Oh noble princes and sirs, how long will you suffer your lands and your people to be the prey of these ravening wolves? Martin Luther - Comcerning Christian Liberty

“Onwards! it is now the time to act; and what signifies self, if a single spark of that which would be worthy of the past can be bequeathed unquenchably to the future? It is not one man, nor a million, but the spirit of liberty which must be spread. The waves which dash on the shore are, one by one, broken; but yet the ocean conquers nevertheless. It overwhelms the armada; it wears the rock; and if the Neptunians are to be believed, it has not only destroyed but made a world.” At Naples, in the Romagna, wherever he saw a spark of noble life stirring, he was ready for any exertion; or danger, to blow it into a flame. He stigmatized baseness, hypocrisy, and injustice, whencesoever they sprang. “Yet, Freedom! yet, thy banner torn, but flying, Streams, like the thunder-storm, against the wind: Thy trumpet voice, though broken now and dying, The loudest still the tempest leaves behind. The tree hath lost its blossoms, and the rind, Chopped by the axe, looks rough and little worth, But the sap lasts—and still the seed we find Sown deep, even in the bosom of the North, So shall a better spring less bitter fruit bring forth.” Giuseppe Mazzini Byron and Goethe #Philosophy #grownostr .

It would be more endurable if they did nothing but rob us of our property; but they destroy the Church and deprive Christ’s flock of their good shepherds, and overthrow the service and word of God. - Martin Luther

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Address to the Christian Nobility

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Woe for me, woe! Again the agony— Dread pain that sees the future all too well With ghastly preludes whirls and racks my soul. Behold ye—yonder on the palace roof The spectre-children sitting—look, such things As dreams are made on, phantoms as of babes, Horrible shadows - Cassandra (Aeschylus's Agamemnon) #Philosophy #grownostr .

Far along the world-wide whisper of the south-wind rushing warm, With the standards of the peoples plunging thro’ the thunder-storm; Till the war-drum throbb’d no longer, and the battle-flags were furl’d In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world. There the common sense of most shall hold a fretful realm in awe, And the kindly earth shall slumber, lapt in universal law. So I triumph’d ere my passion sweeping thro’ me left me dry, Left me with the palsied heart, and left me with the jaundiced eye; Eye, to which all order festers, all things here are out of joint, Science moves, but slowly slowly, creeping on from point to point: Slowly comes a hungry people, as a lion creeping nigher, Glares at one that nods and winks behind a slowly-dying fire. Yet I doubt not thro’ the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widen’d with the process of the suns. What is that to him that reaps not harvest of his youthful joys, Tho’ the deep heart of existence beat for ever like a boy’s? Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more. Locksley Hall Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809—1892) #ThroughTheBibleInOneYear #Christian #Bible #grownostr .

Old school npub/nsec from Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland 1583 AD Every ship had delivered two bullets or scrolls, the one sealed up in wax, the other left open; in both which were included several watchwords. That open, serving upon our own coast or the coast of Ireland; the other sealed, was promised on all hands not to be broken up until we should be clear of the Irish coast; which from thenceforth did serve until we arrived and met all together in such harbours of the Newfoundland as were agreed for our rendez-vous. The said watchwords being requisite to know our consorts whensoever by night, either by fortune of weather, our fleet dispersed should come together again; or one should hail another; or if by ill watch and steerage one ship should chance to fall aboard of another in the dark. The reason of the bullet sealed was to keep secret that watchword while we were upon our own coast, lest any of the company stealing from the fleet might bewray the same; which known to an enemy, he might board us by night without mistrust, having our own watchword.

To pass from theological and philosophical truth to the truth of civil business; it will be acknowledged even by those that practise it not, that clear and round dealing is the honor of man’s nature; and that mixture of falsehood is like alloy in coin of gold and silver, which may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it. Francis Bacon On Truth #Philosophy #grownostr .

#[0] Does Cash App support LNURL Addresses for NOSTR?

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Thoughts on Ordinals... as one that runs a full node, I don't want bloat either. We have signed up for a blockchain that has deemed 4MB blocks every 10 minutes to be acceptable. Besides not being at a point on the adoption curve where blockspace is at a premium, what is more disappointing, is the content that we as a human race in 2023 have decided to stuff into a blockchain, that we all hope will be around for hundreds of years. Our "Dead Sea Scrolls" will be an embarasment to our posterity. I'm not sure archeologists will have much positive to say about the materials found in our land fills either.

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Why not...Junta THIS IS NOSTR! THIS IS THE EDGE!

Not your Relay, not your posts....

Where are the privacy settings?🤣