I used to believe that little things mattered, like shutting off the water while brushing my teeth or giving a bag of food to the food pantry. They don't. Better to spend time on something that actually moves the needle.
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1102 sats \ 1 reply \ @SatAttack 4h
I used to be strong anti government and it’s what drove me to Bitcoin originally. However, being in the space, seeing some serious talent and serious intelligence, really focusing on the things outside of bitcoin that bitcoin almost forces you to focus on has been incredibly humbling. Bitcoin will flay you open and force the truth out if you aren’t being true to yourself to begin with and I really appreciate that part of its community.
I’ve since come to the conclusion that I don’t know anything really and the reality is the some (most) people do want to be governed. There should be government available for those who want it. In bitcoin and in life it’s the individuals that matter. The small pieces that make up the whole. So who am I to champion removing or deciding what people want in their lives? If bitcoin didn’t exist, I still believe little to no government would be ideal. The risk of ruin and the ability for control is just too great. But now that capital flight controls are slowly eroding (ty Satoshi) I feel it’s best to live and let live. I’ll focus on me and prepare myself for truly chaotic outcomes and I will support your decision to subject yourself to a government of any type. What really bothered me before was the forceful removal of optionality from individuals but…. Bitcoin fixes this.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 3h
Join me and adopt a minarchist position.
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114 sats \ 4 replies \ @magnolia_mayhem 7h
Religion. Most societal norms, really.
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @Scoresby 5h
I'm curious about what it was like for you abandoning religion - what got you to see it differently?
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1022 sats \ 2 replies \ @magnolia_mayhem 5h
It was weirdly quick. Most people talk about how they spend months or years slowly moving from one position to the other. For me, it was a single work day. I just had a good ten hours by myself with nobody else able to talk to me and I let my thoughts flow. I came to the conclusion that I wanted to believe what is true, even if it makes me uncomfortable. I left my house a Southern Baptist and came home an atheist.
There's a million things that drove me to come to the conclusion. One was that I was born and raised in a young-Earth family that believed that the entire universe was 6000 years old. I listened to an astronomer explain parallax triangulation and how we can work out that stars are much farther away than 6000 lightyears and it kept bouncing around in my head. Of course there are apologetics, but they're always just excuse-making when you look at them objectively.
The last little thing that I held on to was duality. I don't know how you can build a machine complicated enough that it produces subjective experiences, but those subjective experiences can be altered by changing the structure that generates them anyway. There isn't room for a soul anywhere in the process. My uncle had a brain tumor and I watched him transform from a quiet, loving man to a wife-beating slobbering mess that was incoherent and hallucinating when he died. For years, I kept telling myself that his soul had already left his body, but again, it's just excuse making.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 3h
Have you heard of the "appearance of age hypothesis"? That God created a universe in motion and with physical laws, that allow us to "look back" and see age, even if it was just created?
The easiest way to think about this is to ask "When Adam was first created, how old was he?" Most people would envision that he was formed as a fully adult human male, which by our biological time keeping would put him at say 25 years old, but he would have been 0 from a chronological standpoint.
Just food for thought.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Scoresby 4h
That last bit about duality (didn't know that was the term for it) is about where I'm at. Still feels like a mystery and yet...the structure that generates.
It is uncomfortable.
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167 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 7h
I used to think that dressing nicely is vanity. Now I think that dressing nicely is a way to respect the people you're with and making them feel comfortable
I still don't dress that nicely, but I don't look down on people who do anymore haha
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30 sats \ 0 replies \ @wackster OP 7h
this is a good observation.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Solomonsatoshi 6h
Used to be an anarchist until I realised most people want government and the security and rule of law and property rights that governments provision.
I still want maximum freedom but that can be achieved in some jurisdictions, at least up to a point.
Human nature is such, imo, that governments are required.
And for sure most governments are far from perfect, but so are most of their citizens.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @falsefaucet 3h
i used to think the world was round. /s
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 5h
I believed I could fly. Kinda hurts still.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 7h
Back then, I really believed in Santa! Ahaha
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @035736735e 5h outlawed
stackers have outlawed this. turn on wild west mode in your /settings to see outlawed content.