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2026-04-02 08:48:46 UTC

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God offers forgiveness. Despite the fact that we don't deserve it. Whether we want to accept it is another story.
Holding on to grievances is a prison. Forgiveness is freedom.
It's not easy. People do horrible things. And thley will keep on doing horrible things.. Forgiveness takes work, but the choice is yours.
God has made it clear what you are supposed to do.
Forgive us our debts as we forgive the debts of others to us.

2026-04-02 03:18:32 UTC

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Bullshit and rationalization. Forgiveness is an act of the will and doesn't depend on anyone but you and God. And God already weighed in. Do you know who St. Maria Goretti is? You decide to forgive or you remain a child, blaming everyone else for your own moral decisions.

2026-03-30 01:34:27 UTC

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Isn't that the point?

2026-03-30 01:06:27 UTC

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"This" is doing a whole lot of unnecessary work there.

2026-03-29 04:15:01 UTC

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She's sleeping right next to you

2026-03-29 04:10:22 UTC

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Never is a long way away

2026-03-29 04:09:47 UTC

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Do you think the debate is about "mempool policy" seriously?

2026-03-29 04:09:01 UTC

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Do you think 110 is about "mempool policy"? Genuinely curious

2026-03-29 04:06:24 UTC

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😂

2026-03-29 03:25:42 UTC

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Drool

2026-03-18 22:21:12 UTC

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I find that some Christians think: I am supposed to be saved if I have faith, so when I suffer does it mean that I don't have faith and I am not saved? Or is this whole thing wrong?
Another way of looking at it is: God is good and loves me and He allows me to suffer so that I can become holy. He must know that I am strong enough to partake in His cross. He is a good father and is allowing me to grow. If I were beyond saving, He would probably let me be comfortable or just get it over with already before I dig myself a deeper place in hell.
I find a good reminder of the latter perspective is a crucifix.
Not saying this applies to you. Just sharing.

2026-03-18 01:56:50 UTC

Nostr's CHURN is brutal.
Losing almost every new user in a week.
It's not that no one comes on, despite that being way less easy than it should be, it's that they just don't stick around.
Not everybody wants to talk about Bitcoin or clawdbots or nips.
We need to onboard new communities, which is a harder problem.
If client devs want to make that happen, they need to build apps for whole groups of people who aren't here.
One idea is a killer dev stack for general software development. Git, CI, builds, supply chain, etc. ?
(Shout out @nprofile…6g7h.)
Maybe online marketplaces?
What other things could we go after that are NOT ABOUT Nostr or Bitcoin or bots?

2026-03-17 09:17:19 UTC

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I get endlessly shrinking graphs. I kid you not.

2026-03-13 22:02:50 UTC

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I think you should revert back to not having an opinion until you have some idea what you are talking about

2026-03-13 19:48:37 UTC

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This is so logically broken. Your "suspicion" ... What functionality? If you have identified something other than spam and shitcoing that 110 breaks, please report it. If you can't be specific you are talking out of your ass.

2026-03-11 18:47:27 UTC

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My understanding is that he critiques and rejects other occult and esoteric schools, other than his, and remained a Freemason. His critiques of modernity are strong, but , tmk, he was a gnostic/Freemason to the end. Maybe I'm misinformed, but I can't find a quotation indicating rejection of his own gnosticism and Freemasonry.

2026-03-06 04:52:39 UTC

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Excuse me, who?

2026-03-05 07:51:55 UTC

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Well, if all you really did was look things up and type them in ... I think all those jobs are gone. But if you do actual engineering, or can learn to, the market for your talents is about to explode.

2026-03-02 23:44:13 UTC

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It's true that there is no way to disprove the existence of higher time chains, implementing our chain the way that we implement Bitcoin. But there also isn't a reason to think there is, from a principle of least action perspective. (And PLA is maybe the strongest ordering principle we can see.)
I think we can get a tiny bit further on first principles reason. I'm cheating though, because St. Thomas already did the work. :)
Namely, we can say, whether there are higher chains or not, that outside the final chain is eternity.
Eternity > Time
Time requires eternity and higher order must exist for the order within the chain for the chain to be intelligible. The effect cannot be greater than the cause.
We exist in eternity, by definition, and we grasp it directly, or we could not make sense of it's approximations here.
Think about this: can you implement anything infinite or even truly continuous inside finite/discrete physical media? But you can implement finite time within eternity.
The trouble with self-cause is that it's turtles all the way down. Only God can be the uncaused cause, by definition. He can't be fully comprehended by us from within the chain, as you say. (Though He could obviously take direct control of utxos of energy inside the chain. Christians believe that He did. The Incarnation.)
Determinism is tricky because from outside the chain, God can see the whole chain and He is it's ultimate and necessary cause. Our perspective in discerning determinism from withing the chain is foreknowledge. If we can work it forward and backward in time, causally, we know that something is deterministic. So when we apply that rubric to imagining the perspective from above for God or eternal created beings in the Aevum, it looks deterministic to us, looking up, as it were.
But the degree of freedom within the chain is whatever is allowed from above. It is not pre determined from withing causal time (from a within the horizontal, directional order). Horizontal determinism applied to vertical determinism is, well, orthogonal.
The Thomistic take is that vertical beings in the aevum are also free, but being outside time their will was instantaneous (for lack of a better word) and eternal. Fixed from our perspecitve. The ordering principles either accepted or rejected the will of God upon their creation. These are what we call angels and fallen angels or daemons.
The rational human intellect and it's grasp of good and evil are proof from first principles of free will. Arguing that the privation of the good (disorder) exists with the allowance of free will is to say that God is not things that He, definitionally and necessarily is: order itself, perfect, unitary, not contradictory, truth itself.
The simpler way I said this to my little boy is "God allows us to do evil because if we couldn't choose and we couldn't be good, and God wouldn't be good if He did that, and that wouldn't be God."
So I think we can say these things from first principles: God exists. He is the uncaused cause. He is intelligent. He creates the chain and is the source of its order from above (causally). The world depends on Him and not the other way around. He created us with rational intellects and free will.
I am probably doing a horrible job here. I apologize for my insufficiency. If this was easy the Summa would be shorter and easy to read. :)
...I wonder if @nprofile…0w9j could possibly be enticed to correct me? (Be gentle.)

2026-02-28 17:04:38 UTC

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For end-users, yeah, the package manager is taking care of it. Even though the key layer actually sucks still, at least it's there. But most devs are way too blasé about supply chain security. Especially in js and rust. I cringe every time I see one of those pipe curl to bash oneliners.

2026-02-20 07:04:42 UTC

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Do you know what circular reasoning is?

2026-02-19 04:16:04 UTC

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Halving and cycle psychology just nudge things into motion, but the setup is the setup. The real structure is marginal adopters for current use case. Cycles are just an overlay.

2026-02-17 23:24:22 UTC

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No apology needed. It's a critical question. AI undergoes model collapse. That means there is no source of order infusing it from outside the system. It is dead and not alive. Life is the infusion of order from above. It's not even alive like a plant or an insect. It is also not intelligent at all. It is just a machine.
I think "artificial intelligence" is actually an oxymoron. It's a stochastic database with a text generator. The fact that it suffers model collapse shows that there is more to life and intellect than a sufficiently complex arrangement of matter.
AI is a resounding experimental falsification of materialism.

2026-02-17 21:30:27 UTC

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Spiritual is a loaded word for some, so I'm trying to stick to tracing the metaphysics at physics' observable boundary. We can observe (and experience) that the rational intellect grasps universals and abstracts. Zero, infinity, continuity (which is a form of infinity), triangularity, dimensionality...
Bitcoin giving us a model of time (state, conservation and change) that we can view from the outside, not only means that we can make a better model of the time we experience (physics) but also a better model of the interface (metaphysics). I seems to look just like what Aristotle and St. Thomas said.
The rational intellect grasps possible changes ("quantum states" which are not physical states but potentia) and qualities, practical reason discerns the good and the will signs potentia into actus.
The negative case is being proven to us by AI. Despite the complexity of computation, they still suffer model collapse. Without sustaining order from outside the system, they fall into entropy. Something sustains order from the outside and we participate in that because we bring order into being as well.
https://zsubmesh.net/essays/bitcoin-and-the-theology-of-time.html

2026-02-14 08:20:53 UTC

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I didn't say any of that. My observation is much narrower and only a response to what you presented. Calling someone a masochist for being sober is undermining. That's not what friends do.
And I'm not sober and don't think its necessarily better. Balance is good, but it depends.
The wisdom that I have learned, having been a self-conscious person myself when I was young, is that focusing on myself was not the way to go. That's what worked for me. Ymmv.
We are very much trained to focus on ourselves. It makes us neurotic. Therapy, social and emothional learning. Don't be "toxic masculine". Get in touch with your feelings. Self-esteem. Self-expression. How do you identify? Self self self.
It's a big neurotic mind F.
All this psychologizing and emotionality is terrible for our mental health, ironically. Especially for men.
Being hard on yourself really isn't that much better than gasing yourself up. Maybe worse. The best thing is to take yourself out of your own spotlight and focus on something so big that it makes you not matter in comparison. Ideally God, or whatever you want to call the biggest big of all, and whatever you think your mission is in that context. Not you as the star of the mission, but the mission itself.
We're just people, after all, and none of us is worth obsessing over. None of us is really special. I mean, everybody is special and that means nobody is, right?
Just forget about yourself and serve something bigger.
I don't know you and none of this is directed at you personally. How could it be? These are just general truths I have learned about life. I have no idea if it applies to you at all. But I have seen some patterns and this is what I've noticed. Hope it helps in some way. If not, please just ignore me.
I wish you well.

2026-02-01 03:59:54 UTC

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This movie is pure camp. It's supposed to be funny and rilediculous, not realistic. You didn't even mention Peewee Herman's death scene, which is the high point of the entire film.
Kids these days... Now pardon me while I go yell at some clouds

2026-01-29 07:29:35 UTC

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Yeah, well, that's why my response ended with a question mark. Can I trouble you to enlighten me on the functional difference between gated and private?

2026-01-21 05:56:47 UTC

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"Value is the probability the promise is kept."
This is sleight of hand, and I've already addressed it.
The entire defense is verbal and conceptual sleight of hand.
"The probability of a promise kept" does not exist. It's reification—treating an abstraction as a concrete thing. That is exactly what fiat is: pretending to create something from nothing with words alone. Playing God, which we are not.
We do not know if we will even be alive tomorrow, let alone what value others might place on work we have not yet done.
How is this any different from the "full faith and credit" of Steve instead of the state? It is not.
Buying and selling things that do not exist distorts the real market, because all goods compete. The "financial economy" extracts value from the real economy by definition—forcing tangible things to compete with reifications. That is, with fictions.
Proof-of-work and promise-of-work are not the same.
You also keep sliding across the is/ought distinction. Yes, people can and probably always will practice usury. That tells us nothing about whether it is right or wrong.
People will rob, murder, and rape. That is not an argument that they should.
That is sophistry.
Twisting scripture to justify usury—by pulling a metaphor from an unrelated point—is perverse.
Scripture frequently uses slavery as a metaphor too. It does not mean slavery is ethical.
The perspective I offer is precisely Christian. It is the position of St. Thomas Aquinas (and Aristotle before him).
Christendom rose from the ashes of Pagan Rome—which destroyed itself with usury—and built humanity's greatest civilization by banning it outright.
Look at what has happened since we began using word games to corrupt that ethic.
We have been on a thousand-year degenerate bender, spending Christendom's inheritance, and it has brought us to the doorstep of recapitulating Pagan Rome's collapse.
Bitcoin embodies that ancient ethic in code and hardens it with cryptography. Undoing it off-chain is failing to learn the lesson.
If we build new pyramids of lies, we will have accomplished nothing.
Truly adopting Bitcoin means internalizing its honesty. Only the truth can save us from ourselves.

2026-01-16 03:47:43 UTC

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Based

2026-01-10 05:01:27 UTC

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It's a start. We have about a thousand years of fiat perversion to unwind.

2026-01-07 22:36:26 UTC

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I still have some trepidation about side effects wot spam filtering, but this is pretty exciting. Where can I read the WoT filtering policy?

2025-12-31 07:40:38 UTC

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Thank you for saying "life begins"

2025-12-13 17:28:54 UTC

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Circular economies.

2025-12-11 17:26:45 UTC

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The media image of men is strikingly bad, for sure. I think strong fathers actually create independence. The modern state is a smothering nanny. A normal and natural father is always trying to stand everybody up on their feet and give them as much independence as they can handle.
That's why breaking down the father was the critical step. By demonizing fatherhood and calling it tyranny, they broke down his natural, healthy authority to protect the people who depend on him.
Then women and children became dependent on the state instead and the state assertied it's authority over everything that used to belong to the family.
But, of course, the state actually can't take care of them (or love them) so then it had the perfect excuse to enslave men, so that women and children could depend on them *through* the state.
"Patriarchy" is just a word they used to demonize the family by demonizing men to centralize all the power.

2025-12-11 05:41:06 UTC

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The state's assertion of parental primacy was the true abolition of private life. (Parens Patriae, in the states.) The family, the patriarchy, was the real bulwark against the total dominion of the modern state.
Demonizing the father and destroying the family opened up everything to their control.
Everything we are living through now is just them sweeping up the edges and finishing the job.
At some point we have to take it back. Get their grubby government hands away from our kids and out of our private lives.

2025-12-04 20:23:42 UTC

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Yet

2025-11-24 17:42:37 UTC

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@nprofile…ad8w is right, of course. But what if we turn this argument on its head? What if we use the cause of security to inject privacy back into the system?
The fact is that security REQUIRES privacy. And the system itself has real security problems. If we, by some sly means, gave the system an irresistible way to secure itself... and enabled privacy for all in the process... wouldn't that be the greatest reverse trojan horse of all?
#nevent1q…yk8d