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  1. Jipsah

    How can God be ok with most people going to hell?

    If hell is eternal, and its inhabitants are punished eternally, then they have eternal life, don't they?
  2. Jipsah

    How can God be ok with most people going to hell?

    Then why did He create hell, and make it the default destinatination of most of humanity? But He's fine with forcing them to be tormented forever. Gotcha.
  3. Jipsah

    How can God be ok with most people going to hell?

    That's Good Eternal Life versus Bad Eternal lIfe, isn't it?
  4. Jipsah

    How can God be ok with most people going to hell?

    Dang, and all this time I was given to understand that God is omnipotent. So much for that notion, huh? Gotta work in some nuclear wars, but that's sounding very 20th century nowadays, innit? Well there ya are! And the survivors all lived happily ever after.
  5. Jipsah

    How can God be ok with most people going to hell?

    Sorry, that won't do. If the universe is designed so that the default destination for all human beings is eternal torment, then in fact He is sending them there by design. This is the old fallback to "poor God, there's just nothing He can do". That's rubbish. He God, for crying out loud! He...
  6. Jipsah

    Connect the dots...

    You maybe liked Biden better?
  7. Jipsah

    Can AI understand, know between, or choose between good and evil?

    That was way before her time. She started there right out of engineering school, six years ago. She initially worked on the FA-18 before they shipped all that stuff back to St. Louis. They shifted her to FLRAA (aka Defiant, aka "Flora"), and when they lost that, she went to a different project...
  8. Jipsah

    Can AI understand, know between, or choose between good and evil?

    Then I misunderstood my "mole", which isn't unlikely. She and I can speak the same language when it comes to computers, but her knowledge of flying things is, quite properly, light years beyond mine. (She's my youngest daughter, BTW.) That's the sort of thing I have to take on faith <Laff>
  9. Jipsah

    Can AI understand, know between, or choose between good and evil?

    Multiple software bugs. My "mole" in Boeing (yes, I have one) has verified that. That, and the failure of a critical component, the angle of attack sensor, that should have absolutely been redundant but was not. Pennywise and gigabuck foolish, not to mention the cost in human lives and loss of...
  10. Jipsah

    Can AI understand, know between, or choose between good and evil?

    HAL was doing what he was programmed to do. end of. Any sufficiently complex piece of software is buggy, it's just a matter of how many and what kind of problems they cause. HAL's bugs were particularly nasty. If you're working in an evironment where a software bug has a very real potential...
  11. Jipsah

    Can AI understand, know between, or choose between good and evil?

    Or anything else, for that matter.
  12. Jipsah

    Is it okay to mock?

    Ridiculous ideas ought to be mocked. People themselves? No, we're all messed up a goodly percent of the time.
  13. Jipsah

    The Folly of Red Letter "Christianity"

    Yeah, but being able to track one's merits and demerits allows one to know with almost mathematical certainly. Not a lot of introspection required, you've kept X laws and you've broken Y others, like entries in a ledger. Or actual entries in an actual ledger if it suits you better. You ate the...
  14. Jipsah

    A Christian looks at Buddhism

    "Chesterton quips that there are people “who are always insisting that Christianity and Buddhism are very much alike, especially Buddhism.” "
  15. Jipsah

    How should Christians punish witchcraft?

    OK, so how'd they identify a witch, or determine that something a crime had been committed via witchcraft? "She turned me into a newt"?
  16. Jipsah

    Children of light...

    Well, drop us a line now and then and tell us how you're faring.