I have started reading Leviticus in the NIV Bible and I believe that in Chapter Six that these are possible ways for one to punished today in the criminal justice system, maybe. Maybe criminals and all who commit a crime should provide a Guilt offering of the crime(s) committed and to show atonement one must return what was stolen and provide some sort of restitution of the same or another proper value. Even if one sees as an accomplice that one should also speak up for, they are just as responsible, but depending on the punishment could be less. Pray.
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Mark Graham
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Snicket #10
'The Slippery Slope' a Snicket novel of the Baudelaire's troublesome times is one where the siblings meet someone that they thought was dead while they are also separated from Sunny who found out quite a bit about herself in this edition of their story. There are many downs and a few ups in this story this for they meet some old 'friends' in this one as well. Violet and Klaus are also learning more about each other as well. Although Count Olaf and Esme are still the same, but some of their group seem to be changing just a bit.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Critique
Standing While Falling
Quotation from Friedrich Nietzsche "He who wrestles long with monsters should beware lest he himself become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. Man is not destroyed by suffering, but by the meaning he makes of it."
By LUCCIAN LAYTH12 days ago in Critique
Lingua ex machina
Peter Ayolov, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" Abstract This article examines the claim that language is not merely a product of human nature and evolutionary adaptation, but a force that, once constituted, begins to shape humans in its own image. Drawing on Elan Barenholtz’s Substack essay ‘Syntax is Dead! Long Live Syntax!’ and the University of Toronto discussion ‘The (Terrifying) Theory That Your Thoughts Were Never Your Own’, the text argues that language initially emerged as an adaptive coordination system but gradually detached from its biological origins through external memory technologies such as writing, print, audio, and video. With the advent of large language models, this autonomy becomes visible for the first time. Syntax appears not as an innate causal engine but as an emergent statistical shadow of predictive systems. Language, understood as an autogenerative informational system, now operates as a cultural and cognitive environment that produces meaning, belief, identity, and even metaphysical concepts such as God. In this sense, language does not reflect reality so much as organise it, creating human subjects through symbolic structures that precede intention and awareness.
By Peter Ayolov2 days ago in Critique
Comments (3)
I like how you suggested that what you’ve read in Leviticus chapter 6 could be applied today, and that Leviticus does not favour criminals of any kind, that they do have a debt to pay. It is just and fair, thank you for the reminder of this passage of scripture.
Interesting micro article on an aspect of the book of Leviticus that I was not aware of. Well done. The tip I just sent if for your challenge entry. Congratulations on that too
Well written