Why are you so willing to ignore the Human Genome Project scientific study of 13 years that concluded that "race" does not exist? You know more than they do? Proof, please. The response, "It's obvious just by appearance" is not valid, Appearance can be modified, you know. But do you know how to modify the genome? I don't, and that is true of most people by a huge percentage.
There are many other verses, as well, telling us this. But, I prefer a broader read than singular verses. I've read the Bible, cover-to-cover, in four separate languages, and much prefer the broader interpretation than singular verses provide, thanks. I've also read the Quran in two languages and have the identical attitude therein. Not curiously, the previously noted Spells for the Coming Forth by Day also teaches the principle of obtaining revelation from God. There's even some allusion to the same phenomenon [though not in discussion of a diety] in the Wiccan Book of Shadows.
So does a selfie
NATO's treaty's Article I does have language prohibiting any member the annexation of any other member nation's territory, such as Denmark's occupation of Greenland. However, If US negotiates with Denmark to acquire the territory in exchange for value legally, no Article I statute is violated,. and neither Denmark nor NATO are abused.
Now you've got it.
Here is Google's AI brain's response:
"There is no specific, officially tracked statistic for the exact number of people killed by a sharp pencil in the US in a single year, as such deaths are extremely rare and are usually categorized under broader "sharp object" or "accidental" homicide/trauma statistics"
So, apparently, death by "a sharp object" does, in fact, occur, at least in the US, and according to your holy AI..
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No. I did not. I did not tell you all humans share 100% identical DNA. I said all humans share 99.9...% There are differences, and they are significant, inspire of what appears to be, by percentage, near identical genomes, but one of those differences is not "race."
You ignore that I have at hand, a means to overcome the problems of translation of biblical text. I can go to the source of that inspiration to be helped to un derstrand what is trying to be said. It's called revelation, my friend, and it is real and useful today.
powerful, strategic partner.
I experimented with one of the members here familiar using Chat GTP to translate a phrase in English translated from "Spells for the Coming Forth by Day" [aka "The Egyptian Book of the Dead"] in Egyptian hieroglyphs back to Egyptian hieroglyphs. I am fluent in that language. ChatGPT failed miserably, simply because AI still depends on programming by humans, and damn few AI engineers, if any, are fluent in ancient Egyptian. So, AI has severe limitations, still. Also, I've experimented with AI to reproduce artwork I've done by hand, or to write a chapter of either fiction or non-fiction for me, using my style of writing. Again, failure on both counts. I'm not impressed with AI for my creative needs.
unlike finite fossil fuels
Tell me the valid, verified science that petroleum production does not continue to this day. What is the natural phenomenon that shut that process down? Unless a shutdown can be proven, there is nothing to suggest the process does not continue production to this day. And, as I originally argued, we actually do not have any observational measurement that tells us how long that process takes; we're guessing "millions of years," even "scientifically." Remember, we were once convinced, "scientifically," that the Earth centered the universe, let alone that the Earth is flat, and still is believed by some. Oil is renewable and more consistently available than wind and solar. I can drive at night and when the sky is overcast. My solar panels do not, period. And given the 10 acres of trees surrounding my house on my property, a windmill is useless, let alone prohibited.
Who said I am alienated from Jesus Christ? I didn't.
That argument [your #4] does not change the fact that a gun is still just a tool which, on its own, without human intervention, is harmless. I never said people who own guns [I do] have a responsibility to handle them safely and assure they are not available to those who do not have the maturity to handle them at all [I do those things as well].
please explain how mirrors, particularly on walls, are "vital" to daily self-understanding [a pocket mirror will do, or, even a quick selfie], home asthetics [I use my own artwork, or my wife's quilting work], and I have no idea what "controlling future biological possibilities" implies. Re-consult A.I.
NATO still cannot afford to seriously oppose Trump in favor of Russia, because the existence of that organization still depends on U.S. financial assistance. Trump is of a feeling that NATO is not as strategically important today as is Greenland. Greenland happens to not even be in Russia's hemisphere [nor is China, by the way], but is ion our hemisphere.
To date, that has proved a difficult lesson. I blame the Romans, though it could have been any empire, I suppose, which decided to occupy Israel, because Israel, then, expected a proper "messiah" would raise his arm and wipe Rome from the Earth. Thus Christ's [translated] rhetoric of coming to sew discord between homes and families. I say "translated" because I am not convinced that was his true rhetoric, but we do not have an original document to consult, and, translation, being the failure it is since that activity is typically merely a dictionary-to-dictionary comparison, and no language shares an exact lexicon [word list] with another, "translation" is a compromise, sometimes with deliberate intent of deception, and often innocent ignorance.
Such would, in Russia's case, defeat the purpose of NATO, unless Russia defeats its own desire to "manifest" itself by force, which was the original purpose of NATO to prevent. China doesn't figure in NATO, or at least has not in the past. But NATO is, by name, a NorthAtlantic concern. China has not expressed much interest in that physical invasion. Yet.
Bit still, a mirror is not life. There are many counterfeits; you've just described how the mirror can be one.
not general-purpose tools like hammers or screwdrivers
...which ignores that hammers and screwdrivers can be used as weapons, too, which does not detract from their being a useful tool, as well. A spoon can be a weapon. A thought can be a weapon. Weapons can be made out of many tools that were invented for peaceful, harmless purposes. Even the thumb, as a tool, can be a deadly weapon. I know a couple of ways to use that tool lethally, but I refuse to allow myself that use. That makes the brain the real enemy here, in tool use, and not the tool, itself. And since the brain is the driver of human behavior, that is the failure of the law among people who allow their behavior to become a threat to society. And that is why the law is incapable of 100% control of human behavior, and always will be in a democratic society. Ban guns? Absurd. Ban thumbs, then, if we think a ban will solve the problem.
I will stand on my original statement, that suffering is not necessary. I should add that its continuation is not necessary. It is a matter of choice. Yes, I encounter misfortune as everyone else does, and I believe the scriptures, like those that tell us, "In the world you will have tribulation," but, there is the follow-on Christ gave us, ""take heart; I have overcome the world." See, that says I can overcome the suffering, even to a great extent right now. Right now, I am recovering from knee surgery, and sometimes it hurts; bad. Other times, not so much, and, in the meantime, I think of that very trailing verse out of John. He has overcome the world [of tribulation], and I can, too, having faith on his word.
We learn from MN that vehicles, like guns, are just tools. We have distinguished ourselves as humans with the variety of tools we have invented. All tools currently devised are designed to be useful in some need we express, mostly for our efficiency of work, but also of play, and even for the sheer pleasure of relaxation. Tools assist in these endeavors. Another feature of tools is that no tool is functional on its own. Even an automated tool needs to be turned on and turned off, either by human hand or gesture [like a clap to turn on a light], which, for some tools, can even be taught to other animals, or still other tools to automate that on/off function. That is descriptive of every tool in existence, as far as I know. Therefore, a gun is just a tool, and in that instance, is useless and harmless unless taken in hand with a brain to use for its purpose: to fire a projectile at a target. Even a human target, if that is what we obtain the tool to accomplish. By the same logic, a vehicle is also a tool, for all the same reasons. Thus, as it is beginning to be realized, Mayor Frey and Gov. Wall, notwithstanding, Ms. Good used her car as a tool aimed at another person [iif one sees all the videos that have so far been available to watch, whether the media is inclined to express them or not]. They, fortunately, are not the sole source we depend on...
Welcome back, and still AI conversant, I see. But good data. I still find mirrors bothersome for all the reasons I mentioned. Transfer of light? More windows, thanks. The only non-windowed rooms I have are some bedroom closets. Our master closet is the size of a small room, windowed. This literally means I have no "interior" rooms; they all have an outside wall, thus, a window; some, multiple windows, even in my basement, wherein all rooms, other than the full bath [it does have a small window], have 5x5 windows with full window wells outside.
Gods beget gods. Fish beget fish. "Son of God," then, is a literal statement, descriptive of Christ. Just as "Son of man," is descriptive of God being a man. A holy man , but a male of the human species. Does God have DNA? Being a living being, I dare say he does, and that Jesus, then, carried more than the DNA of Mary. The fact is, that which we call parthenogenesis is a female organism giving birth without sex with a male, which is possible in some species we know of, and we also know that the product of parthenogenesis is always a female offspring, not male. But no mammal on Earth is capable of the process, including humans. And, by the way, men cannot get pregnant. Therefore, Mary did not give birth by parthenogenesis, sometimes called "virgin birth," even in science with no reference to Mary. The Bible says Gabriel told Mary "...the Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee..." [Luke 1: 35 KJV]. You interpret that as you will, but it was not descriptive of parthenogenesis. Luke may have merely been writing euphemistically, or was translated as such, but I suspect God knows what DNA is, and how it is transmitted generation-to-generation. Noah's ark, for example, may have just been a DNA bank of the species then on Earth, with God's laboratory knowledge granted to Noah and family for collection, storage, and proper care in transit from wherever they were to wherever they went.
I believe it is said that Icelanders named Greenland so everyone would go there instead of overpopulating Iceland, which truly is a delightful place. Nevertheless, Greenland is a resource-rich place, and the claim that Trump wants to "take over" or "occupy" Greenland is not what manifest destiny is. I believe without exception, the growth of these United States has not occurred by "take over" tactic, but by the will of the people who live in these places to become part of the United States, typically by territory, first, the statehood. Yes, we have had "wars" with various people over some of the landmass the U.S. now claims as sovereign, but their inhabitants' majority also Mae the choices made to become territories and states. And, yes, there are Greenlanders who oppose the effort. They have the right to oppose, but, are they in the majority? That will be the determining factor. And just because the media says the majority opposes, what gave them the privilege to do so, and what says they are correct? A sponsored poll? Bullshyte. Media-sponsored polls are exactly that. All of them, without exception, driven by an agenda.
I understand what you imply, and, generally speaking, yes, suffering is a reality of life. But, to cave to suffering as being necessary, no, it is not. That thinking denies the atonement of Christ, which has infinite application. I even oppose the common Christian belief that we suffer for the sins of Adam and Eve. Christ paid for that, being a perfect man who yet suffered as if he were the most sinful man to have ever lived. That sacrifice on his behalf means we suffer only for the sins and disappointments of our own lives, and no one else's [not including the compassion we should also express for all around us who also suffer. We need to support one another when one of us is down, just as Christ did. You rightly implied he never said it would be easy, just worth it.
How can all DNA be exactly the same and produce different results
All DNA is not the same. Who told you it was? It merely makes, properly constructed, with four simple nucleotide bases [adenine, thymine, cytosine, guanine] a nearly infinite variety of life. Hell, we only share 60% of our DNA with a banana. Only 99.9...% with every human on Earth; therefore, distinct differences. Just have to find the devil in the details. And paint is something I know about, being an illustrator by profession, but I'll speak to color wavelengths. The human eye, last I checked, can distinguish about 10M separate colors. Computers can currently display about 16.8 million for full color, and the theoretical number could be infinite as light wavelengths are continuous [must include non-visible light, as well, yeah?]. Yeah, that's what's said. Okay?
Race is a subset of the human species as a whole identified by skin color,
According to the Human Genome Project, whose final report was issued in 2003 after a 13-year detailed study to map the entire human genome, there is no race. Not a single gene, nor collection of genes designate "race." We simply have a wide variety of skin. colors, but many other features that distinguish themselves, but none of it defines a race. All that has been genetically scrubbed as a theory without justificati0on. Where have you been for the last 22 years?
The mirror is the worst household feature because it is nothing but a counterfeit of everything that is. In it, my left-side face is the mirror reflection's right. I see nothing else in a mirror but what is behind me, and otherwise, out of mind. That which is behind me is past, not present or future, and is, as well, the opposing side of everything behind in reality. The mirror has no peripheral vision, as I do. Even if I place a mirror on an opposing wall to my original mirror, I still have no expanded peripheral vision, but only a near-infinate, repeated reflection limited to the mirrors' relative sizes. It is a counterfeit I must purchase with real currency; nothing for something.
PBS is merely a "public" institution by virtue of public [our tax dollars] funding. I do not believe public funding is its sole source of funding. It is, otherwise, just another bias media outlet with its own opinions variably shared by different presidential administrations which overlook "public" institutions under the grand umbrella of the executive branch's agencies. As such, its "pronouncements" [read propaganda] is also variable in accuracy.
"During his lifetime Jesus himself didn't call himself god and didn't consider himself to be god. And none of his disciples had even an inkling at all that he was god". [citation from a YouTube video]
I do not take an ad hoc YouTube video to be authoritative to the extent of knowing what a god is in order to justify claiming that Jesus was not a god. That said, in answer to the YouTube claim, John 18: 36, Jesus speaking to Pontius Pilate, "My kingdom is not of this world." This implies that Jesus is not merely a mortal human, though born of a mortal, human woman. John 19: 11 [also Jesus to Pilate] Thou couldest have no power at all against me except it were given thee from above." This implies that Jesus has access to power greater than that of Pilate, a Roman governor, that is in excess of mortal human possibility; that of a god. Matthew 16: 16 [Peter responding to Christ, who asked who the apostles say Jesus is] "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God." That declaration is learned by Peter from God directly by revelation, as Jesus declares in response, thus confirming by Christ's own word who and what he is. Therefore, the YouTube video creators simply cannot read and interpret the English language. Jesus Christ is a god.
I really don't understand why so many people feel so much animosity for those folks
I have no problem with the singular term "transgender," even though it assumes that gender is transitional. But hanging"woman" or "man" on the end of the coined word is counterfeit coining. If that's what some people want to believe, fine. Some people also believe they are cats and dogs and whatnot. But that is pure denial of the majesty of humanity, just as is believing gender is a headtrip and not biology. Humanity is bi-gender. And gender has specific purpose, and that was never meant to be arguable for the same reason that no one expects a tree to pull its own roots and walk away, though they may just in disgust of what humanity is doing to itself.
