The Northern Lights have been and are being seen in the southern states Mississippi, Florida, etc...

Servus said:

That's really complicated and convoluted. Following and focusing on Jesus alone is a lot more straightforward.

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You missed the simple point. Mary always leads us to Jesus. It's like the Bible, we wouldn't say too much Bible, not enough Jesus. It's the same with the sacraments, through the sacraments we are brought closer to Jesus.

SabbathBlessings said:

You're free to give a biblical argument against how God said we should keep it

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if you want to put yourself under the yoke of the law, that's your business. But you can't just yoke yourself with a portion of it.

SabbathBlessings said:

Do you keep the Sabbath? (poll)

I am simply wondering what the answer to the poll question is. No hard feelings to Sabbath worshippers intended, I am simply curious. If you do keep the Sabbath, how do you observe it? How you do believe Christians should observe it?

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There will always be the camp who claims they do not need to keep the Sabbath who will criticize people who do. The Pharisees were doing this exact thing, telling God the Creator of everything He was not keeping the Sabbath correctly when they themselves weren't keeping it.

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You seem to not understand Jesus' reply to the Pharisees, because it was in direct opposition to the spirit of Sabbatarians who insist the Sabbath must be "kept". The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.

Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good. His love endures forever.
(Psalm 136:1)

11/9/25 am on 1 Sam 25
Peace is hard. Conflict. Divisiveness. Anxiety. Hard to keep. Internal.
Nabal doesn't show David hospitality or give David the sheep he wants & David takes an army to get them. Abigail pleads w/ David to turn back & he does.
Abigail shows humility & respect. She does not view herself as better then David, talk bad of him, or puff up her own experiences. She takes action & isn't afraid to avoid conflict & brokenness. Her testimony would've been considered less in that time. Keeping the peace avoids division, but making peace requires the possibility of division.
Rome had acquired peace by power, but Jesus says the peacemakers will be the children of God. The difference between the world's peace & Jesus's peace is the world's peace comes thru human power, & his is a work of God in us.

Interestingly ...........

We have Twelve disciples
We have Twelve tribes of Israel
We have Twelve hours in a day
We have Twelve months of the year
We have Twelve Jurors who sit on the jury
We have Twelve signs of the Zodiac
We have Twelve inches in a foot
We have Twelve that makes up a dozen
We have Twelve stations of the moon & the sun
We have Twelve ribs our bodies
We have Twelve men who have supposedly walked on the moon

Meaning of Numbers: The Number 12​

The English word "twelve" used for the number 12 is recorded 189 times in 165 King James Bible verses. It occurs 114 times in the Old Testament and has 75 occurrences in the New Testament. The word "twelfth" is found an additional 23 times in Scripture.

The number 12 is one of the foundations of Scripture. The meaning of 12 is that it symbolizes God's power and authority, as well as serving as a perfect governmental foundation. It can also symbolize completeness or the nation of Israel as a whole.

God specified that twelve unleavened cakes of bread be placed every week in the temple with frankincense next to each of the two piles that were to be made. The priests were commanded to change the bread every Sabbath day (Leviticus 24)

Kind of fun to grow and eat purple tomatoes .

Servus said:

Biden and his staff and DOJ had access. Just as much access as Trump and his staff and DOJ have.

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That does not answer my question. I did not ask about access but about procedure. Why do we need to keep pointing out over and over that Biden did not promise to release these files, Trump did? Since Biden did not promise to do so what other standard process would have them going through the files? If you don't have an answer to that question continuing to bring up Biden is nothing more then a red herring.

Servus said:

A fire to some, silly nonsense to others.

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I don't necessarily disagree. However, it is a trap of Trumps own manufacture. He rode the wave of fringe conspiracy and now it will continue to dog him until he addresses it.

I have issues with anxiety, and borderline panic attacks. One thing that I've found works for me extremely well is reciting the Jesus prayer, "Lord Jesus Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner." Most of the time when i do this, I get this sense that I am not alone and my anxiety disappears and is replaced with a sense of bold confidence. I sense the Spirit carrying me, and know that what He wills, He makes provisions for.

jonojim1337 said:

Use whatever you want, just bring some proof of your claim

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You can’t really prove a negative.

“A bow of the head is made when the three Divine Persons are named together and at the names of Jesus, of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and of the Saint in whose honor Mass is being celebrated.”



Well, not at my parish. There has never been education or formation on this. Maybe half a dozen people among 500 will bow.

How about yours?

BCP1928 said:

See what you have done? You have "othered" about half the country, basically declared them "off limits" for evangelizing. And they I suppose you will be disgruntled that Christianity has become a losing proposition.

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I definitely haven't "othered" about half the country, and if they're sane, they'll be empathetic once they realize that in times past, I too have voted Democrat. More than once. I even voted for Obama. ...................................................Once.

Maybe it's time for people to learn a different way to be Democrat? Maybe trade out their Critical Theory for a little bit'o Critical Realism?

Of course, it wouldn't hurt if Republicans could learn a different way to be Republican, too.

stevevw said:

You really need to take a step back and settle down lol.

I was making a joke about how easy it is to make up stuff by just typing the words onto the paper.

Notice how I copied exactly your words and just replaced two of them In fact I only had to change "nonsense" by replacing the 'non' with 'common' lol.

The point was that anyone can just say the words. If you make claims or objections about people without evidence. Then I can turn those claims and objections into falsehoods and claim the exact opposite without evidence. If this is the way you want to determine the truth.

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Do you know what Poe's law is? (You should it originated on this site.)

To use the vernacular form, no one here believes you are "a Poe".

Oompa Loompa said:

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https://www.seattletimes.com/business/kroger-to-close-2-more-seattle-area-fred-meyer-stores/

Target to close 2 stores in Seattle, citing theft that threatens workers, shoppers

Target will close nine stores in four states, saying that theft and organized retail crime have threatened the safety of its workers and customers.

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So is the the stores or the news companies that are exaggerating?

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A third former Jan. 6 defendant, Dan Wilson, also faced firearms charges unrelated to Jan. 6, and two weeks ago, the Justice Department rejected his claim that Trump’s clemency covered those charges. But on Thursday, his attorney urged a court to delay the start of his prison sentence, saying the Justice Department had agreed to “take another look” at his case.

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Trump pardons Jan. 6 rioter for gun offense and woman convicted of threatening to shoot FBI agents​

Wilson was pardoned for the gun charges, as for the woman...

After FBI contacted her in 2021 about a tip indicating she may have been at the Capitol on Jan. 6, she posted a video on social media citing her Second Amendment right to carry a gun and she threatened to shoot agents if they came to her house.

I guess threatening federal agents is okay this week.

Note to self: Never eat chili late Saturday night before Sunday morning church.

stevevw said:

Also when I read the words 'blood and soil' Hitler was the furthest from my mind in relation to American history of fighting for anti slavery and the principles of freedoms and democracy.

They certainly fought and spilt blood on their own soil and that soil produced one of the worlds greatest democracies which gave us freedoms.

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Okay, that is what the words "blood and soil" evoke in your mind. Something about the honor/sacrifice of those who gave their lives for America.

But that is not what "blood and soil" meant in Nazi ideology. Today we might say "genes and soil" -- that something about the German people was specifically connected to the land. And that the people were better because the land was better. And people who didn't have German blood didn't belong on the German soil. (and 'them' not being connected to the land, congregated in the cities, and filled them with moral turpitude.) Per wiki: a racially defined national body ("Blood") united with a settlement area ("Soil").

So now we ask ourselves how the author of the Harvard Salient used it. The full text isn't public (as far as I know), but what we know of it is that it does not seem to be about the battlefields of Saratoga or Gettysburg, but about Muslims not belonging in America.

Whereas Hitler said, “France to the French, England to the English, America to the Americans, and Germany to the Germans,” Army wrote, “Germany belongs to the Germans, France to the French, Britain to the British, America to the Americans.”

(This again is connecting a nation of people directly to a place.)

Army also called for the adoption of notions of “blood, soil, language, and love of one’s own” in response to concerns over large-scale migration of Muslims into Europe.

This is pretty clearly a very similar sentiment to the way the Nazis used the phrase -- to separate an us (our blood/genes, our soil, our language, our love of us) from some other, who doesn't belong.

Remember when you were 17, waking up on a summer morning, around 10 AM? The smell of the early morning air?

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Three Christian families in Pakistan have been liberated from bondage thanks to the ongoing efforts of an Argentine priest and young layman who recently returned to Spain from the Muslim-majority country.

Father Rico, a priest with the Order of St. Elias based in Argentina, told CNA that he paid Muslim Pakistani businessmen the equivalent of $1,700 to liberate three Christian families from debt bondage.

Men, women, and children have been subjected to generational hard labor making bricks to pay off debts, enduring rape, forced marriage, and forced conversion in Pakistan, especially since the 1980s, when relations between Christians and Muslims deteriorated.Christians have been attacked and murdered there following accusations that they have violated Muslim religious laws.

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BelieveItOarKnot said:

Didn't God say "I kill and I make ALIVE?"

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Yes, he can certainly do "both"

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