Oh and the cyberpandemic "event" - let's not forget
Possible 2024 bingo card.
- Epstein list limited hangout.
- Pearl clutching as if they didn't know.
- Pivot to "we must protect the children" - bipartisan
- "Pedos hide behind cryptography and online anonymity."
- "only criminals care about privacy"
- Digital ID. All KYC all the time.
- Social credit.
They never stopped the Total Information Awareness project.
/scene
I WAS PROMISED "NO MORE MALARKEY"
AND YET I AM SURROUNDED BY
AND SUBMERGED IN
MALARKEY
reinstalling via command line took about two minutes:
`sudo ./home/umbrel/umbrel/scripts/app reinstall nextcloud`
had to `chmod 775 data` in order to see the data directory where user files live
...but now I cannot `scp -r` all the files from the backup location because backup files have wrong ownership. `chown www-data...` didn't work. Drag and drop via the web ui also didn't work. I'm out of time to troubleshoot this, but hope this helps someone else out there get a little bit closer.
#umbrel
gm #plebchain #coffeechain
terrible headache this morning but I'm alive and that's a good
...*still* uninstalling!? ...something is broken. Ugh. #umbrel
I don't mean to belittle music, but to acknowledge the wonder of the ordered (mathematical) world. The "music of the spheres" is orderly, their "cosmic dance" is mathematically precise, their paths are unique and beautiful, he repeated patterns in nature (like fractals, fibonacci, etc) "sing" in a sense. I'm fascinated too at the math involved in scales on stringed instruments, etc.
I know that no one, when moved by beauty, is compelled to jot down an equation to express themselves--no, we burst out into song (LOL).
I hear what you're saying. But also...have you seen [Donald in Mathmagic Land](https://youtu.be/hl6JDv4ZG7U?feature=shared)...?
🤙🏼
umbrel has been "uninstalling" NextCloud for about 30 mins or more now
ooooooof I got stuff to do man
Not happening tonight, I guess. What a hassle.
No kidding! Well, very cool to know and good to meet you. I should have signed up under a nym but I'm too far down the path now I think. Besides, I'm probably already on all the naughty lists anyway.
#umbrel [NextCloud broke after update to 25.0.1](https://community.umbrel.com/t/nextcloud-broke-after-25-0-1-upgrade/10657/40?page=2) << has steps to fix. Buckle up, though, if you have a lot of files. You have to back them up via ssh, reinstall NextCloud, then restore the files manually. I'm only halfway through, still need to restore the users, then their files. Then pull in everything we have on Amazon, Apple, Dropbox, Google, and OneDrive and cut them off from harvesting our data. #FullExit
umbrel has been "uninstalling" NextCloud for about 30 mins or more now
ooooooof I got stuff to do man
Not often enough! 😂
I remember joining gab early on for about 2 mins then nope'd the heck off when I saw what I saw. Wowza.
Have you ever read the [Westminster Confession of Faith](https://opc.org/wcf.html)? Specifically, chapter 31 "[Of Synods and Councils](https://opc.org/wcf.html#Chapter_31)," reads:
>All synods or councils, since the Apostles’ times, whether general or particular, may err; and many have erred. Therefore they are not to be made the rule of faith, or practice; but to be used as a help in both.
Instead, the "rule of faith" is Scripture itself--it carries the authority of its Author. Regarding your point about maintaining "the faith once delivered" (with which we would wholeheartedly agree--we "agonize" for it!) it's not that we move away from or go beyond that faith, but our understanding of those doctrines matures over time--we go "deeper in," so to speak--especially in the face of controversy. The intent is to further refine not the truth itself, but our understanding (and expression) of it, i.e., in our creeds and confessions. When a proposition is imperfect it allows false teaching--we then refine the proposition to say "Oh, we mean this--and not that." These documents give us a rallying point for voluntary association, for summarizing and teaching the faith, and for propagation of the message, while plowing with others "of like faith and practice." This actually protects congregations from tyranny (where every pastor is a pope!) because we can point to an external (secondary) standard and say "no: we don't believe that, not here." Leaders can thus be held accountable (think Paul's exhortation to the Ephesian elders in Acts 20).
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I remember reading about the filioque controversy, thinking how sad it was that much of it seemed to be merely a difference in emphasis on who or what (technically, how many) "principia" there are in God. As a triune being, one God existing eternally in three persons, this is bound to cause difficulty--mysteries are not puzzles to be solved. The EO wanted to emphasize God's oneness (a single principium), while the West wanted to affirm the full deity of the Son "with the Father" (which means two principia). I can see the reasoning in both emphases. The East (it seems to me) found this overly intellectual and retreated to "God cannot be known, but he can be loved," and the West went the other way ("how can we love a God we cannot not know?").
For my part, I believe in the perspicuity (clarity) of God's Word--that he is able to speak to us in a language we can understand (with the above caveat), with the purpose that we *know* the truth in its fullness (as the Spirit was given "to lead us into all truth") and on the basis of texts like Deut. 29:29. We say that we can know God as he is "pro nobis" (as he has revealed himself to us in Scripture and in the Son), though we cannot know him "in se" (as he is in himself--apart from what he has 'voluntarily condescended' to reveal to us). Just to wrap up: sola scriptura does not mean solo scriptura: we read the Scriptures "with the church," but the doctrinal statements themselves are of 'secondary' status and can be refined, corrected, etc. -- though the Scriptures cannot be (see WCF chapter I "[Of the Holy Scripture](https://opc.org/wcf.html#Chapter_01)" if you'd like to dig a little deeper into what the Western, Reformed & Protestants confess.
I don't know anyone IRL who is in the EO church, so I (again) appreciate this dialogue.
sorry for weird formatting at the end (at least on amethyst) must have accidentally triggered a markdown thing
Have you ever read the [Westminster Confession of Faith](https://opc.org/wcf.html)? Specifically, chapter 31 "[Of Synods and Councils](https://opc.org/wcf.html#Chapter_31)," reads:
>All synods or councils, since the Apostles’ times, whether general or particular, may err; and many have erred. Therefore they are not to be made the rule of faith, or practice; but to be used as a help in both.
Instead, the "rule of faith" is Scripture itself--it carries the authority of its Author. Regarding your point about maintaining "the faith once delivered" (with which we would wholeheartedly agree--we "agonize" for it!) it's not that we move away from or go beyond that faith, but our understanding of those doctrines matures over time--we go "deeper in," so to speak--especially in the face of controversy. The intent is to further refine not the truth itself, but our understanding (and expression) of it, i.e., in our creeds and confessions. When a proposition is imperfect it allows false teaching--we then refine the proposition to say "Oh, we mean this--and not that." These documents give us a rallying point for voluntary association, for summarizing and teaching the faith, and for propagation of the message, while plowing with others "of like faith and practice." This actually protects congregations from tyranny (where every pastor is a pope!) because we can point to an external (secondary) standard and say "no: we don't believe that, not here." Leaders can thus be held accountable (think Paul's exhortation to the Ephesian elders in Acts 20).
~~~
I remember reading about the filioque controversy, thinking how sad it was that much of it seemed to be merely a difference in emphasis on who or what (technically, how many) "principia" there are in God. As a triune being, one God existing eternally in three persons, this is bound to cause difficulty--mysteries are not puzzles to be solved. The EO wanted to emphasize God's oneness (a single principium), while the West wanted to affirm the full deity of the Son "with the Father" (which means two principia). I can see the reasoning in both emphases. The East (it seems to me) found this overly intellectual and retreated to "God cannot be known, but he can be loved," and the West went the other way ("how can we love a God we cannot not know?").
For my part, I believe in the perspicuity (clarity) of God's Word--that he is able to speak to us in a language we can understand (with the above caveat), with the purpose that we *know* the truth in its fullness (as the Spirit was given "to lead us into all truth") and on the basis of texts like Deut. 29:29. We say that we can know God as he is "pro nobis" (as he has revealed himself to us in Scripture and in the Son), though we cannot know him "in se" (as he is in himself--apart from what he has 'voluntarily condescended' to reveal to us). Just to wrap up: sola scriptura does not mean solo scriptura: we read the Scriptures "with the church," but the doctrinal statements themselves are of 'secondary' status and can be refined, corrected, etc. -- though the Scriptures cannot be (see WCF chapter I "[Of the Holy Scripture](https://opc.org/wcf.html#Chapter_01)" if you'd like to dig a little deeper into what the Western, Reformed & Protestants confess.
I don't know anyone IRL who is in the EO church, so I (again) appreciate this dialogue.
#umbrel [NextCloud broke after update to 25.0.1](https://community.umbrel.com/t/nextcloud-broke-after-25-0-1-upgrade/10657/40?page=2) << has steps to fix. Buckle up, though, if you have a lot of files. You have to back them up via ssh, reinstall NextCloud, then restore the files manually. I'm only halfway through, still need to restore the users, then their files. Then pull in everything we have on Amazon, Apple, Dropbox, Google, and OneDrive and cut them off from harvesting our data. #FullExit
People too often think 'sola scriptura' means 'solo scriptura' -- it doesn't. It simply means that Scripture is its own highest authority, and no institution has a lock on its interpretation--every institution is subject to correction. As a Reformed Protestant, we look to our "secondary standards" which catalogue what the church has understood scriptures to teach on various loci (subjects) -- but that standard is subject to correction, refinement, development. This is based on the idea that -- though all things in Scripture are not equally plain, what is necessary to be known for salvation is plain enough to be understood by a child, and that -- "by the due use of ordinary means" (that is, reading, study, thinking, arguing/debating/discussing) we can come to understand the more difficult passages. But even behind that, we believe Scripture is given specifically "that we might know" the truth about God (see, e.g., Deut. 29:29). I agree that the many schisms in church history are saddening--but I prefer that to tyrannical, centralized church power (i.e., Rome). I appreciate your thoughtful response and would welcome further discussion. And--I appreciate that we can at the very least celebrate the Apostle's creed together! #credo
I'm not sure -- the long and short of it is that the young Kirk was a rebel, trouble-maker, in trouble with the law. They tried to lock him down, but he pulls out an old gas-powered muscle car (or was it a motor cycle, I can't remember now) -- point is that "they" couldn't remotely shut down his mode of transportation...pretty prescient.
...you've never seen Donald in Mathmagic land, my friend! I beg to differ but that's cool. Both math and music are Divine Artistry, IMHO.
And music is math is music
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