A few ideas:
A design portfolio platform like Dribbble or Behance. Would be great if it had tags and features for a variety of creative disciplines—from graphic design and web design to interior design and architecture to photography and animation.
Seems like something nostr:nprofile1qqsph3c2q9yt8uckmgelu0yf7glruudvfluesqn7cuftjpwdynm2gygpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq3qamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wwa5kuegpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezumrpdejqwk5cd9 would be interested in too.
If someone wanted to work on this, I would contribute ideation, design/layout, and zaps to help fund it.
An open source and private maps and navigation app that has the slickness and ease of use as Google Maps or Apple Maps
Audiobook and eBook platform
An open source and Nostr-based searchable archival platform. An alternative to Internet Archive that scrapes the internet, but also has the functionality of a site like archive(dot)is. Can also be a repository for things like Wikileaks, Wiki Commons, and other important public info and archival sites.
A Nostr sign-in for Proton products would be neat.
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I probably should not have said *everything work* without qualifications like this.
Most apps work. Some may require sandboxed play services.
Everything is compatible but to my knowledge using *normal* apps on Graphene does not make them private. Meaning, just because you are using an alternative OS doesn't mean your use of the Pinterest app is any more private than of you were using Google's native OS.
Someone can fact check me on this.
There were times the prophets spoke to peoples whose hearts were hard and whose unwillingness and even inability to hear/understand led to judgement. And Jesus likewise spoke, at times, in parables so that certain peoples present would not understand. Is that what you are referring to?
If so, this was particular times and directed at particular people. And in all cases, the writers of each book provide context to the reader.
Often, when Jesus spoke in parables to the people, they did understand the meaning. When they did not, he would sometimes then speak plainly. He regulalry spoke plainly to his disciples, explaining what the parables mean.
The Bible is a rich library of literary genres. All of which are rooted in a literal telling of history, all of which is intelligible, and all of which makes one wise.
Honest question: why would the Bible be intentionally written in a way for no one to understand?
Ha, yes. I think one can say, biblically, that God brings evil as well (not that he creates it, but that he brings evil and calamity as a means of his sovereign justice and will) but I settled for *all things* thinking "how complicated and nuanced do I want to get here?" 😅
Ultimately, yes, all good things—all blessings—come from his gracious hand, and are either the overflow of his special grace to his people or his common grace to all people, and often some mixture of both.
And bitcoin is a blessing.
In one sense, all things come from God. But the simple answer is: made by man under the common grace of God.
Lots of different questions and statements in there, all good discussions points. Hard to give a response here that satiafies. But simply put: There is truth, and there is everything else. Truth is not relative. What is true is true regardless of whether most people believe it or not.
This is true: Christ is Lord. And any religion that denies Christ's lordship is a false religion.
That said, all people are made in God's image and therefore all are to be shown respect and dignity. I won't go into the religious war topic, partly due to the medium here, partly because it is a tired critique of Christianity.
As for the number of denominations question: There is one faith, one Lord, one baptism, one Church. The denominations are like different rooms in a house. They have their distinctions—some might be nicely furnished, some not, some welcoming, some cold, some new and some in disrepaire, but they are all in the same house. And Christ is the owner of the house.
Healthy sexuality is whatever is in line with it's created design and purpose. Put another way, whatever is within the bounds of how and why Christ established it as a core part of the human experience.
This means unhealthy sexuality is whatever deviates from Christ's good purposes for both individual sexuality and for sexual relationships.
If I can read the article, I'll share some thoughts. Thanks for posting.
What are some things you think people are brainwashed about?
Good question. I think feminism/egalitarianism. But more so because of the larger issue it is couched within, that if the fragmentation of the household.
Everything else I listed is, in some sense, downstream of healthy, in tact, integrated, faithful, and productive households. Households have, until the industrial revolution, been the economic and cultural engines of civilization. They are, as many Puritans saw them, little churches. They are the primary place where life, work, and education happened for ages. They are the lifeblood of local communities.
Feminism didn't cause the fragmentation and degradation of the home, and by extension, the rest of society, but it has perpetuated and accelerated it.
As goes the household, so goes the world.
TL; DR:
Atheism frees us, in our minds, from submitting to Christ.
Feminism frees us, in our minds, from patriarchy and hierarchies.
Postwar consensus frees us, in the globalists minds, from love of nation and a true sense of personhood which undermines their goals.
Propaganda against the Crusades makes us hate our fathers.
Propaganda against the Puritans makes us hate our heritage.
Sure, so each one is a substantial topic of discussion in itself but they actually all overlap on a number of points. I'll give an overview on each and am happy to zero in further if you have interest.
Atheism/antitheism/materialism:
These are not all the same, to be clear, but all center on a denial of God and spiritual reality (by implication, all of reality as it actually is). Atheism is fundamentally a poisonous worldview and no civilization that embraces it stays healthy/in tact for long.
Feminism/egalitarianism:
This arose in the aftermath of the Industrial Revolution as a result of the removal of men from the home and, ultimately, a fragmentation of the whole family. I can sympathize with some of the reasons for the first wave but ultimately it is a distorted anthropological framework that leads to competition between the sexes, the eradication of the things that distinguish the sexes, flattens hierarchies God intentionally designed, caused the slaughter of millions of unborn children, made men effeminate, and made women bitter.
Post-War Consensus:
Tough one to sum up but ultimately after WWII and the rise of globalism, the narratives around the war itself as well as around what constituted a nation and a citizen changed pretty dramatically. As did the ideas and ideals around money, international diplomacy, and peace relations. I'm not of the mind as of now that it is all bad, but that it is a tightly held dogmatic narrative of modern history that should be scrutinized much more than it has been.
Crusades:
History is complicated and people are messy, but overall there has been a very long running smear and propaganda campaign against the crusades. The Christians were, we are told, the aggressors and the Mohammedans were largely a peaceful religious group. In reality the jihadist atrocities the Mohammedans committed against the Christians, particularly in the east and near east, were unspeakably wicked. The Christians crusaded in a desperate response to defend their people. Those that went to war, especially in the first crusade, were not power hungry zealots but wealthy nobility who, in many cases, gave up everything to go and fight because they were the only ones who could afford to do so. Many of the crusaders were faithful, honorable, and based Christian heroes.
Puritans/colonial America:
Post-industrial and postwar perspectives grew more and more hostile to heritage America, teaching that the Puritans were cold, joyless, legalistic, and rigid people who subscribed to a fire and brimstone theology and were obsessed with witch hunts. In reality they laid the cultural and spiritual foundations of what would eventually become America. And that spiritual foundation was one of joy, perseverance, faithfulness, reverence, and humility. As with the Crusaders, we have become a people too quick to disavow and repudiate our fathers, when in reality we have become squandered, undisciplined, and unworthy sons.
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Simple, restrained, but really has a lot of character. Fun design work. Thanks for sharing.
In Northern California I saw a massive slice of a Redwood that was preserved. A neat little infographic was overlayed atop it on plexiglass pointing out the date of every ring on the tree with context included. There was one from when Christ was on the earth. If I recall correctly it wasn't even the smallest ring. Quite a remarkable thing to see.
Sad to say I do not. I'm an Android user. But as someone else pointed out, you can use zap.army and there may be other options as well.
Additionally you can try a PWA, like Iris or Snort. I haven't used either in awhile so I don't know how the user experience is these days. If you use any other clients, I highly recommend using a signer to log in.