It was large enough to swallow up the Egyptians, so I'm thinking a marshy sort of sea, like in a delta region, where the blues is played, where sad ne...
So, Exodus in its original Hebrew, referred to the parting of Yam Suf, the sea of reeds, describing perhaps a papyrus and reed filled shallow sea capa...
Yeah, and my response was motivated by my wife being a public school administrator. There's the never ending pull to make schools the universal social...
Just so it's not missed on anyone, there is a large part of the country that would have had no inkling the ad was offensive (me, for example) had offe...
This is my entry into the psychedelic beatnik meanderings contest: While shoeless vagabonding in the Village following the war, I became lost in heady...
Teachers aren't social workers and schools aren't community support systems. They are for educating kids. I say this even if I bought into your idea t...
The new ChatGPT 5.0 is much better at being honest. That was part of their major upgrade. I used to work around the old one by characterizing my posts...
Like asking if I've considered purple elephants, I guess now I have only because you mentioned it. I did look it up as well because I figured it wasn'...
Once I took my dad's manual typewriter apart as part of an exploratory surgery, and I couldn't get the springs back together so I rigged it up with ru...
Thank you for this feedback because as you bring things up I realize it might make sense to bring in other minds to the project because there are thin...
I took drama appreciation in college so that I could get an A, and I learned there that the way they open curtains and lift large objects on the set i...
Here I explore two clean fuel options: (1) the spring powered vehicle, and (2) the weight driven vehicle, where a weight slowly descends and drives th...
I don't have a good explanation for theodicy. I admit that, yet I persist in my beliefs. That does an injustice to the Trinity. The mystery of knowing...
98% of Christian denominations accept the Trinity from a doctrinal point of view, yet only 16% of Christians actually accept it. https://www.arizonach...
The source was openly an LDS source, That's why @"frank" provided the picture of the Mormons on bikes. @"Banno" then cited another article describing ...
Thinking about this, we have some unclarity regarding the analytic method as we're using it here with some degree of equivocation. To the extent we're...
I don't see where this is a joke as much as just an accommodating waitress. The man wanted some without and she was out of the without he wanted, so s...
The sanctification of rules results in their analysis being a pursuit of the divine. The point being that the analytic tradition need not be atheistic...
The Germans capitalize Everything. Maybe he's German. Or maybe he's a capitalist. That's the second wurst joke I've heard in a while. Wurst is Also Ge...
In Lisbon, at the Palácio da Bolsa (the stock exchange building), they have a historic Arab room with this exquisite architecture. The tour guide expl...
I think you have to challenge a belief from within the dictates of the belief system. I think both sides have said it here a number of times, which is...
No. I see that leading to asceticism, austerity, seclusion, and, you know, other monklike shit. I believe in doing right because it is right and watch...
Yes, these threads have very little value when folks just want to tell us what their beliefs are. It's even more frustrating/annoying/time consuming t...
By "AI-booster" I don't know if you meant that you make AI smarter, but you do. That is, if you have a deep coversation about a particular topic where...
When I was young, my mother would take me to poor areas and we would bring soup to pour at their feet so they could aspire to the wealth of those who ...
A 1. Yahweh is God. Jesus is God. The holy spirit is God. 2. . Hanover is a person, Bob is a person, Frank is a person. 3. Hanover is Banno. Bob is Ba...
The trinity is three entirely seperate personages, not a single entity. They have a common purpose, and they're referred to as the godhead. Such is tr...
Instances of God's wrath in the NT: Matthew 3:7 Luke 3:7 Matthew 21:40–41 Matthew 25:41 Romans 1:18 Romans 2:5 Romans 5:9 1 Thessalonians 1:10 Revelat...
It's not entirely what woke means, except as a kinship identifier. If I say I'm woke, I'll be friends with other people who say they're woke, if not, ...
This a hermeneutics question, asking if there is a single correct perspective for linguistic interpretation. The aliens' interpretation scheme is base...
Alright, I went back and re-read myself. I think I see where the confusion arises, which is likely in my presentation of the thought experiment. You r...
It's 65 here (18 C), which is chilly for the summer, owing to the days of rain. My dogs like going outside now that it's cooling down. My cat still sl...
I was making a theistic comment that we are never alone. We are always accompanied, which means my thoughts in my head are always shared. But, yes, I ...
I mean clearly that is a stitching apparatus, and, being Australian, you are obviously rhyming it with "aboriginal with a platypus," but I'm not sure ...
What about respecting their decision as a free agent and not trying to impose upon their will by modifying it through rehabilitation, but instead givi...
Analytic philosophy simply and fundamentally holds that language is limited to publicly observable representations, and hermeneutics then offers a met...
Grasshoppers and crickets are closely related, but are not closely related to the cicada, which makes its racket by buzzing its abdomen. When grasshop...
The divide between woke and not is so large I still am not sure if people are actually upset about this ad or whether this is American Eagle contrivin...
Is data stored in a computer "information," or are you referencing the meaning a conscious being imposes on it? For example, does the red leaf contain...
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