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  1. amorphous_constellation

    Arguing with a random chapter in the Bible: 1 Chronicles 21

    well that concludes our debate @Brian2, thanks for participating. I've little else to say
  2. amorphous_constellation

    Place for Communism

    Mandatory taxes and utility bills pretty much mean that a family or individual in america seem to nominally own property, and will lose it when they are poor, even if they come to 'own' it. To accurately describe what you are talking about, means a more secure kind of ownership by a family or...
  3. amorphous_constellation

    Arguing with a random chapter in the Bible: 1 Chronicles 21

    If I recall, he used a 'sling,' which I'm sure was actually no joke as deadly tool, and probably is kind of an overlooked ancient weapon. In fact I think there might have been ancient army units that preferred them. So if david knew what his sling could do, then it seems probable that he fought...
  4. amorphous_constellation

    Arguing with a random chapter in the Bible: 1 Chronicles 21

    Flipped to a random spot, and landed in Chronicles. Now I proceed to look at it with a bit of scrutiny 1 Chronicles 21:1 It seems apparent here that god does not like census-taking, because it probably presupposes faith. If david had faith, apparently he would not dare count his army, but would...
  5. amorphous_constellation

    USA - Happy National Bacon Day!

    That looks like crispy bacon, I'll take that
  6. amorphous_constellation

    Question for all - what happens after death...

    I guess my belief is generally in a sort of platonic soul, and we all have one. Upon our deaths, I would think that this soul has a number of options, one of them being to come back again. Perhaps another is to cease incarnating. I think maybe the thing that would become kind of non-local, apart...
  7. amorphous_constellation

    The Book or the Prayer

    Good points, and I guess that might be what attracts me to spirituality that's more experiential, as in some sense, there's nothing to argue with. Somewhere in your argument, I think there's a clue on what might have enabled for the 4 'conflicting' gospels to survive, while at same time...
  8. amorphous_constellation

    Something for nothing

    There's a thing that occurred over roughly the last 500 years, at times slowly and at times rapidly, whereby the ratio of production to effort was thrown way out of balance. Your production, via modern technology, is many times greater than it is without all this modern technology. But it is...
  9. amorphous_constellation

    Vivat Imperium Romanum!

    I don't know, but the opinion I'm forming on it, is that after they got constantine to work with it, it seems like it must have morphed and changed into something else. It seems like it was never meant to be a religion of the 'majority,' or be a religion that was represented by warriors. Those...
  10. amorphous_constellation

    Made in the Image

    The angel seems like it cannot see much of itself, but instead can analyze everything around it. Perhaps it represents what the biblical man is supposed to meld down into, an organism where sight and the ability to survey become ultimate? It seems like it must be a visual thinker, it cannot even...
  11. amorphous_constellation

    Made in the Image

    I think with biblical religions (and this is just the seedling of idea here), there is possibly a fairly clear disjunction or bias against visual thinking, anyway. There is a problem with Moses looking at god, there is a problem making images of the divine, and the logos is something that the...
  12. amorphous_constellation

    War, to Humane, Must be Total

    I find these two sentences to be a highly sanitized treatment of what could result in the most hellish outcome, such as civil war to change the mind of an autocrat, with probably an increase in civilian persecution by the autocrat. I heard that in russia right now, people are trying to get their...
  13. amorphous_constellation

    Proper Use of the Archaic Second Person Singular (Thou)

    Well it seems to me that 'thou' and 'thee' are the better fit for the end of a sentence than thy. I bet if I used these words, I would intuitively get it right most of the time, I just have a feeling that I would
  14. amorphous_constellation

    What are atheists' objections, if any, to pagan religions and its followers? (Anyone can reply)

    And I think I would argue that the 'Western distance' from nature plays a fair role, perhaps in the following way. And that has to do with our culture's love mechanization, industry, and efficiency. Money is a necessity. Computers, cars, concrete. People who never seen any of that, and have to...
  15. amorphous_constellation

    What are atheists' objections, if any, to pagan religions and its followers? (Anyone can reply)

    I tend to incline toward something like a form of 'animism,' and have identified that way before. In my general way of thinking, 'light forms' (as in the opposite of 'heavy theological' forms) of this form of spirituality, are closer to atheism than most other sorts of religions. That is because...
  16. amorphous_constellation

    2023: Predict the future

    What about 'Baba Vanga,' ever look at her list
  17. amorphous_constellation

    McDonald's Opens First Largely Automated Location

    This is probably the best point to keep in mind, when it comes to modern economics and politics. Thanks for putting it so succinctly, and I wonder how many people really get it. Technology and people: the great debate of our time is this: is technology facilitating us to be more productive, or...
  18. amorphous_constellation

    McDonald's Opens First Largely Automated Location

    Or maybe go work for the government, I guess, if jobs look more available in that direction. So then I guess, AI will do all the work, and maybe we'll have a huge military? But really, I think what has to be done would be earlier training for starter jobs. A hundred years before, not going to...
  19. amorphous_constellation

    After UN comments, Business Insider speculates on what would happen in the chance of "nuclear war"

    did you read the end of the business insider article? I don't believe they would just drop a few small nukes on our land-based silos, and then get wiped out in retaliation, and that would be it. I also wonder if the russian nukes are actually first-strike based anyway, if it's true they are...
  20. amorphous_constellation

    After UN comments, Business Insider speculates on what would happen in the chance of "nuclear war"

    They have command control from the air, probably of what would remain of what is in the air, and what is in the sea. So what would be the point of going for the land based silos? This thing we have going between us and them has to end, there has to be cease-fire over there.
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