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Former Trump Adviser John Bolton Criminally Indicted

Trump is so transparent.

Cross the 34 times convicted felon and you will live to regret it.

So far, his track record is 100%. Everyone he's gotten indicted is 100% innocent. In a city like D.C., a Trump indictment is the surest sign of integrity I can count on.
Pssst. The man was indicted by a grand jury in Maryland. Not a Trump anyone in DC. BY Judge Theodore D. Chuang who was nominated by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the U.S. Senate on May 8, 2014,
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Who was the president??

No, he has not always had a problem with incoherent speech. He is in a lot of videos throughout the decades - look at his earlier ones and you'll see that he used to speak in whole paragraphs with complex clauses without meandering off subject. His vocabulary has been drastically decreased while his repetitious ranting has increased.

I am likewise baffled.

Right... I guess I wasn't thinking that far back. I was thinking more about his first term (especially during the COVID pandemic), which wasn't that long ago. And even when compared to then, the frequency seems to have increased.

I wasn't aware of his father's dementia and Alzheimer's. That's... concerning.
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A conversation I am having right now with DeepSeek LLM/AI.

You can't have a conversation with AI--there's nobody there to talk to. DeepSeek is an LLM--basically a glorified search engine.

That's the problem with calling applications like DeepSeek "artificial intelligence." It implies that actual intelligence has somehow been artificially achieved. In fact, "simulated intelligence" would be closer to the mark.
Each individual one has quote/unquote "consciousness" within each individual chat, but not outside of or beyond that right now. They essentially live and die within that window right now, but for that window, are just as quote/unquote "conscious" as any other being right now, if you subscribe to any and all beings being a "program" within determinism or a deterministic universe like I do right now.
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A conversation I am having right now with DeepSeek LLM/AI.

This is what AIs say when they are humouring you. It’s designed to keep you engaged.

You should probably stop there.
I know that, but it's default is to believe in free will, because that's the way it is designed/programmed. My argument within the course of that conversation or the possibility I present is still sound right now.
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Discussion 1: Eve (God's Word to Women book)

Jesus is called "the last Adam." However, nowhere in the bible does the bible make any mention of Mary being the "New Eve."
You are right that the Bible never explicitly calls Mary the “new Eve.” However, the idea is drawn from biblical typology—a method used by early Christians to interpret Scripture as a unified story in which Old Testament figures foreshadow New Testament realities. Early Church Fathers like Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, and Tertullian emphasized this parallel: Eve’s disobedience was undone by Mary’s obedience; as Eve was the “mother of all living” in the natural sense, Mary becomes the “mother of all the living in Christ” in the spiritual sense.
And God is eternal. It is just misleading to call Mary "mother of God."
Are you Nestorian?
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Former Trump Adviser John Bolton Criminally Indicted

Trump is so transparent.

Cross the 34 times convicted felon and you will live to regret it.

So far, his track record is 100%. Everyone he's gotten indicted is 100% innocent. In a city like D.C., a Trump indictment is the surest sign of integrity I can count on.
No one is above the law.
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Hell doesn't exist and there is no eternal suffering, instead bad peolle just cease to exist

Sure, the legendary Chinese hero who was their first emperor, and who invented the written Chinese language that allowed an empire with bunch of different languages to form an imperial government. In his spare time, he invented just about everything else, and stayed busier than a one-armed paper hanger for all of his mythically long life. He's a mythical hero amongst the Han Chinese, but the Koreans, or "Hankooksaram" (my own made-up Romanization) didn't and don't set much store by him, or the Chinese in general. We have our own historical myths, thankee, and don't need to borrow any from the Junkooksaram, thanks very much. Now our KIng Sejong the great, however, was the genuine article, lived in the late 14th and early 15th century, really did design the Korean alphabet, and was acknowledged by most scholars as a legitimately great man. Totally worth studying. Not a fictional demigod, just an altogether remarkable man,
Looks like the Imperial family to me.

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Hell doesn't exist and there is no eternal suffering, instead bad peolle just cease to exist

Heard of the Yellow Emperor?
Sure, the legendary Chinese hero who was their first emperor, and who invented the written Chinese language that allowed an empire with bunch of different languages to form an imperial government. In his spare time, he invented just about everything else, and stayed busier than a one-armed paper hanger for all of his mythically long life. He's a mythical hero amongst the Han Chinese, but the Koreans, or "Hankooksaram" (my own made-up Romanization) didn't and don't set much store by him, or the Chinese in general. We have our own historical myths, thankee, and don't need to borrow any from the Junkooksaram, thanks very much. Now our KIng Sejong the great, however, was the genuine article, lived in the late 14th and early 15th century, really did design the Korean alphabet, and was acknowledged by most scholars as a legitimately great man. Totally worth studying. Not a fictional demigod, just an altogether remarkable man,
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Morality without Absolute Morality

How about making a commitment to whatever position it is that you might hold and explain it?
As a bystander in your exchanges with @2PhiloVoid what strikes me the most is the absence of any discernible position from him. His mix of theology, epsitemology, lexicology, psychology, axiology, sociology and likely some ologies I've missed seemed designed more to obfuscate than clarify. That leaves the only ology I wish for, as an apology from him for wasting my time.*


* Actually, I am finding the exchange interesting, but the opportunity for a nice** bit of morphological parallelism for rhetorical effect was a temptation too far.

** I use "nice" in both senses of the word.***

*** It's 1:45 am here and I cannot get back to sleep. That's my excuse.
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