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    can you imagine being a historian having to study, characterize, and teach these clips to students.

    like instead of WW2 tanks videos, and WW1 trench videos, we will teach these, and the context

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    I’m just happy we have finally found such a productive use of AI.

    All the job loss was really worth it for this.

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    So… Trump praises Allah and the Iranians defend Jesus. Definitely did not have that on my 2026 bingo card.

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      You’re aware that Jesus features in the Quran as well as the Bible, right…? Highly respected figure in Islam, not at all surprising that Iran would be defending him.

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        Yes, I’m quite aware that the background is that after being visited by the archangel Gabriel and explained that basically the Christians did not understood Jesus message, Muhammad created Islam, hence being known as “the true prophet”. I’m also aware that as a figure, Jesus has been “whitened” to the image of Zeus to please Europeans of that time. That doesn’t prevent him of bring the symbol of the Catholic religion.

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          I mean if anything it would be to please the Romans, but anyway the “whiteness” of Jesus wasn’t a thing that occurred all at once. It was slow and over hundreds of years. Not that strange to think illiterate medieval peasants that never traveled more than 20km from their birthplace weren’t nuanced in all the “races” of the world or had a good understanding of geography. Of course they would imagine that this religious figure looked like them

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        Because according to people who don’t understand the religion they claim to follow, Allah is a different god.

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          You’re not incorrect, but I think there’s no reason why a Christian should think Allah is the same god that Christians worship. That belief that it’s the same god is a belief of Islam, which is not the religion that Christians follow.

          The fact that Allah literally translates as “god” is irrelevant, as well. Poseidon is also called a “god”, but that doesn’t mean he’s the same god.

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            All the Abrahamic religions share the same God.

            It is a shame some people don’t understand their own religion.

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              Kind of curious but how do Abrahamic religions feel about religions with a pantheon? Are all the Gods the same guy in different costumes or is there only one true God amongst a bunch of impostors?

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                Abrahamic religions generally believe other gods exist but that they are false gods. Christians mostly believe in the triunity, meaning that three separate gods (Jesus, God, Holy Ghost) are actually the same god.

                I am no biblical scholar, but I have spent over a decade studying religions out of self-interest. I know just enough to get myself in trouble, so I don’t claim any authority.

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              If you actually empathize with a person who has different beliefs, for example, you’d realize that when somebody takes one religion, and changes it drastically, that the people with the earlier religion would not consider themselves to be worshipping the same god as the later religion.

              If Jews really thought Christians were worshipping the same god, they’d become Christians. If Jews or Christians really thought that Muslims were worshipping the same god, they’d all become Muslims. Islam came last, so of course they’d have the most up-to-date religion, right? Why would anybody keep the old ways if they actually thought Muslims worshipped their same god? They wouldn’t. It makes no sense.

              Especially because the god in Islam seems quite different to the Christian god. Islam’s religious text instructs the faithful to lie about their religion when it suits their needs, for example. Jesus described himself as the truth. Catholics, for example, believe that Jesus is god. Islam says that Jesus is only a prophet. That is a fundamental difference in who they believe is god.

              Their main religious figures couldn’t be more different, either. The Jesus described in the Christian Bible was an educated Jewish holy man. Mohammed was an illiterate pedophile warlord. If a Christian thinks that their god is the same as Allah, then they just haven’t thought about it. That is a belief of Islam, not Christianity.

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                You make a lot of good logical points, but religion isn’t logical.

                You can read up on Abrahamic Religions below

                https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abrahamic_religions

                The gist is that all these religions have a common ancestor with some slight differences. Jews are still waiting for their savior, they recognize Jesus along with the Muslims as a prophet, but not their savior. Muslims recognize Mohammed as the final prophet, but not a savior in the sense Jesus is to the Christians.

                Trust me, they have thought about it and all agree they worship the same god even if they have different key prophets (Moses, Jesus, and Mohammed). It is weird and confusing for sure.

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        Yeah if I understand correctly Allah is just a contraction of “Al Illah” which means “the god”.

        I love the history of the emergence of monotheism, it was very gradual and often the one god had to cohabit with lesser deities for centuries before they fully took over. Interestingly, Yahweh was in competition for some time with other warrior storm gods, including Belial and Baal which were ultimately demonized to the highest degree to prevent them coming back.

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        That’s a naive interpretation of the lore , then allah is also the same god of the mormons who is one of many in their pantheon. just because an atheist can step back and analyze the lore and draw relationships between fictional characters doesnt mean you can do the same through a lens of absolute truth in a haunted universe with real ghosts

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    I’m really fascinated by those tweets by the iranian embassies: The USA is waging war against Iran and the Iranians are allowed to spread their own war propaganda with their official accounts on US platforms.

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        I thought it was an “Excursion?” Which was really one of those things where Trump got it wrong, and everybody around him is pretending that it’s perfectly normal.

        Obviously, they were in a meeting early in the War, and trying to do that old trick where you try to convince the citizens that we aren’t really in a War, it’s only a “Police Action,” or a “Peacekeeping Mission,” etc. in this case, they suggested they call it an “Incursion,” but since Trump is virtuosically ignorant, and has never heard that word, and doesn’t know what it means, he called it an “Excursion,” and then embarked on multiple explanations of how it’s not a war, it’s just a little trip through their country. All because he doesn’t know what Incursion means, so he confabulated a new word for war, and those around him, including the media, are afraid to correct him.

        I’d love the opportunity to ask him “Why do keep saying Excursion? Is it because you don’t what Incursion means, so you just substituted a word you do know?”

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        Practically everybody in the Trump administration has referred to it as a “war.” Just because congress lacks the balls to assert its own authority, that doesn’t make this less of a war.

        But yes, “special military operation” – noted.

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      Otherwise they would move to platforms where they can’t control the algorithm

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      And I’m guessing they don’t have their own AI platforms to waste more resources generating this bullshit. Are they vibe arting this on US servers or Chinese servers?

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      I’m still not convinced that either of these are good uses….

      What scares me is that we once had to read political platforms to elect someone and to look to the newspapers or evening news to help us stay informed. And as technology progressed, we have found dumber and dumber reasons to form opinions about global events - we don’t like someone’s voice, or they wore the wrong outfit, or the building looks shabby. And now we enter a world where we are going to judge people and events based on fabricated material, which I find terrifying.

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          Yeah, before the internet every little town had a few lunatics and mentally challenged people, but they were alone. The net has connected them and gave them a voice, and by god, is it loud and obnoxious.

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        And now we enter a world where we are going to judge people and events based on fabricated material, which I find terrifying.

        If it’s something they choose to share themselves, directly linked to their name, I think it’s fair to judge them on that.

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          I agree that we can judge the creator, at least initially. However, this is like Pandora’s box where you can’t put the contents back in. If falsified content is released that tarnishes the reputation of someone else, that will spread beyond the original creator and stay in the public domain for years.

          It’s not inconceivable that we enter a world of faked videos depicting speeches, war crimes, sexual affairs, etc that may very well be fakes, and they will get harder and harder to distinguish from reality

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        What scares me is that we once had to read political platforms to elect someone and to look to the newspapers or evening news to help us stay informed.

        Both highly biased sources, I’m glad they’re not our only options these days.