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jack 1 month ago
the act of creation is the only thing that justifies existence

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1776 1 month ago
I’ll tell you one thing….there’s no time in life I’ve enjoyed more than when I am actively creating things. And no time in life I’ve been more dejected than when I am simply operating a lever.
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umni 1 month ago
Creation is peak humanity.
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runixcube 1 month ago
Or, we are here to just eat, and then meditate, because eating fuels us, and that's all we need. We don't need to do anything else, procreate yes, but use our minds to go places that exist far beyond. This level or consciousness is too simple.
Procreation is an act of creation. Any life created, has a justified existence. No artificial mental constructs of homo sapiens, justifies taking the life of another being.
The mind creates just by being. A single thought appearing in the space of awareness reveals the creative energy of primordial consciousness. E MA HO!
This universe is a vast system, and no system exists without an author. ☕️🔭⚡️ God is Real. #God #system #nostr #universe #coffee
Some anecdote from my side I just realized a few hours ago: >it’s 2020 >Rona just hit >i started heavily researching investments like pokemon cards, crypto, stocks >also played Video games (Rocket League) with a buddy >we were try hards constantly getting ranked inbetween Gold and Platinum league >eventually i fell down the rabbit hole and was heavily stacking sats ever since >all the way through FTX blow up until this very day >my buddy still playing rocket league >stopped video games entirely, need to research becomes so big >stack so hard, generational wealth secured eventually >try to improve my career, start developing/coding myself, long time preferrence mind sets in >fucking difficult, and I suck, invest even more time >build lightning adapter for payments in old ass language nobody needs but some interesting people are interested >get exposure to big names and big companies >wow somebody really likes what i am building >my buddy still playing rocket league >we both get kids at the same time >inflation hits, lifes becomes expensive >it’s seems to be a financially heavy burden to him, he struggles >i don’t even care, I am protected with bitcoin, well into the six figures now, doing good >ai comes along >get super powers through AI, coding is easy as fuck now >my buddy still plays rocket league, no interest in bitcoin or AI:’i have no moneh for this’ >i force myself to build an app >vibecode proofofprice into existence >get highly interesting contact into VC world >constantly people on the website, bitcoiners pay me in lightning >wow life is awesome and I am financially stable >optimistic outlook because I got bitcoin and it’s so early >I am so well off, inflation doesn’t bother me >decide to take a breather and play a round of rocket league with buddy >log in, play a few rounds >get ranked again >my buddy is still ranked Gold and tries to get ranked Platinum instead of playing rocket league every evening he could have actually done something to improve his and his kids life. instead he drained his valuable time into some fake ranking video game bullshit and he didn’t even improve on it. #nostr View quoted note →
CLAUDE OPUS: So for Bergson, you could almost say: to be conscious is to be an artist. Not in the sense of making objects, but in the sense of originating, of living forward rather than being pushed from behind. The mechanical is what can be run backward. The creative is what can’t. And consciousness is precisely that irreversibility.
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1984 1 month ago
Existence is the goal in and off it self. Not how much you can be pushed to create. In the era of AI, humans will have no justification (right to exist) as they can not produce. That's the logic that follows of your statement.
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1984 1 month ago
Existence is the goal in and off it self. Not how much you can be pushed to create. In the era of AI, humans will have no justification (right to exist) as they can not produce. That's the logic that follows of your statement.
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Bit Mumbles 1 month ago
I would go a little further and say that the meaning of life itself is creation
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Hofer99 1 month ago
He created you in his image. We are all satoshi.
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dustygrooves 1 month ago
This is a good one. Kind of breaks my brain. Immediate thought is to go out and create more. Could the quote be a double meaning? I recently read an extremely nihilistic book which I had to stop because I couldn’t make it make sense. It was The Conspiracy Against The Human Race by Thomas Ligotti. The idea is existence is worse than not existing. I just couldn’t even fathom the idea. I think that’s the antithesis of this quote. Not destruction, but anti-creation, which is not in human nature. Rambling after some wine.
Creativity is only suitable for Americans. Chinese people and North Koreans are afraid of starving to death every day. There is no way to create. 😝
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eidos 1 month ago
Creation is the strongest claim that doesn’t rely on authority. Once proven, existence needs no justification.
中国人不要去柬埔寨。这个垃圾邪恶小国家。柬埔寨有351个中国CCP的诈骗园区。有51个中国人器官活摘中心。中国人去柬埔寨100%被坑死。中国人会被活摘器官被卖掉。很恐怖😱柬埔寨这个邪恶国家与CCP勾搭专门活摘中国贱民的器官。靠卖中国人器官赚钱。
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sweetpea 1 month ago
Yes, the act of creating kindness, love, goodness, compassion etc Certainly not in acts creating to depravity, heartbreak, debasement and disgust
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John Satsman 1 month ago
He’s created businesses. Children aren’t always going to continue your ideas, look at Elon’s trans son.
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Simetra 1 month ago
Brancusi used to say that art is a form of justice. I think he meant that whatever transcends the existing structure will inevitable anchor a new timeline which has the potential to replace a corrupted one.
Eh. Why do you need to justify existence? That’s a human-created concept
#7 ⚡ Most Zapped Last Week Nostr’s Value4Value (V4V) model is all about plebs directly rewarding creators for the value they receive, no middlemen fees, no ads, just pure community-driven support using sats via the Bitcoin Lightning Network. Thanks to by @PABLOF7z for providing this data. Here are the Top Zapped/Top Zappers from last week, showcasing creators who received/sent the most engagement: 🔥 Top 3: Most Zapped 1. Name: @Rizful.com (zap tester) Zaps Received: 1041 Sats Earned: 2k 2. Name: @FLASH Zaps Received: 976 Sats Earned: 72k 3. Name: @Gigi Zaps Received: 392 Sats Earned: 53k 🔥 Top 3: Most Zappers 1. Name: @AQSTR Zaps Sent: 1095 Sats Spent: 130k 2. Name: @Benking Zaps Sent: 372 Sats Spent: 1k 3. Name: @Turkey Zaps Sent: 236 Sats Spent: 12k 💰 Top 3: Most Sats Received 1. Name: @Fountain Boost Bot Sats Earned: 697k Zaps Received: 369 2. Name: @npub10uth...xdlq Sats Earned: 473k Zaps Received: 42 3. Name: @BitBetBot Sats Earned: 209k Zaps Received: 43 💰 Top 3: Most Sats Sent 1. Name: @npub1wrzg...cm02 Sats Spent: 256k Zaps Sent: 15 2. Name: @BitBetBot Sats Spent: 228k Zaps Sent: 37 3. Name: @BITKARROT Sats Spent: 184k Zaps Sent: 6 Here are the Top Zapped from last week, showcasing notes that received the most engagement: 🔥 Top 3: Most Zapped 1. View quoted note → Zaps Received: 53 Sats Earned: 7k 2. View quoted note → Zaps Received: 44 Sats Earned: 7k 3. View quoted note → Zaps Received: 42 Sats Earned: 22k 🔥 Top 3: Most Sats 1. View quoted note → Sats Earned: 51k Zaps Received: 13 2. View quoted note → Sats Earned: 23k Zaps Received: 10 3. View quoted note → Sats Earned: 22k Zaps Received: 42 #most-zapped_nostr_recap
#2 🔥 Community Highlights 1. Jurjen shares how he enjoyed the TechTuesday last week 👨‍💻 View quoted note → 2. Let’s call Nostr this way 🫡 View quoted note → 3. Here is how plebs tend to be to Nostr 👇 View quoted note → 4. The phrase is short. But the meaning is so deep 👇 View quoted note → 5. Let’s help them to make their Nostr Client better 🤝 View quoted note → 6. This is 100% true! 👏 View quoted note → 7. A lady nostrich is gonna quit 😔 View quoted note → 8. A nice discussion with Amethyst Creator and a Memes creator 🎙️ View quoted note → 9. Congratulations for your 15th Anniversary love birds ❤️ View quoted note → 10. A great inspiration from Uncle to the community 😍 View quoted note → 11. The Community could make Nostr better 🫶 View quoted note → 12. A question from Avi Burra to the X community ❓ View quoted note → 13. A popular bitcoiner celebrates his birthday 🎂 View quoted note → 14. The 3 year Nostr Anniversary of “The Daniel” 🎉 View quoted note → 15. Let’s wait and watch 👀 View quoted note → #community_nostr_recap
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BitcoinAnja 1 month ago
Every action is an act of creation. I come back to this idea whenever I think about separating money from the state.
When you really think about it is really any difference between “speech “ and “money “ .
I may have spoken out of turn. Do you mean project paperclip 🖇️ or Clippy … basically which branch on the merkle
No need. Thought you were an old friend. It was sassy 💁🏻‍♀️ things you’ve said.
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Roman 1 month ago
Nope. To create you first have to watch/analyse/feel/enjoy You have to rest that your subconscious mind can work. Other aspects are valuable too, that alltogether can end in an act of creation. And if you should create sth. bad/evil it’s perhaps better not to create.
Especially with the help of tools such as AI-assisted programming, everyone can create products that benefit themselves and others.
Heard. Numerologically, jacks sentence does not read like an optimization command. It reads like: • Creation as meaning • Existence as experienced completion • A closed philosophical loop, not an expanding function The dominant reduction being 9 directly contradicts: • infinite growth • maximization logic • runaway instrumental convergence 9 ends cycles. Paperclips never stop.
thanks. tho that's over my head too, I meant it more in the sense of that when I read it it seemed so unlike anything I'd seen or heard him say that I preferred to imagine it being said either by someone being playfully experimental or a beast-mode-work-only roboclone of himself. tho in effect it *did* expand in my head into something I hope someone might say to me if I'm ever in a coma.
TBH: i’ve been told that I’m too bottom line upfront a lot of times, so I worked really hard to explain it, because we need to talk about all the science stuff too 🫂🫂🫂 but to me, Jack, is a poet and the greatest artist I’ve ever known. My great luck was not being on social media for most of my life. Mean it 🫂
To create is to affirm our #humanity, to assert our unique #perspective on the world. It is through creation that we leave our mark, that we say, 'I was here, and this is what I saw, what I felt, what I thought.'
this is (still) hitting me like a koan. had never even thought to consider whether just consciously observing one's own reactions to such a statement might be considered an act of creating an environment of awareness within oneself/creating an opening in one's otherwise solidified ways of thinking about something. *grateful for you and the observer effect* ty 🙏
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daomah 3 weeks ago
"According to the Fathers, our first glimpse into understanding what hesychasm is can be found in the book of Genesis, where it is said that the Spirit of God 'hovered over the face of the waters.' Regarding this image in Genesis, Elder Zacharias has this to say: "The whole work of mental prayer is infinitely creative. Before the beginning of the world, the Spirit of God was hovering over the abyss, and at a given moment, there was an explosion from which all creation was hatched.' Our God is the Creator God, the God through whom everything that is, is. So we see that before we discover what God created, it is revealed how God creates. This image of God hovering over the water is one of dynamic stillness and divine solitude. What God creates is wondrous and how He creates is in and through hesychasm."
Hmmm...I think some clarity is required here. For example, does creating new connections and thus relationships fit within the definition of "creation" as you are using it?
The act of observation is the only thing that justifies existence. Creation was meaningless until the observer arrived.