The purpose of life is not to live forever, but instead help build something that will

Everything you know is what has been poured into you from the time you opened your eyes. there is no such thing as purpose in life independent from what those that came before you told you what your purpose in life is in many different ways.

Digital animation has become an extension of my creative life. Making things with my hands has always been a part of my life and how I soothe myself. For a long time I was drawing illustrations of the Calabi-Yau manifold, An 18+ dimensional object. The process of learning to animate these shapes took me more than 5 years, And there are several animation platforms to learn. I think of these programs like photoshop on steroids. Not to mention paying 4000$ for a digital animation program that promises no return on investment is daunting. The level of satisfaction from actually articulating my ideas in this digital medium is unexplainable. Check out blender for maximum free and open source time wasting and digital imagination space.

“You might feel that what they associate with is fucking retarded” 😂

Indépendance. As far as I can remember, I've always enjoyed doing my own thing, on my own terms. I wanted to go to a private school for a better education and play high level hockey. My parents didn't have the money for me to go to a non-public school or pay for the goalie equipment. At the age of 12, I got a job as a newspaper boy, got up every morning at 5am, and delivered my clients their paper by 6am. I paid for both my schooling and hockey. Funny enough, while I was a kid, I cared a lot about my education, but by the time I hit high school (grade 10), all I wanted was to skip class, which I did constantly. I found school incredibly boring and useless. I think that's when I realized that I loved education, but hated school. Bitcoin gives me financial independence. No one can take it away from me, and it goes whether I go. With it, I am free.

Great post Lyn! Very succinct

Found out last year it's rockmetal opera. Nothing better to figure out inner demons than let them do their thing on the stage among blowing fires and live music. Will stay around entertainment for a while. Next to releasing pressure of finally finding my own persona at 36, I found out there's no shame in being a stay at home mommy and let shit go for a few years, if husband covers finances. It sounds lazy, actually was brutal just to stop ambitions, I didn't manage it well. So now I'm tending to my soul to invest it well into my children's lives. Ambitions are nice, but love and friendship need huge investments too and could be extremely rewarding in a long run.

I enjoy knowledge for its own sake. I have always held that truth is worth pursuing. I’m excited if I can learn something new, whatever that may be. My day gets even better if I can apply that knowledge to achieving a goal, making a process better, or otherwise improving a situation. I’ve come around to the view that where it’s appropriate and useful for me to judge others, which is rarely, the best criteria is virtue in the sense of excellence. Pragmatically it’s often better to figure out some criteria you share in common and work from that basis when addressing disagreements. I’d like to see a world where individuals are free to pursue their passions and become the best versions of themselves they can be. What little I can do to help that process along is worthwhile, so I do what I can where I am with that in mind.

This. So well written I swooned. Appreciate people like you Lyn, who have the energy still to fight on the frontlines. You matter.

I try to push forward the ideals of love and freedom in everything they entail, as I believe it is the only way we can truly flourish as a civilization and escape the "great reset" (whether that comes in the form of authoritarian centralized institutions or a natural disaster). At the crux of it, I think there are 3 things: #Bitcoin, technology, creativity. As such, I invest most of my time and energy into things related, but not limited to: #Bitcoin and other Freedom Tech such as #nostr #arts and #music #fitness #philosophy Beautiful and thought-provoking note btw, Lyn. Thank you.

Hi Lyn, great thoughts. I my self am also a electrical engineer and this has enabled me to look at money as a system. How to invest in bitcoin is very obvious for me. How to invest in nostr? Besides using it. Thanks for sharing your ideas about the world.

To inspire and encourage creativity in others. To this end, Bitcoin has enabled me to invest in the tools to create something unique that I can share with the world.

I feel very similar to what you wrote down and would be interested to read about the whole other longwinded topic 🤩

What a great insightful note!

Outside of family, i would say community, perhaps even brotherhood. This is why I found the motorcycle community so well-equipped to meet something I had been missing in the digital world, which is I have worked for the last couple decades.

Please write about virtue ethics Lyn. 🙏🏻

second this! deontology vs utilitarianism debate is constant but we never hear from the virtue ethicists

What makes me tick is just the same as everyone else I would imagine. I want to be part of humanity and the world at large and try to do it well and enjoy it as much as possible.

This is me as well. My universe begins and ends with my experience of the world. I think this is true of everyone since shared consciousness is not possible. Altruism, which is the most generous interpretation of the “want to be part of something greater” mentality, is just another experience that some people find enjoyable. It turns into selfishness when put into in practice, just like everything else, or else people wouldn’t behave that way. This explains why it is very easy for altruistic tendencies to devolve into preaching or imposition type behaviors. Also, that our social conventions and cultural programming value “altruism” is the first sign that something is not quite right about it. #grownostr #thinkdangerously

You seem like a thoughtful person. For this reason, I would like to suggest that instead of pursuing single truths, you pursue as many options for the truth as possible, and focus instead on the ways in which each may be flawed. The concept of a single truth is often very limiting if your goal is knowledge or wisdom. Just a suggestion, not a criticism. Of course, feel free to ignore.

Similarly I’m also devoting my time and energy towards open protocols. The current escalation of violence and suppression against my people has only strengthened my resolve and lit a fire under my ass. We need to opt out of fiat funded forever wars. We need open communications protocol to neutralize increase surveillance and censorship. I’m half Palestinian, and been somewhat desensitized to the conflict over my lifetime, but now everything has changed. I knew the west was vicious, but I never thought they could just allow/fund a live broadcast genocide. There is no going back to normal for the majority of the global south. It’s a matter of survival. No one values the sanctity of human life less than western democracies. The time to opt out and defund is now. This is the only way. A peaceful resistance to a brutal subjugation. ✊🇵🇸

Technology and Freedom are my two core values, and what I try to propel forward every day. I would call myself a Cypherpunk. I love technology, the invention of the transistor has propelled humanity forward in an unparalleled way. We went from crude mechanical systems to sophisticated digital realms, reshaping how we live, work, and connect with each other. In the grand scheme of things, humanity has made more progress in the last 100 years than in the previous millennia, thanks to technological innovation. But at the same time, we have lost a lot of our freedoms in the digital age. The very tools that have brought us together have also given rise to surveillance capitalism and governmental overreach. Privacy was a given throughout human history, often assumed as just a natural part of daily life without much thought put into it. Communities were smaller, and while gossip might spread, the reach was limited to local areas. People could generally expect their letters to remain sealed, their conversations to stay between those present, and their whereabouts known only to a select few who saw them. This expectation of privacy was straightforward and just an obvious part of life that nobody would have ever thought of questioning. Now, the concept of privacy has been profoundly transformed for the worst, somehow the majority of society has deemed it the case that privacy (and to some extent freedom in general) is a shady thing that only those with nefarious intentions want. Today, the concept of privacy is under siege, every click, every search, and every movement can be tracked, the notion of keeping any part of our lives private is somehow seen as immoral. The proliferation of KYC policies, demands that we trade our privacy for convenience or "security" (a word which has lost its meaning over time), leaving us in a perpetual state of surveillance. The societal shift towards "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear" further complicates the situation. This mentality suggests a trade-off between privacy and security, implying that only those engaging in illicit activities would need privacy. It overlooks the fundamental human right to a private life, irrespective of one's actions being right or wrong. The aversion to anonymity online, driven by fears of nefarious activities, has led to a stigmatization of privacy measures. Using VPNs, encryption, or even insisting on cash transactions can raise suspicion, despite their legitimate purposes. The irony is stark: in our quest for connection and convenience through technology, we've inadvertently surrendered the very essence of our freedom and privacy. As a Cypherpunk, my commitment is to challenge this status quo. I champion the use of cryptography, secure communication, and privacy-enhancing technologies to empower individuals against this invasive trend. Bitcoin and Nostr are, to me, the best solution to this problem. Bitcoin and Nostr exemplify the principles of creating closed community networks that reestablish trust and privacy in our digital age. By leveraging these technologies, we can recreate the essence of small, close-knit communities where privacy is respected and communication is secure, yet on a global scale made possible by the internet. Bitcoin allows us to transfer value between any two individuals in the globe without anyone being able to stop it, giving people back some of their control and freedom. Nostr, on the other hand, if used correctly, is a protocol that enables secure exchange of information, both to the entire world and exclusively to your close-nit community. However, there's a pivotal piece of the puzzle still missing to complete this vision of decentralized, private, and secure networks or citadels. This missing element is a tool that empowers users to truly own and control their data in a closed community network, at a physical level, directly on a secure device that they control. This tool would not only facilitate intimate conversations and video sharing among trusted members but also lay the groundwork for localized economies, encapsulated within secure digital citadels. That piece of the puzzle is what I am devoting most of my time building today.

Well unfortunately race (dna pools) matters a lot, but that aside consider this...... what's happening now is a new situation in all of human history but with some echoes of the past All organized human groups require a narrative to keep them stable, typically this was done with a religion, religion is basically a narrative perpetuation system, now religion and media compete for this role, it's notable that LGBTQism is merging with religion in the west to some extent All organized human groups have natural and/or narrative enforced hierarchies Hierarchies require more violence to enforce the less of a natural meritocracy they are as that makes them more unjust Races and countries can also have unifying narratives If you have race, religion and country all aligned then you have a very strong and stable situation for as long as it holds The holding of the narrative and thus the group together requires narrative control, typically this is done by the elite class in any group Typically narratives support an elite group that act as parasites on lower groups typically by causing division by implying one lower group is exploiting the other as a distraction from the elite group who's actually exploiting all lower groups and the more the narrative drifts from the truth the greater the exploitation. These systems can stack in tree form so the elite in one country and still be the bitches of a greater outside force Now what's happened in simple terms is these narratives have all been shattered by the internet as top down narrative control has become impossible. We're now trying to form, organically, an objective reality/truth based global narrative and all hell is breaking loose Whoever is a the top of the narrative tree knows this, maybe whoever is at the top of subordinate narrative trees feels the same, this would explain why the likes of prince Charles for example is going against England's narrative because it was mostly a lie anyway. We all thought the royals loved all their subjects when in fact they stole all their land and allowed the entire country to become hocked up to global bankers 99.9+% of history is just missing totally and what's left is doctored into narrative to suit elites Science has drifted more from truth or best guess to just fabricated narrative in many fields Many if not all major institutions started out as or drifted into fabricated narrative Most people can't live outside of narrative control because it's too psychologically painful or they simply have a material interest in complying. The ones that find it too painful have reactions ranging from inability to form logical conclusions based on hard evidence to full on identity disassociation disorders leading to some level of psychosis, your typical blue haired SJW type is this. Many ordinary working folk see through a lot of this even though they might not be able to put the whole picture together as their normal days activities involve multiple clashes with the narrative so they feel something is wrong even if they can't finger it and they simply don't have the months or even years of rumination time to put all the pieces together like this. You're welcome

I know deep deep deep down i will die one day and i hate loss.

> The majority of people have a strong tendency to want to be part of something that is bigger than themselves. This was popular once:

Adding efficiency in design or process to reduce costs wherever possible. That's pretty generalized and is just my job, so I don't know what I really feel part of besides a broad contribution to the world. Besides that, I like to promote freedom or the idea of freedom.

“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is a hard business. If you try it, you’ll be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.” (Rudyard Kipling in 1935)

Nice. I would even say altruism is self-destructive. Impossible to live it to the fullest. Causes great psychological pain in people through guilt when they damn pride. It may “make them feel good,” but I am skeptical.

Whenever I see bitcoin for (insert group here) it always makes me do a double take. My mindset has been if you understand bitcoin all the groups don’t matter

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does this man have a book written?

thanks for the link. I was looking for new books to read but I don't believe I'll be interested in fiction. good day!

I enjoy your gifts of intelligence, communication, and bravery. Thanks Lyn. I care about emotionally supporting life, including plants, animals, and people. Perhaps we don’t have emotion… I just wanted to include all living things 🙂

My problem with to be a part of something bigger is that in this case you draw a line - inside vs outside. and then if I criticize someones ideas he marks me as an outsider and vice versa. we suddenly marks people just by inside/outside criteria. I consider myself as bitcoiner but I'm not ready to agree with everything "positive" said about bitcoin. like "bitcoin solves everything" or "bitcoin fixes wars". is it possible to be part of something not so well defined that you don't have a boundary inside/outside?

non-aplicable

I'm sure most people haven't heard of the writer. that said, we have Heard of jungle book. too bad it's fiction. I'm assuming it has nothing to do with what you quoted him from. let me rephrase, you think there's a book of his where he gets into things like what you quoted him from? that's what I'm really interested in. I'm assuming jungle book is like that Disney movie