Post from Phoenix Wallet on X on 4/26/24: “On May 3rd, 2024, @PhoenixWallet will be removed from US app stores. Users from the US should empty their wallet: - Settings > Close channels (Android) - Settings > Drain wallet (iOS) We highly recommend *not force-closing* channels, as on-chain fees could be significant.” #Bitcoin on!

I can’t stand the corruption of Western so called democracies. I love our history of rule of law based on Christian values. We have lost the north star. We need God We need #bitcoin

The story goes that the Rockefellers purposely positioned the statue of Atlas opposite Saint Patrick's Cathedral in New York, symbolizing secular man's burden without divine assistance. In response, the Archbishop, likely Cardinal Hayes, erected a statue of the Infant Jesus of Prague, effortlessly holding the world, representing divine aid. (post and photo from Sachin Jose)

Privacy is normal and good. Privacy is not a crime. Criminalizing privacy in the name of protecting citizens from money laundering is not in the common good because it takes away a fundamental human right to privacy. Tyrannical governments behave this way. View quoted note →

St. Thomas Aquinas’ intuition is that there can never be a conflict between faith and reason, between religion and science. Truth is unified. I love this conclusion. #truth #faith #reason #religion #science

Unlimited fiat, only 21 million #bitcoin  Comment and image credit - Bitcoin Magazine

You, oh God, are my fortress.

3.125 #bitcoin

Open debate is not a threat to real democracy. #freedom #truth

“There's never been a more important time to know who you are and what you stand for.” - by #[1]​ Most people today are empty vessels. They have no strict or well-defined moral code to guide them. Without a clear idea about who they are or what they value - they are extremely vulnerable to having their mind hijacked. That's why someone like Andrew Tate can come along and a few months later this app is full of Tate wannabes renting supercars in Dubai and flaunting money earned from OnlyFans. It's also why a government can make people terrified to leave their homes one day, and happy to protest in droves the next day. Wasn't it weird how a rally for the opposition party was a superspreader event, but a protest for the establishment cause was deemed essential? Without a strong set of values through which to filter reality, people are easily fooled. And ultimately it means their quality of life is determined by whoever is best able to get their message in front of them. Back when people went to church every Sunday, what they were really doing was downloading a shared operating system. A shared set of assumptions about how people behave, which lubricated cooperation and helped maintain functioning societies. But what happens when everyone is running around with different operating systems? What happens when a culture is seeded with contradictory ideas: - Some think private property is evil - Others think taxation is theft - Some think that "pimpin hoes" is the ideal way to live - Others believe in building a strong nuclear family It's a recipe for societal discord. But the pendulum swings back and forth. And we've probably already reached peak relativism. If you look closely, you'll see a revival of religion as the pendulum heads back the other way. People want a well-defined moral code to guide them. Some recognize that religions and ancient philosophies contain wisdom that survived thousands of years for a reason. Many have realized that it's hard to live well when you're inventing a moral code on the fly. As a father, my most important job is to give my son clear guiding principles for living well. He will not grow up to be an empty vessel vulnerable to unhelpful life philosophies. I will provide him with a strong moral code and timeless principles to successfully navigate the world. To do that, I've been forced to audit my own values and beliefs to make sure they are worth passing on. And I now believe this is one of the most valuable exercises anyone could do. Do your beliefs help you navigate this world in a way that ultimately makes you healthy, happy, and prosperous? Are the people whose gave you these beliefs living well? What do you truly value in the first place? We're heading into strange times with the rise of AI and robotics, the failure of the fiat monetary system, and perhaps even the destruction of the nation state as we know it. Taking the time to answer these questions can be the difference between living well, and being buffeted about by the gale-force winds of change.

Thank you to my 100 followers! Honored to be here on #nostr where I can exercise freedom of speech with all of you and not be cancelled.

"Wherever socialism was applied, it failed culturally, socially, economically, and they also murdered millions of human beings...socialism has always been an impoverishing and murderous phenomenon everywhere." -Javier Milei

The best way for #Bitcoin to win is for the community to grow to the point that the fiat system’s monopoly on violence is overcome.

A great perspective on the right to keep and bear arms in a democracy from a Daily Wire article: “A Chinese immigrant who is running for U.S. Congress slammed far-left gun control activist David Hogg this week at gun control debate, telling him that he needed to go to communist China to see what the impacts of total gun control are. Lily Tang Williams, who is running as a Republican in New Hampshire’s 2nd Congressional District, confronted Hogg on Wednesday at Dartmouth University. “I am a Chinese immigrant who survived communism,” she began. “And under Mao, 40 million people were starving to death after he sold the communism to them. And 20 million people died, murdered, during his cultural revolution.” “So my question to you, David, is that can you guarantee me, a gun owner, tonight, our government in the U.S., in D.C., will never, never become a tyrannical government?” she asked. “Can you guarantee that to me?” “There’s no way I can ever guarantee that any government will not be tyrannical,” Hogg admitted. “Well, then the debate on gun control is over because I will never give up my guns,” she responded. “Never. Never. And you should go to China to see how gun control works for dictatorship of the CCP.”

Brazil reportedly censoring certain accounts and hashtags on X. #Nostr fixes this! #freedom

I work hard to create value and save what I can for a better future for me and my loved ones. I save in #bitcoin.

“If a government does not seek the common good of the people it governs, it is unjust and will be as one tyrant” - paraphrased quote from “On Kingship” by Thomas Aquinas

We thank you Lord Jesus Christ for healing our human brokenness and saving us from eternal death away from You. May we all gratefully accept Your invitation to the Easter Feast! “Come you all: Enter into the joy of your Lord. You the first and you the last, receive alike your reward; you rich and you poor, dance together; you sober and you weaklings, celebrate the day; you who have kept the fast and you who have not, rejoice today. The table is richly loaded: Enjoy its royal banquet. The calf is a fatted one: Let no one go away hungry. All of you enjoy the banquet of faith; all of you receive the riches of his goodness. Let no one grieve over his poverty, for the universal kingdom has been revealed; let no one weep over his sins, for pardon has shone from the grave; let no one fear death, for the death of our Savior has set us free: He has destroyed it by enduring it……. O death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory? Christ is risen, and you are abolished. Christ is risen, and the demons are cast down. Christ is risen, and the angels rejoice. Christ is risen, and life is freed. Christ is risen, and the tomb is emptied of the dead: for Christ, being risen from the dead, has become the Leader and Reviver of those who had fallen asleep. To Him be glory and power forever and ever! Amen.” - from the Easter sermon of St John Chrysostom Happy #Easter, #Nostr friends!!

-Defund war -Buy and hold #bitcoin -Resist the political clown class -Remember that you are endowed by your Creator by certain inalienable rights -There is only on King, Christ the King, the Lord God Almighty -Tremble all you evildoers!

The Jesus Trilemma Jesus is either a liar, a lunatic, or is telling the truth: He is God incarnate. He is the Redeemer of mankind. Lord, open my mind and my heart to trust in you. God’s blessings to you and your, #nostr friends!