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@Theweakeredge

You have to take a lot of LSD to see what ebuc is talking about.


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AI will kill us all!
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@sadolite

DeepMind, the AI-focused subsidiary of Alphabet, has taken a step in that direction by making a computer program that builds a mental picture of the world all by itself. You might say that it learns to imagine the world around it.
The system, which uses what DeepMind’s researchers call a generative query network (GQN), looks at a scene from several angles and can then describe what it would look like from another angle.
This might seem trivial, but it requires a relatively sophisticated ability to learn about the physical world. In contrast to many AI vision systems, the DeepMind program makes sense of a scene more the way a person does. Even if something is partly occluded, for example, it can reason about what’s there.
Eventually, such technology might help serve as the foundation for deeper artificial intelligence, letting machines describe and reason about the world with much greater sophistication.

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The Most Astounding Fact
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@sadolite

Look up Klinefelter syndrome. Didn't God know anything about quality control?
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I Wanted To Have A Slave When I Was Younger

In Leviticus 25 we read:

I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.

As for your male and female slaves whom you may have: you may buy male and female slaves from among the nations that are around you.




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@fauxlaw
Trump was impeached on Wednesday,  Jerry Nadler released the report on Tuesday the day before.
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What would you do if God commands you to murder.
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@Tradesecret
3 million a year x 10 years equals 30 million. One child is dying every 10 seconds.
Most of the nutrition-related deaths are in countries that are not suffering from famine or conflict, according to Professor Robert Black of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the United States, who calculated the three million figure that the 10-seconds statistic is based on.
"These are not the poorest countries in the world. They are countries such as India or Nigeria or many other countries in Asia or Africa that really could do better - that have the resources to feed children within the country.
"Certainly the poorest have the greatest problems with undernutrition, but even then there might be sufficient food to feed children. The difficulty is achieving a high enough quality diet - a diet that is dominated by cereals or starches would not be a high enough quality diet to achieve the nutrition that's needed in the first two years of life."

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@fauxlaw
Number 2 ) House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., released a 74-page report Tuesday afternoon describing President Trump as a "clear and present danger" who should be impeached.
"As alleged in the Article of Impeachment and described in this report, President Trump has acted in a manner grossly incompatible with self-governance and the rule of law," the introduction reads. 
"His continued hold on the Office of the Presidency, even for only a few more days, represents a clear and present danger to the United States."


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Why the Attitude!?
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@Athias

Yes, do you think Noah lived to be 950 years old?


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Free Speech
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@3RU7AL

Yes, I am 100% in favor of making ALL LYING ILLEGAL. But there has to a stipulation that the facts are verifiable.
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@fauxlaw
The remarkable timing of President Trump’s impeachment trial is driven in part by Senate rules. A trial must begin at 1 p.m. the day after the Senate receives the article of impeachment. But the Senate won’t be in session to receive the articles until Jan. 19. Although Democrats want to move up that date, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has refused.
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@Athias
Maybe this?

2 Corinthians 12:9 But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest on me.

What does it mean that God's power is made perfect in weakness?
Our dependence is well expressed in that verse when Paul wrote about the thorn in his flesh. Paul pleaded with God three times to take it away but God told him that His power is made perfect in Paul's weakness. ... God simply wants us to surrender our inadequacy to him so that He can fill us with His strength.

Actually, I think Einstein was talking about the human weakness of low reasoning ability.

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@Athias

Post #3
“The word 'God' is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses"



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@Athias
The  point is that God might have started everything by creating 2 dimensional strings, but after that It had no affect on the Universe 
except to give people an opiate.
Yes, there are no supernatural occurrences in physics.


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@Athias
In the last 10 years 30 million children in the World have died from starvation. Is God happy that they weren't aborted?
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@fauxlaw

Trump said he won by a landslide. Joseph Goebbels, a Hitler propagandist, is credited with saying this. “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.


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@EtrnlVw
You really should read the research paper, Superior pattern processing is the essence of the evolved human brain by Mark P Mattson
In the paper, it states:
Interestingly, as described in the next section, there is fine line between the magical thinking of religious beliefs that have provided adaptive value for many civilizations and societies, and the delusions of psychoses that can place individuals and those they associate with in harm's way. This notion is illustrated in the following two quotes which exhibit the remarkable similarities between the delusions of individuals with schizophrenia and those described in religious doctrine. “Because you think what you're believing is true,” she replied. “I used to know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that—what other people would think was crazy—I thought was absolutely true, that I was privy to a special truth.” Elyn Saks, Professor and schizophrenia patient. “You have searched me, Lord, and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.” Bible NIV, Psalm 139, verses 1-3.

Again, "This notion is illustrated in the following two quotes which exhibit the remarkable similarities between the delusions of individuals with schizophrenia and those described in religious doctrine."
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@HistoryBuff

Well, that is why Trump keeps the book of Hitler’s collected speeches, My New Order next to his bed.


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@zedvictor4
Be careful zedvictor4, since Puachu is a Creationist, he might  make a pact with Satan like what was done to create 
the Codex Gigas - “There is a legend concerning the making of the Codex Gigas that relates that it was the work of one scribe, and that the task was so enormous it was completed with the help of the devil". 
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@Athias

Christian;  My child is dying from smallpox, Praise the Lord!
Intelligent Man:  Let's find a cure for smallpox!
Christian:  My child is dying from Bubonic plague, Praise the Lord!
Intelligent Man:  Let's find a cure for the Bubonic plague!

Athias, I pray you find Humanism.

The  point is that God might have started everything by creating 2 dimensional strings, but after that It had no affect on the Universe 
except to give people an opiate.
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@3RU7AL
Also, Giuliani is an idiot and I've never voted for a Republican.

I always thought you were an intelligent person.


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A report by Business Insidercites an excerpt from the interview where Trump's ex-wife Ivana tells her lawyer Michael Kennedy that Trump reads a book of Hitler’s collected speeches, My New Order and keeps it in a cabinet by his bed.
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From a Conservative web site: In a speech of about 14 minutes that the leftist mainstream media ignored on Tuesday, President Trump argued this case.
He won the election on November 3 with landslide numbers, he said, but 11th-hour vote fraud gave “President-elect” Joe Biden the victory.
Indeed, Trump said, Biden’s vote total was statistically impossible, a conclusion that comports with the massive vote fraud the president claims occurred.
Trump’s convincing appeal — which won’t matter to hate-Trump Democrats and Republicans — did not include hints about what he might do given that he believes Biden and his gang — with the help of the leftist social and mainstream media — robbed him. 
But he did say Americans can’t let stand an election won by fraud and fakery.

 Trump is guilty of Criminal Negligence. 
Criminal negligence refers to conduct in which a person ignores a known or obvious risk, or disregards the life and safety of others. Federal and state courts describe this behavior as a form of recklessness, where the person acts significantly different than an ordinary person under similar circumstances.

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@Tradesecret

Religious people are less intelligent on average than atheists because faith is an instinct and clever people are better at rising above their instincts, researchers have claimed.
The theory — called the 'Intelligence-Mismatch Association Model' — was proposed by a pair of authors who set out to explain why numerous studies over past decades have found religious people to have lower average intelligence than people who do not believe in a god.

A 2013 analysis by University of Rochester found “a reliable negative relation between intelligence and religiosity” in 53 out of 63 historic studies.
A negative correlation between intelligence and religion makes sense if religion is considered an instinct, and intelligence the ability to rise above one's instincts, say researchers Edward Dutton and Dimitri van der Linden in their  paper published in 2018.


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@sadolite
I hope not, I want to see Trump get to 400 pounds.
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@Tradesecret
Do a little research. The so-called "God letter" was written in 1954 and was expected to fetch $1.5m (£1.2m) at auction in New York.
The Nobel Prize-winning scientist, then 74, wrote the one-and-a-half page note to German philosopher Eric Gutkind in response to one of his works.
It is seen as a key statement in the debate between science and religion.
"This remarkably candid, private letter was written a year before Einstein's death and remains the most fully articulated expression of his religious and philosophical views," a statement from Christie's says.
It fetched almost double the auction house's predicted price of between $1m-1.5m
In the letter, written in his native German, Einstein takes issue with the belief in God.
"The word God is for me nothing but the expression and product of human weaknesses," he writes. "The Bible a collection of venerable but still rather primitive legends."
It continues: "No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can [for me] change anything about this."

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@EtrnlVw
l will let Albert Einstein answer for me (I'm related to him through the Koch family). He said, “The word 'God' is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can (for me) change this.”
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Why do people think Trump is a fascist?
One year ago, I warned that Trump was descending into naked authoritarianism. Low-information commenters seek to reassure rather than dig deeply, telling readers to look on the bright side. That the US is an exceptional country.
It is not.
Democratic regression and political polarization are not unique to the US. Having more guns than people is. So are militias, usually formed of lower- and middle-class white Americans harboring anti-government sentiments. The threat posed by these anti-government extremists — though not necessarily terrorists — was thrown into relief when at least 13 of Michigan’s Wolverine Militia were arrested for planning to kidnap, “judge,” and potentially execute for treason the state’s governor, Gretchen Whitmer.
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I don't know why religious people are so against abortion. God had no problem killing babies.
1 Samuel 15:3   Now go and attack Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and do not spare them. But kill both man and woman, infant and nursing child, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’ ”


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@janesix

There is no such thing as a fractal universe. The universe is fractal-like out to many distance scales, but at a certain point, the mathematical form breaks down.
The finding comes from Morag Scrimgeour at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) at the University of Western Australia in Perth and her colleagues. Using the Anglo-Australian Telescope, the researchers pinpointed the locations of 200,000 galaxies filling a cubic volume 3 billion light-years on a side. The survey, called the WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey, probed the structure of the universe at larger scales than any survey before it.  The researchers found that matter is distributed extremely evenly throughout the universe on extremely large distance scales, with little sign of fractal-like patterns.


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@drafterman

( the “enable light” switches on)  Ken,  who is Donald J Trump !


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@EtrnlVw
The soul exists independent of the physical body, the soul came out of God before it was sent into creation. 
See the book, The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul by Francis Crick. Nobel Prize-winning biochemist Crick (co-discoverer with James Watson of DNA's double helix structure) here takes readers to the forefront of modern brain research. Geared to serious lay readers and scientists, this speculative study argues that our minds can be explained, without recourse to religious concepts of a soul, in terms of the interactions of a vast assembly of nerve cells and associated molecules. Crick delves into the nature of consciousness by focusing on visual awareness, an active, constructive process in which the brain selectively combines discrete elements into meaningful images. Early chapters include numerous interactive illustrations to demonstrate the brain's shortcuts, tricks and habits of visual perception. In later chapters Crick discusses neural networks--electronic pathways that can "remember" patterns or produce spoken language--and outlines research strategies designed to pinpoint the brain's "awareness neurons" that enable us to see.
 Also look up the Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness. The declaration concludes that “non-human animals have the neuroanatomical, neurochemical, and neurophysiological substrates of conscious states along with the capacity to exhibit intentional behaviors. Consequently, the weight of evidence indicates that humans are not unique in possessing the neurological substrates that generate consciousness. Non-human animals, including all mammals and birds, and many other creatures, including octopuses, also possess these neurological substrates.”

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Enough of this Presumption!

 Lesions in the prefrontal cortex of the brain explain the fact that there are countless spiritual encounters across the globe in every culture and on every continent.
Psychologists have always been fascinated as to why some people believe in a higher being, while others are happy to accept that we are alone in life. Now researchers claim they have found a region of the brain that, when damaged, may increase the likelihood that a person will hold fundamental religious beliefs. In particular, they found that damage to this region reduced cognitive flexibility – the ability to challenge one’s preexisting beliefs when presented with new evidence. 


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Hitler rose to power mostly because of the promises he made. Hitler promised that he would make Germany great again or to restore law and order but did not mentioned he was going to try to kill all Jews. When Hitler became powerful, he started rebuilding roads and opening parks and offering more jobs. This made Germany more powerful. Eventually when Germany was powerful enough, they took over Poland then Denmark and so on. Hitler used propaganda to grow hatred in people. The Nazis hung posters saying Jews were secretly demons. Posters depicted Jews as big ugly monsters. He also ordered the Nazis to make posters of Hitler as Germany’s hero. Hitler also staged rallies to show people his army, to make people afraid of the Nazis, and to show Germans how powerful their country became under his rule.

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@3RU7AL
If Trump had said we found 1000 miscast votes (The Brennan Center for Justice in 2017 ranked the risk of ballot fraud at 0.00004% to 0.0009%) instead of "We won by a landslide", he wouldn't have been banned.
All this was inspired by the principle - which is quite true in itself - that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying. These people know only too well how to use falsehood for the basest purposes. 
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@EtrnlVw
Once we establish God as at least being alive, then we can articulate what that would entail
Does God breathe and fart? Does he get diarrhea? We are made in his image, right?
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@EtrnlVw
I don't really find most of the traditional arguments for Bumba very convincing, at least in the manner of converting someone. None of them really satisfy my personal intellect TBH...I tend to just use my own logic, rationale, experience and observations of the universe to get people considering something they may not have thought about. Since I'm not anti-science or held down to some fundamental religious ideology I feel free to just put all the pieces together from a myriad of sources as they make sense to my rational mind as long as it aligns with reality. So my approach is a bit unorthodox. 
I know Bumba exists, so it's simply a matter of being capable of articulating what is true about that objectivity. 
Bumba was the creator. At the beginning of time, there was only darkness and water, and Bumba, the creator, the first ancestor, was alone.
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@PGA2.0
The Bible is essentially a collection of myths. For example, whoever wrote the First Book of the Kings and the Second Book of the Chronicles could not foresee the detailed verification potential of modern archaeology.
The city of King Solomon in Jerusalem is thought to be on the slope leading down from what is now the Al Aqsa mosque. Israeli archaeologists have been desperately excavating the site for many decades yet not one iota of evidence of the existence of King Solomon has been found. No mention of his name has been found on any tablet, inscription, tax record or pot decoration.
Anyone who has visited Egypt will have seen widespread evidence of a monarch who reigned three hundred years before Solomon, Pharaoh Rameses II, yet of King Solomon who ruled over a vast empire and army (1 Kings 4, 21-26 and 1 Kings 9, 17-23, 2 Chronicles 9, 25-26) there is no trace. All the vassal peoples who paid taxes to him have left not a single record of account or inscription. Not one of the soldiers of his conquering army left a sword, helmet or shield.
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@EtrnlVw

Read the book, The Fallacy of Fine-Tuning: Why the Universe Is Not Designed for Us by Victor J Stenger.  A number of authors have noted that if some physical parameters were slightly changed, the universe could no longer support life, as we know it. This implies that life depends sensitively on the physics of our universe. Does this "fine-tuning" of the universe suggest that a creator god intentionally calibrated the initial conditions of the universe such that life on earth and the evolution of humanity would eventually emerge? In his in-depth and highly accessible discussion of this fascinating and controversial topic, the author looks at the evidence and comes to the opposite conclusion. He finds that the observations of science and our naked senses not only show no evidence for God, they provide evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that God does not exist.
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@ethang5
I can see why you would love Trump. He had 5 kids with 3 different women and he gave the USA the first Soviet Union born First Lady that 
has a cute accent since English is not her first language.
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@janesix

You don't think your boyfriend's girlfriend is hiding in the house , do you?
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@Lit
Well, they say his IQ is 77 !
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@zedvictor4
Look out your window, I'm shooting off fireworks now!
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@zedvictor4
Is the seventh ETA ?
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@zedvictor4
Damn, what good is my 170 IQ?
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@ebuc
Maybe Trump could be locked in a bunker with Melania?
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@n8nrgmi
Voter fraud has proved exceedingly rare. The Brennan Center for Justice in 2017 ranked the risk of ballot fraud at 0.00004% to 0.0009%, based on studies of past elections.
In the five states that regularly send ballots to all voters, there have been no major cases of fraud or difficulty counting the votes.
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@zedvictor4
Is the second one Athens?
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@Benjamin
Christianity, which appeared in the first century, was considered another version of Judaism. In the vast pagan ocean, which extends to the Roman Empire , the early Christians were seen only as a group of Jewish sects who failed to establish their kingdom at the hands of their leader (the Savior), who rebelled against the Roman state, so he was punished like one. Christianity crystallized in the form of an independent religion and doctrine separate from Judaism only after passing through Egypt, which gave it three of the most important components, The Cross, Trinity and Religious Order.
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@Benjamin
 
But the all-time grand champion exterminator of witches was Ferdinand von Wittelsbach, Catholic prince-archbishop of Cologne, Germany, who burned 2,000 members of his flock during the 1630s.
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@Polytheist-Witch

You are right. If they had been black, they would have been shot in the back seven times.
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