Akita Suggagaki said:

It is folly, not wisdom.

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In our society, we celebrate the practice of providing a legal defense for the accused, whether they turn out guilty or innocent...

Here, you're telling me that it's foolish to do the same in a non-legal, social environment.

I couldn't disagree more. Because open, respectful conversation, even if your views are in the minority, is helpful in subtle ways, regardless of whether the help is passed on directly or indirectly. Especially if the indirect aspect results in diminishing groupthink tendencies which are often egotistical in nature.

Hentenza said:

I disagree.

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All pre-Origen uses of the word speak to it as an act of vivification, not a theory of inspiration

Hentenza said:

Actually the primacy and holiness of scripture is well documented among the ECFs.

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Primacy, sure. But not the sole rule, prima scriptura is not the same thing as sola scriptura.

Supreme Court lets Texas keep new congressional map while legal battle continues

The ruling is a major win for the Trump administration and Texas Republicans, who engineered the map to give the GOP control of 30 of the state’s 38 congressional districts.


Texas can use its new, GOP friendly congressional map while a legal challenge plays out, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, temporarily pausing a lower court ruling that had blocked the map from going into effect.

With the Dec. 8 candidate filing deadline fast approaching, the high court’s decision likely means Texas’ new map will be used for the 2026 midterm elections.

Justice Samuel Alito ruled that it was “indisputable” that Texas’ motivation for redistricting was “pure and simple” partisan advantage, which the court has previously ruled is permissible. A federal judge had previously ruled that the state likely engaged in racial gerrymandering, a claim Alito rejected. The three liberal justices dissented.


The ruling is a major win for Republicans in Texas and nationally. President Donald Trump had pushed Texas to redraw its map over the summer, hoping to secure five additional GOP seats to shore up the party’s narrow majority in the U.S. House through the midterms.

Jamming over the internet
I ran into this recently, its called "Lutefish", its a real time jam tool that minimizes the latency over the internet for musicians to jam. I never pursued it or even looked into it much other then heard that it was available as a tool for jamming for musicians. Play Music Together, Miles Apart

How they recorded songs, what equipment and software. Whether they record all at once, track by track and what sort of instruments do they use such as real as opposed to virtual instruments.?
Equipment for me is been an endless list of things. I collected what works through the years, the hardest was playing/recording live drums to track, I have electronic kit now, still having problems playing them how I hear it. I sing & play all my instruments as best I can, bass, drums, guitar, keys, recording them to a program called Reaper, track by track, mix it all up in the end. Years of goofing around with this process trying and failing, sharing the good stuff when I can, and thanking God for every bit of it. I can say it is fun doing. =)

What about song writing. I tend to first come up with a tune or a loop of some sort in my head and build a song from that.
Thats seems like how allot of other people do it too..if it works dont fix it. I usually come up with the music, listen to it to see what its saying, and then figure out if I can sing to it. and mostly unpacks with some phrases that I usually can build the rest the rest of the song to.

sometimes get stuck and cannot find the right words and think I will just use the made up or temporary word as it works best.
yep ..its a tricky thing to get through, some times a song can sit without words for years, they get added and then changed depending on mood swings, weather, or if I ran into a circumstance or movie that inspired something ..little bits..allot of bits..time. Keep at it basically..try and remember its fun.

Lennon sometimes just used silly words or just made up words and people read all sorts of stuff in them lol.
yea why not right? I sometimes give my tracks to other singers in my company and they come up with all kinds of things to sing..and then I record them singing to it.

SabbathBlessings said:

You’re free to your beliefs. Guess God in His time will sort all things out. Take care.

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Be sober, be vigilant...

Costco Sues Trump Administration for Refund of Tariffs

The retail giant is seeking to recover money it has paid this year, should the Supreme Court rule that President Trump’s implementation of tariffs was unlawful.



The complaint, filed on Friday in the U.S. Court of International Trade, argues that Mr. Trump misused a 1977 law in his move to implement tariffs on products from more than 100 countries.

The lawsuit asserts that Congress, not the president, has the authority to set tariffs, and that Mr. Trump exceeded the authority granted to him by the law, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, or IEEPA.

“The text of IEEPA does not use the word ‘tariff’ or any term of equivalent meaning,” Costco states in the lawsuit, which was reported earlier by NBC News. The act allows the president to regulate or prohibit foreign transactions during a national emergency, but does not authorize the imposition of tariffs, according to the lawsuit.

Kush Desai, a spokesman for the White House, said in a statement that the “economic consequences of the failure to uphold President Trump’s lawful tariffs are enormous and this suit highlights that fact. The White House looks forward to the Supreme Court’s speedy and proper resolution of this matter.”

It has said in the past that its use of the IEEPA is lawful because the law gives the president the authority to “regulate” the “importation” of foreign property to deal with emergencies.

Freth said:

Here is a direct quote from my first post, so there is no confusion.

"People tend to avoid the Bible, but they are more likely to read a book."​

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OP asked a question. I gave a personal opinion as to why it is valid to distribute books. I did not say distributing books is superior to distributing Bibles.

1. We distribute Bibles.
2. The Great Controversy points to the Bible (as shown in my second post).

Either way → Bible

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Either way → Bible (no, not either way)

1. We distribute Bibles (Bibles, yes)
2. The Great Controversy points to the Bible (as shown in my second post). (Denominational dogmatics, not the Bible)

Apple Sky said:

I couldn't get my breath & I could hardly walk & felt so weak...I though I were dying...

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reBoots' reply:

Breathlessness is one of the top five symptoms of radiation toxicity. Individuals can be tracked, traced, targeted, and terminated via RF (radio frequency), with a main symptom of inability to breathe. The cell phone is the interface.

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For those with patience and an attention to detail, here is documentation describing one way it is done:

There is a virtual reality patent:

Application programming interface and hypergraph transfer protocol supporting a global hypergraph approach to reducing complexity for accelerated multi-disciplinary scientific discovery​

which describes "A system for connecting one or more client applications running on one or more clients with one or more knowledge representation servers"

where "clients" = YOU
and
"knowledge representation servers" = A.I. / IN THE CLOUD

How am I going to make the MetaVerse physically change the air molecules around your head so that you have a physical experience? From the above patent, "Atmosphere and hypergraph transfer protocol have the capacitance with the different types of entities and clustering structure to make physical changes in the pervasive and ubiquitous computing." For example, they can perturbate the air molecules around or within an electric vehicle and can rearrange the neurons in your head - at the same time, all for effect. IOW, they can spike your neural network (not to be confused with the spike protein red herring!).

Hentenza said:

I’m sure Apple Sky does not post such a risk to warrant such an action by covert operations. Also I’m sure you know that because you work or worked for them. They might just target you now that you revealed their secret weapon.

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EVERYONE "poses such a risk" to Satan, as we are created in God's image, fearfully and wonderfully made. And, EVERYONE is already "targeted." And, "their secret weapon" is NOT hidden (again, "Revelation of the Method").

I posted this in the other thread, but putting it here also.

Grand Jury Said to Decline to Re-Indict Letitia James
After a judge dismissed the Trump administration’s first attempt to indict the attorney general of New York State, a new grand jury effort failed, according to people familiar with the matter.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/us/politics/letitia-james-indict-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.6E8.UMPd.1PRnDujXoT27&smid=url-share


A grand jury in Norfolk, Va., declined on Thursday to re-indict Letitia James, New York’s attorney general, rejecting efforts to revive a criminal case that had been sought by President Trump, according to people familiar with the matter.
The unsuccessful attempt to revive the case against Ms. James does not necessarily end the administration’s efforts to put her on trial, even after a federal judge dismissed an earlier indictment last month in ruling that the prosecutor who brought the case was unlawfully appointed by Mr. Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi.
Nothing in the law prevents the Justice Department from trying a third time to indict her.

essentialsaltes said:

Not welcoming her back, to be sure​

Turning Point challenges Candace Owens to live debate on Charlie Kirk murder theories​

Officials at Turning Point USA invited MAGA influencer Candace Owens to participate in a live-streamed event debunking her conspiracy theories about the murder of the group's founder, Charlie Kirk.

Charlie Kirk Show producer Blake Neff read a lengthy statement on Wednesday after Owens accused Turning Point leadership of betrayingtheir former boss.

"Ever since Charlie's murder, Candace Owens has leveled a flood of allegations against people at Turning Point USA," Neff said.

Neff suggested Owens made the claims so she could "manipulate and string along an audience of people who don't realize they are being played."

"I would say we have suffered more harassment from these people than we have from antifa supporters who overtly celebrate Charlie's murder," he asserted. "What our friends have had to endure is not funny, and it's not insignificant. It is evil. I have seen it."

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Her latest conspiracy theory is that the French government has plotted with Israeli special forces to assassinate her.

Grand Jury Said to Decline to Re-Indict Letitia James

After a judge dismissed the Trump administration’s first attempt to indict the attorney general of New York State, a new grand jury effort failed, according to people familiar with the matter.



A grand jury in Norfolk, Va., declined on Thursday to re-indict Letitia James, New York’s attorney general, rejecting efforts to revive a criminal case that had been sought by President Trump, according to people familiar with the matter.

The unsuccessful attempt to revive the case against Ms. James does not necessarily end the administration’s efforts to put her on trial, even after a federal judge dismissed an earlier indictment last month in ruling that the prosecutor who brought the case was unlawfully appointed by Mr. Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi.

Nothing in the law prevents the Justice Department from trying a third time to indict her.