Jordan Eskovitz

www.vrtcl.studio

Multidisciplinary artist. Partner at VRTCL.
Christ is Lord. Festina Lente.

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2024-09-09 18:54:12

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Welcome to #nostr

2024-09-09 00:47:17

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https://image.nostr.build/f3f56bc6aff4b2815faed56feebafc130f7e3a4f0d5808ed7942e06e9602c72b.jpg

2024-09-09 00:46:00

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What a time to be alive

2024-09-06 03:32:51

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https://image.nostr.build/600c3dfeee2a6888a0a17684f11bc47919f1b91d240536e0d8b5ec86660b4300.jpg

2024-09-06 02:16:06

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Sociopaths is more likely

2024-09-06 02:14:06

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Hard question to respond to simply and succinctly.
Shotgun thoughts:
-I think it is a complex mixture of motives and incentives. There are power hungry and evil people in all levels of society and governance.
-As far as being captured goes, I would say this is true ideologically, via bribes, or via blackmail.
-There's also the global fiat banking cartel. too many world leaders have their hands tied by the IMF via debt restructuring conditions. -Then there's groups like WEF. Klaus Schwab has also publicly boasted about WEF protiges *infiltrating* political cabinets all over the world.
-I think a lot of people in the lower ranks of the global cabal probably think their going along with tyranny will also allow them to escape the worst parts of it.
-There are also a number of world leaders who don't have children, so that is a factor too.
-Underneath all of this is spiritual warfare. Satan and his demons hate God and therefore hate humans who are made in his image so they decieve and pervert and corrupt with the intention of destroying us. Many people, including some of the most powerful people in the world, are their puppets. But I would be remiss to say that and leave off that all tyranny ends, all tyrants die, all towers of babel fall, and, sooner or later, reality reasserts itself. The reality is that Christ is Lord.

2024-09-06 01:30:35

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Great Reset

2024-09-05 21:26:53

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https://image.nostr.build/1c5e4728b793a879d6fce40271b1e6a4a1ee4ea09064820a46ee85ac3432a3dd.gif

2024-09-05 21:03:53

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Work in reverse: do something physical. Take a walk, lift some weights, bike, etc.

2024-09-05 20:49:06

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You're right where you need to be
#nevent1q…vhdw

2024-09-05 20:46:10

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Boooo

2024-09-05 20:43:26

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It is very imaginative and quirky. Equal parts dramatic and lighthearted.

2024-09-05 20:42:48

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Dream Keeper is very clearly inspired by Narnia. Her writing is more fast paced and cinematic than Lewis' but seems very much appropriate for the YA audience. Every person in the target age range (9–14) that I have given a copy to loves it.

2024-09-05 18:41:18

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Hydra bot

2024-09-05 18:34:53

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Yes. One reason we are so neurotic and distracted all the time is because we are so sedentary.

2024-09-05 14:17:29

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Wasn't meaning for my comments to be a cold lecture, by the way. Rather, I enjoy talking about it and my aim is to build up and generate lively discussion.

2024-09-05 04:22:57

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Welcome to #nostr!

2024-09-05 04:19:20

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If you are a reader, I recommend Paradise Restored by David Chilton.

2024-09-05 04:16:15

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This is from a conversation with a slightly different context but it relates in substance to what you have posted here:
#nevent1q…823n

2024-09-05 02:11:24

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Do a Pixel 8 with #grapheneos

2024-09-05 01:50:42

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A majority of moderns are not in tune with many natural cycles and phenomenon. Everything is artificial or outsourced.

2024-09-04 21:32:44

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Compilations*

2024-09-04 21:31:12

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Valley of Vision and Piercing Heaven are both comoilations of Puritan prayers. Cloud of Witnesses spans different periods of Christendom.

2024-09-04 21:29:47

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Hope your kids enjoy it and that it stirs the imagination.

2024-09-04 21:26:05

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I recommend:
Valley of Vision
https://banneroftruth.org/us/store/devotionalsdaily-readings/the-valley-of-vision/
Cloud of Witnesses
https://www.crossway.org/books/cloud-of-witnesses-fab/
Piercing Heaven
https://lexhampress.com/product/175924/piercing-heaven-prayers-of-the-puritans?queryId=9f5ea390f724c5cdf4990f7682350c1d

2024-09-04 17:37:08

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And where you need to find/foster a community of like minded peers who are all willing to return to first principles and draw out conclusions that go against the zeitgeist. Not for the sake of an echo chamber, but for stability, freedom to openly discuss the ideas, accountability, and to spur one another on. In other words, having good friends.
This is hard to do. But we are made for fellowship and broader peer disapproval is easier to handle when one has a solid, missionally-aligned, like minded community.

2024-09-04 15:04:45

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*I've got my podcast mic dur hur*
https://image.nostr.build/6c0fab6855dba68de45e8a5c53ba3a902bf4b4fe6f41b8fe37ccfc16319cc7e9.jpg

2024-09-04 04:44:54

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Thank you, Rose

2024-09-04 04:32:35

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Thank you! Yes there is a high standard of excellence on the design team and we publish a lot of great content.

2024-09-04 04:31:12

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I wish the answer was yes. Maybe some day.

2024-09-03 22:32:32

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You can do so at crossway.org

2024-09-03 21:50:12

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Welcome to #nostr

2024-09-03 21:13:57

Custom illustrations for the cover of You Will Be My Witnesses, an upcoming book from Crossway.
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https://image.nostr.build/dda39e6bff958df8ac54679488b6903f1fb1aaf08ecefa5db374bc06ea873687.jpg
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#art #artstr #illustration #bookstr #grownostr #plebchain #nostr

2024-09-03 17:03:37

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Pray for reformation and revival

2024-09-03 16:10:22

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Beef sticks
Or beef patties (basically like tiny herb-infused hamburgers that we make a batch of and eat over the course of the week for breakfast or as snacks).

2024-09-03 03:21:35

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Orange standard

2024-09-02 21:34:33

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JoinMarket

2024-09-02 19:14:28

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I'm guessing this one of the primary things the Davos crowd is planning on using digital IDs for.

2024-09-02 01:45:15

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https://image.nostr.build/cde6e7e8aa26b140ba31ee525d5ab52cb311471e73563e41ca7903df7e82f4c9.gif

2024-09-02 00:10:26

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Rare and well done

2024-09-01 18:34:13

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A number of good answers here already so I won't repeat things.
I never spent a ton of time on Big Tech socials specifically promoting my artwork, but experienced enough of it to affirm what others have more thoughtfully pointed out in the past as a foundational issues with content creation and monetization, specifically how content creators are often exploited by the platforms.
Also, between algos and influencer culture the incentives around content creation get weird.
It is very refreshing that V4V is integrated into the fabric of Nostr. It is also fun to be in the early days. Hash tags and communities for art, design, illustration, video, and other creative content are all still in their infancy. This makes being *discovered* a bit easier in some ways and zaps make sharing work more rewarding.
I'm regularly surprised and humbled by the generosity of this community.
It is pretty wild getting zapped in bitcoin for something I did professionally and was initialy paid in fiat to create.
——
Not sure if this suggestion would make Nostr *better* but it would be neat to see a client or two that are designed to be more portfolio oriented and creative-centric. like Dribbble or Behance or Vimeo.

2024-09-01 02:23:28

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Can't make undetected changes without reprints. Harder to censor. More private. Easier on the eyes.
I also enjoy reading books aloud in group settings. A very enjoyable and historically normal way of experiencing a story.

2024-08-31 20:26:08

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What's tricky is that any activity in a profile under a person's real name will very quickly give away that said person is still accessing their account and likely doing so using a VPN.
Only way around that I can think of is to use a VPN ans start a new anon account using a ProtonMail email account so nothing is easily traced back to one's identity.
But I am guessing most people will not be doing this.

2024-08-31 20:21:02

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X does function when using Orbot

2024-08-31 19:27:31

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I would add a fourth.
4. If, when, and how many children you have

2024-08-30 23:45:30

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Thank God for Nostr

2024-08-30 23:43:44

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One way is to see that the accounts of non-anons are still active. They can deduce that said persons are using VPNs.

2024-08-30 23:41:57

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A bit heavy but if you have not seen The King on Netflix, it's an excellent historical fiction

2024-08-30 19:21:08

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Yes I think you're right. And maybe the Davos crowd are the prophets.

2024-08-30 18:55:59

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Scientists are the priests
Activists are the prophets
Philanthropists are the patron saints
Renewables are your tithe

2024-08-30 18:50:56

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Well this seems big

2024-08-30 17:07:22

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*KYCd fiat wages

2024-08-30 16:18:44

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You can search it right in the search bar of whatever client you are using. Location for search option varies by client.

2024-08-30 15:41:54

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You can search by npub. Searching by his username might work but it's a less reliable method.

2024-08-30 15:30:01

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https://image.nostr.build/600c3dfeee2a6888a0a17684f11bc47919f1b91d240536e0d8b5ec86660b4300.jpg

2024-08-30 04:42:53

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On an adjascent note, what I appreciate is the gradations. SimpleX is more ideal than Signal, but Signal is better than standard SMS. And when you help onboard people to some of the *easier* options, or the options that are still slick like Google with marginal privacy improvements, people are more likely to move toward more ideal options in time. That first step is usually the most challenging.

2024-08-30 04:28:06

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Welcome to #nostr

2024-08-30 04:19:20

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So...not in boating accidents?

2024-08-30 02:09:36

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I have not personally used Damus, so not sure.
Can someone help Jason with this question?
#damus #asknostr

2024-08-30 01:53:29

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Best way to get started is finding people through hash tags and looking through people's following/follower lists.
Some top hash tags:
#bitcoin (for bitcoin content)
#grownostr (for everything else)
#plebchain
#nostr
#photography
#bookstr

2024-08-30 01:46:49

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Welcome to Nostr, by the way!

2024-08-30 01:44:16

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More so by putting in the work to curate your own feed with the people and content you want to see. Most clients are not doing this for you.
Another option is to save notes as a private or public bookmark, similar to X. Some clients allow for this.
Searching by a hash tag or key word does sometimes produce the desired result but it isn't often as exact as X.

2024-08-30 00:54:35

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And finally itself

2024-08-29 21:52:04

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The plebs:
https://image.nostr.build/7c13252a20f6d2ad11ff9ee539ad520bdac34043a5c9680aaf5088176592b7ca.gif

2024-08-29 21:03:21

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Give the pleb some time, not everyone lives on Nostr 😅

2024-08-29 20:48:26

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Agreed. God is a father, and all earhtly rule is modeling something of the fatherhood of God.
In the home it is familial fathers, in the church it is ecclesiological fathers, and in the civic sphere it is city fathers.
A man in authority may model God the father well or poorly, be a good father or a bad father, but in either case he is a father.

2024-08-29 20:44:16

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Yes, sarcasm 😅

2024-08-29 20:43:36

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I suppose you could say they are trapped haha, but I think a healthier framing is that they are given by God and entrusted to my care as a parent. And my argument is that coercion is a natural part of taking dominion. Maybe a helpful way of distinguishing what I mean is that righteous coercion is a tool of just dominion while unrighteous coercion is a weapon for unjust domination.
Government (the magistrate) is more than a shared illusion though, because people have to order themselves in a civil society somehow and Scripture is pretty clear that the magistrate is a part of God's intended order.
And forgive me if I have not been clear, I am not trying to invoke God to justify the actions of unjust rulers. Quite the opposite. What I am saying is that God intentionally created a world in which there are various ranks of authority and rule and that the magistrate isn't in itself bad, illusory, or even a "necessary evil" that we simply have to put up with, but rather when godly men rule in the fear of the Lord the magistrate is doing what it ought to do—punish the wrongdoer, elevate the righteous, protect property rights.
When the magistrate becomes the thing it is supposed to protect against (extortionists, thieves, murderers, etc) then it is right and just for the people to resist such tyranny.

2024-08-29 20:35:15

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I agree that human agency is a factor in the allowance of evil, though I draw distinction in thinking that human choice is the primary reason for God allowing evil.
The reasons for the allowance of evil on the part of a just, holy, and loving God are going to vary—sometimes it is for disciplinary purposes (like a father would discipline the son in whom he loves), sometimes it is allowing an unruly and rebellious people to have exactly what they want and be faced with the consequences (Example: We don't want to submit to the good design for sex as being between one man and one woman in marriage and instead give God the middle finger by fornicating outside of marriage and producing pornography and incentivizing adultery and inventing a spectrum of gender identities and castrating young children through surgery and puberty blockers—all of which is disastrous long-term for the stability and health of any civilization, and God simply says "you want that, sure, have at it", allowing people to simply walk headlong into the natural consequences that inevitably come as a result of their rebellion.)
Sometimes the allowance of evil is to display his glory in overcoming that evil. And I'm sure there are many other reasons God in his wisdom has that we in our finitude cannot fathom. That is partly where faith comes in—not blind faith, mind you, but steadfast trust that God is good even when things are bad.

2024-08-29 20:21:21

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Agreed on the importance to address aggression, though I would also say that righteous authority, especially in the home, is not only enforced to stem aggression but also to shape and mold the heart of the child. Modern people have developed a hatred/distrust/resistance to all authority structures but authority is both inevitable and essential. There will always be people in authority over other people—in the home, in the workplace, in the church, and in government—and part of my job is to teach my children what just authority looks like and what right submission to just authority looks like. Likewise, I am to point to unjust authority and help them navigate how to submit to the office said ruler holds while righteously resisting or rejecting the injustice being enacted by the occupant of that office. If my children do not learn how to submit to the authority of someone who loves them, they will not have the tools to honor God in circumstances where authorities that do not love them attempt their compliance/subjugation.
I am not familiar with the book. Thanks for the recommendation!

2024-08-29 20:01:08

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Something about a laptop. Probably nothing important.

2024-08-29 19:55:40

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Go to Telegraph Hill and climb the Greenwich and Filbert steps. The area is beautiful and full of parrots.

2024-08-29 17:27:07

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https://image.nostr.build/6817762032d7cfef4ff895fadba3a4ab7caa59802227bdc1079bbeaf11a8022d.jpg

2024-08-28 21:37:49

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Thank you, Jimmy, for your work. We are all *wealthier* because of it.

2024-08-28 21:33:15

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Thanks! I will add it to my enormous *to read* list.
Yes, I am in the CREC ✌

2024-08-28 20:59:14

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I'll add one more thing, that despite God using unjust and tyrannical rulers for his good purposes, it is equally true that we are to resist unjust rulers and unjust coercion. John Calvin considered governing officials who betray their office to essentially be reduced to private persons, what's more, mere "brigands" and "criminals".
We are to respect the office but rebel against the office holder if that man rules unjustly.

2024-08-28 20:52:53

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Yes! I have not read nearly enough from Kuyper but I have been consciously influenced by his teachings on sphere sovereignty.

2024-08-28 20:51:40

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Good questions.
So the root meaning is basically "dominion" which ties back to Genesis.
As for your second question about coercion, that is a bit more complicated.
The simple answer is that there are plenty of just ways a person may attain authority and rule. That someone would attain authority isn't in itself wrong but, again, an inevitability.
I also should say that coercion once someone is IN authority is baked into the pie. It is not a matter of if they will be coercive but how they will be coercive. Or, put another way, to what end.
For example, I am coercive with my children—I will discipline them if they are rebellious to my authority—but my coercion is aimed in the direction of them being self-disciplined, respectful, and responsible individuals who are not mastered by their emotions and impulses and sins but rather learn how to submit themselves in righteousness to God. My authority as a father is to love them enough to teach them to obey all that God has commanded. That involves coercion.
On the flip side, If I were a tyrannical father I would still have authority over them because of my "governing office" as father but my rule would be using coercion for MY OWN gain, not my children's gain.
This, in principle, is true of magisterial rulers. God calls rulers to love their people and place. To use coercion in righteous ways for the benefit and flourishing of the people.
You specifically asked about attaining power through coercive means. On that note, and this is a harder reality to grapple with, God allows, for his purposes, selfish and evil men to do such things. Just as men can come to power through just means, so they can through unjust means. God is infinitely wise and we often do not understand why he allows all that he does. But, as was stated before, sometimes it is to discipline an unruly peoples. To discipline and rebuke in order to call them back into righteous submission to Christ.
Pardon the novel I wrote in response here. Does all that make sense?

2024-08-28 17:39:55

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Are you a Haunted Cosmos podcast enjoyer? If not, you should be.

2024-08-28 17:39:17

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I won't elaborate for him but I will add that God created a cosmos in which there is hierarchical forms of rule and authority. Christ is king of all existence. He then deligates authority to lesser powers—to his heavenly host (like angels) as well as mankind.
Man as God's image bearer is to take dominion of the earth—to cultivate, subdue, and rule (as God's governors).
God also subdivided his deligated authority to man into four primary forms of government—the church, the magistrate (state), the family, and the individual. Each government has its own specific roles and boundaries—clergy do not declare war, the magistrate does not administer the sacraments, for example.
When man sinned and fell, and all creation was subject to sin, man's governing roles and duties did not change but are now plagued with corruption. Even in a sinful world God did not do away with government. Rather, we are told that God gave the magistrate the sword to reward the just and to punish the unjust.
In 2 Samuel God says "When one rules justly over man, ruling in the fear of God, he dawns on them like the morning light, like the sun shining forth on a cloudless morning, like rain that makes grass sprout from the earth"
In proverbs 29:2, it says "When the rightelus increase, the people flourish, but when the wicked rule, the people groan."
Ultimately we are all under the authority and rule of Christ, whether we accept that reality or not, but not accepting it as a peoples results in evil rulers.
We individually, as households, even as towns and communities and states, can and should resist evil rulers. Part of that resistance is writing code and using open protocols (nostr) and better money (bitcoin). But the heart of that resistance needs to be repentance and a return to rightly ordered rule under the ultimate lordship of Christ.

2024-08-28 16:24:16

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It is possible to spark it, I suppose, but positive traits require discipline and cultivation. Cultivation comes in large part through imitation.
So I am required, as the parent, to model that positive trait, or, where I am deficient, to point them to someone else who models it well (a personal relationship within the broader family or community) that the children can imitate.

2024-08-28 16:13:36

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I imagine many people simply don't know what they are voting for. They just don't pay attention.

2024-08-28 16:10:31

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GM
Glad you did. Our bebe didn't. 😅🥱

2024-08-28 13:29:11

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GM sir

2024-08-28 02:43:13

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😤

2024-08-28 02:40:01

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Ah, you're a OG sellout

2024-08-28 02:38:36

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Thanks! Was among the most enjoyable illustrations to do in the series

2024-08-28 02:37:35

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Thanks, B

2024-08-28 02:33:05

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Welcome to #nostr.
Check out #grownostr and #plebchain for people to follow and interact with.
Explore other hash tags.
Post content that interest you.
Double check all your notes before posting. Typos are forever.

2024-08-28 02:23:51

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Saying anything online has consiquences because saying anything at all has consiquences.
That said, here there is no CEO or board, there is no centralized server, there isn't only one onramp, there isn't the limitation of only going through walled garden app stores, and there is no way to delete content.
It isn't completely immune from government intrusion or overreach, but it is much harder to kill, harder to censor, and harder to manipulate.

2024-08-28 02:16:24

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Yeah. Behind the purist and zealous confrontation are often people that don't really know what it takes to run a business and see using platforms like X (now dogmatically anathema) for business as *selling out* or somehow not *truly* being missionally aligned with freedom tech.
Keep going man. You're putting in the work and providing value.

2024-08-27 21:23:17

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But, Sergio, are those professionals cracking your knuckles????
No? Contradiction solved. Your welcome.

2024-08-27 21:07:18

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Hello and welcome to #nostr

2024-08-27 21:06:37

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Hello and welcome to #nostr

2024-08-27 21:05:28

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A zap is when someone sends you sats. You can set up a lightning or ecash address to receives them. If you want to know more you can #asknostr