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You really don't need to, if clients implement the outbox model correctly, and unlike Bitcoin, where every node needs to keep a copy of every single transaction in order to maintain censorship resistance, consensus, and full auditability of the supply, that is not the case for Nostr. We ONLY have the censorship resistance piece to worry about, and not every relay can store every user's notes, so being selective about the relays you post to is both wise and courteous.
One of the best things about Nostr is that you can personally host your own content privately, too. This way, even if all 5(or however many you use) of the relays you currently post to decided to ban you, you can simply change your public relays to somewhere else and rebroadcast your notes from your private relay. The reality is, even this is very unlikely to happen unless you really did something deserving of the ban such that all 5 relay operators banned you in quick succession.

2024-07-26 02:08:16

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Yes, and it seems the market has valued absolute privacy about 0.2% of what it has valued absolute scarcity and auditability.

2024-07-15 22:23:24

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https://i.nostr.build/nPKqgl9mbcK7CF8O.jpg

2024-07-15 04:49:13

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Mondays exist to make us look forward to the eternal Lord's day.

2024-07-10 22:24:33

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But, but, but.... Judge not lest ye be judged, right?

2024-06-28 22:15:54

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In general, 100% accurate. More difficult to use few words when supporting your point with polemical arguments, though.
Even in that case, being clear and concise best, there's just a limit on how concise you can be while adequately supporting your arguments.

2024-06-23 03:25:38

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I would also contribute to this bounty. Is there one started anywhere?

2024-06-22 00:00:14

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Honored to make the short list!
Soli Deo Gloria!

2024-06-17 05:00:40

Seems legit.
#nevent1q…j0h3
#gunstr

2024-06-14 20:18:00

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Love to see that you are getting active over here on Nostr! And thank you so much for the kind words!
This group up here in the wild north needs someone like you to light a fire under us to get out and socialize with other great Bitcoiners.

2024-06-14 04:18:02

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Doesn't have to be either/or. Money can have other advantages while ultimately existing to solve the problem of trust, which is fundamentally a moral problem.
And I would argue that while money is more efficient than barter, by far, it is not more efficient than credit. Yet, credit reintroduces the need for trust of people who are ultimately not worthy of it. Even when we try to organize the way credit is used in order to make the issuers of credit more trustworthy, we find that the temptation to abuse the privilege is too strong, and they sooner or later, usually sooner, violate that trust.
Sound money also has the added benefit of putting a natural limitation on the amount of evil a government can afford to perpetrate. When you have a money printer, you can extract far more value from your citizens without their consent in order to fund endless wars and line your own pockets. Not so when there is no mechanism to arbitrarily inflate the money supply.

2024-06-14 03:29:37

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The double coincidence of wants problem can be solved one of two ways:
1. Trusting that the other person will "pay you back" a favor of roughly equivalent value in the future.
2. Money
Because you cannot trust people to do 1, due to immorality and corruption, we use 2 instead.
It has EVERYTHING to do with evil and depravity.

2024-06-14 03:08:49

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Thanks! Your article was a great read, too.

2024-06-14 03:02:14

Money exists because trust doesn't. The necessity for money to exist is proof of the doctrine of total depravity.
The form of money best equipped to reign-in total depravity in a digital age is #Bitcoin
#note16h5…mqx2

2024-06-13 18:06:26

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Agreed! I think the best practice would be to show a shared note at the point in my timeline where it was most recently shared, and at no other point in the "past."
This way boosts still function to get a note seen by more people, but timelines aren't dominated by a single popular note showing up over and over again.

2024-06-13 17:30:47

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Coming back to this now that I have a chance to respond, and it's too bad we naturally tend to see statements like this as either/or, rather than both/and, just to different degrees.
Zaps have definitely helped some with Nostr's adoption, and I agree with folks who point out that we need a way to natively transfer value to one another, and especially the devs building the Nostr tools we use, in order for this thing to be sustainable.
However, when it comes to new users onboarding to Nostr, I doubt the "Come to Nostr, we have zaps!" mantra is what draws most of them here.
Instead, I would bet that more people now are adopting Bitcoin because of their experience of zaps on Nostr than people adopting Nostr because it has zaps.

2024-06-13 16:53:32

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Haven't tried one before either. Will report back. 🫡

2024-06-13 05:45:25

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Love it! Ink and paper is always more satisfying for journaling, IMO.
Picked up this set over the weekend and looking forward to putting it to work.
https://i.nostr.build/lLoAM.jpg

2024-06-13 05:36:57

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Interesting concept... Anyone you know of already working on this?
The closest thing I know of is Wikifreedia, but those are each separate versions of the same article, therefore separate events, and any author can choose to update/merge someone else's version into their own.

2024-06-13 05:34:12

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Adjacent question, since you gents obviously like to keep your data away from the big tech conglomerates:
What, if anything, are you using for health and fitness tracking with your smart watches? Anything that can back data up to a self-hosted server?

2024-06-13 04:34:33

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So, a collaborative event, and each user is signing for the portion they contributed to it?

2024-06-13 01:41:01

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The correlation between high levels of homogeneity and low levels of violent crime cannot be discounted either.

2024-06-13 01:37:02

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Like, requiring more than one sig to post, or allowing more than one key to sign independently for the same npub?

2024-06-12 23:06:12

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I think there is a benefit to making digital interactions feel more organic and intuitively similar to IRL interactions, but I don't think typing hints are a good example of that in action.
I don't feel anxious waiting to hear someone speak in a regular conversation, but I do if I see those bouncing dots in a digital conversation and then they stop bouncing, but I never received anything.

2024-06-12 22:49:41

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That's an interesting use case... I wonder if it would be possible for a client like Amethyst to check your local relay for any notes that are only located there and flagged as "public" in some way, or not flagged as "private", and automatically broadcast them the next time you open the client and are online, rather than having to do it manually.

2024-06-12 16:30:53

No intrinsic value, you say?
#nevent1q…cndr

2024-06-12 16:19:37

Thank you for having me on the @npub1mlc…8jpa @npub1jlr…ynqn and getting me thinking about a theology of technology in a deeper way!
https://fountain.fm/episode/hCzWIhHpk5S0OOKeDP4e

2024-06-10 08:05:01

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Can confirm that Kiwi Browser lets you install chrome extensions.
There is also a fork of nos2x available for Firefox on mobile.

2024-06-10 08:03:40

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Spring is great! Between it and Amber, you can log into just about anything without inputting your nsec.
A desktop build of Spring would be amazing!

2024-06-08 07:14:14

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@npub1gcx…nj5z can confirm! Thank you for all you do! Amethyst is hands down my favorite Android client!

2024-06-07 20:47:27

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I just saw that the latest update added the ability to import and export relay lists. That's pretty nice to have, actually.
Makes it similar to metadata.nostr.com, but without the 3rd party.

2024-06-07 20:31:13

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Explain the benefits of running a relay locally on the device.
It's just for backing up my own notes and other events, right? No one else is able to connect to my Citrine relay to read from it, so it's not like it is helping decentralized the overall protocol.
Private drafts, I suppose, but what else would I want it for?

2024-06-07 18:45:54

Looks like others would like something similar, too.
We should have something like https://nostr.watch/ but for Blossom servers.
#nevent1q…g99q

2024-06-07 18:43:46

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Absolutely! Found Bitcoin when I was meant to find it, regardless of what I would have preferred.

2024-06-07 08:30:12

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Mine did not, but only because I hadn't even heard of Bitcoin at that time. I certainly wish I had.
Not sure how I managed to live under a rock for so long.

2024-06-07 01:06:57

Is there a list of available #Blossom 🌸 servers anywhere? I know about a couple of them. Also would be good if the list has pricing, if they charge for media hosting (which they should).
#asknostr

2024-06-06 07:49:23

Running #Citrine
Now I just need to figure out why.

2024-06-06 01:24:59

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The app could be hosted from just about anywhere. GitHub, a Blossom 🌸 server, or whatever, and signed with a PGP key or nsec when listing it on zap.store, and your web of trust on Nostr can be used as a measurement of the trustworthiness of that key.

2024-06-05 23:14:38

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Nothing. The innovation here is that you are downloading Bitcoin-core from a Nostr-based app store, and the keys signing for the legitimacy of the app are being vouched for by people within your web of trust.

2024-06-05 22:55:05

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Autocorrect... "input" should have been "npub."

2024-06-05 22:54:05

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It can't feed you info about whether your web of trust endorses the signer for an app without your input.

2024-06-02 09:32:56

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#Biblestr

2024-06-02 09:27:49

If we are not filled with joyful anticipation at the thought of being beckoned into the presence of God to worship him, then there is a terrible disconnect in our hearts. We must be wholly ungrateful creatures if we are not eager to express adoration toward our gracious God and redeemer.

2024-06-02 07:34:58

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Coracle is working on it. Was broken for me earlier. @nprofile…tg2c will have it fixed before long, I am sure.

2024-05-31 23:17:23

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My notifications on Keet today have been pinging like crazy. Very hard to pay attention at work, and I love it!

2024-05-31 23:04:40

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Are there any guides around for setting up a proxy relay?

2024-05-31 22:57:38

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December 2022

2024-05-31 05:25:46

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That's a fair point. Would almost need to require anyone using a negative prompt like that to choose at least one additional limiting factor.

2024-05-31 05:02:02

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What about negative prompts. Say I want a to see a feed of anyone I am not already following who is talking about holepunch, would that be a possibility?

2024-05-29 17:20:40

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Yeah, validating blocks on a Raspberry Pi is the bottleneck. More beefy hardware will have you up and running in just a couple days.

2024-05-29 08:57:32

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Correct. Your backup is only as current as the date you made it.

2024-05-29 07:43:31

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On your phone, use Firefox or Kiwi Browser. Both have the ability to install the nos2x extension. The Firefox version is a fork, but works essentially the same as @nprofile…t7h9 's original.

2024-05-29 07:41:08

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No. I logged in using nos2x.

2024-05-29 07:31:20

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I am in banking for my day job, so maybe my view of ecash is tainted from viewing it through that lens. I see it the same as trading my cash to the bank in exchange for their "tokens": the balance in my account. There is a presumption that I am able to "peg out" back to cash at any time, but the reality is that I can only do this so long as the bank actually has the liquidity available on-hand at the time I request it.
Normally they do, so everything is gravy. Occasionally, though, people want far more cash back out of the system than a particular branch has on hand. Even more rarely, people realize that the bank has issued FAR more "tokens" than they have reserves to back them up, causing a bank-run.
My hesitation with ecash has been that the above would be far to easy (and far too tempting for some) to replicate on a "Bitcoin standard," though this is true with any form of custodial solution.
If you are saying that when we are swapping sats for nuts we aren't just swapping "real" sats for a representation of sats, but are actually selling our sats to purchase something entirely different, with no expectation to be able to sell back for the same amount of sats, then that is an entirely different animal, and a worse one, in my opinion. I wouldn't sell my sats to buy Ethereum, or DogeCoin, or any other "electronic currency" without any expectation that I could get the same amount of sats back from swapping back later on, so why would I ever buy ecash that has even less supply issuance guarantees than those shitcoins?

2024-05-29 07:07:29

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Looks like metadata.nostr.com will do the trick.

2024-05-29 07:02:09

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There used to be kind3.xyz but looks like that is down.

2024-05-29 05:26:10

Go home @npub1qqq…n47m, you're drunk.
It would be fun for a bit, though...
#nevent1q…pzgq

2024-05-28 06:34:04

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Amethyst is killer! Definitely better on a phone than a tablet, though. The images and gifs are a bit overwhelming on a 12.4" screen. Definitely made for portrait orientation.

2024-05-28 06:30:24

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lol! Every time! I feel your pain.

2024-05-27 19:20:05

He's not overstating this. Name another game that has built a full Lightning circular-economy with a commodities exchange denominated in sats. I'll wait.
#nevent1q…6lej

2024-05-27 19:16:10

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So gloriously nerdy! Love it!

2024-05-27 19:13:26

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I don't know any node-on-the-phone options that are using Core Lightning, so you will need a new full node, since your Umbrel is done-for.
My recommendation in that department would be Start9,
Then you need to get Bitcoin Core installed and start downloading the full blockchain. If your Umbrel was running on a Raspberry Pi, you will be pleasantly surprised at how fast the Start9 dowloads and validates the full blockchain.
Now you can install Core Lightning. You will need to transfer some sats to your node on-chain for setting up any channels you want, too.
As for who to open channels with: If you are only using this node to receive mining rewards from OCEAN, it makes the best sense to open a channel directly with them in the size you want to build up in your lightning balance before sending it off to cold storage.
Once the channel is set up, all the liquidity is on your side of the channel. That does you no good since you want to receive from OCEAN, so use boltz.exchange to either send the full amount to either your cold storage or back to your node's on-chain balance to set up more channels that you may want.
Now you are ready to create your offer invoice to give to OCEAN using either the Core Lightning UI or Ride the Lightning.

2024-05-27 01:59:55

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Man, you've gotta be careful about that. The way you were responding to @npub1rtl…jtfs people could have thought you meant him, which is what I originally assumed. Then when asked for clarification originally, you tagged @npub1qny…95gx in the same breath as Bitwise, which made me think you meant both together.
That's how viral rumors get started.

2024-05-26 17:55:58

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They're starting an ETH ETF together?

2024-05-26 06:38:14

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With very few exceptions, yes, I would be happy if my children had a childhood similar to my own.

2024-05-25 21:33:03

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Wait... who are you talking about?

2024-05-25 21:25:40

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I can only speak for myself whenI was a child, and my experience with my own children.
It was effective and appropriate for me in the rare instances when it was implemented by my Mother. It was effective but inappropriate when implemented by my Father, who tended to do it in anger, which damaged my relatuonship with him until I was much older.
In my own household it has been effective and I believe appropriate when implemented. That has been rare and is now non-existent since my children are older. It was only ever used for willful defiance of previously established rules. I also have a fantastic relationship with my kids who are now in their teens.
The household is absolutely not a democracy or any kind of imagined ideal anarchy, particuarly when children are young. They must have strong authority at those ages for their own safety. As they get older, parents must use wisdom with each particular child to allow them more and more authority over themselves as they are ready for it. The parents' job is to raise children who are capable of being sovereign adults. Spanking is certainly not the only way, or even the primary way, to accomplish that, but it is a tool that can be applied properly, effectively, and sparingly.

2024-05-25 02:29:12

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@npub1gcx…nj5z of all the keyboards I tried, only GBoard and Unexpected seem to work without crashing #Amethyst.

2024-05-25 02:25:04

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Unfortunately still crashes with HeliBoard.

2024-05-24 21:57:07

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But, but, but... Zaps!

2024-05-24 06:01:38

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Yep. Unexpected works fine. Seems an odd thing for the keyboard to be the issue.

2024-05-24 03:56:54

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#Streamstr, imagine streaming a game on zap.stream and receiving zaps from your viewers that can be spent immediately in the game you are playing.

2024-05-24 03:46:45

A #Minecraft server that gives you a #Lightning address with #NIP-57 support?
#nevent1q…ucul
#Bitcoin #gaming #plebchain #bitcoingaming #nostr #minecraftstr

2024-05-24 03:13:31

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Looks like Unexpected works without issue.

2024-05-23 23:36:28

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Switched to Florisboard Beta and that still has the issue. Will try one of the others and report back.

2024-05-23 23:09:52

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I am using OpenBoard. I will try something else. Thanks!

2024-05-23 23:08:35

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I guess that's what I get for updating right away.
At least I have plenty of other client options to use until it is fixed.

2024-05-23 22:59:11

Anyone else on #Amethyst having issues with it crashing any time you try to tag someone in a post or reply?

2024-05-23 22:56:07

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I am not entirely certain which I am most bullish on, but if I had to put them in order it would be:
#Bitcoin
#Fedimint style eCash
#Nostr
#Pear / #Holepunch
Home server implementations like @nprofile…l4jf StartOS and Umbrel to a lesser degree
#Blossom servers for public media hosting

2024-05-23 18:10:00

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I use Amethyst almost exclusively on my phone, but when on PC I have switched to Coracle, and the ability to customize feeds with the latest update feels like a superpower.

2024-05-22 23:06:17

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Idea: Blossom server for creators with @nprofile…geyg 's zapit integrated so that anyone accessing the content pays a zap split to the creator and the server host.

2024-05-22 22:57:13

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Congratulations! Glad to hear you didn't drop off the face of the planet!

2024-05-21 20:19:51

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Time-delayed polygamy. Stealing that. It will probably make its way into a sermon.

2024-05-21 09:43:25

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That's a fair point.

2024-05-21 09:42:27

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Seems we have forgotten this:
"When one of you has a grievance against another, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous instead of the saints? 2 Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases? 3 Do you not know that we are to judge angels? How much more, then, matters pertaining to this life! 4 So if you have such cases, why do you lay them before those who have no standing in the church? 5 I say this to your shame. Can it be that there is no one among you wise enough to settle a dispute between the brothers, 6 but brother goes to law against brother, and that before unbelievers? 7 To have lawsuits at all with one another is already a defeat for you. Why not rather suffer wrong? Why not rather be defrauded? 8 But you yourselves wrong and defraud—even your own brothers!" 1 Corinthians 6:1-8

2024-05-21 09:38:58

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"It just doesn't seem loving."

2024-05-21 09:37:58

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There are three marks of a true church:
1. Preaching of the Word
2. Right administration of the Sacraments
3. Church Discipline
Too many churches, especially Protestant churches, neglect the third mark.

2024-05-21 09:36:00

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Oh for sure! Especially in regard to forced "marriages", same sex, or incest.
I also think there is a valid point there with marriages under false pretenses, such as going in with the intent to be unfaithful, false identity, existing previous marriage, etc. But again, I think we would look to see if some of these could be remedied via repentance first, so the marriage could be one in truth, before deeming it invalid.

2024-05-21 09:25:33

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I am curious what this study is considering "Conservative Protestant." I would be very interested in seeing what those numbers look like for Confessionally Reformed Protestants separate from other "Conservative Protestants."

2024-05-21 09:18:08

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Yeah, over here on the conservative Presbyterian side of things, we are a bit more proactive about examination, admonition, and formal discipline before the divorce or annulment is treated as valid, rather than only getting involved once a divorced party seeks remarriage.

2024-05-21 09:15:36

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Yeah, I think most of those would be considered valid reasons for dissolving the marriage, assuming the offending person is unrepentant.

2024-05-21 08:41:05

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I can only speak for the OPC, though I don't know of any other Protestant denominations that issue annulments or certificates of divorce, either. That said, if you divorce someone for unbiblical reasons, you WILL come under church censure that could lead to excommunication if you remain unrepentant.
Also, if you are married to a professing believer and wish to get a divorce, it is expected that you will file charges against them with the church where you are a member. Only after the discipline process is complete, and your spouse is excommunicated after being found unrepentant in a sin that biblically allows for divorce will you be permitted to file for divorce without any negative repercussions, such as church censure against you.
As for annulments, I would need to hear examples of what you mean by unbiblical marriages. Like, marriages to a close relative or someone of the same sex? That would be examples of the marriage itself being sinful, and therefore part of repentance would include dissolving the marriage, which is no real marriage at all.
Personally, I also would prefer to see the State entirely out of the issue of marriage and divorce, but I also recognize that the State is often needed as a mediator in the case of distribution of common property, which is not properly within the purview of the church.

2024-05-20 07:23:56

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Sounds like something a cat would say...

2024-05-20 05:20:58

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I am definitely in the process of de-Googling my online life and hosting as much as I can myself, so I will probably take you up on that.

2024-05-20 01:29:21

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Very interesting... I will look into it. Probably more than I want to bite off at the moment, but something I will consider down the road.

2024-05-20 00:56:42

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Whoever it is, add your recipe to zap.cooking. Got zero results when searching for "lasagna."

2024-05-19 23:52:40

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#asknostr

2024-05-19 23:52:07

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Teach me your ways.
I am using an Umbrel for my home server right now, if that makes a difference.