They have nothing to do with it... (Sorry, the AI text is faster for me)

What we do know

The Knights Templar were suppressed between 1307 and 1312; their assets were largely transferred to the Knights Hospitaller. There is no documentary evidence linking them to Masonic lodges during the 14th to 17th centuries.

Modern Freemasonry originated in the British Isles in the early 18th century (Grand Lodge of London, 1717), inheriting customs from the Scottish/English stonemasons' lodges (operative) of the 16th–17th centuries and adding Enlightenment ideas (sociability, philanthropy, symbolic ritual).

The “Templar legend” within Freemasonry emerged in the 18th century out of romantic taste: Ramsay's Discourse (1737) and high degree rites (e.g., the German Strikte Observanz, or the Templar degrees of the Scottish Rite/York Rite) adopted Templar symbols and stories, but as a founding myth, not as actual genealogy.

Today there are Masonic orders called “Knights Templar” (especially in the York Rite), but they are modern Masonic bodies with no legal or institutional continuity with the medieval Order of the Temple.

Summary: the relationship is symbolic and ritualistic, not historical or organic.

“Crown” aka Rothschilds

Man.. was hoping Zion Marty would let him talk about Israel.

ima li

Even though many of us here have transitioned our time to a paradigm change that unites 8 billion people on this planet, many of our friends and people we love…have not yet.

Their world view (and maybe partly ours too) is then still infected by a system that preys on them. Extracts from them. Keeps them stuck. If that is true, then it is hard to stay above the noise when the people we love, people they love, and so on, are “experiencing” a pain that is very real.

All around us, unbelievable tragedy and chaos with people taking sides, while believing that they’re or their side is justified in the stealing from, harming, or killing of other people for “their” cause. Our politics, our media, our institutions are all similarity captured by it - leading to further division and righteousness, while people become numb to it all - mostly unaware of how it is hurting them deeply. How could it not?

This is the lens of the world that the majority is looking through, reinforcing, and making stronger through everything they see and do.

Just as real to them….as the truth, hope, and abundance that #Bitcoin imposes on the world is for us.

Yes, we “try” to stay above it because we know that the system problem cannot be solved from within it, and our time is more valuable in bending reality to the new system.

But

it is worth a reminder as we go this chaotic transition that so few understand:

When someone we love hurts, we hurt too.

And there is still much hurt.

Much love to you all!

#Bitcoin

#Nostr

If you use Mullvad, please send them an email and ask them to support lightning payments. They currently support onchain only and frankly that’s sad :(

Thank you! Together we can make things happen!!

Only elon can save free speech

bitcoin fails the moment a monopoly forms in mining; we call it a 51% attack

What is the most important in a payment / POS system?

one thing that’s kinda obvious/annoying to me about nostr is there’s no way you know what youve missed because of a relay mis-sync

Late night question, which app/interface are you all using for Nostr? I’m on Primal and Damus.

CIA, TRANSHUMANIST?

Who is the midwit who spent US$44 billion to buy one of the most recognisable brands in history, only to kill it and replace it with an X?