پن کیا گیا ٹویٹ
VBC-Apologetics
33.3K posts
VBC-Apologetics
@VbcApologetics
Apologetics Content. Note: It's likely that I was reading philosophy before your parents knew how to make you, so let's dispense with "LeArN sOmE LoGiK!!"
Salinas, California, USA شامل ہوئے Nisan 2022
1.1K فالونگ1.2K فالوورز
@FrignaniGi18993 @Hitchslap1 Glad I could help. If you're ever on Who Wants To Be a Millionaire, I'm good for the Phone-a-Friend.
English
@VbcApologetics @Hitchslap1 Thank you, I was about to go and hunt a polar bear to feast on its innards.
I owe you one.
English
Skunk Tail is correct. If you can assemble a critical mass of U235 and hold it together long enough (nano-seconds), it will initiate.
If you try to simply put it together with no confinement, the smaller masses will push each other apart before an uncontrolled reaction occurs. That's why a small amount of kinetic energy is required to push the parts together.
If you wished to know more on the topic, Richard Rhodes' The Making of the Atomic Bomb is excellent reading.
English
English
If you have enriched uranium, you can make a Hiroshima-scale “gun-type” nuclear weapon in a decent machine shop in a weekend.
(Note that the USA didn’t even bother to test the “Little Boy” design… we KNEW it would work. Trinity was all about the “Fat Man” implosion design, which is more complex.)
So trying to draw a line between “allowing enrichment” and “allowing a nuclear weapon” is just meaningless yammering. It doesn’t relate to the real world.
Joe Kent@joekent16jan19
It appears that the zero enrichment poison pill killed the Islamabad negotiations yesterday. We have 9 more days in this cease fire to fix this, but we must pursue our goals not Israel's. Trump's redline has always been no nuclear weapons for Iran, not zero enrichment. Iran agrees with this and has not sought to develop or obtain a nuke since 2003 but needs to retain the ability to enrich for their "not Saddam but not Qaddafi" policy to work. This makes negotiations between the U.S. & Iran workable as the dispute is on levels of enrichment and monitoring. This is a threat to Israel getting us to do the heavy lifting in the regime change/decapitation war they want. Israel needs us chasing every trace of uranium in Iran because that ensures we stay engaged militarily in Iran, because how do we ever fully make sure Iran can't enrich without taking out the regime? This is the recipe for an endless bloody war or supporting/turning a blind eye to Israel using a WMD on Iran. Restrain Israel, get a deal, open the SOH, focus on saving our Republic, not playing empire.
English
@forest_john80 @MerkMilly @limitandmind @isuch_lenoob Could - in the sense of having the power -
But would not - because you have free will.
English
@VbcApologetics @MerkMilly @limitandmind @isuch_lenoob Well in this scenario you’re proposing a god that isn’t omnipotent (all powerful). Is that the god you believe in and that you want me to discuss with you?
Because if it is omnipotent, then by definition it could provide evidence that I WOULD believe.
English
> Show me the evidence
> Sure, that's a reasonable request. Here are the eyewitness testimonies to Jesus's life, death, and Resurection
> That's not evidence
> Ok, how about the myriad of archeological findings that support the historical Biblical account?
> That's not evidence
> Alright, let's use science. The Big Bang and Fine tuning show that a Creator is more likely than not
> That's not evidence
> Ok, perhaps a philosophical argument will do the trick. Contingency, MOA, Moral argument, and the Kalam.
> That's not evidence
> Ok, it's hard to see what you'll accept as evidence at this point. I'm starting to think you don't actually want the evidence.
English
@TheBabylonBee No, that quote is from Joseph Smith, Jun.
English
@forest_john80 @MerkMilly @limitandmind @isuch_lenoob If God exists and is omniscient
And knows that you will never believe regardless the evidence
Then why would He bother?
English
@VbcApologetics @MerkMilly @limitandmind @isuch_lenoob Here’s my own answer.
I don’t know what would convince me that a god existed.
But if the god you believe in is omniscient, then it WOULD know. And if it was omnipotent, then it COULD provide it.
Currently, it either hasn’t provided the evidence. Or can’t.
English
@NahuiGPT That is unforktunate but it happens tine and tine again.
English
@LDSMormon Squeeze them pennies, Folks; Ensign needs capital from the interest of which to develop new shopping centers.
English
My Bishop confided in me that many members are claiming they are now unable to pay tithing.
This will not end well.
I recommend doing anything needed to pay tithing. Stopping the payments of tithing can mess up your life real quick!
English
@Latterdaytruth Were they to reject Joseph as a prophet and reject his writings as scripture, they could become orthodox.
English
The Community of Christ, which has roots in the Restoration movement, appears to have a view of God that aligns almost precisely with Creedal Christianity.
cofchrist.org/our-beliefs/
English
English
@VbcApologetics @limitandmind @isuch_lenoob I honestly don’t think I’ve gotten that far with them lol. They mostly stop replying
English
@PortraitofR @isuch_lenoob @limitandmind Doesn't a conclusion need to follow from the premises to be a valid method?
Can you give an example of an unsound argument using Modus Tollens, for example?
English
@VbcApologetics @isuch_lenoob @limitandmind Logically valid arguments can have all premises be but the conclusion be false.
Sound means all the premises and the conclusion can only be true.
English
@ValeryGilka Toyota Prius drivers are worse than BMW drivers.
English
В вашей стране водители bmw тоже не включают поворотники?
Русский
@Dimon_Piter_Sky You don't have to be poor at McDonalds, but they are aimed more for children. Kind of bland.
If you're visiting the US, I recommend Chick-Fil-A (chicken sandwiches, chicken strips, etc.) or else In-And-Out Burger for your fast food needs.
English
Раз уж мы теперь международное сообщество, вопрос к друзьям из других стран. Правда ли что у вас McDonald's считается самым маргинальным фастфудом, невкусным, для самых бедных и нормальные люди брезгуют туда ходить? В РФ, до ухода, они назывались "Сеть ресторанов"😅, туда любили ходить праздновать детские дни рождения и этот фастфуд считался не самым плохим. Если всё так, какой фастфуд в вашей стране для вас самый лучший?🤔
Русский
@Acts17David @MarkMittelberg @MatthewVMitt @LeeStrobel @AlexBlagoj13103 I was just thinking that those look like your bookcases, David.
English
English
Sure do miss my awesome friend Nabeel Qureshi today, on what would have been his 43rd birthday. Here's a pic in my home office with Nabeel, @MatthewVMitt and @LeeStrobel.
Every Christian (and Muslim) should read Nabeel's powerful book Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus (or listen to him read the audiobook—a.co/d/01HArTST)!
English
@KTMartin25 I agree with this post. JSH 1:19, folks. Own it.
Be proud to be a New Gospel.
English
Too many of you seem ashamed by what past prophets and apostles have taught.
Stop trying to fit in with Trinitarians and the rest of Christianity. We were never meant to be like everyone else.
Thoughtful-Faith@ThoughtfulSaint
For Latter-day Saints: Which better describes your belief Option 1: God the Father was subordinate to his Father who was subordinate to his father ext (Infinite regress) Option 2: God the Father is the HEAD God of ALL other Gods.
English
VBC-Apologetics ری ٹویٹ کیا
English
@_arzhevitinaa I'm not sure that anyone is fond of Vladimir Putin except himself, but Russians in general are just people doing what they can with what they have, like the rest of us.
English
@Write4Republic Except Luke-Acts. Also, one chapter of Daniel is in the voice of Nebuchadnezzar, but that is likely by dictation.
English
@MerkMilly @limitandmind @isuch_lenoob If they do give you an answer, it is never consistent with how they would wish you to prove anything else.
English
@limitandmind @VbcApologetics @isuch_lenoob Whenever an atheist ask for proof of God, I ask them what would satisfy as proof for them, and they never have a legitimate answer
English