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There’s a Giant Flaw in Human History

What was it said about extraordinary claims? Oh yes, they should be backed by extraordinary evidence. Your evidence is lacking.
Yes and in this case the poster said the credentials of the archeologists was not good enough. So I quoted on of the world greatest archeologists. I think thats pretty extraordinary as far as credentials.
Use the search engine and post the actual quote. With AI you don't know what garbage has been fed in to ensure that you aren't getting garbage out.
Fair enough. I knew that and thats why I also linked a direct quote. But why all the red herrings.
I don't know. But I'm in for a cent, in for a dollar on this vase nonsense, so why not.
Yeah nothin better to do. Though I am starting to get tired of the red herrings lol.
You didn't.
Actually I did. Here it is again and it specifically relates to the vases and that Petrie agreed some sort of sophisticated lathing was involved.

Flinders Petrie
"...the lathe appears to have been as familiar an instrument in the fourth dynasty, as it is in the modern workshops."

Heres another

“The cutting of granite was done by jewelled tubular drills . . . with cutting points . of emery . .. set in the sides of the tube both inside and out . .. every mechanic who has examined the grooves on .. . a core of red granite from Gizeh agrees that nothing but a fixed point could have cut such grooves.”

How many do I have to quote before its acknowledged that Petrie agrees that some sort of sophisticated lathing or machining with a fixed point diamond cutter was used. More or less similar to modern maching.
No, they just used common milling equipment of the time and then likely added a little "aging" or "patina" as is the case with most forgeries.
But why add the precision when the precision was not valued back then. Its completely unnecessary. Would not the cost of producing such precision and access to such machines be beyond the black market dealers. It would cost more to pay to get a vase made than what it could sell for lol.
As @sjastro has repeatedly demonstrated the "precision" reported is within the capability of the kind of modern machining needed to make a piston that reciprocates dozens of times a second.
Yes so if we find that precision in a vase and it has good provedence than what are you going to say.
Nope, the standard milling equipment of 1920 would have been just fine. This is exactly the kind of precision my GGF worked at that time regularly. (And if understand correctly, one of the things he worked on is still spinning continuously.
I don't think its a simple as you claim. Such precision was around but it was not common and very expensive and time consuming compared modern tech. It would be a massive industrious project to be pumping out such precision vases like making parts for NASA at that time.

Its completely unreal for some black market fake artefact vases which were just one of 1,000s of artefacts flooding markets to be made at that time and make a profit. It would be like using NASA level tech today to make 1930s crockery.

Who cares, no one worried about whether the vases were micron precise. They could have been well out of alignment and no one would have cared or knew because they never worried about this.
The provenance that you showed last time around goes back about 100 years convieniently to the only kind of people who are allowed to keep ancient artifacts and not repatriate them because they were official gifts from the Egyptian government.
So I guess the vases from the Petrie museum are fakes then. I guess the carbon dating and the registered finds from digs are all falsified. But al least you are now acknowledging that the vases are advanced that they must be forgeries and could not have come from such an early time.

At first you were arguing that these ancients were capable of grinding and rubbing them into precision by freehand and blinding guessing with the naked eye and feeling their way to precision. Or smashing these out by some wobbly rudimentary bent stick cutter like Olga lol.
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Continued Discussion about dogs in our sleeping beds

I would like to Reopen the discussion about sleeping in our beds with dogs / cats.
I didn't know there was one.
I would like to open the discussion with Biblically based scripture passages . The book of
Leviticus. Yes it's in the Old testament, and still pertains to us today.
Not to lay with animals. Not sexually as God states it should put a person to death as well as the animal.
I don't think anyone here would dream of having sex with an animal.
Also and focusing on the literal fact of sleeping with dogs. Or other animals.
My cat sleeps on my bed - I don't sleep with my cat.
Open discussion.
What are we discussing?
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Have you understood this?

So they [will not live and reign for 1000 years with Christ] like the verse says?
Careful study of Revelation 20:4, -interlinear and many versions, shows that those martyrs who Jesus will resurrect; do not necessarily reign with Christ for the full thousand years. Proved by verse 5-6, where their second death during the Millennium is stated.
The Great White Throne Judgment is for unbelievers and determines eternal
punishment, while the Bema Seat (Judgment Seat of Christ) is for believers
who's been given The Holy Spirit, and evaluates [their use of] for rewards
This theory is not supported by scripture.
The GWT Judgment is for everyone who has ever lived. Revelation 20:12-13
The Bema seat Judgment is for the nations.
Nothing says those at the GWTJ resurrection cannot be immortal already.
Only Biblical truths and common sense.
The belief of anyone receiving immortality before the final Judgment, is error and made only to support the worse error of the rapture.
Even David lies in his grave, awaiting the GWT Judgment. Acts 13:36. As does Lazarus; John 11:24
Jesus says our rewards are with Him, When He returns with our house.
Easy to see how confused you are.
The new Jerusalem, where Gods faithful peoples will live, Rev 21:9-14, does not come until after the Millennium. Revelation 21:1
Our rewards, given when He Returns, are positions of authority and blessings in the Millennium Kingdom.
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Selfishness

Yes, we need love, clothing companionship, etc. That makes no difference to what Jesus was talking about when He said than man shall not live by bread alone. He went on to explain what He meant: "but by every word of God." (see Luke 4:4)
yes, and you need things like internet phone, clothes, what ever else needs. you need some joy as well. like hobbies.
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Selfishness

we all know that in todays society we need more than just food and roof
Yes, we need love, clothing companionship, etc. That makes no difference to what Jesus was talking about when He said than man shall not live by bread alone. He went on to explain what He meant: "but by every word of God." (see Luke 4:4)
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Multiple victims in Michigan church shooting; church on fire

Then let's crank that rhetoric back. It can only help. I suggest that we start at the top and let it filter down to the grass roots. It won't work any other way.

Craziness directed your way will be defended against yes?

It's not about the right reacting - it's normal human nature to react. It's that all reaction would end if the catalyst ends.

Keep the catalyst going and it's out of the hands of those on the right to keep the anger to a minimum and or directed more positively. At some point we can't control the reaction anymore than you can on your side. The language is that of war, and human nature is predicable. This didn't start yesterday.
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Multiple victims in Michigan church shooting; church on fire

When the environment is difficult for even perfectly sane people, those with real mental challenges are going to be breaking.
Then let's crank that rhetoric back. It can only help. I suggest that we start at the top and let it filter down to the grass roots. It won't work any other way.
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what would you do/abusive work/sign from God?

I have a different approach. Did you know there are a lot of Bible Colleges that teach the fundamental clarify of Scripture with online classes. Take one class at first, make sure it is Grounded in Systematic theology. I don't think you are ready to be on your own. The only way to become more Christ-like is through a diligent, serious study of the major doctrines of Scripture.

Do your research before committing to a college. I wouldn't base your theology on what you read in a forum. There are many godly professors at these universities. From this point forward ignore anyone who claim to have seen demons manifested (ignore your own ideas for now. Demon manifestation was a rare occurrence in the OT and NT. Don't get mixed up with the discussion of demons until you have had a couple of years in a Theology Program.

Try Liberty University, or Piedmont University, I am going to take more classes from one of these, perhaps also Regent University. I will drill the person helping me come to their University by asking many theological questions from the counselors. Since I have a Master's already, I will probably take online courses from Dallas Theological Seminary. Their costs are good. Most of these schools have donated money for scholarships. I am not rich, but I would be willing to pitch in to help you get started.

I envy you if you can get into a Christian College/Seminary and learn of our Great God and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Oh, to be more like Him!
I follow scripture only. If the bible say we are to cast out and heal so it is. If the bible talk about the existence of demons so it is. Other, I am a bible only conservative.
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Not my circus. Not my clown.

May I please present Exhibit A for the jury? This is why rationalizing with the left is futile. Break... now @eclipsenow, do you have anything sincerely positive to say about Trump before I block you forever?
First - as he is a world leader - I pray for him. (That God will limit the harm this man could do.)

Second - he certainly has a lot of stamina to do all those "Tweets" and "Truths" against all the comedians and every other injustice that has hurt his feelings that day.

Third - Have you ever read any C.S. Lewis?

This assertion of yours that I must say something positive about Trump or I'm irrational and should be ignored is itself an irrational logical error CS Lewis called a "Bulverism". It's a patronising attempt to explain WHY I am wrong - rather than show THAT my arguments against Trump's policies are wrong. Basically I think Oompa Loompa is trying (in a polite way) to say I have TDS - therefore he can ignore everything I say! From the Bulverism wiki:

You must show that a man is wrong before you start explaining why he is wrong. The modern method is to assume without discussion that he is wrong and then distract his attention from this (the only real issue) by busily explaining how he became so silly. In the course of the last fifteen years I have found this vice so common that I have had to invent a name for it. I call it "Bulverism".​
Some day I am going to write the biography of its imaginary inventor, Ezekiel Bulver, whose destiny was determined at the age of five when he heard his mother say to his father—who had been maintaining that two sides of a triangle were together greater than a third—"Oh you say that because you are a man."​
"At that moment", E. Bulver assures us, "there flashed across my opening mind the great truth that refutation is no necessary part of argument. Assume that your opponent is wrong, and explain his error, and the world will be at your feet. Attempt to prove that he is wrong or (worse still) try to find out whether he is wrong or right, and the national dynamism of our age will thrust you to the wall."​
That is how Bulver became one of the makers of the Twentieth Century.​
— C. S. Lewis, Bulverism
Oompa Loompa should admit he was tyring to brand everything I say with TDS - and psychologically taint why I am wrong - rather than prove THAT I am wrong.

He should be honest and admit this was his strategy. I've seen him use it against many here.
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Water and metabolism of humans

These forums aren't as busy as they were years ago. Probably best not to dissuade people from making new threads about whatever they want to talk about.

Indeed.

This placed used to really hop.

Yeah, and the general quality has dipped. There used to be some right corkers for threads not even five years ago.
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There’s a Giant Flaw in Human History

My use of the term clueless applies to you for blindly accepting what you think is expertise.
How is it blind when I see the same findings by 3 independent sources. Thats not blind but good science.

Here we have someone on a social forum not offering one bit of evidence in the form of a paper of article or testing themselves. As opposed to tests with proper equipement, live readouts for us to see showing the precision before our very eyes. Hum I think I will go with the experts who at least have done the work as opposed to someone whinging on social media that they know better and never providing any tests.
Speaking from experience as a scientist who worked in an engineering division
Wait a minute. These experts doing these tests have worked with NASA and associated with top industries in engineering and precision tooling. One has over 50 years experience and pioneering precision tool making procedures.

Yet you cite your credentials to bolster your clain while dismissing the testers credentials. If your going to create a fallacy of authority I think their combined experise and experience blows yours out of the water lol. Not just that we have three lots of experts all disagreeing with you. I know which expert opinion I am going with.
anyone who claims if a circularity result on Vase 18 is below the range of measurement but records it as a real result doesn’t know what they’re talking about.
No one in the field of metrology would make such a claim.
Your so picky. I think its the other way around. Anyone who disputes three independent tests from many experts doesn't know what they are talking about.

Once again lets make this simple and cut out all the red herrings. Do the signatures in the vases point to lathing or not. Lets start with a simple finding. Just lathing. Does the near perfect or pretty good symmetry and circvvularity point to the use of a lathe. What about the machine marks in the vase. Theres a close up. Do the signatures look like modern machining marks or not.
Since you brought up calliper readings so what, you still do not comprehend the issue is not about the measurements or the scanning but the calculations that follow for the geometric parameters under examination.
What are you whinging about now. More red herrings. If we see a calliper tests that shows near perfect circularily in the read outs. What about the numbers don't you understand. Numbers don't lie. If its a near perfect circle its a near perfect circle. If its near perfect perpendicular angle from flat top to neck or a near perfect flat top.

How can the numbers be changed. These are just cold hard numbers in the vases. Forget about the geometry. Lets just stick with circles, spheres, paralelles and angles. How can anyone fudge these in the vases.
For someone who rambles on about logical fallacies the burden of proof is on you show ancient Egyptians were not capable of producing vases with archaeologically attested equipment and not for anyone in this thread to show the converse.
You make the claim you prove it.
Lol I don't even have to prove the method. Others who seek to prove the method on the walls and traditionally accepted have done this for us many times and failed. They have never once produced the signatures we find in the precision vases.

That is why they do the tests because the onus is on them. Do the tests, repeat the methods and show us how the orthodox tools and methods can achieve such precision. So far its failed and the tests I linkled prove this.
Also I don’t have write a paper that needs to be peer reviewed, the errors in your sources are trivially wrong as explained, your failure to comprehend them is the issue at hand.
Ok then I will also not write a paper and say you are wrong. Your speaking on a social media platform and are wrong lol. I don't believe you. You are biased. There you go. We could go on forever back and forth with non peer claims lol.

We have several independent tests by different methods and all converging on the same findings. Thats better than your non peer claims on a social platform.
You are repeating the same rubbish over and over again.
So you think all the independent testers are wrong. None are correct. What is it you are trying to say. That these vases were not lathed.
For the umpteenth time the only reliable evidence comes from UnchartedX, using Polyworks software which clearly shows the vase is nowhere near perfect symmetry, circularity and concentricity you claim it is.
Then why do they say its on par with modern CNC machining. You actually shot down the Uncharted x tests claiming they did not use Polyworks when they did. You claim the one larger reading at the widest portion of the vase is way out when its not. Your exaggerating and making things worse than they are to undermine in any way the clear evidence.

Why is the tests done at the Petrie museum wrong. They used several methods of metrology. Tell me why they are wrong. They come to the same conclusion.

Its like your saying all these scientists are wrong except you lol. Sounds a bit biased.

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Your other two sources using their own hand written software is clearly flawed for the reasons given including they are not standard metrology software.
Not good enough. I don't believe you and I am not going to take your word for it. If you expect me to then your being inconsistent when you demand peer review support for myself. At least these testers have done the tests and explain the analysis.
If you only understood the significance of Fig 5, it’s the very reason why his handwritten code doesn’t work which I explained and will not repeat for the third time.
Ok so if one of those rings/circles represents the roundness of the vase and it proves a near perfect circle. How is this not showing that the vase at that particular layer is not a near perfect a circle. Its using the Z axis which was independently determined. Why is the other tests results the exact same. Why is their 3D light scan results the same showing near perfect symmetry and circularity.

Lastly I will keep repeating myself. Why is there actual lathe maching marks that match the precision. Why do the vase signatures look so similar to modern machined vases. Why did the modern manufacturing on one of the vases turn out mush the same and even less perfect than the predynastic vases. You keep avoiding these facts.
So now you are making the ridiculous assertion the surface roughness on the vases is indicative of lathe work?
Was the granite statue of Thutmose III in the 18th dynasty where the surface is a near mirror finish the result of lathe work as well?
Did it ever occur to you the surface finish was completed by hand?
You do like making fallacies. The image attached shows the machining lines all the way down the interior just the same as modern maching. Deal with the machining marks and stop changing the goal posts. The vase I linked that was tested shows modern machining marks. Lets deal with one thing at at time.

I don't think someone can hand polish such marks into granite. This is classic witness marks of lathe machining.

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Since vase V18 has made an appearance do you think the use of professional software would lead to the nonsensical interpretation circularity is below detection limits so therefore it must be a real value?
Stop creating red herring. Is the vase precise of not. Did it require lathe maching or not. Or did they use the wobbly bent stick method. Even if we allow your red herrings and say the precision is not as good as people make out. How good is it. Is it good enough that a lathe was needed. If theres pretty good symmetry and circularity. I mean the Unchartedx has the worst measure at I think 0.017 on an inch. Thats like the thinness of 2 or 3 pieces of paper. Other points were as precise as half a hair.

Surely even 3 or 4 paper thiness error at its worst is still upo there with pretty good lathing. Its certainly not from a wobbly bent stick or bow device. We already see the signatures from this and they are far less precise. So what level of tech are you willing to concede was needed to produce these vases.
You were asked to provide evidence of your claim UnchartedX, Unsigned.io and Maximus.energy give similar results.
Your excuse that it’s not up to you is an admission to lying and then to stupidly give the very reason why you had lie and trying to pin it on me says a lot.
No I have already linked all these sources. My job is done. They claim the vases are on par with modern machined vases. Thats three if not 4 or 5 independnet testers. My work is done. You have a lot of papers to write to refute these findings. I don't want to hear about complains on a social platform.

Let me know what you have sent it in so I can see how the testers show how wrong you are. Others if you are right then good on you. I will then take seriously your objections.
Your ignorance is truly profound. You are not aware that doing simple gauge metrology, scanning or a CMM is providing the raw data.
It tells you nothing of the resulting geometry under investigation; this is accomplished by software such as Polyworks.
Thats rediculous. So we can look at a live test with guage devices and see the readouts showing say near perfect thickness of the vase walls all round and we cannot make conclusions until the software.

If the dial indicators show the readout all around the rim for example near perfect then we can know right away its near perfect. I think you are trying to complicate things so as to confuse the clear evidence.

The guage will rise up and down according to the imperfections. You can run the dial indicator over a single hair on the bench and it will register a couple of thousands of an inch. You run it around the vase and you can see the precision as the indicator remains within the 2 or 3 thousands of an inch. .

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It illustrates yet again you don’t know what you are talking about, the issue is about the software, in particular when it is not professional software as used by Unsigned.io and Maximus.energy.
Once again unsigned did not do any testing which shows you are completely ignorant of what they even did. The tests from Maximum match that of Unchartedx and the other independent sources which used different methods. How can Maximus be wrong whenb their findings match the other independent findings.
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Another look at the moon landing.

Well firstly, how can you understand things like "wave impact" when you say that you "can't get your head around" science and have previously asked the most ridiculous questions, like "is Australia upside down on a globe earth?"

Well it is on globe ^_^
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Multiple victims in Michigan church shooting; church on fire

This just doesn't seem like a politically based killing. There just isnt the political rhetoric surrounding the Mormons.

So I certainly wonder what was going on.


Seems this Mormom shooter was nuts in some respect. He reportedly had been living with the deceased body of his family member for a week prior to the attack, if what I read was accurate. That alone tells you this guy was gone mentally.

The only thing that makes me wonder if there's a connection is this guy reportedly had no connection to the religious community in question, had to drive to even get there.

Plus Charlie Kirk's assassin came out of a Mormom home, though he wasn't following in his parents more conservative footsteps.

It's the above that makes you wonder and think it could still be due to political nonsense and all the rhetoric. I don't think those struggling with mental illness can handle the language. We have been saying that for a long long time - years now

However, police seem to indicate the deceased family member might provide more insight into motivation, so it could be something else entirely as we learn more.

But I can't help but think it's still more about the those mentally struggling in this environment of verbal diarrhea. Going and shooting up the the worship hall of any group was unheard of 20 years ago, now it's not as shocking, they aren't the first lately - the environment has changed that much.

When the environment is difficult for even perfectly sane people, those with real mental challenges are going to be breaking at some point.

The language in and of itself is a stress. We can daily watch some prominent democrati call us all Nazis and fascists even after Charlie's death, they didn't ratchet down. The are still claiming ICE is the "gestapo" etc. It's not normal or sane in the first place, and it's not taking us to positive places no matter what way you slice it.
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Another look at the moon landing.

My point is that you may truly believe in this now - but then, only a year/several months ago, you didn't.
THEN, that "true belief" was challenged - to the point where you asked God to help you to stick with it.
NOW, you've said 'sorry' to God for having said 'sorry' and asked for his help and have reverted to trashing the reputations of his children.

I Know but it really in the end went against my true beliefs.
Once a flat earther always a flat earther.

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BTW Happy Birthday :)
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Selfishness

I would say it depends on if they do it all the time, I mean, reasonable things like some entertainment(healthy one) and some other things that are not JUST food and roof, we do need to some extent. tatoos no
What I meant was that Jesus was not talking about those "optional extras", like entertainment, sport, etc., when He said that man shall not live by bread alone.
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Another look at the moon landing.

I was forgetting the motion of the wave impact as mentioned by @d taylor , he is absolutely right.
Well firstly, how can you understand things like "wave impact" when you say that you "can't get your head around" science and have previously asked the most ridiculous questions, like "is Australia upside down on a globe earth?"
I seem to remember this has happened before - months and months of ridiculous comments, pointless questions and mocking emojis and then you come up with something so profound that people think you have copied it out of a science textbook.
Secondly, why did you mark his post as "informative", instead of agreeing with it?
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