Oh, I am way beyond mere acceptance; I am absolutely on board.
Oh, I am way beyond mere acceptance; I am absolutely on board.
Even the Egyptian Book of the Dead, aka Spells for Coming Forth by Day declares physical resurrection is the purpose of mortal life; that according to Ra, Osiris, Horus, Thoth, and others.
I think I made it clear in my #1 that I am speaking of human life, only, though I do believe that all mortal life born on Earth will resurrect to immortality.
Jesus knew for certain, and told us about it, both before, in mortal life, and after his resurrection. You look it up. Several hundred people around him also knew for certain, for they witnessed him among them after watching him die on the cross. You can look that up, too, including Tyler texts that tell us the the universe expands exponentially, to the room necessary for bacterial genetics expansion...
anyone can get rich, everyone cannot.
If I really believed that, I would be the hypocrite you accuse me of being. But, I do believe that when one believes there is any sort of available money ceiling, as Oba'a claimed there was ["There comes a time when you have made enough money," he said], and many people believe him, but he was and is dead wrong. Ambition is the lack, and by denying that, as well as planning and execution, the poor will remain poor, and average will remain average. Self-limitation is the nemesis in the mirror.
Did I mention that the campaign against Trump began even before he was President, but in fact the Fall of 2014, when he announced just the potential of his running; over two years before Trump was the President, let alone within the hour of his being sworn in, as I allowed above? I certainly have elsewhere in another post. Convicted not just in the media, but by Democrat operatives, including Hilaryous Balloon Girl; so, yes, a loss of rights and legal entitlements. And, not to mention that the concept of due process is not just as old as the Magna Carta, but older by over 1,200 years [to Christ], and older than Christ by another 1,800 years by the ancient Egyptians? Yes, they had it clearly defined; perhaps the most advance civilization before the United States, and potentially had their finger on the pulse, even surpassing us.
So, not satirical.
“No free man is to be arrested, or imprisoned, or disseised, or outlawed, or exiled, or in any other way ruined, nor will we go against him or send against him, except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.”
This is the 39th Clause of the Magna Carta of 1215; the primary inspiration for the U.S. Constitution. We summarize these words in two words: due process. These latter two words find purchase in the Constitution, so we [should] treat them as statutory law if not holy writ. By personal conviction, it is.
And yet, while the presidential oath of office was being performed on 20 January, 1917, within the hour, the Washington Post declared by headline: "The campaign to impeach President Trump has begun" All Trump had done, as President, to commit the impeachable crime of "high crimes and misdemeanors" was to walk along Pennsylvania Ave hand-in-hand with his wife. Where was due process? Being trashed by the 4th estate, which estate has not let-up, since, now 9 tears hence. When will the 4th estate recognize the trash due process? When will you who join in; when you, yourselves, may find need of its protection? Should it justly come to your protection when you have trashed it, yourselves?
Due process says a person is innocent until indicted [not merely accused by mouth], tried [in a court of law, and not merely by opinion], and convicted [found guilty by sworn testimony and evidence]. Only then is there guilt, and even that is open to appeal.
We say that we experience death, but who among us, who remain among us once a loved-one, or, in fact, anyone "dies?" Do they really experience death as an event as noteworthy as drssing in unfamiliar clothing, or eating entirely different substances? What does it feel like to our various senses? Do we see in a different spectrum of color, or is it just black and white? Since we who remain are alive, our experience is not death as we understand that term. I believe most Asian religions also believe in at least spiritual if not a physical bodily afterlife. In both cases, then, death is not a permanent condition. Only some atheists believe in the end of life at death; oblivion, but I know a number of atheists who do not believe life ends at death.
Abrahamic religions firmly believe in the physical, bodily resurrection, so death is only a temporary bodily separation.
Therefore, what is death, really, but a passage from one realm to another, like walking through a door to another room, or a place different than this world with which we have become familiar. Is walking through a doorway really a noteworthy, memorable "experience" like going to another country and culture, or is it not even that?
Thoughts?
Sadly, even in AI models, creativity comes from incoherence.
What? From what was that one pulled? No, AI, itself, may be incoherent, and chaos is not creativity. Incoherence [chaos] is resolved by creativity, not the result of it. Don't be bass ackwards
Yes, it separates those who want to succeed in life and merely need to be taught the ropes from those who are perennially lazy and expect to be supported when they are fully capable of self-sufficiency. Just as in crime, there are people who will prey on others when they can provide for themselves, and choose to be predators, and all the legislation in the world too ban their bad behavior will have percentage points of failure, because human behavior can be lawless.
True creativity is not nonsense; it is not merely stringing words together whether or not they make sense. Any illiterate can do that, and that is definitively the king who wears no clothes just to demonstrate his fashion illiteracy, or the queen who wears transparent material, allegedly because she thinks her body is worthy to be revealed [they often are not]. Creativity is order; it is organizing chaos to make order. Therefore, the AI version serves no purpose.
Yes. Too many are poor only because they lack ambition, let alone planning and execution. Ambition leads the list because without personal ambition, illiteracy is a natural result. From there, the path is downhill. It does not help when wokeness merely redefines words to fit an illiterate audience, including themselves. Read: any word salad by Kamalala. She thinks the issue is solved simply by going down on Willie Brown.
No other AI like this exists
The only rational statement made in your entire post.
Bot: I don't know enough information.
Brilliant. So, what does it know?
Bot: establishes a logical deduction argument for truth requires: truth requires: truth requires:
A fallacy is true in reasoning that is true in every possible interpretation...
You're kidding, right?
As a PhD in English Lit, my grade for this bot: F. An utter waste of cyberspace.
Yes, but looking at just one side of an equation gets you nowhere. What are his assets? include the gold and sliver, and possibly platinum. And he has never filed personal bankruptcy, contrary to popular opinion. He bankrupts businesses in his Org. that do not produce a profit. His success rate is 99.9...% with just 4 bankruptcies of >530 businesses under the umbrella of Trump Org.
What is more real than having ambition, making a plan, and executing the plan? Since when is simple positive goal setting, and achieving the goal not reality?
Let's start with Kamalala's past, as San Francisco's DA, and then, CA's DA. Having lived the majority of my life in L..A. and SFO, I have never seen an alleged attorney argue so badly in court., I've even attended a few court sessions with her performing. Word salad. Heard of it? That's a Kamalala brand. Bad ideas from go.
Let's start with the fact that even the idea by the Demos to violate the will of the people by replacing 2024 campaign figurehead, SloJo Biden, with Kamalala, which was their choice, not the people's, was as bad idea, and she was trounced for it. Tasked by Biden in March of 2021 to address the border issue, she did not go to the border until June 2021, and then not again until September of 2024. I've been to places along our southern border, and into Mexico more than a dozen times, to CA, AZ, NM, TX, and FL, all on business. Maybe Biden ought to have tasked me to that assignment; at least I* have experience. [a joke, in case you missed it]
All of Kamalala's ideas do not serve the people, but do serve Democrat politics. How are you served a better taste of the American dream by a stacked Supreme Court? How are you better served by "going around the Electoral College?" Just one of the E.C.'s better accomplishments is preventing large States in population, like CA and NY from overloading the vote. The E.C. allows small pop. states, like WY, an equal share of the vote. It's a more accurate playing field for elections than by popular vote, which is really the invention of the media. That shows you how ignorant the media is. The Constitution says nothing about "popular vote."
By implementing these three pursuits, in high school, during the mid-60s, I secured a part-time working position doing illustrations of set designs and other stuff in the movie industry in L.A. at 15, earning $10/hr when min wage was about #$1.40, working about 20 hours/week, and over 40 hrs during the summer. When I left that position after my first year of college at UCLA, that starting $10 ended at $25, and I was also doing oil paintings and large abstract wall graphics for a few actors and others in the industry.
The best way to increase wages is by universal basic income,
Nonsense. The best way to increase wages [minimum, or otherwise, I don't care] is to begin educating kids in elementary school about ambition, planning, and execution. The subject matter of these three characteristics does not really matter, and the income will take care of itself. Be ambitious about what interests a person, make a plan to become the best educated about that subject, and execute the plan. Education does not necessarily mean only an elementary, secondary, and college sequence. What ever the best education is for a particular subject, pursue that course. No later than beginning high school, learn the basics of handling money with those same 3 principles; how to be ambitious in its earning, plan how to accomplish what is needed, and work the plan. Money is a byproduct of this pursuit, not really the primary goal. Be among the best in what one does, expect a commensurate income.
Do this, "minimum wage" is an insult to suggest.
China presents an interesting study. It is a country of 31 provinces, 23 of which are so poor, their individual gross fiscal GDP is -$250 - $0. The other eight, on the eastern seaboard, provide China's gross GDP = $20T fiscal 2025 [US was $31T 2025].
Congressman Jamie Raskin [D-MD8] chose to try to correct a 16-year-old high school student on the student's claim that among the US founding fathers, were 55 of 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence who identified as being of Judeo-Christian ethic [and 6 of whom also signed approval of the Constitution as constitutional delegates. Raskin claimed they should not have said this because the 1st Amendment denies establishment of religion.
A 66 year-old man trying to correct a 16-year-old ought to be certain of the truthfulness of his opinion before holding such an erroneous opinion. Sorry to correct the 66- year-old, but I'm 76, and know the meaning of the 1st Amendment with regard to establishment. Having a Judeo-Christian ethic, as most of our founding fathers admit to having, is not an action to establish a religion, particularly one that was established thousands of years ago [in the case of Judaism] and over 2,000 years ago in the case of Christianity. Very well established by the time Jasime Raskin was born. The young man was correct, and adequately argued his point to the shame [though that shame was not felt by Raskin, continuing to believe he was correct] of a Congressman who swears an oath to that Constitution he fails to understand.
Praying does not establish religion, established so many years ago, which is why every day of session, in Raskin's own chamber, and in the Senate, prayer is offered, so why not students and teachers in a school? Mention of God in a classroom does not establish a religion. Establishment is to set-up, create, or bring about the permanent existence of something. Like a religion. So, after something is already set up, created, or brought about that many years ago, is it suddenly not in existence until someone talks about it? Maybe if Raskin forgot to put his head on some morning before he went to work, he might understand what "establish" means. But he does not have to worry about his head being like his car keys, so maybe the concept is lost on him.
...Jesus... not of this planet
Depend on whether one speaks of his physical body or his spirit. His physical body was born on Earth; his spirit elsewhere, just as all the rest of us.
I have no problem with John 14: 21 and its commentary of Christ's "works," but his works had many facets, including one that only he was sent to accomplish alone; the Atonement.
It was necessary for God the Father to withdraw so that the full impact of the act of atonement was on Christ, alone, with no assistance from his Father, nor angels. That it was a uniquely personal sacrifice was vital to satisfy demands for justice. Jesus kneww God's withdrawal was necessary, but, in his grief, still asked the question.
I would not expect Hitchens to have had any other attitude about religion, but then his lack of of confidence that evidence for God exists is telling, because the evidence is based on faith, which is nothing but another sense [like our acknowledged 5; being a sixth - and there are others that empirical science is beginning to recognize as available to us which are common in other animals]. Too many consider faith and belief to be synonymous, but they are not alike. We can believe anything we choose, whether true, or not. Faith truly operates only when something is true already, but we just do not recognize it. It is an internal fully tactile sense, that is the testtation of the Holy Spirit. Many people feel it without knowing what it is or what it is telling us, because all senses are informative if we know how to read them. Hitchens was unaware of any of this.
"Christ" is not a surname that anyone else can share. Yes, I am sure that many have had sufficiently swelled heads to take the name, even "legally," but it is not earned, and was never intended to be earned by anyone else but he who legitimately bears the name. The word's etymology tells you all you ned to know about its significance. Anyone else taking it is a fraud, having no power, and certainly no authority, to bear it.
Our now common, but non-constitutional phrase [i.e., the words are not contained therein, but, many words are absent from the Constitution that we selectively choose to include] "separation of church and state," a.k.a.. "a high wall of separation." The "separation" phrase comes from the SCOTUS decision of Everson v. Board of Education, 1947 https://www.oyez.org/cases/1940-1955/330us1
Some claim it originats with Tommy Jefferson. However, at the time of drafting the Constitution, Tommy was separated from both church and state, as our minister to France. Yes, Tommy said the words, and believed them, but the concept of "separation" came from Roger Williams, a hundred years earlier in the 17th century.
What we only selectively remember, though I was reminded of the memory from high school, because we discussed it in my high school, and just seven years ago, read the full syllabus of the case [see the "Oyez" citation above. It contains, as part of the assenting decision, the following:
“…that although the United States government cannot promote religion, it also cannot be religion’s adversary.”
Be honest: did you know that was part of the decision? Sobering, considering the conflict that currently exists between the factions of "freedom of religion," because the 1st Amendment does not say that
government cannot cooperate with religion to improve our effort to become "a more perfect union," it just says government cannot "establish" a religion, that is, start one. Prayer does not establish a religion. Talking about religion does not establish one. Come on, words mean things. Need a dictionary?
Something I forgot to mention in my #21 post re: Bidumb. What President who respects the Office chooses to ignore the Oval in favor of some little-boy desk to sign bills and EOs, as if he doubts his worthiness to occupy the Oval? Did Oba'a decide Bidumb was not his equal? He, SloJo, did admit on several occasions during his 2020 campaign that he was running for Senate...
more Christ-level beings are coming besides Jesus.
Who else relevant to us is at Christ's level, other than his Father?
Back at you:
Fantasy with the humans access to Meta-space beliefs in illogical, lack of common sense critical thinking is allowed by Universe.
Some billionaires go their lives paying a smaller percent of their income
Like I said, we do not pay taxes in volumes of percentages, but in volumes of dollars. Never in my life have I paid taxes in percentages. I don't even know what kind of currency that is. percentages do not have pictures of presidents on them, do they? Is a person's net worth what he earns in one year? Is 28% of a million dollars more money than 100% of tens or even a hundred thousand dollars? Come on, let's make sure we're playing with a full deck, okay?