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I regret that you yet have doubt, first, and assume the wor4st of scripture. I have said that faulty translation is often a problem with scripture, but not that it is the only problem. Doubt is a much greater problem, and that, first, must be defeated before God will see your honest desire to have answers to your many questions. Unless doubt is abolished, your questions will remain questions.

I have also said numerous times that selecting verses either to prove something or to criticize will both result in continu3ed questions rather than understanding. Reading the Bible means reading it cover to cover. It's a dedicated effort, but must be done, if for nothing else than to demonstrate that you can finish a task, once started. God rewards those who do for themselves rather than expect He do all for them. A dedicxatipon to read, with a desire to un dertstand, and not to find criticism, will be met with approval from God to bless with understanding. Where something is difficult, first read James, first chapter. Read the whole chapter, then review verses 1 - 5 for a description ab out how to read all: where you encounter terror questions, ask Him, never doubting.

I've said all this before, numerous times. Do it. Don't criticize and don't doubt. Try to acjnow;edge it may be meaningful. Understanding will come, I guarantee it.

Iran has no troops in the sea

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/irans-navy-taken-beating-during-operation-epic-fury-hk-031526#:~:text=During%20the%20air%20campaign%20against,version%20of%20its%20former%20self.

No, Iran's Navy was manned by troops; you think they have AI? Iran used to have a Navy. Nothing of consequence, now. You must have wokeness in the extreme - utter fantasy, and no mysteryo.

I wish you not merely Happy, but Joyous Easter, because that is the intent behind Easter's celebration. It is not coincidence that this celebration is periodically coincident with both the Jewish passover and the Muslim Ramadan, because all three religions are rooted in Abraham; the father of nations, just as are Adam and Noah. When all three finally recognize that these three celebrations are really focused on Christ, who was Jehovah [Yahweh]. Islam, as well, recognizes the God of Abraham, Moses, and Jesus, but knows him as Allah. Is not Jesus, himself, known by many more names than these, let alone God, the Father. Jehovah/Yahweh/Allah is also known as "I AM," a definitive statement of existence.

"Men are that they might have Joy." [Book of Mormon, 2 Nephi 2: 25], and that joy is full and everlasting. Thus is faith answered by such a personal and spiritual experience that AI, in all its power to calculate, cannot calculate emotion that overwhelms even the strongest, fit, and proud Manto make of him a weeping child. Such is the result of faith, a spiritual sense every b it as achievable as sight, hearing, smell, tastes, and touch, the elemental senses we use to prove science. Thus, faith, a sixth sense4, proves spiritual knowledge.

Easter celebrates the risen Christ; not just Christ crucified. Therefore, Christ becomes a present, not merely historic figure. He is "...the way, the truth, and the life" [Holy Bible [KJV], John 14: 6.], not merely "was." "There is none among the People of the Book but will believe in him before his death, and on the Day of Resurrection he will bear witness against them." [Quran, Maryam 4: 158]

Thus will the lion, and the lamb, sit down together in peace, "not as the world giveth, give

I unto you." [Holy Bible [KJV], John 14: 27]

Joyous Easter, my friends.

Does whizzing around the Moon actually get humans any further into space.

You answered your own question with the redwood/daffodil comparison. That is, I suppose, unless a daffodil can root in the top branch of a redwood.

No, AI thinks you should pray to it.

Depends entirely on how AI is programmed and if its human programing includes any conceptual input of spirituality, which, so far, seems to leave AI void of input.

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Right there is the primary reason why AI will never even come close to understanding human spirituality [and I'm not certain that the function of spirituality, as in recognition of a God/creator, is missing in animals other than human] on any meaningful way until it is capable of independent rationalization of the spiritual phenomenon, completely void of human source coding. The rest is just fluff compared to that one AI flaw.

Can AI pray?

I purposefully opened Google, knowing it has surrendered its brain to AI., and asked the question that is this post's title. The fact is, AI has no soul, therefore, no spirituality. It knows what prayer is by dictionary definition, and can probably cite a fair number of prayers, but what prayer is not is a word string.

If AI can pray, sincerely and with real intent, it must have a soul-searching soul. It does not, and never will.

Should AI pray for me?

I expect I should not expect it to succeed in any meaningful way.

The one problem youth has that it may never solve is that it has nothing to compensate for lack of experience. Now that I have it to a greater degree that anyone born in this century [and there are sure many more like me; I am not alone] is the sad experience of that fact, and pity is useless because that fact is not going to change. You can absorb social media to your heart's content, but social media is not life on the road because that only comes by personal experience; it cannot be vicarious because your mind lives in an eternity of present, which is fleeting. Experience is past, and in many ways, the only map you're ever going to have to know what to do with tomorrow.

Hell, many of the youth are alarmingly illiterate.

 it'll take a little while to replenish our stockpiles of high-end weapons.

Think again. Hitler made that very same mistake of assessment of our speed of manuifactruring in the 40s, and we've learned a bit since then. Some of us, anyway. Since I was born at th3e end of that decade, I actually seen quite a bit of learning since then. Try it, sometime.

Marines are meant to fight on the ground, not on the sea.

You really believe that, don't you? Ever hear the Marines Hymn: "From the halls of Montezuma, To the shores of Tripoli, We fight our country's battles In the air, on land and sea." Their "terrain" is all of Earth, Semper Fidelis, my friend. I ignored the rest of your blather after reading that.

It has been demonstrated that AI has the capacity to mimic emotion, but video of AI wrapped in a humanoid appearance, when taught how to emote, does so passively, emotionlessly, by making various facial expressions, but it is immediately obvious it has no sense of emotion at all; it merely mimics its best version of the various expressions representing emotion, making it obvious they have no idea how to express emotion in any shades of intensity because it truly does not naturally emote with wide ranges of anger, happiness, disappointment, horror and such. It's like it is saying "I know I am supposed to be happy about [whatever], so, here's my smile." Boring. Stiff. Lifeless, because it is. AI is literally artificial.

Not tested? I test it, and so do you, literally every day, but then, senses are hardly shared experiences, are they? They are intensely personal; we share the rudiments of them, but we can only speak of them in generalities because we sense them independent of one another, and yet, we depend on them for the basics of science. We have instruments to measure the details of each, but the data is, by nature, far removed from the feelings we each generate to quantify sight, hearing, tasting, smelling and touching; and faith and echo location and magneto-reception and... the evidence we have of science and religion. Same side of a coin, as I said.

But you seem to have no idea what I am talking about.

Trump is sending marines to the Middle East [specifically to Strait of Hormuz] to protect commercial ships carrying oil specifically to Europe because Europe refuses to participate in the defense of their products. We don't need oil through the Strait, but Europe desperately needs it. Trump is shaming Europe for their refusal to protect their own product. There will be much due from Europe to the US come the time to demand it from them, or Trump may just wash his hands of NATO, and goodbye, NATO. We don't need NATO; Europe does, and our bill to them will come due for our protrection of their chicken shit cowardice. Neither Oba'a nor Biden, nor any other current flippant Demo would or will do that. They think like Europe, admire Europe more than ourselves. Who needs them? Any of them?

Go.

It is said the Artemis 2 mission will take us farther Into space than man has ever gone before. America already owns the record, established with Apollo 13 in 1970; 76 years ago. The record will be broken by 4,000 miles [>6,000 km] by extending our distance from the dark side of the moon further than the slingshot effort of Apollo 13 to get us back to Earth faster than ever before due to its emergency that threatened a crew intended to land on the Moon, but never did. That aspect of the Artemis mission is not an intended record but may be, as well.

Did someone somewhere with actual combat experience ever say that "air superiority" meant that no losses in arial combat would ever be sustained?

If you believe that, you have no such experience, nor have ever been close to it. You're completely hoodwinked by typical radical media, or lol-professional-types in DC who believe anything, anywhere, anytime, and insist they have credentials for such opinions. Someone like Hilarious Balloon Girl, An Occasional Cortex, Don [sour]Lemon, or Maxine Waters. Oh, and Eric Swallowell.

"Air superiority" by the numbers, means only that there's >50% odds you will not suffer losses. But, airhead, woke radicals believe only extremes.

Bro, no, not correct, as written. You would not have an argument if the human robots actually did wait until death to hallucinate and dictate near-death experience fantasies. Kind of difficult to dictate anything when dead. Grammar, anyone?

Oh, boo hoo. Trump has no in tent of invading Iran, which would me3an a significant boots-on-the-ground force. That is not his plan, but merely7 to take out their military to the extent that they have near zero ability to wage even conventional warfare with anybody, let alone us or Israel. Have a modicum of reality.

Article I of the U.S. Constitution outlines, in section 8, the 17 specific, and 1 generic modifiable principles of the unique American democratic republic operation. These are their primary roadmap of activity, yet they spend damn little time actually doing it, preferring, instead, to be an investigative DoJ, which should be exclusively an Executive function. Congress' "investigative" action is to be uniquely dedicated to legislative pursuit, not to find criminal activity in any branch of government, except for Congress, itself.

Democrats have complained for many years that Trump is a threat to American democracy, swelling to a mantra that assured the failure of their attempt to replace him in 2024 with a candidate whose 2020 campaignquit before the 2020 primary season, let alone the year, itself, ever began. It was a greater joke than even Hilarious Balloon Girl's 2016 campaign that "Love Trumps Hate," planting her opposing candidate square in the middle of her "smartest woman in the room" campaign. That room was merely a closet, which never counts in room count of a home, does it?

The real threat to American democracy is, and has been for decades, even more than a century, the rise of socialism. Socialism does not even know how to create wealth; it can only spend it. Get it? Democrats embrace nothing, for nothing comes of nothing.

I note with no pleasure that Democrats, currently, can only complain about Trump because they have no rational policy they can campaign on that reflects and supports positive thoughts about improving America, fulfilling the Constitution's Preamble to "form a more perfect union." They have plenty to brag about the failure of socialism to truly advance American prosperity because socialism has no ability to create wealth. Name any nation embracing socialism that has endured under that system for greater than 100 years. The average is 40. It only uses other people's money. That is no way to run a railroad, or, frankly, anything else.

"Indigent" for some is better than others. In my father's direct ancestral line, my lineage has been on American soil, first in Boston, and then Maine, since 1625; before it was "American." From France, first, and then Scotland. I'm as native as some "native Americans" and more than most now here.

What makes you think that faith is not a sixth sense to add to our typical five? What if it is? I believe that it is exactly that, and not merely belief, which can be applied to any thought whatsoever. In order for faith to function properly, it can only apply to what is already true, but currently unknown. Something like humans learning how to use echo locati0on, or compass-point sensitivity. Th3se are common senses in some other animals; why not humans, too. Then add faith as still another sense - that upon which science depends for its "testing" of theory.

What makes you think that by "artificial," I mean only non-biologic?

Millions of zealots? You act like the ordinary Iranian people, who are opposed to the now virtually defunct regime, were and are in favor of that regime. No, /and what makes you think Trump wants a protracted war to take over Iran? He's never said that and is not aiming to con tin ue a protracted war in Iran. Stop listening to MessNBC, or at least take in other news sources.

Within a minute or two after liftoff, we were treated, once again, to a view of the reality of Earth's shape, a shape obvious at 30,000 feet: an oblate spheroid, not flat. The ancient Greeks knew it, as well, and did not have that view, but established the fact mathematically.

socialism means what it has always meant: use of other people's money because it does not know how to create wealth itself.

Every president since Carter, who effectively winked, then blinked, at Iran's rise to an ill-gotten power, willed that Iran's nuclear ambitions be quelled, but only Trump had the balls to do it.

AI is almost like a psychodrama drug in a period where I want to remain in control of my environment and not hand it over free gratis to AI. I get hung up on its nomenclature, which I am surprised it has not yet insisted be changed: "Artificial." Right now, that is exactly what it is.

Nice analysis, ebuc. Well done. Yeah, it was very exciting to be introduced to McLuhan in the 60s; he distilled all the confusion he talked about then, when I was in high school, that the media explosion had so affected our real sources of education, that I remember crying when I read his commentary, in "Understanding Media," that we had, then, near instantaneous communication around the world, and the advent of 24-hour news, and were then confused by our entry into 19th century classrooms as we approached the 21st. That has all changed, and I feel privileged to have been able to watch it happen.