Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

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:
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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  :-)

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 ......
   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 !

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.

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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!

   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 ???
   "Mystic crystal revelations and the mind's true
   liberation" - or just Fascism v7.2 ???  :-)
   Just sayin' ... don't be TOO proud, TOO sure.
   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".