Chamath Palihapitiya: Zuckerberg, Rogan, Musk, and the Incoming “Golden Age” Under Trump
0:00 The War Machine Takeover
3:22 Chamath’s Dark Passenger
19:47 The Emptiness of Silicon Valley Elites
27:06 Is the US at Risk of Losing Its Place as Leader of the Free World?
33:15 The Traps That Kill American Ingenuity
44:19 The Climate Agenda vs. Artificial Intelligence
59:34 Is There an Existing Healthcare System That Actually Works?
1:13:41 Origins of the All-In Podcast
1:20:57 How Chamath Changed Silicon Valley’s Perception of Donald Trump
1:41:40 Reacting to Mark Zuckerberg’s Joe Rogan Appearance
1:46:18 Elon Musk’s Role in the Trump Admin
1:56:34 Silicon Valley Needs God
#23: FormerLurker To: watchman (#21)
FormerLurker posted on 2025-01-28 17:22:09 Reply Private Reply
#24: FormerLurker To: watchman (#19)
The big bang is a theory that DOES fit into the biblical words of "let there be light".
HOW that light was created is still a mystery and up to debate.
FormerLurker posted on 2025-01-28 17:24:28 Reply Private Reply
#25: watchman To: FormerLurker (#22)
Did you ever go to Sunday School when you were a kid?
Here ya go...
www.biblegateway.com/pass...h=Genesis%201& version=KJV
watchman posted on 2025-01-28 17:24:38 Reply Private Reply
#26: Pinguinite To: watchman (#7)
I would say the BB theory is completely silent about any possible divine communication. And "how" God may have created the universe is far from clear. Simply speaking it into existence is, at best, a very obtuse "method". Certainly it doesn't work for the rest of us.
Pinguinite posted on 2025-01-28 17:27:47 Reply Private Reply
#27: Pinguinite To: AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt (#8)
Not if one believes God created the universe via Big Bang.
I consider it an assumption that evolution would need to operate by chance.
Pinguinite posted on 2025-01-28 17:32:23 Reply Private Reply
#28: watchman To: FormerLurker (#24)
It's not a mystery to me.
Are you saying God cannot create light with just a command?
watchman posted on 2025-01-28 17:32:47 Reply Private Reply
#29: FormerLurker To: watchman (#21)
Let me try to explain.
For one, the words "God created man in his own image" are NOT what is written in the ancient Hebrew.
The original Hebrew says "God (plural form) created Man (as in Mankind) in THEIR own likeness. Male and female they were created".
Not written in Genesis is the fact they viewed God as male and female, and when God (they) joined together they created a new Universe. ALL life is either male or female, in the likeness of God.
Some call it the Duality of Nature.
What that means is that God exists beyond our Universe, is in fact ALL Universes that have ever existed, exist today, and will ever exist.
FormerLurker posted on 2025-01-28 17:34:45 Reply Private Reply
#30: watchman To: Pinguinite (#26)
Why? It is perfectly in keeping with God's abilities.
We are created, not the Creator.
watchman posted on 2025-01-28 17:35:21 Reply Private Reply
#31: FormerLurker To: watchman (#28)
Then what is light if you know how it was created.
FormerLurker posted on 2025-01-28 17:35:29 Reply Private Reply
#32: FormerLurker To: watchman (#25)
So that doesn't answer the question. WHERE is heaven?
FormerLurker posted on 2025-01-28 17:37:03 Reply Private Reply
#33: Pinguinite To: watchman (#9)
Even this statement does not say that single point was the compressed mass of what is now all the mass in the universe.
It could have been a divine event caused by the instant injection of mass that caused the creation of our universe. Some event outside of our universe that caused this universe to be created. In fact, I don't see how anyone believing in an ultimate supreme God could argue that our current universe contains God Himself. God MUST be beyond our universe.
Pinguinite posted on 2025-01-28 17:37:30 Reply Private Reply
#34: Pinguinite To: watchman (#10)
You have no room to accept the possibility that there could have been divine power and design behind either the BB or Evolution?
Pinguinite posted on 2025-01-28 17:38:58 Reply Private Reply
#35: FormerLurker To: Pinguinite (#26)
If one wanted to get technical, one could wonder how anyone could speak if there was no air.. :)
FormerLurker posted on 2025-01-28 17:40:03 Reply Private Reply
#36: watchman To: FormerLurker (#29)
A reference to the triune nature of God...Father, Son, Holy Spirit
What a wonderful truth. God made us to keep Him company (even though He is complete unto Himself). He will be familiar to us and easy to be with!
watchman posted on 2025-01-28 17:40:29 Reply Private Reply
#37: FormerLurker To: Pinguinite (#34)
FormerLurker posted on 2025-01-28 17:41:03 Reply Private Reply
#38: watchman To: Pinguinite (#34)
God would have told us if that were the case.
God cannot lie. It is impossible for Him to lie.
watchman posted on 2025-01-28 17:41:53 Reply Private Reply
#39: FormerLurker To: watchman (#36)
God is male and female (Father and Holy Spirit), His Son (actually our Universe) is the offspring.
You can't trust mistranslated texts from a few thousand years ago to be 100% accurate or complete.
FormerLurker posted on 2025-01-28 17:43:50 Reply Private Reply
#40: watchman To: FormerLurker (#37)
Not true.
God says, "Prove all things"...which includes proving what the Bible says.
Proving stuff requires a lot of thought.
watchman posted on 2025-01-28 17:44:58 Reply Private Reply
#41: Pinguinite To: watchman (#30)
His ability is not in question. The method is. And apparently you reject the possibility that the method God used included a Big Bang.
Pinguinite posted on 2025-01-28 17:45:21 Reply Private Reply
#42: watchman To: FormerLurker (#39)
Show me the verse that says that.
watchman posted on 2025-01-28 17:46:25 Reply Private Reply
#43: FormerLurker To: watchman (#38)
Does God explain nuclear physics, chemistry, or math anywhere in the bible?
Do you think ancient Hebrews who wrote the bible would have known anything about those things?
God didn't write anything by the way, it is the word of the Jews.
FormerLurker posted on 2025-01-28 17:48:03 Reply Private Reply
#44: watchman To: Pinguinite (#41)
Certainly God could start with a bang, but He says He started with a word.
watchman posted on 2025-01-28 17:48:32 Reply Private Reply
#45: FormerLurker To: watchman (#42)
Show me the verse that defines light.
FormerLurker posted on 2025-01-28 17:48:44 Reply Private Reply
#46: FormerLurker To: watchman (#44)
And how is a word defined?
FormerLurker posted on 2025-01-28 17:49:29 Reply Private Reply
#47: FormerLurker To: watchman (#44)
And how is a word defined? In computer science it's 16 bits.. :)
FormerLurker posted on 2025-01-28 17:50:31 Reply Private Reply
#48: watchman To: FormerLurker (#43)
He gave us a mind, and a physical body to observe physics, chemistry, math...nothing wrong with that.
Many Christians are physicist, chemists, etc.
I study cows...I learned that they did not evolve :)
watchman posted on 2025-01-28 17:52:19 Reply Private Reply
#49: watchman To: FormerLurker (#45)
You first :)
watchman posted on 2025-01-28 17:54:49 Reply Private Reply
#50: Dakmar To: Pinguinite, watchman (#6)
I am entertaining the theory that there have been an infinite number of Big Bangs, where all matter clumps up due to gravity over time (think black holes, etc) until it reaches critical mass, much like atomic bomb.
Then the Big Bang.
Matter is hurled into matterless dimension aka empty space, which must exist simply because it exists. If it had matter it would not be matterless, now, would it?
Matter expands into empty space until intertia from Big Bang is overcome by gravity.
Then the entirety of matter starts condensing, once again becoming a singular collection of matter, primed to explode.
Expand, contract, ad infinitum.
Dakmar posted on 2025-01-28 17:54:49 Reply Private Reply
#51: Pinguinite To: watchman (#38)
I don't see why he'd be required or compelled to do so.
Where does the Bible say the BB & evolution did not occur? If the Bible is silent on those matters, then it's not contradicting those theories. I could accept the Genesis 1 story of creation contradicts evolution (though it does not say evolution could not commence after creation is done) but Genesis seems to be generally in line with the BB theory.
Isn't there a verse that says something like "It's the glory of God to conceal a matter, and the glory of man to seek out a matter?"
Seems that is an endorsement of science.
Looked it up: Proverbs 25:2. I did a pretty good job of recalling it, I'd say.
Pinguinite posted on 2025-01-28 17:56:19 Reply Private Reply
#52: FormerLurker To: watchman (#44)
As I said earlier, it's all a matter of the fact that God DID NOT write ANYTHING, the bible is merely the musings of ancient people who tried to explain all that exists.
They did get some things right though, perhaps from some ancient spiritual knowledge that exists beyond that which is explainable.
FormerLurker posted on 2025-01-28 17:56:25 Reply Private Reply
#53: watchman To: Dakmar (#50)
Who or what created the matter in the first place?
Who or what created the empty space?
watchman posted on 2025-01-28 17:56:41 Reply Private Reply
#54: FormerLurker To: Dakmar (#50)
Possible, but where did that mass come from? How was it created?
FormerLurker posted on 2025-01-28 17:58:21 Reply Private Reply
#55: FormerLurker To: watchman (#53)
Funny how we both came up with the same question looking at it from two different angles.. :)
FormerLurker posted on 2025-01-28 17:59:32 Reply Private Reply
#56: watchman To: FormerLurker (#52)
From the Bible...
"Said" means speaking, at least to me.
watchman posted on 2025-01-28 17:59:37 Reply Private Reply
#57: FormerLurker To: watchman (#49)
You said it's all explained in the bible.
FormerLurker posted on 2025-01-28 18:01:42 Reply Private Reply
#58: FormerLurker To: watchman (#56)
FormerLurker posted on 2025-01-28 18:04:08 Reply Private Reply
#59: Pinguinite To: watchman (#40)
Or proving that what the Bible says is not true?
It's actually improper scientific method to start with the assumption that something is true, then proceed to search for evidence supporting that conclusion. Do that and I promise you you will succeed. "Seek and ye shall find" as the Bible quotes Jesus as saying and it is true, particularly when applied to human psychology.
As I see it, if the Bible really IS the Word of God, then it will pass any and all tests put to it. We should, therefore, be completely fearless putting it through completely unbiased testing. We do NOT need to start with any foregone conclusion that it is completely perfect as a divine work and then seek to prove it. Does the Bible need a crutch? A head start? A cheat sheet? I say no.
Give the Bible complete and unbiased tests. Fair tests, but unbiased tests.
Pinguinite posted on 2025-01-28 18:04:32 Reply Private Reply
#60: watchman To: Pinguinite (#51)
That's a cool verse!
You should see what I'm wrestling with these past many years.
Simply said, God wants us searching, knocking, seeking, waiting...
Keeps us involved with Him...but not always fun.
watchman posted on 2025-01-28 18:05:05 Reply Private Reply
#61: watchman To: Pinguinite (#59)
I am prepared to throw the Bible out in the yard if it is not true.
I do not want to believe a lie...I want the truth.
watchman posted on 2025-01-28 18:07:30 Reply Private Reply
#62: watchman To: FormerLurker (#58)
I can do Hebrew...
Plus, I have God's Spirit to help me understand.
It is often a painful process.
watchman posted on 2025-01-28 18:09:38 Reply Private Reply
#63: FormerLurker To: watchman (#48)
I'm pretty sure if you lived a million years you'd see that they do in fact change over time.
In fact, if you look at skeletons of modern birds and compared them to skeletons of dinosaurs, they are quite similar. Which would mean modern birds are most likely descended from dinosaurs.
FormerLurker posted on 2025-01-28 18:11:36 Reply Private Reply
#64: FormerLurker To: watchman (#62)
Then you should know that what I've said concerning the mistranslation of Genesis is an absolute fact,
Do you also know Gematria?
FormerLurker posted on 2025-01-28 18:13:51 Reply Private Reply
#65: FormerLurker To: watchman (#62)
I could make the same claim.
FormerLurker posted on 2025-01-28 18:16:03 Reply Private Reply
#66: Dakmar To: FormerLurker (#54)
That is why an infinite number of cycles is crucial to that theory. If I claimed, like, nine, the obvious next question would be "what happened before that, where did matter come from?" to which I am at a complete loss to give an intelligent answer.
Dakmar posted on 2025-01-28 18:16:13 Reply Private Reply
#67: Pinguinite To: Dakmar (#50)
I had been perplexed about where the energy comes from in a supernova explosion. Stars fuse from hydrogen to helium to iron. And apparently putting too much iron in one spot causes the greatest explosion in the universe (after the BB). Why? Still not completely clear on the physics but it seems an understandable explanation is there.
So a giga supernova is what you suggest. Maybe, but it would need to bypass the supernova explosive stage somehow.
But yes, if a "critical mass" is part of the equation then it suggests that not all mass in the universe need be involved. If that's the case, I expect conventional science to find matter that pre-existed the perceived date of the BB. That would be an endorsement of the long discarded "Steady State" theory.
Alternate theory says there may be many more BB events that occurred throughout the mega-cosmos. E.g. perhaps one occurred 100 billion light years away. We'd have no means of detecting it as light from it wouldn't be anywhere near our own BB bubble. Could be thousands or trillions of others out there.
And God could be behind each and every one of them.
Pinguinite posted on 2025-01-28 18:16:50 Reply Private Reply
#68: FormerLurker To: Dakmar (#66)
And that is where we all are. The BB theory doesn't explain that either.
FormerLurker posted on 2025-01-28 18:17:22 Reply Private Reply
#69: Dakmar To: Pinguinite (#67)
I've not kept up on my Science Digest subscription, but don't supernovas collapse into some sort of density pit?
Dakmar posted on 2025-01-28 18:21:29 Reply Private Reply
#70: Pinguinite To: watchman (#60)
To me, it's an endorsement of the sciences. So to conclude that believing the BB theory is rejecting God... doesn't work. Not for me. It is our destiny to ask questions and seek answers. That's what science... REAL science, does.
And I see both BB and evolution falling into that category. It is legitimate research. Not liking the answers is fine, but that's NOT science. The truth doesn't need any help to stand up.
Pinguinite posted on 2025-01-28 18:21:50 Reply Private Reply
#71: FormerLurker To: Pinguinite, Dakmar (#67)
E=mc2 they say.
Which means the amount of energy available (in Joules) of mass is equal to the constant of the speed of light squared times the amount of mass (in kilograms).
But WHAT exactly are they?
FormerLurker posted on 2025-01-28 18:24:42 Reply Private Reply
#72: Dakmar To: FormerLurker (#68)
BB explains why galaxies are hurtling away from us and spinning!
Dakmar posted on 2025-01-28 18:25:53 Reply Private Reply