Faith=believing something to be true with the only evidence being perceivable by those who follow the same faith.

In other words, being really really gullible.

People used to worship the sun. They had faith and believed it was a god. People used to worship the moon. They had faith and believed it was a god.

Then some smarter humans figured out that one was just a star and the other a big rock that orbits the earth.

There are countless such examples of false gods and prophets throughout history and yet each time, the faithful believed they had found the “truth”.

I believe more in the human capacity for ignorance and inability to admit when we’re wrong.

But your religion is different, sure.

#grownostr

#getoffended

#thinkdangerously

Just a quick note for the newbies to say that #nostr is the only place where you can safely and reliably share your unusual or dangerous opinions.

Sure, posts about #bitcoin are great but if you’re only on here for that kind of content, you are really missing out.

Use #nostr instead to #getoffended and have your core beliefs stress tested. Post your unusual or dangerous opinions with impunity and see what others think of them.

I know I want to know if there’s something important I’m wrong about. This is the only place where you can truly learn from others and not just see what others deem as safe or appropriate topics.

If you can imagine a social media platform that can actually deliver personal growth instead of a cesspool of groupthink and echo chamber, you’ve come to the right place.

#grownostr

#thinkdangerously

I suppose we are all monsters, depending on who you ask.

Thank you again for an interesting and civil discussion about a difficult topic. :)

Think about the surface area of a root system versus a trunk. It would be like trying to perfuse all your vital organs with only your aorta and no arteries, arterioles, or capillaries.

Sadly your tree is dead. :(

Ah I think I see where you are going. I think you’re saying that because birth rates are coming down that could mean that there is a concerted effort on behalf of some centralized authority to reduce the human population.

Let’s just say that if that is the plan, I am 100% on board with it. And I apologize because you are absolutely correct in your earlier post that I would definitely advocate for such an anti-human reproduction policy. I do think the world is grossly overpopulated and would favor reducing our numbers to the sub 50 million mark through generations of birth rate controls (even though I know this will never happen so peacefully). War, famine, or disease will likely (and very unfortunately) be needed instead.

That said, sadly for people like me, I think reducing the human population is entirely at odds with what governments want. And as I mentioned before, their policy, propaganda, and cultural programming all support my argument that they are very much pro reproduction. Just like religion and other systems of control, all governments depend upon an unchecked supply of slaves to feed the illusion of their necessity. The birth rate coming down is not a sign of government interference to me. Instead it’s just a sign that more people are realizing that only a fool or dreamer would bring children into this hell hole. It’s just regression to the mean.

In my opinion, nothing emboldens government and authoritarianism like a really dumb, poor, scared, and fertile population. People with kids are after all the easiest to threaten and control. If I’m the government, all I have to do is use my monopoly on violence to threaten to separate you from your child and you will comply. Wanna die for your kids? Even better cuz now the kid is entirely under the government’s control.

Anyway, I still want to thank you for indulging my curiosity. Even though we are on opposite sides of this argument, I appreciate you taking the time to explain your side of it. I freely admit that I don’t know shit about fuck for certain.

Cheers!

#grownostr

#thinkdangerously

Done and done.

I realized something today.

I always thought I posted stuff here because I wanted to expose my core beliefs to wider criticism, in the hopes that any gaps in my reasoning would be revealed. I’m not a fan of dogma, and so any core beliefs I have must always be subjected to stress testing.

While this is still the case, I also realized that I post stuff here because I feel pretty guilty. I feel guilty that my life is so unbelievably pleasant by comparison to others. And yes, I realize the immense arrogance of this statement, but it’s nonetheless accurate and a weird state to find oneself in. Put differently, the arrogance of this post is necessary to but not the point I’m trying to make. I don’t care to make anyone feel envy.

That said, my life for several years now has involved the near constant pursuit and state of joy. By making only a few decisions off the typical human path, I feel as though I have beaten the game of life with plenty of time to spare. I am wealthy, have no material worry, a brain that has served me very well, and a body that functions pretty damn well also. I care not for hope, meaning, or purpose. I have found several sources of joy that are infinite and don’t harm myself or anyone else. I’m just perfectly content and it seems immensely unfair.

So sure, I do post stuff here to further my personal growth and hopefully find stuff I’m wrong about. But the guilt drives me also.

I suppose any zealot feels like they have “the one true recipe” for a perfect life but that’s not what I’m saying. I just feel bad that more people don’t get to experience this via whatever path works for them.

Anyway, that’s it for my Sunday confession.

#grownostr

#thinkdangerously

Bravo Sir. Bravo.

Humanity is so fucked.

I wonder if there’s any law against deepfake violent content. Probably A-OK to show little Johnny murdering a classmate but god forbid Jenny shows her tits.

Oh, and it’s Florida, so Jenny’s parents have probably already let her get filler injections in her face and breast implants before the age of 16 anyway.

JFC what a clown world.

Ah. Interesting.

You genuinely perceive there to be an anti-human agenda? Not trying to be difficult, genuinely curious since this is a very different point of view than my own and I’d love to understand if/why I’m wrong.

From my side of things, I see the human population trend as having steadily and somewhat exponentially increased over the last 100 years and can personally attest to witnessing population explosion in my own lifetime. Current projections are for 11 billion humans as “unavoidable”. This seems quite at odds with a systemic anti-humanism.

I also see evidence everywhere of governments doing everything they can to support childbirth from tax breaks to outright pro parent propaganda. Motherhood/fatherhood is nearly universally intensely culturally programmed to be revered and seen as a source of meaning and purpose. I see the clear incentive of government to do such things as being an ever increasing supply of workers to support their crazy, self-serving house of cards economic policies which rely on perpetual growth to keep them in power.

Please help me to understand your point of view better. I will be happy to adopt a different perspective if I’ve been wrong about this.

Thanks in advance.

#grownostr

#thinkdangerously

It’s even worse when you consider that our very biology is working against an accurate perception of the world and the state of human suffering.

When things get bad, only fools and dreamers who are unable to see the mess they are in have children and pass along their foolish DNA.

Those who can see the mess say “I’m obviously not bringing a child into this!” and their perceptive DNA gets lost forever.

What this yields is an overpopulated world filled with easily manipulated fools and dreamers who can’t see the mess they are in, and who happily go about bringing even more defective human life into existence.

Sound familiar?

#grownostr

#thinkdangerously

Please explain. Am curious.

Welcome to my life friend. :)

This is a sensitive topic but, with all my heart, yes.

Nothing makes a person more vulnerable to manipulation, more docile, more obedient, and more dependent on government than having children.

This is to say nothing about the fact that I consider having children to be the most obscene additional form of taxation. Spend 20 years of your life (minimum) creating a new slave for the system for absolutely nothing in return.

Want to try to teach that child something different than mainstream group think?

Good. Fucking. Luck.

They are only under your influence for their childhood and then you release them into the world where the cultural programming apparatus will undo any of your pathetic efforts faster than you can say Taylor Swift.

#grownostr

#thinkdangerously

Careful with that kind of thinking.

Next thing you know you’ll be refusing to bring more slaves into the world and figuring out ways to painlessly kill yourself when the government thugs come to jail/torture you and take what’s yours.

Protest with your genitals (refuse to have kids), your voice (use #Nostr), and your wallet (save in #Bitcoin).

#grownostr

#thinkdangerously

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Do you have no children??

JFC I may have to actually start paying attention to your notes.

Politics is distraction, nothing more. Distraction from the outright theft of your time and life’s energy.

Once you begin to see through the veil, you’ll be amazed at how thin it was the whole time.

#grownostr

#thinkdangerously

Wiegenlied Opus 41 No 1 Cancion De Cuna…

The art of restraint in musical form. Pure operatic power distilled to its purest form.

#opera

The more extreme the candidates, the greater the distraction while both sides pick your pockets and further entrench themselves.

In my opinion, the only discussion worth having at this point is how to circumvent their systems of control. #nostr, #bitcoin, and refusing to have children are the only politics/protests that matter to me.

Nice. Will check both these out. :)