changeset 21:938d0b9eb7c6

fix links
author Franklin Schmidt <fschmidt@gmail.com>
date Fri, 19 Sep 2025 21:56:59 -0600
parents ffeac1e232a7
children bdf000a32b24
files src/go.html src/mikraite/Truth_and_Alternatives.html src/mikraite/Understanding.html
diffstat 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/src/go.html	Fri Sep 19 21:40:40 2025 -0600
+++ b/src/go.html	Fri Sep 19 21:56:59 2025 -0600
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 				<li><a href="https://youtu.be/RRBjN8empIs">Entertaining video about Go</a></li>
 				<li><a href="https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Go/Why_should_I_learn_to_play_Go%3F">Why should I learn to play Go?</a></li>
 				<li><a href="http://go.arkian.net/">Milt's Go Page</a></li>
-				<li><a href="http://go.arkian.net/agf.html">The American Go Foundation</a></li>
+				<li><a href="https://www.agfgo.org/">The American Go Foundation</a></li>
 			</ul>
 			<h3>Play Go</h3>
 			<ul>
--- a/src/mikraite/Truth_and_Alternatives.html	Fri Sep 19 21:40:40 2025 -0600
+++ b/src/mikraite/Truth_and_Alternatives.html	Fri Sep 19 21:56:59 2025 -0600
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@
 
 <p>Islam today shares the Christian view that truth is the highest value.  But did this come from the Quran or from exposure to Christian and Greek culture?  Does the Quran use truth or trustworthiness or some other concept as its core value?  I am totally unqualified to answer this because I don't know Arabic.  For someone to answer this, they would need to know both Arabic and philosophy.  Unfortunately Islam today rejects philosophy, so the number of people currently qualified to think about this question is likely very small.</p>
 
-<p>Now I will continue and look at another alternative to truth which is desire.  In a culture with no religion, people become like animals and simply act on their desire.  This is how these people makes judgements, they judge based on their desire.  Christianity is based on truth and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uULqvWYXYI">this video</a> is a good explanation by a Catholic of how decaying religion causes truth to be replaced by desire.  Such cultures tend to become primitive since no sustained goodness can be developed.  One finds this in much of the third world.</p>
+<p>Now I will continue and look at another alternative to truth which is desire.  In a culture with no religion, people become like animals and simply act on their desire.  This is how these people makes judgements, they judge based on their desire.  Christianity is based on truth and <a href="https://youtu.be/YTjEeg6AmCw">this video</a> is a good explanation by a Catholic of how decaying religion causes truth to be replaced by desire.  Such cultures tend to become primitive since no sustained goodness can be developed.  One finds this in much of the third world.</p>
 
 <p>And the final alternative to truth that I want to discuss is degeneracy.  Degeneracy is worse than desire, it is the active support of evil/badness.  The most degenerate culture in the world today is American culture, so I would like to explain exactly what degeneracy is and how it happens.  The value of degeneracy is badness.  This is an anti-morality in the sense that self-discipline is applied to act worse than one would if one simply followed one's desires.  Applying degeneracy to judgement means always judging for evil.  This is what Americans do today.</p>
 
--- a/src/mikraite/Understanding.html	Fri Sep 19 21:40:40 2025 -0600
+++ b/src/mikraite/Understanding.html	Fri Sep 19 21:56:59 2025 -0600
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 
 <p>For those who don't think that God is supernatural, this approach should make sense.  But if you believe in a personal supernatural God, you may object and say that it isn't our place to try to understand God.  To which I respond, why not?  If God made man in His image, why shouldn't we try to understand Him?  It seems like the least we can do in an attempt to follow His will.  So I ask you, believer in a personal supernatural God, why does God give us commandments?  Are these commandments for His benefit or for ours?  Is God an egomaniac, like a bad king or a bad boss, who wants us to follow senseless rules just to show allegiance to Him?  This kind of God makes no sense to me and doesn't at all appear to be the character of God portrayed in the Old Testament.  I see the opposite kind of God, one who wants justice and morality for OUR benefit.  So the commandments of the Old Testament are for our benefit, not for God's benefit.  If this is the case, then all the commandments can be understood by asking why/how the commandment benefits us.  When we can answer this question, then we understand the commandment in the same way that we understand a mathematical formula that we derive.  So this is the way to understand and follow biblical law.  Actually, the Hebrew word "Torah" doesn't mean law, it means "instruction" or "teaching".  Properly studying the Torah will teach you to understand morality.  The rest of the Old Testament after the Torah can be considered applied examples of Torah thinking that will deepen your understanding of the Torah.</p>
 
-<p>On this website, I apply this approach to understanding the Old Testament to specific examples.  One example is <a href="http://www.biblicjudaism.org/Diet-td5.html">dietary law</a> which is clearly a health law.  The reason behind the law is that eating bad food makes you sick.  The application of this reasoning is to avoid bad food, an example of which today would be trans-fats.  Another example is the commandment to wear <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tzitzit">tzitzit</a>.  The reasoning behind this is to wear something to remind yourself and others that you are different from those who don't follow biblical law.</p>
+<p>On this website, I apply this approach to understanding the Old Testament to specific examples.  One example is dietary law which is clearly a health law.  The reason behind the law is that eating bad food makes you sick.  The application of this reasoning is to avoid bad food, an example of which today would be trans-fats.  Another example is the commandment to wear <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tzitzit">tzitzit</a>.  The reasoning behind this is to wear something to remind yourself and others that you are different from those who don't follow biblical law.</p>
 
 <p>Is everyone intellectually capable of understanding math and the Old Testament?  I think most people are.  In college, I tutored math.  There was a room where tutors and students who needed help went to work together.  Two types of students typically went to be tutored, pre-meds (who wanted to get into medical school) with B's and football players with F's.  The pre-meds would come to me and ask me for the formulas.  I told them that I didn't know any formulas and they looked at me with horror and went on to the next tutor.  But the football players were innocent, not having learned to be obedient robots.  So I taught the football players to understand math and they did well.  The football players were capable of understanding because their minds hadn't been destroyed by school, but the pre-meds were a lost cause and seemed to me to be permanently incapable of understanding anything because their minds had been destroyed by school.</p>