Just finished it today. It was good. Malice did explain things well. I am in theory on board with anarchism in a moral world. Which I would agree with malice most people want to get along and organize themselves in coexisting groups. I feel like the moral fiber of the world needs to be healed to finally get to no laws helped with a great awakening. We may get there in a few decades and theoretical may no longer be theory. Thank you again for the discussion. I enjoyed it greatly. The world doesn’t heal without civil people sharing ideas with open minds. Cheers!
Caravaggio, The Taking of Christ, c. 1602
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SQUID DRAWN WITH FOSSIL INK
An illustration of a squid was penned with supposedly 150 million year old squid ink. The ink was extracted from a fossil of a squid named Belemnotheutis antiquus. The remains of the squid still has its ink sac intact and it was unfossilized. The ink was fresh enough to be mixed with ammonia and used.
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Fossilized Squid Ink Sac
1. Sovereignty, I cannot be fully cancelled, can own my notes and my followers can move with me. I don't want to spend time working on expending a following only to be deleted at the whim of a corporation or the government.
2. More long form content. Substack or Medium like clients. Most of my writing is best expressed in longer form.
3. Don't really have a specific subject. However, there needs to be a wide variety of subject matter. I believe that is happening.
4. Nostr is the first time I have seriously started writing for social media. I have always wanted to write but I haven't found the right venue. When I saw nostr, I knew this was my time to write and with zaps I have the possibility of seeing a return.
5. Keep nostr as free speech as possible. Don't introduce algorithms to curate a persons feed. That should be their responsibly. Algorithms only drive animosity. Lastly, KEEP THE GOVERNMENT OUT OF NOSTR. We are sick of being gaslighted by them. They have used social media to drive their agenda and to actively break apart friends and family. I have had both happen to me. Enough games!
Thank you again for a thoughtful reply. I have been digesting the anarchist view. I am sliding towards it as a philosophy. I still have questions like: Does an anarchist system (or really lack of one) have any accommodation for the enforcement of property rites? It seems to me there has to be an authority that at least catalogs the ownership of land etc.
I have started the "What Bitcoin Did" podcast called "Understanding Anarchism with Michael Malice" today. I am sure I will have more questions.
I am enjoying the latest rabbit hole. Life is exciting and interesting when you live it with curiosity. Cheers!
Great! I just bought mine a month ago! No telling how much a sat will buy after awhile...
NOT YOUR AVERAGE RIPPLES ON THE BEACH
An aerial photograph of the West Barr area on the western side of the Columbia River in Washington state. This area is a large version of the current ripples you may see at a beach or river. However, these ripples are over 24 feet tall and spaced 360 feet apart and were formed by huge floods that carved out a large part of the state. The massive current required to form these giant ripples would have been at least 600 feet deep and flowing at over 65 miles an hour.
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Image from the Washington Geological Survey (Washington State DNR)
This video is a favorite of mine. I especially love David Berlinski.
“I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”
~ Isaac Newton
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PIGEON POOP LEADS TO A UNIVERSAL DISCOVERY
The biggest piece of evidence for the viability of the Big Bang theory came in 1964 when Bell Labs scientists Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson were conducting research at the Bell Laboratory, Holmdel Horn Antenna. During their work recording the microwave radiation of the Milky Way galaxy, an unusually high background microwave radiation was detected.
The source of the excess radiation could not be determined and they thought that it could be the leftover radiation from a high altitude nuclear explosion that was conducted a year earlier. However, the radiation measurements didn’t decrease as time passed so it was ruled out as a cause. Even the pigeon droppings that were all over the inside of the antenna, described as “white dielectric material” by Penzias, was cleaned out and examined to see if it was the cause of the excess radiation.
In the end, no terrestrial cause of the radiation was found and it was determined that the radiation was coming from the universe itself. This radiation was the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) that was left over from the big bang event and was later shown to be almost uniform throughout the universe. This evidence placed the Big Bang Theory as the prominent theory of the origin of our universe and is dominant to this day.
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Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson at the Bell Laboratory, Holmdel Horn Antenna
Thank you for your explanation of your views on anarchy. It was very interesting and paradigm shifting. This is a subject that was recently brought to my attention, and I am rethinking it along with many other ideas. Given the state of the past several years it would seem that traditional politicians have violated their social contract and have ushered in a new negotiation of representative governance. What that looks like and how it is brought about is beyond me but it feels like it is coming at us fast.
Is it in your opinion that the changes we need can be brought forward within the representative political framework that our two countries share (I'm from the US)? What separates anarchists from libertarians? From your descriptions they sound similar to me.
I appreciate very much your response, I am trying to open my mind more and to make sure I don't get caught in conventional thinking. I am the type of person that likes it when my world view is shifted. Peace be with you! Cheers!
ANGKOR WAT STEGOSAUR
Many cultures around the world have stories involving dragons and large serpents. This stone carving at Cambodia’s Angkor Wat temple, Ta Prohm bares a remarkable resemblance to a stegosaur. It was carved around 1200 AD.
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“There are enough evidences of supreme skill in the structure of the human hand alone to prove the existence, intelligence and benevolence of God in the face of all the sophistry of infidelity.”
~ A. B. Simpson
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LANGUAGE, CREATION, AND MEANING
When someone is walking along the beach and looks down to see the words “I Love You”; they do not think it was a random accident of the wind or the waves. The symbols that make up the writing convey a deeper meaning that passes information to us in a metaphysical way. We know that the phrase means that two lovers have gone before us and stopped to write in the sand. It would be preposterous to think it was the wind that carved them. It is by that transfer that we know the words were written on purpose and by an intelligence. That purpose is language.
You have in you a similar language. It is written in every corner of your being, every cell and tissue have it written throughout them. The language is far more complex than the words that were previously discovered in the sand. It requires billions of characters to convey its message.
The language is DNA. It is the molecule that is the instructional blueprint for the assembly of proteins that are the building blocks for all cells and is formed by four distinct bases: adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G) and thymine (T). The bases act as letters in a four-letter alphabet transferring information to build a specific protein. The bases are assembled into a long strand that we know as the DNA double helix.
Just as we know that the simple phrase in the sand conveys the love between the two beachgoers. Similarly, we should understand that the far more complex writing in us conveys a vast love between a creator and its creation. The DNA language inside you was written not just for you, but it is you. It wrote another being into existence. Something that the words in the sand could not do. Yet, some scoff that the language that has the power to bring things into existence was yet an accident of physics and chemistry. Those words had a meaning lovingly penned by the Creator, and that meaning is you…
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Why God created us? In our form and spirit, knowing we would fall away.
Genuinely curious here, I have recently heard the explanation of "anarchy" from Saifedean Ammous. It was not what I was expecting and made me think. He was explaining it from the point of no government has even behaved itself, it always expands. I noticed others with the symbol in the bitcoin world, what is your take? Thanks in advance! Cheers!
TYRANNOSAURUS REX PRESERVED BLOOD CELLS
Mary Schweitzer was working as a researcher at the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana. While cleaning some T. rex bones Schweitzer and an assistant found something remarkable. What they found inside the bone matrix was what appeared to be unfossilized blood cells within blood vessels and other tissues [1]. The tissue was in remarkable preservation for being estimated to be over 65 million years old. This means that the blood cells and vessels would have to remain relatively uncorrupted for that vast amount of time in bones that were exposed to the elements.
The research done by Michael Buckley of Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre has estimated the limit for the survival of collagen in optimal conditions is 700,000 years [2]. Collagen is the protein that makes up around 25%-35% of body tissues and when decayed the tissue would not be recognizable. Schweitzer’s T. rex blood cells and vessels would have decayed long ago if the age of the bones were indeed over 65 million years old.
This represents a major problem between the assumed age of the dinosaurs and the survivability of the soft tissues that are contained within their unfossilized structure. This problem could possibly be written off as an outlier is this was the only case of soft tissues found within dinosaur bones but it is not, it is quite common in paleontology.
[1] Schweitzer, Mary & Wittmeyer, Jennifer & Horner, John & Toporski, Jan. (2005). Soft-Tissue Vessels and Cellular Preservation in Tyrannosaurus rex. Science (New York, N.Y.). 307. 1952-5. 10.1126/science.1108397.
[2] Buckley, Michael & Collins, Matthew. (2011). Collagen survival and its use for species identification in Holocene-lower Pleistocene bone fragments from British archaeological and paleontological sites. Antiqua. 1. 10.4081/antiqua.2011.e1.
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Samples of the T. rex blood vessels G and I are compared visually to modern ostrich blood vessels H and J. [1]
Caravaggio, The Conversion of St. Paul, c. 1600-1601
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BISHOP BELLS DINOSAURS
Carlisle Cathedral in the United Kingdom is the final resting place of Bishop Richard Bell. Bell who was laid to rest around the year 1496 AD was buried within the stone floor of the cathedral. Brass strips are inlaid in the floor as a border for his tomb. The strips have various contemporary animals skillfully engraved on them. The animals are easily identified as a bird , a pig, a dog, and even an eel. All of the animals would have easily been identified within the medieval period in which they were engraved. However, there are animals that are curiously out of place and resemble sauropod dinosaurs. The animals are of such detail that they can be identified as possibly vulcanodon and shunosaurus due to the spikes on its tail.
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