Idealism can wait until after winning, ideally.
Its the same God. If the Islamic God is different than the Christian God, then we also have to say the Christian God is different from the Jewish God. The arguments for one works for the other too.
So either we do that, or we've made an error in our conception of God. Humanity has, not Christianity specifically.
One possible error is to believe that God is Good - to the exclusion of the Bad. Those are human concepts. A perfect being has no need for those categories ; what a human sees as bad can be good if you look at a larger picture, or visa versa, and even that is just a human rationalization and is completely unnecessary to a perfect being.
Another possible error is to believe that God can be limited in any way. You hear people say "God can't _____." Or "God needed to ____." Any such construction is nonsense. Getting that will require a shift in understanding Jesus, from what the churches teach. If Jesus is God, he isn't reliant on some formula of dying to do something, and it doesn't matter what some human wrote a long ass time ago. I am not denying Christ - everyone wants to jump to silly conclusions... Holding certain things constant, a different understanding must pop out.
And another possible error is to believe that God is at a specific place - in Heaven, for example. The Bible explicitly tells us both God and Heaven are within us, not a place. Islam and Judaism also make this mistake, possibly moreso.
The difference between Islam and Christianity, besides Jesus, is the acceptable conditions to do violence. Islam imagines itself to be a rebellion against oppression, and violence is acceptable in fighting oppression - but only then. Similar to Christianity, Islam also characterizes sin as oppression, and a "jihad" is meant to be an internal struggle. Obviously its not only limited to internal work.
One of the most disastrously-successful C.I.A. psyops of all time #Feminism https://nostpic.com/media/0018b7ee33fb253843639c62e292fec700a69a93b08ee374c5bda971c9b39564/29f345f1f37ff2f07bfe6549e8376506baacc960faa3d1678ff2a46045a663a4.webp
What if the real psyop is to get the right to carry this anti-feminism stuff which is guaranteed to fail?
Ah... And old memory, but yes 🖐
Make friends with her boss and then talk about it. Or bring in a bitcoiner from town. Social validation - probably works for orange pilling
People get into ruts, being fairly comfortable with their life, even if they know it sucks. It would be easier to persuade them to spend a couple thousand to go vacation with you than to get them to buy btc. But if they do go adventuring, then I think they become orange pillable.
They think brand recognition is all that matters. F that. If you recognize a brand, commit to not buying that
Probably not. The whole paradigm is probably like hitting a nail sideways. I see people who care a lot about their image/reputation, and people who don't care. The ones who care sacrifice themselves unendingly to be viewed as good/accepted/in/valuable - and it becomes self fulfilling. But its still a fantasy world
I'm curious what your thoughts are on Steiner schools, or Waldorf, as they've rebranded themselves.
The real danger is nodes being operated ineptly. People act like just running a node is a magic fix to the danger of state capture. Its not. We need to be able to actively select the rules our nodes use. I'm sure command line jockeys can handle it without problem, but the rest of us can't. All we can do is choose which version to run. Not running the latest version means potentially running buggy or exploited code. Realistically, all most people do is hit the update button when it appears. The documentation for the updates isn't even good enough to really know what's being changed. So what's going to happen? One day there will be a malicious update that significantly alters how bitcoin works, and in just a few days, most of the network will run it. How many that updated will roll back to an earlier version? Some, but not all. Attackers are doing this math. They're watching our behavior, planning around observed statistics. This will only get worse when a hundred million users run nodes on every continent. Attacks can benefit from ossification too. We'll "win," and then while we're celebrating, bitcoin will be turned into a CBDC. Who's slipping the noose on who? We think we've pulled one over on the powers that rule this world. That's hubristic, prideful horseshit. The fix is not merely decentralizing nodes - it must *also* be widespread knowledge of how to use nodes in a sovereign way. Not just hitting the update button. The code is not under our control if that's all we do.
Sorry, got off topic. I agree with your sentiment. Too much focus on ngu, not enough focus of cypherpunk.
Ohhh. That might explain some of the terrible modern art. Artists are stunted by the video/picture/voyeuristic culture
