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Altus - The Sidereal Cycle 1 (Promo) 👀🔊💜
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In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water.
Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.
This is because there is nothing that can take its place.
That the weak overcomes the strong,
And the submissive overcomes the hard,
Everyone in the world knows yet no one can put this knowledge into practice.
Therefore the sage says,
One who takes on himself the humiliation of the state
Is called a ruler worthy of offering sacrifices to the gods of earth and millet.
One who takes on himself the calamity of the state
Is called a king worthy of dominion over the entire empire.
Straightforward words seem paradoxical.
— #Tao Te Ching: Ch 78 (D.C. Lau translation)
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Where can I sell some old miners directly for Bitcoin?
My goal is to build a life I don't need a vacation from.
— Rob Hill Sr.
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Is not the way of heaven like the stretching of a bow?
The high it presses down,
The low it lifts up;
The excessive it takes from,
The deficient it gives to.
It is the way of heaven to take from what has in excess in order to make good what is deficient.
The way of man is otherwise: it takes from those who are in want in order to offer this to those who already have more than enough.
Who is there that can take what he himself has in excess and offer this to the empire?
Only he who has the way.
Therefore the sage benefits them yet exacts no gratitude,
Accomplishes his task yet lays claim to no merit.
Is this not because he does not wish to be considered a better man than others?
— #Tao Te Ching: Ch 77 (D.C. Lau translation)
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nprofile1qqsyvrp9u6p0mfur9dfdru3d853tx9mdjuhkphxuxgfwmryja7zsvhqpzamhxue69uhhv6t5daezumn0wd68yvfwvdhk6tcpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7qgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctcscpyug AFAIK, #Nostr clients currently lack native functionality to prevent AI tools like Gemini from accessing mobile users' screens—unlike some other apps I've used recently. I think it would be a solid feature to add to #Amethyst. What do you think?
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Your struggles develop your strengths.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Don’t get these symbols mixed up
The Nazi Party appropriated this beautiful symbol for their insignia, and its true meaning is the antithesis of what they have bastardized it to stand for.
Throughout human history, the hooked cross design (卐 or 卍) has held sacred significance across countless civilizations. This ancient emblem appears in cultural and religious contexts spanning Eurasia, with similar motifs found in certain African and American indigenous traditions as well.
Most people in Western societies today primarily associate this symbol with the horrors of Nazi Germany, whose regime co-opted it as their party emblem in the early 20th century. This dark association persists through its continued use by neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups worldwide.
Yet this appropriation represents a profound distortion of the symbol’s authentic heritage. For millennia before Hitler’s regime, the swastika served as a revered representation of spiritual enlightenment, divine blessing, and cosmic harmony within Eastern religious traditions.
Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism all incorporate this symbol in their sacred iconography, where it typically appears as a balanced cross with each arm making a perpendicular bend.
Historical Origins vs. Nazi Perversion
The swastika’s rich cultural legacy spans numerous civilizations, each attributing their own sacred meanings to this ancient design.
What distinguishes the Nazi emblem from traditional religious versions is its presentation—rotated 45 degrees and typically rendered in stark black against a white circle on a red background.
Hitler’s regime deliberately misappropriated this sacred symbol, twisting its meaning to support their fabricated narrative of "Aryan" racial supremacy while connecting it to ancient Indo-European imagery.
The term itself reveals its true essence - "swastika" derives from the Sanskrit स्वस्तिक (svastika), which translates to "that which brings good fortune" or "conducive to wellbeing." This etymology alone stands in stark contrast to the hatred the symbol later came to represent under Nazi use.
Hindu traditions distinguish between the right-facing form (卐), known as the swastika, which represents the sun god Surya, prosperity, and auspiciousness, and the left-facing variation (卍), called sauvastika, associated with night and tantric aspects of the goddess Kali.
For Jains, the symbol adorns their religious flag and represents Suparshvanatha, the seventh of their twenty-four revered spiritual teachers.
Buddhist traditions view it as symbolizing the Buddha’s footprints and the eternal cycle of dharma.
Beyond South Asia, various ancient Indo-European cultures associated this symbol with concepts of fire, lightning, solar energy, and cosmic order.
Archaeological discoveries have unearthed swastika motifs in artifacts from the Indus Valley civilization, ancient Samarra, early Byzantine culture, and European Iron Age sites.
Modern Context
Though German ultranationalists first employed the symbol for antisemitic purposes before World War I, the swastika maintained its positive associations throughout most of Western society until the 1930s.
The Nazi Party’s adoption of it as their emblem, followed by the unspeakable atrocities of the Holocaust, permanently transformed Western perception of this ancient symbol into one representing hatred, genocide, and evil.
This tragic association has led to legal prohibitions against displaying the swastika in Germany and several other nations.
However, across Hindu, Buddhist and Jain communities in countries like Nepal, India, Thailand, Mongolia, Sri Lanka, China and Japan, the symbol retains its original sacred status.
It also holds cultural significance for some Native American nations. Hindu wedding ceremonies and Diwali celebrations continue to incorporate the swastika as a traditional blessing symbol.
Today, many Eastern religious communities work to educate the public about the symbol’s authentic spiritual heritage, to reclaim its positive associations from the shadow of its darkest misuse.
See this article for more...
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A man is supple and weak when living, but hard and stiff when dead.
Grass and trees are pliant and fragile when living, but dried and shrivelled when dead.
Thus the hard and the strong are the comrades of death;
The supple and the weak are the comrades of life.
Therefore a weapon that is strong will not vanquish;
A tree that is strong will suffer the axe.
The strong and big takes the lower position,
The supple and weak takes the higher position.
— #Tao Te Ching: Ch 76 (D.C. Lau translation)
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If a #Nostr user posts something, but no one is around to hear it, does it truly make a sound?
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If you fight for your limitations, you get to keep them.
— Jim Kwik
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Learn how to learn.
— Ava ॐ
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Arnold Schwarzenegger on Meat Industry's "Real Men Eat Meat" Marketing: "That's Not Based on Reality" 👀🔊
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The people are hungry:
It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes
That the people are hungry.
The people are difficult to govern.
It is because those in authority are too fond of action
That the people are difficult to govern.
The people treat death lightly:
It is because the people set too much store by life
That they treat death lightly.
It is just because one has no use for life that one is wiser than the man who values life.
— #Tao Te Ching: Ch 75 (D.C. Lau translation)
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Matchbox Twenty - Bent 🔊💜
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