> buttinsky in American English
> (bʌtˈɪnski ) or buttinski (bʌtˈɪnski ) noun. Slang. a person who is constantly butting in or meddling in the affairs of other people.
Here's one of greater hope:
"Great Men raise men who raise great men"
The end of that cycle is virtue.
Just war theory 👌 I approve.
War is like homicide. It is unjust if it is the end, but may be just if it is a means to greater justice, liberty, and peace. The American Revolutionary War was a just war. I wonder if we'll have another just revolution to reinstate justice and liberty, freeing is from our tyrants.
Leftists versus free speech for people who don't share their opinions
Ya think? I thought the Feds were a friendly bunch.
I would say the artificial aspect of it. Insofar as people retain avarice or any measure of greed, the rat race may continue, but it will at least be nature and not the state that causes men to work their knuckles to the bone.
We're basically throwing 64 x 256-sided dice and hoping for a low roll. If the first eight are all zeros and the next is less than 64, you've got it!
It would have to be a state-by-state thing, like a state can pass a law preventing the IRS and any other enforcement from having any presence in the state (Missouri already prevents gives the finger to the ATF), and then informing their citizens that the federal taxation can no longer be enforced.
That wealth is likely not in currency and stocks but in businesses, real estate, and maybe hard goods. Some of that will convert to Bitcoin, but only in about the 5-20% range. I expect from that alone, Bitcoin will hit $350k-$550k, and the rest of the way to and past $1M will be nations and states adopting it as a reserve currency.
The Scriptures never say that one who has gained forgiveness for his sins can himself never leave God. None of those references say that.
From Hebrews 6:
"For it is impossible to restore again to repentance those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come, if they then commit apostasy, since they crucify the Son of God on their own account and hold him up to contempt."
The very idea of apostacy in the ideology of eternal security must mean the apostate never believed, never truly became partakers of the Holy Spirit, but the inspired author of Hebrews says precisely the opposite without saying that they never truly believed. Some who do become partakers may reject and apostatize.
The verse you shared that comes closest is Romans 8:38-39. Although it sounds absolute to include the potential apostate himself, it doesn't. These are external things. It does not say "or height, nor depth, [nor we,] nor anything else in all creation." It would be tantamount to the addition of the word "alone" in Romans 3:28.
To receive is a choice, and to reject likewise. Otherwise, there is no such thing as sin.
Nostr on the profiles for this organization 🤙
Freedom to communicate and transact with whomever we desire without fear of any censorship.
It presupposes the permanence of salvation, or eternal security, which is not something suggested by the Scriptures, nor the writings of the early Church.
It was not suggested in Scripture that Judas did not truly believe, but that is rather a reading into the Scriptures based on those preconceived notions.
https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/can-salvation-be-lost
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Before I became a maxi, I really liked the idea of MINA protocol. You've got a Merkel tree of account balances, and the top-level zero-knowledge proof gets updated across the network. The knowledgeable proof for each account is then held by the wallets individually.
There may be a way to build this into Bitcoin non-custodially, such as publishing the top-level zk-proof on-chain and a manner to move in, out, and across L2 instances via an LN-like protocol.
What if we embed another DLT into Bitcoin as a L2? Such as a Merkel tree balance proof protocol like MINA? Bitcoin can host the top-level proof of balance, and wallets will hold branch proofs.