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Austro-Libertarian. Anti-woke.
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2025-03-18 11:36:59 GMT

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There's evidently a whole movement of 'accelerationists' with some pretty whacked notions. Iain Davis has been writing (at great length) about it for Unlimited Hangout:
"The Dark MAGA GovCorp Technate" [Part 1](https://unlimitedhangout.com/2025/03/investigative-series/the-dark-maga-gov-corp-technate-part-1/), [Part 2](https://unlimitedhangout.com/2025/03/investigative-reports/the-dark-maga-gov-corp-technate-part-2/)

2025-03-18 11:24:51 GMT

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💯
recruiting for the new paradigm by overdoing the "we're not them" line
https://image.nostr.build/220aac0a2825db6cfcc9b6fc35f6443d1527cd38d213c59a4a57a43d09156a15.png

2025-03-18 08:54:02 GMT

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really bad pitch from the accelerationist technocrats

2025-03-13 12:29:26 GMT

Get your kids on the Tuttle train!
The [monthly magazine](https://tuttletwins.com/product-category/magazine/ref/AronGahagan/) is great:
https://image.nostr.build/889b584684587aa7daf488f4af8726af64b58ff2d343b459b366bcb2b2060c4a.jpg

2025-03-12 17:06:22 GMT

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...are you saying that legitimates your circular (faith-based) question-begging, too? 🤔
My fellow drone-hating New Jerseyian...you're making absolute truth claims without having first proven your presupposition that 'there is no God.'
On the contrary, there is a God--that much is clear to us all from the existence, design, order, beauty, precision, rationality, and 'symphony' of the created world and all its interlocking and irreducibly complex systems-of-systems. It is clear from 'what we can't not know' about natural law and the dictates of conscience.
We don't need to rehash the billions of atheism-vs-Christian-Theism arguments that are already online in a million comment sections written by angsty middle schoolers.
Suffice it for me to respond with this: I won't speak for other religions, but for Christian Theism, it is not a "control structure" but "good news of great joy for all the peoples." Grace and redemption as a free gift are not a "control structure," but the ground-source of true hope, lasting joy, genuine love, perfect forgiveness, and everlasting endurance. And, I might add, the only legitimate ground for ethics and for questioning--even rebelling against--an overreaching State apparatus. If there is nothing higher than the State, then there are no grounds to resist it, either.

2025-03-12 16:37:04 GMT

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This begs the question.

2025-03-12 11:32:34 GMT

GM
> Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
[1 Peter 1:3-5](http://blb.sc/002Ri8), KJV

2025-03-11 22:29:13 GMT

I have family on opposing sides of the #immigration / #ICE thing.
1) there is a real problem he's trying to fix; and
2) there is a real problem with how he's trying to fix it
3) please pass the butter

2025-03-11 18:56:56 GMT

I mean, has Massie said anything recently (or at least since his wife died) that might have upset Trump or his constituents?
It's all so mysterious and confusing, innit
🧐

2025-03-11 18:30:01 GMT

I have a great face for radio and a great voice for print work

2025-03-11 12:46:48 GMT

GM
Bright sun, clear skies.
Gratitude is medicine.

2025-03-10 20:06:03 GMT

"You'd like her.
BEAUTIFUL girl.
GREAT personalities."
😂🤣

2025-03-10 11:51:35 GMT

GM
get that 3-5° #sunrise - https://www.suncalc.org/

2025-03-06 05:03:26 GMT

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...because it is...sensitive...content...see what I did there? *rimshot*

2025-03-05 19:52:14 GMT

#asknostr
#nevent1q…qufm

2025-03-05 19:50:05 GMT

I understand what you're going through.
There is suffering before glory, and there is a cross before the crown.
Keep going.
🫂

2025-03-05 19:48:07 GMT

Dear Donald,
Shutting the #IRS down too hastily would be unjust and unwise.
You should keep the staff on just long enough to administer refunds of 100% of all income taxes they've ever stolen over the past 113 years.
Call it 'reparations' and you might even get bipartisan support.
Sincerely,
A concerned citizen

2025-02-27 11:21:23 GMT

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now I have to rethink everything

2025-02-27 11:20:40 GMT

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idk but I saw about 50 of that note (on Amethyst) 😅

2025-02-27 11:17:57 GMT

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James White, " [Run From Andrew Tate](https://www.aomin.org/aoblog/theologymatters/run-from-andrew-tate/) "

2025-02-27 11:12:20 GMT

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no es bueno

2025-02-27 11:03:29 GMT

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uh oh something's broke

2025-02-27 10:32:59 GMT

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YES
just maybe not that late in the evening if one wants to fall asleep at a reasonable hour 😅

2025-02-27 10:30:47 GMT

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No, decaf coffee, like non-alcoholic beer, is an aberrration! 😂 I had it at 7:30 PM--too late for me--and couldn't get to sleep.

2025-02-27 05:50:48 GMT

Host put a cup of hot (caffeinated!) coffee in front of me earlier this evening. Now paying the price, but it was worth it. A good visit.
but still, 🫨

2025-02-27 03:30:04 GMT

Certainly thought-provoking.
James Lindsay, "'Never Again' is Now" - the New Discourses podcast
I think what he's talking about -- what he calls the 'woke right' -- is a real thing, but, so far, wrongly associated with certain flavors of libertarianism.
Open to other thoughts.
https://podverse.fm/episode/7FASnDZmf

2025-02-24 03:02:09 GMT

A person is not a means to the end of marriage.
Marriage is the means to the end of that person.

2025-02-20 22:42:35 GMT

move slow but still break stuff

2025-02-17 03:26:03 GMT

Turns out, we sure did a lot of 'square dancing' in P.E. for absolutely no reason at all.

2025-02-15 22:59:01 GMT

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Rothbard, [Marx and Alienation](https://www.lewrockwell.com/2012/09/murray-n-rothbard/marx-and-alienation/) - excerpt from his monumental study, _An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought_

2025-02-15 21:38:43 GMT

What most academics seem to miss is that, for Marx, 'alienation' was not so much a psychological diagnosis as a metaphysical one. It frames his anthropology, but also (and, I think, more importantly) his _eschatology_.
Rothbard saw this. Lindsay sees this. Too few others--including Trueman--seem to see it.

2025-02-14 11:51:09 GMT

GM it's time to GM

2025-02-12 01:15:53 GMT

Daddy / daughter movie night. We like the BBC's "All Creatures Great And Small".
🍿

2025-02-11 20:51:49 GMT

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no and no
what means 'enough', precious?

2025-02-10 04:37:05 GMT

I've been strugging to find the right word to describe this cheap, imitation of Christianity now getting the spotlight via the Whie House.
I think it might be, simply,
bait

2025-02-08 17:29:57 GMT

GitHub -> gitea (hosted locally)
#makingmoves

2025-02-03 12:58:11 GMT

GM to each

2025-02-01 14:14:05 GMT

> Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.
[Heb. 13:17](https://www.esv.org/Hebrews+13:17/), ESV

2025-01-29 20:32:22 GMT

Just when you thought it couldn't possibly get any more ridiculous:
#nevent1q…qvty

2025-01-23 19:55:52 GMT

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I was getting the error ```CMake Error: The source directory "/build/source" does not appear to contain CMakeLists.txt.``` I didn't tell anything to look in the ```/build/source``` directory so I don't know how to change that. Tried changing ```build.target-dir``` in ```.cargo/config.toml`` but that didn't work, either. IDK. 🤷‍♂️
Doesn't build running ```./build.sh``` or by running ```nix-build```.
For any kind soul who wants to help a #NixOS newbie out, this is what I have so far in ```default.nix```
```
{ pkgs ? import <nixpkgs> { } }:
pkgs.stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
name = "gossip-0.13.0";
#name = "gossip";
#version = "0.13.0";
src = pkgs.fetchFromGitHub {
owner = "mikedilger";
repo = "gossip";
rev = "v0.13.0";
sha256 = "sha256-GhkILnt573deQU42uN4YnhzDxirEvCpsvBnp6hF06v4=";
fetchSubmodules = true;
};
buildInputs = [
pkgs.SDL2
pkgs.cargo
pkgs.cmake
pkgs.ffmpeg
pkgs.fontconfig
pkgs.gcc
pkgs.openssl
pkgs.pkg-config
pkgs.rustc
];
buildPhase = ''
RUSTFLAGS="-C target-cpu=native --cfg tokio_unstable" cargo build --features=video-ffmpeg --release
strip ./target/release/gossip
'';
installPhase = ''
mkdir -p $out/bin
cp ./target/release/gossip $out/bin
'';
}
```
#HailMary (so to speak)

2025-01-23 16:17:58 GMT

```./build.sh --yolo```
#nevent1q…xavm

2025-01-23 15:20:53 GMT

Tried to build #gossip v0.13.0 from source for use on my #NixOS 🤔
I have no idea what I'm doing. 😤
I should have streamed it...
Comedy gold. 🫠
n.b. problem isn't gossip or NixOS but my own ignorance and masochistic desire to try new coding things I know nothing about
GM

2025-01-21 19:13:00 GMT

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No, because God disallows it--in 1 Timothy 2 for one example, which is the verse @nprofile…8s05 basically quoted (see [verse 12](http://blb.sc/002nN0)).

2025-01-20 23:16:14 GMT

Been away enjoying life for a few hours.
Did the "new boss" pardon / #FreeRoss yet?

2025-01-20 16:46:13 GMT

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Agree: best to just get out of the pendulum's way. I'm not so sure we can use the State to end the State without becoming what we hate in the process.

2025-01-20 16:33:24 GMT

Now let's beware of the pendulum's backswing, lest we overcorrect, and fall off the ridge on the other side.

2025-01-18 15:19:52 GMT

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I have avoided the home-manager rabbit hole, but would take another stab at it just for gossip...
I increased the inertial scrolling to 1.5 and it's much better, imo. Scrolling via touchpad, mainly.

2025-01-18 13:53:40 GMT

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That cleared the sdl2 warning for me (and provided me the motivation to add my first unstable package!). TY!
Still having cursor weirdness (and no app icon) but I think I probably messed up something to do with wayland.

2025-01-17 23:47:46 GMT

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Doesn't sound 'trivial' to me! Cool to have that history...
Here's what I see in the output:
```
2025-01-17T23:39:07.382256Z WARN /build/cargo-vendor-dir/winit-0.29.15/src/platform_impl/linux/wayland/window/state.rs:708: Failed to set cursor to Default
```
...replace that last word 'Default' with 'Text' and multiply it a dozen times or so, and that's what I keep seeing.
I didn't install from source (I don't know how to do that on NixOS [yet]), just pointed to the package on https://search.nixos.com (v0.12.0).
A separate issue is that for some reason I cannot get SDL2 to install and be recognized--but that's NixOS-specific, not an issue with gossip.
I'm using gossip now so it's usable, and I like it quite a bit--just a few minor annoyance is all. Thank you for writing it!

2025-01-17 11:57:21 GMT

Hi @npub189j…3tg8 @npub1acg…p35c
I'm liking #gossip a lot so far, but having some glitches running it on #NixOS:
- can't seem to get SDL2 (or libsdl2-dev) installed correctly (video works, but not audio) - this is most likely not a gossip, but have you seen any workarounds?
- cursor weirdness
- is it by design that I can only call it from the command line?
Generally, just looking for any tips you might have for running this on, specifically, NixOS.
TIA

2025-01-13 21:13:10 GMT

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1, 3, A

2025-01-12 02:46:40 GMT

Watched _The Professor and the Madman_ last night. First time. What a beautiful film.

2025-01-08 12:34:18 GMT

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add kyc and nothing is freedom money
"get your corn off the exchanges" as we say

2025-01-08 04:11:25 GMT

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It's fair though because they bug us right back sometimes...
https://i.nostr.build/wIySI2qkVmooSb34.gif

2025-01-06 23:03:59 GMT

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Yes, 'first seen' date. TY.

2025-01-06 21:16:31 GMT

The npub formerly known as Stella quoting Martin Luther was NOT ON MY 2025 BINGOCARD 😂
#nevent1q…92fa

2025-01-06 15:30:30 GMT

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I wouldn't take that bet, I'd loose. 😂
At least the EO is Christian--Trinitarian and Augustinian. Severely underdeveloped doctrine, but could be worse...

2025-01-06 14:34:27 GMT

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Oddly, I just got this in my inbox from the father of a long-time (and ardently old-school Roman catholic) friend of mine:
[Young, single men are leaving traditional churches. They found a more ‘masculine’ alternative](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025/01/04/the-young-men-leaving-traditional-churches-for-orthodox/) -- TL;DR: the "alternative" is the Eastern Orthodox denomination. This has been my experience as well (and here on Nostr as well): huge surge in interest in the EO.

2025-01-06 14:27:26 GMT

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- space pen (writes upside-down, in space, through butter)
- multi-tool with bottle-opener
- real silver dollar from grandfather who hid it from FDR
- high-quality fingernail clippers for self and his many offspring
- keys
- ridge wallet
- snus
- big knife
- {redacted}

2025-01-06 13:58:53 GMT

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I have chiefly in mind some of the teachings and practices advocated by Doug Wilson (of the "CREC" denomination), specifically, in his book _Federal Husband_. Seems small, but his influence among young Christian men in America is growing very, very fast due to his online presence, his punchy attitude, his anti-feminism, his anti-LGBTQ stances, his (often hard to disagree with) political views, etc. I see the attraction, but there's poison in that well, in my opinion. Admittedly, he gets a lot of things right, and has unusual rhetorical skills. But he gets the gospel wrong so I don't care how "right" he might be on "other things."
I'm a complimentarian (without the Trinitarian heresies promoted by some of those in associated with the CBMW), very much opposed to egalitarianism (in nearly all of its forms), but Mr. Wilson and his ilk go too far. One of the worst side effects is that people will go to far "left" of biblical center simply in order to distance themselves from his version. We should hold the biblical center, and stop the pendulum's swinging altogether.

2025-01-06 13:42:05 GMT

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Absolutely agree that the feminization of the American church (at least) has been devastating. So also, though, have been the overcorrections into a _perverted_ form of biblical patriarchy.

2025-01-04 14:23:49 GMT

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I'm curious to hear more about this. What do you think is the draw from the one to the other?

2025-01-04 04:28:30 GMT

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using a gif to celebrate gifs is pretty clever 😎

2025-01-04 03:26:51 GMT

Wow - the @nprofile…ufe5 bot is pretty cool!
thank you @nprofile…qvxz

2025-01-03 19:08:07 GMT

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yeah, a kit would be great. Neighbor just put one in (sans miner), and it got me thinking...

2025-01-03 18:38:14 GMT

#asknostr
...has anyone done a miner-powered sauna yet?

2025-01-02 23:45:23 GMT

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I made the switch for my (iPhone-loving) wife and my (Android) self last year. Many hiccups along the way but working OK now. Would be happy to share some lessons learned.

2025-01-02 19:57:00 GMT

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we call this #WINNING 🤝

2024-12-29 15:09:53 GMT

#zapper is back, randomly, I did nothing 😅
#nevent1q…l7zn

2024-12-28 16:18:58 GMT

blast. #zapper down again. 🤦

2024-12-26 21:02:44 GMT

> Our situation would surely have been hopeless had the very majesty of God not descended to us, since it was not in our power to ascend to him.
-- John Calvin

2024-12-25 04:49:20 GMT

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**piles**

2024-12-25 04:48:45 GMT

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He must have had piles of resentment

2024-12-24 14:29:02 GMT

Eastern religions are the Grima Wormtongue to the West's King Theodin.
Wake up, Theodin.

2024-12-23 16:11:59 GMT

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I really enjoyed responding--and was sharpened by a closer look at that one particular verse (Eph. 4:6) than I think I'd done before. So: thank you, too.
I think the best answer is that the glory of a sunrise (or sunset) is magnified when we realize that it "speaks." It is a gift for us, and is wonderful in itself, and yet it speaks of an even greater glory. I think of Psalm 19. God is not the created light, or the created heat, but when we see the light and feel the heat it is as from his direct hand, and gives something true about him even if only by way of analogy. We can be thankful for both the gift, and the giver. I think in those situations, God is not necessarily "more present" -- he is always present everywhere -- but we are given a greater sense of his presence, like a veil is lifted a bit more. E.g., the armies of heaven were with Elisha all along, but he was granted to see/experience it for a moment (2 Kings 6).
So, I'm not sure I would use the word 'reflection,' though I think I see what you're getting at. I think I'd prefer the word 'messenger.' There is volition involved in God's creating the heavens and earth _in order to_ show his glory. Created beauty is a servant-messenger to the Creator, and is dependent on him. It is not (to expressly push back on pantheistic ideas) merely an emanation from his essence, nor part of his being, that 'just is.' He reveals what he wills about himself, when and where and how he, in his wisdom, so chooses. "The secret things belong to the Lord, but what he has revealed belongs to us, and to our children, forever." (Deut. 29:29).
If I'm away for a while, and my wife sends me a letter--I see her handwriting, I read her 'heart' and 'mind' (or whatever of it she has chosen to open to me in this moment), maybe there's even a faint whiff of her perfume--I do not have _her_ but I have clear evidence of her: I have many signs that 'point' to her, even though she is not physically present. (Even if she were, could I 'see' her love without her expressions of it--unless she speaks it, reveals it?) I think there's some analogy in that (though it does break down a bit because she, unlike God, is not omnipresent)...
But all that said: I certainly agree that in a majestic sunrise or sunset my mind is more fixed on the God who created that, for us, as a gift, and especially as a gift that gives some 'whiff' or 'hint' of his greater glory--into whose presence we (though enemies) are welcomed, by grace along, through faith alone, in Christ alone.
"...in your presence is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forever more." (Ps. 16:11).
Hope that gets at your question somewhat. (I am not gifted with concise-ness, sorry so long.)

2024-12-20 21:12:56 GMT

...and then have a way to set per-app auto-zaps for updates and installs, with a 7-day max to prevent update spam...
@nprofile…tdq0 thoughts?
#nevent1q…tzmc

2024-12-20 21:09:48 GMT

I would think @nprofile…tdq0 would have a prominent 'zap this dev' button, am I not seeing it? If there isn't one, I think that would be a worthwhile feature request.

2024-12-20 20:42:01 GMT

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wut

2024-12-20 20:40:40 GMT

what's the diff between zap.store and Zapstore -- because I now have **both** on my device...? 😬
@nprofile…tdq0 #asknostr

2024-12-20 19:18:06 GMT

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A further thought: Paul is eager in this Epistle to show that the Jews and Gentiles are no longer separate, but "one in Christ," so we could also read this as him emphasizing God's oneness over "all [kinds]," which is to say, both Jew and Gentile. Look at his argument in Ephesians 2: by the tearing down of the wall of separation, he has made of the two one new man in Christ. It is a call for unity.
Also just came across an excellent commentary on Ephesians written by the Great William Hendriksen. He writes, in a footnote on the word translated "all,":
> The entire context clearly indicates that the word πάντων ["all"] is here not neuter. In the present connection the apostle has not been discussing God's relation to the universe or to nature [as as whole]."
-- William Hendriksen, _Galatians and Ephesians_, (New Testament Commentary, Baker, 1968).

2024-12-20 13:10:40 GMT

I dare you to zap a dev right now.
I just sent a bit to @nprofile…4npr for this [work of art](https://timechaincalendar.com):
https://image.nostr.build/4f3bbe7a19dbfb1663b0a00127893503811ae913c381c316a88cc2f3d7c1de0c.jpg

2024-12-20 12:40:28 GMT

gm
IN THIS HOUSE WE STACK LEGO

2024-12-20 05:05:28 GMT

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"Beethoven was Def"
😂😂🤣🤣

2024-12-20 04:48:19 GMT

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there's a meme for that
https://image.nostr.build/b60077314152dd7b92ab18db39f5ad39a31f59a89dbb6d1c96049ac92a6a8fec.jpg

2024-12-20 03:47:50 GMT

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right? It's like being mostly deaf at a Bach symphony.

2024-12-20 02:37:20 GMT

I would give an appendage, probably, to have a better facility with the original Hebrew and Greek texts of Scripture. Have tried to self-teach, but I need a teacher. And time.
Ignorance is **not** bliss.

2024-12-20 02:03:30 GMT

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(sorry this is much longer than I'd intended)
Again, great questions. This is a poor/difficult medium, but I'll give it a shot...
Regarding [Ephesians 4:6](https://esv.org/Eph+4), "[There is]...one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all [of you]." (ESV) - first, notice to whom he is speaking (back up to verse 1): he is speaking directly to the saints in Ephesus, and he is talking about what it means to be "one" in the church. Secondly, the ESV lacks that "of you" in the last phrase, but it's there in the Greek (and in the KJV, at least). So, given the greater context, especially the exhortation in verse 2, the main point seems to be: we are one in Christ, so let's act that way, let's bear with those who aren't as far along, and let's keep going. And more to the point of your question, Paul is not saying here that "God *is* all things," nor is he saying "God is *in* all things," but he is saying "God is in you all" and he is speaking to the church (those who have received the gift of the Holy Spirit, through faith in Christ).
- Remember that the person of the Son of God--eternally begotten, not made--"took on flesh," which is to say that "he become what he was not, without ceasing to be what he always was," as the ancient fathers put it. The Person who took on flesh pre-existed the taking on of that flesh, did not cease to be that person, and did not become a new person. A summary of the [Nicene Creed](https://threeforms.org/the-nicene-creed/) would be "one person in two natures," and the [Athanasian Creed](https://threeforms.org/the-athanasian-creed/) gets even more precise: "He is one, certainly not by the blending of his essence, but by the unity of his person." The divine nature and the human nature stand together without the one becoming the other, or even mixing with the other--"one person, two natures." The theologians call this the [hypostatic union](https://reformedforum.org/podcasts/he19/), and a bit of digging on that might prove fruitful. More to your point, the Holy Spirit indwelt Christ "without measure," so in a sense, since we receive the selfsame Spirit, we are like him in that way. But the Spirit never becomes us, and we never become the Spirit, there is never an identity of persons. Even with Christ, the Son is not the Spirit, and the Spirit is not the Son. This is worthy of reflection. Think of it: as mediator, he had to be true man in order to redeem man (he could not be anything other), and he had to be true God in order to bear the weight of that just judgement (he could not be anything other). So if Christ was some third thing, neither fully man nor fully God, but some mixture of each, he could not have been the mediator.
- There is a difference between Christ and us, though we share the same substance (human nature): the person of Christ is the eternally begotten Son of God, incarnate. That is, though he "took on flesh," in doing so did not cease to be divine. He did not descend from Adam "by ordinary generation," as the rest of us did. He is a new head of humanity; the firstborn of [read: over] the new creation, as well as the first fruits of the new creation. Whereas he is eternally begotten of Father, not created, we are adopted into the family.
- "Jars of clay" - yes, "new wineskins" is also a good biblical analogy/metaphor. The point is that we don't yet have our glorified, resurrected bodies. The Holy Spirit's indwelling, as a gift of grace, is like a downpayment on full glorification. A "seed," if you will, of the new life that is yet to come in the state of glory. For now, in the age of grace, we struggle with fits and starts, slowing being sanctified little by little until that day. But we have this promise: "because he was raised, [since we are joined to him as body is to head], we also shall be raised." Where head [forefunner] goes, the body [rest of the ship] is sure to follow. (Think also of birth: the body follows the path ~trailblazed~ so to speak, by the head.)
I didn't have as much time to refine this as I'd hoped, but hopefully this makes some sense of where I'm coming from. It's a real pleasure to get to talk about these things. Thank you.

2024-12-19 19:28:22 GMT

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Great questions! Veering into some 'high Christology' -- occupied atm but will write something up. 🤙

2024-12-18 22:12:30 GMT

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Very cool. Have you ever the teaching that, in [Heb. 6:19-20](https://esv.org/Heb+6:19-20), the word behind 'forerunner' meant an anchor that was taken in to a safe harbor ahead of time--all they had to do was 'pull themselves in'? It's a fantastic image, and certainly fits the context:
> We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters into the inner place behind the curtain, where Jesus has gone as a forerunner on our behalf, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.
Another one taken from the seafaring life is 'apostle' -- it was used almost exclusively prior to Scripture to denote a ship that was "sent out" carrying an important message (or cargo) -- IIRC. As a mariner, you must get so much more out of some of the analgies, metaphors, and even word choices in Scripture than the 'landlubbers'. I think the same thing must be true about fishermen.
To your last point, I'd only suggest the important difference between saying that God is _in_ all things and saying that God _is_ all things. The former thing we can say (Aquinas said, "God is innermost to all things") and you could look up the doctrine of divine _immanence_ for more on that (in case you're not already familiar); but the latter thing tends to rule out God's _transcendence_ and makes his essence _identical_ with his creation. Yes, God can and does indwell his people, but not by blending or mixing the finite with the infinite, or by overwriting our personhood with his...hope that makes sense. We receive "his Spirit" in our "jars of clay."
Backing up, I love the analogies with navigation as well. I often begin my classes reminding people that we should start by getting 'oriented' -- which literally means to find East -- so that we can then situate ourselves properly in relation to that fixed point, and find our way.
Appreciate the interaction. 🤙🏻

2024-12-18 19:40:15 GMT

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Interesting, will try to give it a listen. When I talk about this, I mean that 'essence precedes existence' against the idea that 'existence precedes essence,' if that old argument rings a bell.

2024-12-18 18:48:38 GMT

I mean no malice when I say this: more and more, it seems to me that part of the draw of the 'spiritual, not religious' _religion_ is that one can believe whatever one wants, from day to day, without being held accountable to _any_ higher authority whatsoever. "We _cannot_ know the truth" is held with as much certainty as "but we know it's _not Christianity_!" Railing against 'absolute, exclusive truth claims,' and yet operating on one just the same.
I cannot think of any more eternally dangerous advice than "look within." A ship tossed in a stormy sea needs an _anchor_ that is well-weighted, _outside_ of itself, and on solid ground. We have an anchor for the soul, a _forerunner_, already well-fixed in the presence of God, in Christ Jesus ([Hebrews 2](https://esv.org/Heb+2) ). I _have_ looked within, and it looked strangely similar to Lazarus' tomb before the life-granting call of Christ: dark, diseased, full of death and decay.
Some ideas have _eternal_ consequences. Don't navigate the storm by following a _wandering planet_ but, instead, fix your eye on the unmoving, and immovable, North Star.
TL;DR: Don't "look within," look to [Him](https://esv.org/John+1).

2024-12-18 16:57:36 GMT

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LOL we couldn't even afford the last 12.

2024-12-18 06:06:21 GMT

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I don't know, I listened to the entire thing and it seems like a legit concern - [link](https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/final-regulations-and-related-irs-guidance-for-reporting-by-brokers-on-sales-and-exchanges-of-digital-assets) - not providing a way to tell brokers/exchanges your true cost basis could have a significant and unexpected impact on future capital gain/loss calculations. Losing the ability to do cross-wallet 'specific identification' for cost basis determination seems like kind of a big deal to me, but YMMV. 🤙🏻

2024-12-17 20:56:25 GMT

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...from the great aantonop? really? 🤔

2024-12-16 23:43:21 GMT

Wife just sent me this, found this on Facebook - take it for whatever it's worth:
https://image.nostr.build/5d99c7cfffd7a2b879d18d417518ba435c1645262c1c8a4fbc64adc5e060e647.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/a5ebe2103d7eb87105666a0ac85df0ceddf1368abd6800639150bd96fa6b4690.jpg

2024-12-16 20:17:21 GMT

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Dispensationalism is one heck of a drug.

2024-12-16 17:41:58 GMT

thank you! 😄
#nevent1q…7k38

2024-12-16 14:52:01 GMT

"The rightness or wrongness of our actions has nothing to do with the source, or the strength, of our desires."
I read that about 30 years ago and it stuck.

2024-12-16 14:08:37 GMT

gm
This seems important: [What US Taxpayers With Crypto NEED to do before Dec 31, 2024 - Get into the Safeharbor!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1XPOFgjNPk)
We have a window to do a 'reset' for tax purposes. One more reason to get your coins off of the exchanges; but he also recommends that we consolidate all of our corn into a **single wallet** and lock down its cost basis for all future transactions -- watch the video to find out why.
He also introduced me to https://opentimestamps.org which is a pretty cool way to verify, via the bitcoin blockchain, that a file existed at a certain time (without uploading its contents to any servers).
oh and by the way? #EEndTheIRS #EndTheFed

2024-12-14 22:22:24 GMT

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I've seen this before. It's curious, to say the least. Has anyone corroborated these claims with, say, microfiche? We're 100% sure these are historically legit headlines and articles?
What's the story here?