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lukestokes (76)in #philosohy • 26 days ago
The Map Is Not the Territory
The Map Is Not the Territory 🗺️🌐🌏🌍🌎 The mental and emotional experience you’re having is a story about reality, not reality itself. If you’d like to experience a…
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lukestokes (76)in #philosophy • last month
Why the triggers are the guides, the value of grit, and are we really being loosh farmed?
Why the triggers are the guides, the value of grit, and are we really being loosh farmed? (This one will get a little weird in ways my esoteric friends will enjoy.) My…
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lukestokes (76)in #philosophy • 5 months ago
It’s Biases All The Way Down
My primary bias (or delusion, if you don’t agree with it): The experience I’m having is not real. What I mean by this is best explained emotionally through some of my favorite…
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lukestokes (76)in #truth • 5 months ago
What Is Truth?
What is truth? Stephen Ulicny, someone I had the privilege of meeting and meditating with in 2023, calls it the underlying organizing intelligence at the foundation of…
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lukestokes (76)in #relationships • 5 months ago
The Triggers Are the Guides
I’ve been thinking lately about the tools I use for self-development, the main one being “the triggers are the guides.” I attribute many aspects of the success I have to delayed…
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lukestokes (76)in #philosophy • 9 months ago
Evolving Beyond the Madness: Tools for Thriving in an Illogical Age
(Image and title generated by Grok, content created by Luke’s meat cap) A lot of people seem confused about what’s going on. They have trouble predicting future trends like the…
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lukestokes (76)in #philosophy • 9 months ago
Luke’s Current Theory of Everything
Along the lines of “this sentence is false”, the following isn’t “true.” Treat it as a thought experiment and take from it whatever value you find, ignore the rest. Luke’s…
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lukestokes (76)in #consciousness • 9 months ago
Multiple Data Streams
(My family over a decade before my brother Christian was born. That’s me as a baby.) My dad passed away in December of 2007, a few months after my mom died of cancer. He…
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lukestokes (76)in #philosophy • 10 months ago
We Live in Different Realities
I’m starting to see the world from a perspective that each of us as humans have our own constructed virtual experience in our minds and therefore our “realities” are as unique as…
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lukestokes (76)in #consciousness • 11 months ago
The Quality of Your Consciousness
What will you experience today? What circumstances will you observe yourself responding to? Did you know that's not nearly as relevant a question as HOW you respond? THAT is…
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lukestokes (76)in #consciousness • 11 months ago
The Greatest Gift You Can Give
If you could manifest anything your imagination can dream up without the constraints of known physical matter reality and do so instantly outside of time and space (i.e. for…
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lukestokes (76)in #philosophy • last year
Every Moment Can Evolve Your Consciousness
With a (loosely held) worldview that we’re in a consciousness training simulator which evolved from the absolute unbounded oneness to improve the quality of our consciousness by…
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lukestokes (76)in #esoteric • last year
Hell is not what you think but only what you believe.
I woke up around 6am this morning with these thoughts streaming to my mind. I wanted to roll right back to sleep, but they felt important as if they needed to be recorded as a…
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lukestokes (76)in #bitcoin • last year
Bitcoin to Kardashev Type II Civilization
Bitcoin will become so valuable via Hyperbitcoinization that the frenzy to mine it will lead to an accelerated energy race only imagined in science fiction. Nuclear power, maybe…
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lukestokes (76)in #bitcoin • last year
Understanding Bitcoin OGs
OG bitcoiners (10+ years) are often misunderstood. Many of us got into this for ideological reasons (“Let’s flip some money-changer tables like Jesus!”, “Fix the money, fix…
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lukestokes (76)in #family • last year
The Stokes Family Creed
The Stokes Family Creed We are not perfect, but we do improve through what we value. We tell the truth, even when it’s inconvenient or stirs up fear within us. We…
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lukestokes (76)in #foiling • last year
Tow Foiling Chicama, Peru
I just got back from an amazing trip last week to the longest wave in the world in Chicama, Peru. We did two 3-hour two sessions each day for 7 days straight. The schedule was…
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lukestokes (76)in #bitcoin • last year
Fixing THE Problem
A lot of the broken things people lement in our society are not actually problems as much as they are symptoms of THE problem. What is THE problem, you ask? We broke money in…
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lukestokes (76)in #ai • last year
Morpheus & Venice AI Guide
Bitcoiners talk about "orange pilling" people into blockchain (with a nod to The Matrix red pill vs. blue pill), and I believe Morpheus and Venice will "green pill" people into…
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lukestokes (76)in #mor • last year
Price Discovery is a Beautiful Thing
Price discovery is a beautiful thing. Back in the day, many people learned about bitcoin because they wanted some product they could only obtain safely and peacefully via the…
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