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DaisyDay · 2025-10-06T17:44:29-0500

eclipsenow said:
That graphic is great. I had a long winded thing I was writing for Facebook about how Trump was manufacturing the crisis, so he could stand there and look like the strong man dealing with the crisis. 1984's "Big Brother" would be so proud. But this simple diagram cuts through hundreds of words to smack it all down as the silly photo-op it is.

I mean - when is Trump going to tear-gas another crowd so he can hold the bible awkwardly in front of a church he never attends? I miss those days.

Wasn't that the one where he asked about shooting protesters in the legs but got refused?

Wolseley · 2025-10-06T17:44:11-0500

longhair75 said:
This getting old thing sure isn't what it looked like in the brochures ;o)

Boy, it certainly isn't!!! It's nice to have all this accumulated wisdom, and to be past all the silliness of youth, but nobody mentioned the regrets you have looking back and seeing where you could have done things better---not to mention the screaming pain you get in your bones past age 60!

Good to see you, brother.

BCP1928 · 2025-10-06T17:41:03-0500

BPPLEE said:
The Pope can say whatever he wants, I'm not Catholic.
Do you agree with him on other matters? How about abortion?

What's abortion got to do with it?

BPPLEE · 2025-10-06T17:38:54-0500

rambot said:
Yeah! They are only experiencing significant trauma unnecessarily! They aren't dying so what is happenning is good for America.

Pope should probably shut up too right?

The Pope can say whatever he wants, I'm not Catholic.
Do you agree with him on other matters? How about abortion?

FutureAndAHope · 2025-10-06T17:38:48-0500

Romans is a book that is often the topic of fierce debate, when it comes to the theological topic of Predestination, and free will. Personally, I believe that God has given man free will, that all people will be given a chance of life, but their choices determine whether they will be saved.

One of the key topics of this debate is the fact that God brings blindness to the sinner. If a person believes in Predestination, they will say, “A portion of the world was always destined, or planned, to be blind from the beginning”. That, “God only rescues a selected portion of creation, not based on man’s deeds, but God’s choice”.

I would like to show from Romans 1 that it makes more sense to believe spiritual blindness comes as “a result of disobedience”, not as a default; it comes because of man’s choice. As we see in the 21st verse.

Rom 1:21 because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened.

Romans 1:21 shows us that God gives His knowledge to all, but some men choose to “supress” or push down that knowledge, God then gives those people over to blindness.

We see that also in:

2Th 2:10-12 and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

God sends strong delusion to those who have “pleasure in unrighteousness”. So a debased mind is not the default, but rather what we are given over to if we delight in sin.

Rom 1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

The earliest Church Leaders also taught that man “as it were, blind themselves”

4. ... but for the despisers and mockers who avoid and turn themselves away from this light, and who do, as it were, blind themselves, He has prepared darkness suitable to persons who oppose the light, and He has inflicted an appropriate punishment upon those who try to avoid being subject to Him. Submission to God is eternal rest, so that they who shun the light have a place worthy of their flight; and those who fly from eternal rest, have a habitation in accordance with their fleeing. Now, since all good things are with God, they who by their own determination fly from God, do defraud themselves of all good things; and having been [thus] defrauded of all good things with respect to God, they shall consequently fall under the just judgment of God. (Irenaeus 120-202, Against Heresies - Book 4 Ch 39 -End)

Note: blindness in this post is not referring to Spiritual Ignorance, but rather a deep blindness that prevents salvation from occurring. We are all born with Spiritual Ignorance, blindness in this post refers to that which prevents salvation.

John 9:41 Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, 'We see.' Therefore your sin remains.

Joh 15:22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.

eclipsenow · 2025-10-06T17:37:58-0500

Always in His Presence said:
Instead of a simple bipartisan CR. The Democrats want a 1.7 trillion dollar spending increase.

That's OK - because apparently 'reducing the deficit' in Trump's mind means giving billionaires a $3 trillion tax cut over the next decade. That's just the billionaires! Oh - and kicking the bottom 16 million Americans off healthcare - which will increase unnecessary, early American deaths by 50,000 a year. But Oligarch's gotta garch! This is the way.

eclipsenow · 2025-10-06T17:30:58-0500

essentialsaltes said:
From the previous article:

Small protests have been going on nightly outside Portland's immigration processing facility since Mr. Trump's second term began in January. There have been occasional flare-ups, including in June, but for weeks the demonstrations attracted only a few dozen people — until the Trump administration mobilized the Oregon National Guard on Sept. 28 against Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek's wishes.

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That graphic is great. I had a long winded thing I was writing for Facebook about how Trump was manufacturing the crisis, so he could stand there and look like the strong man dealing with the crisis. 1984's "Big Brother" would be so proud. But this simple diagram cuts through hundreds of words to smack it all down as the silly photo-op it is.

I mean - when is Trump going to tear-gas another crowd so he can hold the bible awkwardly in front of a church he never attends? I miss those days.

rambot · 2025-10-06T17:24:01-0500

BPPLEE said:
It's a disservice to the 6 million Jews who were slaughtered in the holocaust to make such a comparison.
Clearly you don't understand what happened during the holocaust

Yeah! They are only experiencing significant trauma unnecessarily! They aren't dying so what is happenning is good for America.

Pope should probably shut up too right?

Delvianna · 2025-10-06T17:21:19-0500

Gregory Thompson said:
I haven't seen one in years.

The last time I remember, I took them around the bible making references to the trinity from every book but the gospel of John.

They sure do love to talk about the bible.

Because they're trying to get to heaven instead of be on paradise earth. They preach that only 144,000 go to heaven. So if they get you to be a JW, that's a notch in their belt into possibly being apart of the 144,000.
But yes, they also, quite a few times, tried to predict when the trib would start, which they call Armageddon.

essentialsaltes · 2025-10-06T17:15:51-0500

Nithavela said:
I think it's amazing that you guys aren't fleeing the USA.

How will I know if they will arrest people for exercising their Free Speech rights if I don't exercise my Free Speech rights?

Looking forward to the next No Kings event October 18th. Will be wild.

You can't see Los Angeles for all the events. And even Catalina Island.

GoldenBoy89 · 2025-10-06T17:09:21-0500

BPPLEE said:
A Border Patrol agent called for help. Politics should be set aside in such situations

Not when it’s a war.

BPPLEE · 2025-10-06T17:01:58-0500

GoldenBoy89 said:
ICE got what, $150b added to their budget? No local government needs to be expending any additional resources to help the largest, most well funded gang in the country terrorize their own citizens.

A Border Patrol agent called for help. Politics should be set aside in such situations

GoldenBoy89 · 2025-10-06T16:59:49-0500

BPPLEE said:
Yeah, too bad

ICE got what, $150b added to their budget? No local government needs to be expending any additional resources to help the largest, most well funded gang in the country terrorize their own citizens.

Pommer · 2025-10-06T16:59:39-0500

Nithavela said:
I think it's amazing that you guys aren't fleeing the USA.

“Make me” is baked into our souls, doncha know?

fhansen · 2025-10-06T16:56:32-0500

NewLifeInChristJesus said:
I think "union/communion/fellowship/relationship" are all related in that the final three follow from the first. Jesus said,

22 And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one: 23 I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me. (Jn 17:22–23)

I think this speaks to what it is meant by 1 Corinthians 6:17 - "But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him".

Can't and won't disagree with that as far as I can see-darn. JK

BPPLEE · 2025-10-06T16:53:37-0500

Pressure grows on Virginia Democratic candidate to quit after violent text messages

Pressure is mounting on Virginia Democratic attorney general nominee Jay Jones to drop out of his race following leaked text messages in which he openly talks about violence directed toward former …

thehill.com

“Three people, two bullets,” Jones said in a text to House Delegate Carrie Coyner (R) about Gilbert.
“Gilbert, hitler, and pol pot,” Jones wrote. “Gilbert gets two bullets to the head.”

“Spoiler: put Gilbert in the crew with the two worst people you know and he receives both bullets every time,” Jones told Coyner.

keras · 2025-10-06T16:49:33-0500

pc_home said:
The same cosmic upheavals will be part of The End Time Puzzle.

I have read Velikovsky, he has some very interesting facts to tell.
But the forthcoming end times event of the Sixth Seal, will not be a comet bypass. The 1st to the 4th trumpet will be. Revelation 8:2-12

Prophecy is quite specific about what the Lord will use to commence all the end times. It will be an explosion of the suns surface, a Coronal Mass Ejection of unprecedented magnitude; Isaiah 30:26a Which will literally fulfil all the vividly stated Prophesies about that terrible Day.
The thing about a CME, is that it quickly passes, leaving the world to recover and the rest of the Prophesies to take place, up to the glorious Return of Jesus. Revelation 16:14 & 19:11

durangodawood · 2025-10-06T16:48:57-0500

Oompa Loompa said:
Can you provide an example of one of an empirically derived consensus?

I didnt say that.

I said an empirically derived description of people employing consensus. Thats what Im providing: the description of people doing this.*

*Except its not like total 100% consensus. Its just what works such that most people feel they can enjoy a decent life and the society flourishes. The people who disagree (and think for example that there's nothing wrong with rape) just have to suck it up and conform, or face the consequences.

BPPLEE · 2025-10-06T16:48:37-0500

GoldenBoy89 said:
That is there right to do per the 10th amendment.

Too bad.

Yeah, too bad

com7fy8 · 2025-10-06T16:43:45-0500

Bradskii said:
You can have two different moral positions held by two Christians, both of whom are convinced that God is informing their decisions. Which one is correct?

com7fy8 said:
Both could be wrong, or right . . . depending.

Bradskii said:
Then the term absolute morality ceases to have meaning.

But I mean wrong or right, according to absolute moral standards.

BelieveItOarKnot · 2025-10-06T16:42:58-0500

keras said:
But because the Jews rejected and killed Jesus, the Kingdom was taken from them. Matthew 21:43

Classic example of a blinded observation followed by a wrong conclusion. Sad part is you can't see it.

So let's do a simple yes, no exercise:

Are ALL of Israel God's children?

And if yes, did He blow it? And get forced into a corner to burn Hus children alive forever or eternally annihilated them?

Just the simple stuff ^^^

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