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- 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 ...
- 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 ...
Paul Doyle, 54, bowed his head as he was sentenced at Liverpool crown court where victims and their families watched, some in ...
- 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 ...
- 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.
My arrangements are still fluid.
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
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 ...
- 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 ...
- Sat Dec 06, 2025 4:46 pm
- Forum: Philosophy
- Topic: Quantitative versus qualitative change
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2140
Re: Quantitative versus qualitative change
Indeed it is, we have both expressed the same statement in different words.
- 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 ...
Welcome to ForumGarden warazan. I suspect I'll delete any additional spam but do ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
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 ...
- 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.
- 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.
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.
- 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.
I reckon the car we're looking for is a Trax.
- 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.
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.
- 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 ...
- 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.
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.
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
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 ...
- 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 ...
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he expected ...
- 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.
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
It's still echoing down the years though...
It was far more than a simple ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
Lilliput Church of England Infant School in Poole, Dorset, sent a message to parents on Friday saying some members of the community are "deeply ...
- 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 ...
Trump’s post on his Truth Social came after House speaker Mike Johnson said earlier ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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.
- 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.
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- 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 ...
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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
“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 ...
- 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 ...
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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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.
- 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 ...
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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
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 ...
- 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 ...
King Charles stripped his brother of his "prince" title on Thursday, following months of pressure ...
- 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 ...
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 ...