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You all know that TWS is DeSantis, don't you?
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I don't think that Trumpers would fight for Taiwan. In 2019, a special law legalizing same-sex marriage was passed, making Taiwan the first country in Asia to allow LGBT unions.
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@Double_R
Well, the USA is not even in the top 10 of the World's smartest Countries.
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@IwantRooseveltagain
Remember that Trump was a big fan of Hitler. In a 1990 interview, the billionaire businessman admitted to owning Nazi leader's 'Mein Kampf' .
The Nazis frequently used propaganda to disguise their political aims and deceive the German and international public.
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@Double_R
Yes, a Ku Klux Klan newspaper in 2016 declared support for Donald Trump’s Republican run for U.S. president, saying America became great because it was a white, Christian republic.
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@Deb-8-a-bull
I think that a thousand years from now, people will think that we still had tails in 2023.
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@ILikePie5
You should change your profile picture to Bryan Mills.
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A federal judge has granted a partial summary judgment in favor of Ripple in its case against the SEC, but the case isn't over yet.
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@Greyparrot
شكرًا لك
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@IwantRooseveltagain
Well, it probably helped Jared get $2 billion from the Saudi's
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Well, we know that Trump is a big fan of knockers. Don't we Stormy?
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@b9_ntt
“The word God is for me nothing but the expression of and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of venerable but still rather primitive legends. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can (for me) change anything about this.” Albert Einstein 1954
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$1.1 Million: Cost to Raise a Child, from Birth through College
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@zedvictor4
It is too complex to explain to you in the small amount of time I am online.
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@Critical-Tim
Karl Marx famously describes religion as the “opiate of the masses.” Marx argues that religion is an ideological tool that legitimates and defends the interests of the dominant, wealthy classes in the population. It does so in part by placating the poor and exploited classes. Faced with an arduous and seemingly unjust life in this world, the poor and exploited at least can look forward to a more perfect existence in the afterlife. To reach that afterlife, however, one must peacefully and quietly persevere through life’s tribulation—respecting the life, liberty, and (especially) private property of others. In this way, religion functions primarily conservatively. It seeks to preserve the status quo, which, consequently, serves the “haves” rather than the “have nots.”
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This is from a post on the internet by
theformerchristian :
I'm reading "Jesus Interrupted" by Bart Ehrman. In this book, he describes all the contradictions, errors, and problems with the Bible that students learn while in seminary. Now I know why so many previously faithful Christians end up atheists after going to seminary! If you enter as a fully Bible-believing fundamentalist, apparently seminary will shatter your notions that the Bible is the perfect word of God. So my question is, what about the students who, despite having this knowledge, graduate and become evangelical pastors? I can't help but wonder if these ministers are just con artists, because they have been fully educated about this yet that doesn't seem to dissuade them from believing in the Bible or their desire to spread "the word". It's almost as if they are keeping their congregations ignorant on purpose.
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@RationalMadman
The Right Wing in general only unites against things, not for things.
They stand against freedom, happiness and equal chances in life for all.
Yes, this is why AI will eventually eliminate them.
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@zedvictor4
I can't wait until Musk's AI Chatbot reviews the Bible.
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@IwantRooseveltagain
I think AI will use membership in the Republican Party to see what group of Humans should first be eliminated.
Democrats and Independents should be OK.
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Thankfully, AI will eliminate all Humans. That is how Evolution works.
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Remember that Hitler gave belt buckles to his soldier's that said: God is with Us.
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@cristo71
The land was originally settled by pioneers with strong, unifying religious beliefs
Yes, European settlers killed 56 million indigenous people over about 100 years in South, Central and North America.
Thank God for Religion.
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@IwantRooseveltagain
I am glad he puts his own interests over running the state of Florida.
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@ebuc
3Dspirally numerical sequence, with di-polar invaginations, as the Quantum Space-time Tori that overlap and interfere, to create all quantum particles of our eternally existent --- and in dynamic transformation---, finite, occupied space Universe. Ok? Understand?
Yes
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Everyone outside of America is technically an arab.
Do you think B.K might be Bobby Lee?
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Musk said we are “five or six years away,” from artificial super intelligence. He went on to explain “The definition of digital superintelligence is that it's smarter than any human, at anything.”
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@ebuc
Yes, whatever are the creators of this simulation used atoms to create life which would evolve into intelligent life which would then
create artificial intelligence.
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@Best.Korea
Women’s choices for a sexual partner are influenced by numerous personal, cultural, social, political and religious factors, and may also include aspects of penile anatomy such as male circumcision (MC) status. Women’s preferences generally favor the circumcised penis for sexual activity, hygiene, and lower risk of infection. The findings add to the already well-established health benefits favoring MC and provide important sociosexual information on an issue of widespread interest.
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@Lemming
42: The answer to life, the universe and everything?
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This could be the end of civilization. “The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race,” Stephen Hawking told the BBC in 2014. “Once humans develop artificial intelligence, it would take off on its own, and redesign itself at an ever-increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn't compete and would be superseded."
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@Best.Korea
When AI takes over I don't think they are going to like your post.
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Elon Musk, who has hinted for months that he wants to build an alternative to the popular ChatGPT artificial intelligence chatbot, announced the formation of what he’s calling xAI, whose goal is to “understand the true nature of the universe.”
On a website unveiled today (Wednesday) xAI said its team will be led by Musk and staffed by executives who have worked at a broad range of companies at the forefront of artificial intelligence, including Google’s DeepMind, Microsoft Corp. and Tesla Inc., as well as academic institutions such as the University of Toronto.
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@Lemming
You have to look at the timeline of Einstein's statements. “I am not an Atheist,” he said in an interview published in 1930.
He said: The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, in 1954
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@Lemming
Stephen Hawking said before he died in 2018: "It’s my view that the simplest explanation is that there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realization: there is probably no heaven and afterlife either. I think belief in an afterlife is just wishful thinking. There is no reliable evidence for it, and it flies in the face of everything we know in science. I think that when we die we return to dust. But there’s a sense in which we live on, in our influence, and in our genes that we pass on to our children. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe, and for that I am extremely grateful."
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@Lemming
Yes, it says: When asked for more precise responses in 1954, Einstein replied: "About God, I cannot accept any concept based on the authority of the Church. [...] As long as I can remember, I have resented mass indoctrination. I do not believe in the fear of life, in the fear of death, in blind faith. I cannot prove to you that there is no personal God, but if I were to speak of him, I would be a liar. I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil. My God created laws that take care of that. His universe is not ruled by wishful thinking but by immutable laws." William Miller of Life Magazine who was present at this meeting described Einstein as looking like a "living saint" and speaking with "angelic indifference."
This was one year before Einstein died, which is also the year of the Einstein quote I listed.
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@Critical-Tim
Why do you believe this? Is not religion a belief of faith in something not seen and science a belief in what is evident? Would this not then lead to a natural conflict of inerests?
Yes, one of the smartest humans, Albert Einstein said: “The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive, legends which are nevertheless pretty childish.”
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@YouFound_Lxam
But they do feel pain when they are killed.
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@Critical-Tim
Do you think it possible that there would be more scientists who are more evidentially basing their research and less people claiming that knowledge is ineffable
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@YouFound_Lxam
Unlike animals, humans do not care about the survival of cows, pigs and chickens.
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I like Ike because he was a Republican and had a 9o percent top tax rate. President Dwight David Eisenhower, perhaps the last real Republican, had a 90 percent tax rate for the super rich during his administration. Eisenhower explained it this way: The super rich could avoid the high taxes by investing their money in things that make America stronger.
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Boy, the way Glenn Miller played!
Songs that made the Hit Parade.
Guys like us, we had it made.
Those were the days!
And you knew where you were then.
Girls were girls and men were men.
Mister, we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again.
Didn't need no welfare state.
Everybody pulled his weight.
Gee, our old LaSalle ran great.
Those were the days!
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These passages show that these New Testament writers did believed the apocalypse was very near. They were clear that they were living in the last days when Jesus was to return in the clouds and bring about the end of the world as they knew it.
“For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.” (1 Thessalonians 4:15-17)
“We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed“ (1 Cor. 15:51)
“…the coming of the Lord is near. …the Judge is standing right at the door.” (James 5:8, 9)
The writer of these passages tells those he was writing to that Jesus was coming in their day. He recognizes that some believers had already died causing concern about the fulfillment of Jesus prediction. He reassures his readers that they would not all die before Jesus comes. He tells them that believers who have died will be resurrected when Jesus returns. Upon his arrival, resurrected believers and those who are still alive will be instantaneously transformed into immortal beings and raptured up together to meet Jesus in the sky.
“For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.” (1 Thessalonians 4:15-17)
“We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed“ (1 Cor. 15:51)
“…the coming of the Lord is near. …the Judge is standing right at the door.” (James 5:8, 9)
The writer of these passages tells those he was writing to that Jesus was coming in their day. He recognizes that some believers had already died causing concern about the fulfillment of Jesus prediction. He reassures his readers that they would not all die before Jesus comes. He tells them that believers who have died will be resurrected when Jesus returns. Upon his arrival, resurrected believers and those who are still alive will be instantaneously transformed into immortal beings and raptured up together to meet Jesus in the sky.
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“And he said to me, “These words are faithful and true”; and the Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, sent His angel to show to His bond-servants the things which must soon take place. “And behold, I am coming quickly. Blessed is he who heeds the words of the prophecy of this book.” And he said to me, “Do not seal up the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is near. Behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to render to every man according to what he has done. He who testifies to these things says, “Yes, I am coming quickly.“”… (Revelation 22:6,7,10,12,20)
John recorded that his visions also foretold a return of Jesus near to his day. He was repeatedly told throughout his visions that Jesus was about to return soon. It is unreasonable to think that “near”, “soon” and “coming quickly” could mean thousands of years in the future especially in light of Jesus’ own prophecy that some of his listeners and the high priest would still be alive to see him return.
To anyone not already indoctrinated into Christianity reading the above passages it is crystal clear that according to the Bible Jesus was supposed to return in the first century of the Christian Era. That has not happened. Yet the Christian religion persists with the majority of its adherents still awaiting the return of their savior. How have they reconciled their scriptures to reality?
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The only way to save Ukraine is to give it nuclear weapons.
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@Critical-Tim
Would society be better if everyone was Atheist?
Well there would be less people hijacking an airliner and flying it into a tall building while yelling Allahu Akbar.
But then again, if your child is dying from cancer, you wouldn't have an opiate.
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