(Jan 9, 2021 11:57 PM)Secular Sanity Wrote: [ -> ][...] When I was younger, I thought that Karl Marx was black. He looks like it, doesn't he? Interestingly, there is some work indicating that Jews have African ancestry.
The non-Caucasian or fractional degree of such images in the link below are most likely the ones closer to what Jesus looked like. I recollect a Jewish poster of Euro descent or mixture (like Gal Gadot) getting upset by that depiction of inhabitants in the Roman province of Judea, but there's no getting around that probably being the case prior to the version of diaspora caused by Rome in 70 C.E. The occasional characters who laugh at Black Christians for worshiping a white guy are the ones that are potentially clueless, and the latter are justified in their portraits of Jesus having a dark complexion (or at least as correct as anybody else minus being able to travel back in time).
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbm=...e&oq=&gs_l=
If I was president, stepped off a plane and saw that supporting rabble awaiting me, I’d walk over to Joe Biden’s and hand him the keys to the White House.
Reminds me of Backslash777 from Sciforums decades ago. Basically a hoax involving someone that claimed to be an artificial intelligence, they caused quite a stir at the time even until they eventually had to come clean due to how naive people were being.
(Jan 9, 2021 11:47 PM)C C Wrote: [ -> ] (Jan 9, 2021 09:34 PM)Zinjanthropos Wrote: [ -> ]Feels like the Capitol was taken over by The Trailer Park Boys.
They felt like they were merely acting out in a "Jerry Springer Show" situation, so no doubt it's becoming a traumatic shock to them now that their bosses are firing them, they're being pursued by the authorities, and classed as insurrectionists and domestic terrorists.
Jebediah: "I was just poking fun at her, but she took me serious." (Absolutely ancient pregnancy pun.)
How is storming the Capitol by the extreme right any different than action by extreme left rioters, each involves a massive sense of entitlement? Said it before, ‘we’re all hypocrites’.
(Jan 10, 2021 02:54 PM)Zinjanthropos Wrote: [ -> ]How is storming the Capitol by the extreme right any different than action by extreme left rioters, each involves a massive sense of entitlement? Said it before, ‘we’re all hypocrites’.
Yep, the journalists are right: What started on Jan 6 seizes top rank in terms of infamy. The massive scale of it doesn't even remotely compare to the summer activity. The Capitol was detonated and burned to the ground, the riots lasted for months, sections of the city were seized for weeks, Washington D.C. was looted, gutted, and damaged from top to bottom for days, etc. Even the peaceful percentage of the trailer-park protestors prowled the residential neighborhoods in large parade-like groups over many nights, ritually shouting "
Wake up mother-f___ers, wake up!", amplified bullhorn included.
2021 storming of the United States Capitol
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_storm...es_Capitol
- - - BLM related protests - - -
The media literally telling people that is the authorities who should be held accountable (i.e., they're the enemy) and it is the looting, fires, and destruction across the country which should be ignored:
Stop Focusing On Looting And Start Focusing On Police Accountability
https://www.forbes.com/sites/morgansimon...ntability/
Protesters In Seattle Take Over 6-Block Area, Announce An 'Autonomous Zone'
https://www.npr.org/2020/06/12/876293196...omous-zone
Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (June 8 to July 1)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Hi...omous_Zone
Damage, fires, looting as D.C. protesters ignore curfew
https://www.washingtonblade.com/2020/06/...re-curfew/
Georgetown Cleans Up After Looting
https://georgetowner.com/articles/2020/0...s-looting/
Protesters set Minneapolis police station ablaze
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52844192
‘They Have Lost Control’: Why Minneapolis Burned
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/03/us/mi...floyd.html
BLM protesters set Portland police station on fire as riot intensifies
https://nypost.com/2020/08/24/blm-protes...n-on-fire/
(Jan 10, 2021 11:09 AM)stryder Wrote: [ -> ]Reminds me of Backslash777 from Sciforums decades ago. Basically a hoax involving someone that claimed to be an artificial intelligence, they caused quite a stir at the time even until they eventually had to come clean due to how naive people were being.
The opposite happened in a rare, still surviving Usenet group circa 12 years ago. A computer engineer and small company owner who regularly posted there unleashed some clumsy piece of software that just seemed to be snipping pieces from a sampling of several posts and cobbling them together, that also tacked on phrases conveying a sense of criticizing or attacking the individual it was replying to. As incoherent as the responses were, several members continued to irritably respond to it (believing it to be a person) because they just couldn't ignore the disrepectful tone of it.
Would you all mind if I invited James (from sci forums) here? He won’t see this as a betrayal of sci forums, I don’t think. But, I won’t if you think it’s a bad idea. He has great insight and enjoys science for science sake. He might enjoy a change of scenery.
I used to think James was fairly intellectually honest, but he seems to have suffered from Trump derangement syndrome and now only imbibes radical leftist garbage. I'd bet he won't stay long, if he comes at all, without moderation on his side.
I’ll see what he says to the invite.
(Jan 11, 2021 12:14 AM)Leigha Wrote: [ -> ]Would you all mind if I invited James (from sci forums) here? He won’t see this as a betrayal of sci forums, I don’t think. But, I won’t if you think it’s a bad idea. He has great insight and enjoys science for science sake. He might enjoy a change of scenery.
It would also enable Nick (Ostro) to plead his case about being allowed back on Sciforums. Not that anyone else is realistically entertaining such a possibility occurring for the nth time. But at least he could communicate his piece and get all that beseeching out of the way (finally).
Dying to get back on Sciforums
https://www.scivillage.com/thread-6099.html