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I'll believe God when he comes down and speaks to me in person...
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... If you don't believe what God says, you will have to read and think to figure it out. If you believe what God said, His Spirit will reveal it to you.  And if you don't? You are just too stupid to understand God's word, right? Seriously, the book was written by bronze age cave dwellers how could you expect to receive any wisdom or knowledge from them? It is a serious question. |
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... Since the Bible states elsewhere that God is One, we have a plurality of persons in a singular God, no matter how you look at it. I think you mean many Gods as one God. Persons would die instantly outside of our atmosphere. No oxygen, too cold and radiation would fry all our cells. People first started with polytheistic religions, monotheistic religions came later. Writers of the Bible probably heard about Panchayatana puja and its five gods: Shiva, Vishnu, Devi or Durga, Surya and Ganesha. I think going from many to one is a move in the right direction. |
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I just wonder why Gavin is so sure that "thousands of Classic nodes will appear". They didn't appear for XT. Maybe, he knows that "a little help from unknown friends" is sure to come...
I thought the post was pretty clear, it was " People are committing to spinning up thousands" and 'not thousands of people are committed to spinning up a node'-- it's a planned sybil attack-- and that is also what I've seen from this rise of "classic" "nodes". There are several less obvious node count measures that don't show the growth. AFAICT, the latest strategy is to fake out the node counts with large numbers of sybils and then try to use that to pressure miners into adopting classic; which would then pressure actual users to go along with it. This isn't going to work, and most charitable way I can explain the strategies used by the people frantically pushing for a controversial hardfork is that the people involved in these forks keep thinking that everyone else in Bitcoin is stupid. How else can you explain the faux urgency-- that almost no one bought-- or the bait and switch policies for miners-- to the cheap characterization that Bitcoin Core is all blockstream and so on? All these nonsense and attacks frustrate me-- they waste a tone of time and energy that could be used driving Bitcoin forward. Why we cannot add code to filter non-core nodes from connecting to core nodes? Classic would have to update their code to look like a core node and by doing so classic nodes will not be detectable. It could be based on UA, version or protocol level, or set of other fields. Nodes can be configured to accept connections above a certain set and refuse everything else. The classic will try to piggyback on your releases. So force them to adopt your code and they become invisible on the network. |
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Who is fighting ISIS on the ground?
Oh hell 99% of anti ISIS fighters are muslims.
The real only people who's fighting the Islamic State are the Russians. The Muslims from these areas just escape instead of fighting back their enemy. So please elaborate how many ground troops russia has in syria and iraq? Who do they attack and where do they operate? They mostly drop bombs in the western/northern part. To support al-Asaad's positions. Go on rt.com, they post maps where they bomb. They don't have any troops officially, but unofficially I'm sure spetznaz is operating within Syria. The official line is they are fighting ISIS but reality is they fight all groups that are fighting Syrian army, including ISIS and groups supported by Turkey and US. It is sort of NATO<->Russia proxy war. Similar to Ukraine ordeal, not as bloody, but a similar concept. |
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The dictionary definition I used above, is standard regarding dictionary definitions of the word "theory" no matter how it is used
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That is your problem. This is proof that you either did not take any science in school or slept all through science classes. Never too late to enroll in evening classes in some high school or community college. |
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Yes, the block should be generated every 10 minutes but it is not. I want to build next difficulty prediction based on time value that will be required to generate next 2016 blocks after difficulty change. I want to extrapolate current block count into future and estimate this time.
Parse the blockchain and get a timestamp of each block from that you'll know how much time was needed to solve the last 2016 blocks. It will still be a guesstimate if you just divide the time it took to solve last 2016 blocks by 20,160 minutes and multiply that ratio by the current hashrate. The problem with estimates is that hash rate does not follow exactly what you would expect, i.e. 10 minutes per block. Some big farms come online, or go down for maintenance and this affects the times. |
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Just keep your Sharia Law at YOUR home and don't try to convert others. Hmmm... tell that to these guys:   I don't know who is more retarded. The immigrant Muslims who ask for Shakira law to be implemented in Europe, or the liberal lunatics who support such measures. Check this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKosd0xJadEBetter load up on .308 rounds...  I hope US elects Trump to put the end to this craziness here in North America. |
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What load of BS? Neither Hitler nor Stalin killed people for their religious beliefs. It is true that Hitler was born to Roman Catholic parents and he targeted the Jews. But he chose his victims based on their racial origin, and the religion played hardly any role in his crimes. As per reliable sources, Hitler was an atheist at the time of his death.
Both were killing people to further their non-religious agendas. Lack of religion was not the reason. I don't remember anybody in history kill in the name of atheism. |
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well, I just want to say as a muslim I never care what people thinking about my religion actually but if u hate muslim that is your problem  Good for you. Just keep your Sharia Law at YOUR home and don't try to convert others. BTW, your "prophet" was a pedophile according to your holy scripture. That is your problem. Go and reconcile that fact. |
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... That God is shown to exist through these laws does not lie in the simple fact that these laws exist. It lies in the fact that that they cannot exist together in a universe such as ours without God existing.  Why? |
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... The whole idea for me showing you the scientific proof that God exists, is so that you will start to look for Him and hopefully find eternal life. Except science never proved God or eternal life. Stop repeating this nonsense. |
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On the bright side, as people get smarter, they ditch that stone age religion nonsense...
+1 That is exactly right. Education is the key. I have no problem in people believing whatever they want. I have problem with their missionary work. When they preach what they believe to others and invoke science to justify their hallucinations. Science and religion should only intersect in mental research facilities. |
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 Not only refugee children who come to Germany from the Middle should learn a new language at school, but also German children. This is the demand made by the president of the private Kühne Logistics University in Hamburg, Thomas Strothotte. “We should arrange it here so that German children learn Arabic,” writes the IT professor in a guest editorial for the weekly magazine “Die Zeit”.
German and Arabic should thus be mandatory for all school pupils until they get the school-leaving certificate. Alongside German as a core competence “this would grant access to the Arab world. We would this recognise that we were a country of immigration and a multi-lingual society.”
http://www.dailystormer.com/islamization-german-professor-demands-white-children-learn-arabic/It is always good to know the language of your adversaries. |
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This thread is awsome. I just looked here and there and now I'm going to read it more carefully.
As for me, I don't think that scientists have proved that God exists but I don't think anyone can really prove the opposite. That's why IMO atheists and religious people shouldn't be 100% sure about their views.
You don't need to prove that something does not exist. No need. Just like there is no need to prove that cyclops or Zeus does not exist. Most rational people consider these claims to be myths, i.e. not true. Atheists are not making any existential claims. |
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Of course black holes are theoretical. Just because we know that something created gravity waves that we can feel, doesn't mean that it was black holes as explained by theory. Even if it was something we could call black holes, it doesn't mean that we have the theory right. The whole thing about black holes is just talk, because we don't really know that anything that we know about them is accurate. If for some unknown reason Mars simply vanished, we would feel the gravity waves from that as well. Detecting gravity waves is an itty bitty start. We still don't have any idea of what gravity or gravity waves really are. God is just a theoretical concept, black holes are real... Black holes are real from the standpoint that there is something there, whatever it might be. Black hole theory might be anywhere from completely incorrect to almost completely correct. The fact that black hole theory is theory, shows that the amount of correctness to our ideas of what black holes are is uncertain. God is not a theoretical concept. Some aspects of God might be theoretical. Some attributes of God might be theoretical. God Himself/Itself is a scientifically proven fact.
There is more than enough evidence to know for certain that black holes exist... there is the dilation of light around them... the fast movement of stars that get near them... some of them even have huge jets of matter and energy spewing out both sides!
The only theoretical aspect of a black hole is what might be inside of it... sure, that's uncertain for the moment... but to say black holes are theoretical is a complete misunderstanding of astronomy (and scientific terminology in general)
Hell, even the Mayans knew about the black hole in the center of our galaxy! (the alignment of Dec 2012 was the alignment with the black hole)
To say it another way, some things that we call black holes exist. What they are, nobody really knows. Our explanation of what so-called black holes really are is theory. Being theory shows that we don't know for sure what black holes really are. If we knew for sure what black holes really were, we would have black hole law rather than black hole theory. We are at square 1 with black holes, just like most cosmologically theoretical stuff. We know for a fact that something exists. We don't know much about whatever it is. The fact that it exists is law. The theory exists in our guestimations about what it is and how it works. This is very similar for God. We know scientifically that God exists. Anybody who is interested might have theories about aspects of God. Religions that talk about God have something like theory about His attributes. They are, of course, a different kind of theory than science theory. A wonderful point about all this is, like as there is scientific proof for the existence of both God and black holes, there is theory for both God and black holes. The factualness regarding the existence of both God and black holes, makes their existence law. The theories about both make both to be religion. So it is that modern science is a great portion religion.BADecker, I think your dopamine levels are kinda low. You do not make much sense. I think only people in your church know that "scientifically God exists". Science cannot even observe God, never mind study him or prove that he exist. Your constant reference to science and God is ridiculous. Science is opposite of religion. Everything in science is questioned by each and every scientist. |
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If the proposal in the theory is true, the so-called theory is not a theory. Rather, it is a law.
In general, I don't make the determination. I simply apply what science has said when they say law or theory.
The problem is... you don't have the first clue what you are talking about... The theory of evolution cannot become a law... it's not possible... theory is literally the best it gets for evolution... theory is the epitome of science A law is a completely different concept, and usually requires a mathematical proof (the only " proof" science accepts as objective fact) Please learn the terminology of scienceNo point explaining it to him. He only knows what his handlers told him. People like him convince themselves that God exist, then come up with some pseudo-scientific reasons to justify their belief. It is the same reaction, as people who make a really bad investment (say by buying a shitty stock), once the stock starts tanking, they will still try to find reasons to justify their original decision. It is the inability to think critically that makes them keep the stock all the way down until it is de-listed. I suspect the same psychological mechanism is at work here. PS. Any new scientific discovery is bad news for the GOD stock. |
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Ukraine made a mistake by allowing ethnic Russians to stay in Ukraine after 1991. They should have done what Estonia and other Baltic countries did, force Russians to speak the new official language, force their kids to learn the official language or have a choice to leave the country. Instead they allowed to 'carry on business' as 'smaller Russia'. Most presidents of Ukraine spoke better Russian than Ukrainian. They were native Russians. Now, they will have to give large portions of their country back to Russia. Tragedy is that many Russians and Ukrainians would have to be re-settled. Not to mention destroyed infrastructure and lost lives on both sides. Russification done by Soviets was well done. I think it will be better for the Eastern provinces to join Russia and stop this war. In the end, what difference does it make what passport you hold? You'll still be speaking Russian and live where you were born. |
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No this is not a panic. This is possible threat for security of people.
This is not some cow disease and if strikes you , bad luck..
This is matter of security of citizens of EU!
Definition of every constitution begins with //to provide security and order!
Possible threat for security of people... Wow... Hey what do you want to do? And it's not important... Politicians want to make you think it's important that's all! But in reality it's not the important changes we should focus on. They don't do real damage or real threat, they kill a bunch of innocents and so what? Paris attacks made maybe 100 deaths? Whatever. Take a 15min nap and as many people will have died on European roads! France. A new, widely-covered poll shows that a full 16% of French people have positive attitudes toward ISIS. That includes 27% of French between the ages of 18-24. Anne-Elizabeth Moutet of Newsweek wrote, “This is the ideology of young French Muslims from immigrant backgrounds…these are the same people who torch synagogues.” Britain. In 2006, a poll for the Sunday Telegraph found that 40% of British Muslims wanted shariah law in the United Kingdom, and that 20% backed the 7/7 bombers. Another poll from that year showed that 45% of British Muslims said that 9/11 was an American/Israeli conspiracy; that poll showed that one-quarter of British Muslims believed that the 7/7 bombings were justified. Palestinian Areas. A poll in 2011 showed that 32% of Palestinians supported the brutal murder of five Israeli family members, including a three-month-old baby. In 2009, a poll showed that 78% of Palestinians had positive or mixed feelings about Osama Bin Laden. A 2013 poll showed 40% of Palestinians supporting suicide bombings and attacks against civilians. 89% favored sharia law. Currently, 89% of Palestinians support terror attacks on Israel. Pakistan. After the killing of Osama Bin Laden, the Gilani Foundation did a poll of Pakistanis and found that 51% of them grieved for the terrorist mastermind, with 44% of them stating that he was a martyr. In 2009, 26% of Pakistanis approved of attacks on US troops in Iraq. That number was 29% for troops in Afghanistan. Overall, 76% of Pakistanis wanted strict shariah law in every Islamic country. Wow. I thought they were irrational, but these numbers are really troubling. |
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... When you look at the fossil record, there are even more, that are extinct today. Yet none of them is a crossover. Each of them are distinct in their DNA, with no DNA showing both of them. In fact, when you try adding DNA from one group to another, the added DNA is gradually "weeded out" of their system in their descendents. This is another great evidence for the fact that God made all the various kinds of plants and animals to be their own distinct species. We carry between 3-6% of Neanderthal DNA. Case closed. If you really interested in learning about human history, I strongly recommend this book: http://www.amazon.com/Sapiens-Humankind-Yuval-Noah-Harari/dp/0062316095/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8 |
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