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The way unity is defined here is the same as good and evil defined as different sides of the same coin. Science says a single sperm cell mates with a single egg cell. Eventually resulting in an adult human composed of 40 trillion cells. When I think on this, it sounds like a miracle to me. What could it be compared to? Its like taking 1 dollar bill, mating it with another dollar bill. Then at some point down the line, you end up with 40 trillion dollars. I don't think I'm doing this topic justice. In some ways our most fundamental beliefs about nature and how the world works might be called a religion. If we think about it, a good percentage of it, sounds crazy.
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Unity with "source of all" is a religion. If that is an accurate observation than every civilized world would acknowledge it.
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If the evolution of man follows a path where we increasingly become less like apes and more like God. Then yeah we might expect to develop powers similar to God along the way to compliment our growing science capabilities. There may already be indications of it happening. Although it might take centuries or millennia to fully manifest.
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Everyone post some favorite quotes!
Sanity Check replied to GrandTrinity's topic in General Discussion
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Those were the only AI edits on my timeline. That weren't political.
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Google Veo 3 (AI video creation software) has been out around a week. Parodies, deep fakes and photoshop edits will eventually be hitting the internet hard. Making this thread to share those grand future expectations.
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https://x.com/TheGriftReport/status/1974845310250910036 Someone did the Stephen Hawking pro wheelchair meme.
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This Invasive Vampire Fish Is Helping Researchers Understand the Human Nervous System in Jaw-Dropping Ways The sea lamprey looks like it’s from another planet, but this ancient creature has a surprising amount in common with humans https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/this-invasive-vampire-fish-is-helping-researchers-understand-the-human-nervous-system-in-jaw-dropping-ways-180987356/
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Some parts of the bible say if the end times come. Christians are not to be aggressive and are to engage in holding action only. "Turn the other cheek." People have to care if they're doing anything to further their own self interests. Which is not easy to achieve in an atmosphere of apathy and indifference.
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Reminds me of: https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbestechcouncil/2024/10/29/why-we-created-an-ai-code-of-ethics-and-why-you-should-consider-one-for-your-company/ "AI code of ethics." Anyways AFAIK man's development goes something like this. At some point our ancestors began cooking meat. This made it easier to digest and extract energy from food. Higher available energy led to increased brain development. Sometime later, our ancestors began consuming fruit containing natural sugars. The high energy density of natural sugars gave us more available energy to fuel development. Sometime later, our ancestors became aware of germs. They took more baths and made a larger effort to keep eating utensils and food items clean. This led to less energy being necessary to fight off germs, illness and disease. This may have freed up more energy to fuel evolution and development. Some say "higher frequencies". Perhaps higher frequencies require more energy to attain. In which case, some things might become obvious.
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That's true. Everything you said there is what I've been thinking for awhile now. Rome reached a point where romans couldn't be bothered to recognize the fall of their own empire meant they would fall with it. Like a passenger on the Titanic who is apathetic and indifferent to it sinking. "This sinking ship does not affect me at all." This isn't far from where most were @ in that era of peace and prosperity from 1950s to 2000s. (with exception of 1970s) I thought people had given up on themselves. Then a strange thing happened. People began to take the deficit and similar topics seriously. I started to notice shifts in behavior and opinion that were surprising. In past ages it took the public 10 years to accept citrus fruits being a legit treatment for scurvy. Now it seems public opinion adjusts and adapts much faster. People are... getting smarter? Within the span of only a few years public opinion is shifting wildly on topics like COVID. Considerably faster than it used to happen. Another good example could be galileo and heliocentrism versus geocentrism. It took centuries for people to accept the idea of the universe orbiting the earth being inaccurate. People of the past may have been more stubborn and less prone to change than those of today. Early to mid points of evolution are defined by small changes over millions of years of history. In more recent times, evolution is accelerating. People are changing at an accelerating rate. What does it mean? IDK. But there are interesting emerging trends that can be observed just by looking out a window. It looks to me as if people are becoming smarter.
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Many view clashes between good and evil the way they would an action sequence from a John Wick movie. They believe christians should pursue militant action to defeat evil. In the way kings of israel smote the philistines and laid waste to the lands of their enemies. They believe religions like christianity would best be perpetuated through ages old might makes right. Yet in reading the bible, there are occasions where it might be said God Himself waged wars of genocide against the evil and wicked. Noah and his family were selected to survive the Great Flood which drowned the evil and corrupt. The city of Sodom and Gamorrah was smitten by fire as there could not be found 10 moral citizens who lived within the city. In the aftermath of these events, there was no reduction of evil & corruption in the world. And it seems that God relented from pursuing further genocide against evil. This indicates that evil and corruption cannot directly be fought with a sword or gun. Evil is circumstantial to some degree. Even if it were possible to push a button that would end the lives of the most evil people on earth. The circumstances which partly contributed to those people becoming evil would remain. These circumstances would drive others to eventually replace them. Nothing would change. Eliminating the most evil could also carry severe negative effects in terms of the general public becoming more complacent and entitled. In the way that prey animals regress their survival instincts in the absence of predators. Prospects of evil being circumstantial in nature are illustrated by King David in the bible. As a shepherd David might never have dreamed of doing what he did to Uriah the Hittite. As a king with power and authority however, it has been said that money and power change people. Money and power are a slippery slope which have lead to even the best of us unwittingly committing horrific acts of evil. At some point in time we might acknowledge swords and guns are not best methods to address this. Those methods are only temporary at best. What we are searching for is a permanent and lasting method of addressing evil. The bible gives us many insights and ideas about how evil might be addressed. It might even be said that the bible gives us all of the answers.
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How should Christians address evil?
Sanity Check replied to Sanity Check's topic in Abrahamic Religions Discussion
Good point. But the best examples are cases which occurred recently. From: https://talkorigins.org/faqs/speciation.html -
How should Christians address evil?
Sanity Check replied to Sanity Check's topic in Abrahamic Religions Discussion
Well, think of it this way. Charles Darwin published Origin of Species in 1859. 2025 - 1859 = 166 years. This means examples of a single species splitting into two separate species (speciation) needed to occur within a short span of 166 years for scientists to observe and document it. Which is very fast in terms of evolution. Mass extinction happen quickly today. Due to the population of people more than tripling from 1950 to 2025. But back in past eras, when the human population wasn't as massive as it is today. Extinctions happened much more slowly. -
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How should Christians address evil?
Sanity Check replied to Sanity Check's topic in Abrahamic Religions Discussion
Speciation is a faster process than mass extinction. There is a thing that happens. Where creationists say: evolution is not real as there is no example of one species branching into two separate species that has been observed. Then evolutionists say its called speciation & there are examples of it: Search Assist Examples of speciation include Darwin's finches, which evolved into different species on the Galápagos Islands, and the apple maggot fly, which adapted to lay eggs in apples instead of hawthorn fruit, leading to reproductive isolation. Other examples are the Kaibab and Abert's squirrels, which evolved separately after the Grand Canyon formed, and various species of cichlid fish in Africa that arose through sympatric speciation. -
How should Christians address evil?
Sanity Check replied to Sanity Check's topic in Abrahamic Religions Discussion
When I was younger I'd spam all of the cutting edge and cool things I learned everywhere. It took a long time but eventually I realized people don't appreciate facts & science the way I appreciate those things. Once I realized I was only wasting peoples time sharing things they weren't interested in and in many cases - would prefer not to know. It became much easier to honor peoples wishes. So whatever is written in the present will always be somewhat watered down and diluted. Until the day comes when people can embrace knowledge with a clearer conscience and mind. -
How should Christians address evil?
Sanity Check replied to Sanity Check's topic in Abrahamic Religions Discussion
Wait. Are you referring to me? This is like... 2/10 effort on my part. This is a watered down and mild version of what I originally thought about posting. I'm too wild and uncensored for daobums now? LOL -
How should Christians address evil?
Sanity Check replied to Sanity Check's topic in Abrahamic Religions Discussion
Life is always traumatic for animals in the wild. -
How should Christians address evil?
Sanity Check replied to Sanity Check's topic in Abrahamic Religions Discussion
How many different ethnicities of people exist in 2025? Many. How many ethnicities existed during Noah's era. Fewer. How long did it take humanity to branch off into different ethnic groups. Not as long as most might guess. Likewise there may be 11,000 species of bird now. But there definitely were far fewer in past eras. Due to something evolutionists proudly refer to as: speciation. I think this is what they call: basic science. But can it be that basic considering I would guess most are unaware of it. -
How should Christians address evil?
Sanity Check replied to Sanity Check's topic in Abrahamic Religions Discussion
John Wick ^ For better or worse, there is nothing like it that has been done before. -
Well, think of it this way. For decades I thought americans won World War II. Watching a documentary sometime past 2020 led me to look up WW II wartime casualties. World War II Wartime Casualties United States: 400,000 Soviet Union: 8,000,000 This led to me thinking it may have been russia that actually won World War II.
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Christians currently have no Holy Grail or Lance of Longinus. No one has seen the Ark of the Covenant in millennia. The Temple of Solomon remains destroyed - wherever it is. The only item God left behind for christians to inherit is a book. The Bible. Do christians underestimate the relevance of this. Do I underestimate the importance. Should I read more. ?
