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2022-05-12 at 3:40 AM UTC"In much wisdom is much grief, and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow." - King SolomonThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2022-05-12 at 4:41 AM UTC
Originally posted by ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ “Then if anyone says to you, ‘Look! Here is the Christ,’ or, ‘There!’ do not believe it. For false Christs and false prophets will arise and will perform great signs and wonders so as to mislead, if possible, even the chosen ones. Look! I have forewarned you. Therefore, if people say to you, ‘Look! He is in the wilderness,’ do not go out; ‘Look! He is in the inner rooms,’ do not believe it. For just as the lightning comes out of the east and shines over to the west, so the presence of the Son of man will be. Wherever the carcass is, there the eagles will be gathered together." - Matthew 24
That's a nice passage but i did not equate anyone with Christ. Falsely or otherwise. If you follow the teachings of Jesus, and there is a person in history or in your life that does the same and is more knowledgeable in said teachings, deferring to what they say on certain matters in order to enhance your personal understanding. Doesn't make the wise man a prophet falsely or otherwise and it does not make him Christ either. Which should be pretty obvious.
Originally posted by Lodger Free Sorry. the ruler was emperor Tiberius however it was Ponches Pilate who Jesus copped an attitude with.
I veered off into theologians. August of Hippo is considered to be one of the earlier Christian theologians. He was from the time around the conversion of Rome. -
2022-05-12 at 10:08 AM UTCHere's something i learned recently. You know when Jesus is crucified at some point He's real thirsty and a Roman soldier or Guard or whatever takes like a sponge with vinegar and lets Jesus drink from that? I always took it as the Roman being cruel. But vinegar got lost in translation somewhere, and it is highly likely that the soldier gave Jesus posca instead. Which is a drink made of water, crappy wine, and vinegar. It's an actual drink the common people and the soldiers drank. And if that is the case then the Roman in question was performing an act of mercy and not malice.
I also learned about Christograms recently. They're like a monogram and an acronym combined, which says something about Christ. For instance if you've ever been to a church or seen the combination of these letters somewhere "IHS" that's a Christogram. This one stands for: Iesus Hominum Salvator. Which is Latin for: Jesus Savior of Man. -
2022-05-12 at 10:11 AM UTCThe IHS Christogram sometimes has the I in the middle and taller with a stripe going through to resemble a Cross.
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2022-05-12 at 11:27 AM UTCJesus never died on a cross. He died on a stake. Romans didn't use crosses, always a stake.
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2022-05-12 at 12:50 PM UTC
Originally posted by ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Jesus never died on a cross. He died on a stake. Romans didn't use crosses, always a stake.
I remember as a small child of 6 or 7 my older brother told me the cross from the crucifixion still existed and they held it behind the Iron Curtain...I didn't know what the Iron Curtain was at that time and imagined a literal iron curtain with a cross behind it.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2022-05-12 at 1:38 PM UTC
Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson I remember as a small child of 6 or 7 my older brother told me the cross from the crucifixion still existed and they held it behind the Iron Curtain…I didn't know what the Iron Curtain was at that time and imagined a literal iron curtain with a cross behind it.
Those God damned reds! That relic is called The True Cross. -
2022-05-12 at 1:52 PM UTC
Originally posted by ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Jesus never died on a cross. He died on a stake. Romans didn't use crosses, always a stake.
Romans used a variety of shapes and sizes the point was to hang a person until the person would die. You could extend or shorten the time it took for death to occur by A) the shape of the cross B) the method of preparing the victim. For instance some had beams that made a little ledge you could barely stand on which had the effect of prolonging your life and your suffering.
The Cross the Russian Orthodox Church uses has it as it's symbol. There is the original cross in there, a little beam above that to represent where the sign "INRI" would be. And a crooked beam at the bottom. -
2022-05-12 at 3:08 PM UTC
Originally posted by aldra I sometimes wonder what the actual effects of constant background radiation from things like cellular towers and satellite links are on a person's mind, but there's nowhere on the planet you could go to be totally free from them
the only way to have a control phase would be to lock yourself in a lead coffin for a while
there are places around radio telescopes that are radiowave free because they could interfere with the radio signal from space. -
2022-05-12 at 3:09 PM UTC
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2022-05-12 at 3:10 PM UTC
Originally posted by vindicktive vinny there are places around radio telescopes that are radiowave free because they could interfere with the radio signal from space.
False.
You can have low radio wave activity but you can't have zero..not possible even before the invention of the radio.
Natural sources of radio waves include radio noise produced by lightning and other natural processes in the Earth's atmosphere, and astronomical radio sources in space such as the Sun, galaxies and nebulas. All warm objects radiate high frequency radio waves (microwaves) as part of their black body radiation. -
2022-05-12 at 3:17 PM UTC
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2022-05-12 at 3:32 PM UTCThe word stauros comes from the verb ἵστημι (histēmi: "straighten up", "stand"), which in turn comes from the Proto-Indo-European root *steh2-u- "pole".
see: R. S. P. Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek, Brill, 2009, p. 601. -
2022-05-12 at 3:36 PM UTC
Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson False.
You can have low radio wave activity but you can't have zero..not possible even before the invention of the radio.
Natural sources of radio waves include radio noise produced by lightning and other natural processes in the Earth's atmosphere, and astronomical radio sources in space such as the Sun, galaxies and nebulas. All warm objects radiate high frequency radio waves (microwaves) as part of their black body radiation.
natural radio waves are natural and dont count. -
2022-05-12 at 3:36 PM UTC
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2022-05-12 at 3:37 PM UTC
Originally posted by aldra I sometimes wonder what the actual effects of constant background radiation from things like cellular towers and satellite links are on a person's mind, but there's nowhere on the planet you could go to be totally free from them
the only way to have a control phase would be to lock yourself in a lead coffin for a while
Your brain doesn't have the hardware to respond to the structured information manmade sources of radio waves. If there is any energetic transfer at all, it would be roughly thermal. So it might heat up your noggin by some fraction of a percentage of a degree or something. -
2022-05-12 at 3:44 PM UTC
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2022-05-12 at 3:47 PM UTC
Originally posted by ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ The word stauros comes from the verb ἵστημι (histēmi: "straighten up", "stand"), which in turn comes from the Proto-Indo-European root *steh2-u- "pole".
see: R. S. P. Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek, Brill, 2009, p. 601.
Excellent. However Greek was the language of the people who considered themselves sophisticated back in Roman times. When Julius Caesar was murdered by a conspiracy of senators, he didn't actually say Et tu, Brute? That was Shakespeare taking creative license. Caesar said in Greek something to the effect of: You too my son? Since Brutus was the son of his long time love interest.
Julius Caesar was hot shit and he knew it, so of course he spoke Greek to other high status people of Rome. There is to this day a mutual respect between Italy and Greece and it's encapsulated in the italian phrase: Una faccia, una razza. It means: One face, one race.
Backwards ass provinces like Judea, spoke their native dialects, and if we presume the apostles wrote The Gospel originally. It wouldn't have been in Greek. So your ethno-linguistical argument doesn't hold up upon further scrutiny. -
2022-05-12 at 3:48 PM UTC
Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson Fucking lol as me old fucking lol tutor used to say. Radio telescopes look for NATURAL radio waves
intelligence is the ability to double down when mistaken or just plain wrong an unless and until machines have this ability, there can not, will not be any real Artificial Intelligence. -
2022-05-12 at 4:03 PM UTC
Originally posted by vindicktive vinny intelligence is the ability to double down when mistaken or just plain wrong an unless and until machines have this ability, there can not, will not be any real Artificial Intelligence.
Non sequitur...if you are looking at a radio source in space you don't want localized natural radio sources interfering with it...
