I had my awakening during the plandemic. When I started to dig, I found many newspaper articles online announcing that the State was handing out huge amounts of money to faith-based charities under the banner of “Covid relief”. But I’d heard enough accounts about Public Relations narrative sculpting training, to know there was more to the story. Then I found a blog by a small church which did not have the writing skill to cloak the pitch that the State had made to them – so they pretty much repeated it word-for-word on their own blog – right there out in public. It went something like this: “Many people don’t trust the government or big business/pharma. But they trust us as their faith leaders. If we tell them to take the jab, they’ll listen – because we have built a relationship of trust with them over many years – which can now be leveraged.”
Upon realizing what was going on, I then began to make public information requests to establish whether my church had also taken the bribe money. I knew my church would never tell me. So I had to go to the other side of the transaction. I have never been given such a run-around in my life. They broke every rule in the book not to answer my question. And by not answering it, they answered it.
As for your next point, I agree that financial corruption is not necessarily linked to serious sexual crime. But I would say that time preference plays a role in both. If you train your brain to succumb to your short-term desire in one area in life, it’s potentially going to let you down in other areas too. I agree that the impact of time preference predates fiat money.
As for your next point, I don’t know enough yet to say that EVERY church has a “central figure” that has “unquestioned interpretive power”. I’m still fact-finding. It’s a slow and difficult process and life has other demands.
I agree that power corrupts imperfect people.
Thank you for taking the time to respond to me and for challenging my statements. It helps me think clearer.
I wonder what https://iris.to/drjeff@NostrVerified.com would say
Sounds to me like you're talking about a fiat church problem - where the message of the Church is increasingly influenced by State grants and consessions that are dangled in front of them. Christ rejected material gain, power & rulership when the Devil offered it. Matthew 7 proves that Christ will say to the Church "I never knew you, get away from me you workers of lawlessness." Without this understanding, I too would have been put off "Christianity" and become an atheist. A life without your Lifegiver is no life.
Read the last sentence of Mandibles.
It's a bit like crowd health. If someone takes their v4v payment and configures it to send sats to you and then they just "set it and forget it", they want to know that they have sent you (or a group) more value than what you gave them.
They want it to buy them a place in a community that they can trust and that will be there for them.
Don't think of the CONTENT as v4v. It is just the MARKETING for the v4v. The real value must be the access one gains to a trustworthy, knowledgeable and available community who can be there to provide support in a particular field when needed.
I know that nostr:npub1hghnjjpnvkz8t6gkszuf37d7puwc2qtxc65rnklqsngzv6kkug9qhhfyz2 does not understand this.
One might think this subject doesn't matter much. But it seems that somewhere in the next 12 years, it's gonna be really valuable to have this clear in out heads.
nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy
&
nostr:npub1cqm6dztalp4l6n04f9k20c333xftgangjla337736dr6faz9na0qf2hjec
seem like they try to please both sides.
It seems like nostr:npub10vlhsqm4qar0g42p8g3plqyktmktd8hnprew45w638xzezgja95qapsp42 might understand this.
I don't think nostr:npub1cjw49ftnxene9wdxujz3tp7zspp0kf862cjud4nm3j2usag6eg2smwj2rh understands this.
I hope that nostr:npub1hxwmegqcfgevu4vsfjex0v3wgdyz8jtlgx8ndkh46t0lphtmtsnsuf40pf does understand this.
I suspect nostr:npub13l3lyslfzyscrqg8saw4r09y70702s6r025hz52sajqrvdvf88zskh8xc2 does not understand this.
I suspect nostr:npub15vzuezfxscdamew8rwakl5u5hdxw5mh47huxgq4jf879e6cvugsqjck4um does not understand this.
I suspect nostr:npub1s5yq6wadwrxde4lhfs56gn64hwzuhnfa6r9mj476r5s4hkunzgzqrs6q7z might not understand this.
I once listened to a lecture by the atheist high priest Daniel Dennet. In it, he advised his adoring fans to promote the macro evolution hypothesis as fact at every opportunity. But he strictly instructed that they not engage in debate. Rather, they were to just repeatedly drop it into their narrative as fact and move right on with whatever they were actually talking about. This concept of turning something into truth simply by repeating it enough times has fooled many people that I respect. It has also been used to great effect by Kesian economists. Many brains were trained when intelligent design was surpressed by simply repeating macro evolution. Maybe that's part of the reason why so many of us fell for soft money without asking enough questions earlier.
I suspect nostr:npub1lh273a4wpkup00stw8dzqjvvrqrfdrv2v3v4t8pynuezlfe5vjnsnaa9nk understands this.
They don't suicide their own - unless the target finds a conscience and wants to spill the beans.
So true. The marketing man of What Bitcoin Did fame has been a steady example of such conduct.
Ok. So if Bitcoin is Linux, who will play the "winning" "packaged" role of Apple in this new world we are entering?
Indeed. Two other things worth jumping in to on the pod?: