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There were several things I liked about Farcaster, but the altcoin gambling attitude and lack of incentive for 3rd parties to build on it turned me away. I'm not a dev, but it seems like the protocol they built wasn't very approachable.

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# About the Submission of Wives to Their Husbands

We are all, in some way or another, in rebellion against God, and then it is not about judging women for their own rebellion but about trying to understand why and how they can change if they want to.

Let us start by saying that submission is something that one does voluntarily and that it couldn't be in any other way because men and women were created equally and our Father has no preference for men over women nor women over men, and since we all have free will, it is up to us whether we submit to someone or not.

Jesus Christ gave us the most astonishing example. When Jesus was twelve, his parents took him to Jerusalem for a holiday. On the way home, they realized he was missing and went back to look for him. After three days of searching, they found Jesus in the Temple sitting with the teachers. Everyone was amazed at how smart he was. Mary was upset and asked, "Why did you do this? We were so worried!" Jesus answered, "Why were you looking for me? Didn't you know I had to be in my Father's house?" Mary didn't understand what he meant. Jesus went back home with them and obeyed them.

Why would Jesus Christ, God himself, obey Mary and Joseph? Jesus voluntarily obeyed his parents because that's the natural law, God's law, and he doesn't break his own law. Children must obey their parents because nobody will love them and take care of them as their parents do. We all have obeyed our parents even when we weren't able to understand why they asked us to do or not to do something, and that's okay because parents love their children much more than children love their parents. In that sense, the family replicates in this world the same structure where our Father loves us more than we love him. Moreover, just as children somehow know that obeying is the natural thing to do, they don't always want to do it.

Submitting to God, our loving Father who wants the best for all of us and who sent his son to suffer and die for us, should simply be natural, but we fail to do it miserably again and again. The same happens with our sisters. If you met a good man, one that you are in love with, someone who loves you and wanted to marry you and form a family with you and make you happy, shouldn't it be natural to submit to him? I mean, all men know that women have virtues and vices different from theirs and they all know that women have been given what they don't have. However, many women believe they are like men and that men haven't received anything special, so why would a woman submit to her husband? But the reality is that leadership is more natural in men and submission to their husbands is also natural in women. In the same way that wives feel unhappy when their husbands refuse to lead, men feel unhappy when their wives don't follow them.

There is also a lack of trust. What if I submit to my husband and he loses his path? Or he becomes irresponsible or leads the family to ruin? What if he becomes a bad model for my children?

In the same way that you submitted voluntarily because you trusted him, once it is clear that you can no longer trust him anymore, you don't have to submit to him anymore in order to save your household. That's what Abigail's story is about, and God sees it as good, just as he sees your submission to your husband as good when he is a good man.

A husband who loves his wife would naturally pursue her happiness, and a wife who loves her husband would naturally submit to him. But how? Let us start by helping him to develop his role as the authority of the family and as the priest of the family. Let him sit at the head of the table, let him start the prayer, let him have the final decision and support it. Correct him with love when he makes a mistake, hold him when he stumbles, and ask him all what you need to fulfill your role as mather of the family.

Did you ever get a Zap for this? I sent you one and it doesn't look like it showed up on Nostr...

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# About the Submission of Wives to Their Husbands

We are all, in some way or another, in rebellion against God, and then it is not about judging women for their own rebellion but about trying to understand why and how they can change if they want to.

Let us start by saying that submission is something that one does voluntarily and that it couldn't be in any other way because men and women were created equally and our Father has no preference for men over women nor women over men, and since we all have free will, it is up to us whether we submit to someone or not.

Jesus Christ gave us the most astonishing example. When Jesus was twelve, his parents took him to Jerusalem for a holiday. On the way home, they realized he was missing and went back to look for him. After three days of searching, they found Jesus in the Temple sitting with the teachers. Everyone was amazed at how smart he was. Mary was upset and asked, "Why did you do this? We were so worried!" Jesus answered, "Why were you looking for me? Didn't you know I had to be in my Father's house?" Mary didn't understand what he meant. Jesus went back home with them and obeyed them.

Why would Jesus Christ, God himself, obey Mary and Joseph? Jesus voluntarily obeyed his parents because that's the natural law, God's law, and he doesn't break his own law. Children must obey their parents because nobody will love them and take care of them as their parents do. We all have obeyed our parents even when we weren't able to understand why they asked us to do or not to do something, and that's okay because parents love their children much more than children love their parents. In that sense, the family replicates in this world the same structure where our Father loves us more than we love him. Moreover, just as children somehow know that obeying is the natural thing to do, they don't always want to do it.

Submitting to God, our loving Father who wants the best for all of us and who sent his son to suffer and die for us, should simply be natural, but we fail to do it miserably again and again. The same happens with our sisters. If you met a good man, one that you are in love with, someone who loves you and wanted to marry you and form a family with you and make you happy, shouldn't it be natural to submit to him? I mean, all men know that women have virtues and vices different from theirs and they all know that women have been given what they don't have. However, many women believe they are like men and that men haven't received anything special, so why would a woman submit to her husband? But the reality is that leadership is more natural in men and submission to their husbands is also natural in women. In the same way that wives feel unhappy when their husbands refuse to lead, men feel unhappy when their wives don't follow them.

There is also a lack of trust. What if I submit to my husband and he loses his path? Or he becomes irresponsible or leads the family to ruin? What if he becomes a bad model for my children?

In the same way that you submitted voluntarily because you trusted him, once it is clear that you can no longer trust him anymore, you don't have to submit to him anymore in order to save your household. That's what Abigail's story is about, and God sees it as good, just as he sees your submission to your husband as good when he is a good man.

A husband who loves his wife would naturally pursue her happiness, and a wife who loves her husband would naturally submit to him. But how? Let us start by helping him to develop his role as the authority of the family and as the priest of the family. Let him sit at the head of the table, let him start the prayer, let him have the final decision and support it. Correct him with love when he makes a mistake, hold him when he stumbles, and ask him all what you need to fulfill your role as mather of the family.

Usually these kinds of posts are terrible, but this one was well-balanced without straying too far into judgement or worthless advice. I never considered the insight of parents always loving their children more than their kids love them.

The more I think about it, nostr:nprofile1qqsgydql3q4ka27d9wnlrmus4tvkrnc8ftc4h8h5fgyln54gl0a7dgspp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgqg4waehxw309aex2mrp0yhx6mmnw3ezuur4vgkhjsen has a point with the Bits/Bitcoins/Sats argument. The unit bias scares off a lot of vulnerable people who would otherwise most need Bitcoin. It keeps things abstract, distant, and unobtainable. It obfuscates the fractional nature of Bitcoin and its use as money even for the smallest of purchases.

I've been so busy lately it's been impossible for me to write and nearly impossible to read. It's been a good kind of busy, but I hope things calm down soon.

As much fun as NGU is, I find the conversations much more interesting when the number goes down.

#Microsoft putting "Ask #Copilot" above "Copy" when you right click in #Outlook has me feeling a certain kind of way

nostr:npub1cn4t4cd78nm900qc2hhqte5aa8c9njm6qkfzw95tszufwcwtcnsq7g3vle talks a lot about a coming age where artists and creative, imaginative people are empowered by functional money and innovation. I'm not convinced that will happen, but it would be nice. In his latest livestream he said he might do a keynote speech on this topic. I would be interested to listen to that.

What sent me down this technological and financial rabbit hole was seeing how broken the art/publishing world was. I see creative people being crushed into dust and their energy being drained by corporate overlords, especially when it comes to copyright/intellectual property controls. If Bitcoin can fix the money and Nostr can fix online distribution, this would be a massive step towards realizing Jack's prediction.

Ah, so that's a feature of the miners then?

Tempted to check out #Shakespeare and #vibecode a native #Linux NOSTR client for myself. How worried should I be about doxing my NSEC? I should probably not be lazy and use a burner account...

My health improved dramatically when I accepted that everything I had been told about health and nutrition was a lie. I befriended this bodybuilder online who gave me lots of great advice and I tweaked it from there.

Simply put, it's less about what you DO eat and more about what you DON'T eat.

Do not eat:

any oil besides olive, avacado, & coconut

Soy

Artificial sweetener

Artificial food dye

GMO

Breakfast (unless you do manual labor)

Amethyst is my favorite client. Whenever I figure out how to connect a lightning address I'm sending some β‚Ώ your way.

The Reformed faith is an interpretation put over-top of scripture. You can argue it is derived from scripture, but my original reply outlines how scripture alone is insufficient to determine what scripture is valid or authentic. I once was Reformed as well, I am familiar with the arguments. And I am Orthodox Christian now, so we have no infallible Pope in Rome thankfully!

This presupposes that God's word is *only* scripture (which is not what these verses say). It also presupposes that you are only supposed to use the words in the Bible (which is also not what these verses say).

There is no prescription in scripture for what books are supposed to constitute the Bible. How does one know what books belong in the Bible if the Bible doesn't tell you and you're only allowed to use the Bible to know this?

This makes your last verse very difficult, considering it was written by John before the new Testament was assembled (and perhaps before it was even finished being written). You are ascribing the warning in Revelation to all of the Bible after the fact, thus begging the question.