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Neal
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Author of “Modern Chains.” Catholic. Husband. Father of two. Former Army Officer, AH-64 Pilot. BS in Art, Literature and Philosophy from the US Military Academy. MA in Philosophy from Holy Apostles College and Seminary.

cause we feel stupid using an economic rake to dig an orange pill hole.

wrong tool.

u don’t feel stupid when using a philosophical shovel

good news is freewill is an implicit formal property of being human.

can’t scrub it out, even if u would like to pretend its not there

Gm ☕️ and PV 🌺

17th #yogastr class…on 2/17… 🧡💜

Tonight’s the night for #yogastr on @HiveTalk! 🧘

Bring your whole self—and a yoga mat, water, and blanket to #yogastr

(17th #yogastr class btw)

Join us on https://hivetalk.org/active at yoga time and pop into the room or follow the link I post on #nostr for the #plebchain 15 min before time

5 pm pacific 🌁

6 pm Mountain (Denver) 🗻 (& Arizona) 🏜️

7 pm central 🌾

8 pm eastern 🗽

1:00 am utc (sorry, Europe) 🇪🇸

Free to attend, ⚡️ zap #V4V if you wish.

yeah, went from a back injury could jog half a block to 1.5 inches away from the splits. mobility is amazing

like you said, we are bitcoin.

we tend the garden.

we are responsible for the fruit.

what happens when they open up Fort Knox and the gold isn’t there?

#asknostr

Perhaps the most important downstream societal effect of #Bitcoin is that people can properly invest in family and children.

Letting strangers raise the future for min wage was a dumb idea.

both can be true: we need more educators and more pain

#OrangePill the masses

Philosophy is like soccer because anyone who can run around can play.

But unlike soccer, in philosophy many people think that because they can run around, that makes them Lionel Messi.

#asknosrt Why is that?

This book is an anthem.

A sledgehammer ringing the bell of sovereignty and human dignity.

So close, gotta keep grinding

#OrangePill the masses

#Bitcoin

#TheMoralCase

#Philosophy

#nostr

Separating money from state does not validate a stateless society.

If you care about logical consistency, you have to follow it where it goes.

Libertarian Anarco Capitalists are incredible at describing problems and critiquing systems.

But they fall off the Gnostic cliff when it comes to prescriptions.

#Natural Law

#Philosohpy

#Bitcoin

#nostr

the state = imposed non voluntary social relations

that’s its formal essence/definition the analogy conveys rhetorically.

the state = imposed non voluntary social relations

that can never be scrubbed out of the human condition, be it a kind family or a tyrannical empire, the matter is accidental, but the form is immutable

“communities formed voluntarily by people”

how did u voluntarily consent to your parents creating you?

we don’t get to just start our philosophical analysis of what it means to be a human being when u are 18.

i undoubtedly agree with every critique you have against the state we have today.

but to say we can abolish “the state” categorically is non-rational. it’s absurd.

the first principles of the state are the same principles of parents.

to think a human beings can exist without “the state” is the exact same as thinking children can exist without parents.

just unpack the entailments and verify

whatever principles or rules u want to govern society, if their scope doesn’t account for the origin or the beginning, then it’s not addresssing reality, it’s just a speculative fantasy. it’s gnostic

i’m with u up until the logical contradictions of anarcy.

there is no logically valid justification for primacy of the individual.

to prove me wrong, show me a person who beget themselves, and i’ll come to ur side.

until then, “the state” is the natural and implicit hierarchy embedded in humanity.

i know that’s not a fun as being an anarcist, but following logical consistency rarely is pleasant.