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.

I can get into the nitty gritty if you want to (and if you are interested) but I've done extensive research into Timothy and others about this topic because it bothered me so much. And what I found is that a TON of people are misunderstanding Paul. He didn't mean literally you would be saved during childbearing, and he doesn't mean women can't be leaders either. The ONLY instance where men are over women is in relationships and that had to do with one of our curses thanks to sin. In heaven, I believe that is done away with as Christ will resume as the only leader over us and we will be equal in all ways once again.

But God has requirements for someone to be a leader and most men don't meet those requirements or lead how God wants them to.

sjastro said:

The nonsense of a disk of Po-210 used to soften granite which @Hans Blaster has shown not to be feasible in large quantities but for the purpose of this exercise lets assume ancient Egypt's alien overlords used a time machine to bring back Russian scientists involved in developing novel methods of political assassinations to produce Po-210 in large quantities.

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I was looking backward for something else you posted and this reminded me of my favorite fictional exploration of this theme:

• Fry: Incredible. This place is just like the Ancient Egypt of my day.
  High Priest: That is no coincidence. For our people visited your Egypt thousands of years ago.
  Fry: I knew it! Insane theories, one; regular theories, a billion.
  High Priest: We learned many things from the mighty Egyptians, such as pyramid-building, space travel and how to prepare our dead so as to scare Abbott and Costello.
  

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).

GloryToHisName said:

The word uses the word week twice.
### Hebrew–English Alignment (Daniel 9:27)

| Hebrew | Transliteration | Literal English |
|---------|------------------|-----------------|
| שָׁבוּעַ | *shavua* | week |
| חֲצִי | *ḥătsî* | half |
| אֶחָד | *eḥad* | one |
| שָׁבוּעַ | *shavua* | week |

**Literal reading:** “week – half – one – week”
**Interpretive sense:** “a week and a half of one week”

This alignment keeps the Hebrew order while allowing it to read naturally in English.
It reveals that Daniel is describing a span of *one week plus half of another*, not merely the midpoint of a single week — a structure mirrored in Daniel 12:7’s phrase *“time, times, and half.”*

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you're interpreting this incorrectly, as I sated. You're ignoring grammar rules also, noun + subject. Every single translation also says in the middle of, or in the midst, and you are the only one who says other wise.

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The core word is חֲצִי (ḥăṣî), meaning "half" or "middle."

• When used in a phrase like this, it is followed by the definite article הַ (ha-) attached to the noun it modifies, which is שָּׁבוּעַ (šāḇûa‘, "week").
• The literal construction is וַחֲצִי הַשָּׁבוּעַ (wa-ḥăṣî ha-ššāḇûa‘), which literally translates to:
  • וַ (wa): and
  • חֲצִי (ḥăṣî): half (of)
  • הַשָּׁבוּעַ (ha-ššāḇûa‘): the week
  • Translation: "and the half of the week" (or "and half of the week").

In this specific context of time periods, the construction "and half of the week" is a way of expressing an action that occurs at the midpoint of that entire week.

• If the text meant a duration of 1.5 weeks (i.e., "for a week and a half"), the phrasing would be different, likely a construction that emphasizes the combined duration.
• Instead, the phrase focuses on the timing of the covenant's cessation: it will be made firm for one week (שָׁב֣וּעַ אֶחָ֑ד), and then, at the halfway point of that week (וַחֲצִ֨י הַשָּׁב֜וּעַ), the sacrifices will stop.

Your proposed translation, "a week and a half of one," does not reflect the syntax of the Hebrew:

• "a week": The first part is שָׁב֣וּעַ אֶחָ֑ד ("one week").
• "and a half": This is וַחֲצִי. This part is correct.
• "of one": The Hebrew reads הַשָּׁב֜וּעַ (haššāḇûa‘), which is "the week" (with the definite article ha), not "of one" or "of it." The presence of "the week" explicitly links the half back to the specific, aforementioned "one week."

So essentially, it's "but in the middle of the week..." or "...for one week, and the half of the week..." because the grammar emphasizes the midpoint of the single, pre-established "one week" as the timing for the cessation of the sacrifice and offering. So it's the timing of the event of t he sacrifice (3.5 years) into the final week, not the total duration if it was 10.5 years.

Fantine said:

Could it be the Dobbs decision and opposition to birth control?

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Unless killing the child in the womb has been now considered birth control.

There is no opposition.

Aryeh Jay said:

Another job stolen from a law abiding citizen.

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If you notice the charge they got him for, it wasn't for running for (or holding) office, it was for voting for himself in the mayoral election.

While I can't find great information on the matter on Kansas laws for various cities, from what I am seeing, there technically is the possibility for cities that have robust "home rule" provisions to elect non-citizens to various public offices provided they have "legal resident" status.

You'd think if a person was going to live here for that long (30 years), and was willing to put in the effort to run for elected office (and win) twice, they would've found the time to fill out some paperwork and take a citizenship test.

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Good point!

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It is not repetition that is condemned rather than “vain repetition” Jesus even gives us the hint that God knows what we need before we ask Him.
If we keep repeating a request over and over again and act like God can’t hear us unless we repeat the request or think the greater member of times repeated gives a greater reward. That’s vain

The Rosary has repetitions not so God can hear us, but rather recondition our mind and bodies to hear from God. They are spiritual exercises, and we need exercise because the spirit is willing but our flesh is weak. The repetition focuses our minds to meditate on the works of God and off of our fleshly desires. That is proper use of repetition in prayer. Don’t just mouth the words but actually think about what you are saying and keep doning it until your mind is properly aligned with your mouth. That kind of concentration takes practice which is why we repeat and practice it often