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The idea that covid leaked from the Chinese lab at Wuhan, while carrying out US-sponsored research that would have been illegal to do in the US, I thought was widely known and accepted. It's hard to quickly follow all of the details on the Whitehouse page, though - I've only had time to skim...

The planets get lighter and colder the farther away from the sun they are. They don't get either colder or daker the closer they are to the sun.

Thank you very much - this sounds like what I was asking about. It appears I was confusing Brahma and Brahman? If so, my apologies!

Ah, yes - this sounds like what I was thinking. If Brahma dreams the universe, then does this mean Brahma is effectively the mind of the universe?

I'm under the impression that there's a specific deity in Hinduism who represents the mind of the universe, but I always get mixed up whether it's Brahma or Vishnu. Is it one of these, or have I mixed up my concepts entirely? Thank you for any replies. :)

Actually, apparently this whole story is more marketing than substance - that what they actually did was try to engineer existing wolf DNA for some of the characteristics they believed dire wolves had. There's apparently no Jurassic Park involved, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g9ejy3gdvo

This sort of personal attack is not welcome here. I would have removed it but it has already been replied to and discussed, so there's little point removing it now. Either way, a reminder to all to discuss the posts, not the poster. In that regard, while powessy's story is interesting, I would...

I think FaithfulServant got it on the nose when she pointed out there have always been extremists (on all sides), and gave the Westboro Baptist Church as a particular example.

It doesn't need our experience - but as we're all connected to the same superorganism the experience is inevitably shared.

But this is not a science board, it's one for discussing Eastern religions. Please try and stay on topic.

As TLW points out, reincarnation is not resurrection. I believe reincarnation depends on a non-physical soul to return.

Just a reminder this is the Christianity board, where people are invited to discuss issues relating to Christianity in order to better understand it.

Actually, the Venice thing is true! https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20250324-the-ancient-forest-that-supports-venice Never seen anything ever suggested about anything under the pyramids of Giza, though.

Ah, yes - that's the guy - funding US research at Wuhan, that would have been illegal to do in the US itself because it was otherwise considered too dangerous and unethical.

Lol, I saw something like that on FaceBook claiming the same for under Venice. :)

There's nothing irrational about believing in God or a soul. It's actually not believing that is more irrational - it's a refusal to reject the truth of existence before you. :) But, you're welcome to shut your mind to it - after all, what's more important is not what a person believes, but...

From a layman's perspective, the purpose of a vaccine is to prevent either someone from catching a specific infection or from spreading it. If the Pfizer vaccine does neither, then can it really be called a vaccine as opposed to an experimental medical procedure? Btw, the position I'm coming...

I find the opposite surprising - that we live in a universe specifically designed to not just form or develop but also sustain and progress life, but we overlook this because the extraordinary has become the ordinary to us. Don't get lost in theistic ideas of what God or the Divine or Universal...

We are all the universe experiencing itself. When cells develop and grow into new life, they draw some of the energy from the universe to it, and self-sustains it for a while. But once that physical form dies away, the energy held there is released back to rejoin the universe.

Unfortunately, with the Pfizer covid vaccine there was very little science. According to an EU inquiry, there were adverse reactions in the original Pfizer trials, but these were removed to ensure the results looked good enough to sell to governments. And let's face it, Pfizer originally claimed...