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Patoshi 4 days ago
TIMECHAIN CALENDAR - Day in Bitcoin - image
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Patoshi 1 week ago
Here’s the complete passage as read by Ultimate Warrior at the end of AnAkA’s “The Father Time Trilogy” (the spoken epilogue). It begins with the famous opening line from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay “Self-Reliance” (1841). Warrior delivers it in his intense, deliberate style over the fading jazz-style outro. Exact passage read by Ultimate Warrior: “To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men,—that is genius. 
Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for always the inmost becomes the outmost—and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment. 
Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton is that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men, but what they thought. 
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages.” Yet he dismisses without notice his thought because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. They teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good-humored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.” Bravely let him speak the utmost syllable of his confession. We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents… But god will not have his work made manifest by cowards.
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Patoshi 1 week ago
Bitcoin Journey has more of a Dune style philosophy than the typical Star Wars Hero’s Journey - Star Wars Philosophy (Hero’s Journey):
Optimistic and mythic. It celebrates individual heroism, moral clarity (light vs. dark), personal growth through trials and mentorship, and the redemptive power of choice. The Force represents accessible destiny and balance—courage and good ultimately triumph, restoring harmony. One person’s journey can save the galaxy. It inspires hope and agency. Dune Philosophy:
Skeptical cautionary tale against hero-worship and charismatic leaders. Even a “good” chosen one (Paul) unleashes catastrophe (jihad killing billions) because myth and prophecy turn followers fanatical and rob them of critical judgment. Key ideas: beware saviors, question authority, maintain self-reliance, face fear without illusion, and recognize power’s corrupting traps. Heroes don’t liberate—they often enslave through dependency. Core Contrast:
Star Wars trusts the hero and destiny as uplifting forces.
Dune warns that the same mythic journey, when believed, becomes dangerous. One builds inspiring mythology; the other dissects its risks. @Saifedean Ammous (In relation to snippet mentioned in @Bram Bitcoins Forced Adoption.
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Patoshi 1 week ago
Father Time aka Timechain - philosophy for those interested found at the end of the song.
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Patoshi 1 week ago
TIMECHAIN CALENDAR - This day in Bitcoin. image