If you’re in Austin swing by to catch a screening of @Hummingbird on Tuesday. It’s about life in @Bitcoin Jungle (and other things). @paul keating and I have been working on it for quite while, and it’s finally ready to come out (soon).

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no amount of external validation will give you lasting internal peace

what would the real bitcoin city look like. what would people do

“Bitcoin Is Beautiful” - a short film I made with @npub1mz70...tl8g a couple years ago:

It’s weird how people think it is some kind of sign of true religiosity to say they believe in God or believe in Christ or whatever it is. It’s like, okay? You believe in something. Meaning, you don’t know. You don’t know if it is actual, so you must believe. Believing in things is what children do, literally. They believe in Santa Claus. What does that really mean? It means they identify with the fabrications of their internal mental activity, probably from things that were planted into them by some else or a book. It means you’re stuck at the level of mind, which is not your spirit. It’s your mind, its ideas, its intellectualism, aka, not your spirit. From new agers to modern Christians, almost nobody I speak to these days really seems accept this concept that there is a direct experience to be had with an aspect of your being that you could only describe as spirit if you had the skill to soak into it directly, which very few humans have ever achieved, hense why remarkable people like Jesus, who could do it, are remembered forever. It is the idea that your spirit is literal, just like your physical body. It’s a literal thing that you can, under rare circumstances, absorb into entirely. In other words is “real”. Not a metaphor, not morality, not psychology, and definitely absolutely nothing to do with astrology, healing, past lives, dimensions, none of that. Mind goes away, body goes away, and all your ideas of God or whatever else are recognized as mostly pointless mental fabrications and your life is forever changed if you are to experience this aspect of reality for even 1 second. Therefore it’s much better to strive to “know” rather than believe. Believing is silly, there is something tangible to know directly, and it’s not easy to achieve!

are there any Bitcoiners out there that are butterfly keepers ?

People in new age scenes seem to think you can “open your chakras” using your intention. They are just like, okay, I’m going to light some incense, focus my attention on my root chakra, relax, see what emotions come up, and then voila, I’ve “opened my root chakra”. It’s like, huh? What? Does nobody know what the actual signs were that someone had literally “opened their root chakra?” Like - mastery over all the elements of nature? Lol. Like, telekinesis, moving objects with your mind? Or how about the “laghima” siddhi - the ability to make your body weightless, basically, flying. Most people will read that and think it is silly, just some fanciful wishful thinking. But it’s really not, it’s a thing and has always been a thing. It’s just that our culture has become so degenerate and confused that we have lost contact with what a human being is and what it is capable of. Therefore I don’t personally think anyone on the planet today has literally opened any chakras at all, much less become “spiritually awakened” - a state of being that is so profound it would fundamentally change how the energy and consciousness of the person connects to reality, and simply being in this persons presence would warp time and space around you, much like the accounts of encountering Jesus or Buddha were talked about. However these days, in modern times you are “awakened” because you know a bunch of conspiracy theories or because you are aware of your emotions or because you eat a certain way? 🤔. Maybe, just maybe, it’s actually about something much much deeper and profound….