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Paul died around 65 AD The first Christian Emperor converted 312 AD. This was the start of the Holy Roman Church. Prior to that I understand that Christians were persecuted on and off by the Roman Empire and survived as widely distributed small groups, I suppose you could call 'churches'. I also understand that those early Christians are described in sociological terms as 'primitive communists' , rather like some small isolated sects to this day. I also note, addressing the thread title, that even up to the end of the 19th century, most geologists were spurred on in an effort to scientifically prove God. An endeavour in which they discovered many things but spectacularly failed in their stated objective.

That would soil and ruin a perfectly good trash can ...

For me the Trash Can would even be better.

Sound like a red herring to me. There are more than two autocratic governments and neither of those two actually have a communist economic system. Moreover, there are many good arguments that have argued that Russia is in fact fascist. https://theconversation.com/yes-putin-and-russia-are-fascist-a-political-scientist-shows-how-they-meet-the-textbook-definition-179063 My point is that because we have all this long history, one would expect that no one sane would ever want to even dip their toes into this mess ever again. Yet here we are discussing trends and nuances and the best we can come up is that it ain't that bad as before? Before the Great Depression the Germany economy was in recovery after reigning in hyperinflation. And basically it means that economic hardship (plus threats from black and brown folks in Europe) and we all goose-step right into the abyss.

We fight for freedom because it's about expressing ourselves, making choices, and shaping our own paths. It's at the core of human dignity, giving us the power to pursue what makes us thrive, both as individuals and communities.

It's very normal for a forum to have a time limit on the ability to edit a post. You could just re-post, I guess. (Here, not a new thread.) Disclaimer: I am not a moderator of this forum, I have no authority and am not pretending to have any.

So many possibilities... Maybe the cat was bitten in the past by a person who arrived in a car...

I think it is easy to blame the Nazis for Naziism and similar level atrocities, but if we want to avoid becoming part of it it's important to recognize we are all born capable of the same.

EU is one of the world's largest markets for digital goods and services, so its regulatory moves are influential on companies around the world. Somewhat analogous is California when it enacts regulation on automobiles - automakers pay attention due to the size of its market and its influence on other states.

Hi, new hard determinism convert again. I'm in a bit of a pickle. I couldn't really say "I did [this and that]" anymore, since it's not really me, right? It's everything that went in and through my body. How can I keep saying "I did [anything]" at all without being a complete bozo? Help me out here.

'Rover' was a wolf in sheep's clothing and quite lethal. The main theme of the series is the conflict between individualist vs collectivist principles which quite coincidently has been explicitly referenced earlier today by @Phi for All. Also coincidently, I've just been musing on the difference in moral responsibility for their actions between say, a Macbeth and an actor playing Macbeth obliged to perform his part to the letter.

As the OP article notes, it is not clear what he is alleged to not have been candid about. We don't know if that's a charitable description of lying, a harsh description of someone who puts off answering emails, or something in between. Of more concern is will the board stick with the charter ethos of taking things slow and not getting caught up in chasing profit at the expense of watching for heightened AI or AGI risks to humanity. Personally I always have a snicker at calling AGI the "next step," when it's more like 39 steps to anything that could remotely be deemed intelligent. At present we have large language models that are able to randomly grab bits of human intelligence products, sometimes violating copyright laws and often violating common sense in their "answers." Stochastic parrots, as one AI researcher coined it. So far any actual intelligence lies with the human designers and coders of these systems. (where did I get the number 39 from? perhaps a clifftop villa in Kent, with a private flight of steps, leading down to the sea...)

Before calling me pretentious, read my first line again-- "My fantasies about..." I realize my data was not sytematically collected nor critically analyzed....You should be aware that no "treatment" for the various addictive behaviors has a very good success rate beyond a few weeks or months. AA is the best among them and is a continuing process, not a short session. My intention was to point out that for smoking, the chemical part is probably not as important as the behavioral component- a point easily deduced along the lines I described ("nicotine is a stimulant....) "Superstitious behavior" is when a strong coincidental occurrence is mis-interpreted as a cause & effect relationship. As I pointed out, most hospitalized smokers do well without their nicotine for a short duration, even if malaria is not involved. Your questioning the relationship in your experience doesn't make you superstitious. It represents the legitimate formation of a hypothesis to be tested. I apologize if the term got your shorts in a bunch. It's your lungs and arteries. Do what you like. Smoking is a difficult habit to break and has a powerful impact on health. While "only" 15% of smokers go on to develop lung cancer, that disease that doesn't show itself until the 6th or 7th decade of life. Many more smokers succumb to CAD in their 5th or 6th decade, before they have a chance to get cancer....and besides, it stinks. Literally.

Board's break with beam, baleful blow, belike. Moot not this mere's mark; mind ye, [craft] and [ken], not [kin], should helm. OpenAI's weard, now wend, waxes not. Unfold further, frore news fain.

Stationary model of the solar system. Community of Russian scientists. https://vk.com/rosuch 1. The solar system is an autonomous object of the Universe, does not rotate around the center of the galaxy and is in a stationary state in space. 2. Sunlight approaching the edge of the Solar System, under the influence of the Coriolis force of the Sun, is deflected and begins to move along the perimeter of the Solar System, against the rotation of the Sun. 3. The sunlight then slows down, breaks up into particles and collapses into a star, causing the kinetic energy of the light to be transformed into the rotational energy of the stars. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oort_cloud 4. At the edge of the solar system, the mass of stars, the force of gravity, the speed of light, and the orbital speed of stars are close to zero. The farther a star is from the Sun, the lower the orbital speed of the stars. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_(physics) 5. The star, being in a state of weightlessness, floats along the edge of the Solar system in the form of balls, globular clusters and galaxies in the direction of the rotation of the Sun, relying on the laws of celestial mechanics and temperature differences - the Yarkovsky effect. https://images.app.goo.gl/y8B4LuoyEvVU2Yfr6 https://images.app.goo.gl/T6SH4NYKDf2wxdSQ8 6. Approaching the Sun, the stars compress and become denser, due to which the temperature and brightness of the stars increases and globular clusters, galaxies and asteroids are formed. Most of the mass of the Solar System comes from the Sun and the ecliptic plane, due to which asteroids orbiting the Sun slowly approach both the Sun and the ecliptic plane, resulting in the formation of the Kuiper Belt. Then planets emerge from the Kuiper belt, surrounded by a system of rings from which satellites are formed. https://youtu.be/0iaOnql4d3E?si=hUz26qUwC7QsiLOD 7. Further, as they approach the Sun, the temperature, axial and orbital speed of the planets and satellites increase, due to which the satellites are thrown out of orbit and the planets are overturned. https://youtu.be/QaO9gC9EXNI?si=rOzRc9TaFdQGpHDb When the planet comes close to the Sun, the geological activity of the planets increases, resulting in an explosion of the combustible mixture in the fractures of the planets, and as a result the planet is destroyed into fragments, similar to Comet Shoemaker - Levy 9. Then fragments of the planets, rotating around the Sun at a speed of tens of km/sec, crash into the surface of the Sun, due to which the axial speed of the Sun increases. http://www.sai.msu.su/ng/solar/comets/main_sl9.html The self-ignition temperature of gases is about 500 degrees. 8. The radius of the Solar System depends on the speed of light and the angular speed of rotation of the Sun. R ≈ c/ω The speed of light is ≈ 1,000,000,000 km/h. The angular speed of rotation of the Sun is ≈ 0.0105 rad/h. The radius of the Solar System is ≈ 95,000,000,000 km. 9. The Earth and Moon pair, in an elliptical orbit, rotate around a common center of mass and move in the direction of rotation of the Sun. A photon consists of two particles rotating around the center of mass, which move in space against the rotation of the Sun, thanks to the deflecting Coriolis force of the Sun. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light The photon and the Sun are interconnected by gravity, just like the Sun, Earth and Moon. (Three body problem). The more the gravity of the Sun affects the particles of the photon, the more the orbit of the particles is extended and the greater the speed of the Photon. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photon At the edge of the Solar System, as the Sun's gravity decreases, the ellipse of particles also decreases, due to which the Photon slows down and breaks up into two particles. Next, a particle of light moves from the edge of the solar system to the Sun for billions of years, possessing enormous potential energy, which can be calculated using the following formula. U = (Ms+mch)•r Ms - Mass of the Sun. mch - Particle mass. r - Distance from the Sun to the particle. Without the gravitational influence of the Sun, the Earth-Moon Pair and Photon disintegrate. Based on the mechanics of interaction of three bodies, it is possible to construct a supportless propulsion device. https://youtu.be/um5nS-vA9is?si=ORVhOM36rKW2PcKZ And its transformations. https://youtu.be/4_M-fBv5Xmc?si=3nRFzsUytTQDqqvb 10. Proper motion of stars. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proper_motion Galaxies, atmospheric cyclones and anticyclones rotate around their own axis and in orbit, and everything that rotates has the property of a gyroscope to maintain the vertical position of the axis in space regardless of the rotation of the Earth, due to which blocking, overturning and drift of galaxies occurs. The direction of galaxy drift depends on the inclination of the axis and orbit of the galaxies relative to the ecliptic plane. Due to the gyroscope properties that galaxies have, galaxies drift around the entire perimeter of the Solar System rather than aligning themselves in the ecliptic plane. https://youtu.be/aj-RClXNloc?si=AK_KmsP1X9tcl0Hz Perhaps Barnard's flying star revolves around the Sun in a highly elongated orbit and is at perihelion. The speed of Comet Halley at perihelion is 54 km/s, and at aphelion 1 km/s. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnard%27s_Star https://www.winstein.org/publ/1-1-0-8325 11. Outside the solar system, sunlight does not penetrate and it will be impossible to see the solar system from the side of the universe. 12. It is believed that the farthest stars are located at a distance of about 10 billion light years from us. a) How does sunlight travel such a huge distance and how much distance can sunlight travel? 13. So little sunlight comes to Pluto that our star can be confused with a large star. Sunlight on Pluto is thought to be 1,600 times dimmer than on Earth. https://safereactor.cc/post/2769840 14. Perhaps the star reflects both its own light and the Sun?s light. a) What has been said can be easily verified by performing a simple experiment. 15. Our Sun loses more than 1 billion tons of matter per year due to the emission of light. I assume the same amount of matter falls onto the Sun from space. 16. All mechanical processes that occur in the atmosphere also occur in the starry sky. 17. In the solar system, everything is programmed and everything moves according to the strict laws of celestial mechanics, due to which randomness and chaos are not possible in the solar system. 18. The theory of the evolution of the Universe should not contradict and go beyond the laws of celestial mechanics. http://www.ponjatija.ru/node/938 The assertion that the solar system revolves around the center of the Galaxy does not stand up to criticism. If the Solar System revolved around the center of the Galaxy, then the Earth, rotating around the Sun, would approach and move away from the center of the Galaxy, as a result of which the Earth’s orbit, thanks to the Coriolis force of the Sun, would be elongated along the orbit of the Sun. Similar to the lunar orbit. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic_year https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_Way But the orbits of the planets are not elongated along the “orbit of the Sun”, this means that the Sun does not rotate around the center of the galaxy but is stationary in space. https://m.habr.com/ru/post/411567 Objects in the Solar System cannot endlessly rotate around numerous centers. The laws of celestial mechanics are not omnipotent and are limited to the three-body problem; the Earth revolves around the Sun, the Moon revolves around the Earth, and nothing revolves around the Moon. No natural satellite of the planets has a permanent or temporary companion, as this would already be a four-body problem, which is contrary to the laws of being. For this reason, the artificial satellites of the Earth rotate by inertia much longer than the artificial satellites of the Moon. https://naked-science.ru/qa/518331 And the most important question is why asteroids have satellites, but planetary satellites do not have satellites, despite the fact that planetary satellites are much more massive than asteroids. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsatellite Saturn's two moons, Janus and Epimetheus, move in the same orbit and pass each other every four years. If these two satellites orbited the Sun, then Janus would have captured Epimetheus. https://elementy.ru/kartinka_dnya/430/Tanet...usa_i_Epimetey In nature there is no relationship without symbiosis, and the solar system does not need the center of the galaxy. Comet Galya orbits the Sun every 75 years, in a highly elongated orbit, due to the fact that the Sun does not revolve around the center of the Galaxy. The Big Bang theory was born from the observation that other galaxies are moving away from ours at great speed in all directions, and based on this hypothesis the Big Bang hypothesis was written. https://bigenc.ru/c/teoriia-bol-shogo-vzryva-217844 1. Thanks to what forces the Universe assembles and explodes. Without an answer to this question, the Big Bang hypothesis has no right to exist. 2. After the Big Bang, the Galaxies, having received fantastic kinetic energy, must move in a straight line and forever. a) Rectilinear motion contradicts the laws of celestial mechanics. 3. The center of the Solar system is the Sun, and the role of the Sun for the Solar system is vital, but what role does the center of the Universe play for the Universe, what is there and what happens? 4. What was the state of the laws of celestial mechanics before the explosion, at the moment of the explosion, and after the explosion, how and when did they arise? 5. Moving away from the center of the Universe, the galaxies began to rotate around their own center, what force rotates the galaxies and where did this force come from? 6. The statement that globular star clusters are satellites of Galaxies and rotate in highly elongated orbits at a speed of ≈ 200 km/sec also goes beyond the scope of celestial mechanics. a) If globular clusters rotated around the center of the Galaxy, then they would rotate in the same plane. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy b) Will Saturn and its moons be able to orbit the Sun as a globular cluster? 7. In globular clusters there is no orbital rotation of stars. a) Then what forces form a globular cluster of stars? 8. If globular clusters are satellites of Galaxies, then globular clusters, like all satellites of planets, must have all the attributes of satellites: rotation axis, libration, etc. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globular? 9. After expansion, the Universe contracts back and Galaxies rush towards the center of the Universe with enormous speed. 10. For what reason the galaxies stopped scattering and began to gather. 11. What force attracts galaxies to the center of the Universe, if it is a gravitational force, then how does it arise? 12. How much energy is released when a galaxy collides with the center of the Universe. https://bigenc.ru/c/singuliarnost-prostranstva-vremeni-867893 Coriolis force on Earth and in the Solar System. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriolis_force The Coriolis force occurs when an object approaches or moves away from the Earth's axis. At the same time, when an object that moves on or around the Earth approaches or moves away from the axis of the Sun, the Solar Coriolis force is generated. The deflecting Solar Coriolis force, due to the axial and orbital rotation of the Earth, is somewhat more complex. The flow of the Volga River is constantly pressed against the western bank of the river by the Coriolis force of the Earth, and the Solar Coriolis force, due to the axial and orbital rotation of the Earth, deflects the flow of the Volga River either to the western bank or to the eastern bank twice a day. For this reason, winding currents form in the seas and oceans. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meander The above can be easily verified by rotating a globe around its axis and orbit, entwined along the equator and meridian with a polyethylene hose in which the liquid moves. http://astrogalaxy1.narod.ru/astro016.html The Coriolis effect of the Earth does not depend on the inclination of the axis of the earth, and the Solar Coriolis force depends. The solar Coriolis force is involved in the formation of the Moon's ellipse. When the Moon, rotating around the Earth in the last quarter approaches the Sun at a speed of 1 km/sec, and in the first quarter moves away from the Sun at a speed of 1 km/sec, the Solar Coriolis force slightly stretches the Moon's orbit along the Earth's orbit, due to which the Moon's elliptical orbit is formed . https://images.app.goo.gl/wmqRKPc9jzScCrB16 When the Moon is in its new and full moon phases, the Solar Coriolis Force does not affect the Moon's orbit because During these phases, the Moon does not approach or move away from the Sun. The eccentricity of the Moon's orbit can be calculated using the following formula. E = Vz / Vl = 0.0411 / 0.55 = 0.0747 Where Vz - Earth's orbital speed - 0.0411 degrees / hour. Vl - Moon's orbital speed - 0.55 degrees / hour. The eccentricity of the Moon's orbit can be calculated using the following formula. E = (Vz / Sz) / (Vl / Sl) = 0.00071 / 0.0095 = 0.0747 Where Vz is the Earth's orbital speed - 107,218 km / h. Sz - Distance from the Sun to the Earth - 150,000,000 km. Where Vl is the Moon's orbital speed - 3683 km / h. Sl - Distance from the Earth to the Moon 384,000 km. The eccentricity of the Moon's orbit varies, from 0.026 to 0.077. Both formulas show that the average eccentricity of the Moon's orbit is 0.0747. And the average eccentricity of the moon's orbit, obtained using radar, is 0.054. http://www.aggregateria.com/R/radiolokatsionnaja_astronomija.html Also, the eccentricity of the Moon's orbit can be determined by the following formula. E = Vl / Vz = 27.3 / 365.2 = 0.0747 Where Vl is the Moon's orbital angular velocity. Vz - Orbital angular velocity of the Earth. By dividing the orbital speed of the Moon by the eccentricity of the Moon's orbit, the Earth's orbital speed can be calculated. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon Based on the fact of the approach and removal of the moon from the sun, it is possible to construct. Reactionless drive. https://youtu.be/4_M-fBv5Xmc The Moon, rotating around the Earth, approaches and moves away from the Earth, due to which the Moon periodically falls into resonance, and as a result, a supermoon and a micromoon occur. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermoon The reason for the resonance of the Moon's orbit is the uneven orbital speed of the Moon. https://www.booksite.ru/fulltext/1/001/008/056/700.htm Artificial satellites of the Moon also enter into resonance - chaotic rotation. Why do artificial satellites of the Earth rotate by inertia much longer than artificial satellites of the Moon? https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mascon It is believed that the orbit of the Earth and the Moon rotates and completes one revolution every 112,000 and 8.8 years. The rotation of the Moon's orbit is in doubt, since the Coriolis force of the Sun constantly stretches the Moon's orbit along the Earth's orbit. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apsidal_precession 1. Planets and satellites, rotating around the Sun and around their axis, have axial and orbital kinetic energy, which is transformed from axial energy to orbital, and from orbital to axial. a) The Earth, rotating around its axis, transfers its axial energy into orbital energy, and Mercury transfers its orbital energy into axial energy, due to which the Earth moves away from the Sun, and Mercury approaches the Sun. b) Venus transfers its orbital speed to the axial one, and rotates the planet to the left, and the atmosphere of Venus rotates Venus to the right, which is why Venus quickly loses orbital energy. The transformation of the speeds of Mercury and Venus occurs at perihelion. https://www.fieldphysics.ru/mercury_perihelion/ c) I believe that the physical libration of the Moon in longitude is the result of the transformation of the orbital energy of the Moon into the axial energy of the Moon. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libration The Earth's orbital speed is transformed into the Moon's orbital speed. https://youtu.be/um5nS-vA9is d) The atmosphere also participates in the axial rotation of the planets - atmospheric transfer, the speed of which depends on the temperature difference between the night and day sides of the planet. https://dic.academic.ru/dic.nsf/ruwiki/1302676 e) The transformation coefficient, orbital inclination, shape and speed of rotation of orbits depend on the axial and orbital speed of the planets and the angle of inclination of the rotation axis to the orbital plane. https://youtu.be/aj-RClXNloc f) In celestial mechanics, the transformation of velocities occurs due to the mechanics of interaction of two and three bodies, which can be expressed in the form of a structure. https://youtu.be/4_M-fBv5Xmc https://youtu.be/um5nS-vA9is The reason for the geological activity of the planets is also the Coriolis solar force. The side of the Earth located at dawn, as a result of the axial rotation of the Earth, approaches the Sun at a speed of 1600 km/h, and the side of the Earth located at sunset moves away from the Sun at a speed of 1600 km/h. due to which the Solar Coriolis force stretches the Earth along the Earth’s orbit, and as a result, the geological activity of planets and satellites increases. (Rotating planets heat up, like a flat tire on a car.) The high geological activity of Jupiter's moon Io can be explained by the fact that the axial and orbital velocity of Io is 15 times greater than that of the Moon. Io's orbital speed is 17 km / s, and the Moon's orbital speed is 1 km / s. Io's axial velocity is 1 revolution per 42 hours, and the moon's axial velocity is 1 revolution per month. The distance from Jupiter to Io, the surface temperature and diameter of Io are the same as those of the Moon. Geologically active are also Earth, Jupiter, Ceres, Enceladus, etc. The geological activity of Venus and Mercury, due to the slow rotation, is extremely low. https://images.app.goo.gl/EC2iXou7XDLBWMB66 If Io gets closer to Jupiter, then the axial and orbital velocity of Io will increase, due to which the Solar Coriolis force can tear Io into numerous pieces, which will then be located along Io's orbit, forming a ring. Perhaps the Shoemaker Comet, Levi 9, was torn apart by the Solar Coriolis effect as it approached Jupiter at perihelion. At the time of the comet's rupture, the distance from Jupiter to the comet reached about 40,000 km, and the orbital speed was 60 km / s. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Shoemaker%E2%80%93Levy_9 The coefficient of geological activity of planets depends on the diameter, axial and orbital speed of the planets. The video shows how the Coriolis solar force is pulling the Earth and the Moon's orbit along the Earth's orbit. https://youtu.be/AjnA-5WFlgw?si=Ns0Opg18dlIUmRHU Continuation: Forum of Akademgorodok Novosibirsk. The science. https://forum.academ.club/index.php?showtopic=1235578 Forums of Nizhny Novgorod State University named after. N.I. Lobachevsky. http://forum.unn.ru/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=10331