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2026-03-12 18:55:46 UTC

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This reminded me of one the best memes I've ever come across
https://blossom.primal.net/141b28b57a7ce4d504240434534d3a39fdc893afac9c65855190576e7877c768.jpg
#memestr

2026-03-12 04:04:53 UTC

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Another short piece from my @nprofile…8syn archives.
#naddr1qv…s444

2026-03-12 02:56:17 UTC

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Haha awesome! Glad to hear it resonates and hope you enjoy the read :)
Failing at different things has led me to pursue a whole bunch of other things that have expanded my worldview in ways I could have never even conceived of if I had become comfortable in one role, as a single persona, doing one job.

2026-03-12 02:42:57 UTC

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Right on! Here's what I wrote not too long ago:
"Wins are actually less potent lessons because they don't necessarily teach you anything new. They signal that what you're already doing is good enough. Just keep doing it and you're likely to win again. Losses can teach us much more, if we're able to understand the lessons."
Published as a part of this short essay:
#naddr1qv…p696

2026-03-12 02:36:01 UTC

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Welcome! 🫡

2026-03-12 01:05:33 UTC

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It’s like Jordan Peterson says: an ideal is also a judge. And we really don’t like being judged. We like to be praised. We like to hear that what we are already doing is sufficient, acceptable, good enough. So under the guise of “being realistic” or even “being humble,” we aim low. At least much lower than we could. But really, it is a sly roundabout way of protecting the ego.
#nevent1q…xxc3

2026-03-11 23:38:44 UTC

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Food for the mind; food for the body.
Curiosity is the key, creation is the door.
♾️ 🤠
https://blossom.primal.net/2e1321a75b284cb594cea13493d422d7495160538e1a6b831d2ae5208563c2d2.jpg
#nevent1q…nt5z

2026-03-11 01:05:50 UTC

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A short piece on hope, hopelessness, faith and devotion.
Written in August 2025, originally posted on @nprofile…8syn.
#naddr1qv…8ckk

2026-03-10 21:11:29 UTC

You can (and will) experience ego death whenever you fail to meet your own expectations.
This is why greatness is so rare.

2026-03-10 17:31:58 UTC

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Got it & replied :)

2026-03-08 21:46:39 UTC

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That would be awesome! Let's do it 🤠

2026-03-08 21:22:17 UTC

Will be re-posting a bunch of shorter essays that used to live on Stacker News only here within the next couple of days... then a new essay. Then the audio version of Bitcoin from a Stoic Perspective. And then, chapter by chapter, the audiobook version of A Stoic Resurrection.
At least that's the current plan. Things may change.
In any case:
Stay safe
&
Stay tuned 🫡

2026-03-08 16:57:27 UTC

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In case you missed it - here's some reading material for y'all this Sunday. It's a deep dive into the congruence between Bitcoin and Stoicism. 🧐
#nevent1q…yuzf

2026-03-08 16:51:28 UTC

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🙏

2026-03-08 15:26:45 UTC

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💜

2026-03-08 08:01:17 UTC

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At around 1:21:00 mark, Asanoha mentions how an artist has to be a social media marketing master to "make it" as an artist these days. I laughed, because just a few weeks before I vented about this in my journal:
"One of the most aggravating aspects of being a one-man enterprise on the Internet is the constant need to self-promote. I’m an ARTIST. I’m an ENTREPRENEUR. I’m an ATHLETE. I’m not a goddamn “content creator” or a marketer. There’s a reason I was anonymous and completely off social media pre-2022. I thought getting on here would serve the “greater good” in both getting those materials out there as well as inspiring people. I’ve always believed that the good, the true and the beautiful will sell itself. Maybe my stuff just isn’t good enough yet. Maybe it’s a “pearls before swine” type of situation. Maybe I’ve been merely trying to feed my ego and gain validation this whole time. Whatever it is, I feel like I’ve sold a part of my soul (definitely my time and effort) for it and I’m sick and tired of it."
#nevent1q…pd22

2026-03-08 07:53:27 UTC

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@nprofile…q9zq on the problem of evil
https://blossom.primal.net/c50c9c6dfe0663f22fe9e7ac437f232449c683c99d8f0942701a408a5a4ba474.mp4
Source: Keyvan Davani Show #261: THE EARTH DISASTER CYCLE & BITCOIN.
https://fountain.fm/episode/pvErgjI5bqDDy5AyGMk5
@npub15n4…srrk
Some additional thoughts from yours truly:
#naddr1qv…p696

2026-03-08 05:25:50 UTC

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Yes! That's when the MOST esoteric ideas hit you.

2026-03-08 05:24:17 UTC

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Just started journaling, putting down reminders to myself. Then I listened to Marcus Aurelius' Meditations audiobook, and there was a moment of recognition: the ideas are quite similar; and that I could put together a book like that from my thoughts. So I did :)

2026-03-08 00:47:02 UTC

A page from my book...
https://blossom.primal.net/d4587ce36eb18432a02b6da24fd3d04a8f72b91a9d51d70140b530af421b5acb.jpg
And a relevant meme 🤠
https://blossom.primal.net/85a900dca3f987740d1120feb79d770c7ff29f83454e01070a4419df8de42325.jpg
#philosophy #wisdom #memestr

2026-03-08 00:33:13 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/b7b672190a2124bd6b789fbdbf2387bef9ee1707f5a53fc83f7a91c48b730ffc.jpg
+ re-listening to this beast:
https://blossom.primal.net/a66c66c98e9d514f87d231ebfa0569eda741c646275e6866a3c1d01091468d4b.jpg

2026-03-07 19:43:58 UTC

Modern science catching up with ancient mysticism 🤠
https://blossom.primal.net/c7c4ba1d28da1bdb0e404b660f16669a6cca5fefb5d34f34c76fac40966edf44.png
Source:
https://www.sciencealert.com/we-emit-a-visible-light-that-vanishes-when-we-die-surprising-study-says

2026-03-07 18:59:27 UTC

What if you're the One who can save us all? It is a possibility, although a minor one, and you wouldn’t necessarily know it if it were true. But it could be.
Now, if there is a tiny chance that the fate of the world hinges on your actions, you should act on it. Because if it does - it is of utmost importance; and if it doesn't - then you're likely to just live a more fulfilling life.
In any case, the fate of your soul undoubtedly hinges on your decisions. And as “you are the world and the world is you,” it is a fundamentally true statement. Live like it.

2026-03-06 17:53:13 UTC

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Had a lovely chat with @nprofile…0wru yesterday for another episode of @nprofile…fys2 podcast. We talked a little bit about my upbringing and background as a musician as well as the new essay "Bitcoin from a Stoic Perspective" (quoted below)
https://bitcoinartmagazine.com/kontext-bitcoin-stoicism-writing-music-bitcoin-art-podcast-asanoha-ep-5/
#naddr1qv…qfgr

2026-03-05 22:11:10 UTC

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Yes! More pods with Red, I'm all for it! 💜 💪

2026-03-05 03:54:26 UTC

Received my copy of @nprofile…fys2 today. I knew it was going to be good, but I didn't expect it to be THAT good! An instant classic in the #Bitcoin culture scene if you ask me. Well done @nprofile…0wru , @nprofile…20qc & everybody else involved. That's some serious PoW right there 🫡
https://blossom.primal.net/ceb74265315d502690def9066f68a3b12e74c8e063e82cfcde552be82924f484.jpg
https://blossom.primal.net/1b0865faef46fe4fcfb6aa7d0fadee66da96fbaf2794def29f86b37a564db7bb.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/d73bee1c421858efdfba428d314afc9287392c9df4a59eb1789c8f5b251c38fd.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/2de21bc66d9650a1b8f5ed2ff189a20c67607d073a039f03ee834039e4e8a262.jpg

2026-03-04 19:18:28 UTC

https://blossom.primal.net/b658c00221f98d4c3e17e2290f1ce9b81a83744913d69046d15b834373188dfb.jpg

2026-03-04 14:16:34 UTC

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“There is great difference between joy and pain; if I am asked to choose, I shall seek the former and avoid the latter. The former is according to nature, the latter is contrary to it. So long as they are rated by this standard, there is a great gulf between; but when it comes to a question of the virtue involved, the virtue in each case is the same, whether it comes through joy or through sorrow.”
― Seneca
#naddr1qv…qfgr

2026-03-03 21:07:42 UTC

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On a related note:
Inspiration originates from the Latin inspiratus, the past participle of inspirare, which means "to breathe into" or "to blow into". The term combines in- ("into") and spirare ("to breathe"). It carries a historical, theological meaning of a divine influence or spirit being breathed into a person, predating its modern, creative, or psychological definition. The concept implies that creative or emotional energy is breathed into someone, similar to the biblical account of life being breathed into the first human.
In Middle English, the word was used directly in the sense of ‘divine guidance’.
#nevent1q…halm

2026-03-03 02:49:31 UTC

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I find it interesting that there's a large cohort of bitcoiners whose persona is "fuck the state" and then go around praising stuff like tariffs and closed borders... that's literally the definition of wanting a larger state lol.

2026-03-03 02:33:57 UTC

Discipline alone is not enough. We need enthusiasm.
Enthusiasm originates from the Greek enthousiasmos, derived from en theos, meaning "in God" or "God within"

2026-03-03 01:18:15 UTC

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Thank you! 🙏

2026-02-28 22:33:13 UTC

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Feel free to download & print the PDF version of the latest essay 👀
#nevent1q…ll4s

2026-02-28 21:36:55 UTC

Hope y'all are having a lovely Saturday!
Here's some relatively obscure Estonian Pop / R&B from the late 90s... 🤠
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f80psPyCXWc
#tunestr

2026-02-28 02:16:12 UTC

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Was just reminded of something else:
Enthusiasm originates from the Greek enthousiasmos, derived from en theos, meaning "in God" or "a God within"

2026-02-27 16:51:40 UTC

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Man. The worst (IMO) are YT vids which are like... "here's an Alan Watts lecture" only but it isn't an Alan Watts lecture, it's AI-lan Watts, with the same voice and somewhat similar ideas, but completely fabricated.

2026-02-27 16:48:12 UTC

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Love to hear it my man! And many thanks reading + for the encouragement 🙏

2026-02-25 22:37:43 UTC

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Tagging a few thinkers who may appreciate the dialogue…
@npub1hk0…20pf, @npub1klk…x3vt, @npub1s05…eyhe, @npub123s…wk9x, @npub1hqa…t56s, @npub1rtl…jtfs

2026-02-25 22:33:23 UTC

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Well... it is true that the vast majority of my schoolmates were very much normies in the making, for lack of a better term 😅
I'll give those episodes a listen for sure, thanks for sharing!

2026-02-25 22:28:37 UTC

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😄
We've interacted on Stacker News. Don't know him personally, and don't know his medical history

2026-02-25 22:22:42 UTC

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Bitcoin from a Stoic Perspective.
Two systems separated by millennia - united by natural law, discipline, responsibility, and action over intention.
#naddr1qv…qfgr

2026-02-25 20:38:22 UTC

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From a personal vantage point, the main thing I "got" from the education system was good friends, some of whom I'm still very close with to this day.
Also, there's a whole different dynamic to studying and coming up with things if there are likeminded people around you, interested and invested in the same things. You can bounce ideas off of each other, inspire each other, provide different perspectives, correct & criticize each other, there's an element of competition that may arise, etc.
I've worked on most of my interests in solitude my whole life. The flame of inspiration is much more likely to go out if it feels like a solo effort that makes no difference to anyone. But maybe that's just my ego and the craving to belong.

2026-02-25 20:23:23 UTC

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Online education is definitely a big part of it. And probably the easiest viable method for approaching this + for making it accessible for pretty much the whole globe. However, personally I'm pretty sick and tired of being tied to my computer and/or phone all the time, plus there's a whole different dimension of learning and interaction going on if people are physically in the same space as well.
On a slightly off-topic note, Saylor's been getting a lot of flak recently (some of it for good reasons), but things like the Saylor Academy are really a great, big step in the right direction (although I've never taken a course there and can't vouch for the quality of the materials there)

2026-02-25 01:32:20 UTC

@npub1mlj…72t8 made a comment on @npub1jfu…m0gx that propelled me to put into words something that's been lingering in my mind for a while...
https://image.nostr.build/61e72870a46079d6179ff2ea998d9ac54b96c522db678956d693bd05d43c87ee.png
@npub13t9…vmgh I mentioned something about this to you on our call. Would also love to hear thoughts from @npub1z4y…zpx6, @npub1hgh…fyz2 & others who feel like they have some ideas on this topic.
#education #homeschooling

2026-02-24 23:17:06 UTC

My boss (me) is really fed up with my bullshit at this point.
https://blossom.primal.net/0ae898b7cd140cf6bd2ff054a163b3ab572d78f49ef1ea77e6420d5c7d5d01a9.jpg
#memestr

2026-02-24 21:26:37 UTC

In World War II, my great-grandfathers had a choice: either fight on the side of the Soviet Union or on the side of Nazi Germany. The definition of a lose-lose situation, and of the illusion of choice. I see this as the equivalent of the “left vs right” dichotomy worldwide. Coke vs. Pepsi. Same system, same poison.

2026-02-24 21:26:08 UTC

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Value 4 Value 💜

2026-02-24 17:19:16 UTC

8 years ago, Kontext (then still an anonymous rapper) embarked on a mission to become a professional in the music industry. The single "100%" was the first fruit of that labor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mmDyUz1mz8
2 years, 5 singles and 2 mixtapes later, success was nowhere in sight and amidst traveling and doing fiat jobs like farming, pedicabbing and cleaning in Australia, both inspiration and motivation waned and music was put on the backburner until the second attempt in 2022 (spoiler alert: also ended up in failure).
#tunestr #opensourceculture

2026-02-24 17:03:19 UTC

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Kyrios or kurios (κύριος) is a Greek word that is usually translated as "lord" or "master". It appears roughly 7,000 times in the Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible.
However, the English word curious is not derived from the Greek word Kurios. The similarity between "curious" and "kurios" is phonetic only - a coincidental resemblance in sound, without any shared linguistic ancestry.
Nevertheless, I find this to be a very curious coincidence (pun intended). For it is through curiosity first and foremost that we can find our calling and align with our soul purpose. Kurios is what calls; curiosity is what orients. The direction of our attention often governs our destiny.
#nevent1q…8jt7

2026-02-23 21:46:15 UTC

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A deep and relentless sense of self-hatred has been re-emerging in my psyche lately. I'm hoping that counts as a critic, because I've buried myself so deep that without growth, suffocation is inevitable.

2026-02-23 18:06:35 UTC

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Thanks brother 👊

2026-02-23 18:03:11 UTC

I've been thinking a lot about the Fourth Turning lately as well as the Bitcoin halving cycles.
What if Bitcoin also has cycles within cycles? What if the fourth halving is the fourth turning of Bitcoin? An era of crisis: a civil war, diminishing returns, the lack of interest from pre-coiners, Epstein & quantum FUD, a war between cypherpunk and State / Wall Street principles, an empty mempool, a sense of disillusionment within the community, etc.
Will #Bitcoin emerge victorious and enter a new "high" era in 2028? Or are the naysayers finally right and this is the beginning of the end for the digital asset?

2026-02-22 23:50:50 UTC

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Thank you! The best place to get it is kontext.store (use the code "nostr" for 4 EUR off). It's also available via Amazon and Lulu bookstore. :)

2026-02-22 22:38:50 UTC

A few shots of me presenting my book and ideas. Or in other words, doing what I can to shine light on "the primacy of beauty, the centrality of goodness, and the ultimacy of truth" as D. C. Schindler would put it.
The job ain't easy, but somebody's gotta do it.
https://blossom.primal.net/10b3659411b5e3d7fce0fa829414e7906a2de6b4888856fa39bc2579fcbbdd4d.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/4f958c3e788480a0e559fb064e6a92729aac386d1017e4ae71c2d0423cd29ed5.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/6194a5a75999fc660d88746b078d671601254e47f675a7014e224f2487a9d742.jpg
https://blossom.primal.net/ed046ca091162f52f691fc604eb72a066cb3dd9f61a41d9db85730ee9078bc31.jpg

2026-02-20 00:22:30 UTC

Ephesians 6:12 "For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places."

2026-02-19 16:54:50 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/a35d1f3eb436c62016957a7990a784ba1dfefbd02e272ef3cd55df2752b57baf.mp4
#nevent1q…6tal

2026-02-19 12:04:59 UTC

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I couldn't sleep AT ALL lol. But thank you anyway :)

2026-02-19 02:34:26 UTC

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Damn. Goes hard 🔥
Not the kind of music I should be listening to when I should be sleeping tho 😅

2026-02-19 01:36:19 UTC

SHOUT OUT TO ALL THE "CONSPIRACY THEORISTS" OUT THERE 🫡
https://blossom.primal.net/7b6fbe0f263a74390746e4f5798f66930e0b8ab24aa6c130409ca74424e9d2aa.jpg
#memestr

2026-02-19 01:21:55 UTC

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Tired AF, my man. BUT:
#nevent1q…ccp3
AND:
#nevent1q…hmjx

2026-02-18 22:55:23 UTC

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That it does, it tends to break us over and over again
And rebuilding ain’t easy
But it must be done, if we want to put ourselves back together
🤍

2026-02-17 01:01:59 UTC

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NGU PHILOSOPHY
https://blossom.primal.net/dd8fc908b666970a0a2efa9e4447732a72621d642c81f21617bb86573aa629a2.jpg

2026-02-17 00:53:36 UTC

https://blossom.primal.net/f9dbef9176c0bbfd0ed2ae15bd38f005b975116eb1418e5ae1a9c1c607f43bd4.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/767005dfad4278d8ec62c9e9c66e85319ee25ff33e8dc6a5dd4d71ad69445292.jpg
https://blossom.primal.net/20d5b27b2792d6d9baf84508d8a0ee92f3334e28cae121fe724292a207e4b220.png
#memestr

2026-02-16 16:59:09 UTC

It’s not that the warrior is unafraid. It’s that he proceeds despite the fear.
That’s the essential difference between recklessness and courage.

2026-02-16 01:45:03 UTC

TIL
https://blossom.primal.net/9df34ea4e7261743d8183e3799b39bb48dce2247f44d7a3d9d6c9b93a9e04cf5.png
#etymology

2026-02-15 18:21:33 UTC

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I'm sorry to hear life's been hard on you. I don't think anyone deserves anything, much less a 14 year old deserves suffering.
But I guess my message is that you don't have to identify with, or hold on to, past experiences that made life unbearable. Now I'm not saying you should dismiss whatever your past was and pretend as if it didn't happen. Nor that any of this is easy. But how you perceive life now and how you interact with it is yours to choose. The world may have disempowered you, but you can empower yourself. Going through darkness sometimes can help us illuminate the way for others experiencing similar hardships...
Sending you my best wishes 💜

2026-02-14 20:09:09 UTC

#NOSTR #VLOG VOLUME 9: "WHY THE WAY OF THE WARRIOR"
https://blossom.primal.net/a094863a900742aa92ecfd69e0968b22877b735a6a3642402ac5c208e37b1af3.mp4
#vlogstr

2026-02-14 19:45:41 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/053d832dfce8d695681863c0ff3b7e736b9a3e4ef39576006ec6934c56b34ddd.jpg
#naddr1qv…p696

2026-02-14 18:51:51 UTC

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Whoever that guy is, I agree with him

2026-02-14 18:10:51 UTC

I’m in an abusive relationship I would like to escape
That relationship is between me and the State

2026-02-14 15:14:57 UTC

So I've been going over my Dharma Marga calendar in conjunction with evolutionary astrology with the help of ChatGPT and honestly its mindblowing how accurate these things are.
https://blossom.primal.net/14d442e13655c7685e1f361b45c9acb368258adcc3619f9a6a135648dcb21165.jpg
https://blossom.primal.net/1d4d1a5464ba98c849f63ee051951e84ce80e71f7f1f1befe2c922f533a6247c.jpg
#astrology #dharma

2026-02-14 13:54:22 UTC

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New short essay now up on #nostr and @nprofile…8syn only!
cc/ @nprofile…snwf
#naddr1qv…p696

2026-02-13 21:16:45 UTC

Check it out:
Zeno of Citium, the founder of Stoicism, is said to have envisioned a society in which all people lived according to reason, without law courts, temples, or currencies divided by city-states, in his now-lost book Republic.
That bit of information just blew my mind. If that's not an utterly anarcho-capitalist #Bitcoin idea, then I don't know what is. And he wrote it 2000+ years ago!
BTW I'm close to finishing my essay on the convergence of Bitcoin and #Stoicism. If there's anyone out there who has been genuinely looking forward to that piece, I apologize for the wait from the bottom of my heart. I have been letting you down - as well as myself - and I am painfully aware of that. I have two very good reasons for the delay though:
1) The parallels run much deeper than I thought (I had no idea Zeno was basically an anarchist) and the essay, instead of being 2000-3000 words like I originally thought, is looking more like 7000+ words.
2) I have simply been not at my best. Unmotivated, tired, undisciplined. Completely my own shortcomings.
All that being said, I go to war against myself every day. I put pen to paper every day, even when nothing noteworthy comes out of it (or sometimes it feels like it's too much to even put out there). But, as I said, the essay is very close to being finished.
If you want a preliminary idea into what it will be about, you can listen to this episode of the @nprofile…fys2 Podcast with @nprofile…0wru from December, where among other things discussed, I read most of the draft I had written at the time:
https://fountain.fm/episode/vyU08CzNJ4lSsA2wMEas

2026-02-05 01:45:55 UTC

Was re-listening to Once Bitten #562: Stolen Science Series Part 7 - Decoding The Science Of Ancient Initiations with @nprofile…q9zq and @nprofile…3424 yesterday and was reminded of this:
https://blossom.primal.net/165961a5b0484ed8d9655c33a74161d8349426358b644222df8ec1a2f91ef950.3gp
Funnily enough, during that trip to Cambodia in 2023, I also started writing this:
https://medium.com/@mckontext/unified-creation-energy-theory-ucet-8814041ed94c
...which aligns pretty much perfectly with a lot of what Red is talking about in that episode.
Highly recommend giving it a listen if you haven't yet:
https://fountain.fm/episode/xJhmGJwLayW0ADEwmU2L