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Akita Suggagaki · Nov 7, 2025

camille70 said:
Retiring Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) called Democrats’ victory margins Tuesday “a red flag to the GOP” and blasted Trump’s refusal to engage with the other party.

Trump could end the shutdown tomorrow. Such poor leadership is tragic.

Hentenza · Nov 7, 2025

HARK! said:
That abstract Greek word, for the English word,"law," is a poor translation of the concrete Hebrew word "Torah."

Everything that you don’t agree with is a poor translation to you. I’m going to actually follow the scholarship rather than your opinion.

HARK! said:
Torah means direction. The law is Yah's direction. Yah's Ruach (spirit) will not take us in a different direction than Yah himself.

The Torah was written by Moses and given to the Jews. It includes the 613 mitzvot which includes the 10 commandments. These were never given to the church. Again, Christians are not Jews.

HARK! said:
Paul presents a dichotomy between those who are subject to the Torah; and those who are not.

(CLV) Ro 8:5
For those who are in accord with flesh are disposed to that which is of the flesh, yet those who are in accord with spirit to that which is of the spirit.

(CLV) Ro 8:6
For the disposition of the flesh is death, yet the disposition of the spirit is life and peace,

(CLV) Ro 8:7
because the disposition of the flesh is enmity to God, for it is not subject to the law of God, for neither is it able

(CLV) Ro 8:8
Now those who are in flesh are not able to please God.

“For all who are of works of the Law are under a curse; for it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not abide by all the things written in the book of the Law, to do them.” Now, that no one is justified by the Law before God is evident; for, “the righteous one will live by faith.” However, the Law is not of faith; on the contrary, “The person who performs them will live by them.” Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law, having become a curse for us—for it is written: “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”— in order that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham would come to the Gentiles, so that we would receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.”
‭‭Galatians‬ ‭3‬:‭10‬-‭14‬ ‭NASB2020‬‬

Galatians 3:10-14 For all who are of works of the Law are under a curse; for it is written: “CURSED IS EVERYONE WHO DOES NOT ABIDE BY ALL THE THINGS WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF THE LAW, TO DO THEM.” Now, that no one is just | New American Standard Bible -

For all who are of works of the Law are under a curse; for it is written: “CURSED IS EVERYONE WHO DOES NOT ABIDE BY ALL THE THINGS WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF THE LAW, TO DO THEM.” Now, that no one is just

bible.com

You continued to pull at straws to justify putting the Christian back under the bondage of the law. Christ nailed the law to the cross. There is no dichotomy with Paul’s teachings.

Carl Emerson · Nov 7, 2025

What do others think ?

camille70 · Nov 7, 2025

rambot said:
From AI

Legislative changes to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) have primarily occurred through subsequent acts of Congress and court decisions, most notably the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA), the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA), and the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA).

Major Legislative Changes

Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010: Passed shortly after the ACA itself, this act made several key changes, including modifying subsidies and closing the Medicare Part D "doughnut hole" faster than the original law.

Supreme Court Ruling on Medicaid Expansion (2012): In National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius, the Supreme Court ruled that the ACA's Medicaid expansion was unconstitutionally coercive to states. This decision effectively made Medicaid expansion optional for states, resulting in some states not expanding coverage to a wider range of low-income individuals.

Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA): This act, signed by President Donald Trump, made a major change by eliminating the penalty for individuals who did not obtain health insurance (the "individual mandate" penalty), starting in 2019. While the mandate itself technically remained part of the law, removing the penalty significantly altered one of the ACA's core mechanisms. The TCJA also substantially scaled back outreach programs to help Americans sign up for the ACA.

Other Impacts

Administrative Actions: Various presidential administrations have used executive orders and regulatory changes to either strengthen or weaken the ACA's implementation. For example, the Trump administration took steps to reduce the open enrollment period and promote alternative, less comprehensive health plans, while the Biden-Harris administration has focused on strengthening protections and expanding access.

Ongoing Legal Challenges: The ACA has been subject to numerous legal challenges that have reached the Supreme Court multiple times, impacting the law's implementation and interpretation, such as cases related to employer-provided contraceptive coverage and the constitutionality of the law as a whole.

"If you like your plan..." controversy: Early implementation faced issues when millions of Americans with individual policies received termination notices because their plans did not meet the ACA's new minimum requirements. The Obama administration provided transitional relief to allow states and carriers to renew non-compliant plans temporarily.

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1) If only Republicans had a plan.....the plan they always talk about having...that doesn't exist...

Look. Fact is insurers saw they were going to lose money on OBamacare because it help the poors. So, they tried to find ways ot undercut it.

ACA was an attempt to help poor people. It was an effort to bring socialized medicare to your country.

Socialized medicare is FAR better than the abjectly miserable system you currently have.

Imagine how good ACA is if it's better than ANYTHING the Republicans have put forward since its inception.

Once someone lost their job the only option used to be the ridiculously expensive COBRA. Now people without employer subsidized healthcare can at least get the ACA Insurance.

He's back to bashing it now but this was pointed out previously by Rep Cornyn of Texas during the covid crisis.

“The good news is that if you lose your employer-provided coverage, which covers about a 180 million Americans, that is a significant life event, which makes you then eligible to sign up for the Affordable Care Act,” Cornyn said in a PBS Austin interview. “As you know, it has a sliding scale of subsidies up to 400% of poverty. So that’s an option for people.”

This seems relevant again as hundreds of thousands are being laid off.

Layoffs are piling up, raising worker anxiety. Here are some companies that have cut jobs recently

It's a tough time for the job market. Amid wider economic uncertainty, some analysts have said that businesses are at a “no-hire, no fire” standstill.

apnews.com

Tom D · Nov 7, 2025

Which of following helps you to succeed in studies or work most --- smartness, virtues, eloquence, bilingualism or good look??
Of course, the answer is smartness, followed by eloquence, right??????
Wrong.

Please read this to find out

BPPLEE · Nov 7, 2025

Hans Blaster said:
Yes.

Respect is earned. So are reputations.

Your asking this about ICE/DHS/BCP migrant patrols? Seriously?

When you join a gang, you know live with their earned reputation.

You lost me when you said it's okay to disrespect someone. Besides that you've already demonstrated how little you know about law enforcement

Hentenza · Nov 7, 2025

Studyman said:
Lol, "They Lied" to the Apostles, to the entire Church of God which is lying to the Holy Spirit.

“But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back some of the proceeds of the land?”
‭‭Acts‬ ‭5‬:‭3‬ ‭NASB2020‬‬

Acts 5:3 (NASB2020) - But Peter said, “Ananias, why has S | YouVersion

But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back some of the proceeds of the land?

bible.com

Peter never says that Ananias lied to the apostles of which Peter is one. Read scripture carefully.

Studyman said:
Are you really preaching that their actions were not transgressions of God's Law, both the Greatest Commandment and the 2nd Greatest Commandment?

Are you serious really, or are you trolling?

I don’t troll. If you have a rebuttal then post it.

The Barbarian · Nov 7, 2025

Servus said:
Decreased Memory: Why remember facts when you can just ask AI? This "Google effect" has been around before AI, but it's intensifying now.

Socrates made the same claims about writing citing an Egyptian king:
“O most expert Theuth, one man can give birth to the elements of an art, but only another can judge how they can benefit or harm those who will use them. And now, since you are the father of writing, your affection for it has made you describe its effects as the opposite of what they really are. In fact, it will introduce forgetfulness into the soul of those who learn it: they will not practice using their memory because they will put their trust in writing, which is external and depends on signs that belong to others, instead of trying to remember from the inside, completely on their own. You have not discovered a potion for remembering, but for reminding; you provide your students with the appearance of wisdom, not with its reality. Your invention will enable them to hear many things without being properly taught, and they will imagine that they have come to know much while for the most part they will know nothing. And they will be difficult to get along with, since they will merely appear to be wise instead of really being so.”

HARK! · Nov 7, 2025

Hentenza said:
Because I am not under the law. I walk on the Spirit who gives me direction.

That abstract Greek word, for the English word,"law," is a poor translation of the concrete Hebrew word "Torah."

Torah means direction. The law is Yah's direction. Yah's Ruach (spirit) will not take us in a different direction than Yah himself will.

Paul presents a dichotomy between those who are subject to the Torah; and those who are not.

(CLV) Ro 8:5
For those who are in accord with flesh are disposed to that which is of the flesh, yet those who are in accord with spirit to that which is of the spirit.

(CLV) Ro 8:6
For the disposition of the flesh is death, yet the disposition of the spirit is life and peace,

(CLV) Ro 8:7
because the disposition of the flesh is enmity to God, for it is not subject to the law of God, for neither is it able

(CLV) Ro 8:8
Now those who are in flesh are not able to please God.

Studyman · Nov 7, 2025

Hentenza said:
They died BECAUSE they lied to the Spirit. Not relevant.

Lol, "They Lied" to the Apostles, to the entire Church of God which is lying to the Holy Spirit.

Are you really preaching that their actions were not transgressions of God's Law, both the Greatest Commandment and the 2nd Greatest Commandment?

Are you serious really, or are you trolling?

Hentenza said:
Strawman. I’m not arguing about rejecting God’s commandments. The statutes are part of the Mosaic law which was never given to the Church.

"Let us keep the feast"

Are you excluding yourself from the "us"?

Hentenza said:
Again, I walk in the Spirit and always honor God.

The Pharisees honored God too.

camille70 · Nov 7, 2025

rambot said:
From AI

Legislative changes to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) have primarily occurred through subsequent acts of Congress and court decisions, most notably the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA), the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA), and the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA).

Major Legislative Changes

Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010: Passed shortly after the ACA itself, this act made several key changes, including modifying subsidies and closing the Medicare Part D "doughnut hole" faster than the original law.

Supreme Court Ruling on Medicaid Expansion (2012): In National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius, the Supreme Court ruled that the ACA's Medicaid expansion was unconstitutionally coercive to states. This decision effectively made Medicaid expansion optional for states, resulting in some states not expanding coverage to a wider range of low-income individuals.

Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA): This act, signed by President Donald Trump, made a major change by eliminating the penalty for individuals who did not obtain health insurance (the "individual mandate" penalty), starting in 2019. While the mandate itself technically remained part of the law, removing the penalty significantly altered one of the ACA's core mechanisms. The TCJA also substantially scaled back outreach programs to help Americans sign up for the ACA.

Other Impacts

Administrative Actions: Various presidential administrations have used executive orders and regulatory changes to either strengthen or weaken the ACA's implementation. For example, the Trump administration took steps to reduce the open enrollment period and promote alternative, less comprehensive health plans, while the Biden-Harris administration has focused on strengthening protections and expanding access.

Ongoing Legal Challenges: The ACA has been subject to numerous legal challenges that have reached the Supreme Court multiple times, impacting the law's implementation and interpretation, such as cases related to employer-provided contraceptive coverage and the constitutionality of the law as a whole.

"If you like your plan..." controversy: Early implementation faced issues when millions of Americans with individual policies received termination notices because their plans did not meet the ACA's new minimum requirements. The Obama administration provided transitional relief to allow states and carriers to renew non-compliant plans temporarily.

________________

1) If only Republicans had a plan.....the plan they always talk about having...that doesn't exist...

Look. Fact is insurers saw they were going to lose money on OBamacare because it help the poors. So, they tried to find ways ot undercut it.

ACA was an attempt to help poor people. It was an effort to bring socialized medicare to your country.

Socialized medicare is FAR better than the abjectly miserable system you currently have.

Imagine how good ACA is if it's better than ANYTHING the Republicans have put forward since its inception.

Marco Rubio eliminating risk corridors at the beginning also.

The Barbarian · Nov 7, 2025

It's been known that hominids were making tools millions of years ago.

List of earliest tools - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

This isn't news. That's been known for a very long time.

DreamyLaLa · Nov 7, 2025

Multifavs said:
Sorry to hear about your old shop, but your new shop sounds exciting! I love the pretty, sparkly banner your sister made! :3

Thanks!

I'm really happy with the way the banner turned out, too! My sister and I love sparkles!!

Carl Emerson · Nov 7, 2025

SabbathBlessings said:
it doesn't say we enter His Sabbath rest.

Really...

Let the reader decide...
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The Believer’s Rest

Hebrews 4
1 Therefore, we must fear if, while a promise remains of entering His rest, any one of you may seem to have come short of it.
2 For indeed we have had good news preached to us, just as they also did; but the word they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united with those who listened with faith.
3 For we who have believed enter that rest, just as He has said,

“As I swore in My anger,
They certainly shall not enter My rest,”
although His works were finished from the foundation of the world.
4 For He has said somewhere concerning the seventh day: “And God rested on the seventh day from all His works”; 5 and again in this passage, “They certainly shall not enter My rest.”
6 Therefore, since it remains for some to enter it, and those who previously had good news preached to them failed to enter because of disobedience,
7 He again sets a certain day, “Today,” saying through David after so long a time just as has been said before,

“Today if you hear His voice,
Do not harden your hearts.”
8 For if Joshua had given them rest, He would not have spoken of another day after that.
9 Consequently, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God.
10 For the one who has entered His rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from His.
11 Therefore let’s make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following the same example of disobedience.
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Sorry but the clear reading of the text must trump any human theology.

Double Blessings and have a great day.

The Barbarian · Nov 7, 2025

Your guy has a confusion...
The cognitive revolution was an intellectual movement that began in the 1950s as an interdisciplinary study of the mind and its processes, from which emerged a new field known as cognitive science.[1] The preexisting relevant fields were psychology, linguistics, computer science, anthropology, neuroscience, and philosophy.[2] The approaches used were developed within the then-nascent fields of artificial intelligence, computer science, and neuroscience.

Cognitive revolution - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Gene2memE said:
Seems like he's attacking ideas that are of his own invention and/or deliberately misconstruing areas of active research. Or concepts that are a couple of decades out of date.

Yep.

PTW · Nov 7, 2025

Lloyd in Space

Hentenza · Nov 7, 2025

HARK! said:
No

Yes

HARK! said:
If we read down a little further; we can get a better understanding.

(CLV) 1Jn 3:9
Everyone who is begotten of God is not doing sin, for His seed is remaining in him, and he can not be sinning, for he is begotten of God.

I prefer the NASB translation.

“No one who has been born of God practices sin, because His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin continually, because he has been born of God.”
‭‭1 John‬ ‭3‬:‭9‬ ‭NASB2020‬‬

1 John 3:9 No one who has been born of God practices sin, because His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin continually, because he has been born of God. | New American Standard Bible - NASB (NASB2020) | Download The Bible App Now

No one who has been born of God practices sin, because His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin continually, because he has been born of God.

bible.com

Are we now getting into osas? Or the preservation of the saints?

Go to the next verse.

“By this the children of God and the children of the devil are obvious: anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor the one who does not love his brother and sister.”
‭‭1 John‬ ‭3‬:‭10‬ ‭NASB2020‬‬

1 John 3:10 By this the children of God and the children of the devil are obvious: anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor the one who does not love his brother and sister. | New American Standard Bible - NASB (NASB2020) | Downl

By this the children of God and the children of the devil are obvious: anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor the one who does not love his brother and sister.

bible.com

Again, crystal clear.

Hentenza · Nov 7, 2025

Studyman said:
Tell that to Ananias and Sapphira.

They died BECAUSE they lied to the Spirit. Not relevant.

Studyman said:
Rejecting God's Commandments, Judgements and Statutes,

Strawman. I’m not arguing about rejecting God’s commandments. The statutes are part of the Mosaic law which was never given to the Church.

Studyman said:
Even the Least of them, is not how the Faithful Loved God in the Bible. It's how men honored Him with their lips, it's how "Many", who call Jesus Lord, Lord honor Him, but it's not how every example of Faithful man shown to us by the Holy Scriptures honored Him.

Again, I walk in the Spirit and always honor God.

Carl Emerson · Nov 7, 2025

Luke 23:56 was before the resurrection and the birth of the Body of Christ.

Of course they followed the Old Covenant at this time - it was all they knew.

Studyman · Nov 7, 2025

Hentenza said:
This is quite convoluted to the point that I am not sure what you are arguing. Please clarify.

It's in your own Bible, you can read it for yourself

HARK! · Nov 7, 2025

Hentenza said:
Those who sin continually are not of God.

No

If we read down a little further; we can get a better understanding.

(CLV) 1Jn 3:9
Everyone who is begotten of God is not doing sin, for His seed is remaining in him, and he can not be sinning, for he is begotten of God.

Studyman · Nov 7, 2025

Hentenza said:
Nope.

But it is no longer needed. The Spirit now convicts the believer.

Tell that to Ananias and Sapphira.

Hentenza said:
This is not biblical. All of the law hangs on Jesus two love commandments so no one here is rejecting anything. Your argument is a Strawman.

Rejecting God's Commandments, Judgements and Statutes, Even the Least of them, is not how the Faithful Loved God in the Bible. It's how men honored Him with their lips, it's how "Many", who call Jesus Lord, Lord honor Him, but it's not how every example of Faithful man shown to us by the Holy Scriptures honored Him.

Hentenza · Nov 7, 2025

HARK! said:
How can you say that you don't reject Yah's direction; but you don't obey it either?

Because I am not under the law. I walk on the Spirit who gives me direction.

Hentenza · Nov 7, 2025

HARK! said:
It's in my Bible.

Are you trolling my thread?

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