We weren’t trained to want agreement, we’re built for it, and the (algo) machine just found the vein. Blaming the tech lets the appetite walk when the appetite was always the enemy. So what’s actually left to say for Nostr. Not that it beats the trap, but that it makes the trap yours. On an algo platform the convergence hides itself, and because you never see what got filtered out it never feels like your fault. Here you built the filter by hand, so the clustering is legible and it lands on you. It doesn’t free you from wanting agreement, it just kills the deniability. Whether you’re sitting in an echo chamber becomes something you can watch yourself choose.

What’s the point of posting if all you do is confirm what people already believe? Best case, we make each other think.

Tolerance is not a Christian virtue. Clowns presenting “Ted Talks” in circus tents turned the whole faith into being agreeable. Affirm everything, offend no one, and call the whole arrangement love. But love that can’t hate anything isn’t love. Romans says abhor what is evil and hold fast to what is good. You don’t get to keep half and throw out the rest. The church got soft because it confused being nice with being righteous. A man who loves his kids hates what would destroy them. Nobody calls that intolerance. They call it being a father. Romans 12:9

Bitcoin’s down 50% from the high and the internet is busy writing the obituary again. The people selling never owned it. They rented exposure through an ETF and ran the second the Fed stopped being nice. Four billion out of those funds in June, worst month the product has ever had. Meanwhile the guys buying paid more than where it’s trading today. On purpose. New episode is up. It’s about who actually sold this month and who quietly took the coins off their hands at a discount. And why nothing happened to bitcoin even though the price got cut in half. https://fountain.fm/episode/1UvDCCXdFotjt6Q8QgzU

the strong hands just got a whole lot of cheap coins from a whole lot of scared men in suits

Gm Purpleverse. Fun fact… those who like my posts are happier, more intelligent and better looking than those who don't; according to a study Imade up. 😂

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The blue checkmark says verified. It never once said honest. “We live in the container culture, which despises the content.” —Galeano

If men wrote the Bible to control other men, they did a terrible job. They forgot to write themselves a loophole. The kings come out guilty. The priests come out as the ones who killed Him. The heroes are liars and adulterers and cowards, and it’s all left in. Men write scripture to win. To say their tribe is chosen, their leaders are blessed, their enemies are damned. This book says you can’t earn it. Your best works are filthy rags. The proud get nothing. The gift goes to the people who bring nothing. You don’t invent a religion where you can’t save yourself. That’s not man reaching up. That’s God reaching down. #ToChristAlone

Somewhere we decided that agreeing with someone and liking them were the same thing. They're not. Most people just turn it into a loyalty test. You pick a side, and then you need everyone around you to pick it too, and the ones who don't get quietly moved into the enemy column. Used to be you could go at it hard with a man and still buy him a beer after. The fight was about the idea, not about whether he had a right to breathe your air. 🍻

History is full of ordinary men burying ordinary men over ideas they never created, while the architects of the conflict rarely pay the price. Don't let someone else's thirst for power become your reason to hate your neighbor.

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being like everybody is the same as being nobody. Don’t be like everybody. But still be a nobody.