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Duncan Cary Palmer
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#1 Following: Jesus the Annointed King. Why?πŸ€”πŸ§ Jesus created the universe. He claims all as benevolent King, and I cordially invite you to voluntarily join his expanding Kingdom. I believe that #bitcoin is a significant tool for taking back power from the forces of darkness. Read me here: https://peakd.com/a/@creatr/b Husband, Father, Grandfather, Great-Grandfather

This is the portrait of a rare, Martian Horned Shaggy Bitcoin Mastodon who lost most of his tusks and trunk in a terraforming accident, revealing the mirror-image Bitcoin Icons that run the length of the tusks.

Poachers at one time made this an endangered species on the Red Planet, hunting the beasts for their ivory tusks which they then sliced, mounted in backlit koa wood shadowboxes, and sold to collectors for outrageous prices on the black market.

Conservationist communities saved the bloodline when they began identifying the perpetrators, trying and convicting them of genocide, and exiling them to the penal colony on Phobos for rehabilitation. The restored elephant community now handles much of the heavy lifting involved in making Mars more comfortably habitable by humans.

#grownostr #storytelling #inkblotart

Great question.πŸ˜ƒ

Not at all; there is tremendous value in Jesus' teachings for anyone who actually applies them, regardless of one's belief system.

Nevertheless, that hypothetical individual, though receiving short-term value, would miss out on the greatest low time preference benefit of recognizing who Jesus is.

I RSVP'd a couple days ago on Evento; it says "You're Going," but I don't see a "Ticket?"πŸ€”πŸ§πŸ˜³

I am a Christian; I believe Jesus is the Creator-God who made the universe and all it contains.

I'm a theist who I don't believe you could possibly convert, so ask away!πŸ€”πŸ§πŸ˜œπŸ˜

Reminds me of Nebuchadnezzar and Daniel in Daniel chapter 2.πŸ˜œπŸ€£πŸ˜‚πŸ˜πŸ˜†

#asknostr

Anyone building a decentralized, unbiased search engine? Real, universal, global searches that don't hide results not aligned with the latest state narrative? πŸ€”πŸ§πŸ˜€

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Huge milestone: First demo of Nostr Web Services (NWS)Β bringing TCP to Nostr. With NWS, you can host any existing web application on Nostr without having to use DNS or even announce your public IP to the world, simply by sharing your service's npub (or nprofile).

Try it out the demo yourself. Here is a Cashu test mint running with NWS. Let's use curl to retrieve the mint's information. The request travels from your computer to the public NWS entry relay, then through nostr to the service's NWS exit relay. At the other end is a Cashu mint with HTTPS encryption.

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curl -s -x socks5h://relay.8333.space:8882 https://nprofile1qqs8a8nk09fhrxylcd42haz8ev4cprhnk5egntvs0whafvaaxpk8plgpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuwpnxvejuumsv93k2g6k9kr/v1/info --insecure | jq

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I can't stress this enough: THE MINT RUNS BEHIND HTTPS!

The NWS entry relay can't read your traffic. It's encrypted. We can host public entry relays that can be used by anyone.

This means we can plug the entire internet to it 🌐.

Let's plug it into Cashu for now. Nutshell wallet supports socks5 proxies (that's how it uses Tor). By setting the public entry relay as the proxy, the wallet can now connect to a mint's npub/nprofile and communicate with it via NWS.

This is going to be so freaking cool. And it's going to be a lot more useful than just for Cashu. There are still bugs and issues that need to be ironed out but the code is coming out soon. Watch this space.

Any other nostriches going to the bitcoin2024 conference in Nashville next week?πŸ€”πŸ§πŸ˜€

It'd be nice to meet a few pleb fren nostriches face to face.πŸ™πŸ»πŸ˜€πŸ’œπŸ«‚πŸ’–πŸ˜†

#bitcoin2024 #Nashville #plebchain

Thank you, Brother, for taking your time to respond to my perhaps all too abbreviated complaint about the WCF. I will try to do at least slightly better in this answer, though it must of necessity be a limited summary...πŸ˜€

> (Is this 'corrupted' and 'fundamentally erroneous'? - he asks, with a mischievous yet fraternal grin)

Scripture is, of course, our foundation. What has been corrupted are the creeds, confessions, canons, and (in short) the aggregating barnacles of all the "traditions of men" that act as a hidden foundation, confusing and hiding the truth. This has led to the misapplication of (most frequently and egregiously) 1 Peter 2 and Romans 13 to the evil beast known as "the state" (merely human governments at ALL levels, city, county, state, and in the greatest display of centralized, hierarchical evil, federal nation-states). It has misdirected us into the very dangers you've pointed out in your reference to the Ventrella series; to wit, the danger of "worshipping and serving the creature rather than the Creator."

The core underlying (and I believe satanically influenced) assumption is what has come to be most widely recognized and taught as Kuyperian "sphere sovereignty." This is the attribution of equal but distinct authority to different "spheres" of life (family, church, state, work). I call this "corrupt and fundamentally erroneous" because (like most of our adversary's lies) it contains truth that has been subtly twisted. While I certainly recognize that we as fathers have primary authority over our own households (ΞΏαΌ°ΞΊΞ΅αΏ–ΞΏΞΉ), the system of thought goes off the rails when it considers other "spheres."

Cutting to the chase--and I confess I am a very poor historian--the reformers (and perhaps others earlier?) miscategorized two "spheres" of life, and I hear the strong echo of this in your replies. The error is dividing life into "civil" and "ecclesiastic" spheres. This is a misclassification. The authentic, biblical categories are "kingdom of satan" and "Kingdom of Jesus/God." In truth, the "kingdom" of satan is really a plethora of his competing fiefdoms that are in process of being destroyed/self destruction.

Another related error I'll mention in response to your reference to Rutherford's work is the conflation of the only *authentic* law (the law of God) with human statutes. As an aside, would you care to guess how many of the 400+ references to "law" and its cognate words in Scripture can arguably be said to refer to human statutory law?🧐 We must in this context remember these Scriptures:

"For Yahweh is our Judge,Yahweh is our Lawgiver,

Yahweh is our King;

He will save usβ€”"

- Isaiah 33:22

and

"He who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords"

- 1 Timothy 6:15

With that background, I'll try to state my point concisely (LOL)...

The reformer's began with a fundamentally unbiblical world-view/foundation. The New Testament is in truth a handbook for God's intended form of government, to wit, the Kingdom of Jesus, his Anointed King. Ephesians Chapter One states this clearly (when accurately translated). God intends to rule the world through the means and apparatus of his ecclesia (assembly) which are literally Jesus' bodily presence on earth. (Ephesians 1:22; Jesus is the head of EVERYTHING, exercising that headship via the MEANS of the church).

All human organizations claiming a "right to rule" humanity are illegitimate pretenders. Every ersatz "president" and "king" and "premier" and etc. are in all truth antichrists (Greek: substitute/replacement/pseudo/fraudulent "christs"). God WARNED us of this via Samuel (1 Samuel 8) when he flatly described the people's insistence on a "king." "...they have rejected Me from being king over them." The functions of "civil governance" all fall on the local churches, and are all exercised in a voluntary fashion in local contexts.

As a bitcoiner and nostrich, I would hope that you can readily grasp the superiority of decentralized, voluntary, non-coercive human interactions? Jesus our King is the ONLY point of centralization. He is quite capable of running a WORLD full of local assemblies and coordinating their actions and activities. This is what he meant by the Kingdom of God advancing through the world like leaven, not easily observed.

And what of nation-states? They are self-destructing before our eyes. God laughs at them (Psalm 2). Jesus, our Rock, the "stone cut out without hands," is rolling down from the mountain, pulverizing them to dust, and we will watch them blow away into oblivion (Daniel 2).

Running out of steam here, but thank you again for your gracious interaction.πŸ˜€

PS How do we interact with nation-states and all other fiefdoms of satan?

We are "strangers and foreigners here," and as such we "seek the good of the city" whereever we happen to individually be (geographically). We are not "subject" to their "laws," but we are "wise as serpents but harmless as doves" and we go along to get along, exercising wisdom to the extent possible and ALWAYS holding forth that JESUS is Lord and King, and our only allegiance and loyalty and fealty is to HIM.