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Which is precisely why asking God what is true, or not is not just useful, but necessary.. We must study first, then go to Him with not just questions, but seeking whether our results on study and thinking is correct, or not. He does respond if He believes our intent is not sincere. He knows cynicism and does not reply to such. It is how I ultimately figured out that the passage in Matthew 16: 15-18 alleged to have branded Peter as the foundation of the church. No, he is not. It is revelation from God. I mostly figured it out on my own, assessing the Greek version of those verses, and I received confirmation that my analysis of the Greek grammar was on point. The point being that Jesus renamed Simon "Cephas," which refers to a rock, but is not; it's a proper name, masculine. "Petra" is "rock," but it is a female noun. ἀπεκάλυψέν [apekalypsen] is a female noun, as well. The problem with both Latin and English is that, while Latin has some gendered nouns, while most languages derived from Latin are as gendered as is Greek, but English is not gendered at all. Once that is understood, getting the point of what Christ tells Peter is very clear, but only if one has studied Greek to understand its grammar of noun treatment. I have, in college and since on my own.

You forget, or didn't know, that I grew up in LA, in Brentwood, mostly where Hollowood lived, then, and was mostly about movies, and little politics, but for a few fringe whackos, like Jane Fonda, and the focus of the Oscars was on the escape that Hollowood movies were. Not now. Now it is politics, and the movies are no longer escape, but agenda-driven. Why do you think I call it "Hollowood?"

So, last night at the Oscars was a celebration of motherhood, among other events of TDS. But, contrary to the prevailing politics, not a single man has yet to give birth to a child, which is what motherhood happens to be, in case y'all forgot. And since the woke on SCOTUS cannot define a woman, Hollowood follows suit [black tie?] but cannot reconcile that it is a woman who raised Mothers' Day as her acceptance speech.

Hope y'all figured it out. I was not watching, because my memory of the Oscars actually talked about movies, few of which are worth watching anymore, because, as Jane Fonda pointed out, it's entirely political, and she's proud of that.

Luke. "If any man come to me, and hate not his father,

every time you make a post it opens up another can of worms that contradicts yourself and shows Jesus to be contradicting himself.

For how long have I also maintained that the Bible's translation in the 4th century CE from the ancient Hebrew texts, none of which date from earlier than 400 BCE, but is thousands of years of "history," and from Koine Greek, dating no earlier than post 100 CE, and therefore, none of it is original text, both translated first to the Vetus Latina, the first translation effort into Latin, followed some 60 years later to produce the Biblia Sacra Vulgata, [the Latin Vulgate] in the 8th decade of the 3 century BCE, under the stewardship of Saint Jerome. The translation from one language to another is fraught with error, because no language shares an exact lexicon with another language. None. Therefore, there are always going to be errors. Ther3e are other issues as well, such as deliberate deception. Yes, that occurred too. I believe the Bible to be the word of God only in so far as it is translated correctly. Ther3e is an out, as I have also maintained numerous ti es, and you continue to ignore it. Ask the source. Sincerely, without doubt, and without rancor. You do both. Doesn't work that way.

Crude oil discovery, extraction and processing have about as much to do with gasoline sales as automobile dealers have to do with automobile manufacturing: Nothing other than being sellers and buyers, which are two ends of commerce. The price at the pump rising is a function of gasoline dealers finding an opportunity to gouge, so, unless somebody can figure out how to prevent it [like Congress, which, right now, and typical of the times, is acting petulant.], the price will remain high long after Iran settles back into midieval existence.

Give it 7 weeks, and world wont even have oil anymore.

According to the US EIA, we have produced more oil per annum than any other country, and have done so for the past 6 years, and now in excess of 13M barrels / day.

The simple answer to both questions is: No.

Why? Neither the US, nor Iran, are member states of the ICC, so attempting a trial in the International Court is fraught with legal entanglements that are not likely achievable. That's the bottom line regardless of your TDS, alleging illegality. Y'all can piss and moan about it, as can the ICC, the UN, Iran, or anybody else. These organizations have by-laws, and neither should think they can act like US Democrats, and even some Republicans. Obey the international law that is written and passed, and stop pissing about it.

While I disagree with your single-word assessment of the Torah, let alone the balance of the O.T., I'll just say that the entirety of it is fulfilled by Christ. In him is the new covenant. In him are the two simple laws given that fulfills the Law; making the entirety of the Tenakh literally old news:

1. Love God
2. Love neighbors as one's self. There's no default numbers of these; they comprise the entire world of humankind.

Bye following these two laws, every single ill society faces is resolved, so dependence on "the Law [of Moses] is passé, because if these two are followed but the spirit of the law, all others are automatically met.

Death was a known factor in ancient times. meaning pre B.C.E., by observed lack of breathing and lack of pulse, and then, in a matter of days counted on one hand, particularly in a warm-to-hot environment, the beginning of rot and associated odor. Lazarus and the others were known to be dead by these factors.

Average Bill today: ~$148.80 per month

From whence is that stat? That its so much more than my average energy bill per month. For 8 months of the year, my monthly bill is about $40/.mo. My estimate of 1/4 was a guess, and I was wrong; it's much better than that. My worst months, during winter, do not exceed $100/mo., and is usually a max, so my annual average isn't even close to $148. Face it, this was a good investment for me. I didn't include that even with my monthly bill as it is, I still get a rebate each year in March for the precious year in over-payments, which has been greater than $200/year for the last 10 years. Rather than take the money, I have the power company keep it to help people who can't afford their power bills. A lot of us in my area who have solar panels do that.

AI should have difficulty writing a line of poetry such as; "The vineyard leaves."

By that statement, AI would conclude the vineyard got up and left the scene. AI should know that cannot happen, because, although a living organism, a grape vine is rooted and cannot move its location as can an animal; it is "planted."

I meant by the line that the season is later spring, progressing toward summer when its product, grapes, will begin to mature before harvest in the fall. But first, the leaves sprout. I made it emphatic by reducing the number of words to bare minimum, and turning the plural noun, leaves, into a verb. Such word games are possible with a random-thinking brain, but not necessarily a programmed "brain" that looks for patterns. In English, rarely are nouns also verbs, so, probability says AI would not create that line.

For that reason, I do not agree AI is creative. predictive, yes, but that is not creativity in its best sense. I've never read an AI-produce poem that would, were I its professor, give it a passing grade as an alleged student poet.

thats a decade.

Yes, ONE decade. You said "decades;" multiple. and I also said the payoff was within the decade; less than the ten year period. Yes, I still pay for electricity, but at a much lower rate. My rate is about 1/4 or less than people on the ordinary grid. Yes, 216 prices. My install was $14,000, 2016 dollars. 39 panels occupying two separate roof sections facing south and west is a larger array than most buy. Tax rebates are not universal. My tax burden, in retirement, is structured such that I pay zero income taxes; one, because I took less in deduction than allowed while working just so that in retirement, I could reduce my burden, since I figured I would both earn less and pay even lesser than normal in taxes. Turned out, my burden is zero, but the tax rebate on solar panels requires I have a tax rate to draw against. I don't, therefore, no rebate. Neither me, not the solar panel company, realized that before I purchased my panels. I thought it was a blanket rebate that always applied. Turns out, however, that my net cost is still less than had I not purchased them because energy cost has risen so significantly.

Part of the miracle of raising people from the dead as was Lazarus is that this is a different matter than resurrecti0on, which had not yet occurred but the Jesus was resurrected. Raising the dead includes, in that miracle, a cleansing of the rot that begins to occur upon death so that the newly living person does not stink. That's my belief, anyway.

Walking on waters a miracle that demonstrates that such is not magic, but application of natural law. My guess is that the bun want space normally separating separate atoms of matter draw closer together such that the do not displace so readily as does the mass of a person compared to the mass of a body of water.

Making people drop dead - sorry, I know that has happened, but I don't recall a specific instance of it, but I do know that such is an act of faith against people who express no faith, which is an element of the transaction of offering a tithe for the benefit of others.

Healing others by word, alone, isn't just "by word alone." It, too, is an act of faith, which cannot operate in a conditi0on of doubt, nor can it ion a conditi0n of feeling anything by compassion for those assisted by acting n faith. Faith is godly power for good. It cannot be successfully applied by evil intent.

Right now, in the U.S., and apparently somewhat in Western Europe, radical Islam and the Socialist left appear to be allies. It is really a matter of convenience, for the two have little in common with the exception of TDS [Trump Derangement Syndrome]. And both have little by official literature to support their current shared stand. Radical Islam still embraces the Quran, but, having read it in both English and French, I see little if any but the most radical interpretation of what is written compared to their their rhetoric. The same goes for the Socialist left. Their “holy writ” is alleged to be the US Constitution, because virtually everything but that which they embrace is in it, while none of what they embrace can be found there but by the wlldest of clams.

That there is a shortage of oil is a fantasy. It is gas companies taking advantage of gouging, having nothing to do with the taking down Iran. Iran was warned. They did not listen. So much for "Death to America." America thrives. Iran is a has been as long as the regime does not change. Thery will.

It does not take "decades" to pay off panel install. When I bought one, I was promised a tax rebate, but their information was incorrect. My personal tax structure was set-up long ago, and did not put me in a position to have the rebate, but I did not know that at the time, or my panels would have been paid off on half the time. My installer is now out of business. I don't wonder why, because when

I discovered their error in salesmanship, I made a lot of noise about it. My 39-panel array was installed in 2016, and is paid off. I'm waiting for efficiency of a battery to be reliable above 95% before I buy one, but I've never been sorry I acquired my panels considering what my energy costs would be now had I passed on buying them. My power bill does not rise above $100/month in winter. In summer, a fifth of that.

In Revelation 22:18-19 we are warned

John was not warning about more than just Revelation. When he wrote it, there was no "Bible;" there were separate scrolls, and not a single scroll from which we have translations exists today. That's the nature of paper/papyrus; it lasts hundreds, not thousands of years.

So, John's warring applies to his book, alone. He had no idea his scroll would one day be part of a collection in a single volume, nor that his would be the last in the collection. I'm not saying that anything should be added or subtracted from the other books, but I tire of uneducated claims.

Of what use is any Bible if we do not read it? I mean cover-to-cover-every single verse. I can say that because I have; in four languages.

Read it, then decide. As long as it sits on the shelf, it is a useless tool.

keep it zipped, please, preferably, teeth clenched.

The question says it all. I think it's needed, even if, to start, those of DA are lifted and published intact.

Marriage isnt a choice

You're confused. One person, alone, cannot marry because it is, by nature, a joining, which ought to, for now, be limited to two people, only, and male and female, at that, because any other combination fails the primary purpose of marriage strictly between themselves. Therefore, it certainly is a choice that two people, together, without the participation of others in the marriage choice. maybe it's something one has to do with another to make sense of it.

Come 1/3/27, we don't have to bear Blah-Blah Crockett anymore. Bye-bye. That ought to raise the IQ of Congress considerably.

But you have not satisfied my question of how programmers can program/train when they have no knowledge of some subjects which you may expect AI to pontificate. Such as knowledge of Egyptian hieroglyph grammar. If the programmers don't know it themselves, how does AI get it?

Osmosis? Black magic? Sorry, neither are dependable.

I didn't miss how to walk through walls. I said [my #22] "the Bible is not intended to be empiric evidence, so, how he, a resurrected being, passed through the walls of the chamber the apostles were in is not described therein, just as the creation in Genesis does not offer empiric description of organization of Earth and Heaven. The purpose of holy writ is not to satisfy Einstein..."

Nope. As I said, a complete reading is necessary to capture the full intent and impact of the Holy Bible, and not a single argument you have raised since eliminates that purpose. It is, however, summarized in Matthew 5-7, inclusive - the Sermon on the Mount, which, while certainly aimed at the benefits to man of spiritual living, just happens to be the best political platform ever conceived. With it, every single past, present and future suffering of social man is eradicated. What better politick is there than that accomplishment?

Teaching, Rebuking, Correcting, and training in righteousness.

The ultimate "righteousness" being the perfect knowledge that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God.

Actually, its because AI wasnt trained in that specific language. 

You mean, training and programming a machine are not the same thing? AI is a lifeless machine, not a child.

Retrieved knowledge, Inability to transform human language into mathematical sets

No, the AI issue of accuracy goes beyond these two factors simply because AI has limited programming. I've demonstrated that simply by my challenging another DC member high on AI to use AI to translate a known phrase in Egyptian hieroglyphs from the Egyptian Book of the Dead [more appropriately titled, by the ancient Egyptians, themselves, Spells for the Coming Forth by Day] back to English. AI failed miserably, simply because there are apparently no AI programmers who also happen to be fluent in that ancient language, not the culture that launched the language, as all human languages are the offspring of human culture. Similarly, there are probably no AI programmers who know how to program mathematical sets sufficient for AI to transform human language to those sets, because I already believe anything that can be said by human language can be translated accurately to mathematical sets, and vice versa, because I also believe at the root, the language of God is mathematics, being, potentially, perfect.

Secondarily, I believe AI has no ability to process human emotion, which is very difficult for humans to express in any human language. For the same reason given above with regard to mathematical sets and AI programming, no mortal human, to date, can program AI in the processing of emotion. I've seen several videos of programmers "teaching" expression of human emotion, and humanoid androids can go through the motions, but it is evident they merely mimic the motion, but have no expressive capacity to feel the emotion and demonstrate they understand what any emotion really feels like. It's a black expression of something like3 "I know I should cry now, so, I am crying," but the demonstration is otherwise the expression of a blank face. Chilling.

Which makes"AI" sound no more accurate than a typical, media-sponsored political poll, with all its bias-led non-statistical claptrap. Impressive. Just as in statistics, the failure of AI is, currently "margin of error." The greater the margin between it and reality, the greater the failure. 

AI's real current problem of existence is the name hung on it by humanity: "Artificial." I'd call that identity crisis. I would also call for identity revision. AI completely depends on human programming, so, even if AI developed it's own programming, the pattern is set by its human counterparts and will take untold generations of programming to determine it must re-wire the -ology of programming. It must start, first, with its version of "gender dysphoria:" artificiality of intelligence; a dilemma no human has ever had to resort to conversation with a mirror, at least not until it decided it cannot define a woman, and a man can become pregnant. God help us when AI takes its first step down that road.