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Feb 9, 2024 18:09:35   #
Vladimir200 wrote:
For heavens sake, grow up. Open borders, yes.......current administration has to take the hit on that but the recent legislation that the Senate Republicans turned down will give Biden some ammo; high grocery prices.....not the fault of any President. Actually, inflation is leveling off but prices will never drop to former levels. Presidents and Congress have little to do with inflation. In fact, with the threat of inflation, they call in the Fed Chairman who explains to them that inflation is like the ebb and flow of the tides....will always happen. It can be curbed, somewhat, with higher taxes and higher interest rates; Lack of respect from foreign leaders? Wow, that's a hoot. Have you even travelled to Europe for example? I have and as soon as the people realize I'm American, they ask me how and why (of Trump). I tell them that as an Independent, I had nothing to do with him being President. As I tell my Republican friends, you have other choices than to choose someone that has 91 felony counts again him. Other countries are laughing themselves silly trying to figure out why he is going to win the Republican Party nomination.
For heavens sake, grow up. Open borders, yes........ (show quote)


Absolutely correct on the foreign leader respect and international bewilderment that America, the Greatest Nation on Earth, could have ever v**ed for Trump in the first place, and that the nation might make the same mistake AGAIN!!! Just baffling!!!!
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Jan 12, 2024 17:49:09   #
YES on the last one. Great colour tones in the image. The sharp corners and incline of the base are a good contrast to the smooth curves of the female body.

EXCELLENT!

(Of course, the other shots are "not bad either."
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Jan 10, 2024 10:09:44   #
Heck, POTUS (assume DJT wins the immunity case and gets in next term) can just have his SEAL Team 6 StormTroopers wipe out ALL Democrats (legalized Democracide) and then hold a "democratic e******n" and show how he got 100% of the v**e for his 3rd, 4th, and 5th term in office. Of course, the Trump Dynasty "Right To Rule" would simply pass down to his family/heirs in the event that Big Perp himself can't last due to the UV light having burned out his colon.
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Jan 10, 2024 08:51:42   #
Were the leaves added in post-processing?
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Jan 8, 2024 15:11:12   #
Racmanaz wrote:
OK I challenge you to prove where I ever have said or implied that conservatives are 100% right. You can’t because I’ve never said or implied that because they aren’t.


They are not always right... they are just never wrong!!! At least that is what you portray.
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Jan 8, 2024 09:33:59   #
That is a great collection of images.
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Jan 8, 2024 07:16:24   #
National Park wrote:
The only way that Joe Biden can lose the 2024 e******n is through fraud. He should claim victory before all of the v**es have been counted. When he loses, he should file more than 60 meritless lawsuits based on quickly debunked conspiracy theories and wishful but groundless speculation, even though he lost the e******n by 7 million v**es. He should file those lawsuits even though his own Attorney General Garland, his White House Counsel, and his Homeland Security tell him there was no fraud sufficient to change the outcome of the e******n, even though local Republican e******n officials who support him and v**ed for him tell him there was no fraud sufficient to change the outcome of the e******n, and even though recount after recount and investigation after investigation (including some by Democrat controlled legislatures which support him [such as in New York]) conclude there was no fraud sufficient to change the outcome. When those 60 lawsuits are decided against him, many by Democrat Judges, some of whom he appointed to lower courts and the Supreme Court, he should then verbally attack the judges as being biased. He should call local e******ns officials and pressure then to just find him the v**es and say it won't go well for them if they don't. He should also work to create f**e e*****r slates, pressure his Democrat supporters in Congress to not v**e in favor of accepting the proper e*****rs, and pressure Vice President Harris to not certify the e******n. He should not attend the inauguration and instead hold a rally near the Capitol and urge his supporters to fight like hell and go to the Capitol, otherwise they won't have a country anymore. When his supporters violently attack C*****l p****e and break into the Capitol to stop the certification of the e******n, chanting to hang his own Vice President Kamala Harris, and to Hang Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, he should sit in the White House watching with glee, telling aides who urge him to say something to stop the carnage that perhaps they don't love their country as much as the i**********nists do. He should wait four hours before finally gently telling the i**********nists to go home, telling them he loves them. During the next four years he should continue to claim the e******n was s****n from him, that those who invaded the Capitol on inauguration day are political prisoners who should be pardoned, and if elected in 2028 he will be a dictator on day one and there will be retribution against his political enemies.
The only way that Joe Biden can lose the 2024 e***... (show quote)


Gee, if Biden did all of that he could call it “The Biden Playbook.” Of course, Trump would then accuse him of plagiarism!
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Jan 7, 2024 11:47:15   #
WirtzWorld wrote:
This is Melissa on the roof of my Bay View studio. Her hair was her curtain, as she really didn't want to be recognized posing nude.


I wonder if AI could remove her "curtain" quite effectively. It would be interesting to try, and you (John Wirtz) could be the judge as to whether it worked.

I won't/can't do it, but if anyone does I suggest you send the result to Wirtz privately so as to respect the model's wishes. But I would be interested in the verdict!
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Jan 6, 2024 16:40:38   #
Racmanaz wrote:
How about listening to music and forgo listening to the News today? :)


NEWS... Now Everyone Watches Stupidity.
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Jan 6, 2024 13:53:23   #
In this colorization effort it was OK to not bother doing the hair.
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Jan 6, 2024 10:09:33   #
AzYooper wrote:
Funny thing. For me, the first thing I noticed standing out did not seem to be her hair.


That’s because in colourizations where the hair was left grey it was very distracting and unrealistic. The colored hair was very noticeable to anyone following Jim’s postings.
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Jan 6, 2024 10:05:23   #
MrBob wrote:
Okey, cup of Joe down... As to your 3rd. paragraph, I believe the purpose of reincarnation is the " eternal evolution of the soul ". And no, it is NOT in chronological order... Karma, I don't believe is direct tit for tat... But, since we live in a dualistic world, a life of luxury will be balanced at some point by the experience of the other side of life... Realization will increase with self aware understanding which is only going to occur with experience... We will never fully understand the " Totality " of the infinite as that is illogical... Even the Hindu's do not discuss Brahman, as he is unfathomable, hence we have Shiva and Vishnu. BTW, Quantum entanglement is just a glimpse into the TOTAL connectivity in ways we do not understand of something incomprehensible... OK, Time for a second cup !
Okey, cup of Joe down... As to your 3rd. paragraph... (show quote)


I think quantum entanglement, along with colour/spin/class and other hard to describe quantum properties, are just as incomprehensible to the average person — or even educated people — as trying to explain millennia to sheep herders. We have a limited vocabulary to describe things, and our interpretation hinges on the common understanding of words. Take spin as a label for a property of electrons; do they actually “spin” on an axis like planets? Axial alignment, spin direction and precession of the axes in a magnetic field seem to work. A string has tensile strength but no compressive strength; is a string the best physical analogy for discussing vibrational states which define the properties of matter, without reference to tension AND non-compression?

I had a physics professor who I really admired for having his feet solidly on the ground. His specialty was electronics and acoustics, not quantum physics (which I had great difficulty grasping, too). This prof said quantum mechanics can prove that electrons are green and the size of basketballs.
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Jan 5, 2024 22:47:05   #
Racmanaz wrote:
"It’s unfortunate that you are so set in your thinking that you won’t entertain a discussion that challenges your beliefs."???

/\ /\ /\ /\ Isn't this exactly what YOU have been doing yourself?


No, Rac, that is NOT what I have been doing. You are constantly looking for proof of concepts. Yet you put "faith" above "reasoning." If you could "prove" to me what you "believe" then I might change my mind on some issues.

I am arguing that many of the concepts of religion (including creation) are illogical if you dig into them. Science is based on observing phenomena, formulating a theory, making a prediction/hypothesis based on that theory, validating that theory within limits (interpolation), and then postulating further possibilities (usually extrapolated). Nothing that I have discussed with you is illogical if you accept that the universe is infinite in both time and space... because setting limits on either raises logical questions that have illogical answers (or no answers).

You did not answer my question to you... do you believe in an infinite afterlife, or is it finite? If infinite, then you have to allow for life to evolve from spontaneous chemical reactions under specific conditions regardless of how small that probability. On the other hand, if you believe the afterlife is finite, then what happens AFTER Heaven shuts down?

Here are a few things that still puzzle me:

1) Our concept of time is that it is irreversible... but why?
2) Does time truly exist, or is it something we dreamed up to explain/define irreversibility (entropy increasing)?
3) Is the universe volume ("space") infinite, with a finite amount of matter/energy in it? Or is the volume of space AND the volume of matter infinite? (Remember, making either of these finite raises unanswerable questions.)
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Jan 5, 2024 22:37:38   #
MrBob wrote:
1. I have NO Idea what, or where Heaven even is. I do believe the concept of LOVE prevails...

2. Of course I believe in reincarnation... Everything else seems to be cyclical. It seems logical... The early Christian church believed also, but folks abused the concept. All the great religions of the world believe in the concept.

3. Of Course I accept infinity as a concept... Heaven and Hell has been misrepresented... Whether you believe or not, NO loving god would sentence anyone to eternal fire...

4. Refer to #2 answer... Hierarchy to greater realization. " I am That I Am "

5. Of course... This system was devised to operate under certain rules which we call physics, chemistry ,etc... Nothing happens with a magic wave of the hand. But, as the Masonic order likes to say, the Grand Architect prevails...
1. I have NO Idea what, or where Heaven even is. ... (show quote)


If you will indulge me, I would like to hear your thoughts on reincarnation (purpose, mechanism, results).

Some religions teach that reincarnation involves a hierarchy of "status" (not sure what the right word is; maybe what you said in reply #4) and that if you are good in your lifetime you will come back to a better life. But if you have not been good you will come back in a worse life. For example, maybe if you h**e dogs and kick them you will come back as a dog so that you can get kicked around as punishment for your past life.

But I have never heard of anyone who has been reincarnated and can say what they were in a previous life. So what is the purpose of reincarnation -- that offers either reward or punishment for a past life -- if one has no awareness of that past life? I have no idea if my present life is punishment or reward for my past life. So far I am doing quite well, so I guess I was pretty good before, too!

Further, if you believe in reincarnation, is EVERYONE on earth a reincarnation of a previous being/soul? Or are new souls being created? And back to the infinity issue, is there a limit to the number of souls? Or the number of reincarnation cycles?

See, the more I question concepts like reincarnation the less I find any logic. And yes, "faith" overrides "understanding." But for me, faith is a copout for a painful t***h, or for a rejection of a logical conclusion that goes against one's (irrational) belief.

Your answer to #5 is a bit puzzling and unclear... are you agreeing that life could have occurred spontaneously out of a chemical soup, given the fullness of infinite time? Or did God create Heaven and Earth in 6 days about 6000 years ago?
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Jan 5, 2024 20:23:01   #
MrBob wrote:
I am not going to get into a back and forth but I do believe your first paragraph is incorrect... These animals you mention DO have consciousness IMHO, but there is something else not related to biology and chemistry that other animals besides humans do not possess... That is called " Self Conscious Awareness ". We humans have this but I do not think it is related to genetics itself... I and others who believe as I, refer to this as the Soul. No, I am NOT going to respond to anything you might say as I am not into a never ending back and forth... State your rebuttal and move on... Opinions are cheap, including my own. A Lost soul has lost EVERYTHING... nothing could be worse, because then there is nothing !
I am not going to get into a back and forth but I ... (show quote)


It’s unfortunate that you are so set in your thinking that you won’t entertain a discussion that challenges your beliefs.

So I will only ask you a few simple questions that you should at least consider even for yourself if you won’t reply.

1) Is Heaven infinite in both time and space?

2) Where do new souls come from, or do you believe in reincarnation?

3) Assuming no reincarnation, is the number of souls finite? If so, why? Is Heaven (or Hell) limited in capacity?

4) As I asked earlier, is the Afterlife infinite or does it come to an end?

5) Assuming you accept infinite Afterlife, then you accept infinity as a concept, and life from a soup of chemical compounds is possible.
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