I understand how bitcoin works but I had never had carried any currency there... until now. I have decided to practice what I preach and be an engaged + active user of bitcoin. I am not too concerned about it as an investment in money but rather an investment in knowledge. My position is that bitcoin is a more ethical currency and better system than currently exists and would like to figure it out.
So, unless the governments and corrupt centralized institutions of power have completely taken it over and/or it is tank city at this point:
How does one exactly go about getting started? Insights? Advice?
If there are any natural French communicators out there who are willing to help me with some translation: Mostly dealing with Sartre, poetry, and french language and style please let me know here or pm.
I have been meaning to write some things about the voids of existence that emerge. The pain. The realization that comes and goes and comes back again that we are but tiny specks of consciousness in an infinite universe of nothingness and chaos.
"Champagne for the pain"
The first time I heard this was Jay Z or Kanye West? Perhaps earlier but most prominently in a song that does not immediately pop into my head from their Watch the Throne album (which I am a huge fan). Jay Z: "Champagne for the pain... High for the low."
I lived by those words for a long time. With what I know now they have the potential to be a bit damaging and misleading at least for me. Basically, just writing a disclaimer on that advice that there are usually better, more healthy, more sustainable ways to heal "the pain" than drugs and alcohol.
Fastforward:
I actually went back and found the song:
"Welcome to the Jungle"
...
[Jay-Z]
"My uncle died, my daddy did too
Paralyzed by the pain, I can barely move
My nephew gone, my heart is torn
Sometimes I look to the sky, ask why I was born
My faith in God, every day is hard
Every night is worse, that's why I pray so hard
[Kanye West]
Why I pray so hard, this is crazy God
Just when I thought I had everything, I lost it all
So que sera', get a case of Syrah
Let it chase the pain, before it goes too far
[Jay-Z]
My dreams is big, reality set in
Let off a clip from an automatic weapon
Through shots in the door, it died in Vegas
Though it fought so hard, I knew it wouldn't make it
I'm a tortured soul, I live in disguise
Rest in peace to the leader of the Jackson 5
I dided in my sleep, I'm still Big Pimpin'
I ball at the mall, beginning of the ending
Where the fuck is the sun? It's been a while
Momma, look at ya son, what happened to my smile?
My tears is tatted, my rag in my pocket
I'm just looking for love, I know somebody got it
[bold]Champagne for the pain, weed for the low[/bold]
Goddamn I'm so high, where the fuck did I go
etc.
I found it interesting on going back and listening to it my perception now is that Jay is actually speaking his truth on the fact that drugs and alcohol do not actually fill any voids or actually heal any pain and was just plainly speaking on where he was at at some lower points.
Putting my own spin on it that is where I am at. Champagne for the pain, weed for the low are occupations. They are a way to fill time and avoid pain but a lot of the time it is just delaying healing and development. Drugs and alcohol are simply occupations, drugs, medications with positives and negatives that should be used with personal best discretion. Buyer beware. etc.
Going back to Jay for a second though I am just a really huge fan. He talks about how his music is a Rorschach test. My original interpretation of the line in times where I abused alcohol and drugs it is easy to get caught up in the boastful, bravado, glamourous nature of the Watch the Throne album and glorify the champagne for the pain, weed for the low, YOLO nature of that album and pop culture in general but of course, Jay laces it with entendres and 2, 3, 4 sides to the story.
I would put his Reasonable Doubt and Blueprint Album up there with any existential poetry, literature, philosophy works in existence.
Earlier in that album on the first track Kanye finishes the song with:
When we die the money we can't keep
But we probably spend it all cause the pain ain't cheap: preach
I would take it a step further in saying time and freedom is a more important asset than money but money is certainly up there and can buy time and freedom.
So, how do we spend our time, freedom, and money?
How do we fill the void and heal the pains of the world?
People have been asking these questions and searching for answers for years. I will just say that for me being part of a group, a community, a tribe and sharing my thoughts and learning from other people and engaging in discussion seems to work for me so that is one of the reasons I continue to post on LP. Thank You.
ps.
I will leave everyone with some quotes that I recently came across and found thought provoking and inspiring.
"All neurosis stems from mans' attempt to escape life's legitimate sufferings." - Carl Jung
"(one lost everything in the death camps except) the last of the human freedoms, to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances" - Viktor Frankl (Austrian Holocaust survivor and psychologist)
a little later, a little earlier,
that you discover, without surprise,
that something is wrong...
That you do not know how to live and that you never will know.
You sleep, you walk, you continue to live,
like a laboratory rat abandoned in its maze by some absent-minded scientist.
But rats do not spend hours trying to get to sleep.
Rats do not wake up with a start, gripped by panic, bathed in sweat.
Rats do not dream and what can you do to protect yourself against your dreams?
Time, which sees to everything, has provided the solution, despite yourself.
Time, that knows the answer, has continued to flow.
You are afraid,
you are waiting. - Narrator (The Man Who Sleeps)
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Any tips, tricks, hacks, insight, anything in regards to mattress buying?
I just find the experience pretty horrendous. There are like 10 brands, 10 different types of 10 different 10 types of 10 different types of 10 different types of 10 different types of 10 different types of 10 different types of ..........
The salespeople seem pretty lackluster although maybe not their fault since bed comfort is so damn subjective.
I like the idea of temperpedic "memory foam" but at the same time seems like it could be classic marketing mumbo jumbo in order to rape the buyer in the ass.
Everyone in the western world probably buys a bed at some point. There has got to be a way to make it suck less and actually find the right bed for the individual.
So now that I'm done complaining about beds...
For a number of reasons that I don't care to list (I already spent shit lines shit complaining) I have decided to build a motherfucking firebrick parilla grill that ate tokyo by hand. Who knows when the fuck it will come to fruition but when it does I invite any and all LP'ers to kill some choice animals (or buy some choice killed animals) and asado that bitch up proper.
If you are in the Northern Hemisphere cheers to shit hopefully blooming and being nice out.
If you are in the Southern Hemisphere cheers to that for why not.
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