Dragons are a mythological representation of enlightenment. That's why they have wings: flight is enlightenment symbolism. That's why they have fiery breath: internal fire is a common sensory experience in kundalini awakenings. That's why they are serpentine in form: the kundalini serpent is pointing at the same thing as the Draco serpent. That's why they're associated with guarding treasure: spiritual powers aka siddhis. View quoted note →

@Proton Wallet I know you are not ProtonMail, but you're part of the same Proton organization so I'm hoping you'll get this message and relay it to the rest of Proton. I just want to share how frustrating it has been to use a protonmail.com email address for YEARS AND YEARS without knowing that protonmail.com email domains are being automatically diverted away from the Inbox of the intended recipient and instead are being routed into the SPAM box of the intended recipient. In today's world, people are assholes. They don't respond to things. They "ghost" people and don't have any moral qualms about it which is fucked up. People expect things to work. The default expectation isn't that my emails are being delivered to the intended recipient's SPAM folder. The default expectation is that my emails are being delivered to the intended recipient's Inbox. For years, I've been getting stonewalled in my attempts to reach out to various people for various reasons and I didn't understand what the fuck was going on. I only recently learned that it's because your email domain is being subverted by your competitors' SPAM filters. If I've been with Proton for years and years, why have I not been made aware of this issue by ProtonMail yet? You need to make that abundantly clear to your users SOMEHOW. I've been languishing, alone, for years, wondering why the fuck nobody returns my emails. Why didn't you let us know what was going on? Why didn't you relieve us of the frustration we were experiencing by informing us?

Was Jesus really born on December 25th? I mean...it gets down into the 50 F temperature range in that part of the world in late December. Do we really buy that the shepherds were laying watch over their flocks at night like Luke described in 2:8 or do we think that the Roman hegemons wanted to centralize authority, hijacked the paleo-Christian movement, fabricated Christian holidays, and placed them on the calendar in such a way as to directly compete with existing "pagan" holidays like equinoxes (Easter), solstices (midsummer, Saturnalia), Lemuria (originally targeted by All Saints Day which was later moved by Pope Gregory), and Samhain (aka Halloween, now targeted by All Saints Day)?

Yeah. I call it the Bitcoin metanoia. John Vallis, totally independently, had the portmanteau "Bitnoia" in his personal notes on the subject. There are levels to this, just like Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, and the ultimate level of self-actualization is very much in play (for those who have not yet self-actualized as a pre-coiner). One of the biggest reasons for this is that studying Bitcoin involves studying the sister science to Austrian economics: praxeology, the study of human action. Praxeology is a "Golden Rule discipline", much like psychology, neurology, method acting, Tarot, astrology, etc. Anything that involves archetypes and getting into the mind of others is a Golden Rule discipline and the Golden Rule is, by far, the simplest path to that state of being which Maslow chose to label "self-actualization". View quoted note →