DHS confirms arrest of Afghan man in Texas after bomb threat video surfaces online
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"Who will rid me of this troublesome priest?" --Henry IIIt may even be true. My bet: the Secretary of Defense didn't actually say "if anyone survives, kill them." But when someone survived, someone had to interpret what ambiguous orders actually meant. It's not liikely that they'll be court-martialed, but I predict further promotions will be hard to get.
They really should have followed the Democrats' advice. Not "I refuse to follow this order," but "I don't think that's what the Secretary really meant."
Didn’t ask for wiggle room. I explained in my post that Matt 25 and Jude are about people and both are about eternal punishment. I don’t see what it is you are arguing. In fact you seem to be agreeing with me.indeed, instead of that we see verses all speaking of eternal fire and we take them all as dealing with the subject we are studying.
Instead of merely ignoring whatever does not suit our preference.
This is the easy part.
Jude is also dealing with that same feature of the those who are not saved.
LOST/wicked PERSONS:
4 For certain persons have crept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand marked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
5 Now I desire to remind you, though you know all things once for all, that the Lord, after saving a people out of the land of Egypt, subsequently destroyed those who did not believe. 6 And angels who did not keep their own domain, but abandoned their proper abode, He has kept in eternal bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day, 7 just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, since they in the same way as these indulged in gross immorality and went after strange flesh, are exhibited as an example in undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.
you really don't have much wiggle room there. The author makes the very connections that your preferences do not tolerate
Not in the language of 2 Peter.Looks like it is the same great day of judgment that Jude speaks of.
Impossible to miss.
But satan is not destroyed and turned to ashes instead is thrown into the same lake of fire as the beast, the false prophet, and the wicked to be tortured for ever (Rev. 20). So do you think that your interpretation of Ezekiel. 28 is correct given that you just put it in tension with Rev. 20? To put in tension is not a good thing.or the judgment of the great day, 7 just as Sodom and Gomorrah
Ezek 28 Satan destroyed and reduced to 'ashes on the Earth" as stated explicitly in Ezek 28.
You continue to interpret symbolic language literally. It seems that you just googled verses that contain the word “ashes” and are bundling them together to attempt to shore up your argument but all you are doing is mixing unrelated verses.The wicked destroyed as "ashes under your feet"
Mal 4:1 “For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace; and all the arrogant and every evildoer will be chaff; and the day that is coming will set them ablaze,” says the Lord of hosts, “so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.” 2 “But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings; and you will go forth and skip about like calves from the stall. 3 You will tread down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day which I am preparing,” says the Lord of hosts.
Nah. I think you are getting more confused as you go.You seem to be digging the whole deeper for your own argument
I don't know what you're getting at. I never said the thing in MN didn't happen or that it was okay if it did.Here's more information that you might want to consider.
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Treasury Secretary launches probe into Minnesota tax dollars allegedly funding Al-Shabaab terrorists
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent launched a federal probe into serious allegations that Minnesota tax dollars were diverted to terrorist group Al-Shabaab.www.foxnews.com
What area hasn't been ravaged by some form of Colonialism?
One could make a sound argument that Latin American countries, to a larger degree, and much more recently, have been impacted by that. Western interests were still meddling in their governments (in a big way, up to and including CIA backed coups) as recently as the 80's and 90's.
Why do we not see Catholic Theocracies down there enforcing Catholic law with the strictest possible interpretation, using the absolute harshest penalties known to man for minor infractions?
Can we at least agree on the fact that of the two texts, the tone and "hero" of the story in Christianity is a much more benevolent and "softer" type of person, whereas the "hero" of the story in Islam was something of a warlord with ambitions of conquest?
I never said "western".People have been trying to draw the link to "western colonialism" as some sort of destabilizing factor that allows fundamentalist Islam to take over in a region.
Allow me to bring up the following nations as a counterpoint:
Uzbekistan
Turkmenistan
Azerbaijan
Tajikistan
They were member states of the USSR (about the most "anti-West" "anti-Western Christian" entity that's existed in the last century -- they had state imposed atheism as a governing principle and their bedrock ideas were based on opposing "westernism" in efforts to create an equal society where "the bourgeoisie couldn't oppress the proletariat" and tearing down any oppression based on superficial characteristics)
What happened to the rights and treatment of women, gay people, and free thinkers in some of those countries after the Soviet Union dissolved and removed their influence from the area, and countries that were >75% Muslim were left to their own devices again to govern how they saw fit?
I disagree with the meaning you are defining conscious experiences as. I don't think its about creativity. Thats a different aspect and one that can be linked to processes we can define redlating to form. It may be associated with consciousness.Each individual exhibited a form of creativity but sorry to dash your hopes but creativity is not some ethereal quality which science cannot explain.
Still this is correlation and not accounting for the actual nature of conscious experiences. We can map out all the neural correlations of conscious experiences and know exactly what brain parts and wiring lights up. But none of this tells us anything about the nature of the experiences coming out of those firing mechanism. You cannot see the golden sunset in those brain activities. You have to ask the experiencer directly.Einstein's brain was removed under the flimsy excuse it was part of the autopsy procedure of the hospital but turned into a full blown scientific investigation of how his brain varied from a typical brain, particularly Einstein's superior visual spatial reasoning which defined his creativity.
All the above does is like mapping out the corelations of consciousness is tell us the technical data of what happens in the brain when we have a conscious experience. It tells us absolutely nothing about that experience or the knowledge that comes from it.
Brain Feature Typical Human Brain Einstein’s Brain Possible Cognitive Advantage Inferior Parietal Lobule (IPL) Normal size and folding; separated by a typical Sylvian fissure. Unusually large, highly folded, Sylvian fissure partly absent, giving more cortical area. Enhanced visual–spatial reasoning, mathematical intuition, and ability to mentally manipulate physical systems. Parietal–Frontal Integration Standard boundaries and separation between frontal and parietal regions. More integrated parietal and frontal regions observed in images. Improved ability to combine abstract ideas, form mental models, and think conceptually. Glial-to-Neuron Ratio (especially in Area 39) Average glial density; typical metabolic support. Higher glial density in some regions responsible for complex thought. Enhanced neural support for sustained reasoning, possibly enabling long periods of intense thought. Corpus Callosum Thickness Typical thickness and fiber density. Thicker in several regions, especially mid-body and isthmus. Better communication between hemispheres → integrative, cross-domain thinking. Overall Cortical Complexity Typical gyrification patterns. More complex folding in certain cognitive areas, especially parietal regions. Increased surface area for specialized processing → potentially greater cognitive capacity in specific domains. Frontal Lobes (DLPFC areas) Typical prefrontal organization. Some evidence of unusually connected frontal-parietal networks. Improved working memory, planning, and conceptual synthesis. Language Areas (Broca/Wernicke) Typical development. No major anomalies observed. Consistent with Einstein's own statements that he “thought in images, not words”—creativity rooted in visual reasoning rather than linguistic processing. Overall Brain Size ~1,350 g average adult male. ~1,230 g (slightly smaller than average). Shows that size is not related to intelligence; efficiency and structure matter more.
Thats silly. If I could tell you that then I would have cracked the Hard Problem of Consciousness and so far no one has come near to this.I want you to tell me the outcome of the ancient Egyptians transcendental ideas or experiences which according to you is manifested in the use of superior technology so where is it? I could just as easily state it is in the existing tools as confirmed by the archaeological evidence.
Methological naturalism deals with the naturalistic processes that are measurable through testing. That is matter, particles, chemicals, elements, forces and fields. So it is material or if you like physical in nature. Any non physical effect like consciousness is classed as an epiphenomena of the physical.Lets throw a spanner into the works on the subject of Methological Naturalism which you mistakenly refer to as material science.
Actually its now classed as science and not magic. But to the ancients this was like magic. For all we know it may well have been. If you consider that nature has a prenancy test available then it shows how much in nature are the solutions to almost anything. Thats like magic and especially to the ancients.The Kahun Medical papyrus from the Middle Kingdom shows the Egyptians had developed a pregnancy test where women would urinate on barley and emmer-wheat seeds over several days. If the seeds sprouted indicated the women where pregnant.
Modern scientific studies indicate the test is up to 80% accurate and caused by increased levels of estrogen in the urine of pregnant women.
This is an example of the science of cause and effect, the ancient Egyptians only had the experience of observation which is the effect, they were not aware of Methological Naturalism and attributed the cause to magic.
Yes I have been saying that for some time now. Science cannot tell us anything about the supernatural. Yet it is a reality and gives us knowledge that methological naturalism cannot tell us.It highlights the fact the role of the supernatural in science is useless particularly when it is not falsifiable.
Come on now, North. Are we really going to argue semantics here? Even democrats agree Pelosi is corrupt when it comes to insider trading.There was no scheme.
Here's more information that you might want to consider.I'm pretty sure I said I prefer this sort of fraud:
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Rick Scott - Wikipedia
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Why do you keep linking to different articles about the same story?
Yet even our terminology to describe the state of things to come is temporal terminology. And so is our thinking on the matter. But, it's ok. We really can't help ourselves. But it is good to keep a skeptical eye on our own conclusions. It is easier to say what such things are not, than to say what they are.If we consider the fact that God is outside of time, and He is not bound or governed by any laws of nature as His creation is. Then if we consider that God created time, at the same time that He created the heavens and the earth.
Genesis 1:1 says "In the beginning", this is when time began. And God has appointed an end to time itself as well.
I'm not suggesting that God had a begging, we know He is outside of time and He is not a part of anything He created, He is separate to His creation so He is nothing like we are.
The reason, those who are cast into hell will be tormented in fire for ever and ever, is because they continue to sin while they are being punished and that means they are heaping more coals of fire on their head.
They actually blaspheme the name of God while He punishes them, just like we hear unbelievers blaspheme the name of God when they burn themselves with a hot coffee or hit their thumb with a hammer, but the pain is much worse in hell so their blasphemy is much worse, and they never reach a time when they find the peace in their heart to repent.
It's actually impossible to find peace in your heart which would allow you to repent while you are in excruciating pain, so all they can do is scream out blasphemies against God, and that keeps their condemnation building up perpetually forevermore.
Time will cease to exist, when Christ returns to judge the world. All of mankind will step into eternity, and time won't exist anymore. Those who abide in the spiritual realm (the Angels) are already outside of time.
At the end of this age, Christ will return, the dead will be resurrected, the final judgment will occur, and the eternal state (new heaven and new earth) will begin immediately.
Matthew 24:35: Jesus states, "Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away".
2 Peter 3:10: This verse describes the "day of the Lord" when "the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed".
Revelation 21:1, 4: John's vision describes a definitive end to the current order: "Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away... He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away".