I know I’m late on this…
But, are they even trying anymore?
What. The.
I converted in 2000. Discovered the Liturgy of the Hours. Then the Office of Readings. The Second Reading from the Office is amazingly rich! I feel like not enough Catholics know about it - hundreds of short, powerful, inspiring excerpts from the saints of the past. Just awesome!
Absolutely. So calm. So chill. Sees deeper and further along than those around him. He’s bullish and optimistic, with the receipts. Love it.
Yep indeed. Count me among the bad Catholics!
I forgot you mentioned you were Catholic in your bio. I just saw you reference the office of readings. I’m a big fan of the office of readings, as odd as that sounds.
Pope Benedict from your neck of the woods?
Are you Catholic?
Jeff Booth. Catching up on episodes I’ve missed. Can’t get enough of Jeff Booth. This ones REALLY good…
Great article. Terrifying stuff. I’m
Looking for one of those bags. Leave us alone you crazies
Makes me think of how we use our own military…
Good morning!
Robert Breedlove was excellent on Rugpull Radio (linked in earlier post). Recommended interview.
He highly recommended reading this book about money in the Bible, and the basics of Austrian economics. I plan on reading. From Mises:
Good morning! Just watched this Luke Broyles video. He was using this website for bitcoin data, impressive site!
#gm
Argentina will likely go through a hyperinflationary event soon. Our pontiff is an Argentinean. Although he has not even visited his home in the ten years of his reign, I am hoping that this event at a minimum catches his attention.
I believe the Church should condemned fiat currency as a lie and theft of the highest degree. Fiat is a tool for mass slavery of a citizenry by their government.
Nicole Oresme, 1325-1382AD, wrote a treatise on money called 'De Moneta' or 'The Mint'. In it he condemns altering money and profiting from said changes, which is identical to printing fiat. Just read the titles of chapters XV-XVIII.
Can we not say that removing the backing of the USD by gold is exactly what Oresme condemns in chapters VII-XIV?
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VIII On Alterations in Coinage in general
IX Change of Form
X Change of Ratio
XI Change of Name
XII Change of Weight
XIII Change of Material
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Money, at its essence, is information, a record or account of good done to one another. Gold was a really good money, as it does not decay, is difficult to fake, is measurable and somewhat divisible, but it does not transport well. To represent gold paper money was used, but gold was the actual money, not the paper. Paper was the currency of the money, the form in which it is exchanged*.
By removing the backing of the dollar, the information of good one does for others ceased to be represented in gold and became instead a fiat, a dictation of the government which only says "I'm worth a dollar". This was and still is a theft of the largest magnitude, an entire nations earnings and savings in the currency robbed of them.
This grave sin was orders of magnitude worse than what only might have been committed by the inspiration of Oresme's treatise, a French king who inquired with Oresme about the ethical nature of modifying the money of his subjects. He might have stolen a small portion of the money from his people, but our governments today have stolen much more.
In addition to this, the governments now allow local banks to commit similar theft worse than usury in the form of fractional reserve lending. This further multiplies the available currency another order of magnitude, and possibly more than one after it compounds, and further robs the citizens of their former wealth.
We ought to implore the Church to condemn fiat currencies and fractional reserve lending as fraudulent, a grave sin committed upon a people.
In the meantime, a solution must be pursued, which I believe to be Bitcoin. It is not a fiat currency, because it relies not on an authority to lend value to it, but derives it's value directly from a society's desire for it. It is very difficult to create, highly liquid and divisible, has no decay, and will maintain its value.
The De Moneta of Nicholas Oresme and English Mint Documents, PDF and epub here:
https://mises.org/library/de-moneta-nicholas-oresme-and-english-mint-documents
*Along this line, #BTCLN is the currency of #BTC. It is backed 1:1 and thus good. This not to condemn representative currency, just debasing it or altering the form.
#Catholic #Christian #fiat #Bitcoin #argentina #popeFrancis #CB #lightningNetwork
Wow!! What a great share. There is nothing new under the sun, this guy saw the debasing of coins during his time, hundreds of years ago. This is truly a moral/ethical issue which the Church should be leading on. Not sure this Pope is up to it, sadly. I will read the link, thank you. Great find.
Trying to articulate a thought:
A few days ago we witnessed a house burn down in our neighborhood. We actually called 911. Nobody was hurt. House mostly destroyed.
It made me think of how I and the people nearby wanted to help. Badly. We made sure that nobody was inside. Called for help. People want to help their fellow man. People do help their fellow man. People sacrifice, heroically sometimes, to help and save those in need. Fires are a dramatic case but make the point. People give food, money and shelter. Why? Because life is valuable. Human life is sacred. You don’t need to believe in God to know life is valuable and with saving, even at a great personal price. You don’t even think about it. It just happens.
So - people will share, give, fight for sacrifice for, each other. This comes out when these great needs present themselves, like a fire. It gave me a lot of hope in people.
I think whoever is pulling all these psy ops and bull crap the last few years (and beyond) want us to forget this. I think they want us to be numb to the need of our neighbor. Distracted. Depressed. Hopeless. I feel like they want to degrade our God given dignity, the goodness of being alive, of our bodies, of humanity.
God called the creation “good” when He made it. He called man “very good”. We know this, in spite of all our failures and brokeness, we are good. Worth saving. That’s why we help each other.
So, we must remember our goodness. The value of all life. And I think we will. Because we will give so much to help when people are in need. I believe good will win.
