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2024-04-28 15:27:14 UTC

We assume that everybody wants to be with God.
Some don’t…
The problem is that ALL good things come from God.
So they are removing themselves from EVERYTHING good.
That is hell…
#grownostr #Christianity #God

2023-10-11 22:42:23 UTC

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I guess thats right given the definition of extra-terrestrials.

2023-09-24 16:19:30 UTC

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and a very high fee to have the privilege of being there! Cheers!

2023-09-20 01:40:09 UTC

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From my other nostr channel:
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2023-09-15 13:12:20 UTC

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Who's definition of evil do they go by? Nobody asks that question.

2023-09-15 13:11:18 UTC

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Apple? What company is that? They look like they promote freedom of thought... Hmmm...

2023-09-15 12:57:00 UTC

First Life Must Have Had a Minimally Reliable Replication System — A Conundrum for Materialists
#apologetics #evolution #grownostr
https://evolutionnews.org/2023/09/first-life-must-have-had-a-minimally-reliable-replication-system-a-conundrum-for-materialists/

2023-09-13 23:00:35 UTC

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Play fiat games, win fiat prizes!
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2023-09-12 00:41:34 UTC

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Dang, I was already hungry. Then I scroll to see this!

2023-09-12 00:34:45 UTC

The Shop Rat!
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Check out my other nostr channel named “The Shop Rat”. In it, I write about and showcase my other love in life of making things of value. I will be covering all things related to the craftsman and their trade. Join me in the art of creation!
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2023-09-10 16:11:47 UTC

Good Sunday morning, nostr!
Make me to know your ways, O Lord; teach me your paths. Lead me in your truth and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; for you I wait all the day long. (verses 4–5)
~ Psalm 25 – David’s Prayer for Help, Guidance, and Forgiveness
#God #Christianity #Jesus #coffeechain
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2023-09-10 15:40:28 UTC

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Lewis is making the observation that most people that have become Christians in their adult years and not as children were persuaded by arguments that affirmed the existence of God (or theism).
This means that as adults we sometimes require more substantial proof in order to believe in God. As children we can become Christians through upbringing (like myself), songs, or experience, etc. However, if a nonbeliever comes to Christian faith as an adult it may be through logical or philosophical arguments for the existence of God, something that a child would not care about.
Lewis' writings were all about providing "adult" arguments for the existence of God, as in his book "Mere Christianity."
Did that help you understand better?

2023-09-10 02:33:33 UTC

C.S. LEWIS QUOTE
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“Nearly everyone I know who has embraced Christianity in adult life has been influenced by what seemed to him to be at least a probable argument for theism.”
~ C. S. Lewis
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#grownostr #Christianity #Bible #apologetics
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2023-09-09 02:51:02 UTC

#God #evolution #science #grownostr #naturallaw
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2023-09-09 02:29:14 UTC

Just a friendly reminder!
Fairytales come in all forms!
#evolution #darwin #naturallaw #science #grownostr
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2023-09-08 13:02:32 UTC

Good morning nostr!
Remember that most things in life are a distraction from what is truly important.
They turn your attention away from God, family and each other.
They turn you attention away from your miraculous creation and thus any purpose that God has granted you.
Don't let yourself be distracted by what the world has in front of you. Look for the quiet and peaceful that is in your life.
#God #grownostr #coffeechain

2023-09-04 02:52:16 UTC

BISHOP BELLS DINOSAURS
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Carlisle Cathedral in the United Kingdom is the final resting place of Bishop Richard Bell. Bell who was laid to rest around the year 1496 AD was buried within the stone floor of the cathedral. Brass strips are inlaid in the floor as a border for his tomb.
The strips have various contemporary animals skillfully engraved on them. The animals are easily identified as a bird , a pig, a dog, and even an eel. All of the animals would have easily been identified within the medieval period in which they were engraved.
However, there are animals that are curiously out of place and resemble sauropod dinosaurs. The animals are of such detail that they can be identified as possibly vulcanodon and shunosaurus due to the spikes on its tail.
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2023-08-31 01:55:35 UTC

THE ORIGIN OF LIFE FROM THE FOUNDER OF NASA’S GODDARD INSTITUTE
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“Scientists have no proof that life was not the result of an act of creation, but they are driven by the nature of their profession to seek explanations for the origin of life that lie within the boundaries of natural law.”
~ Robert Jastrow, The Enchanted Loom (founding director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies)
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2023-08-30 02:39:45 UTC

THE INCREDIBLE PRECISION OF INCA STONEWORK
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Name the modern stonework that rivals the precision and closeness of fit that ancient Inca walls have in places like Cuzco, Peru.
Such closeness of fit where you cannot place a business card in-between the stones. The ancient Inca had more skill and technology than we think to be able to accomplish such mastery.
Their level of craftsmanship is very hard to duplicate with todays machinery and I have not seen a modern example that rivals it.
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2023-08-29 01:11:26 UTC

TRICERATOPS HORN UNFOSSILIZED SOFT TISSUE
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A video showing the examination of soft tissue from a triceratops horn collected in Montana by Mark Armitage.
The tissue in not fossilized and is still very flexible. Unfossilized tissue is not that uncommon among fossils and is being found more often.
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#grownostr #apologetics #science #dinosaurs #creation #youngearth #evolution
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2023-08-28 00:51:16 UTC

THE ABSURD MAKE BELIEVE OF EVOLUTION
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So this is all it takes to establish an evolutionary link between chickens and dinosaurs? You glue feathers onto a velociraptor?
This is make believe.
It totally glosses over the multiple billions, trillions or more of genetic changes that have to happen in order to get a working chicken-dinosaur. All of the changes are by shear chance, as the is no Creator in evolution.
But hey, glue them feathers on that dinosaur… It’s SCIENCE!
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2023-08-27 01:33:53 UTC

ANGKOR WAT STEGOSAUR
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Many cultures around the world have stories involving dragons and large serpents. This stone carving at Cambodia’s Angkor Wat temple, Ta Prohm bares a remarkable resemblance to a stegosaur. It was carved around 1200 AD.
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2023-08-26 23:11:53 UTC

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With onions, reminds me of my childhood!

2023-08-26 18:00:51 UTC

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At this point in Clown World... I am open to just about anything! Cheers!

2023-08-26 17:41:32 UTC

YOUR THOUGHTS HAVE BEEN SHAPED
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The term “conspiracy theorist” is one of the greatest psychological operations ever perpetrated on the American people.
Its only purpose was to silence and marginalize free thinking individuals and to bring us into a herd mentality.
Rendering us unable to think for ourselves.
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#grownostr #nostr #uncomfortabletruth #5thGenerationalWarfare
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2023-08-26 17:32:41 UTC

NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY IS NOT AS BLACK AND WHITE AS YOU WERE LEAD TO BELIEVE
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A common fallacy is that the Native American population was peaceful and pristine up until the Europeans showed up and destroyed their civilizations.
It is possible that sometimes this may have been a good thing.
The Aztecs before the Europeans, were sacrificing enough innocent people that they build monumental towers made from their skulls.
To those innocents, destined to be slaughtered, the Spanish would have been seen as rescuers.
“The tower is believed to be one of seven similar structure that once stood in the Aztec capital city of Tenochtitlán (now Mexico City). The skull towers are mentioned in contemporary accounts of the city’s capture by Hernan Cortes in 1521, and were razed by the Spanish conquistadores shortly thereafter.”
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2023-08-26 02:03:43 UTC

#grownostr
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2023-08-26 02:02:14 UTC

“Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.”
~ Rembrandt van Rijn
#grownostr #plebchain #apologetics #quotes
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2023-08-25 01:19:33 UTC

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Followed!

2023-08-25 01:19:01 UTC

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That may have been why I had to read your post twice. Lol! You may be interested in St. Aquinas' Five Ways. They are the arguments for a creator from an original mover perspective.
Thank you! and Peace be with you!
Here is an article on Aquinas's Second Way
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2023-08-25 00:16:28 UTC

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On second read of your reply, I might have misread your premise. Yes, science can never answer the why or how. Cheers!

2023-08-25 00:12:40 UTC

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The article's premise that a Creator exists is not from what we don't know.
It makes the argument for a Creator from what we do know of the mathematics.
This is not a "God of the Gaps" premise. Thank you for your lively reply!
It looks like that agitated clown needs to read a book about them magnets!

2023-08-24 22:35:38 UTC

THE MOST GOLDILOCKS IN ALL OF PHYSICS
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The fine-tuning of the universe is one of the most compelling arguments for the existence of God. Fine-tuning refers to the “just right” initial conditions that were set into the equations that govern physics and how they effect life.
One of the most finely tuned parameters in physics is the entropy of the universe. It refers to the initial low entropy state of the universe, which was necessary for the existence of life. If the Big Bang Theory is correct and the universe started with a massive expansion, our newly formed universe was not a chaotic soup of energy and matter. It was quite the opposite, it was orderly. This is because of the Second Law of Thermodynamics. This law states that there is a natural tendency of any isolated system to degenerate into a more disordered state. This direction towards disorder is called entropy.
The entropy of the universe was fine-tuned to such an exquisite degree. Physicist Roger Penrose estimated that the odds of the initial low entropy orderly state of our universe occurring by chance are on the order of 1 in 10 raised to the 10th power then raised to the 123rd power. [1] This number is absolutely unfathomable odds, even in the world of physics and mathematics. Basically, there would be a VERY large number of universes in which the entropy would be so chaotic in the beginning that it would be uninhabitable for life; before one is formed that could sustain life.
This leads to the view that the equations that govern physics and in turn life were designed to be just right for life to exist.
[1] Penrose, Roger. (1989). Emperor’s New Mind. Penguin Books. 339-345.
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2023-08-23 00:42:53 UTC

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I am glad you enjoyed the article. Thank you very much for the zap! Cheers!

2023-08-17 01:02:43 UTC

ALEISTER CROWLEY’S ALIEN
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Aleister Crowley (1875-1947) was an English occultist, writer, and ceremonial magician who played a significant role in the development of modern Western esotericism. He gained notoriety for his involvement in various mystical practices and his influence on occult and spiritual movements.
One of Crowley's lesser-known aspects of his work involves his encounters with an entity he referred to as "Lam." In the later years of his life, Crowley was known to have engaged in a series of visionary and trance-like states, during which he claimed to have communicated with a being he depicted in a drawing as a somewhat androgynous figure with a large, bald head and slit-like eyes. Lam bears a remarkable resemblance to the speculated alien grays in popular UFO lore.
This resemblance does bring up an interesting possibility. Crowley was called by the tabloids of the day the “Wickedest Man In The World,” and a “Master Of Darkness.” He was defiantly trying to communicate with beings from other dimensions, what we could call demons. It is very possible that the aliens that are encountered are in fact demons and not visitors from another planet. This would have profound and even biblical implications if true. It would mean that we are most defiantly alone in the universe, unique and miraculous creations. It would also mean that the UFO phenomenon is an encounter with a spiritual realm that we know little about.
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2023-08-12 00:46:59 UTC

ARISTOTLE’S UNMOVED MOVER
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The Greek philosopher Aristotle was one of the first philosophers to address the issue of the causation of the universe. According to Aristotle everything had a cause that brought it into existence. In turn that cause had a cause that created it. This chain of causation extends back into the past. However, that chain couldn’t be past eternal as one first cause was necessary to initiate the chain of causes. This, he named the unmoved mover, “ὃ οὐ κινούμενον κινεῖ” translated into “that which moves without being moved”. [1]
[1] Aristotle, Metaphysics XII, 1072a.
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2023-08-11 19:36:54 UTC

SERPENTS THAT HAD THE WINGS OF A BAT
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Herodotus, respected Greek historian who lived in approximately 450 B.C., once wrote:
“There is a place in Arabia…to which I went, on hearing of some winged serpents; and when I arrived there, I saw bones and spines of serpents, in such quantities as it would be impossible to describe. The form of the serpent is like that of a water-snake; but he has wings without feathers, and as like as possible to the wings of a bat (n.d., emp. added).”
Herodotus recognized that such creatures were not birds, mammals, or insects—but reptiles with wings.
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2023-08-09 21:37:09 UTC

NOT YOUR AVERAGE RIPPLES ON THE BEACH
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An aerial photograph of the West Barr area on the western side of the Columbia River in Washington state. This area is a large version of the current ripples you may see at a beach or river. However, these ripples are over 24 feet tall and spaced 360 feet apart and were formed by huge floods that carved out a large part of the state. The massive current required to form these giant ripples would have been at least 600 feet deep and flowing at over 65 miles an hour.
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2023-08-09 21:30:45 UTC

WON’T EVEN LIFT A FINGER
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In the depiction of God’s creation of Adam by Michelangelo, it goes unnoticed the subtle differences in the two hands. God’s hand is on the right and is eagerly reaching for the finger of Adam, on the left side of the fresco. Adam, however, is not reaching for God’s touch.
Adam is displaying the trait that is in all of us, pride. It is pride that makes us not even lift a finger to connect with God the way he wants us too.
It is our failed belief that we don’t need God to exist… That we exist without our creator’s hand.
This premise is as absurd as the painting existing without the painter.
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2023-08-06 03:13:50 UTC

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2023-08-06 03:10:38 UTC

NOAH’S ARK DROGUE STONES
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The Durupinar site in the Middle East has many landmarks that have been associated with Noah's Ark over the centuries. Among these are the Arzap drogue stones, which are large standing stones found near the site. These stones were believed to have been attached to the ark and used as sea anchors or drogue stones. They are heavy and flat with a hole for tying a line at one end. Drogue stones were the equivalent of a storm anchor on an ancient ship and kept it stable in rough seas. The stones were continually used in ancient times after the possible flood and can be found in places like Israel and the Nile River in Egypt.
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2023-08-06 03:08:22 UTC

THE CHAOS IN OUR LIVES DOES NOT DISPROVE A DESIGNER
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I saw a car wrecked on the side of the road. It was a Ford. There was much destruction, it was on fire, seeming chaos, and the people within lay dead.
Some fanatic came up, claiming the vehicle was built by Ford Motor Company. I highly doubt that. The vehicle came about by random chance and endless combinations of metallic parts. I mean, if there really is a Ford Motor Company, one would expect them to build cars that work and are not smashed or on fire! I just don't see any evidence for such a benevolent Company.
This crazy fanatic next to me claimed that the Company built the car just right, but that later the owner misused it, which led to the destruction. I then asked, "Then why doesn't the Company just force all drivers to do exactly what the Company wants?"
He then said I would be complaining about the Company being tyrannical, if it did that.
What an idiot! I think every scientific, free thinking, rational mind knows there is no such Company as Ford Motor Company. I am totally willing to accept it, if there is such a Company, but I do not see ANY evidence for it.
What? The Ford logo? Well, again, that is just chance. Randomness that uneducated people see as creation and order and design?
What? Ford logos on the leather and interior and under the hood? Again, wonderful accident. The beauty of randomness.
~ Anonymous
People have the same argument that God doesn’t exist because there is chaos within our lives. Peace be with you!
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2023-08-05 18:03:04 UTC

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2023-08-05 15:14:24 UTC

“We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.”
~ Ray Bradbury
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2023-08-05 15:13:50 UTC

PASCAL’S WAGER
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Pascal's Wager is a philosophical argument presented by the French mathematician, philosopher, physicist, and theologian Blaise Pascal in the 17th century. It posits that human beings wager with their lives that God either exists or does not. Pascal argued that people can choose to believe in God or can choose not to believe, but the potential benefits of believing in God are so vast that it is rational to bet on theism. Pascal's Wager is a practical argument for belief in God that applies elements of game theory to show that belief in the Christian religion is rational.
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2023-08-03 02:02:25 UTC

THE FINE TUNING OF THE UNIVERSE AND THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
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One of the strongest pieces of evidences for the existence of God is the apparent fine tuning of the universe. That is, the fine tuning that exists in numerous equations that govern physics.
Take for instance the equation of Newton's Law of Gravitation. The Gravitational Constant is the number in the equation the tunes the gravitational strength much like tuning a guitar. It's number determines the strength of attraction between two masses. The gravitational constant is tuned to such a degree that if gravity were stronger by 1 part in 10^40 (that is a 1 followed by forty 0s), the universe would be dominated by black holes and not stars. Making the universe inhabitable for life. This is a strong indication that the universe was created for life and not just an accident.
The following video by Dr. William Lane Craig explains fine tuning in more detail.
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2023-08-03 02:01:12 UTC

WILLIAM BUCKLEY AND THE BUNYIP
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William Buckley was an escaped convict who lived with the Wathaurong aboriginal tribe in Australia for over 30 years in the early 19th century. During his time with the tribe, he encountered a creature known as the bunyip. According to Buckley's account, the bunyip was an "extraordinary amphibious animal" with grey feathers covering its back and about the size of a full-grown calf. Buckley also claimed that the bunyip was believed to have supernatural powers and was a common sight along the Barwon River.
“He [the Bunyip] made his home in the deep waterholes and the rain forests, lurking in the gloom by day and roaming the earth by night during the time of darkness. He brought fear to the tribes, threatening to devour any human he might meet.”
~ William Buckley, The Life and Adventures of William Buckley, 1852
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2023-07-30 00:51:17 UTC

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2023-07-29 15:36:25 UTC

“PRESERVATION OF FAVORED RACES IN THE STRUGGLE FOR LIFE”
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You never hear that subtitle for “The Origin of Species” written by Charles Darwin. The outward racist beliefs of Darwin are never talked about or mentioned when genuflecting to his evolutionary theories. His views grew roots in the fertile soil of hatred in the twentieth century and allowed for the extermination of our fellow man because of a self appointed superiority.
“At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace throughout the world the savage races. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes, as Professor Schaaffhausen has remarked, will no doubt be exterminated. The break will then be rendered wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilized state, as we may hope, than the Caucasian, and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as at present between the negro or Australian and the gorilla. ”
~ Charles Darwin, “Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex”
“I could not have believed how wide was the difference between savage and civilised man… Viewing such men, one can hardly make oneself believe that they are fellow-creatures, and inhabitants of the same world. It is a common subject of conjecture what pleasure in life some of the lower animals can enjoy: how much more reasonably the same question may be asked of these barbarians!”
~ Charles Darwin, “Voyage of the Beagle”
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2023-07-29 15:35:02 UTC

POLYSTRATE PETRIFIED TREES
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Polystrate trees are fossilized tree trunks that are found protruding through multiple layers of rock strata. The question is how the tree fossilizes this way if the rock layers take millions of years to form?
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2023-07-29 02:20:27 UTC

JESUS WALKS ON WATER
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2023-07-28 18:21:10 UTC

THE COSMOLOGICAL ARGUMENT FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
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The Cosmological Argument is a philosophical argument for the existence of God and can basically be summed up by the following logical form:
Premise 1: Everything that begins to exist has a cause of its existence.
Premise 2: The universe began to exist.
Conclusion: Therefore, the universe has a cause of its existence.
Premise 1: States that for everything that has a definite point in time where it begins to exist, there must be a cause or another entity that brings forth that existence. For instance, if you have a seedling growing in your front yard there must have been another plant that initiated that seed that is spouting. Things in our universe just don’t pop into existence from nothing, it is contrary to the reality that we know.
Premise 2: States that our universe has a definite beginning point where it began to exist. We know this by many reasons. First, the Big Bang Theory is evidence that points to this conclusion. Second, one can point to the increasing entropy of the universe, where the universe will eventually run out of usable energy making and infinite past is impossible because entropy would have run out an infinite time ago and we would not be here. Lastly, you can use the argument that Aquinas used in his Second Way that an infinite regression is absurd and doesn’t make sense.
The conclusion ties premise 1 and 2 together. The universe had a beginning, thus it had a cause. Some people take this part as an objection to the Cosmological Argument. They will say that it doesn’t prove the existence of the Judeo-Christian God. Yes, they would be right, it doesn’t. It is not meant to prove there is a God, only a cause sufficient to create the universe. Now, that cause would have some of the attributes of the Judeo-Christian God like all-powerful, timeless, and spaceless just to name a few.
Another objection to the Cosmological Argument is the need for the first cause of the universe to have a cause. The answer to the question, “Who made God?”. I believe that to be a premise that doesn’t take all the facts of the situation into account. Remember in the preceding paragraph that the cause would have the attribute of timelessness? If you are timeless, how do you have a beginning or a cause? There is no time. If you cannot measure with the parameter of time then there is no beginning or end, everything exists in a timeless realm. Something we cannot even begin to comprehend, and we exclude from this kind of philosophical discussion.
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2023-07-26 23:06:26 UTC

SCIENCE INCREASINGLY MAKES THE CASE FOR GOD
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Published in the Wall Street Journal on December 25, 2014 by Eric Metaxas illustrates a compelling case that science is increasingly making the case for a Creator of the universe.
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2023-07-26 23:05:09 UTC

THE UNIVERSE FROM NOTHING IS ABSURD
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Link to my first Habla article discussing how the explanation of the origin of our universe does not make sense without God.
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2023-07-26 01:39:41 UTC

THE SACRIFICE OF ST. DAMIEN OF MOLOKA’I
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St. Damien of Moloka'i, also known as Father Damien, was a Belgian priest who devoted his life to missionary work among the Hawaiian lepers in the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi. Damien volunteered to take charge of the leper settlement of Kalaupapa on the island of Moloka'i in Hawaii. He served there for 16 years until his death on April 15, 1889. During his time serving the colony as their Pastor and physician, Father Damien cared for the sick in both their physical and spiritual needs. He also improved many of the colonies buildings and improved the water and food supplies. Father Damian was not afraid to do the one thing that the victims of leprosy never experienced, he touched them. This was his sacrifice to the people that he loved, people that were untouchable by regular society.
In 1884, he contracted leprosy but refused to leave the colony. Father Damian choose to stay with his people and continued to care for them until his death. His remains were returned to Belgium in 1936 to be buried in Leuven which is close to the village where he was born. However, his right hand was returned to Moloka'i in 1995 to be buried in his original resting spot as a beautiful testament to the people that he touched with his compassion.
“My greatest pleasure is to serve the Lord in his poor children rejected by other people.”
~ St. Damien of Moloka'i
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2023-07-24 02:10:49 UTC

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love,
Where there is injury, pardon
Where there is doubt, faith,
Where there is despair, hope,
Where there is darkness, light,
Where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much
seek to be consoled as to console,
not so much to be understood as to understand,
not so much to be loved, as to love;
for it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
it is in dying that we awake to eternal life.
~ St. Francis of Assisi
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2023-07-23 03:52:40 UTC

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Amen!

2023-07-22 18:19:45 UTC

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2023-07-22 17:58:00 UTC

ISAAC NEWTON AND GOD
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“He [God] is Eternal and Infinite, Omnipotent and Omniscient; that is, his duration reaches from Eternity to Eternity; his presence from Infinity to Infinity; he governs all things, and knows all things that are or can be done. He is not Eternity or Infinity, but Eternal and Infinite; he is not Duration or Space, but he endures and is present. He endures for ever, and is every where present; and by existing always and every where, he constitutes Duration and Space.”
~Isaac Newton, “Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica”, (1687)
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2023-07-22 14:48:10 UTC

PRESERVED DINOSAUR SKIN
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A well-preserved specimen of the Psittacosaurus dinosaur species was found in Jehol biota of China. [1] The extraordinary preservation of the dinosaurs soft tissues, including skin, makes it noteworthy. The Psittacosaurus' skin tissues in the fossil have a pattern resembling small, spherical scales that cover its body and are many layers thick. Although it is not expressed in many of the articles on the tissues, they consist of unfossilized preserved skin containing collagen fibers which are a type of protein. The preservation of collagen under the most optimal environmental conditions is maximum 700,000 years before degradation destroys them. Yet, they are well preserved in this fossil putting the scientific date of 120 million years in serious doubt.
[1] Lingham‐Soliar, T. (2008). A unique cross section through the skin of the dinosaur Psittacosaurus from China showing a complex fibre architecture. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 275, 775 - 780.
[2] Buckley, Michael & Collins, Matthew. (2011). Collagen survival and its use for species identification in Holocene-lower Pleistocene bone fragments from British archaeological and paleontological sites. Antiqua. 1. 10.4081/antiqua.2011.e1.
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2023-07-22 02:25:25 UTC

NEW NOSTR CHANNEL!
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I have started a new nostr channel named “The Shop Rat”. In it, I will write about and showcase my other love in life of making things of value. I will be covering all things related to the craftsman and their trade. Join me in the art of creation!
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2023-07-22 02:14:09 UTC

KACHINA BRIDGE DINOSAUR PETROGLYPH
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On the base of Kachina Bridge in Natural Bridges National Monument in southeastern Utah is an ancient petroglyph depicting what appears as two sauropod dinosaurs.
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2023-07-16 16:21:44 UTC

TYRANNOSAURUS REX PRESERVED BLOOD CELLS
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Mary Schweitzer was working as a researcher at the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana. While cleaning some T. rex bones Schweitzer and an assistant found something remarkable. What they found inside the bone matrix was what appeared to be unfossilized blood cells within blood vessels and other tissues [1]. The tissue was in remarkable preservation for being estimated to be over 65 million years old. This means that the blood cells and vessels would have to remain relatively uncorrupted for that vast amount of time in bones that were exposed to the elements.
The research done by Michael Buckley of Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre has estimated the limit for the survival of collagen in optimal conditions is 700,000 years [2]. Collagen is the protein that makes up around 25%-35% of body tissues and when decayed the tissue would not be recognizable. Schweitzer’s T. rex blood cells and vessels would have decayed long ago if the age of the bones were indeed over 65 million years old.
This represents a major problem between the assumed age of the dinosaurs and the survivability of the soft tissues that are contained within their unfossilized structure. This problem could possibly be written off as an outlier is this was the only case of soft tissues found within dinosaur bones but it is not, it is quite common in paleontology.
[1] Schweitzer, Mary & Wittmeyer, Jennifer & Horner, John & Toporski, Jan. (2005). Soft-Tissue Vessels and Cellular Preservation in Tyrannosaurus rex. Science (New York, N.Y.). 307. 1952-5. 10.1126/science.1108397.
[2] Buckley, Michael & Collins, Matthew. (2011). Collagen survival and its use for species identification in Holocene-lower Pleistocene bone fragments from British archaeological and paleontological sites. Antiqua. 1. 10.4081/antiqua.2011.e1.
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Samples of the T. rex blood vessels G and I are compared visually to modern ostrich blood vessels H and J. [1]
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2023-07-15 01:56:29 UTC

SCIENCE IS POINTING TO GOD
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Speaking about the growing evidence that the universe had a Creator, Robert Jastrow the founding director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies wrote this in his book “God and the Astronomers”.
“For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountain of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.”
~ Robert Jastrow
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2023-06-21 00:10:51 UTC

WON’T EVEN LIFT A FINGER
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In the depiction of God’s creation of Adam by Michelangelo, it goes unnoticed the subtle differences in the two hands. God’s hand is on the right and is eagerly reaching for the finger of Adam, on the left side of the fresco. Adam, however, is not reaching for God’s touch.
Adam is displaying the trait that is in all of us, pride. It is pride that makes us not even lift a finger to connect with God the way he wants us.
It is our failed belief that we don’t need God to exist… That we exist without our creator’s hand.
That is as absurd as the painting existing without the painter.
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2023-06-20 23:49:07 UTC

“Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.”
~ C. S. Lewis
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2023-06-19 01:53:05 UTC

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2023-06-18 03:01:36 UTC

2023-06-18 02:14:04 UTC

So... what is so dangerous that I cannot buy raw milk at the store? When they sell Lucky Charms? The government needs to butt out of our lives!
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2023-06-18 01:28:33 UTC

THE BRIMSTONE OF SODAM AND GOMORRAH
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Geological formations known as sulfur balls or brimstone balls have been discovered near the ancient cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. There is also an unmistakable charred destruction layer that along with the sulfur balls emphasizes the horrific event that took place in this area. These formations offer tantalizing evidence for the biblical account of the cities' destruction.
Sodom and Gomorrah were cities infamous for their depravity and moral decay, according to the Bible in Genesis 19. In retaliation, God rained down fire and brimstone on the cities, destroying them. The sulfur balls, which are made of solidified sulfur and are around 94-98% pure sulfur and burn with a very hot blue flame, are evidence of this catastrophic event and show the ferocious damage that occurred.
The presence of a burned destruction layer, in addition to the sulfur balls, strengthens the case for the cities' destruction. This layer is made up of charred remains, ash, and other material that was left over after the area was completely consumed by fire and tremendous heat. This layer was discovered by archaeologists during excavations, offering a visual portrayal of the catastrophic event mentioned in the ancient literature.
Along with supporting the Biblical description, the sulfur balls and the corresponding burned destruction layer provide important new information about the area's geological and archaeological past. It implies that the cities were destroyed as a result of a catastrophic event.
The sulfur balls and the burnt destruction layer stand as enduring reminders of a significant event in human history, attracting the attention of scholars, researchers, and visitors. Their presence provides yet another tangible link to the past and further supports that we can trust the accuracy of the Bible..
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2023-06-16 17:28:32 UTC

LANGUAGE, CREATION, AND MEANING
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When someone is walking along the beach and looks down to see the words “I Love You”; they do not think it was a random accident of the wind or the waves. The symbols that make up the writing convey a deeper meaning that passes information to us in a metaphysical way. We know that the phrase means that two lovers have gone before us and stopped to write in the sand. It would be preposterous to think it was the wind that carved them. It is by that transfer that we know the words were written on purpose and by an intelligence. That purpose is language.
You have in you a similar language. It is written in every corner of your being, every cell and tissue have it written throughout them. The language is far more complex than the words that were previously discovered in the sand. It requires billions of characters to convey its message.
The language is DNA. It is the molecule that is the instructional blueprint for the assembly of proteins that are the building blocks for all cells and is formed by four distinct bases: adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G) and thymine (T). The bases act as letters in a four-letter alphabet transferring information to build a specific protein. The bases are assembled into a long strand that we know as the DNA double helix.
Just as we know that the simple phrase in the sand conveys the love between the two beachgoers. Similarly, we should understand that the far more complex writing in us conveys a vast love between a creator and its creation. The DNA language inside you was written not just for you, but it is you. It wrote another being into existence. Something that the words in the sand could not do. Yet, some scoff that the language that has the power to bring things into existence was yet an accident of physics and chemistry. Those words had a meaning lovingly penned by the Creator, and that meaning is you…
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2023-06-14 01:00:27 UTC

I used to love Apple products… NO MORE!
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2023-06-13 21:19:18 UTC

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Welcome! I hope you like it here. Cheers!

2023-06-12 01:36:07 UTC

Phrases used to control you:
Conspiracy Theorist
Anti-Vaxxer
Climate Denier
Creationist
What are some others?
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2023-06-10 02:26:04 UTC

“Essentially, I realized that to stay an atheist, I would have to believe that nothing produces everything; non-life produces life; randomness produces fine-tuning; chaos produces information; unconsciousness produces consciousness; and non-reason produces reason. Those leaps of faith were simply too big for me to take, especially in light of the affirmative case for God's existence and Jesus' resurrection (and, hence, his divinity). In other words, in my assessment the Christian worldview accounted for the totality of the evidence much better than the atheistic worldview.”
~Lee Strobel
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2023-06-04 15:23:40 UTC

I just told my daughter that learning how to use #bitcoin is as important to freedom as learning how to shoot a gun.
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2023-05-29 22:47:30 UTC

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What’s the drink in the background?

2023-05-27 21:18:21 UTC

Has anybody out there installed a Bitcoin miner (s9) as a preheater to their primary heater in the house? How much of a difference did your bills seem to have?
I am thinking about installing one as a preheater to our heat pump. It needs a little help in the cold part of the winter. Seems like it may be a wash but with a small Bitcoin accumulation.
I am building a shop and will definitely install two out there to heat it. S9 costs are cheap compared the other heating solutions.
Any other cleaver Bitcoin miner solutions out there?
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2023-05-27 21:06:10 UTC

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Wow! I bet that hurt! Thank you for your reply. I have been seeing post after post with comfrey in it. Got me curious. I’m not sure it grows around here. I will have to check and maybe grow some. The wife and I have been trying more natural cures and this might be one. Cheers!

2023-05-27 13:53:43 UTC

Been seeing a lot about comfrey, what’s the deal? What is it good for?
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2023-05-16 01:21:18 UTC

First Habla article is now posted!
“THE UNIVERSE FROM NOTHING IS ABSURD”
The explanation of the origin of our universe does not make sense without God.
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2023-05-14 03:57:35 UTC

THE FINE TUNING OF THE UNIVERSE AND THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
One of the strongest pieces of evidences for the existence of God is the apparent fine tuning of the universe. That is, the fine tuning that exists in numerous equations that govern physics.
Take for instance the equation of Newton's Law of Gravitation. The Gravitational Constant is the number in the equation the tunes the gravitational strength much like tuning a guitar. It's number determines the strength of attraction between two masses. The gravitational constant is tuned to such a degree that if gravity were stronger by 1 part in 10^40 (that is a 1 followed by forty 0s), the universe would be dominated by black holes and not stars. Making the universe inhabitable for life. This is a strong indication that the universe was created for life and not just an accident.
The following video by Dr. William Lane Craig explains fine tuning in more detail.
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2023-05-08 01:44:57 UTC

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Genuinely curious here, I have recently heard the explanation of "anarchy" from Saifedean Ammous. It was not what I was expecting and made me think. He was explaining it from the point of no government has even behaved itself, it always expands. I noticed others with the symbol in the bitcoin world, what is your take? Thanks in advance! Cheers!

2023-05-04 00:35:44 UTC

JESUS WALKS ON WATER
Painting by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky. (1817 - 1900)
#grownostr #plebchain #Christianity #Bible #paintings
https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_72dac1aadcd03ca219401c9ac71c909f99108d927500c219e03d895ba04f8bd8.jpg

2023-05-01 10:22:36 UTC

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Why us?

2023-05-01 01:56:25 UTC

"SCIENCE INCREASINGLY MAKES THE CASE FOR GOD"
Published in the Wall Street Journal on December 25, 2014 by Eric Metaxas illustrates a compelling case that science is increasingly making the case for a Creator of the universe.
#grownostr #plebchain #christianity #bible #science
https://ericmetaxas.com/watch-read/articles/science-increasingly-makes-the-case-for-god/

2023-04-29 16:03:06 UTC

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I just reposted it on snort it worked and shows up on snort. It still doesn’t show on damus. Not a bug! It’s a feature!

2023-04-29 15:47:56 UTC

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I checked to see if it reposted. It is not on my feed. I don’t think I did something wrong?

2023-04-29 15:39:34 UTC

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Done!

2023-04-29 02:35:23 UTC

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The Chosen is a very good series. The scene with Jesus and Nicodemus was extraordinary.

2023-04-26 13:58:23 UTC

Triceratops Horn Unfossilized Soft Tissue
Here is a video showing the examination of tissue from a triceratops horn collected in Montana by Mark Armitage. The tissue in not fossilized and is still very flexible. Unfossilized tissue is not that uncommon among fossils and is being found more often.
#grownostr #plebchain #christianity #bible #science #dinosaurs #creation #youngearth #evolution
https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_db2da8550a508d7066f8cad5347470e75565f0ff4a4e921fa93b8a6332c7b1ed.jpg
https://youtu.be/6eStVzZP9zk

2023-04-22 15:59:16 UTC

Unfossilized tissue has been found in dinosaur bones.
“It smelled just like one of the cadavers we had in the lab who had been treated with chemotherapy before he died,”
That was the description that Mary Schweitzer gave to describe the odor that was coming from a Tyrannosaurus Rex (T.rex) skeleton that was excavated from the Hell Creek Formation in Montana. Schweitzer was working as a researcher at the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana and was examining the medullary bone of that skeleton when an assistant put a fragment of the bone in dilute acid to clean deposits off. What they found in the decalcified bone was soft stretchy material something not expected in solid mineral deposits. This led them to decalcify other bone samples, what they ended up finding was a soft stretchy fibrous matrix that was inside of the bone when the T.rex was alive.
https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_3d5aab5d56709a01e0f55bb48e2788ad78329891235a47772c5887a0a77d1074.png
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-K7_H27Wq4
#grownostr #plebchain #science #dinosaurs

2023-04-21 20:34:18 UTC

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Hello! And welcome!

2023-04-19 23:50:50 UTC

Just wanted to introduce myself. I have been involved various social media in the past but heard of this open concept about a year ago. When I heard about Nostr, I signed up. I do not like censorship and think that we need more free speech and free thinking.
My interests vary, I am very fond of Christian apologetics, science, building things, and unusual and hidden history.
Currently, I am engineer in the aerospace industry but in the past I worked in art before I went to school.
The growth of Nostr is very impressive and I look forward to seeing the growth to come.
I invite people to follow my feed as I will be and have been posting some of the many unusual facts in history and science.
~Cheers!
#introductions #plebchain #zapchain #grownostr #christianity #science

2023-04-19 18:49:52 UTC

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Same here! #[2]

2023-04-19 17:58:42 UTC

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How to post images and videos are of interest to me.

2023-04-16 21:30:29 UTC

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Yes, I love your tutorials! I have only been in Bitcoin for 4 weeks. I have set up a hardware wallet, Bitcoin node, lightning node, nostr account, thanks to you and a few others. I could not have done it so fast without your videos though. Plus this is my first nostr post! Cheers and thank you!