I think sticking to whatever concept of truth you can reach via the best within you, no matter the outside pressure to deny reality, is quite literally the only way to save your soul. People who abandon what they know to be true in response to fear of some arbitrary authority are just destroying themselves.

Just a mini #Christian #meme dump!

#christr

#grownostr

There are some better people there, still lots of issues. Huge sexual hangups, lots of denial, lots of authoritarianism supposedly justified with scripture.

In my experience, many just want to feel self righteous & avoid seeing their own failings. Most Christians & their church communities are their own biggest enemy. They are often very superficial & very hard to stomach. What's worse is that most of them have little awareness of it & work very hard to avoid improving said awareness.

The way I see things most Christians are more hostile to any healthy form of Christian culture than any outside force ever could be. Actually standing up for what is right is uncomfortable. How many church communities showed their cowardice & shut their doors during covid? How many actually stood up for what was right?

Most of the church normies I know, even when shown quite explicitly, refuse to see any familiarity in the pattern of today's persecution of Julian Assange for telling the truth & the man they supposedly worship. "...but is Assange even a Christian?" Most are so disconnected from reality that rather than seeing this life as a gift from God they pray for the afterlife. I could go on, but I won't.

There are lots of forces at work, but all we can do is focus on the role we have to play. Isn't the whole point of Christianity to have people who are willing to stand up & speak the truth no matter the cost? Even when threatened with torture & death by authorities who are possessed by their desire to promote & maintain delusions on which their power & status depend?

Did your mitochondria decouple?

Meh, it's not healthy to play victim. Better for Christians to examine the role they played in creating the current social environment & figure out how to be better.

I only consider myself a Christian today because of Jordan Peterson & a few others. They helped me see that the words & actions of the people who drove me away were really not all that Christian after all.

Next? Let me tell you what’s next…

Next, you’ll start speaking nerd, npubs, nsec, NIPS. Your friends won’t know wth you’re saying and you’ll love it.

Then, you’ll grow addicted and spend every waking minute of your time checking what’s new.

After that, you’ll switch to an all-meat diet and avoid cooking oils like the plague.

You’ll start seeing the world in a different light. Things that seemed natural will beg questioning.

I wish I could say it’ll be all uphill, but it won’t. You’ll start questioning your reality and wonder if you’re getting sucked into a cult.

Your friends will certainly think you’re in on.

Maybe you are?

You’ll start feeling depressed if you ever were. Without algos you won’t find rage-inducing content to make you pay attention to the next important thing.

You’ll find yourself more relaxed, at home, with a bunch of friends.

The other social media will start looking like pure chaos and absurdity.

You’ll wonder why it took you so long to realize that everyone is being played and that there’s a way out - Nostr.

You’ll start wanting to zap everything and everyone. It’ll feel weird not being able to zap a kind act, an article you found useful that’s outside the nostr protocol. You’ll wonder how the world could have existed for so long without zaps.

OR… maybe you’ll just shitpost and be happy 🤷‍♂️

In any case, welcome!

foreal tho

I listen while I code, Mr judgey

Shill me some TV series to add to my collection