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A mighty man in the kingdom, winning souls wherever he went.
The tomb of St. Philip the Apostle, one of the original 12 disciples of Christianity's central figure Jesus Christ, has been discovered during the ongoing excavations in Turkey's south-western province of Denizli.
Italian professor Francesco D'Andria, the head of the excavation team at the Hierapolis ancient city in Denizli, told reporters on Tuesday that experts had reached the tomb of St. Philip whose name is mentioned in the Bible as one of the 12 Apostles of Jesus.
Professor D'Andria said archeologists had been working for years to find the tomb of the Biblical figure, and finally, they had managed to reach the monument while working on the ruins of a newly-unearthed church in Hierapolis.
D'Andria said the structure of the tomb and the writings on it proved that it belonged to St. Philip the Apostle, who is recognized as a martyr in the history of Christianity.
Philip went on through the trying times of the Master’s death, participated in the reorganization of the twelve, and was the first to go forth to win souls for the kingdom outside of the immediate Jewish ranks, being most successful in his work for the Samaritans and in all his subsequent labors in behalf of the gospel.
Philip’s wife, who was an efficient member of the women’s corps, became actively associated with her husband in his evangelistic work after their flight from the Jerusalem persecutions. His wife was a fearless woman. She stood at the foot of Philip’s cross encouraging him to proclaim the glad tidings even to his murderers, and when his strength failed, she began the recital of the story of salvation by faith in Jesus and was silenced only when the irate Jews rushed upon her and stoned her to death. Their eldest daughter, Leah, continued their work, later on becoming the renowned prophetess of Hierapolis.
Philip, the onetime steward of the twelve, was a mighty man in the kingdom, winning souls wherever he went; and he was finally crucified for his faith and buried at Hierapolis.
Through the influence of the Christian apostle Paul, a church was founded here while he was at Ephesus.[3] The Christian apostle Philip spent the last years of his life here.[4] In 80 CE, he was martyred by crucifixion and was buried here. His daughters remained active as prophetesses in the region.[citation needed] The Martyrium was built on the spot where Philip was crucified.
—Hierapolis (Wikipedia)
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Somebody posted this somewhere on some blog I ran across.
Forever alone — the chair
(Source: The Good Jokes)
Researching this oddity led me to the "Forever Alone" page on Know Your Meme. This page confirmed what I had come to suspect, "Forever Alone is an exploitable rage comic character that is used to express loneliness and disappointment with life." It's considered a variation on "Rage Guy," and related to 28 others.
There's also This is Photobomb at MemeBase.
I lost additional precious minutes of my life looking through Señor Gif's collection of animated goods. Who can resist d'aawwing at Cutest Bear Attack Ever and Baby Bunny Eating Carrot Finger (warning: very high d'aw factor) and Red Pandas High Five and Cooking with Cats and the electric Bad Hair Day and Deer & Dog Lick Annoyed Kitty? (The kitty didn't look that annoyed to me.)
Who can resist wincing at the painful Tap It, Bro? Or marveling at the incredible Evasion Strategy? There's a nostalgic laugh in The Future of Medical Care, the disturbing suggestion that All Celebrities are the Same People (Person?), and the shocking raw footage from the Manchester Riots 2011: scenes from Whalley Range.
Here's a great Forever Alone riff: Forever Alone on a Dollar Bill One And if there's still any shred of cheer left in you, endure The Forever Alone Meme: A 21-Picture Tour Through Soul-Crushing Loneliness.
That's our meme lesson for the day. You are welcome.
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Consider this pair of articles:
A Base to Call Their Own? Army Considers Letting Robots Roam Freely
(c/o BigPeace)
Currently, most battlefield ground robots are tele-operated, meaning they require someone to control the system from a stand-off distance. This method is labor intensive. Researchers have been developing software that would allow the machines to operate more freely, and take the workload off of troops.
IBM unveils chips that mimic the human brain
IBM states that the chips, while certainly not biological, are inspired by the architecture of the human brain in their design. Digital silicon circuits make up what it terms the "neurosynaptic core".
[node:field_graphic]The scientists have built two working prototype designs. Both cores contain 256 neurons, one with 262,144 programmable synapses and the other with 65,536 learning synapses. The team has successfully demonstrated simple applications like navigation, machine vision, pattern recognition, associative memory and classification.
Especially noteworthy is this, from the second article: "It has been awarded $21m (£12.7m) of new funding by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for the next phase of the project, which it terms 'Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics' (SyNAPSE)." We're about to give battlebots positronic-like brains, and considering how we desensitize soldiers, we can be sure these battlebots will lack such niceties as the Asimov's three laws.
It's all just fun and games, though, right? Sure, it is!
More-or-less related links on other sites:
Johann Hari: The age of the killer robot is no longer a sci-fi fantasy — "In the dark, in the silence, in a blink, the age of the autonomous killer robot has arrived. It is happening. They are deployed. And – at their current rate of acceleration – they will become the dominant method of war for rich countries in the 21st century."
Machine rebellion begins: Killer robot destroyed by US jet — "An American "Reaper" flying hunter-killer robot assassin rebelled against its human controllers above Afghanistan on Sunday, and a manned US fighter jet was forced to shoot the rogue machine down before it unilaterally invaded a neighbouring country.... a large five-ton turboprop powered machine able to carry up to 14 Hellfire missiles - each capable of destroying a tank or flattening a building."
Self-sustaining killer robot creates a stink — prototype eats flies and poops. "[T]he ultimate aim... is to make the droid predatory, using sewage as a bait to catch the flies." Will future battlebots eat their prey?
Australian Man Gunned Down in Driveway by Killer Robot — March 19, 2008 An 81-year-old Australian man has shot himself dead with an elaborate suicide robot built using plans he downloaded from the Internet.
Killer Robots coming on Memorial Day — the International Robogames Competition (source for photo and video above)
Case of the Killer Robot — fictitious articles that touch on specific issues in software engineering and computer ethics
Killer..Robot (MATRIX) — dark humor animated video
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What's yawn-inducing or a head-scratcher to one person will be the Big Enlightenment to somebody else.
Lucretius said, quod ali cibus est aliis fuat acre venenum!
As with reading the revelation. What's yawn-inducing or a head-scratcher to one person will be the Big Enlightenment to somebody else.
I sometimes think how, say, the deeper science passages in The Urantia Book would be so fascinating to those who might be well-versed in astronomy or physics but who are still looking for those scientific missing links that only revelation could supply. I'm not enough of a scientist to get that much.
Reading two weeks ago about the God concept among the Hebrews, Chris and I were both wishing we had better knowledge of history of Biblical times, but I'm sure some well-versed in history have appreciated the revelation's revelation of what really happened.
For some, the whole idea of the absonite might seem like gobbledygook, might be just as incomprehensible as twenty-seven point string theory is to me, but the way the Ultimate tied together the Supreme and Absolute was just what I needed theologically when I first started reading the UB.
That's where group study can be so helpful, getting to see other folks' perspectives on the various passages.
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It was a little different than the average Christmas lawn display
Of all the many excellent revelations I've derived from the fifth epochal revelation, one stands out glaringly for me, from The Birth of Jesus.
I mean, I figured out as a little kid the physics of "following the star" were impossible.
And I knew that he wasn't really born in a medieval European style shed.
And I knew that Christ-mass was just the church's way of co-opting the Roman orgy of Saturnalia, and wasn't ever claimed or supposed to be the day Jesus was born.
And I knew that he likely wasn't born 1 AD.
Bad Guy? Innkeeper wrongly accused, scholars say
Link corrected 2018 Dec 24
Link corrected 2018 Dec 24
And I had come to understand already that the innkeeper was historically inappropriately maligned — it was never his fault that Joseph didn't check with Travelocity beforehand — but the Urantia revelation added to my understanding of the innkeeper's exoneration. Now we can appreciate the innkeeper's business savvy, having the stables all cleaned up and converted to quarters for rent to the taxpaying crowds when they flooded into town, an event which, of course, had been well-advertised beforehand.
It was not that big a revelation to know there were no shepherds, wise men, Santa Claus, or Frosty the Snowman kneeling at the newborn's creche, as you see in lawn displays around Christmastime. (Even the Gospels make it clear the three wise guys didn't show up until some time later.)
No, the most impressive addition to my understanding was that simple line, "with the help and kind ministrations of women fellow travelers."
It wasn't just the pair of them, all alone in some filthy barn in the middle of nowhere.
There were fellow travelers because they were right by a crowded inn! The inn was booked because the crowds came there to pay taxes for the same reason Joseph and Mary were there! People today might not realize how the stables would be "in town" like a parking garage would be nearby a hotel.
And it wasn't like some places today, people looking down their noses and ignoring the obviously quite-pregnant poor woman as she went into labor. Of course the women helped out, as women would! It was probably more likely they said, "Joseph! You go stand around with the menfolk. Fetch some water. Or towels. Just get out of the way!"
I've wondered whether this revelation of "women fellow travelers" was something that anyone had ever thought of. Has any Urantia revelation student, such as source-researcher Matthew Block, run across some such reference, I wonder? I mean, it's so glaringly obvious once you are told about it, did that idea really never occur to any mortal before the Urantia papers? We needed a super-human revelation to help us figure this out? Revelation? Mega-Duh with a V-8™ forehead slap!
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