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Jordan Eskovitz
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Multidisciplinary artist. Partner at VRTCL. Partner npub1h74f0euxvsdjhralqrsf9uz40ag4exeddxlply3065xr22ey9ldqt8h043. Designer & Photographer at Crossway. Christ is Lord. Festina Lente. #design #art #artstr

A bit heavy but if you have not seen The King on Netflix, it's an excellent historical fiction

Yes I think you're right. And maybe the Davos crowd are the prophets.

You can search it right in the search bar of whatever client you are using. Location for search option varies by client.

You can search by npub. Searching by his username might work but it's a less reliable method.

Replying to Avatar Rodrigo

One of the real costs of privacy is convenience.

It's not easy to give up the UI/UX of Google and Apple products for hardwares and softwares like nostr:npub126ntw5mnermmj0znhjhgdk8lh2af72sm8qfzq48umdlnhaj9kuns3le9ll, nostr:npub1235tem4hfn34edqh8hxfja9amty73998f0eagnuu4zm423s9e8ksdg0ht5 and Linux (all three which are great).

Once you take the bold and liberating step, the feeling is kind of the same as having a kid. You won't really know how awesome it is until you do it.

On an adjascent note, what I appreciate is the gradations. SimpleX is more ideal than Signal, but Signal is better than standard SMS. And when you help onboard people to some of the *easier* options, or the options that are still slick like Google with marginal privacy improvements, people are more likely to move toward more ideal options in time. That first step is usually the most challenging.

Best way to get started is finding people through hash tags and looking through people's following/follower lists.

Some top hash tags:

#bitcoin (for bitcoin content)

#grownostr (for everything else)

#plebchain

#nostr

#photography

#bookstr

More so by putting in the work to curate your own feed with the people and content you want to see. Most clients are not doing this for you.

Another option is to save notes as a private or public bookmark, similar to X. Some clients allow for this.

Searching by a hash tag or key word does sometimes produce the desired result but it isn't often as exact as X.

Replying to Avatar Jordan

This man nostr:npub1ewg9zfxz68qdq39hxz0s6leka269gh2zy7zswl96szjg74at7e6sayd5r4 has yet to respond to the news he won. Should we wait or choose another?

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Give the pleb some time, not everyone lives on Nostr šŸ˜…

Agreed. God is a father, and all earhtly rule is modeling something of the fatherhood of God.

In the home it is familial fathers, in the church it is ecclesiological fathers, and in the civic sphere it is city fathers.

A man in authority may model God the father well or poorly, be a good father or a bad father, but in either case he is a father.

Replying to Avatar JackTheMimic

I would submit it is not coercive to have dominion over your own house. That one's children are in effect "Trapped" under your care is a function of reality. For example If I take someone up in a hot air balloon that I own. I have every right to remove them from my property if they do not follow my rules. However, I may not throw them out of my balloon 1000meters in the air, that would be murder. The physical reality is your children's upbringing is that same hot air balloon. You must safely ferry them to a place where releasing them from your property would not kill them. You are not "Coercing" them to stay on your property (and thus abiding by your rules) you are preventing their demise at the hands of the physical reality of the world.

On the Broader point, government is a mental game we play with each other. We all pretend that we are, in some ethereal way in the same "group" as everyone in our geographical vicinity. That is not a physical reality. That is simply something people like to do. Other people do not like to play that mental game. It is only when the mental game of "I'm the boss and you have to do what I say" meets the physical reality of extortion(taxes), kidnapping(arrests), and murder(the death penalty) that this game becomes not so fun. And to invoke the metaphysical as some sort of justification for the behavior of those not participating in an illusory mental game is a bit myopic. God is my ruler not because of some vote, appointment or some other contrivance. God rules because God created the physical reality I dwell within and the rules of reality itself. The words of men are simply inconsequential to the will of God because it physically can't be any other way.

I suppose you could say they are trapped haha, but I think a healthier framing is that they are given by God and entrusted to my care as a parent. And my argument is that coercion is a natural part of taking dominion. Maybe a helpful way of distinguishing what I mean is that righteous coercion is a tool of just dominion while unrighteous coercion is a weapon for unjust domination.

Government (the magistrate) is more than a shared illusion though, because people have to order themselves in a civil society somehow and Scripture is pretty clear that the magistrate is a part of God's intended order.

And forgive me if I have not been clear, I am not trying to invoke God to justify the actions of unjust rulers. Quite the opposite. What I am saying is that God intentionally created a world in which there are various ranks of authority and rule and that the magistrate isn't in itself bad, illusory, or even a "necessary evil" that we simply have to put up with, but rather when godly men rule in the fear of the Lord the magistrate is doing what it ought to do—punish the wrongdoer, elevate the righteous, protect property rights.

When the magistrate becomes the thing it is supposed to protect against (extortionists, thieves, murderers, etc) then it is right and just for the people to resist such tyranny.