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...welp, the ARB bumber just paid for itself. Just hit an idiot deer. Hardly a scratch, would have been near a thousand to repair without it. Praise the Lord. A good decision. (stock photo)

"Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods" -- H. L. Mencken

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GM. I've basically lost interest in all things bitcoin since the Blake-whatever fork. IMO, the bitcoin of the whitepaper, the one that Ammous wrote about--that digital "incarnation" of sound, 'Austrian' monetary principle, that Hayekian dream of a 'sly, roundabout way' of separating money and State--has become zombified. It's a gollem. The borg has it. School me if you disagree, but know that I'm wise to the ways of Thiel and his 'dark enlightenment' and will hold no quarter. If you don't mind sharing what you've done or are doing, I'm looking for ideas. it seems to me like there's only one real principled option, but I'm looking for wisdom from 'a multitude of counselors' before making my final moves. DMs on 0xChat or some other thing like that are fine if you'd rather not publicize. Have a great day. #EndTheFed

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OK GN

OK I'm going to go ahead and post this because why not. Martin Luther's 95 Theses:

Martin Luther: Ninety-five Theses (Latin) - Christian Classics Ethereal Library

Still true today. Happy Reformation Day.

Any one of these doctrines should be enough to reject the Roman-Papist denomination: - 11th century - indulgences - that you could pay money or perform some act to reduce the sentence of "purgatory" - 12th century - "implicit faith" (Lat., fides implicita) - that you don't have to personally understand (and personally hold as true) the doctrines of Christianity, as long as you are "in communion with the learned" - 13th century - transubstantiation - that by priestly magic the bread and the wine of the Eucharist are turned into the actual body and actual blood of Jesus (yet without looking, feeling, smelling, tasting, or feeling like flesh and blood) - 16th century - justification by faith AND works, or by "faith formed by love" which is fancy-talk for faithfulness = obedience = works (have you even read the Bible, bro) - 19th century - papal infallibility - that whoever gets elected as Pope is infallible (i.e., has the same amount of credibility and authority as the Scriptures themselves) in all matters pertaining to the faith (yikes too bad they contradicted themselves again and again) - 19th century - the immaculate conception of Mary - that, because Christ could not come into contact with sinfulness, Mary herself, who bore him, had to first be sinless (yet by this same argument wouldn't Mary's mother have to be sinless? ad infinitum - zero mention of this in Scripture) - 20th century - purgatory - the heresy that Christ did NOT actually suffer once for all time for all the sins of his elect, and we need to "top off" the suffering by spending thousands of years in purgatory--but that the Roman priests can, at will, "reduce our sentence" (have you even read the Bible, bro) - 20th century - the assumption of Mary - mentioned in Scripture in precisely zero verses ...and so many more. The Roman magisterium coming up with new doctrines was (and is) like a bored congress coming up with new legislation to extract more taxes from its people and attempt to justify its existence.

AD FONTES

Martin Luther was not a "schismatic," he was excommunicated. Then people read the Scriptures for themselves ("trust but verify," anyone?) and saw that he was right. Then power structures that kept people enslaved for centuries fell. "Do you have a coin for Christ?" "When a coin in the coffer clinks, a soul from purgatory springs" ? Of course he protested. And we still do. --- Imagine if some institution kept the blockchain to themselves and said "oh it's too complicated for you to verify your own transactions" etc. Whoever broke the blockchain out of that so everyone could access it would be a hero. --- Luther open-sourced Christianity. Of course the power- and money-hungry tyrants kicked him out. And what an amazing turn of Providence that the Gutenberg press was available just before this happened--"so all the world may know." Happy Reformation Day, all. Read the Word of God in your own language--and then give a nod of respect to a Protestant.

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RIP my winning streak, this one almost got me @Pete Winn - appreciate this little bit of fun / brain-challenge each day, thanks again View quoted note →

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