I don't really want to see the mainstream topics and culture imported over here, so I'm against the safe space idea. It's ok if the userbase is different from other platforms. It doesn't meet any goals if the userbase is just fanatical Bitcoiners.

They don't have to be non-Bitcoin users. It is probably best that they are Bitcoiners (or can be quickly converted); the sorting and economy building is a good thing.

But, it is possible to be a Bitcoiner that is not so obsessed with the thing that one talks about it 24/7 as if it is the single most interesting topic conceivable. There are a thousand other things that the crowd here could be talking about and should probably be promoted... like all of the liberty (libertarian) topics.

Pulling new users from libertarian spaces is actually our quickest pay off, most likely.

Less than 10,000.

"The universe appears to us to exist in three dimensions of space and one of time—a geometry that we will refer to as the “three-dimensional universe.” In our scenario, this three-dimensional universe is merely the shadow of a world that has four spatial dimensions. Specifically, our entire universe came into being during a stellar implosion in this suprauniverse, an implosion that created a three-dimensional shell around a four-dimensional black hole. Our universe is that shell."

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-black-hole-that-birthed-the-big-bang/

There are a number of things in the study of physics and the universe that lend to the understanding of reality promoted by #gnosticism.

#Gnostic Thoughts?

People will come out in outcry against *young people* (late teens, 20s, and early 30s) having benevolent body modification procedures (aka plastic surgery in 2023) as if this is some kind of noble, champion of the youth thing.

But, this is actually evil.

It's damnation.

So much of human relationships and interaction comes down to the genetic outside (how you look) as an often (enough) faulty indicator of the genetic inside (how you are) that your quality of life and the achievability of your life goals depends - in very large part - on your appearance. People can't just override this stuff with "nice thoughts," "trainings," and "introspection." Often times its down to urges and just not liking or enjoying the presence of someone no matter what they do.

Moreover, the events and milestones that impact the trajectory of your life the absolute most (on both a mental and material level) happen when you are young. This means that plastic surgery has its greatest upside - its greatest ability to increase the quality of your lifetime - while you are young.

While you are looking for a spouse...

While you're starting up your career...

While you're establishing your social life...

While you are scouting for opportunity...

Yet, these worshippers of either mindless nature or incompetent demiurge are absolutely adamant that no one should have any kind of plastic surgery to improve nature's mistakes *at least* until it can have virtually no positive impact on your experience. (The knowing religionists actually hate human ability to manipulate nature for the benefit of Selves in any capacity.)

None of this is to say that plastic surgery is risk free - it isn't. But, a lot of suffering would be alleviated if we stopped lying about our reality and stopped gaslighting the people who try to change their lives for the better.

I agree in the sense that democracy is an abomination.

We have to make them. But, that no doubt will require some violence - all instances of sovereign land require violence in their making - and libertarians apparently lack the conviction that Good should exist in the world.

They've adopted Christianized ideas of "turning the other cheek" and the ultimate evil being violence. They seem to think that if aggression is perpetuated for a long enough period of time, it somehow stops being aggression and truly fighting it becomes "evil."

Um... why is there a shadowbanning feature on Primal?

You know, I'd really like to advertise on Nostr. I'd love to stream some sats per click and get ads displayed in high traffic locations on the platform.

Not to mention, such a thing would also help with discovery and even community building.

Killing animals that kill stupid humans is idiotic. The "morality" of it is insane.

It is VERY hard to find your folk here if you are anything more than a Bitcoiner. That's all anybody wants to talk about. Endless circlejerk.

That's fine for all these people who only want to talk about Bitcoin and muh family. Not fine for anybody else. I have yet to find the people I actually want to be talking to. Its almost like algorithms can be a *helpful* utility.

I consistently detect some kind of elitism from Bitcoiners in that they seem to think that if you aren't a developer and don't want to take on this "easy," technical, GitHub crap to interact with their half-made apps (that they seem to think are "finished"), then you don't "deserve" to use them.

Then, they whine about adoption.

They do not build for adoption, they build for their clique.

#gnosticism

A look at what your body is, what it means to have bodily autonomy, and why it is that you have it:

https://blogstack.io/naddr1qqyxzcn9xejxyve3qy28wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hsyg9xvvtzfmfnan702jn4gqhfx8seejrl384ufhkyf28ehpmzfws69upsgqqqw4rsr2z487

Gnosticism is not the religion of the elites...

God, you Catholics will just make up a strawman and then claim that's what X is so that you never have to actually interact with people who actually are X and can participate in your historically violent circlejerks about things you do not even put in any effort to know about.

Disgusting.

What "the secret knowledge" is is not secret. There is nothing to "lord over." It's readily apparent and spoken about all the time, but you for some reason are completely unable to interface with it.

Gnosis is about HOW TO DIE so that you do not reincarnate. Dumbass.

They do not want you know about them because the premises reject the natural order and undermine the Catholic/Christian God by saying things like:

"You can become a god."

"You are a god."

"The world is a prison that you must escape."

"Creation is flawed because its crafter is flawed."

"The world can be overcome through knowledge."

"You are not your body."

"Gnosticism" is an umbrella term. The people originally and historically referred to as "Gnostics" never called themselves that.

They were the followers of (various) Greek mystery religions and attempted to integrate the Jesus figure into their belief systems as the latest teacher in their tradition from Pythagoras to Orpheus, for example.

But, obviously the Christian Universalists (aka Catholics) had a problem with that and got violent.

Those collectively called "the Gnostics" are these people - those who subscribe to the core premises of the mystery religions. Today's Gnosticism (legitimate Gnosticism does not operate on Catholic premises) can be described as a syncretism of these Greek mystery religions.

We aren't. Thinking we are is why we are in all of this mess.

Because it is designed to be centralized and manageable enough for the federal government to tax and compel political action from the states. A lack of sufficient centralization is why the Articles of Confederation were scrapped.

The states are not truly sovereign.

There is no difference between communism, social, Christianity, New Age, or Marxism for the same reason.

Ever notice that they all come from the exact same place?

Catholicism.

Yes. She did and she is right. About everything, honestly.

Her only working fault is her resistance to mythic thought and spirituality which has both put a damper on the spread and durability of her philosophy and failed to provided the new worldview or framework for interacting with the world in a way that enables us to achieve objectivist ideals on a paradigmatic level. It lacks robustness, missionality, and psychological combat readiness, essentially, in the fight for cultural manifestation.

Now, bear with me...

Ayn Rand is interesting for a number of reasons, but what is absolute most interesting about her is that she found high fidelity Gnosticism without the Gnosticism.

Because Gnosticism was effectively lost for hundreds to thousands of years depending on the sect (though the Nag Hammadi discovery was known in her lifetime), she essentially rediscovered the ethos of near unadulterated Gnosticism on her own (a multiple discovery event), but due to her atheism relayed it without the transcendental elements and probably never even knew that she had done it.

See, whereas Marxism is just Christianity without the "God" - secular Catholicism, Objectivism is just Gnosticism without the Gnosis - secular Gnosticism.

If you look at the values and axioms of Marxism they are the exact same as the values and axioms of Catholicism only with spiritual elements removed or replaced by some version of "the collective," because they are just iterations of the same belief system for a different demographic. The same is true for Gnosticism and Objectivism which allows us to both reverse engineer Objectivism to find the logical ends of Gnosticism and to fill out Objectivism were Rand leaves off for greater potency.

(She leaves off at self-interest as the highest end, but she does not give us reasons why the Self matters or has any legitimate value. You can't find answers to stuff like that in a materialist mindset.)