My gut tells me the north had more slaves. The south was kinder. The north won the war and played the good guys pretending that they ended slavery and never really had it themselves. The truth is the war was never about slaves. Both sides recruited “minorities” to fight in the war (no different as today). But North needed it more for their industry. South is more self sovereign on land. The Union (north) wanted to centralize power. Centralization requires industry workers (slaves) to work the factories to produce goods (such as food) for cities which don’t have the natural resources to produce themselves. The Confederates (south) wanted to keep sovereign states. Abe Lincoln established first ever federal income tax and the precursor to IRS to fund the war. A few years after, it was deemed unconstitutional. 40 years later, in 1913, the federal income tax is established alongside the IRS in same year (and “coincidentally” the Federal Reserve aka Central Bank). The next year, in 1914, World War I begins. History repeats itself. The perpetuator usually blames others for what they are doing. The winner writes the history. My gut tells me this was no different in Civil War era.

Did this ChatGPT experiment with @₿en Wehrman … thoughts on this?

Are people walking dogs or are dogs walking the people? 🐕🚶‍♀️ At this point, I’d say the latter…

Two ways to be able to get through hard times: 1. Get good at fighting 2. Get good at finding peace One leads to fighting during good times. The other leads to peace during good times. Cold plunges are a great example of this: Fight through the pain or find peace so there is no pain. Which do you do?

What might seem like a great sacrifice to others, in truth, is a great blessing to self. Ex. Eating only real food means no ultra processed ice cream, cookies etc. Many see this as a “sacrifice” and require “discipline” to accomplish. But eating pure food and only pure food is the greatest blessing. The body, mind, and soul feels it too. Once FULLY understood logically, emotionally, and spiritually, it requires NO discipline at all. It becomes the desired option. There is no sacrifice. Story. One time on a podcast, the interviewer questioned me like I was crazy for having no vices. She said “come on you gotta have one.” As I’ve reflected further, why would I have one when the desired choice is pure real food over fake food. Consuming the fake food to me at this point would be the sacrifice. This is clear once you’ve experience the other side. Most who carry these “vices” just simply have not. Another story. Just yesterday my Mom invited a priest who was leaving town over for dinner. She was preparing food, for me included. I overheard her from the other room, probably explaining the choice of food, that Shaun (me) had lots of discipline and does not give in to this other stuff. I yelled out, “it’s not discipline.” Discipline requires lots of mental effort. Since pure food is my desire over fake food, it is effortless. There is no sacrifice and no discipline required. The moral of the story is when you find absolute truth, what might seem like a challenging sacrifice to others, is actually the greatest blessing to self.

My fourteen year old brother just said he wants to put his thousand dollars in bitcoin instead of the bank. 📈

A YouTube built on Nostr would be good. Lots of great journalism done via long form video. I understand it’d more challenging, expensive, and not perfect. Any Nostr devs have any more insight into this? Why is it not available today? What are the Nostr hurdles and limitations? How do we overcome them overtime and at scale?

Can only do one thing at a time…

As AI and technology evolves two poles will emerge. 1) The Stormtrooper: the techno-humanist who fully embraces and integrates with technology. 2) The Jedi: the naturalist who fully embraces the powers of nature and the technology already embedded with us and our environment. Which do you choose?

Religious texts talk a lot about the past (history) and the future (prophecies). But the truth is found in the present. It’s the only moment that matters. It is where peace is found. It is where God is found. Absolute presence is heaven on earth. Presence in every moment is enlightenment. Religious texts are great, just don’t let them pull you away from this truth.

Be in a state of patience or action. The in between is where internal chaos resides.

What if Bitcoin was created by the “elite,” “globalists,” CIA, Mossad… whatever you want to call them? Is this not a possible outcome? 🤔 I will always stand by the most local solution is the best. Start with self then family, neighbors, friends, and on. Bitcoin is global. Idk this is one thing that trips me up about it. The thing that gives me hope is most bitcoiners are amazing freedom fighters. But sometimes I think - is that what the oil men were like back in the1800s? Just the classic American cowboy? Classic American cowboys are cool. But in hindsight, oil got monopolized and now runs the world. It’s the world currency as USD is now the petrodollar. And it’s biproducts are destroying it (plastic, pharma, most synthetics) Just a thought… I think it’s important to consider all sides. Local sovereignty protects against all of it.

1. Free energy - money becomes less useful 2. Milk & Honey = Money or localized currency or at least localized trade 3. Bitcoin 999. Petro-backed centralized USD —- A current is the flow of energy and information. The pattern energy makes is the information (1s & 0s). CURRENTcy is society’s method of carrying energy & information. My “current” pursuit is to come to a better understanding of how the human body does this and that’s what we should do as a society. Seems to be a merger of 1-3 would be most aligned. In other words, decentralized, localized but also singular (one currency maybe a couple different - blood, fascia, nerves…) In other words, cells just focus on their local area not that of other areas as it directly impacts them. But blood flow/nutrients/energy/information can still be passed on from one area to another as needed. So most trade and transactions and work is done locally, but outside resources can still be called in as needed. Right now it’s like the worst possible. Centralized, mostly non local, and a bunch of currencies (inefficient).

Farmers market vendor accepting Bitcoin in Nashville 🙌 @Patrick Corcoran

Bee is in beef. Cows & bees. Milk & honey. This is the way.

Thank you @jack

Any decision made from fear is the wrong one.

Paying the federal income tax is immoral.

There is a lot of content about health on social media platforms, But the platforms themselves are not healthy for you. They are designed to get you hooked and then are loaded with temptations that pull you away from your health. Idk it’s just ironic if anything.

The anecdote to ALL disease is PEACE. The opposite of health is dis-ease aka lack of ease or lack of peace. Stress creates inflammation. Chronic inflammation leads to disease. If you have internal peace, you will be healthy. This overrides ALL health hacks. Nothing else matters.