Knowing a thing and being told a thing are different and most people can’t tell which. Reformed Christian, Nostr class of 23, I think
Host of The ContraCast Podcast
https://fountain.fm/show/XRuDwbnAzVdjjchD4Veq
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.
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