Bro cmon dont make me click out to X!
“Do not think that you are saved if you are a drunken pig day and night. This is a great sin, and everybody should know that this is such a great iniquity, that it makes you guilty and excludes you from eternal life. Everybody should know that such a sin is contrary to his baptism and hinders his faith and his salvation. Therefore, if you wish to be a Christian, take care that you control yourself. If you do not wish to be saved, go ahead and steal, rob, profiteer as long as you can… But if you do want to be saved, then listen to this: just as adultery and idolatry close up heaven, so does gluttony... Therefore be watchful and sober. That is what is preached to us, who want to be Christians... A drunkard is not dissuaded from his drinking by reason any more than a murderer, an adulterer, whoremonger, or usurer...What should move you is that God forbids it on pain of damnation and loss of the kingdom of heaven."
-Martin Luther, Sermon on Soberness and Moderation, 1539
No dude.
I'm no fan of pharma but that lady's take is terribly simplistic, peppered conspiratorial rhetoric for effect. She's exaggerating the harms and minimizing the benefits. Hospitals have problem for sure, but "harmful scam" is too strong.
Fwiw, I followed nostr:nprofile1qqsqfjg4mth7uwp307nng3z2em3ep2pxnljczzezg8j7dhf58ha7ejgpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgqguwaehxw309ahx7um5wghx6at5d9h8jampd3kx2apwvdhk6qg5waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t0ke3nsp, nostr:nprofile1qqsw3znfr6vdnxrujezjrhlkqqjlvpcqx79ys7gcph9mkjjsy7zsgygpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsz8thwden5te0dehhxarj9ekh2arfdeuhwctvd3jhgtnrdakj7qgkwaehxw309ajkgetw9ehx7um5wghxcctwvshspg7dju, and nostr:nprofile1qqsw4v882mfjhq9u63j08kzyhqzqxqc8tgf740p4nxnk9jdv02u37ncpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9uju6mpd4czuumfw3jsz9nhwden5te0wfjkccte9ec8y6tdv9kzumn9wsq3yamnwvaz7tmsw4e8qmr9wpskwtn9wvql3tqm here from twitter. So to follow their example, you would develop an audience by posting some good content on twitter and point readers to your better/different stuff on nostr, then maybe drop twitter altogether at some point.
Feel you but dont forget that social media, nostr or otherwise, will never approximate anything close to real connections and real friends. Those things require real world, not digital, interactions.
Not saying there isnt a role for digital interaction but theres truth to the "touch grass" idiom.
I don't think you're giving young people enough credit for ability to nuance this issue. My kids understand that "Don't challenging my parental authority" /= "Don't ever question anyone in authority."
Yo nostr:nprofile1qqsd79ejwuvz7v246danxqs3hgw7f2q4qrqz6x27je8er0nhfmykwzqppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0u6pql3 whats the best way to get assistance? Im having trouble sending
Well I just experienced yet another reason why #btc > #gold
Looking to diversify my holdings, I bought a gold bar about a year ago at a local coin shop. Cash transaction, no ID required. "Wow" I thought. "Nice and private that was nice."
Went to the same shop to sell it back. "Ill need your license...and I need to snap your picture and scan your fingerprint." What?!? "Why?" County bill of sale law.
I tried again in nearby, more conservative county: "yup its the law" Which law? "I dunno"
So basically shotgun #KYC'd.
Roach motel.
Interesting read...but NGL the buying sounds a bit complicated..whats the benefit of going though all that? I use the payout to onchain option to receive right to my cold storage, easy-peasy worth the extra 1-1.5% fee.
Since time is my scarcest asset, I will spend whichever money has the least tolerable friction and convert any leftover wealth to btc.
If I need to spend my wealth currently stored as btc, I will need to convert it to fiat, (unless its a coldcard or vpn service - None of the other merchants I buy from accept bitcoin).
Yo @jack mallers!
Is there any price or privacy benefits/downsides to sending cash directly to a bitcoin cold wallet address vs buying on the bitcoin tab first then sending the bitcoin to the cold wallet address?
Yo #asknostr
I bought some btc at an atm and sent it to #Samouri wallet. I then sent it to a #bisq wallet to post bond for some #nokyc buys of bitcoin.
Is my nokyc stack tainted any some way now? I never coinjoined.
Good morning nostr!
#Christianity is a worldview that starts with a rational recognition of the fact that God exists.
Theism has been the majority view of the entirety of human history for good reasons.
Yo #asknostr! I love my asian brothers and sisters but since I can't read their languages, is there an easy way to filter non-Enlish notes on #Amethyst or other client?
Good morning nostr!
#Success is faithfulness, nothing more and nothing less.
"For us there is only the trying. The rest is not our business."
-TS Eliot
Good morning nostr!
"A little #Philosophy inclineth Man’s Mind to #Atheism; But depth in Philosophy, bringeth Men’s Minds about to #Religion"
-Francis Bacon
Ok LG I read part 1. I commend you for putting these thoughts to words! God will always bless our focus and recognition of Him, aka worship of Him.
Full disclosure, I lean old earth over young earth but I am not certain either way. I affirm God created the cosmos, and to think otherwise is a mistake with profound negative consequences to humanity and society. However, I reject the argument made by many Answers-In-Genesis types that a non-literal interpretation of Genesis is somehow an attack on inerrancy or inspiration. That assertion is a classic example of the fallacy you described: begging the question. The original audience of Genesis was prescientific, and so there is no reason to think God was making scientific claims. Rather, it makes more sense that he was making theologic claims. I agree Genesis doesnt borrow from other cultures and I think its more likely a polemic against those other cultures with seemingly similar stories. The God of Israel, not the gods of Sumeria, created the world.
You rightly describe the limitations of science, but then try to argue young earth from science. The problem with that approach is that for every example you offer, a militant atheist can respond with 10 seemingly more credible counter examples. Better to argue from the worldview level as you did (ie. natural science is not the final arbiter of truth)...imho.
I hope my feedback is not too harsh! I hope you keep pondering and these topics and I'm sure they will bear fruit!
“Bless you prison, bless you for being in my life. For there, lying upon the rotting prison straw, I came to realize that the object of life is not prosperity as we are made to believe, but the maturity of the human soul.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
#christianity
Good evening nostr.
I like Saylor. If my hands ever start to soften, I pull up a Saylor video and my resolve is strengthen.
If he thinks ossification of #bitcoin is a good thing, then I'm willing to entertain the idea.
Can anyone point me to any reading material?
Fair enough I cant argue with selfcustody but Im wondering why Saylor/mstr using CB is a "red flag?" Ive always assumed he had to for some regulatory reason given how much he has.
I can't help but wonder if this chicken-and-the-egg problem prevents getting the ball rolling. Nobody wants to commit to adoption if they're not confident it will scale, and nobody wants to scale if there isn't adoption driving it.
I mean 'adopt' in terms of medium of exchange and 'nobody' in terms of merchants of goods. I've had btc since 2022. I bought a cordcard using btc. I've not had any other convenient opportunity to spend my btc.
Fair enough, but isn't part of the benefit of traveling and/or living nomadically to minimize you burdens, both physically and psychologically? I'd argue there's some upside to only having one or two books at a time.
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