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  1. Re:Really? on What Does Google Suggest Suggest About Humanity? · · Score: 1

    ...but few are willing to repent...

    Rev 21:8 But people who are cowardly, unfaithful, detestable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars will find themselves in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death."

    This is what will happen to those that are unwilling to repent of their sins. All sin is grievous before God.

  2. Re:Really? on What Does Google Suggest Suggest About Humanity? · · Score: 1

    ...I may just become an atheist...

    You may have been religious, brought up in a fundamental denomination, but you never were a Christian, at least not in the biblical sense by being born of the Spirit.

    1John 2:19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they were of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out so that it might be revealed that they were not all of us.

    When you are born into this world, you are a son of your earthly father. There is no way you can undo that. Similarly, when you are truly born into the kingdom of God, born again, as Jesus puts it, you are a son of God. By your statements, you provide evidence that you have never been born as a son of God and are therefore none of his.

    If you seek God and truly want to become a son of his, to be born into his kingdom, then you will experience this new birth. As evidence that you have experienced this new birth, you will never want to leave him, ever.

  3. Re:Really? on What Does Google Suggest Suggest About Humanity? · · Score: 1

    ...If the old testament has been superseded...

    Jesus Christ disagrees with you:

    Matthew 5:17 Do not think that I have come to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I have not come to destroy but to fulfill.

    The Old Testament is not worthless, but is a background and history which found its culmination and fulfillment in Jesus Christ. It gives us the reason why Jesus had to come in order to rescue us from our sin.

  4. Re:Really? on What Does Google Suggest Suggest About Humanity? · · Score: 1

    ...The bible fully endorses the practice of slavery.....

    The bible fully endorses the ONE FORM of slavery.

    John 8:34 Jesus answered them, Truly, truly, I say to you, Whoever practices sin is the slave of sin.

    If you lie, you are a liar. Lies never come alone, but often become a habit. Any habit can be and often is slavery. Many people are enslaved to drugs and/or pornography.

    If you steal, you are a thief. If you get away with it, you are likely to steal again.

    If you are deeply in debt, you are a slave to the creditor.

    Owning somebody as a servant is only one of many forms of slavery.

    Anyone who wants to be free, truly free must listen to and obey Jesus Christ.

    John 8:36 Therefore if the Son shall make you free, you shall be free indeed.

  5. Re:Really? on What Does Google Suggest Suggest About Humanity? · · Score: 1

    ...Christians who are slaves....

    How about atheists who are slaves to drugs and alcohol drugs or even their credit card? An atheist who is head over heels in debt is a slave to the creditor. There are many forms of slavery. We have eliminated one form, but there are many other kinds of slavery still in existence today. If you're in a job you hate, working for a boss you can't stand, but you can't quit because you have bills, especially debts to pay, you're a slave. It's that simple.

  6. Re:Perspective on Cable Exec Suggests Changing Consumer Behavior, Not Business Model · · Score: 1

    ...The correct solution would be to...

      rent it for a couple bucks, and then be done with it, unless of course you like it enough to spend 20 bucks to own a copy.

  7. Re:Explanation Impossible on Possible Dark Matter Signs At the Core · · Score: 1

    ...why it's silly to say that...

    Pulsars and other extremely intense radiation sources are caused by the gravity of black holes. Gravity has absolutely nothing to do with and has never been demonstrated to generate so much as a single photon. All electromagnetic radiation which we receive, including intense gamma ray bursts, cosmic rays and radio signals are of electrical origin. None of them, not even one, has ever been nor can be generated by gravity, no matter how much matter you pile together. The equations of gravity do not include electrical components. It is an ironclad law that electromagnetic radiation can only be produced electrically.

    (...and it will respond in exactly the right way to cancel that charge imbalance..

    If there is an electrical field, a difference of potential, currents will flow in a plasma to SEPARATE the charges. This happens for example, with the solar wind. The Earth's magnetic field bends and focuses the current, until the plasma switches from dark mode to glow mode. We then see that glow as Northern lights. We do this here on earth every day with neon signs. The positive ions flow toward the cathode and the electrons to the anode. If the current density in the plasma is even higher, there is what is known as arc mode, such as in a welder or lightning. However, in most of outer space the current density is very low, so the plasma currents flow in the dark mode. There are places however, where the current density is high enough to enter glow mode. We then see those places as some of the beautiful colorful nebula and luminous clouds.

    Cosmologists and astrophysicists who theorize that there is a gigantic black hole in the center of our galaxy are totally wrong. There is intense electromagnetic radiation issuing from the middle of our galaxy. All of that, every bit, has its origin in the electric force acting either in free space or within the atom.

  8. Re:It's a black hole! on Possible Dark Matter Signs At the Core · · Score: 1

    ...The way people react so strongly to the Electric Universe...

    Because the electric force is so much stronger than gravity, it can and does make things happen much faster. Electricity, it can be demonstrated, has the ability to disrupt and rearrange matter very quickly. Our modern technology uses this ability in countless applications.

    Electricity throws a rather large monkey wrench into the theory of evolution, because its cornerstone is time, billions and billions of years of time. Because the present science establishment is run by the high priests of the evolutionary religion, they would naturally vehemently oppose any idea that threatens the heart of their dogma. The movie "Expelled" is an excellent exposé of what happens to honest scientists who dare to question evolutionary dogma and its high priests.

  9. Re:It's a black hole! on Possible Dark Matter Signs At the Core · · Score: 1

    ...Photons do not interact with fields inside atoms, they interact with electrons and protons...

    What aspect of an electron or proton do photons interact with? If it is not their charge, what is it? When you get a bunch of electrons together in a "pile", do they not manifest themselves as a negative charge? When you get another pile of protons, do they not manifest themselves as a positive charge? Do the two piles not have an electric field between them?

    Whether electrons or protons are parts of atoms or not is totally irrelevant. What matters, is that they carry charge. Neutrons do not carry charge and therefore do not interact, either within atoms or separately in space.

    Photons certainly do interact with one another. How do you think interference works? Photons consists both of an electric field component and a magnetic field component at right angles to one another. If you make light, like that of a laser beam intense enough, the electric component of the photon beam can break down the insulation capability of the air, resulting in a spark suspended in midair. I know, for I have seen this demonstrated in the laboratory. This spark is not only visible, but also audible with each laser pulse. It is a very impressive demonstration of one of the ways in which light interacts with matter.

  10. Re:It's a black hole! on Possible Dark Matter Signs At the Core · · Score: 1

    ...We are to imagine that now galaxies are not approximately electrically neutral....

    The fact that there are magnetic fields of cosmic proportions, also means there must be immense electrical currents to generate these fields. To have electrical currents means that there have to be potential differences. So why should we assume there are not huge potential differences between galaxies, stars, planets, comets and other heavenly bodies? The sun emits an electrical current of billions of amps which we call the solar wind. What drives that current?

    (...like rotation curves of galaxies, gravitational lensing of distant sources...)
    Except that all these phenomena and observations can be explained better and simpler, without resorting to esoteric undiscovered things like dark matter. Electric forces which are unimaginably greater than gravity are behind the anomalous movements of galaxies.

    (...Are not neutrinos...)
    in contrast to dark matter and energy, which are fictitious mathematical constructs, neutrinos are real observed facts of the universe. We can even make them ourselves with particle accelerators.

    (...Could neutrinos not have a more massive cousin?...)
    We can always speculate on what could be, but I prefer to stick with what has been measured and observed.

    (...the Sun does *not* shine via nuclear reactions is contradicted by observed neutrinos from the core...)

    As a matter of fact that is one of the problems with the theory that the sun is powered by nuclear reactions. If the sun were truly nuclear, then according to everything we know about nuclear reactions or more correctly thermonuclear reactions, there should be many more neutrinos coming from the sun than we actually observe. Also the temperature inversion between the solar surface and the thousands of times hotter Corona is powerful evidence that the sun may be powered by something other than the millions of degrees hot center.

    (...So what you imagine happens at conferences is that...)
    equally qualified scientists who have other ideas, which do not fit into the accepted dogma, are usually not allowed to participate or are ridiculed. The movie "Expelled" gives a number of examples of this type of human behavior.

  11. Re:One word: on Possible Dark Matter Signs At the Core · · Score: 1

    ...Do you disagree that gamma rays are produced in nuclear reactions, like radioactive decay...

    No. Electromagnetic radiation arising within the atom or the atomic nucleus even is still ultimately the result of charges being accelerated. Whether the accelerating field arises within the atom or by some other means is immaterial. No electromagnetic radiation, whether by radioactivity or other means, arises without the acceleration of charges by an electric field. These electric fields happen to be incredibly intense inside the atom, hence the high energy of the emitted radiation.

  12. Re:Explanation Impossible on Possible Dark Matter Signs At the Core · · Score: 1

    ...cosmically large electric fields would have no observational consequences...

    They do have observational consequences right here on earth. They are called cosmic rays. These are charged particles and electromagnetic radiation of incredible energies are constantly bombarding Earth. An electric field of only a few microvolts per kilometer, applied over cosmic distances, would accelerate a charged particle to immense energies. When such a charged particle slams into a bit of matter, powerful electromagnetic radiation results which we call gamma rays.

  13. Re:Explanation Impossible on Possible Dark Matter Signs At the Core · · Score: 1

    ..gravitational radiation emitted from binary pulsars...

    Gravitational radiation and gravity waves exist only in mathematical theories, but have never actually been observed or measured. Great gobs of money have been expended to measure such waves, but so far nothing has been found.

    (...electric interaction is also infinitely fast...)
    As a matter of fact, the speed of the electric force within the atom has never been determined. The distances within the atom are so tiny, that even something as slow as the speed of light would be fast enough to communicate between electrons and protons within it.

  14. Re:It's a black hole! on Possible Dark Matter Signs At the Core · · Score: 1

    (...The only way to influence the path of a photon...)

    If that were true, lenses would not work and there would be no rainbow. The interaction of photons with electric fields in the atoms of the leaf enables photosynthesis, upon which all life on Earth depends.

    Electromagnetic radiation is greatly affected by what it travels through. Because there is no such thing as empty space, light is also affected in various ways by whatever is in space, including but not limited to the zero point energy which pervades all of space.

  15. Re:Explanation Impossible on Possible Dark Matter Signs At the Core · · Score: 1

    ...But expends itself on neutralizing the charges that generate the force....

    That is only true of static charges, but not of currents moving through space in the form of charged particles.

    (...is attracting particles...)

    You are assuming that only tiny particles, such as electrons and other atomic bits and pieces can carry charge. It is assumed that larger bodies are neutral against each other, but that is an unwarranted assumption. Because the electric forces are so powerful, only a slight imbalance of charge, will produce immense electrical forces between such charged objects. Most of the matter in the universe is not nicely neutral like we fortunately have here on earth, but highly charged plasma.

    When you rub a comb with a silk cloth, only an extremely tiny number of electrons compared to the total electrons in the comb is moved. Yet that tiny charge imbalance is sufficient to overcome the gravity of the entire earth and pick up bits of paper or plastic.

    The fact that there are magnetic fields in space and on the Sun, attests to the fact that there are flowing currents. Flowing currents can only happen if there is a potential difference within that current flow.

  16. Re:Explanation Impossible on Possible Dark Matter Signs At the Core · · Score: 1

    ...it's reasonable to hypothesize that ...

    the electric force which is 36 orders of magnitude greater than gravity is ALSO involved in controlling the motion of stars and galaxies. Sad to say, current cosmologists and astrophysicists totally ignore the action of the electric force in the large-scale universe. Nobody ever seems to ask the question of how a slightly charged, that is not exactly neutral body, would move in a weak, but not zero magnetic or electric field. There are theories that can explain some of the anomalous data without resorting to black holes, dark matter or energy, singularities or other purely mathematical constructs.

  17. Re:Explanation Impossible on Possible Dark Matter Signs At the Core · · Score: 1

    ...either light or gravity to cross one....

    You are assuming that light and gravity travel at the same speed. This has never been observed to occur in nature. This limitation on gravity exists only in mathematical models.

    The sun and the earth "feel" each others gravity instantly, not eight minutes from now. If gravity took eight minutes to travel from the Sun to the Earth, the earth would have left its orbit long ago. The fact that it's still here where it is, is evidence that gravity is either instantaneous or incredibly fast, much much faster than light.

  18. Re:Explanation Impossible on Possible Dark Matter Signs At the Core · · Score: 1

    ....on a known-wrong theory?...

    It is not the case that the theory is totally wrong, just incomplete. The reason it is incomplete is that present-day cosmologists totally ignore the electrical force which is 36 orders of magnitude bigger than gravity. Both electricity and gravity are involved in and are necessary to explain the behavior of galaxies and stars.

    For example, an immeasurably small electric field of a few microvolts to the kilometer applied to a charged particle over cosmic distances, can accelerate such a particle to enormous energies. That is what we observe in cosmic rays.

  19. Re:Explanation Impossible on Possible Dark Matter Signs At the Core · · Score: 1

    ....Experiments like the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search ....

    Are all coming up empty, because dark matter is only a mathematical construct in computers and math models, but not in measured reality.

  20. Re:Explanation Impossible on Possible Dark Matter Signs At the Core · · Score: 1

    ...Newtonian mechanics is not good enough for dealing with the motion of galaxies, and it's predictions do not agree with reality....

    That's only because today's cosmologists totally ignore the electric force. It is 36 orders of magnitude greater than gravity. The motion of the Pioneer space probes is also slightly off, because it is being influenced by a "mysterious force" that causes it to move differently than if gravity alone is taken into account. Because the electric force is so much more powerful than gravity, only a small charge on the space probe will interact with tenuous electric and magnetic fields in space to exert a force that will alter the motion of the spacecraft.

    For the short distances involved in the solar system, the application of purely gravitational equations is accurate enough. However, if you're talking about galactic or even cosmic distances, the electric force must be taken into account, but unfortunately it is studiously ignored by mainstream cosmologists.

  21. Re:It's a black hole! on Possible Dark Matter Signs At the Core · · Score: 1

    ...to every lunatic with a wacky idea...

    So then all the people who correctly show that the electric force must be involved in the large-scale operation of the universe and in our solar system are like lunatics? I suggest you learn a little bit about electric fields, magnetism and plasmas before you spout such nonsense.

  22. Re:It's a black hole! on Possible Dark Matter Signs At the Core · · Score: 1

    ...There's a reason that the strong force is always ignored...

    and that is that it is only effective within the nucleus of an atom. By contrast, the electric forces is active within and between atoms and on the cosmic scale as well. We observe all sorts of ELECTROmagnetic radiation, even from the edge of the known universe.

  23. Re:It's a black hole! on Possible Dark Matter Signs At the Core · · Score: 1

    ...Other, more outlandish explanations....

    are proposed almost every day, but they are utter foolishness. The foolishness is that current cosmology and astrophysics ignores the effects of the electric force in the large-scale operation of the universe. There are theories that do take this 36 orders of magnitude greater force than gravity into account. These theories can explain the data we receive from space probes and telescopes much more simply and without resorting to undiscovered mathematical fabrications, such as dark matter and energy or black holes.

  24. Re:Explanation Impossible on Possible Dark Matter Signs At the Core · · Score: 1

    ...Can't explain Dark Matter, we got Dark Energy! ...

    Neither dark matter nor dark energy are needed to to explain what we observe if the models would take into account the 36 orders of magnitude greater electric interaction in addition to gravity.

  25. Re:It's a black hole! on Possible Dark Matter Signs At the Core · · Score: 1

    ...experimentaly detected in three observations....

    That is utter and complete BS. All that has ever been detected is the motions of galaxies and the bending of light waves. These are then attributed to the existence of dark matter, but dark matter itself has never been found out in space nor here on earth.

    The whole problem arises because today's scientists assume (believe) that gravity is the ONLY force controlling the motion of galaxies or is capable of bending light waves. There are however scientists that long ago realized that the electric force being 36 orders of magnitude greater than gravity has a large role to play in the operation of the entire universe.

    These models, which include the electric force needs no dark matter or energy nor black holes to explain the torrent of data we are currently collecting from space probes and telescopes.

    There is a philosophical reason why the electric force is so studiously ignored and stubbornly rejected by mainstream scientists in trying to explain the operation of large-scale universe. If the almost infinitely larger electric forces IS included, the billions and billions of years that are commonly given as the age of the universe collapse into a much shorter time span. This wreaks havoc with the evolutionary dogma.