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- Fri May 03, 2024 5:47 pm
- Forum: Other Texts and History
- Topic: Can we have an AI Translator Thread?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2809
Fascinating article on Claude 3: Hints of Setience?
https://www.consortiuminfo.org/artificial-intelligence/are-ais-self-aware-conversations-with-claude-3/ Conversing with Claude can seem entirely human, with Claude passing the Turing test on steroids. But the AI’s existence is very different from our own, making it challenging to understand what Clau...
- Fri May 03, 2024 10:11 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Secret Mark and Marcion via Chry
- Replies: 3
- Views: 120
Re: Dates
John 13:3 does NOT say Jesus 'took the form of a servant', CORRECT. That's Philippians 2:7. John 13:4: ἐγείρεται ἐκ τοῦ δείπνου καὶ τίθησιν τὰ ἱμάτια καὶ λαβὼν λέντιον διέζωσεν ἑαυτόν· λέντιον = Linen, apron. John 13:5: Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to w...
- Fri May 03, 2024 8:57 am
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: Niels Lemche, "272 BCE – A Terminus a Quo"
- Replies: 2
- Views: 126
Re: Link
Sebald Beham [1545], Hercules Carrying the Columns of Gaza : https://1.api.artsmia.org/800/124314.jpg However, if readers are still not satisfied then we move on to the next section of the Book of Judges: The stories about the superhero Samson. Again, we are dealing with a mythological figure and do...
- Thu May 02, 2024 10:13 am
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: Primal Evil (ἀρχή κακῶν), Inequality (ἀνισότης)?
- Replies: 0
- Views: 89
Primal Evil (ἀρχή κακῶν), Inequality (ἀνισότης)?
From Philo's DVC , 70. διακονοῦνται δὲ οὐχ ὑπ’ ἀνδραπόδων, ἡγούμενοι συνόλως τὴν θεραπόντων κτῆσιν εἶναι παρὰ φύσιν· ἡ μὲν γὰρ ἐλευθέρους ἅπαντας γεγέννηκεν, αἱ δέ τινων ἀδικίαι καὶ πλεονεξίαι ζηλωσάντων τὴν ἀρχέκακον ἀνισότητα καταζεύξασαι τὸ ἐπὶ τοῖς ἀσθενεστέροις κράτος τοῖς δυνατωτέροις ἀνῆψαν. ...
- Thu May 02, 2024 7:17 am
- Forum: General Religious Discussion
- Topic: Religious Intolerance & Science Denial: Study
- Replies: 0
- Views: 63
- Thu May 02, 2024 2:49 am
- Forum: General Religious Discussion
- Topic: 'Jews Killed Jesus,' a core belief?
- Replies: 0
- Views: 85
'Jews Killed Jesus,' a core belief?
I am not a Xian, and I do not believe this. But it is, in fact, a standard claim/belief of Christianity & Christians today, no? The two pillars of American Democracy are 1) Freedom of Speech and 2) Freedom of Assembly. Both support maximalist political and religious freedom in the USA. The react...
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 5:49 pm
- Forum: Other Texts and History
- Topic: Can we have an AI Translator Thread?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2809
Re: Reka Core A NEW AI OPTION
Roger Pearse is still using ChatGPT -- what on earth is wrong w/ that fellow!
https://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/202 ... eutychius/
RekaCore: well, some are raving ... honestly, I wasn't that impressed with the translations it gave.
https://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/202 ... eutychius/
RekaCore: well, some are raving ... honestly, I wasn't that impressed with the translations it gave.
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 4:21 am
- Forum: Classical Texts and History
- Topic: Philodemus, new text on Plato?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 253
One has to love The Guradian
Exquisite detail, closing paragraph last sentence:
Such was the heat of the pyroclastic surge produced by Vesuvius – believed to have been between 400C and 500C – that the brains and blood of victims instantly boiled.
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 6:30 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Implications of Marcion for early Christianity?
- Replies: 115
- Views: 2833
Re: Ideal, before Icon?
Philo's understanding of the logos lends itself to a proposal that he was (likely unwittingly) the founder of Christianity. Quoting Wikipedia: Philo (c. 20 BC – c. 50 AD), a Hellenized Jew, used the term logos to mean an intermediary divine being or demiurge.[10] Philo followed the Platonic distinc...
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 4:48 pm
- Forum: Classical Texts and History
- Topic: Ancient Phallus carved on Hadrian's Wall
- Replies: 0
- Views: 942
Ancient Phallus carved on Hadrian's Wall
Another Discovery at Vindolanda https://www.heritagedaily.com/2024/04/archaeologists-uncover-possible-phallus-carving-at-roman-vindolanda/151753 Each architectural type of phalli have been grouped into one of nine morphological traits: the Rocket, the Hammer, the Kinky-Winky, the Splitcock, the Poin...