Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

On Mon, 23 Dec 2024, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:

On 12/22/24 4:55 PM, D wrote:

  On Sun, 22 Dec 2024, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
 

On 2024-12-22, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
 

The great strength and the great weakness of christianity is that they
are bound by the book. This is a problem in todays woke world,

 The woke are bound by their own book - which is far more outlandish
than the Bible.

 What bible do they have?

>
 It's all on TicTok ... just not quite consolidated
 into one place  :-)

Ahhh! You made me feel old. I've never had tictok but I hear about it in the media of course. Many countries are thinking about banning it or implementing an age limit I've heard.
Sometimes I wonder about the age on usenet. I feel younger than you. My feeling is that you guys are around 60.

Woke will self destruct into ever smaller factions. Eventually it ends up as individualism, which is good, or it will spend itself on in fighting and go away as a political force.

>
 Woke is already imploding, fast. It was just
 unsustainable nonsense. 'DEI' is in the
 dumpster, all the weird trannie stuff - Joe
 just DROPPED "Title IX". "Equality of Result"
 just couldn't be real. It was all a fanatical
 cult religion. If they could have burned heretics
 at the stake they would have. Still did damage ......

Excellent! My predictions are coming true! ;) It just took a couple of years and a financial crisis. ;)

 I've a cousin (2nd/3rd?) who long back when she was
 about 10 wondered aloud why the govt just didn't
 give everybody Free Money. Then nobody would have
 to work or anything ! She wasn't un-intelligent,
 just hideously naive. Alas 'Woke' Gens-Z/A2,
 even older and supposedly more informed, STILL
 believe in that sort of paradigm. Can't figure out
 how to wipe yer ass - wheeled-in with a needle
 in your arm once a month - you should be director
 of NASA or SecDef or Boeing CEO or something !
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but if they let it go, they won't be christians any longer. I respect
the guys who struggled to reconcile the book with todays world without
giving it up completely.

 The literalists have always had - and been - a problem.  I resolved the
issue in my school days.  The literature classes we took taught us about
metaphor and simile, and I saw no reason why the seven days of creation
should not be metaphorical rather than literal.  Suddenly there was no
conflict.  There are lots of things like that in the book.

 This is the truth!

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 BUT there are still rather a LOT of people who do
 NOT see it as metaphor - but as an exact description.
 They are real, they are many, they are amongst us,
 they are in powerful agencies and governments.
>
 However, would your/my favs be any 'better' for
 the masses, the Big Equation ???

Maybe they can learn? Another powerful answer is that sometimes we just don't know, and that it's ok to suspend judgment and collect further evidence.
For me, that is one of the strengths and the beauty of agnosticism! =)
It touches a little bit on the Natural Ontological Attitude (NOA), I still can't make up my mind if it is brilliant or trivial, but I've thought similar thoughts myself.

 "Mystic crystal revelations and the mind's true
 liberation" - or just Fascism v7.2 ???  :-)

Sadly it can way too often be utilized for fascism 7.2. =(

 Just sayin' ... don't be TOO proud, TOO sure.

True!

 In the 1800s 'science' was NOT convinced of the
 same 'truths' we worship today. Mary Shelly
 did NOT pull that all out of her ass - there
 were 'learned men' who REALLY thought that way.
>
 What will we "know" 100 years from now ?
>
 MAYBE best to leave a lot of stuff - esp with
 political/social implications - kinda "fuzzy".

I think this is wise.