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nostr is a pub, but this pub has soapboxes that people (such as myself) may mount from time to time and that's cool with me cheers

I think we need to bump Francis Schaeffer. People have forgotten how to think.

"All things are what they are because of their place in the mind and purpose of their Creator." ~ Van Til Translation: ESSENCE PRECEDES EXISTENCE. Contra Sartre, Heidegger, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, de Beauvoir, and their ilk: there are norms of being and action that pre-exist our subjective existence. To reject this is the essence of anti-theism. Might as well reject gravity or one's need for oxygen because "I choose not to participate in that system!" I understand why this might rub the voluntarists in the wrong way. But let's distinguish. Voluntarism is socio-politico-economic (on the horizontal plane between man and man)--not METAPHYSICAL (on the vertical plane between God and man). We can choose with whom we do business and enter into contracts with. But we may not choose what we are by nature. "A leopard cannot change his spots." Voluntarism also borrows the capital of this historic Worldview by appealing to such concepts as self-ownership and private property. Those are--like it or not--inherited from the "old" Western philosophy. You can't plug up the fountain and still expect to drink from its streams...

No. Someone edited the Bible to teach something contrary to its original meaning. Reject this revision to stay true to the Bible. HT: the Protestant Reformation Core v30 was the attack. BIP110 is the 'Reformation'. View quoted note →

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Church picnic today and I'm happy to report there were enough deviled eggs.

Is it godly or ungodly to rejoice over the death of a force for evil in the world? Discuss: View quoted note →

GN The Nostr

AI is bad for bitcoin.

So what are we going to do with all these 1 TB SSDs now that the bitcoin-block-bloaters have the upper hand? Too bad they can't be somehow linked together to act as "one" 2TB SSD for a bitcoin node. ...or can they? I don't want to spend $250 for a 2TB NVMe SSD just to keep one of my X number of nodes operational. 🙄

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bad news: installing a windows-11 VM on my laptop via qemu so I can help my wife restore her iTunes/iPad.. good news: ...because she's on a Ubuntu machine and we have no Windows devices in this house I can handle that

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TEMPUS FUGIT so "REDEEM THE TIME for the days are evil"

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