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Zeus is the sky and thunder god in ancient Greek religion, who rules as king of the gods of Mount Olympus. Do you think he exists?

 Semele was a mortal woman who was simply living her life when one day Zeus took notice of her when she was sacrificing a bull at his temple. He fell in love with her and visited her many times.

Yes, most land snails are hermaphrodites (both male and female within one individual). During mating, sperm enters the partner's copulation pouch, which is not a safe haven because digestive processes begin! The hormones help the sperm escape that pouch so they can find their way to the fertilization chamber.

It is attributed to God doing Ecstasy when he was creating this simulation.

THANK YOU BRANDON !

Again, Whoopi was wrong. Race as a categorizing term referring to human beings was first used in the English language in the late 16th century. Until the 18th century it had a generalized meaning similar to other classifying terms such as type, sort, or kind. Occasional literature of Shakespeare’s time referred to a “race of saints” or “a race of bishops.” By the 18th century, race was widely used for sorting and ranking the peoples in the English colonies—Europeans who saw themselves as free people, Amerindians who had been conquered, and Africans who were being brought in as slave labour—and this usage continues today.
The peoples conquered and enslaved were physically different from western and northern Europeans, but such differences were not the sole cause for the construction of racial categories. The English had a long history of separating themselves from others and treating foreigners, such as the Irish, as alien “others.” By the 17th century their policies and practices in Ireland had led to an image of the Irish as “savages” who were incapable of being civilized. Proposals to conquer the Irish, take over their lands, and use them as forced labor failed largely because of Irish resistance. It was then that many Englishmen turned to the idea of colonizing the New World. Their attitudes toward the Irish set precedents for how they were to treat the New World Indians and, later, Africans

It is more reasonable to suppose Jesus never existed. It is easier to account for the facts of early Christian history if Jesus were a fiction than if he once was real.

I see what you are saying. I just read this. "Who's Afraid of Peer Review?" is an article written by Science correspondent John Bohannon that describes his investigation of peer review among fee-charging open-access journals. Between January and August 2013, Bohannon submitted fake scientific papers to 304 journals owned by as many fee-charging open access publishers. The papers, writes Bohannon, "were designed with such grave and obvious scientific flaws that they should have been rejected immediately by editors and peer reviewers", but 60% of the journals accepted them. The article and associated data were published in the 4 October 2013 issue of Science as open access.

Just because you get liquid on you if you get water on you does that mean that water itself is liquid?

YES

Didn't Melania give the nuclear launch codes to her uncle (Putin)?

The ideal Aryan had pale skin, blond hair and blue eyes. Non-Aryans came to be seen as impure and even evil. Hitler believed that Aryan superiority was being threatened particularly by the Jews.

In 19th century America, Jews were generally believed to be a distinct race within a broad category of white people.  Jews who wanted to maintain their distinct traditions self-described as both racially Jewish and white.  This was a common way of viewing race at the time; immigrant groups like the Germans, the Irish, and Jews were seen as distinct races, but they could still all be seen as white.  Some of these groups—like the Irish—were sometimes grouped with African Americans and struggled to gain inclusion into white society, but 19th century Jews were largely considered to be just another sub-group in the US’s majority white population.

Peer review and publication are time-consuming, frequently involving more than a year between submission and publication. The process is also highly competitive. For example, the highly-regarded journal Science accepts less than 8% of the articles it receives, and The New England Journal of Medicine publishes just 6% of its submissions.Peer-reviewed articles provide a trusted form of scientific communication. Even if you are unfamiliar with the topic or the scientists who authored a particular study, you can trust peer-reviewed work to meet certain standards of scientific quality. Since scientific knowledge is cumulative and builds on itself, this trust is particularly important. No scientist would want to base their own work on someone else's unreliable study! Peer-reviewed work isn't necessarily correct or conclusive, but it does meet the standards of science. And that means that once a piece of scientific research passes through peer review and is published, science must deal with it somehow — perhaps by incorporating it into the established body of scientific knowledge, building on it further, figuring out why it is wrong, or trying to replicate its results.

Peterson looks like Negan in The Walking Dead.

One of the best ways to find out if the research study conducted is reliable is to find out if it has been peer reviewed. Peer reviewed is a system of evaluation by peers whom, ideally, have expertise in the subject area.

   THERE WAS NO COVID-19  VACCINE UNTIL 2020.

You should stick to posts like this one you did right before you left:

My response was to this question you asked me.

  Good to see you back.

You haven't

You don't know what Christian Gnosticism is.

I like this comment on the video you referenced.

Yes, traditionally, vocabulary was used as a metric for intelligence. Research has shown that it’s highly correlated with IQ. Yet, according to a 2006 study, American’s vocabulary has been in swift decline since its peak, in the 1940’s.

Join together 100 billion neurons—with 100 trillion connections—and you have yourself a human brain. Once this is destroyed you no longer exist.

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 realisation: 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. 

Stephen Hawking

Here is an interesting comparison from Poly's chart. 16% have no religion. Also, 16% of the population have an IQ over 115.

In 2016, Donald Trump became the first major party nominee for president in 40 years to fail to release his tax returns for public inspection. As president, Trump has continued to take unprecedented steps to shield his taxes from disclosure.  Why?

Devastated parents Marlene Simao and David Ribeiro were unaware their son Rodrigo had several facial birth defects, despite obstetrician Artur Carvalho performing multiple ultrasound scans.
It was only when baby Rodrigo was born that Marlene and David discovered his disability, which had caused his face to develop without eyes, a nose and part of his skull, the BBC reports.

Psalm 145:9

The LORD is good to all; he has compassion on all he has made.

I agree with TheUnderdog. America should prohibit it's politicians from having political parties and they should all run as independents.

Yes, letting his only son die in agony on a cross shows that he is pro-abortion if there is a bigger reason for it.

A much simpler explanation for evil is that there is no God to prevent it.

What you say is true. Political parties came about in olden days before people could read. It was the only way of spreading information and raising money back then.

There is no need for political parties anymore and they should be banned. With the Internet, a person can give his views on running government. We need to eliminate campaign funding.

Join together 100 billion neurons—with 100 trillion connections—and you have yourself a human brain. Once this is destroyed you no longer exist.

This is how this simulation we are in was created.

The concept of God is incoherent. God is conceived of as a (supernatural) being that is eternal, omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient, all good, all just and all merciful. These attributions appear to create logical difficulties, sometimes singly, sometimes when taken together, though it is in some cases necessary to add facts about the world (such as the existence of evil) to create the incoherence. In such cases, it is the whole picture of the nature of God plus aspects of reality that is held to be incoherence. The concept of God was created by early man as an opiate to ease the pain when his children were eaten by wolves. 

In a review of data available on the Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson vaccines, efficacy was not significantly different between people with obesity versus those without obesity, reported W. Scott Butsch, MD, MSc, of the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, and colleagues in the journal Obesity.

Using data from FDA briefing documents and peer-reviewed literature, Butsch's group looked at the efficacy for each available vaccine in the overall trial population and subgroups of people with obesity.

Why doesn't God show us any pictures from Heaven?

It says that you are intelligent.

This one.

God doesn't exist because he doesn't care that people say he doesn't exist.

What do you think Trump would do if people said he didn't exist?

Nah, remember that I'm as old as Trump. I got out of the draft because of bone spurs like he did.

Vladimir Putin personally authorised a secret spy agency operation to support a “mentally unstable” Donald Trump in the 2016 US presidential election during a closed session of Russia’s national security council, according to what are assessed to be leaked Kremlin documents.
The key meeting took place on 22 January 2016, the papers suggest, with the Russian president, his spy chiefs and senior ministers all present.

They agreed a Trump White House would help secure Moscow’s strategic objectives, among them “social turmoil” in the US and a weakening of the American president’s negotiating position.
Russia’s three spy agencies were ordered to find practical ways to support Trump, in a decree appearing to bear Putin’s signature.

I know in PA, 97% Of COVID Deaths, 95% Of Hospitalizations And 94% Of Cases Are Among Unvaccinated Pennsylvanians.

All abortions should be banned. Even if the fetus has no head,legs or arms. One of the companies I own makes coat hangars.

I can't remember the statistics, but a large number of Muslims inbreed, although probably not to the same degree as the Pakistanis favour (between first cousins) whereas Arabs might keep it more within their extended family or tribe.
There was a member here a few years back literally bemoaning the fact that he didn't have a female cousin to marry, sounds like a fetish for some people. If anyone ever watched the Simpsons, it is a bit like the Shelbyville people.

The way that people form religious beliefs is so intellectually irresponsible that their conclusions are almost guaranteed to be false. Religious People:
 
1.       accept their religious beliefs with little or no evidence
 
2.        accept religious beliefs that are contrary to the evidence
 
3.        accept religious beliefs without studying competing views
 
4.        are certain about religious beliefs that are dubious at best, and
 
5.        accept their religious beliefs not because they are intellectually compelling, but because they are emotionally comforting.
 

No one knows exactly what causes gender dysphoria. Some experts believe that hormones in the womb, genes, and cultural and environmental factors may be involved. I think that in the future, scientists will find that it is due to damaged pathways in the brain (brain lesions).

One of my best friends who was an athlete and a weight lifter was gay. He ended up committing suicide.

      True dat.