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I love how you just steal another religion's concept, completely change the definition and use it however, you feel like

Aren't you doing the same thing? Accusation without knowing my sources of information? I have stolen nothing. I grew up in L.A., with friends of many cultures around the world, including Buddhists and Wiccans. I own copies of all books I mentioned in the languages I read, among the four walls of books that is my library. I know what karma is, as understood by those who created it, along with my Oxford English Dictionary. Cause and Effect. Thought, driving action, with consequences. That's not karma? What is self-directed destiny, but that? Since when? And how would you differentiate that from free will? Same thing, different words, just as Greek has seven words that differentiate the English word, "love," but to which we of the English tongue must add adjectives and adverbs to say what the Greeks can say in one word. My daughter's middle name is Karma. When she was an infant, I held her over my head under the night sky, filled with stars, and conducted an African custom [I am of French and Scot ancestry]; to hold a child thus and declare, "Behold the only thing greater than yourself." She asked me, much later when the time came, to perform the same ritual, when each of her children were born. Did I steal that, or did I honor that African culture which created the rite? I pity you for declaring that is stealing. I am, above all, a humanist, appreciating all our cultures. Good enough?

Christians: 32%

Muslims; 23%

Judaism: 0.2%

I have read the Holy Bible, and then Torah, cover-to-cover in four languages: English, French, Greek, Italian. They are not identical, word-for-word. Even just in Engish, there are over 2 dozen separate translations.

I have read the Quran cover-to-cover in 2 languages, English and French. Same consequence as above.

I have read the Tripitaka [Buddhism] in English. It's original language is Pali, an ancient Indian tongue similar to Sanskrit. I'll wager it's translation to English is also fraught with changes.

Yet, all are considered holy writ, subject to mistranslation, either by error, or deliberate or coerced deception.

So, let's not get too wrapped up accusing any of these religions for being heretics not worth the time to investigate. There is a source to go to to inquire what is, and is not true. That source would be wisely consulted. I'd say those who scoff at religion are the heretics.

There are Christian zealots that are incapable of questioning what it's written in the bible. 

That is likewise true of Muslims reading the Quran, of Jews reading the Torah, of Buddhists reading the Tripitaka, or of Wiccans reading The Book of Shadows, etc, etc. Reading is not automatic comprehension, period. Who said it was? That's wokeness, and woke is dead. Isn't that obvious?

Nevertheless, karma is associated to reincarnation, so if Christians believe in karma, they necessarily need to believe in reincarnation.

No, association of two, or more, separate effects does note necessitate linkage. Other wise, the following failed syllogism would, in fact, be true:

P1: Birds idly.

P2: Camels walk.

C: Therefore, butterflies swim.

Not true, even though both propositions are true. There is a waxy substance the butterfly produces to protect the wings from becoming soaked, such as in a rainstorm, or falling into shallow water in which it can keep its wings above the surface of the water. But if then butterfly is dunked into water and cannot immediately escape from it, that wax breaks down, allows the wings to become soaked, and it must be able to fight its way out of the water, to dry, and re-develop the wax coating, or the wings will be permanently damaged, and unable to fly.

I am a Christian. I believe in karma, which really is just the belief that we, individually, control our destiny, but I know it by another moniker: free will. I do not accept determinism at all, and do not accept that God controls my life ion any way. That's my job. He gave dominion to man, beginning with Adam & Eve. God does not coerce as a means to be obedient; that's our job., individually.

The fact that both karma, and reincarnation are Hindu concepts in no way necessitates their linkage.

Biden's faux pas was allowing them, and even transporting them, to every state in the union. That will be his legacy for generations to come

Four very stark differences between conditions now, and 60 years ago before Carter messed up local education:

1. We did not have the invasion of illegal migrants that has been allowed to invade our borders.
2. We were taught the Constitution, and knew that the reconstruction amendments, 13, 14, 15, effectively. legally [though failed socially] to abolish slavery and its effects.
3. We did not, by wokeness, identify ourselves by the attitudes and group-think of socialism. We were individuals, then.
4. We graduated elementary school, let alone high school, literate.

None of those conditions exist today. Further, We have [other than the woke] learned that there is no genetic basis for race, at all. None. Not a single gene of our complex genome represents our clearly visibly differing features. We have known that by the Human Genome Project, which concluded 22 years ago, but the woke qarer still asleep and still do not get it.

OK, here's the translation of the hieroglyphics above in my #1 post. Warning, I will offer first the direct translation as written, understanding that it's syntax [in this case, grammar, i.e., word order as the ancients structured sentences in this language, and then as we would say it in modern English. Earlier text indicates that this is an homage to Osiris. He is the specific god to whom this honor is given.

As Written: "Becomes green through thee the Earth in triumph"

As we would say it: "Through thee the Earth becomes green in triumph."

Hey, look, boyo. We didn't have a federal agency called the Department of Education until that dufus Carter decided to federalize it in 1979, taking the control of education out of local hands. Yes, we did have differences in standards, then, but, the per casita education success across the coy try was far better than it is, now. Virtually everyone who graduated from high school was literate, even in the inners cities. I was already out of formal, post-grad education by then, so I remember well what Trump is trying to restore. Learn some real history, my friend and don't knock it trying to hold on to illiteracy evident now.

"The simple fact is that primitive humans and "mass primitive kingdoms" like Ancient Egypt..."

What "fact?" You talk like the ancient Egyptians, along with Chinese of the same era [Middle Kingdom of Egypt began abut 2040 B.C.E. through New kingdom [about 11th century BCE] were Neanderthals. Nope. Homno sapiens - modern man. Modern civilized man. The Egyptian language [as demonstrated by the artwork I posted in #1, above, is a very sophisticated language, in some respects more complicated than our modern languages, boyo. I am fluent in it, thank you, hang studied it in college and some 50 years since. Primitives did not develop such communication skills. I've even discovered evidence that the Eqyptians of that era were already practicing such socio-political concepts as due process. Do you really think primitives were in that kind of sophistication? Nope, you're wrong.

"The simple fact is that primitive humans and "mass primitive kingdoms" like Ancient Egypt..."

What "fact?" You talk like the ancient Egyptians, along with Chinese of the same era [Middle Kingdom of Egypt began abut 2040 B.C.E. through New kingdom [about 11th century BCE] were Neanderthals. Nope. Homno sapiens - modern man. Modern civilized man. The Egyptian language [as demonstrated by the artwork I posted in #1, above, is a very sophisticated language, in some respects more complicated than our modern languages, boyo. I am fluent in it, thank you, hang studied it in college and some 50 years since. Primitives did not develop such communication skills. I've even discovered evidence that the Eqyptians of that era were already practicing such socio-political concepts as due process. Do you really think primitives were in that kind of sophistication? Nope, you're wrong.

Few people outside my religion are even aware of that distinction. No, the posted image is Middle Kingdom Egyptian. The reformed product is about a thousand years into the future, about 600 B.C.E., and likely unknown to the Egyptian Empire.

Ah, now that's a wrinkle that makes sense.

I am anticipating that when the Dept. of Education is eliminated as a federal factor in education, returning it to state and local control, the primary cause of this myth will be gone within a generation.

You are frequently mentioned in the Egyptian Book of the Dead [or Spells for the Coming Forth by Day] as the god, represented by a jackat's head and human body, who is responsible for the measurement on a scale of the departed's heart, put in a canopic jar to weigh against a feather, in direct service to Osiris to judge the character of the departed. Good job.

Yea, I am well aware of Jaynes and his quacker theory of the bicameral mind. He spent several years in the study of Greek so he could read Homer's The Iliad in Homer's language, all in the belief that "mind" had a beginning point later in history than man's origin only because he had this warped sense that consciousness was not a factor at human origin even if cognition came with that origin. But he confused the proper definition of consciousness as it it were an evolutionary thing. I completely disagree, as do many others before ands since Jayne's. The fallacy Jaynes overlooked relative to language is that human language in its variable forms is a creation of culture, and not the reverse, and that, therefore, not all lexicons have the same words and meanings as any other lexicon. Greek, for example, doses not have one word: love. Greek has, instead, seven words for that one in English. I also took Greek in college. Each Greek word defines a different sense of "love," which, in English, require added adjectives and adverbs to express what Greek accomplishes by one of the seven words. He discovered that Greek also did not have the word "mind," as in his native English [he was born in Canada], but also several different words. He never did resolve his conundrum which basically limited the success of his bicameral theory. But then, he learned behavioral science by the study of non-human animal behavior, and tried to equate the two. Nonsense.

Yeah, Punter was officially unofficial.

Well........

Good guess, I suppose. But.... no. Hint: It is taken from Plate II of the Egyptian Book of the Dead [a.k.a. Spells for the Coming Forth by Day], lines 4 to 5, dating from about 3100 B.C.E. I am fluent in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. It is read left to right, top to bottom as presented here, with stacked glyphs [the last two pairings on the top line, and the middle pairing in the bottom line] read top to bottom in sequence.

The book is a series of spells chanted for the recently dead, a funerary dirge for the protection of the spirit of the dead [typically for royalty], declaring their deeds performed in life, and hope for their safe journey to the realm of Osiris.

Absolutely. My fond regards to three dogs in my life:

Perry: a Chow, childhood dog who was struck and killed by a car

Nestle [White Cocoa]: a cocker spaniel, our first dog as a new married couple, and who died of a stroke we both watched occur at home at 12 years of age.

Che: a Mastiff/Lab mix, our daughter's dog who we raised as a pup from her friend and grew so large, he could rest his muzzle on our kitchen counter. our daughter gave him back to her friend when we moved from CA.

So, a challenge, given that the following is considered by some as an art form. Translate, please:

Higher and stronger, too.

Joke all you want about a dog's purpose, but until you have watched a dog in performance of saving a person's life [I have]... well, let's just say a person coming to the aid of another in danger is expected, but when a dog is sufficiently heroic, putting itself in potential danger when self-preservation is a keen survival sense, to save a person's life, your appreciation for the species grows in admiration of their devotion.

Man's best friend, indeed. Maybe not all dogs, but then, not every person has that kind of loyalty, either.

Anyone notice RemyBrown's comments in posts are all "marked as offensive? Like a school boy with a new toy balloon. Premature efactulation?

Sorry, that was cruel.

it seems to belong to an official working there.

Was there anyone "official" in the Biden What House?

See my comment #3, and #7. That's the bottom line relative to education superiority, among other subjects. For example: my personal formal education, grade school through graduate school, was in a blue state and a red state and a blue state. All states were CA. Exception, I did 1.5 years of undergrad work in another red state and blue state. Both those states were UT.

The education superiority myth of any state is a myth. And, why not? Politics, in the end, is a fickle science at best.

Then education is in your future. First lesson is this: education of blue state superiority is a myth because there is no blue or red state that has note been at one time, or several times, the other color. All states have been blue and red. Get it?

"You made this up."

No, I did not make it up. I cannot cite it because citation of text within a subscribed service is restricted for obvious reasons [it requires the subscription be expanded to those [yoy, for instance] who are not subscribers.] Sorry to disappoint. If you wants to ses the source, subscribe to the service. That will cost you. Do your own research to inquire the cost. You can do that much, can't you?

And even color of state is a myth. There is no state, blue or red, that has not been the other color at least once.

Yeah, and neither have yet to figure out it accomplishes nothing.

if I say, "Jews are academic", it doesn't mean every Jew. It means, "Jews tend to be more academic than other groups"?

Nope. That may be your personal opinion, but, according to Oxford Language, a subscription derivative of the OED, saying "Jews are academic" is a over-simplified attribute that all Jews share that attribute. I trust Oxford Language, being the ultimate source of syntax of the English language, far more than your poor attitude about it. Try again, boyo.

I have repeatedly used the term, “group-think,” mostly in relation to Communism, but that is only because commies are fond of ignoring individual accomplishment. However, there are times people assume any group, political, social, religious, academic, sports… are in group-think mode all the time. We all do this from time to time. We think, “Those Dems are all crazy. They all voted for Kamala.” No, they all did not. I know Dems who voted for four separate people, two I know even voted for Biden and 1 for Trump. Same with the other candidates on the ballot in 24, and some write-ins. We cannot assume every group is n group-think, just to have a convenient box in which to put people with whom we disagree.