Today I got an anonymous and big donation!

The community here is so beautiful! Proud to be part of this!!

What do you guys want from a relay? Faster, more available (no down time), keeping the old notes, keeping spam lower...

Meta (Zuck) realizes that some decentralization is needed to be relevant in the future. Because of this, they are integrating Threads into the fediverse. This will continue to eat away at Twitter's relevance and overall user base. To compete, X Corp (Elon) should consider integrating Twitter with a decentralized protocol too. Twitter should integrate with Nostr. I believe this would help Twitter maintain it's social dominance over Threads. Nostr is the superior decentralized and censorship resistant protocol. Integrations with Nostr will benefit existing communication platforms. It's inevitable.

Gm, have a nice saturday

Good morning 🫂☕️🫡☀️☀️☀️

GM!

Have a lovely one Huw 💜

good morning you beautiful people 🌞

love you ❤️

Here’s my friend Paolo’s Lightning address. He’s a Bitcoiner who did not know about the Lightning Network.

please send some love.

He has a sexy Lightning address, btw 😂😂

stackedcorn73@walletofdatoshi.com

A few thoughts:

His statement "We lose down here" seems heavy with fatigue. And I am burdened with him. The past few years were hard and all the more for a man who courageously stood against the torrent but did so largely alone (while most Big Eva guys buckled or *winsomed* their way through the storm).

That being said, the sentiment is true in one sense but not in another. It is true in the sense that in war, there are many losses and there are plenty of examples of defeat throughout Scripture. America and/or the West may only descend further until it is in utter moral and physical ruin. But that is not the same thing as "we lose down here" and all we, the Church, ever do or can do is lose. This perspective flows from a deeper eschatological view that is out of sync with the arc of Scripture. The arc of Scripture is one of victory, transformation, and ultimately a complete renewal of heaven and earth.

"They killed Jesus, they killed all the apostles, we are all going to be persecuted."

This likewise is true but only half true. Christ was the grand conspirator behind the conspirators. His death was entirely in his control. And upon his death, he bound the strong man. He put the spiritual powers to open shame. He broke the spiritual order of the ancient world and is now seated on his throne, reigning with a name above every name. He is King and he will not be mocked. The picture we get of his kingdom is not one of a bang and then a whimper, but of an ever-growing, ever-expanding, unstoppable force. The gates of Hell will not overpower it.

One obvious evidence of this is that there are more Christians in the world now than ever before.

MacArthur also seems to have a flat view of postmillennialism. There are a number of shades within that camp. And his speaking of postmillennialism and the prosperity gospel in the same breath is dissengenuous. They are not at all the same. You listen to Doug, Jim Jordan, or any of the promenant post mil guys and you won't find men who are under the impression that we will *waltz into the kingdom*. You more often find men who hold a shovel in one hand and a sword in the other. Listen to Brian Sauve and the guys at The Kings Hall podcast and you will hear them say that building a new Christendom is generational work.

There are ditches that posfmil folks fall into but it is certainly more robust and biblical a position than he makes it out to be.

Happy to engage further on this if you have push back or follow up thoughts.

I've not used them myself but you may find bitrefill.com and the Breez app (breez.technology) useful.

What do you think he is right about, specifically?

You might be interested in reading Paradise Restored by David Chilton

I agree about JMac...I don't want him to be right, but I think Scripture does bear that out. This is an age of victory through witness in the face of persecution, not some political kind of geopolitical conquest.

Theologically I'm pretty decidedly amil; I think the theonomists / theocrats suffer from an overrealized eschatology (Wilson included). I think the growth (multiplication and purification) of the church in this age doesn't look the way most Chritians (especially American) wish it would.

We have a case *as humans* for natural law and liberty, grounds for resisiting tyranny, but I don't think the ground of that battle is particularly Christian.

Not sure if that answers your question, but there it is. 🤙🏼