Henry Nowak was mortally wounded by a hostile foreigner, held down & arrested by White police because he was accused of racism by his own murderer, where he then bled out & died on the street.
This is an allegory for what is happening to European civilization on a global scale.
Enough of this chaos and lawlessness! The police should protect ordinary citizens and their rights, not ignore them or violate them. I hope @elonmusk can help restore justice for $Henry
Crypto may be the easiest financial instrument on earth to access.
That sounds like freedom. That sounds like "mission accomplished"
Then you realize there is almost no required knowledge, no meaningful education, and often not even an attestation that the person clicking buttons understands what they are doing.
In TradFi, if you want to actively day trade securities, platforms at least have to ask questions. Experience. Objectives. Risk tolerance. Financial situation. Options approval is even more gated. It is not perfect, and it certainly does not prove skill, but there is at least some acknowledgment that handing people leverage and complex instruments without any friction is dangerous.
Crypto skipped that step entirely. Permisionless finance is the goal, after all.
Anyone can show up, connect a wallet, ape into a token, trade perps with leverage, chase a KOL call, provide liquidity into a structure they do not understand, or buy into a narrative manufactured by people who are either just as clueless as they are or far more dishonest.
But we don't get to act confused about why the space has become one giant extraction machine.
The truth is uncomfortable:
The blind are leading the blind.
The predators are monetizing the blind.
And the few people actually trying to educate honestly are drowned out by paid promotions, engagement farming, and “alpha” provided by people who have no idea how money even works.
Crypto does not have an access problem.
It has an education problem.
More specifically, it has an unbiased education problem.
Because most “education” in this space is attached to someone’s bag, someone’s referral code, someone’s paid partnership, or someone’s exit plan.
Until that changes, crypto will keep pretending to be financial freedom while functioning like a casino where the dealers also write the strategy guides.
🫡 From the depths —
The White Whale 🐋
Understand this: The movies and shows about the crucifixion have been tame when compared to what He actually went through.
Even The Passion Of The Christ was forced to hold back a little in order to avoid an X rating.
Crucifixion was, and still is, arguably the most excruciating death someone can experience.
The night before in Gethsemane, He was sweating blood. This is known as hematidrosis. This would have caused His skin to become extremely sensitive, thus making the beatings to come even worse.
The fear He felt was the beginning of His feeling the weight of our iniquities being laid on Him.
Yet - in this moment, He didn’t demand that the Father take it from Him. He only asked for the cup to pass Him over if it was within the Father’s will.
Up next came the Cat of Nine Tails, or a Roman Flagrum. This was a weapon with long leather “tails”, each embedded with sharp bones and metal.
He was flogged 39 times as Jewish law mandated “40 minus one”, because 40 was said to kill a man.
This flogging wasn’t like being punished by your father’s leather belt.
Every strike tore flesh, every strike exposed muscle. Every strike exposed nerve endings. Every strike tore flesh to the bone.
This would be like getting struck with razor blades over and over again, leading to hypovolemic shock from blood loss.
Oh, and the crown of thorns? These weren’t rose thorns. These were thorns which were 2-3 inches long. Beaten into his skull.
These thorns would have pierced his skull, tripping the trigeminal nerve, thus causing unimaginable pain and even more blood loss from the dozens of head wounds.
At this point, extreme nausea and dizziness would begin to set in.
What came next? Carrying the cross. Which weighed around 300lbs. This would be like carrying two full kegs on your back.
Splinters and wood grating against the open flesh on His back. And He had to carry it 650 yards, or close to a half mile.
Imagine carrying a log on your back after being skinned alive.
Up next? He was nailed to the cross with spikes 5-7in in length. Piercing His wrists - this no doubt pierced the median nerve, causing extreme burning sensations up and down His arms.
A spike was driven through his ankles - severing nerves and tendons. This would have felt like standing on broken glass every time He pushed Himself up in order to breathe.
He suffered for 6 hours.
His chest muscles collapsing, making every single breath a fight for life.
His shoulders were dislocated, His arms stretching unnaturally long.
His heart was struggling to pump blood.
He was extremely dehydrated, His lips cracking.
His heart more than likely literally ruptured from the stress.
And on top of all of that, He had to feel a separation with the Father for a period of time in order to REALLY bear the weight of our sin.
He took up this burden for ALL sin before Him, and ALL sin which came after Him.
HE DID IT ALL FOR US.
To free us. To defeat sin. To give us a pathway to the Kingdom.
Every sin we commit is exactly why He had to do it.
And the real kicker? He knew what was coming when He rode into Jerusalem … and He didn’t turn around. He kept going.
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