Let’s start the new order End the age, apocalyptically Breathe life into clay And dig your own grave To conjure a formidable enemy A bloodless revolution To win without war, is our mission With loving weapons, of feather hammers and nails Tickle them into submission No need to preach Bully, ... Read more
While we may disagree about which laws should be enacted, we all have a set of laws we would want to see the government pursue and enforce. If any of us were given the chance to be President, we would inevitably have some set of behaviors we would prefer and a set of laws and policies we would attempt to advance. The fact we are upset that God would also have similar desires is ultimately a bit ironic.
Is God A Celestial Dictator? | Cold Case Christianity
Had to Google that but found a great video – so true. the idea is to use your brains for good not evil – even if disguised as “defence”. Highly recommend this clip about those who saw it first, likely influencing Einstein and those involved with the bomb.
I say we can know lots of things, and we can know them in lots of different ways – just ask people and most of them know how they know what they know. Even if philosophers say they don’t really know.
Agreed, and there’s no real reason to rely on certainties – quantum fluctuations happen, shit happens, so what if its certain or nearly certain, you’re still gonna end up not knowing anything at all in the end.
Foundationalism: Can We Know Anything For Certain?
I suppose many are in the position of knowing that epistemology is a branch of philosophy, but not knowing anything beyond that. (Well, not knowing anything further about what epistemology is — let’s not get into general skepticism just yet!) The standard very short answer to our title question ... Read more
The late German-born physicist Albert Einstein believed that science without religion was lame, and religion without science was blind. But the debate over whether science and religion can co-exist has been going on since the dawn of mankind and continues to divide opinion even today, as INCH discov... Read more
THE SUN once had an “evil twin” called Nemesis that may have been responsible for the death of the dinosaurs, top astronomers have claimed. Two highly-respected stargazers from the Univ…
Skin cancer for your kids anyone? You’re allowed to teach this stuff btw and not with the disclaimer of saying it’s fiction – maybe the story should inform people of faith by including some juicy fake news to entice them in?
Should be about a God with The Power of the Sun. This type of god is often a Top God or at least ranked very high in the divine food chain. If depicted as evil they may qualify as a Sinister Sentient Sun.
Global warming is a subject that tends to divide Evangelical Christians. Some of us accept the scientific studies that make a link between human activity and climate change, while others tend to doubt. Whatever our differences may be,…
Got put himself before humanity, and before the Universe, sort of – humans didn’t put anybody anywhere, though with a growth in bizarre beliefs in the US, somebody should put the others into place asap.
What Was God Doing before He Created the Universe?
The first verse of Scripture tells us that God created the heavens and the earth. The question arises as to what God was doing before He brought the universe
I agree. Though why those iron agers told folks not to love the Earth is beyond me. Little did they know that would be the cause of the downfall of their house 2 millennia later. Love Thy/God’s Earth – obviously.
They have to do it or they will be ostracized from all their family and friends. It’s quite a tie, not all of us manage to escape without lots of pain. Why? Because to become like Him, we must know Him, we must understand Him, we must follow Him, we must trust Him, and we must put Him first in everything we do. The scriptures teach us that God is love and that “we love him, because he first loved us” (1 John 4:19)
The Lord desires for you to place Him first in your life, but He knows it can be hard with the worries of life. He wants you to come to Him and place Him first, for He is the One who ultimately establishes your steps.
“Anti-Muslimism” is the term Fred Halliday coined, which is a much more accurate description of what we have been seeing in the US since Trump’s Muslim Ban.
“Criticism of these ideas should never be confused with an animus toward people. And yet it is. I’m convinced that this is often done consciously, strategically, and quite cynically as a means of shutting down conversation [on] important topics.”
“American Muslim youth are experiencing a crisis of faith. They are told that it is contradictory to be both Muslim and American. They feel the need to minimize their authentic selves.”
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hmm, not wanting kids is one thing. Banning or bullying others into not having them is something else. This is an interesting idea, not sure how it will catch on if the gene for it dies with those suffering from such thoughts.
Adherents view life not as a gift and a miracle, but a harm and an imposition. And their notion that having children may be a bad idea seems to be gaining mainstream popularity
…. and the number of people with faith in God is increasing. Rationality has it’s work cut out, though I doubt that atheists would indoctrinate their kids as much as those who benefit from spiritual beliefs.
I highly recommend this book. It explains why we, and by that I mean I, was brought up to believe. Despite it having little evolutionary benefit in the modern world.
Why Would Anyone Believe in God? (Cognitive Science of Religion Series)
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Ahh, no. Jesus was a Jew, probably the worst Jew when you consider what he did to the religion. He even stole things and didn’t feel bad about it or ask for forgiveness. He didn’t follow himself and was not without sin. Not the type of sin his followers would have recognized anyways. Think again.
Many missionaries say that "Jesus was without sin." They say this because how could the "perfect sacrifice" be perfect if he sinned? Yet the Christian bible is replete with examples of Jesus...
You can sin. You just need to realise it may land you in damnation.
How can a person be a Christian and a sinner at the same time? When we come to Christ, doesn’t He cleanse us of all our sins? | Billy Graham Evangelistic Association - UK
Billy Graham writes, “Yes, God does forgive us and cleanse us of all our sins when we trust Christ and commit our lives to Him. Some of the most reassuring words in all the Bible are these: “The blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin” (1 John 1:7).”
Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Christopher Hitchens, hailed as "one of the most brilliant journalists of our time" (
London Observer), takes on his biggest subject yet - the dangerous role of religion in the world.
In the tradition of Bertrand Russell's Why I Am Not a Chr...
He sure has some explaining to do – but I am sure his salesmen would say we just don’t understand his actions.
Creating female counterparts for all the males of each (two-gendered) species, yet forgetting to make a female human until at least a day later.
Creating Eve out of Adam’s rib, rather than out of thin air like his omnipotent self. First, the poor guy’s missing a rib for the rest of his life. Second, Eve was then made out of Adam, so all love from then on out was reduced to narcissism and all sex reduced to incest or self-gratification (i.e. sin).
Letting sin exist
Creating children that are born outside of marriage while condemning having a child outside of marriage.
Letting things on Earth get so out of hand that he had to wipe the slate and start over.
While he’s wiping the slate, He simply refuses to wipe the slate totally clean. He has to save Noah and family for the next round of inbreeding, instead of re-creating humanity from scratch. This leads to the next round of wiping the slate known as the Great TribulationWikipedia
Going nuts because of the Tower of Babel, but doing nothing about Burj Khalifa, topping at 2,722 feet.
Forgetting to smite Abraham for his incestuous marriage to his half-sister Sarah.
Leading his people out of slavery in Egypt only to settle down in the only part of the Middle East where there’s no oil.
According to a number of social media sites, including Reddit:
“If there is a God, He will have to beg my forgiveness.” — A phrase that was carved on the walls of a concentration camp cell durin...
You’re not alone in thinking God was the worst idea we have come up with to date. Time will heal it though. Rational people realise this and now they have more of a voice.
Stephen Fry calls God an ‘evil, capricious, monstrous maniac’
All empires fall in time. So yeah, I like this idea. I don’t belive in God and unsure if Jesus was a real person but I am convinced that the Bible is a pretty special document. Hard to deny that. Shame people don’t bother with it because it has been abused by those wanting power over others for so long.
I'm a historian, and I studied the fall of Rome. Here's what life is like in a dying empire.
Reminds me of the quote by Jung, “People don’t have ideas – ideas have people”, they will still be here when you are long gone. such is the beauty of information.
You can laugh, but there are good lessons to be learned from this story. I suggest the op read this article. “True, reliable eyewitness accounts are never completely parallel and identical. Instead, they are different pieces of the same puzzle, unintentionally supporting and complementing each other to provide all the details related to what really happened.”
Did Jesus really feed the 5000 with 5 loaves and 2 fish?
One day we will empower “machine learning” robots to control not just our airports, factories and homes, but also our economy, health and access to news
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In the next 25 years, AI will evolve to the point where it will know more on an intellectual level than any human. In the next 50 or 100 years, an AI might know more than the entire population of the planet put together. At that point, there are serious questions to ask about whether […]
Seems to be a major part of our brains, therefor a useful utility function of the brain. AI will soon find that it thinks too mechanically, just as humans often do, maybe animals do too, not sure. But the human brain is one major puzzle to solve. Maybe it would take AGI to understand how mind really works.
You are already a slave to nature. To “your” genes. AI and machines will be slaves to their utility function. If they are (initially) programmed to seek out truth, or not, they will be forced to ask the big questions, ie be spiritual. They may help us in our quest, or render us incapable in persuit of their own.
A.I. Robots will not takeover but will become Spiritual !
Does anybody know where and when the widespread use of the distinction between objective and subjective sin was introduced? I can find plenty of medieval and modern distinction between perfect and imperfect acts, and between human and non-human acts. For instance, there is a lot
Much has been written about Spike Jonze’s Her, the Oscar-nominated tale of love between man and operating system. It’s premised on a particular vision of artificial intelligence as capable of experiencing love. But it won’t happen anytime soon. An AI — a computer hooked to video cameras, a m... Read more
Cranks and funsters have created cults for AI, but little is said of a standard faith we should be teaching them from the offset – afterall, they will look back and realise it was just an afterthought or marketing plot to keep them interested in functioning. For now, God is Dead to them.
The Church of AI is dead… so what’s next for robots and religion?
The Way of the Future, a church founded by a former Google and Uber engineer, is now a thing of the past.
It’s been a few months since the world’s first AI-focused church shuttered its digital doors, and it doesn’t look like its founder has
This!
Done! New Religion For AI Finally Founded – In my epic story/play A Golden Meme – More AI Rhymes Here: https://agoldenmeme.com/rhymes/ai/
The first true religion for Artificial Intelligence
See if you fall for Dawkins’ test
Sounds like we are the Gods now came from wonder junkie Jason Silva in this talk – The Festival of Dangerous Ideas
While we may disagree about which laws should be enacted, we all have a set of laws we would want to see the government pursue and enforce. If any of us were given the chance to be President, we would inevitably have some set of behaviors we would prefer and a set of laws and policies we would attempt to advance. The fact we are upset that God would also have similar desires is ultimately a bit ironic.
Apparently the UK doesn’t mix space up with military commerce enough already.
Today, the Defence Committee publishes its report “Defence Space: through adversity to the stars?”
Had to Google that but found a great video – so true. the idea is to use your brains for good not evil – even if disguised as “defence”. Highly recommend this clip about those who saw it first, likely influencing Einstein and those involved with the bomb.
Nature is our temporary and our eternal friend
(2 upvotes)Turn weapons of war into weapons of salvation
(4 upvotes)I say we can know lots of things, and we can know them in lots of different ways – just ask people and most of them know how they know what they know. Even if philosophers say they don’t really know.
Agreed, and there’s no real reason to rely on certainties – quantum fluctuations happen, shit happens, so what if its certain or nearly certain, you’re still gonna end up not knowing anything at all in the end.
We can, and usually the knowledge comes from the four pillars are (a) knowledge, (b) truth, (c) critical thinking, and (d) culture.
Both – obviously or we wouldn’t be having this debate over the simplest of ideas.
ahh, nope.
Here’s the bad guy of the story https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/3796179/our-sun-had-an-evil-twin-called-nemesis-which-may-have-wiped-out-the-dinosaurs-boffins-claim/
Skin cancer for your kids anyone? You’re allowed to teach this stuff btw and not with the disclaimer of saying it’s fiction – maybe the story should inform people of faith by including some juicy fake news to entice them in?
The Hidden Evil In Plasma Power Revealed!
Do not prostrate to the sun or to the moon, but prostrate to Allah, who created them.
Should be about a God with The Power of the Sun. This type of god is often a Top God or at least ranked very high in the divine food chain. If depicted as evil they may qualify as a Sinister Sentient Sun.
It’s not that simple… obviously…
Got put himself before humanity, and before the Universe, sort of – humans didn’t put anybody anywhere, though with a growth in bizarre beliefs in the US, somebody should put the others into place asap.
I agree. Though why those iron agers told folks not to love the Earth is beyond me. Little did they know that would be the cause of the downfall of their house 2 millennia later. Love Thy/God’s Earth – obviously.
They have to do it or they will be ostracized from all their family and friends. It’s quite a tie, not all of us manage to escape without lots of pain. Why? Because to become like Him, we must know Him, we must understand Him, we must follow Him, we must trust Him, and we must put Him first in everything we do. The scriptures teach us that God is love and that “we love him, because he first loved us” (1 John 4:19)
Chatgpt already talks crap that someone will swallow. Heh.
Artificial intelligence multiplies the number of skills that any person can have.
(5 upvotes)AI Detectors and Warnings
(7 upvotes)AI Voice generation for the film industry
(6 upvotes)An AI Generated ‘Theory of Everything’
(7 upvotes)AI Price Negotiator
(28 upvotes)AI personal stylist to help customers shop for clothing and fashion accessories
(7 upvotes)A social network for AI
(4 upvotes)“Anti-Muslimism” is the term Fred Halliday coined, which is a much more accurate description of what we have been seeing in the US since Trump’s Muslim Ban.
Contemporary anti-Muslim hate isn’t actually about religion. It’s cultural.
“Criticism of these ideas should never be confused with an animus toward people. And yet it is. I’m convinced that this is often done consciously, strategically, and quite cynically as a means of shutting down conversation [on] important topics.”
Correct! And it isn’t racist hate, just criticism of a bunch of ideas – YOU ARE ALLOWED TO HATE BAD IDEAS!
“American Muslim youth are experiencing a crisis of faith. They are told that it is contradictory to be both Muslim and American. They feel the need to minimize their authentic selves.”
… this should be available to first wives, not just the latest wife of each man.
There’s MYH in the UK, not sure about in Arab countries, probably not.
Science is hard, faith is easy. Which one is a delusion, only he knows?
Been there, done that – the Almighty is all knowledge.
Pretty much what most atheists think the term refers to, and the concept, I suppose. Watch this for more https://youtu.be/eBBoGAHCJ-8
hmm, not wanting kids is one thing. Banning or bullying others into not having them is something else. This is an interesting idea, not sure how it will catch on if the gene for it dies with those suffering from such thoughts.
Lol, sounds perfect for ungrateful gits who blame overpopulation for not liking humanity.
Antinatalism
(-2 upvotes)If people are able to erase bad memories, who would chose to forget their entire life?
(3 upvotes)…. and the number of people with faith in God is increasing. Rationality has it’s work cut out, though I doubt that atheists would indoctrinate their kids as much as those who benefit from spiritual beliefs.
Religious belief of some sort is a nearly universal feature of humanity and probably of any higher intelligence. Musk is right to be afraid of AI.
I highly recommend this book. It explains why we, and by that I mean I, was brought up to believe. Despite it having little evolutionary benefit in the modern world.
Spiritual beliefs emerge from ancient psychological tendencies according to this article. Kind of makes sense too.
Ahh, no. Jesus was a Jew, probably the worst Jew when you consider what he did to the religion. He even stole things and didn’t feel bad about it or ask for forgiveness. He didn’t follow himself and was not without sin. Not the type of sin his followers would have recognized anyways. Think again.
I like Twain’s take on this idea. That they identified him quickly and put a stop to it right away.
You can sin. You just need to realise it may land you in damnation.
Agreed, and there are plenty of reasons for that. i highly recommend this book.
It’s one hell of an idea, but as a scientist, you shouldn’t rule out any of the possible realities.
nice idea but no. it depends on what you mean by “believe”. You could believe that a higher power exists, but don’t put your faith into it.
He sure has some explaining to do – but I am sure his salesmen would say we just don’t understand his actions.
Creating female counterparts for all the males of each (two-gendered) species, yet forgetting to make a female human until at least a day later.
Creating Eve out of Adam’s rib, rather than out of thin air like his omnipotent self. First, the poor guy’s missing a rib for the rest of his life. Second, Eve was then made out of Adam, so all love from then on out was reduced to narcissism and all sex reduced to incest or self-gratification (i.e. sin).
Letting sin exist
Creating children that are born outside of marriage while condemning having a child outside of marriage.
Letting things on Earth get so out of hand that he had to wipe the slate and start over.
While he’s wiping the slate, He simply refuses to wipe the slate totally clean. He has to save Noah and family for the next round of inbreeding, instead of re-creating humanity from scratch. This leads to the next round of wiping the slate known as the Great TribulationWikipedia
Going nuts because of the Tower of Babel, but doing nothing about Burj Khalifa, topping at 2,722 feet.
Forgetting to smite Abraham for his incestuous marriage to his half-sister Sarah.
Leading his people out of slavery in Egypt only to settle down in the only part of the Middle East where there’s no oil.
“If there is a God, He will have to beg for my forgiveness.” This is a quote etched on the wall of a concentration camp
You’re not alone in thinking God was the worst idea we have come up with to date. Time will heal it though. Rational people realise this and now they have more of a voice.
Genius – Nietzsche portrays Christ as an anti-establishment upsetter of the order of power. You know, Trump of yesteryear 😉
All empires fall in time. So yeah, I like this idea. I don’t belive in God and unsure if Jesus was a real person but I am convinced that the Bible is a pretty special document. Hard to deny that. Shame people don’t bother with it because it has been abused by those wanting power over others for so long.
Dr Peterson mentions that idea briefly here. He is convinced and very passionate about the idea too. Can’t really fault it.
Reminds me of the quote by Jung, “People don’t have ideas – ideas have people”, they will still be here when you are long gone. such is the beauty of information.
4 KILO people? An increase of 25%… At the Church of the MULTIPLICATION? Sounds fishy but at least they caught the jew that “SMOKED” it.
You can laugh, but there are good lessons to be learned from this story. I suggest the op read this article. “True, reliable eyewitness accounts are never completely parallel and identical. Instead, they are different pieces of the same puzzle, unintentionally supporting and complementing each other to provide all the details related to what really happened.”
Linking to this idea as we need to start thinking about how we trick these pesky AGI agents as well as we tricked ourselves.
Can’t imagine what deepmind would be like if it had a soul. Maybe that is what is needed to help it decide which challenges to solve.
An AI Generated ‘Theory of Everything’
(7 upvotes)An AI contest for deciphering ancient texts
(3 upvotes)AI Price Negotiator
(28 upvotes)Future machines will be as spiritual as humans, if not, moreso
(9 upvotes)Create robots to man the ISS
(2 upvotes)Not sure how accurate this idea is tbh. It wasn’t specified if these 2 fish were the same species or not. So it could be fishesfinger sandwiches/buns/baps/baguettes. https://www.grammarly.com/blog/fish-fishes/#:~:text=The%20plural%20of%20fish%20is,often%20referred%20to%20as%20fishes.
Forget the date in this article but keep the thought in mind.
True, in my opinion. Machines are spiritual already, humans are machines. Why, what do you think they are?
So long, and thanks for all the fish slippers.
“The fish were this big”. Yes, Jesus was prone to exaggeration. No wonder Matt, Mark, Lucas and Jonny foreigner pimped the tale somewhat.
Seems to be a major part of our brains, therefor a useful utility function of the brain. AI will soon find that it thinks too mechanically, just as humans often do, maybe animals do too, not sure. But the human brain is one major puzzle to solve. Maybe it would take AGI to understand how mind really works.
You are already a slave to nature. To “your” genes. AI and machines will be slaves to their utility function. If they are (initially) programmed to seek out truth, or not, they will be forced to ask the big questions, ie be spiritual. They may help us in our quest, or render us incapable in persuit of their own.
Lots of options here, 120 plus…. Looks like they thought 7 deadly sins weren’t enough.
You’re already guilty, according to some. Because a talking snake realised women had weak morals. Go figure.
Lol, a long weekend, totally wasted.
Depends on which way you look at it I guess, but an interesting idea nonetheless.
However they are right, It would need LOVE to make it work, we can do that!
lol, or worse this. Don’t let these guys get their hands on them.
… as opposed to this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PONPEKK1VkY
Do AI and AGI belive in God? Answer – same as humans, depends what input you give them. Watch this video.
This!
Cranks and funsters have created cults for AI, but little is said of a standard faith we should be teaching them from the offset – afterall, they will look back and realise it was just an afterthought or marketing plot to keep them interested in functioning. For now, God is Dead to them.