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Tropical Wilds · 2025-11-09T20:37:15-0600

Chesterton said:
Well, a man was arrested for kidnapping and rape in Chicago. That's certainly newsworthy.

Meanwhile, also in Chicago - 238 people were shot and killed at a Popeye's Chicken location within the span of five minutes. When pressed for answers as to how so many people could be killed at such a small restaurant in such a short period of time, Cook County homicide detectives replied "We're looking into it. They just keep getting more creative every day".

The Barbarian · 2025-11-09T20:37:10-0600

Postvieww said:
Example 1: Calvary Chapel San Jose (San José, CA)

As you see, the church was in a lawsuit over county requirements. Neither Newsom nor the State of California were involved.

Multifavs · 2025-11-09T20:36:44-0600

I'm having fun drawing the frames for my first animation in SAI! ^_^

Maybe I should stream while I work on more frames soon!

Tropical Wilds · 2025-11-09T20:32:45-0600

Chesterton said:
For the First Time in 35 Years, No Rap Songs Appear in Billboard’s Hot 100 Top 40

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I’m not sure why rap songs appearing in the top 40 equals a “national nightmare,” but ok.

Oh wait. Yes I do.

RandyPNW · 2025-11-09T20:30:51-0600

Guojing said:
So, when you claim that "The very thing described in Matthew and Mark as the AoD Luke identifies as the Roman Army of Jesus' time", it is actually your own interpretation and not what Luke identified.

There is nothing in Luke that linked the Olivet Discourse to the Roman Army.

Oh my goodness, brother--READ IT! Mind you, I've quoted it innumerable periods of times. I will do it again and underline the point....

Luke 21.5 Some of his disciples were remarking about how the temple was adorned with beautiful stones and with gifts dedicated to God. But Jesus said, 6 “As for what you see here, the time will come when not one stone will be left on another; every one of them will be thrown down.”
7 “Teacher,” they asked, “when will these things happen? And what will be the sign that they are about to take place?”...
20 “When you see Jerusalem being surrounded by armies, you will know that its desolation is near. 21 Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, let those in the city get out, and let those in the country not enter the city. 22 For this is the time of punishment in fulfillment of all that has been written. 23 How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers! There will be great distress in the land and wrath against this people. 24 They will fall by the sword and will be taken as prisoners to all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled on by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled."...
32 “Truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened.

There are 3 perfectly clear things said here, though anybody can argue anything until they're blue in the face.
1) Jesus said the Temple would be destroyed.
2) Jesus said the Temple would be destroyed in his generation.
3) Jesus said Jerusalem would be surrounded by armies, preceding its destruction.

We *know* that the Roman Army surrounded Jerusalem in Jesus' generation and proceeded to destroy it and the Temple. So yes, Luke is explicitly indicating that the armies of their own generation would destroy Jerusalem and the Temple. That positively describes the Roman Army.

If you're just arguing that Luke doesn't use the word "Roman" I think you're being "difficult." Luke wouldn't want to write "Roman" in the presence of Roman overseers who would jail him for insubordination or even sedition.

2nd, it is obvious from Daniel that this was the 4th and last enemy of Israel in the series of 4 kingdoms, Dan 2 and 7. That would be Rome.

Finally, Daniel indicated that the people (army) of the ruler to come, ie Rome would destroy the "city and the sanctuary." Again, that has to be Rome, and Luke surely knew this! The same ruler who would preside over the cutting off of Messiah, fulfilling the promised redemption, would also preside over the destruction of the city and the sanctuary.

Obviously, Rome had Jesus put to death. And it would be Rome who destroys Jerusalem and the Temple in his generation.

Luke 19.43 The days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment against you and encircle you and hem you in on every side. 44 They will dash you to the ground, you and the children within your walls. They will not leave one stone on another, because you did not recognize the time of God’s coming to you.”

Who was Israel's "enemies?" Obviously, it was Rome.

kuwn · 2025-11-09T20:29:48-0600

concretecamper said:
The fruits of Sola Scriptura with no authoritative teaching.

Not sure what you mean by this last sentence. Perhaps you could explain what it means.

FaithT · 2025-11-09T20:27:57-0600

Michie said:
Sure! They are ok to have. As I said, God’s creation. You admire them because they are apart of that. God knows your heart. Those stones have no supernatural or demonic power. You can collect them simply because you enjoy them. I have stones with spikes too, it’s just the way they develop.

Completely understandable. You were grasping at straws out of desperation. But you know that these things have no power. If you enjoy the Lord’s creation simply for its beauty, its just that. Nothing more. Enjoy what the Lord has made and rejoice in it! Thank Him for it.

Ok, thanks. Sometimes I fear that some New Agey power is what’s drawing me to them because everytime I see one I’m like “oooooooooh look! Aren‘t they pretty” Especially when the light makes them sparkle.

sjastro · 2025-11-09T20:26:07-0600

stevevw said:
OK lets take the claim you made about the strirations on the granite box in the Kings chamber. You presented evidence that shows a giant copper saw was used to cut the box. The signatures or witness marks are the strirations that resemble a copper saw with sand/quartz abrasion.

I addressed this evidence by saying that this does not prove that machining was not used. That more than one method was used. You seem to think that this one piece of evidence you present somehow makes all the witness marks that look completely different to your example and more like machining.

If we are going to be fair and use logic and reasoning and a consistent standard for evidence then surely we have to also include all the signatures and not just your one to determine what method was used.

Is this not fair epistemically. That we apply the same logic of looking at signatures as to what caused them and not just your one example.

You seem to think your example represents all the signatures from saw cuts in Egypt.

Therefore if I show you images of other signatures that contradict your claim. Is this not fair evidence that you need to address. Even from the same box you are using.

What is so patently ridiculous about your post none of your images even comes remotely close to representing a machined surface.
This is what granite looks like when it is cut with a circular saw using a very fine diamond grit leaving barely discernible striations and a fairly smooth surface.

By comparison you submitted this as an example of a circular saw cut; instead it is a signature of abrasion done by hand using a rubbing stone and slurry as the striations are of variable depth and width due to different grit sizes in the slurry while the gap between the striations varies as the abrasive in the slurry is mobile.

Along with Khufu’s unfinished sarcophagus I can provide over two million more examples that blocks were not cut with circulars saws namely the limestone blocks used for the core of the Great Pyramid.

If you think these were done with circular saws then you need to explain their irregular shapes and extreme roughness.
As limestone is soft the builders used sandstone pounders which have been found at Giza instead of dolomite pounders.
Since the limestone blocks were covered there was no need to dress and smooth them like the surrounding casing stones found at the base of the pyramid which were pounded into shape and smoothed by hand abrasion.

contratodo · 2025-11-09T20:18:40-0600

prodromos said:
Your diagram fails because at that time of year the entirety of Antarctica can see the sun for 24Hrs

There is no way to prove that, people don't live but on the very edge of Antarctica. The easiest point to reach is off the southern parts of south America. The video is from the coastal area of Antarctica, there is even a guy with short sleeves on in one of the videos, Antarctica is vast. Those who tried to circle it in the 1800s logged something like 60000 miles give or take, because it is an ice wall, not a continent.

keras · 2025-11-09T20:16:45-0600

@Douggg
Please address the OP and #14, or go elsewhere..

Your attempts to support your beliefs, fail miserably.
1/ The Jews represent only the tribes of Judah and Benjamin. Some from other tribes have joined Judah and become Jews too.
2/ Isaiah 66:12 proves you wrong.
3/ Consistently wrong, -as Ezekiel 37:19-27, remains unfulfilled.

Yarddog · 2025-11-09T20:16:24-0600

Servus said:
Sure, all that footage of them smashing, burning and assaulting is all fake.

They protest fascism and sometimes the protests become violent and both sides are to blame.

Hentenza · 2025-11-09T20:03:55-0600

HARK! said:
I provided the evidence which you have failed to refute with evidence.

I’ve refuted every bit of it.

HARK! said:
Simply denying it without any evidence for a refutation is not how logical arguments work.

I have provided plenty of evidence. So I guess that means that you are not going to reply to any of my posts that I spend time replying to this morning? Like posts 320, 321, 324, 327, and 328?

Akita Suggagaki · 2025-11-09T20:03:19-0600

Google Search

The Barbarian · 2025-11-09T20:01:11-0600

The Liturgist said:
The trick is to not use AI to think for us, but to think with us, symbiotically, as a tool and force multiplier, not a substitute.

My issue is that when I do a Google search, the AI part often pops up with claims that are completely wrong. Now, I realize that can happen with things humans toss up, too. But if I have to fact check everything AI tells me, what good is it?

BPPLEE · 2025-11-09T19:59:52-0600

RDKirk said:
"...the monster who will come for us all soon enough." -- Mon Mothma

I sincerely hope that someone will come along in 2028 that will focus on the issues and solutions to them, who will not divide the country, and not hate or be hated.
We need a uniter.
We don't need more of the same

contratodo · 2025-11-09T19:58:00-0600

Mark of the beast = literal mark on forehead or hand used primarily for buying and selling.

Most likely advanced technology, most likely a symbol that many hold dear now, I refrain from writing specifically about it for that reason. (Amos 5:26) So called Jesus will convince many that he has arrived with his angels to seal many with the seal of God in their forehead. "Your supposed to put it on your head and not on your hand, that is why it is not the mark of the beast " is what many will likely say.

Image of the beast = a hologram of a man speaking, a man seemingly healed from death Rev 13:3, talking blaspheme about what is outside of the sky Rev 13:6. Projected hologram technology, coming up from even phones. A.i. inside of the phones will keep track of who watches and who does not, and will be able to send out a signal to kill those who don't. Most live their lives around/with the device already today. The technology that would allow for such an interactive signal to be sent out is in place as of today, the a.i. is being trained today, the hologram technology is being perfected today.

Abomination of desolation = a special quantum computer put in a newly built temple, one connects to it via the mark, the computer will actually store and monitor consciousness, and be able to transfer it into hosts, one would be able to be conscious inside of the computer without a body, or even transfer into a robot body, causing literal desolation as humanity connects to it and lives in it. It is the devil's offer of seeming eternal life, most will go along with it, those who don't will be killed. The second resurrection serves to also resurrect souls out of the abomination. (No we're not in it now, there would be no touch, and it would likely be first presented as that you can go to 'heaven' and back, after half the time he comes out and admits he's the devil hoping people will simply accept his offer, believing the lie that they will not die)

Akita Suggagaki · 2025-11-09T19:56:15-0600

I had to explore if there was a link: Google Search

RDKirk · 2025-11-09T19:51:23-0600

Jipsah said:
I still have my copy of "88 Reasons Why the Rapture Will Be in 1988", And it's only been 25 years since I was hooted at on a local TV show for saying that the ghastly warning of the world-ending effects to be expected of the "Y2K Bug" were rubbish. The very popular "Mayan Calendar EOTW came and went, the Harold Camping drop dead date saw nothing happen, 12-12-12 and the Blood Moon Tetrads proved to be non-events, and so far we'ce even survived the 2nd election of Donald Trump. Fact is, End Times prognostications (and there thousands of them) all have one thing in common: of the ones who predicted a date prior to 9-11-2025 ), 100% of them have been wrong. I think I see a pattern developing there.

Kinda sounds to me like the best policy for Christians is not to worry a lot about when our Lord is going to return. He will, when it's His good pleasure to do so. But one thing we know is going to happen, and that much soner than most would like to contemplare, we're inevitable, inescapably, unarguably, going to die. That's the certainty we'd best be prepared for . And if we're ready to die, then we'll also be ready for our Lord's return as well. Pretty much a no-brainer, don'tcha think?

We've got three parables to work with, kind of "Goldilocks" tale.

One is the parable of the unwise bridesmaids. They presumed the groom would arrive quickly, so they were unprepared when he arrived late.

The other is the unwise steward. He presumed the master would arrive late, so he was unprepared when the master arrived early.

The third is the wise steward. He didn't presume anything about the master's arrival. He simply attended to the master's business in a timely manner every day, so when the master did arrive, the steward was caught in the midst of doing what he was supposed to be doing.

JPPT1974 · 2025-11-09T19:50:28-0600

JPPT1974's Thurs Thoughts 11/13/2025:
We all enjoy seasons that
Are like Autumn or fall and
Spring, summer, and/or winter
As that we will like one season
Dislike the other but that there
Are seasons besides the change of the
Weather that we will feel like when our
Lives are in a unbearable predicament.

SabbathBlessings · 2025-11-09T19:37:57-0600

Carl Emerson said:
I have been careful not to say that.

But obeying Laws is not enough - Jesus said that to the rich young ruler.

Give to the poor and follow me was the requirement.

But you continue to put the cart before the horse - you don't speak of the essential component in obedience which is to follow Jesus. All you can present is following Law - not following Jesus - that is a serious error.

The rich young ruler went away sad, because while he was obeying the commandments to love our neighbor, he neglected the commandments to love God and placed his great riches over following God, breaking the very first commandment. Exo20:3. No where in this teaching did Jesus say obeying the commandments was not enough or not what he should be doing. He said the opposite if we want to enter into life, keep the commandments and started quoting from the Ten Commandments. Mat 19:17-19

Jesus followed and obeyed the commandments, John15:10 so you keep saying we should follow the Lord , but in doing that one would be keeping the commandments and obeying what the Lord asks of us.

Did Jesus put the cart before the horse by asking IF you love Me, keep My commandments and then He will give us the Helper? When one has a harden heart to the law of God, He has nowhere to place His Spirit enabling the believer to keep what He placed in the heart, what God wrote in the heart, His laws, right where sin begins. God will never force Himself on us, we have to let Him in and cooperate with Him. So no, our decision to obey God because we love Him comes first before the Spirit abides in us.

Why these are all conditional….

1 John3: 24 Now he who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. And by this we know that He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us.

John 15:10 If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.
1 John2:6 He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked.

John 14: 15 “If you love Me, keep My commandments. 16 And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another [e]Helper, that He may abide with you forever— 17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you. 18 I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you.

Acts 5:32 And we are His witnesses to these things, and so also is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey Him.”

You keep arguing from your own perspective and ideas, I think we need to get back to what the Bible says, the Bible is clear on this matter.

Guojing · 2025-11-09T19:30:01-0600

fli said:
I am begotten by God. I did not do any work to be saved.

That means you believe salvation/eternal life, is by faith alone, without works.

fli said:
Then I replied to BelieveItOarKnot of his comment that Jesus will reward those who give a cup of water to His brethren. The reward for blessing Jesus' brethren is the Matthew 25 judgment which corresponds to the Revelation white throne judgment. That judgment is for those who have blessed Jesus' brethren. None of us who are born of, adopted by, God will be judged at the white throne. Those of us who are born of God will live in heaven and have spiritual bodies. Those who enter eternal life from the white throne judgment will live on the new earth, not be allowed entry into heaven and still be flesh and blood. Yes, their work of blessing Jesus' brethren earned them a place on the new earth.

So to you, what differentiate your salvation from those who face the white throne judgement?

How come you could eternal life without works, but they had to bless Jesus's brethren to enter eternal life?

DragonFox91 · 2025-11-09T19:26:21-0600

I think Habakkuk is one of the few books I haven't read.

It's interesting to me how the prophets were picked to be Scriuptual when the prophets were often in the minority. What would lead the mob to pick them as canon?

Guojing · 2025-11-09T19:26:12-0600

rachelrising said:
Christ asks us to keep his Commandments and to believe in him and to also nurture our first passions for the faith in Revelations 2 for me I would say try and do the will of God in my life. Works can vary on capability of what you can do there was the lady with the two coins and the lazy servant. They will decide alone and we can do our best to follow them and what they say.

Alright, glad you clarified.

rjs330 · 2025-11-09T19:25:56-0600

FAITH-IN-HIM said:
American people from important issues by focusing on Mandami the socialist, they may find themselves surprised after the November elections. next year

I agree. If Congress doesn't get back to work and start focusing on bringing costs down they will lose out. Its typical though for the party in power to lose the mid terms. So even if they do lose the house it honestly should be expected.

But they need to show some progress if they want to at least minimize the losses. The media and democrats are going to hammer on tge fact that there is inflation even thougj its better than the Biden years. T h e Republicans have been able to do anything to bring costs down except for gas prices.

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