Your soul is my target. I encourage you to keep seeking. Look everywhere. I believe there is only one place you will end up if you logically search until you are satisfied.
Feel free to ping me with questions. There will be many that demand an answer.
There’s no end to man’s desire to use religion to manipulate others for wealth and power. But this is sin, not religion. Jesus himself “though divine he didn’t consider equality with God something to be grasped, but instead humbled himself and was obedient to death, even death on a cross.” (Paraphrased phillipians ch2 near the beginning).
The third axiom is that the penalty for sin is death. You either believe God made this rule or you don’t. There will always be two ways to interpret an axiom: either it’s a self serving lie that uses debt to enslave people to some unspecified end or it’s the way God made the universe. You must choose your belief carefully. Logically.
While Christianity fits together as a logical puzzle perfectly under these three axioms, you can interpret the same set of facts and arrive at the logical conclusion that Christianity is some great scam or trick with equal logic if you choose a different set of axioms.
It’s a corollary to the existence of right and wrong. You’d be rather uncommon if you’ve never done anything wrong.
The first axiom here is the existence of right and wrong. This isn’t something one can prove. You either agree that right and wrong exist or you don’t.
The difference between science and religion isn’t “science uses logic and religion doesn’t.” Science requires something that can be measured whereas religion requires belief in something that can not be measured. But both require logic. And both have axioms. But only science compels belief through repeatable measurement.
The second axiom is the penalty for sin is death. This assumes there is someone to whom the penalty is owed. This someone presumably abhors sin…
Does God exist? You’ll never prove it. You either agree or disagree. Is God good? Again, you either believe yes or no. But if he is good, what could he have to do with sin?
It’s a corollary to the existence of right and wrong. You’d be rather uncommon if you’ve never done anything wrong.
The first axiom here is the existence of right and wrong. This isn’t something one can prove. You either agree that right and wrong exist or you don’t.
The difference between science and religion isn’t “science uses logic and religion doesn’t.” Science requires something that can be measured whereas religion requires belief in something that can not be measured. But both require logic. And both have axioms. But only science compels belief through repeatable measurement.
Can’t wait to get mine
Break everything down to first principles. Christianity is easy: right and wrong exist; sin’s penalty is death; Jesus’ death paid the penalty for our sin.
Nah, local-ish. Maybe next halving I’ll make it there. This thing called work is a real drag sometimes. I like it, but I like other things too…
I’m excited to be going to a halving party. I went to one in 2016 and it was ok, but nobody really knew anything back then. 2020 was a bust. Here’s to 2024 halving!
Tell me about it. Been hodling since 2010…you’d be surprised how many people think I’m crazy rather than correct despite nearly 15 years of gains.
Don’t forget to grow your stack. I wasted so many opportunities. Not completely wasted, but if you were me back then and knew what you know now, you’d be kicking yourself really hard right now.
But as they say, wvwryoke buys bitcoin at the price they deserve. Well, I’ve bought at essentially every price. Just not in the right amounts.
The realization that my max possible bitcoin stack keeps getting smaller as time goes on has really hit me. I’m stacking but a fraction of what I was stacking before, despite channeling more funds towards stacking.
This means that I’m asymptotically approaching a ceiling to my bitcoin stack.
Looking forward to meeting new folks!
Bitcoin is the ultimate ego test.
Everyone naturally recoils when first hearing about Bitcoin. It feels “unfair” or “wrong” that people create their own money. As if money were imposed from on high and all mankind must obey the rule of money.
But a humble person will recognize this supposed rule is a fairy tale construction of their own mind reinforced by fairy tales of society at large.
The one who can recognize their instincts are wrong and grok bitcoin soonest benefits most.
My offline satellite fed bitcoin network has two pine sbc’s as backups. Love pine stuff.
Never heard of it. I went with the cheapest one and never learned to solder :)
Don’t get the cheapest soldering iron you can find. Get something 50% more expensive than that. You won’t be sorry…
Can anyone out there fit a power law trend line to US federal debt? Or M2 money supply?