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How important for Christianity is the belief that Jesus is going to return to Earth? I mean, if Jesus never returns, does that mean Christianity is not the true religion? How about we borrow an idea from Buddhism and simply assume that all of the world's religions are nothing more than temporary &q...

Warmongers succeed in sucking more countries into the conflict. We condemn in the strongest terms recent attacks by Iran on unarmed commercial vessels in the Gulf, attacks on civilian infrastructure including oil and gas installations, and the de facto closure of the Strait of Hormuz by Iranian for...

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I just saw an ad at the top of the page that said the following...

"Professional Junk Removal"

Hmm, sounds pricey, but it might just be the type of moderator Rick needs for this forum?

(Oh wait, there goes 95% of my posts. --> Never mind. )
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That's a problem with ads ... only a tiny percentage of them are for something that a person needs. Even with algorithms that target mined preferences. Yes, I can see that they are monitoring me. But they tell me things I know at best. And I still get car ads. I need a car as much as I need a kanga...

However, I'd suggest that what we see as a table looks exctly the way it does because of the underlying structure revealed by physics. Yes! And what quantum physics is revealing is that that table... (or our brain, or the planet, or the stars, etc.) ...are underpinned by fields of what seem to be c...

_______ Not all thoughts affect the physical. That which is "physical" is itself nothing more than a thought in the mind of the higher (incorporeal) consciousness to whom the thought belongs. It only appears as being "physical" to a lower (corporeal) consciousness who does not y...

You could be a Cartesian dualist, and say that there is a non-physical mind as well as a physical body. What does the word "physical" actually mean when, according to quantum science, at the deepest level of reality, un-observed matter... (with "matter" being that which is "...

If this is going to fall into an ad hominem fallacy, then you dolt. Oh, but calling it a "conflict" instead of "war" is just brilliant. Maybe the Russians and Iranians can just say they're in a "conflict" with Ukraine and the US? So who's justified and who isn't? The U...

_______ Ah yes, more "necrotizing karma" headed towards America to hasten its collapse. According to Google's AI Assistant... According to Iranian state media and local officials, the death toll from the strike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls' elementary school in Minab on February 28, 2026...

I think if you have a specific picture you want to post, you could tell me by PM, I could turn on the image posting function for (say) a day and then turn it off again. Your picture would remain visible even after the function was again switched off. Hi Rick,... ...if it's okay with you,... (and as...

He better be careful, FIFA might take that peace prize away. That's okay, he'll still have the Nobel Peace Prize gifted to him by the Venezuelan opposition leader - María Corina Machado - shortly after Trump bombed her country and kidnapped its president. Plus, I'm sure that the newly established &...

The lesser of two evils is not going to cut it anymore. After the Trump debacle, we need someone who believes in universality, will stop the wars and fund effective social programs for all. Is there no one anywhere....who can accomplish those things together? Well, according to Google's AI Overview...

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Neil Sedaka died today.

Breaking up (with our musical legends via death) is hard to do.

https://youtu.be/_fKEkMd2OwY

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Hi folks So, as you have discovered, the Philosophy Now Forum is back online. Welcome back! We had to take it down in early December because waves of bots were not only bringing the forum to a halt,... At the bottom of the main page of the forum there is this... Registered users: Baidu [Spider], Go...

The above also helps explain, I hope, the basics of how the AI composer of your track is throwing the kitchen sink into the mix in a different way each time the song cycles. Not something that any human composer who can conceive of an entire song would do. That aspect is made somewhat more obvious ...