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The claim was that covid vaccines prevented infection in the first place - that's the whole point of a *vaccine*: Here's a piece trumping that from November 2020, in case anyone forgot: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-54873105 And while it's wonderful that so much data has been collected on...

Ok, let's can the personal attacks, thank you. Otherwise you will be punished in either this life or an afterlife. :)

I remember when I was growing up it was well-known that bumblebees were too heavy to fly, and fish swam faster than physics allowed. It was only around the turn of the 21st century that it was found that it was turbulence that was responsible in both situations. Point being that observation can...

I see God as an active principle in the universe, rather than a being in itself - though some would argue that the universe in itself is consious. :) However, the idea that this is the only reality seems to go against the everyday experience that the same patterns repeat on smaller and larger...

Indeed, on other areas of the forum it would be unwelcome, but it's fine on the Christianity board. :)

Originally, there were officially no side effects from the covid vaccine, reports were censored, and any one who tried to draw attention to the issue was hysterically denounced as a conspiracy nut. This is what really annoys me about the whole issue - the blanket censorship and dismissal of...

I agree, but then that invites the whole concept of relative moralism - what seems wrong to one person might not seem wrong to another. Additionally, terrible things that happen in human history can result in very positive outcomes. I doubt anyone would argue WWII was a good thing with tens of...

Interesting to see in the BBC's coverage of the latest actions by RFK finally - though quietly - mention that myocarditis has been recorded as a side-effect of the covid vaccine: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly75p9yd67o What it doesn't say, while generally definitely mRNA vaccines -...

You're welcome to post links to a couple of favorites, if they're on YouTube - I would be very interested in hearing them. :)

I fondly remember his greatest hits album a friend played (Tom Lehrer was banned from BBC radio!), especially:

I'm reminded of a quote from the end of Terry Pratchett's Hogfather: "take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder and sieve it through the finest sieve and THEN show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy." I don't understand why people expect there must be some form of...

Only reading very slowly. Still on the Very Short Introduction, which seems to be more a sociological analysis than the beliefs in themselves.

This has been the case with search engines for a long time. In fact, I seem to remember at least one US intelligence agency just bypassing the entire process by directly tapping into the data cables of internet giants like Google so they could hoover all the information they needed anyway. :)

Yes, they can: Important to separate political posturing from spiritual reality. :)

I've just upgraded the forum software to the latest version. It was a large upgrade, so there's the potential that it may have resulted in some things being broken somewhere. Therefore if you find any issues, please do report them here. Also, hopefully that might address some login problems I...

Of which ChatGPT is not one. I agree with many of your opinions, but we really need to keep AI tools out of IO because they are certainly not at a stage yet to be considered reliable. In the meantime, thread closed.

Lol, my apologies - I was going to say Orthodox, but I wasn't sure how accurate my use of the term would be. :)

My first thought is that if you've experienced past lives, one of those might have had a similar object, and so is trying to trigger a memory of it.

I miss bananabrain's sharp wit and stout defence of Judaism, yet his ability to engage sympathetically with a liberal Jew such as Dauer. Vaj had personal issues, and I've no idea how things might have developed since then. A shame as again he really contributed to the sense of community with...

You do realize the default response is going to be that you are dreaming, rather than visiting parallel worlds? And that it might actually be an example of Lucid Dreaming, where you take some form of control of your dreams?