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[–] diverging@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You failed to quote the July 25th 1945 entry

That's Truman's reaction to the trinity test and is irrelevant to when he was told about the research. Obviously he had a different reaction to the actual bomb compared to a hypothetical bomb, but I would think that would be expected.

[–] diverging@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The night Truman was sworn in as Roosevelt’s successor he noted in his diary that Stimson told him the U.S. was “perfecting an explosive great enough to destroy the whole world.”

And if you wanted to know what Truman thought of not being told as vice president. (from the same link)

On June 17, Truman received a phone call from Stimson, who told him that the Pasco plant was “part of a very important secret development.” Fortunately, Stimson did not need to explain further: Truman, a veteran and a patriot, understood immediately that he was treading on dangerous ground. Before Stimson could continue, Truman assured the secretary “you won t have to say another word to me. Whenever you say that [something is highly secret] to me that’s all I want to hear. If [the plant] is for a specific purpose and you think it’s all right, that’s all I need to know.” Stimson replied that the purpose was not only secret, but “unique.”

[–] diverging@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

"I mentioned it to you shortly after you took office ..."

[–] diverging@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (7 children)

That was the full briefing and Truman had been told about it earlier. And him not being told while he was vice president is irrelevant to information being withheld from a president.

[–] diverging@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Truman became president on April,12 1945. He was given a full briefing on the Manhattan project on April 24,1945. That doesn't seem like he was being kept in the dark.

[–] diverging@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Mystery religions were very popular in the 1st century Greek world and Christianity is essentially a Jewish mystery religion. 'Mystery' literally meaning 'secret knowledge'. The story of Jesus telling a parable and then secretly telling the apostles that there is a hidden meaning is itself a parable with the author of the gospel saying that the entire gospel is filled with hidden meanings to be found.

It's terrible way to spread a message and inevitably ends with people inventing their own meanings and losing what the authors originally intended to convey.

[–] diverging@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago

There are plenty of historians that think Mythicism should be taken seriously.

https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/21420

[–] diverging@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The question of the historicity of Jesus does not deal with any of the supernatural claims. It attempts to answer how Christianity started from a historical perspective. It is a debate between a real but ordinary person; or a fictional creation, the angel Jesus, from which the apostles "received revelation" in much the same way as Joseph Smith did from Moroni, Mohammad from Gabriel, and many modern pastors do from Jesus.

So, no, the virgin birth narrative is irrelevant to any historical Jesus. That was created decades after the beginning of Christianity as a response to the gospel of Mark saying Jesus was from Nazareth, but some readers and authors of the later gospels thought prophecy said the messiah would be from Bethlehem.

[–] diverging@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

There is already a Japanese airbase about a mile away from it. The airbase was the first to confirm the new island.

Japan’s Maritime Self-Defence Force’s air base on Iwoto Island (previously known as Iwo Jima Island, the site of a major Second World War battle) confirmed the emergence of the new island last week after personnel heard a loud explosion that sent sand and ash flying high into the air.

[–] diverging@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

double it and ~~add it to~~ subtract it from what’s left

[–] diverging@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

given the Americans did not join the war until 1944

What? Do you think D-day was the first day of war for Americans? It wasn't.

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

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