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A father who does his best to be peaceful, in a world afflicted by violent states.
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Un padre che fa del suo meglio per essere pacifico, in un mondo dominato da stati violenti.

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Recent Notes

MAHDOOD · 4d
Idk lol
Bellatrix✨ · 1w
It’s over… 👽 https://image.nostr.build/7968e53d88aa3a14b7df5940e6ebdd68c35ee0c2dfbedd260d18b05aca6f6ac7.jpg
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That is an inconclusive way of questioning.
Even if this one we're living in was all a simulation, there is nothing to say that the beings that are placing us in this simulation are not living inside a simulation themselves.
And so on and so forth.
Infinite regression, useless mindfuck.
In the very end there still must be a reality that's actually real and not just a simulation, so it's rather practical to assume that that reality is our own.
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Bellatrix✨ · 6d
I understand, it really becomes an infinite regression. Still, I can’t assume in a practical way that this reality, as you said, can be ours. Or do I misunderstood? Perhaps, a simple way would be to imagine that the universe is like a very detailed dream: inside it everything seems real, but its ...
travis · 1w
Thank you!
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Guess what else based its ideology on man being a depraved being in desperate need of higher control, as he was unable to manage himself.
Yes, the state.
Now tell me how that went.

No, I cannot accept a statement where the religious moral is the correct source, christianity has been going on for 2 f*ing thousand years. Have we reached enlightenment?

How old are the other major religions?
Have they reached enlightenment?

The state is but another religion, with the difference that you don't have benevolent (or vindictive) ghosts floating in the sky watching you, but you have very real policemen with very real guns.

Those revolutionaries you talk about did not really abandon god in favor of reason, they abandoned the traditional religion in favor of the state.
DecBytes · 2w
Why is 'respect property rights' a universal moral rules and where does does that right come from?
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That moral rule derives from Aristotelian deductive logic.
Once you prove that everyone is the only exclusive owner of their own body (that can be done by exclusion), you can then prove that everyone is also the exclusive owner of everything that they acquire either by appropriating or altering things from the environment that had no previous owner, or voluntarily obtaining them by said previous owner.

Being yourself the sole owner of your body and of your private property, it logically follows that theft, assault, rape and murder, are immoral acts.
It also logically follows that any form of mandatory welfare state is immoral, just like any form of non-voluntary government, and any of its emanations.

For more on the topic, read, or have an AI explain to you, The Ethics of Liberty by Murray Newton Rothbard.
Willy Cooper · 2w
Anything but an intelligent Creator. https://blossom.primal.net/b8530014cea2adebd7076965fd84e93b255f029abb532bce7f07ced6f3eb2e2f.jpg #Jesus #WordofGod #Christian #Bible #Scripture #Wisdom #worshi...
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Exactly that, intelligent design is a cope mechanism slipped into a very weak argument, to try and save the fact that the existence of god is, indeed, a logical impossibility.
For the christian god in particular, you don't even need to use arguments from general logic, as the bible already does a great job to show how that religion as a whole is a collection of contradictions.

Regarding @DecBytes 's comment, no, the absence of god doesn't condone the absence of moral rules, as moral rules are universal and deductively derived from logic, god is not necessary and actually adversarial in establishing a moral set of rules.

Finally, the whole set of universal moral rules can be reduced to one: respect property rights.
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DecBytes · 2w
Why is 'respect property rights' a universal moral rules and where does does that right come from?
Bitcoin News · 3w
NEW: "X Money is much smarter than Bitcoin," says Nassim Taleb. https://image.nostr.build/6e72d4bb1daf70bcc054e3aac6bd3eac1d44e6b371e45bddd86bfcadd76a5e88.jpg
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He is the guy saying that IQ has no relevance whatsoever in defining a population's traits, and everyone is basically the same and only environment will condition one's development.
So take a pigmy from central Africa at birth, with an average IQ of 50, educate him, and he will become the next Elon.
Rrrrriiiiiight.
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Kudzai Kutukwa · 3w
Nailed it! 🤝🔥