Did you know that celebrating birthdays, which in ancient Greece and Rome you did for a "god" or "emperor" (who wanted to be worshiped as a god) was considered a PAGAN practice by early Christians?

Did you know that in some middle eastern cultures they still don't celebrate birthdays?

Now do you understand why Jesus birthday celebration wasn't something the people living in Rome who knew Christ cared to do. Mary was alive and the most likely source of Luke's gospel which has the whole infancy narrative of Jesus. If he interviewed her, the woman who give birth to the man (even if you think he was an ordinary man) do you think Mary carried a calendar around?

Don't be surprised that when a politicians use their power to reward their friends and punish their enemies...or in other words "to the victor go the spoils."

That's what politics is at the very core of the meaning of the word. Politics is not voting, or legislative bodies, or presidents or cabinet ministers. Those are just the MEANS by which there are decisions of who gets what, when, where and why.

Can we be certain that Jesus Christ was born on December 25th? The Bible gives no exact date for His birth, so why celebrate on a date tied to pagan traditions? 🎄

The first recorded instance of December 25th being celebrated as Christ's birth comes from a Roman calendar in AD 336, long after it was used to celebrate Dies Natalis Solis Invicti (the “Birthday of the Unconquered Sun”). This date is speculated to have origins in ancient Babylon (approx. 2000 BC), marking the birth of Tammuz, and is celebrated after a woman’s typical gestation period following the pagan fertility festival of Easter. By aligning Christ’s birth with this pagan festival, we risk blending the worship of God with sun worship, which the Bible condemns (Romans 1:25).

Let’s also remember the abominable practices described in Ezekiel 8:16-18, where the people were worshipping the sun in God’s temple—an act of rebellion against God. As Ecclesiastes 1:9 reminds us, “There is nothing new under the sun”, and such practices persist even today.

Additionally, Jeremiah 10:2-5 warns against the customs of the nations, such as cutting, fastening in place and decorating trees with silver and gold—practices still reflected in today’s December 25th tradition. This mirrors an ancient pagan ritual that elevates the tree to the status of an idol.

In Deuteronomy 12:29-32, God specifically commands His people not to adopt the worship practices of other nations, emphasizing that worship must align with His word in Bible scripture, not with man-made traditions.

If you love the LORD God, flee from this pagan festival and don’t justify it for the sake of family. Jesus said, “Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me” (Matthew 10:37 ESV).

We are commanded to worship God in spirit and truth. If the world or your family opposes you, rejoice, for your reward in heaven will be great. As they persecuted the prophets, so they will persecute you. May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you, to Him be the glory, now and forever.

Pagan Roots of CHRISTMAS (image)

At this point given the lack of results from Quantum Computing it may be mostly bs.

It's all kind of hazy, and the fact the picture is still hazy to the public makes me think this is all bullshit or at the very least a failed endeavor.

First, here is a laundry list of supposed quantum logic gates (about two dozen). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_quantum_logic_gates

Do any of these weird things exist? Companies are not talking about what kinds of logic gates their machines have if any. Secondly, if these can be made, how are they superior to a normal logic gate in my computer?

At this point I don't even know if these things make sense in theory.
For example they allege that in theory you get a benefit from superposition like so

A classical system with 2 bits can only represent one of 4 possible states at a time: 00 01 10 or 11. Let's say we evaluate a function f(x1, x2). To test all possible states with a classical system we run four functions f(00), f(01), f(10), f(11).

In a Quantum Approach we put the 2 qubits into superposition, and apply a quantum gate encoding 'f' in one sequence.

This compares apples to oranges. The classical system produces more information yielding 4 separate results. The quantum example gives an average of results. So a lot of information information is lost.

Secondly how does one even build the logic to apply the function f on let's say 10 qubits all interconnected? Would it require custom hardware for every new complex function you wish to apply? What if we don't want all possible states but just a subsection of states? Based on the theoretical example this cannot be controlled for, you just get an average of all states.

Let's look at this press release from some supposedly amazing machine https://www.livescience.com/technology/computing/worlds-1st-fault-tolerant-quantum-computer-coming-2024-10000-qubit-in-2026

Logical qubits — physical quantum bits, or qubits, connected through quantum entanglement — reduce errors in quantum computers by storing the same data in different places. This diversifies the points of failure when running calculations.

Why would duplicating an atom (essentially) fix errors in your system? If an entangled bit is causing me errors, wouldn't it show the same error whether or not it is entangled (i.e duplicated) elsewhere? If it doesn't show the error elsewhere then that violates what quantum entanglement is supposed to mean.

Even if there is promise to this technology, it seems like too much too soon. A lot of fancy theory but not much to show for it.

Google has recently claimed it's QC did something that would take a super computer forever to do. But what did it actually do? It performed random circuit sampling which is of no practical use. It got random numbers out of a chaotic system. Wow.

Theoretical physicists are prone to get lost in interesting bullshit. Some of them probably have legitimate 160 IQ, but what is the point if it is wasted on fantasy? You can have your theories about all sorts of special kinds of logic gates, but will atoms actually behave the way you theorized? How many assumptions are baked into the cake? Theoreticians don't have to worry about this, but engineers do.

Then once money gets involved, all bets are off.