Richard Robertson

michael17 wrote:
This will occur at the rebuilding of the Jewish Temple. Plans are in progress. See the Temple Institute on line.

Thanks for the heads up. But didn’t you also predict worldly doom to follow a series of earthquakes a year or two ago? (You do keep track of your predictions, right?)

Zooming out here, topic-wise in biblical context, ask how does any scripture maintain credibility for hundreds or thousands of years? It’s written by mere humans, distributed by mere humans, and interpreted by mere humans. Even if one believes that specific prophecies prove divine authorship, how would that prove that the rest of the mere…[Read more]

michael17 wrote:
But what are they?

1. How can anyone be sure that this isn’t just an optical manipulation done by guy operating the recording device?
2. How can anyone be sure, with such a pure blue background, that some optical post processing in software isn’t being used to intentionally make that object “shape shift”?
3. With my radar jamming…

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TheEncogitationer wrote:
Perhaps this is where A.I. can come into play. A.I. could be our explorers, rangers, and scouts going places where we humans cannot go with out massive systems of support and massive energy inputs.

I was about to suggest similar. I expect our scouts will not just be AI in nature, but designed to fit into tiny capsules…[Read more]

I often have a really hard time maintaining objectivity in these times. Responses to this topic seem to illustrate part of the difficulty that many people have, not to mention how it illustrates the difficulty in helping children understand and/or adapt to these times. Congrats to Ivy for finding success, in this case. It’s not easy!

I had to…[Read more]

Is that a Deepak Chopra quote?

Simon, you’re thinking of mathematics as if it’s a thing. It’s not a thing that needs to be understood, it’s our toolset for understanding things.

Think of maths as a grid through which we view our universe. Does B17 (imaginary grid reference) actually exist?  Well yes because we can point at it. But we can only point at it because we put it t…[Read more]

Thanks, Reg!!!

Unseen wrote:
Powell seems to have been a pretty straight arrow. If he recited bad intelligence at the U.N. and to the American public, I have to believe that he believed the intelligence he was receiving. Whether that justified the way it was ultimately handled is a different question.

The following also comes from the article I cited above:

In…

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