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Yeah, COVID turned me into a full-on anti-vaxxer. I never got flu shots prior to COVID but I wasn't yet totally opposed to vaccines. The more I looked...

"How long was it tested for?" Exactly what stopped me from getting it in the first place. Other vaccines are trialed for like 10 years before they're...

If just one of the dead were from his family then would he consider it a big thing?

Is Nostr truly lacking in network effects, and if so, why? nostr:nevent1qqsvtseeh67zlgfm7nwvhgq03zpxe7hknr0cwkyawsxs5d0k5k8n3gcppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7m...

Bless their hearts. They mean well.

The US Government is no better than medieval torturers or what you might experience from a Third World dictatorship... > "The United States captured K...

Why sell Europe gas when they are arming Ukraine and even directly fighting Russia? For the money? Maybe they could find other customers. The powers t...

I guess that makes it acceptable. Let them carry on. (sarcasm)

> "In retaliation for approximately 4,000 Hamas assassins brutally killing about 828 Israeli civilians and 367 security personnel, Israel’s military h...

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So it worked just as planned, and he has plausible deniability.

Canon law, perhaps? I was quoting a source; hopefully they did their due diligence, but I also didn't quote the even worse things they cited Pope Alex...

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Book of Revelation does speak of a harlot, which was in contrast to the bride of Christ...

#TodayILearned > "Pope Sixtus IV (ca. 1471), who allegedly caught syphilis from one of his many mistresses, became the first pope to issue licenses t...

#TodayILearned > "After Thomas Aquinas died in the monastery of Fossanova the monks there decapitated and boiled his body in order to secure control o...

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Overkill? Certainly not a life for life. I suppose the lion's instincts moved him to completely eliminate any threats.

Some say that is when Western Civilization peaked, just prior to World War I, and that it's been downhill from there. Look at the design of buildings ...

Is it true that playing the lottery is a tax on stupidity?

> “The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either—but right through every huma...

Too bad you can't tell what's real anymore... nostr:naddr1qpqr2dpe8y6r2wfcxscnwv3sv43kxwfhvc6kvctpxuerverrvvekxcfhxy6nxcfjxsuxzwtyx4jnsvp5vsungefjxdnx...

They are supposed to show compassion to their enemies' donkey: > “If you come across your enemy’s ox or donkey wandering off, be sure to return it. I...

> "One video captures the moment when an Israeli settler brutally beat elderly Palestinian Saeed Al-Omour with a club in Hebron, occupied West Bank. A...

Yeah, to me the tolls are just taxes that are also penalizing everyone not involved in the conflict.

I am not for war and I am sympathetic to Iran for the aggression conducted against it. But what if every nation whose ships and oil tankers were fired...

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What about the US coup in 2014 and the fact that Zelensky won't release his grip on power for over 8 years now with no elections? It could be argued t...

> “The Lord knows those who are His.”

Indeed. It's only "the remnant" among the Jews that accept Jesus as the Messiah. I believe that they, along with believing Gentiles, are the "Israel o...

That journalist better not live in Ukraine or they might kill him like they did Gonzalo Lira...

True, and no, I wouldn't lump those all together as Christians. I was thinking of ethnic Jews, secular or not, wherever they reside. But my eschatol...

All of them

> “I don’t hate them. … I forgive them,” Medina noted to the station.

Would the majority of Jews *then* accept Jesus as Messiah? > He says: “It is too small a thing for you to be My servant to restore the tribes of ...

> Matthew 25:5 NIV [5] The bridegroom was *a long time* in coming, and they all became drowsy and fell asleep. > Matthew 25:19 NIV [19] “*After a...

Jefferson professed belief in God

Is Iēsous the lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world? Whose blood sacrifice reconciles us to the Father?

I think a Nostr-based web browser could be the killer app that brings many more users to Nostr since it could serve as a gateway to the other apps in ...

## Some ideas for a Nostr browser: ## - Already has you logged in to any Nostr site/app - Can do highlights that post to your timeline, if you want ...

> "A city in Michigan in which Muslims are a majority has legalized animal sacrifice.  Minneapolis has #Muslim call to prayer six times daily over pub...

But is it luck? 🤔

Remove all tariffs. Let's have true free trade.

The powers that shouldn't be may be trying to set up a big fight over U.S. elections... https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/23/trump-sowing-e...

#GetTheFlockOut https://youtube.com/watch?v=7xOURK7-UMs

So often I see people wearing a cross necklace, the so-called "Jesus piece", and I want to ask them: are you actually following Christ, or is that jus...

That's great! And I just saw my latest poll that I made on Amethyst listed there on Pollerama. Gotta love Nostr's interoperability!

Is there a way that polls created on Amethyst could also show up on Pollerama?

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More fragile than a human?

C.S. Lewis wrote about how this miracle was a speeding up of a naturally occuring process. But can't we say that it's being done instantly was miracul...

Welcome to the Nostr!

The law of Moses (Old Testament/Judaism) said to "Love your neighbor as you love yourself" (Leviticus 19:18). As with so much of Jesus' teaching, He s...

> “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another." --Jesus, the Messiah (John 13:34) https://bible.c...

Me too! Biblical archaeology is a big interest of mine and I'd like to start a reddit-like group on the topic. Is Flotilla the best place to do that, ...

> "The Spartans were not native to Greece. The historian Herodotus wrote that the Spartans arrived in Greece from *Egypt.* The Spartans are also noted...

#TodayILearned that in early third-century BC, the Spartan King Areus I wrote a letter to the Jewish ruler Onias I, claiming that the Spartans were al...

#TodayILearned that in early third-century b.c.e. letter from Spartan King Areus i to the Jewish ruler Onias i, they were also “descendants of Abraham...

“The general population doesn’t know what’s happening, and it doesn’t even know that it doesn’t know.” Noam Chomsky

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What if people decided to reject tyranny, in all it's forms? nostr:nevent1qqsfrxdg75seq9l3l5k5e9ftj6rwdu58324vf30vw82kzw9fyd3qdnspzamhxue69uhhyetvv9u...

Praise God! https://www.christianpost.com/news/trump-mission-org-confirm-release-of-kidnapped-missionary.html

Tucker Carlson on how the Hippocratic Oath doctors take was changed, where for 1000s of years they swore not to kill, to where they will kill today......

Even in disagreement, he remains agreeable. nostr:nevent1qqsqs9zd24qtc5p6cuqkpr0gwmgldth968l4sxkvek3k6swl2uuxhvsppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qgs9dcnp82lvz...

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> "The federal debt was around 400 billion dollars when President Nixon closed the gold window. Just ten years later, the federal debt reached a trill...

Ok, but they defeated an enemy that was more decentralized than what they replaced it with. The secret Constitutional Convention was the first coup.

Tucker is right about the secrecy and classification, but let's not forget that the Constitution of the United States was BIRTHED in secrecy. The Phil...

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Does that mean some are justified in asserting rule over others? (And I'm not talking about a family, in which a father and mother are naturally in au...

> “Representative government is artifice, a political myth, designed to conceal from the masses the dominance of a self-selected, self-perpetuating, a...

Who is this supposed to be, Joseph Smith? https://npub1uwjejfyn8j0e7t0cx3ys2h4nsk83fq8a6rz7mw2a7z97mnfwvcjqcvaxfl.blossom.band/ac6e79ea60a97e51aea6cf2...

> Matthew 10:1 > > "Summoning His twelve disciples,  He gave them authority over unclean spirits, to drive them out and to heal every  disease and si...

I'm thinking that hosting code/data is what a server/relay does. And being too dependent on one site that can censor or drop you is dangerous, IMO.

True. The central banksters actually engage in crony capitalism, aka fascism.

Aren't I you a pastor? My pastor uses that same "boy howdy" exclamation, the only person I've heard say that, until now 😄

You're right, I guess getting together to watch football games is the secular counterpart.

Yeah, my family had a run where we would go out to eat after church. Sunday dinners after church are something that I don't know if non-religious fami...

The Devilcrats love a good challenge. They'll find new ways to cheat. They aren't the world's oldest political party for nothing.

I couldn't understand why Charlie Kirk, who was already a #Christian, would consider becoming a Roman Catholic. But since his wife was one, perhaps th...

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What are you then?

Thank you! I had not realized that about Amethyst but once I read your reply I noticed the little lock icon at the bottom of the screen which can mak...

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What's your opinion such a feature? Nice to have or unnecessary?

Wen Android? 😄

Is there any #Nostr client that allows you to post a reply to a note/thread that only (a) specific intended recipient(s) could read or see? If not, I ...

The the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution also states that “No person … shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself…”...

Sounds similar to his psychoanalysis to me

> "According to Bild newspaper, he was arrested in Lebanon while attempting to join IS and sent back to Germany as he is a German citizen." They shou...

> "The US government could also dispose of its real estate assets. That amounts to about 640 million acres, which is about 28% of the country’s land a...

Although there's a book saying that America has already had it's Caesars: https://blossom.primal.net/43a7409b5d06c18c65c30b1c675482a86c7cf938ae55676c0...

> "The War Powers Act of 1973 was the US Congress’ last attempt to restrain the US executive branch from overriding the US Constitution, which require...

By faith in His character: "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." 1 Joh...

Would you risk your life for 6 months of extra pay?

Whenever I see "public-private partnership" I think FASCISM.

Also human, sadly. All too human.