I don't worship myself, though I am certainly selfish and stubborn.

As for the rest of what you said, yeah. That's pretty obvious.

This... It's going to take a while.

I haven't read any of those sources. I don't consider some of them worth bothering with, others are already in my list. I don't really care about much reading by people that's not directly exposition if the Bible.

As for the biblical references, I'll have to go through those. Thank you for the list. This will take a while to respond to.

Exodus 22:28

Cursing a ruler is not the same as disobeying evil.

yes the verses are without context and must be read and interpreted in context

read ezra and nehemiah. recognize that they, and daniel, served one of the most brutal series of tyrant kings the world has seen. and were commended for it.

I'm not usually this generous, but let it be known that this morning I am in a good mood. Here are just a few:

Where?

Exodus 22:28

Proverbs 24:21

Deuteronomy 17:12

Ecclesiastes 8:2-4

Matthew 22:21

Luke 20:25

Acts 23:5

Ephesians 6:5-8

Colossians 3:22-25

Philemon 1:15-16

Romans 13:1-7

1 Timothy 2:1-2

Titus 3:1

"Remind them to be subject to rulers and authorities, to obey, to be ready for every good work."

1 Peter 2:13-17

"Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake"

Hebrews 13:17

Who?

John Chrysostom, Homilies on Romans and Homilies on Matthew

Augustine of Hippo, City of God

Martin Luther, Temporal Authority: To What Extent It Should Be Obeyed?

John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion (Book 4, Chapter 20)

Richard Hooker, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity

Samuel Rutherford, Lex, Rex

Jonathan Edwards, A Divine and Supernatural Light (sermon)

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Ethics and Letters and Papers from Prison

Francis Schaeffer, A Christian Manifesto

Nikolai Berdyaev, The Realm of Spirit and the Realm of Caesar

John Knox, The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women

John Milton, The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates

Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), (Chapter 23: Of the Civil Magistrate)

Martin Niemöller, sermons and letters

The proper role of the magistrate, and for that matter resistanceto tyrrany and principled disobedience, is meaningless once you remove the real authority of said magistrate.

You want to be your own little god who doesn't have to be inconvenienced by another human interfering with your plans. It's a poorly informed worldview. Eat some meat.

*sighs*

Where?

Who?

I am a self-centered coward. That doesn't mean you aren't mistaken and that I can't be correct about this.

Annas-archive.org

I always recommend reading actual papers, even to non-experts in any given field. Find the DOI or article name referenced in a regime media puff piece and see what the authors ACTUALLY said, and what their reasons were.

Regime media is centrally coordinated and lies with admirable discipline, but industry and academic journals are (for now) allowed quite a bit of latitude.

Yes, remote sensing data from satellites IS used to inform climate models, and has been for longer than I've been alive.

That doesn't mean any particular climate model is inerrantly correct (none are, they're models), it doesn't mean ice caps will finish melting by any predictable date, and it certainly shouldn't be taken to mean the government has the ability or the inclination to intervene usefully.

But the preponderance of evidence, including satellite remote sensing, shows a warming trend. We are going to have to live with that.

Annas-archive.org

I always recommend reading actual papers, even to non-experts in any given field. Find the DOI or article name referenced in a regime media puff piece and see what the authors ACTUALLY said, and what their reasons were.

Regime media is centrally coordinated and lies with admirable discipline, but industry and academic journals are (for now) allowed quite a bit of latitude.

Yes, remote sensing data from satellites IS used to inform climate models, and has been for longer than I've been alive.

That doesn't mean any particular climate model is inerrantly correct (none are, they're models), it doesn't mean ice caps will finish melting by any predictable date, and it certainly shouldn't be taken to mean the government has the ability or the inclination to intervene usefully.

But the preponderance of evidence, including satellite remote sensing, shows a warming trend. We are going to have to live with that.

Is there a such thing as super glue that doesn't dry up after a week after you use it once? #asknostr

Well, you're supposed to be the priest-king of your family. You don't need anyone else above you to fulfill that role.

*sighs*

Where?

Who?

I am a self-centered coward. That doesn't mean you aren't mistaken and that I can't be correct about this.

I believe the same. If I were a monarch, I would declare God to be the King of my people and may I pray every day that he work through me. Emploring my people to never praise myself, but the one true God.

I have to preface my response by the fact that I do believe in a benevolent monarchy, but not a strictly human one since I am a Christian that believes that there is no other correct leader but Christ. But, I will now to no other human.

So, I will not bend a knee to human authority. I do not need to be governed.

I stand by what I said.

I have to preface my response by the fact that I do believe in a benevolent monarchy, but not a strictly human one since I am a Christian that believes that there is no other correct leader but Christ. But, I will now to no other human.

So, I will not bend a knee to human authority. I do not need to be governed.

I stand by what I said.

Satellites can measure surface temperature with admirable precision, down to the meter scale and in millikelvin.

I've used this data for mining survey, among other things.

You need new material.

My cousin has been buying since like 25K or so. Whatever the price was in February 2023. She's prepared. Her new husband, maybe not 😂

Anarchism is just about the only moral way to structure a society.