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A theory is just a theory, until debate and consensus deems it worthy. Maybe it becomes widely accepted, even common-knowledge or even 'fact.' What follows is something less understood, perhaps highly debatable, perhaps wrong. I want to trace the IDEA and ACCEPTANCE of the theory that Jacob-Israel w...

Scholarly lecture by Dr. Or Graur, Associate Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Portsmouth's Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, 3/20/24.

Excellent finds! Ino is mother of Melicertes. Where we understand Melicertes = Melqart , so too Anat/Atargatis is the consort of Baal Hadad. But (if Baumgarten [1981] , is correct) Melqart=Herakles is logically Hadad's Son. Herakles is the Son of the Big Guy. Leucothea is Derceto-Atargatis, an angui...

Besides the Tripod Cauldron discussed above, an alternate or parallel reading is available: οὗτος γὰρ χάλκειον ἐς οὐρανὸν ἐστήρικται = "For this Chalkeion {brazen shield?} is firmly set in Heaven" [...] In a myth complex w. frescos illustrating Herakles , this seems relevant. It is the im...

Shout out to Re and Apep!

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Here's a geek's video on Claude 3 that raves: https://youtu.be/hqfjvkYt2YA Superlative features identified here (article reads like a promo, tho): https://flowch.ai/news/6faad64c-claude-3-the-dawn-of-a-new-ai-era More raves: https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/claude-ai-review-the-most-c...

Islam isn't a New False God, tho. Islam isn't "new" to Europe, although there were no mosques in peripheral places like Iceland, etc. until our lifetime. Visibility isn't newness, is it? Richard Dawkins ('Ducky' at Oundle) is a stark and embarrassing example of 'Careful-What-You-Wish-For' ...

I have posted on this before. The whole Frankenstein Monster thing consuming our moment is a product of Atheism. Theologians have taken note: https://www.detroitcatholic.com/news/franciscan-ai-expert-warns-of-technology-becoming-a-pseudo-religion https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-god-ch...

At the outset, I gave Claude 3 an instruction a MANDATE for the translation to come. (This is a 'Prompt.') Had it followed my Prompt? Claude replied: The provided mandate, as stated earlier, is: Recall my early instructions, our MANDATE: translate that w/ nuance to any metaphysical terminology or my...