So, no, it is not the case that Paul and Jesus asserted: a tribal religion with its Son of Man/Son of God can stop human beings from entering the afterlife. The Son of Man or Christ is not controlling reincarnation. Yes, a Jewish woman does not go to eternal fire and eternal punishment.
So if you want to be a fish in a pond skeptic that there is no larger world, go right ahead.
You’re committed to being a skeptic and committed to finding every i that is not dotted and every t that is not crossed disregarding when intelligence advances at speed of a short hand where there is understanding without every t crossed and ever i dotted,
and you miss the intelligence of the afterlife dimensional world or other dimensional worlds that have come through our pond giving us paranormal entities, experiences, and powers.
A person dies and they rise out of their body and can see, for example, the intensive care unit trying to bring us back to earthly life.
A person dies, leaving that height and goes on to the height of a world with at least one more higher dimension.
Then they come back.
What, you’re skeptical of arithmetic? Consciousness can go to a higher dimension but cannot come back to its lower dimension?
The video The Controversial Discoveries at CERN mentions the mind connecting to the 11 dimensions.
It seems Billy Carson is talking about this:
In 2017, Blue Brain Project discovered that neural cliques connected to one another in up to eleven dimensions. The project’s director suggested that the difficulty of understanding the brain is partly because the mathematics usually applied for studying neural networks cannot detect that many dimensions.
Blue Brain Project – Wikipedia
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So, check Paul again. Does the lack of faith in a historical Jesus prevent the mind from connecting to the 11 dimensions?
Well, one can have faith in a composite character of historical fiction.
One can have faith in a historical character as recorded in sources that categorically cancel each other out:
Symoptic Gospels vs Gospel of John
1) The Kingdom of God will be seen in our lifetime and you will see the Son of Man’s coming in his glory
vs
2) Oh, no you have to die and be reborn in spirit to enter not an earthly kingdom but a spiritual kingdom.
Well, Jesus, are earthlings-human beings composed of
a) only body
b) only spirit (in the future state where the Kingdom of God is, when Jesus is talking to Nicodemus on this topic)
c) body and spirit?
In 2017, Blue Brain Project discovered that neural cliques connected to one another in up to eleven dimensions.
This has nothing to do with physical dimensions. It has to do with the mathematics of how the neurons connect to one another. Chat-GPT4 uses a semantic space that is over 1000 dimensions. It is extremely powerful, in part because it can maps semantics in so many dimensions, capturing and isolating all sorts of interesting nuances and making interesting concections between word tokens, but this has nothing to do with actual physical dimensions. It has to do with the math of the model being used.
You’re committed to being a skeptic…
Guilty as charged. But as opposed to what? Terminal credulity?
What is skepticism?
One should proportion one’s beliefs to the evidence.
The genuine seeker after truth must begin with the assumption that they may not already possess it.
No truth claim is beyond critique. (All valid truth claims purposely invite critique.)
No method of inquiry is complete without incorporating an internal mechanism to detect error. (How do you know when you’re wrong?)
All things being equal, the simplest explanation tends to be the best.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.
– Richard Feynman
“One should proportion one’s beliefs to the evidence”
As an idea, treat your beliefs as beads on a wire. With more evidence, move a belief closer to certainty. When an argument comes that undercuts the belief, move the belief closer to the ‘probably not correct’ side. But don’t let your bead fall off the wire on either end into ‘absolute certainty.’
Feynman, Richard P. 1998. _The Meaning of It All_, 133pp. On 26-27:
Scientists, therefore, are used to dealing with doubt and uncertainty. All scientific knowledge is uncertain. This experience with doubt and uncertainty is important. I believe that it is of very great value, and one that extends beyond the sciences. I believe that to solve any problem that has never been solved before, you have to leave the door to the unknown ajar. You have to permit the possibility that you do not have it exactly right. Otherwise, if you have made up your mind already, you might not solve it.
Lyttleton, R. A. 1977. “The Nature of Knowledge” in _The Encyclopaedia of Ignorance_, Ronald Duncan and Miranda Weston-Smith, eds. (NY: Pocket Books), 9-17. Lyttleton was a Professor of Theoretical Astronomy, and Fellow of St John’s College, University of Cambridge. On 13, 14:
The scientific attitude to adopt in regard to any hypothesis in my view (and we are talking of subjective things) can be represented schematically by means of a simple model of a bead that can be moved on a short length of horizontal wire (see diagram on next page). Suppose the left-hand end [is] denoted by 0 (zero) and the right-hand end by 1 (unity), and let 0 correspond to complete disbelief unqualified, and the right-hand end 1 to absolute certain belief in the hypothesis. Now the principle of practice that I would urge on all intending scientist in regard to any and every hypothesis is: _Never let your bead ever quite reach the position 0 or 1._
This is quite possible, for however close to the end one may have set it, there are still an infinite number of points to move the bead to in either direction in the light of new data or new arguments or whatever. If genuine scientific data reach your attention that increase your confidence in the hypothesis, then move your bead suitably towards 1, but never let it quite get there. If decreasing confidence is engendered by genuine data, then let your bead move towards 0, but again never let it quite reach there. Your changing confidence must be the result of your own independent scientific judgment of the data or arguments or proofs and so on, and not be allowed to result from arguments based on reputation of others, nor upon such things as numerical strength of believers or disbelievers.
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It seems to be a common defect of human minds that they tend to crave for complete certainty of belief or disbelief in anything. Not only is this undesirable scientifically, but it must be recognized that no such state is attainable in science. However successful and reliable a theory may be up to any point of time, further data may come along and show a need for adjustment of the theory, while at the other extreme, however little confidence one has in a hypothesis, new
data may change the situation. We come now to the reason why one should never allow a bead to get right to 0 or 1: it is that, if one does so, the bead will fall into a deep potential-well associated with every facet of non-scientific or even anti-scientific emotion. In some cases the depth may tend to infinity, especially with advancing years, and no amount of data
conflicting with the certain belief or disbelief will ever get the bead out of the well back onto even the tenor of the wire. Any attempt to bring about the uplifting of a bead so situated, by means of data or reason, can sometimes lead the owner of the bead to manifest further attitudes unworthy scientifically. In some cases it may be useless to discuss the hypothesis or theory to which the bead relates.
On the other hand, if the bead is kept somewhere on the wire _between_ 0 and 1 always, it can if necessary be moved quite readily in response to new data with the owner remaining calmly tranquil rather than undergoing an emotional upset. With such reaction to hypotheses and theories, one can get genuine scientific pleasure from adjusting one’s beads to take account of new data and new arguments.
In Nostradamus’ letter (epistle) to King Henry II, Nostradamus describes a situation that matches the end of the Soviet Union in late 1991 with remarkable detail, even stating that this miserable daughter (the USSR) of the land of the North Wind (Russia) would be enlarged after a holocaust and war against fascist fatherlands (specifically describing the fascist lands as German, Roman, and Spanish) and then a cold war against “the children of opposite ideas” and would eventually collapse after just 73 years and 7 months. (January 18, 1918–August 18, 1991) I consider this a vague but accurate prediction by Nostradamus.
-David Montaigne, historian
5 years ago
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(Russia) would be enlarged after a holocaust and war against fascist fatherlands (specifically describing the fascist lands as German, Roman, and Spanish . . . and would eventually collapse after just 73 years and 7 months. (January 18, 1918–August 18, 1991)
But, Spain was neutral in WWI, and Italy was an ally to Russia.
Who predicted the future other than Nostradamus?
Maharshi Vedvyas, Shukdev, Gautam Buddha, Brahmendra Swami, Soordas and many other prophets have described the future accurately because they themselves were cosmic powers. Many other contemporary astrologers including Nostradamus, Baba Vanga, Jean Dixon and Professor Harar etc. quite accurately described the future. However, Nostradamus and Baba Vanga described some future events so accurately as if they were watching those events happening. Such prophets are divine messengers who are given special powers to tell us the future events for specific purposes when the time comes. The world is still unaware of the amazing accuracy of some Nostradamus predictions, but more revelations would be made about his prophecies by 2025, the time described by him as the period of a total change of the order in the world
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6 years ago
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Are there people other than Nostradamus who have predicted the future?
Yes, many people throughout history have claimed to predict the future, although the accuracy and validity of their predictions vary widely. Some famous examples include:
1> Baba Vanga: A Bulgarian mystic who made numerous predictions, some of which are believed to have come true, though others remain unfulfilled or disputed.
2> Edgar Cayce: Known as the “Sleeping Prophet,” Cayce made many predictions and gave health readings while in a trance-like state. Some of his predictions are said to have come true, though like many prophets, there is debate around the accuracy of his claims.
3> Jeanne Dixon: An American psychic who gained fame for her predictions, including foreseeing the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. However, many of her predictions were vague and open to interpretation.
4> Cheiro: An Irish astrologer and palmist who made predictions about world events and famous personalities. He gained popularity in the early 20th century for his accurate predictions.
– Katherine Davila
In a 1956 issue of Parade magazine, Jeane Dixon stated that a Democrat would win the presidency in 1960 and either be assassinated or die in office. After John F. Kennedy’s assassination in 1963, this reported prediction brought Dixon national attention and established her reputation as a psychic.
Spain was nominally neutral during World War II, though under General Franco’s far-right Nationalist regime it was politically aligned with Nazi Germany. Spain did not actually join the Axis side but it collaborated with the Nazis in many areas.
Spain was nominally neutral, Porphyry-on-the-periphery.
In Nostradamus’ letter (epistle) to King Henry II,
Nostradamus describes a situation that matches the end of the Soviet Union in late 1991 with remarkable detail,
even stating that this miserable daughter (the USSR) of the land of the North Wind (Russia)
would be enlarged after a holocaust and war against fascist fatherlands
(specifically describing the fascist lands as German, Roman, and Spanish)
Porphyry:
Italy was on the same side as Russia: Italy was an ally of Russia
Steefen:
What are the facts of WWII, Porphyry-on-the-periphery?
The Axis: Germany Italy Japan
The Allies: Great Britain, France, the U.S., Soviet Union, and to a lesser extent, China
See Britannica
and then a cold war against “the children of opposite ideas” and would eventually collapse after just 73 years and 7 months. (January 18, 1918–August 18, 1991) I consider this a vague but accurate prediction by Nostradamus.
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