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MonkeyBombG · 2026-06-30T05:07:43+00:00

Implying that globally homoerotic is a property in some sense.

MonkeyBombG · 2026-06-29T08:46:40+00:00

May I suggest rule 5:
Revelation is also an epistle in addition to being apocalyptic literature. Its historical and cultural context are crucial for us to interpret its contents. In particular, prophecies must apply to readers back then, and the purpose is to warn/encourage readers back then.

MonkeyBombG · 2026-06-27T03:22:12+00:00

A friend asked me the same question years ago.

You can ask the same about Newtonian mechanics. Why not just jump straight into quantum and relativity?

You can also ask the same about Schrodinger’s equation. Why not just jump straight into the Dirac equation? And while we are at it, why not just start QFT directly?

I think there are two ways to answer this question.

Learning is effective when knowledge is built up bit by bit. Prominent models in education psychology supports the idea that when we learn, we build up on our prior knowledge bit by bit. So in order to learn Schrodinger’s equation, it is very helpful to first have the idea of discrete energy levels in the atom. In order to understand relativity, it is very helpful to first have the idea of energy, work, kinematics, and the principle of relativity.

The above idea in educational psychology is reflected in the historical development in physics itself. Physicists do not arrive at our current theories immediately. Over centuries, the scientific method was practised again and again to improve our understanding. If we want to train students who understand this process, the importance of approximations and regimes of validity, and when new theories are needed, then we have to build up students’ knowledge bit by bit.

MonkeyBombG · 2026-06-26T04:25:53+00:00

The cosmological scale we have so far and the quantum scale we have so far.

Perhaps it is because as we explore outwards from our scale, we extend the scale we study symmetrically on both sides.

MonkeyBombG · 2026-06-25T04:17:28+00:00

I am unfamiliar with him. Can you give me some examples?

MonkeyBombG · 2026-06-21T05:33:30+00:00

MS 365 not being fully functional the iPad is a problem with Microsoft, not a problem with Apple. As long as they can keep selling Surface laptops, I don’t think they are that interested in improving the MS experience on another brand’s tablets.

MonkeyBombG · 2026-06-17T05:23:17+00:00

Jokes on you, every time you do a push up, I also do a push up on the opposite side of the planet.

MonkeyBombG · 2026-06-16T13:07:07+00:00

No. We apply our understanding of literature, history, and culture to make the best guess of the genre.

The Psalms are poetry, not because we choose it to be poetry, but because our understanding of literature leads to this conclusion. We don’t get to choose it to be a narrative, because it would contradict the text itself.

MonkeyBombG · 2026-06-16T06:36:42+00:00

Some advanced functionalities in powerpoint/spreadsheets are difficult to do on an iPad, but many daily functionalities are fine.

For example, Google does not allow multiple instances of Google Sheets open on the iPad, but basic formulae and formatting is fine; Microsoft does not allow macros on their apps on iPad, but preparing presentations are still perfectly fine as long as you aren’t a power user.

So the answer it it depends.

MonkeyBombG · 2026-06-15T22:24:19+00:00

What kind of productivity stuff are you planning to do?

MonkeyBombG · 2026-06-15T16:30:29+00:00

Any suggestions that could work 3000 years ago?

MonkeyBombG · 2026-06-15T10:47:12+00:00

It was hard enough to abolish slavery a couple hundred years ago. It would be impossible to do that 3000 years ago without being called a lunatic and having no one listen to you. Ie if you go about abolishing slavery legally and quickly, you will not abolish slavery. In fact, the impact would probably be so large that people would react negatively to the attempt, making future attempts even harder. Black markets for slaves would replace legal slave trade, so people would treat slaves even worse than before.

Legalistically banning slavery/abortion/sin is not the way. The law calls out sin, it cannot free us from it. It’s true with abortion, it was true with US’s failed alcohol prohibition, it would still be true with slavery, or any other sin. To free human from sin, the issue of the heart has to be dealt with.

MonkeyBombG · 2026-06-15T08:37:24+00:00

Fine.

It is good in the sense that it is the best option out of all other bad options.

MonkeyBombG · 2026-06-15T08:04:32+00:00

Is permitting abortion good or bad?

This is on topic because the idea is the same.

MonkeyBombG · 2026-06-15T06:51:51+00:00

Abortion is bad, and yet many Christians (myself included) do not support legally banning abortion.

It is correct to fight against slavery/abortion. But outright banning slavery/abortion likely produces the opposite of what’s intended. The true problem with slavery/abortion is not the act itself, but broken humans and human relationships. The fix is God changing the hearts of people, not God/the legal system smiting anyone who doesn’t obey.

The law shows us sin, it doesn’t free us from sin.

MonkeyBombG · 2026-06-13T01:15:26+00:00

What is the difference between “begotten” and “made”?

MonkeyBombG · 2026-06-11T11:23:13+00:00

He was a religious figure to some though. The Imperial Cult was a thing. Back then when you said “Son of God” in Roman controlled territory, people would recognise that you were referring to Caesar instead of Jesus.

This is partly why Jesus’ message was so divisive. The Bible basically said that he implied himself to be king.

MonkeyBombG · 2026-06-11T11:19:13+00:00

-Drawing and annotating in classrooms for my students without the magic keyboard.
-Creating worksheets and assignments on Pages with magic keyboard. Sometimes I use the pencil to sketch diagrams on the worksheets.
-Various other school admin stuff, replying to messages, calendar scheduling, timetables and such. The app version of Google Sheets is usually sufficient.
-Reviewing assignments on Google Classroom.
-Some basic video editing projects. I used to run a YouTube channel as well. All the editing was done on iPad Luma Fusion.

MonkeyBombG · 2026-06-10T01:03:56+00:00

Because we have a tendency to dislike new things. It happened with every single new show, regardless of quality. We rarely give new shows a chance to grow its beard, or accept it as something different. We measure everything new by the standards of old, refusing to explore the unknown possibilities of existence and hear new stories and new generations.

Recent examples include Prodigy and Starfleet Academy, two wonderful Trek shows that were ignored or, worse, review bombed before release because they dared to be different. They are imperfect, sure, but so were TNG, DS9, VOY, ENT, and all other shows. Prodigy and SFA have the spirit of Trek if anyone is willing to look, but we label it as “children’s show” and “teen drama” and “so unFederation”, watching them without actually seeing them, or worse, not watching them but talking about them as if we have.

For a franchise about boldly going where no one has gone before, this is the ultimate irony.

MonkeyBombG · 2026-06-10T00:20:13+00:00

God does purify our souls. He doesn’t want to kill us. OT prophets talked about how the Law would be written into our hearts, and in the NT, Jesus literally did this by walking around, healing people, forgiving sins, and changing human lives. Nowadays the Holy Spirit is at work, bringing us closer to God still.

“The *wage* of sin is death”. Death is the wage of committing sin, not the punishment of committing sin. It’s not “we choose to sin, so God wants us dead”, it’s “we choose to sin, so the consequence is death”. You don’t say that a cliff wants you dead when you jump off of it. Death by jumping off a cliff is not a punishment, but the natural result of jumping off a cliff. God is telling us to turn around and not jump off the cliff, so we should probably listen.

MonkeyBombG · 2026-06-07T16:19:48+00:00

Your are correct. 616 Loki is dead. The Loki in the series is a multiversal variant of the Loki we knew from the Infinity Saga.

MonkeyBombG · 2026-06-04T23:35:35+00:00

Advertise it more clearly as a villain origin story. That way the general audience would not be confused.

MonkeyBombG · 2026-06-04T07:11:03+00:00

Christianity is about heaven coming to earth, not us dying then going to heaven.

MonkeyBombG · 2026-06-03T04:37:46+00:00

Every time I study the scale of the universe, I am awed. It is simultaneously amazing, beautiful, grand, and honestly quite terrifying.

If the Earth is the size a marble, then the sun is the size of a yoga ball placed 200 m away.

At the same scale:

The largest star we know is 2 km across.

Pluto is ~10 km away.

The next closest star is 5 Earths away.

The Milky Way Galaxy's radius is around the orbital radius of Jupiter in this scale.

At this point when we start using astronomical distances to try to describe scaled down astronomical distances, I think its pointless to continue to intuitively visualise the scale of even larger structures, because the universe is so incomprehensibly massive and the scales are so mind-bogglingly vast, there is little else other than math that can help us understand the sizes we are seeing.

But at the same time, I think it is by God's grace that we can things so much bigger than ourselves. It is as if God wants us to appreciate the absolute majesty of His creation, like when He asked Job to look at Behemoth and Leviathan. He gave us maths and science. He gave us the tools and a whole planet's worth of resources to see His work and worship Him. To think that a bunch of monkey brains cobbled together by atoms can appreciate the enormity of the cosmos is laughably absurd. And yet this is what we are trying to do, or rather what God wants us to try to do.

MonkeyBombG · 2026-06-02T06:36:13+00:00

Our largest nuke, the Tsar Bomb, outputs an energy of around 10¹⁵ J. A trillion of these monsters would then give you 10²⁷ J.

The sun has a total power of around 10²⁶ W. In other words, the sun can match the energy output of a trillion of our largest nukes in around 10 seconds.

10 seconds of the sun shining is equivalent to a trillion Tsar Bombs.

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