How a 15th-Century Cardinal Changed Philosophy Forever

This is approaching the universalism of Spinoza, the humility Augustine at the shore, the quantum mechanics of Feynman (all is quantum fields) and the radical love found in Near Death Experiences. Call it profound humility. You cannot really Grok it in this life, but will understand it completely in the next. That simple and that complex. All that there is left to do is radical dependence on God for all things - including personal development - and ultimate acceptance of all Others - seeing God in them and being God to them. Impossible to do without God - but when attempted is the experience of the kingdom of God in this life.

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What's BETWEEN the Atoms? Feynman's Answer Will Break Your Brain

So, is the field Being itself, with the active clumps the knowledge of the field. Almost theological. Very interesting. Very Spinoza.

 Aside from spirituality, this explanation of quantum physics ends any problem in physics.

Has Earth Already Crossed MAJOR Tipping Points? | Full Episode | Weather...

Forget AMOC collapse. The Earth's rotation will keep it alive. The real tipping point is the heating of Barents Sea. Interview Sigard Lind in Norway. Also, to find out how Barents Sea gets warm due to the westerly winds, contact Richard Seager.  Why is Barents Sea important. It has been warming at many times the rest of the world's oceans and it is next to the Arctic Ocean. The other links are minor by comparison. What has tipped? The heating of Barents has broken the air conditioner for the northern hemisphere. We have record heat in many places every year - or every 2 of 3 years - since 2016. Lately it has been every year. We have passed the tipping point.

Why Is Christmas on December 25th? | Dr. Tom Schmidt

This is the point where magicism and literalism consolidated in the life of the Church. Where form became more important than truth and where forgiveness had to be blessed rather than mutually given. Adam and Eve went from being Jewish myth about the nature of blame and knowledge of evil being corrosive to now being historical. This gave power to the hierarchy - making it part of the ruling class - eventually taking it over. 

As far as the trope about Christianity copying Greco-Romanism, the opposite is true. Greco-Roman culture migrated from Carthage, which was brought there by Phoenicians from the Levant - including the myth of a Messiah who would restore man to fellowship with God. Kronos came from El, not the other way around.

Why is America Intentionally Throwing Away its Global Power?

Only $4 Trillion of the national debt is held by official accounts for foreign governments - which is simply the scaffolding for trade. The remainder of foreign holdings, as well as a significant portion of mutual fund holdings and direct bond holdings are held by the wealthy and very wealthy. The top 1% holds approximately half of that class of debt, with the top 0.1% holding most of that. On the whole, after taking out official accounts held by the federal government, state governments and foreign governments - but not including social security, the debt held for households and the rich is under $30T, with half of that held by the rich and the other half held in retirement and pension accounts and the social security trust fund. 

High interest debt - $15T - would go to better instruments - such as the Euro - if the Euro were backed by dedicated revenue streams rather than central bank operations - but because the Euro is not backed in that manner, this portion of the national debt is what backstops speculation in the financial markets. The reason it is held is because such markets tend to fall. When they do, the rich can fall back on their debt holdings. Unless the very wealthy want to bring down the whole system, the debt is a safe bet.

Derek Turner - Philosophy of Transhumanism & Artificial Intelligence (AI)

We cannot biologically create implants - so technically transitioning would not be speciation. More like mutilation. Bones could certainly be replaced with rods entirely, but that would end the ability to make red blood cells - especially if the thigh bone were replaced. To have emotions, one must have some kind of endocrine system - which takes natural processes to maintain unless you addict yourself to artificial hormones. "Uploading" one's consciousness is not a real thing. You can certainly create an AI duplicate with memories intact - but its sensory functions would go from experiencing the world to experiencing what it is like to be a computer. Boring. 

The actual transcendence at what is considered death is not stopped by creating an AI duplicate. Everyone still has to face the God Gamble - but if you relate to God as absolutely loving (which NDE survivors report) then you can junk all the philosophy of a just god. God needs no justification to love its creation nor does it have rights that creation must respect - again, justification implies legalism. God is beyond that. Any moral system that does not start there says more about its priesthood than its god. Any god that has needs is not God. Period.

What to do with Pete

The generals cannot simply refuse all orders all of the time. Gone are the days they could take the Roman solution. They could ask a friendly member of Congress to impeach and remove him - although that seems to be foreclosed for partisan reasons. That leaves one option - draft him, arrest him (even without drafting him) and deliver him to the Hague as a war criminal. Discuss.