Pray the rosary 📿
Bitcoin is on the journey to leave the cave but at the end of it is God.
Bitcoin is a truth that awakens people to long time preference. God is the truth that people are made anew in with an eternal time preference.
Likewise! God bless 🙏
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In the NT there’s Mt 13:42, Mt 25:41, Mk 9:47-48, 2 Pt 2:24, Jude 7, and more. In the OT there’s also Is 33:14, Jdt 16:17, and more.
I agree, we should all have a properly ordered fear of God, not as a tyrant but as the one who executes justice fairly and non-arbitrarily. We do what we can to unify ourselves to Christ by ordering our wills to His will which means picking up our cross and following Him. Loving God and our neighbor.
nostr:npub18mxvz0wxegstxwl06t4gznm3dmaz4laarezx74cwpgvmtfu5anjqlsch00 tagging for visibility. For whatever reason Primal isn’t showing that my comment is connected to your recent reply so wasn’t sure if you’d see it.
I cannot presume to know what will happen other than what He has shared in Scripture which you’ve quoted below.
It seems relevant to point out that justice can be seen as an act of love as it gives people their due. Mercy would be an even higher form of love which we see God demonstrate perfectly at the crucifixion. My understanding of Hell is, yes as a horrible place with wailing and gnashing of teeth for all eternity, but paradoxically as a place sinners choose to go to given a disordered ability to perceive “the good”. God is just and we will all have to answer for our sin, such as not keeping The Commandments, on our day of judgement. Yet God does not force us to love Him. If He did so, it wouldn’t be love. Love must be voluntary and He exemplifies this perfectly because He voluntarily loves us, all of us, even to the point of death saying “I thirst”.
Christ died for the sins of all because of love. We deserve death and yet because of His merciful love He came to defeat death for all of us sinners.
We do not earn God’s love. He created each and every one of us and keeps us in existence out of love because even though He has no need for us as the infinitely good and perfect Being itself, He created us anyway.
Slowly but surely, the discussion topics on Nostr have broadened. It’s nice to see.
I actually wasn’t taught it, at least not in a conventional sense. I sought out the truth, largely because of bitcoin actually. I thank God’s grace.
It seems we have different definitions of “god”. I am referencing the Christian God but if you were to abstract it further, it would be akin to the Neoplatonic conception of “The One”. Aquinas uses descriptions such as “Prime Mover”, “First Cause”, “Non Contingent Being”, etc. None of those descriptions could possibly apply to more than one being.
It seems for you, the equivalent of that wouldn’t be an individual but maybe space and time (what I would call creation). But you say to find time other than in my imagination, I’m not sure if you’re suggesting time does not exist in objective reality. However, I do agree with the sentiment that we should find a way to be holy and sanctify the present instead of worrying about the past or future.
Nothing is separate from God insofar as everything’s existence is contingent on Him. He is Being itself but that does not mean everything is God. I am not God. I am not perfect. I do my best to cooperate with His Grace to strive towards perfection but that is not something I or anyone else can ever attain in this life.
If everything is perfect as is then why do we throw people in jail? Correct others? Teach kids how to comport themselves?
Many people in today's largely atheistic culture are dismissive of the big question “Does God Exist?”. It seems unreasonable, silly even, to fall prey to an apparently obvious myth. Times change, we’re much more advanced than the societies that once believed in Zeus or Jupiter so it seems logical for us to reach a point where we can finally discard this God fantasy. Let me ask you this, does 2 plus 2 ever stop equaling 4 simply because time has gone on? We can’t see, hear, touch, taste, or smell math and yet we don’t deny its existence. Better yet, good luck trying to deny gravity or time itself. We all know reality extends beyond the physical realm. And yet if Christians claim God is the creator of time and space, why would the procession of time affect our answer on whether or not God exists? That would be like looking at an old wooden home thinking at one point a carpenter was responsible for creating it and now thinking it must have just suddenly popped into existence by itself. With housing prices where they are, I’d love it if houses would just pop into existence!
This book breaks down St. Thomas Aquinas’s “Five Ways”, also known as “Five Proofs”, for God’s existence by portraying a coffee shop conversation between AJ, an atheist, and Lucy, a Christian. It’s an easy introduction to the exceptionally rigorous thought of philosophy and theology. Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae can be seen in the background and is definitely less accessible!
God is not some big man floating in the sky competing with your freedom by imposing Commandments on you. God is existence itself from which all else subsists. He is keeping you in existence this very moment because He loves you. I encourage you to get to know Him.
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Right and now that you mention it, if it’s framed in the context of moving from one currency to another then his criticism would have to address other global powers before the dollar hegemony. As in, when the global standard went from the Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, British, etc. all before the dollar. Bitcoin is just the next successor with the difference being its nature as a money is fundamentally different from fiat and one we have never seen before.
I also wonder if he’s considered tools like the Satscard or Opendime where bitcoin custodianship can be physically transferred without needing a recorded transaction on the blockchain. Tools like that seem to solidify bitcoin’s ability to function as money outside a purely digital context, in a way it even seems to mimic the experience of holding gold.
Agreed, you can’t replace something with nothing and ultimately much of the conservative movement is actually liberal anyway. I suggest checking out what New Polity has to offer. It’s a magazine that constructs a Christian post liberal worldview addressing a variety of topics like gender, money, the State, etc.
Great to hear! That’s where I land, too. I’m trying to formalize my stance but I think there’s potential to refute his criticism of the speculative nature of bitcoin by viewing it through the lens of double effect. So long as one treats bitcoin not as a means to make more fiat but as a tool to store one’s value over time by understanding its inherent advantages over fiat regardless of price action, I think it’s fair game. Especially when one considers the adverse effects of money printing in fueling the capitalist state, funding the government/managerial class’s circumventing of the law, and pushing liberalism anywhere and everywhere. His promotion of pulling investments out of the stock market is admirable but remaining within the dollar economy is a massive elephant in the room. One would think bitcoin is the missing piece for his argument. Nicole Oresme writes about the adverse effects of debasement. It’s the extent of Church related writing I’ve been able to find regarding the nature of money and it seems pro bitcoin’s ethos.
I've maintained that most insurance is scam, but here's at least some good ranking.
Parents had Allstate, and they didn't cover a freak fire in their truck cab. They had just purchased it for cash at $17k, and that while thing went up in smoke.
I opt for the absolute minimum that is legal*, and then just have a good stash saved up instead.
https://youtube.com/shorts/-0YI3pPekwc
*Do you think being legally required to have insurance is a factor continuum to the problem? Just a thought...
The folks over at New Polity (Catholic) have made a similar point and I’m still mulling over it. The implications of insurance, especially mandatory insurance, are much further reaching than I initially observed.
https://newpolity.com/blog/against-modern-insurance?rq=Insurance
I coincidentally (providentially) just had a conversation yesterday where I heard about this for the first time. Interested in learning more About the “Power Law” and “Scale Free Networks”. Thanks for sharing this link, seems like a good overview.
We know acting selfishly is wrong because of its definition as an “excessive” concern with oneself. We see it everywhere in modern society with men abandoning children, women killing infants in their womb, etc. Taking care of oneself within reason is not selfishness. Prioritizing oneself at the expense of others is selfishness and is bad.
Agreed, Church teaching is that good ends do not justify bad means. It is staunchly opposed to utilitarianism, for example. Quoting the Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1755: “A morally good act requires the goodness of the object, of the end, and of the circumstances together.” 1756: “One may not do evil so that good may result from it”.
Christian teaching opposes tyranny. But it does it not through its own tyranny, instead through love. So much so that God Himself, who could do whatever He wants, chose to die on the cross so that we may learn to suffer for love as much as Him and in the end, come out triumphant.