“Nothing but a breath is Emptiness, and that greenness of the lovely trees in full leaf: a breath!
We, breathed upon still, today still breathed upon, count this slow breathing of the earth: we are its haste.”
Everything is a win if the goal is experience.
“The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.”
The only zen you find up the mountain is the zen you brought up there.
H/t Bo Bartlett
In life, the challenge isn’t so much how best to win the game. The challenge is to figure out what game you’re playing.
Charging interest on non-reproductive goods is a metaphysical act, not a natural one. This is the unholy pivot from tokos (offspring) to profit extraction.
• The Torah forbids interest to fellow Israelites.
• Aristotle called interest “money breeding money,” which he considered unnatural and corrupt.
• Jesus overturns money-changing tables and his parable of the minas.
• Islamic Sharia bans riba outright, defining interest as a form of unjust gain or parasitic growth.
All of these traditions are reacting to the moment interest divorces from nature.
Original interest implied natural compound growth.
But usury has now come to mean abstract multiplication as a means for extraction ex nihilo.
What if Bitcoin helps us discover all 3?
Fun fact: St. Jude coined the term “cypherpunk”
“Hacking is the clever circumvention of imposed limits, whether imposed by your government, your IP server, your own personality, or the laws of physics.”
God is not dead.
Death is god.
As the microcosmic guardians of decay and decomposition and divinity, the lowly mushroom teaches us that Death is so in love with Life that it will never let it go. This holy marriage is pure and sacred and true and is the spark that Abides deep in the heart of darkness as our eternal home.
Death puts a deadline on your time and energy here and now as to hallow and honor the everlasting Present as precious as light and as right as rain.
Only Death is brave enough to inspire and coordinate the habitants of Earth to ultimately transcend the eye of their egos and instead finally see through the Overview effect above that knows each body is part of the shared universal body and thus the highest imperative of the infinite game is to avoid the tragedy of the commons on this pale blue dot because it’s all that we’ve got.
Death is the common denominator that harmonizes humanity and the cosmos and the uni•verse, serving as our one and only True North and sleepless maestro that attunes ethics and aesthetics as One—sub specie aeternitatis.
Don’t Die is a misguided cult of confusion and delusion and illusion. Sillier than Scientology or Mormonism or Unificationism. Make no mistake, expanding healthspan is a noble act, and treating your body like a temple is very much worth our while, but the perpetual denial of death is a spiritual bypassing pathology of the highest order. There is nothing more selfish than worshiping this fear to the bitter end.
Spoiler alert: Mother Earth always bats lasts and she always bats 1000. Alas, every soul must eventually ask their inner child what Fate one truly wants to be waiting for them at the end of history and at the foot of their deathbed since all of us are only really left with two choices:
• Surrender and Love yourself to Death with a sense of grace and dignity and mystery for the Afterlife and the Great Perhaps when your final breath becomes air…
• Or else decry and deny and defy until you die with hubris and humiliation and god-shaped holes in your heart, pulled down unwillingly into the screaming riptide of uncertainty and absurdity and entropy…
“The world past, the world to come. Their common transiencies. Above all a knowing deep in the bone that beauty and loss are one.”
Bitcoin’s ‘difficulty adjustment’ is perfectly analogous to the escapement mechanism found inside the clockwork of any timepiece.
It governs the chaotic production of all miner hash power to advance the ledger only in steady, measured ticks.
Not only is it the most ingenious and inspired aspect of engineering in the entire timechain, it’s also the reason why the PoW blockchain serves as the world’s first decentralized clock.
• What difficulty adjustment does: it modulates how hard it is to produce a block so that blocks keep arriving ~every 10 minutes even when the amount of mining power (energy) changes.
• What an escapement does: it releases gear teeth in measured increments, converting a messy, variable push from the mainspring into a steady, regular tick. It's the mechanism that forces irregular force to produce regular time.
Tick tock, next block.
What if Bitcoin is the Second Coming of self-sovereignty?
Jesus was the symbolic dissident of the Pax Romana.
Bitcoin is the symbolic dissident of the Pax Americana.
What if Bitcoin is the Second Coming of the Self-sovereignty?
The year is 2035.
The barista at Starbucks asks you how you’d like to pay for your venti Ayahuasca Cold Brew with ozempic foam & BPC-157 peptide sprinkles:
(1) $15.99 USD
(2) 533 Starbucks coins (~$8.99)
(3) 21 satoshis (~$1.99)
Which do you choose Anon?
Bitcoin straddles the line between Exit and Voice. My vote of no confidence in the dollar is an expression of my free speech and a voluntary exit from a legacy system that no longer serves me.
We Bitcoiners are taking collective action in search of a better alternative. That’s the epitome of self-sovereignty. We are walking the talk.
"To be wild is not to be crazy or psychotic. True wildness is a love of nature, a delight in silence, a voice free to say spontaneous things, and an exuberant curiosity in the face of the unknown."
what the fuck is this lactose intolerant post??