I find myself agreeing with this and yet most who claim to find God are just drunk on a fantasy. What one claims or calls oneself is irrelevant. The truth is invisible. View quoted note →

Used to think the key to life was to enjoy the unscratched itch. Not merely to tolerate it but *enjoy* it. “How lucky I am to have this itch!” Now I’m not sure. Could scratch if you like, it’s not that important.

Few are up to the task of sustained attention and poised response, no matter the external circumstances.

An ordinary person earnestly reading the environment and responding with poise is the apex predator.

A worm got from one end of an apple to the other. Through a wormhole. View quoted note →

stop being a pussy

The psyop doesn’t work on me. I’m running a psyop on the psyop.

I don't care if it goes to zero, I’m bullish

I know we're in a 4th turning and Q4 has been a total bust, but I’m bullish. External reality is a reflection of internal reality. Just think it’s time.

thanks Yodl, will keep railing until there's a reckoning, and if there is no reckoning, I’ll just keep railing forever. View quoted note →

Socialists and grifters have a common belief that there is no such thing as ill-gotten gains, as all-gains are ill-gotten and therefore it's fair game to seize (socialists) or scam (grifters.) The notion someone *earned* money by providing value is anathema to both world views. If someone earned money, then you have no right to take if from them. If earning money is possible, then scamming is an unethical choice, not just part of the "game." The common denominator is a deep cynicism about humanity. Grifters and socialists don't believe in themselves, and they project that worldview onto society at large, try to drag it down to their level.

Sam Altman’s name is the first I’ve come across where you can spell “Satan” using its letters *in order*. Put differently, subtract m a l m, and Sam Altman = Satan. I’m sure it’s nothing. View quoted note →

Bought an apple, didn’t notice it had a wormhole. Tried to cut around it but was rotten to the core.

Trump is a fascinating character in that his superpower is also his attack surface. The superpower being a total lack of shame. I don’t mean this as good or bad, just as an apparent fact. He cares a lot what people think of him, but not like most people due to fear or being shamed. Such a character is uniquely positioned to challenge unitparty dominance in the digital age. Virtually anyone else would have folded under the constant 24/7 (mostly false) attacks on his character. No one can stand to be called Hitler and racist and fascist 100x per day and go about his business undaunted. That’s why he won. Twice. (Probably three times.) But this lack of shame is also a huge attack surface because he’s also the only person who can boast about virtually anything and everything without conscience. The turnout at his inauguration, the economy, the stock market, international relations, his golf game, whatever — he can openly brag about it in a way that educated people find gauche and distasteful — something about which they would feel ashamed. Accordingly it’s very easy to paint him as this pig of a character, a buffoon, a sociopath. It’s easy to convince people he’s a rapist, he was involved with Epstein (seems like he was one of the few that called him out.) People see someone with this quality, and it triggers them because a sense of shame, for better or worse, has been beaten into them their entire lives. Again, this is not to praise or condemn Trump, who has done good and bad things IMO, only an observation of the phenomenon of him. I don’t think there’s ever been a politician quite like him.

*”It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting. Got that? My sitting tight! It is no trick at all to be right on the market... Men who can both be right and sit tight are uncommon”* View quoted note →

I knew we’d take 95 back no problem.

Biggest takeaway from 2025 is the truth will not be forthcoming from outside oneself. That the desire for a revelation must be turned inward only.

Twitter is noise from the zeitgeist. If you work hard enough you can discern some signal from it. But it's woefully inefficient.

to the extent your thoughts come from various forms of modern media they should probably be ignored

People vote for a candidate, but to the extent that candidate countervails what the power centers want, they install malware of sorts, strategically placed people to thwart the agenda of the voters. If the malware does its job partially, you will have only part of the agenda achieved. If it does the job totally, you will never know whether the candidate himself was in on it from the beginning. Maybe the only way to overcome this is for a candidate to purport to do the bidding of the power centers but secretly subvert them, i.e., to pitch compliance but radically diverge once elected, but without ever announcing it. This is such a tough needle to thread it virtually never happens -- such a leader would have to be so awake that no amount of contact with the system could corrupt him. Chances are he'd probably be crucified.