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Bible Study, Part 16

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Creation of Light ( אוֹר ) By Gustave Doré Genesis, Chapter 16 | Sunday – October 11, 2026 T he question of creating a family and the rearing of children are topics that I have covered elsewhere , but of course this chapter of Genesis ( בְּרֵאשִׁית ) will perhaps strike people with modern sensibilities as strange, but I am ensuring you now that there is really nothing strange about this at all, as we shall see below. Which brings me to the need of at least attempting to shed your preconceptions and notions about righteousness , at any rate for the while that you are reading and studying the Bible, because all of these painful conflicts that will inevitable arise during your reading will only serve to distract you and confuse you even more. Yes, you may not understand the sensitive context of these action, but without context , a sense of context, you are only left with an urgent dissonance that cannot be resolved, and this is perhaps the greatest gap that exists between the past an...
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Personal Note LVII

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Yahweh in (יהוה‎) : Moses and the Burning Bush More Notes on Artificial Intelligence | Saturday – October 10, 2026 I n my recent post about Artificial Intelligence  (AI) I made the note that I do not believe that a machine is yet capable of resolving seemingly unsolvable problems, and this belief I still hold. Now, since I wrote that post, there have been some changes that have put the whole issue of AI in a different light, though not different enough to actually change my views: for instance there is now much talk of some kind of AI being capable of solving difficult mathematical problems, and while this may be true, I have yet to see clear evidence of this. Now, if it is true that a machine can solve complicated mathematical problems, then this is just another thing expected, read " Mechanical Procedures ", on the road to complete solidification. I also never did deny the possibility that humanity would eventually create agents independent in their entirety from biology , ...
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Spoils of War?

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Hindu ( ॐ ) depiction of the Battle of Kurukshetra ( कुरुक्षेत्र ), between the Kauravas ( कौरव ) and the Pandavas ( पाण्डव ), recorded in the Mahabharata ( महाभारतम् ) Spoils of War? Friday – October 9, 2026 D euteronomy 13:12 – 18 states many things and the purpose of this post is not to recount that entire passage of the Torah ( תּוֹרָה ), but among one of the things that this passage mentions is the spoils of war that the Israeli nation must take from the town that they have just defeated in a holy war fought in the defence of the name of Yahweh ( יהוה ) . Now, the question then becomes what should be done with the spoils of war? Yes, because today there are plenty of wars being fought all across the earth, read " My Views on Warfare in Modern Times ", and I have been forced to wonder whether or not there are any spoils of war left these days, or if perhaps the power of destruction leaves nothing left to the imagination? See, what Deuteronomy 13:12 – 17 eventually makes ...
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Answering Readers, Part 14

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Biblical ( תַּנַ״ךְ ) depiction of the flight from Sodom and Gomorrah Family Honour | Thursday – October 8, 2026 F amily and the honour of family can sometimes be quite sensitive subjects, especially when people outside the family have a very culturally divergent concept of honour, and this is perhaps and in particular noticeable in the context of multiculturalism in the Western world , where many Westerners have a completely libertarian and almost hedonistic sense of honour based only on individualistic and material standing in the world. This largely Western and may I say action oriented sense of honour will invariably clash with other cultures' sense of what true honour is, and on top of this the Western sense of honour is essentially disconnected from history , which only furthers this painful friction.     Now, in this part/installment of this series, " Answering Readers series ", this is exactly the question that I have been asked to deal with, and I should warn al...
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