The love of God is better than the knowledge of God (ST 1.82.3).


A man can be secure from sin in the will, only when his intellect is secure from ignorance and from error (ScG 4.70).


Depends on the context. It’s like an atheistic way of saying it’s God’s will.


If your wife is already pregnant then that means you’re already a dad 😉 congratulations! God bless 🙏


And he said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return; the Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.” - Job 1:21


The problem is when decentralization is wrong and the culture needs to be corrected. For example, the paganism of the American Indians before the arrival of the Gospel.


"Our deepest hungers
are not physical;
they are deeply spiritual.
Our hearts growl
with hunger
for what was meant to be,
for how the world was designed to be,
for what we were created to be,
for rescue from what was not meant to be."

Paul Tripp


Stoicism is ok (to a point) but Catholic is better 😉


There’s never been a “neutral” anything. The idea that there can be “neutral” or “unbiased” anything is one of liberalism’s sneakiest falsehoods.

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#Bitcoin is truly beautiful. But there are still things more beautiful and valuable than #Bitcoin:
1. God
2. Family and friends
3. Your body
4. Happiness and peace
5. Love and kindness

Don’t forget to live.


Proverbs 9:10


Prayers 🙏


“Vox Populi, Vox Dei” is an illusion. We live in a monarchy. Christ is King. ✝ nostr:note10q9f33dyh9cvsarfuyz32nr6u43smzregechp7w3efgjfs33nmusstjgtn


O Jesus, never-failing Treasure,
O Jesus, everlasting Wealth,
O Jesus, true and essential Food,
O Jesus, inexhaustible Drink,
O Jesus, Clothing of the poor,
O Jesus, Defender of widows,
O Jesus, Protector of orphans,
O Jesus, Champion of those in troubles,
O Jesus, Companion of pilgrims,
O Jesus, Pilot of voyagers,
O Jesus, Peaceful Haven of the storm-tossed,
O Jesus, raise me from my fallenness;
O Jesus, Son of God, have mercy on me!
O Jesus, my supremely powerful King,
O Jesus, my all-powerful God,
O Jesus, my immortal Lord,
O Jesus, my most glorious Creator,
O Jesus, my supremely good Guide,
O Jesus, my most loving Shepherd,
O Jesus, my Master so rich in mercy,
O Jesus, my Saviour, Friend of Humankind:
O Jesus, enlighten my passion-darkened senses,
O Jesus, heal my sin-wounded body,
O Jesus, cleanse my mind of empty thoughts,
O Jesus, guard my heart from sinful desires;
O Jesus, Son of God, have mercy on me!
O Jesus, King of peace, bestow Your peace on me.
O Jesus, sweet-scented Flower, make me fragrant.
O Jesus, longed-for Warmth, warm me.
O Jesus, eternal Temple, shelter me.
O Jesus, majestic Garment, clothe me.
O Jesus, Pearl of great price, make me rich.
O Jesus, precious Gem, enlighten me.
O Jesus, Sun of righteousness, shine on me.
O Jesus, holy Light, make me radiant.
O Jesus, deliver me from weakness of soul and body.
O Jesus, rescue me from the hands of the Enemy.
O Jesus, save me from the eternal torments of hell.
O Jesus, Son of God, have mercy on me!

A hymn from between 9th-11th centuries
Author unknown.


“A right is the social extension of a natural power. The words ‘natural’ and ‘power’ need to be understood in the traditional, that is, the teleological sense.”

I suggest checking out the quoted book “The Politics of the Real” by DC Schindler. An incredible book that covers this topic.


Modernism is “the synthesis of all heresies” -Pope St. Pius X


Contemplating Nostr in light of Mirari Vos…

https://www.papalencyclicals.net/greg16/g16mirar.htm


Time to update your profile bio 😉


God bless!!


As someone with plenty of liberal atheistic friends, I know my position on birth control and NFP would break their brains. Life as a 21st century Catholic, hah


Liberalism is Plato’s cave.


Telling the truth at the proper time and place is a sign of love (Commentary on Galatians 4).


Resist nihilism.

Your life has meaning.

Your actions are powerful.

You’re meant for greater things.

God has a plan for you.


The biggest and most wicked conspiracy theory in history is the denial of the Incarnation.


If you’re looking for more practical aspects of the faith, I suggest exploring “Catholic Social Teaching” and diving into Rerum Novarum. Much of it is postliberal/integralist/distributist thought. New Polity fleshes this out as it is a wonderfully thought provoking channel and magazine that delves into a variety of more practical topics instead of staying only in the theological which is more abstract.


All glory to our Lord Jesus Christ. Have you been baptized? Also, beware the spiritual attack you’re going to undergo now. The devil hates this. I recommend the St. Michael prayer.

St. Michael the Archangel,
defend us in battle.
Be our defense against the wickedness and snares of the Devil.
May God rebuke him, we humbly pray,
and do thou,
O Prince of the heavenly hosts,
by the power of God,
thrust into hell Satan,
and all the evil spirits,
who prowl about the world
seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.


Orthodox could also be Bitcoin Cash 🤔


Thanks to Christ, we already are. Now it’s just up to us to cooperate with His grace 🙏


Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. - James 1:2-4

https://youtu.be/Rf7SVVrLaVw?si=ehhEEzEymj-xjewZ


“Free market”


Thus, a good man, though a slave, is free; but a wicked man, though a king, is a slave. For he serves, not one man alone, but what is worse, as many masters as he has vices.
-Augustine of Hippo

Don’t fall for the liberal trap of redefining the word “freedom” 🙂


One can be free even while locked in a prison cell.


It’s true I often fail. But the classically understood virtues to aspire to are the 4 cardinal virtues (Justice, Prudence, Temperance, and Fortitude) and, with God’s grace, the 3 theological virtues (Faith, Hope, and Charity).


Freedom is internal. Has nothing to do with external circumstances. Many people are enslaved to bitcoin, for example.


Which just might also be attempting all three.


Option 4: do what you ought ✅

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You mean like this:

https://www.undergroundthomist.org/the-moon-is-made-of-cheese


What I like best about Natural Law is that it doesn't require me to agree with anything, for it to be true. It is simply true -- and self-evidently true -- independent of my opinion about it or what I would prefer to be true.

It forces me to grow up and deal with it. That is why people who argue against it tend to sound childish. We are all looking at what is obviously true, and they are reduced to whining about it and name-calling people for not denying what we can all see with our own lying eyes.

Natural Law is logic for adults.


https://m.primal.net/JKpE.jpg #meme


Summary of why liberalism (and ultimately communism) doesn’t work. nostr:note1a4ahy58cgv8mldv5j96cpc76fn4eyxqffpdh3xm3ey8fyc4arrwqw363e7


While this platitude sounds nice, it’s paradoxically causing so much harm in modern society. Strive for virtue. Don’t be a slave to vice.

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Praise God. I’ve found it best to quickly read the chapter straight through just to get the overarching point and then slowly contemplating and praying through each sentence on the second pass. Underlining and annotating also helps, as always. I pray you find it fruitful.


Amen. I did a better job with the Introduction to the Devout Life by St. Francis de Sales but as it goes with devotionals, there’s always more to profit from a reread.


Last year I made the eager mistake of reading the Imitation of Christ straight through as if it were a novel. Much better to read a chapter a day while smoking a pipe.


Any particular saint you’re reading at the moment?


Vengeance is Mine, and recompense; Their foot shall slip in due time; For the day of their calamity is at hand, And the things to come hasten upon them.' - Deuteronomy 32:35

Since God said in the Old Testament, “Vengeance is mine, I shall repay,” he says in the Gospel that we should pray for those who harm us, in order that he who promised vengeance might not seek revenge against them. For [God] wants to forgive by your will, which is fitting according to his promise. But if you seek revenge, you have it, since the unjust man is punished more by his thoughts than by judicial severity.

- Ambrose of Milan

#biblestr


The whole lifestyle of modern man is arranged in  such a way that there is no place for genuine spiritual life.  Those who seek the spiritual life are thrown into despair,  driven further and further into the mire of worldliness. The  very pulse of modern life is nervous, refusing to allow a  person any solitude for self-examination, creating an  atmosphere hostile to leading a spiritual life. Modern man  is like a screw or cogwheel in the gigantic machine of  materialistic culture. He loses his individuality and personality and, as they say, runs in circles like a hamster in his cage. “Time is money” is the catchword for modern  man’s lifestyle, therefore allowing no time for  self-reflection, introspection, attention to the movements of  one’s spirit and to the voice of one’s conscience. This  nervous, rabid lifestyle wears one out entirely, drains a  person’s energy and, thus, leaves him no time to work on  himself, which is a necessary demand of the spiritual life.  The only desire that remains is to be entertained, to relax,  and to get away for a time from the oppressive mechanism  of life. As a result, now all kinds of cheap, light-minded  entertainment abound—movies, discotheques, etc., and  places to spend free time from work and study. Without a  doubt, this is the curse of modern life, corrupting all that is  healthy in a person. It is the inevitable offspring of modern  culture, of a person who has renounced God and made the  foundation of his life the spirit of self-satisfying human  pride.

All of modern entertainment acts like cocaine and alcohol on our contemporaries. Contemporary  entertainment puts spiritual life to sleep in man, paralyzes spiritual impulses, and suppresses the voice of the  conscience and of moral norms. Little by little, a person  descends from the natural to gross carnality, becoming like  a body without a soul according to the words of the Psalmist, I was so foolish and ignorant: I was like a beast  before you (Ps 73:22). The terrible sentence of God, once  directed to the contemporaries of righteous Noah who  perished in the flood, is pronounced on such people: And  the Lord said, “My spirit shall not always strive with man  forever, for that he also is indeed flesh …” (Gen 6:3).

- Archbishop Averky Taushev


Guys & gals.

Remember that there's more to life than what you find on a computer screen.

In particular, remember that you should never assign the words of some rando profile on the intarwebz and value whatsoever until they've shown themselves at least somewhat reliable and trustworthy. This goes no matter if it's newsworthy stuff, financial or economic stuff or just "social" stuff. You don't even know if its a script or a bot "talking" or some deranged kray kray whos just talking garbage into the empty room.

Stay safe & sane. Have a good #Summer everyone. 🌞🍗🍺🥰

#tips #life


Interested to see where this goes! Happy to see the Deuterocanon 🙌


We're working on a clickable Bible structure. Feel free to fork it and come up with different versions.

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God’s will be done.

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Reading “Heretics” by G. K. Chesterton. Very impressed so far.


This is something I also wrestle with although I have improved this past year. My first check is am I prioritizing things correctly? Am I spending time with the Lord either in prayer, study of scripture, spiritual reading, rosary, daily mass, etc. whatever your devotion. If yes, then what about time with my spouse/significant other. If yes, then what about my children (doesn’t apply for me yet). If yes, then what about my broader family? If yes, then what about my friends?

Note, I imagine work fits in there not so much as something that you consciously say yes to but more so something you do out of necessity and routine.


Thank God for confession 🙏 I find people blurting things out to me that are clearly weighing them down. If only they would run to Christ who has the power to forgive and absolve. What a wonderful feeling.


Capitalism and communism both stem from the false anthropology of liberalism. I am very much pro working and trade but we have to remember that the term and notion of “capital-ism” is a very novel concept in terms of the length of human history. The Silk Road for example existed well before capitalism. A regulating entity called “the state” is also a very modern idea. All of it is based on a misunderstanding of human nature by thinking we’re fundamentally individuals, specifically economic entities, which we’re not.


“Sacrifice is the most natural act of man, the very essence of his life. Man is a sacrificial being, because he finds his life in love, and love is sacrificial: it puts the value, the very meaning of life in the other and gives life to the other, and in this giving, in this sacrifice, finds the meaning and joy of life.” —Alexander Schmemann


Never heard of Olavo de Carvalho so I looked him up and here’s a quote from Wikipedia:

> As described by an obituary, Carvalho's political views were summed up in one of his tweets: "Capitalism is the godfather and protector of communism. The war is not between capitalism and communism, it is between CHRISTIANITY and communism."

He’s 100% right. Capitalism leads to Communism, we’re seeing it now in the US. Just based on this, I imagine he’s in line philosophically with Juan Donoso Cortes and Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira ✝


Wow… one man’s trash is another man’s treasure!


Watch it on Rumble for principled reasons!!

https://rumble.com/v4zujd5-president-nayib-bukele-seeking-gods-wisdom-taking-down-ms-13-and-his-advice.html


Great point. I need to do better about getting off of YouTube.


Very sad news. Someone had their car broken into at my local parish recently. The thieves weren’t interested in any of the expensive Latin textbooks so that’s a silver lining!


Stellar interview of President Bukele. I pray bitcoiners realize the problem isn’t simply fiat vs hard money. In Bukele’s own words, this is a spiritual warfare. This is about good versus evil. Bitcoin is a great first step but now that we can be outside the grips of money printing, we need to help course correct or even rebuild a virtuous society in whatever capacity we can. El Salvador is leading by example. May God protect Bukele and keep him in His favor.

https://youtu.be/U5n8R9lq8SI?si=5JFEJgmbX7flHIEK


People reject inherent meaning. Any suggestion of telos (teleology) is scoffed at. And yet people wonder why they feel so unmoored.


Transitioning to an entirely cashless society will only serve to make the poor and marginalized more dependent on the government.


This is why we bitcoin.


Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.” - Genesis 2:18

We are never alone for God is always there with us.

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Apologies for the mischaracterization. That’s what I understood from your sentence “Live the life that works for you”.

And if my post came out as a word salad it’s simply that virtue is a habit we form. “Doing the right thing” will never “be easy” all the time but it gets easier and is even what you desire (which brings happiness) as you build that habit.


Ultimately, freedom is a harmony of reason and desire. While through reason you may know something is right, it can take time for your desire to be reordered towards the good so that you not only know the good but also have a willful disposition towards it.

Plus telling people “live and let live” is telling people how to live anyway 😉


Trying again haha

https://primal.net/e/note1k9ewnvzqq2tkjea5f94f9t78kkrz96gjcxqje4gq5x5j4l6wa2lqcfdnr4


Freedom is about being able to do what you ought, not about doing whatever you want. We have an obligation to first follow that ourselves, then help guide those we’re responsible for to do the same, and then be a witness for those around us.


There are no guarantees in life. Divorce aside, you could get married and have your spouse die, get sick/injured, lose interest, buy NFTs, etc.

Marriage, like life, isn't about what you get out of it, it is about what you give to it. Do you love your gf? What are you willing to lay on the line to give them the best possible life? Getting married is, or should be, a complete surrender of yourself for your wife, your children, and the future of humanity. Do you think your gf would want out of a marriage where you are dedicated to her and to your children?

Total self-sacrifice is tough to commit to, and it will pull more out of you than you knew you had, but it is also the only investment that will lead to contentment and a happy death. Choose wisely, choose life, choose love.


A man wrapped up in himself makes a small package, indeed. (Benjamin Franklin?)

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Memento mori


Being a saint isn’t hard. It’s impossible. We can only be one through God’s grace.


The monetary system sets you up to be fragile.


Study Bitcoin actually means learn to save money the right way.


I limited my contributions to only what is matched a few years ago as well. But given where the money goes, I’m having a hard time justifying the returns when it doesn’t seem like I’m truly loving my neighbor through it.


My respects to you brother. Needed to hear this, iron sharpens iron. I’ll step up and do the same.


Simon, son of John, do you love me?


Hm, I’m not sure that I would say they’re “two different things” but I think I understand what you’re getting at. It seems like you’re leading into Plato’s Theory of forms?


Oh I see what you’re saying. When I say beauty I meant it as the spectrum of “how beautiful”. So for example an ugly apple would have very very little beauty because it is created and creation is good. Just like how an evil human being is still a human being that deserves dignity by the very nature of being a human despite being evil.


The opposite! A subject/object’s beauty is an inherent trait by the fact that it exists.

For example we can think of a “good” apple (goodness being convertible with beauty) that is round, symmetrical, and seems ready for consumption. Whereas a “bad” (ugly) apple would be one that is deformed, rotting, pestilent, etc.


Has anyone here stopped contributing to their 401k out of moral obligation? My conscience is telling me to stop supporting the  corporatocracy but it’s a difficult decision to make.


Beauty is inherent to a subject or object. There cannot be a disassociation between the material and its beauty just as color is an accident of a substance. Just because people may have different tastes regarding beauty, doesn’t mean there isn’t beauty or that there’s no space for reason in discerning beauty. Quite the contrary. We can know what is ugly, through our functioning faculties of reason, and correct someone that thinks it’s beautiful by concluding that their faculties of reason (I’m including intellect here) are impaired, sense perception is impaired, and/or they have a disordered will.


Theosis, deification 🙏


“On the one side clear, definite moral teaching. On the other, claims, which, if not true, are those of a megalomaniac, compared with whom Hitler was the most sane and humble of men. There is no half way house and there is no parallel in other religions. If you had gone to Buddha and asked him, ‘Are you the son of Brahman?’ he would have said ‘My son, you are in the vale of illusion.’ If you had gone to Socrates and asked ‘Are you Zeus?’ he would have laughed at you. If you had gone to Mohammed and asked ‘Are you Allah?’ he would first have rent his clothes and (might) then cut your head off. If you had asked Confucius ‘Are you heaven?’ I think he would have probably replied, ‘Remarks which are not in accordance with nature are in bad taste.’ . . The idea of a great moral teacher saying what Christ said is out of the question. In my opinion, the only person who can say that sort of thing is either God or a complete lunatic suffering from that form of delusion which undermines the whole mind of man.”

C. S. Lewis


There’s been a few threads recently on the topic of masculinity. Wouldn’t have expected Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker to give an insightful speech touching on the topic.

https://youtu.be/-JS7RIKSaCc?si=W_jf_9jG2O_sGGOv


“[I]n reality, every person defines where their value comes from for themselves”

This is not reality. In reality, value and meaning are inherent to beings and actions. For example, every human being has value by the very nature of being human, not because people decide if their life is valuable. At that point there’s no argument against suicide which we all inherently know is bad (because meaning and value cannot be disassociated/overwritten). People can also be wrong about what they value.

This modern nihilism is very pernicious.


“The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church” - Tertullian


It’s true that Feminism has had many negative consequences. The social acceptance of gender dysphoria is just one of many. However, wouldn’t your suggestion be the third wave feminist position? I only point that out since you seem to imply a criticism of feminism while also taking that opinion.


Because men and women are different? And a pretty important difference is precisely the fact that women don’t have “a pair”, to use your language.


I would call it “Deuterocanonical” but either way, the sentiment is appreciated 😉


When you gain a friend, gain him through testing, and do not trust him hastily. For there is a friend who is such at his own convenience, but will not stand by you in your day of trouble. A faithful friend is a sturdy shelter: he that has found one has found a treasure. There is nothing so precious as a faithful friend, and no scales can measure his excellence. A faithful friend is an elixir of life; and those who fear the Lord will find him. - Sirach 6:7-8, 14-16


Hello #Nostr!

If there is any institution that should be interested in preserving free speech, particularly in parts of the world that actively seek to suppress the gospel of Jesus Christ, it ought to be the Church, and we haven't ever had a more effective tool for preserving that right in the public square than Nostr.

#introductions


Excellent interview. Give it a listen.

https://youtu.be/wy_c6lDQZEw?si=RBmMfXB_RX3k8VEL


Would also love to learn more.


If you’re up for it, I recommend reading D.C. Schindler’s “Perfect Difference” on this topic of gender and roles.

https://www.communio-icr.com/files/43.2_DCS.pdf


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#Jesus #WordofGod #Christian #Bible #Scripture #Wisdom #worship #biblestr #bibleverse #Christ #God


Sometimes they do though. It’s a good idea to stop mass murderers, child pornographers, and many other things through force if necessary. We know this inherently which is why we sometimes have to remove little kids from certain situations (force) so they can learn proper behavior.


Happy Ascension Day!

And Happy Father's Day to my fellow Germans. Enjoy the good weather, guys. 🍻

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A lot to chew on here but it seems like the essence is that power is not an imposition of the will but rather a calling of voluntary self giving, to the point of death as of course Christ does. The Man with no “political” (in the secular definition) is the one that has kings and emperors kneel before across all time and space to the point that even our reference of time is predicated on His life. Reminds me of Braveheart where Robert the Bruce tells his father he wants what William Wallace has, true power. Power to the point that people willing give their lives for him, fight for him, die for him.

Circling back then, if I understand correctly it seems like any engagement with community, anything that lessens dependence on the impersonal (Amazon delivery, federal welfare, big grocery store chains, etc.) will shift power down (subsidiarity) and that this will gain momentum not through imposition or force (which is a sign weakness not power) but through a sense of awareness that this is actually the natural order of things (like a farmers market).


We should be working towards Localism (also widely known as Distributism).

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Totally agreed.

Wow excellently condensed form of presenting the differences of localism through a positivistic lens. Sometimes movements are defined by what they are not but I like that you described it in a way that it can be worked towards instead of haphazardly working away from something else.

Regarding your last point, how does momentum build to overturn or eliminate wide sweeping regulations, especially federal ones? It seems like for those there’s a ton of inertia/precedence already in place that making a push to eliminate bureaucracy can feel “revolutionary” or “forcing redistribution” which people are very much turned off of (and rightly so). In other words, how does localism really gain influence in the political sphere when it hinges on short term losses by not playing the game as the crony capitalists and corporatists want it and played?


Our will is contingent on our intellect. While we can act contrary to what our intellect knows to be true, good, or rational, what we’ve perceived in our life and continue to perceive in the moment is a big factor in shaping the condition of our will which is ultimately our ability to choose truth, goodness, and rationality.


Moments like these are the reminders of what life is all about. 🙏 Congratulations!


I’ve heard about the recent push for “Localism” as well which I think is certainly more appealing.

To make sure I understood then, you do think it’s a system to itself, separate from today’s definition of market capitalism? And when you say “freedom of trade” you don’t mean freedom in the sense that there’s no regulations, correct? More so that regulation is structured such that the incentives favor the local?


Any thoughts on distributism? Not sure if it would be considered an “alternative” to capitalism necessarily.


I should share that with my Spiritual Director, he was just sharing a gripe about how the Kindle Ereader manages backlinks which of course are super important for LOTH. Agreed with the subsequent point.


I’ve got one but haven’t found a use case for it since I switched back to analog notes. What do you use it for?


“Love is not an emotion; it is an act of the will.” - Ven. Fulton Sheen

Cliches like “falling in love” or “like liking someone” misplace love. They separate the intentionality that love requires and imply it’s something that happens to us instead of something we strive for. Love is not an extreme form of like. You can love and not like. That can even be a higher form of love, like mercy. That’s why no fault divorce (and divorce by its very nature) is mistaken (and I would argue, not actually possible). When one gives themself completely to someone in marriage and says “actually, never-mind, I want a divorce” then what they implicitly say is they never actually fully gave themselves over or are trying to take back something that is no longer theirs.


Totally agreed. It’s a beautiful thing when there’s that ease of love that stems from both freely choosing each other. The love between the two becomes so real it creates kids 😄


It gets easier with time as you habituate yourself into virtue. Keep it up!


Corporatocracy. Further evidence that bitcoin won’t “save” us. Fixing the money will not fix the world. nostr:note1xlkk5fdve98m7p42g2nfeuh26y0dmkyg49ejvqzsd7epyjdh0q7q678plh


“A good intention (for example, that of helping one’s neighbor) does not make behavior that is intrinsically disordered, such as lying and calumny, good or just. The end does not justify the means.” - The Morality of Human Acts, CCC 1753

This gripping historical fiction written by a Japanese Catholic tells the story of Portuguese missionaries in 17th century Japan. Following the life of Father Rodrigues, the reader is faced with a multitude of dilemmas ranging from truth, evil, morality, duty, salvation, pride, faith, forgiveness, love, and most importantly the “silence” of God. Silence can be deafening. And yet, love is deeper than silence. In the silence of the night the second Person of the Trinity, God, who is love, entered the world in Bethlehem. We must never believe the devil when he says truth doesn’t matter, that lying can be an act of love, or that God is absent. Rodrigues believed the devil’s falsehoods and ended up no better than Judas Iscariot, the betrayer of Christ. Pride is the root of all sin and Rodrigues failed to sacrifice his ego when he was called to do so in a form of spiritual martyrdom. When the devil wants to play us one-on-one in a game of chess, we will lose no matter what. Do we have the courage to knock the board away and cooperate with God’s grace? Christ has already won and as St. Augustine once said “as an artist, God makes use even of the devil”.

“Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends” (John 15:13).

“Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good” (Romans 12:21).

Thanks to my friend for this thought provoking recommendation!

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Great read, thanks for sharing!


I haven’t, but we published an interesting article on faith in the movies if Scorsese: https://theconversation.com/scorseses-gods-of-the-streets-from-killers-of-the-flower-moon-to-silence-faith-is-rarely-far-off-in-his-films-223630


Just finished reading “Silence” by Shūsaku Endō.  Has anyone else read it before or watched the movie (by Martin Scorsese)?


Good point, it all depends on how it’s used. What I intended to convey was the notion you expressed of eschewing monetary gain for the promotion of a more just society. I think bitcoin is more conducive to that precisely because its monetary power cannot be siphoned away by the State which I think it’s fair to say is inherently unjust. But of course, there can and will be people who seek solely to profit off of the volatility by accumulating from weak hands and selling to greedy hands.


Totally agree with that last sentence in your first paragraph. The end should be the pushing out of all weaker currencies (USD as the last bastion) from the quotidian transactional economy. If the intent is instead to acquire bitcoin for the end of a larger amount of USD (or other currency), then that’s speculative and should be avoided given its inherent uncharitableness (wasn’t sure if that was a word lol).

Yes hopefully! And there needs to be a culture that promotes broader distribution of bitcoin, not to just drive up buyers for the sake of “number go up”, but for the good of our neighbor that they may benefit from sound money that can’t be debased.

I wonder if an argument can be made that Bitcoin is in line with the virtue of poverty. Poverty, not in the mistaken sense of being in a state of miserable want, but in not desiring the superfluous and in cheerfully accepting shortage or discomfort, as St. Josemaría Escrivá puts it. With bitcoin’s USD price fluctuation, it can certainly be a bit nerve wracking to depend on that for long term savings but that is the short term cost of relying on a money that can’t be weaponized for certain political agendas (especially those that are anti-Catholic) all while throwing you a bone of x% return on investment.


Linking a thread where I had a similar conversation with nostr:npub1nf9vm6uhs4j7yaysmjn9eqlf7et5t6hvrkdqgpd995vcc9yfjyas0pxa3x

https://primal.net/e/note1f73x842633u75l3sf7mee4r96jqp84nk9g8pmg9a69w2chf6k5kq0uxsel

I think I’ve reached a similar conclusion as Fr. Nick Blaha. Opting for bitcoin because of its nature as sound money for people of all nations and creeds, regardless of future price action in dollar terms, is the most moral option available. I think the key distinction to make is the principle of double effect which I mention in that thread above.


ΧΡΙΣΤΌΣ ΑΝΈΣΤΗ!


Atheism is a psyop.


That seems to suggest that God is the author of evil, of sin, which He’s not. A sort of Manichaeism it seems. Just as cold is the absence of heat, evil is the absence of good which we are the authors of due to our misuse of our free will as a result of the fall. God came to save us so that we may be made perfect in Him and as such death has been defeated, we just need to cooperate with His grace to eventually be raised again for eternal life.


1. Truth
2. Goodness
3. Beauty
4. Mercy (highest form of love which He is)
5. Justice

Surprised to see “powerless” on there. Would you mind elaborating on that?


Agreed, the only infallible human is the God Man, Jesus Christ. What I said though was that people, through the working of the Holy Spirit, can have infallible teachings. For example, we have to believe as a matter of faith that the writers of the Bible were infallible in their writings (inerrant) for it to be considered the word of God. It’s important to distinguish that of course the Pope is not impeccable (meaning sinless) and that he’s not infallible about everything all the time (such as having a favorite color). What we do take as a matter of faith however is that when the Pope speaks from the Holy See as it relates to faith and morals then he is infallible (ex cathedra). He will never and can never do or say anything ex cathedra that contradicts the deposit of faith our Lord left us with. One of those teachings being the Bible for example. It was compiled in the 4th century. The Church precedes the Bible and demonstrates that one can be Christian without the Bible. The Bible itself even says so.

I greatly enjoy our discussion! I appreciate the open nature of it. I also wish not to be antagonistic in any way. Only antagonistic towards typos 😁


*Pope Damasus I


Understandable, I struggled greatly with it as well. I actually wanted to be anything but Catholic when I reverted last year but I refused to let my pride be what got in the way of as deep of a relationship with God as possible. It was because of Pope Damascus that we even have the Bible so having a problem with the papacy implies a problem with the inerrancy of Scripture. I think you’d also agree Popes can be infallible given that the first Pope has 2 letters in the Bible, 1 Peter and 2 Peter.

I appreciate the discourse. I pray for the unity of all our brothers and sisters in Christ. If you ever have any questions I would love to continue our discussion. 🙏

St. John Henry Newman, pray for us!


If religion is to follow a systemized collection of ritual and dogma, it seems you would classify as someone who follows a religion. The ritual being reading the Bible and the dogma being that the Bible is authoritative. And I think it’s safe to assume when you say “Bible” you mean “Protestant Bible” as in the 73 books minus the 7 books the printing press axed for cost savings after Luther moved them to the appendix. I totally agree that the Bible is the word of God but it’s important to remember that the Catholic Church (guided by the Holy Spirit as our Lord tells us in Matthew 16:18) is the one that compiled it and for that reason I don’t think anyone can just go around messing with the canon like Luther and the publishing houses did. What I imagine you would consider all the “extra stuff” like the Eucharist, the Papacy, etc. is actually just an extension from the authority our Lord gave to Peter and the apostles to safeguard the deposit of faith and preach the Gospel. Instead of viewing the dogmas as constraining, may I suggest viewing them as liberating and a deepening of relationship with God, just as the Commandments do. Just as the Bible brings us closer to God, so too does the sacrifice of the mass, receiving the Eucharist, praying the rosary, etc.

A proper relationship with God requires more than just a mental assent to His truth. Relationship is incarnate. It takes a material form. Just as our Lord did when he took on human flesh and died for our sins. How we comport body and soul matters which is why religion is the expression of our faith.


Agreed. Religion is the habit of virtue that inclines the will to render to God that which He deserves. (Which of course requires one to seek to understand the true God, aka the Christian God)


I’m not sure you quite answered my questions. I’m still trying to understand how what you define as “religion” is separate from “relationship with God”. I ask with genuine concern because I care very deeply, the most deeply, about my relationship with God and view my religion as that expression.

To demonstrate my confusion, is any relationship with any God what matters? If my relationship is with a God I believe to be Unitarian (like the Jewish or Islamic faith) vs a Trinitarian God (Christian faith), does that matter? What if I portray God to be unknowable like Sikhism or coming in various forms like Hinduism or deny Christ’s divinity as true God as Arians do? Don’t we need to know who and what we mean to form a relationship?


How do you define “religion”? And what distinguishes it from “relationship with God”?


Axioms I probably won't agree with:
- Submission and obedience are inherently bad.
- The Catholic Church is wrong.
- Christian men are a problem that needs to be solved.
- Women should be in charge because that would fix things.
- Government is inherently evil.
- Women need men like fish need a bicycle.
- Religion is the opium of the masses.
- Bitcoin (and other digital or mechanical systems) can fix humanity, end the cycle of government, and usher in a Utopia.


I’ve heard many beautiful stories about her capacity to love. A tangible example in recent times that we should all aspire to. The effects of prayer cannot be understated 🙏

St. Teresa of Calcutta, pray for us!


People are often unreasonable, irrational and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies. Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and sincere, people may deceive you. Be honest and sincere anyway.

What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight. Create anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

The good you do today will often be forgotten. Do good anyway.

Give the best you have, and it will never be enough. Give your best anyway.

In the final analysis, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.

-St. Teresa of Calcutta


Effeminate men are despised not because they are like women—women are excellent creatures with many virtues worth imitating—but because they possess the vices of a bad women.


I’ll throw “Essays on Catholicism, Liberalism, and Socialism, Considered in their Fundamental Principles” by Juan Donoso Cortes and “Revolution and Counter-Revolution” by Plinio Corrêa Oliveira into the ring, as well. Those two books opened my eyes to the glaring issues and terrible consequences of liberalism, especially as it reaches its logical conclusion.


Matthew 16:18
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Incredible! First time doing something like that. Plenty of time to pray, contemplate, and receive spiritual direction. I came away with a handful of really profound resolutions on how to better love those around me. I cannot overstate how impactful removing yourself from the daily routine and noise can be in cultivating your interior life.


Back from a 4 day silent spiritual retreat. Can’t recommend it enough 🙏 ✝


Spot on. What Pope St. John Paul II calls “structures of sin”. The complete atomization of society into “free” individuals is a false anthropology. If my options are take a usurious loan or risk my family dying from malnourishment or lack of shelter, I’m not really at liberty to deny the usurious loan. I must practice prudence to nurture that which has been entrusted to me (my family’s livelihood).


In that case I hope everyone would consider themselves authoritarian. There’s no argument for allowing hurtful speech like child pornography.


The more I learn, the more I realize I don’t know.


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It’s not possible to be totally independent because man, by nature, depends on others. We know this innately when we’re around newborn babies. The most important aspects of our lives are relations to others (spouse, friends, etc.) There’s also the problem that “being left alone” doesn’t stop others from getting together and doing evil not just amongst themselves but eventually to others. Libertarianism doesn’t work.

We have a responsibility to ourselves, each other, and God to strive towards the common good as a society.


And yet all sorts of lewd and vulgar content remains up on Reddit no problem.

In a way this might be a net good for the pipe community but it will definitely be more difficult for newbies to find info when it’s no longer present on Reddit.

Maybe we need to introduce r/pipetobacco to Nostr? nostr:note16n7nkvqu5zc3hcqxf4rxhypuhhqxkfy9254acmahw48slmlfrjaqaxlc3r


Nice! From what I hear, properties get snatched up quick because there’s so many people “passively” in the market with apps like Zillow, Redfin, etc. now. Previously, people would formally enter the housing market and the pipeline was ~30 days with a possible bidding war. Nowadays because of the number of people on the sideline at all times, it can take even up to a year to find a home from when one first starts. Crazy.


Not quite in the official process yet but been doing initial scouting of areas to see what’s the right fit. Hard to nail down a particular location given there’s so many variables, not to mention how it all comes down to market availability.


Wonderful! Thanks for sharing. I especially like verse 13 🙏


What’s your favorite Psalm and why? #godstr


Capitalist markets are made up of human participants. Governments are made up of human participants. The problem isn’t “government” per se but the sinful human nature of its participants. Capitalism also has its own faults given its misunderstanding of human relations. It produces socialism.


Will Satoshi enter the conversation for top 100 most influential people in human history? Top 10? Will it happen in this lifetime? Assuming Satoshi was an individual, of course.


Insane.


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Lets go!! So awesome, been waiting for this 🙏


It's about time!

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Owning things and trading them is necessary but not sufficient to describe capitalism. Capitalism can only exist as an economic system because of liberal government and its understanding of human nature. As I understand it, the foundation of liberalism gives way to the nation state and capitalism (or worse, socialism) as a package deal because of its radical individualism.


What exactly do you disagree with? Of course there was commerce before the 18th century. However, I think it’s pretty commonly understood that capitalism as we know it today really takes off with Adam Smith in the 18th century.


Capitalism, as we know it today, has only existed since the 18th century. Most of human history has taken place outside of it. Capitalism is not a prerequisite for a flourishing society. It may even be what is preventing us from living as we’re intended to.


To love someone means to see them as God intended them. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky


Excellent write up. As Christians we know that truth, goodness, and beauty (the transcendentals) all have something in common. God. Because of that, we cannot get the culture of Christianity detached from the foundational belief of what it means to be Christian, as you’ve stated. We cannot have the goodness and beauty of Christianity detached from its truth. What’s false will lead to the bad and the ugly, which we’re seeing in modernity’s embrace of atheism as its religion.


I'm noticing bad times causing people to either turn away or turn to God.

https://trustjesus.substack.com/p/cultural-christian-or-child-of-god

I was listening to a podcast recently and the subject of renown atheist and Christian hater, Richard Dawkins’s came up. He is now claiming to be a “cultural Christian” even though he doesn’t believe anything about Christianity. He wants a Christian culture without having to believe or do anything towards that end. He likes that fewer people are believing the Bible, but doesn’t want to lose the Christian culture, architecture, morality, Hymns/Carols, etc. I wanted to address the difference between a culture Christian and a true Christian (saved, child of God, believer, etc. whichever name you prefer.) I’m hoping to answer this both from the point of view of helping people understand if they are saved and from the point of view of how believers should react to those that are solely cultural Christians.Because I try to avoid Youtube and all things Google, I went on to Odysee to try to find the video of Richard Dawkins’s statements to get to the original source. I couldn’t find a video that was solely Dawkins’s statement. This video has the original video from Samaritan’s Purse starting at the 30 second mark (with additional commentary which I have not watched) You can also see the video here on Fox News.The first thing we need to understand is that acting Christian is not enough to make one a Christian. The Bible says there are many people who claim to be Christians who will be shocked to find this is not so.
“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness.’ (Matthew 7:21-23)
Being a true Christian is based on confession of sins, faith in Jesus, and submission to His will. The most critical component is faith. Although faith in Jesus leads to “good” works, the works themselves do not cause salvation. They should, however, be present as a sign of God’s work in us.
They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.” (Acts 16:31)that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; (Romans 10:9)“This is His commandment, that we believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as He commanded us. The one who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. We know by this that He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us.” (1 John 3:23-24)
Although works never lead to salvation, we should see signs of our salvation in the way we think, speak, and act. There should be evidence of our salvation if it is real.
What use is it, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but he has no works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is without clothing and in need of daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and be filled,” and yet you do not give them what is necessary for their body, what use is that? Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead, being by itself.But someone may well say, “You have faith and I have works; show me your faith without the works, and I will show you my faith by my works.” You believe that God is one. You do well; the demons also believe, and shudder. But are you willing to recognize, you foolish fellow, that faith without works is useless? (James 2:14-20)
Christians should be obviously different than those who are not Christians. The way we interact with others should be different. “By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.” (John 13:35) and “We have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.” (1 John 4:16). We should obey God and be Christ like. We will never be perfect, but there should be a difference in our lives and we should be continually growing more Christ like (acknowledging that we may have some ups and downs, but the general direction should be obedience).The Bible does talk about some that may at first seem saved, but after a time turn away. We know that they were never really children of God. They never had saving faith in Jesus.
“Other seed fell on the rocky ground where it did not have much soil; and immediately it sprang up because it had no depth of soil. And after the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.” (Mark 4:5-6)
These people had an initial turning towards God, but because it wasn’t saving faith, they turn away after being distracted by the world or coming under persecution.
But for all this, you did not trust the Lord your God, who goes before you on your way, to seek out a place for you to encamp, in fire by night and cloud by day, to show you the way in which you should go.“Then the Lord heard the sound of your words, and He was angry and took an oath, saying, ‘Not one of these men, this evil generation, shall see the good land which I swore to give your fathers, (Deuteronomy 1:32-35)
This example is from the Israelites during the exodus from Egypt. Instead of trusting God, the majority of the Israelites turned from God, refused to trust or obey, and died in the wilderness. Only Joshua and Caleb were allowed to enter the promised land. I know there will be many who thought they would see heaven who will not. I don’t know if it will be to the extent described of Israel where hundreds of thousands died in the wilderness and only 2 made it to the promised land. Have you really trusted in Jesus as your savior or do you just think you are a Christian because your parents or friends are Christians or because you attend church? Can people see the fruit of this transformation? Is your Christian faith seen beyond the church walls?Now the question is “how should Christians react to cultural Christians who are clearly not real Christians, especially when they do not claim to be faith-filled Christians?”On the one hand, when the disciples wanted to stop a man from casting out demons in Jesus’s name:
But Jesus said to him, “Do not hinder him; for he who is not against you is for you.” (Luke 9:50)
We can work with cultural Christians to do good, to help people, and to help society. We do not, however, want to be yoked to them. “Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness?” (2 Corinthians 6:14). Although we can work together for good, we do not want to work so closely together that unbelievers are thought to be believers or that we are thought to be no different than unbelievers. No Christian should allow people to believe that faith in God makes no difference because it makes all of the difference. All of the good that comes from Christian culture ultimately comes from the goodness of God and faith in Jesus. Without a true God and without a true savior who lived a perfect life and died on the cross to take away our sins, none of the nice culture would matter.Shortly after the US Constitutional convention, John Adams wrote to the Massachusetts Militia about morality in America and the Constitution. He stated, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” Benjamin Franklin said something similar, “ that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other.” In the same way the Christian culture only works if there are enough faithful Christians who truly believe the Bible, believe in the creator God, and have submitted themselves to the savior. That same culture is inadequate for any other. If people like Dawkins get their desire and have the people lose their faith in God, then they will lose the very culture that is so important to them.On the other hand, Jesus also says the following:
He who is not with Me is against Me; and he who does not gather with Me, scatters. (Luke 11:23)
We should not expect unbelievers, even if they are devoted cultural Christians, to stand with us to defend righteousness. They will scatter. They are not to be trusted allies. This doesn’t mean we should hate them or demean them, but that we cannot count on them to be faithful because they have no faith.It is nice to see Dawkins, who is in his 80s, longing for certain things of God. Maybe his age and seeing what his atheist religion has brought upon the world will open his eyes to the true creator God and savior of the world. As Christians, this should be our prayer. If God was able to turn Saul/Paul from a persecutor of the church to the most prolific apostle, He can turn Dawkins from a leader of the atheists to a follower of God and use him for God’s glory. That is my prayer.Trust Jesus.

your sister in Christ,ChristyP.S. I was reading a blog I follow, and they included a link to this Tucker Carlson interview with Naomi Wolf. I found it interesting because it turned into an hour long spiritual discussion between the two. Both admitted they hadn’t read the Bible before covid, but were reading a lot recently. (Tucker was an Episcopalian and Naomi was Jewish) Both admitted to seeing evil in the world and that it was due to turning away from God. Although there were numerous theological errors spoken by both, I really found it interesting seeing these people turning to God in these hard times. It really seems like God is working in the lives of people and drawing people to Him. We are truly being separated into the sheep and the goats, those who follow God and those who deny Him and/or actively defy Him. Here is the video for you viewing.

#god  #faith  #culture  #bible  #christian  #christianity  #church


Assyrian Orthodox Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel. He was recently stabbed multiple times during a service that was being live-streamed from Sydney, Australia. I believe the latest report is that his injuries are non-life threatening. He’s very popular in the Christian-sphere given his orthodoxy and delivery.


As great as Bitcoin is, Jesus is greater.

To know and serve the living God is the meaning of life. Money is a means toward that end, no more.

#Jesus #Bitcoin

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When people cease to believe in God, they don’t believe in nothing; they believe in anything.
-G. K. Chesterton


Find a mentor. Be a mentor. In person.


I see. I guess that’s the cat Descartes let out of the bag with “ego cogito sum”.

Ah Rousseau. That whole anthropology falls apart by simply asking “what about babies?”

Definitely, I like what Juan Donoso Cortes outlines in “Essays on Catholicism, Liberalism, and Socialism” which basically highlights that when the fundamental dogma of original sin is rejected, there’s a logical inconsistency in where evil stems from. If humans are basically good then what’s causing there to be evil in the world? The state is comprised of people so the socialist solution of aggrandizing the state still fails to address the fundamental problem of evil.

Bitcoin does not “solve” our sinful nature.


Love linguistics. I’ll add these to my backlog. Thanks for sharing!


Totally agreed. While I haven’t really spent time learning or getting familiar with Kant, I don’t know that I want to because of the reality disconnect. I’m much more intrigued by Husserl, Stein, and (I think) JPII’s explorations of phenomenology.

Society is made up of people, not money. Take away the money and there’s still a society. Can’t say the same about the inverse.

Granted, “fix the perverse incentive structure of fiat currencies” is nowhere near as catchy. Time will eventually come to show how broken humans will be able to misuse even bitcoin, to the dismay of many maxis (who may even find themselves being the very people they sought out to oppose in the first place).


Words and phrases are more important than most people realize. Many of today’s debates come down to the words we use to frame differing positions, often times ceding ground unintentionally. Erroneous translations and definitions were at least a large factor (if not the biggest factor) in the Great Schism!


Incredible. That’s prayer without ceasing, I love it!

Reminds me of “The Way of a Pilgrim” where the main character ingrains the Jesus prayer so deeply that he prays it while inhaling and exhaling.


I’ve encountered a bug where comments on threads will reply back to the original post instead of any particular comment I’m replying to which then fails to notify the people I’m responding to. Happy to share examples if needed. Love the app otherwise, it’s my daily driver! But for comments this was posted via Damus 😕


Looks like Primal put my comment back to the original post instead of replying to your comment nostr:npub1thlpzcqrrza8y5mt95nmtjuqafdqy2v48856549nmhln3cllamfq0ajuq6 🤔


I recently watched the Pints w/ Aquinas episode with Gabiafterhours and now I’m fired up about it. I’m working on having all the mysteries down pat! Still need to reference my “how to pray the rosary” at the moment but I’ll get there 🙏


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Pray the rosary 📿


Bitcoin is on the journey to leave the cave but at the end of it is God.

Bitcoin is a truth that awakens people to long time preference. God is the truth that people are made anew in with an eternal time preference.


Guess I need to look into the Liquid Network… off I go!


Likewise! God bless 🙏


Replying on Damus now just to be safe 😁

In the NT there’s Mt 13:42, Mt 25:41, Mk 9:47-48, 2 Pt 2:24, Jude 7, and more. In the OT there’s also Is 33:14, Jdt 16:17, and more.

I agree, we should all have a properly ordered fear of God, not as a tyrant but as the one who executes justice fairly and non-arbitrarily. We do what we can to unify ourselves to Christ by ordering our wills to His will which means picking up our cross and following Him. Loving God and our neighbor.


nostr:npub18mxvz0wxegstxwl06t4gznm3dmaz4laarezx74cwpgvmtfu5anjqlsch00 tagging for visibility. For whatever reason Primal isn’t showing that my comment is connected to your recent reply so wasn’t sure if you’d see it.


I cannot presume to know what will happen other than what He has shared in Scripture which you’ve quoted below.

It seems relevant to point out that justice can be seen as an act of love as it gives people their due. Mercy would be an even higher form of love which we see God demonstrate perfectly at the crucifixion. My understanding of Hell is, yes as a horrible place with wailing and gnashing of teeth for all eternity, but paradoxically as a place sinners choose to go to given a disordered ability to perceive “the good”. God is just and we will all have to answer for our sin, such as not keeping The Commandments, on our day of judgement. Yet God does not force us to love Him. If He did so, it wouldn’t be love. Love must be voluntary and He exemplifies this perfectly because He voluntarily loves us, all of us, even to the point of death saying “I thirst”.


Christ died for the sins of all because of love. We deserve death and yet because of His merciful love He came to defeat death for all of us sinners.

We do not earn God’s love. He created each and every one of us and keeps us in existence out of love because even though He has no need for us as the infinitely good and perfect Being itself, He created us anyway.


Slowly but surely, the discussion topics on Nostr have broadened. It’s nice to see.


If only people were still that smart today.
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I actually wasn’t taught it, at least not in a conventional sense. I sought out the truth, largely because of bitcoin actually. I thank God’s grace.

It seems we have different definitions of “god”. I am referencing the Christian God but if you were to abstract it further, it would be akin to the Neoplatonic conception of “The One”. Aquinas uses descriptions such as “Prime Mover”, “First Cause”, “Non Contingent Being”, etc. None of those descriptions could possibly apply to more than one being.

It seems for you, the equivalent of that wouldn’t be an individual but maybe space and time (what I would call creation). But you say to find time other than in my imagination, I’m not sure if you’re suggesting time does not exist in objective reality. However, I do agree with the sentiment that we should find a way to be holy and sanctify the present instead of worrying about the past or future.


Nothing is separate from God insofar as everything’s existence is contingent on Him. He is Being itself but that does not mean everything is God. I am not God. I am not perfect. I do my best to cooperate with His Grace to strive towards perfection but that is not something I or anyone else can ever attain in this life.

If everything is perfect as is then why do we throw people in jail? Correct others? Teach kids how to comport themselves?


Many people in today's largely atheistic culture are dismissive of the big question “Does God Exist?”. It seems unreasonable, silly even, to fall prey to an apparently obvious myth. Times change, we’re much more advanced than the societies that once believed in Zeus or Jupiter so it seems logical for us to reach a point where we can finally discard this God fantasy. Let me ask you this, does 2 plus 2 ever stop equaling 4 simply because time has gone on? We can’t see, hear, touch, taste, or smell math and yet we don’t deny its existence. Better yet, good luck trying to deny gravity or time itself. We all know reality extends beyond the physical realm. And yet if Christians claim God is the creator of time and space, why would the procession of time affect our answer on whether or not God exists? That would be like looking at an old wooden home thinking at one point a carpenter was responsible for creating it and now thinking it must have just suddenly popped into existence by itself. With housing prices where they are, I’d love it if houses would just pop into existence!

This book breaks down St. Thomas Aquinas’s “Five Ways”, also known as “Five Proofs”, for God’s existence by portraying a coffee shop conversation between AJ, an atheist, and Lucy, a Christian. It’s an easy introduction to the exceptionally rigorous thought of philosophy and theology. Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae can be seen in the background and is definitely less accessible!

God is not some big man floating in the sky competing with your freedom by imposing Commandments on you. God is existence itself from which all else subsists. He is keeping you in existence this very moment because He loves you. I encourage you to get to know Him.

#god #aquinas #stthomasaquinas #jesus #christian #catholic #catholictheology #philosophy #bookreview https://image.nostr.build/3caa89cd604adebb65373c6fab6311b04207175822cd8b5b9781a81a9d35b673.jpg


Right and now that you mention it, if it’s framed in the context of moving from one currency to another then his criticism would have to address other global powers before the dollar hegemony. As in, when the global standard went from the Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, British, etc. all before the dollar. Bitcoin is just the next successor with the difference being its nature as a money is fundamentally different from fiat and one we have never seen before.

I also wonder if he’s considered tools like the Satscard or Opendime where bitcoin custodianship can be physically transferred without needing a recorded transaction on the blockchain. Tools like that seem to solidify bitcoin’s ability to function as money outside a purely digital context, in a way it even seems to mimic the experience of holding gold.


Agreed, you can’t replace something with nothing and ultimately much of the conservative movement is actually liberal anyway. I suggest checking out what New Polity has to offer. It’s a magazine that constructs a Christian post liberal worldview addressing a variety of topics like gender, money, the State, etc.


If you want to find out how corrupt the food system is, you can start off with Ancel Keys.

Keys was the person who successfully demonized fat as a cause of cardiovascular disease. He then protected the sugar industry, which does contribute to cardiovascular disease.

There is none better at explaining this than Nina Teicholz.

This is link to a talk she gives on the subject of the demonization of saturated fat.

#grownostr #health #food
https://youtu.be/7Lww5WH7INI?si=cOh4tsPCJN01yl2I


Great to hear! That’s where I land, too.  I’m trying to formalize my stance but I think there’s potential to refute his criticism of the speculative nature of bitcoin by viewing it through the lens of double effect. So long as one treats bitcoin not as a means to make more fiat but as a tool to store one’s value over time by understanding its inherent advantages over fiat regardless of price action, I think it’s fair game. Especially when one considers the adverse effects of money printing in fueling the capitalist state, funding the government/managerial class’s circumventing of the law, and pushing liberalism anywhere and everywhere. His promotion of pulling investments out of the stock market is admirable but remaining within the dollar economy is a massive elephant in the room. One would think bitcoin is the missing piece for his argument. Nicole Oresme writes about the adverse effects of debasement. It’s the extent of Church related writing I’ve been able to find regarding the nature of money and it seems pro bitcoin’s ethos.


The folks over at New Polity (Catholic) have made a similar point and I’m still mulling over it. The implications of insurance, especially mandatory insurance, are much further reaching than I initially observed.

https://newpolity.com/blog/against-modern-insurance?rq=Insurance


I coincidentally (providentially) just had a conversation yesterday where I heard about this for the first time. Interested in learning more About the “Power Law” and “Scale Free Networks”. Thanks for sharing this link, seems like a good overview.


We know acting selfishly is wrong because of its definition as an “excessive” concern with oneself. We see it everywhere in modern society with men abandoning children, women killing infants in their womb, etc. Taking care of oneself within reason is not selfishness. Prioritizing oneself at the expense of others is selfishness and is bad.

Agreed, Church teaching is that good ends do not justify bad means. It is staunchly opposed to utilitarianism, for example. Quoting the Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1755: “A morally good act requires the goodness of the object, of the end, and of the circumstances together.” 1756: “One may not do evil so that good may result from it”.

Christian teaching opposes tyranny. But it does it not through its own tyranny, instead through love. So much so that God Himself, who could do whatever He wants, chose to die on the cross so that we may learn to suffer for love as much as Him and in the end, come out triumphant.


I don’t see where I made the first assumption given I said people can be faster (better) on their own through their use of reason or through someone like a gym teacher (self help people, teachers of philosophy, non-Christian religious leaders, etc.). Jesus is not a gatekeeper to being good. There are plenty of very good people that have never heard the Gospel.

Regarding your second point, it again seems to be a matter of definition. What is “sin”? Where do you see nature being sinful? If you’re referring to a lion hunting its prey, that’s not a sin. Humans can and do sin because we are rational animals with the able to discern right from wrong (morality). When we act counter to the eternal law, we sin. You and I agree that nature, otherwise known as creation, is good. Very good, in fact. God created all of this out of nothing so that we too can enjoy it and even create alongside Him and be stewards of the world. Many come to God in their jobs/work.

I agree it’s good to question. I encourage you to seek for you will find. The Church does not guarantee salvation. It cannot and will not ever make such a presumption because the Church is not the judge. We don’t know who is or isn’t in Hell aside from Satan. Hell is a choice. People, by their own free will, choose Hell. I believe it was C.S. Lewis that said the gates of Hell are locked from the inside.

It seems the crux of it comes down to Original Sin. I believe in it, you deny it. We live in objective reality, one of us has to be right. I believe humans can act selfishly, be rude, harm others, lie, steal, cheat, deceive, etc. You believe humans don’t do those things as part of their nature. I ask you then, if you look around the world why do humans constantly act against their nature? If a cat has a particular nature, wouldn’t you find it bizarre if it was constantly behaving like a dog or a pig or a beaver and going against its nature?


*What better way to learn to be good than from the best person there is, was, and ever will be?


What does a “good” person have in common with a “good” cheeseburger or a “good” story? You don’t think a cheeseburger or a story are good because they’re honest and caring. Again I’m not being facetious. Thinking deeply about this is what will ultimately help lead to true happiness.

Let’s change adjectives. Some people are naturally faster than others. Fast being the characterization of being quick relative to the average of a particular category or instance. If I want to be a faster runner, wouldn’t I first need to know what fast means? As in, why would I spend my time bulking up and gaining weight like a sumo wrestler if my goal is to be fast? Knowing what “fast” means (in this case “good”) is of utmost importance.

Back to the context above. Like you said, some people have a disposition of being more good (faster) than others. But if I wanted to be even faster than I am naturally, wouldn’t I benefit from training on my own? So too we can become better people using our reason without the need for divine revelation (just as people like Socrates, Plotinus, and the multitude of people that are still good people without Christianity). But what if I could ask someone like Usain Bolt to teach me how to be faster? That’s the case with Jesus (God) who is perfectly (meaning the absolute of the abstract concept) good. He established his training academy (the Church) with approved teachers (the Magisterium) to guard and promulgate his divine revelation (Sacred Tradition and Sacred Scripture) so that all may know how to be better people (or faster like the analogy). What better way to learn to be good than from the fastest there is, was, and ever will be? Sure a gym teacher (non-clergy) who’s never been taught by or even heard of Usain Bolt could still teach me how to be faster but it would only take me so far.

If someone has a trainer to be faster (like Usain himself), would you say they’re not a fast person? If someone looks to Jesus for his help in being a better person, are they not really a good person?

This analogy has some flaws like treating God as an option or a utility (means to an end). He’s not an option and we are to love Him for Him not for oneself. However, it should hopefully make apparent the point of needing to know what “good” means in the abstract just as we know what “fast”, “big”, “hard”, and other adjectives mean.


Define “good”. Is there such a thing as “the objective good”? What’s the highest good you can conceive of? These are genuine questions, I’m not being facetious. These are the kinds of questions that got the ball rolling for me and I can’t believe how much truth I’ve been blind to all the years I rejected God.


He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist. St. Augustine of Hippo, Catholic theologian, philosopher, and saint (354–430)


Wonderfully insightful, love how you brought it all together at the end. Thank you for the homily Father.


If good vs evil is always so obvious, why is there such a big disagreement on so many controversial issues? You and I know there’s evil everywhere but will we agree on what is and isn’t evil or will our definitions differ? Does evil exist substantially? If so, who created the evil if God is supposedly all good? St. Augustine answers this by pointing out that evil is the absence of good just as cold is the absence of heat. Then we’re back to square one, what does “good” mean?

I don’t know you but I know you are a sinner (as long as you’re not some AI bot) because you share the same human nature I do. And our human nature was separated from God when Adam committed the first sin, which St. Augustine coins Original Sin. This now sinful nature is apparent as early as infancy when we see babies steal, be selfish, yell with anger, cry, strike others, etc. We do all of that even as adults. Original sin has more profound implications that I suggest you look into what the Catechism of the Catholic Church has to say about it. To deny such a reality is to believe the heresy of Pelagianism which St. Augustine ardently battled. We need a redeemer to pay the wages of our sin. That redeemer must be spotless or else He has no redeeming ability. And so the lamb of God came in the flesh ~2000 years ago and died on the cross for you specifically.

It’s true that people should not self flagellate themselves because to despair is to deny God His mercy and love for us which is a sin. But I urge you to humbly discern, is it your pride preventing you from recognizing truth? What is shameful about a full grown adult saying they’re taller than a newborn? Nothing because it’s reality. If you are actually a sinner (you are) then do not let your pride prevent you from going to the hospital for sinners, the Church. You will fall again and again since all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. But we are not God. Do adults ever get angry at a toddler for trying to walk and falling? No, we love seeing a baby go from sitting, to crawling, to walking, etc. Where we hurt as parents is when our toddler pushes us away. So, too, God’s saving grace is helping you even now as He keeps you in existence. Turn to Him and use the free will He gave you to become the saint in heaven He wants you to be.


Circling back to your question on definition, sin is “an offense against God as well as a fault against reason, truth, and right conscience. Sin is a deliberate thought, word, deed, or omission contrary to the eternal law of God”.

Essentially, anything that turns one away from God. Yet we don’t need divine revelation to have a sense of what sin is. God created humanity to be able to naturally discern good and evil through use of reason and right conscience. However, we can and do often err so divine revelation by His grace helps us get closer to living a good, loving life than we would be able to otherwise.

Definitions are incredibly important. I encourage you to ask yourself what the definitions of “good”, “evil”, “truth”,“happiness”, “love”,  and “freedom”. At least for me, the more I dug the more I realized the beauty of faith and Church teaching.


This is a clear, up-close, graphic video, showing a few seconds at the end what "clumps of cells" and mere "just fetuses" look like. If we want to keep it real, we need to rethink our insane view of "my body, my choice."

Do not watch if you can't handle the truth about what "pro-choicers" defend.

https://twitter.com/AbbyJohnson/status/1772691062592532582


Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.


Insightful, thanks for sharing 🙏


stay humble, stack sats https://image.nostr.build/19cf3f101b5e5e583ee1d1a3812f413ac2e266f85293e0459b32a5c3f9c5cd1a.jpg


I did exactly this just over a year ago. The result was absolutely life changing. Bitcoin is truth and (by God’s grace) I followed that thread to Truth Himself. Truth is out there for us to know it/Him, firstly through our reason and then enlightened through faith (reason and faith never contradict) as is beautifully portrayed by Dante in the Divine Comedy. I’d be more than happy to share my story, experience, and/or thoughts if it’s of interest. One thing I would encourage is that you attend mass, especially with Holy Week coming up. A profound celebration that really brought everything together when I first attended last year. Praying for you 🙏 ✝

nostr:note19jcs6wz08xvasserm2402etujhjthhaddtenvk80fwul3pjp88ms3uetrc


Disagree. Can’t decentralize God. Order and unity are good and we see it reflected in His nature (the Trinity).


Catholics.


Agreed. I did return to the faith partly thanks to the bitcoin crowd here. Bitcoin is a great segue as it shifts people from short to long time preferences. The next logical step is the eternal time preference. Would love to see and share more about Catholicism here. Tempus fugit, memento mori ✝

Followed.


Proof of work 💪 keep it up!!


Who’s tracking the Twitter coin M2 supply? 😂📈


Followed 🫡


Para servirles 🫡


Italian beef - sweet or spicy?


Fair point. Likely not.


Doesn’t Taproot enable multi sig? That alone seems pretty valuable.


I appreciate it 🫡


Awesome, I also have MyNode and use BlueWallet but I couldn’t get it to work outside of the home network so this is good info 🤙


Does connecting to Tor solve the problem of accessing your node (bitcoin and/or lightning node) outside of the home network?


Paid! ⚡ 4/10


Yup. The UI was nowhere near as nice I’ll say that much 😂 wish I had taken a screenshot!


Damus link previews 😛


Zeus constantly asks every new screen load even after dismissing it the first time in the session, it’s so annoying lol


Appreciate the examples. I know a few people that would resonate with these so I’ll be sharing them. Sent some sats 🤙 ⚡


For sure, I plan on spending time on it later today 👍


Agreed! That’s why I have my Alby wallet for now but would much rather be able to fully transact both on chain and lightning directly through my node. Looking forward to the advancements in UX as time goes on for sure 🤙


Awesome just sent you some sats as a thank you! 🤘 any chance you’ve tried sending sats from that node when you’re not on your local Wi-Fi? I had trouble with that as well, maybe this addresses that too!


🫣 I’m also guilty as charged. I did get to that page a week or two ago when I was setting it up but didn’t spend time understanding. I just read through it again and realized I totally botched the steps. Thanks! Excited to get it setup properly 🤙


Interesting! Mind sharing where you learned about this? Curious to dig in.


In an abstract sense. There are things I firmly believe in and will not budge for. There are things I believe are my “duty” and/or “obligation” to myself, other people, and society at large.

For example, lying. I refuse to lie to someone unless being honest is a threat to my safety or someone else’s safety.

Another example is to be strong and sharp mentally and physically. That is from a respect I have towards myself and an obligation I have to society to be a functioning and productive member that contributes to a better tomorrow.


Discipline not motivation.
“Tough times don’t last, tough people do.”
A strong understanding and commitment to your core values and principles.
You’ll never know if something that happened ever was a “loss”. Who’s to say what you thought of as a “loss” today didn’t result in what you think of as a “win” tomorrow?
“We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.”


Then why was the SBF spam account just kicked off? Isn’t that spam account an identity in and of itself? Unless it’s because it’s claiming to be someone else thereby implying verification.


Any chance CAPTCHA gets added as a step?


Hm I don’t have an answer but I hope there’s a more elegant solution that incentivizes decentralization instead of forcing relay npub caps. That’s a sign the architecture trends towards centralization which isn’t robust.


A sign relays are currently too centralized 🤔


Working for free isn’t really sustainable 🙂


A premium version of Damus with additional features per Will


Yep otherwise you’ll likely be inundated with spam and bots.


Appreciate the kind words 💜


Anytime 🫡  check this out too:

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I use the following 🤙

eden.nostr.land (5K sats)
nostr.milou.lol (1K sats)


Mentioned you here btw!

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See if these diagrams help!

The benefit of a paid relay is that it puts a monetary burden (expense) on accounts that join thereby greatly reducing the incentive to spam. Increases signal 😄


THE NOSTR REPORT

The Great Firewall of China
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Block Height:
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Moscow Time
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#[0] “The whole point of nostr is that it can't be stopped simply by taking an app off the app store.
If the CCP or Charlie Munger want it banned you're probably doing something right.”
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Damus App approval brings on tsunami 🌊 of new users and reaches 56k app store downloads and steadily climbs up charts of most popular app.  #[2] #[3]
#[4] notes that most of these users appear to be from China according to his relay data #[5]

Unfortunately, Damus was quickly 👀banned from the China App Store with the Cyberspace Administration of China 👀citing illegal content.  Good thing Damus didn’t get put on the China app store on 🍆D-Day🍆.
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Even though Damus App is now banned in China, it appears that some relays are still able to service Chinese clients.
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Speaking of relays, the surge in popularity of nostr has caused relays to be overwhelmed with record number of clients connecting. Eden relays hit with 800k new requests from China and 600k from US clients. Cameri and FiatJaf think scaling horizontally is the only solution.
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#[9] reminds us that GitHub is a centralized service subject to US sanctions and can be blocked by the Great Firewall, increasing the utility for a Nostr GitHub replacement. FOSS is incredible but needs to be hosted on a decentralized service to reach its full potential.
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#[11] poses the question: “are ordinals an ⚔attack⚔ on #Bitcoin?” Luxor mining admits to stealing pool contributors hash in order to pull off the 4MB jpeg stunt with Udi and Eric Wahl.
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#[16] and #[17] collaborate on wss://puravida.nostr.land, the first ♀female-run♀ paid relay, to the family of nostr.land relays!
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#[19] Damus is 2nd most popular social network app in Hong Kong on the App Store.
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#[21] ⚠EU bans Linux OS⚠!!
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#[23] reiterates the “dumb relay” / “smart client” ethos of nostr and says that clients should be able to find people on different relays.
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#[25] NVK reports stats from BRB.io
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#[27] Terry Yiu implores developers to use open source translators rather than centralized platforms like Google Translate.
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#[29] The Rise of Paid Nostr Relays
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#[31] 🤡⚠Charlie Munger (99) gives policy and investing advice⚠🤡.
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#[33] Don’t get scammed by Damus tokens being sold on shitcoin exchanges.
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#[35] ⚡Zeus⚡ wallet has POS at Pubkey bar in 🗽NYC🗽 all “yous” NYC nostriches should check it out. https://pubkey.bar/
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#[37] becomes a 📖book🔥 burner and claims books are useless because all knowledge comes from wisdom which is learned in the streets. Wu Tang Clan was not available for comment.
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#[39] has some deep thoughts on horizontal and vertical scaling issues of relays running the Nostr protocol.
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pubkeys
403,092
events
1,704,223
relays
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Source nostr.io/stats

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Stay Classy Nostr.


Downloading Damus and seeing how people can post freely and send/receive sats through lightning would be a good start. Showing public key and private key management instead of username and password, etc.


A miner pool, Luxor, used the resources of the combined miners to mine a block of 4MB that had an image (aka an ordinal). Controversy then followed as people have different viewpoints on the topic.

https://youtu.be/JGA1mJm4tQk


Absolutely. Been trying to reply to Chinese posts here and there to bridge the gap.


PV 🤙


You could add another layer by saying filter posts by some combination of # of tippers and # of sats zapped where the relays charge entry per user and/or cap the amount that can be zapped per post thereby completely slanting the system of incentives against bots.


I just realized that this will probably spawn a new service where Twitter will hold your “private keys” as a custodial service for you via your profile - connected to your email address.  Then they will get to say they are “decentralized” but they continue their charade.   This will be SBF with #Bitcoin all over again 🤯. If Twitter doesn’t, some other organization will try it.  Remember #plebchain, not your keys not your voice!!!


Thanks for the insight folks! I also just bought some ghee yesterday to sauté at higher temp, worked great. Might pop back in with more questions down the road 🫡


Haven’t ventured into web clients for the same reason. Just stuck to Damus so far.


Back at ya! #plebchain


Ah I don’t have any home devices anymore. I probably should move to Tidal just out of principle so I can finally delete my Google account but it’s a tough sell for some reason. Feel like I’m giving up a crazy deal especially since subscription prices are only gonna get higher in the future.


MFW signal is too high


Aren’t you a YTM guy? I tried out Tidal because I want to support Jack but the lifetime $7.99 deal I got on GPM is too good 🥲


I can’t even remember what Damus looked like in October, it feels like an eternity ago.


Character limit. Nostr posts can be much longer so not as straight forward.


Commenting to follow. Curious as well.


What mobile wallet experience do you use?


Damus on iOS 🤙


Got ‘em, cheers mate 🤙


Got beat to my own suggestion 😂 sign of a great community 🤙


Coming soon to a website near you... NostrGram.

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Thanks for insight! I’ve been exploring raw foods so this was a timely thread.

Also strongly recommend squat university, I’ve learned a great deal about foot posture, hip tightness, and the like.

https://youtube.com/@SquatUniversity


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