alanbwt
Alan ₿ Watts ⚡️

"This is it." #Bitcoin

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npub1r0fj5wr200n0dz9nm37ysrhuy8xeg66ratq5hf960q62caaz8e5sqpuzz3

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alanbwt@nostrplebs.com

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alanbwt@getalby.com

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2025-03-27 01:30:26

“Yes all of you are wrong”
https://image.nostr.build/0a1d1d50996f13c4817d4fc4fd21bbf4a4a33b04e89709835c730c537ee56ba4.jpg

2025-03-27 01:21:02

Life as a Bitcoiner
https://m.primal.net/PuaC.png

2025-03-24 18:48:06

Bitcoin ends fiat warfare.
War will always exist. But without the ability to finance forever wars via fiat inflation, it will be far more limited.
Choose Bitcoin. Choose peace.
https://m.primal.net/Prjd.jpg

2025-03-21 16:35:15

Predominantly Christian countries are where everyone wants to live for a reason.

2025-03-21 16:22:46

Make Christendom great again.
https://m.primal.net/PnyT.jpg

2025-03-20 20:32:50

Just started juggling with weighted balls as part of my daily routine.
Highly recommend, as it improves strength, coordination, and is quite fun.

2025-03-09 20:18:37

Legendary. https://image.nostr.build/687b087164f973c49d0d52fecd2b79e13bac216bba90c8cdfe4335410e7e0672.jpg

2025-03-09 19:29:31

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Your replies are full of anger, intellectual dishonesty, and ad hominem attacks. May you find the peace you are looking for.

2025-03-09 18:31:11

Amusing type of Bitcoiner:
> wants Bitcoin to win
> complains whenever anyone except ultra-libertarian cypherpunks adopt it

2025-03-09 16:10:56

Never sell you Bitcoin.
When the time comes, spend don’t sell. https://image.nostr.build/9d98cdb8fed8cb7d9cddc302694574ceb9ff505c0e13beb559802dca8156db6b.jpg

2025-03-08 19:58:05

https://image.nostr.build/ba97efe617774268c6f2d6ca47938f01cd8738b4968b7a51e2b40e1554662b73.jpg https://image.nostr.build/c25373c0dafeae8d95f8d2db1af163826a55bea58ce8fa9fd536ccb26863e5d1.jpg

2025-03-08 06:18:15

"Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven."
— Matthew 6:1 (KJV) https://image.nostr.build/3042983007710441fd0d076794dbe55a5ff1b9a98adf3a7b1369cf7bfeac073e.jpg

2025-03-07 22:05:06

Medium of exchange will come.
Once Bitcoin is the dominant form of savings, people will widely spend it, and merchants will widely accept it.
There are already many of us who use the lightning network every day.

2025-03-04 03:47:41

How Bitcoiners train in a bear market
https://m.primal.net/PTBo.mov

2025-03-03 21:30:58

No other coin is sufficiently decentralized. #Bitcoin is it. https://image.nostr.build/091bb6cc4d4b2a9d4cd12a7324abb28b3d0d12f34527a6d823c45f54f009113f.jpg

2025-03-03 02:23:17

Interesting things are happening.
https://m.primal.net/PRnH.jpg

2025-03-02 18:36:16

The scamcoin component of the strategic reserve is a self-correcting problem. These tokens trend toward zero in Bitcoin terms. Thus, the reserve will eventually be 100% BTC. https://image.nostr.build/0907f9b9cbbba8e09a1f60b5180ce576f0b82c52f782701ba31404ecd616f727.jpg

2025-03-02 17:48:17

#Bitcoin bears in disbelief. https://image.nostr.build/490ffe9bcfaec80429946a3dde5f4e55407a7c5b2a4f43ad68bd9ae46409f4a2.jpg

2025-03-01 18:24:04

“When the dust falls from before our eyes, human beings are themselves the gods and demons, acting out, not the piddling business of worldly life, but the great archetypal situations and dramas of the myths. The gods are the archetypes, but they exist as perpetually incarnate in ourselves. In the mythic vision men appear as incarnations of the archetypal gods because the full and eternal significance of what they are doing appears.”
— Alan Watts, The Two Hands of God https://image.nostr.build/d58b38f5bc524648c942728024d8dd0d524a4137a0ff606f4299124b188c89c8.jpg

2025-02-26 02:10:49

This is the way. https://image.nostr.build/1dcea59cf9873b296c804dd1271156106067ceca086ceb01fae5547eacf53cc4.jpg

2025-02-25 22:33:21

If you bought sub-$90K Bitcoin today, I want to shake your hand. https://image.nostr.build/effa6ecbcfb590fa5e28443f7f2fb7373322e40473a5e6b56d5a957ffb2cc098.jpg

2025-02-20 05:03:41

“We’re gonna go into Fort Knox to make sure the gold is there” https://video.nostr.build/eabebb751705017711351f7d984f516bbea0ff55f1d77d8486169b9654f397a2.mp4

2025-02-18 18:10:58

Alts are getting demolished. Nature is healing. https://image.nostr.build/519eac0bcf1f2348680805ca5e4d09cba510e48df2deb8f771abf6303f030e24.jpg

2025-02-14 16:36:10

Don’t do shitcoins. It’s not worth it. Not only do they eat away at your wallet. They eat away at your soul. #Bitcoin only. https://video.nostr.build/d7c9e17cf5675f2c73c0df53e124970bd86bd700a167ef0463ac59a0cfc2b24f.mp4

2025-02-10 19:23:28

Henry Ford predicted that an “energy currency” would “replace gold” and “stop wars” over 100 years ago. #Bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/8cd9ac6cfe9f745fef671214a2501a8205f3ab2f6fb08640d3b14021b5e4864c.jpg

2025-02-07 15:35:13

This is the way. https://image.nostr.build/3174004a3c58d849473ea86d101a0dc2f89cc5656bc27d5f3ee46624175a196f.jpg

2025-01-30 20:52:38

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🤝

2025-01-30 18:57:32

If you allow your child to be injected with every vaccine on the CDC schedule, you’ve failed as a parent. https://image.nostr.build/9c7742770e7f16ee3012d5a99f669bb728e13dabc993da6088d3788742ccb3f4.jpg

2025-01-30 02:00:50

Nice to hear them calling it a Strategic *Bitcoin* Reserve now. https://video.nostr.build/007c7363f2f683556a4cd8964afc4449e3d8877af102d8ec59e83fe969334bff.mp4

2025-01-28 23:16:26

“This is why bananas on a blockchain don’t work.”
— @npub1der…xzpc, Memes vs The World https://image.nostr.build/ffa171c8f206a784ec6662def06a6f288bac35f9937fab346d0051fc473164ab.jpg https://image.nostr.build/db8c2daf1ffc73ee4d328da8991515bec35c121b5659f8afab0b81ef41cf83bd.jpg https://image.nostr.build/fe4b14c37711f30d13fb6b412de2ab73f49e8310d35c96a872afb2c0cb4e95d4.jpg https://image.nostr.build/8dc68a1b58e3d54d00d6de153070cec6654b2ed724f822bc4d47652bae512bf0.jpg

2025-01-26 01:42:49

“The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand.”
— Alan Watts quoting Rinzai, Taoist Way https://image.nostr.build/065a65b08f1b95847b4bfbed99f295ea7704c6d5e0784036ec43633f190c9e21.jpg

2025-01-24 16:48:41

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That too.

2025-01-24 16:16:37

The funny thing about the US creating a crypto stockpile that has Bitcoin plus scamcoins, is over time it becomes a 100% Bitcoin stockpile as the scamcoins trend towards zero.
Is it embarrassing and misguided? Yes. But it is also self-correcting. https://image.nostr.build/69853052efc79996238c8a326975cffb5f118ff67d4ae3b2527a5df039874444.jpg

2025-01-23 23:47:02

In the Trump T2 era, banks compete to be more based than one another.
Censorship for political or crypto reasons is no longer rewarded. https://image.nostr.build/5e389c9026d38560f7958b7e30be653468f65773342a3a5d34c28f471669ea04.jpg

2025-01-23 22:00:55

Accurate framing https://image.nostr.build/44e4b86cd543d5fa2818c5165d6ab984500d1c389bc5654ed96e8362979f3eaf.jpg

2025-01-23 03:23:06

Girls: What do guys even talk about?
Guys: https://video.nostr.build/0c1e2110a33688e9e6bfde4c42ad2db12243b852be45e92706b2ee2a82fc4fb5.mp4

2025-01-22 16:18:06

Snowden deserves a pardon.
Exposing crimes is not a crime. It is a heroic service to the American people.
If anything, he should be given the Presidential Medal of Freedom. https://image.nostr.build/f8e44cdecd3f3299b9de8c03b24e52235c353e8a8897613fc1e04c0ab91122af.jpg https://image.nostr.build/72cff360536e3a89181c4ec36559426901ee430e439d226eea186df63672ec1c.jpg https://image.nostr.build/0203fcf15666f83f87fbeb5bfc09d0bb08ae2650364b05a5afd4494e752c4579.jpg

2025-01-22 15:50:41

Good morning. https://image.nostr.build/46bf3487bd0a954e4797b6327f14441cdc2f2d1ad7c26f85e3bd6cb9777178fc.jpg

2025-01-22 00:11:20

Ross Ulbricht has been freed. https://image.nostr.build/5bfb688f74f62730c1efe2336087f2067940223bb6a211cbfbe92501fea7d304.jpg https://image.nostr.build/ae60603198a4d002e398c3673d98c1ced0f94611c06d1910f99437aebe881d51.jpg

2025-01-21 18:28:54

There are infinite potential dollars. There will never be more than 21M #Bitcoin. Choose wisely… https://image.nostr.build/9d780d084f8a207b055c93bb278ddc36b570b18d9eecd0f843990fd39dd1b4db.jpg

2025-01-21 04:30:02

A Bitcoiner who also stacks altcoins is not a Bitcoiner (yet).

2025-01-19 21:26:09

“For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?”
— Mark 8:36 (KJV) https://image.nostr.build/029208562ab37a232d395d4a9f180982b2fd8c9a1c0649f556acf008922be1cf.jpg

2025-01-19 20:06:52

Gensler was right. https://image.nostr.build/e8586695b64ea68600d7670c962c030e37330f6d3d96e69a837d12b246918822.jpg

2025-01-17 17:49:48

There is something so incredibly cool about walking across natural terrain with a giant sword on one’s back.
This is the core fantasy aesthetic.
https://media1.tenor.com/m/wU-TFKTprJQAAAAC/naruto.gif

2025-01-16 16:38:47

It’s happening. #Bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/4a48aa65a3c7e9b147e3427ba65fa7379bf06c2e78687767238f21a772952433.jpg

2025-01-15 17:07:06

The day you become a Bitcoiner is the day you admit you’ve been had, you’ve been fooled, you’ve been lied to your entire life.
This takes humility. Most aren’t ready.
https://m.primal.net/NhzP.jpg

2025-01-15 16:30:00

And it’s only going to get worse. #Bitcoin is the way out.
#note19de…3e3a
https://m.primal.net/Nhwl.jpg

2025-01-15 16:29:31

Over 80% of all M1 dollars that have ever existed were printed since 2020.
https://m.primal.net/Nhwn.jpg

2025-01-15 15:41:19

🎯 #note15tr…haa7

2025-01-15 15:41:06

The days of getting hired by one company and staying for 30+ years with little to no disruption are gone.
Pave your own way. You have the tools. Do you have the agency? #note1x5v…5y35

2025-01-15 15:35:50

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James Altucher wrote a great book about this called, “Choose Yourself”
https://m.primal.net/Nhsz.jpg

2025-01-15 15:34:09

If you have it in you—
Don’t “get hired.”
Hire yourself.
Start a company.
Skip VC funding.
Keep full control.
Pursue what matters.
Save in #Bitcoin.
Focus on your craft.
https://m.primal.net/Nhst.jpg

2025-01-11 17:42:42

Them: Do you any technical analysis before stacking sats?
Me: No. https://image.nostr.build/86fceb128713dd7bbf4a78aa71f09defea87bb62a90344856ff25eb0fa3b2b42.jpg

2025-01-10 01:48:26

There are many paths up the mountain, though not all are equally direct or pleasant. https://image.nostr.build/016c8fad86ae94731064d56cbd22a37086fdb045caab38a3abdf24db347e79fe.jpg

2025-01-08 18:37:16

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The Palisades / LA fires wouldn’t have been nearly as destructive had Rick Caruso won the mayoral election.
Case in point: The mall that Caruso built and operates is fine, as he had the foresight to use fire retardant on that part of town. The rest of the town? Almost entirely destroyed, with no leadership in sight.
The current mayor of LA is on a trip to Ghana as the city burns. https://image.nostr.build/97b10492289cc1b128df88cede68a428be4b226b08126ec5846e2b635499327f.jpg

2025-01-08 18:18:23

My heart goes out to all those affected by the Palisades fire. Looks like Mordor out there. Tragic.
https://m.primal.net/NXzK.mov

2025-01-07 01:59:28

“I remember a story about a conversation at a dinner party, where it was in England, and all the people were discussing what they thought was going to happen after death, whether they would simply be extinguished, or whether they'd be reincarnated, or whatever kind of thing. And present at the dinner, there was a very respectable country squire, who was on the vestry of the local church, very pious. And finally, the hostess said to him, ‘Sir Roger, you haven’t said anything in the conversation this evening. What do you think is going to happen to you when you die?’ He said, ‘I'm perfectly sure that I shall go to heaven and enjoy everlasting bliss, but I wish you wouldn't raise such a depressing subject.”
— Alan Watts, On GK Chesterton https://image.nostr.build/5a8dd5b7101951f90dacc97380ecd1f4c342f2fc1ed008ed1c02d3ef11b82e4e.jpg

2025-01-06 22:55:28

#Bitcoin is the way out. https://image.nostr.build/168858d08916a767cb5a863d731a94737e90ca9075d55775fc1b413182b2252e.jpg

2025-01-06 22:45:18

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Agree. However, even by that principle, would a central authority not arise to establish and defend property rights?

2025-01-06 22:32:56

Libertarianism is the ideal on a theoretical level. It is what society should strive towards: maximum freedom for the individual with minimal government meddling.
The problem is that this form of rule only works in a civilization that is high-trust and highly aligned in its values.
You wouldn’t try to implement libertarianism in a place like Somalia. Nor would you try to revive El Salvador by being *more* lenient on criminals.
A certain amount of central authority is needed to maintain order, and thus create the conditions wherein peaceful, productive citizens may flourish and exercise their liberties.
While authoritarianism can certainly go too far, as we saw during COVID, a middle way is possible. England under British Common Law, and the USA in the gilded era, are excellent examples. https://image.nostr.build/26bd04c507cd582c6d3f9f231374d8f5e28276138c3311fa4266215d1c22bfe4.jpg

2025-01-06 21:28:21

The only thing I stack consistently other than #Bitcoin is books.
This is why (excerpt from CS Lewis): https://image.nostr.build/c222f92b69175af804c208dfdf7721c692eb9ce2f7ac365725a13b27193d7c7b.jpg

2025-01-02 21:09:40

“There is the sense that somehow or other, at some time, there was a fall, a point at which we became unnatural.
There’s a great deal of worry going on about this now because of the rise of the computer. You know this? This is terribly interesting. That a new form of intelligence, you see, has come into the world, which is, in certain directions, vastly superior to human intelligence.
And people are beginning to worry like anything about whether the machines are going to take us over. But we've got to realize that machines aren’t... See, machine is becoming a dirty word. Just a machine. Mere machinery. You see? But actually, there has grown out of us, through these things, enormous electronic circuits that are new forms of life.
And these are all connected with us. They're not separate from us. They're not something like a different order of beings that might come from some other planet and conquer us. The whole development of the electronic minds and brains that we have are new cortexes.”
— Alan Watts, Four Ways to the Center https://image.nostr.build/dd51522eff55bf21b55bc465d6f84c98f441de9ffba51ac868ed6905ff8a2b9c.jpg

2025-01-02 18:17:43

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You can verify the existence of God yourself by looking inward. No trust needed.

2025-01-02 17:47:15

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Theism is not incompatible with science, though granted it has been portrayed as such.

2025-01-02 17:39:20

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🎯

2025-01-02 17:32:30

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It’s more true / less wrong.

2025-01-02 17:32:05

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🤝

2025-01-02 17:30:55

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🤝

2025-01-02 17:20:21

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“There are many paths up the mountain.” — Zen Proverb

2025-01-02 17:19:51

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Agreed, though I would consider what you are describing to be theism.

2025-01-02 17:09:25

Reasons atheism makes no sense:
1. You are a conscious being thinking and feeling right now. Why would you assume there was no conscious being thinking and feeling at the time of The Big Bang as well?
2. The second law of thermodynamics states that energy and matter are neither created nor destroyed, but merely transformed from one form to another. Therefore, why would you assume consciousness disappears entirely when someone dies, rather than simply be transformed?
3. There are no separate things or events. It’s all one happening. Your delusion that you are just poor little me encased in a bag of skin is rendered absurd once you take the simple steps of describing your actions which are intertwined with your environment, which itself extends to the entire cosmos.
Tat tvam asi. #note1md8…n9d8

2025-01-02 16:34:56

If you’re in atheism, pivot to theism.

2025-01-02 00:13:13

“Anybody who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.”
— Alan Watts, Philosophies of Asia https://image.nostr.build/c9712544c5b104d2d0ee8c9e3fafec1e5d10040d3f2c1e2a7b4d4010a0759fa9.jpg

2025-01-01 18:42:57

Looking to improve my back end development skills in 2025.
What are the best resources for this?

2025-01-01 15:32:25

2025 Anno Domini https://image.nostr.build/c5e67aff2c117f0900933800c54c651f4ed3d704c9bd59b63e3f29fe9f69aeb5.jpg

2025-01-01 05:23:30

“By going out of your mind, you come to your senses.”
— Alan Watts, Why Not Now? https://image.nostr.build/f2608b3117995b9727ace3b99ab132fb59c369df49a6154bab07982b1ed0bdb5.jpg

2025-01-01 01:23:16

#Bitcoin is the sine qua non of digital freedom. https://image.nostr.build/b016490eaf109276f483568bc3200144d5d32960684898b003229697a05e8e30.jpg

2025-01-01 01:19:58

Happy New Year’s Eve! Tick tock. https://image.nostr.build/0cb95a37c7246eda1911a229f4bbc88e6ed369027273fa492bc9c62227fa4dda.jpg

2024-12-31 19:10:39

The most important part of the Sam Hyde “Dear Elon” video — https://video.nostr.build/4e6016195cbf962ca0c06c976fd96bce14ec754f0cca8fda17ec3f06f3b0669c.mp4

2024-12-31 01:53:16

Break free from fiat. Save in #Bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/0ccce499ac11b33ccceaf0489ea13ec550900075c823aa88c62ca4d1e38edeee.jpg

2024-12-31 01:50:21

“Odd as it may sound, the ego finds that its own center and nature is beyond itself. The more deeply I go into myself, the more I am not myself, and yet this is the very heart of me. Here I find my own inner workings functioning of themselves, spontaneously, like the rotation of the heavenly bodies and the drifting of the clouds. Strange and foreign as this aspect of myself at first seems to be, I soon realize that it is me, and much more me than my superficial ego. This is not fatalism or determinism, because there is no longer anyone being pushed around or determined; there is nothing that this deep ‘I’ is not doing. The configuration of my nervous system, like the configuration of the stars, happens of itself, and this ‘itself’ is the real ‘myself.’”
— Alan Watts, This Is It https://image.nostr.build/fca2570b4c112f451db0e52a75b19f55e9ef6f8e50aa90dd936d5da9a9ed447b.jpg

2024-12-28 17:55:47

“The socially conditioned persona or role-playing ego is, however, never a free agent. Man is free to the extent that he realizes his genuine self to be the author and origin of nature.”
— Alan Watts, Nature, Man And Woman https://image.nostr.build/ea7e767cc570be68b536bd351c6f8e83716e2e70b85cc93131e7f7cc6fd150df.jpg

2024-12-28 17:48:59

“The question ‘Why should one act?’ has meaning only so long as motivation seems necessary to action. But if action or process rather than inert substance is what constitutes the world, it is absurd to seek an external reason for action. There is really no alternative to action, and this is not to say that we must act, since this would imply the reality of the inert, substantial ‘we’ reluctantly activated from outside. The point is that, motivated or not, we are action. But when action is felt to be motivated, it expresses the hungering emptiness of the ego, the inertness of entity rather than the liveliness of act. When, however, man is not pursuing something outside himself, he is action expressing its own fullness, whether weeping for sorrow or jumping for joy.”
— Alan Watts, Nature, Man and Woman https://image.nostr.build/43890e236336993697d385e490999cd889a5123856c0450e57b33d30f69752ba.jpg

2024-12-24 22:11:31

“Now when God plays hide and pretends that he is you and I, he does it so well that it takes him a long time to remember where and how he hid himself. But that’s the whole fun of it—just what he wanted to do. He doesn’t want to find himself too quickly, for that would spoil the game. That is why it is so difficult for you and me to find out that we are God in disguise, pretending not to be himself. But when the game has gone on long enough, all of us will wake up, stop pretending, and remember that we are all one single Self—the God who is all that there is and who lives for ever and ever.”
— Alan Watts, The Book https://image.nostr.build/c01d4a631c0975236b4db4922739cba803be28f461a4490fa11d29521bc2aaec.jpg

2024-12-24 15:08:30

When #Bitcoin hits $1M, it won’t matter whether you got in at $90K or $100K. https://image.nostr.build/4ced9c12b3506d07474a464cf8405f89fc632f1bf55d60bf468effb103b197f3.jpg

2024-12-21 18:53:12

Fact: One cannot be a Bitcoiner while also pursuing scamcoins. https://image.nostr.build/28a0a190254e253a67d30e9bf9b074fa14f1d1375116f91b0aa32ec0a8ccd140.jpg

2024-12-20 06:32:33

Follow the Middle Way.

2024-12-20 01:30:43

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🤣

2024-12-20 01:30:22

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🤝

2024-12-19 22:48:05

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Gradually, then suddenly.

2024-12-19 22:47:07

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🤝

2024-12-19 22:25:12

If Santa isn’t real, how is it that he inspires parents all around the world to perpetuate his μῦθος by placing gifts under the Christmas tree? #note1dcz…az6m

2024-12-19 22:18:08

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🤝

2024-12-19 22:17:15

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🤝

2024-12-19 22:10:00

Close friend of mine has just become an ardent Bitcoiner in the past week or so. Something “clicked” and now he is all-in. Makes me proud.
Also reminds me that, while you can lead a horse to water, you cannot make it drink. It is up to the individual.

2024-12-19 21:47:59

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Excellent

2024-12-19 21:47:38

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Buddhism is a dialogue, not a dogma

2024-12-19 21:47:16

“At one extreme of its meaning, ‘myth’ is fable, falsehood, or superstition. But at another, ‘myth’ is a useful and fruitful image by which we make sense of life in somewhat the same way that we can explain electrical forces by comparing them with the behavior of water or air. Yet ‘myth,’ in this second sense, is not to be taken literally, just as electricity is not to be confused with air or water. Thus in using myth one must take care not to confuse image with fact, which would be like climbing up the signpost instead of following the road.”
— Alan Watts, The Book https://image.nostr.build/e965c8152812c78f949c666efce4078da8e26792348da6ba038640bf19e1613c.jpg

2024-12-19 21:21:17

They don’t want you to know this, but you can find most book texts online for free if you search the name + pdf.

2024-12-19 21:03:25

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That is good. We need more of this.