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Replying to Avatar Tuur Demeestr

I’m blown away. These lyrics (below) are exactly what I was wrestling with as a teen, suffocating from anxiety. I felt trapped and wondered if free will maybe didn’t exist at all.

Like Wyatt says, I believed: “Had I been free, I could have chosen not to be me.”

I never consciously listened to lyrics growing up, but I always am surprised when relistening, how closely the themes of my favorite music harmonized with my emotional landscape.

Free Will and Testament - Robert Wyatt, 1997

Given free will but within certain limitations,

I cannot will myself to limitless mutations,

I cannot know what I would be if I were not me,

I can only guess me.

So when I say that I know me, how can I know that?

What kind of spider understands arachnophobia?

I have my senses and my sense of having senses.

Do I guide them? Or they me?

The weight of dust exceeds the weight of settled objects.

What can it mean, such gravity without a centre?

Is there freedom to un-be?

Is there freedom from will-to-be?

Sheer momentum makes us act this way or that way.

We just invent or just assume a motivation.

I would disperse, be disconnected. Is this possible?

What are soldiers without a foe?

Be in the air, but not be air, be in the no air.

Be on the loose, neither compacted nor suspended.

Neither born nor left to die.

Had I been free, I could have chosen not to be me.

Demented forces push me madly round a treadmill.

Demented forces push me madly round a treadmill.

Let me off please, I am so tired.

Let me off please, I am so very tired.

When you orange pill a billion new #Bitcoin users, you get an Orange Pillion.

A side note: last year, together with other guys I was holding him so he doesn’t fall from the stage 😀 And when he was singing The Ship Song I noticed that a girl next to me had the refrain tattooed on her forearm. Beautiful

I really liked his response re the King’s coronation. Where he seemingly reflected not only on the monarchy, calling it “the bizarre, the uncanny, the stupefyingly spectacular, the awe-inspiring”, but also on all our institutions, and the world itself.

Purplepilled younger generation, so waiting for the average age of Nostr users to decrease lol

Replying to Avatar DrBitcoinMD

This is a great song by Placebo, both its English and French versions, not mentioning the video

Replying to Avatar jack

Let’s try some Lithuanian too - one of the closest languages to sanskrit:

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If this is the case, then having “a money that serves the interests of its end users (everyday savers)” seems to be even more important.

Hint - #bitcoin

News Corp CEO: “tech companies should pay to use publishers’ content to produce results from #AI chatbots.”

So, we have +1 use case for #Bitcoin .

(Meanwhile, ChatGPT: It's essential to consider the interests of both parties & find a mutually beneficial agreement. lol)

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/30/business/media/publishers-chatbots-search-engines.html

There are rivets and there is #Bitcoin.

As Jim Bianco commented on this FedNow thing - previously, the Fed was using one old tech and now they’re about to start using another old tech lol

#FedYesterday