Bonum Festum Nativitatis Beatae Virginis Mariae

Christifidelibus lectoribus exopto./HGL

Nativitas beatissimae semper Virginis Genitricis Dei Mariae.

Grande transmission ? Un grand bien, pas à surtaxer !

Une certaine philosophe, Mélanie Plouviez, considère que, à neuf mille milliards d'euros, la question est politique.

Fort bien. C'est une occasion de changement politique et de changement en petites échelles. La plupart de ces 9000 milliards ne sont pas CAC 40, il s'agit, en termes des entreprises, une partie de cette somme, plutôt de petites entreprises. Car les grandes ont une structure de propriété désincarnée, découpée de propriétaires individuelles.

Hélas, certains (sur le clip vu sur FB je n'ai pas constaté que c'était le cas pour la philosophe), la chose décisive et, pour eux, mauvaise, est, la perpétuisation des inégalités.

Or, certes il est moins réjouissant d'être employé que d'être patron. Mais l'inégalité n'est pas basé sur la seule inégalité de propriétés, elle l'est surtout sur la concentration de propriété productive. Un employé d'une TPE a plus de proximité avec le patron et donc d'influence sur sa situation, qu'un employé dans un CAC 40.

Et la transmission favorise, comme dit, les petites entreprises, directement quand celles-ci sont transmises, et indirectement quand du patrimoine monétaire sera disponible pour en fonder.

Donc, qui veut égalité, pas comme un idéal obligatoire, mais comme un bien préférable si d'autres choses sont égales, veut petite propriété. Et celui qui veut petite propriété veut cette grande transmission.

Dont moi.

Mais la concentration de la propriété favorise aussi autrement de l'inégalité, d'une manière moins utile encore pour ceux posés en bas. La voici. Une grande entreprise va vouloir bénéficier d'une rationalisation. Et la rationalisation va mettre des gens au chômage. Par rapport à ce genre de production.

Attention, il n'y a pas encore question de chômeurs. Pas mal d'inutiles dans la production agricole ou de nourriture vont trouver des emplois comme restaurateurs ou comme autre choses, en média ou arts.

Mais, tôt ou tard, ceci sursature la capacité d'une société de consommer du luxe, comme des repas en restaurant ou comme des livres, théatres, cinémas, peintures ou disques.

Et alors, ceux qui sont à la fois superflues dans la production de base et dans la production du luxe vont devenir deux classes. Les surveillants et les surveillés.

Si je dis, par rapport à la psychiatrie, qu'elle a un intérêt pour maintenir l'emploi de garder 10 fois trop sous observations ou traitements psychiatriques, les intéressés ne sont pas que les psychiatres et soignants. Non.

La situation hors emploi paraît souvent louche à pas mal, et statistiquement, il y a du vrai. Une personne qui ne travaille ni en ferme, ni en cinéma, il va pas forcément faire du mal. Il pourra râler un peu, mais il pourra rester parfaitement anodin. Sur 1000 personnes, les parfaitement anodins vont pas atteindre tous les 1000, et pas 999 non plus. Et là, certains autres, pas juste les professionnels de la psychiatrie, vont se dire que certains d'entre eux, par exemple ceux qui râlent le plus, devraient être au minimum surveillés.

Pour paraphraser Mélanie Plouviez, sur un râleur chômeur, il y a une question intime de ses libertés, mais sur tellement, bon on n'en a pas encore 9000 milliards en France, ni sur toute la terre, ça devient politique ... ou administratif. Ceci est une forme d'inégalité parfois très insupportable pour celui en dessous, et très rentable, sinon en sous au moins en sens de pouvoir, pour ceux qui se trouvent dessus (qui augmentent aussi). Et elle ne serait pas là avec des entreprises plus petites, plus nombreuses, et donc moins rationalisées, et surtout, elle ne serait pas là en même échelle.

Une autre victime sont des jeunes, qui peuvent se trouver en dehors d'une recherche infructueuse de travail en prolongeant, pas toujours très volontairement leur temps de préparation pour "la vie" (productive et rentable). De là (et aussi de la dénatalité) viennent un déséquilibre entre mentors et mentorés, qui, culturellement, aux États-Unis porte des fruits dans "la mort de l'archetype mentor" (une Snarky Jay venait de comparer un film récent avec la piété réelle vis-à-vis Obi-Wan Kenobi en Star Wars) et en France peut-être plutôt porte des fruits dans le ridicule tourné vers le mauvais mentoré (comme je pense contre un jeune louis XIV dans un film avec aussi une Fronde, un d'Artagnan et un Cyrano de Bergérac).

Or, si le gonflement du corps médical a quelque rapport avec une dénatalité et une population en moyenne plus vieille, et un peu plus marginalement avec la psychiatrie, il est plus grand et a une vrai valeur, pas juste dans l'inégalité. Et parce qu'il est plus grande que les gériatres des EHPAD ou les psychiatres, il s'étudie mieux en statistiques. Je vais comparer les paysans avec les médecins, en France et en Autriche.

76 ha taille moyenne d'une exploitation en 2023 · 349 600 exploitations agricoles en activité en métropole en 2024

Chiffres clés
de l'agriculture française
https://chambres-agriculture.fr/sinformer/economie-et-prospective/chiffres-cles

Au 1er janvier 2026, 101 000 médecins généralistes (42 % de l'ensemble des médecins) et 141 200 médecins d'autres spécialités sont en activité.

5 000 médecins supplémentaires en activité en France au 1er janvier 2026
Jeux de données | Paru le 02/07/2026
https://drees.solidarites-sante.gouv.fr/communique-de-presse-jeux-de-donnees/jeux-de-donnees/260702-medecins-supplementaires-en-activite-en-France-au-1er-janvier-2026

Klein, aber fein
Landwirtschaft in Österreich

Österreichs Landwirtschaft ist von familiären Betriebsstrukturen geprägt. Rund 162.000 land- und forstwirtschaftliche Betriebe bewirtschaften insgesamt zirka 80 Prozent des Bundesgebietes. Die durchschnittliche Betriebsgröße liegt bei 20 Hektar landwirtschaftlicher Nutzfläche, auch der Viehbesatz pro Hektar ist im internationalen Vergleich sehr niedrig (Stand: 2018). Rund ein Viertel der gesamten landwirtschaftlichen Nutzfläche und somit 20 Prozent der landwirtschaftlichen Betriebe sind biozertifiziert.

Petit, mais vaillant
Agriculture en Autriche

L'agricultire de l'Autriche est marquée par les exploitatations familiales. Environ 162 000 entreprises agricoles et forestières exploitent ensemble environ 80 % du territoire fédéral.* La taille moyenne d'exploitation est à 20 hectares de terrain agricole, et même la densité de bétail par hectare est par comparaison internationale, très basse (selon les statistiques de 2018). Environ un quart du terrain total et par là 20 % des entreprises agricoles sont certifiés bio.

Landwirtschaft in Österrreich
https://fleisch-teilstuecke.at/de-at/landwirtschaft

Interpretationshilfe: Die Ärzteschaft umfasst 53.353 Personen (erster horizontaler Balken, obere Hälfte), diese teilen sich auf in 10.256 Turnusärzte und Turnusärztinnen, 13.081 Allgemeinmediziner und Allgemeinmedizinerinnen sowie 29.917 Fachärzte und Fachärztinnen (zweiter horizontaler Balken, obere Hälfte). Je Farbe zeigt die darunterliegende Hälfte die Ärztinnen und Ärzte nach dem Geschlecht an. So gibt es mehr Fachärzte als Fachärztinnen aber mehr Allgemeinmedizinerinnen als Allgemeinmediziner.

Aide d'interprétation : le corps médical comprend 53 353 personnes (premier rang horizontal, moitié supérieure), qui se divisent en 10 256 internes des hôpitaux, 13 081 généralistes et 29 917 spécialistes (deuxième rang horizontal, moitié supérieure). Les moitiés en dessous montrent les médecins selon le genre. Ainsi, les spécialistes sont davantage d'homme, les généralistes davantage femmes.

Daten & Fakten
Österreichische Ärztekammer (ÖÄK)
https://www.aerztekammer.at/daten-fakten

France, paysans 349 000 et médecins 242 200. Sur 66,1 millions en France métropolitaine. Ce sont 0,528 % et 0,366 %.

Autriche, paysans et entreprises de la forêt 162 000 et médecins 53 353. Sur 9 200 931. Ce sont 1,761 % et 0,58 %.

Pour les paysans, peut-être surtout en Autriche, multiplier par les membres de famille.

J'étais surpris que l'Autriche avait un peu davantage de médecins, proportionellement, que la France. Peut-être parce qu'elle souffre davantage que la France de dénatalité, le cas de quasi tous les autres pays d'Europe.

Je n'étais par contre pas surpris qu'elle avait davantage de paysans proportionellement. AEIOU.** Et ceci est grâce à la possibilité d'hériter une petite entreprise. D'où mon propos en faveur de la grande transmission, pour qu'elle se déroule selon les règles normales de l'héritage et pas avec des entraves ad hoc en hausse des droits de succession ou autres pressions sur les héritiers. En fait, baissez les droits de succession, s v p !

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
Nativité de la Sainte Vierge
après premières vêpres
7—8.IX.2026

Nativitas beatissimae semper Virginis Genitricis Dei Mariae.

* Car, à différence de la France et semblablement aux États-Unis, les pays germanophones hormis Liechtenstein et Luxembourg, sont fédéraux. Autriche a neuf pays (Länder) dont la capitale. Hormis sa région, Mödling n'est qu'à 14 km de Vienne et déjà en Basse-Autriche, où Vienne est une enclave.

** Si les français disent "cocorico", pourquoi me priver d'un sigle qui dit "Austriae Est Imperare Orbi Universo" ...

Can you reach this URL?

In the library here, I get blocked:

https://stoptheracetoreplace.org/en/sign/real-life-beats-fake-ai

"In the Beginning God Created Heaven and Earth"

Are Claims Evidence? · Why Wouldn't Every Claim be Sufficient Evidence? · Visual Experience is Prima Facie Evidence · Relevant Expert? · "In the Beginning God Created Heaven and Earth"

What is the evidence? Dillahunty asked this. Well, I'll answer.

Moses had God tell or show him this on Mount Sinai.

Moses had good reasons to believe it was God he was speaking to.

After all, He had helped a whole people out of Egypt.

So, the evidence is a vision, like the Apocalypse. This is different from evidence for some verses of chapter 1, for much of chapter 2, for all of subsequent chapters, where people were involved and could observe what happened.

In chapter 3, chapter 4, chapters 6 / 7 and also 8 / 9, again chapter 11 verses 5—7, we have God speaking, we need to assume theophanies or prophetic views of what happened.

But surrounding that, we have normal human observation of material factors, like a tree of knowledge, identified in advance, a tree of life, also so, an angel with a burning sword, a city, a genealogy, a wooden vessel, a lot of water, relatively sudden reappearance of dry land, mountains in identifiable geography, more genealogy, and two ill boding societies with human projects. Things that could be observed.

None of these chapters are simply what Moses saw in a vision on Sinai. But chapter 1 is.

Again, what evidence do we have for Moses?

The people saw him divide the waters of the Red Sea, before walking through. They saw him walk up to Sinai.

It is not credible that a people who had a very different origin should have forgotten it and started attributing its existence to a story it had never heard of.

Just as with Acts not credibly being an innovation of the second century.

Again, miracles for both founders and successors.

Now, I will grant, for Moses the moment we see a manuscript comes later in relation to the fact, and the miracles are darker.

But for Jesus, the manuscripts come earlier and the miracles heal.

But in fact, Dillahunty isn't just asking for the specifics of why Theists believe God created rather than keeps an eternally created universe, he isn't asking just whether God created Earth at the same time as the whole expanse of space around it, he's asking about Creation as opposed to other kinds of grounds for being.

Here, philosophy can help. More specifically, refuting Evolution. Let me illustrate once again the difference between human and ape communications, this time with a song:

Narnia: Isle of Hope
narniagirl11 | 12 Jan. 2012
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpC3kPfJpTo

In the refrain, the subtitles give:

I love hope I love tears

But from the title, we know it should be:

isle of hope, isle of tears

What we have witnessed is a pun.

Phrase a:
(A) ail (B) ov ho:p
Phrase b:
(A) ai (B) lov ho:p

I hope you love both hope and tears too, but the song actually is about an isle that offers both hope and tears. Statten Island.

Now, a beast could never make such a pun. Because each sound directly means something, and usually means something on the semantic spectrum of a smiley or a traffic sign. Human speech however, usually has meanings like phrases, one concept being about another. [ov ho:p] qualifies [ail] and [ai] is qualified by [lov ho:p] wherein [lov] also qualifies [ho:p] as the opposite end of the action that unites [ai] and [ho:p], namely [lov]. And crucially, [ail] + [ov ho:p] has the exact same sounds, but not in the same groupings as [ai] + [lov ho:p]. That's why the computer misanalysed. [ho:p] is actually the same word, but [ai] | [lov] and [ail] | [ov] very much aren't. This is only possible, because [ai] [l] [o] [v] each sound doesn't mean anything by itself (except [ai] in the context as subject pronoun "I"). To a beast, each sound would mean something specific. And it would mean an emotion or injunction (ranging from request to command) so worth insisting on, that it wouldn't rapidly be followed by another sound, since that other sound would mean something different.

Man developing this while developing from ancestors that communicated like apes, no. Doesn't work. But God having it from eternity (or something to which it is closely analogous, at least), and then giving it, by act of omnipotence, to the very first man, so he could speak within minutes after being created, well, that does work.

This doesn't settle whether Earth was created the same time as the surrounding space to its limits or billions of years later, but it does settle man was created rather than developed. There are other reasons (which Dillahunty would partly agree on) against man always being around.

Again, there is another authority too.

Another way of knowing from testimony.

Man was around his marriage to Eve, and was around his fall, coming after Eve's. From chapter 2 on, Genesis continuously relies on the participants, who can be counted on as having recorded it, presumably in a form suitable for oral transmission. Here is what Haydock has to say about Genesis 3:

Concerning the transactions of these early times, parents would no doubt be careful to instruct their children, by word of mouth, before any of the Scriptures were written; and Moses might derive much information from the same source, as a very few persons formed the chain of tradition, when they lived so many hundred years. Adam would converse with Mathusalem, who knew Sem, as the latter lived in the days of Abram. Isaac, Joseph, and Amram, the father of Moses, were contemporaries: so that seven persons might keep up the memory of things which had happened 2500 years before. But to entitle these accounts to absolute authority, the inspiration of God intervenes; and thus we are convinced, that no word of sacred writers can be questioned. (Haydock)

I differ in detail, but agree in principle. I call this "minimally overlapping generations" ... what my grandmother told me, I need not take my mothers word for, as I have grandmother's (for instance about a couple they met abroad and mother didn't go along). This means, not just mother and I, but also grandmother and I are overlapping generations. Minimally so, I haven't directly accessed by great-grand-parents. Back in this day, the overlaps spanned more generations, so fewer ones are minimally overlapping.

And while we are at patriarchs with long lifespans, let me answer. We agree there are conditions that will end human life earlier than normal, and some of them are even hereditary. This means, in principle, the current humanity could well have descended from a bottleneck having conditions we see as normal, but which weren't so before, and which taken together have shortened our lifespan.

The experience of Adam and Eve, Cainites, Sethites like Henoch and Noah, of Heber seing Babel, was accessible to Moses too, and involved, at various points, a God who does judge sin, and who does work miracles, making the line quoted above very credible. That helped Moses know what God he was dealing with and helped him confide in the vision he was granted of creation.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
Martyrs of Troyes
7.IX.2026

Trecis, in Gallia, sancti Nemorii Diaconi, et Sociorum Martyrum, quos Attila, Rex Hunnorum, interfecit. (Nemorius is called Mesmin or Mémiers in French, and he was a deacon).

Relevant Expert?

Are Claims Evidence? · Why Wouldn't Every Claim be Sufficient Evidence? · Visual Experience is Prima Facie Evidence · Relevant Expert? · "In the Beginning God Created Heaven and Earth"

I totally rely on the testimony of those who have studied the Krebs cycle about the Krebs cycle. (47:15 into the video)

But "testimony of relevant expert" depends a bit.

The citric acid cycle—also known as the Krebs cycle, Szent–Györgyi–Krebs cycle, or TCA cycle (tricarboxylic acid cycle)—is a series of biochemical reactions that release the energy stored in nutrients through acetyl-CoA oxidation. The energy released is available in the form of ATP.

I have no chemical equipment or equipment of biological extraction to study it, so, I rely on Albert Szent-Györgyi and Sir Hans Adolf Krebs.

No problem.

Why don't I extend the exact same confidence to a shrink, to a carbon dater or to a Heliocentric, when they are experts?

Some observations in psychiatry can be arranged by deliberate bullying. If hebephrenia leads to paranoia, that may have more to do with bullying than with hebephrenia or its underlying causes. Sleeplessness can be arranged with sleep privation. Intrusive tampering with someone's situation may not leave that person where he was before the tampering, so what you see may be what you came to see. And wouldn't have needed to.

The carbon dater and I cannot directly observe what the atmospheric content of carbon 14 was around the trees which gave charcoal to Göbekli Tepe. He will presume the original content in the sample, and the content in the atmosphere, was c. 100 pmC (the Hallstatt plateau, which we agree on, involves the atmosphere in 750 BC carbon dating to 200 years into the future, which translates to 102.449 pmC, and in 450 BC carbon dating 100 years into the past, which translates to 98.798 pmC. That's why a sample from 750 or 450 BC, or any time in between, typically carbon dates to 550 BC).

But I will allow the Biblical history (which has a higher epistemic value, simply as history, than indirect science) to infer that carbon 14 rose in the atmosphere and sometimes came from a lower initial value. 9500 BC isn't a date. 2608 BC is. In 2608 BC, 350 years after the Flood, when Babel / Göbekli Tepe started*, the atmosphere was at c. 43 pmC. Which also matches what in 2608 BC a sample originating from 100 pmC in 9500 BC would have had. He and I agree that in 2608 BC that sample had c. 43 pmC. But he interprets this as decay after the sample was sealed off, I interpret it as initial condition of the sample.

Neither the Heliocentric nor I can view Sun and Earth from a fixed point outside Earth. He'll presume the 0.76 arc seconds** about α Centauri being due to Earth moving, I'll presume they'll be due to the star moving. AND, I will presume the c. 20 arc second all stars move, "aberration" is also not due to earth, but to the stars. That's the background against which the parallax is measured. He will find this forms a triangle including the 2 Astronomic Units between two positions of the Earth. I'll not presume the star has the exact same pace as the Sun, so I'll not presume the distance between two positions of the star, parallax or aberration, are 2 Astronomic Units like two positions of the Sun are.

That we have different presuppositions leads to us having different conclusions. No need, on this level, to assume he's dishonest, but also no need to accept an "expert testimony" in a paradigm I have reasons to see as false. I think an actual scientist sharing my presuppositions would do a better job than me, but we would both do, and I'm the one actually doing a better job (on a level) than the scientist who has false presuppositions, before he tests the remaining carbon 14 level*** before he observes the star and perhaps not least, barring fatigue on my part, before he judges the man.

Again, a historian is a relevant expert on history. However, he's not the primary source of testimonial evidence.

In the example about the scientist, F is the fact the scientist studies, but F* is his testimony. But in history, you have F as the fact a historic person observed or reported observations of, F* is his report of own or someone else's observation, and the modern historian is in his turn giving only F**, his testimony of his evaluation of F* as relating to F. In a case where I have or the historian provides access to F*, I thereby have as good an access as he to the actual fact F.

Mutatis mutandis, in some cases he really has accessed very many F* (old chronicles) which I haven't. But in some cases, there only is one old chronicle for a fact. A grammar example is "Caesar fecit pontem ad lacum Genavam" and I'm afraid it could be just a grammar example, that an actual quote from Bellum Gallicum would be more like "Caesar ruit pontem ad lacum Genavam" (Caesar destroyed a bridge at Lake Geneva, rather than built one°) but either way, the only way we know of the events in c. 50 BC at Lake Geneva is what Caesar wrote. We have no independent confirming evidence.

One source from back then actually is enough.

Now, in some cases, we have sources that are not even contemporary. Any source for Alexander conquering Persia from Greece is centuries after the fact. The earliest narrative is in 1 Maccabees. Arrian is later.

This obviously gives me a certain perspective on the kind of "historians" who deal with the New Testament, not as Church Historians, but as Biblical Scholars, evaluating if NT events really happened. They have a tendency to use arguments that either aren't used or weren't usually used previously, on events in extra-Biblical events.

The other day I compared two views of the epistemology of Babel / Göbekli Tepe, between what I think went on as a Young Earth Creationist, and what a tradition would have looked like if Catalog number AO-6018 had been about what a video purported it to be about. It seems the video°° is wrong or deliberately planted to be misleading, but the principle remains that oral tradition over few centuries to millennia with Biblical patriarcal lifespans is better attested than one over many more millennia with modern lifespans.

Oral traditions are a valid transmission, unless the number of minimally overlapping generations are too many. As they would be between Göbekli Tepe if it were actually from 8000 BC and Sumeria, for a depiction like Madeleine Daines' tablet, or a description like the one spuriously attributed to Catalog number AO-6018. As they weren't between even Genesis 2 and 3 and Abraham, let alone between Babel and Abraham, if the patriarcal lifespans hold.

Now, I do think the patriarcal lifespans do hold, and I would NOT believe someone claiming today to be 900 years old, the next persons we'll meet who lived way beyond normal lifespans of today will be Henoch and Elijah. But I do believe lifespans were shortened. The expert who believes they weren't true in the first place isn't giving testimony to an actual observation, he's giving testimony to his prejudice. Again, the prejudice may be very honest, the expert may be very honest, but the prejudice would still be misleading him and misleading those who trust him.

Ultimately, my reply to someone who wanted me to trust expert evidence more than I do would get the reply that I don't think he'd trust an astrologer. And mind you, I'm not saying the astrologer is a charlatan either, he's just a believer in his, false, system.

Hans Georg Lundahl
ut supra

PS, Joe is off on this one:

and then they learned that basically every single relevant competent expert accepts anthropogenic climate change and evolution that should that clearly should boost their credence in the proposition.

So, Georgia Purdom, who is a geneticist is not a single person, is not competent, or is not relevant for evolution being genetically impossible? Come on. But Joe does some hedging:

• "basically" = not literally, there are exceptions, but I don't care
• "relevant" = if a petrol searcher steps in to do Flood geology, I don't care, since evolutionary geology wasn't his main field
• "competent" = no one can step in, not just from a side discipline, but also not from amateurs ...

The only thing he should have added to make his alibi for believing evolution complete is "that I've heard of" ... supposing he genuinely is ignorant of the competence of experts in Creation Ministries International or Answers in Genesis./HGL

PPS, he gave examples "like the ice core data" which Tas Walker has looked on, or "like the fossils" which I have looked on from the site "palaeocritti" before it shut down. Parts of it, I could salvage on the salvage blog Palaeocritti Blog. While making it, I could read through sufficiently of the original site, done by experts, to know the fossil configurations of Algeria, Antarctica, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Niger, South Africa, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, United Kingdom and just part of the United States, namely Arizona. I specially concentrated on land fossils, and no, you do not in these places find two layers of land fossils from different eras on top of each other. Especially not in Karoo, South Africa, which is where I started looking. A Capitanian fossil like Hipposaurus boonstrai isn't below a Wuchiapingian fossil like Gorgonops, just because Wuchiapingian is Upper and Capitanian Middle Permian. Instead you find Gorgonops in Tropidostoma assemblage zone and Hipposaurus in Tapinocephalus assemblage zone. These are side by side (contiguously or not, not sure) in the landscape, not different levels in a single dig./HGL

* On my reasons for Babel being roughly between 350 and 401 after the Flood, between Noah's death and Peleg's birth, and on Göbekli Tepe being Babel, elsewhere.

** One arc second is like the angle in the centre of Earth to two points on the surface 30.86 meters apart, so 0.76 arc seconds is like to two points 23.46 meters apart.

*** For a typical sample from Göbekli Tepe, it would be by now c. 25 pmC.

2608 + 2026 = 4634 years. 0.5^(4634 / 5730) = 0.5708857658404267,
43 * 0.5708857658404267 = 24.548 pmC.
2557 + 2026 = 4583 years. 0.5^(4583 / 5730) = 0.57441865962648,
51 * 0.57441865962648 = 29.295 pmC.

5730 * log(0.24548)/log(0.5) - 2026 AD = 9585 BC
5730 * log(0.29295)/log(0.5) - 2026 AD = 8123 BC

° Who can hear of Lac Leman / Lake Geneva without imagining a kidnapping of Professor Calculus? As to the grammar example, it illustrates that Caesar need not have built or destroyed with his own hands, a good translation would be "had a bridge built" or "had a bridge destroyed" rather than "built" or "destroyed" since he obviously gave the orders, but many others collaborated to execute them.

°° The Last Sumerian Who Remembered Göbekli Tepe — What He Wrote Before Dying (2900 BCE), which I cited. It seems Catalog number AO-6018 had a very different content, which can be gathered from the wiki article Tirigan, the tablet is the Utu-hengal victory stele. But the principle is valid for other Sumerian artefacts that seem to recall Göbekli Tepe, like the tablet found by Madeleine Daines and commented on by Graham Hancock.

Visual Experience is Prima Facie Evidence

Are Claims Evidence? · Why Wouldn't Every Claim be Sufficient Evidence? · Visual Experience is Prima Facie Evidence · Relevant Expert? · "In the Beginning God Created Heaven and Earth"

Halting the video again at 35:41.

Joe Schmid takes up the possibility of hallucination.

Sure.

BUT, he also makes the point that if he doesn't know he's hallucinating, he should accept the computer screen as showing a real "lovely bald man in a red shirt" (meaning Dillahunty, who knows he's bald and knows his shirt is red and might even think he's lovely or chuckle at the joke).

A parallel.

If I know I am on a train, I should accept that things I see outside the window as moving are in fact not moving the way I see them, because the train ride making me move in relation to the observed items, makes them move, not relative to the surrounding space, but relative to me, insofar as I am considered a kind of frame of reference.

This is clearly inforced by the fact that I know from experience outside trains that churches, hills, trees and forests, cars in a parking lot don't move and walking people don't move that fast.

On the other hand, if I don't know I'm in a train ride, I have no reason to take items observed outside my immediate vicinity as still if I see them move.

Now, the Heliocentric certainly thinks he knows he's on a "train ride" around the Sun in relation to Pisces and Virgo. But a Geocentric would reply, no, it's Earth that's stationary and the Sun that's moving in relation to Pisces and Virgo. An angel moving it.

And when each day-and-night we either can observe Pisces or Virgo as not hidden in the Sun (right now that would be Pisces we can observe), the Heliocentric thinks he knows that we are on a merry-go-round ride in relation to Pisces and Virgo, taking turns in Paris and Pacific (or further North the edge of Siberia) to see Pisces, as we successively turn to and away from them. But a Geocentric will reply, no, it's the universe that's moving, with Pisces and Virgo and right now the Sun taken along with and below Virgo and hiding her. And God omnipotent moving the Universe each day.

I will believe the Heliocentric on his testimony on what he thinks he knows. He's honest. But even if he's an astronomer, his testimony isn't sufficient evidence for him knowing this to be a fact. I have met at least two astronomers* online giving evidence that Geocentrism, the default position given what we see, or its corollary, supernatural movers, God and angels, are not something they keep in consideration even as a possibility.

If they don't consider it a possibility, how could I conclude they had refuted it? Refutation involving normally considering what you refute.

As long as I don't know I'm the one moving, I have no reason to take Sun and Virgo and Pisces as being still (compared to the Earth and ignoring Sun's supposed "trajectory around the centre of our galaxy") or Earth as moving with me. I have no comparable back-ground knowledge about stars compared to what I have about houses or trees.**

The example of the space travel, it actually is a good point against Heliocentrism, rather than against Christianity, since observing the Solar System from the outside would actually be visual proof of what was moving around what inside it. But we do not have this outside observation.

Hans Georg Lundahl
ut supra

PS, on the subsequent question of how we know scientific data, Dillahunty says, only what the scientist observed is evidence, Schmid says, correctly, to everyone except the scientist, his testimony is what we know about what he observed.

I obviously do accept what scientists clearly testify to having observed, if it's sufficiently intelligible to me. I only disagree with them on either interpretation (of current 25 pmC in a sample from Göbekli Tepe or on 0.76 arc seconds parallax in α Centauri) or whether the thing could, at all, be simply a question of observation (some people are trained to see when people are incoherent, and their training may be such as to make them overdo that interpretation ... a misunderstanding rewarded by more patients in an order of magnitude and therefore more work opportunities). A shrink misunderstanding someone's coherence, a carbon dater not taking into account that samples from Göbekli Tepe are from when the atmosphere had just half the carbon 14 content compared to now, an astronomer who thinks we moved 0.76 arc seconds with the angle between our positions measured in α Centauri, none of these are simply the facts they observed./HGL

* Phil Plaite and one from Denmark. My bad, Erik Høg was the guy who couldn't help me about inverted parallax in 2015, c. 11 years ago. But on the other hand, searching him I found two more like Phil Plaite.

** I'm aware I haven't here detailed the technical answers on all items for Geocentrism, but that is outside the boundary of epistemological probability we are dealing with here.

Why Wouldn't Every Claim be Sufficient Evidence?

Are Claims Evidence? · Why Wouldn't Every Claim be Sufficient Evidence? · Visual Experience is Prima Facie Evidence · Relevant Expert? · "In the Beginning God Created Heaven and Earth"

Previous essay was written after 2 minutes 51 seconds into a video by Joe Schmid. Here we stop again, at 30:01.

The claim is not evidence. And if it were, then why wouldn't every claim be sufficient for you to accept it?

Matt Dillahunty seems to lack a nuance between "no evidence" and "evidence as strong as to constitute a sufficient proof" ...

In context, why wouldn't I believe a friend stating he had gone to another galaxy in a space ship and come back?

If a very honest friend made such a claim, and didn't specify he had himself driven the spaceship, I would presume abduction by aliens, and I would presume the real story is demons showed him things which weren't true.

Real sense information to him, but from faked stimuli.

But if he did specify to building the spaceship and driving it, the friend would need to answer on points where his credibility would break down:

• why did no one see you building things in the garage?
• how did the speed work?
• how with such a speed did you avoid getting the spaceship perforated at the first collision with simple dust?

I wouldn't ask this kind of question about the Ascension, because it wasn't a spaceship and because the omnipotence of God, by definition, is a sufficient answer to the other two problems. But I would ask it about the spaceship, because it's definitionally human technology and so, definitionally, not divine omnipotence.

And, in general, I would not ask the question "how did God acquire omnipotence in a universe otherwise determined only by finite powers in vectors" etc. because that question would not be adressing the God that the miracle is being referred to. The more appropriate question is "how did the universe come to be determined by finite powers in vectors, given that God is omnipotent?" and the question would first ask "is the universe in general only determined by finite powers" (no, God's omnipotence is involved every day-and-night) and second "insofar as that is partially true, it's because wanted it and being omnipotent, He had no problem in having it."

This means that the only question I find relevant for the Ascension is, do we have sufficient testimonial evidence?

With a sufficient number of people who knew Jesus sufficiently well ...

Until the day on which, giving commandments by the Holy Ghost to the apostles whom he had chosen, he was taken up To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion, by many proofs, for forty days appearing to them, and speaking of the kingdom of God
[Acts Of Apostles 1:2-3]

[The detailed account of what they saw and heard]

And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where abode Peter and John, James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James of Alpheus, and Simon Zelotes, and Jude the brother of James
[Acts Of Apostles 1:13]

... we can rule out "simple mistake" including the version "hallucination" ... with supernatural healings, we can also rule out that they were deceived by demons. And with the fact of this being a claim, and not an entertainment story, we can rule out "entertainment stories can invent anything" (from Peter Parker getting genes from a spider to his working on Daily Bugle).

The only two remaining questions are:

• Is it possible they deceived their audience?
• Is it possible this was invented as a later deception?

Both hypotheses can be infirmed.

Deceived people may die as martyrs for things they have been deceived to believing, but deceivers don't die as martyrs for things they know to be deceptions, because they were behind the deceptions.

A Christian movement that originally didn't contain any of this would not have accepted a new story as what they had always remembered. On this issue, I take issue with C. J. Cornthwaite who pretends that this was all invented in the Second Century.

Now, I believe him, the earliest evidence he has found and there is for the book of Acts being cited by some early Christian writer is indeed in the Second Century. But given the brevity of First Century information other than Bible books (for which he grants some Pauline Epistles and Apocalypse to be First Century), the absence of citation of Acts is not remarkably significant. Clement has no more need to cite it than St. Paul has when writing to the same Corinthian Church earlier, since most of it is irrelevant or already known to the recipients. Revelation or Apocalypse only for two churches, Ephesus and Smyrna, coincides with Churches Paul founded. Wait, Acts doesn't mention Smyrna. Make it Ephesus and Thyatira. However, Acts doesn't show in detail how the Church of Thyatira was founded, it gives as prequel two baptised households, Lydia's and the Centurion's, after which Paul and Silas are expelled before founding any actual Church. Colossians mentions Laodicea, in a context making it probable that Laodicea was at this time just one housechurch, that of Nymphas, while the main Church was as yet in Colossae. None of the seven Churches is given much text, so citations of or coincidences with Acts would not be expected. Absence of evidence is only evidence of absence if presence of evidence would be a logical expectation from reality of sth.

In other words, his observation gives me no ground on which to criticise the historicity of Acts. Which leaves us with the general probability, a community doesn't cease to believe in its remembered origins in order to instead adopt a new-old and newly invented one.

The story of Acts was not tacked onto Christianity in the Second Century. Just as Sacrifice of the Mass was not tacked onto Christianity in the time of Constantine.

Hans Georg Lundahl
ut supra

Are Claims Evidence?

Are Claims Evidence? · Why Wouldn't Every Claim be Sufficient Evidence? · Visual Experience is Prima Facie Evidence · Relevant Expert? · "In the Beginning God Created Heaven and Earth"

Matt Dillahunty

Short Version:

Claims aren't evidence.

Long version:

A claim is not evidence of the truth of itself / of that same claim.

Joe Schmid:

I'm not sure what that means.

The obvious problem is, does Dillahunty mean ever at all, or does he mean in specific contexts where there are specific reasons to doubt the claim?

If he means ever at all, he's obviously wrong.

If he means in specific contexts, why not ask whether the Gospels' claims about Jesus or Catholicism's claim about itself could be outside those contexts?

Another obvious problem, kind of related is, does he mean any kind of preliminary evidence, does he mean sufficient evidence or does he mean evidence trumping anything and everything else?

Everyone would agree that not all claims are sufficient evidence or evidence trumping everything else. That would fall on the item that claims contradict.

Here are three claims that contradict:

• Christianity isn't true, the Gospels don't portray the real Jesus (usually meaning "who wasn't divine" but can also mean "who was actually an avatar of Vishnu, like Krishna or Buddha") and there is no sense in looking for the Church he founded since he didn't have the will or the power to preserve it.
• Christianity is true, Catholicism is the Church Jesus founded (alternatives to "Catholicism" include "Eastern Orthodoxy", "Coptic Church", "Branch Theory", "Baptist Continuity" but not Lutheranism or Anglicanism).
• Christianity is true, but Catholicism misunderstands the idea of continuity and therefore implications about a "one true Church" (position of Lutherans, Anglicans, Gavin Ortlund), and it's not all that institutional.
• A fourth, Christianity is true, there is no institutional continuity and a Restorationist Church is obliging (position of Mormons, JW, Churches of God).

Each of these claims cannot be a trumping claim or even sufficient claim of the truth of the claim itself. At least three of the four versions needs to be at most only preliminary evidence which means that they are evidence until facing stronger evidence. Or not even that.

And as to claim two, each version of it, Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Orthodox of the East, Baptist Continuity, Albigensian Continuity, possibly even Branch Theory, is at rivalry with the other versions in such a way that not each of the claims can be sufficient evidence.

But this is also the strongest version I can give Dillahunty. Baptist and Albigensian continuity aren't equal to Catholic continuity. The claim "look, we are the Church you find here 200 years ago" is stronger than "we are a Church that 200 years ago was very hidden, so don't look for it" ... again, a claim from a community about the origins of the own group, of the "in-group" as modern sociologists would say, is stronger than a specific claim about an "out-group" of another group than itself. Communities, like persons have memories. Communities, like persons, are often honest about themselves to outsiders, and it's hard for a community to be dishonest to insiders, apart from shell games. Communities, like persons, are often angry at each other and can say pretty rough stuff about each other which isn't necessarily true.

For instance, if I were assessing the rival claims of Judaism and Christianity, which I'm not, I'm already Christian, I might expect both to be dishonest about each other. But what John says about Jews is no match for putting Targum Onkelos in a tractate of the own Talmud known as Gittin. So, on that issue, I'd say Christianity wins by being more honest about Jews than Jews are about Christians, as near as one can get back to the point of divergence. But I didn't find this out before chosing Christianity over Judaism.

But this poses the circumstance that claims are not equal, and claims are therefore not equally "not evidence of themselves" ...

"Jesus was Crucified and appeared to disciples" is stronger than "Jesus was stoned and then hanged" ... bc Josephus mentions Jesus in the Roman period, after or along with Theudas, and not in the pre-Roman period, when the presumed disciple of Joshua Ben Perakhia would have lived. Josephus mentions Jesus' disciples as still being a tribe, but it's impossible to trace Christians all the way back from the time of John Hyrcanus or Alexander Jannaeus.

Which brings us to the fact that both the Gospels and Josephus (yes, I uphold the Testimonium Flavianum) are giving evidence by claims which taken together are stronger than the counterclaim in the Talmud. Even to the so far undecided. One reason why so many Jews these days aren't using Gittin or the Talmud, but rather go with Atheist or Humanist versions of what Jesus really was about. Illustrating that the rejection of Jesus by Jews hasn't been able to stay with one claim, they have shifted ground, more than once.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
XVth LD after Pentecost
6.IX.2026

I'll now resume a video where Joe Schmid replies to Dillahunty, which is from where I resumed above "dialogue", here it is: Why CLAIMS are often EVIDENCE (answer will SHOCK you)

Is This Something to Question? I Think So

NEW Charlie Kirk Footage Raises MAJOR Questions
The Young Turks | 26 Aug. 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlOuUFJWq-Q

Prayers for a Girl Named Lillian

She contracted an amoeba and* asked Knowles for prayers, Anthony Stine shared, so do I.

Rosaries if you can./HGL

* Sorry, her dad did. Not she. That's how serious it is.

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Flat Earth, Psy-Op? Hysteria Against Flat-Earthers, Definitely Psy-Op

I'll cite one source for this psy-op in the wiki:

Eugenie Scott called the group an example of "extreme Biblical-literalist theology: The earth is flat because the Bible says it is flat, regardless of what science tells us."

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

Now, it is true that Samuel Shenton and Charles K. Johnson were both Bible believers.

However, some other Flat Earthers aren't. Vedic Astronomy seems to have some adherents, it's Flat Earth and as it's Vedic, it isn't Biblical.

And it's also true that if all I knew of Flat Earthers were what Eugenie Scott said, if I had no previous reasons to believe the Earth a sphere, or to believe the Bible passages allow another, very strictly literal meaning, without any woo woo about "it's metaphoric" and "mature to symbolism" ... Eugenie Scott would just have persuaded me to actually consider Flat Earth.

Now, it very clearly isn't.

I looked up a BBC piece stating that youtube helped to spread Flat Earth, and the first thing I meet is an Englishman who says water is flat in a cup of tea, flat in a bathtub, so why would he expect it to be rounded in the ocean? I don't need to expect anything. Having often travelled between Malmö and Dragør on ferry, and walked a sea shore walk too narrow to accomodate bathers, I once or more than once sat down there, with binoculars. The ferry clearly appears top and chimney before hull, and disappears hull before top and chimney. The water is curved, I have seen it.

Again, there is not one single Bible passage where a strictly literal reading (unless you strictly limit yourself to an English or other Germanic translation) forces a Flat Earth interpretation.

So, what about this one?

After these things, I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that they should not blow upon the earth, nor upon the sea, nor on any tree
[Apocalypse (Revelation) 7:1]

Yes, ban English translations of the Bible! Arundel versus Wycliff for the win! No, seriously, I'm joking, since even in English there is a giveaway, that we deal with a somewhat inaccurate (to idiomatic English) translation. And all Germanic languages have the same issue, and at least modern versions of Slavonic languages too.

But Latin, French, Spanish as well as Hebrew haven't. Eretz = terra = earth. Eretz = terra = land. (Terra is pronounced "terre" in French and "tierra" in Castilian).

And Land as it so happens has four major corners against the Pacific.

Another thing in Eugenie Scott, she contrasts the Bible with "science" ... I would say that whether you classify my views with the binocular as science or not, it certainly is also everyday experience. It's certainly not just science, like a lab doing particle colliders. There are other types of everyday experience that also support Earth as meaning whatever lies beneath both land and sea is a globe. For instance, the impossibility to draw a Flat Earth map to scale. To be fair, any flat projection will refuse to be fully to scale as well, either angles or areas will be twisted. That's part of why I have a hard time to find out if Ellesmere Island is kind of partially a "fifth corner" of land, but even if it were, it would be a flatter angle than the four corners. And Ellesmere Island isn't very inhabited either, so it's definitely not a fifth corner of the oikoumene, which is one Biblical meaning of Earth. But still, if you accept a flat circle with the North Pole in the middle, you are at extreme odds against getting anything to scale.

You are also up against the Bible, because the outer corners of the land in that perspective would include two of the actual corners (Cape Horn and Tasmania), then add a non-corner (Cape of Good Hope, nope, it's not protruding South of the globe line between Cape Horn and Tasmania) and either lack a fourth corner or need to accept Australia as having a second corner, in the vicinity of Perth. Which is pretty absurd. And the Bible, as quoted, says "four" corners, not "three" ...

Again, travel times and travel routes (for instance between Santiago de Chile and Sydney) and travel around the world in "Latitude zero" by Mike Horn are anecdotal, and therefore unscientific, but precisely therefore far trustworthier than "science" arguments for Earth being an actual globe.

Now, probably Shenton was a not so well travelled man, and his Flat-Earthism was not a Psy-Op. I'd like to also give Rob Skiba II at least the benefit of the doubt. But youtube started in 2005.*

This was four years after I became a Geocentric. In 2001, St. Bartholomew's Feast, I became Geocentric. OK, 3 and 1/2 years, since I became so in the second half of 2001 and youtube was founded in very early 2005.

Robert Sungenis** is better known than I:

According to Sungenis, he became interested in geocentrism around 2002 after he read the book, Geocentricity by Gerardus D. Bouw. Sungenis became an advocate for the idea by 2006.

Perhaps my early encounters with other Geocentrics, apart from Pope Michael I, were about Geocentricity. I just found at least one of the editions, perhaps the first, was 1992. THAT very certainly WAS before youtube even existed, let alone gave Flat Earthers a boost.

So, the first question in the title here, when you spell it out, is, is Flat Earth artificially boosted to both take attention away from and to many detract from the credibility of Bouw, Pope Michael I, me or Robert Sungenis? Because to a person like Eugenie Scott, Flat Earth is kind of a boon when it comes to ridiculing the act of "believing X because the Bible says so, despite all science to the contrary" ...

I can't agree with Bouw's King James onlyism, that translation mistreats "battologein" in Matthew 6:7, and as to his Baptist Successionism, it's theologically possible on the one item of Matthew 28:20, but historically impossible. The things that are both theologically and historically possible are Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Copts, Armenians and Assyrians. The Baptist Successionist claim violates history (or Matthew 5:14—15), the Lutheran / Calvinist and the Mormon / JW / 7DA types of claims violate Matthew 28:20. But that's no reason to disparage Bouw's contribution to Geocentrism.

However, on one point, Bouw*** and Sungenis after him have taken the wrong turn:

Bouw believed that the theory of heliocentrism is what eventually led into many of the "immoralities" seen today. Due to this, he ended up modifying the cosmology of the 16th century Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe, who offered a modified model of geocentrism that put the planets centered on the motion of the Sun rather than the Earth, while the Sun orbited a stationary Earth. Bouw modified this model further by adjusting the stars also to be centered on the Sun rather than the Earth to explain the aberration of starlight. This way, he believed that his modified geocentric model would be observationally equivalent to heliocentrism, thus leading to argue that the correct view can be only established outside scientific observation with theological reasoning.

I reject that last modification, and say that "aberration" and "parallax" are two mathematical analyses of fix stars being moved by their angelic movers. But he is right in the first aspect. Heliocentrism led away from the Bible, from God, from Christian dogma, from Christian ethics. Geocentrism is, Flat Earth isn't, how one retraces, for as many as possible, the way back. For as many as possibly can, and if more could, were less indoctrinated by Eugenie Scott, more would be saved. And if you accept angelic movers, as well as Geocentrism, you get rid of "parallax" supposedly giving a trigonometric proof for 4 light years to α Centauri. The 2 AU distance is between two positions of the Sun against the Zodiac and need not be matched by a 2 AU distance between the two positions of α Centauri. Which makes the triangle an angles only one, without distance, and so useless to calculate distance. WHICH IS where I came into this idea, since the Distant Starlight Problem° depends on Heliocentrism and Cosmic distances with and beyond those "measured by parallax" ....

Yes, I am a Geocentric. No, I'm not a Flat Earther. And no, if you buy into the hysteria of Eugenie Scott, that Geocentrics or Young Earth Creationists are "no better than Flat Earthers" you are actually worse than one.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
St. Moses, Prophet
4.IX.2026

In monte Nebo, terrae Moab, sancti Moysis, legislatoris et Prophetae.

PS, I went to the comments' section under Metatron's video about Flat Earthers, and guess what? The comments of one Globe Earther and Geocentric had been taken down. That's like he actively is trying to discredit and silence this Geocentric by "reductio in platismum" a bit like some would try to discredit Schuschnigg, DeValera, Franz Joseph Strauss by a "reductio in Hitlerum" .../HGL

Notes:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube
** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Sungenis
*** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerardus_D._Bouw
° So, I think my solution is better than that or most of them in a book by Humphreys, D. Russell (1994). Starlight and Time: Solving The Puzzle of Distant Starlight in a Young Universe. Foreword by Ken Ham. Green Forest, AR: Master Books. The preview doesn't allow seeing whether Mr. Humprhey's even briefly considered Geocentrism.