Bitcoiners fighting is good for Bitcoin. Complacency is the real threat. Bullish.

Ancient problems. Modern solutions.

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Saylor is a relative newcomer. He’s only been into Bitcoin since 2020, and is currently stuck in the Altcoin (aka Suitcoin) Detour stage of Bitcoin adoption.

A great deal of misunderstanding is due to preferring one set of vocabulary over another. The classic example of this is “God” vs “Cosmos.”

Have a blessed Sunday.

“The idea of God is a finger pointing at God, but what most people do is instead of following the finger, they suck it for comfort.” — Alan Watts, Out of Your Mind

“I and my Father are one… Is it not written in your law, ‘I have said, ye are gods?’ How can you say I blaspheme because I said I am a son of God?” — Alan Watts quoting John 10:30 and Psalm 82, Jesus: His Religion

Saylor holds more Bitcoin IOUs than anyone else in the world.

“This is the humor of the whole thing, that when you catch yourself doing something such as looking all over the house for the spectacles you’re wearing, there’s nothing to do when you find out but laugh. In the same way, when you’ve been trying to get liberated from an ego that never existed in the first place, there’s nothing to do when you find out but laugh. The whole of Zen is based on this.” — Alan Watts, Individual and the World

It is possible to appreciate multiple worldviews even if one resonates with you more than the others. I’ve read The Old Testament, The New Testament, The Poetic Edda, The Quran, The Baghavad Gita, The Tao Te Ching, The Gateless Gate, and so on, and I’ve gleaned insights from each one.

“Zen is a process, if you like, of dehypnotization.” — Alan Watts, Out of Your Mind

You can give a normie an orange pill, but you can’t make him take it.