"Don't Give up the Ship"
- By BPPLEE
- American Politics
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???Everyone knows that Joe Biden was president from 2016 until 3 months before the present date and that will always be so.
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???Everyone knows that Joe Biden was president from 2016 until 3 months before the present date and that will always be so.
Pretty sure I've been on this planet for 45 years, not one day, 'noob'Any more? You've been here for 1 day. So long noob.
Fair enough point. I mainly share it because it's nonetheless something Jesus actually said, explicitly; and yet it hardly ever gets quoted whenever people discuss how husbands and wives should relate.Hate can mean different things depending on the context. We are to prefer God over our families but we are to love all people.
Most people want to have a continuing relationship with a loving partner and dislike the idea of cheating on that relationship. They want to form a household and raise children. They have been doing that all over the world for as long as there have been humans. The details vary from culture to culture but the basic principle is observed everywhere and will continue to be observed whether it is enforced legally or not.
But my point really was that women get to decide for themselves who they won't go to bed with and when.![]()
Sounds like you want a theocracy.
Yeah no one cares about language policing anymore, sorry bud"Third world" is archaic Cold War language referring to nations not aligned with the US or the USSR. It is out of date by 1/3 of a century. Whatever meaning it had 40 years ago is gone. Use words that still have meaning.
That isn't science, it is delusion, and I dont' think even the world centers on my country. I, personally, am mostly interested in the current events and politics of my own country as it takes too much time to track everything everywhere. I have also some lesser focused interests in a few other countries, but Christians are oppressed in any of those either.
Mass shooters have particularly disordered minds and their "manifestos" (when written and available) are messy jumbles of things from which it is difficult to find any organizing principle or motive.
My original inquiry arose from Steve's claim that Christians were being murdered *for believing* and when I asked him to give an example, he did -- Charlie Kirk. (Steve is usually good about answering such inquiries, which is part of why I engage him in conversation.) I already stated my disagreement with the assessment that Kirk was killed for *his belief in God*, rather than for other things. You could engage with that disagreement if you like, instead you inject school shootings, most of which are perpetrated by current or former students.
Sure I did. I mistook this as a thread in American politics where I often post. I was not dissuaded from that notion as all posts above mine were full of references to US history and politics. [If you see the "path" at the top of the page you can use that to navigate the site. Clicking on the "Politics" will take you to the page containing all of the politics sub-fora (including this one and the US politics one). In the entry for each forum there is on the right side a link for the latest post in each forum. If you go up one more level you will see a single entry of all of politics (next to other links to the science forum, the current events forum, etc.) and the same entry for the most recent post in all of the politics section. I likely saw this thread there and clicked on it out of curiosity not realizing it was post to "general politics" rather than "US politics". It is the same way I end up in threads started by people on my "ignore list".
Also irrelevantI read nearly all threads in P&LS and reply to many of them.
And if you knew anything about the subject you would know that there is no such thing as a biological race in humans. It is all social construct.
And you are but a youth. They key is to argue the points, not the man, or your perceptions of him based on a few simplistic labels.
More moving the goalposts to suit your argument. Awfully convenient for you to redefine this arbitrarily when you never mentioned it in the original replyI mock the notion that the "sexual revolution" is an actual revolution. No governments were overthrown. It was a social movement.
Again. Moving. Goalposts.As I've written a few times, I was never discussing persecution of Christians outside the US. I am well aware that Islamic countries exist. I have been steady in limiting my discussion to the US (or more broadly "the West") where the notion of "Christian persecution" is laughable.
# A And the apostle Paul is telling us that believers are CHOSEN // ELECTED , before Christ made the WORLD. and no their GOSPEL
A Section Eight discharge is for the nuts in the service, the psychos, the Funny Farm candidates. Now do you know what I'm talking about? They give you a Section Eight discharge, like a dishonorable discharge only worse. You can't get a job after that. Everybody wants to see your discharge, and when they see a Section Eight they look at you kind of funny—the kind of expression you've got on your face, like you were looking at someone with their nose blown off but don't want them to know you're disgusted—they look at you that way and then they say, 'Well, there doesn't seem to be an opening here at present.' You're screwed for life, that's what a Section Eight discharge means.
Section 8 was a category of military discharge employed by the United States Armed Forces which was used for service members judged mentally unfit for service. The term "Section 8" eventually came to mean any service member given such a discharge, or behaving as if deserving such a discharge, as in the expression, "he's a Section 8".
This type of discharge could be granted for a wide variety of perceived problems, including low intelligence, incompatibility with core military expectations or responsibilities, alcoholism or other chronic addictions, pathological lying, psychopathy, personality disorders, enuresis (then believed to be a mental disorder), psychosis, or antisocial behavior. A variety of sexual conduct could result in a Section 8 discharge, including cross-dressing, homosexuality, lesbianism, bisexuality and transgenderism; along with necrophilia, bestiality and pederasty.
Discharge under Section 8 is no longer practiced, as medical discharges for psychological or psychiatric reasons are now covered by a number of regulations. In the Army, such discharges are handled under the provisions of AR 635–200, Active Duty Enlisted Administrative Separations. Chapter 5, paragraph 13 governs the separation of personnel medically diagnosed with a personality disorder.
In the 1959 war novel A Separate Peace, the character Elwin "Leper" Lepellier gets a Section 8 discharge from the ski troops because he was hallucinating due to sleep deprivation.
I think that's Steve's (and MAGA's) working definition.
So sorry for your loss. Prayers for peace and comfort for all those who knew and loved him.![]()
Praying for you and your wife and family.
My father had a stroke and passed away 10 years ago and I still miss him.
Rest, and get well. Don't waste time on foolish pursuits.@David Lamb @Strong in Him @prodromos & to who ever it may concern.
It was really nice getting to know you guys, you are really all so great but I am really ill (+ no it's not dementia) so I've decided to quit this thread and the forum for a while.
I may be back if I get any better so bye for now
May God bless you all![]()
I'm hoping on Elijah. I suspect the HURD has been complete in heaven for a long time, and the Liturgist will be delighted.
The HURD is a kernel system where one may update the kernel without a restart.
Leviticus as well as the Romans text condems the sin.Nothing in the text condemns loving LGBT relationships
Who stated he hated them? I know people hate to hear it, but the sin is an abomination to him. You bring up same sex loving relationships but it still boils down to their sexual activity which is still an abomination to God. To state otherwise would be untrue to God's Word. Again, why should someone's sexuality be risen above God's will in our lives? That's of the flesh, not of the spirit. You're thinking too carnally.Also, what reason would God have for hating LGBT people?
Meanwhile what is the Liturgist going to do all day with no computers in heaven?
I can see you haven't been anywhere in the third world yourself recently.They did. Try taking responsibility for yourselves. There's a reason most of these places are ####holes, and it isn't because they were colonies who had their vities, transportation systems, utilities, etc. built for them by first world countries. It's because they don't know how to build and innovate, all their cultures are capable of is patching and repairing what was given to them.
Those statements seem contradictory, but OK. I guess I understand how you feel about pronouns. The thing is, I don't mind doing it if the person him/herself asks me to. I certainly would not do it if I was ordered to by a third party, especially by some prissy twit from HR--where most of this kind of thing comes from. Fortunately I don't have to, one of the benefits of working on the shop floor rather than in an office.I most certainly am strict on male and female. There are only two sexes. No more, no less. A male cannot be a female and a female cannot be a male.
But within that dichotomy are almost infinite personalities. Almost infinite likes and dislikes, ways of dealing with emotions, work and leisure preferences, clothing preferences etc. etc. But you are still a man or still a woman within those things. There is no line a personality crosses that determines they are the opposite sex/gender.
There are male and female traits that are typically associated with each sex/gender But even those things are not owned by that sex/gender. Thats why one cannot actually be the opposite sex/gender.
A man cannot be a woman inside.
ChatGPT usually agrees with me often praising my focus. AI is very agreeable and if you frame a question that presupposes an idea AI will happily be your echo chamber. It's there to trigger happy responses so you keep coming back.
They did. Try taking responsibility for yourselves. There's a reason most of these places are ####holes, and it isn't because they were colonies who had their vities, transportation systems, utilities, etc. built for them by first world countries. It's because they don't know how to build and innovate, all their cultures are capable of is patching and repairing what was given to them.Otherwise people might begin to realize who dug the holes.
The insertion of a 'resurrection/rapture event', is entirely an addition to scripture. Perhaps one interpretation, if only there was other scriptural support it. But there isn't.verse 9 - not appointed to wrath
verse 10 - avoidance of God' wrath poured out during the great tribulation by the resurrection/rapture event.
I have found it to be very helpful on several things.
Thanks for sharing your beliefs.
The only instruction I gave AI on this subject was to use the Bible only. I never used AI for anything Biblical related at this point so it had no idea my own views.
Some people may read the text, and think as you do, but reading the Bible, in a superficial manner, will not help persons to understand what they are reading.It refers to Hosea 11:1, but Hosea 11:1 is not about Jesus, it's about the exodus of the Israelites.
Let's forget about the "ex nihilo" insertion.God did create the formless earth ex nihilo. But that's not what Genesis is about. Genesis is a different story. Genesis is the story in which God creates by doing things like separating waters, gathering waters, establishing roles and functions etc. Genesis is not about ex nihilo creation.
The earth was uncreated now?In Genesis, before the earth was filled with life, it was bohu, or empty. Before the waters were gathered to reveal the earth, it was tohu or formless and uncreated.
Why exactly are you so hung up on 'ex nihilo' again?Isaiah 45:1, 15.
But now, this is what the Lord says—
he who created you, Jacob,
he who formed you, Israel:
“Do not fear, for I have redeemed you;
I have summoned you by name; you are mine.
in the ships in which they took pride.
15 I am the Lord, your Holy One,
Israel’s Creator, your King.”
God creates Jacob and Israel, yet neither were created ex nihilo, at least not in any material way. Jacob was born of his mother, he didnt appear out of thin air. So when God says that He created Jacob, it's not talking about matter appearing out of nothing. Jacob is already there.
You are saying that the bark of a tree is a house?Materially, it did. It is not as though God snapped his fingers and buildings appeared out of thin air. The matter was already there.
Your mother existed J, but that doesn't mean you existed, because she exists.Materially, we do. Your human body did not appear out of nothing. You were born from your mother, formed out of matter that already exists.
So, Adam was the dust?When God created Adam, Adam didn't appear out of nothing; he was made from dust of the ground.
I'm done.Materially, he did; he did not appear out of thin air, nor did the weapons he forged. He made his tools using matter that already existed.
Finito.Materially, the sign was already there. Ezekiel didn't make physical matter appear out of nothing. Ezekiel is not God, he cannot make matter appear out of nothing.
Already said that God used energy.When God creates the earth, the material, just like in every other instance in which God creates in the Old Testament, is already there. There is no material matter appearing out of nothing.