MAN. I absolutely despise taxes, bureaucracy and the financial gibberish that goes along with all of that. Any time I have to fill out a form I have to Google WTF those questions even mean. Any time I have to fill out a form I feel like I want to start a riot. The "You can just do stuff" meme needs to get out of the #Bitcoin & #nostr space We need real freedom, in the real world.

The only reason we don’t just suffer endlessly is that we take care of each other. Parents take care of children; men and women take care of each other; relatives, friends, the free market, the structures of society take care of them all. Or, at the very least, provide some sort of underlying structure and laws, and I don’t mean strictly in a judicial sense. And God, metaphorically speaking, takes care of those structures. And if there is no God, then whatever else is at the top of the meaning hierarchy takes its place and becomes the guiding principle for the whole thing. That usually tends to be the State or the ego or an amalgam of those things which manifests as authoritarianism, tyranny, slavery, and in general - crimes against humanity. In other words, Hell. So there’s nothing trivial about any of this, and there’s certainly nothing trivial about the notion that God is dead. Even if God doesn’t exist, even if God is just a codeword for a set of moral and ethical guidelines, or a personified explanation of the Natural Law, or a description of the Most Good Being - without it, we’re lost. Related: View quoted note → View quoted note →

If a blind man cannot appreciate the value of a fine painting, who’s at fault? The blind man or the painter? Neither. In reality, however, there are many blind men who are blind simply because they choose to keep their eyes closed.

Do not forget: suffering is not abnormal. Suffering is the most real thing there is, it is the base state of human existence. There is tension between who you are right now, and who you want to - and could - be. That tension is resistance, and overcoming that resistance means work - and work is suffering. So one shouldn’t be worried about suffering. One should be worried about not suffering - because that’s when you are stagnant, that’s when you don’t have a goal to strive for. And not having a goal - that’s a slow, psychological and spiritual death. Not having a goal is when you are prone to drown in the ocean of life and sink into the meaninglessness below. Physical resistance grows and sustains your muscles; psychological resistance grows and sustains your mind; spiritual resistance grows and sustains your soul.

The Kontext Experience podcast has now also been added to YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaPFuUAhgQxBe2-kcjJaMrUSsyWIwlTo2 The recommended platform for listening to the pod is still @Fountain:

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The Human Experience through the eyes of Kontext: LOVER, WRITER, FREEDOM FIGHTER, but also: LOVER, LONER, LOSER.

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You know this thing, this thing that’s so bad it just screams at you? There you have it. That’s your calling.

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I'm still perplexed by the fact that this meme never went viral #memestr

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Feet on the ground Head in the clouds Heart firmly in the middle, connecting and guiding both

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Anger. Apathy. Fear. They must all be overcome in order to reach acceptance. Acceptance is also sympathy, which is also harmony. Jiddu Krishnamurti said “harmony is stillness.” Which is true, but it’s also untrue, because while it is stillness, it’s relative stillness. Relative to everything else around you, you’re still. But that’s only because you’re in tune with everything and as a collective whole, you’re resonating, vibrating. For there to be harmony there has to be a movement, a frequency.

Look at the face of your fellow man and behold - for it’s your own reflection.

The prize for playing the game of life right is more responsibility.

"What's The Problem?" - Joe Bryan "Broken Money" - @Lyn Alden ... "This is why deflation is the key to an abundant future" - @Jeff Booth What would you add to the #Bitcoin curious starter pack? #asknostr