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Larry Sanger Larry Sanger @lsanger@sangerfeed.org ·

“End Wokeness,” anonymous mega-account started 2.5 years ago, and Mario Nawfal, whoever that is, can each get over 1.2K retweets and over 5K likes for sharing the same old video of me saying the obvious about Wikipedia. And that’s over three or four hours, in the middle of the night.

If I were to do the same thing, it’s very doubtful I would break 100 retweets. 🤔

And people wonder why I’ve washed my hands of X.com and gone to SangerFeed.org.

(It’d be a shame if a big account screenshotted this on X.)

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Larry Sanger Larry Sanger @lsanger@sangerfeed.org ·

Polly is onto something here. Elon Musk has some, let’s just say, interesting friends. He is not anti-Establishment. He *is* the Establishment, and although he has a lot of solid political positions, and did *some* good things for X/Twitter, he throttles a lot of people (like me), he makes his money from giant government contracts and with regulatory help, and his statement that Americans don’t deserve their own top jobs because they’re “dumb” is quite a slap in the face.
Larry Sanger Larry Sanger @lsanger@sangerfeed.org ·

Fascinating topic:
x.com/MikeWingerii/stat…

The “unity of scripture” refers to its internal consistency:

1. It is internally consistent in terms of its meaning, so long as you interpret it according to the principle of *analogia scripturae*, which means literally “analogy of scripture” but which refers to the principle that Scripture should be used to interpret Scripture. The point is that you *can* interpret Scripture in this way.

2. It is doctrinally consistent, meaning that different parts do not express inconsistent doctrines. Again, this also depends on *analogia scripturae*.

3. It is metaphorically consistent; the principle here is intertextuality. Symbols bear the same meaning across many centuries of writing.

4. It bears up under close scrutiny. It invites questioning (assuming the one is up to the task of discerning answers!).

This is an essential part of an Argument from Revelation.

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Larry Sanger Larry Sanger @lsanger@sangerfeed.org ·

Here’s a thought. How rich are billionaires? Think of it this way. Many people think $100,000 is a substantial sum—plenty to live on for a year, unless you’re in a very overpriced city or have high career expectations. If you have saved a cool $1 million, that pays your living expenses for 10 years. Unless you invest wisely, it probably wouldn’t last a younger person the rest of his life. But if you have $1 billion, it pays living expenses for 10,000 years. I mean, if you gave yourself an insane sum of $1 million per year to live on, your billion would enable you to live that way for 1,000 years. So, yeah. It’s a lot of money. And if you were as rich as Elon Musk, you could pay living expenses for 436,000 years. Or “only” 43,600 years if you spent “only” a million per year.
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Larry Sanger Larry Sanger @lsanger@sangerfeed.org ·

Re: x.com/adamscrabble/stat…

Thanks for the reply, Adam.

Can they coexist? Well, sure, they can, and that was my intention when first starting Minifeed (2020-21). But, well, read the post. I’m disgusted, I feel manipulated and silenced, and I’m not going to play their game anymore.

I am actually pretty sure that in the long run, LarrySanger.org + SangerFeed.org will get me a bigger impact on the world than working in a deliberately silenced backwater on some spook’s carefully controlled website.

It’s true that a new login is friction. That’s the price you pay. I’m OK with paying it. I’m done with X.
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