.

But no one wants to think they would ever do it to us.

Hello 👋

Why you little plant licking celery munching soy sipping vegan.

There must be something in the air today.

I have just been feeling like everything is going to turn out good in the end.

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I started reading this and got confused for a minute.

There is no politics in my bitcoin.conf file. 😂

I take that back. They have now begun blocking deposits to exchanges.

Reddit suggests UP bank as still being bitcoin friendly. I have never personally heard of them before this.

ING has been good in the past.

I have a friend currently trying to get money onto an exchange and is having a lot of difficulty.

I have found it a useful part of the orangepilling process. Permissionless becomes a lot more real for people when they are faced with the fact that they really do have to ask for permission to use their money and sometimes the answer is flat out "NO".

I only have a car in case my horse breaks down.