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Any bitcoiner CPAs out there? There’s a group of badass offgrid miners that could use the expertise!
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Hanshan · 40w
"Lift the stone and you shall find me Split the wood and I am there"
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That is a useful and eternal truth, it’s just a very small part of what Jesus taught.

He taught us who created the universe and why. He taught us our place in it. He taught us that people are broken and need help from outside to be able to live into our purpose.

He taught us about God’s nature. That He is a person and yet a community in Himself. A being who desires relationship with us.

He taught us that without sanctification we cannot stand to be in the presence of the divine, it will destroy us.

He taught us there’s a place separate from here that is Heaven and it yearns to be joined with Earth but it’s not yet time.

He taught us there’s a separate place from here that is Hell which keeps evil out of Heaven.

He taught us that God will go to any lengths to save us, even sacrificing His own child.

Yes Jesus taught us that it’s important to seek the divine, and that in work and suffering there is much to learn and connection to make. Jesus did cultivate His mind through meditation and other practices in common with Buddha.

His teachings are just so much bigger in scope, and narrower in their prescriptions about what is a good life. (Even though I believe many Christians have too narrow a definition of a good life)

I’d love to learn more about Buddhism from your perspective, I just don’t think Jesus and Buddha teachings are the same.
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Hanshan · 40w
All explication is between you and Him
Hanshan · 40w
"Lift the stone and you shall find me Split the wood and I am there"
Hanshan · 40w
Christianity is just Buddhism for white people. nostr:nevent1qqsx87k7aw5pssy6t063x7hwxtrvwg6f0ycd0469qxp73zwdsv5h2xcpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt0d5hsyg8r5kvjfyeun70jm7p5fyz4avu93u2gplwschkmjh0s30ku6tnxysp...
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I hear this a lot and I could see why people think that. Some of the practices and wisdom overlap.: (stillness, humility, kindness, detachment from possessions, etc)

But Christianity’s cosmology and call on a person’s life is not inwardly focused (where there is more overlap with Buddhism).

The call is to bring heaven to earth: to speak truth, to oppose evil, to fix poverty, to heal the sick, to bring people hope they lost a long time ago, to teach people about the God made human in Jesus who did the work to make it all possible.

I believe there is goodness is Buddhism but I don’t think Jesus and Buddha would have haven’t along philosophically on what mattered most to each of them.
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Hanshan · 40w
Both "Buddhism" and "Christianity" are vast and varied in their actual practice. Most Buddhism is not "inwardly focused" and is practiced as you describe. and there are certainly Christian sects that are as meditative as any Buddhist monk. Jesus and Buddha point to the same eternal truth. What matt...
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If we were to redo or add to the US constitution in a re-founding of the US I’d want to add

1. Separation of currency and state
2. Only citizens may donate to political causes and there’s an annual limit (no corporations, no NGOs)
3. Clarify that the right to bear arms includes all that goes into warfare (artillery, fighter jets, cargo planes, fuel, all the way down)
4. The buffet amendment: if deficits go over a certain percent of domestic production sitting congress people cannot be re-elected

One of the greatest tricks played by the state over the last hundred or so years is scoping the second amendment to just guns and “personal defense” the real goal should be that there’s more privately held capacity for war than publicly held capacity for war.
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Hard money is inevitable in a multi-polar world. Fiat is only sustainable in a unipolar world.

When empires collapse the world reverts to hard money. When nations use hard money, there’s less war.

Seems like the world would be better without a hegemon. Even though I think the US is exceptional, I think it’d be better if we focussed inward
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ethfi · 42w
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There are two types of people in this world. Those that are grateful for nothing and those that are grateful for everything they have.

It’s so much better to live in gratitude
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Yesterday my wife and I were reading Isaiah 65 as part of our Easter practice and it’s a description of heaven.

It’s where that famous verses about “lions will eat straw”and “wolves and lambs will eat together” come from.

This passage also talks about how living 100 years will be just the beginning for you. And that death and disease will be no more.

But something that struck me anew this year was this long description about how people won’t labor in vain, that they will work and get to keep the fruits of their labor.

According to God: theft is up there with death and disease as the great injustices of the human condition.

I believe you can boil the call of every Christian’s life is to help bring Heaven to Earth. It’s important to work on things that bring Heaven closer, it’s the only worthwhile goal to labor for in this life.

Bitcoin is not the savior, but Bitcoin feels aligned with bringing Heaven to Earth.

It’s takes power away from corrupt people and reduces the theft perpetrated by those people.

I’m glad to be working on something every day that feels aligned with my values and could help all people live better lives.

Happy Easter friends.
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How overvalued do you think the stock market is? What about houses?

I take perverse pleasure in watching asset prices crash because that wealth wasn’t real anyway.

I say keep unwinding the cantillonaires’ wealth
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