ChubbyCherub said:

Thank you! This makes sense then that Corinth wasn't the only place where this was happening. Having read the bible, I don't see mention of women acting in a particular way but I know my church teaches that they were?

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You're right, we won't see much in the way of explicit mention by Paul of what exactly the 'problem' was with some group of women in the Church of either Corinth or Ephesus. But this is where Hermeneutics, Historiography, Cultural History and Exegesis come into play, prompting us to ask questions about the many contexts that enfold any every single letter and book that is in the bible.

ChubbyCherub said:

Am I missing the verses where it is shown that women of this time were usurping men or is it just taken for granted that we all know the history of that time or, when mentioned in church, it's a 'trust me bro' moment?

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Nope, you're not missing verses, but we shouldn't expect there to be verses for every context that was circumstantially addressed by the writers of those letters, and in this case, of course, we're looking at St. Paul's writing. A number of contexts come by way of justified inference since, as you know, no human writing is ever done in a vacuum.

I never, ever tell others to simply "trust me," and I always have academic supporting material on hand for my viewpoints and interpretive praxis.

ChubbyCherub said:

I am eager to learn but would like true source material to study so thank you very much for your assistance!

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What do you consider to be "true source material," sister CC??

stevevw said:

First we don't have copper saws from the time. We have small carpentry saws that cut wood as far as I know. We have reliefs showing these small 40cm saws cutting wood. But we have absolutely nothing showing cutting of blocks.

Second why do you completely ignore the point about the signatures that cut around bends and move up and down with the contours of surfaces or cuts and leave an arc. Which is impossible for a hand held straight edge copper saw.

This immediately stops the idea of a hand held copper saw from even being considered.

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You were corrected on this 10 days ago with a 3rd dynasty saw part. That's the dynasty before the pyramid builders.

Always in His Presence said:

psst... Westchester County is NOT part of NYC,

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I’m aware.

Always in His Presence said:

but where people are moving to - right?

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Allegedly. Your point being?

redraven said:

Trumps comments suggest otherwise.

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Nope.

@GloryToHisName

Here is a chart of the Ezekiel 39 framework, I made.

Thanks all, so much, for your input here!

Things have evolved, insomuch that I have spoken to the elders about how I feel about their sermons etc, and I have given this many months of prayer.

I believe God is working through me, via this church, and so will stay for now.

I am still looking to visit local churches, only because this one is kinda far from me and I think it's important to support local churches and the community, but I don't want to leave until I feel God has instructed me to do so.

God bless you all!

Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.

Personally, I'm a very open book and have no fear of judgment because I know that we are all sinners and I do not judge others for their sin but try to instruct them in the ways of Christ.

That being said, I am reading that many are embarrassed or ashamed so this once popular action is not very popular, anymore?

I'm not sure it was ever popular in Protestant churches but I haven't lived since the beginning of when they were formed so am not an authority on this point.

Furthermore, is this why Catholics confess to priests?

Thanks, as always, for helping me! I know I always have lots of questions but you all are very good to me with your assistance.

God bless.

Race matters only to humans.

sit shiva

Apple Sky said:

Yes one can. Impossible for many reasons outlined in the following video.

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Back to the anti-christian Eric "the idiot" Dubay.

seeking.IAM said:

My son who hires for one of the biggest tech companies laments that American candidates often just aren't the best in the applicant pool. Should American companies settle for less than the best just because they are American? Is that the way for your company to race to the top?

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While that may be true for you son's company, there's no shortage of companies (that are non-tech, but have an IT department) who have HR staff who are so technically illiterate that they wouldn't spot even the most glaring red flags during interview processes.


This is a true story...

An applicant applied with my company ("my" as in the company I work for, I don't own it), and as I noted in my previous post, the 2nd interview always involves a Sr. tech person to sniff out any excrement.

There was a guy from India who applied with us and did a virtual interview, and no joke...in the interview stated he was an expert in "hatchtemel"...what's "hatchtemel" you ask? That was him phonetically pronouncing "HTML" despite having no clue what it was upon further probing lol...and his code sample that we ask everyone to submit was an "easy to find online" template that he downloaded off the web, and attached the zip file to application.

According to his LinkedIn, he ended up being a "technical coordinator" for a graphic design firm in the greater St. Louis area a month later and then "#OpenToWork" a few weeks after that. So not every company is checking this stuff until it's probably too late lol.

Michie said:

The parents are not teaching them either.

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Yup! You’re spot on!

Michie said:

Yeah that saying drives me nuts. People do not morph into angels…ever.

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Amen! Unfortunately, some people don’t have much theological or biblical education. It’s really not their fault, I guess?

calicocat said:

If doesn't appear in medieval literature before AD1300 and the French medievalist Jacques Le Goff believed it was invented then to compete with the pagan cults.

I used to be really into classic literature (which I can't recommend because some of it's kind of dark.)

Purgatory in the older medieval literature isn't RARE.
It's non-existent.

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Incorrect. It was mentioned by St. Augustine.

Hans Blaster said:

It didn't get rid of it. It was temporarily overridden to do a single mid-decade redistricting with a map that was already published and passed in the legislature. The commission will operate in 2031 like normal.

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Ah, thanks for clarifying that for me.

Hans Blaster said:

Those maps *are* the legal maps now. As for the new district 48, it's not as spread out as much as you imply in Riverside County. If anything the extension into NE San Diego county seems more problematic. It does look like Palm Springs is separated from the rest of its valley, but the whole region (the rest of the district) is a jumble of places in isolated valleys that don't indicate how they are are connected by common interests.

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It's not as jumbled as it looks on the map, outside of Palm Springs. Most of the populations are similarly composed socio-economically and in other demographic fashion. The NE San Diego county extension is a problem, but it's more defensible because there are a lot of common interests between the constituencies. Palm Springs is literally only in there to silence those populations, with no other reason for inclusion.

Hans Blaster said:

If you want partisan gerrymadering done away with, I am with you. I've lived here for 20 years and my Representative (and most major candidates of both parties) have been from 2 hours away (in a city I only visited once, before I even moved here) when there is a larger city 30 minutes away. It needs to be nationwide and enforceable (John Roberts proof). There is no reason the Democrats should proclaim "no gerrymandering" in their states on principle while the "red states" gerrymander democrats into non-existence with districts that make the new Cali districts look rational.

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I'm all for judicial review of partisan redistricting, but it's a bad look to go "they're doing it, so it's ok for us." Even school children know that 2 wrongs don't make a right, and the job of Newsom is not to represent the Democrat party on the federal stage but to represent CA voters. Putting party success before fair and honest representation of voters in his state smacks of a lack of integrity, but that's not unexpected for politicians in general.

Hans Blaster said:

Then be gone from here. I've got no use for the denigration of democracy.

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Republics will always be far superior to democracies, which are nothing but mob rule.

friend of said:

Link?

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Pommer said:

Nyet. A pardon would allow her to testify (before any investigative body that had the authority to do so) without her being able to claim Fifth Amendment protections. The East Wing Ballroom builder won’t want that.

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...you give him too much credit. In the wee hours of the night when Trump is pacing the White House balcony...and needs a distraction, he might let a pardon fly on Truthsocial...

But they had the budget for Octoberfest I bet

To be honest, I'm a bit cynical about the claims of "revival" which seem to be coming out of some parts of the US.

It may be true church attendances are up, and more Bibles are being sold, but I think it's a long way short of a revival.

Hopefully it will become a "revival", but I've been Christian long enough to have heard similar claims before and they have all fizzled out.

Valletta said:

The Democrats had previously talked about the suffering a shutdown would cause but went ahead full steam. The administration stated that since Congress had not authorized the funds they could not be required to use the contingency funds. Trump has said full benefits would be paid once enough Democrats voted to stop the shutdown. Activist judges interceded and order that the contingency funds must be used to pay full SNAP benefits, Justice Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, a Biden nominee, temporarily blocked the lower court ruling.

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Every President, including Trump in his first term, authorized the payment of SNAP contigency benefits during a government shut down. No authorization from Congress was needed (but you knew that didn't you).

Just about finished with Absolution by Jeff Vander Meer. I plan on reading several sci fi books by Stanislaw Lem. The books are Fiasco, Solaris, and The Invincible. Lem was Polish but he was born in Lviv, Ukraine (USSR) in 1921. He passed away in 2006. The books I plan to read take a philosophical look at potential "first contact" of Humans and aliens and how we likely won't even be able to relate to an alien intelligence and they likely will find us as incomprehensible. Lem's story, His Master's Voice, tells how scientists try to comprehend what they think is a message from an intelligent alien civilization and they fail to do so. I find I tend agree with Stanislaw Lem on the concepts of Humans dealing intelligent aliens (if they even exist). Although I enjoyed Cixin Liu's trilogy Remembrance of Earth's Past (AKA Three Body Problem) I am not completely convinced of the Dark Forest answer to the Fermi Paradox. I also do not agree with the more positive views of first contact Carl Sagan wrote about in his book Contact or Ted Chiang's Story of Your Life (film title Arrival).

Just about finished with Absolution by Jeff Vander Meer. I plan on reading several sci fi books by Stanislaw Lem. The books are Fiasco, Solaris, and The Invincible. Lem was Polish but he was born in Lviv, Ukraine (USSR) in 1921. He passed away in 2006. The books I plan to read take a philosophical look at potential "first contact" of Humans and aliens and how we likely won't even be able to relate to an alien intelligence and they likely will find us as incomprehensible. Lem's story, His Master's Voice, tells how scientists try to comprehend what they think is a message from an intelligent alien civilization and they fail to do so. I find I tend agree with Stanislaw Lem on the concepts of Humans dealing intelligent aliens (if they even exist). Although I enjoyed Cixin Liu's trilogy Remembrance of Earth's Past (AKA Three Body Problem) I am not completely convinced of the Dark Forest answer to the Fermi Paradox. I also do not agree with the more positive views of first contact Carl Sagan wrote about in his book Contact or Ted Chiang's Story of Your Life (film title Arrival).