@KellyJay

We are all creatures who live by faith, and no matter how you view the world and its history that will not change.

Yeah, we get it: you think science is just an alternative belief system which has a god-shaped hole in it. You don't understand how science works, although this has been explained to you numerous times, with the patience of saints.

Scientific truths are all in principle revisable, given evidence to which we may someday have access. This means that a hypothesis, in order to be scientific, must be falsifiable (under some conceivable testable or experimental conditions).

That God (any god, yours or some other) created the universe, or anything in it, is not a falsifiable hypothesis. There is no test or experiment which could establish this or its contrary.

For example, in order to establish that God (some god or other) was necessary to get life started, we would have to have access to a statistically significant sample of alternate universes, 1,000 of them let us say, half of which had been created by a god (some god or other) and half not, wait until each universe collapsed back into a Big Crunch or dissipated into cold dark nothingness, and then see whether a) life occurred spontaneously through mindless processes in any universe not created by a god, or b) life existed only in those which had been created by a god. That is how science works.

What you claim to be evidence for the existence of a creator God is not evidence in any sense relevant to science. What you offer is speculative, but not testable. It evidently seems compelling to you, but it isn't falsifiable, and therefore not scientific.

@divegeester said
Man kills himself by setting himself on fire outside of Trump trial … and throws conspiracy leaflets into the air while doing it.

One less Trump supporting loon I suppose.

Any of you guys here thinking of dying for your Fat Orange Jesus?

https://news.sky.com/story/man-who-set-himself-on-fire-outside-trump-trial-has-died-13119017

This is what it takes to steal the limelight, if only for a few seconds, from the acknowledged master of mendacity.

@rookie54 said
a man reveals a bottle of liquid flame
and cackles in a language nought yet heard by human ears
as he brandishes the ignition source the anticipation of the crowd grows

as one entity, they train their video cameras upon the spectacle
one spoilsport calls for help

This is what it takes to steal the limelight, if only for a few seconds, from the acknowledged master of mendacity.

@mott-the-hoople said
cant wait till they produce the victim of this horrible crime 😂

The 'victims' are all the corporations which did not falsify their records and were thereby unfairly disadvantaged by the cheater.

That is why a chess player who cheats with an engine is barred from an entire tournament, instead of having merely his one cheated-game result annulled.

The 'victim' is the integrity of the system.

@no1marauder said
Opening statements Monday. Jury selection went pretty smoothly considering the notoriety of the case.

It's less the case that's "notorious" (falsifying business records isn't all that uncommon), it's more the defendant. It's hard for Trump to accept that, as far as the court is concerned, he's not a former president and not the presumptive front runner for the presidency either -- he's John Doe, just plain John Doe.

Am I correct that this being a criminal case and not a civil one, the rules of evidence are tighter (i.e., tougher to get a conviction)?

May cool and level heads prevail.

@no1marauder

Thanks. I await with baited breath further updates in the case.

Why is there always so much month left at the end of the money ?

@cliff-mashburn said
Isn't Harris as VP pretty much set in stone? Her being potus is frightening.

Mike Pence would have been preferable. At least he understands how the rule of law works. But I guess he won't be Trump's pick next time through the wringer.

@mchill said
I was under the impression that logic is logic, no matter the source.

With all due respect, I'm not impressed with your impression. Human logic has its limitations, just as all humans do. God is limitless, using human logic to try to explain or understand God and/or his inspired word is futile.

Of course logic has limitations; I don't pretend that logic explains everything in the universe and I don't know of any serious philosopher who ever maintained that it does (not even Logical Positivists such as Alfred Ayer). But it's a cop-out to run under the skirts of 'God did it' every time we bump into something we can't explain logically.

"God is the only or the prime reality, from which all reality flows" isn't an explanation of anything; it's a statement of allegiance. It says something about the speaker (KJ in this instance) and nothing about reality.

@vespin said
We are down to 3 full pages of clans. I believe that is around 50 to 60 clans, actually less if we don't count one player clans. We use to have 120 to 180 clans I believe.
Leaders are not playing matches, and not just with my team or Metallica, they are just sitting silent and if they do play, they argue over a 2 player vs a 3 player match as if that would have any impact a ...[text shortened]... nd clans. It's really a shame.

All my best to everyone regardless of the situation.

Michael

People have come to recognise that there is not a level playing field and that certain 'tactics' skew the results. Change the framework to establish a level playing field, stop employing said 'tactics', and that might attract people back to the clan system.

@pettytalk said
A real expert on reality made the following affirmation.

"The real world, was created by the real Jesus, who is the real Word of God, who entered into the real world He created, as the real incarnate Word of God made fully human."

This is the sort of edifying-seeming word salad which results when religion devolves into religiosity, which is fairly widespread in Protestant circles. Everyone is his own biblical authority, no need to go to a seminary or study any theology, history, or classical languages.

Nothing to see here, folks, move along now.

@wildgrass said
No taxes though.

Also no public services or safety. I know, I've been there. The infrastructure is worse than in Europe during the black death -- no sanitation, the water that comes out of the taps is poisonous, garbage litters the streets, cadavers are left to rot by the roadside ...

@spruce112358 said
Libertarians are dancing in the streets. FINALLY, a place they can go with NO government!

“A portrait of Haitians trying to survive without a government”

https://www.npr.org/2024/04/18/1245048299/haiti-haitians-cap-haitien

Life in the state of nature is "poor, nasty, brutish, and short," said Thomas Hobbs. We see in Haiti a real-life case of what happens when a state is first corrupted by dictators and then fails altogether. So sad.

@sonhouse

Trying to curry favour with The Donald is like dancing on a volcano.

Just ask Rudy Giuliani or Mike Pence or Bill Barr ...

@cliff-mashburn said
Yet he's guilty of the worst kind of incompetence and dishonesty, constantly lying to the public while millions cross our border, in order to cover for Biden..

Incompetence?? Not telling the truth?? If they’d confirmed the impeachment, it would have set the bar so low that no congressman’s seat would’ve been secure.