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Between a block and a hard place Building a practice in Freedom | Philosophy | Free Speech | Bitcoin | Nostr | Discernment | Health | and sometimes a poem DM me to join The Bitcoin Poets Society Email me: aj@ft.hn to find out about nostrdev.com
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AJ 8 months ago
Sometimes the simplest songs are the most beautiful You have to find yourself all over again once you find bitcoin. Because it changes everything you though you know about yourself. Including your sense of home. image
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AJ 8 months ago
How TF am I meant to take the piss out of ETH holders with this violin? I mean, there is such a thing as too small
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AJ 8 months ago
Get ready for the childrenofriddim.com festival!
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AJ 8 months ago
Get ready for the childrenofriddim.com festival! Get ready to vibe with us at the childrenofriddim.com festival! Join us for a Bitcoin takeover on Sunday, June 15th, as our "Barn of Freedom" stage comes alive with exciting performances. Catch insightful talks from Bitcoin speakers throughout the day on Sunday, and as the sun sets, get ready to dance the night away with our DJ sets, @MadMunky2140 will be spinning tracks until 2AM! But that's not all - our massive Bitcoin art exhibition, featuring over 100 incredible artworks, will take place on both Saturday, June 14th, and Sunday, June 15th, so you can immerse yourself in the creative world of Bitcoin art all weekend long. Secure your spot with 1-day or 4-day passes, available now on our Geyser page. Click the link to get yours today! 1 day pass and 4 day passes are available on our geyser page. #childrenofriddim #bitcoin #festival #music #art #freedom #2140wtf
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AJ 8 months ago
Tomorrow I'm dropping a bomb on my fiat contacts/clients with a paper on Freedom of Expression in the workplace (because they keep trampling all over employee rights, going to court and losing ๐Ÿ™„) It's a 70 page beast that doesn't pull any punches. And if my honesty tanks my business then... I might be in need of a job ๐Ÿ˜‚ Fuck them, I'm not pulling a single punch.
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AJ 8 months ago
The last 13 months are teaching me patience, openness, listening to my intuition, and relying only on POW (mine and others) Some of these lessons are hard. Some are just reminder of what is right and should be.
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AJ 8 months ago
There is a phenomenon called โ€œCrown Shyness" where trees avoid touching. I've never seen a more beautiful example of togetherness and separateness. We are together. We don't have to intermingle every part of ourselves with others. We can be respectful and separate, and yet still be together. We can claim each other, love, express that Iove with physicality, hold, protect and be protected, and yet still keep a healthy, discerning privacy of our innermost reality until we truly know it's safe to open that final vault.
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AJ 8 months ago
It's been a tough 4 months of my health falling off track, of my body telling me that it has, of retreating into myself, my writings being paused, and hibernating. But in the last 2 weeks I realised that that needed to change. The only way to be free is to not be complacent. So I've got into the driving seat again, and I'm picking up speed. This Summer is going to be a Summer of openness and invitation.
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AJ 1 year ago
I forgot to put my post up! Here we go! rendering my reality Itโ€™s possible that we exist in a simulation and if this is a simulation then itโ€™s been designed and it has parameters. What that does that mean for absolute freedom? Parameters = Constraints = Conditions None of that equals Freedom. Yet, life is not without constraints. And Total Freedom โ€“ freedom without any constraints or accountability - is chaos. If we are in a simulation, then anything we are not directly experiencing is theoretically a hypothetical. So, only the things we actually see and feel are โ€œrealโ€. The quality of that experience can be impacted by how we interact with it. ๐—œ๐—ณ ๐˜„๐—ฒ ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐—ป ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฟ ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—น๐—ถ๐˜๐˜† ๐—ฎ๐˜€ ๐—ถ๐˜ ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—น๐—ฑ๐˜€ ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐—ณ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜ ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐˜‚๐˜€. then why live like NPCโ€™s? NPCโ€™s react, they wait around for things to happen, they donโ€™t take proactive action, they donโ€™t question anything beyond the most obvious. Letโ€™s say we are in The Simulation and weโ€™ll play again at some point when this run is complete. But right ๐—ป๐—ผ๐˜„ in The Sim, you and I donโ€™t know that. Within the bounds of what we โ€œknowโ€ wouldnโ€™t living with freedom mean that we make This Game count for something? And why not do that by being all that we can be within the constraints of our character, and doing all that we can do. Sim or no sim, sitting around waiting for life to happen is not Freedom. I find the concept of Simulation Theory totally mind-bending - this post has been really tough to summarise... find more here:
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AJ 1 year ago
My next set of thoughts are on Simulation Theory, but dammit, it's not easy to write my vague ponderings about it! Much much respect to Rizwan Virk
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AJ 1 year ago
Thousands of years ago our ancestors easily tapped into awe every night. Their understanding of their world would be challenged by the vast and mysterious expanse above them. Awe is so rare to catch in our modern world. How many of us get to see dark skies? You really have to chase it to feel it afreeexistence.com/chasing-awe/ image
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AJ 1 year ago
I wrote a thing, set up a new website too. www.afreeexistence.com is going to be my place to think out loud about freedom. Hopefully create something compelling enough to get people I know I image RL, on X and here to contribute their ideas about freedom too l've been thinking about "the veil of ignorance"; that 78% of all humans on this globe can only dream of the sorts of freedoms experience here in the UK By living in some of the freest parts of the globe think we've become complacent. Inspired by the authors of Resistance Money. Would love to hear what you think: Photo unrelated to the topic ๐Ÿ˜‚ Maybe the website is just an excuse to make me sort my camera roll
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