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The unexamined premise is the only tyranny that asks for your consent. Reformed Christian, Nostr class of 23, I think Host of The ContraCast Podcast https://fountain.fm/show/XRuDwbnAzVdjjchD4Veq
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Contra 1 week ago
Boomer: You have no dignity. Me: It's pronounced no diggity.
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Contra 1 week ago
Nobody’s selling you a clear head anymore. Or real sleep. Or the room to move slow and live quiet. That stuff got expensive because the whole system runs on you never having it.
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Contra 1 week ago
This is the whole point. Nostr isn’t a product, it’s a bet on people. The road’s going to be rough and the incentives aren’t fully sorted yet. But when the people building alongside you are this sharp and this generous, the odds tilt. We’re not just going to survive this. We’re going to build something worth defending. View quoted note →
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Contra 1 week ago
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.
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Contra 1 week ago
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 →
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Contra 1 week ago
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.
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Contra 1 week ago
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
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Contra 1 week ago
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.