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From the perspective of monotheism, what is a false God?

As much as anything the question is definitional. I know what is conveyed by Monotheism, False, and God. I don't understand what the term "False God" can mean in this context, the words ...

Sociological theory

1. Division of sociology seizes aspect evolutional, structural, systematical and cultural. From the point of view of biology, sociology is a domain investigating population, particularly human population. Its purpose is to build general theory of this population on three ...

If you have IQ 180 you can reach even 1800 points.

The puzzle is, Engineer, that your know enough math and distribution sigma relationships to know the words can't mean what they mean in conventional systems. By all means employ the term IQ that way, but say what your revised definition is ...

And to make it a Venezuelan must have made it so much more satisfying given Mr Trump's self evident love for that country.

And, pardon my noticing, a Hispanic woman. Venezuelan politician María Corina Machado has won for her defence of democracy in an authoritarian country, something that would ...

"London cops unplug iPhone crime ring said to nick 40% of city's mobiles" - The Register.

Clickbait, eh?

I'm pleased to note support for this thread from His Holiness:

The pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires.

Australian media representatives were among those to hear directly from Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Thursday with ...

2. 'Donald Trump among 338 nominees for Nobel Peace Prize
Donald Trump has been a nominee in previous years as well, but this year’s speculation has gained particular attention amid his controversial foreign policy moves.' - and I'm sure I heard on the radio the President has been talking with the ...

An insignificant local A5 flyposter noted how strange it is that so many of the English claim credit for things they didn't do and hate so many people they have never met. As a definition of the political right it's not bad, it's the Conservative, NF, BNP, UKIP, Reform tendency in a single sentence ...

When I had my heart attack and died for over two minutes, (and saw some things that were astonishing) when I came back to my body, I found I could remember a past life. In that one I died in the Battle of Antietam. I remember it well. I got shot in the lower left abdomen and died lying headfirst ...

A duopoly of Donny and Tony Blair have thrown an ultimatum at Hamas, promising to rein in the Government of Israel in exchange for a list of actions.

One of those actions, I note, is to place their weapons beyond use. The expression is mine from the Good Friday accord in Ulster, the text may say ...

At the very least that counts only if there's double-blind conditions, and you know that. At the moment you're unable to distinguish reality from confirmation bias. And you know that too, being an engineer. It's what brains do.

Of course, such empirical evidence is of a psychological nature ...

Go back and talk to us where we were being interested and for goodness sake don't deflect. We hate deflections.

Thank you, Spot, for being so liberal and sometimes allowing views with which you may not agree.

If you go back through the threads over the last twenty years you'll find immense ...

I'm intrigued.

The personal spirit, which I also call Pneuma, is bound to the body throughout life from conception, which it initiated. Naturally, it absorbs experiences and develops from incarnation to incarnation. Each subsequent incarnation is slightly, or sometimes significantly, more ...

I note in passing a hyperlink on AOL. Quite why that still exists I'm not sure, but: "From Leonard Nimoy to Robert Pattinson: Famous actors known best for one role".

Every actor, famous or otherwise, is definitionally known best for one role. It's what best means.

As for Leonard Nimoy, it was his ...

I have little idea what a US navy chief of staff is, but your chap Hegseth just fired one.

"Jon Harrison, appointed in January, had been key to broad changes in military branch’s policy and budgeting offices" and "no prior military experience".

For playing office politics, apparently.

We saw different bits.

“Fat troops are tiring to look at,” Hegseth said, as he ordered commanders to crack down on a lack of physical fitness. “It’s tiring to look out at combat formations, or really any formation, and see fat troops.”

Commanders were not excepted from Hegseth’s purge on the ...

Military leaders have raised serious concerns about the Trump administration’s forthcoming defense strategy, exposing a divide between the Pentagon’s political and uniformed leadership as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth summons top brass to a highly unusual summit in Virginia on Tuesday, according ...

I recently saw a giant Outdoor LED Video Wall at a product launch, and honestly, it looked better than any billboard I’ve seen. Super bright, even in the afternoon sun, and the videos were crystal clear. Do you guys think these are the future of outdoor advertising gadgets?

Tell me guys what you ...

I can easily recognise John's position - he has no way of knowing anything other than the east half of the Mediterranean, there's no TV, no knowledge of the rest of the planet. He knows of the Empires, he's met Romans, but from Rome and Greece to Syria and Persia is as far as knowledge reaches. And ...

"they will all be without God's help on that day" might not go far enough.

Can we indicate agreement, since we're discussing Revelations, that the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are agents of God, unleashed by the breaking of the seals of the scroll by Jesus? Not just accidental passers-by but ...

While secretary of defense Pete Hegseth’s links to an extremist church and crusader tattoos caused a stir during his confirmation hearings, the former Fox & Friends host is now openly bringing his ultra-conservative brand of christianity to the Pentagon.

Veterans tell the Guardian that Hegseth’s ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered hundreds of the U.S. military’s generals and admirals to gather on short notice — and without a stated reason — at a Marine Corps base in Virginia next week, sowing confusion and alarm after the Trump administration’s firing of numerous senior leaders this ...

That is a credible truthful statement. I congratulate you on your tenacity over the years.

So the followers of the Beast, marked with the sign, are those who elected Mahmoud Abbas, currently 89 years old, who this week addressed the United Nations by videophone since America refused him a visa to ...

That's excellent, thank you. So God is the only one with accurate foresight. It's something which nothing else in the universe that we've encountered can do but then, God's unique so that's okay too.

But if you take God out of this model of the universe, everything else happens exactly the same way ...

I've no idea how this never had a reply. I was looking for something else, but this thread can have terrorism if that's what it needs.

Christian evangelicals? The ultimate revenge killers?

I had an A4 sheet stuck in my letterbox from one "Michael" this morning - allow me to doubt its benign tone ...

The backtracking started the same day.

"Digital ID will become mandatory as a means of proving the right to work under the plans, but people will not be required to carry or be asked to produce it" Keir Starmer defends plans for mandatory digital ID amid fierce backlash

"Officials emphasise ...

DIGITAL ID cards could be the nail in Keir Starmer’s coffin — and an opportunity for the left to lead a fightback in defence of civil liberties and human decency.

Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy’s denial that forcing digital IDs on us all will be a “dystopian mess” is revealing — because that is ...

It's a pleasure to see you drop by again.

If I may I'll copy this forward, it's a long-standing invitation to discuss the material you've presented over the years. Just under the surface of what you've posted are the assumptions which make up your view of reality. I honestly don't know the nature ...

I wonder, could you make an order of magnitude estimate of the minimum possible mass of this vehicle?

In the case of a spaceship, it will be about 4,000 tons.

Oddly, there's a page on Wikipedia all about it. An antiparticle black hole will behave symmetrically with its normal equivalent ...

The propulsion of the antigravity vehicle will be a
miniature anti black hole with an antisingularity inside, built from
antiparticles to particles at the level of gravitons.

I wonder, could you make an order of magnitude estimate of the minimum possible mass of this vehicle? Plus or minus a ...

Naturally, Hitler's spirit remembers his previous incarnations and retains memories of them. The lower personality in a different way, however, retains the spirit's influence.

I'm intrigued. Hitler lived that incarnation for 56 years. So during that time, was his "spirit" associated with his ...

What reincarnates is the personal spirit, but it is matter. The main body of the spirit is composed of quark-gluon matter. It is the spirit that retains the identity of the person from incarnation to incarnation. One could speak of Hitler, for example, but to be more precise, we are talking about ...

The president and his cabinet members are expected to tie pregnant women’s use of the popular medicine Tylenol (known as paracetamol elsewhere in the world) to the development of autism in children.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/sep/22/donald-trump-charlie-kirk-autism-us-politics ...

Once Hitler comes to power in his current incarnation, he will unleash a nuclear war.

I'm fascinated. What is reincarnation? What is it that will get reincarnated? Or is this yet more dualism? This odd idea that the body explains all mental processes and yet as well as that, there's some ...

The photos and guest list of the State Banquet were released yesterday and they paint a grim picture of Society.

160 guests, all but two of whom could best be described as of white heritage. Which is one more than the White House Cabinet now I think of it.

The times have clearly not been a ...

I'm glad you're still intact, well done. And working eyes too.

The written parliamentary question is an impressive outcome, it's common to deplore MPs but they appear to be by and large fit for purpose. They have assistants filtering incoming mail but yours got passed on and had an effect. That's a ...

A notable summary of the events in Gaza has been published, which I attach to this post.

Human Rights Council
Sixtieth session
Legal analysis of the conduct of Israel in Gaza pursuant to
the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the
Crime of Genocide
Conference room paper of the ...

I don't recall China asking for a meeting to discuss matters recently, and I'd lay odds they can outlast America in a staring contest. "White House’s press secretary, Karoline Leavitt: When you punch at the United States of America, President Trump is going to punch back harder"? You'd need to ...

That will be exciting, we'll have four equivalent-sized parties at that stage.

Donny has backed himself into a corner this afternoon with the use of "immediately":

“I don’t want them purchasing Russian oil, and they’ve got to stop immediately. Not fair to us. They’re purchasing Russian oil, and we have to do things.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/sep/16 ...

He's arrived. We have Donny in England.

He's a strange amalgam. He appears to have reached a point over the decades where he seriously believes that asserting a thing means the assertion is the truth. There is no objective reality in his head any longer.

And he's a curious mix of power and ...

My impression of Donny's White House is that it's systematically ripping the heart out of Washington's Departments wholesale, going in with lists of people to fire, replacing them with absolute incompetents to lead each major role and systematically wrecking their budget allocations. I have no ...

Yeah, this visit is definitely stirring up more reactions than expected. No matter what side people are on, it’s fascinating to see how quickly opinions shift. Honestly, I was reading all this while working on updates for my Baby and Toys store and it reminded me how fast conversations can change ...

Wow...listened to that...what a condescending little prick!

Donny's second state visit happens this week. I do hope the Flying Trump Baby takes to the air once more. This link to the Baby is from the top of the thread: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-44732754

He's going to be in ...

Not what the doctor ordered at all. All you get to do from that is as you're told, and hope it clears up quickly. And they have a point, operating on someone who suddenly clots badly does not sound optimal.

We shall hope for better news. Did they manage to complete the cataract thing during the ...

LarsMac wrote: Sun Sep 14, 2025 10:02 am Nothing is not all that new.
The Buddha was talking about Nothing centuries ago.
He said that it was something to think about.

And you can put things into nothing. But I doubt you can take anything out.

And - a minor point perhaps, but '"We got him," said Utah's Gov. Spencer Cox' is overly self-congratulation. No, Governor. You-all were given him. You-all had no idea up to that point, and then he was in custody. "We got him" is not what happened. Or it's just bad English, that's always possible ...

Tommy Robinson appears to be out of prison again, most recently after decking some passer-by at Kings Cross station and fleeing the country.

So there was a rally. 110,000 followers out in London.

This is from 1909:

We, the Futurists, are scorned by the crippled and paralysed.
We, the Futurists ...

I'm at a bit of a loss to know why Mandelson was fired as Ambassador in Washington. He was selected for the post because he and Trump had so many common acquaintances going back decades.

Sir Keir Starmer explicitly asked Lord Mandelson about his links to convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein before ...

Your statement, if meaningful or applicable to reality, demonstrates the foundation cannot be Nothingness. Which I would sympathise with if we're talking about the universe in which we live.

Only Nothingness can be the absolute foundation. Simply put, nothing else can be the Absolute.

Do ...

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