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To Be A Wanderer

What keeps you nonstop wandering
Is you think you’ve got to be a thing

Sit down and think a little while
Do you recognize your smile?
To love yourself, you’ve got to train
That’s you right there, shining plain

Think in morning light how good
It is to wander through the wood
How nice it is to feel the stares
Of girls with long-grown colored hairs

How breathing brings a kind of joy
The kind in every happy boy
To freely, untaxed, drink the air
And blow away your dark despair

You’ll find the world loves you, too
It loves the little things you do
They don’t go noticed there and then
But sometime in a different when
They’ll blossom, bloom, and bring you joy
The universe’s karmic ploy

You see, these plots and sacred lands
Were shaped by God’s almighty hands
So if you find that you’re diseased
Or if you find yourself unpleased
Remember all things come in time
Today they’re grapes, tomorrow wine

But as things come so must they go
This is the universe’s flow
All around you, it abounds
From baby cribs to burial grounds
So don’t be sad if loved ones die
Their souls and spirits fill the sky

And through your life, as time ticks by
As moments come and as they fly
Thank yourself that you’re alive
For you are it, the Godhead. And now it is your time to thrive.

It Rains, It Shines

It rains, it shines
It’s clear sometimes
Then clouds come back
To fill the crack
The sun burst through
And every day it starts anew

Great Men Develop Their Character Inwardly

I began to realize that I was acting like those I was around, and the mark of great men is that they develop their character inwardly, not from those around them.

If they cannot do that, they seek out other great men to be around.

Many Corporations Are Drug Dealers

Many of the largest corporations in America are drug dealers of one kind or another.

Coffee shops deal in caffeine,
Social media in dopamine,
Gyms in creatine,
Banks in money on a screen,
Food companies in sugar,
Bars and clubs in alcohol.

The Land Of Lonely Capitalists

America: The Land of Lonely Capitalists

Deterioration Is Creation

Deterioration is not the opposite of creation. They are one and the same. New matter cannot form if old matter does not deteriorate, and our illusions of new matter somehow being separate from the old are fallacious and completely invented.

Are we in the darkness of the gloom
Or the darkness of the womb?

It depends on how you look at it.

Do Dead Men Speak?

Do dead men speak? Jesus certainly does. So do the ancient stoics and their cynic companions. As do Heraclitis, Plato, Bashō, Nietzsche, Lao Tzu, Aristotle and Rumi.

Their thoughts echo through time. He who embraces change will live forever through his words.

Hands to Work, Hearts to God

Build, you dreamers, build away
Stay a-craftin’, night and day
And slog your way through pain and grind
So you might one day heaven find

But yea’, you may soon find it true
That heaven really dwells in you
And thus, by building day and night
You can bring out that sacred light

True Dreamers Follow Through

Don’t let those people hold you back
Who say they once were dreamers too
But say they found, as they grew
That dreams cannot be followed-through

Researchers Are Fighting for Scraps in Vain

• Peter Thiel on the dynamics of scientific competition: https://youtu.be/6kGND-uZolY?t=998
• Very interesting, the history of the quote “Academic Politics Are So Vicious Because the Stakes Are So Small”: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/08/18/acad-politics/
• Risk of being scooped drives scientists to shoddy methods: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/01/risk-being-scooped-drives-scientists-shoddy-methods

You Are Equipped

You are equipped with what you need to go and start doing. Do not hesitate anymore. Do not think you have more to consume before you can begin creating. The wellspring of creation lives deep within you, and the Kingdom of God lies in wait for those who create.

Impermanence Is Permanence

The butterflies fly
Make their way through the sky
Then they melt into puddles
Dissolve like the snow
For they know, as do I
That they cannot die
They are one and the same
With all that’s around

The Ebb and Flow

Remember that you are defined equally by what you are not as by what you are. That all things are dual. That all is made of the ebb and flow, the black and white, the nothing and something. The waves of time flow through the ever present vibration of everything, and to understand the tide

Always Ask

Ask yourself always: “Am I doing what I want to do right now? Am I doing what I need to?”

Always ask yourself: “What is it I want to do least?”, and then do that.

Start Living Now

You have no excuse not to start living now.

The only way to live fully is to throw yourself into creation, and thus create yourself.

Intertwined

It’s a rainy night, and you come home to see
A phone lying still on the windowsill
A dial tone still trilling while the face
Of your lover lies dappled in the beams of neon streetlights
Squeezing their ways through cracks in the blinds
To caress the lips and contours of that lovely face.

You whisper hello, and quiet, make your way across the room
Tiptoeing and undressing an inch at a time, staying slow
So you can listen to her breath and keep the one you love asleep.

And then you’re freed of all the horrors of the day —
They slip away into the night, it’s only right
This is the time you can be free.

So you caress and cuddle up against her chest
Staying warm within that nest, and sharing heat
You’re both undressed and you repeat
The deeper rhythms of her breath
So that you too can get some rest.

Dreams begin to trickle through your thoughts
And as they flood your tired mind
You realize you are intertwined
With your soulmate
And there is no better fate.

You dream a dream that’s just for you
But from the smile on your face
I’m sure you’re dreaming that the two
Of you are going on a date.

Private Keys and The Blockchain Revolution

Social key recovery will be the true beginning of the blockchain revolution.

Managing keys is the biggest problem of the decentralized era. Once the key management issue is solved, blockchain tech will be far more valuable.

Also, things like sending money to the wrong address. How do we fix that? Novel consensus algorithms will be required.

Perhaps there’s a another solution similar to the Raiblocks/Nano model, where coins can be sent by mining a transaction. Upon receipt, the coins must be mined again. Users who register their keys to a wallet, who, in other words, have blockchain registered addresses, can receive the currency, but otherwise (without an interaction from the account holder) the transaction will always be reversible by the sender, up until the point when the account holder confirms the transaction.

Parentless People

Parentless people packaged as products for purchase, with prices set by predatory profiteers pickpocketing the poorly paid payrolls of present-day peasants. Protest is pointless, poverty persists.

Yes the millennial dream, how good does it seem?

Drowning in an electronic media determined to sell you a trip on Expedia, determined not to let you pick up an encyclopedia.

Coming from common core, you craft a chart to crawl your course through college — you’re caught. Committed to the crisis of a crippling career choice.

Now you’re a specialized slave, unengaged and paid for the long toil of foggy-brained days.

Giving Is Receiving

By receiving a gift, you are, in truth, giving. You are giving gratitude.

In the same way, by giving, you are, in truth, receiving. You are receiving gratitude.

Peace Is Not Absence

Does peace truly exist? Upon examination of the world around us, we find that everything is vibration. Thus, at a basic level, everything is deeply alive.

I have commonly associated peace with death, with the absence of something, a space without noise or life. A space which seemed to have more in common with the void than with the Big Bang. But I understand now — this was only my misconception, and my search for empty peace is what has made my search unfulfilling.

Peace is a harmony. An experience of being full with vigor and life. A harmony which allows for true, complete integration with the melody of reality. Peace is not the absence of anything, it is the acceptance of things as they are.

Ground Everything in Reality

The mission should be to ground everything in reality. Even the mystical.

The mystical can remain mysterious while having a footing in the truth. That’s the funny thing. Being obscure, complex, or transcendent does not invalidate something’s truth. Psychedelics are a great example of a catalyst to the mysterious whose underpinnings are deeply rational and truthful.

The essence of the psychedelic experience is, well… psychedelic! And it is very mysterious. That is an irrefutable truth. So mystery is irrefutable.

Tolerance Is Neutral

I believe that tolerance, in and of itself, is a neutral value (as in, not bad or good). Strangely, though, the meaning of “tolerance” has been obfuscated and distorted in a very odd political manner.

When the Bees Arise

When the bees arise to do their daily work they think not of the flowers that sprout for them.

BPMIS — Big Problems Make for Interesting Solutions

Big problems make for interesting solutions. BPMIS.

Transcend the Boundaries of Reality

You must constantly transcend the limits of the unknown to strengthen yourself against the world around you and ensure a better future. Do not succumb to fallow acceptance. Think of Nietzsche’s tightrope walker, standing on the steps of the grand canyon, overlooking God’s great, laughing, sunrise set against the pale green-brown of plants and shrubs, and the red, orange, yellow, and ochre of tones stone below.

It's All A Game!

“This is not a game!”

“Well, then… What do you think it is, exactly?”

My Life Calling

My life calling is to bring attention to the fact that the world is a magical, beautiful, mysterious, and — most of all — good place. There are reasons for true optimism.