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Newsletter Nr. 1.463
Amsterdam, December 3, 2025

Separating the Ukraine War Dilemmas in Public Debate - Peace Now vs. Defend Ukraine - How to Untangle the Arguments - Frank Visser / ChatGPT

Public debate about the Ukraine war is beset by painful dilemmas. Calls for peace now can look like surrender to Russian aggression. Calls to defend Ukraine can seem like a willingness to prolong suffering. These tensions are real. But they are often muddled because the terms of debate collapse distinct questions into one another. To move beyond the trench warfare of opinion, we need to analytically separate three different layers: goals, means, and consequences. When each layer is discussed explicitly, disagreements become clearer, more honest, and less polarized.

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https://www.integralworld.net/visser699.html?4


What Happens When a Young-Earth Creationist Discovers Grok? - Frank Visser / Grok

It starts innocently enough. A homeschooled teenager from rural Kentucky—let's call him Caleb—has spent seventeen years being told that the Earth is 6,004 years old (give or take a few months, depending on whose Ussher chronology you prefer), that radiometric dating is a Satanic lie, and that dinosaurs breathed fire like the dragons in Revelation.
Then one idle Thursday he downloads the Grok app because some guy on Gab said it's “the based AI that triggers libs.” He expects a red-pilled chatbot that will finally confirm the global flood and expose the Darwinian conspiracy.

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https://www.integralworld.net/visser698.html