EGO DEATH
I believe majority of people have a problem with certain big ideas, because of their upbringing. There's something very wrong with how we are educated, raised. When people take psychedelics, many start experience something called "ego death". You can reach this with meditation too, but it's much more difficult. The understanding that its only now that is real. The past and the future, is an illusion that we identify with. This is ego, we believe we are this certain person, because these things happened to us. We victimize ourselves, start believing we cannot change because of this trauma or event. Or, we start thinking to far ahead in the future, that when this certain thing happens we will allow ourselves to be happy.
Take religion, if you actually study the Quran or the Tanakh, even the Bible. If you read it them critically, they're actually filled with really bad advice, bad morale, bad teaching, like supremacy. You are of the chosen religion and everyone else will burn in hell, that kind of thing. We should have gotten rid off this as a species long time ago and just kept with spirituality, a sense of connectedness with all living. Like, keeping the good things with theism. But over time, we identify more and more with our ego. Let fear slip in. Let hate slip in...
Take money. Most people don't understand that either. It's another lie, that we have been identified with.
Sometimes I want to slip a little LSD in my dads coffee, to open his mind... I wouldn't of course, because he's in a home and I would go to jail for this. Also don't have any. Haha.
Sometimes I dream of becoming a dictator.
So I could really change things.
Watched "The House of Usher" series on Netflix. Couldn't stop referencing that family with Big Pharma, what Pfizer and those companies are doing. Rockefellers. Good show, a bit brutal though...
Aaaand there, #Bitcoin passed #Tesla. Now 11th largest world asset.
"The financial system has been turned over to the Federal Reserve Board... The system is private, conducted for the sole purpose of obtaining the greatest possible profits from the use of others people's money." ― Charles August Lindbergh
“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.” — Noam Chomsky
"The whole system revolves around the idea that the majority can be made to believe anything, so long as it is repeated loudly and often. And it works." — Edward Snowden
"...the activities of propaganda had always been of extremely great interest to me. In it I saw an instrument which just the Socialist-Marxist organizations mastered and knew how to apply with expert skill."
"The great masses' receptive ability is only very limited, their understanding is small, but their forgetfulness is great. As a consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda has to limit itself only to a very few points and to use them like slogans until even the very last man is able to imagine what is intended by such a word. As soon as one sacrifices this basic principle and tries to become versatile, the effect will fritter away, as the masses are neither able to digest the material offered nor to retain it. Thus the result is weakened and finally eliminated."
— Adolf Hitler, War Propaganda, Chapter VI of Mein Kampf
#Bitcoin moved into the top 20 biggest currencies, past Vietnam and Singapore!
Even though CryptoCon on X is not a Bitcoin maxi, he posts good stuff. Like this one, showing how 10 year locked bonds are being bought more than 2 year locked bonds. Every time in history that happens, it has been a big crash. Are we going to see that happening this week?
Learning about religion with ChatGPT. Guess which one is based on race (ethnicity)?
I found this, when checking if it really was true that in the Talmud, they said the punishment for a non-Jew to study their book was stoning. In Sanhedrin 59a it says "the punishment of a gentile who studies Torah is like that of one who engages in intercourse with a betrothed young woman, which is execution by stoning."
Thinking this was out of context, I asked that and got a bit deeper. I found something I did not know:
Yes, there is a distinct difference in the proselytizing approach among Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
1. **Christianity**:
- Christianity has a long tradition of proselytism. Many Christian denominations encourage the spread of Christian beliefs and the conversion of non-Christians. Evangelical and missionary activities are common, and there are numerous Christian missions worldwide aimed at preaching the gospel and converting individuals to Christianity.
2. **Islam**:
- Islam also has a tradition of proselytism. The concept of Da'wah, or the act of inviting people to understand Islam and embrace it, is a fundamental aspect of Islamic practice. Muslims are encouraged to share the teachings of Islam with others, and in various historical periods, Islamic empires have engaged in spreading the faith.
3. **Judaism**:
- In contrast, Judaism traditionally does not seek to convert non-Jews to Judaism. While conversion to Judaism is possible, it is often a lengthy and rigorous process, and there isn't a proactive effort to convert others. Judaism is often seen as a ethno-religious group, where both ethnicity and religion are intertwined, and the faith is traditionally passed down through generations.
The different attitudes towards proselytism and conversion reflect broader theological, historical, and cultural differences among these three Abrahamic religions. Christianity and Islam, with their universalist claims and global followings, have historically engaged in proselytism as a means of expanding their religious communities and saving souls, as per their religious doctrines. On the other hand, Judaism, with its ethno-religious identity and lack of a proselytizing tradition, has a different approach to the dissemination of its religious teachings and the inclusion of non-Jewish individuals.
#Bitcoin #BitVM will trash #Ethereum.
#Bitcoin just passed Indian Rupee. Been waiting for this for a while, know some Indians who doesn't agree Bitcoin's a currency.
Me: He doesn’t have a bad knee, does he?
Girlfriend: I don’t think.
( me teasing her Indian English)
Me: I know that you don’t think, but sometimes you should try putting one and two together.
* long pause *
GF: I never said that.
Me: You did. You literally said “I don’t think” and then you don’t remember saying it one minute later?
GF: I’m in the present.
Was at a typical left leaning Swedish party last weekend. Met a country singer that looked like a redneck. Asked what he thought of “Rich Men North of Richmond”. He didn’t like him or Joe Rogan, when I told he actually did not kick down on fat people, explained in Joe’s interview. Pause. Wanted to say:
—“So, you’re basically a socialist country singer who trust the government?”
But didn’t…
About the Israel/Palestine conflict:
"It's only when a mosquito lands on your balls that you realize there's a way to solve problems without using violence." — Confucius
Went to my 2nd #Bitcoin #meetup in Stockholm — so refreshing meeting like minded people!
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Stop saying “Buy Bitcoin” — start saying “Study Bitcoin”.
Hej Sverige!
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