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They say it's the questions you ask, not the answers that you have, that determine intelligence.
I kinda agree with that. Facebook's new "Meta" AI - well, see the photo below:
Clearly not asking the right questions. All this hysteria over AI, it's only for the stupid. Sorry, stupid, you're out of work.
It's not that a computer (or AI) took your job, it's just that you're stupid.
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This was an interesting watch. Verisatium creates good content.
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The irony, of course, is that the Gospel's in and of themselves are not true, the entire thing a patchwork of fiction and parables designed to illustrate the ideal life and maintain a certain social order. This is not to disagree with the message(s), but rather point out that those people who harp upon Jesus as a real person are rather missing the point and almost always missing the practice, much as Cinderella was not a real person and her not being real in no ways impacts the lesson of the story, so does Jesus's life (and death) become irrelevant in that they are meant solely as instructional aids.
What I find curious is how the Bible has numerous injunctions against false (other) gods, and against worshiping graven images (the same as many other religions) - yet almost the entirety of Christianity is based upon the symbolism of Christ on a Crucifix, or the images of the Saints, thereby almost entirely devaluing it's message in it's attempts to make it "accessible". And that said I love to collect religious kitsch and memorabilia, although I'm not bowing down before it, merely jogging a certain line of thought...
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A place where all letters are available to be read (and kept) by those who most need them. Sort of like a "Post Secret" - letters addressed to the deceased, missing, or otherwise written thoughts that can't find their audience.
1317-2 Takumacho Awashima
Mitoyo, Kagawa 769-1108
Japan
I miss writing letters, the concreteness of a pen & paper, or an old clattering Underwood Typewriter. I might have to use this.
(via FutilityCloset.com) && a more in-depth explanation on the Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_Post_Office
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A rather charismatic Korean Folk Demon who must eat 100 wealthy landowners or politicians in order to ascend to heaven.
References other than Reddit are scant, however there is reference made to him on the Wiki on Talchum (a Korean Masked Theatre) and your own research should lead you on to a few alleys.
We could use a few of these right now...