“There is more in heaven and earth than is dreamed of in your philosophy.” — Alan Watts quoting Shakespeare, This Is It

“There is more in heaven and earth than is dreamed of in your philosophy.” — Alan Watts quoting Shakespeare, This Is It

“Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.” — Luke 23:34 (KJV)

The fiat system degrades everything. Thankfully, in time, #Bitcoin fixes this.

“The socially conditioned persona or role-playing ego is, however, never a free agent. Man is free to the extent that he realizes his genuine self to be the author and origin of nature.” — Alan Watts, Nature, Man And Woman

“The question ‘Why should one act?’ has meaning only so long as motivation seems necessary to action. But if action or process rather than inert substance is what constitutes the world, it is absurd to seek an external reason for action. There is really no alternative to action, and this is not to say that we must act, since this would imply the reality of the inert, substantial ‘we’ reluctantly activated from outside. The point is that, motivated or not, we are action. But when action is felt to be motivated, it expresses the hungering emptiness of the ego, the inertness of entity rather than the liveliness of act. When, however, man is not pursuing something outside himself, he is action expressing its own fullness, whether weeping for sorrow or jumping for joy.” — Alan Watts, Nature, Man and Woman

“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.” — Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

"The illusion that organisms move entirely on their own is immensely persuasive until we settle down, as scientists must do, to describe their behavior carefully. Then the scientist, be he biologist, sociologist, or physicist, finds very rapidly that he cannot say what the organism is doing unless, at the same time, he describes the behavior of its surroundings. Obviously, an organism cannot be described as walking just in terms of leg motion, for the direction and speed of this walking must be described in terms of the ground upon which it moves. Furthermore, this walking is seldom haphazard. It has something to do with food-sources in the area, with the hostile or friendly behavior of other organisms, and countless other factors which we do not immediately consider when attention is first drawn to a prowling ant. The more detailed the description of our ant's behavior becomes, the more it has to include such matters as density, humidity, and temperature of the surrounding atmosphere, the types and sources of its food, the social structure of its own species, and that of neighboring species with which it has some symbiotic relationship."​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ — Alan Watts, The Book

Happy Boxing Day.

“And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.” — Luke 2:10-11 (KJV)

Received this wonderful gift: Tolkien’s Letters from Father Christmas

“Thanks be unto God for His unspeakable gift.” — 2 Corinthians 9:15 (KJV)

If you self-custody #Bitcoin without any third parties, you are sovereign. You are immune to rug pulls, as you’ve eliminated counter-party risk. Well done. The same cannot be said for those who hold mere Bitcoin IOUs.

“Now when God plays hide and pretends that he is you and I, he does it so well that it takes him a long time to remember where and how he hid himself. But that’s the whole fun of it—just what he wanted to do. He doesn’t want to find himself too quickly, for that would spoil the game. That is why it is so difficult for you and me to find out that we are God in disguise, pretending not to be himself. But when the game has gone on long enough, all of us will wake up, stop pretending, and remember that we are all one single Self—the God who is all that there is and who lives for ever and ever.” — Alan Watts, The Book

This made me laugh.

#Bitcoin rewards those who have done the work, and humbles those who succumb to greed and/or fear.

When #Bitcoin hits $1M, it won’t matter whether you got in at $90K or $100K.

#Bitcoin is a gift. Embrace it.

There is a story about a great sage, Narada, who came to Vishnu. Vishnu is one of the aspects of the godhead, Brahma. Brahma is usually the word given to the creator aspect, Vishnu to the preserving aspect, and Shiva to the destructive aspect. When Narada came to Vishnu and said, 'What is the secret of your Maya?' Vishnu took him and threw him into a pool. The moment he fell under the water he was born as a princess in a very great family, and went through all the experiences of childhood as a little girl. She finally married a prince from another kingdom and went to live with him in his kingdom. They lived there in tremendous prosperity, with palaces and peacocks, but suddenly there was a war and their kingdom was attacked and utterly destroyed. The prince himself was killed in battle, and he was cremated. As a dutiful wife, the princess was about to throw herself weeping on to the funeral pyre and burn herself in an act of suttee or self-sacrifice. But suddenly Narada woke to find himself being pulled out of the pool by his hair by Vishnu, who said, 'For whom were you weeping?'

Merry Christmas Eve!