Claims that real hourly earnings and real median household income have stagnated in postwar America and that the poverty rate has remained unchanged for fifty years are solely the result of a failure by the statistical agencies of the American government to count most transfer payments as income and to use the most accurate available price indexes to adjust for inflation.--from the myth of American inequality
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Microsoft plans to release technology to help big companies launch their own chatbots using the OpenAI ChatGPT technology, a person familiar with the plans told CNBC.
Companies would be able to remove Microsoft or OpenAI branding when they release chatbots developed with the software.
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“Rent control appears to be the most efficient technique presently known to destroy a city—except for bombing.”--Assar Lindbeck
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Sunday/Marcion
Marcionism was a religious movement based on the teachings of the 2nd-century heretic Marcion of Sinope. While, unsurprisingly, none of Marcion’s writings have survived to the present, we know of his teachings through several early Christian writers including Justin Martyr (AD 100—165), Irenaeus of Lyons (AD 130—200) and Hippolytus (AD 170—235) who wrote in opposition to him.
Marcion was an Arian, but he is primarily known for his belief that the Old Testament Scriptures were not authoritative for a Christian. He denied that the God of the Old Testament was the same God presented in the New Testament. For Marcion, the God of the Old Testament and the God of the New were, literally, two different gods. He did not deny the existence of the god of the Old Testament (what he referred to as a 'Demiurge'). He simply classified this god as a secondary deity, one that was inferior to the supreme God revealed in Jesus.
"You have heard that it was said,
You shall not commit adultery.
But I say to you,
everyone who looks at a woman with lust
has already committed adultery with her in his heart."
Marcionism was a religious movement based on the teachings of the 2nd-century heretic Marcion of Sinope. While, unsurprisingly, none of Marcion’s writings have survived to the present, we know of his teachings through several early Christian writers including Justin Martyr (AD 100—165), Irenaeus of Lyons (AD 130—200) and Hippolytus (AD 170—235) who wrote in opposition to him.
Marcion was an Arian, but he is primarily known for his belief that the Old Testament Scriptures were not authoritative for a Christian. He denied that the God of the Old Testament was the same God presented in the New Testament. For Marcion, the God of the Old Testament and the God of the New were, literally, two different gods. He did not deny the existence of the god of the Old Testament (what he referred to as a 'Demiurge'). He simply classified this god as a secondary deity, one that was inferior to the supreme God revealed in Jesus.
The Old Testament God is centered on Israel and is violent in defending the growing nation. He is reminiscent of a noncommissioned officer as He organizes and develops His people. Christ in comparison seems more inclusive as He delivers a message of hope. And forgiveness.
There is a wonderful sociological logic here and it has stimulated some fiction writing, pitting one testament god against the other.
Marcion did more than take the Old Testament in context, he had to delete a lot of the New Testament, too. This gospel is one of them.
How would Marcion accommodate these?
"Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets.
I have come not to abolish but to fulfill.
Amen, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away,
not the smallest letter or the smallest part of a letter
will pass from the law,
until all things have taken place."
"whoever kills will be liable to judgment.
But I say to you,
whoever is angry with brother
will be liable to judgment;
and whoever says to brother, 'Raga,'
will be answerable to the Sanhedrin;
and whoever says, 'You fool,'
will be liable to fiery Gehenna."
and, the Carter-killer,
I have come not to abolish but to fulfill.
Amen, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away,
not the smallest letter or the smallest part of a letter
will pass from the law,
until all things have taken place."
"whoever kills will be liable to judgment.
But I say to you,
whoever is angry with brother
will be liable to judgment;
and whoever says to brother, 'Raga,'
will be answerable to the Sanhedrin;
and whoever says, 'You fool,'
will be liable to fiery Gehenna."
and, the Carter-killer,
"You have heard that it was said,
You shall not commit adultery.
But I say to you,
everyone who looks at a woman with lust
has already committed adultery with her in his heart."
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