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Great Courses - No Excuses: Existentialism and the Meaning of Life and Astrology
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Steefen
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April 24, 2020 - 12:29 am

The charade is that the novel coronavirus is not full understood but people are trying to develop a vaccine and claim this certainly is the solution.

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April 24, 2020 - 12:40 am

Furthermore, a mysterious blood-clotting complication is killing coronavirus patients.

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The charade also involves disparaging hydroxychloroquine

A) to help with the blood clotting problems

and

B) MedCram is saying this drug does help

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April 24, 2020 - 12:27 pm

Stephen said
Ben Carson is living proof that you can be a medical expert and still be an utter crank.  There is no conspiracy except the conspiracy of incompetence on the part of our current national leadership in the face of a medical crisis.   

Steefen said

You do not express yourself well.

The Black man, Ben Carson, a former brain surgeon is living proof one can be a brain surgeon and be an utter crank.

Slang. Crank (person), a pejorative term used for a person who holds an unshakable belief that most of his or her contemporaries consider to be false.

What is the unshakable belief of Ben Carson to which you are referring?

What conspiracy to which you are referring is what?

Carson’s race is your issue not mine.  Don’t put words into my mouth.  Crankiness knows no racial bounds.  My late Uncle Ed, by profession an electrical engineer, went to his grave thinking that the space shuttle disturbed the weather.

Carson is on record shilling for a dietary supplement company and claiming that these substances could cure prostate cancer and autism.   He is a Young Earth Creationist.  Of course crankiness is in the eye of the beholder and you may not think these positions are such. 

Once again conspiracy is your word.  In the last election the benighted citizens of the country, the few who voted, turned the day to day operations of our nation over to the most purblind and reactionary forces in our society.  Now it’s biting them in the ass and most are too stupid to realize it.  Sadly they’re dragging the rest of us along with them. 

Was that expressed well enough for you?

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April 24, 2020 - 2:33 pm

WHY is this cancelling out your findings in Updates 35 and 39 ? ? ?

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DIY3DTECH dot com
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I looked at this, however what I did not see is when the hydroxychloroquine was given. As all of the doctors talking about having used it also have said the same thing and that is it must be given early as the advantage is the reduction of the viral load. However they all have said that the later it is given less it works exponentially…

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26usna72
18 hours ago
Two of the VA study members work for big pharm firm developing antiviral meds. One, who wrote a WSJ article on this study, did not disclose either his employment or the fact that he had participated in the study. No dosage info or timing either in the study. Antivirals should be delivered to the patient before they are in critical condition.

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BrokerBarbera
17 hours ago
The studies were junk. They never mentioned zinc. The serum blood levels could’ve been checked prior to treatment, during & at outcome. They also treated people who were in worse condition, not at onset.

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Kristin
22 hours ago
Agreed, hydroxychloroquine doesn’t kill the virus, zinc does. Hydroxychloroquine opens the door for zinc to get in. If the study doesn’t include zinc it’s like throwing a seatbelt on the floor of a car during a crash test and saying, ‘Look, seatbelts don’t work!’.

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Altair IV
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Liposomal zinc may not need Hydroxy chloroquine.

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April 25, 2020 - 6:56 pm

April 23, 2020

The Bill Gates Effect:

WHO’s DTP Vaccine Killed More Children in Africa Than the Diseases It Targeted

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April 29, 2020 - 3:36 pm

Existential Threat

See the documentary Planet of the Humans.
I am watching it free on YouTube.

It is a must-watch.

It shows a pandemic of threats.

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May 11, 2020 - 2:01 pm

Existentialism and the Meaning of Life and Astrology

 

The Meaning of Life partially involves seeing if themes in history repeat themselves. Mundane Astrology speaks to this and I share a talk I gave on Mundane Astrology for this year, 2020:

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May 14, 2020 - 3:07 pm

What is the astrological significance of Pluto?  In general I mean.

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May 14, 2020 - 3:48 pm

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What is the astrological significance of Pluto?  In general I mean.  

Pluto is the god of the underworld in Roman mythology. Pluto was also the god of wealth because diamonds and other jewels come from underground. A myth about Pluto is that he took Proserpina, who was the daughter of Ceres, to the underworld to be his wife.

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May 15, 2020 - 2:08 pm
Just as Persephone was thought to be a daughter of Demeter, Romans made Proserpina a daughter of Demeter’s Roman equivalent, Ceres. … Her name is a Latinisation of “Persephone”, perhaps influenced by the Latin proserpere (“to emerge, to creep forth”), with respect to the growing of grain.
Greek equivalent: Persephone, Ariadne
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May 22, 2020 - 5:37 pm

As of Fri., 5/22/2020, 3:45 pm Central Time, USA
(Global Population: 7.6 billion)

Novel Coronavirus
Confirmed Cases 5,169,907
Top 4 Countries: US (1,596,633), Russia (326,448 ), Brazil (310,087), United Kingdom (255,541); China is 13th with 84,081.

Deaths 335,993
Percentage 6.5%
Top 4 Countries: US (95,533), United Kingdom (36,475), Italy (32,616), Spain (28,628 ), France (28,218 ), China is 13th with 4,638.

Recoveries 1,991,122
Percentage 38.5%
Top 4 Countries: US (298,418 ), Germany (159,064), Spain (150,376), Italy (136,720), China is 9th with 79,329.

Source: John Hopkins Tracker

Shanghai has 26.8 million people. Beijing has 20.3 million people. The Beijing Subway is the world’s second largest subway system by route and length, following the Shanghai Metro. New York City has 8.4 million people (2018 ). Manhattan’s population with commuters jumps from 1.6 million to 3.1 million, therefore coming no where near the population of Shanghai or Bejing.

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June 14, 2020 - 8:07 pm

The Age of Fagan-Allen Sidereal Pisces or the Age of the Christian Fish

Alright, it is Sunday evening. I am going to give this another try.

I do not think the House System has to be Topocentric, but the Zodiac is going to stay Fagan-Allen.

Goal: to see the Vernal Point (where the Sun is at the Spring Equinox) move across the Sidereal Zodiac sign over the millennia

I do not think I need the Aries Point (where the Sun crosses the celestial equator or the equatorial plain going north).

March 14, 2020 – The Vernal Point is at 4 degrees Pisces
March 14, 1221 – The Vernal Point is at 16 degrees Pisces
March 14, 0900 – The Vernal Point is at 20 degrees Pisces
March 14, 0221 or year 221 CE – The Vernal Point is at 0 degrees Aries

May 20, 221 AD? The Vernal Point has to be the Spring Equinox, no?

The end of the Age of Aries is not at 29 degrees Aries but 1 degree Aries.

The start of the age of Pisces is likely at 29 degrees Pisces, not 1 degree Pisces.

As we move forward through the years the degrees of Pisces decrease.

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June 16, 2020 - 2:40 pm

I think my Mercury is in Tropical Taurus. There are things that I know and there are things I get (meaning final nail in the coffin get, the light bulb is on AND the dimmer is all the way up). In my personal process of when to use tropical v sidereal astrology–use tropical for psychological astrology but use sidereal astrology for autobiography/biography/obituary; use tropical astrology for the calendar of equinoxes and solstices but use sidereal astrology to transcend and find self-actualization. For tropical astrology to be in a fair fight with sidereal astrology and it doesn’t even tell us what astrological age we are in? ! ? ! I would not be delivering astrology if I only set a tropical table. (I recently came across some “powers that be” who do not want audiences to even know their sidereal signs, their vested interest and their fear of repercussions are too large. So, it is not just the Mercury in Taurus, but being absolutely protected, going forward professionally with sidereal astrology, despite opposition. Well, I better return to “An Introduction to Western Sidereal Astrology, Second Edition” by Kenneth Bowser as I look for the finer points of using Sidereal Astrology, where one cannot simply use tropical notions in a sidereal framework.)

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June 17, 2020 - 10:12 am

Steefen said

Pluto is the god of the underworld in Roman mythology. Pluto was also the god of wealth because diamonds and other jewels come from underground. A myth about Pluto is that he took Proserpina, who was the daughter of Ceres, to the underworld to be his wife.

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Yes  thanks  but  I’m  familiar  with  Pluto’s  mythological  framework.  My  question  is  more  of  a  functional  one.    If  Pluto has  an  effect  in  Einsteinian  spacetime then  that  influence  existed  before  it  was  officially  discovered.  Did  its astrological effect  exist  before  it  was  discovered?   If  so  then  why  didn’t  astrologers  predict  its  existence  before  it  was discovered  like  astronomers  did?    Were  pre-discovery  horoscopes  invalidated  because  of  Pluto’s discovery?   Astronomers  have  identified  Pluto as  part  of  a group  of  similar  bodies  that  compose  the  so-called  Kuiper belt. Does  the  Kuiper  belt  have  astrological  significance?    Astronomer’s  have  reason  to  think  there  is  an  as  yet  undiscovered  planet beyond  the  Kuiper  Belt.    Are  astrologers  discussing  this  possibility? 

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June 17, 2020 - 4:29 pm

Steefen
You asked what was the astrological significance of Pluto. I answered you.

Stephen
Yes  thanks  but  I’m  familiar  with  Pluto’s  mythological  framework. 

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If  Pluto has  an  effect  in  Einsteinian  spacetime then  that  influence  existed  before  it  was  officially  discovered.  Did  its astrological effect  exist  before  it  was  discovered?  

Did gravitational effects exist before gravity was discovered?

If  so  then  why  didn’t  astrologers  predict  its  existence  before  it  was discovered  like  astronomers  did?   

Many astronomers were astrologers.

Were  pre-discovery  horoscopes  invalidated  because  of  Pluto’s discovery?  

You have asked this question before and I have answered it before.

Astronomers  have  identified  Pluto as  part  of  a group  of  similar  bodies  that  compose  the  so-called  Kuiper belt. Does  the  Kuiper  belt  have  astrological  significance?   

I have not come across the Kuiper belt as an object included in charts for astrological reading.

Astronomer’s  have  reason  to  think  there  is  an  as  yet  undiscovered  planet beyond  the  Kuiper  Belt.   
Are  astrologers  discussing  this  possibility? 

I have enough work to do with discovered Solar System objects to be included in charts for interpretation. If astrologers are discussing this possibility, I’m not tracking the discussion.

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June 18, 2020 - 10:45 pm

Astronomers  have  identified  Pluto as  part  of  a group  of  similar  bodies  that  compose  the  so-called  Kuiper belt. Does  the  Kuiper  belt  have  astrological  significance?   

I have not come across the Kuiper belt as an object included in charts for astrological reading.

Astronomers  have  reason  to  think  there  is  an  as  yet  undiscovered  planet beyond  the  Kuiper  Belt.   
Are  astrologers  discussing  this  possibility? 

I have enough work to do with discovered Solar System objects to be included in charts for interpretation. If astrologers are discussing this possibility, I’m not tracking the discussion.  

 

Yet  upon  its discovery  in  1930  Pluto  was  rapidly  incorporated  into  the  astrological  mythos.    Subsequently  we  have discovered  that  Pluto is  one  of  a  larger class  of  bodies,  frozen  remnants  of  the  primordial  goo  out  of  which  the  Solar  System  formed.   Fossils  of  creation.    And  now  the  possibility of  the  existence  of  a  previously  unknown  planet!    Surely  all  this  would  be  a  fertile  area  of  research for  devotees  of  astrology?

Or  is  astrology  simply  a  psychic  construct  which  may  or  may  not  have  an  analogue  with  physical  reality?

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