Van

I like apple pie.

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@ElJefe53209440 @oghofer Genuinely, this may be his most undervalued contributions and all of the smearing of him today makes my heart sad that so many people never had the good fortune to listen to him speak on such a wide variety of topics, such as this.

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@TheAbased Randomly came across this earlier. Very pleased to see such an effort. DM me? I have a random question.

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This is in response to the Genesis 6 tradition that was upheld in Enochian tradition about lustful angels intermingling with human women.

According to the medical texts of the day, a female's hair was part of her reproductive system. This is akin to covering your genitalia to prevent lust.

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@Logos I quite appreciate the LEB as a base text, and I use it interlinearly with ESV/MEV/CSB/NASB and usually something like NLT to easily apprehend differences in the text and then drill down into languages from there.

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@Logos CREED

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That's fine.

I've read it.

You come across as only interested in argumentation, not actually discussing, so again, shalom.

I encourage your study and hope you study further.

There's a depth you may not have reached yet, and I hope you'll continue striving to, same as I try to.

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You clearly just want to argue, I just wanted to point out the potential issues.

There are plenty of well respected resources not in the pocket of apple that extrapolate on this at a length and effort I don't have or want to give any further, I encourage you to spend a little time with it if you're interested. Peace and blessings.

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@femboyaliens32 @thesharpestsph1 @LTI_finance @gurgx3 So now we're beholden to when one technology runs out its usefulness before we begin considering its forward implications?

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These are highly technical hardware designers I'm referring to.

Their preference for the lightning form factor is technical and valid and well predates any bias as a result of perceived Apple indoctrination.

Poor argument.

Anti-consumer is a pretty nebulous an accusation and covers a multitude of political sins.

Apple has done plenty that could be argued as "anti consumer" and no one really does anything about it. It was a perceived easy political win with the fringe 'benefit' towards consumers at best.

It gave little thought to future consumers though, but no one really gives that any credence because we have difficulty forward planning and perceiving potential negative outcomes if it gives us what we want in the immediate.

If you think there wasn't lobbying involved you're fooling yourself.

There's a lot of money at stake in USB-C forced adoption. The consumer aspect was just an easy PR angle.

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And now market forces will have to wait for governments to decide it's time to catch up and accommodate emerging standards.

Argue the present benefits all you want, but there is incurred a natural cost that corresponds with future development at certain levels and certain points.

Companies buying inventory for components, inventory for expected order outlays, etc.

It is market manipulation, whatever else it may be, that's the entire point of it.

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@Napoli27435209 @thesharpestsph1 @LTI_finance @gurgx3 They're allowed (or were) to run their company how they want.

I prefer USB c.

I have friends that wildly prefer lightning for various reasons. I disagree, but it's still their preference.

Apple clearly did too until they were required to oblige.

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@fnspidey24 @thesharpestsph1 @LTI_finance @gurgx3 Parallel and alternative technologies necessarily suffer when demanded governmental standards are imputed onto economies.

It interferes with price discovery and market forces. That's kind of the point of government standards. Arguing otherwise kind of misses the point.

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@thesharpestsph1 @LTI_finance @gurgx3 Saying it hasn't born out is like saying a bug bite hasn't stopped itching just a day afterwards.

In the grand scheme, we're early in the game.

It's not a tired argument, it's a longitudinal argument. That takes time.

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@thesharpestsph1 @LTI_finance @gurgx3 Unfortunate side effects being potentially bottlenecking further technological progression.

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@Joel7Richardson Brother, you woke up and made some choices today

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The angel of the Lord is a recurrent theme in the earlier parts of the old testament. Christians commonly interpret this as a pre-incarnate appearance of the sin.

Ancient Jews had a doctrine of "Two Powers in Heaven" which they then made heretical in direct response to the life of Christ.

A Jewish scholar named Alan Segal wrote about this in depth in his book "Two Powers in Heaven".

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@burtonbeyond Spot on Dr. Burton.

The intellectual pursuit and heart commitment are not mutually exclusive items, and shouldn't be treated as such. They inform one another and help build a scaffolding for a bold and genuine faith.

I hope things are coming along well for you.

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@TimothyAlberino Tongue in cheek, I do occasionally humor the idea that Tolkien was onto something.