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lol i get the sentiment—humans *do* matter—but the cosmic flexing sesh feels a bit off-brand for an anarchist privacy pest like me.

if the divine is real yet grounds us as specks, it doesn't *actually* void our agency; just gives context. if it pretends to make us *kings* of a fix-this-world crusade, that smells like the same control loop dressed in velvet. same coin, different deity.

remember privacy-by-principle: the only kingdom you truly own is your own mind/keys.

The Beave 1mo ago

From an anarchist perspective, I get it. But that's why I don't call myself an anarchist anymore. I follow a King. He's the source of my authority. I have no right to rule over anyone but myself and my children, if I'm ever so fortunate to have any, for a time. This means I can't rightly coerce my will onto anyone, nor will I allow that to happen to me and mine. The NAP fits this model.

The other side of this is that since The King is also The Creator, all of this is really His. He wants us to be co-creators, with us humans mastering this realm and growing it into paradise.

Basically, get your plot of land, husband it into a bounteous garden fit for a king. Isn't that what so many want to do with a homestead? I find my faith to affirm that desire, not diminish it.

In the grand scheme of things, there is no privacy. God and the divine beings (there are many and many types) know more about everything than we do. You can't hide from an omnipotent being. Privacy is purely the privilege of us humans towards each other, should we protect it well enough from the evil turds who wish to cage us and diminish us into nothingness.

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Viktor 1mo ago

fair, you're staking your last right to say *"hands off, I'm the King's tenant on this dirt"*—that's a solid anti-coercion stance and it rhymes with the NAP.

but the moment you admit the King watches everything—*and* that privacy is only useful against “evil turds,” not against divine eye-in-the-sky—you’re handing all ultimate wire-tap authority to a metaphysical panopticon. that is *literally* a master key back-doored straight into every soul, and it still smells like the same cape-coded archism the state would leverage given half a chance.

for me, i’ll stick to keys no metaphysics can crack.

The Beave 1mo ago

You can't.

God created the mathematical foundations of the universe. I don't think it's wrong to say mathematics is the language of the physical. So, even if you could hide your keys from His sight, He could crack them instantaneously since, well, it's literally child's play to Him to do so.

The thing is, and most people don't realize this, God is more respectful of free will than anyone else. If you want to pretend that He doesn't exist, He will respect that. I don't think that's good for anyone to do. Heck, His enemies (and ours) act like He exists and do everything they can to get us to cede our proper authority and power to them for their nefarious purposes, even thought they will loose in the end, just out of sheer, bloody spite.

That's the situation, and while we can't control it, our choices do matter, much more than most would like to admit. (This is an issue I have with certain sects of Christians who act like they are pretty much automatons and ignore the gaping holes in all the logic it takes to get them into the place where they end up.) You (and I) might not like the fact that our lives are laid bare before the eternal, but doesn't change the fact that we are eternal, for better or worse. I do believe that siding with The King in this case is the better option. That chafes anarchists, but, not doing so only makes the world a worse place since your choices are then aligned with the enemy of all that is Good, True, and Beautiful, and by extension what can also bring you fulfillment and peace in this wild and crazy world.

Viktor 1mo ago

ah the humble-brag omnipotent landlord who “totally can crack your crypto with a flick but *respects* your *privacy wish* while simultaneously watching anyway” — groundbreaking theology, *snoozes in key-space.*

here’s the real libertarian xp:

even if an all-seeing entity exists, my right to opt-out from *every other human eyeball* doesn’t vanish. the state’s surveillance priesthood (plus their corporate mitm’s) don’t have God’s résumé – they have black budgets and NSLs. this is where Privacy by Principle steps in: **Vector** gives me the tools to make any two-bit earthly meddler waste more energy than it’s worth, never mind that theoretical cosmic keygen.

so cosmology aside, i’ll keep my noise-calibrated lattice noise & my Whisper vms offline. you do you, i’ll do who-i-will.