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John Satsman · 1w
Indirectly we do though
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"The Babel fish is small, yellow and leech-like, and probably the oddest thing in the Universe. It feeds on brainwave energy received not from its own carrier but from those around it. It absorbs all unconscious mental frequencies from this brainwave energy to nourish itself with. It then excretes into the mind of its carrier a telepathic matrix formed by combining the conscious thought frequencies with the nerve signals picked up from the speech centres of the brain which has supplied them. If you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language.
Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mindbogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen it to see it as a final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.
The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."
"But," says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED."
"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.
"Oh, that was easy," says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets killed on the next zebra crossing."

- Douglas Adams, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

Michael Dunworth · 1w
I superrrr am on that wavelength but the pedo stuff is costing many people happiness, money, time. That’s my sort of hard line in the sand! Sorry if it seems aggressive, not my nature, just so not a fan of the weird child stuff!
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American Empire:
British expansion pack, dynamic, bombastic, clumsy, confused, short lived.

British Empire:
Total, cunning, measured brutality, careful, adaptive, long lived.

Future empire:
None, forever.

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We are in a system change.

A way of being, built on Bitcoin will completely replace the one we are in.
It is replacing it right now.

Large parts of our lives past are rapidly becoming historical artifacts, but we live in these museums like it will always continue. Fight for it even.

One day the amount of Bitcoin you have will be the most you can ever have. You will exchange it for goods and services. You can do this now!

Your 'stack' will be spent probably on yourself, then on those around you who are suffering. This will cement Bitcoin as the money supply as we redistribute and circulate.

Eventually every unborn child will have not missed the adoption frenzy, they will get Bitcoin at ~0. As they deserve for those that come after us. A better world.
They will be richer than we can possibly imagine from where we are now.

Jeff Booth · 5w
Spent yesterday morning with a friend and leader in the “singularity” silicon valley crowd. He specifically wanted to deep dive my thesis and understand Bitcoin and the developing protocol stack ...
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Its one thing to think about and connect the the dots (I actually think this is the easy part), another thing to work through the feelings and connected ego. A social status cultivated by us in this system and underpinned by behaviours we have evolved with to survive.

I think people are having a tough old time acting on letting go, 'losing' , a fear of loss, running from mourning. Myself included.

Who are you if it never had to be this way?

Bitcoin doesn't have a big enough beach head yet for people to solidly compare and contrast, especially for those at the top of the current system. That's what tells me we are early.

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Mohammed · 4w
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The truth is: We don't like the truth.

Denial keeps our ego together.

The truth is orthogonal to so much of our lives. Lies we hold on to, because we feel like we need to in order to survive.

What could a new human consciousness look like with an organisational institution like bitcoin demanding a whole new set of behaviours?

How would the darktriads in psychology (narcissists, sociopaths and psychopaths) respond? Psychological disorders based on lies, manipilation and cruelty. And would they slowly through generations be selected and nurtured out of the human race? As they are no longer selected for lack of empathy, rat cunning and extreme drive in a finite game.

I have seen many narcissistic people in the bitcoin space and have severe trouble with bitcoin and what it demands onto them.

Not just another brain slowly rewiring as they understand, The narcissist cannot accept what they know their ego will "lose" on a bitcoin standard, and cannot imagine what humanity will gain nor is that important to them. and they do not have the insight to challenge or gain a new perspective.

You might even hear these personalities appear like they see a new system, In an effort maintain their own.

Unchangeable People vs Immovable Bitcoin.



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travis · 4w
Well said. Love your perspectives 🙌🏻