Correct or convince? Big difference.

I strongly believe in your right to believe in whatever you want, in peace. You don’t have to prove anything to me, unless you want me to believe what you believe in. I choose to believe that god is a figment of a creative imagination to control people. No one has proven to me, nor have I seen any facts that prove otherwise.

Your approach in communicating with people has typically been caustic and nasty. You are not a nice person. If you are a person of god, you certainly do not behave like one. You are an angry elf. Where is the god in you?

My response to Rac is below

Yes, well said. The minds of those who are convinced by manipulative people who have figured out how to control others through fear and guilt. God was created by man, not the other way around. I am still waiting for fact based proof of the affirmative viewpoint that god exists and made man. I keep asking, in vein. No one has been willing or able to prove it. I want to be a believer, as it would be comforting, except for the fact that if he/she/it really exists, why does this entity, who demands love and worship, repay his/her/its subjects with famine, illness, earthquakes, tornadoes, mass shootings, poverty and starvation with an empty promise of a better afterlife if he/she behaves during this life. That’s an ingenious manipulation to control people.

In Yiddish there is a word: rachmones. It is similar to your name. That’s where the similarities end. The Yiddish word means mercy, pity, empathy. You are the exact opposite of the meaning of this word. There is another word: mensch. It means a person of integrity, morality, with a sense of what’s right and responsible.

Again, you repeatedly demonstrate that you are the antithesis of this definition of a person of high moral character. You are abusive, nasty, confrontational and lack empathy and compassion. You don’t even argue well. There are a few Yiddish words that describe you however and they are: schmuck, putz, paskudnyak and nebbish. You can look those up. There are some English words that also describe you well. Will leave those to your imagination.

Huge topic and debate.

Caveat, below is my opinion and belief system. Not imposing it on others as it’s mine. At the same time, I do not want others to impose their beliefs on me.

I live someplace between atheist and agnostic. It would be lovely to believe that there is a god, since I am a fact based person, prove to me he/she/it exists and I will believe. Otherwise, it’s a fair tale written for reasons I write below.

I do not respect a god who demands love and being put on a pedestal. One who claims to love everyone and one who claims to be a savior. The same one who is not present and has not been present for eons, that allows horrific things to happen to all he claims to love. Cancer, illness, hunger, starvation, incest, rape, murder, mass shootings, torture, natural disasters like earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes, forest fires, Donald tRump, Marjorie Taylor Greene and mass stupidity. Things that are harmful and deadly.

It all points to one thing. God was created by man, to control man and money, through fear and guilt.

Man was not created by god. It’s a story, a fable, a fairy tale without an ending. No evidence, no proof, just a continuous series of passed down manipulations.

Be good and you will have better life next time. Ha! Wouldn’t a benevolent god want his subjects, that he claims to love, want them to be safe and enjoy their current lives, while alive? Just part of the ruse to control people into behaving and to provide answers to the unknown. It’s not working!

We don’t know all of the answers, we never will and that’s ok. I don’t need god to make me be kind, compassionate and caring. I am that way because I am that way, not because I am fearful of going to hell in my next life. When I die, I will go to one of two places depending on what you believe. God FEARING people will say I am going straight to hell, if i’m not there already, and I say that I am returning to the dust that I came from.

I also believe that everyone has the right to believe and enjoy in peace, what they want to believe, as long as their beliefs are not forced upon me. I won’t force mine on them, live and let live. I will defend their rights, I expect mine to also be defended.

Far right evangelicals forcing their beliefs on the rest, those who are trying to change the founding basis of our constitution, are in the wrong and must be stopped from, not practicing their beliefs, but forcing their beliefs on others. It’s hypocritical and dangerous. Church and state need to remain separate.
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Wish there was a way to send a message to advertisers that there is a certain percentage of the population that refuses to buy their product due to repeated and incessant adverts, especially with annoying jingles, like Jets Pizza, Burger King and Ozempic.

If the networks could develop an opt out of certain commercials to deliver a curated marketing experience, like what google and Facebook do. That would actually be a good thing. I find myself spending money on stuff I like because I am targeted with ads that are within my likes, like camera gear.

I agree.

Good idea! I am going to buy some now! I forgot that it was on my to do list. I saw it on tv as what the rich do. I want to be rich! I better go buy some gold. 😂

I do like Tivo. I also like the DVR function that allows us to rewind and fast forward. I frequently start the program, let it play for 15 minutes, then I can fast forward through commercials, just don’t change the channel or you lose it. Or, record it on the dvr and do the same thing.

In the UK, the commercials are very short and very clever. We actually like to watch them. In the US, they are insulting, unimaginative, long bouts of drivel. Even the Super Bowl commercials have gone hill.

Commercials are annoying. Especially on paid content. But here is an unusual statistic and does not seem likely.

100% of the time I turn on my cable news channel, I land on a commercial. I am talking about 100%!of the time, not 95%, but 100%. It used to be amusing, now it’s just annoying.

Now, I don’t things, first, I immediately change the channel to an avoid the annoyance, and second, I boycott the company who is selling their shite.

I don’t mind some commercials, but 8 minutes of commercials per 30 minutes of programming is ridiculous. Thats nearly 1/3 of the time. My time is too precious to be insulted that frequently.

Many of the adds for Medicare and camp LeJeune and written for the aging population like they are fearful idiots. Insulting.

trump is for tRump and only tRump. He cares not for anyone else. He is truly Machiavellian. He’s a proven liar and a cheat.

I have a few rules that I live by.
1. If you tell the truth, you don’t need a good memory
2. You make money with your partners, not off your partners.
3. You should never do business with people who you don’t trust. You should never have to keep looking over your shoulder to make sure you’re not getting screwed.

Biden is not perfect, but he’s a helluva lot better than that POS tRump. tRump is also distracted by all of the legal proceedings against him. It’s not a witch hunt. He put himself in this position and is now spending more time trying to defend his actions, lying about them, blaming others and deflecting, than being focused on what really matters, US.

Remember, if it look like shit, smells like shit and walks like shit, it’s probably shit. He is all three.

While Biden is not perfect, he is far less damaging than tRump, Professionally, philosophically, responsibly, financially, emotionally, maturely, focus, trust wise, and equality wise. tRump is a self serving, narcissistic, sociopathic, white supremacist who panders to those who are similar. Those who vote for him are counting on him to be the bigot that he is. A truly dangerous man who should be in jail for a very long time.

Yes that is what I was wondering. How would this camera be viewed by those who determine what camera is permissible. Cannot change lenses, small and light. Falls outside of cheap at $6k however.

Haha!!! Fascinating project. I still have a few things to learn about the software to get the best results. Here is an image of a house fly’s face.

I really like your 2 axis system to control in/out and left and right.

Lighting is super important. You don’t need fancy lights and you can make homemade diffusers using vellum paper and cardboard tubes, cut ping pong balls etc. I bought 4” lucite tubes and cardboard tubes, cut out a hole for the lens to view through and covered them in vellum. Works really well. LED lights are inexpensive these days. Just be careful not to blow out highlights on any of your images.

I would love to see some of your work, if you care to share.