Balthazar

@Balthazar@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the deal the miracles jesus chose to do?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The physical miracle demonstrates his identity and power, but they have a spiritual significance beyond the physical. For example, raising the dead indicated that He is the Creator with power over life and death, but also that He can give spiritual life to people dead in their sins.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AIRBUD⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “Who rescued who?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨does someone who lives very far away from me (for example 1900 miles) see the same night sky as me? (as in moon, stars, etc)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you are located at the same latitude, you will see the same stars but at different times (like time zones). But if the separation has a north-south component, you will be able to see different stars from each other, because the stars hidden over the horizon to the north and south won’t rotate into view because the rotation is east-west.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨James Cameron Teases ‘Avatar 3’ Will Be Even Longer Than ‘The Way Of Water’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t particularly care about the length. Just make it better than the last one, because it fell a long way down from the first one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[TW] Convicted r**ist runs One Nation election campaign⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m lost for words at the gaul of this!

  It’s the French’s fault?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Potsy Ponciroli to write The Goonies sequel⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Except money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Periodic Table according to astronomers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Physicists are notorious for approximating, and astronomers are even worse. But there are some subfields where they care about being more precise, and you maybe break the product table into a handful of elements plus alphas. And there’s that one out two people getting exquisite spectral resolution and signal-to-noise on a few stars and measuring the abundance of Technetium or whatever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That can’t be safe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's been a feature of Australia's elections since federation. Albanese supports a change⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because the date of the election is known in the US, the entire 18 months leading up to the election is all about the election. You don’t want the political exhaustion that goes with that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feeble defence from ABC confirms abject failure to report Labor accurately⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But it sounds like, as the Democrats in America, they have trouble bringing attention to their successes?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨fake it til you make it⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thus demonstrating the post title.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Back to the grind.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This guy datas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Back to the grind.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry, I maintain that processing data that is full of (known) systematic problems or data that is known to be insufficiently sensitive to detect the goal is a drain on limited resources.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Back to the grind.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No data is better than bad data.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨fake it til you make it⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re not a big fish, find a small pond.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is your favorite Robin Williams role?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Being a cartoon freed him from any physical constraints and allowed him to go wild.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is it that clasped hands tends to be the norm for praying? 🙏⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Under Christianity, I think children were instructed to hold their hands together in order to discourage fidgeting. I’m not aware of any Biblical reason to clasp hands. In fact, I think in the Old Testament hands were often raised in prayer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If God is all powerful and created human. How come God in endowed with human emotions? Shouldn't he or she be beyond that?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Love” in the scriptures is typically a verb, e.g., “God so loved the world…” It describes an action that God does, not a feeling. God’s love is his acting in a loving way towards undeserving people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If God is all powerful and created human. How come God in endowed with human emotions? Shouldn't he or she be beyond that?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Christian theologians believe in the impassibility of God, which means that God does not have emotions as humans do. Then biblical texts where emotions are attributed to God are explained as anthropomorphism - God using human language to communicate his nature and actions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Merry Christmas, you filthy animals!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Get down on your knees and tell me you love me!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If someone rubs their pennies on you, is it considered a centual massage?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Light it on fire first.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So is it "It just works" or "Shit just works"?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mostly both

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How much can we hope is being put in place behind the scenes at the US federal level to mitigate the damage Trump will do? Can any of it be effective?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Surely any roadblocks you put in place quickly by one party in power can be removed quickly by the other party in power. Again, I think what’s going to matter is those few people in the administration with standards and allegiance to the country over party, and loud outcries from the people when they touch something important.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can someone explain the framework of the current British... idk is empire the correct term?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The British Empire was always a result of the British monarch ruling India, making the British monarch a King/Queen over other kings. When India gained independence from the British monarch after WW2, Britain could no longer claim to be an empire.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did "Party time! Excellent!" come from Wayne's World or Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure? Did one copy the other?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Party on, Wayne.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Know DEEZ NUTS⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Donald Trump Traitorus maxima

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Magic Words⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And “we need to fix this” usually means “someone else needs to fix this”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Magic Words⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When scientists want to publish their results, the paper first goes to one or more referees (usually anonymous), who advise the editor about the quality of the paper. It is common for referees to ask why the original author(s) did not consider a particular question as part of their work. The reply in the cartoon is commonly used by the author to defuse that question, essentially saying we didn’t consider that question because it’s too much work, and just publish what I’ve done already, dammit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Worker Slams Boss For Telling Colleague With Dying Mom To 'Man Up': 'Now His Mom Is Sick And He's Falling Apart'⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Everyone drink!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Phonebooks⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And didn’t you have to pay to not be listed?