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stevevw · Saturday at 2:03 AM

Tuur said:
Finally watched the video. It's not a earth shattering as it claims. All of my life I've been taught that Neanderthals weren't the brutes initially assumed. I've yet to try it, but would like to make a throwing stick (not a spear) similar to what H. heidelbergenis might have used. Like all throwing sticks, they were airfoils made to travel far and level. The video seems like arguing against a theory that has been on the ropes for about 60 years.

I think it misses it in insisting on permanent settlements. If there was enough food, a settlement could be permanent. The whole point of a nomadic life was that different food is available in different places at different times, and they move to go with it. That holds if the food is a herd of some sort. Food goes yonder; you follow it. Structures are just as easily tents as buildings, and some sort of organization makes camp life more efficient and pleasant. And being nomadic doesn't necessarily mean being on constant move. Go here when the salmon are running; go there when there's bison about. Should be about time for the berries to be ripe over yonder. That sort of thing. And if you've preserved food in some way, have enough to settle down for winger. Iif you come back to the same campsite year after year, then it makes sense to have something waiting when you return.

What you are describing or rather the basis and assumption that this is being based on is itself the point of the video. This is still trying to conform human history to the evolutionary story. That it was all about survival.

When it seems the evidence points to a much more complex history and often dictated by religious belief rather than survival. The great megaliths are not about shelter or fortresses for defense but monuments to the gods.

Everything was about the gods and this began very early. Much ealier than thought.

The narrative was that we are much smarter today because we have evolved from the primitive ways. But the idea of primitive and knowledge is dictated by todays worldview. It may be that these ancient peoples were just as smart if not smarter and we have become dumber in some ways.

Its just that what we consider being smart or knowledgable today is based on westernised ideas that make other ways of knowing primitive or superstition. Its a western centric view of knowledge.

Strong in Him · Saturday at 2:02 AM

Apple Sky said:
I agree

Good.
So your statement

Apple Sky said:
There's three things here that God didn't create, the solar system, the planets & the Galaxies

is untrue. There is nothing that wasn't created by God.

Apple Sky said:
so this must include the firmament or better known as the raqia.

Hardly anyone knows the Hebrew word "raqia" - the firmament, or expanse, is better known as the sky, Genesis 1:8.

Apple Sky said:
The term "raqia" (or "raqiya") is the original Hebrew word for "firmament," which refers to the "expanse" or "solid surface" of the sky in biblical cosmology, as described in Genesis.

Genesis does not say that the firmament is solid.

Apple Sky said:
If this is true then how the heck do these rockets get through.

a) it's not true.
b) the quote says "Biblical cosmology" - that means what people in Bible times believed about the universe, planets, stars and so on. As people didn't have any of the technology that we have today and had not explored/studied the universe they had no idea about the kind of things that we know now. It's the same in the NT. Jesus told the disciples to preach the Gospel; he didn't say "get on a plane", translate the Bible into Swahili, or get a computer and learn about digital evangelism". The Apostles had no idea these things would be possible.
c) you're wondering how a rocket, made from metal and travelling at a high speed can break through a solid firmament that isn't there?
If there was a solid thing up in the sky called a firmament, what is it supposed to be made of? Glass? Crystal? You don't think a rocket would be able to smash through that?

Apple Sky said:
King James Bible
And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the living creature was as the colour of the terrible crystal, stretched forth over their heads above. Ezekiel 1:22

So?
That talks about the colour of "the likeness of the firmament" - it does not say "the firmament is made of crystal."

Apple Sky · Saturday at 1:55 AM

David Lamb said:
But as you yourself have just written, the Hebrew word translated "firmament" can mean "expanse" OR "solid surface." So it doesn't have to mean that the firmament is a solid dome

Look up the word ' Raqia ';

The Hebrew word raqia (רקיע), often translated as "firmament," refers to a solid, dome-like structure created by God on the second day of creation, separating the waters above from the waters below. It is described as a space that is stretched out and hammered into firmness.

HARK! · Saturday at 1:54 AM

RocksInMyHead said:
Neither of these things (if they're even true) has anything to do with the fact that he was summoned for his supposed "final citizenship interview" and instead arrested. I don't really care whether you think he should have been arrested or whether he deserved to be a citizen or even to be in the US - all of those are irrelevant to the point being made, which is that US immigration services are taking advantage of people who are following the laws and complying with our existing immigration system by summoning them for interviews or immigration court hearings and instead arresting them.

I don't view it as taking advantage of people. I view it as justice being served.

The Liturgist · Saturday at 1:47 AM

Xeno.of.athens said:
I think of AI as a better search algorithm with a remarkable to "understand" English syntax and sentences. For me it is useful for gathering facts (many need to be verified) for use in theological discussions.

Also the more modern versions are capable of reasoning, and conducting multiple steps to solve a problem. But yes, atits core, LLMs are like the UNIX command line tools for pattern recognition, that use regular expressions, such as grep and sed, albeit more powerful and programmable using human language, and capable of being used among other things to out Google Google. But when chatGPT 3 was first released it did not even have external web access.

Apple Sky · Saturday at 1:46 AM

Songs_Of_Solomon said:
If you guys could please pray for me and for these demons to be cast out of me because i believe its whats causing me to hear people who arent there

I pray that the Lord be your shield against Satan's fiery darts.

Always in His Presence · Saturday at 1:44 AM

essentialsaltes said:
Write your legislator.

What do you think of the idea?

David Lamb · Saturday at 1:43 AM

Apple Sky said:
I agree so this must include the firmament or better known as the raqia.

The term "raqia" (or "raqiya") is the original Hebrew word for "firmament," which refers to the "expanse" or "solid surface" of the sky in biblical cosmology, as described in Genesis. This concept represented a solid dome separating the waters above and below.

If this is true then how the heck do these rockets get through.

King James Bible
And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the living creature was as the colour of the terrible crystal, stretched forth over their heads above. Ezekiel 1:22

But as you yourself have just written, the Hebrew word translated "firmament" can mean "expanse" OR "solid surface." So it doesn't have to mean that the firmament is a solid dome. Besides, as I have mentioned to you before, why should rockets need to go through the firmament to reach the moon (for example)? The moon is not "the far side of the firmament", but "in the firmament", so why the need to go through it to reach the moon? Further, as I have mentioned before, the verse you quote tells us about the colour of the firmament, not whether it is solid or not: "the firmament upon the heads of the living creature was as the colour of the terrible crystal "

RileyG · Saturday at 1:43 AM

NxNW said:
You're saying doctors are nazis?

No. I think he is comparing the abortion # of deaths to the holocaust.

tturt · Saturday at 1:42 AM

Continuing to pray for all those who serve.

RileyG · Saturday at 1:42 AM

essentialsaltes said:
Dozens of OB-GYNs fled Idaho after its abortion ban. Medicaid cuts could make access to care even worse.
The state has lost over a third of its OB-GYNs -- 94 of 268 -- since the ban was enacted in 2022, according to a new study in medical journal JAMA Network Open.

[A year ago, they had 'only' lost 22% of them.]

After Bonner General closed its obstetric services, Kootenai Health, located an hour south, inherited its patients, which included residents across the northern tip of the state. Some women now have to drive two to three hours to get prenatal care or to deliver at Kootenai, according to one of its OB-GYNs, Dr. Brenna McCrummen.

"There have been patients that have delivered on the side of the road because they're not able to get to the hospital in time. There have been babies that have gone to the NICU who didn't do as well as they probably would have had they not had to travel long distances," she told ABC News.

More than 350,000 of the state's residents are insured by Medicaid, including those covered by the expansion plan voters approved through a ballot measure in 2018.

Under the federal changes, the state could lose $3 billion in funding over the next decade and 37,000 residents could lose coverage, according to analysis by KFF.

In Idaho, Medicaid covers around a third of births, according to data from March of Dimes.

"The worry is that as these changes are happening in the Medicaid space, it's going to be harder, particularly for rural hospitals, to maintain those obstetric services, and if they discontinue those, we've got more maternity care deserts, and we've got a greater risk of both moms and babies having worse outcomes," Warren said.

"If patients don't have access to insurance and they don't have access to Medicaid, sometimes they delay prenatal care, we don't catch complications early enough, and it puts the baby and the mother's lives at risk," Klingler, who works in a small mountain town in central Idaho, told ABC News.

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Meanwhile, Idaho has also turned a blind eye to maternal mortality rates.

Ban this draconian practice everywhere! Protect women, the unborn, and the most vulnerable!

Do the right thing!

RileyG · Saturday at 1:41 AM

CRAZY_CAT_WOMAN said:
I thought Trump supporters made up the word woke.

No. I see some liberal friends of mine who wear that word with pride.

If I understand correctly, it originally came from the African American Community that is now used in politics.

Someone can correct me if I'm wrong.

RileyG · Saturday at 1:40 AM

durangodawood said:
Seriously tho author is probably right. Americans are vibe oriented and distracted by the superficial. We need to work with that.

Indeed!

RileyG · Saturday at 1:39 AM

DaisyDay said:
Why? The Democrats I know are normal people as are the Republicans, while the MAGAs....

This seems to be a lesson in code switching for lefties.

I agree most (moderate) Republican and Democratic folks are simple, regular folk.

I wouldn't compare them to MAGAs....

If I am understanding you, correctly....???

RileyG · Saturday at 1:37 AM

Larniavc said:
I had no idea who he was.

Grateful_Dead

Apple Sky · Saturday at 1:37 AM

Strong in Him said:
John 1:3 says that God created everything - everything that exists was created by God.

I agree so this must include the firmament or better known as the raqia.

The term "raqia" (or "raqiya") is the original Hebrew word for "firmament," which refers to the "expanse" or "solid surface" of the sky in biblical cosmology, as described in Genesis. This concept represented a solid dome separating the waters above and below.

If this is true then how the heck do these rockets get through.

King James Bible
And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the living creature was as the colour of the terrible crystal, stretched forth over their heads above. Ezekiel 1:22

stevevw · Saturday at 1:37 AM

sjastro said:
Khufu's name or Cartouche was found in the uppermost load relieving chamber above the roof of the King's Chamber by Howard Vyse in 1837. These chambers are inaccessible and the Cartouche must have been added by the builders.
Howard must have been one clever dude to add Khufu's name given in 1837 Khufu was unknown to Egyptologists as the statuette bearing his name was discovered in 1903!!!

Actually Khufu is attributed as the builder by Josephus I think. It was already spectulated that Khufu was the pharoah of the Giza pyramid. There was skepticism as this was discovered on the last day of his dig.

But the skepticism was not just about the signature. There were a number of reasons. One being Egyptian pharoahs were known to attach their names to works they did not build or had added to which already existed. Ramses II was notorious for doing this.

But also the Egyptiansd own stories and Kings list which suggest that the history goes back some 30,000 years. But because mainstream treat this as myth they have to attribute everything to the old Kingdom pharoahs. Who may have just inherited some of these great works.

RileyG · Saturday at 1:36 AM

Chrystal-J said:
My take away from Trump's statement was that we should focus on the positive history of the U.S., not that slavery wasn't bad.

Bingo!

RileyG · Saturday at 1:35 AM

Hail, Holy Queen, Mother of Mercy,
our life, our sweetness and our hope.
To thee do we cry,
poor banished children of Eve.
To thee do we send up our sighs,
mourning and weeping in this valley of tears.
Turn then, most gracious advocate,
thine eyes of mercy toward us,
and after this our exile
show unto us the blessed fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
O clement, O loving,
O sweet Virgin Mary.

RileyG · Saturday at 1:34 AM

sigh! God's will be done! There's nothing offensive about Sacred Scripture! People just need to be better informed! ugh

RileyG · Saturday at 1:33 AM

Hmmm...this honesty makes me uncomfortable, since AI just repeats what it learns from its human developers. Can technology ever be truly "smart"?

RileyG · Saturday at 1:32 AM

God designed it. Of course, natural law makes sense!

RileyG · Saturday at 1:31 AM

***random thought***

It's my understanding, most dead remains will eventually decompose, turn to dust, and nothing will be left.

Those who turned to fossils are an anomaly.

Is that true?

Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

RileyG · Saturday at 1:30 AM

Thanks for sharing!

RileyG · Saturday at 1:30 AM

Haven't read much of him, but would love to learn more about him! :prayer:

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