Marakesh 𓅦

Christ Follower • Truth Seeker • Freedom Lover

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2024-09-16 18:17:13

Neither a democrat nor a republican be.
#anarchy #voluntarism #GovtIsTheProblem
https://open.substack.com/pub/christophercook/p/democracy-turns-us-into-crappier

2024-09-16 06:43:44

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Do you think the United States should do this too, in regard to all of the illegal immigrants that have come in? Trump never did answer in the debate how he would deport them all. I recall in the past talk of people "self-deporting." Maybe paying them off is a way to get it done. Heck, I'll bet there's some American citizens who would accept $31,000 to emigrate to some other country!

2024-09-12 04:03:15

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I have never understood where the Catholics and even the Orthodox get off on calling people "Father so and so" when this to me seems to be a clear violation of what Jesus said.
I really hate how the Catholics call the Pope "Holy Father" when that is what Jesus called His Father, God! (See John 17)
In light of this commandment, I've even stopped using titles like "Pastor so and so," or "Elder so and so," because I think Jesus was telling His followers not to use such honorifics. And if you encounter someone who gets offended when you don't use such a title for them I think you have identified someone with a problem!

2024-09-12 03:39:29

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Again Jesus:
“But you are not to be called rabbi, for you have one teacher, and you are all brothers. And call no man your father on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven. Neither be called instructors, for you have one instructor, the Christ. The greatest among you shall be your servant. Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”
https://ref.ly/Mt23.8-12 via the Logos Bible Android app.

2024-09-12 03:29:40

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“But Jesus called them to him and said, 'You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. It shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be your slave, even as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.'”
https://ref.ly/Mt20.25-28 via the Logos Bible Android app.

2024-09-12 02:29:27

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There was a mass shooting there some years ago and after that Australia confiscated the guns, is my understanding. @nprofile…5tt2 can probably be more specific.

2024-09-11 04:25:12

#ConspiracyToday
#nevent1q…vfeg

2024-09-10 21:56:02

"Rebellion is ALWAYS on the minds of the elites. In a way, they want it, but they want it in small doses that are easy to manage. They want a “terrorist” enemy they can use to frighten the public into supporting martial law, but what happens if too many in the public join that rebellion?
"What globalists and leftists are truly afraid of is large scale rebellion that they can’t control. The kind of rebellion that could end with the elites on the chopping block. They will do anything to avoid widespread revolution which is why they’re willing to take the risk of open mass censorship today. They know what is coming and they’re moving to mitigate the spread of anti-globalist views as much as possible before things get out of hand."
https://alt-market.us/time-to-rebel-we-are-now-entering-the-total-censorship-stage-of-global-tyranny/#:~:text=Rebellion%20is%20ALWAYS,out%20of%20hand.

2024-09-10 05:36:41

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No one. The text just says he died.
God had said Moses would not be allowed to enter the Promised Land because of his sin at the waters of Meribah (Deuteronomy 32:51–52).
I also believe that symbolism was involved. Moses represents the Old Covenant; it would only get you so far. Joshua (Jesus in Greek) completes the work and leads God's people into the Promised Land, just as Jesus Christ fulfilled the Old Covenant and leads God's people into their inheritance.

2024-09-08 16:28:17

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Wars, assassinations...
I hear the CIA used grow opium in Afghanistan and ran drugs into the U.S.A.
They also have tech companies in Silicon Valley, like InQTel that spy on everyone and sells their data.

2024-09-08 16:02:43

schade

2024-09-08 15:16:06

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https://image.nostr.build/6717c7f20904f4f32bbc0f6ee65ae680fca08dc281b49928df8b831c88098fd3.jpg

2024-09-08 02:08:53

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Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Can you elaborate on what you mean by "It seems they do this to distance science from religion and to close the discussion before the wealthiest can fit God into the narrative"?

2024-09-07 23:31:48

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Yes, but the Democrats glibly reply that the two parties switched places, and their people believe that and keep voting Democrat.

2024-09-07 23:18:24

Why have they stopped having audiences at the presidential debates?
#asknostr

2024-09-07 19:36:55

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Venice.ai got it right.
https://image.nostr.build/be3ddb1232e61a2fcbb58d70a2a595b7db7c7fb55605527f7ac8b9b158c03b30.jpg
I asked it a second time and it got it wrong 🙃
https://image.nostr.build/78ab607f904c51f4a54e76c9af544903b702d9b70b769f9a4e8dcd059faa6c67.jpg

2024-09-06 13:03:09

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I am not the ReplyGuy 😄

2024-09-06 13:00:01

ReplyGuy seems to have figured out a workaround to getting blocked by keywords... 😩
https://image.nostr.build/22280e8d4571a5780a0f8c98bd29c8b23915246d1aed4412597d646b1472e2c9.jpg

2024-09-05 20:41:48

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Court nixes Internet Archive library
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/court-nixes-internet-archive-library-6153412/
Lame.
#bookstr #newstr

2024-09-05 17:28:36

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I'd like to see X run their own Nostr relay and give all of their users a bridge to interact with Nostr users, like the Fediverse and BlueSky and Threads people supposedly can. Let's truly have a public square instead of a bunch of walled gardens.

2024-09-05 17:10:13

What's with all the ReplyGuy responses on this post?
#asknostr
#nevent1q…5gkl

2024-09-05 04:57:17

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- **Snow Crash**: Neal Stephenson
- **Stranger in a Strange Land**: Robert A. Heinlein
- **The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress**: Robert A. Heinlein
- **Starship Troopers**: Robert A. Heinlein
- **The Heorot Trilogy**: Stephen R. Donaldson
- **The Freehold Series**: Michael Z. Williamson
- **An Enemy of the State**: F. Paul Wilson
- **Voyage from Yesteryear**: James P. Hogan
- **Alongside Night**: J. Neil Schulman

2024-09-05 03:02:51

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Libertarian or Anarchist Sci-Fi books?
I mainly read non-fiction these days but in my younger days I read a lot of fiction, especially sci-fi.
What are some good #libertarian or even #anarchist or anarcho-capitalist #sci-fi books you can recommend?
A few that I have heard of but have not read myself yet are :
- Snow Crash
- Stranger in a Strange Land
- The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress
- Starship Troopers
- The Heorot trilogy
- The Freehold series
- An Enemy of the State
- Voyage from Yesteryear
- Alongside Night

2024-09-05 01:52:07

https://image.nostr.build/0a6c32596d869685d6b7890b69b6e5b014fea50daf0e03aadb0befa58c3d3f1f.jpg
#nevent1q…hgsy

2024-09-04 17:18:04

“[I]ndividual rights isn’t (sic) nullified on public property”
– U.S. District Judge Iain D. Johnston
#nevent1q…vxq2
Self defense is a basic, natural right. There shouldn't be "public property" anyway. If this were privately owned transit that had a no firearms rule, the question would be solved, and the transit operator would be liable for the security of the passengers. On "public transit" can you expect the government to protect you, while they try to forbid from having the means to defend yourself?

2024-09-04 16:54:09

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@nprofile…y0sj, was this you back in 2016? 😄 https://image.nostr.build/886b2361c494e31a3ef0b90c89cdd1fba1006a6bdfb76add1840365f7fc266b3.jpg

2024-09-04 15:11:16

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I thought you would understand the analogy.

2024-09-04 14:26:09

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I once heard Dave Smith, who is a member of (((The Tribe))), compare the Palestinian situation to what it would be like if America still had it's Japanese concentration camps from World War II, and four generations of people had now grown up in them, still being oppressed...

2024-09-04 08:57:40

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"only eight EV charging stations get built for $7.5-billion allocated to the Department of Transportation"
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/the-significance-of-the-passage-of-time/#:~:text=only%20eight%20EV%20charging%20stations%20get%20built%20for%20%247.5%2Dbillion%20allocated%20to%20the%20Department%20of%20Transportation

2024-09-04 08:56:15

Is this an accurate summation of "the past four years in Biden-Land"?
"...open borders, war for the sake of arms profiteers, flagrant censorship, inflation, cratering business activity, and overt DOJ political persecutions."
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/the-significance-of-the-passage-of-time/#:~:text=the%20past%20four%20years%20in%20Biden%2DLand%20%E2%80%94%20which%20is%20to%20say%2C%20open%20borders%2C%20war%20for%20the%20sake%20of%20arms%20profiteers%2C%20flagrant%20censorship%2C%20inflation%2C%20cratering%20business%20activity%2C%20and%20overt%20DOJ%20political%20persecutions.

2024-09-04 06:53:30

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Is that something like "If you're born only once, you die twice, but if you're born twice you only die once?"

2024-09-04 06:36:37

In two weeks, a Democrat judge is slated to sentence Trump to prison...
"Is it chaos that the elite want? Are the tyrannical elite hoping that Trump’s imprisonment will cause people to pour into the streets, thus permitting the Democrat regime to declare an insurrection and arrest all Republican members of Congress, all Republican governors, and all Republican state legislatures?"
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2024/09/03/tyranny-is-closer-than-you-realize/#:~:text=Is%20it%20chaos,Republican%20state%20legislatures%3F

2024-09-04 03:02:56

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"I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room."
–Blaise Pascal, Pensées, 139

2024-09-04 02:58:16

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Yeah. I don't think employers should just expect employees to be available after hours, if that wasn't explained and agreed upon in advance, nor should someone then be fired for not being available.

2024-09-04 02:17:18

"Could you actually take a vaccine inadvertently by close contact, kissing, sexual contact, [or] breastfeeding? It looks like the answer is ‘yes.’
"...'the vaccine accelerates death from other causes. So, if someone has cancer, the vaccine accelerates that. If someone has heart disease, one is more likely to have fatal heart attacks and strokes … The vaccines cause blood clotting … The vaccine is incredibly risky, and basically, it’s achieving its goal. If the goal was to reduce the world’s population, it’s working.'"
–Dr. Peter McCullough
#nevent1q…n28p

2024-09-04 01:58:29

"Government coercion and violence are on the rise because Westerners see through the rigged “negotiations” of their fake “democracies.” It’s why #Germany disenfranchises conservatives, #France arrests the CEOs of free speech platforms, #Brazil bans Elon Musk’s X, the #UK treats “anti-Establishment rhetoric” as a crime, and the United States persecutes J6 political prisoners.
"Daddy Government is afraid because his “children” are done negotiating."
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/09/daddy_government_is_afraid_of_his_rebellious_children.html#:~:text=Government%20coercion%20and,are%20done%20negotiating.

2024-09-04 01:55:32

"When we speak about a “Great Awakening” happening in America and throughout the West, what we are talking about is a growing public recognition among citizens that their governments have long been “negotiating” in bad faith."
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/09/daddy_government_is_afraid_of_his_rebellious_children.html#:~:text=When%20we%20speak%20about%20a%20%E2%80%9CGreat%20Awakening%E2%80%9D%20happening%20in%20America%20and%20throughout%20the%20West%2C%20what%20we%20are%20talking%20about%20is%20a%20growing%20public%20recognition%20among%20citizens%20that%20their%20governments%20have%20long%20been%20%E2%80%9Cnegotiating%E2%80%9D%20in%20bad%20faith.

2024-09-03 20:59:12

Is that a baby Dune sandworm?
But there's no such bodies of water on Arrakis...
#nevent1q…4sh0
#Dune #scifi #sci-fi

2024-09-03 20:21:01

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Would a spirit-being need or care about money? They're on a whole other plane.

2024-09-03 20:18:41

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Well, it's not apathy, which some say is actually the opposite of love.

2024-09-03 20:09:31

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90% of all space-based Internet traffic is too centralized...

2024-09-03 20:05:33

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I agree with you that Talmudic Judaism or Talmudism is not of God. God decisively brought an end to the Old Covenant when He destroyed the Temple in 70 A.D., putting a stop to the sacrifices and offerings there ( https://ref.ly/Da9.27 ).
But, @nprofile…swhh, do you love your brothers and sisters, the Jews?

2024-09-03 19:47:22

## Don't trust, verify ##
“Returning from the tomb, they reported all these things to the Eleven and to all the rest. Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the other women with them were telling the apostles these things. But these words seemed like nonsense to them, and they did not believe the women. Peter, however, got up and ran to the tomb. When he stooped to look in, he saw only the linen cloths. So he went away, amazed at what had happened.”
https://ref.ly/Lk24.9-12 via the Logos #Bible Android app.
#DailyWord

2024-09-03 19:31:28

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Smart woman 😄

2024-09-03 16:42:32

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Do you think the government is more responsive to you, or to Walmart?
But I agree, corporations are not the root of the problem. But they are "corporate" entities, like the government, and are creations of the State and have special privileges.
I plan to read up some on Britain's East India Company and the Dutch East India Company, which were two armed corporations that behaved like states and had the backing of their governments.
As I'm sure you know, even the CIA has front companies it uses abroad as well as some in Silicon Valley, like InQTel, to carry out the government's nefarious deeds. I think we've entered a phase of fascism, in the sense of government coordinating with corporations ("public-private partnerships"), through entities like BlackRock, State Street and others, to push things like DEI, the LGBTQ agenda, transgenderism, COVID and the vaccines, censorship, surveillance, election manipulation, etc.
Using corporations, governments have been able to do things with less pushback than they would get if done outright by the government. All that said, I'm not against businesses, but I do oppose their capture by and collusion with the State.

2024-09-03 15:45:26

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I wouldn't say Elon does. I saw a statement by him the other day saying that he is sure that government will try to regulate X if Harris is installed.

2024-09-03 15:26:27

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I have observed this, and I wonder if it's like nature's way of helping older people hear better?
https://media.tenor.com/EYhxQvaOJ0YAAAAC/turn-it-up-grandpa.gif

2024-09-03 15:18:10

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Is this an actual claim that people have made about the Titanic? I've never heard that one, although I've heard a lot of strange "coincidences" in relation to the Titanic tragedy...
#asknostr

2024-09-03 14:50:01

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If I recall correctly, wasn't CNN present with cameras rolling for the predawn raid and arrest of Roger Stone? Obviously someone in the #DeepState tipped them off.
There also this interesting fact (coincidence?): photographer Doug Mills who captured the photo of the bullet whizzing towards Trump's ear
https://image.nostr.build/d1dbb8d119c883aefa1248cf85025ca2c914b8221a5764f22bc1c49aa12353de.jpg
was also present on 9/11 to snap an iconic of Bush being informed on the Twin Tower attacks:
https://image.nostr.build/3973e39a22ae26633605f3f138d1073cf543c26f05f56d2ff4a87690e0c1a984.jpg

2024-09-03 06:00:54

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The human heart is this amazing motor that just keeps pumping for decades! Have humans ever developed a machine that has worked continuously for as long? (And then there are those creatures that live even longer than humans...)

2024-09-03 05:54:01

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So I implemented this setup but does it mean that people can't access my notes if my phone is offline until it's back online?

2024-09-02 20:26:36

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Simply put:
If taxation is robbery, and
Robbery is not Christian, then
Taxation is not Christian.
The same goes for inflation, which is theft.

2024-09-02 20:11:12

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Right. The Pharisees proved themselves hypocrites for even having the idolatrous coinage on them.
Another evidence that Jesus' words may have actually been against paying taxes to Caesar is that this is what He was accused of before Pilate. Sure, they also brought false witnesses and accusations as well, but not everything they charged Him with was false:
> “Then their whole assembly rose up and brought him before Pilate. They began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man misleading our nation, opposing payment of taxes to Caesar, and saying that he himself is the Messiah, a king.”
https://ref.ly/Lk23.1-2 via the Logos #Bible Android app.
Perhaps they actually understood the meaning of Jesus' clever response to give back to Caesar what is Caesar's and to God what belongs to God.
But then, what do you you do with Jesus' apostles like Paul and Peter who said to pay taxes to whom taxes are due?
My current answer on that is, are taxes REALLY due to them? You didn't consent, right? so it's robbery. Do you actually OWE a robber anything they take from you? If Caesar (or the Mafia, or an organization calling themselves your government, though you didn't freely agree to that) rides into town and demands you pay them for their "services" (protection or whatever) even though you didn't ask for it, are you thereby obligated to give them your money? Doesn't that violate God's commandment "You shall not steal"?
The coins had Caesar's image on them. He coined them and distributed them, so they came from him and were his, so give them back to Caesar. They shouldn't have been using Caesar's money. The Jews actually had their own coinage as well (though they might have been forced to pay taxes in Roman coins).
Most of our government currencies today have the faces of political leaders on them. The U.S. dollar, for example, has the face of George Washington on it, so I suppose one should render back to Washington that which is Washington's. Perhaps one lesson is that Christians and others shouldn't be using government-issued currency. Maybe we should get back to using free-market currencies like gold or silver or #Bitcoin.
#DailyWord

2024-09-02 18:39:51

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First they came for the Christians for citing Bible verses in public.
Then they came after the pro-lifers for praying outside of abortion clinics...

2024-09-02 16:08:44

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## Globalists Are Trying To Escalate The Ukraine War Into WWIII Before The US Election ##
https://alt-market.us/globalists-are-trying-to-escalate-the-ukraine-war-into-wwiii-before-the-us-election/
(I haven't even read it yet, the title just looked like an answer to your question, to me)

2024-09-02 09:54:23

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It's easier to go after the low-hanging fruit and get the easy win.

2024-09-02 09:10:31

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How about this for a slogan?:
"Social media that doesn't zuck"

2024-09-02 08:12:22

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Yeah, I'm pretty much on Russia's side in this conflict, though I really just want the killing to stop.
I would ask what you went to prison for, but I know that's not polite. But I've also found that people who have been locked up often seem to bring that fact up.

2024-09-02 07:56:48

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It seems similar to what happens to people in countries that let governments take their guns away...

2024-09-02 07:49:14

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Ok, the same source, Wikipedia, calls Konrad Zuse's computer ""the world's first programmable computer"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Zuse#:~:text=the%20world%27s%20first%20programmable%20computer

2024-09-02 07:43:50

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Perplexity.ai says it was the Budapest Memorandum (though I know AI sometimes hallucinates)
https://www.perplexity.ai/search/what-happened-to-the-nuclear-w-U0Wsn5YvTF2.dd2PIlU7kw#0

2024-09-02 06:20:41

#TodayILearned that when the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991, Ukraine inherited the world's third largest nuclear arsenal with some 1,700 warheads.
In 1994, #Ukraine gave up its nukes, transferring them to #Russia, in exchange for security guarantees from the US, UK, and Russia.
With Russia's recent invasion of Ukraine, Russia is considered to be in violation of this agreement, and some think it was a mistake for Ukraine to give up it's nukes.
#TIL

2024-09-02 00:00:19

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Incidentally, Dr. William Lane Craig mentions the story "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding as an example of how evil humans can be. However, a real life incident where a group of schoolboys were marooned on an island in 1965 turned out very differently...
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/09/the-real-lord-of-the-flies-what-happened-when-six-boys-were-shipwrecked-for-15-months

2024-09-01 23:39:24

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Satan means "the adversary," and is also used as a proper name.
He is also called the devil, and Beelzebub/Baalzebul, the prince of demons, whom Israel's neighbors, the Philistines worshiped; they worshiped Satan.
The apostle Paul said that worshipers of the Greco-Roman gods were worshiping demons, not God.
Satan is also called a liar and a murderer from the beginning.
He is also called the ruler of this world (John 14:30, 31) and that "the whole world lies in the power of the evil one" (1 John 5:19).
Satan is even called the god of this world (2 Corinthians 4:4). 👀
"You've got several scriptural passages that seem to suggest that he [Satan] is in control here, that he's controlling how things are going. Now of course, this is only within the overall providence of God. But it would make more intelligible why there is so much evil and horror in this world. We are living in a world that is in the control of this malevolent being that is opposed to God and His purposes."
"Job does illustrate how God gives Satan scope to do these evil, horrible things to Job, but only within the limits set by God. Remember our lessons on Divine Providence, how, especially on a molinist view, everything that happens is either by God's direct will or permission.
"So ultimately, God is in control but he allows this renegade demon to wreak havoc throughout the earth, upon humanity, but only insofar as will redound ultimately to God's saving purposes for establishing His kingdom. So please don't misunderstand me to think that I'm saying God isn't in control."
"Satan is presented as this powerful and evil adversary of the work of God and the kingdom of God, with whom we have to contend."

2024-09-01 17:11:20

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I didn't plan this (maybe the Lord did?), but one of my favorite #Bible teachers is also teaching about Satan today...
https://www.youtube.com/live/TMg9ZnzRm2Y

2024-09-01 16:19:41

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“Simon, Simon [a.k.a. Peter], look out. Satan has asked to sift you like wheat. But I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail. And you, when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.”
https://ref.ly/Lk22.31-32 via the Logos Bible Android app.

2024-09-01 16:03:44

“Then Satan entered Judas, called Iscariot...”
https://ref.ly/Lk22.3 via the Logos #Bible Android app.
It's interesting to contemplate Satan entering a person. I wonder how often he does that and if you or I have ever seen someone inhabited by Satan? As a spirit, he can do that, but unlike God, he is not omnipresent. He has to be in one place at a time, like you or I, although certainly he is networked, like you and I. In this age of television and video it is possible we may have seen someone inhabited by Satan on screen. Do any candidates come to mind?
Since Satan cannot be everywhere at all times (though perhaps there are demons or other devils in various places and possibly in various people), he probably prioritizes his time and who he deals with. He deals with the powerful and important, I would think. He entered Judas because Judas was close to Jesus, who was God now come to Earth bodily. There was no more important place for Satan to be while Jesus walked throughout Judea, I'd wager, even though he had emperors and kings and other warlords in distant places wreaking havoc throughout the world. Since Jesus could see things spiritually that merely natural human eyes could not, perhaps He often saw Satan lurking among the crowds that came to hear Him preach, or even in smaller, more intimate settings, when it was just Him and His disciples. Once, when His disciple Peter rebuked Jesus (!) for telling them that He was going to be killed Jesus snapped back “Get behind me, Satan! You are a hindrance to me because you’re not thinking about God’s concerns but human concerns” (Matthew 16:23). Was that an instance where Satan had also entered Peter? Or had he just given Peter those words to say and Jesus was simply addressing the evil entity behind them?
I have to run, but just wanted to share these reflections and questions. What do you think? Perhaps you don't even believe that Satan exists. It has been said that one of the most important things Satan would like to do is to get people to believe he doesn't exist. Ever since the Garden of Eden Satan has been on mission to get humans to disbelieve, contradict, and disobey what God has said...
#DailyWord

2024-09-01 02:19:05

#TodayILearned Osama bin Laden's brother, Salem bin Laden, invested in George W. Bush's oil startup in 1979.
#TIL

2024-08-31 07:05:46

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Yeah, I look for meats now not treated with nitrates or nitrites.
As for shrimp, I like them but hate when they haven't been de-💩ed! I guess that's extra protein or something, but 🤮!

2024-08-31 06:52:33

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Not even the smell of frying bacon? 🥓

2024-08-30 22:56:18

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...by means of kleptocracy.

2024-08-30 18:51:14

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I say if Jesus ate meat, I'ma eat meat.
The sacrifices of ancient Israel were big barbecues...

2024-08-30 18:35:36

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#Jesus loves vegans, too, btw 😄

2024-08-30 18:28:45

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#nevent1q…62dx

2024-08-30 18:28:21

And had He stayed dead, He would have been long forgotten...
“And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins.”
–Paul the Apostle of Jesus Christ
1 Corinthians 15:17
https://ref.ly/1Co15.17 via the Logos #Bible Android app.
#nevent1q…0zwt

2024-08-30 08:06:22

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J/k! 😆
Where we're going, you won't need money or stores of value... thieves don't break in, and moths don't destroy your clothes...

2024-08-30 06:35:29

Let's hope this is wrong 😱
"No matter how prepared you think you are for the dreadful challenges ahead, the level of violence likely to overwhelm the world will be shocking and disconcerting to even the most hardened and toughest individuals. Is anyone really prepared for their bank accounts to be drained by shadowy entities; empty grocery shelves; the power grid being down, attacks from within and from without; and hordes of armed gangs roaming the streets and countryside?
"Chaos is going to reign, especially if #Trump manages to defy the odds and be elected. Those who conspired against him are willing to destroy the world rather than face the consequences of their traitorous schemes. The end of an empire, which refuses to accept its pre-ordained fate, will not be pretty. The facts are unequivocally bad, and feelings, gender gibberish, diversity and inclusion bullshit, and what you are told to believe by the regime media and your glorious leaders, won’t matter when every day becomes a matter of life or death."
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2024/08/26/countdown-to-crisis-catastrophe-and-collapse/#:~:text=No%20matter%20how,life%20or%20death.

2024-08-30 06:22:22

"The next three months could see the onset of WW3, the latest heavily marketed plandemic (monkeypox, bird flu, #covid variant 9.0, West Nile or some Gates mosquito virus), more assassination attempts, false flag terrorist incidents to create civil chaos, and if #Trump wins – cities burning as the BLM and ANTIFA terrorists are activated by Soros and Obama.
"I don’t know what will happen in the coming months, but I do know it will not be uneventful. Fourth Turnings always intensify towards violent upheaval, death, destruction, and clear winners and losers. No matter the outcome of this election, violence will follow as the losing side will not accept defeat. I expect civil war to be coupled with global conflict as we travel towards some type of climax and resolution by 2032, twenty-four years after this crisis was triggered in 2008 by the Fed and their Wall Street owners."
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2024/08/26/countdown-to-crisis-catastrophe-and-collapse/#:~:text=The%20next%20three%20months%20could,and%20their%20Wall%20Street%20owners.

2024-08-30 06:16:33

"But we know presidents are selected, not elected. And we know those counting the votes are all that matter in the end."
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2024/08/26/countdown-to-crisis-catastrophe-and-collapse/#:~:text=But%20we%20know%20presidents%20are%20selected%2C%20not%20elected.%20And%20we%20know%20those%20counting%20the%20votes%20are%20all%20that%20matter%20in%20the%20end.
#democracy

2024-08-30 06:14:07

"They will gladly sacrifice our children to retain and expand their wealth, power and glory."
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2024/08/26/countdown-to-crisis-catastrophe-and-collapse/#:~:text=They%20will%20gladly%20sacrifice%20our%20children%20to%20retain%20and%20expand%20their%20wealth%2C%20power%20and%20glory.

2024-08-30 06:11:54

"The U.S. blew up the Nordstream pipeline and continues to peddle utterly ridiculous tripe about some drunken Ukrainians blowing it up from their dinghy."
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2024/08/26/countdown-to-crisis-catastrophe-and-collapse/#:~:text=The%20U.S.%20blew%20up%20the%20Nordstream%20pipeline%20and%20continues%20to%20peddle%20utterly%20ridiculous%20tripe%20about%20some%20drunken%20Ukrainians%20blowing%20it%20up%20from%20their%20dinghy.

2024-08-30 06:09:41

"The other major development over the last several weeks is the fact we are actively fighting a war with #Russia. Everyone knows we’ve provided a couple hundred billion in “military aid” to Zelensky, which is essentially funneled to U.S. arms dealers, after Zelensky and his nazi apparatchiks take their slice. But the invasion of Russia and the pinpoint drone attacks on bridges, oil refineries, nuclear power plants, and other civilian targets have been conducted with U.S. hardware, U.S. logistical planning, and U.S. drone operators.
"...U.S. personnel are conducting military operations against Russia, meaning we are conducting an undeclared war against Putin, and he knows it."
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2024/08/26/countdown-to-crisis-catastrophe-and-collapse/#:~:text=The%20other%20major,he%20knows%20it.

2024-08-30 06:01:59

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"There has been a monumental effort by the regime media to produce fake polls showing kackling Kamala ahead or even with Trump. This is an essential ingredient to stealing the election with fake and illegal immigrant mail-in ballots stuffed into ballot boxes by Soros paid flunkies."
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2024/08/26/countdown-to-crisis-catastrophe-and-collapse/#:~:text=There%20has%20been%20a%20monumental%20effort%20by%20the%20regime%20media%20to%20produce%20fake%20polls%20showing%20kackling%20Kamala%20ahead%20or%20even%20with%20Trump.%20This%20is%20an%20essential%20ingredient%20to%20stealing%20the%20election%20with%20fake%20and%20illegal%20immigrant%20mail%2Din%20ballots%20stuffed%20into%20ballot%20boxes%20by%20Soros%20paid%20flunkies.

2024-08-30 05:54:10

"They need the polls to be close enough that they can activate their cheating machine to steal the election again. Those fake mail-in ballots aren’t going to fill themselves in and be dumped into the collection bins at 3:00 am. It was clear Biden was going to lose in a landslide, so they needed to adjust their plans."
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2024/08/26/countdown-to-crisis-catastrophe-and-collapse/#:~:text=They%20need%20the,adjust%20their%20plans.

2024-08-30 05:28:20

"We shrug off Ukraine invading Russia and bombing a nuclear power plant,
while Belarus moves troops towards the Ukraine border,
Putin bombs Kiev, and
U.S. military equipment is employed by U.S. military personnel against Russia."
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2024/08/26/countdown-to-crisis-catastrophe-and-collapse/#:~:text=We%20shrug%20off%20Ukraine%20invading%20Russia%20and%20bombing%20a%20nuclear%20power%20plant%2C%20while%20Belarus%20moves%20troops%20towards%20the%20Ukraine%20border%2C%20Putin%20bombs%20Kiev%2C%20and%20U.S.%20military%20equipment%20is%20employed%20by%20U.S.%20military%20personnel%20against%20Russia.

2024-08-30 05:07:22

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Will it be you yourself? (#voluntarism #anarchy)
Or others deciding for you? (#republic #democracy)

2024-08-30 03:07:22

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Is Jesus Christ the Tao, and was Lao Tzu His prophet in China?
https://image.nostr.build/faf7980e1dbfdb88414f7ecc6154beed7dfe20536a593d3831f9117717f22340.png
Just found a cheap, used copy in great condition of *Christ the Eternal Tao* by Hieromonk Damascene (who sounds Orthodox; it remains to be seen if he is orthodox).
The back cover states that
> *Christ the Eternal Tao* shows Lao Tzu's Tao Teh Ching as a foreshadowing of what would be revealed by Christ, and Lao Tzu himself as a Far-Eastern prophet of the Incarnate God.
😲🧐
Has anyone already read it?

2024-08-29 18:29:13

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The dollar is still accepted because of the faith people have in it (which I think is based on US taxes and military force), and this also gives it some value because there is demand for dollars.
But if taxes are irrelevant then I'm all for a movement to scrap them!

2024-08-29 16:01:19

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I've also heard people naively say that since the government can just print money they don't need to collect taxes. While this is false (see my previous note), if enough people believe it, perhaps we could start a movement to eliminate income on that basis. 😏

2024-08-29 03:54:35

"You do not have a right to initiate coercive force. You DO have a right deploy protective force in your own defense.
"Thus, ours is a philosophy of peace, but not pacifism." https://image.nostr.build/4997196211eba9a9ec6b212cd2fe3f931c285ba32f5fea9a1239563d705d1e7a.jpg

2024-08-29 02:47:55

"In the following century, classical-liberal thinkers such as Lysander Spooner and Auberon Herbert began to pull on that thread, and in the century-plus since, others have unravelled it completely. There is good reason to believe that order can be maintained without empowering a government that violates individual rights every day, as a part of its normal operations."
https://christophercook.substack.com/p/make-founding-fathers-proud#:~:text=In%20the%20following,its%20normal%20operations.
#anarchy #libertarian #voluntarism

2024-08-29 02:44:06

"He [John Locke], the rest of the natural lawyers, the American Founders, and all who have since emulated them thus proceeded with two assumptions:
"1. It is possible to create and maintain a sufficiently limited government, and
"2. It is not possible to create or maintain sufficient order without some government.
"Both of these appear to be incorrect (albeit understandable).
"They knew government was a dangerous beast. But in their era, no one had yet thought of any way to maintain sufficient order without government. In the absence of being able to think of an alternative, they accepted the Faustian bargain.
"This forced them into the unenviable position of having to hold their noses and impose a “social contract” by force, and then to claim that your consent to it is “tacit” and “implied.”
"Deep down, they surely must have known that this was a tawdry workaround for the conundrum. Even in the most charitable reading, it is a philosophical cheat-code—to get around the problem that the thing they were creating would be violating, as a normal part of is functions, the very thing they sought to protect. The thing they cherished most. Our natural rights."
https://christophercook.substack.com/p/make-founding-fathers-proud?triedRedirect=true#:~:text=He%2C%20the%20rest,Our%20natural%20rights.
#anarchy #libertarian #voluntarism

2024-08-28 17:41:07

🎼🎶"Mama went to sleep on this side,
and woke up in Paradise.
"Oh, but how I miss her so,
More than you will ever know..." 🎵
https://song.link/us/i/400849753
#tunestr

2024-08-28 17:06:31

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Even the Founders were opposed to democracy, but somehow Jefferson's party became called the "Democrats," or "Democratic-Republicans" (maybe we should call today's uniparty that), and was sometimes referred to as "the Democracy."
And today's Democrats seem to want to replace the idea of the US being a republic with the idea that it is a democracy, which is interesting given what Hoppe says about democracy's connection to communism...

2024-08-28 15:21:13

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unleashed.chat

2024-08-28 04:45:05

Is this how "The Man of Sin" commonly called "the Antichrist" arrives on the scene?
#nevent1q…vp82
#maranatha

2024-08-28 04:42:27

"Klaus Schwab’s organization is promising civil unrest, economic collapse, World War III, and the evaporation of a nation. They will use all of the aforementioned fear tactics to drain the people of their power. The globalists are willing to batter the masses with a series of attacks that will act as a staunch warning that there is nowhere to run. The government will come in to save the day from the crises they create. Which government? A global government that is capable of assembling to control the entire human population."
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/great-reset/klaus-schwab-warns-of-an-era-of-shock-events/#:~:text=Klaus%20Schwab%E2%80%99s%20organization,entire%20human%20population.

2024-08-28 04:31:16

"Sooner or later the world will realize that we’re never going to repay the money we owe, and they’ll turn off the lending tap.
"And, when that happens, the final collapse is just days away. When every federal employee doesn’t get paid, and every welfare check and Social Security payment fails to arrive, the US will be blown apart."
https://earlking56.family.blog/2024/08/26/5-signs-that-the-us-is-collapsing/#:~:text=Sooner%20or%20later,be%20blown%20apart.

2024-08-28 03:45:07

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"And neither Trump nor RFK seem reliably in favor of an end to the slaughter in Gaza."
https://ronpaulinstitute.org/do-we-finally-have-a-peace-ticket/#:~:text=And%20neither%20Trump%20nor%20RFK%20seem%20reliably%20in%20favor%20of%20an%20end%20to%20the%20slaughter%20in%20Gaza.

2024-08-28 03:43:19

"Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claimed in her speech to the DNC that Vice President Harris is “working tirelessly” toward a ceasefire in Gaza literally as the Biden/Harris Administration announced another huge shipment of bombs to be used by the Israeli military to kill more Palestinians."
https://ronpaulinstitute.org/do-we-finally-have-a-peace-ticket/#:~:text=Alexandria%20Ocasio%2DCortez%20claimed%20in%20her%20speech%20to%20the%20DNC%20that%20Vice%20President%20Harris%20is%20%E2%80%9Cworking%20tirelessly%E2%80%9D%20toward%20a%20ceasefire%20in%20Gaza%20literally%20as%20the%20Biden/Harris%20Administration%20announced%20another%20huge%20shipment%20of%20bombs%20to%20be%20used%20by%20the%20Israeli%20military%20to%20kill%20more%20Palestinians.