Trippy Thursday 🤠

"Rejection as a Creative Force" is a short essay on how a total destruction of one's ego and self-image can, and should, act as a precursor to a rebirth of sorts, a catalyst for striving towards the ideal. Written in January 2023.

About a year after writing this, I wrote something in my journal that could very well serve as a summary of the essay:

Valid points, for sure! But also, in my case, prior to this specific rejection that inspired this essay, there were many other rejections... so I know it wasn't an outlier, or an exception. Besides, I think that if one can embody the Divine Masculine (or Feminine) to the fullest, then I'm not sure if anyone from the opposite sex, given that they are of the appropriate age and single, could turn them down. Whether it is possible for one to really embody the Divine Masculine / Feminine in such a manner is a different question; as is whether the opposite sex, given that we are living in an age of warped identities and gender roles, could actually recognize that. I wrote a foreword / personal backstory to this piece a couple of days ago as well, where I went into all this in more detail. But as it gets even more personal than this rather vague essay, I decided not to publish it (yet). Maybe after I give it a few years to ferment...😃

And I'd also add that rejection can come from many different places. Yes, this was written from a perspective of a romantic interest. But one can also be rejected by friends, family, communities, employers, customers, potential investors, etc.

I have encountered many different types of rejections, both before and after writing this essay. And keeping the main point of what I wrote here in mind has helped me cope and keep moving forward despite them. It reminds me to always choose to create - or iterate.

"The harder the work well the longer the day Easy may come but it sure don't stay Trying to cope, boy, I hope and I pray Somebody show me the way" 🤠

A clip from a short essay I wrote a couple of years ago, titled: "Rejection as a Creative Force"

“Live, seeking God, for there can be no life without God.” ― Leo Tolstoy

Sunday V I B E S 🤠

I'll certainly let the Stacker crew know when it's time 🤠

Happy Saturday, stackers 🤠

Did some final (well, hopefully final) edits on the book that I'm working on. A quick yoga/calisthenics session (yes, I consider my whole being a work of art). Hopefully I'll also be able to make a quick update regarding a new feature on my website and perhaps still make some music as well.

That's a banger of an introduction! Great to see it and the mission to inspire and be inspired is right up my alley in terms of what I look for from other artists (and people in general; life is art), and what I wish for my own creations to do for other people :)

Trippy Thursday 🤠

Awesome! Good luck on your journey and with you channel! Although I'd encourage posting that stuff also on Rumble, nostr, any other non-Google platforms as content creators seem to have constant problems with YouTube.

As for your questions: Are you trying to live on Bitcoin too? No, not yet. I do prefer spending BTC as opposed to fiat but I don't go out of my way in doing so. Part of the reason for that is, unfortunately, that I don't have a whole lot of disposable income at hand and it doesn't even make sense converting most of it to BTC in the first place due to volatility. What’s the biggest challenge you face in spending or saving BTC? Getting a reliable, constant, positive sats flow (without getting a normie fiat job that requires me to sacrifice my soul for something I don't really care about) Any tools or apps you can’t live without? Umm, nostr would come closest to that I guess. But really, I can probably live without any tools or apps if I wanted or had to

Also, even though I'm not trying to live on Bitcoin myself thus far, I am trying to build a business helping people do so. Feel free to check out SATOSH.EE - a new kind of a Bitcoin-based gift card reseller. It's all still very much a WIP and for the moment, I only have offers from other Bitcoin companies, but one of the main goals of the service is to onboard fiat-only companies and thus expand the number and variety of goods and services that people can acquire with BTC. Any feedback: reviews, suggestions, bug reports, etc. are more than welcome 🤠

TheFloorIsLava 🤠

The only reason we don’t just suffer endlessly is that we take care of each other. Parents take care of children; men and women take care of each other; relatives, friends, the free market, the structures of society take care of them all. Or, at the very least, provide some sort of underlying structure and laws, and I don’t mean strictly in a judicial sense. And God, metaphorically speaking, takes care of those structures. And if there is no God, then whatever else is at the top of the meaning hierarchy takes its place and becomes the guiding principle for the whole thing. That usually tends to be the State or the ego or an amalgam of those things which manifests as authoritarianism, tyranny, slavery, and in general - crimes against humanity. In other words, Hell. So there’s nothing trivial about any of this, and there’s certainly nothing trivial about the notion that God is dead. Even if God doesn’t exist, even if God is just a codeword for a set of moral and ethical guidelines, or a personified explanation of the Natural Law, or a description of the Most Good Being - without it, we’re lost.

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A JPEGMAFIA classic 🤠

If a blind man cannot appreciate the value of a fine painting, who’s at fault? The blind man or the painter?

Neither.

In reality, however, there are many blind men who are blind simply because they choose to keep their eyes closed.

I see. Well, you can definitely overdo it. Especially if/when the mental landscape is barren and you're trying to write something for the sake of getting it done or meeting a deadline or whatever. Like all of life, writing is a balancing act ☯️

Do not forget: suffering is not abnormal. Suffering is the most real thing there is, it is the base state of human existence. There is tension between who you are right now; and who you want to - and could - be. That tension is resistance, and overcoming that resistance means work - and work is suffering. So one shouldn’t be worried about suffering. One should be worried about not suffering - because that’s when you are stagnant, that’s when you don’t have a goal to strive for. And not having a goal - that’s a slow, psychological and spiritual death. Not having a goal is when you are prone to drown in the ocean of life and sink into the meaninglessness below. Physical resistance grows and sustains your muscles; psychological resistance grows and sustains your mind; spiritual resistance grows and sustains your soul.