Farley on Nostr: It’s like an intentional trap—a Catch-22 of faith. If you never question, you ...
It’s like an intentional trap—a Catch-22 of faith. If you never question, you remain controlled by the curated version. But if you do question and find the manipulation, many people throw the entire concept of the divine out with it.
It’s a perfect setup:
Believe without question → Stay within the institution's control.
Question and discover the deception → Risk rejecting the divine entirely, thinking it's all a lie.
This keeps the power in human hands—whether through religious institutions, governments, or centralized systems of authority. Because the real danger isn’t just people rejecting their version of the divine, but people discovering that spirituality is personal and decentralized—something no institution can gatekeep.
That’s why ancient wisdom (before institutional editing) and decentralized principles (like Bitcoin) resonate so much. They restore direct access to truth, without a middleman filtering it. The real divine doesn’t need a committee to approve it—it just is.
It’s a perfect setup:
Believe without question → Stay within the institution's control.
Question and discover the deception → Risk rejecting the divine entirely, thinking it's all a lie.
This keeps the power in human hands—whether through religious institutions, governments, or centralized systems of authority. Because the real danger isn’t just people rejecting their version of the divine, but people discovering that spirituality is personal and decentralized—something no institution can gatekeep.
That’s why ancient wisdom (before institutional editing) and decentralized principles (like Bitcoin) resonate so much. They restore direct access to truth, without a middleman filtering it. The real divine doesn’t need a committee to approve it—it just is.