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No. What is fantastic is the Egyptological belief that words and phrases have no meaning at all except as an expression of the superstition of the authors!!! Everywhere "osiris", "N", "osiris N", and "king" appear in the PT linguists can only see "insert name here"!!! Astounding! How can a language exist that not only breaks Zipf's Law as Ancient Language does but also has only a few hundred words where every word has no meaning?!?!!! How could people communicate with nothing but spells and incantations? In a language with so few words why would they use so many different words to mean the same thing? Egyptologists believe the language was exactly like ours and never noticed the differences. They believe the people thought just like Egyptologists even though their words show a different way of thinking. They believe that being so superstitious the language could break every linguistic law. These are fantastical beliefs. They would never consider that the language that programs the internet uses only eight words and also breaks Zipf's Law, Heep's Law, et al and just like the Pyramid Texts. This is exactly because they believe "osiris N", "N", and "king" all mean exactly the same thing. Meanwhile we say "red apple" to refer to......drum roll, please,... ...an apple that is red. If it were used in Ancient Language it would represent both "redness" and the state of being an "apple". Both apply. It's the same thing with "osiris N". They are saying that this is a different concept from both "N" and "king". The king becomes an osiris when he is transmogrified into the pyramid after being found justified. N is a dead king, osiris is a dead theory that replaced "atum" a living theory, "king" is whomsoever was found justified such that they would read these rituals, and osiris N is the justified king himself as the pyramid. Different words have different meanings. This is especially important when you have a language with fewer words. Fantastical indeed!!!!

I haven't been in this thread for quite awhile. There were always people saying Ukraine was winning and it was a matter of time due to Russia's lack of resources and manpower. Is that still the case?

Ridiculed? No, not at all really. I stated that if it wasn't drawn by Plato then it was an interpretation of his writings. I clearly stated this in post #254; "Dear God. So, this is a map drawn by Plato? Because if it's not then it's simply someone's interpretation of his story How in the world can you get that where someone penciled in that directly corresponds to the Richat though? That's a nifty jump to conclusions. Hopefully you're not an investigator or detective for your "day job". Who the hell is in charge of this bowl of fruits and nuts?" Check your work before you post, and please stop with the victim nonsense.

If the drugs are made in Britain... Maybe...? 🤔

That’s fascinating local history, can’t believe I never came across it before. I always wanted to go scuba diving there, glad I didn’t. My luck I’d be the one a-hole who accidentally blows himself up. Or I’d reel something in while fishing.

That's an an odd bit of apologetics. Paul wasn't a disciple, and James the Just wasn't, either. There is no controversy that there were and still are Christian apostles (people who are sent somewhere to preach and maybe perform other tasks conducive to the the spread of the movement). The question was whether during his natural life, an identifiable historical Jesus had disciples (even simply assuming that Jesus existed, the question of whether or not he had disciples would still be worth asking). There are some other problems with the article. To name one, even if we assume that Josephus's Antiquities 20.200 refers to James the Just, the passage does not portray him as a martyr (Josephus provides no explanation what charges were made against the defendants at that trial), and in fact it is unclear whether any of the defendants were actually executed. Josephus doesn't bother to say one way or the other. (The story isn't "about them," they are just pawns in the politics of the high priesthood - politics that Josephus and his family actively engaged in). A ROFL line from the article: Way. It would be Luke, not Jesus, being copied. There is some trendy scholarship these days about whether Luke used Josephus as a source (and Luke says outright that he did use sources). Using Josephus would make Luke later than other estimates, but it's a good question. As to the specific incident, though, Josephus is credible that he was a star. It is the sort of thing that could happen (Josephus was definitely in contact with the top Second Temple people throughout his life until he defected to the Romans). And in neither Jesus's nor Josephus's case are we getting the elders' report of the affair. In my experience, teachers have favorite pupils, I doubt that school was that much different back then. That assumes he actually did any magic tricks. What we have is a story about him doing a specific magic trick. And there are other stories about him doing other stage magic performances known to be performed by others in the time and place (e.g. exorcism). If a real person was well-known for his many and varied public performances, it is surprising that we don't hear more about him. If a tar baby merely accumulates others' stories, then there's no mystery about that. Um, we don't know whether it was active before Paul (the first writer who mentions it). John is a generation or two after Paul, so no mystery that John would be thinking about it (although his "Last Supper" doesn't have the bread and wine incident that Paul narrated and the other canonical gospels include). That doesn't seem to have anything to do with Jewish magicians. Apparently some Christian gatherings were private, or some parts of the gatherings were, and there was suspicion about private gatherings of unrelated people in those days. Add to that Christians talking about loving their brothers and sisters, and you get outsiders thinking incest; talking about eating and drinking the Savior and outsiders think cannibalism.

They were storing, testing and dumping munitions during and after WW1 and 2 and there are several ammo bunkers there. Ft. Miles is one.

And who thinks Tesla was talking to aliens.

They fear that the mountain may fall into the ocean. Crazy. https://nypost.com/2024/04/18/world-news/indonesian-volcano-erupts-several-times-officials-fear-it-could-collapse-into-the-sea-as-tsunami-warning-issued/

I never knew that. What were they from? I would imagine the U-boat 60 miles off Point Pleasant still has a few live torpedoes on her.

The article states that in life the specimens of the new ichthyosaur species would have been larger than the giant pliosaur recently found in the Dorset cliffside. 25 meters, or roughly 75 feet long. That’s an awesome marine reptile. Early paleontologists would be blown away by a discovery like this.

some water fireworks?

damn, the lady is still predicting stuff from the grave? impressive

A viable solution is self care.

I have many thoughts on this. I am glad that politicians are been watched for things like this. The left watching the right and the right watching the left. 4 Is the mayor stupid enough to think they could do this? Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser apparently traveled to the ritzy Masters golf tournament on the taxpayer's dime – writing off the expense as a business opportunity to "promote sports and economic development" in the nation's capital. Professional golf's major event The Master's in Augusta, Georgia is more than 500 miles from Washington, D.C. A spokesperson confirmed to DC News Now that the airline flights to and from Augusta, Georgia, were paid with city funds, though the cost of the flights was not released. https://www.foxnews.com/us/dc-mayors-taxpayer-funded-trip-ritzy-masters-golf-tourney-called-economic-development-visit

Oh, I forgot. We don't do it for converts either. We have rule against missionarying and promoting our personal beliefs. But we have a program with the AFSC that helps preserve and restore indigenous beliefs and culture.

And ranchers are complete science heads or complete rubes. There is no happy medium.

That's what "Friends" are for.

I will not stop calling criminals what they are just to save their hurt feelings.

Hey UM, The observation below, though presented briefly in another thread here on UM, I consider to be deserving of a thread of its own. So here it is. Recently the World Scan Project released a video of the so-called ‘Chambers of Construction’ within the Great Pyramid which, naturally, captured some of the painted ‘quarry marks’ upon the various chamber walls. My attention was immediately drawn to this group of painted markings that are found upon the west wall of Nelson’s Chamber (the 2nd of the four chambers blasted open by Colonel Howard Vyse in 1837): According to his Private Journal entry of April 27th 1837 (below), Colonel Vyse entered Nelson's Chamber and apparently drew his own copy of these wall markings: Due to the importance of these markings, Vyse instructed 2 surveys of them to be made. A small-scale survey by J. S. Perring and a second 1:1 survey of the markings by J. R. Hill. From Vyse’s published account of 10th May 1837 (below), it seems evident that Mr Perring carried out his survey before Mr Hill began his: Perring produced the following copy of these wall markings from Nelson’s Chamber: New York Public Library (Digital Collections) Some point after May 9th (but before 19th May), J.R. Hill produced a 1:1 version of the same marks, painted onto 2 separate sheets: J. R. Hill’s facsimile drawings of the Nelson’s Chamber markings (western wall). On 19th May, Hill’s 2 facsimile sheets of these painted markings in Nelson’s chamber were compared against the wall markings and four individual witnesses (R.K. Arbuthnot, Col. Howard Vyse, Joseph Brettell and Henry Raven) all attested to the accuracy of Hill’s facsimile drawings by placing their signatures on the sheets. In their notes on Hill’s facsimiles, the British Museum write the following: “19. A red ink and brush copy of hieroglyphic graffiti. 'These are, as far as circumstances will admit an exact / facsimiles (sic) of the characters which are found on the walls / of Nelson's Chamber in the Great Pyramid of Ghizeh / opened on the 25th of April 1837 - / Ghizeh May 19th 1837. [signed] [RK?] Arbuthnot - / Col: Howard Vyse / Joseph Cartwright Brettell - Civil Engineer / Henry Raven.' 'on the Second Stone of the Western Side. No.1. / Drawn by JR Hill'. In red ink: 'N.C. N 3'.” (see here). As can be seen in the British Museum notes (from the above UM post), the four witnesses' signatures have been noted by the museum on all of Mr Hill’s facsimile drawings (except those in Campbell’s Chamber which would not be open until 27th May ). In 1931, Egyptologist Alan Rowe also drew these markings, thus: So, to summarise all of this we have the following: What becomes immediately apparent is the appearance of the long vertical line (the ‘Stick’) in the drawings of Vyse and Hill (witnessed also by 4 men on 19th May 1837) and the disappearance of this stick in the drawing of Perring (1837), Rowe (1931) and the modern photo: Anyone on UM care to offer up a rational and logical explanation for this apparent paradox / conflicting information? SC

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/17/asia/indonesia-mount-ruang-volcano-eruption-intl-hnk/index.html — Indonesian authorities on Wednesday ordered hundreds of villagers to evacuate following multiple eruptions of a remote island volcano, raising fears it could collapse into the sea and trigger a tsunami.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/17/us/bryan-kohberger-idaho-killings-suspect-alibi/index.html

We're Quakers. We hold the corner on helping out.

Red Cross doctors flipping out and reading about it after I heard it.

Last night we had turkey sandwiches, french fries and fresh veggies.