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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. :)

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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?

I suspect the entire issue of the original question isn't about whether prayer has its place in the workplace, but rather how much the separation of Church and state should be enforced in US government agencies, which I suspect might be more of a political question. I would hope we could avoid...

My bad, I was being sloppy with my use of language - I'm the only admin, and the moderating team can be found here: https://www.interfaith.org/community/members/?key=staff_members As the Christianity section is easily the busiest, we have what I hope is a fairly balanced spread of mods from...

Welcome to IO, @Achilleion. :)

Nothing wrong with having faith without an organization - you'll probably find that it's very common indeed. :)

There's no specific admin for any specific area. Hope that helps. :)

Exactly. Philosophy was a world view that determined your actions. In the ancient and prehistoric world it's impossible to separate ideas of religion from daily living and world views - the language just wasn't there to do so. It would be like trying to separate belief that science and...

My understanding is that philosophy is effectively a framework for understanding the world around us on a fundamental level - so science would be a philosophical system, Christianity would be a philosophical system, etc. Trying to separate such systems from daily living, as is done with...

Let's not make discussions personal, please - discussion the posts, not the posters, please. :)

Here are a couple of pieces more specifically about that: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn7440-gender-bending-chemicals-found-to-feminise-boys/ https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-human-beast/201911/gender-fluidity-and-hormone-disruptors

Normally I see him disparagingly referred to as an anti-vaxxer, and anti-science, but this BBC indepth piece makes for a much more balanced consideration of his approach to challenging health issues in the US: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ceq7jx3dlj9o One criticism I'd make of the piece...

Just to say, can we stick to posts where people their own posts and comments, please? I don't want to see discussions where responses are all automated, thanks, and AI has fundamental problems with facts and "hallucinations" enough without bringing them into the minefield of interfaith...