"It is important to draw wisdom from many different places. If we take it from only one place, it becomes rigid and stale. Understanding others, the other elements, and the other nations, will help you become whole."
-Iroh, uncle of Prince Zuko, Avatar: The Last Airbender (S2,E9)
Join us tomorrow, approximately 20 hours from now (12 noon US east coast time, the Daylight Savings Time switch has been accounted for), as we continue studying "The Law of One” which is a series of 106 conversations that occurred from 1981-1984 between a physics professor & the entity known as Ra who had previously tried to spread the Law of One in ancient Egypt with mixed results.
Last week, we covered:
- The "Strawman" logical fallacy as covered on yourlogicalfallacyis.com,
- The 1st 1/4 of Chapter 1 (pages 21-27) from “A Wanderer's Handbook”,
- Session 86 of the Law of One,
- Personal research updates from study group members along with discussion.
This week we plan to cover:
- The "False Cause" logical fallacy as covered on yourlogicalfallacyis.com,
- The 2nd 1/4 of Chapter 1 (pages 28-33) from “A Wanderer's Handbook”,
- Session 87 of the Law of One,
- Personal research updates from study group members along with discussion.
Link to join the "Flight Club" study group Clubhouse:
We say "Bitcoin makes war unaffordable" but this ignores edge cases of religious extremists whose values hierarchies are skewed by dogmatism, prejudice, fear, & ego.
Bitcoin will do a lot towards this goal.
What else is needed to get humanity to the finish line of peace?
To rugpull religiously motivated violence will require more than changing the alignment of economic incentives.
To quote The Dirty Heads, "The grass is always greener, I said 'Fuck it. Burn the picket fence.'"
We must remove division and demonstrate unity between traditions.
Most people only ever study one religious tradition.
If they're a convert, maybe they've studied two.
That's not enough. We must study them all.
This doesn't mean we must accept every tenet of every tradition but we must explore them all looking for common ground.
Every tradition has a variant of the Golden Rule.
They're all saying the same thing.
You don't feel loved when people dismiss your expression of the significant. No one does.
Divisive dogmatism is 100% antithetical to abidance of the Golden Rule.
The common ground between the various traditions is robust signal.
Dogmatic heresy hunters produce a lot of signal obfuscating noise.
Treat each tradition like a courtroom witness.
Each witness offers testimony that allows us to come closer to the truth.
Many are afraid to even listen to the testimony of others.
The answer is to armor yourself with robust discernment by studying math, science, philosophy, logic, logical fallacies, debate, & argumentation.
Aristotle understood the importance of discernment & receptivity.
This doesn't mean you are an educated mind if you hear people out and reject what they've said.
It means you hear people out and you don't necessarily accept it.
It means you accept some things, investigate some things, and reject some things, ideally without prejudice.
Many Bitcoiners know the importance of self-verification when it comes to doing your own research, running a node, etc. yet when it comes to other areas of import, they drop the ball, preferring, instead, to remain prejudicially ignorant, mired in the comfort of the familiar. This is "arrested development".
Seek, and you shall find.
Love your neighbors as yourself.
The truth is out there.
Humble yourself, get off your ass, and begin a new journey of education.
If you want a road map to follow, check out my research.
Links are in my profile.
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Join us tomorrow, approximately 24 hours from now (12 noon US east coast time), as we continue studying "The Law of One” which is a series of 106 conversations that occurred from 1981-1984 between a physics professor & the entity known as Ra who had previously tried to spread the Law of One in ancient Egypt with mixed results.
Last week, we covered:
- The "Definitions" and "Bibliography" pages from Ali Almossawi's book "An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments",
- The Foreword (pages 13-19) from “A Wanderer's Handbook”,
- Session 85 of the Law of One,
- Personal research updates from study group members along with discussion.
This week we plan to cover:
- The "Strawman" logical fallacy as covered on yourlogicalfallacyis.com,
- The 1st 1/4 of Chapter 1 (pages 21-27) from “A Wanderer's Handbook”,
- Session 86 of the Law of One,
- Personal research updates from study group members along with discussion.
Link to join the "Flight Club" study group Clubhouse:
Schools don't teach how to think.
They teach what to think.
They are NPC factories who produce graduates that are afraid to challenge the consensus opinion of the entrenched academic hegemony.
This is a problem.
It's also an opportunity.
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