It’s no caricature….it literally describes 80 percent of my relatives and the “born again” communities they live in.

They are not bad people. But they bend the gospel (or even break it) to meet their conditioned needs of defending “the empire”. (Not their words obviously)

Many are beginning to “wake up”. Alleluia 🙏🏻😌

“There are many in the church that are not ‘of God’. And many ‘of God’ that are not not in the Church”

- St Augustine (3rd century)

“There are many amongst us that say to me ‘Lord Lord’ but I tell you truthfully will not see the Kingdom of God”

- Jesus (1st Century 😉)

Bitcoin bears are still seething on Twitter 😂😂😂

People often assume that whoever their god is, that it is standing with them specifically. In the US, they often separate this view along party lines.

Conservatives to some extent imagine Jesus standing with them on the border with a rifle protecting Christendom against anarchy. Even if many of those immigrants are ::checks notes:: also Christians. If a "woke" bishop calls for compassion on immigrants and is not a fan of the twice-divorced President who can't name his favorite bible chapter and forgot to put his hand on the bible when being sworn in, she's somehow the baddie rather than him, even among Christians.

Progressives to some extent imagine Jesus walking around in Gaza or Haiti or Sudan attending to the least advantaged among us. He shuns the empire and tends to them. And yet, while Jesus called for pacifism and was a rhetorical saint among chill speakers, many of them find a way to mentally turn extremists into heroes. Anything the underdog society does against the dominant society is justified. Even if it's violent toward civilians. In our media rebels are cool, but in reality they often like to kill the gays or the civilians, so it gets awkward pretty fast rather than being like the cool Star Wars rebels vs the Empire.

I find myself in a weird camp that almost nobody is onboard with.

I'm like, "Yes, we actually need to secure our borders. We need to be more scrutinizing for our society's sake. We need slower, higher-end immigration. And we actually need to enforce the rule of law for theft on the streets."

But also,

"No, I don't think Jesus of Nazareth as depicted in text would be onboard with this border view. He'd view us like Rome. Let's not re-imagine him as onboard with this. We're rooting for ourselves; he'd root for the underdogs."

I'm too woke for the conservatives and too based for the progressives.

The US was involved with multiple coups in Latin America. We ran the reserve currency and tried to bend them to our will with their dollar-denominated debt 40 years ago by spiking the value of that debt. Some of them went into retarded socialism and rekt themselves throughout that time period too; it's not all our fault. But it's some of our fault.

And then we militarily entered the Middle East. We made deals with them, funded them against the Soviets, and then turned against them. We've invaded them at like a 100:1 ratio vs them invading us with one major incidence (9/11). And as much as I am a fan of Jews as a people (as someone who grew up in Northeastern USA where Jews are relatively dense, I'd happily have them settle all around here), Israel is a state is colonial; our western powers displaced Gazans to make it and have been fighting that reality ever since.

We're Rome. And like Rome, we think we are justified. And along those lines, we're probably partially right, and probably partially wrong.

When you take a view, imagine every possible view opposing it.

And as the US dominates as neo-Rome, I think we will realize how distant we are from Jesus the hippie.

Well hello, Nostr,

I’m PGA golf professional and a Bitcoin enthusiast. I am totally new to the Nostr community! Looking forward to discussing a combo of golf, bitcoin, and technology. #golf #bitcoin #nostr #introductions

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My dad is the same way. I’m not yet “successful” by his measure (nor my own) … he has been sure to let me know his feelings on my decision to go all-in as a bitcoin maxi.

He has also tried to wrest control of my outcome by stating, “As I’ve said all along, you’re either going to get very rich or be very poor.”

He actively chastised me at $16k, told me to sell everything because it was going to zero. I didn’t. I stacked harder.

Fathers and their impact on their kids. Profound in one way or the other.

Bitwise had the best Bitcoin ETF commercial.

THE MOST INTERESTING MAN.

Unfortunately, they were in it for the money.

To be expected. The Crypto Attack Vector is REALLY going to amp up this cycle.

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If my father was alive he would have conceded that i was indeed successful.

But he wouldn’t have like the way in which i was successful.

To him it would have been “the wrong way”

lol Imagine thinking there’s a right and a wrong way.

Millions of people think like this.

GN

as an American, i take my responsibility to insult foreign politicians who arrest their citizens for insulting them quite seriously.

I made it to activate my wallet and have some sats in it. Anyone wants to try a transaction to see how it works? I’m new here #asknostr

Hate to break it to you but we will all very soon have singularity. Elon is already putting computer chips in people’s heads. They will become the internet. You understand that right? Their brain will become AI. They won’t have access to the internet they WILL be the internet. You won’t be able to out think them. You’ll have two choices. Become one or die. Everyone that does put the chip on their head will become one person. They will all share the same “brain”. When AI guys talk about singularity that’s what they mean. You won’t need a phone or smart glasses. You’ll be able to see inside any structure, be able to access any camera, satellite, etc. You also won’t be human.

Okay so is Ross the first Trillionaire (in fiat and bitcoin terms).

Read that his dormant wallet holds over 47 million bitcoin. That’s 47X more than Satoshis wallet(s).

What’s this news - #asknostr

People that don’t clean up their dog’s poop are the scum of the earth… mentally ill

Folks who got in at this point post-halving in 2017 experienced a crazy 20x over the following 8 months.

Conversely, folks who got in at this point post-halving in 2021 pretty much entered at the top of that cycle.

Where are we headed this cycle? Only time will tell.

Our account on X has just been suspended.

We're moving to Nostr as our a primary source of information during the conference, until further notice.

The way I feel now, fuck X. Never going back there.

This is shaping up to be a hugely successful conference, tickets are basically sold out, we have some two of the largest political parties involved with senior leaders participating, there's huge excitement...

...and two days before the conference, we kicked off from Elon's pet project, for undetermined reasons.

I can say whatever I fucking want to and no one can stop me, and anyone, anywhere in the world can read it unfiltered and unmediated by corporations, institutions, or governments.

People really don’t understand that this is the first time in human history this is really possible and how big of a deal it really is.

From this alone, another world becomes possible. One where the radical power of truth-speaking electrifies itself as the spark that initiates real thought and the possibilities that entails.

The mRNA platform is not a vaccine, and cancer is not a virus.

Something really dark is happening.