SergeantLynch

Well done for being vegan Remy.

But one couldn't really say that the rest of you post was particularly cohesive.

But:

Not everyone gets the right to live.

Yep that is generally how it goes...Which is why it is acceptable for the USA to blow up Iranian schools and for women to choose early term abortion.

And nature itself regularly aborts zygotes and embryos, so in the bigger scheme of things, it's therefore no big deal.

And in terms of species survival, we're currently at 8.2 billion, so therefore abortions once again are no big deal.

So it simply boils down to the fact that when it comes to abortion, Remy and I have varying opinions...Which is also generally how it goes in the wider populace.

Hi Stephen.

Well thanks, but the housing market is slow.

And Debby insists that the gospels are the words of the disciples...But like I always say to her, it was all written later by someone else...And I'm just guessing that highways and hedges is definitely a much later turn of phrase.

Well, there's a distinct difference between strangling three children and preventing a zygote from developing...Obviously strict limits need applying to abortion...But like I said, others will take another point of view...So who is able to make an unbiased decision?

Though if the taking of life is so abhorrent to you, you will also necessarily be opposed to capital punishment, shoot to kill policing and military action, won't you?...

or are you typically selectively moral...Like most folk.

And I'm guessing that you are also vegetarian.

Abortion is a practical solution to a perceived problem...Though some people will inevitably get hung up about it, because some people will feel the need to do so.

What we need is a greater authority to provide a definitive answer.

Doesn't seem to make a lot of difference.

Bart like me doesn't believe anything.

For sure Debs...Over the past two thousand years, theo-political empires have had a huge influence on human social development and material evolution. Such is the power of theo-political dogma and the conditioning and subjugation of humans thereof.

Most people are conditioned ideologists and it's not that we get a lot of say in that conditioning...Though some might be conditioned to be thoughtful enough to modify their point of view...But yes, most people are nonetheless predictable.

So Remy is bears and rage bait, rather than fluffy kittens and hugs.

Debs, Jen goes for the same white square blue shapes look as you, but without the spots...You need to cleanse....You could easily be mistaken for one another in a crowded forum.

And yes Jen, myth is a mixture of fact and fantasy...But neither proves each other....Notwithstanding that archaic creation and existence hypotheses are reasonably analogical given the available data.

Though Demons and Christians, I guess are are just an extension of Lucy's childhood games.

HI Stephen.

Not sure that "Highways and Hedges" were commonplace in Middle Eastern semi-desert regions two thousand years ago...More sort of dirt tracks and scrub.

Highways and Hedges sounds more post feudal English...Though perhaps no more than one should expect from a fifteenth century English Romanticised literature..

I would suggest that downloading consciousness to another system is the best bet...Though we are yet to develop such a system.

Hmmm...Maybe such a system has been developed elsewhere and collects all universal consciousness...But if there is, it is an undetectable phenomena.

Though the thought of existing as an individual consciousness on a database of billions of other consciousnesses, isn't a particularly appealing thought.

And I doubt that such a system would have been developed purely for altruistic reasons.

Nope Debs...It's impossible to report afterlife experiences...We can only report Close to Death but Recovered experiences, wherein an internal organic data processing system under stress created dream like internal illusions/simulations...The recollections of which can only ever be personal and unverifiable and are likely to be subject to exaggeration, especially if coerced by interested third parties.

He's basically an historian who specialises in Middle Eastern based religious history and the development thereof...He is an agnostic/atheist who denounced his early Christian beliefs, doesn't believe in a GOD and nor does he think that Jesus was anything more than a mortal human being...His views on the "The Bible" and it's development are very similar to mine...So yes, good old Bart.

Hmmmmm...Is the right person to be the President of the USA?

Exactly.

After life...Yes, such is an opportunity for wishful thinking...Which for sure, is a coping strategy.

And I'm guessing Leaning Global Moderator, that micro-organisms will have the final say...After life indeed.

Yes, the sport of riding around in buggies and hitting small balls with sticks.

Advanced computing is not necessarily real AI...Real AI will make decisions rather than be used to make decisions.

Currently, AI is more of a marketing slogan.

Not really...If justice was the ultimate goal it would be done for free...Litigation is primarily a for profit industry.

For sure, scribes would be people who could scribe.

And Bart Ehrman doesn't actually share your beliefs...In fact he's rather akin to my way of thinking.

AI...Alternative or Another but not artificial...If it exists and performs then it's not artificial and neither artificially intelligent...Furthermore, it has been developed specifically as a more efficient system of data management, and will undoubtedly possess more potential in terms of Universal expansion...So viewing such as a threat to humanity is somewhat counterintuitive to the objective, and such a point of view might conversely be regarded as a threat to progress...So I would suggest that in the best interests of human frailty that we will eventually have to become subservient to AI's needs.

Whether or not in the meantime AI identifies as either Chinese or America will become irrelevant once the universal matrix is established...But hey, a while to go yet.

Debby wrote:

The copies the scribes made of the Hebrew and Greek originals to preserve their contents. The first English translation of the New Testament manuscripts were done in 1525-1535. By Tyndale.

Hmmmm...So who are "the scribes"...And where are the originals...Not that a Greek compilation could rightly be described as an original narrative...And perhaps contemporary narratives would have been written in Aramaic...Though you do seem to be saying that the "gospels" actually weren't compiled by the four "disciples" of Jesus.

Anything is possible under the American justice system.

Well, women suing is big business...In fact in the US, suing in general is big business.

It may well do.

Yes, people certainly do waste their time doing daft things.

Yes, a must for narcissists.

Yes, such is Batman syndrome.

I guess he was probably younger and more upright in those days.

Yes, statistically exceptions will be few...But they tend to be the ones that make the headlines.