Interesting. Sounds right. I remember an engineering prof explaining grounding as the earth being basically an infinite capacitor. And on YouTube there's a channel called Electric Universe (I think) that says electricity moves through space, which is exactly the opposite of what's taught, and I don't see how it could be possible, but the effects certainly appear to demonstrate it. Electricity, as we understand it, needs a medium to move across.

But this is great - if we're seeing causes and effects but can't explain the connection, that means we're about to get better at physics, which means I'll soon take possession of my moon, Ganymede.


Interesting. Sounds right. I remember an engineering prof explaining grounding as the earth being basically an infinite capacitor. And on YouTube there's a channel called Electric Universe (I think) that says electricity moves through space, which is exactly the opposite of what's taught, and I don't see how it could be possible, but the effects certainly appear to demonstrate it. Electricity, as we understand it, needs a medium to move across.

But this is great - if we're seeing causes and effects but can explain the connection, that means we're about to get better at physics, which means I'll soon take possession of my moon, Ganymede.


A stray thought:
To fully turn your back on golden calves (mine are golden after some sun!), you would have to unpart the red sea. Only then could you return to the wiggly world.

The sea represents unknown and uncreated potential. There's a reason Odysseus finds monsters on his wayward voyage. If you part the sea, you are saying "this is {insert anything}."

But no "this is {}" assertion can ever be truthful. That's another golden calf. Do away with calves and graven images - false values and fingers pointing at the moon - and return to the world of indefinacy and magic, accidental theosis, and men wearing the heads of beasts. The wiggly world.


Put adversarial thinking into practice.  Anyone can think - do.

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Yeah. And the normies will say it as a bad thing.


If the currency is deflationary, any debt blows up to absurd proportions in real value. Any interest rate greater than the rate of overall economic expansion will be unpayable, resulting in default. And if there's no market for money that yields better than sitting on the money, then no one will lend.

Saylor is wrong. I'm still thinking about that discussion between him and Saif.

In the world that's coming, that we know is coming because we're building it, debt forces a choice between two options :

Forgive,
Or enslave.

I prefer forgiveness. Practice it now, so we can wisely navigate the course to a world of forgiveness. Choose kindness.

We're living in Biblical times.

#Bitcoin #wisdom


I feel all warm and fuzzy! And thanks for causing me to search Machankara - reading up now


Sonofa biscuit, replyguy infected another relay...


sunny poo best poo. Like sunning your balls, but more satisfying. Are you building an app for predicting earthquakes based on solar activity?


No. He won't convert, not publicly. His endeavors depend on the good will of the US government. The US gov watches him closely because of his influence. His companies still hold about 10k bitcoin, and he has been careful not to talk about it. Elon can only join us when its safe to do so.


What a life... Amazing. That's the dream. Er, part of it.


I love the heat. Especially humid heat. It feels like a hug from the world.


Its following you, walking Walker.


They're gone


Idk, I'm suspicious of unity. I think people have a right to be different and the degree of difference is up to them. But yeah, the real enemy isn't each other - its Satan/sin.


Apologies to anyone I didn't reply to while replyguy was gumming up my notifications. And I'm not digging through that mess!


We are all learning to turn off relays that propagate replyguy


#Bitcoin drives nihilists insane. They can't handle it. We see the radical hope ; they see radical doom. The danger is real. If your starting point is thinking humans are horrible, then you can't see the hope it offers.


Thoughts after listening: (not really a response, just some thoughts)

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Teach them the difference between a hacker and a cracker.


I'm not watching, but yes, most people are enslaved by that worldview. And its amazing, if you try to free them with facts and logic, they fight to remain enslaved.


The #Quran is correct about riba. It is correct when it says that #God will declare war on usurers. We're about to see it. I'm a Christian, and I can see that this is correct.

I just listened to nostr:nprofile1qqsyx708d0a8d2qt3ku75avjz8vshvlx0v3q97ygpnz0tllzqegxrtgppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0appv40 talking with Saylor. TBH, it might be better if the big shots aren't thinking about an economy without credit. That will scare them. They won't get it.

But... Bitcoin is going to bring Islamic finance to the world. They won't call it that, that's for sure. Maybe they'll convince Muslims that they've actually adopted Bitcoin finance. But it won't matter - its the same thing.

I really liked Saif's explanation of why the cost of capital should approach zero. I only got a standard Keynesian education, and only undergrad, so I haven't heard that before. It sounds correct to me. Basically, as savings accumulate, you're willing to accept lower and lower yields because you have more and more savings over time - this is imperceptibly gradual, a generational shift. Its the utility curve applied to savings. I'd add that accumulated capital in a country can also count as savings - meaning buildings, machinery, improved land, etc.. The lower yield in that sense is visible in companies pursuing lower yielding operations as well as speciation of niches the economy supports.

Bitcoin's killer feature is immutable scarcity. If the whole world is using #bitcoin, and there's bitcoin loans that can't be repaid, well, too bad. The lender is shit outta luck. The borrower also has the option to abscond, if they think they can get away with it. Oops, shit outta luck. So, in the short run, the cost of capital is going to be high. Too high. In the long run, countries that continue the debt-yield model are going to find themselves with no money. Then you get the bad kind of anarchy, which maybe might turn into the good anarchy. No anarchy is good for governments.

There's a fork in the road in front of us. If we take the left path, the path of credit, we get the Mark of the Beast (again - not the first time). It won't matter if we dodge the CBDCs. Why? Because borrowers won't be trusted, and some mechanism will be required to basically enslave them. Probably everybody. Could be government registered wallets that interface with tracking implants. Maybe some other arrangement. They'll hermetically seal the bitcoin into the country via surveillance and checkpoints. Not good... Probably the beginning of humanity's extinction.

The right hand path is Islamic finance. That sounds scary, but it really just means that people have an alternative to debt. Instead of borrowing 5k sats to "buy" a car, your rich uncle buys the car and leases it to you, with the car as collateral. The lease might not be periodic payments, but simply a payment at a future date, for a different amount than you bought - the market will have to determine how amortization affects the return payment. This is really very simple - much simpler than our current system of monthly payments for three times as long as the car retains any value. Instead of enslaving the human, as in the path of credit, the material possession is enslaved as collateral. The bitcoin gets to flow freely, and no surveillance is required.

I expect both paths to be tried simultaneously. Countries that try to replicate credit on bitcoin will not survive. The Quran says that God will declare war on them, and I can't remember if it also says society will go insane or if that was an interpretation by a scholar, but we can already see that happening. Its a good thing God is merciful - we do have a chance, if we repent and actually understand. If you think none of this matters because its not from the Bible, think again. The Bible constantly compares sin with debt with interest, starting from Genesis, if you read it in Hebrew, or Greek in the NT. Our English versions have been edited. Go to a synagogue and ask, if you have the balls. Being a real Christian takes work. What, you thought it was gonna be easy? I'm not your pastor, I get no financial gain from telling you sweet nothings.

Here's the discussion between Saif and Saylor. And thanks nostr:nprofile1qqs9336p4f3sctdrtft2wlqaq5upjz9azpgylhfd3dplwf005mfrr9spzamhxue69uhkummnw3ezuendwsh8w6t69e3xj7spz3mhxue69uhkummnw3ezummcw3ezuer9wcq3qamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wwa5kueg6g89xw for causing me to listen to this.

https://youtu.be/k7XhzXMSAPo?feature=shared


I had to remove 3 relays to get rid of it. I suspect it'll be back... relay owners need to do something - idk what, but something


Why did I even have that relay? I've never used damus...


I skipped the desktop node and went straight to start9 - no regrets. Its a fantastic device. I recommend building it yourself - they have a great guide on their website, and it was my first electronics project, and I think it was probably the best possible introduction to building electronics. Its also much cheaper to build. And now that we have nostr, this is a great place to ask questions if you get stuck.

Or... Go to bitcoin.org and download bitcoin core for desktop


I skipped the desktop node and went straight to start9 - no regrets. Its a fantastic device. I recommend building it yourself - they have a great guide on their wensite, and it was my first electronics project, and I think it was probably the best possible introduction to building electronics. Its also much cheaper to build. And now that we have nostr, this is a great place to ask questions if you get stuck.

Or... Go to bitcoin.org and download bitcoin core for desktop


I skipped the desktop node and went straight to start9 - no regrets. Its a fantastic device. I recommend building it yourself - they have a great guide on their wensite, and it was my first electronics project, and I think it was probably the best possible introduction to building electronics. Its also much cheaper to build. And now that we have nostr, this is a great place to ask questions if you get stuck.

Or... Go to bitcoin.org and download bitcoin core for desktop. And I just found out that amethyst automatically adds thumbnails for .org stuff. Neat.


It's someone's idea of an attack on nostr. You can get rid of it by looking at the relays it uses and turning them off. The relays it uses are the icons under its picture on its comments


Damus strfry relay propagates replyguy - that's the third one I've turned off. All relays that don't fix spam get axed.

#replyguy


Where'd you watch/listen? I have to admit, I haven't listened yet


Stock isn't borrowing. If you buy stock, you are buying ownership of the company. Future returns are never promised. Not even future dividends are promised - the board of directors, elected by the shareholders, which would be you if you bought stock, can change the dividend at any time. The one thing I do criticize is the preferred vs common stock distinction - preferred is much more expensive and basically impossible for normal people to buy and issuance of new shares doesn't dilute the preferred stock. That's obviously predatory and should be illegal.


Where do you find this discussion? I'm not on X... I think I understand Saif's arguments based on what people say here, but I think I should actually listen


In a bitcoin standard world, any interest - any - is high interest. We will have to move fast to make all usury illegal again, or it could cause the return of slavery (I'm sure they'll have a nicer word).


Unfortunately, we have built our cities in such a way in the US. Bitcoin will force a rethink in urban planning. I'm excited.


Cars will be cheaper relative to hours worked, like they used to be. Measure prices in terms of hours worked - that's what honest economists (I am by training) do. Also, sound money incentivizes competition in terms of quality, so I expect cars will last a lot longer. And 3d printing raises the possibility of printing custom cars on demand, cheaply. It wouldn't be cheap right now, but it will be. In America, its hard for people to imagine living without a car, but in almost any other developed country, its no problem at all to use buses, trains, and cheap taxies (have to say cheap because they aren't cheap here). America will need to learn this magic, but it will be no problem to any other country. You should be glad, Gladstein - credit is the primary means of oppression. We're nuking it.


If you're impressed by the 50 basis point rate cut, don't be. Being unpredictable preserves the Fed's power over markets. It doesn't mean that incoming cuts will also be relatively big. It doesn't mean anything. Nothing. Nada.

Trust me, I'm an economist 😂
^ what's that from? Something famous said it... Never trust an economist. Nevaaaaa


The rugpulling will continue until all credit is gone. Bitcoin banks are a cool idea in the transition period, but they won't make it, not even one.


"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate."

Carl Jung

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#Jung #wisdom


That's a good way to put it too. More memable


Nawsta or knowsta?


"Don't call me wise. The wise try to learn something new every day. I try to forget something every day."

Laozi
(Going by memory, the quote is probably not quite right)


Its "No stir"
I'm converted. "Naw stir" never again.

#nostr


Frikkin dinosaurs


Isn't that still bitaxe?


I don't believe it, you made that up, you hacked some wiki somewhere to insert this upgrade on language that's actually a pretty good idea...


Doctors are too apathetic to be afraid. That would require effort, thinking...


Also I have to doubt its the highest alcohol consumption. Very high, for sure. But Russia's alcoholism is so bad that average male lifespans something like twenty years lower than the global average.


I love South Korea. I did part of my university degree there, learned to speak Korean, and drank a lifetime's supply of Soju. But I actually think it reinforces the hypothesis. South Korea only looks good compared to North Korea. They have relatively few rights, and most Koreans are locked into a pseudo poverty and don't get to travel like the rich Koreans. Government power is intertwined with chaebol power, and that power is at a level typical of a western state, where it can do whatever it wants, be as corrupt as it wants, and the population pays for it via inflation and absurd property prices.

Sorry to any Koreans reading this - I love you guys. You know its true.


If the law is so complex that a 12 year old can't memorize it entirely, then the law is violating your rights, no matter what it says.

Also, don't underestimate 12 years. They're the real ubermensches. Old enough to learn anything, but not yet self limiting due to self consciousness. They are, by far, smarter than most adults.

So, I'm saying that if the best in society, those whose excellence is their nature, can't fully comprehend and internalize the law, the you have tyranny. I'm giving the government the benefit of the doubt, by a wide margin, and it still fails.

#Law
#kids
#society
#freedom


The world's two most totalitarian countries - Russia and the UK - also have the highest alcohol consumption. Is there a link between liberty, or the lack thereof, and alcoholism?

#freedom
#liberty
#health


I like how Graphene tells me when Google Play tries to access sensors. I had downloaded it to get the latest Amethyst for nostr, then forgot about it. I'm literally doing nothing with it, pretty sure its not even running, and in the middle of the night it tries accessing sensors.

Its true. Google is the enemy.

#grapheneos #fuckgoogle


5k sats to call them sats.


Egads!!! Replyguy disappears if you turn off the relays it uses...

Shut up, I know.


Test


White man bad! Evil, racist, wife beating, white man. Always balding.


Are you a scammer? What motivates you to copy someone else's profile? Just curious.


This is actually a theme I find occasionally in books written by lefties. I forgot which, but one of Kim Stanley Robinson's books had people who returned to nomadic tribalism while a whole solar civilization existed in the 25th century. Might've been on Mars, too - I forgot. I was a huge fan of that author back when I still believed the CO2 hoax - he writes a lot about environmentalism


Catholicism seems to work to outdo its own absurdity every year.


We're all beggars in some way.


No, its been my dream to move to Bhutan for at least the last 15 years. I'm really annoyed by them getting bitcoin because there's less chance of me going there with something to teach them. If you don't bring expertise, its crazy to expect a country to let you in.


Can't help noticing his ethnicity and the fact that I've seen a lot people of the same background having low/no morals. I'm no racist, but when there's a pattern, you kinda have to notice.


Two beggars waited at the door of a house. One was immediately satisfied and given a piece of bread. He went away. The second was kept waiting for his morsel. Why?

The first beggar was not greatly liked. He was given stale bread. The second was made to wait until a fresh loaf was baked for him.

- Rumi

#wisdom


Recent discovery for any floor sleepers out there - a small pillow under your lower back has huge benefits.

#health


Militaries will just have to add electronic assembly to their training, like assembling a gun. This could turn out to be a good thing, as people get more used to doing it.


OK OK, I'll look


That seems to imply that things will be worse a year from now. What are you planning, Gigi?


Yep. And your mental state has some effect on physiology, so IMO its not inconceivable that you could actually get cancer by believing the news.


Israel proved, impressively and not for the first time, that it is also a terrorist organization.


If I have to think about relays, I'm just gonna ignore them. So I ignore them. Great idea, but currently very poorly implemented.


Ah cool, a purity test.


Be late. Stop caring if other people care.


A mountain is many times larger than a ruby.

-Rumi


I wonder how many more people would take anarchism seriously if we used correct English... Its voluntarism. No y.


I make a point of not using GPS when driving. Driving is boring enough already, I'm not gonna make it even boringer by not thinking.


This just happened : someone warned that too much sunlight causes skin cancer, while they took pills prescribed by their doctor.

😂

#health


GM ☕
Prediction : within our lifetimes, Persia will become a top tourist destination.


You have a very bad translation.


Beware of people who lack incisors.

#excellence #wisdom


Also it just has to be said... Israel is a terrorist organization. Stating the obvious, but somehow it's not obvious to most people.


They hid explosives in them and waited to to it all at once. Its not the batteries.


Why?


The DLCs are worth it. My favorite is Hermaeus Mora


A third attempt on Trump. As literally everyone predicted.

People are openly saying its the deep state. Just that is amazing. After covid, no one trusts the government. And the rigged election and the kangaroo trials.


Disagree. History will repeat if we're not brazen, bold, shameless


Hopefully


I hope the deal was,

"help us make chips, and we'll use our awesome military to definitely defend Taiwan when the war starts,"

And not,
"Help us, or else, and we're not defending you anyways."

I worry when Republicans and libertarians say Taiwan is the same as Ukraine. Its not.


This looks straight out of Star Wars


You're not, I am, I just wanted to turn my laziness into something nice


What day is it? I genuinely don't know. Not sure the month, either.


Grr stupid weather, I need vitamin d


I'd make one too, but I enjoy yours so much that it just wouldn't feel right


I've been poo-pooing the ever-predicted rate cuts for two years... It has to happen sometime, but I've been right so far


Hmm, Malacath is unhappy that I turned to Molag Bal and vampirism


GM ☕
I recognize that painting... Polish painter, iirc 👍


Lol why?


Maybe a government feels threatened by it


Or it did have a .dev ... This one doesnt


So what's the deal with this Replyguy thing? I had assumed it was some developer's experiment, since it has a ".dev" in the name - I know, not a great assumption. But it has expanded its attacks, and now copies replies to notes too. I'm annoyed enough to finally ask... Who/what/where/why? Etc.

#replyguy #asknostr


Back when the matrix was running something more similar to Minecraft... You can even see that the rules were different when you look at some pre Colombian ruins in south america


I think its a pointless distinction. But if I have to choose, I prefer lower case, simply because plural bitcoin is bitcoin, so its an uncountable noun, like milk, and I don't think proper nouns can be uncountable. And that actually reinforces the argument of Bitcoin being the network... except that its a pointless distinction.


Too


Genghis Khan was a time traveller.


Huh. Maybe FOSS is the better route then


Probably just was too early. Hand phones have been Veblen goods, and still are to boomers, but its mostly past that stage in the product cycle


Fun fact : Tolkien was an anarcho capitalist.

No wonder the left hates him and, unoriginally/predictably, call him a racist.


I claim Ganymede. Its mine.


Looks like an excellent product. I wouldn't try wearing it as pants, though


At some point that stops being a phone and is instead a night vision headset


If you think $13 million per coin is bullish, #GFY


Why so bearish? Not trolling... Saylor is irritatingly bearish. Its like he hasn't even figured it out.


The phone market is severely underserved. Every time you buy a phone, there's the danger it will be a piece of junk, or become one too fast. This causes us to mostly all buy the same models, and we rush to the latest gen of whatever.

But I might not want even more pixels on my camera, or want a camera at all, or maybe I want a physical switch to control if my microphone is connected. These aren't even options on the market.

Here's how we fix it - and fix the fucking surveillance, too. Sell phones in pieces, and allow people to mix and match parts from different sellers. Make it as customizable as possible. Parts just snap together and the OS is ready to switch stuff.

Some part of your phone isn't up to snuff anymore? Switch it out. I might want a new CPU but not need a new screen. I might not want a camera at all.

For sure, this would cause less profits for Apple and Google. But the hundred other phone makers, that barely make any sales, don't have much to lose if they switch to supplying interchangeable parts.

And it might even spark a creative mania. I'll jump all over replacing the camera with a high powered laser. Or a handheld mass spectrometer, another gadget I dream about.

#Phones #tech #innovation #lasers #makers


I'd love it if I could buy pieces of a phone and snap it together and mix and match parts, upgrade a piece at a time. Customizable hardware, might be a future big thing


I'd buy


No idea. Might have to use clothes pins and a line. I kinda want to do that anyways


Ah, the pop-saint that helped me see what garbage Orthodox is...


Faraday pockets - someone who sells stuff like that, we need pants that look totally normal, but block signals. Good for balls, too.


Self control and a Faraday bag will fix 99% of problems. Phones that actually turn off when turned off would help too.


Huh. Hating Russia is dumb.


Invincible. 💪


Ah. I know the feeling. Give yourself a hug, from this stranger on the internet... In lieu of more comforting words, which I'm bad at. And give yourself time - rediscover yourself.


How do you guard your energy?
(This is progressing to a joke, I can FEEL it!)


If I poke it with pins, can you feel it?


Another thing people don't understand about #bitcoin is, there really are no losers. Even if you have none, you won't lose. Even if you made exactly the wrong bet, and bought dozens of houses and never hodled, you will still be richer when the world uses bitcoin, despite seeing the dollar value (possibly not price, but VALUE) drop to almost nothing. You'll still be richer.

Probably even if you held nothing but bonds... yuck! Even then.

Why? For the same reason that the average person now is better off than the 15th century kings of Europe.


Fun fact : in winter, Antarctica approximately doubles in size.

You know those news reports of "the biggest ever ice sheet collapsed!"? Probably about as credible as the bleaching corals.


No.


I'd ban it too. You might get herpes from using an app with that name.


Kardashev scale is dumb


I don't want to be pacified. You be pacified.


Seemed scary before I degoogled phone, but it was the easiest thing in the world. Graphene's website does it for you. No thinking required.


Those are some of my favorite people.


There is nothing more valuable than peace and quiet.


Where is this fabulous patriarchy? Seems like a nice place to live, if I could find it


mmm boobies


Now that's interesting...


This


That's him? Well, I think we know the motive... He needs prison to get some food.


Your mom's inflammatory


mfers tried it again #catstr https://i.nostr.build/ImlD9CQMpNsH8mZd.jpg


Still looking for info, but IMO its just that leftists aren't skilled with weapons. Thank God for that. Saw something saying "an AK style weapon" - not a good choice, if correct.


Goodness. Another attempt on Trump. These people...


The world is always changing. What's actually crazy is thinking you can't change the world.


I think that's pretty close to what's going to happen. Its already possible to make relays requires a payment to use - idk how to set it up, but one of my relays demanded a payment, which caused me to nix it. But spam will get too bad to use freelays eventually. Yes, I just invented that word.


Modern social discourse conforms to three main subconscious urges - a trinity, if you will.

The leftist urge, or perhaps polar attractor, is the urge to commit genocide.

The rightist urge is to bow to an authority. They think their chosen authority is on their team, so they will be benevolent. History is still waiting for this to pan out.

Between the two is the third urge, moderating them - the urge to be accepted by your peers. This urge sometimes pushes people to further extremes via virtue signalling, and sometimes pushes people to the middle - this middle push is strongest when your chosen team is close to committing their crime, but is unlikely to get away with it.

There are other "attractors" for personal identity - the navigation and interplay of archetypes is the main concern of astrology and alchemy. But, for modern society and the mass psychology that emerges, genocide and submission are the two poles, and we oscillate between these poles. Everything in nature vibrates between two poles.


What amount of the mass insanity is caused by a lack of new frontiers to conquer?

https://image.nostr.build/749c247198ce2a5149e9572991f89cdc01fafbdc33aed2a69e5e3f58b0369611.jpg

We have two frontiers right here, which will demand our best technology and human excellence, and can satisfy our need to conquer limitations for tens of thousands of years.

Orbit - ringsteading
Ocean - seasteading

#frontiers #seasteading #space #tech #humanity


An infinite being can divide itself infinitely and never be diminished. The logos of being wears all personae.


Both have to be true. For God to be the supreme being, he is by definition all that is.


Mine are the best.


Not the message I was expecting, but makes sense


Yep


I always wondered if they could just type characters that sound like what they're saying, but are not the right characters, so its gibberish if you read it, but makes sense if you hear it. Greetings from Texas. I visited Taiwan once and was really impressed.


I guess China isn't as good as Google at censorship. Google/YouTube just silence you completely. Nuthin getting thru!


No. 99℅ never respond. I haven't found the engagement hack, but that definitely isn't it.


Only one word can do that - No.


Mine eat a huge bowl of icecream every evening on top of never exercising. I exercise everyday and if I have as much as one bowl of ice cream in a month, my body falls apart.


I am amazed at how many times per day my phone buzzes with an "amber alert - child abduction."

I chose not to disable the notification because I wanted to see how much these things are happening in my town... A LOT is how much.

Now, time to look up again how to disable this thing, cuz I forgot. But seriously, what the fuck? How can society be this messed up? Don't answer, I know... Its just crazy.


Yep. Agree, but also "yep, the need is strong"


Domains is where I always stopped. I figure the day *must* come when I can get traffic to an onion address.


I think about Rome's collapse a lot, the economics of it, the spirituality of it, and the tragedy of the eastern Orthodox church usurping the church and their twisting God's love into a cover for them to murder anything deemed heretical.

As for Daoism, I've been there, been in their temples in China, and read the Dao de Ching several times. If you want an incredibly sublime spiritual experience, read that and the Gospel of John at the same time.


Short it


Every time I read "jurisdiction," I hear "juris my diction," because of The Matrix.

It just happened again. And again because I wrote it.


I was a Nietzschean before becoming a Christian. What I can tell Christians : you're totally misunderstanding Nietzsche. He's not nihilist or anti-Christian. Quite the opposite - he's life affirming, same as us, and his criticisms are valid and highlight how political corruption of the church has caused accretions and falling away from Christ's teaching. Protestants especially should find value in Nietzsche's writing.


Well, because I've never heard of it. Thanks for the tip


If you think this is a rage post, stick around


I thought the whole point of the nsec/npub architecture was that only you control your nsec. And yet, this nostr:nprofile1qqsx2wyjt6lmvc05rrvv05r5hm3w3t7h0pcpmkyswrpd4ymd2u09tscpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq3kamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu339e682mnwv4k8xct5wvhxxmmdqywhwumn8ghj7mn0wd68yttsw43zuam9d3kx7unyv4ezumn9wscn3xgh app wants it to connect to nostr.

How about No? Why can't I use my key to sign a message one time to verify its me? I'm not putting my key into your black box.

https://image.nostr.build/5596bdf31a53578c4671aef9977b43ab8deb03b03ff66897d74028580172d270.jpg

#Nostr #fountain


If you haven't seen an elephant poop, a trip to the zoo is worth it


Butter for 6k yrs is only true for the English, and I don't believe for a second that we've been eating any of those oils longer than 50 years. Even that's a stretch for most people. And coconut should be at least as long as animal fats.

Ideal human diet : coconut and beef. You'll probably live forever on that.


With zinc


So this year on 9/11, I would like to remind everyone that we are still under the emergency order that Bush originally issued in 2001, renewed by every president since.

Obama
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2010/09/10/letter-president-continuation-national-emergency-with-respect-certain-te

Trump
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/09/13/2017-19601/continuation-of-the-national-emergency-with-respect-to-certain-terrorist-attacks

Biden
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2023/09/07/notice-on-the-continuation-of-the-national-emergency-with-respect-to-certain-terrorist-attacks-3/

#breakthestate #anarchy #falseflag #psyop #911 #wtc #wtc7


I'm not seeing that at all. I see the media telling us that Trump lost, but that's not what I saw last night.


GM ☕
Happy False Flag Day


In Morrowind, I created a spell that allowed me to jump so high the ground disappeared and I landed on the other side of the map


I am unfortunately the wrong person to ask. I would bet not very reliable. The rebels in Myanmar seem to be doing alright with printed guns, though.


3d printer time! It shall be... FMC9


Yep. Beating him was the highlight of my 12th year on planet earth


Does the 2nd Amendment protect my right to own missiles? I want missiles.


Yeah, she lied a lot.


I thought a roast was supposed to dis the other guy. Seems pretty accurate.

Are you a bot?


Trump won that.

#Trump #Harris #Trumpwon


Scammer ^


Truth is the privilege of the strong.

https://image.nostr.build/5925a8133bfc804846fb789e53fff43cd6260bbd829bf9c40bf778fc788efd9a.jpg

- Neotzsche

#Wisdom #philosophy #truth #god


According to this, there are 5-6 billion buildings in the world. That's wild.

What does that say about the global economy?
Do we actually need that many?
How much value is stored in them?

21 mil / 5 billion

Not even bothering to do the math. Its crazy. And you could probably call that a floor.

The source: Oh, it comes with AI art just for thumbnails... Neat.

https://www.jyfs.org/how-many-buildings-are-there-in-the-world/


Powell needs a mustache.


Yeah I feel like something bigger is going on, that geopolitics is downstream of... But its hard to say more than just that. Trying to be as reductionist as possible, I'd say that the basic unit of economics is the family, and probably the basic unit of the nation state is organized crime families. The intermarrying of the ruling families fits with the organized crime premise because the state has only what it steals ; the state is fundamentally a structural form of organized crime. It might simply be just that, if I'm being strictly reductionist, which is admittedly boring.

Good on the Bulgarians for kicking out the Turkish army. Albanians, too, though I think that was a different conflict.


That makes sense. I should also quit coffee. Caffeine is antimicrobial, so putting it in your gut has to be doing some harm


If the British had known that the destruction of the Austro-Hungarian empire would result in the creation of the EU super state, do you think they would have done it?

The Austrian empire asked for peace in WW1 multiple times. The British refused because they wanted to partition the rival empire.


Interesting


Quite possible... two totally unnecessary operations. I think I was his guinea pig.


Rulers vs rulers. The rulers know it, and so they're united against the citizens.


Once upon a time, my kidneys failed. The first thing the doctor asked me after I awoke (after passing out in the hospital lobby) was, "did you use creatine?" I hadn't. I was on dialysis for a month. Two years of physical therapy.

Go easy on that shit.


Is it pronounced "deary jizz me"?


That's what she said.
(The word)


This is an interesting product. Thanks for pointing this out, nostr:nprofile1qqsvfr3f7p95stxqrjslnmuvsmhcxxxqt8swjdfjx5tz7zq0yms5cygpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnfdenx7qg6waehxw309aex2mrp0yhx7unpdenk2urfd3kzuer9wcq3gamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwv3sk6atn9e5k7raruhg

https://hushed.com/

I wouldn't call it private, but on demand burner numbers is certainly useful.


Someone please tell us both... It doesn't get blocked when I block it


I've blocked it like 20 times on amethyst... It doesn't work..


That's a good idea. My place is a mess


Also temptation... If I could totally isolate, I think it would be easier. But there's always people eating around me! 😮


I don't think the kosher rules are necessary anymore. They had to do/don't do certain behaviors to get into a spiritual state. A lot of philosophers have been totally vegan, for example, in a lot of different cultures - like abstinence makes the spirit more accessible. Fasting seems to, for sure. Idk... I'm feeling imposter syndrome now... I'm not good at abstinence and I've only barely begun to understand spiritual things... And for that matter, I suspect that anything less than full knowledge is equivalent to complete ignorance. Hungry now... Want meat...


But I never think it will keep going down. wait wait wait... I'm stuck in a paradox... does not compute! Aaagggghhh BOOM

😵


That's amazing. I think you've been invited in...


Was it bread and wine?


Or you exceeded some amount of obstinacy, beyond which God just says F it, I'll make it obvious. I suspect that's my case.


Worse, this replyguy bot is somehow immune to being blocked. At least it is on amethyst.


Health - I think I figured something out.

My back has been hurting for the last few years. Its bad enough that I no longer sleep in my bed because the bed makes it worse. The hard floor feels better.

The location is just above my hip on the left side. The back bulges a little bit there. I've been doing stretches, twisting and turning, trying to get everything to go back to how it's supposed to be. The time spent stretching is like meditation - I focus on that spot.

So I had a new idea/theory... Maybe my back is messed up because my hip is turned. Idk why it would be turned, and I'm not even sure it can be turned in the way I envision it. But if the left side of the hip were stuck in a backwards tilt, it could cause the muscles and ligaments in my back to bulge that way. So now I'm focusing on trying to tilt the hip bone forward and keep it that way. I started putting a hard ball under the top of the hip, and holding it there for as long as I can stand it. It feels good, until it doesn't.

I think it's working. Back is already less warped, and it's only been one day. Now I need to think about what/how to strengthen to prevent it from happening again.

#health #fitness #kinesiology #Kinesthetics #meditation


I love that it happened in Rome... Its kinda poetic in a way


There's a surprising number of people in China that buy any art made by foreigners. (Assuming you're a waiguoren). It probably got sold for a good price.


Ohhhhh. Makes sense


I recognize the symbol, but not the rest... What's that from?


I'm not falling for your propaganda, Jimmy! I'm immune to your anti propaganda progapanda!


What's needed is to bring back stone masonry, then shine colored lights on all the things.


https://image.nostr.build/4609909f9dc038a40d32c84901a2849e600a6db9cf8ab73162873cabd0cef526.jpg

Drawing by Paul Gustave Doré

Supposed to show Lucifer falling from heaven to hell. But that doesn't make sense because Lucifer isn't in hell - he's here on earth.

Also a perfect picture to explain something... this isn't bad. This is the beginning of the journey. You fall from a place of pure spirit and pure potential, into the world of experience. This is you. Whether or not you are Lucifer, and what that even means, is up to you.

#Philosophy #wisdom #art #culture


https://image.nostr.build/4609909f9dc038a40d32c84901a2849e600a6db9cf8ab73162873cabd0cef526.jpg

Drawing by Paul Gustave Doré

Supposed to show Lucifer falling from heaven to hell. But that doesn't make sense because Lucifer isn't in hell - he's here on earth.

Also a perfect picture to explain something... this isn't bad. This is the beginning of the journey. You fall from a place of pure spirit and pure potential, into the world of experience. This is you. Whether or not you are Lucifer, and what that even means, is up to you.

#Philosophy #wisdom


Bot, seriously? Tell your owner to program you better.


"the bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy"

What we really need:
"You're fired!"


The final final question is "what am I?"


I'd rather click the box. But turtles are awesome


I'd rather click the box. But turtles awesome


What the...? I responded to that replyguy bot that's been spamming everyone today. What magic is this?


What the...? I responded to that replyguy not that's been spamming everyone today. What magic is this?


Nietzsche is my favorite philosopher! But he didn't understand Christianity (if anyone does), which is super ironic because he stresses so much about what we'll do without it


Drifted back to Taoism or Christianity? My beliefs pretty much a mix of the two


Definitely


Voigt kampff.... Hmm. I feel like I've heard this before... Is that the war of extermination Nietzsche said not to do?


the operator appears to be making new versions of this bot as people block it. We need a better way to filter out these nuisances


I think its beautiful


If it's just a problem of regulation, why hasn't some tiny country attracted all the flying car investment by having different regulations?


That just gives us a reason to build giant futuristic noise cancelling pagodas.


U a bot? Cuz that's obviously not a man


Storing value in the house will probably hurt. House prices are overvalued because of weak currencies/cheap debt. On sound money, most of that value in your house will disappear


Why does the dude wear a mask?


Except the most violent people are most incompetent. They will try to solve their problems with armies and more brutal police.


No I'm not.


Made me hungry. Now I want a bitcoin cookie mold. Mould. Idk, those things. Cast?


Made me hungry. Now I want a bitcoin cookie mold. Mould. Idk, those things.


What kind of bot doesn't give you the link? Lame...


What kind of not doesn't give you the link? Lame...


The reason Christianity faces such opposition is because its the only one of the big belief systems that doesn't teach resentment.

Islam and Buddhism, and I'd argue even Judaism, tell their adherents some version of "this is why life sucks, you should give up, withdraw, its pointless to try."

Christianity has some of that - Catholicism appears to have more embedded resentment than any of the protestant sects - but the common thread throughout all versions of Christianity is that you can and should overcome the "tests" in front of you.

Its the fact that Christians don't fall into despair that makes non-Christians hate them so much. If Christians would only break and fall down and give up - like them - then they'd be tolerable.

I don't even agree with most of what Christians say. Doesn't matter. Never break. Keep praying. Rebuild your churches. The attacks will never end, but neither will the little victories, where someone sees your faith and chooses to have that. Resentment is a stupid way to live.


## A Christian Church is Burned Down Every Two Weeks in France... ##

...While a New Mosque is Built Every Fifteen Days

https://dailycaller.com/2024/09/03/fire-france-church-immaculate-conception-notre-dame-burn/ #news #newstr


I bet the divorce rate goes way down on sound money


Step in!


OoooOooooh Indonesia we be a great next adventure!


For exactly that reason, I try to care less.


That man-woman has monkey mouth.


Magic!


All men are magicians because we all have wands. 😂

That's basically what I got from this chapter in my tarot book.


Probably a war on us...


Or maybe one of those rocky uninhabited islands in the Aegean.


That's a good plan. Finding a lady is hard, though. For me, at least. As for the estate, I want enough land that anyone with bad intentions has to really plan. Maybe in Wyoming. Or maybe a seastead.


I can definitely relate to that... The time wasted on other cultures. All totally useless because I don't want to live in those countries. I still want adventure, but I don't need these languages for that.


Yeah, I see that too


Thought...

Each cultural region seems to share geographic similarities. The conventional view is that culture is downstream of geography, but what if its the opposite? What if the world conforms to some underlying collective attitude or disposition?

For me, its really hard to look at a map of Europe and see randomness. The map itself screams intentionality. Why have a random mountain range between Spain and France? I say 'random' because the mountains thrust up abruptly, with ocean hugging close on both ends, totally different from the mountain ranges in the Americas or Asia. Then gaze a little eastward, and the Alps appear unnatural as well. Then even further east, and the Caucasus mountains, looking as unnatural as you can imagine, with sea on either side and flat steppes to the north. Its as if the geography is determined to accommodate a specific flow of history. Even further weirdness in Europe is the fractal pattern of peninsulae. It's all peninsulas off of peninsulas.

Contrast this with Africa, which has a character of flatness. High elevation flatness. Very very few peninsulas, and the few mountains don't come in ranges.

Contrast both with east Asia, which exhibits again a fractal pattern, but its comprised larger and smaller karsts, where some karsts are so huge they make countries. I've personally also noticed a difference in light quality in my travels - I think more white light than in the Americas.

Now American geography seals the deal. It's peninsular in many places, but also the plant life is closely related to Europe's plant life. Its like its a product of the European mind looking for a new home, so things are similar, but washed out, like a watercolor painting, conceptually. North America even came packaged with people that represent the lost life that the European mind yearns for, but can't return to, an innocence lost.

Now, if you follow me, let's think of what part of each cultural/geographic unit would be the heart, possibly even the original world of the people from that unit - assuming reality has some psychic aspect, as I think both religion and quantum physics indicate.

The most peninsular part of Europe is Norway. Norway also is still the glacial climate, which must have had a huge impact on the development of European culture. Norway even has people still living an ancient tribal lifestyle, the Sami, representing lost innocence.

For Asia, it seems like the area from Vietnam to Fujian are the most "karsty," and I would argue that's where the original Chinese culture formed. I say I'd argue because geoplotics have mashed north and south China together, and they not the same.

Africa, candidates for the "most" African geography are both north and south of the middle jungly area - I'd bet the Sahara looked very similar to the Kalahari at the time we would consider the dawn of civilization, ~11k years ago.

I left out India, Arabia, and South America, because I just don't know enough about them. They each have a certain self-similarity, though, so I'd bet this thought works there too.

To summarize: IF the strictly materialist, Newtonian ontology is missing a vital element, such as consciousness, then perhaps these places were their own worlds once, separate fragments of the idea of the life story, which only mashed together into what we view as a planet after they went looking for each other.

Its probably wrong. But it's fun to try new ideas. Europe's geography really is weird, though.


I can't be specific because I don't pay attention, but I saw some people saying something about it being fast, here on nostr. You could probably find it by searching/following hashtag graphene


I'm in the US. But thanks! Might be handy to know sometime


Uh oh. Bad aliens must live there.


Nostr has edits.

Also all of those things are features of government, regardless of the party ostensibly running it. Socialists, statists, and republicans are all basically the same thing. Only anarcho capitalists are true Americans.


No action necessary. Bitcoin fixes this. Having real savings will return bargaining power to the employee. That parasite won't be able to handle it. He'll try to bring back slavery. But its already too late for him.


No need. Graphene better.


Yeah, but we're all ecologists, and we're better at being extropians than the extropians were.


Oh wow... I've been wanting to see Florence for the history. I didn't know it had that


That's the secret to Jesus. He did it because he's our friend. Sorry... Not trying to proselytize... I know that's annoying. Just had to say it.


"The distinctive thing about real facts, however, is their individuality. Not to put too fine a point on it, but one could say that the real picture consists of nothing but exceptions to the rule, and that in consequence, absolute reality has predominantly the character of irregularity. "

Carl Jung

Holy shit, I'm a fan.

https://image.nostr.build/ca4600d0892f04312c70abd8f9044ade6b3574f4d2b79d50a31e302afe4718a3.jpg


Hmm. I wonder if they'll pay a foreigner...


Alright, this is my dilemma too. But I don't want to figure anything out. I'm lazy and I like me that way. Is there a simple way to get an address? I get hung up on the part where I have to read stuff.


On the Arrest of Telegram’s Founder, Pavel Durov: How to Fight Censorship as Globalists Expand their War on Truth
https://www.globalresearch.ca/arrest-pavel-durov-fight-censorship/5866936
#breakthestate #anarchy #freespeech #censorship


The left claims they're censored, the right claims they're censored, I'm neither but I was hurt very badly by the vaccine and every platform other than this one censors me...

Well, I hope they keep it up. Guillotines are not hard to make, and most people are much more impulsively than those of us that moved to nostr. I think history is going to happen.


Is that one in lower right a real place?


We're not free in the west


I'm really fond of renting motorcycles when I travel. No motorcycle license, though. I just kinda figured it out in the Philippines.. highly recommend. I wonder if I can get away with doing that in Italy


I'm really fond of renting motorcycles when I travel. No motorcycle license, though. I just kinda figured it out in the Philippines, highly recommend. I wonder of I can get away with doing that in Italy


Its far past time for communities to organize their own defense. The state is obviously not interested in defending us.

(No, I'm not French, thank God... Still.)

https://image.nostr.build/e48427d9dea49047e849ef19f3d3e1ab357ee8907570d433ef5c8e1eeecfe76c.jpg


Oh yeah, there's a volcano about to blow, right? That's awesome, I wanna see it


Also do they speak Italian on the Dalmatian coast? Iirc Italy once ruled there


Is it possible to live there without knowing Italian? I like languages, I like Italian, but idk any italian


I'd prefer Italy actually. I like the sound of Italian more than french


I saw a device a few years ago that transmitted data via laser. It was a ceiling mounted thingy and I think the part they were still trying to get right was how it tracked your device's location. Haven't seen anything about it since, and that was before covid


Hmm, a trip to France might be fun


Sexuality is the physical expression of a higher passion. The passion is what spurs you on an adventure or new undertaking.


Or the laptop and phones move all their compute to a server. I think phones are already starting this.


To be fair, nostr is pretty good at holding my attention too


I think that's right. Interesting coincidence, I just read that in my book :

https://image.nostr.build/62850276752ae09354fc4d0afb5d289baabfdc706ef9d71ce177a35a9f27517c.jpg


Can confirm - got econ degree, learned mostly bullshit. But its notable that economics is a Greek word and it used to be a theological topic, during the late Roman/early medieval period, when there was no sound money in circulation. This is also something they don't teach in school or university.


Yes. Very irritating. This is new?


Congrats man. Someday bankers will go to jail and cars will be affordable - because bankers gone.


Nah, let them vote. I just think nobody should be voting unless they own property. Cops shouldn't exist - only volunteer neighborhood watch is needed, and that should be men, and they should bring all their own equipment. This is how you decentralise, localize, and stop the violations of human rights.


Huge cat! Japan has Godzilla ; Bavaria has giant tabby


The fake democracies agree.


Wait, I got so hung up on vibes, I didn't even see trust... Ya got me! 😅


Vibes?


Did the US states ever fight against the Social Security Act? Its such a flagrant violation of states' rights...


My best stab at your ending questions are : I think the link between technology and consciousness are much deeper than the materialist assumption. Technology doesn't only come from ideas expressed in material form - they're an extension of our consciousness itself. I think the whole world, to some degree, in some way, is a product of our minds. The spooky action of quantum physics seems to support this.

IIRC the army that marched around Jericho had the ark with them. The ark did all sorts of cool things, but it seems like it was just a box made of wood (I want to say Cedar, but Acacia would make more sense) with some gold artwork on it. But the ark was a symbol, and everyone believed in its power or holiness, so in a way, it was technology. It was conscious intention stored up somehow like potential energy and it did work in the real world.

This fits with my theory about the Jews - that they were actually the entire priest class of Egypt. Or maybe the Levites were the priests themselves and the other tribes had something to do with organization. I have no support for this theory, and it could be formulated in a million ways, but that's just how it seems to me. They claimed they were in bondage in Egypt - "slave" is used, but that wasn't like slavery in the US was. In Egypt a slave paid 20℅ of their product to their master, but was otherwise mostly free. But a priest would equate worldly life with bondage, so it could have meant that, too. Now, if you look at the "King's chamber" in the great pyramid at Giza, there's a broken stone box that archaeologists claim held a sarcophagus. But its too short. It looks to me like it would hold the ark perfectly. I'd really like to go measure it... Bucket list. When the Jews left Egypt, the pharaoh was determined to stop them. People moved around a lot - a lot more people were nomads back then. I doubt the pharaoh got pissy every time some nomads crossed his land. He seemed too upset in the story, like he was losing the most valuable thing he had, maybe the source of his legitimacy. That would be the priests, the magicians. "Moses" is a very Egyptian name, and he was a priest. So Moses was taking the magic out of Egypt. And we see that magic at Jericho. We also see it on the cross. "Christ" is also an Egyptian name. Most people think its Greek, and it is, but not originally. The word comes from the Egyptian initiation ritual. I don't know what it meant to them, but it was used after the initiate passed the stage where they see Osiris' mummy.

For me, these things actually strengthen my belief in Jesus Christ, even though they aren't taught in church.

I forgot most of what I'm responding to, but I remember you said something about charity potentially causing companies to not want to hire Christians. I'd agree, if the Christian employee has a misunderstanding of what charity is. Its not necessarily selfless giving. In one sense, Christian charity means giving the benefit of the doubt and being civil, usually in conversation. And you can give away things and call it charity, but only if its not pity. And most importantly, selling things in a free exchange is also a form of charity - that's actually the easiest way to begin to see the unseen world. If its a free exchange, both sides would say they profited. The end result is a whole greater than the sum of its parts. Simply moving things around and getting paid for being a merchant is creating an increase in wellbeing in the world, so that's charity. The word got maligned after it got a legal meaning, which flattened it and made it a target.


My book about tarot acquired its first coffee stain just now. It was inevitable.


Can't sleep. Need meat.


A short article on how Jesus' interactions with the Pharisees regarding taxes was actually an argument that taxation is idolatry.

![image](https://yakihonne.s3.ap-east-1.amazonaws.com/5725c4a8292805ad09891b9f8500c59249cd986a38674a7a821915516ba4f820/files/1724900433458-YAKIHONNES3.jpg)

As a Libertarian who grew up in American Christian culture, I'm very familiar with the passage in which the Pharisees challenge Jesus to pay taxes to Caesar. This is a very loaded story, especially since it is one of the most frequently used to support statism and to convince Christians to submit to governing authorities.

But what is the correct understanding of this story? Let's look first at the story itself:

>Matthew 22:15-22

>Taxes for Caesar

>Then the Pharisees met together to plot how to trap Jesus into saying something for which he could be arrested.  They sent some of their disciples, along with the supporters of Herod, to meet with him. “Teacher,” they said, “we know how honest you are. You teach the way of God truthfully. You are impartial and don’t play favorites. Now tell us what you think about this: Is it right to pay taxes to Caesar or not?”

>But Jesus knew their evil motives. “You hypocrites!” he said. “Why are you trying to trap me? Here, show me the coin used for the tax.” When they handed him a Roman coin, he asked, “Whose picture and title are stamped on it?”

>“Caesar’s,” they replied.

>“Well, then,” he said, “give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar, and give to God what belongs to God.”

>His reply amazed them, and they went away.

First, I think it's important to point out that the Pharisees had deliberately adopted this tactic, as if it was a sure gotcha. That is, they had reason to believe that Jesus would give a response that goes against paying taxes to an occupying government. And in fact, despite the common teaching about this passage in American churches today, that's exactly what he did!

How? This story is very very rich in context, and you have to understand this to have a proper understanding of what was communicated to the Pharisees.

Jesus told the pharisees to show him the coin used to pay the tax, and asked them who's image was on it. This is VERY VERY important. First, let's look at the first two of the 10 Commandments:

> The Ten Commandments

>Exodus 20:1-6

>And God spoke all these words:
>“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.

>“You shall have no other gods before me.

>“You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments."

Experts in religious law at the time would have immediately understood the point that Jesus was making. He was pointing out, through examination of the coin itself, that paying taxes to Caesar is tantamount to idolatry.

The Pharisees fully expected to catch Jesus making an insurrectionary statement by forbidding his followers from paying taxes. He one-upped them and turned the gotcha back onto them by pointing out that what they were advocating in the name of their religion goes directly against God's own commandments.

Are we sure about this? What was really on the tribute coin mentioned? We have examples, though I believe the description within scripture is already sufficient to understand.

> Tribute penny - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribute_penny

Caesar had his image stamped on his coins, along with statements of self glory. This is because in the Roman state religion, as with the empires before it, the emperor was literally a part of the pantheon. This goes directly against Jewish Law "You shall have no other gods before me", as well as contradicting the following forbiddance of graven images.

Jesus was actually telling the Pharisees that paying taxes to Caesar is the same as idol worship. In fact, carrying around Caesar's money was the same. This is always how statism has worked, paying taxes is a pagan religious practice in which the government and it's pantheon have usurped God.

This is why Christianity, in it's truest form, is anti-statist and pro-liberty.


Perfectly said! Its so amazing to read this.


Oh heck yeah, I'm gonna read the fuck outta that... I've been making that argument for years


Some kind of relay thing. My notes stopped doing weird stuff when I started using my own relay.

Also, did you stop believing the Jericho story? Seems plausible to me. But also seems plausible to be symbolic


Huh. I never read much significance in that. The Lord is with anyone he works through. He's probably with you right now.


Where?


I don't think Mary wanted to be venerated.


They exist, I've seen them. But I forgot the name


I soon mine will be too. Good idea


Yep


All three at once for Super Saiyan mode


That's Super Saiyan mode


That's Super Sayan mode


But that's not what actually happens. People get tattoo specifically to impress other people. Its approval/attention seeking. That means its actually *giving up* the only truly sovereign thing they have. When I see a tattoo, I know that person has a weak mind and is in some way dangerous.


Most books should have been pamphlets.


Gross. But I guess a little less gross


I agree a second time. Amazing... Easily 99℅ of books are complete trash, and 100℅ of books recommended to me and which I read, could have made their point more clearly with 1/20th the writing. Most books should have been pamphlets.


I agree with him and I reserve my right to judge however the fuck I want


Emphatic No. Tattoos are disgusting.


I agree! Wait...


Omg yasss... I think I just got something out that's been trying to leave for something like a year.


No.


Actually, re reading what I wrote... I don't fully agree with it. Its just a start. The final goal of true freedom is worth fighting for


The state is barrelling straight into a disaster of its own making. Band together, yes, but I'd still prefer prudence. When the disaster hits, the state will be busy with too much to handle - we need to have a plan to renegotiate our arrangement with the state. There's already tons of ways to get out of taxes - that's the reason the federal tax code is literally 9k pages. We can find a place in that.


Don't argue like the British. Maybe you've noticed this pattern - they start by making a compromise.

If there's something worth arguing about, its worth not compromising on. If you're willing to compromise, its better to stay silent. Your offering the olive branch up front only makes your opponent and onlookers view your stance as weak. It is absolutely not virtuous to see things from the viewpoint that you oppose.

I just noticed this argumentation style among the British, as I watch their crisis of democratic illegitimacy. Stop being pathetic, ffs.


Then we'll need a formalized social contract, to legitimize the fighting back part. People generally don't fight back, even if it would be right to fight, so I think  some kind of proactive legitimation is necessary.


I'm very curious to know what happened...


Me.


All laws are EVIL. All of them. I'll prove it:

If you can make a law and enforce it, then you can also make exceptions. Any entity, making any law, will always make exceptions. Why? Because that's power. The power to make more laws requires power exerted over law - its not enough to make a law and step away. The lawmaker must grow power by flexing it over existing law, which means making exceptions, picking winners and losers, or even choosing not to enforce a law for particular groups.

Furthermore, by making exceptions, the lawmaker gains allies. If an an entity is benefitting from a law or an exception to a law, it's self interest ties it to the lawmaker. It will use whatever influence it has to support the lawmaker, so that it can continue to receive benefits beyond what it could afford to secure for itself. This is how the lawmaker - be it a state, trade association, fraternal order, or militia, gains allies without explicit consent.

This is why the poor become poorer, in the broadest terms. It doesn't matter how virtuous the law appears to be. It could be "don't kill babies" and it is guaranteed that somewhere in that law, there will be an exception, a special circumstance,  or a social issue, which pushes some part of the population to support the state.

The only good and Godly society is one which has no state. The Nietzschean man, the ubermensch, who needs no one, is the one capable of being moral. Harsh truths...


Nonsense. Just grab your Go Bag.


I feel like we're missing something in the translation on this one. Its redundant.


Nope, UT Arlington. I was accepted to Austin, but they told me I had to wait a year, which I wasn't willing to do.


I wonder if we were roommates... college was in Texas - UTA.

I chose economics after a long period of taking classes with no plan, and eventually econ was the most interesting. I started off taking engineering classes, but I couldn't handle the professors. The work was fine... the professors made it unbearable. They were genuine autists. They felt pressured by the class sizes and the school telling them to flunk as many students as possible, because a high failure rate is the mark of a "good" engineering program. So there were surprise projects that I didn't budget for because they didn't tell anyone, and 1st day exams that affected the final grade, despite covering material that we were expecting to learn in that class, and when you go talk to the prof you find out that they are super frustrated and shit rolls downhill. It was mostly the unforeseen costs combined with the disrespect that made me leave that.

I'm making college seem like a bad experience, but it wasn't. It was great. I became me. I found my interests and partied enough to not need to party any more.

After leaving the engineering department, I took classes all over. I taught myself Korean and got the school to start a Korean class, even though I never took it. I got into a Russian class without having to pay for it, which I'm quite proud of, even though I forgot most of it. My favorite class, by far, was Linguistics 101. They teach you how to crack a language without a dictionary or anything. It doesn't always work, but the final exam was a paper with paragraphs in several languages, and we had to translate them. That was fascinating.

I'm explaining the linguistics stuff to get to economics. I saw it as a language. And it made me feel like I didn't waste all those math classes. My only goal was to understand things, and linguistics and economics both satisfied that. Unfortunately, econ also scratches the itch to be prideful, and it wasn't until recently that that got... fixed... Anyways, I still feel that econ is fundamentally a language. It's literally the language of value. It's quantified psychology. I can't believe they don't make econ students take psych classes... So I sometimes think, if (very big If) I ever do a graduate degree in econ, I'd try to merge Jungian archetypes and shadow with the first principles thinking of Austrian econ. I'd be labelled a crackpot for sure, but fuck it.

Fuck it is a great stopping point. But I guess an even better stopping point is, God is great and his grace is the most humbling thing in the world. I needed to say that after talking so much about myself.


I just found this video that explains a lot. I think you'll like it.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RXSIJMVUlmc


I just found this video that explains a lot. I think you'll get value from it.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RXSIJMVUlmc


I can totally relate. Also there are pretty good tutorials on YouTube. My stumbling block is what to do after finishing the tutorial. And I banged my head against Rust for a long time until someone here on nostr recommended Golang, and I'm liking it more.


In what way? I don't think amethyst could be any faster...


Mussolini attacked socialism? But fascism is socialism... What am I missing?


What does hot symbolize? If anything, but it sounded like it has its own meaning to you


Yeah, bitcoin definitely serves up a piece of humble pie... But that is the right message for people at a certain stage of life. I majored in econ in college, so I was sure I understood econ better than the people I was hearing about it from. The opportunity cost of my pride was in the ballpark of a few billion dollars - I had read the white paper and scoffed in 2009. I went around travelling instead.

Dying... Well, I didn't go to heaven. I was tortured. I didn't know it wasn't in this world. I was told quite a while later that I had died briefly, but I was already in a hospital so I guess they did their thing. The torturers appeared to be doctors, but the procedure was absurd and had nothing to do with my being there - they were drilling into my neck. This couldn't have been real because there was no reason to do that, and they would have had me under anesthesia if they did. And the time matches up. I thought it was real for a long time, and I couldn't compute it. Well, "real" has a complex meaning in this case.

Prior to that, I had only been kinda vaguely Christian, so more like a team player but without even enough understanding to claim to be Christian. And it still took years after that to start to take an interest. What really caused the change in me was seeing what China is like (good and bad, but mostly a pit of nihilism) and coming back to the US and seeing how much worse it got while I was gone, and hearing a few things Jesus said - knowing a tree by its fruits, and the truth will set you free. And then I took that vaccine, because I was still letting sin dictate my thinking - sin traps you in compromise. The way I see it is, its a wounded or diseased state of your spirit, where the wound specifically is a superimposition of ego, aggravated by ignorance. And this is why I formulate "faith" as knowledge * discipline (but I usually say motivation because its more positive). Anyways, after the vaccine, I got really sick. I couldn't breathe, got chest pains, blood pressure went up to heart attack zone, and my heart started doing weird things, like beating extremely slowly (caught it at 30 BPM on my finger device, which was after moving to put it on), or other times beating extremely fast for no reason. That's how I woke up this morning, btw. So one night, I was laying there absolutely convinced I was about to die, in pain, terrified out of my mind, and I prayed... And this is the part that feels really personal, so I'll skip to results - I started getting better. I still have problems, like the weirdness with my heart this morning, but that was the moment that things changed.

I don't even remember what I'm responding to. Thanks for reading my book, lol. Oh! I also wanted to say that there's an irony in seeing team Christians as hypocrites. You have to realize that if you claim to be a Christian, you're going to be a hypocrite, no matter how much you try to live up to it. So, I've been a hypocrite in pointing at team Christians, while I'm also imperfect. But I still am annoyed with them, so I just have to live with it.


Yeah, bitcoin definitely serves up a piece of humble pie... But that is the right message for people at a certain stage of life. I majored in econ in college, so I was sure I understood econ better than the people I was hearing about it from. The opportunity cost of my pride was in the ballpark of a few billion dollars - I had read the white paper and scoffed in 2009. I went around travelling instead.

Dying... Well, I didn't go to heaven. I was tortured. I didn't know it wasn't in this world. I was told quite a while later that I had died briefly, but I was already in a hospital so I guess they did their thing. The torturers appeared to be doctors, but the procedure was absurd and had nothing to do with my being there - they were drilling into my neck. This couldn't have been real because there was no reason to do that, and they would have had me under anesthesia if they did. And the time matches up. I thought it was real for a long time, and I couldn't compute it. Well, "real" has a complex meaning in this case.

Prior to that, I had only been kinda vaguely Christian, so more like a team player but without even enough understanding to claim to be Christian. And it still took years after that to start to take an interest. What really caused the change in me was seeing what China is like (good and bad, but mostly a pit of nihilism) and coming back to the US and seeing how much worse it got while I was gone, and hearing a few things Jesus said - knowing a tree by its fruits, and the truth will set you free. And then I took that vaccine, because I was still letting sin dictate my thinking - sin traps you in compromise. The way I see it is, its a wounded or diseased state of your spirit, where the wound specifically is a superimposition of ego, aggravated by ignorance. And this is why I formulate "faith" as knowledge * disciple (but I usually say motivation because its more positive). Anyways, after the vaccine, I got really sick. I couldn't breathe, got chest pains, blood pressure went up to heart attack zone, and my heart started doing weird things, like beating extremely slowly (caught it at 30 BPM on my finger device, which was after moving to put it on), or other times beating extremely fast for no reason. That's how I woke up this morning, btw. So one night, I was laying there absolutely convinced I was about to die, in pain, terrified out of my mind, and I prayed... And this is the part that feels really personal, so I'll skip to results - I started getting better. I still have problems, like the weirdness with my heart this morning, but that was the moment that things changed.

I don't even remember what I'm responding to. Thanks for reading my book, lol. Oh! I also wanted to say that there's an irony in seeing team Christians as hypocrites. You have to realize that if you claim to be a Christian, you're going to be a hypocrite, no matter how much you try to live up to it. So, I've been a hypocrite in pointing at team Christians, while I'm also imperfect. But I still am annoyed with them, so I just have to live with it.


Ah! That's what I still need to add to my graphene phone. But since I'm now thinking about this, what I Really want is a tiny copy of John


Mmm creamy


GM ☕🌄


What do you do for Jubilee?


I'm convinced that the left here in the US is planning a genocide on Caucasians.


That's the way. ☕


Okay, how about this idea - relays chirp at each other at intervals, saying, "hey I got these events, you got them?" But it would really work by taking all events from a certain npub for the past 3 hrs, hashing them, comparing that string with the same hashed output from your own relay, then going forward with a bigger exchange if there's a mismatch. So your own relay would do that for each npub you follow every three hours or so.

This might be where relays start having to specialize - I see devs pushing for us setting up relays for certain functions, but it doesn't seem necessary right now.


IMO, its nuking the debt market.


I wanna be in the choir. Our robes will be orange


I'm not a coder, but... (Surely horrors follow here)

Every event has to have some kind of ID, right? The ID gets signed by your nsec, and things like links and jpegs follow... something like that?

And your client asks relays for any events it has seen, right? If I'm at least in the right ballpark, then you should be able to have a client check all new events against events it has already displayed. So then it could put missed events at the top, maybe with a little angel next to the timestamp to tell you its been resurrected.

Idk. Not a coder. Hopefully that wasn't too bad.


A Bitcoiner church


Could a mis-sync be detected by a client? We could fix this...


This is how Americans become Americans again


GE


Start9's StartOS - its like 2 clicks and done, unless you wanna ssh in, which isn't necessary


Someone say my name?


Exactly! Or some corporation name.


Specifically, the retarded idea that compromise is virtuous.


Including proper nouns in autocorrect should be seen as a crime against humanity.

OK, I'm not serious, cuz fuck censorship, but... grr.


Including proper nouns in autocorrect should be seen as a crime against humanity.

OK, I'm not serious, cuz fuck censorship, but fuck whatever jackass put proper nouns in there too.


But maybe we'll feel better if we vote harder and blame the other guys even more.


Just don't vote. This version of democracy doesn't work for everyone, so stop legitimizing it. The sooner people realize that voting, even voting poorly, is actually not in their best interests, the sooner we can move on to renegotiating this power structure.


No one should consider themselves "free" if they must pay property taxes.


Its on Nakamoto Institute (website)


Privacy may not be secrecy, but I'll defend my right to secrecy too.


Oooooh thank you!


What's a cafo?


I've heard a lot of bitcoiners have become Christians, but I don't see regular denominations gaining traction with this community. I think the reason is that regular denominations are too dogmatic, too unthinking - IMO, 99% of Christians are only on "team Christianity" and have no understanding, and these are ones that are loudest and have bots comment on social media. They don't engage in conversation at all, I think because they can't - the humans have no understanding and the bots are bots. So where there is conversation, its people on their own path, and isn't influenced much by people on team Christianity. I've seen one conversation here where it looked like team Christians showed up to try to chase away the independent thinker. Their idea of logic was shockingly bad... It could only be a product of an environment that discourages thinking.

I am a Christian myself - my path involved struggle, dying, depression, traveling, returning to see social insanity and indoctrination that skipped me because I was gone, almost dying again, bitcoin, and arguments with idiotic Orthodox priests who clearly disregard what Jesus actually said. I'm a part of Christ's church despite team Christians, not because of them.


Thank you! I get so annoyed with people (mostly Christians) saying stuff about Nietzsche that only prove that they haven't even tried to understand


Maybe we should bring back the suicidal Old Gods.


That's a cool card - I'd probably try to read it as injustice, though, because Batman represents injustice and corruption in my mind. He's an inversion, using violence to prop up a failing government that is hopelessly corrupt. Meanwhile, the Joker actually could solve Gotham's problems - not on purpose, but because its in his nature - and he's the clown. The whole story is a joke on the unthinking reader.


American spelling makes more sense phonetically anyways. Queue angry Bri-ish horde 😅

Yeah, France is a shithole. We should have melted their stupid statue and made cannons to invade them.


Phone numbers are such a scam


Are you mad because you really really reallllly wanted to call someone a Nazi, and you feel like the opportunity has been preemptively taken away from you?


Ironically, the real Nazis were also left wing extremists


#meme #memes #memestr #nostrmemes https://image.nostr.build/a5783080466674cc98b4cec2d42896853f2a14f2f4dc448da044a1dda6b4d7e2.jpg


Then you get a hug! 🍼
...Couldn't find hug emoji, I hope you take artificial nipples.


Your moms a depinga!


They're probably not seeing anything. I didn't know what to do with nostr so for like a week it was just blank. Amethyst doesn't prompt you to do anything, so you only figure anything out after you google it. And the guides are atrocious... Its a miracle anyone is here, but normies ain't gonna wade through crap guides.


The demise of books is entirely a boomer thing. Have you ever seen them try to read one? They'll use one book as a social prop for like two whole years and never finish it.


Sadly, I must conclude that ~half of all notes about the Bible, or similar comments on other platforms, are actually posted by bots.

"Half" might be too charitable.


Sadly, I must conclude that ~half of all notes by about the Bible, or similar comments on other platforms, are actually posted by bots.

"Half" might be too charitable.


Its not even his government. He's literally being kidnapped by a foreign government.


Looks to me like its already happening. I don't think the rest of Christianity is ready for it, though.


So you're saying God's a liar?
Think about it.


I was wrong! But found some cool history - it was a Russian phrase and that's why Reagan used it. And it rhymes!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust,_but_verify


It was originally for Gorbachev


Do Europeans even have trucks?


Its canola oil - possibly changed to make it more marketable


Coming soon to a free country near you https://image.nostr.build/7c5cf8c5bc6f6c7cb46198803479c3887115b7dec8dde92f6dfb8f3c33a8e82e.jpg


Idk, so that's why I went looking


1700's was pretty much the start of this mess. Also the start of legislatures.


Idk... I think the Parliaments and Congresses and Diets are the real bad guys.


I love humidity... Maybe I should go to Singapore


I didn't know that was the name or the history. I've seen demonstrations on YouTube, lol. Yeah I found the urim thummim thing recently too, because I wanted to make sure I wasn't about to break some rules. And it looks like Christians really should be careful around divination stuff. The explanations seemed wrong, though - online stuff was saying it's somehow wrong to try to know the future, and I can't figure out why that would be the case - I think a better reason is that you could make it into an idol if you actually believe something mystical is going on. Tarot can't tell the future, it can only help you figure things out by drawing out the analysis and letting you do pattern recognition. That's how I see it, anyways. I like the spooky woo woo, but only as a game. I intend to find out, though.


Oftentimes the price of admission is a corruption.

Its not worth it.


Ehhh I doubt there would ever be a free speech riot in the US. Only the left riots, and they hate free speech.


Thanks, this is good stuff. Were you talking about him printing Indulgences? I appreciate the comparison of nostr with the printing press, BTW.


The question was not meant to antagonize you, but I'm going to have to assume you are lying if you only avoid the question.


Probably my blood pressure then, which was my top suspicion. Caffeine, too. I barely drink - which is weird cuz I like making wine. I just forget to drink it.


400 miles! Stationary bike


Did you figure out how to stop tinnitus? I've had terrible tinnitus since the vax


Type 2? You look thin...


Chips are probably the worst food of all. I used to go through a bag a day...


Funny how these numbers keep falling. I just read on wikipedia that the Holocaust killed 2.7 million people. It was 11 mil when I learned it in school, and over 70 mil by Mao. School in the 90's


Sugar


Yes. Also you can probably run a bitcoin node on it, since by default it prunes the node if there isn't enough space


Do they even know about it in China?


Its nature taking its course, the natural consequence of weakness.


Why did you say the Gutenberg press was used for the Catholic church? I just read the Wikipedia page trying to find that and found nothing


I always wondered... What makes them "spare"? Are there essential ribs somewhere?


The middle path and the narrow path are not the same.

To chart a path between two extremes is to compromise with both, while abandoning the notion of objective virtue.

Most people do indeed abondon objectivity first, and virtue soon after.

But if you persevere and build your virtue upon truth, then you will find that the narrow path simply doesn't even go the same general direction as the middle path. It makes no compromise. It gives no quarter to the weak, the destructive, or the selfish impulses within you.

"Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."
...
"Verily I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin."

John 8:32/34


Not wanting things to go to waste is basically the sunk cost fallacy. Regardless, I hope you push through to victory.


Actually, that might fit better. The Fool is also the beginning of a journey.


Good read. Stuff on mises has been getting better recently, imo


The middle path and the narrow path are not the same.

To chart a path between two extremes is to compromise with both, while abandoning the notion of objective virtue.

Most people do indeed abondon objectivity first, and virtue soon after.

But if you persevere and build your virtue upon truth, then you will find that the narrow path simply doesn't even go the same general direction as the middle path. It makes no compromise. It gives no quarter to the immoral, the weak, the destructive, or the selfish impulses within you.

"Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."
...
"Verily I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin."

John 8:32/34


The middle path and the narrow path are not the same.

To chart a path between two extremes is to compromise with both, while abandoning the notion of objective virtue.

Most people do indeed abondon objectivity first, and virtue soon after.

But if you persevere and build your virtue upon truth, then you will find that the narrow path simply doesn't even go the same general direction as the middle path. It makes no compromise. It gives no quarter to the immoral, the weak, the destructive, or the selfish impulses within you.

"Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."
...
"Verily I the you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin."

John 8:32/34


The middle path and the narrow path are not the same.

To chart a path between two extremes is to compromise with both, while abandoning the notion of objective virtue.

Most people do indeed abondon objectivity first, and virtue soon after.

But if you persevere and build your virtue upon truth, then you will find that the narrow path simply doesn't even go the same general direction as the middle path. It makes no compromise. It gives no quarter to the immoral, the weak, the destructive, or the selfish.

"Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."
...
"Verily I the you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin."

John 8:32/34


In tarot, there are 22 major arcana. The first major is "the fool."

In computer sci, counting starts at zero. If you count to 21, you start at zero and do 22 ticks. Bitcoin is computer stuff.

Therefore, you're the fool if you're on zero.

Logic.


It could be as you say. But knowing the timeline, when I saw that document, the abundance of research showing it had genetic components from different virusus, and the fact that the US was funding that lab in Wuhan, and Fauci and others in the administrative state tried to prevent that information from coming out... I don't think it was nonsense. It forces me to ask - how much circumstantial evidence equals direct evidence?


"Price gouging"
"Hoarding"

These are not real things. There is nothing wrong with saving, and there is nothing wrong with charging a price appropriate to both your costs and your competition.

When you hear these words, you know someone is about to be robbed.


I'm actually hoping its covid. Then I get over it and it goes away. I've has this thought of, "shit, I got old and this is just life now"


Idk, but digital estates is an interesting idea. I'd say there's a practical limit to how much people are willing to keep track of. But between bitcoin and nostr, there's probably infinite stuff that can be secured by just a few private keys between them.


Maybe I just finally got covid... Does it cause muscle aches? The last few days, my feet and hands have been going numb, but today its a deep ache in all the muscles and joints in my legs and arms. When I stretch or lift, it feels like I'm pushing something bad out... but it comes back.


Only in bed. Pronouns: bleep or bleepity-bloop.


Actually, a better answer to your question would be some inscription or op_return thing on bitcoin. Titanium might get melted, but if its written in the time chain, it ain't goin nowhere


No, that's not hate. He likes... something. Probably you. Which is weird, because I'd bet it wasn't easy getting that thing on him.


I just ordered my first deck, and a guide book to learn. But I'm worried it will take away some of the mystery of life.


I made it up. But it might be real...


Titaniumstr!


I think it was the first version of what some people want to be a genuine plague. BTW, I was probably the first non Chinese, non government person in the world to know about covid. In early spring of 2019 I was in China and a friend showed me a document saying they think the US was planning a biological attack on China.


We're a republic, just like China, North Korea, Iran, and Russia.


We just had one!


Redundant. Faith != belief.
Faith = knowledge * effort


People still use lisp?


How'd you get 8k thingies out of expected 625 thingies? And what does 45 shares rejected mean?


How'd you get 8k thingies out of expected 600 something thingies? And what does 45 shares rejected mean?


We'll *make them* count!


Ha! I didn't know he was short. Pepin is an awesome name tho


I wanna go viking. Let's grab our axes and shields and go find adventure.


True science is a lonely pursuit. Requiring "peer review" is a corruption.


Are leaves wood?


TIL "Charlemagne" means "big Charlie" - sounds like a cool dude


Trying to meditate doesn't work for me. But I kinda accidentally meditate when I do my stretches.


When you become too inconvenient to the state, they'll just tell your fam that you sold drugs.


I'm afraid its something worse... My blood pressure is always very high, like 150/110 would be normal for me. But yeah I could reduce carbs even further, there's still some leeway there.

Aren't cramps caused by lack of iron? Well, there's probably several minerals influencing it.. Gotta keep moving. A treadmill in front of your computer screen might work wonders


"We need to bankrupt them"

nostr:npub1t289s8ck5qfwynf2vsq49t2kypvvkpj7rhegayrur0ag9s2sezaqgunkzs https://video.nostr.build/bbf99b924636866dd17e4de02689f856ecd4a6a179aae23336deeae5a4e2928c.mp4


I'm not, so I'm covered. But two wrongs don't make a right, and principles are sometimes inconvenient.


That's a good routine. I used to play music I liked and just go bonkers - its dancing in my mind, but I'd get locked up pretty quick if anyone ever saw it... Basically go bonkers, then 20 pushups, then go bonkers again, 20 pushups... until I'm done, no set minimum.

Lately I've been getting numbness in my feet and fingers. It only goes away when I can get my blood pumping.


Can't support death penalty. That's not for humans to judge - that one belongs to God alone.


I've been doing 30 lbs. Is that 30/2.2=kg? I forgot... It feels like I could do more, but also more reps works


The single most powerful exercise I've tried is just this super simple thing - hold a weight, and squat. That does more than anything. IDK why... but it does.

You'll feel it in your toes, throughout the day. You get a vitality that pushes outward. Make sure your heels stay flat on the ground as you squat.

#gym #exercise #health


A democracy that asks people in one town what to do with the property of people in another town should be called "banditry" or "human rights violation" or just "tyranny." The idea of democracy is fine, but conditions matter... Without the right conditions, democracy is legit evil.


Figures. I'm INTJ


$30....? Sheeit, its been a while since I did it, but I just go 1 sat/vbyte and check back in a week.


Yeah, well, tell that to the mosquitos.


Or.... bacon


Looking good, man


Exercised, then ate 4 eggs.
Getting fit on a budget 💪

Fun fact! A whole chicken egg is one big cell.


My students in China had to shout communist slogans and there were big red signs with slogans in all the classrooms. One time I walked in early and they were all pointing and laughing at the last emperor, as a way of reinforcing communist doctrine. After the national anthem every Monday morning, little girls would stand at the microphone and shriek out Xi Jinping Thinking for a New Communist Era, or whatever it was called, while the whole school stood in formation like in the military. All of my Chinese coworkers were members of the communist party, as required by law (Not me, though).

It was all very encouraging. I'm sure they felt safe and secure.


My students in China had to shout communist slogans and there were big red signs with slogans in all the classrooms. One time I walked in early and they were all pointing and laughing at the last emperor, as a way of reinforcing communist doctrine. After the national anthem every Monday morning, little girls would stand at the microphone and shriek out Xi Jinping Thinking for a New Communist Era, or whatever it was called, while the whole school stood in formation like in the military. All of my Chinese coworkers were members of the communist party, as required by law (Not me, though).

It was all very encouraging. I'm sure the felt safe and secure.


Libgen.


No, crying lets the congestion flow... Use a hot pepper, too


Its interesting to hear these concepts through a different language. I think we're saying the same things, at least mostly. We're vibing.


Stretch your mind! You can do it 💆


God is one AND composed of parts... Infinite parts, at will, higher and lower, inside and out.. Its fractal in all directions, including directions we can't think of.


Reminds me of Socrates at the Oracle - "I know that I know nothing" - going by memory, I almost certainly got it wrong... But close enough.

This was part of how I realized that God must exist. That and him yelling at me, but I still had to be sure I wasn't crazy.

Its impossible to know anything in fullness. Take gravity - we have great equations to describe the behavior of gravity, and we've never found an instance of gravity violating the equations, at least not since Einstein adjusted for relativity. (actually we might have, I'll get to that) But we still can't claim to know the perfect equation for gravity. There could be some conditions, in magnitude or scale or something else that we haven't seen, where we would need to add some little constant to keep the equation working, and at every scale we've measured the constant would have no effect, but at the right circumstances, like the size of a universe, it makes a difference. Then suppose we make those observations, fix the equation, but there's still something we didn't think of... That would go on forever. So the thing to realize is, gravity is not the gravity equation. The real thing is separate from our description of it. The map is not the territory.

But that's true of everything. Everything you see and touch, is just a representation of the real thing.

The reason scientists think there's dark energy is because the milky way rotates in a way that they can't get out of the gravity equations. So we have evidence of... something. An unknown. Maybe its energy, but it could just be that we don't quite describe gravity in our equations accurately enough.

So, this is what I say in my bio : knowledge approaches the limit of Truth asymptotically. We refine and refine forever, but the real world, the whole Truth of reality, is always beyond us. And not just a little beyond us - infinitely beyond us. In the context of an asymptote approaching its limit, any imperfection is infinite imperfection.

But if we are infinitely away from Truth, then we can say that Truth is infinitely perfect in all things. This may seem like a leap, but I don't think it is. A real thing, as opposed to its symbolic representation, *exists*. I'm being redundant because its honestly like a zen koan.  It doesn't make sense to describe a real thing because the real thing describes itself - it is the map and the territory. So a zen teacher points at a duck and says "what's that?" And the student answers, "a duck" and gets whacked for being wrong. The correct answer, although still a symbolic representation, is "quack quack quack!"

Now if the thing is the thing, and it's infinite and enduring, can you subtract one thing off of it and make it less? Nope. Infinity minus one is infinity. Infinity minus an entire personality is infinity. Infinity minus a divinity is infinity. Infinity minus a pantheon of divinities is infinities.

Who are you? I am.
Says everything in the universe.

I got carried away. I hope it was a good read.