As I'm here visiting family in my home state, I'm taking my parents to a funeral this morning that will be conducted by a preacher who believes in a form of "soul sleep," who believes the soul is unconscious until the resurrection, at which point the saved will be raised with "spirit bodies" -- entirely new bodies composed of spirit (which is a contradiction of terms), unrelated to the old.

Meanwhile he insists that Catholics don't even believe in the resurrection (we allegedly only believe our souls flit off into heaven to live in a disembodied state forever).

Yet the truth is we believe what the Apostles' Creed plainly proclaims: We believe in the resurrection of the body. ⬅️ Can't get clearer than that.

This preacher baptized me in 1993, and he knows me well, and over the years I've explained to him exhaustively many times what Catholics believe. But in his stubbornness, he will not admit publicly the truth of what Catholics actually teach.

He has no idea yet I'm in town. During his funeral talk, I hope he watches me watching him as he tells his lies.

I should do that Robert DeNiro gesture to him with my fingers and eyes. 😆

by @14g23h34

🧵Let's talk about Marxist Inversion in BTC:

This is a thread on my observations of the core versus knots debate as an outsider.

Every organization, company or institution WILL have to contend with those that try to invert its original purpose (Marxists).

To understand why I call them that you must let go of the idea that Marxism exists only as a political system and see it instead as a worldview.

Marxism can exist in your bookclub your Pilates group or your Tech startup.

The motivation is simple:

The established order allows for little personal advancement.

Preventing scope creep and organizational drift is not censorship, it is conservation.

It is the immune system of the existing identity against dilution of purpose. Marxists coopt an existing body/identity and invert its original purpose to create a blue ocean; a new market to expand their personal influence or wealth.

By INVERTING the original purpose they borrow credibility from the existing reputation and user base while forwarding their new goals.

Examples:

●When politicians focus more on foreign interests than its citizens. (NGOs, Wars)

●When game developers stop producing entertaining games that the fan base wants in favor of their personal ideologies (gamergate)

●When a CEO diverts resources in favor of ulterior motives forcing organizational drift. (Disney, Budlight)

●When Universities focus on politics and influence peddling over education. (endowments, government research, DEI patronage jobs)

●When regulators act as gatekeepers and corporate tollbooths instead of serving the public (FDA, NIH, SEC)

●When news organizations focus on coordinating narratives over reporting events (all of them)

●When Developers expand the scope of Bitcoin beyond a peer-to-peer electronic cash system.

Marxist tactics:

Marxism attacks organizations in three primary ways.

Leadership:

In a company they typically target the founders for removal by involving them in scandal. Founders have Sweat Equity and care about an organization more than an average employee. They are the only ones willing to risk their career to resist. This is why Elon Musk was attacked so strongly.

Thankfully Bitcoin is immune to this because Bitcoin has no centralized founders.

Identity destruction:

Marxism views traditional identities as obstacles to be overturned in Revolution. This can be something banal like a company communication policy or as grandiose as gender.

Regardless, the “current thing” must change because progress demands it. And through the system of Marxist gradualism (never ending nibbles of change) they boil the frogs, or in this case the plebs.

Many people wouldn't identify themselves as marxists or even understand what it is, but they run the code.

Normie NPC American has been deeply indoctrinated by Marxism through popular culture for decades.

If someone is consistently attempting to overturn established standars, traditions or identities you have a revolutionary Marxist on your hands.

Bitcoins identity as a peer-to-peer electronic cash system stands in the way of the new identity they want for Bitcoin.

By introducing an endless string of small new features and changes Bitcoins identity will be slowly diluted and inverted to serve a new selfish purpose.

Think about a startup that wanted to create a singular good product but every Director and VP introduced their own pet project and eventually scope creep dilutes the identity of the brand.

Something that is everything is also nothing because it lacks a singular identity and purpose to be defended above all others.

Bitcoin's identity as hard MONEY must be defended because that is the ONLY vector marxists have to attack it.

Culture comes from Identity. What we do comes from who we are and what we believe as bitcoiners.

If they can't change Bitcoins identity and culture they lose.

Bitcoin is conservative:

I often hear the argument made that Bitcoin is libertarian, but Bitcoin is also the most conservative asset ever to exist.

21 million forever, no free rides, proof of work only.

I don't use conservative in the mainstream political sense. I use it in the form of Conservation of Natural Resources.

●Of preventing the tragedy of the commons.

●Of preserving the current over endless performative progress.

●Saving for the future instead of spending in the now.

●Discouraging debt and encouraging quality.

These are all ideals of a conservative culture. It is no accident that so many bitcoiners identify Bitcoin as the Christian ideal of money.

Bitcoin is conservative Fiat is Progressive.

I like Libertarians but Marxists know Libertarians can't defend themselves, and this is why so many marxists masquerade as Libertarians (parasitism, inversion).

Why? because from the libertarian perspective any defense can be inverted as an offense.

“Don't censor my peer-peer porn coin or you're being authoritarian!”

Marxists use the same tactic on Christians:

“Why are you defending christianity? You're not allowed to defend yourself, Jesus said turn the other cheek!”

Make no apologies for conserving and defending an existing identity.

Defending WHAT CURRENTLY IS is never an offensive act.

Bitcoins identity as a peer-to-peer electronic cash system must be conserved.

Marxists attack language:

Marxism is ego based and parasitic. Because of this Marxists will lie or use euphemisms to smuggle their actions inside of a moral framework.

Euphemism: "Your promoting censorship"

Translation: "You are impeding my will"

"Censorship" is only the body they use to incubate their Marxist actions. Once their goals are achieved they would dispense with it. The true meaning of the word censorship is irrelevant.

Remember, their primary attack is on identity, they attack the identity of THE WORD censorship and reform it for their own uses.

You will recognize examples of this vocabulary destruction in culture war topics:

Fat -> Fat Bodied,

Homeless -> The Unhoused, Breastfeeding -> Chestfeeding, Mother -> Birthing person.

By destroying the language they are fighting on a meta level. They cannot win on the principles of their arguments and so they attack the rules of the game itself.

You must recognize the bait and switch semantic word game being played.

In conclusion:

I forget who referred to Marxism as a “series of bitch moves” but that's the best way to understand how they think and act.

They won't and can't fight fair or stand on principle because they have an immoral ideology and they don't have those skills.

Instead of listening to market feedback they will abuse your nodes. When caught they will laugh and downplay their abuse or attempt to INVERT the morality:

“If all it took was to attack some nodes to trigger the knotzis, then knots must be pretty retarded”

or,

“good luck trying to stop me from raping your node with spam and jpegs”

The translation is:

“it's your fault that you're upset by my bad behavior and I'm going to intentionally be worse”

If all other tactics fail they default to credentialism.

The appeal to Authority we saw during covid lockdowns by governments and regulators is the perfect example.

“Trust the science, trust the experts, trust the devs...”

“Knots is only one person! vs. an entire team of professionals”

(Lie, appeal to authority)

Bitcoin doesn't need a Priestly class. Bitcoin is for the plebs.

Who am I to tell you this? I'm not a developer nor am I a technical bitcoiner.

I am an Orthodox Christian that has seen this Marxist pattern play out across 20 years of working with startups, corporates and governments and I am extremely good at spotting marxists.

I don't doubt that my sweeping generality doesn't apply to every core developer, but I am confident that what we have at Core is a Marxist attack on bitcoin because they're using the Marxist playbook.

Bitcoin is truth and Marxists are incapable of telling it.

Stick to the truth.

Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer electronic cash system.

Conserve it, protect it.

🇷🇺Reports suggest Moscow may be quietly evacuating its embassy staff from Tel Aviv.

Western monitoring spotted a Russian Special Flight Squadron Tu-214SR (RA-64516) en route from Moscow to Tel Aviv.

Hebrew Channel 13 claims Russia is actively withdrawing diplomatic personnel from Israel.

GM frens

Our UTV doubles as a jungle gym!

If you don't really want to have money, you won't get as much of it.

Story time.

My wife's friend (married) is a yoga instructor. She saved up $40k+ and didn't know what she should do with it. My wife auggested she talk to me. This was Jan 2023. We talked. I listened. She didn't need the money now, she wanted to save it for a few years.

My proposal: Buy ~2 bitcoins. "I know you are afraid of the volatility. 2 years from now, if they are worth less than what you paid, I will buy them from you for what you bought them for. If they are worth more, I will take 10% of the capital gain. You get 90% of the upside, and 0% downside."

She said she would think about it. In the end, she decided to go to a financial services advisor, and bought index funds.

Today that $40k would be worth $250k, minus my 20k fee for taking on all of the risk.

"My son, do not disdain the discipline of the Lord or lose heart when reproved by him; for whom the Lord loves he disciplines; he scourges every son he acknowledges."

"Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I tell you, will attempt to enter but will not be STRONG enough."

Powerful message in the Word today. Father shared the story of Father Rageed Ganni who was executed for his steadfast strength in serving the Lord. When told to stop preaching to his parish is Mosul Iraq he asked his executioners that "how can I close the doors to the Lords house"? They then took him and 3 deacons to the desert and executed them.

GLORY will be given to those who serve knowing their outcomes are harsh and do it anyway

Hope nostr:nprofile1qqsp4lsvwn3aw7zwh2f6tcl6249xa6cpj2x3yuu6azaysvncdqywxmgpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq32amnwvaz7tm9v3jkutnwdaehgu3wd3skueq03zlux becomes the next George Washington

Pay off fiat debt then stack sats or stack sats and pay off fiat debt?

Some mornings it’s steak other mornings it’s carnivore pancakes. Either way I never thought breakfast could be this simple and healing.

What’s your go to breakfast?

#gm #carnivore #animalbased #meatbased

So weird that they got their populations totally addicted to online pornography and vulgar, rampant nakedness, with Sex Positive Feminism 🚺 and rabid Rainbow Activists 🏳️‍🌈 overturning all decency laws. Insisting that this stuff needs to be interwoven into every Internet convo ever, so that we Decent Devs go half-crazy trying to weed it back out. While encouraging gay men and women to engage in the most grotesque exhibitionism and dime-store prostitution because it's so... liberating. Now they use the new, limitless, widespread access to the same thing, to turn off the Internet.

Modesty won this round, I think. You sold your freedom of speech for limitless retreads of gang bang porn and some OnlyFans whores. Hope it was worth it.

Just saying.

Our leaders aren’t stupid or corrupt. They are outright evil.

We already suspect some (many) of them are pedophiles, satan worshippers, weird pagan cult members, genocidal maniacs, murderers, extortionists etc. There is evidence here and there. Most of it gets dismissed or buried. But what really scares me is the shit we don’t even suspect.

IF YOU KNOW WHAT THIS SPEECH IS ABOUT YOUR A LEGEND 👏🏼

LEGEND'S WILL BE MADE....

#FIAT #GOLD #CORRUPTION #BITCOIN

GM Nostr ☕🙂🤙

It's another beautiful day on planet earth. 🌍

How are you?

⚡️🐮 NEW - Mario Kart World in PETA's crosshairs!

The Cow Ring is said to be "a reminder of the painful tools used on cows in the meat and dairy industries."

PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) is an American animal rights organization founded in 1980 by Ingrid Newkirk and Alex Pacheco. It fights against the exploitation of animals in industry, research, entertainment and more, through campaigns and media actions.

Yesterday's Mass was refreshing, because I was unable to attend my normal parish the last two times due to my schedule. Instead, I had to go to my pre-COVID Novus Ordo parish, where I was treated with:

* distracting piano recital before Mass started

* girl altar boys

* women flooding the sanctuary

* plain, minimalist sanctuary

* Tabernacle out of sight and ignored

* parishioners seated in front of, at sides of, and behind table-altar (the behind folks seated IN the sanctuary)

* hand holding

* hippie peace signs waved at everyone, even from the young priest

* no babies

* boomer men in t-shirts, shorts, and sandals

* boomer women with lesbian haircuts

* nonstop music from musicians up front

* homily composed of humorous anecdotes

* before Communion, music team belting out song "Sacred Silence" (of which I desired)

* applause at the end of Mass

* plenty of post-Mass chatter

Mass doesn't have to be cringe. Find a good parish to nourish your heart and soul. To me it's worth the hour drive.

⚡️💬 NEW - "I Don't Believe In Billionaires": CEO Donates Most Of $1.6 Billion Fortune Brian O'Kelley, co-founder of AppNexus, gave away most of his $1.6 billion sale earnings, choosing to live with under $100 million.

“I don’t get why you need $200 billion, $500 billion, or even $1 billion,”

What do you think? #asknostr

Interested to see what the free market says about EVs. Maybe now we will.

BREAKING: President Trump has fired the IRS Commissioner and US Treasury Secretary Bessent will serve as IRS Commissioner temporarily.

Anyone else make their own sauerkraut? Super easy and so good

OMG! I’m not to blame. He’s not to blame. His number was just up. Nothing to do. Just his final destination. I hit a clean 8i across a water hazard up toward a green at the hilltop, 167yds from the tee box. Pushed it a bit right. Toward a tree. And it killed this poor guy who was sitting in the branches. What the hell!?! Poor little fellow. Never saw it coming. So sad to go like that. What a tragedy... 😞 pour one out for the fallen.

Call me crazy, but I'd rather have explicit taxes than inflation. And if the whole tariff thing has taught us anything, it's that the inflation tax is way way way worse than any of these explicit taxes.

This made me laugh out loud.

If you are buying bitcoin today, 15 years from now—when you sell a small part of your stack to purchase an island—there will be news stories about how an ‘OG Bitcoin whale just liquidated 0.69 BTC and bought Malta.’

Read to your children in multiple languages

Another 4 blocks mined, 2 Cedarwood, and 2 Lemongrass

Inventory getting replenished as fast as I can

The soap must flow

Remember Sharper Image?

He just put me on prep duty for the first time in our 13 year relationship. Pressure is on.

What will you do with your time when work becomes optional anon?

#asknostr

How does xrp bros sending you eth articles relate to the Fourth Turning? Just curious!