No time like the present. Learning has never been easier with AI
Tell Grok or GPT to explain to you the Power Law Model created by Giovanni Santostasi.
#BitBonds speech to my local county government
https://blossom.primal.net/c7a4a1461b7c0f8af88de72c6032351b320da11b3dbdcd1371f4704f8a672237.mp4
Kudos for participating and engaging in politics.
This is how we win.
Awesome, but you know what the people really want haha
God didnāt make something out of nothing the way a magician pulls a rabbit from a hat. He created the universe without using preexisting material because, as the first cause, He is not limited by matter, space, or time. Nothing has no properties, so it cannot produce anything on its own, which is why something eternal must exist. The idea of universes begetting universes only pushes the problem back, you still need a first cause that is necessary and eternal. An eternal mind creating without time is not just an opinion, it is the only kind of cause that fits a finite, law-based universe. Once you establish that, the question of which God it is comes from historical evidence, such as the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus
Something from nothing is impossible because ānothingā has no properties. It cannot cause anything, it cannot change, it cannot act. By ānothingā I mean the absence of anything, not empty space or a vacuum. You cannot test it because there is literally nothing to test.
As for believing in something eternal, it is not about humility but about necessity. If the universe began, something beyond it had to cause it, and that cause has to be eternal by definition. Regarding God acting, an eternal being can will to create without being bound by time, and the moment He creates is the moment time begins. That is not just giving a name to ignorance, it is following the evidence to the kind of cause that fits the effect we see.
God, by definition, is the uncaused cause. Only things that begin to exist need a cause, and God did not begin to exist. He is eternal. That is not ignorance, it is a logical necessity. If there is no eternal something, then you are left with something from nothing, which is impossible. We both have to believe in something eternal; the question is whether it is eternal mindless matter, or an eternal intelligent mind. The evidence from the beginning of the universe, fine tuning, and moral law points to the latter.
Objective moral values arenāt just my opinion, because some things like torturing babies for fun, are wrong regardless of anyoneās opinion. On the infinite past, God is timeless, so Heās not in the same sequence of days as the universe. On information, DNA meets the definition scientists use, and all our uniform repeated experience is that information comes from a mind. On fine tuning, the constants of physics could be otherwise, and the range that allows life is unimaginably narrow, which is why even many atheists call it fine tuning. The simplest explanation for a finite universe is a timeless, spaceless cause, not another physical universe, which would just push the problem back
The price-related episodes of WBD get the lionās share of views, but itās episodes like this with nostr:nprofile1qqs9pk20ctv9srrg9vr354p03v0rrgsqkpggh2u45va77zz4mu5p6ccpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtcppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0y4rtlf that are the lionās share of the value. Give it a listen.
Value is subjective
Views are objective
You hit the nail on the head on this call
I remember listening to this Feels like a decade ago
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Numbers canāt be banned
On objective moral values, theyāre not physical things, just like numbers or logic arenāt made of matter. Theyāre real, but theyāre grounded in the nature of God, not in human opinion. Thatās why things like murder or injustice are wrong no matter what culture you live in.
On an infinite past, you canāt actually get to today if thereās an infinite number of days before it. You can have a āpotential infinite,ā like counting forward forever, but not a completed infinite youāve already crossed.
On DNA and physics, DNA is loaded with information, like a software code, and information always comes from a mind. Physics shows the universe is fine-tuned in ways so exact that blind chance is incredibly unlikely, which points to intelligence behind it.
On the second law of thermodynamics, the universe is running out of usable energy. If it had always been here, it would have run out already, which means it had a starting point.
On the Big Bang, yes, itās a model to explain things like galaxies moving apart and the cosmic background radiation. But when you put those observations together with the second law and the fact thereās no good evidence for a past-eternal steady state, the simplest explanation is that the universe had a beginning.
We know the universe began to exist because all the scientific evidence, like the Big Bang and the second law of thermodynamics, points to a beginning, and philosophy shows you cannot have an actual infinite past.
God exists in the sense of being the necessary, immaterial, timeless cause of the universe. He is not made of matter or bound by space and time. As for evidence of an eternal consciousness, the fine-tuning of the universe, the origin of information in DNA, and the existence of objective moral values all point to an intelligent, personal source rather than blind, unconscious forces
One of the few real niggas left
People that are still ignoring Nick in 2025 = people ignoring Bitcoin in 2025
Did he get the Luna tattoo removed? Lol
Instant ratio lol
Enough people are noticing
Canāt deny the entertainment value of X.
The power is in the people (network) not so much in the architecture of the public square.
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Of course I'd say the idea is false (see James White vs. Trent Horn debate on the topic of "Can a Christian Lose Their Salvation?": https://youtu.be/72TRODe8BdA
But I also say their "assurance" doesn't play out in real life. They say if you fall into serious sin or apostasize, then you weren't really saved to begin with, because a truly saved person wouldn't do those things. The problem is that they know they're *capable* of such sins, so they end up questioning their conversion experience. And even if they THINK they are saved, they admit a people can be deceived about it and shown NOT to be saved by their fruits.
It's as if they're guaranteed salvation no matter what...until shown otherwise -- which is another way of saying they can't have full assurance.
It's more reasonable and biblical and straightforward to say that, after baptism, we are in a saved condition unless we fall into mortal sin. If that happens, then we need sacramental Confession. We only go to hell if we die in a state of mortal sin.
"Once saved always saved" is self-deception and can be very dangerous to one's soul. In fact there have been preachers that said it truly doesn't matter what heinous sins you commit after you're saved -- you can't undo your salvation, they say, though you can miss out on certain heavenly rewards. That's a diabolical teaching.
Appreciate the response. Very well said. Even though I went to a Catholic school until I was 15, Iām just now gaining an appreciation for the traditions and sacraments, especially confession, of the Catholic Church in my 30s. I tried the nondenominational route, but it didnāt feel quite right. The phrase āLex orandi, lex credendiā captures what I think is missing from many such churches. Nothing quite like worshipping in a beautiful cathedral.
Itās still very cheap if you look at the P/BYD, regional moat, size of the fixed income market in Japan, and their near flawless execution of the strategy.
Must be nice owning NAKA and have David Bailey due soft market manipulation with the $1B incoming buy that was rounded up from $700M š
Stay humble, folks. Finding conviction in a strategy that generates returns in Bitcoin terms is for the degenerate gamblers that think mantras donāt apply to them.
We need a decentralized github version!!! ASAP
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Gitea?
I feel like ChatGPT can do most if not all of the categories better or just as good
Yeah, makes no sense. No one with that amount of coin is keeping that much fiat. Hope it doesnāt cost them a couple of knee caps when they tell the robbers they donāt actually have any Bitcoin and they donāt believe them š
We went from āLearn to Codeā to āLearn to Coalā real quick
Imagine graduating with a CS degree in 2025 š„“ and with student debt š