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Recent content by OldTimeNESter

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    The Power of Prayer

    I've read the Bible, but I don't know it well enough to quote any verse relating to Hell or damnation; I do recall hearing that the modern conception of Hell as a pit of fire beneath the surface of the Earth is due to Dante's Inferno, not the Bible. I can also recall St. Thomas Aquinas...
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    Religion Has Nothing to Do With Science

    As I understand it, science aims to provide naturalistic explanations for phenomena of interest, such as weather; it excludes supernatural explanations by assumption (and quite rightly). So, it can't say anything about whether God exists, etc., just as it can't tell us who to love or the scope...
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    The Power of Prayer

    Yes, if a landlord threatens to evict you for not obeying his rules (and has the power to act on that threat) then he is forcing you to obey. Now, you can argue that he's forcing you for your own good, similar to a parent who forces a young child to go to bed instead of staying up playing Angry...
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    The Power of Prayer

    As I understand it, if I don't believe in the Christian God and obey His rules, I'm going to Hell; that is the definition of a forced belief.
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    Lucifer the hero? God the tyrant?

    Indeed, Satan is the hero of Paradise Lost: that doesn't mean he's a great guy, just that he's the one instigating the action (both God and Jesus are referred to, but neither does anything after God's initial dispelling of Satan's army to Hell). Milton was concerned about this; his solution...
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    God or LGBTQ+

    I can't post the link, but go to Youtube and search for "zeFrank true facts about the duck" for a hilarious video mentioning a confirmed case of homosexual necrophilia by a male duck.
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    Jesus vs. Nietzsche

    Nietzsche was intensely shy and lacking in the kind of self-confidence that leads to a good debate. He was sickly and lived primarily through his writings.
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    Artificial Intelligence presumes people do not have a soul

    One problem with AI is that after an algorithm is shown to be effective, it becomes part of the standard programming toolkit for non-AI programmers. I've seen this in my own career with (among other things) fuzzy logic and various classifiers (e.g. naive Bayes, etc.). Of course, these are weak...
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