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The Reality of Free Will

Because Adam wasn’t deceived and Eve was is proof of free will because if there was no free will their response would have been the same. It shows a difference in wills between Adam and Eve. Why is it so difficult to see that both Adam and Eve did not acquire the knowledge of good and evil until Adam ate the forbidden fruit ? In order to sin you must have the knowledge of good and evil and do the evil instead of the good. James 4:17 Adams sin was unique because it determined the course of humanity our sins do not. Today every man dies for his own sin. Adam and Eve at their creation were not innocent of sin because they were righteous but because they were ignorant.
But Eve being deceived was before the Fall. Our state by nature since the Fall has been slavery/bondage to sin. That is why we need the Saviour to grant us freedom:

“34 Jesus answered them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, whoever commits sin is a slave of sin. 35 “And a slave does not abide in the house forever, but a son abides forever. 36 “Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed.” (Joh 8:34-36 NKJV)
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Release from Epstein files

No conspiracy. I noted everyone who is now part of the Trump admin who beat the drums of a Epstein release along with Trump himself who said he would do just that.


What pedophiles? Who? If you have names other than the now dead Epstein and the Trump preferential treatment recipient Maxwell, authorities would like to hear from you.


Oh my goodness. The NY AG is not the same as the US AG for the Southern District of NY. You know what, never mind. It's kind of hard to have dialogue with someone who has no clue what or who is what.
Lol, every bit of that proves my point. Nobody has anything on Trump. If they did, it would have been used against him.

But you aee apparently still convinced otherwise.
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Kiwi in Tokyo – what’s the view from your window this morning?

I'm tucked in a little corner of unincorporated Los Angeles County, with good views of downtown LA. This image is my profile banner, so this was taken a few years ago and from a park not far from home, but the view is pretty similar to the real one out my window. We've had a lot of rain (for desert Los Angeles) this November, and there's a little snow on the tallest hills, similar to what's shown below. I do get joy looking out the window on 'my' city.

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Very nice contrast—modern human progress and those mighty mountains in the background. All of it shouts God’s handiwork: the city He lets us build and the un-movable peak He spoke into being. On a clear day Fuji reminds me He’s still the greater Architect. Thank you for sharing His glory from your window—have a wonderful day/night.
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B flat B♭

And nowhere in Scripture does it say the earth is a moving ball either, but people on here are telling me that it is.
Neither I nor anybody else (as far as I know) has ever claimed that the bible teaches that the earth is a globe. Repeatedly, I and others have said that the bible does not tell us the shape of the earth.
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There’s a Giant Flaw in Human History

Yes, you did I quoted you in the post that you quoted. Here it is again:
Once again this fixation on words and their meaning as creating the entire meaning of what someone says. Look at the word in its context. I stated this testing supported further testing which was the onsite tests.

I agreed it was a similation and thats what the word 'test' was referring to. Please read the 'word' in the context of the sentence they are written in.
Popular scientific write-up, there is no actual new test performed, you should read the article.
Ok so I will apply the same logic to your claim. You objection holds not weight as its just a popular comment on a social media thread. I would rather believe the popular scientfic write-up than someones personal opinion on a social media thread.

But it was not just the popular science article that was making these claims was it. It was the actual scientists. Scientists (not the article) concluded the Pyramid may have been a gigantic resonator that was designed to trap electromagnetic waves.


We have no reason to believe that any electromagnetic considerations was part of the egyptians purpose. It has not been experimentally verified to even be a real thing (how do you believe all the boundary layers between the blocks would affect the antenna performance?).
I don't know, isnt that what the tests are for. The fact is they have found good theorectical reasons to do further tests. There have been a number of theorectical studies that tell us there is good reason.

Even if the Egyptians did not purposely build the pyramids for generating any effects. Its still worth the investigation by the fact that effects are theorised by the modelling. They claim this can teach us something. Your actually contradicting science now by denying the idea of persuing further investigation when the theory supports it.

But wait. Did not some of the tests happen on site in the pyramids.
Scientists blasted the 4,600-year-old structure with electromagnetic waves, a form of radiation that travel though the universe, finding it focused and amplified the energy into specific chambers and around the base.
The simulation did not touch on generating any energy, the electric and magnetic field sources in the calculation was external to the pyramid.
But there was also actual tests done in the pyramids that show that it concentrated energy into the chambers. Its no longer theorectical.
What impact did the stones have then if you have read it (they assumed normal limestone)? If they had used other stones in Egypt how would that change the results?
The made a couple of assumptions and all science does. They did not just assume limestone. They also accounted for the pink granite in the chambers and shafts.

This stone has high piezoelectric effect under pressure. Its the position of the chambers, shafts and stones that generate the concentratede effect in the Kings chamber. The quartz crystals in pink granite is known for its high piezoelectric effect.

But its not just the stones. Its also the location of the pyramids themselves on a high electromagnetic location. Over a minreal rich natural subterrainian water way deposit. All this is not just some coincident and accident. The Egyptians were chemists and physicists as well in their own way.

As the scientists who did the research said and not popular science "Ancient Egyptians were the original--albeit unknowing--nanotechnologists."
How did the location influence the simulation? Did they have any data on the permittivity of the substrate in their calculations?
Not that particular research but other research has establish the influence of the location on potential advanced knowledge of nature.

Development of Sulfuric Acid Speleogenetic Deposits within Cavernous Middle Eocene Beds: Inference on Hydrocarbon Gas Seepages, Giza Pyramids Plateau, Egypt
https://www.researchgate.net/public...rbon_Gas_Seepages_Giza_Pyramids_Plateau_Egypt

The Great Pyramid of Giza: A Modern View on Ancient Knowledge, Air and Fire – Part II
The Great Pyramid of Giza: A Modern View on Ancient Knowledge, Air and Fire – Part II | Ancient Origins
It is a simulation study, they basically only tested the pyramidal shape.
Why is it that skeptics are so eaher to minimise everything. They did way more than just test its shape. They were able tyo get new tech from it that can have real world effects.
No, peer-review is part of the modern scientific process.
Its become a a tool to deny scientific ideas that don't conform to the orthodoxy in some cases. Some ideas don't even get through the front door. They are deemed unreal before peer review. Some non peer review science has shown peer review as wrong.
I'm not dismissing anything, but your supposed peer-reviewed papers (which no longer are peer-reviewed) don't support your claims.
But you do so without the same standards you demand of those proposing alternative ideas. You demand of them peer review while claiming them wrong wroung without peer review. Its double standards.
Does it even exist? Who has measured it?
First the high Piezoelectric effect in granite has already been verified. So its logical that a concentration of granite in the chambers is going to cause a higher Piezoelectric effect. From memory the shafts were also granite. Its whether they knew this and made it so to concentrate the effect in the chambers. .

Experimental results of the piezoelectric activity of quartzose rocks

Electromagnetic Properties of Pyramids from Positions of Photonics

Electromagnetic properties of the Great Pyramid: First multipole resonances and energy concentration

Piezoelectrics are well-known, what do they have to do with the pyramids in Giza that is the question.
Thats what all the articles on the Piezoelectric effects of the pyramids are trying to find out.
So link that peer-reviewed article then? What natural phenomena are we talking about here, what do you believe was the source of the radio waves? Or vibrations for piezoelectric power generation?
Not sure if we are at the peer review stage yet. Still there is good science behind the idea.

The Overall Science behind the Pyramid
The generation of electricity requires the pyramid to vibrate always. Hence the location at which the electromagnetic waves are more on the surface of the globe are chosen to be the perfect sites for the pyramid. For example, the pyramid at Giza is standing on the underwater currents of the river Nile plus on a location where high electromagnetic flux lines can be measured and felt. This provides the vibrations required for the crystals to vibrate at all times. And Graphite rods are connected to the pyramid floors made of diamagnetic granites.[4] The figure below illustrates the ionic emission at the apex.
Normally, if you claim it you show it. I'm ok with uncertainties regarding the pyramids.
Yes and when I show it its dismissed without the same level of peer review.
"The NMR results suggest..." What does suggest mean?
Here we go with word meanings. So if I find a word that means 'assurity' rather than suggest then logically that would mean the findings are definite.

So when the article says 'Barsoum (the lead scientists) 'the outer casing stones were indeed consistent with a reconstituted limestone'. The the word 'indeed' means they definitely found that the casing stones were made of reconsituted limestone.

What about "electron microscope analysis indicates the Egyptians used diatomaceous earth, a naturally occurring, commonly found soft sedimentary rock". Not (suggests) but definietly used diatomaceous earth in the mixture that was found in the samples of casing stones.
The magnetic moments are not perfect north-south, actually from the pictures they have enough east-west spread so some kind of statistical test would be appropriate to determine if they are semi-aligned by chance alone.
So more tests need to be done rather than dismiss it as conspiracy or psuedoscience.
So what was the p-value then?
I don't know. I think you would need way more stones tested to gather enough data to determine this.
How is this picture evidence that it was soft?
Can you see the lip at the bottom as though the soft mixture spread into a gap between the blocks. This was not the result of grinding the block away to create a protruding lip. We see much evidence of this signature. I have linked them earlier. Why is it now you only recognise them.
Lime based cement yes, but there was other plasters around.
Yes an advanced cement that is revealing an advanced tech that we are recognising 4,500 years later. The advanced knowledge keeps getting pushed back earlier and earlier.
Fine, but @sjastro have a competing hypothesis, so I'll let the archaeologist and the geophysicists work this on out before I'll draw any firm conclusions.
Thats ok but like I said a social media platform is not a good place to make the case and especially make claims about existing peer review or even scientific reports or research that has been published. At least these make full article with the process linked out and tests done. I have not seen this yet and if I do then I will include it.
Why would we think that?
Because of the accumulation of data pointing that way. At the very least to do further investigation. You have to remember that these ideas and findings have only come in the past decade or so because the tech has improved. We are really only beginning to understand the level of knowledge and tech involved with the ancient Egyptians.
So how many refused articles have the proponents sent to the journals? Any? Are their refusal rate higher than others? Otherwise it is just them complaining.
It depends. As shown there are a few in mainstream journals. There are a fair few Russian journals lol. But there are a fair few good scientfific papers that are not yet peer reviewed. But as a total I don;t think there are many articles done full stop. I don't think many have even been submitted at all.

Its still seen as fringe so it has a long way to go before being accepted by the mainstream. I think perhaps the area of natural energies may lead to more research into the Egyptians ancient worls as is happening now. We have a long history of seeing the pyramids as being something more than just a tomb. Now we have the tech to find out. Watch this space I reckon.
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Bill Gates Says Climate Change ‘Will Not Lead to Humanity’s Demise’

Is it safe to say then, that the climate change emergency, was science fiction? And that the scientists used biased models in their data sets?

Yes - Why would God want to change the climate ? God made it so.
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B flat B♭

And Just because the words 'flat earth' is not mentioned, doesn't mean that it isn't.
That is not the same thing at all. Although the word "miracle" isn't always used in the description of individual miracles, we are told that Jesus worked miracles:

““Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a Man attested by God to you by miracles, wonders, and signs which God did through Him in your midst, as you yourselves also know—” (Ac 2:22 NKJV) (my emphasis)

But nowhere in Scripture is the earth described as flat.
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B flat B♭

I know the earth is level & stationary b/c the Bible & God tells me so.
Where does the bible say that the earth is level and stationary?
The sun does rise & set in our view.
Why, if, as you claim, the earth is flat? Why can we see only half of the sun halfway through a sunset or sunrise? Why, if the earth is flat, does the sun not just appear to get smaller and smaller the furth it passes from us?
Still there.
Where? One doesn't see the bottom half of something disappearing just because it gets further away.
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Bill Gates Says Climate Change ‘Will Not Lead to Humanity’s Demise’

And this, ladies and gentlemen, somehow negates decades of data gathered both on the ground and by satellites. We can ignore all IPCC reports, because a few activists got it wrong. The the coral reefs are not bleaching, the glaciers wont melt. Who needs science, when to expose a few ignorant activists is enough to settle the case?
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B flat B♭

The Bible say's nothing about any miracle.
Just because the word "miracle" is not mentioned, that doesn't men it wasn't one. The descriptions of many of the miracles of Jesus don't include the word "miracle" either. For instance:

“10 “But that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins” —He said to the paralytic, 11 “I say to you, arise, take up your bed, and go to your house.” 12 Immediately he arose, took up the bed, and went out in the presence of them all, so that all were amazed and glorified God, saying, “We never saw anything like this!”” (Mr 2:10-12 NKJV)
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B flat B♭

You don’t “know” the earth is flat. You’ve got no evidence, nothing, just an irrational belief that is refuted by the evidence all around us.

I know the earth is level & stationary b/c the Bible & God tells me so.

You have said that the sun doesn't really rise and set, but only appears to do so.

The sun does rise & set in our view.

Where is the bottom half of the sun halfway throufg a sunset?

Still there.
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B flat B♭

You have said that the sun doesn't really rise and set, but only appears to do so. However, the bible often refers to the rising and setting of the sun, for example in this verse:

“At evening, when the sun had set, they brought to Him all who were sick and those who were demon-possessed.” (Mr 1:32 NKJV) (my emphasis)

Yet you still maintain that the sun only appears to set. Why, in that case, could your verse which talks of the sun stopping be similar, not refer to how it appeared to Joshua and others?
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Busy, busy. Even in the cold.

Made some 405 grain yesterday. 64 ezactly. Only took about 2 hours ladle pouring. More speed, less internal ballistic pressure, less drop, more powder. Just about gave up on shooting to 200 with any accuracy. It said would drop 23.3. Little did I know it was moa, which translates to about 48 inches @200. I can make it shoot flatter.
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