Can we get better polling on Nostr? Maybe zap-less polls? Or does it have the same kind of problem like view-count? And then I suppose the various different relays used and not used plays a role. There is no global state, after all.
I agree.
But on #Nostr, I wish there were simply one-SAT/one-vote polls or polls zap-less polls to achieve a more accurate count. Should a person have a weighted vote on an opinion poll just because they want to zap more? (And I know you can limit zaps to only one SAT per vote on #Amethyst).
Interesting how similar they look (the 🥑 just has bad acne) 😄
The State is the Health of War
(a brief explanation in an audio clip)
https://fountain.fm/clip/VRt4ReDwYDpGy3cMn4ZF
#voluntarism #anarchism #MakeAmericaFreeAgain
My brother just told me he went to church yesterday–online. I said to him "What if God said that everybody that went to church online will only get to experience heaven online, virtually? What do you think about that?" 😄
Think about that in the context of Jesus' words: "Render unto Caesar..."
"The simple truth that experience has taught us is that the most potent and significant expression of statism is a State educational system. Without it, statism is impossible. With it, the State can, and has, become everything."
–Samuel L. Blumenfeld
👀 "If any single person can claim credit for changing America's social, academic, and ultimately political direction from a #libertarian to a statist one, the credit must go to Horace Mann, for it was Mann who was able to overcome the considerable opposition to statism, while others could not."
"As for the Biblical view of history, the Romantic movement projected a new heroic image of man as conqueror and innovator, and mankind was viewed in a universal sense as one big progressive family. Thus was born the myth of moral progress: the idea that man is always getting morally better and better.
"The prime modern promoter of this idea was the German philosopher Georg Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831), who formulated the dialectical process of human moral progress, a process liberated from the strictures of the Old and New Testaments. He replaced the objectively real God of the Bible with a subjective pantheism in which man is revealed as the highest manifestation of God in the universe. Rational, heroic, perfectible man was thus elevated to godlike status, and his secular state was expected to dispense a justice and equality not to be found in the Scriptures."
"The Calvinists didn't believe that power corrupts man, but that man corrupts power. Man is a sinner by nature and therefore cannot be trusted with power. Only a true fear of God, they believed, can hold sinful man in check."
Interesting, because Lord Acton, a Roman Catholic, famously said "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely." Is this a difference between a Calvinist view of power and a Catholic view? 🤔
"Indeed, public education was to become the socialists' primary instrument for promoting socialism."
"In the long run, it would have been more economical for the towns to pay for the tuition of poor children to attend private schools than for the towns to maintain free schools. So the problem was never one of economics; it was, from the very beginning, philosophical."
"Indeed, public education was to become the socialists' primary instrument for promoting socialism."
"So now we know that as early as 1829, the socialists had adopted covert techniques to further their ends in the United States, techniques that they continued to use for decades."
Converting the more widespread and popular private system of education to a public, i.e., Statist school system was key...
"Why did Americans give up educational freedom so early in their history?"
"Yet, the historical evidence indicates that prior to the introduction of compulsory public education, Americans were probably the most literate people in the world."
Even Jefferson thought the U.S. would be split up in a few different countries and saw it as a good thing. He foresaw that a civil war was coming and I think he would have been appalled at the outcome. Sure slavery was ended, but at the price of self-determination and limited government. And I am certain that the Founders, except for maybe Alexander Hamilton, would have been disappointed at what the U.S. has become. Who isn't?
Such an alliance seems logical to me, when faced with a belligerent foe like the United States.
Yes, and the Master also said: "Therefore don’t worry about tomorrow, because tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." (Matthew 6:34)