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[Jellyfish]

This Person Does Not Exist

This Person Does Not Exist

thispersondoesnotexist.com

Website that randomly generates a person that doesn't exist.

 

[neverendingmidi]

This Person Does Not Exist

This Person Does Not Exist

thispersondoesnotexist.com

Website that randomly generates a person that doesn't exist.

It’s easier to tell the ones showing teeth are made up. Because they frequently have three front teeth.

 

[Candidae]

This Person Does Not Exist

This Person Does Not Exist

thispersondoesnotexist.com

Website that randomly generates a person that doesn't exist.

This algorithm is so freaking cool!
But is equally amazing when it fucks up

Uncanny Valley for many of these though, I'd love to see the practical applications of this

 

[Big Nasty]

This algorithm is so freaking cool!
But is equally amazing when it fucks up
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Uncanny Valley for many of these though, I'd love to see the practical applications of this
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Straight outta Realm of Chaos.

Also, found this recently:

http://www.peace.se/

Thanks to the invention of the computer much much more of this work for materialist equality can now be done automatically. A system with a computer controlled base-income by smart chip cards will do it. Thus I can foresee that the state employed administration can be slimmed quite considerably. The future oriented work will grow out of personal creativity, social instinct and from new forms of family building, networking and sustainable and EcoVillage communes. All of this experimenting will come natural as a result of the crisis years that we just have passed, with the Internetting as the replacement for most physical commuting and traveling.

So after two ardent years as a post-graduate student at UGWB, the University of Global Well-Being in Höör of Sweden, I presented my Ph.D. thesis above on I AM Philosophizing to my academic teacher Henryk Skolimowski, educated at Oxford University Doctor of Philosophy. I was naturally tense with anticipation about his verdict on my question: Is my cybernetic treatise worth a PhD. degree?
Henric’s response was encouraging: ”Your PhD thesis is worth three PhD degrees! First of all you are describing academically the cybernetic block diagram for a feedback process between three psychic qualities with different time characteristic. But, and this is unusual, you take on the theory and test it in on your own life! Furthermore, on top of that, you apply your own walk of life on a entirely different subject: politics!
Your Inaugural Speech for a future President in Sweden is transgressing the borders between both Cybernetics and Psychology, in its description of a workable presidency for a transient period between a Monarchy and a Republic.
But, Henryk Skolimowski also mentioned that as an Oxford Doctor of Philosophy, Emeritus, he was not in a position to grant me a PhD. I need to approach an active University department professor for a formal degree.

AM YAHWEH, I have lived for 25 thousand years. I have ben able to appear in many physical bodies. As an Eternal Soul I AM identical with the Cosmic Mission to survey Life Development on this Planet and the others in this chosen one of the twentyfour Cosmic Civilizatins. I AM the One that proved Myself in front of the Patriarch Moses some 3.400 years ago and in front of John the Babtist some 1.400 years later. Through his spiritual revelations, John was linked to the crucial task of recognizing Jesus to the people. In front of John, I had to appear in visions. John’s book Revelation, ends the Bible of sacred texts given by Me some 2000 years ago. It is a manual and vision of Life on Earth as I designed it thrugh the DNA priciples to work over generations of development. The Notion of a ’Beast’ was given to John in his bewildered state, in order he should be able to understand the notion of Evil. With My artistic freedom as a Creator I have tried the Kung Peng concept here to you Ove in order you will be able to imagine the masculine principles that have been predominant in the world of finance during the latest profitable millenium of warfare.

 

[downwardspiral]

http://slidewizards.com/MeWe.html

peak boomer. for some reason you need to copy&paste not click it otherwise you get a 404

www.hockey-sweater.com

canadian skitzo posting in yellow

 

[beeboploop]

Don't know if this has been posted but found this blog about self harm years ago and it gets worse the more you scroll https://sticktoitiveness.wordpress.com/

 

[cuddle striker]

This algorithm is so freaking cool!
But is equally amazing when it fucks up
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Uncanny Valley for many of these though, I'd love to see the practical applications of this
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they've got Tom Cruise mouth

 

[Coolio55]

Don't know if this has been posted but found this blog about self harm years ago and it gets worse the more you scroll https://sticktoitiveness.wordpress.com/

Imagine wasting the time of so many medical professionals. They should hurry up and cut their neck already.

 

[cuddle striker]

Imagine wasting the time of so many medical professionals. They should hurry up and cut their neck already.

they wanted to chat with people about those people's triggers? that sounds a lot like "I'll help you self harm" to me. shades of Ashley Isaacs

 

[IcyHotStuntaz]

And pissed @Matthew Moulton off.

sorry in advance for reply necro

Oh shit... I remember that guy... Wasn't he the one who showed up to his Portal of Evil thread and said "no no no guys, I was totally a deeply embedded troll asset in the adult diaper shitter community. In the l33t community, it's what we call a Tactical Homosexual Operation. I'm not actually one of them!!!"

EDIT: Holy shit... it's like I just had an acid flashback to 2002. He has shitted up threads here on the farms with the same exact shtick he used way back then. At this point, I'm pretty sure he's a very early AI that was released into the wild like 20 years ago. It's almost like it just pastes the same replies he used on POE back in the day. In another 50 years, when ED and KW are just distant blips from a forgotten internet... the madhatter will still be shitting up threads somewhere. It can't be stopped. At this point, I'm scared to have invoked its powerword.

 

[Iwasamwillbe]

"The cost to humanity of fifteen centuries of Christian savagery – of hundreds of millions of lives brutalised and truncated, sacrificed to war, torture, pogrom, burning, pestilence and plague – is incalculable."

Despite this being at the bottom of the front page, it is a fitting beginning for our trek through the mind of antitheist Kenneth Humphreys.

First Major Section

"Do you really think it all began with a sanctimonious Jewish wonder-worker, strolling about 1st century Palestine? Prepare to be enlightened."

Jesus – The Imaginary Friend (SECTION INDEX)

Some executive summaries of the articles found in this section:

Religious fusion in Ancient Egypt

The most successful cult of all,the supreme example of syncretism, was Christianity. Uncompromising exposure of the counterfeit origins of Christianity and of the evil it has brought to the world.

www.jesusneverexisted.com

At first glance, the Egyptian pantheon presents a bewildering array of gods having little in common with the Christian godman. But properly understood many Egyptian deities were city or regional "variations on a theme", gods whose fortunes rose or fell with the outcome of human power struggles and dynastic change. Triumphant priests merged useful aspects of a fallen rival's deity with their own favoured god.

This process of absorption, assimilation and adaptation continued throughout the Greek, Roman – and Christian eras. Though the basic Christ legend was formulated by apostate Jews, with their expectations of a conquering messiah, and pagan converts, with their fables of dying/reborn sun gods, Egypt provided Christianity with ideas NOT found in the Old Testament: immortality of the soul; judgment of the dead; reward and punishment; a triune god. The ancient religion of Egypt infused the nascent faith of Christ with much of its creed.

Nazareth The Town that Theology Built

The Gospels tell us that Jesus's home town was the 'City of Nazareth' ('polis Natzoree'):

And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a CITY of Galilee, named Nazareth, To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary.
(Luke1.26,27)
And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the CITY of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; because he was of the house and lineage of David:
(Luke 2.3,4)
But when he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judaea in the room of his father Herod, he was afraid to go thither: notwithstanding, being warned of God in a dream, he turned aside into the parts of Galilee: And he came and dwelt in a CITY called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene.
(Matthew 2.22,23)

And when they had performed all things according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own CITY Nazareth. And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom: and the grace of God was upon him.
(Luke 2.39,40)

The gospels do not tell us much about this 'city' – it has a synagogue, it can scare up a hostile crowd (prompting JC's famous "prophet rejected in his own land" quote), and it has a precipice – but the city status of Nazareth is clearly established, at least according to that source of nonsense called the Bible.

However when we look for historical confirmation of this hometown of a god – surprise, surprise! – no other source confirms that the place even existed in the 1st century AD.

• Nazareth is not mentioned even once in the entire Old Testament. The Book of Joshua (19.10,16) – in what it claims is the process of settlement by the tribe of Zebulon in the area – records twelve towns and six villages and yet omits any 'Nazareth' from its list.
• The Talmud, although it names 63 Galilean towns, knows nothing of Nazareth, nor does early rabbinic literature.
• St Paul knows nothing of 'Nazareth'. Rabbi Solly's epistles (real and fake) mention Jesus 221 times, Nazareth not at all.
• No ancient historian or geographer mentions Nazareth. It is first noted at the beginning of the 4th century.

​

'Never heard of the place' – Josephus​ In his histories, Josephus has a lot to say about Galilee (an area of barely 900 square miles). During the first Jewish war, in the 60s AD, Josephus led a military campaign back and forth across the tiny province. Josephus mentions 45 cities and villages of Galilee – yet Nazareth not at all. Josephus does, however, have something to say about Japha (Yafa, Japhia), a village just one mile to the southwest of Nazareth where he himself lived for a time (Life 52). A glance at a topographical map of the region shows that Nazareth is located at one end of a valley, bounded on three sides by hills. Natural access to this valley is from the southwest. Before the first Jewish war, Japha was of a reasonable size. We know it had an early synagogue, destroyed by the Romans in 67 AD (Revue Biblique 1921, 434f). In that war, it's inhabitants were massacred (Wars 3, 7.31). Josephus reports that 15,000 were killed by Trajan's troops. The survivors – 2,130 woman and children – were carried away into captivity. A one-time active city was completely and decisively wiped out. Now where on earth did the 1st century inhabitants of Japha bury their dead? In the tombs further up the valley! With Japha's complete destruction, tomb use at the Nazareth site would have ended. The unnamed necropolis today lies under the modern city of Nazareth. At a later time – as pottery and other finds indicate(see below) – the Nazareth site was re-occupied. This was after the Bar Kochba revolt of 135 AD and the general Jewish exodus from Judea to Galilee. The new hamlet was based on subsistence farming and was quite unrelated to the previous tomb usage by the people of Japha.

None of this would matter of course if, rather like at the nearby 'pagan' city of Sepphoris, we could stroll through the ruins of 1st century bath houses, villas, theatres etc. Yet no such ruins exist.

Second Major Section

Creation of the Christian Godman – Introduction (SECTION HEAD)

It is not merely Christ, divine son of God, that is an article of faith, but also the so-called "Jesus of history". A liturgy of carefully crafted "proofs", a hallowed parade of alleged witnesses, and a handful of dogmatically interpreted writings are the sacraments of this faith.

But what better explains a thousand different Jesuses than the single word: fiction.

Some executive summaries:

Christianity Without Jesus - Gestation of a Superhero

Was Jesus, like Alexander the Great or Julius Caesar, a real historical figure to whom legends and myths became attached? Or, rather, like Huckleberry Finn or Sherlock Holmes a purely fictional character, passed off as a genuine personage or later historicized by other hands?

Perhaps the choice is not quite so clear cut: a person (perhaps several) were certainly in the mind of Mark Twain and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle when they constructed their heroes. Twain drew inspiration from his own life. Doyle modelled much of the character of his detective on his own professor of medicine, a Dr Joseph Bell. Did that make Sherlock Holmes any less of a fiction? (Interestingly, Holmes's trademark “deerstalker” hat is never mentioned in Doyle's stories and the drop-step pipe was the contribution of actor William Gillette years later. That's how myths grow.)

With Jesus, most people feel more comfortable with the 'historical kernel' approach. It is intuitively satisfying to think that someone was behind the towering legend. We do, after all, have Christianity, and it is hard to give credence to the idea that someone "just made-up" Jesus Christ and then managed to convince anyone else to believe that he had lived and died. In fact, one can reach the conclusion that "there must have been a Jesus" without any research at all, which of course is what most people do.

And yet, this "common sense" approach, though convenient, is a trap, a misapprehension condoned and encouraged by the priestly cohorts. They are happy to debate and discuss their hero's claims to deity ('a matter of faith') but want us all to accept Jesus of Nazareth as an historical fact. For them, the negation of that "fact" has cataclysmic implications and therefore they resist that possibility with every means within their grasp.

And yet Gods do fall, as the ruins of Upper Egypt and Greece eloquently testify. Was there ever a Horusor an Apollo? It scarcely matters if some shadowy figure was ever consciously in the mind of the original priests who concocted the fables. The Olympian gods ruled for two thousand years and the Egyptian deities for twice that time.

No one "just made-up" Jesus. If we step around the centuries of fabrication and glorification which informs everyone's perception of Jesus Christ and closely examine the two hundred year gestation period of the current Lord and Saviour we can see a perfectly plausible and, indeed, convincing process by which, upon the legacy of earlier times and from piety and scripture alone, the Christian godman emerged into the light. Beliefs created the man; the man did not create the beliefs.

Witness to Jesus? - Seneca and the Stoics

In antiquity it was not the formalistic Roman religion, with its capricious gods and part-time priests, that offered answers to the perennial questions of existence – How shall I live? How shall I face death? etc. – but the schools of philosophy.

Adepts were practitioners of "the philosophical life", their maxims "medicine for the soul", their own lives exemplars of "right living". They offered moral guidance and a path of "personal growth", as well as speculations on creation, fate, and the gods.

The world was not on hold, waiting for a Christian godman to teach it ethics and morality. To ancient wisdom the fabricated "Jesus" added only an insufferable egocentricity.

​

"If a man lies with his wife as if she were another man's wife, he will be an adulterer, though she will not be an adulteress." – Seneca, On Firmness, vii.

"Whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart." – Matthew 5.28.

For five centuries, Stoicism was the dominant philosophy of the Romano-Hellenic world. Rome's educated elite found this import much to its taste. Stoicism was admirably suited to the builders of empire. It urged a dutiful self-discipline, detachment from the feckless passions, steadfastness in friendship and fortitude in adversity. It reasoned that all men were the offspring of God and therefore brothers, each deserving of compassion and justice. Stoicism made no vain promises of a life beyond the grave, though some Stoics thought it a possibility. Happiness was to be found within, in this life. Stoicism was manly, rational, and temperate. Its reward was virtue – "the highest good" – and perhaps the honour of a noble house.

Stoicism originated on the island of Cyprus with Zeno of Citium at the zenith of Greek expansion in the late 4th century BC, when the old gods were already in decay and rational thought in the ascendant. It took its name from the 'Stoa', or colonnade, at Athens where Zeno taught. Though pantheistic – conjecturing God as present in all things and not transcendent – Stoicism provided many of the building blocks out of which the early Christians built their religion.

Indeed, the first "pagan" Christians had trained in the Stoic tradition (Pantaenus, Clement, et al) and carried into the new faith the asceticism, seclusion, coarse dress and hirsute appearance which were all the marks of the Stoic sage on his way to "Perfection".

Stoicism furnished the Christians with theory as well as practice. Zeno's primary agent of creation, a material "Mind" in the guise of an ethereal yet vivifying "fire", had by the age of Cleanthes (mid-3rd century BC), become "pneuma" or "spirit" – and would show up as the "fiery Holy Spirit" of Pentecost.

"And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them."
– Acts 2.3.

This is the last major section that will be shown in this OP. There are, of course, many more, but this is my absolute favorite one, just in how spergy it is.

The Christianizing of Americas - Brave New World – (SECTION INDEX)

"The conquest of the New World set off two vast demographic catastrophes, unparalled in history: the virtual destruction of the indigenous population of the Western hemisphere, and the devastation of Africa as the slave trade rapidly expanded to serve the needs of the conquerors, and the continent itself was subjugated."

– Noam Chomsky (Year 501, p5)

Some executive summaries:

Did Jesus Keep Slaves? The Church, the USA and Slavery

Having laid claim to an entire continent and eradicated most of its native peoples, the Christian conquerors of North America came into possession of an immense land. The rapid exploitation of its potential required a vast labour force and, until a surge in European migration in the later 19th century, this was taken against its will out of Africa, leaving the demography of that continent permanently damaged. On the southern plantations of tobacco and cotton the captive labourers enriched an elite of white landowners who themselves provided trade and custom for the northeast and the Old World. Christianity, malleable as ever, morphed not only into the self-justifying ideology of the racist southern oligarchs, but also into the uplifting faith of freedom and salvation of the slaves themselves.

Quite some trick for the cult of a west Asian sun-god.

Birth of a Nation – Indians perish, make way for brotherly love

On the frontiers of the New World Christianity set aside any notions of cheek-turning pacifism and universal brotherhood to embrace the manly notions of rugged individualism and aggressive acquisition. Frontier Christianity was the faith of the Lord's conquerors, untroubled by the fate of those who had to perish to make way. The Good Book, as interpreted by a new breed of itinerant pastors, reassured them that they were Good People. The guiding hand of Divine Providence itself sanctioned their ruthless greed and the more wealth they could amass was surely indicative of God's approval. With the Bible in one hand and a rifle in the other the new Americans were claiming their inheritance.

So what do you guys think? is there any truth to any of this?

 

[Colmerry]

These guys sound like they're proponents the Christ Myth Theory, which I don't really know much about, so I can't tell you how much truth I think there is to it, but there are a lot of books about it from centuries ago. Those are probably better than some spergs on a shitty blog.

 

[Eryngium]

Jesus was a black Israelite.

 

[Black Waltz]

somebody get that catholic dude in here

 

[Recoil]

"For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled."
-Hunter S

 

[Exigent Circumcisions]

Oh, sweetie, no.

somebody get that catholic dude in here

Who, @1864897514651? I'd be interested in that as as well.

ETA: as far as the OP goes, it's easy to talk about syncretism and gloss over the revolutionary concept that is monotheism; the Jews had started the ball rolling but Jesus perfected it. I find it hard to reconcile monotheism with the argument that Christianity is ripped off from polytheism.

 

[1864897514651]

If there is no Christ, then kill yourself. Philosophies do not offer an eternal reward, so what is the point of behaving when you presume your end to be nothing? Steal, murder, and forsake the whole Law of God if Jesus did not exist. Maximize your time on earth because you will be dust soon again. Or, more logically, kill yourself because this is a life of suffering. Who is to say that a minute from now you will not be in immeasurable suffering compared to the previous minute? How could you blindly trust a universe without any rhyme or reason? You would have to be profoundly ignorant or stupid to remain in a purely chaotic world without any eternal reward for its sufferings.

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

You mad, atheists?

 

[gun]

i saw zeitgeist

 

[Exigent Circumcisions]

If there is no Christ, then kill yourself. Philosophies do not offer an eternal reward, so what is the point of behaving when you presume your end to be nothing? Steal, murder, and forsake the whole Law of God if Jesus did not exist. Maximize your time on earth because you will be dust soon again. Or, more logically, kill yourself because this is a life of suffering. Who is to say that a minute from now you will not be in immeasurable suffering compared to the previous minute? How could you blindly trust a universe without any rhyme or reason? You would have to be profoundly ignorant or stupid to remain in a purely chaotic world without any eternal reward for its sufferings.

Yeah okay but why don't you say something about the OP? You seem to have a pretty good grounding in scripture so share some of that wisdom with us.

Or share some of the standard arguments for the historicity of Christ with us; one I'm aware of is that we have more contemporaneous secular accounts of his life than, say, Pontius Pilate.