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Cake day: July 14th, 2024

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  • I suspect if you disabled watch history it won’t remember. You can also selectively remove videos from your watch history. I’m not sure if there are separate settings for watch history and timestamp.

    Playing just a few seconds may not be enough. Two minutes should be. So it determines you’re actually intending to watch where you are (at the beginning).


  • As we can see on the left, this seems to be a scan, copy, and fax device.

    The white and green buttons are labeled with Start, with a physical indent to indicate the relation. The white one is labeled with black [Start], and the green one is labeled with Color [Start]. The red button is labeled with Stop to stop the process and Exit to exit menus.

    It’s so obviously clear! /s









  • After reading a bit of the Torah, it got me thinking, why aren’t there any references to people who could not have been known to its followers at the time? No mention of East Asians or Native Americans. Did God just forget about them when he talked through Moses? Or he thought they weren’t important enough to mention?

    It’s difficult to answer if your premise is that the Torah is truthfully the word of god.

    If you take a neutral, or opposite viewpoint, it’s very simple and obvious to answer. If people created the Tora, and they either had no knowledge or no interest during the creation process, it’s obvious why they are not mentioned.

    Wouldn’t it be effective to convince followers of legitimacy if a religion could accurately predict a scientific phenomenon before its followers have the means of discovering it?

    This makes me think of shamans using powdered materials to create colorful sparks when thrown into a fire. It’s entirely based on existing material and physical phenomenon, but through knowledge and ignorance, can be used as a tool of misguidance and misinterpretation.

    Why wouldn’t he give them information that could expand the possibilities of what they were capable of?

    You’re asking so many questions that throughout so many religions and gods can not be answered. You get more and more confused.

    If you shift the perspective, and don’t assume a god as a premise, I think it’s fairly obvious to answer. If instead of asking “why did god do it this way” you ask “if this exists now, how did it reach this today through history, why is it presented the way it is, and who originally created it an why”, will you reach a conclusion of “god did it because x”, or something else?


    It is good that you are asking these questions. What does it mean if there are such uncertainties about these religious documents? What value do they hold? Who gives them their value? And why? How was it in the past, and how is it today?

    What are alternative explanations? What is more fundamentally true vs arbitrary or artificial meaning? What views are more likely, what claims are more likely truthful, what is complete or incomplete, what is selective or encompassing, what served personal, community, political purposes vs what are fundamental truths?