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@John_C_87
So, as a President of the United States what state of the Constitutional Union are you planning to serve, protect, and defend?
I'll represent all of the people, as long as they tithe, titheing to me is very importantin the Sidewalkerism Political Party.
...and for some of the ladies there's Tantric Sidewalkerism.
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@Greyparrot
I don't mind a stupid president asking questions. I do mind a stupid president telling America that 8% inflation is Russia's fault.
Trump is Russia's fault.
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@Greyparrot
USA conducted over 1000 nuclear tests in your lifetime, but one nuke in a hurricane makes you nervous?
A president stupid enough to want to nuke hurricanes is what makes me nervous.
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@Best.Korea
Too dumb to be president.The guy asked if we could nuke North Korea and blame it on someone else.
He asked if we could nuke Hurricanes too, i'm thinking "radioactive hurricanes" is a "too dumb to be president" thing .
Unless injecting bleach makes you immune from radioactive hurricanes .
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@ponikshiy
If Donald Trump I too old to be president, does this mean you are supporting Chrus Christie
Nope, I'm all in on Sidewalker for President.
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@IlDiavolo
Between these two old men, Trump is the least bad by far.Nevertheless, it would be good that both of them don't participate in the elections.
According to Trump and his MAGA Minions, participating in the election isn't even necessary, the Vice President can just decide for us.
Maybe Kamala will pick me.
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Yes, he is too old, to fascist, and too dishonest.
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The Bible is a book that includes history and prophecy,poetry and love songs, allegories and parables, none of which is conducive anykind of "literal" translation.
Language is a cultural phenomenon and because cultures are so different,individual languages classify things and ideas very differently. Everything wehave that talks about what Jesus actually said was originally written in KoineGreek decades later, even if we had the original texts written by the Gospelwriters, which we don’t, they would only be a rough translation of Aramaic intoKoine Greek. Different languages usedifferent words, syntax and grammatical structures and therefore there is nosuch thing as a “literal” or “word for word” translation from one language toanother, especially when you translate Aramaic to Koine Greek because they arevery different languages with very different sets of words, grammaticalstructures and syntax. The point being that every language has rules and therules are very different in Aramaic, Koine Greek, Hebrew, Latin, and English,which is a rough approximation of the journey that had to be taken to arrive atan English translation of the Bible.
Aramaic is a rich, poetic language that utilizes a web ofconstellated meanings to represent ideas. Jesus "spoke as no man hadspoken before", and he spoke as "One who knows". The language heused was polyphonic, poetic, and profoundly imaginative. He used his words toinspire and initiate, to involve the listener and to transmit complex ideasthrough imagery. He taught the truth of the Kingdom mainly in parables, whichis an "invitational" form of speech that stimulates the imaginationand needs to be completed in the mind and heart of the listener. The spokenlanguage of Jesus was originally meant to resonate on many different levels tobring about a synthesis of mind, heart, and soul. This is why Jesus wasinviting His listeners to seek the “Kingdom within”, it is why he spoke of hisFather’s house having “many mansions”, and it is why he used rich imagery andmetaphors when he spoke.
The strictly modern and very Western idea of the precisionof words and our desire for exact, literal interpretations of language wouldhave been a completely foreign concept to Jesus and the idea of having hiswords put into written form and taken literally could not have even been aconsideration to him. The point beingthat we cannot confuse the words and the language with the reality and truththat they were intended to represent symbolically.
The simple fact is, there is no such thing as a “literal”translation of the Bible, any contention that there is a "literal" translation is an ignorant, meaningless statement.
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@Greyparrot
Also, reported for unwarranted personal adhom attacks and insults against a forum user.
Fake news, witch hunt, politically motivated....
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@IlDiavolo
One thing to rescue from budhism is the meditation which is a powerful tool to get to what they call Nirvana and it's not exclusive to this religion, I think it is also present in other asian religions which was spread all over the world for our delight.
Meditation isn’t exclusive to the Asian religions, most religions have meditation in some form, call it contemplation, meditation, prayer, they are various ways of reorienting thought which is common to all faiths.
I have to add to the definition you gave of Nirvana that it is also a state where you feel the oneness of man and universe, meaning that we and all that exists in this universe are one only conscioussness. According to some people's experiences, when the meditator manages to activate his pineal gland, which is the most difficult thing to reach when meditating, apart from happiness and peace, he can feel he is part of the whole universe, he feels what it feels to be a plant, an animal, a mountain and everything that exists in this universe at the same time, it's like an omnipresent experience.
From a strictly physical, scientific standpoint, we are continuous with everything else there is and everything else that's going on, we are something the Universe is doing, and yet, we experience that reality “as though” it is something separate and independent of us. In human beings, reality is artificially bifurcated into two distinct aspects of “us” and “not us”, or more formally, “subject” and “object”. Consequently, our experiential reality as individuals resonates with an intuition of wholeness and connection that we all share, and this culturally manifests itself in Spirituality from which evolved the various religious practices.
As far as I can tell all religions consider this division of reality into its “subjective” and objective bases to be fundamental to understanding the nature of Man. They all seem to be contending that we are an essential part of the ultimate reality and the very existence of “objective” knowledge requires an illusory distinction between knowing subject and reality known. It is simply because of the fact that we are a "symbolic" animal that all faiths must explain this separation in symbolic or allegorical terms, by the use of metaphor, and it is why it always seems to be primary to their metaphysical constructions and their definition of human nature. This is fundamental to all faiths, it is Hinduism's "Moksha", Buddhism's "Acintya", Taoism's unification of the Yin and Yang oppositions, and Judaism, Christianity, and Islam's "eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge".
I've seen this is the same as the near-death experience, people that are dying feels a profound peace and happiness, and also that they are one with the universe which is very pleasant for them to the point that they wanted to stay there. It's as if our real "home" or consciouss state of being were after death.
I find it most interesting that theNDE is experienced so vividly, it is an intense conscious event that is inverselycorrelated with the neural correlates of consciousness. As the brain shuts down, the lower level ofneural activity is associated with a much higher degree of consciousness. Experiencedas if, rather than consciousness being a product of the physical activities of the brain, it is more like consciousnessis being freed from the constraints of its materialistic containment.
I'm not sure if Buddhims claims we are one with the universe, I think it does, but as far as I can tell this belief that we are one consciousness that survives after death is based on the experience, contrary to christianity that holds beliefs on mere stories.
If the goal is transcendence of the self, thenperhaps both Buddhism and Christianity are right when rightly understood. Perhaps, a transcendence involves a higher understanding which makes it evident that both conceptions are true, and once this state of being is realized, that they are one and the same.
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@Dr.Franklin
Brother D only has 1 post, but he's done it 10K times.
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@IwantRooseveltagain
Let’s be clear, because some people including Chris Christie last night, keep getting it wrong.“Christie is in the ballpark, but his numbers are a bit low. According to the Treasury Department, the nation’s total public debt, including intragovernmental holdings, climbed from about $20 trillion to $27.8 trillion under Trump, a gain of $7.9 trillion.”
That nothing, Hunter filled our a form wrong when he bought a gun.
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@IwantRooseveltagain
Nikki Haley to Vivek Ramaswamy: "Every time I hear you, I feel a little bit dumber"
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@Greyparrot
GP learned how to value real estate at Trump University.Politicians learned how to legally launder money from the taxpayer long before Trump was born. How do you think Trump learned how to do it?The American Congress allocates around 40 billion a year of tax money to be sent overseas. When it returns to the shores of DC in the form of book deals and speeches and paintings, Congress then manufactures a need to send even more. The cycle continues. No Trump Derangement required.
Isn't that what the Greyparrot crime family does? Get paid to speak in front of a group of students.
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@Greyparrot
From book deals and paid speaking engagements,All legal forms of bribing a US Senator. Plus selling a painting for 500k. Just because it's legal does not mean it isn't ill-gotten gains.
And what is it when you call $10 million dollarsof real estate, 400 million dollars of real estate, oh yeah, I remember, we call it Fraud;
Trump calls it witch hunt, persecution, poliyical retribution, and fake news, but to those of us subject to the law, it;s fraud..
But hey, you've still got the Biden Crime Family attrocity of Hunter filling out a form wrong, that overshadows 91 felony indictments any day.
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@IwantRooseveltagain
Because you cant afford 400 million dollars of real estate on the salary of a Senator.The Bidens’ primary residence is a three-bed, four-and-a-half-bath house in Wilmington, Delaware. Biden built the 6,850-square-foot mansion on land he purchased in 1998 for $350,000, according to Realtor.com. The property is now estimated to be worth at least $2 million, the Wall Street Journal reported.
GP learned how to value real estate at Trump University.
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@Greyparrot
Because you cant afford 400 million dollars of real estate on the salary of a Senator.
Pure nonsense, and nothing even remotely resembling evidence. I know, let's try "facts".
Biden’s net worth was lessthan $30,000 in 2009. After serving asVice President, Joe and his wife, Jill, earned over $15 million in 2017 and2018, mostly from book deals and paid speaking engagements, most of which hewisely invested in real estate. Hiscurrent Net Worth is roughly $10 million, and there is nothing ill-gotten aboutit.
By the way, we know thisbecause he released his tax returns and made his finances public because he hadnothing to hide.
Trump promised to do sowhen he ran for office, and has fought to keep them private ever since, because asthe New York Attorney General has shown, he has a lot to hide.
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@Greyparrot
What about Biden with his 4 houses? Don't you want to tax 90% of those ill-gotten gains?
What makes them "ill-gotten", you know, is there like a reason you say "ill-gotten" or is just your agenda speaking.
What evidence do you have?
The MAGA folks have been desperatly looking for something resembling evidence of wrongdoing and haven't come up with anything at all, if you have something I'm sure they would rejoice if you would share it.
Beside Hunter filled out a form wrong, please tell us about all the crimes of the Biden Crime Family....and point to the evidence.
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@Mr.BrotherD.Thomas
One post, done a thousand times, you must think it's clever LOL.
Pathetic trolling.
Now do that tired old boring post that nobody but Stephen reads again.
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@Mr.BrotherD.Thomas
Astoundingly lame trolls, Baxter is only 8 years old and he could do better than that.....and he's my dog.
I'm pretty sure Baxter understands the Bible better than you and Stephen too.
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@Mr.BrotherD.Thomas
Astoundingly lame trolls, Baxter is only 8 years old and he could do better than that.....and he's my dog.
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@Mr.BrotherD.Thomas
We have the worst trolls I've ever seen, embarrassingly bad.
You and Stephen should be ashamed.
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@Greyparrot
One good thing to note is that no matter how hard both parties work to continue to polarize the country in the media, there is still 40%+ of the country that flips the middle finger at both established elite parties.
Yeah yeah, that's what MAGA wants us to believe, it's those dang political parties that polarize the country, not Trump, he's here to save us from those political parties and their evil democracy.
It's MAGA flipping the finger at the Democratic Process, flipping the finger at Law Enforcement, flipping the finger at a Free Press, flipping the finger at Egalitarianism, in the end, they are flipping the finger at Americans.
Whatever they think is working actually is not.
Yeah, Trump will fix it, just do away with democracy and that pesky law and order and we can Make America Great Again.
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@Greyparrot
8 years of TDS still hasn't done anything to reverse this, so it really doesn't matter if you are in a far left or far right tribe. The independents are the majority tribe still.
That has nothing to do with it, you are creating a false duality, TDS is not a matter of partisanship, the Trump party is neither Democrat nor Republican, it's fascist populism.
The true duality of your so-called "TDS" is a matter of Democracy vs Fascism.
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@YouFound_Lxam
It appears that you think you are making an assertion by asking questions. If there is a God, why don't you know the answers to these questions.
If there exists no God, then how is it that humans possess free will?
If God exists, then how is it that humans possess free will? Why does the fact that humans posses free will depend on whether or not God exists. Hoe exactly does the existence of God answer the question?
If there is no God and we are just the remains of a giant explosion, then we would be considered to be stardust.
If there is a God, then what does that mean we are? Why does the existence of God mean we aren't considered to be stardust? If God created and directs everything by speaking it into existence, then why did he create us with a seeking intellect and make a universe with the false appearance that the universe began in a "Big Bang", did God create science to trick us? Why did God want tom trick us?
So then, if we are really just stardust, then why do morals matter to us humans, why do we have purpose, and why do we have emotions.
If God just thought the unioverse into existende, then why do morals matter to us humans, why do we have purpose, and why do we have emotions? If made everything the way it is, then that doesn't answer any of your why questions, it only directs them toward God. Why doesn't God answer these questions for you?
If we are just stardust, why does it matter if one stardust, kills another stardust.
If God made everything the way it is, then it doesn't matter if one kills another, it's because God made it that way.
Why is it bad for one stardust to insult another stardust.
Ask God.
As stardust, why do we feel bad about that guy we saw living on the street last week.In other words, why do we care?
If God exists, then why do you feel bad about that guy, shouldn't you feel that it's God's will?
If your point is that all questionshave the same answer, "God did it", then the only question left is "why ask questions".
It seems you are postulating a God who would create Man with a rational mind, a sense of wonder, and seeking intellect, while creating a universe with the false appearance of tremendous age with the overwhelming evidence of "evolution" occuring in creation as a trick or something. This concept of a deceptive God is very hard to accept, it strikes me as a much greater challenge to Christianity than any damage the concept of evolution could ever hope to do.
A perfect being ought not to be capable of imperfect creations, but then He ought not to be capable of lying either, and I think the notion of a trickster God does more harm than good to Christianity.
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@Greyparrot
It may have had something to do with the fact that he lost the election.Meet the new Trump, same as the old Trump?It is absolutely not necessary to love, accept, and apologize for Biden in order to hate Trump.
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@n8nrgim
i think the argument that skeptics and atheists have... that humans are nothing than elaborate flesh robots, is asinine. it lacks common sense.i think any theory of consciousness is suseptible to being called pseudo science... but that goes for both materialists and religious theories as well. consciousness is just not understood enough scientificially to act like there's a clear theory to explain it.
The problem with IIT is that it is presumptive with a process product circularity that presumes consciousness has a mathematically measurable physical basis and then concludes consciousness has a mathematically measurable physical basis, because it concludes it's presumptions it is not explanatary.
It cannot be a working hypothesis, because a working hypothesis is one that will rise or fall on the basis of relevant evidence, it is not testable and consequently, there is no “evidence” as such that could tell for or against a “hypothesis” of this sort. It is not a scientific hypothesis; it is only phrased as if it were.
The very process by which IIT postulates a translation of qualitative experiences into measurable quantities that do not themselves exhibit the qualitative constituents of experience, fundamentally changes the subject matter of the investigation such that the resultant account of consciousness is a contradiction in terms.
A theory of consciousness must take experience as fundamental, and will necessarily require the addition of something fundamental to our ontology, as everything in physical theory is compatible with the absence of consciousness.
Consciousness operates in a teleological manner which includes intent, values, and purposes, and a purely physical process cannot operate in a teleological manner, and physical processes do not and cannot include intent, values, and purposes.
Without a distinction between subject and object, between knower and known, the fact of knowledge would be unaccountable, consequently, in the end, materialistic theories of consciousness fail because they run into the self-referential paradox, the subject of knowledge cannot simultaneously be the object of knowledge.
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@Greyparrot
It's not the people who love Trump that you really have to worry about. It's the people who hate both, (the majority of America btw,) who find it palpably weird that MSM is taking marching orders from the Whitehouse. Those people will then make a snap decision on the impropriety of that most recent action. A situation that could have been easily averted if not for the many Trump haters believing it is necessary to defend those actions.There's no need to virtue signal your Trump hate by supporting the behaviors of Biden! To do so is simply going to create a massive army of Trump haters that will end up voting for him solely because there is no accountability for Biden's bad behaviors. The ultimate tragedy unfolds before our eyes.
You are missing the point completely.
Trump and his followers are a clear and present danger tothe United States, they represent a direct attack on our Democracy and its protectiveinstitutions of Justice and law enforcement, they are deliberately underminingthe Justice Department, the FBI, the military, the Constitutional system of co-equalbranches of Government, and the democratic process itself, using the weapons oflies, deception, misrepresentation, subterfuge, conspiracies, and allianceswith foreign enemies.This country has values worth fighting for, when the countryis being attacked the right thing to do is support our leadership and standbehind the president. It’s what real Americans do in times of war or othertypes of threat to our country.
The idea that we can just hate both sides is nothing, it’suseless and irrelevant, it makes you part of the problem and offers nothing ofvalue, contributes nothing to the solution. Lies, but everybody lies, corruption, but everyone is corrupt, immoral,but everybody is immoral, blah blah blah, at best it is meaningless drivel, atworst, it is aid and comfort to the enemy.
To hate Trump doesn't mean you have to love Biden, it just means you have to love our country and take a stand, get behind our leadership and support our President.
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@Greyparrot
It may have had something to do with the fact that he lost the election.Meet the new Trump, same as the old Trump?It is absolutely not necessary to love, accept, and apologize for Biden in order to hate Trump.
But if you love Trump it's necessary to hate Biden, that's the Trump's rule, if you are with us you must hate who we hate.
Hate is all he's got, without hate he's nothing.
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@Greyparrot
what was even the point of getting rid of Trump?
It may have had something to do with the fact that he lost the election.
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@cristo71
Trump was corrupt, so that gives Biden some wiggle room to be almost as corrupt!
Trump has been indicted for 91 felonies, Biden's son failed to mention his history of drug use on a form when he bought a gun, so yeah, Biden is almost as corrupt as Trump...that makes MAGA sense.
Donald Trump has been accused of rape, sexual assault, and sexual harassment, including non-consensual kissing or groping, by at least 25 women since the 1970s, Biden smelled a woman's hair, so Biden is almost as guilty as Trump on that too...that makes MAGA sense.
Trump led an insurrection against the country, Biden never hugs the flag, so Biden is almost as guilty as Trump of blah blah blah...that makes MAGA sense.
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@ebuc
X x - X y.....Systemic integrity as fourness:..." Each brain hemisphere (parts of the cerebrum) has four sections, called lobes: frontal, parietal, temporal and occipital. Each lobe controls specific functions."....Bilateral four-ness .....> > > >|< < < <........
Science tells us that what we refer to as “thinking” is the result of the interplay between separate and distinct cognitive structures that work together to constitute “mind”. Each of these neurological structures has radically different physiological characteristics, different agendas, different ways of processing information, and different ways of expressing itself.
From one scientific frame of reference these distinct cognitive structures can be categorized into four distinct neurological structures that developed sequentially in time, the R-Complex, Limbic System, Neocortex, and Prefrontal Cortex. Developmentally over time, the stream of consciousness that we call thought developed into four distinct and autonomous neurological structures, like a river that parted into four heads, so to speak (Genesis 2-10).
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Yes, by voting to acquit Ken Paxton, senators sent unmistakable messages Saturday — and none of them are good for Texas.Their verdicts on 16 articles of impeachment say that a small group of hotheaded political warriors can intimidate elected officials away from doing the right thing. For lack of courage from all but a few members of the Republican majority in the Senate, we have a clear verdict that politics trumps right and wrong.
He's not in the clear by any stretch, there's still the federal investigation that convened a Grand Jury, certainly an indictment coming there, and he goes to trial next year for securities fraud.
This was only an internal victory in a divided party, Republicans have hurt themselves in Texas, the demographics are changing and the Republicans are embarrassing themselves, the voters know they have only hurt Texas and they will suffer the consequences.
The Republican party is a mess, they can't even govern themselves, they haven't even tried to govern the country. They ran on immigration, did nothing, inflation, nothing, and crime, the only thing they did there was add to it with thier very own Republican crime wave.
All they do is complain, Republicans are all about diviseness, they are only about divisiveness, the did it to the country, and now they hare doing it to themselves, I think Americans have had enough of the chaos of grievance politics, eventually they will see that it doesn't accomplish anything, going forward the voters are going to be looking for someone to govern, and the party of Trump isn't interested in governing.
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@FLRW
Well, a Weyl semimetal is a material that hosts particles known as Weyl fermions. Originally conceived by German theoretician Herman Weyl in 1929 as a new type of fundamental particle with charge but no mass, a “true” Weyl fermion has never been observed in nature.
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@Mr.BrotherD.Thomas
You are comically bad at this, I'm embarrassed for you.
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@IwantRooseveltagain
Citing my credentials gives away personal information.
LOL, yeah, that's why I never mention that I'm a Nobel Prize winner, an Olympic Gold Medalist, and an astronaut....I just don't want to give away too much personal information.
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What does "it’s just wrong” have to do with anything?
Conservatives are gonna say it, and the base is gonna believe it, and that's all there is to it.
Republicans were not praying for inflation, they were praying for stupid voters, and their wish came true.
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What about Hunter, how did Hunter help the average person? or people who are struggling?
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@IwantRooseveltagain
it is so unperturbably predictableThere’s that 6th grade education again by Jethro!
Unperturbably.
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@Tradesecret
Oh but they think are amazing and clever.
Yeah, thier anger comes from a very young age, and obviously, it stunted thier cognitive growth, both emotionally and intellectually.
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@Tradesecret
I find it amazing just how bad these clueless clowns are at trolling.
Like a bad joke.
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@BrotherD.Thomas
Sorry kiddies, you'll just have to go back to your Tradesecret fetish.
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@IwantRooseveltagain
There are morons on this site who say the J6 mob was not armed. That’s a lie.“Actions are actions. Dad went to the Capitol with a gun,” said Jackson, then 20 years old. “He walked up the Capitol steps with a gun on his hip.”They (the family) blamed Trump for how that January day in 2021 had played out.
Wait, are you saying Tucker Carlson lied, no, not Tucker Carlson.
Tucker Carlson is wrong. Firearms, other weapons at Capitol on Jan. 6
"Many of those involved in the attack were armed, and several had guns that police later seized."
Evidence of firearms in Jan. 6 crowd grows as arrests and trials mount
The chatter included reports of a man with an AR-15 in a tree on Constitution Avenue who was accompanied by two men with pistols on their hips. Another officer radioed, “I’ve got three men walking down the street in fatigues carrying AR-15s, copy, at 14th and Independence.”
The recordings aired during the June 28 hearing in which former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson testified that Trump reportedly “was angry that we weren’t letting people through the [metal detectors] with weapons.”
Yes, Capitol Rioters Were Armed. Here Are The Weapons Prosecutors Say They Used
"But a review of the federal charges against the alleged rioters shows that they did come armed, and with a variety of weapons: stun guns, pepper spray, baseball bats and flagpoles wielded as clubs. An additional suspect also allegedly planted pipe bombs by the headquarters of the Democratic and Republican parties the night before the riot and remains at large.
Those weapons brought violence and chaos to the Capitol. Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick died one day after two rioters allegedly sprayed him and other officers with what prosecutors describe as an "unknown chemical substance." Four other people in the crowd died in the insurrection, and more than 100 police officers suffered injuries, including cracked ribs, gouged eyes and shattered spinal disks."
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@BrotherD.Thomas
It must be awful to be so desperate for attention.
I'm sorry.
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@FLRW
TWS1405_2Still irrelevant to the subject of the thread.Stop spamming/trolling threads!!
FLRW, don't you know that fascists get to control other people's thoughts and ideas?
In TWSland, only posts that agree with him are allowed.
So get racist or get lost.
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@Critical-Tim
If you think making love and rape are an "equal expreience, then when you make love, you are doing it wrong.
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@Critical-Tim
I believe that every sane person acts rationally by seeking something in return for their actions.
This is an overly simplistic attempt to make altruism into its opposite, selfishness, and it is an extremely weak argument to present it “as if” by definition it is the “sane” and “rational” response. Human beings simply are not "reducible" to something that the word “rational” can circumscribe, we are much more than that, that word is essential, but it is by no means exhaustive. We are not just rational beings; we are also sensate, emotional, and spiritual beings, and because of the uniquely human way that we experience reality, we live in a universe imbued with values, meaning and purpose.
This can range from straightforward transactions, like buying something, to more complex situations, such as fostering mutually beneficial relationships. Even when giving seemingly selflessly, individuals often receive intangible rewards, like a sense of virtue or emotional fulfillment. In essence, I see every action as driven by an inherent desire to gain or experience something in return.
Your belief is not consistent with observations, human inclinations are not primarily selfish, altruism refers to behavior that benefits another individual at a cost to oneself, and your simple mechanistic explanation of expectations of later reciprocity cannot account for all altruistic behavior. There are plenty examples of sacrificial behavior that in no way benefits the individual, what expectation of return can the man who throws himself on a grenade to save others have?
Rather than “seeking something in return for their actions”, I think the source of “good deeds” lies in the individual transcending the realm in which their own materiality is located and extending our awareness and being to include the experience created in others by our actions. Rather than giving in order to get something, many people adopt a perspective that defines life as good in terms of the contribution made to others. There is a realm in which we are truly one with our fellow man, it has nothing to do with religion or dogma; it is simply a matter of adopting a perspective that defines self in more expansive terms, and it is ia matter of human nature to do so.
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