RileyG said:

So he’s only has authority in Constantinople if I understand correctly?

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No, his authority is limited to those areas under Constantinopolitan jurisdiction, which include all areas of Greece that free of Turkish subjugation after the initial revolution, including Thessaloniki, Crete, Mount Athos, Patmos, and most of the islands of the Aegean Sea, and also what is left of the church in Turkey, Constantinople and Asia Minor (except there are virtually no Greeks left there due to the forced population exchange; indeed even the last church in Bursa (historically known as Chalcedon) closed when the current Archbishop of North America was Metropolitan of Bursa, leaving just those churches in Constantinople, with most remaining ethnic Greeks in Turkey living in the Phanar district of Constantinople (a complaint is that Phanariot Greeks are over-represented in the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate vs. people from Greece, Athonite monks or people from autonomous churches under the omophorion of the EP, such as the Church of Finland, and the EP’s Estonian Church which was initially uncanonical, resulting in a rupture in EP-MP communion in 1996, but that issue, unlike the present issue in Ukraine, was resolved with the EP and MP agreeing to parallel jurisdictions.

rjs330 said:

Yeah I know you support people violating child labor laws.

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I don’t and I don’t know that any child labor laws were being broken but if they were then I hope the owner of the farm is prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Just the same for employing illegal employees but I doubt the former police officer who owns this massive weed farm would be subject to the same kind of treatment we’re seeing with the illegal workers that are being caught up in these raids.

rjs330 said:

All because illegals are involved.

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No actually it’s all because it’s happening here locally and it feels like an attack on us all from my perspective. I’m an American citizen but I’m also Hispanic which means as long as this occupation is underway, I live with a target on my back.

Fervent said:

No trope,

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Yeah that argument is a trope. The moment you decide to use race as an excuse you have left the realm of cogent argument into the realm of emotional victimization.

When it is said that people are coming illegally, and tge response is, "you just dint want brown people here," then one is no longer arguing whether or not people are violating the law, but instead one has no cogent answer, so one appeals to emotions. And its the worst kind of appeal because its a character assassination. Pushing people to defend themselves instead of defending the point.

So you accuse others of doing something you are doing yourself. Even though someone never even mentioned race, you do.

Immigration law has prohibitions on anyone. Not just brown people. We expect everyone to abide by the law. No one has a right to come here just because they want to. And one who comes here illegally has no right to stay. There are those who come with permission, who also may have those permissions removed.

Your trope is only based upon race. An emotional attack designated to create an emotional response. No substantive argument is used.

GoldenBoy89 said:

Nowhere does it say the kids there were being put to work.

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Okay, they were being trafficked. Cause we all know that its very typical for unaccompanied minors to be wandering around Marijuana farms. Happens all tge time right?

GoldenBoy89 said:

What do you mean unaccompanied? They were there with the people who work the farm who’ve now been abducted by ICE. Everyone was perfectly fine until these terrorists showed up.

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Yeah I know you support people violating child labor laws. All because illegals are involved.

ozso said:

How so?

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We had one guy, one, deported to a place he shouldn't have been deported to. One guy. And he was returned. So id like to know what illegals besides one guy who's rights were violated.

Florida lawmakers allowed into ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ say detainees packed into cages​

Two days after filing a lawsuit against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for being “unlawfully denied entry” to inspect conditions at the facility dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” members of Congress and state representatives were given a limited tour Saturday to inspect conditions after calling the lack of access a “deliberate obstruction meant to hide what’s really happening behind those gates,” according to a joint statement from lawmakers.

They said they heard detainees shouting for help and crying out “libertad”— Spanish for “freedom” — amid sweltering heat, bug infestations and meager meals.

“They are essentially packed into cages, wall-to-wall humans, 32 detainees per cage,” Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who represents Florida’s 25th Congressional District, said during a news conference following their tour.

Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost, who was also on the tour, said the lawmakers were concerned about reports of unhygienic conditions due to toilets not working and “feces being spread everywhere,” but were denied access from viewing units where migrants are currently detained.

The wife of a 43-year-old Guatemalan man currently detained at “Alligator Alcatraz” told CNN her husband is enduring harsh conditions similar to those described by lawmakers who toured the facility. After more than two weeks in detention, she said, he has yet to see a lawyer.

Douggg said:

keras, you are quoting from the 1989 REB bible....yes ? (I think you made a typo, chapter 21, not chapter 22)

The kjv says "escape" which is very different from "pass safely through".

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Thanks, I have corrected Luke 21.

The KJV and many other translations of Luke 21:36, all give the wrong impression - as though people will be removed from the terrible Day of the Lords wrath. This is impossible and proved wrong by the preceding verse: It will come upon everyone, the whole world over.

Douggg said:

Also in the kjv, it is "Watch'" as watching for the rapture to to take place.

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Again, an unsuitable translation, - Be on your guard... Luke 21:34 REBible. Is a far better rendering and a 'rapture removal', there or anywhere else, is never even hinted. Just a pure figment of a fertile imagination.

Ifs and buts.

If this is true, will the Trump-voting owner of the marijuana farm face charges?

Or are only the desperate people criminals?

Maria Billingsley said:

Concentration and Expansion of Executive Power:

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False accusation

GoldenBoy89 said:

That’s where you’re wrong and if you’d just talk to some of the people living here under this occupation you’d find they are terrorizing us. Of course, you’d first have to care what we think and feel about the situation. I get a strong feeling you don’t.

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Lol, your rhetoric is amazing. You are scaring yourself with that kind of talk.

A New Dawn said:

This is a lie if ever I heard one.

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And then you follow up my comment about what is happening right now in America with something more than 150 years old and repudiated by modern Democrats apart from those, like the late Strom Thurmond, who eventually found their home in the GOP 60 years ago as the political winds changed.

I mean, you're not the first, but this baloney is way past its sell-by date. And everyone with a brain knows it.

Look, it's the consequences of the actions of local government. Suck it up.

Strong in Him said:

It seems to be you who is posting ridiculous posters and expecting us to believe that they are true.

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Not ridiculous just funny, next they'll be sending a speed boat to zoom across the heavens

essentialsaltes said:

It is the MAGA crowd that want to erase or whitewash the shameful history of slavery, because it makes the modern descendants of people in these slave states have a sad.

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This is a lie if ever I heard one.

It was the Democrats who owned slaves.
It was the Democrats who fought against freeing the slaves.
It was the Democrats who put Jim Crow laws in place to try to undo their freeing.
It was the Democrats who started the KKK.

The Republican Party was started to free the slaves. Why would the Republican Party want to erase the history of the south and everything we can learn from it? What we want to erase is the fake made-up history that we built this country to be a slave nation the way the left wants to rewrite history.

Trump defends Bondi amid internal GOP tensions over Epstein probe​

Trump defended Bondi in a social media post Saturday as leadership at the Justice Department and the FBI face turmoil over its handling of the Epstein probe.

"We have a PERFECT Administration, THE TALK OF THE WORLD, and 'selfish people' are trying to hurt it, all over a guy who never dies, Jeffrey Epstein," Trump said, encouraging unity within the Republican party.

"One year ago our Country was DEAD, now it’s the 'HOTTEST' Country anywhere in the World. Let’s keep it that way, and not waste Time and Energy on Jeffrey Epstein, somebody that nobody cares about," Trump said.

Semper-Fi said:

"..and the fourth, who is set over the repentance unto hope of
those who inherit eternal life, is named Phanuel.’"

The Book of Enoch attests, Phanuel is the angel of repentance
unto hope of those who have inherited eternal life....?

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Personally i have no problem with that one.

Its an angel that provides conviction of sin and influences people to repent.. This is something that people not yet born again experience before they receive the Holy Spirit, before they begin to even pray to Jesus for salvation.

Christians like to presume everything is Jesus and or the Holy Spirit.

Anyhow, you are missing the point.

ozso said:

Not good enough. She should be put on the first rocket to Mars.

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Great, Poe or not, thanks for setting forth some next steps for enforcing adherence to political correctness.

The Liturgist said:

There are also churches under him which are not recognized as canonical by most Orthodox churches, for example in Estonia and Ukraine.

The current Greek Orthodox Archbishop of North America when Metropolitan of Bursa authored a paper that made the absurd claim that only the EP could grant or rescind autocephaly, the former is false (but its why the OCA’s autocephalous status remains unrecognized by the EP after 55 years) and the latter is completely false.

Fortunately the EP also contains Mount Athos and the monasteries established by the saintly Elder Ephraim of Arizona, who through their prayers will protect the Church of Constantinople and her faithful even if the Archbishop of North America is made the next Patriarch.

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Who decides which Churches are canonical or not? The bishops as a whole?

The Liturgist said:

No

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So he’s only has authority in Constantinople if I understand correctly?

ozso said:

The left has been on a blatant campaign to crush and erase southern American history and culture.

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It is the MAGA crowd that want to erase or whitewash the shameful history of slavery, because it makes the modern descendants of people in these slave states have a sad.

GodDoesListen55 said:

Please pray for my aunt and neighbor; thank you!

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My aunt passed away on June 15ᵗʰ; I truly appreciate all of your prayers.

keras said:

Luke 22:34-36 Be on your guard, do not let your minds be dulled by worldly cares, so that the great Day catches you by surprise, like a trap, for that Day will come upon everyone the whole world over. Be alert and pray for strength to pass safely through all that is coming and to be able to stand before Jesus. [At His Return, later.]

‘pass safely through’- Not ‘escape all these things’, as some translations have it and that leads to the false idea of the ‘rapture to heaven.’

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keras, you are quoting from the 1989 REB bible....yes ? (I think you made a typo, chapter 21, not chapter 22)

The kjv says "escape" which is very different from "pass safely through".

Luke 21:
34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.
36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

Also in the kjv, it is "Watch'" as watching for the rapture to to take place.

Gustaf, if you did read stories of famous people, then you'd realise that success does not happen without struggles. And perseverance is the key. Praying and learning are very important too. I'm sure you will succeed if you persevere in doing the right things.

johansen said:

read chapter 60 for example.

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There is many conflicks between the Book of Enoch, and the bible.
A big one is in chapter 40 of the Book of Enoch that states..

"..and the fourth, who is set over the repentance unto hope of
those who inherit eternal life, is named Phanuel.’"

The Book of Enoch attests, Phanuel is the angel of repentance
unto hope of those who have inherited eternal life....?

1st Timothy 2:5 "For there is one God, and one mediator between
God and men, the man Christ Jesus." Repentance is strictly between
a man and Jesus Christ alone. Only Jesus died for our sins, and shed
His blood to pay for them (1st Peter 1:18-19)

There is no Biblical record of a "Book of Enoch"
People 450-Feet Tall?

The main reason for Jewish rejection of the book is that it is inconsistent
with the teachings of the Torah. From the standpoint of Rabbinic Judaism,
the book is considered to be heretical.

Acts 7:38, Romans 3:2, Hebrews 5:12, 1 Peter 4:11