> "We know that already 43 days after conception there is brainwave activity. So even at that point the soul is present, and so abortion would be killing a human person.
--William Lane Craig
https://www.youtube.com/live/T6ou9yo0W1M
> "As long as there are governments powerful enough to maintain national boundaries and national political postures, then there will be the absolute risk, if not the certainty, of war between them. Even the possibility of war seems far too cataclysmic to contemplate in a world so ripe with technology and prosperous potential, ripe even with the seeds of extraterrestrial exploration. Violence and the institutions that alone can support it should be rendered obsolete."
-- Karl Hess, "The Death of Politics" (1969)
> "Like Linus, neither liberal nor conservative can bear the thought of giving up the blanket--of giving up government and going it alone as residents of a planet, rather than of a country."
-- Karl Hess, "The Death of Politics" (1969)
I was just talking to my dad the other about how his father, my grandfather, was able to raise 11 kids on just his income (and he wasn't wealthy) and have have his wife stay at home, while today, earning what looks like more in dollars, it can be a challenge to afford to raise even one child, with both parents working!
When you see that median earnings per year in gold are now 1/15th of what they were in 1971 it makes sense (assuming gold was/is properly valued)... 😩
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> He who says “state” means coercion and compulsion. He who says: There should be a law concerning this matter, means: The armed men of the government should force people to do what they do not want to do, or not to do what they like. He who says: This law should be better enforced, means: The police should force people to obey this law. He who says: The state is God, deifies arms and prisons. The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men. The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments. The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
- Ludwig von Mises,
*Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War* (1944)
#anarchy #voluntarism
For the noobs, one beautiful thing about #Nostr is that when one app isn't working (like #Amethyst here)
You can switch to another app (like #Primal here) that does work:
#newstr
> The State practices "violence," the individual must not do so. The State's behavior is violence, and it calls its own violence "law"; that of the individual, "crime".
Max Stirner,
*The Ego and Its Own* (1845)
(Max Stirner sketch by Friedrich Engels)
> "Just a few hours ago, #Trump announced the deployment of two nuclear submarines in response to what he called “highly provocative statements” from Duhmeetry Medvedev. A social media spat—yes, a damn tweet—has now triggered a U.S. nuclear escalation. This is no longer political theater. This is nuclear war posturing in real time, and it’s not coming from shadowy generals or faceless bureaucrats—it’s coming from the man many believe is returning to power.
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> "And the Russians? They didn’t laugh. They didn’t flinch. Medvedev responded not with a threat, but a prophecy. He invoked “Dead Hand.” To most Americans, that sounds like Cold War fiction. But to anyone who understands nuclear doctrine, it’s the most terrifying phrase imaginable. It’s not a metaphor. It’s a machine—designed to destroy the world automatically if Russia’s leadership is ever taken out in a first strike.
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> "And Trump? He’s positioning U.S. nuclear submarines for exactly that kind of decapitation scenario.
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> "The Dead Hand—formally known as Perimeter—is a Cold War-era Russian system created for one purpose: to guarantee that #Russia would still launch a full nuclear counterattack even if Moscow were reduced to ash. If command and control are gone, if Putin and his staff are dead, if communications are severed—Dead Hand takes over. It launches everything.
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> "And Trump has just brought us inches away from activating it."
> "It will take a few months for the American citizenry to begin feeling the deleterious and disastrous effects of Trump’s maniacal punitive tariffs, but feel it we will. Tariffs are taxes on consumers. That’s us! If #Trump stays the course of using tariffs as personal, vindictive international retributions, before this time next year, many store shelves will be empty, and the cost of everything will be higher than any of us can now imagine."
> "Canada has been quickly sinking into authoritarianism with draconian censorship laws and woke indoctrination. The Carney government is currently implementing a mass gun ban with over 300 models of firearms abruptly prohibited. Conservative Canadians in provinces like Alberta believe that the Carney government is trying to disarm them to prevent secession, a serious possibility under the current conditions. Our conservative brothers to the north have a difficult path ahead of them.
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> "The legal changes in #Canada will leave the #US as the only nation left in the west with widespread civilian gun ownership, not to mention the only nation left with legitimate free speech rights."
> "Keep in mind that the Canadian government has been flooding the country with #Muslim migrants over the past ten years and is allowing them extreme latitude to run their own communities. There has been no government effort to silence the anti-LGBT rhetoric of Islamic speakers."
https://w3.do/jRF_LN6q #Canada
> "In Montreal last week an American #Christian singer by the name of Sean Feucht was set to hold a small concert, but had his permit for the event revoked by city officials. They stated that they were preventing the show because the content “runs counter to the values of inclusion, solidarity, and respect that are championed in Montreal.”
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> "This was just one of six Christian shows that Canadian politicians tried to cancel. They accused Fuecht of promoting “hate”, and the Canadian government is taking actions to remove religious exemptions from existing hate speech laws. This was the goal of hate legislation all along. No official in #Canada is trying to shut down Muslim events; they are singling out Christians with censorship.
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> "Feucht decided to hold the concert in a local church instead, which triggered a bizarre series of incidents. Local police tried to disrupt the concert and demanded Feucht produce a permit which they knew he didn’t have. Antifa and LGBT activists showed up to harass concert goers and one of them threw smoke bombs into the church. They then threatened the singer with fines and arrest. The media attacked him for not having a permit to which he stated: “You don’t need a permit to sing in a church.”
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> "The church has since been fined $2500 | 0.02 BTC for hosting the show.""
> "...I am thoroughly convinced that key elements of #Christianity are ideals that best represent the western world – Our values of hard work, meritocracy, independence, self improvement, freedom, charity, and moral compass are rooted in the #Christian tradition.
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> "Western civilization cannot exist without the fundamentals of Christian doctrine. Remove those fundamentals, and the west will collapse. Moderate liberals cannot keep the west going, their vision is superficial and devoid of soul."
– Brandon Smith
Some great teaching on Revelation, specifically about the Rapture and #Israel, especially if you're a Dispensationalist...
#Bible #Christian #Maranatha
Someone just shared this video with me, and it's not bad. I especially like the part about the IRS and the Fed soon coming to an end!
It makes me wonder, though: if Obama really were convicted of treason, would Trump pardon him? Or would a recent Supreme Court decision give Obama immunity from prosecution since he was president at the time?
If Obama were convicted of treason or even executed that could really provoke a civil war along political and "racial" lines...
https://rumble.com/v6ws0iy-big-update-condensed.html