hylomorphic
Neal

I am a husband and father of two.
Former Army Officer, AH-64 Pilot.
BS in Art, Literature and Philosophy from the US Military Academy
MA in Philosophy from Holy Apostles College and Seminary.

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2025-04-02 14:02:42

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MoE is the essence of money.
SoV and UoA are implicit in MoE
If people do not exchange, it’s technically not money.

2025-03-26 15:19:09

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by taking a reasonable position, and attaching it to some crazy sky daddy, you make a strawman
you don’t need a sky daddy to give a shit about people tearing the fabric of society apart
and if you have a sky daddy, that does not invalidate the giving a shit about society
you are a part of society, yes?

2025-03-01 18:17:36

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no, just that objective reality exists. not “my god” but acknowledge something supernatural is in the sauce
the idea of a fucking triangle is “supernatural” form, order, logic itself.
it’s such a low bar.
you can try and wiggle around, straw man the issue, it’s just intellectually lazy and pathetic.
defend being a bitcoiner to yourself.
why do you prefer a volentary open protocol to coercive extraction?
it’s not just some accidental preference like enjoying strawberry ice cream over chocolate.
“why” isn’t stupid and for some things it’s accessible.
if you understand why bitcoin is objectively good, the seeds are already planted even if you deny it.

2025-03-01 14:53:42

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as soon as a person in the stateless society has a kid, it is no longer stateless.
they just imposed a non voluntary social relation on another and formally created a state.
here is a why question for you.
why is a big tyrannical state bad?
can we only have “opinion” on that matter? or is there an objective truth there?

2025-03-01 14:10:56

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How is it anything exists at all? as opposed to nothing exists?
materialism has no valid answers
it just presupposes its own conclusions

2025-02-24 20:27:03

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social capital is the only long game for keeping effort working together in harmony.
economic incentives can get u most of the way there, but the magic glue really is in the people u surround yourself with

2025-02-14 21:37:02

Separating money from state does not validate a stateless society.
If you care about logical consistency, you have to follow it where it goes.
Libertarian Anarco Capitalists are incredible at describing problems and critiquing systems.
But they fall off the Gnostic cliff when it comes to prescriptions.
#Natural Law
#Philosohpy
#Bitcoin
#nostr

2025-02-11 13:59:40

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we are just thinking about money at different levels
i do not want more complicated words.
maybe clumsy was the wrong choice of words.
economics is a rake
philosophy is a shovel
when we orange pill, we are asking people to dig.
I’m writing my book to give a back-hoe to the masses.
I love Lyn’s book, im not taking anything away from her work, she does a great job raking leafs, but she is not a philosopher, and it pains my heart seeing people work really hard with the wrong tool for the job.
i appreciate the conversation.
i actually went back to acouple parts of my book to over emphasize these points because they are so important.
🫡 thx again for pushing on our ideas with me. it’s great exercise

2025-02-10 22:50:29

money is not simply an economic object.
it’s a social kind, meaning it takes two people exchanging value through an object to create the concept of money itself.
without people, there is no money.
money, like all things in reality, is hylomorphic: both
that’s why “the money is NOT broken”
it’s only broken if ur analysis is focused on the objective aspect of money and not its true nature.
money is a tool, a tool being used to control, and it’s fulfilling its working
the pure economic analysis is useful but only so far as it doesn’t address the complete problem
#Bitcoin

2025-02-10 16:24:40

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good and bad are moral terms
broken and fixed are neutral terms.
a car can be broken and repaired - sterile, those words speak nothing of motive
what you do with the car does and that’s what makes it moral.
our money drives from point a to b
that’s not “broken”
it’s the running over pedestrians part that we hate.
it’s absurd to say “oh no, that car driving over people is broken, we need to fix that car”
fix the car fix the world
yet that is exactly what we are doing with money
“broken” removes the human part from the equation

2025-02-10 16:12:13

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I understand what you are getting at.
i get the economic points.
shells worked, until harder money beat it. they didn’t break, u can still use it as money, it’s just not as good.
fiat is being exchanged everyday for real goods and services, it functions as money quite well. but the catch is it also is an instrument of control.
that’s not broken money
if what we mean by “broken” is really replaced by something better, then then that applies to everything and means nothing.
the point is a myopic economic analysis of money is clumsy at best and naive at worst.
it won’t cut it.
that will not orange pill the masses
we can peddle as fast as we can in 1st gear and won’t get very far.
need higher moral gears to make the machine work.
thre entire “broken” rhetoric aims at a true directions, but is philoophically sophomoric.
it’s not a personal slight or attack, it’s just true.
if we use clumsy obtuse language, it’s no surprise it doesn’t cut through to the normal people who need bitcoin the most

2025-02-10 15:57:55

shitcoining is morally identical to central banking.
same extractive game

2025-02-10 03:25:38

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put simple, the money is a broken economic tool, but a working tool of coerced extraction: ie enslavement

2025-02-10 01:46:48

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money is a tool, and now it’s a tool that has been deliberately fashioned to control and economically enslave.
it is successfully achieving its end.
we would never say a car that drives from point A to B is broken, so why do we do it for money?
because we only look at money economically, and not morally.

2025-02-09 19:03:22

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i get the rhetoric, but it makes a category error. “broken money, fixing the money” assumes a utilitarian framework. it makes sense if u approach the situation as primarily economic, but that’s wrong. morality drives the economics, in my book, i lay out why the money isn’t broken, it’s working all too well.
are shackles “broken” because they bind you? nah
we are naive if we attribute ignorance to our bondage

2025-02-09 05:13:11

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i’m writing the book for u

2025-02-08 00:28:31

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he was still lecturing even after genesis block.
he was talking about ideal and asymptotic ideal money early 2000s, and C++ was what he programmed in, so he could have been working in it for years prior to white paper
but even if he “isn’t satoshi” it doesn’t matter, someone took lessons from his entire life’s work

2025-02-07 20:58:48

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or ever. fucking dweeb

2025-02-07 17:18:18

#Bitcoin strips away the illusion of moral neutrality.
#nostr
#asknostr Hits the nail, yes?

2025-02-07 12:30:01

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For my money, John Nash.
He was extremely effeminate, so that fits with your woman theory.
Whoever Satoshi was/is/are, someone took John Nash’s entire life’s work. From the nobel prize winning game theory, to crypto, to C++, to his lectures in asymptomaticly ideal money at princeton, etc etc and put it in Bitcoin.
either himself or someone who followed his life’s work.

2025-02-07 11:25:05

If you don’t have a coherent answer for why things exist in reality, if you have no valid answer for there is something as opposed to nothing..
Then you are not living in reality, and you #Fiat Metaphysics is certainly causing some other #Fiat problems in your life.
Fiat effects more than money, food, education, et al.
It goes all the way to metaphysical bedrock.
If you understand why #Bitcoin fixes fiat money, you know how to fix ALL fiat.

2025-02-06 22:58:51

book is almost there
https://m.primal.net/OToD.jpg

2025-02-06 22:51:13

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then you have an incoherent metaphysics: your understanding of the nature of reality.

2025-02-06 17:07:12

Funerals are graduation ceremonies.
#asknostr

2025-02-06 13:56:00

41,000 words. 50 more pages to revise and the first solid draft is complete. probably end somewhere between 43-45k
much more work ahead
but there is no better cause than #Bitcoin

2025-02-06 13:43:11

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I am trying to get off the first phase 🤣

2025-02-05 23:01:20

What @npub1gdu…6nak did for economics with The #Bitcoin Standard, I am doing for moral philosophy.
Economics describes the what
Moral philosophy the why.

2025-02-05 04:08:56

orange pill the masses
#Bitcoin
because i have great love for humanity

2025-02-05 04:08:20

powerful rhetoric grounded all the way down to metaphysical truth.
my #Bitcoin book

2025-02-02 11:29:43

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yes, decentralization makes it possible to operate without trust, only verification

2025-02-02 11:27:03

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I understand what you’re getting at, but money is both a natural and social kind.
to think of #Bitcoin as an chemical element is to sterilize or dissolve the human component
wouldn’t be talking if about reality anymore

2025-02-02 05:53:06

i never thought a mid life goal of mine would be getting the splits, but alas, here we are, just acouple inches away.

2025-02-02 05:23:03

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if i had to start over, i’d probably do block stream jade or cold card, but i have trezors in multi sig.

2025-02-02 01:15:44

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“sufficient” isn’t the right word.
meaning “enough”
i think i understand what ur getting at, the window for normal people to get undervalued/cheap btc is over.
but that thinking leads to “im too late for btc”
even in 50 years when btc is tens of millions a coin, all we can do is covert our productive enegy into the the best form of money ever.
if that’s all we can every do, surely that has to be “enough”
#NeverLate

2025-02-02 00:42:23

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over? or just beginning?
half full half empty type of thing i guess

2025-02-02 00:41:07

First complete draft baby!
no fluff, not daunting.
written for the common no coiner
My contribution to #Bitcoin
Orange pilling from the economic financial side - consuming raw meat
Orange pilling from the moral side - consuming cooked meat
Let the moral flame cook!
Need to start thinking about how to publish. #asknostr
I do want it freely available on #nostr pdf and audio, so anyone has a tool to help orange pill the ones we love
https://m.primal.net/OMFL.jpg

2025-02-01 17:14:55

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the most powerful and terrifying revelation is that each person chooses 1 or 2.
the world doesn’t choose for you.
each person lays claim to their sovereignty or surrenders it.

2025-02-01 11:35:01

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sorry, replied to wrong msg

2025-02-01 11:34:18

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ur talking about tilting at windmills.
leave the strawmen alone

2025-02-01 11:33:49

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ur talking about tilting at windmills.
leave the strawmen alone

2025-02-01 11:32:15

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when people stop buying Rao’s and grab the non tarrif’ed Prego, that isn’t hurting the customer financially.
it limits their selection sure, but the bottom line is it hurts Rao’s.
it’s simply false to say the customer loses quality or pays a higher price. Rao’s is a higher price and the customer still have a choice.
Not all sauce is getting tarrif’d

2025-02-01 11:24:51

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the moral case, which i am making in my book, will hopefully save a lot of people 1000 hours

2025-01-31 14:42:16

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they can’t hold off objective truth forever. eventually we run smack dead into economic reality.

2025-01-31 04:22:40

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indestrucible is the objectively correct answer
it’s just a fact

2025-01-31 04:20:53

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saylor got it right when he said being indestructible is the best of all powers, if u can’t be killed u will figure it out from there.
copying powers is an abstract non answer. the single greatest power being the power to have infinite powers is logically incoherent.

2025-01-30 22:53:41

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your post was a good reminder, i need a shot when i get home, for no other reason than why not.
it’s crazy, i used to hate black coffee.
now im throwing back straight shots of expresso.
what a journey.
#TheGoodStuff

2025-01-30 16:27:57

When a #Bitcoin book is coming together, words cannot do justice to the elation felt inside.
but have to keep grinding.
#Motivated

2025-01-30 14:19:31

The not hand holding algo on #nostr is probably one it’s most important properties.
Forces #ProofOfWork and imbues time spend on #nostr with meaning.

2025-01-30 14:08:41

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i think you’re onto something with the correlation of caffeine and laser intensity. it would definately follow that 2nd and 3rd ordered effects like rambling would benefit

2025-01-30 13:30:46

Every new tech feature on an alt coin.
#Bitcoin only
Protocol not tech
https://m.primal.net/OIBo.jpg

2025-01-30 13:24:15

Friends don’t let friends shitcoin.
#Bitcoin
Eyes on the prize
https://m.primal.net/OIBQ.jpg

2025-01-30 13:18:36

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thanks.
what’s the equivilent of laser eyes for dialing your shot? lol
feels good when u hit it
also, love ur bio. conveys a lot

2025-01-30 06:08:14

22k words
My contribution to #Bitcoin is coming along.
This is 🔥

2025-01-30 01:11:28

#asknostr
what is the correct way of nstr’izing you post?
would this be:
#expresstr
#coffstr
#expressostr
#coffeestr
https://m.primal.net/OHGT.jpg

2025-01-30 01:08:48

#asknstr
what is the correct way of nstr’izing you post?
would this be:
#expresstr
#coffstr
#expressostr
#coffeestr
https://m.primal.net/OHGT.jpg

2025-01-29 22:22:42

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reality is hylomorphic
anyone arguing money, or anything, is just abstacy or just concrete, only form or only matter, is only speaking to the contents of their mind, their own fantansy.
reality is a composite of “both”

2025-01-29 22:18:16

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most people can’t defend their moral views at all.

2025-01-29 21:53:45

got my first pistol squat! both legs
LFG

2025-01-29 14:58:10

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love the videos, you have been a big part of my bitcoin education.

2025-01-29 06:10:43

finished the section on usury

2025-01-29 06:08:17

i undervalued flexibility and mobility when i was young the same way most people undervalue bitcoin

2025-01-28 23:35:24

nothing quite as disgusting as moral cowardice

2025-01-28 22:57:06

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is terrifyingly amazing

2025-01-28 22:55:31

objective reality i

2025-01-28 21:22:57

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"If you don't consciously choose your guiding principles, then something evil will become your god"
That premise is an incomplete truth.
The conscious choice is a mere accident of whether your god is good or evil. Many people consciously choose the wrong shit to worship.
Libertarians are correct up until they leave objective reality for some simulacrum hyperreality in their mind where the individual has primacy over the collective. Which is a logical absurdity.
The collective has primacy over the individual.
Meaning it comes first.
The demonstration of the contrary is quite easy.
Just show me the man who begot themselves.
Until then, the abolition of government and the anarchical wetdream is nothing but fantasy.
Man is a social creature.
The one from many.
Takes two to tango.
These hierarchies are as natural as our rationality and freewill.

2025-01-28 20:24:15

i agree the “like button” is dumb
zap only

2025-01-28 20:21:13

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even better, read EMJs “The Holocaust Narrative” and get the truth from primary sources.
any official narrative turning out to be a propagandized lie is almost as certain as the sun rising tomorrow morning. it’s the same case with the holocaust
https://m.primal.net/OErr.jpg

2025-01-28 20:15:08

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i know it takes effort to build the ecosystem to hang out with the nerds on nostr.
when it comes to social media, i’m like a boomer, but the btc affinity of the nostr protocol makes me want to figure it out.

2025-01-28 06:03:01

The orange pill is inside everyone.
We don't shove it down their throats.
We just help coax it out.

2025-01-28 05:57:09

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don't you get XRP by manning the glory hole?

2025-01-28 00:54:24

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action baby
Aristole and Aquinas would love this post

2025-01-28 00:52:29

Orange pill Pharmaceuticals
only the best rhetoric
none of that street grade craplola

2025-01-27 19:03:20

Satoshi didn’t have the time to try and convince the masses.
That’s our job.

2025-01-27 05:11:52

GO CHIEFS!

2025-01-24 21:27:50

if bitcoin is need to know, how do we broadcast universal “need” for the masses?
A moral imperative.
#ethics
#MoralPhilosohpy

2025-01-24 21:10:42

if i can orange pill my boomer father-in-law, i can orange pill a lot of people

2025-01-24 21:05:48

If you appreciate your bitcoin journey, do yourself a favor and start on a flexibility journey.
The feeling of your body moving freely as it should is equally as euphoric as being economically free from fiat.
stack sats and stretch everyday

2025-01-24 19:31:18

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a moral analysis of our modern economic woes.
i think the moral approach is a tactically more effecient way to educate normal people.
“here spend 1000 hours studying economics and finance, to arrive at the ethics if btc”
or just start with the ethics? 🤷‍♂️
I am biased being a moral philosopher, but it’s what i bring to the fight.
i want this book to be accessible enough my mother could read it and compelling enough she wouldn’t want to put it down.

2025-01-24 19:18:48

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yep, other, just like me, will get it and come around
beautiful thing about the truth, it doesn’t need you to prop it up.

2025-01-24 19:12:30

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what was the debate topic?

2025-01-24 06:09:12

Book is coming along. 16k words. Never been so motivated.

2025-01-24 05:50:06

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I kept putting it off, but glad I took care of it this afternoon.

2025-01-23 22:53:06

I might have been a little “late” to the bitcoin party, but i got caught up real quick.