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by billd89
Fri Apr 19, 2024 4:41 am
Forum: Classical Texts and History
Topic: Pompei: new paintings found
Replies: 2
Views: 135

Dating Pompeii, for the Waco TeeVee People

"79 AD ... that's like Dinosaur Time, right?"

Right.

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by billd89
Fri Apr 19, 2024 4:26 am
Forum: General Religious Discussion
Topic: All christianity is “fundamentalism”
Replies: 6
Views: 12338

Re: American Fundamentalists are like Duck Dynasty

Today’s Evangelicals reject the label fundamentalist because of its connotations of aggressiveness and stupidity ; but they are fundamentalists. ... Neither militancy nor hostility to evolution nor “literalism” nor a method of non-rational propagation is distinctive of modern Protestant “fundamenta...
by billd89
Fri Apr 19, 2024 3:55 am
Forum: Other Texts and History
Topic: Conflict Zone Artefacts
Replies: 0
Views: 17

Conflict Zone Artefacts

Maybe it's 'looting.' Personally, I don't like that term; it doesn't feel right for abandoned 'stuff' (philosophically, dead 'people' aren't (viz., corpses are not 'people'); 'they' cannot own 'property') -- rival claims should default to actual heir designees & living finders, not lineage chain...
by billd89
Wed Apr 17, 2024 10:35 am
Forum: Classical Texts and History
Topic: Article: Ancient Greeks Predicted Robots
Replies: 5
Views: 4791

Re: Predicted

https://news.stanford.edu/2019/02/28/ancient-myths-reveal-early-fantasies-artificial-life/ "Jason and the Argonauts" [1963]. https://www.historytoday.com/sites/default/files/talos_crete.jpg Q&A w/ Boston Dynamics CEO. Today's 'peek' at a New Generation: 29ECwExc-_M We're getting there ...
by billd89
Wed Apr 17, 2024 4:36 am
Forum: Jewish Texts and History
Topic: "Rediscovered Fragments Shed New Light on a Proto-Masoretic Torah Scroll"
Replies: 1
Views: 129

Re: "Brickwork Layout," Symetry, and Coincidence

pp.16- 3.COLUMNS WITH THE SONG OF THE SEA The textual layouts within the columns that include the text of the Song of the Sea (Exod 15:1–19) were discussed extensively in my previous article,46 with the exception of the arrangement in the codex HP. Plate 2 at the end of that article displays AS’s da...
by billd89
Mon Apr 15, 2024 10:48 am
Forum: Other Texts and History
Topic: Ötzi's Tats
Replies: 0
Views: 107

Ötzi's Tats

Ötzi the Iceman has never been mentioned here before? What I find telling, the initial Bad Theory of expert scientists was overwritten by artisan-craftspeople who actually knew what they were talking about: yep, living tattoo artists. Found high in the Tyrolean Alps in 1991, Ötzi the Iceman had dark...
by billd89
Mon Apr 15, 2024 4:55 am
Forum: Other Texts and History
Topic: Can we have an AI Translator Thread?
Replies: 11
Views: 684

Re: That Uncanny Vibe; The Future

https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/5-ish-things-on-ai-go-talk-to-claude-famed-apple-designer-eyes-wearables-and-more/ Anthropic's Claude chatbot 'isn't sentient, but it certainly feels sentient' The most popular generative AI chatbots, based on user engagement with the tools, are OpenAI's ChatGPT, ...
by billd89
Sun Apr 14, 2024 1:22 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Origen on the heterodox
Replies: 22
Views: 287

Re: The Binitarian Formula

Homily on the Psalms , p.313: All right, look at what they say: “The Creator is savage, the Creator is inhumane; there is another, Higher-, Good-God.” The Demiurge must be Ialdabaoth/ Samael . Among the Jews/Semites, is there another 'savage, inhumane Creator' god, AND the lesser of the Most High, ...