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  • And the Old Testament is not recontextualized. It’s just the Torah

    Technically they removed every “Yahweh” in most English versions of the Bible when they turned the Torah into the Old Testament. They just replaced it with “LORD” or “GOD”.

    It’s the one major change, because Christians weren’t supposed to use God’s name. Spelled Yahweh in the Torah and Allah in the Quran.

    And as a result a shit ton of people who consider themselves experts in their own religion, don’t understand it’s all the same God all the Abrahmic religions pray to.

    Similar with Jesus, who is called Isa in the Quran.


  • Yahweh is used to describe God like 7,000 times in the Old testament (written before Christianity by Jews) and used 0 times in the New Testament written by Christians.

    Depending bible, all the Yahweh’s may be replaced by the all caps “LORD” because they literally went back and scrubbed the name out to obey “don’t use my name in vain”.

    Not sure how good of a source this is but I mean you can literally compare the Old Testament to the Torah and see that it changed:

    In actuality, God’s personal name is in your Bible . . . sort of. The editors have chosen not to transliterate God’s name, like they do every other proper name in the Bible, and have instead chosen to replace God’s name, Yahweh, with the upper-case LORD or GOD. That’s right, all 6,828 times God’s personal name Yahweh is written in the Hebrew text of the Old Testament have been replaced with the English LORD or GOD in your English Bible. Let’s look at Psalm 117 as an example.

    “Praise the LORD, all nations! Extol him, all peoples! For great is his steadfast love toward us, and the faithfulness of the LORD endures forever. Praise the LORD!”

    PSALM 117

    The word “LORD” in all upper-case letters is God’s personal name, Yahweh. God’s personal name is used three times in Psalm 117. So, in a way, God’s personal name is in all modern English Bibles; the translators and editors have simply chosen not to transliterate it, but to use the word LORD or GOD instead. Most Bibles explicitly state what they are doing in the preface, but let’s be honest, most people do not read the preface to their Bible.

    https://biblicalculture.com/why-is-gods-name-not-in-the-bible/

    To be clear I don’t believe any of this stuff, it’s just always bugged me that the biggest modern religious conflict is three groups all praying to the same God they all swear is peaceful, and just constantly killing Innocents over minor details without even realizing it.

    So I’ve looked into how they different they really are. And most of the conflict is semantics that no one fighting over actually understands.



  • Yep, Amazon is already paid, it’s stuff the seller values so little that when it’s returned by a buyer instead of paying a small restock or shipping fee, they leave it unclaimed.

    The absolute only way this could happen organically is one buyer ordered all that RAM, and for some reason returned it. Then the seller’s only logical reason for not paying a restocking fee or even shipping to get product back, is the seller went out of business.

    Sure, it might happen once or twice, ever. But after that, you still have to be the one that randomly gets that pallet.

    It’s not just buying a winning lotto ticket.

    It’s someone else finding a lotto ticket for a drawing that’s already happened, and buying it for an insane markup even though it’s almost guaranteed to not be the winning numbers. Hell, more like you’re the third person to buy it after someone found it.


  • Huh?

    Return pallets have been a thing, they’re always $100 and usually include $10 of the same plastic junk.

    When someone actually hits like this, it’s a one in a billion chance and that’s why it always makes the news cycles. Which causes everyone to buy one.

    Amazon isn’t losing money on these, and there’s a good chance they intentionally let boxes like this go out only when they’re not selling enough pallets.

    Meaning the absolute worst time to try it is now. And it’s never really a good idea.

    You’re better off buying an actual lotto ticket, at least that’s easy to throw away when you lose.









  • A buddy got married years ago at his wife’s church, which meant part of the ceremony was the priest asking her to vow to always obey him and do whatever he asked without question.

    Like, it wasn’t just a part of the vows he rambled thru, it was its own separate thing and she had to respond “yes” or the priest wouldnt have married them.

    Super fucking weird and everyone under 60 laughed.

    Neither of them took it seriously, but she wanted married in her church, and her pledging total and lifelong obedience was a requirement the church insisted on.

    Lots of people do take it seriously though






  • For this stuff?

    It’s almost certainly someone from the trump admin.

    They placed two bets for 200k each right before it happened, the second time on a very short deadline.

    It’s not just that someone is making money off of it, it’s that this is the new “guy outside a pizza shop”.

    Foreign intelligence agents are already 100% watching for these large bets, and whoever is running the site has a shit ton of info and almost certainly has been hacked by at least one government to find out who’s who so accounts can be monitored.

    Like, you think gambling addicts over on /wallstreetbets haven’t figured this out yet?

    Our shit is sloppy as fuck, and we just painted a giant target on our foreheads for pretty much every major terrorist cell.


  • What’s crazy is people bet on it without insider info, knowing that people with it can.

    Some comedian made a joke about it because he read off a bunch of random words that had bets on if they were said. They all paid out because he said them

    The point is for any given bet a bunch of people can either make it happen or know the result before the market adjusts to the public knowing.

    It’s like how early scam emails used bad grammer so only dumb people responded, if you bet on poly market, you’re already a lick.

    Ironically enough this is also how our entire economy is run, just not as obviously…


  • This is actually a serious threat, because AI is so fucking stupid…

    It wouldn’t give the most effective plans, it probably won’t even give plans that will “work”…

    But it’s gonna recommend shit no one thought of with 100% confidence and convince already brainwashed idiots that crazy shit will work.

    Not just ISIS, all our own homegrown brain rot idiots on Twitter using grok too. Stuff that requires no organization or coordination, just random solo idiots.

    It’s likely already happening. The AI companies just aren’t admitting it.

    Like the guy that blew a cyber truck full of fireworks up in Vegas in front a trump casino, grok would 100% say that’s a world changing plan and would make him an hero.