One man's loss is another man's gain, or so they say :)

PSA: If you want to post a note with a zap split via #nostrudel and want a % of the zaps to flow to your account, you need to SPECIFY that when setting up the note. For example, if I want to post a note from the account with a 50/50 zap split with a creator, such as , this is NOT the way to go: I would also need to add the OSC npub to the zap splits, and set the rate to 50: On a related note, I will be reposting some of the Open Source Culture "official" notes (the ones that are linked on the product pages on ) due to having done the zap splits the wrong way around this whole time. Sorry, folks 🤠

It's music (instrumentals) + poetry (verses) and mantras (choruses). Often, chanting or visual arts (music videos) is also added to the mix. It's one of the most fertile forms of art/music ever conceived. The fact that it's being done shoddily or that it's been dumbed down and degraded by the music industry and popular culture should not come as a surprise. Especially if you see the potential power in it.

6 years ago, I released a hip hop / emo rap mixtape "Sad Bad Summer." "Threat" is track number 5 from the mixtape and the song marks the first occasion I ever mentioned Bitcoin publicly. "to us the dollars never made a difference bitcoin does but that’s a different system i speak the truth so you know you better listen and if you don't then i don't wanna hear no bitchin" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3N4-RmiVDnU Now also available on : https://wavlake.com/album/f9289952-e6b9-463d-bded-388748f6b094 #Bitcoin #tunestr

A writer is someone who cries, laughs and dreams through a pen. They don’t spill blood, they spill ink. They don’t draw swords, they draw words. These artefacts, handed down to us by generations before, no matter how carefully and masterfully articulated, can never convey the true nature of reality, the true being of consciousness. The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The writer knows this, but gives it their best shot anyway. For the writer is also aware of the Divine within, and of the fact that in the beginning, was the Word.

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“You enter the forest at the darkest point, where there is no path. Where there is a way or path, it is someone else's path. You are not on your own path. If you follow someone else's way, you are not going to realize your potential.” ― Joseph Campbell

Welcome! Those are all great topics to be interested in and I'm keen to hear/read your thoughts on them. Hope you stick around and share your wisdom 🤠

I still had some free real estate on my 6+ yr old laptop... now it's fixed. 🤠 #nostr

I can have something as a WIP for over a year and still miss something that I originally intended to include. In this case, it's this banger of a quote: “Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.” ― Henry David Thoreau

Yeah that's a tough one... we're social creatures and part of that is the craving for validation & attention. Social media can offer that to an extent, but it's also heavily geared towards glorifying the exterior, the successes, the celebrations. And it is ripe for exaggerations, for portraying and magnifying only the bright side. It's dangerously easy to present yourself as someone who you're not. On the other hand, someone battling with their demons? Going through the dark night of the soul? Trying to work through their existential doubts and angst? Most don't want to see that or even think about that, so that gets glossed over, or even discouraged. Now I'm not entirely sure if the latter is due to how social media works as a concept or, I would rather think that it's due to a general unwillingness of society at large to take radical responsibility for themselves, which includes accepting and working with the dark side, the shadow. I think it's the lack of "strength of the person's spirit," as Nietzsche put it. BTW, I was looking at some of your latest notes and saw this one: Which is funny cause I wrote a short piece on this exact topic a couple of years ago :) Maybe it's a sign that I should finally put it out there.

"ON THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS" Happiness is not the goal. Happiness is a byproduct. Honesty is the goal. The pursuit of mere happiness, without honesty being at the base of it, quickly leads to self-deception, self-indulgence, self-righteousness, narcissism, authoritarianism and ultimately, self-destruction. Why? Because in the modern era, there is this prevalent notion that “to be happy” means to live without suffering, without sacrifice, without discomfort. Yet, life is all these things. By avoiding them, we are avoiding the most crucial work that our souls, minds and bodies need. This is the aforementioned self-deception in its essence. And if we are incapable of being honest with ourselves, then most definitely we are incapable of being honest with others, and this is where all the troubles begin. Honesty begins with introspection, with letting go of your image and your ego, looking deep inside of yourself, and finding out what really speaks to you, interests you, or bothers you. If you can do that, then you can also start being more honest with others, and more importantly, you can start taking action on those things. (May 28, 2024) There can be no life without love. There can be no love without trust. There can be no trust without truth. Discard the pursuit of happiness. Engage in the pursuit of truth. For in truth, there is meaning and in meaning, there is beauty. (July 13, 2024) "Beauty is truth, truth beauty, that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know." ― John Keats “Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.” ― Fyodor Dostoevsky “The strength of a person's spirit would then be measured by how much 'truth' he could tolerate, or more precisely, to what extent he needs to have it diluted, disguised, sweetened, muted, falsified.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche “Seeking the truth in this empire of lies is the greatest challenge for us in the moral bankruptcy in which we live.” ― Ron Paul