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When Patriarchy loses out to Chivalry in Polygyny (don't hold your breath waiting for the section on Letting Go of Undeserved Privilege): https://www.polygynation.com/articles/first-wife-syndrone.

Every marriage is an act of supreme generosity on the part of the man.

Currently, women and white knights remain successful hypnotizing almost all of us into believing the opposite.
 
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FollowingHim said:
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Culture Critic on X is rather consistently full of it, and this is a prime example.

Great photograph.

Message that, on its face, one finds oneself wont to contradict.

And yet it's bullshit.

Modern people, for all their faults, simply don't buy the propaganda that claims that these magnificent buildings arose because of the Faith in Christ that inspired them. They were all part of a grand plan begun by Constantine and a bunch of Popes and (not) 'Early Church Fathers' who transformed the meaning of ekklesia from a gathering of believers into an expanded meaning of church that stood for Corporate Organized Religion Club (which can be led, as it is now, by a man who doesn't even believe in the Resurrection of Christ) and services one was hypnotized into believing one had to attend to achieve salvation and at a building where members of the Club were required to gather and impoverish oneself in order to make The Club wealthy beyond all measure and build the very buildings where one was coerced into gathering and impoverishing oneself -- in addition to subjecting oneself to anti-sexual tyrannical control over one's entire life, from cradle to grave, with every milestone being labeled a 'sacrament' and thus subject to having to go through priests in order to get God's blessings.

Ostensibly built to give glory to Yah but instead actually built to bring glory to those who appointed themselves heads of the United Church of State.
 
Keith Martin said:
Culture Critic on X is rather consistently full of it, and this is a prime example.

Great photograph.

Message that, on its face, one finds oneself wont to contradict.

And yet it's bullshit.

Modern people, for all their faults, simply don't buy the propaganda that claims that these magnificent buildings arose because of the Faith in Christ that inspired them. They were all part of a grand plan begun by Constantine and a bunch of Popes and (not) 'Early Church Fathers' who transformed the meaning of ekklesia from a gathering of believers into an expanded meaning of church that stood for Corporate Organized Religion Club (which can be led, as it is now, by a man who doesn't even believe in the Resurrection of Christ) and services one was hypnotized into believing one had to attend to achieve salvation and at a building where members of the Club were required to gather and impoverish oneself in order to make The Club wealthy beyond all measure and build the very buildings where one was coerced into gathering and impoverishing oneself -- in addition to subjecting oneself to anti-sexual tyrannical control over one's entire life, from cradle to grave, with every milestone being labeled a 'sacrament' and thus subject to having to go through priests in order to get God's blessings.

Ostensibly built to give glory to Yah but instead actually built to bring glory to those who appointed themselves heads of the United Church of State.
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I think that the reality exists on more than one level.
When I looked at the complicated, but to me ugly, structure, I envisioned the decades of skilled labor that built it. That is what I responded to that we don’t have the whatever to produce.
I don’t believe that the workers were in it for the glory of God.
 
Keith Martin said:
Modern people, for all their faults, simply don't buy the propaganda that claims that these magnificent buildings arose because of the Faith in Christ that inspired them. They were all part of a grand plan begun by Constantine and a bunch of Popes and (not) 'Early Church Fathers' who transformed the meaning of ekklesia from a gathering of believers into an expanded meaning of church that stood for Corporate Organized Religion Club (which can be led, as it is now, by a man who doesn't even believe in the Resurrection of Christ) and services one was hypnotized into believing one had to attend to achieve salvation and at a building where members of the Club were required to gather and impoverish oneself in order to make The Club wealthy beyond all measure and build the very buildings where one was coerced into gathering and impoverishing oneself -- in addition to subjecting oneself to anti-sexual tyrannical control over one's entire life, from cradle to grave, with every milestone being labeled a 'sacrament' and thus subject to having to go through priests in order to get God's blessings.

Ostensibly built to give glory to Yah but instead actually built to bring glory to those who appointed themselves heads of the United Church of State.
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There were a myriad of reasons why communities would build big churches, some of which were cathedrals.

1. Civic pride.
2. Strategic or political reasons...to establish a claim to a certain area or region.
3. Faith. Absolutely true that many faithful people worked on these churches and donated to them.

It is also of note that Protestants have built such structures and sometimes wholly absent any formal church government.

In the current time communities no longer build big churches or cathedrals.

Nope. They build a whole different set of temples for the pagan gods they now worship.

Multi-billion dollar stadiums get built for the worship of footbaal, basebaal, soccerbaal, and the demigod Hockey Puck.

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Multi-billion dollar lavish palaces are built for the worship of courts and government.

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Myself, even if the churches of Europe were sometimes constructed for the wrong reasons they remain acts of beauty committed in the name of God and they endure for centuries.

All of these temples of secular worship, the stadiums and government palaces, all of them will be gone inside of this century. Some will be built in this decade and demolished in the next.
 
Regarding the rise of artificial intelligence, this is a fascinating development. I don't intend to debate Israel / Palestine, my point is the technology, and the fundamental change in the nature of warfare that it may portend (particularly in what targets are classified as "military").

Israel is now actively using an AI to choose targets in Gaza, and is bombing half of the targets that it suggests. This results in a far higher number of targets being bombed than in any previous war, because human spies simply can't identify that many. But an AI can suggest many more possible targets based on data correlations, and the humans then choose to attack the most likely targets. This is a technological development with many implications, obviously some practically positive ones but also many highly concerning ones.

One way it is used is to identify the family homes of Hamas militants, and times when the militant is most likely to be at home. The home can then be targeted at such a time, killing the militant's family and hopefully the militant himself if he is home at that time as predicted.

ZeroHedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero
www.zerohedge.com www.zerohedge.com
Interestingly, the AI system in question is rather offensively named "The Gospel".
 
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FollowingHim said:
Regarding the rise of artificial intelligence, this is a fascinating development. I don't intend to debate Israel / Palestine, my point is the technology, and the fundamental change in the nature of warfare that it may portend (particularly in what targets are classified as "military").

Israel is now actively using an AI to choose targets in Gaza, and is bombing half of the targets that it suggests. This results in a far higher number of targets being bombed than in any previous war, because human spies simply can't identify that many. But an AI can suggest many more possible targets based on data correlations, and the humans then choose to attack the most likely targets. This is a technological development with many implications, obviously some practically positive ones but also many highly concerning ones.

One way it is used is to identify the family homes of Hamas militants, and times when the militant is most likely to be at home. The home can then be targeted at such a time, killing the militant's family and hopefully the militant himself if he is home at that time as predicted.

ZeroHedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero
www.zerohedge.com www.zerohedge.com
Interestingly, the AI system in question is rather offensively named "The Gospel".
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In this usage, all I see is that AI is simply being used as a faster and more efficient method of coordinating data. Trying to emotionalize the process is normal for the opposition.

Let’s bear in mind that Israel has directly warned them about their plans.
If a man keeps his family in a declared target, their blood is on his hands.
 
Some great comedy

 
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