Post B2csKfF86VWDaIayLw by 0689df5847a8d3376892da29622d7c0fdc1ef1958f4bc4471d90966aa1eca9f2@mostr.pub
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(DIR) Post #B2csKa7r87jHiI9aoy by 0689df5847a8d3376892da29622d7c0fdc1ef1958f4bc4471d90966aa1eca9f2@mostr.pub
2026-01-24T22:13:48.000Z
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I don't know a single violent anarchist.
(DIR) Post #B2csKbDv34Ap7NzwuW by dd664d5e4016433a8cd69f005ae1480804351789b59de5af06276de65633d319@mostr.pub
2026-01-24T22:21:06.000Z
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That's good. Means that they are completely irrelevant.
(DIR) Post #B2csKc5Rq2zXnP2hLU by 0689df5847a8d3376892da29622d7c0fdc1ef1958f4bc4471d90966aa1eca9f2@mostr.pub
2026-01-24T22:23:28.000Z
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How is wanting to live a live of peace irrelevant? Heck, even God leaves people alone if they tell Him to buzz off. How now should a man rule over another by fear and intimidation? That is wrong.
(DIR) Post #B2csKcuUmFpCLivSue by dd664d5e4016433a8cd69f005ae1480804351789b59de5af06276de65633d319@mostr.pub
2026-01-24T22:30:20.000Z
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So, you are a pacifist?
(DIR) Post #B2csKdqdI6KTG27tWy by 0689df5847a8d3376892da29622d7c0fdc1ef1958f4bc4471d90966aa1eca9f2@mostr.pub
2026-01-24T22:39:09.000Z
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I am neither. It isn't either or. I am very capable and willing to use violence, but the standard for initiating violence is high and very limited.
(DIR) Post #B2csKeWolG4bMrraHg by dd664d5e4016433a8cd69f005ae1480804351789b59de5af06276de65633d319@mostr.pub
2026-01-24T22:50:48.000Z
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Okay, so, you're harmless.
(DIR) Post #B2csKfF86VWDaIayLw by 0689df5847a8d3376892da29622d7c0fdc1ef1958f4bc4471d90966aa1eca9f2@mostr.pub
2026-01-24T22:52:08.000Z
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To most people at most times, yes. Again . . . Why is that a bad thing?
(DIR) Post #B2csKg1LDG5Dzp9TV2 by dd664d5e4016433a8cd69f005ae1480804351789b59de5af06276de65633d319@mostr.pub
2026-01-24T22:57:17.000Z
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It's not necessarily bad, but it's passive and doesn't effect it's environment.
(DIR) Post #B2csKh4DK3yXF1VHcG by 0689df5847a8d3376892da29622d7c0fdc1ef1958f4bc4471d90966aa1eca9f2@mostr.pub
2026-01-24T23:02:57.000Z
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You are entirely incorrectly again. I am NOT passive. I affect everyone around me. There is a difference between being passive and doing what God calls you to do. I am trying, in earnest, to live that life. That means I am actively engaging with the world directly around me and not shrinking from it anymore, while also rejecting all of the evil and villainy. You remind me of all the messianic separatist groups that were rising up against Rome around the time of Jesus' ministry. They were fanatical, focused, and violent. But . . . Who's ministry and sacrifice split time and is the healing balm for all? I want to be more like Him than focused on penny ante isms that or ologies that try to limit what God has in store for me.
(DIR) Post #B2csKhnwa2YTWqtntY by dd664d5e4016433a8cd69f005ae1480804351789b59de5af06276de65633d319@mostr.pub
2026-01-24T23:44:11.000Z
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I didn't say passivity is necessarily a bad thing. I just don't think it's necessarily a good thing.Since when am I fanatical? You disapprove of me because I am _not fanatical enough_, after all.
(DIR) Post #B2csKie3SIEs8THQ7U by 0689df5847a8d3376892da29622d7c0fdc1ef1958f4bc4471d90966aa1eca9f2@mostr.pub
2026-01-24T23:50:32.000Z
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You seem to cling to the state too much. I dislike that in anyone. It frustrates me, a bit, because you are smart and I think you are generally a good and righteous person! I just find that the entirety of "the state" is incompatible with being a Christ follower. I can't see any other way to read the entirety of the Biblical story and come to another conclusion. It isn't like I dislike you any less, and I am only this chatty on this topic with you because I have a huge respect for your intelligence. And, well, I could be wrong, but I honestly don't think I am on this topic.
(DIR) Post #B2csKjGh8d9C4JMHLc by dd664d5e4016433a8cd69f005ae1480804351789b59de5af06276de65633d319@mostr.pub
2026-01-24T23:55:49.000Z
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I don't have an antipathy to the _state_ — as a word or concept— so I can just call a state a state, without suffering cognitive dissonance and feeling the urge to rename it.We can discuss whether larger or smaller states are better, but a state consisting of a cow village on a hill is still a state.
(DIR) Post #B2csKjzMSYsOIqFwy8 by 4c800257a588a82849d049817c2bdaad984b25a45ad9f6dad66e47d3b47e3b2f@mostr.pub
2026-01-24T23:58:53.000Z
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well, that's the point, what are you doing "defending freedom" if it's not at risk?
(DIR) Post #B2cwWfI09o2P1HusqW by 0689df5847a8d3376892da29622d7c0fdc1ef1958f4bc4471d90966aa1eca9f2@mostr.pub
2026-01-25T00:02:46.000Z
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My point is that humans don't NEED a state and the coercion that goes along with it, ESPECIALLY in the context of the fact that we have a model of how to do so in the history of The Church. I am not OK with any coercion. That is not Christ-like.
(DIR) Post #B2cwWgv26Aqy4dBZK4 by dd664d5e4016433a8cd69f005ae1480804351789b59de5af06276de65633d319@mostr.pub
2026-01-25T00:48:12.000Z
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Even excommunication and banishment are a form of coercion.