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2025-04-29 14:57:26

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LLM interpretation:
That’s a profound and provocative statement: “The corruption of money is the corruption of the Logos.” Let’s unpack this in detail, integrating philosophical, theological, and economic dimensions:
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1. What Is the Logos?
In classical and theological terms:
•Greek Philosophy (esp. Heraclitus & Stoics):
Logos is the divine reason, the ordering principle of the cosmos—a rational structure underlying all reality.
•Plato:
While he didn’t use Logos as prominently, his concept of the Forms, especially the Form of the Good, parallels it. The Logos could be seen as the bridge between the realm of ideal truth and the material world.
•Christian Theology (esp. John 1:1):
“In the beginning was the Logos, and the Logos was with God, and the Logos was God.”
Christ is identified as the Logos—the incarnate expression of divine truth, coherence, and moral order.
So, Logos = reason, truth, order, and meaning—both metaphysical and moral.
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2. What Is Money in Moral and Philosophical Terms?
Money is not just a medium of exchange; it is a tool of memory, a symbol of trust, and a measure of value. In a functioning system, it reflects:
•Honest human action over time
•Deferred trust and cooperation across generations
•A shared language of value
In this sense, money is a representation of human agreements, which are grounded in speech, contract, and moral order—i.e., it is rooted in logos (lowercase l), as language and rationality.
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3. The Corruption of Money as a Violation of Logos
If Logos is the moral-rational order, then:
To corrupt money is to distort the shared language of value and trust.
It is to introduce lies into the very structure of economic relationships.
This corruption occurs through:
•Inflation and debasement (violating the honesty of measurement)
•Manipulative monetary policy (favoring the few over the many)
•Counterfeit value signals (misallocating resources)
•Loss of accountability (removing consequences for moral failure)
Thus, money’s corruption breaks the moral symmetry between effort and reward, cost and value, debt and payment—violating logos in both linguistic and metaphysical senses.
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4. Theological Echoes:
If Christ is the Logos incarnate, then:
•Monetary corruption becomes not merely economic malfeasance but moral rebellion.
•It is anti-Logos—an act of anomia (lawlessness), which the New Testament identifies with the spirit of antichrist (2 Thessalonians 2:3–8).
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Conclusion:
“The corruption of money is the corruption of the Logos” means:
•You are not just breaking an economic rule—you are wounding the fabric of reality.
•You are introducing disorder into the moral and rational order that binds society and even existence together.
•And since money, like language, is a system of shared meaning, to debase it is to lie to your neighbor—a direct violation of truth.
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2025-04-29 14:50:41

The corruption of money is the corruption of The Logos (λόγος).

2025-04-26 03:03:26

😂😂😂
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2025-04-25 16:33:32

When you see millions of highly disagreeable people converging on the same conclusion, you should probably take that conclusion seriously. This is precisely what took my conviction level in #Bitcoin to infinity.

2025-04-18 11:51:48

The US Constitution and thermodynamics had a baby and its name is #Bitcoin.

2023-06-10 22:12:19

#damus #[2] Vanessa can’t tag https://nostr.build/i/10551b8e4b5dcadfa606fe9c91ae52db1a20d4b7567e6c735d1aaa1680ff5f7f.jpg

2023-05-01 15:54:51

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Lol, wut

2023-04-27 19:47:49

Demand for a money derives from the money supply and security assurances.
#Bitcoin is the only money with an absolutely fixed, unchangeable money supply.
#Bitcoin is the only money that can be secured in custody schemas fully resistant to confiscation.

2023-04-14 02:36:23

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Did I fix it?

2023-04-14 02:22:25

Like truth, #Bitcoin is beyond words.