"A superior human is distinguished from the mass of mediocrities precisely by their 'distinction,' that is to say, by their isolation (Huð) – by the distance they naturally place between themselves and the mass media."

#Bitcoin is architecture, not narrative. It’s cryptographic consensus, not suggestion. Those who reduce it to a meme have missed the revolution: it lies in math, not marketing. True value withstands the noise. #Nostr is where the signal becomes clear again: verifiable words, intermediary-free relationships, value without permission.

It's fascinating how #Nostr works. A large profile quotes a phrase of mine, and now I'm quoting their quotation. A true #value #loop. This is the beauty of an open protocol: you can always take back control of your own voice. 💪 View quoted note →

Monday, October 27, 2025 Monday of the 30th Week in Ordinary Time From the Gospel according to Luke (Lc 13,10-17) At that time, Jesus was teaching in a synagogue on a sabbath. And a woman was there who for eighteen years had been crippled by a spirit; she was bent over, completely incapable of standing erect. When Jesus saw her, he called to her and said, "Woman, you are set free of your infirmity." He laid his hands on her, and she at once stood up straight and glorified God. But the leader of the synagogue, indignant that Jesus had cured on the sabbath, said to the crowd in reply, "There are six days when work should be done. Come on those days to be cured, not on the sabbath day." The Lord said to him in reply, "Hypocrites! Does not each one of you on the sabbath untie his ox or his ass from the manger and lead it out for watering? This daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound for eighteen years now, ought she not to have been set free on the sabbath day from this bondage?" When he said this, all his adversaries were humiliated; and the whole crowd rejoiced at all the splendid deeds done by him. 🙏🏼 Reflection on the Gospel of the Day 🕊️ This passage reveals God's compassionate heart that contrasts religious hypocrisy. While the synagogue leader is worried about rigidly observing the sabbath rule, Jesus demonstrates that the supreme law is the liberation of people from suffering. The "bent over" woman represents humanity bowed under the weight of evil and suffering. Jesus' imposition of hands is not just a miraculous gesture, but a true act of liberation that restores dignity. Jesus' response is cutting: if it's lawful to care for animals on the sabbath, how much more is it to free a "daughter of Abraham"? Every suffering person has infinite dignity, and true religion is measured by the capacity to alleviate suffering. #Jesus #WordofGod #Christian #Bible #Scripture #Wisdom #worship #biblestr #bibleverse #Christ #God

#bitcoin #CheyenneIsa₿ #nostr #zap #lightning #grownostr #plebchain #art #touchgrass #zaps #btc #coffeechain #zapathon

Sunday, October 26, 2025 Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time From the Gospel according to Mark (Mk 10:46-52) As Jesus was leaving Jericho with his disciples and a sizable crowd, Bartimaeus, a blind man, the son of Timaeus, sat by the roadside begging. On hearing that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out and say, "Jesus, son of David, have pity on me." And many rebuked him, telling him to be silent. But he kept calling out all the more, "Son of David, have pity on me." Jesus stopped and said, "Call him." So they called the blind man, saying to him, "Take courage; get up, he is calling you." He threw aside his cloak, sprang up, and came to Jesus. Jesus said to him in reply, "What do you want me to do for you?" The blind man replied to him, "Master, I want to see." Jesus told him, "Go your way; your faith has saved you." Immediately he received his sight and followed him on the way. 🙏🏼 Reflection on the Gospel of the Day 🕊️ The miracle of Bartimaeus offers us a beautiful icon of the journey of faith. The blind man represents every person who, recognizing their inner blindness, refuses to be silenced by difficulties or others' judgments, but perseveres in crying out to Christ with trust. The gesture of throwing aside his cloak - his only security and means of subsistence - symbolizes total abandonment to God. Jesus' question: "What do you want me to do for you?" resonates for us today too, inviting us to clarify our deepest desire. The faith that saves is not passive, but rather that which, having encountered Christ, "follows him on the way," becoming his witness in the world. #Jesus #WordofGod #Christian #Bible #Scripture #Wisdom #worship #biblestr #bibleverse #Christ #God

It is no longer man who owns the device. It is the device that owns man. A truth so simple it is brutal, so glaring it is uncritically hidden. We have become organic extensions, pulsating terminals of a central nervous system made of silicon and algorithms. Our fingers dart across screens not by will, but by conditioned reflex. Our minds receive, process, and digest an incessant flow of data that shapes not only opinions but the very perception of reality. Reality, the authentic one, made of smells, matter, uncomfortable encounters, has been supplanted. It is now a construction, an artifact. And those who control the construction sites of this new dimension hold a power that the despots of the last century could only dream of in their most feverish hallucinations. This is not about hazy conspiracies. It is a question of architecture. The device – this conglomerate of platforms, sensors, artificial intelligences – is not a simple tool. It is an environment. A habitat. And as in any ecosystem, control lies not in the individual elements, but in the laws that regulate their interactions, flows, hierarchies. Those who write the code, who own the servers, who govern the algorithms that decide what is visible and what is invisible, are not simply selling a product. They are administering a form of existence. They are defining the boundaries of the possible and the unthinkable. It is a metaphysical power, because it acts on the very substance of our being-in-the-world, even before it acts on our actions. Emotions themselves, those vibrations we believe to be the most intimate and inalienable core of our self, have become raw material. They are data to be extracted, cataloged, monetized. Joy, anger, fear: everything is coded, made readable for the machine. And, once deciphered, it can be reproduced, amplified, or switched off on command. It is a form of reverse alchemy: the gold of human experience is transformed into raw lead for the marketplace of attention. One perceives a void, a subtle desolation, as if the world is losing its colors to adapt to a programmer's palette. It is the opposite of humanism: we are no longer the ones giving meaning to technology; it is technology that assigns us a place in its design. And here lies the crux of it all. If reality is software, those with administrator privileges govern in an effective and totalizing manner. Brutal force is not needed, nor are tanks in the squares. A simple change in the algorithm's parameters is enough to make an idea go viral or to make it disappear into the black hole of irrelevance. It is enough to shape the interface through which we filter the world to determine our desires, our fears, our alliances. It is a government that operates in the substratum of consciousness, an authority that does not raise its voice because it speaks through our very habits, our very addictions. It does not impose itself, it insinuates itself. It does not command, it suggests. And its suggestion has the inexorable force of a law of nature. The surrender is so profound that it is no longer even perceived as such. We believe ourselves free, autonomous individuals, while making choices whose path has already been traced by a superior, non-human intelligence. We mistake the abundance of options for freedom, without realizing that the menu was written by others. The battle is no longer between ideologies, but for the sovereignty of perception. For the right to feel the cold, the heat, boredom, authentic joy, without the mediation of a device that translates, interprets, and, ultimately, replaces. It is a titanic, silent struggle, fought in the brain and soul of each individual. And the stake is not the control of a territory, but the possession of the last, true frontier: human experience itself.

#NOSTR #ZAP #sats #zaps #bitcoin #coffeechain #plebchain #grownostr

Saturday, October 25, 2025 Saturday of the 29th Week in Ordinary Time From the Gospel according to Luke (Lk 13:1-9) At that time, some people told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with the blood of their sacrifices. He said to them in reply, "Do you think that because these Galileans suffered in this way they were greater sinners than all other Galileans? By no means! But I tell you, if you do not repent, you will all perish as they did! Or those eighteen people who were killed when the tower at Siloam fell on them—do you think they were more guilty than everyone else who lived in Jerusalem? By no means! But I tell you, if you do not repent, you will all perish as they did!" And he told them this parable: "There once was a person who had a fig tree planted in his orchard, and when he came in search of fruit on it but found none, he said to the gardener, 'For three years now I have come in search of fruit on this fig tree but have found none. So cut it down. Why should it exhaust the soil?' He said to him in reply, 'Sir, leave it for this year also, and I shall cultivate the ground around it and fertilize it; it may bear fruit in the future. If not you can cut it down.'" 🙏🏼 Reflection on the Gospel of the Day 🕊️ Today's Gospel presents us with two important teachings of Jesus. First, He dismantles the idea that misfortunes are direct punishment for personal sins, inviting us instead to see in every event a call to conversion. The parable of the barren fig tree is a wonderful proclamation of God's patience. The gardener who asks for more time and care for the unfruitful tree is a figure of Christ Himself, who intercedes for us and never tires of offering us new possibilities. This text reminds us that life is a precious gift and the time given to us is a time of grace - an opportunity to bear good fruits before the day of judgment comes. #Jesus #WordofGod #Christian #Bible #Scripture #Wisdom #worship #biblestr #bibleverse #Christ #God

“Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.” Edmund Burke

“The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.” Aldous Huxley

"Life is made of very rare Moments of great intensity And of countless intervals. Most men, however, not knowing the magical moments, end up living only the intervals." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)

There will never be peace until those who think they are "elected" and who occupy the highest positions, continue to believe in their abject intentions.

Johnny Rotten: "Seaside towns used to be fantastic places when I was a kid. Mum and dad would drag us off there for what felt like hours in a traffic jam. But it was absolutely great. It was working class people throwing sand at each other. Now they seem to be full of what they term prospective immigrants, which are really illegals not being cared for properly. But then shouldn't have been accepted in such vast numbers because it's created a real, real animosity in communities.  When you import so many people with a completely different point of view, they’re not going to adapt."

The post-modern, post-historical, post-Christian civilization does not produce emptiness: it is emptiness, the enjoyment of emptiness, of the perpetual present, of the light, of the insignificant, of "sliding", of the absence of memory, etc. Richard Millet, interview for Politique Magazine, February 2015.