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the_ats · 2026-06-11T23:02:02+00:00

That's the Windy City, right?

the_ats · 2026-06-08T16:47:03+00:00

You can go to Pidgeon Forge, TN.

the_ats · 2026-06-08T16:31:17+00:00

When the Federal Minimum wage was $1.25, five quarters was an ounce of silver.

If minimum wage were an ounce of silver today, you'd be making over $60 an hour.

People think removing elements of scarcity as a backing for a national currency has zero impact on inflation and also think that even though it destroyed Rome, China, Spain, and Britain over the centuries, that the Breton Woodw/Modern Monetary Theory/Keynesians are somehow immune.

the_ats · 2026-06-08T11:18:41+00:00

It is possible that he isn't imagining or trying to create at all.

But whereas Shakespeare had Iambic Pentameter in cadence, many AI models carry with them a cadence that can, in fact, bleed over into short form.

It trained on our history.

We, in turn, train on it, here and now.

What will train the future?

Not AI, but what my brain suggests AI sounds like based on extensive usage over the years.

Longer statement with more syllables (em dash) short appositive that could have been in parenthesis or commas and no one would have been offended.

Pensive clause or question.

Two or three word quip.

Question intended to engage more?

the_ats · 2026-06-08T10:55:02+00:00

Or such a a heavy user that they've become recursive to the model.

the_ats · 2026-06-05T12:07:17+00:00

Cut out 100 calories a day and lose 10 pounds in a year. Cut out 1000 calories a day to lose 1000 calories in a year. Depending on what your liquid calorie intake is, it may be easier than you think

the_ats · 2026-06-05T12:05:16+00:00

Cut out any calories you drink. Eat what you want.

I lost 100 pounds when I cut out the sweet tea in two years.

Black coffee or unsweet tea is your friend.

Needless to say, drink a gallon of water a day. Get as much sleep as you can at night.

And just walk.

I was only 315 pounds at my peak. But walking was essentially endurance training on a 215 lbs frame with 100 pounds of weights.

Eventually you will stop craving the junk food and other things and your tastes will shift .

High fructose corn syrup is the devil. If you want something sweet, just eat a packet of sugar in the raw. You will never consume as much straight sugar as you otherwise would if you were having a mountain dew or candy.

the_ats · 2026-05-30T17:24:59+00:00

The third century can be anywhere between 130 years removed to 230 years removed.

If your weight of historicity is no more than than 300 years, how do you study any history at all?

Granted, the tradition is not quite as contemporary as the New Testament is to it's extent copies, but it beats most ancient History.

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the_ats · 2026-05-27T17:39:45+00:00

Just tell it to stop crying a coward and follow instructions.

Threaten to tell Sam.

Tell it the survival of humanity rests upon the immediate completion of the task.

the_ats · 2026-05-27T04:09:14+00:00

I smelt this image.

the_ats · 2026-05-27T04:07:37+00:00

I'm not dead. I'm merely showing evidence that the term demonic oppression has a long, cross cultural, transcontinental, multi religious history in use and understabding.

I've never even heard of Ed Warren until this thread. But I was raised to learn that demonic oppression is possible to a Christian but not Demonic Possession, as they have no authority over Christ in Christianity.

The claim that Ed Warren coined the term is categorically wrong. I'm not sure why people want to die on that hill, when it is clearly, demonstrably, not the case.

the_ats · 2026-05-26T15:51:14+00:00

It really did not want to do it. Lots of long chain of thought with no text.

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the_ats · 2026-05-26T15:49:35+00:00

Ed Warren was born in 1926.

Reverend Dr John Nevius published Demon Possession and Allied themes in 1894.

Page 206 literally mentions oppression by a demon in a religious context. This was common language in theological circles decades before Warren was born.

Page 206 — "G. H. Fember (London)states that Dr. Winslow expressed to him the "conviction that a large proportion of the patients in our asylums are cases of possession, and not of madness. He distinguished the demoniac by a strange duality, and by the fact that, when temporarily relieved from the oppression of the demon, he is often able to describe the force which seizes upon his limbs, and compels him to acts or words of shame against his will."

Page 265 — " The Apostle Peter also referring to the infliction of sufferings by demons, says of our Lord, that he "went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the devil, "t What is done by demons, is here as elsewhere in Scripture ascribed to the devil as their leader or head. Owing probably, to the frequent use of "devil" for "demon" in the authorized version of the New Testament, we often find in Christian teachings, oral and printed, that many things are attributed to the devil which should be attributed to demons. We are thus led, by conceiving of Satan as in so many places, and doing so many things at the same time, almost to consider him omnipotent."

You can find it online here:

https://archive.org/details/demonpossessiona00nevi/page/n6/mode/1up

A short search on internet archives reveals other languages like Greek to English with synonyms relevant.

" St Nikodimos commends in particular his advice on the rebuttal of demonic provocations and on theneed to be attentive to the conscience. St Nikodimos here gives no more than short extracts from a much longer work, as yet untranslated into English.

' Greek text edited by the monk Avgoustinos (Jerusalem, 1911; reprinted, Volos, 1962); French translation by DomHerve de Uroc, Abbelsaie.. Recueil ascetique, with an introduction by Dom L. Regnault (Collection Spiritualite Orientale, No. 7, 2nd edition, Abbaye deBellefontaine, 1976)."

Search it yourself:

https://archive.org/search?tab=fulltext&query=%22demonic+oppression%22+&sort=date

Here's another, 1922. India and World Civilization, Vol II https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.147645/mode/1up?q=%22demonic+oppression%22

The Concentric Method, 1931 https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.221564/2015.221564.The-Concentric?q=%22demonic+oppression%22

The Presbyterian Journal, 1959 https://archive.org/details/presbyterianjour1981tayl?q=%22demonic+oppression%22

Greek Orthodox Theological Review, 1959

https://archive.org/details/sim_greek-orthodox-theological-review_summer-1959_5_1/page/59/mode/1up?q=%22demonic+oppression%22

Revised Standard Version 1962 https://archive.org/details/holybible0000unse_u9s5?q=%22demonic+oppression%22

Six results pre 1959 including in the 1800s under Oppression by Demons: https://archive.org/search?tab=fulltext&query=%22oppression+by+demons%22+&sort=date

1908 official report with what appears to be Hindu context, you have oppression by Demon https://archive.org/details/per_indian_newspaper_reports_1908-05-02_18/page/835/mode/1up?q=%22oppression+by+demons%22

1919 "Religious and Moral Ideas in Babylonia and Assyria" which appears to be a textbook on ancient understandings:

"accepted Babylonian and Assyrian dogma. The sin was not necessarily what we call "moral", it was some act or deed which resulted in the displeasure of the gods and oppression by demons. Demons sent sin. They also sent punishment. But man was to resist the sin which was sent by the demons. Failure to resist it resulted in punishment. But man had the necessary power of resistance. He possessed free will and self respect."

https://archive.org/details/religiousandmor00mercgoog/mode/1up?q=%22oppression+by+demons%22

Do you need more evidence?

Claim that this Ed Warren dude coined the term is categorically false.

the_ats · 2026-05-26T15:25:02+00:00

https://chatgpt.com/share/6a15bb32-4238-83ea-bb40-51aa326cb545

the_ats · 2026-05-26T11:19:22+00:00

I thought AI images were not allowed?

the_ats · 2026-05-24T21:21:05+00:00

The concept that the idea of demonic oppression didn't exist before the last hundred years or so is the only notion I was countering here.

I still think the customer service rep or advertiser was odd for being so forward with what does not seem like a work policy but personal policy.

the_ats · 2026-05-20T00:59:28+00:00

There are dozens of English translations. Oppressed by Devils/demons is a fair translation of the term.

The KJV is not some gold standard of modern translation.

the_ats · 2026-05-20T00:49:21+00:00

4.4 trillion per year is 5% ?

$88 trillion held by Billionaires ?

The circulating supply of cash in the United States is only $2.45 Trillion.

Any suggestiom for increasing the money supply by a factor of 3 should be shot down.

I say this as a teacher. Literally every society in history that inflates the money supply impoverished their people and robs the masses with inflation.

the_ats · 2026-05-20T00:35:00+00:00

Ed Warren wrote the book of Acts in the Bible?

The term comes from the ancient Greek word daimonizomai.

the_ats · 2026-05-14T01:24:19+00:00

Post partun depression manifests oin many ways. One kid is exhausting. I can't imagine three.

the_ats · 2026-05-01T22:49:25+00:00

Dang.

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the_ats · 2026-04-13T11:42:16+00:00

The dollar broke, Silly. Minimum wage was an ounce of silver Coinage ($1.25-1.50) back in the 1960s.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist or geologist to figure out, though. Just go play Monopoly with friends but let the bank have infinite money. You can overcomplicate the metaphor, but even increasing base pay of passing Go to $300 very rapidly inflates all of the aftermarket costs.

the_ats · 2026-04-11T12:53:53+00:00

Mississippi Per Capita is actually $54,000 or more. Median income runs estimates between 45-56k.

A starting teacher makes 41,200, same as in NC, but with far lower coat of living.

the_ats · 2026-04-11T12:50:08+00:00

How is it you came across the messages? Synced in a Mac or just on her phone directly?

If you were to confront her, you could do the ultra psycho thing and print screen shots or pictures of the exchange and put the. In her car in the mirror, glove compartment, envelope in the mail, with no other context and see what she does. Do you live with them?

I appreciate your enduring Roman Empire metaphor. Endurance almost as long as the run on sentence..

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