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Thanks for thinking of me, BTW, and calling me out with a reminder.
Yes, @cryotosensei -- been away recently, but I have a stack of books next to me I've been itching to get into, and some more on the wishlist. I don't know if I have the same ambition to to do a full-fledged book club, but perhaps come back slowly with some more reviews.
I feel like if I start a project in public, especially regarding something like Stoic philosophy, I better damn well finish it ;)
Autobiography of a Yogi by Yogananda is a classic - preparing a template for attitude toward practice, providing inspiration for setting out on the path, and just an incredible story.
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, as already mentioned. And the life story of Tibetan yogi Milarepa is an incredible read as well.
RoninDojo was basically developed to be used in concert with Samourai Wallet. What's the road map forward? Whirlpool isn't spinning and the wallet is off the app stores right?
Will be interesting to see where the product goes...
Absolutely, I guess I'm curious where trust is appropriate and where it isn't. I don't have a good framework for it.
Me neither, and it's tough to figure out. My current thinking is that trust is something that emerges from shared dependency and repeatable behavior. Perhaps frequency of interaction and degree of necessity might be inputs to a framework?
Nice post. I've spent some time thinking about this over the last months. While trustless money is definitely something the world desperately needs, and a requirement as life moves more and more online, I feel like many people in this space get a little too carried away trying to eliminate trust entirely.
Trust is a necessity with regard to physical locality. Ones spouse, ones family, ones friends and neighbors. Trust is fundamental to intimacy and sexuality -- to relationships, to humanity. We are not going to do away with the need to trust and be vulnerable, but we can develop trustless tools to mitigate it where we don't have the means to build trust organically.
This viewpoint originally came up for me when trying to figure out how ecash and Fedimints could figure into Bitcoin philosophy for me.
Trust is a fundamental part of the human experience - we aren't going to do away with it, but we can mitigate the need for it where appropriate.
100% -- very well put. I almost included #29,
Salvation: to see each thing for what it is -- its nature and its purpose. To do only what is right, say only what is true, without holding back. What else could it be but to live life fully -- to pay out goodness like the rings of a chain, without the slightest gap.
The chain analogy strikes me as similar to what you're getting at. Although, chain links are slightly more gross units of measure than nanoseconds ;)
Thanks for the comment!
Whoa! Top post, what a pleasant surprise. Thank you @siggy47. I just posted Book 12, the last post for this series on Meditations. Thanks for all the support and encouragement.
When I read this passage, my imagination jumped to the Romans of the time witnessing the dramatic acts of faith displayed by the Christians under persecution. Submitting to death and even preaching forgiveness instead of refusing to denounce their faith. It must have been quite shocking to witness, and certainly contributed to the propagation of Christianity.
I didn't think about Egypt, or much politically for that matter. Thanks for zooming out and sharing.
Right or wrong, for me the point is that popular beliefs are more imaginary than real and subject to dissolution when the populus changes its mind.