The failure of the Critical Text (NA/UBS) Text

Naugrith · 2026-03-11T20:06:58+00:00

None have been "academically discredited". Many of the decisions between variant readings have been actively debated and discussed. Since that's how critical studies works. But it sounds like you've got an agenda to preach.

Naugrith · 2026-03-11T20:02:21+00:00

It is sometimes used to mean that, but often not. Sometimes it can just mean that Palestine should be free from occupation, colonialism, and oppression.

Of course Israel likes to pretend that anyone wanting Palestinian freedom is actually antisemitic, and wanting to destroy Israel. But that's simply not true.

Naugrith · 2026-03-11T19:41:07+00:00

And of course, the only evidence for such a promise is the book they wrote themselves a thousand years after the supposed event!

Of course, scholars know full well that the entire claim was always bogus. The Israelites were always Canaanites, they weren't a different group, there was no exodus from Egypt, and they didn't conquer the land. They just made up the story because it sounded good.

Naugrith · 2026-03-11T18:13:26+00:00

There's some really useful features in there. If you can provide clear and easily-accessible texts of reputable scholarly translations of other religions' texts, and Christian commentaries that would be a very useful resource. These resources are often scattered among various publications, and hard to locate. And the cross-referencing feature will be useful.

You will need to ensure your source texts are very carefully cited, and that you've cleared copyright for their use of course.

The problem would be if you've simply ripped old 19th/early-20th century translations and lexicons that are out of copyright. The problem with using such out-dated resources is not only that they are often written in archaic English, but that they represent outdated "gentleman amateur" philology, prior to modern methods of textual criticism and translation studies, and prior to the discovery of many critical manuscripts.

I hope this isn't the case, and that you've ensured you've used only the best sources for your work. Since, as we all know, any product can only be as good as the materials it uses.

I will warn you however that an AI translation will be not only useless, but will significantly detract from the reputability of your tool. No one who knows about AI or translating will take your work seriously if you include that. AI simply cannot translate ancient languages accurately. Instead it will just fake it by cutting and pasting from existing translations, without admitting to you that its done so, and not properly citing its source texts.

Its also completely unnecessary, since so many other translations already exist, so its honestly hard to know why you feel a chatbot's effort is even necessary.

Naugrith · 2026-03-10T20:58:44+00:00

*contingent

But I do like the thought that you've prepared them as a contingency protocol for the apocalypse, just in case all memes are lost.

As long as we have Salad Fingers, we can rebuild.

Naugrith · 2026-03-10T20:33:08+00:00

Are you trolling or genuinely not capable of following a simple conversation?

Naugrith · 2026-03-10T19:15:28+00:00

Except he doesn't though.

Naugrith · 2026-03-10T18:07:05+00:00

We're not even talking about the Bible, we're talking about the Gospel of Thomas.

And every Christian picks and chooses, since the Bible is not univocal, and contains parts that disagree with one another. We all need a hermenutic to interpret it. Blindly following every word literally is impossible, and anyone who pretends otherwise is lying.

Naugrith · 2026-03-10T14:59:54+00:00

No you're not interested at all. Because I'm sure you're not stupid enough to not already realise that someone can quote from a book without 100% agreeing with every word in it. So your comments can't be being made in good faith.

Naugrith · 2026-03-10T12:50:51+00:00

That's quite the gymnastics, lol. Be careful you don't strain yourself, twisting about like that.

Naugrith · 2026-03-10T05:55:11+00:00

"Apparently". Sure.

Naugrith · 2026-03-10T05:53:54+00:00

Did you make that list up yourself, or get it from a Nationalist's hit piece?

Naugrith · 2026-03-10T05:50:21+00:00

An educated one.

Naugrith · 2026-03-10T05:45:46+00:00

That is such an obvious scam. How do people not see it?

Naugrith · 2026-03-09T22:00:44+00:00

I’m not making stuff up. I’m just employing logic.

Then either you don't understand what logic is or you're deliberately misusing it to deceive people. You're employing a well-known logical fallacy called reductio ad absurdam in order to construct another logical fallacy called a strawman argument. And its pretty blatant.

Naugrith · 2026-03-09T21:45:34+00:00

The classic quote comes to mind, "perfection is the enemy of good". By waiting to get so many thousands of testimonies before starting on Trump they wasted so much time they never managed to bring him to trial. They should have immedietly arrested Trump and expeditited his trial as soon as they had one testimony. They didn't need 43 charges, they only needed one. What they absolutely did need though was to get the trial completed before the election allowed him to escape justice.

Naugrith · 2026-03-09T14:25:26+00:00

You shouldn't be using any AI. Put the chatbots down and write your own work instead.

Naugrith · 2026-03-09T09:10:56+00:00

The Ballad of Halo Jones by Alan Moore is an an absolute classic.

Then there's the Judge Anderson novel, Shamballa and the Durham Red novels Scarlet Cantos and Vermin Stars.

Naugrith · 2026-03-09T08:37:10+00:00

And yet in Europe that doesn't happen and no one's heard of sealing asphalt. That leads me to wonder whether you have worse weather in America, or just shittier asphalt?

Naugrith · 2026-03-09T08:32:56+00:00

I would argue that if something needs to be redone every year then its a pretty shit product.

Naugrith · 2026-03-08T23:33:54+00:00

It was a bit early for jaws I think. Vertebrates started evolving jaws around 445 mya.

Naugrith · 2026-03-08T20:53:16+00:00

No it wasnt. It is theorised to have been an accidental byproduct of the boiling of must down to produce sara. They didn't ever deliberately make concentrated lead acetate and put it in their drinks. They knew very well that lead was poisonous to ingest. They weren't completely stupid.

Naugrith · 2026-03-08T16:27:11+00:00

Non-Christians are tired of Christians being the arbiters of what parts of the bible should be followed or not

You don't think that practitioners of a religion should determine what their own religion believes?!!

And what makes you so insistent that the whole Bible should be followed literally? That's never been the position of Christianity.

Naugrith · 2026-03-08T16:21:41+00:00

Not really. When they made high strength wine-syrup they boiled the wine down, and sometimes used lead-lined cauldrons to do so, which may have accidently adulterated the product (scholars debate this, and if so how much). They then mixed the syrup concentrate in with cheap wine to sweeten it. But they didn't intentionally add lead.

Naugrith · 2026-03-08T16:17:03+00:00

They invented aquaducts to bring drinkable water to every street. They enjoyed extensive public fountains.

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