> "The State seeks to hinder every free activity by its censorship, its supervision, its police; and holds this hindering to be its duty, because it is in truth a duty of self-preservation."
Max Stirner, *The Ego and His Own* (1845)
I do appreciate the limitations the anti-federalists added to it.
And this same gangsterment, as you put it, continues to "classify" documents to keep "The People," who allegedly govern, from actually knowing what they are up to.
The JFK files are a case in point. Why continue to classify them even 60 years after the fact? Everyone involved is dead now. Even George H. W. Bush can't be prosecuted for his role in it. What is the fear, that they will go after his son, George W.? He has his own crimes to pay for (9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc.) They must be protecting the institution; it lives on and does not die. If "The People" knew what the CIA was up to and responsible for they would want it abolished. But ultimately the U.S. gangsterment itself is responsible.
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I used to be a Constitutionalist, until I realized Spooner was right:
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The Anti-Federalists lost the political battle, and the US Constitution was adopted, but some of us are still around...
#antifederalist The US #GovtIsTheProblem
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This would be great if it were true. Actually, the Constitution enabled the U.S. government to act on individual citizens. Prior to that, the national government didn't have this power, it could only act on the States. And only a State could act on it's citizens. But now, a new layer of national government could tax a citizen, put them on trial, imprison them, draft them into the military, etc.
Wealthy men of property like George Washington didn't like what they saw with Shay's Rebellion and with Congress not having the power to tax, so they wanted the week federal government that did exist at the time to have more power over citizens and the States.
So the Constitution was actually written to empower the U.S. Govt, because the Federalists thought it was too weak. But to get it approved they had to put in some ostensible restraints on it, referred to by James Madison as mere "parchment barriers," which history has proven them to be...
#voluntarism #GovtIsTheProblem
I know this also the Nostrich, but here's another possibility from https://github.com/mbarulli/nostr-logo/ :
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I think the button should have a Nostr icon, though, either this one or another:
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War Veteran and burn victim shatters fundraising record for U.S. Senate run...
https://thenevadaglobe.com/articles/captain-sam-brown-shatters-fundraising-records-in-senate-bid/
#news #newstr
He'll probably get elected to the U.S. Senate, too
Excellent admonition, brother, I love anecdotes! If sometimes I forget to pray before I begin to eat I will recite Psalm 103:1
"Bless the Lord, O my soul,
and all that is within me,
bless His holy name!"
But pray tell, dost thou always pray like a Pilgrim? 😄
I get it that even if you see the Gospel as foolishness you wouldn't want to be identified with the "perishing" either...
https://pca.st/episode/b46309c1-c103-4f5d-9256-ebfd48fb8e58
Fascinating.
I do see a disturbing trend though. I forget the time stamp, but Jeff (who is one of my favorite thinkers in this space, just brilliant) discusses the “Jeff AI bot” he is building to help make company decisions and same time. Like a “mini Jeff booth”. It attends meetings, takes notes, looks like Jeff.
Creepy enough. But probably common in near future.
Then they discuss how the models will make our mini me AIs more and more like us. After 20 years, they will almost be us. Then they discuss when we die, our families will have a “copy of us” to
ask questions to, talk with. Forever.
They discuss that, without mentioning that it is…crazy, creepy, unhumam, wrong?
Bizarre.
We are not our knowledge. We are not our ideas. We are not our image. We are body/souls (must have both to be human) made in the image of God. We are physical, corporeal. It’s why God took in a body to save us. We die, but we were not made to die. We will live forever with Him, and He has risen from the dead, and all will rise one day.
AI bots are NOT us. Not even close. Even if it looks, talks and thinks like you. Just 1s and 0s. That ain’t you. I fear the Christian truth of what it means to be human is getting lost in the conversations. And when Jeff mentions this I realized many people might be starting to get comfy with insane ideas.
We are going to be dealing with some crazy stuff very soon. Let’s not get lost in the false promises. Live forever on the chip? No, no, no.
"Living" forever on the chip would be a sad substitute for the eternal life promised by Christ.
“For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but it is the power of God to us who are being saved.”
https://ref.ly/1Co1.18 via the Logos #Bible Android app.