What can religion teach us about NFTs?
Excerpts from one of @Diamond_Cruiser's #✉️-daily-letters to our members. 🪡🧵👇🏼
2/ "The Parable of the Surplus Grain tells the story of a rich man who decided to keep all the harvest for himself. One night his life suddenly ends and God asks the question:
'Who will get what you have prepared for yourself?'"
3/ "God giveth and God taketh. I mentioned before the importance of luck in success.
You can be the greatest Tennis player in the world—but you won't win every match.
When luck/God/circumstance gives us blessings—what should we do with it?"
4/ "The central core of Buddhism is that Desire is the root of all suffering. To eliminate suffering, you must eliminate desire - especially for material things.
For the rich people, there's a never-ending cycle of purchases. It will never be enough—you always need more."
5/ "Sound familiar?
Who here is mad that we didn't 10x our last NFT purchase? Who here hasn't attacked a project for rugging our bags?
The NFT world is rife with greed from projects, buyers and sellers alike. 2x is not enough. It's gotta be 100x."
6/ "And does this makes us happy? Or is this undermining our mental health? To always be unhappy even if we sold for profit?
Jesus, Buddhism and Common Sense teaches us that we are more than our possessions."
7/ "My personal perspective on things is that God will always provide me with the exact amount of money I need at any time.
If I am given $1 million, I can't just use it for myself—there must be a greater purpose that requires that amount of money."
8/ "When I made my first bundle in NFTs, I started @DiamondNFT to be non-profit. To grow the members, I gave away some valuable NFTs.
And I still continue to fund the entire venture from my pocket. The money I get will always be just right. Not more, not less."
9/ "Just enough for what I need to provide for my family. Maybe it is to give my child a foreign education, or to fund a scholar or to establish an NFT community.
If I lose money, it means I overstepped my boundaries and need to scale down my lifestyle."
10/10 "Balance, faith and purpose. This helps me to not be affected by my possessions.
It gives me perspective and more importantly—peace."