This.
I've always hated the saying: "wHeN GiVeN tHe ChOicE bEtWeEn bEiNg RiGhT oR bEiNg KiNd, ChOoSe KiNd."
It flies in the face of this much better saying: "It is better to know a harsh truth than to entertain a pleasing lie."
In the zoomed-out, grand scheme of things, speaking a harsh truth *IS* kindness. It's a way of showing love, since you are attempting to prevent them from hurting or destroying themselves.
If they choose to be offended, then that's their problem, not yours. And if they won't listen to you or anyone else who attempts to tell them a harsh truth, then the inevitable pain and devastation will be their teacher, instead.
And allowing them to learn through painful experience is also a way of showing them love.
If I say "Yes", is that objective truth? 😏
"All truth is subjective. ...except for that truth." 😂
It's like the line from Star Wars: "Only a Sith deals in absolutes." Really, Obi-wan? ONLY a Sith? ABSOLUTELY only? 🤣
As for value, it depends on the desires of each individual. It no longer exists if we cease to exist, so it must be subjective.
But truth exists regardless of our own existence, so it must be objective.
Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.
Other than http://nostrtool.com , is there an easy-to-use program that I can download and use offline (or has other features that keep it safe and secure) that will turn my nsec into a 12-word seed phrase? I tried to download and install Nostr Tool, but couldn't get it to work. So I decided to #AskNostr.
“Beauty will save the world”
Dostoevsky first said this in his book “The Idiot”.
Solzhenitsyn named his Nobel speech by the same quote.
Many years later, I drew inspiration from both, along with Nietzsche, Aristotle, Hoppe, Orwell & many other greats, to give a talk by the same name.
Thanks to nostr:npub167n5w6cj2wseqtmk26zllc7n28uv9c4vw28k2kht206vnghe5a7stgzu3r for having me once more this year.
I loved this talk so much! I shared it with my kids (the older ones, anyhow), but I think we'll watch it together tomorrow.
I was thinking about it earlier this evening, actually, while looking at my beautiful baby boy, Gabriel:
See that simple purity? That beauty? Yes, he has the face he was born with, but this goes to show that purity is beautiful. And yes, it will save the world.
The dollar amount on each city is the estimated living cost for an individual to live comfortably in that city for a month. If you're not traveling to that city, then you don't need to worry about it.
If you sign in on a desktop, you can use a browser extension like keys.band to sign into Satlantis with your current Nostr account. We should talk over the phone soon, so I can help you with that.
If you create a new account on Satlantis (which you can do on mobile or desktop), it will create a new Nostr account that won't be linked to your current one (don't feel dumb if you did that; *I* did that when Satlantis was first being developed, and I *work* there! 😅).
Apparently you don't know how cryptos are designed.
Disagree.
- Money wants to be one, so a multi coin world is very unlikely
- exchanges from BTC to XMR are single points of failures
- Lightning gives you privacy and plausible deniability, unlike Montero
- Trying to be ASIC resistant is a big bet, that might blow up catastrophically, and requires centralization of protocol development
- with the same level of txs of Bitcpin, running a Monero node is way more costly
here is a great resource https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1PRKKlI-Jo
Exactly. Except I'd like to suggest one small correction: A multi coin world is about as likely as a multi internet world, with the added influence of financial incentives driving out any possibility of a separate coexisting internet. So it's not just "very unlikely"; in the long run, it's an absolute impossibility.
Another great resource for this is "Human Action" by Ludwig von Mises. And "The Bitcoin Standard" by Saifedean Ammous, of course.
My son has a message for all you fathers out there:
Testing out the link again: https://theagorafoodclub.com/
If you're visiting the #Chattanooga area, be sure to visit The Agora, located at 6112 Hixson Pike in Hixson TN.
More fan art by nostr:npub1w4j2y74wx24sckf7ymgnf3r4gp0yqd8huw8kzfyt2lj8lhmh7ujs75j067
This is for COURAGE
The second of the Ten Virtues of Bushido, and the alpha virtue of the warrior.
Which do you like better?
L or R ?
Left (well, they're vertical for me, so I mean the one with the Bitcoin flag...but given my avatar, maybe I'm biased 😅)
Also, here's one of my favorite quotes on courage:
"Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality."
-C.S. Lewis
Am I right to assume that the virtues need to be balanced out by something else? Because I follow the principle of kodawari SO much, it sometimes turns detrimental. 😅
But then again, it's also the principle of kodawari that makes me interested in things like the Bushido of Bitcoin, and look for ways to counterbalance my perfectionism. So, it's clearly still doing a lot of good.
You can comment on events on Satlantis like this. Pretty cool, huh? 😁
First post on the Chattanooga TN page on Satlantis! The future is HERE! 😎🎆