Hello all. Long time since I posted. I survived a plane crash on 9/11/25 taking off from KCLS. 5 days of surgeries. And about 30# of

Metal in me. I made it to the end of the tunnel. Was given the choice. Live in the light or go back into my broken body. I choose LIFE. I couldn’t leave my best friend lover and wife. It was worth all the pain. I got 8 more weeks in bed. And then months or rehab. But I’ll. Walk again. And fly shortly after that.

Peace Love & Light. I Love You.

On the plane and I forgot my headphones again. I won’t pay for WiFi so it’s alone with my thoughts for the next few hours. Good thing I’m old and can enjoy this🚁😁

Unless I misunderstand something, most of the bitcoin I own are in ETFs in my traditional brokerage accounts. I really like how I can add the exposure to Roth IRAs, solo 401(k), etc. Plus with all the estate planning work I’ve done including revocable trusts. It’s just so convenient and the cost of carry is like 15 bps. I can also do a pledged asset line on Schwab for a cost of 8% to 9% which is pretty damn competitive. Given all of that I find it hard to justify owning most of my bitcoin exposure natively in wallets.

Am I just too retarded to understand?

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But perhaps Kevin’s Bacon will have more to discuss about it.

Pawn I don’t think there is one. That is axiomatic, as described by Aristotle. Try making any argument, even those here, without assuming that existence exists and that valid concepts refer to reality. It falls apart very quickly.

This is really is a very old philosophical problem on which much ink has been used. So I certainly can’t find a way logically outside that to explain here and would just suggest reading Aristotle on that.

Still waiting for some falsiability experiment that could disprove the premiss "only falsifiable concepts can be true", or some empirical evidence for the affirmation "only empirical evidence can be true". Choosing non falsifiable and non empirical axioms to later disprove non falsifiable and non empirical concepts seems problematic to say the least. But ok.

I do nothing of the sort. I'm a believer in objective truth. I just don't go about expecting everyone to conceive of it exactly the way that I do before even entertaining their conversations to understand them. No one has the exact same understanding as you. A good epistemology and good discussion skills must account for this. It often seems to me that Objectivists fall pretty short of this one thing, though honestly, let's be real, basically everyone does.

My thing is that I try to understand a concept by trying out different frameworks of thought, perhaps one my interlocutor is using, perhaps one they haven't even thought of yet, so that I understand the actual meaning of the concept, before I reject it or make assertions about it that are likely to be irrelevant or unproductive.

The study of natural reality and social structures and truths surely has it's place, but I don't see how it negates the metaphysical truths. Objectivism and other such philosophies look to reality through a certain scope (all sciences must have a scope and a proper object, and no science can comprehend the whole of reality at once). I am just saying that the fact that objectivism focuses on certain aspects of reality in no way negates these ones that I am talking about. It doesn't mean they should interest you in particular, just that they must not be simply discarded, for they have their place too in the bigger picture

I might as well say you just "have faith" in your axioms and leave it at that, but that would not be a good faith engagement with your framework of metaphysics and how you arrived at it.

You are also, if I'm not mistaken, using the Empiricist's Fallacy just like I pointed out. I thought you were an Objectivist, not a hardline empirical falsificationist.

Being non falsifiable is a concept used for physical / natural theories. Falsiability is a non falsifiable concept because it is a metaphisical proposition about physical science. Why should all knowledge be falsifiable? What experiment could be done the falsify the falsiability theory?

The problem is that you are using the physical method to study a metaphysical concept. Physics and metaphysics are two different sciences with two different methods. Since metaphysics is poorly understood, people tend to think of it as a free for all, specially because modern philosophy started to treat it like that. But it has a strict deductive and intuitive (intuition in a proper gnosiological sense) method of its own. Plato started it and Aristotle lapidated it. Throughout western history this tradition was strong until the enlightenment rejected it

The problem is that you are using the physical method to study a metaphysical concept. Physics and metaphysics are two different sciences with two different methods. Since metaphysics is poorly understood, people tend to think of it as a free for all, specially because modern philosophy started to treat it like that. But it has a strict deductive and intuitive (intuition in a proper gnosiological sense) method of its own. Plato started it and Aristotle lapidated it. Throughout western history this tradition was strong until the enlightenment rejected it

No real meaning to you, I assert, but meaning to some others. Perhaps you simply fail to understand the meaning of the concept in other people's minds, in addition to finding it contradictory to your metaphysics and view of the universe. A falsehood or hypothetical can be conceptualized and have real meaning, while still being contradictory or invalid. Perhaps you have mistaken such a contradiction as one inherent to the concept itself, via intrinsic interpretation of concepts, when in reality your conceptualization simply has not grasped the actual concept in the mind of your fellow philosopher.

The atheist option is self defeating. To affirm that there is no God is to affirm that reality is impossible. If the material world has a begining, it must have a cause that transcends it, hence there must be something non material in existence (this succession of creation cannot go on eternaly and must have a first term, and that is what philosophy and the religions call God). But, if material creation has no begining, it must be the source and cause of itself, which would make the material universe the cause of all that exists, and this makes the universe God. This is pantheism, and it is extremely (EXTREMELY) poor in philosophical terms... The worldview of hippies and new age modern mistyc gurus. Either way, a God must inescapably exist. #God #atheism #philosophy #pantheism

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