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US president Donald Trump has urged his fellow Republicans in Congress to vote for the release of files related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, reversing his earlier resistance to such a move.

Trump’s post on his Truth Social came after House speaker Mike Johnson said earlier ...

It is not easy to achieve ten times your own intelligence, but it is possible.

I have no doubt of it, that sees eminently doable. My challenge was that if you redefine your IQ scale to a linear rather than the present logarithmic increments it is necessary for you to publish your revised ...

Hitler resides in the spiritual plane and is likely currently incarnated at the age of 12. In the future, he will attempt to seize power in Russia and initiate a nuclear conflict.

This relates well with Saint's observations. He reports repeated incarnation in the same country, speaking the same ...

If all volumes of that size involve the effect which prevents anything smaller from existing, it would be difficult to extract any "image" of the volume - the probe would be too insensitive. So any feasible representation which adds to physics by enabling mathematical modelling of interactions on ...

As for estimating the number of universes, we can use the galactic model - that is, the number of galaxies in the universe - to estimate the number of universes at 400 billion. However, the actual number may be fewer, around 50 billion.

May I introduce Edwin Abbott's "https://en.wikipedia.org ...

It's an interesting choice of vocabulary.

We can easily agree on a featureless label "God" and recognise there is a moment in the past when a creational event became apparent, prior to which we have no evidence on which to extrapolate our understanding of prior events. I might ascribe that event to ...

Songs with meaningful lyrics can truly resonate and evoke deep emotions. They have the power to shape our thoughts and memories in profound ways. Do you believe that lyrics hold more weight than the melody itself? Could a song's message be so powerful that it outshines its musical composition ...

Yes, the effect each slight change in shape might have on the operation. Rather like tuning a radio, perhaps. The shapes are relevant to the operation presumably, and their positioning in respect of each other.

Here's an interactive experiment - can you describe the effects of using the controls? You may have to decrease the screen magnification to fit your monitor. Tell me if you'd like me to delete this post.

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Donny appears to be having his own shot at a similar end-game:

US strikes another alleged drug boat bringing death toll from campaign in Latin America to 70

US strikes have destroyed at least 18 vessels, but Washington has yet to make public any concrete evidence that its targets posed a threat ...

It can be said that the Atlantis ring is a powerful tool for developing consciousness and paranormal abilities.

I'm familiar with the term "paranormal abilities" but I'm not sure what is meant by "consciousness". Is this associated with awareness? There is a spectacularly detailed analysis at ...

Trial by newspaper seems to be stock in trade for the tabloids. They ought to be made to compensate Mr Jeffries handsomely. Slightly eccentric he may be but to paint the picture of him that they did and to post his photograph on as may available pages, was a disgrace. His life may never be the ...

Democrats pulled off nearly a complete sweep in Tuesday’s major contests, notching big wins in races largely seen as a referendum on President Donald Trump’s return to the White House. Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani is the projected winner, according to the AP, in the New York mayor’s race. He ...

And this:

“Never ran anything,” former New York state governor Andrew Cuomo charged, as he dissed his opponent on Fox News. “There’s no time for on-the-job training when any given morning, God forbid, you could have a mass murder or a terrorist attack.”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree ...

It needs expansion:

Trump’s comments echo those broadcast on Sunday during his appearance on CBS’s 60 minutes, in which he said: “It’s gonna be hard for me as the president to give a lot of money to New York, because if you have a communist running New York, all you’re doing is wasting the money ...

Should anyone wish to recognize the most improbable blowback on current White House practice, New York will today vote a Ugandan Asian Muslim aged 34 into office as city mayor. This on a platform declaring the city should enable free Internet and urban bus transport to counter the dreadful rises in ...

I note this as a birthday week. Randall is 94, and one of the mods is spending the weekend on his boat to celebrate his own natal anniversary. I used to do something similar with a week of cross-country skiing but that seems to be in abeyance recently. And an ex-mod, the third of the week, Koan.

Wednesday, I note, is the Supreme Court hearing of oral argument for the legality of the White House tariffs imposed as emergency measures. Bonfire night.

We will recall Trump packed the Supreme Court to a 6-3 Republican-leaning majority and counting. On the other hand, the emergency is self ...

And if so, will any Republican stand against him in the 2028 Presidential Primaries?

I saw this. She would. She will whether he competes or not.

Marjorie Taylor Greene tells Bill Maher she believes extraterrestrials are demons

Georgia Republican lawmaker also claims she didn’t know ...

What you delineate "a more normal country" in the early 90s was in extreme ferment (not an unknown condition for Poland over the centuries!) with, as I recall, uncontrollable inflation and a retention of control for some while dependent on military leadership. It became, eventually, more ...

Your logistic development is undeniably correct and on progressively smaller scales becomes even more so.

Perhaps we could use just this thread, isolated from your other work on this site, to educate those who read here on something few others experienced.

Your entire primary schooling was in a ...

Members of a US congressional committee investigating the Jeffrey Epstein case have intensified their calls for Andrew Mountbatten Windsor to answer questions about his links to the late sex offender.

King Charles stripped his brother of his "prince" title on Thursday, following months of pressure ...

Which, I believe, now makes him Mr Andrew Mountbatten for the rest of his life.

Prince Andrew has been stripped of his "prince" title and will leave his Windsor mansion, Royal Lodge, Buckingham Palace has announced.

... "His Majesty has today initiated a formal process to remove the Style ...

Which, I believe, now makes him Mr Andrew Mountbatten for the rest of his life.

"His Majesty has today initiated a formal process to remove the Style, Titles and Honours of Prince Andrew," Buckingham Palace said in a statement on Thursday evening.

"Prince Andrew will now be known as Andrew ...

Hey folks, I’m new here too! Guess we’re all figuring this out together 😄

Welcome to ForumGarden. We chat about all sorts, we can be inquisitive or responsive, we're quite keen to have a wide assortment of notions. Do you have notions? What might we figure out together?

We have one American ...

I’m starting to plan my garden layout for the upcoming season and thought I’d share a bit of what I’m working on and hopefully learn from all of you too. I’ve been experimenting with spacing, crop rotation, and timing, and it’s amazing how much difference small adjustments can make.

Lately, I’ve ...

If you imply a paradigm then yes, that's the overarching assumption which informs the science. And I agree they are infinite in variety, and that the science is entirely subject to it while drawing its boundaries experimentally. And each is as powerful as its consequent analysis achieves.

Since we ...

It's a broad category. Philosophy can focus on society or instead on the nature of the universe. They have little in common. The philosophy of society was speculative until the arrival of Game Theory at which point it developed a testable vocabulary instead of sleight of hand changes in meanings ...

It seems never to have occurred to people that Bishop Berkeley was a rider of hobby-horses, a delver into bottomless pits of speculation with no anchor to his mind? Someone prepared to slaughter an entire nation with Tar Water rather than actually test its effects in a blind trial on a small sample ...

I walked yesterday past a memorial of many crosses outside Fort 6 in Kaunas and noted a head-scarfed woman in her late twenties at prayer before a Madonna statue. She was deeply engaged in psychological exercise and I have no doubt she did it often and gained mental and emotional strength by the ...

A storm in a teacup just crashed US/Canada trade negotiations:

President Donald Trump said late Thursday that he is canceling “all trade negotiations” between the United States and Canada over a Canadian TV advertisement opposing U.S. tariffs, which have been imposed on exports such as steel and ...

For anyone wondering, Sadiq Khan has now been Mayor of London since 2016 and doing a fine job as far as I can tell. He keeps getting boosts to his ego and the likelihood of further re-election by being attacked by President Trump. We have a long-standing expression in England for such futile ...

It's a month since, I think we're due an update. I hope matters are in hand? All those self-injections must be aggravating.

Gosh. Movement after all these years.

A congressional committee investigating the handling of Jeffrey Epstein's prosecution is pushing to formally invite Prince Andrew to testify before them.

In an interview with the BBC, Democratic Congressman Suhas Subramanyam said the committee would like ...

It's an unsavory matter but it deserves a thread.

Other than total embarrassment for being an entitled isolated git of the first order, which we can take as a previously known uncontested fact.

What aspect of this story which has dragged on for weeks suggests any criminality on the part of the ...

Many nihilists have asserted that to be the case, yes. But they view it as an end point, while you offer it as the initial state from which things emerge. Your nothing loses its perfection before anything else can enjoy it.

Or, paradoxically, once it has things in it, do you consider the nothing to ...

Prince Andrew is giving up his titles, including the Duke of York, he has announced in a personal statement.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgqlyw9g7weo

That, to be frank. seems extremely unlikely. There's a difference between "giving up" and what he's agreed, "ceasing to use".

Duke of ...

We all remember the dodgy dossier?

Here's a new instalment: PM, this afternoon, Evan Davies interviewing the unhinged John Bolton, sometime National Security Adviser.

Bolton (my transcription from the broadcast): "What would you expect the US to do if 300 ballistic missiles were aimed at London ...

The record is in the website itself. The collapse in traffic can be seen to have happened eight years before the logo was retired. But we will consider an alternative to the gravestones during the next week or so. We have half the mods available, two are temporarily out of touch at the moment.

And - it's Wednesday now, two days later, the Don has left the building - we come to the real question. Do we actually think this deal is going to see the IDF withdraw and stop shooting Gazans? Do we think this is the resumption of supplies into Gaza? Entry of international news crews into Gaza? Or ...

I have a suggestion for Mr. spot: introducing a graphic logo for the general forum. This would make the forum more attractive and contribute to greater interest. A logo makes a first impression on readers and potential discussion participants, so it should be graphic in nature, and ideally quite ...

So, the first five months since Liberation Day.

CHINA’S exports to the United States nosedived 27 per cent in September from the year before, but growth in its global exports soared to a six-month high.

Customs figures released today showed that China’s worldwide exports were 8.3 per cent ...

Valuable beachfront, motivated seller.

Donny appears to have allowed himself a triumph through the streets of Jerusalem this morning, after which he intends visiting his new beachfront property to decide how to clear it of rubble and inhabitants. He seems to think $5,000 each is adequate recompense ...

The culpability may, as you say, be limited. It depends on whether God talked to any of these people you mention. If he did, and left matters to turn out as they have, I'd like a word in his ear. And if he isn't omnipresent and omnipotent and eternal then he's not a God, he's an alien lifeform.

They are a collection of ne'er-do-wells with a lot of money and influence, I'll grant you that. And Blair tags along too. A self-selecting group.

If they feel like funding forumgarden.com they should send an email for consideration.

And yet - again definitionally - these views of a monotheistic God are either entirely man-made or they display a appallingly malevolent power which nobody in their right mind would worship. Which speaks volumes about the noxious faiths their adherents create around them.

If indeed there is an ...

I will, if I may, start a new long-term thread here.

From the perspective of monotheism, what is a false God?

As much as anything the question is definitional. I know what is conveyed by Monotheism, False, and God. I don't understand what the term "False God" can mean in this context, the words ...

Sociological theory

1. Division of sociology seizes aspect evolutional, structural, systematical and cultural. From the point of view of biology, sociology is a domain investigating population, particularly human population. Its purpose is to build general theory of this population on three ...

If you have IQ 180 you can reach even 1800 points.

The puzzle is, Engineer, that your know enough math and distribution sigma relationships to know the words can't mean what they mean in conventional systems. By all means employ the term IQ that way, but say what your revised definition is ...

And to make it a Venezuelan must have made it so much more satisfying given Mr Trump's self evident love for that country.

And, pardon my noticing, a Hispanic woman. Venezuelan politician María Corina Machado has won for her defence of democracy in an authoritarian country, something that would ...

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