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by spot
Wed Dec 17, 2025 12:50 am
Forum: News and Announcements
Topic: phpBB4
Replies: 2
Views: 40

Re: phpBB4


Sounds good apart from the Cloudflare Capcha which ice found to be a pain on other sites


Cloudflare is is blight on the universe, but I'll select the least annoying option which with any luck will be nothing to do with pictures, sliders or the like. "now provides an automatic update system" is ...
by spot
Tue Dec 16, 2025 3:35 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Horror and devastation
Replies: 0
Views: 18

Horror and devastation

A former Royal Marine is starting a 21-year jail term for mowing down dozens of Liverpool football fans in a “truly shocking” act that “defies ordinary understanding”.

Paul Doyle, 54, bowed his head as he was sentenced at Liverpool crown court where victims and their families watched, some in ...
by spot
Tue Dec 16, 2025 11:04 am
Forum: News and Announcements
Topic: phpBB4
Replies: 2
Views: 40

phpBB4

We’re excited to announce the release of phpBB 4.0.0-a1, the first alpha version of phpBB 4.0. This release marks a significant milestone in our project, as we introduce a modernized foundation and several new features. This version is intended for developers and enthusiasts to test and provide ...
by spot
Tue Dec 16, 2025 9:42 am
Forum: ForumGarden Hotel
Topic: So Christmas? anyone bothering?
Replies: 31
Views: 25221

Re: So Christmas? anyone bothering?

I note with interest there are no remaining delivery slots available at Tesco until after Christmas. The earliest was Saturday 27th December, which I booked - that's eleven days away.

My arrangements are still fluid.
by spot
Sat Dec 13, 2025 9:37 am
Forum: United States
Topic: Mausoleums
Replies: 0
Views: 57

Mausoleums

I wonder - is there a tradition or even an instance of a mausoleum wherein the public may view the curated remains of the deceased? Mao has one. Lenin has one. Is there nobody in America honoured that way? No carpetbagger? No State Governor basking in the goodwill of his constituents generations ...
by spot
Sun Dec 07, 2025 3:53 am
Forum: General Chit Chat
Topic: Thansgiving Dinner
Replies: 4
Views: 654

Re: Thansgiving Dinner

There's an op-ed in today's Guardian...

Christmas dinner? At home or in a restaurant? It’s at this juncture of the year, with Christmas dinner hurtling towards us, that you may well find yourself muttering: “Well, we could always go out!” Who could blame any home cook for wanting to shove this ...
by spot
Sat Dec 06, 2025 4:51 pm
Forum: Philosophy
Topic: Quantitative versus qualitative change
Replies: 11
Views: 2140

Re: Quantitative versus qualitative change



In my opinion, however, Marxism is bankrupt.


Indeed it is a bankrupt ideology, we have both expressed the same statement in different words. I do not think Marxism provides an adequate analysis of the post-industrial world we live in. It is an obsolete historical marker which analysed the ...
by spot
Sat Dec 06, 2025 4:46 pm
Forum: Philosophy
Topic: Quantitative versus qualitative change
Replies: 11
Views: 2140

Re: Quantitative versus qualitative change

wise47 wrote: Sat Dec 06, 2025 4:26 pm In my opinion, however, Marxism is bankrupt.
Indeed it is, we have both expressed the same statement in different words.
by spot
Sat Dec 06, 2025 8:43 am
Forum: News and Announcements
Topic: فساتين ورزان ، براند سعودي راقي باسعار مناسبة للجميع
Replies: 1
Views: 284

Re: فساتين ورزان ، براند سعودي راقي باسعار مناسبة للجميع

This has the hallmarks of professional grey-hat SEO content farming rather than amateur spam. Someone paid for decent Arabic copywriting, then blasted it across forums for backlinks. One can admire while disapproving.

Welcome to ForumGarden warazan. I suspect I'll delete any additional spam but do ...
by spot
Wed Dec 03, 2025 3:47 pm
Forum: Philosophy
Topic: How to resolve the idealism-materialism dispute ?
Replies: 8
Views: 892

Re: How to resolve the idealism-materialism dispute ?


Surprisingly, I actually agree with your theses almost in their entirety.

I would, however, add one statement to page one - “There is no God but God”. The God of each of these religions is one and the same. The religions might have different views of observable reality but the underlying reality ...
by spot
Sun Nov 30, 2025 7:08 am
Forum: General Chit Chat
Topic: Dementia
Replies: 2
Views: 335

Re: Dementia

Don't go in asking them how they are. Lead whatever conversation can be had, don't sit watching. To whatever extent you know the person, you know their past - take something physical they have experience manipulating. If it's an ex gun club member take a familiar pistol and get them to clean it for ...
by spot
Fri Nov 28, 2025 2:02 am
Forum: Philosophy
Topic: Quantitative versus qualitative change
Replies: 11
Views: 2140

Re: Quantitative versus qualitative change



Marxism was primarily culturally conditioned, its statements have in general not aged well.


Generally, you don't agree with Marxism, do you ?


On the contrary, I suggest Marxism was an excellent analysis of the condition of the 19th century as seen by someone living through it. Marx was an ...
by spot
Fri Nov 28, 2025 1:56 am
Forum: Philosophy
Topic: How to resolve the idealism-materialism dispute ?
Replies: 8
Views: 892

Re: How to resolve the idealism-materialism dispute ?

I welcome the continued consideration of this matter.

My reaction, which I hope you might agree has merit, is that your position is intuitive. And I would agree you have thought longer and harder about the issue than I have and that I would trust your intuition more than I would trust my own in ...
by spot
Thu Nov 27, 2025 10:38 am
Forum: Philosophy
Topic: Quantitative versus qualitative change
Replies: 11
Views: 2140

Re: Quantitative versus qualitative change

Marxism was primarily culturally conditioned, its statements have in general not aged well.
by spot
Wed Nov 26, 2025 7:37 pm
Forum: General Chit Chat
Topic: After searching for 2 years I finally . . . .
Replies: 6
Views: 543

Re: After searching for 2 years I finally . . . .

And yet it has to be a car with available parts and servicing in Florida.

And to be honest I didn't think the Trax was the sort of car you'd ever have chosen, which is why I picked it because you said it was an odd choice. And it's a lot better than it used to be, so it's said.
by spot
Wed Nov 26, 2025 9:23 am
Forum: General Chit Chat
Topic: After searching for 2 years I finally . . . .
Replies: 6
Views: 543

Re: After searching for 2 years I finally . . . .

It can't be a Trabant. There's no new Trabants. Indeed, if there turns out to be a warehouse crammed to the rafters with long-term stored mint Trabants in packing grease, whoever owns it could make a mint today on the nostalgia market.

I reckon the car we're looking for is a Trax.
by spot
Tue Nov 25, 2025 2:14 pm
Forum: General Chit Chat
Topic: After searching for 2 years I finally . . . .
Replies: 6
Views: 543

Re: After searching for 2 years I finally . . . .

That sounds like a Tesla then.

The rules are you say if we get it right but otherwise you get to keep it secret, and we only get one guess per post.
by spot
Tue Nov 25, 2025 7:04 am
Forum: Introductions
Topic: Hi all I'm a new Old Timer
Replies: 7
Views: 1567

Re: Hi all I'm a new Old Timer

I have heard of narrowing of the holes through bone that initially allow nerve bundles to channel within the skeleton, and the progressive restriction it places on nerve function. It could extend to ligaments - perhaps not fully enclosed but sufficient to harm their function. A skeleton is a ...
by spot
Mon Nov 24, 2025 2:16 am
Forum: Introductions
Topic: Hi all I'm a new Old Timer
Replies: 7
Views: 1567

Re: Hi all I'm a new Old Timer

That's ideal, I'm glad we finally got the system open to you again. Welcome back.

Does Florida feel much different this year than ten years back? It's generated a lot of news, what with Senators and Governors and people standing their ground and such.
by spot
Sun Nov 23, 2025 9:57 am
Forum: General Religious Discussions
Topic: God the Father and cosmoses
Replies: 6
Views: 2504

Re: God the Father and cosmoses

Although in my first post I wrote about the Father of cosmoses, it could be that the Father refers to a single cosmos, and each cosmos has its own separate Father. In that case, of course, He wouldn't be eternal, but was born with the cosmos and will die with the cosmos. The act of creation could ...
by spot
Sun Nov 23, 2025 9:46 am
Forum: Conspiracy Theories
Topic: The Age of Disclosure
Replies: 0
Views: 372

The Age of Disclosure

The choice of the "Conspiracy Theories" forum is deliberate, but not as an analysis of the film.

The cast list is what matters here. This film is a declaration of civil war in America.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt35520315

Cast

Jay Stratton Self - Navy Intelligence, DIA, Senior Executive (Ret ...
by spot
Sat Nov 22, 2025 7:29 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Ukraine and Russia
Replies: 105
Views: 47996

Re: Ukraine and Russia

Donald Trump’s latest plan for ending the war in Ukraine would see territory ceded to Russia, Russia readmitted to the G8 and Ukraine banned from joining Nato, according to drafts of the proposal seen by Axios, AFP and the Associated Press.

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he expected ...
by spot
Thu Nov 20, 2025 6:29 am
Forum: Wide World of Sports
Topic: Good sports
Replies: 2
Views: 836

Re: Good sports

That sort of behaviour is not what the English team should be about. It's only a game, there are higher priorities.
by spot
Thu Nov 20, 2025 1:13 am
Forum: Wide World of Sports
Topic: Good sports
Replies: 2
Views: 836

Good sports

In an interview with an online betting company Panesar had urged England’s players to: “Say something like, ‘I don’t think it’s ethical that he’s the captain. I don’t think he played the game fairly.’ Really get into him and make him feel guilty about it. Make him feel like, ‘They’re probably right ...
by spot
Wed Nov 19, 2025 1:45 am
Forum: Current Political Events
Topic: The Presidential Election of 2020
Replies: 374
Views: 146725

Re: The Presidential Election of 2020

And I quite liked In November 2018, after Trump indicated the U.S. would not sanction Saudi Arabia over the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, Gabbard tweeted at Trump, "being Saudi Arabia's bitch is not 'America First.'"


It's still echoing down the years though...

It was far more than a simple ...
by spot
Tue Nov 18, 2025 9:40 am
Forum: Request A New Forum Here
Topic: New Marketplace Platform - NOVA
Replies: 0
Views: 651

Re: New Marketplace Platform - NOVA


https://novamplace.com/

NOVA Marketplace is a modern platform connecting sellers and buyers. Designed for those who value time saving, simplicity and transparency, it offers products from trusted sellers, allowing each user to find the best value for money. An efficient filter system helps you ...
by spot
Mon Nov 17, 2025 6:13 pm
Forum: Christianity
Topic: The Christian ethos
Replies: 0
Views: 409

The Christian ethos

A school has banned the singing of songs from hit Netflix film KPop Demon Hunters over concerns they are not in keeping with its "Christian ethos".

Lilliput Church of England Infant School in Poole, Dorset, sent a message to parents on Friday saying some members of the community are "deeply ...
by spot
Mon Nov 17, 2025 2:42 am
Forum: Current Political Events
Topic: Fake News
Replies: 5
Views: 1473

Re: Fake News

US president Donald Trump has urged his fellow Republicans in Congress to vote for the release of files related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, reversing his earlier resistance to such a move.

Trump’s post on his Truth Social came after House speaker Mike Johnson said earlier ...
by spot
Fri Nov 14, 2025 10:26 am
Forum: Science
Topic: How to increase your IQ level ? How to improve your IQ ?
Replies: 16
Views: 6028

Re: How to increase your IQ level ? How to improve your IQ ?


It is not easy to achieve ten times your own intelligence, but it is possible.



I have no doubt of it, that sees eminently doable. My challenge was that if you redefine your IQ scale to a linear rather than the present logarithmic increments it is necessary for you to publish your revised ...
by spot
Fri Nov 14, 2025 10:19 am
Forum: Warfare Military
Topic: Return of Hitler, World war II, World war III, nuclear warfare, let's save our planet
Replies: 15
Views: 5946

Re: Return of Hitler, World war II, World war III, nuclear warfare, let's save our planet


Hitler resides in the spiritual plane and is likely currently incarnated at the age of 12. In the future, he will attempt to seize power in Russia and initiate a nuclear conflict.


This relates well with Saint's observations. He reports repeated incarnation in the same country, speaking the same ...
by spot
Thu Nov 13, 2025 3:29 pm
Forum: Philosophy
Topic: How to resolve the idealism-materialism dispute ?
Replies: 8
Views: 892

Re: How to resolve the idealism-materialism dispute ?

If all volumes of that size involve the effect which prevents anything smaller from existing, it would be difficult to extract any "image" of the volume - the probe would be too insensitive. So any feasible representation which adds to physics by enabling mathematical modelling of interactions on ...
by spot
Wed Nov 12, 2025 3:23 am
Forum: General Religious Discussions
Topic: God the Father and cosmoses
Replies: 6
Views: 2504

Re: God the Father and cosmoses


As for estimating the number of universes, we can use the galactic model - that is, the number of galaxies in the universe - to estimate the number of universes at 400 billion. However, the actual number may be fewer, around 50 billion.


May I introduce Edwin Abbott's "https://en.wikipedia.org ...
by spot
Wed Nov 12, 2025 3:17 am
Forum: General Religious Discussions
Topic: God the Father and cosmoses
Replies: 6
Views: 2504

Re: God the Father and cosmoses

It's an interesting choice of vocabulary.

We can easily agree on a featureless label "God" and recognise there is a moment in the past when a creational event became apparent, prior to which we have no evidence on which to extrapolate our understanding of prior events. I might ascribe that event to ...
by spot
Sun Nov 09, 2025 6:11 am
Forum: Political Humor Satire
Topic: National Period Day
Replies: 3
Views: 14210

Re: The Importance of Lyrics in Music.


Songs with meaningful lyrics can truly resonate and evoke deep emotions. They have the power to shape our thoughts and memories in profound ways. Do you believe that lyrics hold more weight than the melody itself? Could a song's message be so powerful that it outshines its musical composition ...
by spot
Sun Nov 09, 2025 2:13 am
Forum: Paranormal Science
Topic: TW3C2, a radionic device that develops paranormal abilities and spiritual insight.
Replies: 4
Views: 362

Re: TW3C2, a radionic device that develops paranormal abilities and spiritual insight.

Yes, the effect each slight change in shape might have on the operation. Rather like tuning a radio, perhaps. The shapes are relevant to the operation presumably, and their positioning in respect of each other.
by spot
Fri Nov 07, 2025 7:02 am
Forum: Paranormal Science
Topic: TW3C2, a radionic device that develops paranormal abilities and spiritual insight.
Replies: 4
Views: 362

Re: TW3C2, a radionic device that develops paranormal abilities and spiritual insight.

Here's an interactive experiment - can you describe the effects of using the controls? You may have to decrease the screen magnification to fit your monitor. Tell me if you'd like me to delete this post.

geometry.php
by spot
Fri Nov 07, 2025 5:15 am
Forum: Warfare Military
Topic: Operation Gideon
Replies: 9
Views: 10708

Re: Operation Gideon

Donny appears to be having his own shot at a similar end-game:

US strikes another alleged drug boat bringing death toll from campaign in Latin America to 70

US strikes have destroyed at least 18 vessels, but Washington has yet to make public any concrete evidence that its targets posed a threat ...
by spot
Fri Nov 07, 2025 4:44 am
Forum: Paranormal Science
Topic: Principle of operation of the Atlantis ring
Replies: 12
Views: 1946

Re: Principle of operation of the Atlantis ring


It can be said that the Atlantis ring is a powerful tool for developing consciousness and paranormal abilities.


I'm familiar with the term "paranormal abilities" but I'm not sure what is meant by "consciousness". Is this associated with awareness? There is a spectacularly detailed analysis at ...
by spot
Wed Nov 05, 2025 2:36 pm
Forum: Crimes Trials
Topic: new clue in jo yeates murder the AA grumpy column
Replies: 9
Views: 8297

Re: new clue in jo yeates murder the AA grumpy column


Trial by newspaper seems to be stock in trade for the tabloids. They ought to be made to compensate Mr Jeffries handsomely. Slightly eccentric he may be but to paint the picture of him that they did and to post his photograph on as may available pages, was a disgrace. His life may never be the ...
by spot
Wed Nov 05, 2025 1:04 am
Forum: Current Political Events
Topic: have you guys talked about this and I missed it?
Replies: 25
Views: 10580

Re: have you guys talked about this and I missed it?

Democrats pulled off nearly a complete sweep in Tuesday’s major contests, notching big wins in races largely seen as a referendum on President Donald Trump’s return to the White House. Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani is the projected winner, according to the AP, in the New York mayor’s race. He ...
by spot
Tue Nov 04, 2025 10:01 am
Forum: Current Political Events
Topic: have you guys talked about this and I missed it?
Replies: 25
Views: 10580

Re: have you guys talked about this and I missed it?

And this:

“Never ran anything,” former New York state governor Andrew Cuomo charged, as he dissed his opponent on Fox News. “There’s no time for on-the-job training when any given morning, God forbid, you could have a mass murder or a terrorist attack.”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree ...
by spot
Tue Nov 04, 2025 3:42 am
Forum: Current Political Events
Topic: have you guys talked about this and I missed it?
Replies: 25
Views: 10580

Re: have you guys talked about this and I missed it?

It needs expansion:

Trump’s comments echo those broadcast on Sunday during his appearance on CBS’s 60 minutes, in which he said: “It’s gonna be hard for me as the president to give a lot of money to New York, because if you have a communist running New York, all you’re doing is wasting the money ...
by spot
Tue Nov 04, 2025 1:47 am
Forum: Current Political Events
Topic: have you guys talked about this and I missed it?
Replies: 25
Views: 10580

Re: have you guys talked about this and I missed it?

Should anyone wish to recognize the most improbable blowback on current White House practice, New York will today vote a Ugandan Asian Muslim aged 34 into office as city mayor. This on a platform declaring the city should enable free Internet and urban bus transport to counter the dreadful rises in ...
by spot
Tue Nov 04, 2025 1:32 am
Forum: General Chit Chat
Topic: Random Thoughts
Replies: 329
Views: 221821

Re: Random Thoughts

I note this as a birthday week. Randall is 94, and one of the mods is spending the weekend on his boat to celebrate his own natal anniversary. I used to do something similar with a week of cross-country skiing but that seems to be in abeyance recently. And an ex-mod, the third of the week, Koan.
by spot
Mon Nov 03, 2025 6:14 am
Forum: Current Political Events
Topic: Liberation Day
Replies: 33
Views: 6728

Re: Liberation Day

Wednesday, I note, is the Supreme Court hearing of oral argument for the legality of the White House tariffs imposed as emergency measures. Bonfire night.

We will recall Trump packed the Supreme Court to a 6-3 Republican-leaning majority and counting. On the other hand, the emergency is self ...
by spot
Sun Nov 02, 2025 5:37 am
Forum: Current Political Events
Topic: Will President Trump run for a third term?
Replies: 9
Views: 2584

Re: Will President Trump run for a third term?


And if so, will any Republican stand against him in the 2028 Presidential Primaries?



I saw this. She would. She will whether he competes or not.

Marjorie Taylor Greene tells Bill Maher she believes extraterrestrials are demons

Georgia Republican lawmaker also claims she didn’t know ...
by spot
Sat Nov 01, 2025 8:32 am
Forum: Philosophy
Topic: Quantitative versus qualitative change
Replies: 11
Views: 2140

Re: Quantitative versus qualitative change

What you delineate "a more normal country" in the early 90s was in extreme ferment (not an unknown condition for Poland over the centuries!) with, as I recall, uncontrollable inflation and a retention of control for some while dependent on military leadership. It became, eventually, more ...
by spot
Sat Nov 01, 2025 7:45 am
Forum: Philosophy
Topic: Quantitative versus qualitative change
Replies: 11
Views: 2140

Re: Quantitative versus qualitative change

Your logistic development is undeniably correct and on progressively smaller scales becomes even more so.

Perhaps we could use just this thread, isolated from your other work on this site, to educate those who read here on something few others experienced.

Your entire primary schooling was in a ...
by spot
Sat Nov 01, 2025 6:56 am
Forum: Crimes Trials
Topic: The Prince and the 17 year old
Replies: 52
Views: 20283

Re: The Prince and the 17 year old

Members of a US congressional committee investigating the Jeffrey Epstein case have intensified their calls for Andrew Mountbatten Windsor to answer questions about his links to the late sex offender.

King Charles stripped his brother of his "prince" title on Thursday, following months of pressure ...
by spot
Fri Oct 31, 2025 2:50 pm
Forum: Crimes Trials
Topic: The Prince and the 17 year old
Replies: 52
Views: 20283

Re: The Prince and the 17 year old

Which, I believe, now makes him Mr Andrew Mountbatten for the rest of his life.



Prince Andrew has been stripped of his "prince" title and will leave his Windsor mansion, Royal Lodge, Buckingham Palace has announced.

... "His Majesty has today initiated a formal process to remove the Style ...

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