What is the historical evidence that Jesus Christ lived and died?

[JSSPMK]

That's a rather strong way of putting it but yeah ok, the twisted to fuck Jesus lived propaganda it is.

That's one inaccurate quotation. See, you just twisted what I said few days ago, how would history preserve my comment if it was made 2k years ago?

 

[Humpy]

To get back to sin. Ask yourself is murder sinful ?
I and most others would say yes.
But imagine yourself in the 1930s. Would it have been sinful to murder Adolph Hitler and save the planet from World War 11 ? Think of the millions who need not have been killed.
You might say he should have been jailed for his foul beliefs. He was, but a mere jail couldn't hold him.
So fast forward to the present. Should Kim of North Korea who appears to be trying to start WW3 be assassinated ?

 

[OddTrader]

To get back to sin. Ask yourself is murder sinful ?
I and most others would say yes.
But imagine yourself in the 1930s. Would it have been sinful to murder Adolph Hitler and save the planet from World War 11 ? Think of the millions who need not have been killed.
You might say he should have been jailed for his foul beliefs. He was, but a mere jail couldn't hold him.
So fast forward to the present. Should Kim of North Korea who appears to be trying to start WW3 be assassinated ?

My idea is not matter your decision is, just don't tell him! Especially by yourself!

 

[OddTrader]

That's one inaccurate quotation. See, you just twisted what I said few days ago, how would history preserve my comment if it was made 2k years ago?

1. Just 2 cents. If a person could peacefully stimulate/cause so many martyr followers after her/his death, the rulers would possibly take all possible actions to prove her/his non-existence by eliminating all verifiable hard evidences.

Sending not only many strong soldiers to guard/watch her/his tomb overnight, but also place a heavy-duty over-sized stone to block the tomb, in order to prevent stealing her/his body from inside. Most likely, that was done due to a public statement saying the body inside will rise again in 3 days after death.

Historians of the era most likely were loyal/royal employees.

2. Another 2 cents. If we called the early followers of Jesus Jesus-ians, the rulers of the era later after out-of-control growth in size would most likely try to down size them by changing/converting them into Christians, to follow Paul's theology. According to a set of canonical holy books chosen and touched up by the rulers' employees, naturally.

A Cosmic God (God=Nature=Universe=Reason), which is naturally in-built into everybody's heart and mind consciously and unconsciously, was the most popular conception/conviction during the era, as promoted by Stoics. Paul's Christianity theology used his Religious God theory to hijack the term God ever since.

Making the term God an unbelievable conception, hence many people don't really like the term God anymore.

Sad and also unfair to (Cosmic) God lovers! God is not a term exclusive to religious believers of various faiths, at all!

Nowadays truly a mess - Worst being to do any sinister things in the name of (a religious) God! What a joke! LOL

 

[Spectre2007]

In a study reported in the February 26 issue of Nature (Vol. 391, pp. 871-874), researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science have now conducted a highly controlled experiment demonstrating how a beam of electrons is affected by the act of being observed. The experiment revealed that the greater the amount of "watching," the greater the observer's influence on what actually takes place.


https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1998/02/980227055013.htm

What you believe to be true only becomes stronger over time. There is no need for historical evidence of " " ...he is true to those that believe.


https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/05/150527103110.htm

The bizarre nature of reality as laid out by quantum theory has survived another test, with scientists performing a famous experiment and proving that reality does not exist until it is measured. Physicists have conducted John Wheeler's delayed-choice thought experiment, which involves a moving object that is given the choice to act like a particle or a wave. The group reversed Wheeler's original experiment, and used helium atoms scattered by light.

 

[OddTrader]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_(illusion)


imo, any traders wanting to become good ones should understand the tricks well.

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/gallery/2013/may/04/the-10-best-magicians

 

[OddTrader]

Cameras can reveal images that are hidden to the naked eye
April 20, 2017

https://phys.org/news/2017-04-cameras-reveal-images-hidden-naked.html

Only a camera or smartphone app can reveal the hidden image. They have a feature that the human eye lacks – adjustable exposure time – which can be used to temporally average the images. It's as if these devices were viewing all the superimposed photos at once, since video is nothing other than a series of images.

"We turned an image into a video, but to make sure that human eyes couldn't see it, we had to juggle a number of constraints – it was really difficult," said Roger David Hersch, who helped develop the method. "We can choose an exposure time of 8, 10 or 15 seconds, which isn't possible with the human eye."

 

[OddTrader]

 

[OddTrader]

When deep learning mistakes a coffee maker for a cobra
March 22, 2017

https://phys.org/news/2017-03-deep-coffee-maker-cobra.html

Moosavi: Going back to the cat example, a human being – even a two-year-old – will have learned what a "cat" is after seeing five images, even if the images are combinations of pictures and drawings. As humans, we have an inherent ability to look at the big picture and ignore small perturbations since they don't change the underlying concept displayed in an image. But deep-learning systems are not capable of such abstraction. They don't identify a concept but rather sort through a logical series of clues. And that's what can lead to classification errors.

 

[OddTrader]

Now You Don't See It, Now You Do: Filling In Creates the Illusion of Motion
July 20, 2005

The parade of lights flashing on a theater marquee provides an important lesson in how the brain creates the illusion of motion. While we know each bulb remains stationary, the lighting and dimming of each in succession makes it appear that light is moving across the marquee. Even when successive bulbs are separated by a large space, our brains fill in the missing data to create the illusion that the motion has occurred smoothly from one point to the next. But where in the brain does the illusion occur?


https://phys.org/news/2005-07-dont-illusion-motion.html

These results provide further demonstration that the brain masterfully creates a continuous, yet sometimes imagined, whole from individual, and often incomplete, parts. Most surprisingly, even the brain areas originally thought to be “literalist” in their representation of the environment are actually accomplices in the construction of illusory views. While such synthetic activity occasionally leaves us prey to optical illusions, it’s a small price to pay for what we get in return: a seamless understanding of often fractured perspectives.