My 2026 New Years Resolution is to bake zero pans of baklava.
Soft motherfuckers make a few bucks during the bull, get comfortable, and turn into scared bitches at the first sign of bear prints in the mud. These are the same soft motherfuckers that said you got lucky. The ones who wish they got in earlier. Those pussies wouldn't have survived past bear markets. They would have sold the bottom and cried about it for the rest of their lives. Can you imagine them stacking and holding for many months after losing 60-80% of their net worth? There isn't enough Tylenol in the world for them to play autism catch up with the real ones who held purely on principle. "Yeah but it's different this time around." You're right. This time you have more knowledge, more support, and more security. You have no excuses. Back then we had a bunch of retards on Reddit, Andreas Antonopoulos, and a whole lotta copium. Some people are allergic to success. Others take it. Choose wisely.
I've been thinking a lot about my nearly 15 years away from the Greek Orthodox Church. I've come to this conclusion - I don't know if I would have the same ethical values without that upbringing. It's easy to think I would when I had that foundation since birth, but I no longer think it's that simple. I've been around a lot of secular people. Not all, but many are in a dark place. People who are missing something from their lives. Ones who didn't have an upbringing similar to mine. I've begun to wonder if these people would benefit from religion in their lives. Some type of positive power to pull them out of the darkness. I'm not saying I've found Jesus. I haven't. But more and more I want to be around the people who have. Because I can't really be around these other people any more. My wife & I have cut most of them out of our lives at this point. We prefer to spend our time around positive people who are working on building better lives. Building families. Nearly all of them are religious. We're both very logical people. Religion and logic were like oil and water to me. But when I look at the state of the world, it's not hard to see the positive impact religion can have on people. That's a very logical conclusion I'm coming to. Also, I miss a lot of the Greek cultural stuff that I grew up, and it's intertwined with the church. It would be strange, but I'm accepting the idea that returning there, even as someone who isn't religious, feels more right than not going. Still working through this but wanted to share. Because bitcoiners are how I got here. The ones having families, going to church, and being decent human beings. Those are the people I want to be around. The alternative is despair and darkness, and I am not going down that road. โœŒ๏ธ๐Ÿงก