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Persistent provocateur of deliberate thought | Advocate for radical individual sovereignty | Occasional composer | Reformed Christian Need a good Bitcoin jam? 👇🏻 https://wavlake.com/album/257a5d0f-bb0f-48a0-8875-5a2624c955a6
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Contra 3 weeks ago
“I’m trying to free your mind, Neo. But I can only show you the door. You’re the one that has to walk through it.” The first time you send Bitcoin without anyone’s permission, something breaks permanently in your relationship to authority. The first time you post on Nostr knowing nobody can delete it, you realize you were always free. Walking through the door isn’t learning, it’s doing, and you can’t unsee what’s on the other side.
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Contra 3 weeks ago
They told you The Matrix was science fiction. They lied. What if the Wachowskis accidentally created the most accurate description of reality ever filmed? They encoded ancient forbidden knowledge into a blockbuster, and by the time anyone realized what happened, it was too late. Every year since 1999, the world has looked more like the movie than the movie looked like the world. Financial systems as simulations. Social media as algorithmic prisons. Bitcoin as exit technology. This isn’t about a film. This is about why Gnostic heresy and Christian prophecy combined into the perfect manual for a world where everything is real and fake simultaneously. I wrote this long form because the shallow takes miss everything. Read this if you’ve ever felt like you’re living in a scripted reality. View article →
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Contra 3 weeks ago
The red pill was never about politics. It’s about the moment you realize reality is negotiable, authority is performance, and truth exists beyond comfortable lies. Long Form article coming…. image
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Contra 3 weeks ago
You don’t have to abandon your principles to stress test them. The strongest convictions are the ones that survive contact with the best counterarguments. True sovereignty starts in the mind. If you’re afraid of ideas, you’re not free yet. You’ve just traded one set of chains for another.
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Contra 3 weeks ago
Strong convictions are valuable. Intellectual humility is rarer.
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Contra 3 weeks ago
Good morning, Nostr. Your attention is the energy that grows whatever it touches. This isn’t philosophy, it’s protocol. What you focus on expands. What you ignore atrophies. The content doesn’t matter. Whether you’re drawn to it, scrolling past it unconsciously, or actively resisting it, your attention feeds it all the same. No exceptions. Take inventory. Where is your attention actually going? Does it align with the world you want to see more of, or the one you want to see less of? I fail at this constantly. You probably will too. But I’m starting to realize this might be the highest leverage point we have for changing what shows up in our feeds, our minds, and ultimately our lives. What are you choosing to amplify today?​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
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Contra 3 weeks ago
Gm. The Lord bids us to come and worship Him with His people this day. Let us gather together in His presence with grateful hearts. image
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Contra 3 weeks ago
Bitcoin is the first time in human history that the boundary between speech and property has collapsed into a single act. Let me explain. When you broadcast a #Bitcoin transaction, you’re simultaneously speaking (publishing data) and transferring property. The same act does both. This isn’t a metaphor or analogy. It’s literally true. For centuries, we’ve built separate legal frameworks for expression versus possession because we assumed they were fundamentally different types of human action. Free speech law and property law operate on different principles. But Bitcoin reveals this distinction might be arbitrary. This creates a logical trap for control systems. You can’t restrict the property transfer without restricting speech. You can’t ban the speech act without banning thought itself. Every financial regulation becomes a speech regulation. Every censorship rule becomes a property rule. The disruption isn’t just to money. It’s to the conceptual architecture underneath any system that assumed speech and property were separate domains that could be governed separately. Bitcoin proved they can be the same thing, which means all those separate frameworks were built on a false premise.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
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Contra 3 weeks ago
Decentralized systems like Nostr/Bitcoin exist to prevent anyone from having the power to determine what ideas are acceptable, not because all ideas are good, but because centralized gatekeeping of ideas is dangerous.
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Contra 3 weeks ago
FedSlop is everywhere…X, MSM, etc. Demand evidence. Not appeals to authority. Not emotional rhetoric. Evidence. Question repetition. If everyone’s saying the same thing in the same words, ask why. Slow down. Psychological weapons rely on speed, react now, think later. Pause. Investigate.