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This is obviously a Christian perspective, but the ancient gods were demonic entities seeking the destruction of their followers. We see this in the worship of Molech, in which babies were burned to death in the arms of the idol, and in 1 Kings 18 where the prophets of Baal cut themselves to call down their god. As a side note, Planned Parenthood follows in these satanic practices by killing babies and chemically castrating children.

Leviticus 19:28 connects cutting oneself with tattoos, reinforcing the intuition that the permanence of a tattoo, even if not physically damaging, is a form of self-mutilation, and that it was a common practice at the time.

Many other religious traditions associate tattoos with religious practice, including the Egyptians Picts, Maori, Celts, Native Americans, Greeks, and modern Wiccans. So even if tattoos aren't necessarily self-mutilation, they're almost certainly a religious symbol.

Moderns like to dissociate one thing from another because we don't believe in a created order. But if there's such a thing as symbolic meaning, these different things can't be disentangled so easily. While most modern tattoos seem innocuous, it's also very common for people to get a tattoo when they experience a loss, or struggle with depression or suicidal thoughts, almost as if a permanent physical image has metaphysical implications.

Haven't gotten one, haven't regretted it.

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Honestly an improvement, look at all those cool lakes

Interesting, I like the idea but groups should be more transparent, I have no idea what it is I'm following on that screen

Definitely, just have to think about how to do it

Awesome, I look forward to what you come up with

Yes, a lot, but graph visualization is not something I'm very good at, and I know very little about graph analysis. But it's one of those side projects that one of these days I'm just going to throw together.

Relay de-commidification. Relays should have specific content or be intended for a target audience if they want to be profitable. The name gets part of the way there, and some clients show relay descriptions, but yes, a relay marketplace or social graph analysis (find the relays your friends are on, like we have for the lightning network) are needed.

Nice, way to game out those different actor types

I'm tolerant of many things, the Skeptic's Annotated Bible is not one of those things.

Yo dog, I heard you like tanel

#tanelhasnt

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My entire feed is nostr:nprofile1qqs9c5yvxn6csehvwdq64ugvcxh496fr9wulskwgzq72tm8j42fm77qpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejszxthwden5te0dehhxarj9ejx2cm9de6x7mne9e3k7mgprpmhxue69uhkummnw3ez6am0wfkxgtngxdazu6nshkdpzv this morning, did I break something?

That's what those little warts are for

This ignores millennia of Christian thought that addresses exactly these problems. You think we're unaware of these questions? It's honestly insulting.

In brief,

1. Genesis is poetry, not scientific literature, inconsistency is often intentional and for a particular literary purpose (read Through New Eyes for details, chiasms often play a part). Old vs young earth is a valid debate, but both are consistent with the Biblical narrative because it features a transcendent God who is not bound by the laws of nature.

2. Science is often wrong (at best it's a method of inquiry, not a set of doctrines). Estimates about the age of the earth depend on the doctrine of uniformitarianism which Genesis explicitly denies. Likewise, the doctrine of evolution is just that, a doctrine.

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Blink's approach sounds really interesting

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/bitcoin-as-religion-cult-satoshi