The only way to impress me, is by being a good person. I don't care what you have, what you wear, where you live, or what you drive. I just have deep respect for people with pure hearts and good intentions.

Math checks out. Miners chase fees not tribal loyalty. Good sign honestly. Bitcoin doesn’t need everyone to agree, it just needs incentives that hold under pressure. That’s the whole point. View quoted note →

Teach your son to master his impulses, desires, frustration, pride, and anger because his future depends on his ability to control what tries to control him.

Don’t trust, verify. Y’all live by it for money. New song asks why it stops there.

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Someone’s going to say verifying a blockchain and verifying a resurrection aren’t the same kind of proof. Let’s kill that before it lands. Math is immaterial, it’s not made of atoms, yet it governs physical reality perfectly, every time, everywhere, zero exceptions. Nobody’s ever seen the number 7. You’ve only ever seen 7 things. The number itself is abstract and unchanging, the exact properties something needs to be transcendent. Bitcoiners already trust an immaterial mathematical law to secure their entire net worth without blinking. You’ve been living inside a transcendental argument for God this whole time, just calling it rationalism. Historical claims get verified differently than blockchains, and that’s fine, the tool matches the claim. You don’t run a node to confirm Caesar crossed the Rubicon either. You check sources, hostile witnesses, martyrdom, timeline. Same method historians use for every ancient event you already accept without a fight. The resurrection gets held to a standard nothing else in history has to clear. And before problem of evil gets dragged in to change the subject, moral outrage at suffering only makes sense if good and evil are real categories, not chemical preference. You need God’s moral law standing to even file the complaint against Him. Verify the math. Verify the history. Neither one bends for a double standard. #ToChristAlone #Math #DontTrustVerify #AskNostr #Christianity

Every claim to truth needs a standard behind it. Most people borrow one without ever checking if it holds weight. Correspondence theory says something’s true if it matches reality. Fine, but you need to already trust your senses and your reasoning to check the match. Coherence theory says true beliefs fit together logically. But logic itself is the thing under question, you can’t use it to prove itself without going in a circle. Underneath every test for truth sit three things that can’t be tested, only assumed. The laws of logic have to already be true, universal, and unchanging before you can use them to evaluate anything. The uniformity of nature has to hold, tomorrow has to work like today, or no experiment or observation ever proves anything repeatable. And your mind has to actually be aimed at truth rather than just survival, or none of your conclusions can be trusted in the first place. None of those three are provable by empirical testing. You need them true before you can run a test. They’re preconditions, not conclusions.

Gm Nostr

I've realized that some people are addicted to chaos. They'll sabotage anything peaceful. Create problems where there are none. Start fights for no reason. Because drama is all they know. Peace makes them uncomfortable so they destroy it.

Logic. Universal, immaterial, unchanging, binding on every mind that ever existed. Matter isn’t any of those things. If reality is just atoms in motion, where does a law come from that never changes and applies to minds that never agreed to it. Morality. Not the feeling, the obligation. A mechanism can explain why you feel something. It can’t issue a command. “This helped us survive” tells you what worked. It doesn’t tell you what’s owed. Reason itself. Evolution selects for survival, not truth. A false belief that keeps you alive works exactly as well as a true one. So trusting your own argument requires assuming your brain reliably tracks truth, using a process that was never aiming at that in the first place. Fund all three from your own worldview without reaching into someone else’s, and you’ve done what nobody’s managed in two thousand years. #ToChristAlone @Laser @Dikaios1517 ⁤⁣ @freeborn | ἐλεύθερος | 8r0gwg

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Funny thing about this meme. It assumes its own conclusion and then acts smug about it.

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