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the myth of flat earth debunked again

I absolutely agree with you 100 percent, I couldn't have put it better myself, good work :thumbsup:
I've requested that my account be deleted. If you found these links and videos etc useful, you may want to save them to pass along after I'm gone. I don't know if they will be available later.

I came here for fellowship, as I'm single and live alone and don't know any believers or have a good church at this time.

This is one of the most unwelcoming, unkind, unloving and judgmental environments I have ever experienced. And not just this particular thread.

There are some wonderful, sincere and genuinely humble and loving Christians here, I just haven't met enough of them to justify my stay.

Thanks for the kind words.

Much love. Much peace.

Yah alone be praised.
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Ambassador Mike Huckabee Invited Spy Who Sold American Secrets to Israel into the US Embassy for a Secret Meeting

Trump Ambassador Mike Huckabee Held Secret Meeting With Traitor Who Sold American Secrets to Israel

President Donald Trump’s ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, held a secret meeting in July with traitor Jonathan Pollard, who served 30 years in prison for selling American secrets to Israel.

According to a report from the New York Times, Pollard met with Huckabee at the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem in July for a discussion that was “kept off Mr. Huckabee’s official schedule,” and revealed for the first time on Thursday.

Pollard confirmed the rendezvous in an interview with the Times, telling the newspaper “it was a friendly meeting” and that “a lot of things that came up in conversation.”

Three unnamed officials told the New York Times that the meeting “alarmed the Central Intelligence Agency’s station chief in Israel.” The White House was also reportedly unaware that the secret meeting was taking place.

(Spies usually have to work a little harder to get inside one of our embassies.)

Pollard was released from prison in 2015 and moved to Israel in 2020 – flying on a private jet owned by top Trump donor Sheldon Adelson to Tel Aviv, where he was given a hero’s welcome by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

In 2021, Trump pardoned Aviem Sella, the Israeli handler who recruited Pollard to spy on the United States.
Well, that’s a thing.
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Why do people hate ICE...

As an immigrant, you should know that anyone who entered the United States unlawfully can never return to the U.S. through legal means. They can't even complete the immigration form if they previously entered the U.S. illegally.

What you're proposing isn't truly compassionate advice; it's insincere guidance that you know they won't be able to follow.
You frame it as though "they have to lie". Wouldn't honesty be the Christian approach here, even if it means being denied entry into the US? Or are immigrants are not bound by Christian moral standards?
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Hell doesn't exist and there is no eternal suffering, instead bad peolle just cease to exist

That is why they are commanded to repent. We all have that choice while

That is why they are commanded to repent. We all have that choice while alive.
No, no no. That's not true at all, since it's impossible for anyone to repent unless God first gives them the gift of repentance. You try asking a corpse to repent and see if they exercise their "free choice" and chose to repent. This is exactly what you're suggesting, is possible.

Haven't you heard that you were born dead in sin, how can a dead man exercise his human rights and choose the path to eternal paradise, instead of eternal torment in the lake of fire. Are you suggesting that the vast majority of mankind choses to spend eternity in hell???
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Who then can be saved?

It's almost amusing. You don't even attempt to perform the due diglence required in order to find out the truth for yourself, and then still endeavor to take the moral high ground like some kind of priggish Pharisee, while accusing me of your own fault.

Again, Insitutes is theology, systematic theology, and 2 Thess 1:8-10 specifically states, over and against your position, that those in hell will be "shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might on the day he comes to be glorified in his holy people and to be marveled at among all those who have believed."

Oh well, this discussion has descended into one of those rare moments when I'll express my distaste with the ignore button.
That's fine, you're welcome to hit the panic button. But it shows you can't defend your denomination's version of the gospel.
I have never expressed my private opinion about any doctrine, all I have done is defend the gospel of the Lord Jesus and it seems to have offended you.
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There’s a Giant Flaw in Human History

Popular scientific write-ups, are attempts to make the original article approachable to the general public, I can read the actual article why should I care about the popular version.
Then the same logic applies to your social media comments. Why should I or anyone care or take seriously someones coments on a social media platform.
May have been...
Once again the fixation on single words making the entire meaning. So if I find a word that means 'definite' then you are defeated. See how silly it is. Please read the word its context.

But evenso. If we take your word meaning. This still means we should be treating the findings as correct until proven otherwise. They are the first step towards confirming a hypothesis. You don't then reject the findings out of hand as conspiracy as some are doing.

I am pretty sure you said that there is no way the casing stones were cast. Or that the evidence in no ways shows this. Yet ehere we have preliminary findings that suggest we do. This is the kind of completel and extreme rejection that is not coming from science but persnal belief.
So link the experimentally verified results when they are done then.
Ok and in the mean time people should stop rejecting the preliminary findsings as conspiracy or psuedoscience.
I'm perfectly fine with anybody doing experiments. What gave you the idea that I would find that troublesome? I want them to publish thier results in scientific journals.
Oh maybe the language that people used to completely reject those experiments as quackery or just not treat them as science at all as part of the process. The experiments of those who happen to find a different answer are rejected as qauckery simply because they contradict the orthodoxy.
It refers back to the same 2018 simulation study, this is why you shouldn't take scientific reporting from the Daily Mail.
The daily mail is saying the same thing as Phy.org science news who is saying the same thing as the scientists. They just put it in everyday language.
Link that article then.
We have tests done in the Giza pyramid to determine the resonant frequency that is concentrated into the KIngs chamber. We have physical tests that show how certain stones and dimensions cause the Piezoelectric effects. This is fact. So modelled on a hypothetical structure is fact until proven wrong.

The Kings Chamber dimensions, which measure approximately 10.47 meters in length, 5.23 meters in width, and 5.81 meters in height, are also thought to have been chosen specifically to create a resonant frequency of around 117 Hz.

The precise frequency of 117 Hz has been identified through more modern methods, such as the use of sensitive microphones and spectrum analysers.

Flat out wrong. In the simulation study about electromagnetic waves they didn't.
I thought it was also the quartz in the stone and especially the granite was also what contributed to the resonance. Anyway other tests have shown this to be the vase. For example if you built the pyramid out of wood or plastic you will not get the same effect.
Don't mix up those who are talking about piezoelectric effects with the electromagnetic waves.
Ok, I am basing this on the material of the pyramid and stones. That certain material has a higher electromagnetic and piezoelectric effects that others. Either way it seems the pyramids have an effect on both.
Do you have an maps showing areas with "high electromagnetic"?
Why, what the science already tells us.
This is about the proposed plaster, why would you refer to it in this context about electromagnetic properties on the macroscale?
So a case of replying straight to the quote rather than checking what it was referring to. As we have been talking about both issues I assumed lol.
Relevant how?
Relevent to possible advanced knowledge and other ways the pyramids were used besides a tomb.
Link the journal article instead if you got it.
In 1952, Winfried Otto Schumann (1888-1974), a German professor of physics, discovered that resonating electromagnetic waves with a frequency of around 8 hertz could be measured in the Earth's atmosphere. This natural phenomenon is called the Schumann resonance frequency and mainly occurs when electricity discharges in the so-called 'closed waveguide' between the Earth's surface and the ionosphere. The predominant standing wave of this low frequency resonance effect has a frequency of 7.83 hertz.

Earth's resonance at Giza: The specific latitude of the Great Pyramid results in a fundamental Schumann resonance frequency of approximately
8.1 Hz. King's Chamber resonance: The King's Chamber was constructed to have a resonant frequency of 16.2 Hz which is the second harmonic (or octave) of the 8.1 Hz frequency.

2. SIGNIFICANCE The significance of the study and its relevance to the wider field of archaeology and acoustics can be summarised by the discovery of archaeoacoustic frequency signatures in multiple locations in Upper and Lower Egypt. For space to be designed and built and present specific resonance it would be not only require highly detailed construction, but it also leads to a level of understanding of sound frequency beyond even our contemporary levels today.
Read the article. Antenna construction is interesting but there was nothing new learnt about it from that study, how do you think they have constructed the program calculating the effects on the electromagnetic field?
I am pretty sure they said that now the findings from the reserach can be applied to nano tech. They learnt something from the simulations. Plus this is theorectical science and this is common in how theories are supported. Many hypothesis are based on theorectical tests that simulate the real thing. Its part of science.
If that is true then it usually gets picked up sooner or later.
Yes eventually and if we look at the history we will see proven ideas being rejected by the mainstream. Thats whats called a paradigm shift. It doesn't come easy and theres resistence. But eventually the evidence builds up that it can no longer be denied. That is exactly what all these investigations are doing.
No, your claim. You prove it.
Lol I am saying I am supporting this with the science. But you are denying it without the science at all. You can call the findings and words "maybe" and dismiss them. You can make a counter claim that its not proving anything.

But you never supply any scientific papers or even scientific articles published to9 counter this. Just your own opinion which you somehow have elevated to the status of peer review. As though just making a counter claim on a social media site is good enough to refute the scientific articles from those who have actually done the tests and analysis. .
Higher than what? Limestone? Limestone was assumed in the of the radiowave calculation. They didn't use granite in their calculations.
Ok but other tests have and they also support that the granite chambers and the particular makeup of the stones have high quartz content makes it more conducive of resonance under certain conditions.

When we put the reserach together we not only have an entire object supporting a concentration of electromagnetic effects but the specific material used in the object also supporting the piezoelectric effects material.
Yes, this known but it has zero to do with the pyramids.
Why. If some material holds a better piezoelectric effects like granite and there is granite used in specific ways then it stands to reason the materials are going to influence what effects are created overall. Especially within the granite parts of the pyramid.

Acoustic testing in the granite chambers has been found and it magnifies from chamber to chamber. It is the resonance for the granite as it has a specific resonance.
Now your mixing electromagnetic and piezoelectric again. This is just another simulation of the pyramids as antennas for electromagnetic waves. They also model the pyramid as a single monolith (they don't even use any chambers)
You honestly believe that the piezoelectric effect has no influence on how the electromagnetic waves are scattered within the pyramid under certain conditions.
Now your mixing electromagnetic and piezoelectric again. This is the same article we have been discussing for a couple of posts now.
It is shown that due to the strong dispersion of the refractive index of the pyramid material, there will always be a part of the spectral range, in which the refractive index corresponds to the condition of electromagnetic wave localization (the photonic jet phenomenon).
And the articles actually studied the piezoelectric properties of the pyramids? Who has actually measured the electric power generated by the pyramids?
Lets just work out what what has been found first. Electrical energy is one of the effects proposed. To what extent is the next step. But that forms of energy are being generated is enough for us to investigate further that the Egyptians may have harnessed this is some ways for practical applications.

Its that you and skeptics don't even believe than anything was generated is the first problem let along that there may have been specific applications.

But we do have some indirect evidence signatures that point to messing around with chemistry and physics.
There is no original research in this article, it is at best a speculative review.
Ok so we don't need verification to know that crystal oscillators are capable of producing electro motive force when vibrated and Quartz is a naturally obtained crystal. The pyramids and works are full of this material. When used in specific ways they will produce certain effects.

The generation of electricity requires the pyramid to vibrate always. Hence the location at which the electromagnetic waves are more on the surface of the globe are chosen to be the perfect sites for the pyramid. The very shape of the pyramid is an amplified receiver or resonator of various kinds of energy fields.

What about this is false. You do realise that there was a reference list to the science.
I'm critical about your claims. If you are critical about someone else's claims ask them for corroborating evidence.
I should not have to. If they are refuting the science then it stands to reason that the science must be refuted with science epistemically. Otherwise it defeats the whole purpose and we are mixing social media opinions with the science.
... were indeed consistent with with a reconstituted limestone.
Yes consistent and not inconsistent. Indeed consistent is defintely consistent with reconstituted limestone. If you want to play word games. Its as close as a scientists will get to saying abosutely the case.

Science just works that way where it never claims a truth. Its just consistent with observations and data. Thats as best as you will get for any science. Your playing semantics. You would never do this with any words that supported your views lol.
... indicates the Egyptians used...
Your fixation on words as being the truth has blinded you to the fact that diatomaceous earth was added to the mix. Its not a natural substance in limestone. Its impossible for it to be in the limestones lol. So yes in the context 'indicates' means definitely added to the mix.
I just point out that the peer-reviewed articles don't support your claims (some times even your claims about the articles themselves, such as that the permittivity of anything but limestone was used in the calculations).
No your playing skeptic games to the point of cynnacism. You look for loopholes to undermine the findings. Even use words are the complete meaning of the findinds. So long as it undermines the findings. The aim is to discredit the sources which included the good scientists and researchers and the sources they come from because they don't meet your approval of what a good source is.
There was no (statistical) hypothesis testing. So they can't say how likely or unlikely the observed patterns were. Which makes your claim of near impossible nonsense.
Wait a minute. If you then add the other bits of evidence such as the non natural substances added into the mix tested and the precision joins where youy can't fit a human hair into. Or the over spills of softened stone. The lack of credible evidence that the Egyptians actually cut and chiseled the stones and the fact that the logistically impossibility of getting massive stones some 450 feet in the air.

Then the findings start to look more likely that are on to something. What you are doing is fixating once again on specific like words. On this occassion one aspect of the whole investigation. But when we put it in context and include all the lines of evidence it takes a completely different context.
What do you believe that I am recognizing? What are you talking about? Why can't that be remains of abrasive cut?
Lol of course. They cut the same block to look like an overspill of leaking soft stone. Tell me on what basis would they make such a cut and overlap. Have you not seen the other overspills of softened stone I showed you. Are you going to rationalise every single out of place shape to the magic of sheer pounding and cutting as the go to cop out of explanation.

Now show me the scientific evidence that its a chisel or cut mark from a chisel or saw. Lets apply the same standard to your claim.
It is not even clear that the best explanation is reconstituted limestone yet.
Its a better one that everything is the product of pounding, using small primitive saws and rubbing stone in shape lol. It certainly on preliminary results supports stone casting than chiseling.
I'm perfectly fine with people investigating what ever interests them, but I want the rigour of the scientific process to be used and that includes peer-review.
HUm yet you never point out when others who attack the evidence presented without one bit of rigor. Its double standards I tell you lol.
So why do you claim that they are unfairly refused then? If you don't have any data.
Because they are using peer review as a sledge hammer to reject any alternative views. Its not that peer review is no a good/ Its that its elevated by some was almost a godlike status. Its not and its be known to gatekeep info and alternative ideas that threaten the orthodoxy. Or the reputations and funding of those who have spent a lifetime defending the orthodoxy.

Its because those demanding the peer review do not apply the same standards across the board. When people attack the sources even before the content is investigated you know its more than science but belief. .
Time will tell.
Yes as always. But in the mean time good science is being open to all ideas and giving them the same status as ideas that fall within the orthodoxy but may not yet be verified. Not just automatically reject them becuase they are different and may question the orthodoxy.

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Six Democrats urge military members to 'refuse illegal orders' in viral video; Hegseth responds

The bar for the military is "manifestly illegal." If Trump's orders were "manifestly illegal" these matters would not be in appellate court. The courts are still trying to figure out if they are "manifestly illegal."
Well, the UCMJ says this:
(c) Lawfulness. A general order or regulation is lawful unless it is contrary to the Constitution, the laws of the United States, or lawful superior orders or for some other reason is beyond the authority ofthe official issuing it. See the discussion of lawful-
ness in paragraph 14c(2)(a).

Now, we all know what is contrary to the laws of the United States and for the most part, the Constitution. Some ambiguity may arise as to how much authority that Congress has given to the President in so called National Emergencies. But, it is the military's duty to disobey unlawful orders. We will have some clarity when SCOTUS rules on the case on the docket about using the military in Chicago.
And which the military would have, if any had been illegal orders.
The Navy has more information than the public has but it is their responsibility to report to Congress, if Congress calls for it, and which Congress says nothing has been provided to justify the bombing of boats in International waters.

Nothing in our laws allows for the murder or killing of alleged drug traffickers unless being fired upon.
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The goal of Christianity in 'Not' to stop sinning!

The goal of Christianity is to know God. This is something you could spend ten lifetimes in pursuit of and still have barely scratched the surface of everything there is to know about God.

It amazes me the amount of wasted time and energy people put towards this goal of sinning less and ultimately, not sinning at all. Does anyone read the bible for what it actually says, or does everyone read it for what they've been told it says?

If I was to ask you; do you identify as your sinful nature, or do you identify as the good you want to do but struggle with a sinful nature, which would best describe you? Most likely it will be the later of the two. You are the good you want to do but struggle with a sinful nature. Which would align you with what Paul talked about in Rom 7:14-20.
Now say by the power of grey skull, I snap my fingers and suddenly you no longer have a sinful nature. Will you continue to do the evil you do not want to do, or will you only do the good you so desire to do? Obviously, the good you desire to do is all that you are going to do.
Okay then, in your pursuit to stop sinning, what is it you are trying so hard to improve on? The good you already desire to do, or the sinful nature?

The good you desire to do clearly needs no improvement since it already desires to do good. The sinful nature, on the other hand, cannot be improved on. Scripture is vividly clear on this. If it could be improved on, then Paul would not have wrote what he wrote in Rom 7, and the Gospel wouldn't have been necessary.

Before you try and tell me Paul is speaking of before he was saved... this is the real world, not some fantasy. At what point, before you were saved, did you ever struggle between doing the good that God desires you to do and doing evil? The truth is you didn't. You simply did whatever felt good to you in the moment.

Before salvation we are spiritually dead, separated from God. Without spiritual life, there is no desire to do the will of God. Without spiritual life, the desires of the flesh are what rules us. We have no desire, what so ever, to do the will of God. After receiving new life (spiritual life), that is when we are suddenly presented with a dilemma. To now do the will of God.
This new dilemma is the very struggle Paul talks about. And the reason Paul talks about it is to make it clear to his readers that the very idea that we can stop sinning is ridiculous. He states very clearly that sin resides in the flesh. Unless you live in the fantasy world I mentioned earlier, until the day you die, you will remain in the flesh. The flesh is corrupt as a result of sin. And until our corrupted flesh is destroyed, and we are given new non corrupted bodies, this struggle will remain.

The time and energy put towards the goal of sinning less and ultimately not sinning at all, is misplaced, misleading, and ultimately leads us back into the bondage of sin. That time and energy should be put towards getting to know more of God. The logic is simple, if you are doing what you are supposed to be doing, you wont be doing what you aren't to be doing. The more of God you know, the more of God is revealed through you, and naturally, the less you will sin. No effort, no fuss, no worries.
Knowing God and sinning less go hand in hand; the two being inseparable, in fact. That’s why John takes great pains in his letters to ensure we understand that to the extent that we sin, we don’t know God.
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JPPT's Faithful Thoughts and Devotions (3)

JPPT1974's Black Friday Weekend 2025:
Christ is a jealous God and
When we put Him in the backburner
He knows as we do know
It is not an excuse and that
Things go awry but when we
Place Christ in our lives all the time
Every single time He will lead us
In the thing that is conceived and
Created by Him known as life
Always put Him first and foremost 24/7!!
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Give God the Glory

“For consider your calling, brethren, that there were not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble; but God has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to shame the things which are strong, and the base things of the world and the despised God has chosen, the things that are not, so that He may nullify the things that are, so that no man may boast before God. But by His doing you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption, so that, just as it is written, ‘Let him who boasts, boast in the Lord.’” (1 Corinthians 1:26-31 NASB1995)

I am presently recovering from a medical procedure I had done at a hospital yesterday which they term a bronchoscopy (a biopsy). They sent a tube of some kind with a robotic camera down my throat into my lung to take pictures and samples of a lung mass (or nodule) inside my lung which they suspect is either cancerous or has an infection of some kind. I should get the results of this in about 3 days, I think. Right now I am a little bit out of it, I have a slight headache, and I am doctoring a sore throat, but progress is being made in the right direction, all glory, praise, and honor to God alone.

But my calling of God, which is to write down what he teaches me each day from my times with him in his word, and to then place these writings on the internet, is not contingent on me being in good health and not having a headache or any other physical abnormality. If it was, Satan would certainly use that against me to dishearten and to discourage me and to keep me from obeying the Lord. For he preys on our weaknesses in hopes that he can take us down and out so that we will retreat and give into the flesh. And so we must put our faith in the Lord to lead and guide us in these times.

For God did not call us to his service because we are in pristine condition. Now we must be followers of Christ for whom obedience to God and dying to sin is our practice, by the grace of God. But God’s calling upon our lives is not dependent on us having lots of book smarts, or us being popular among the people, or us even being well thought of by many. We may be among the rejected, the forgotten, the forsaken, the ignored, the castaways, and not someone who other humans would have thought of or chosen at all. But God chose us, because then he is the one to get the glory, and not us.

For it is by the doing of God that any of us are of faith in Jesus Christ living holy lives, pleasing to God, in death to sin, and in walks of obedience to his commands. Even the faith to believe in Jesus is not of our own doing; not of the will of the flesh of humankind. But the faith to believe in Jesus comes from God, and it is gifted to us by God, and it is persuaded of God as to his holiness and righteousness, and of our sinfulness, and of God’s requirement that we be crucified with Christ in death to sin and raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer as slaves to sin, but as Christ’s servants.

Gospel:[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22]

So, we get no credit for any of it! God gets all the credit and all the glory and all the praise. And that’s the way it should be. And so when God calls you to salvation from sin, by his grace, and to living for him, in ways which are pleasing to him, and then he calls you to his service, follow him wherever he leads you. And he will lead you to holy living and to putting sin to death, by the Spirit. But don’t ignore him just because you think you are not gifted in a particular way, for he can gift you in ways you may never have imagined. He definitely has done that with me in miraculous ways.

Most all the things he has been having me do these past 21 years I had never done before. Yes, I had taught the Scriptures for many years, but not on the internet, and not in writing. I had never posted daily devotions on the internet prior to this calling. I had written a few poems early on in my life, but not like the ones he gives me to write, and never this many. Yes, I majored in music in college, and I did write a tune to one of my poems, but I never wrote songs before like these and then posted them on the internet. I had never done video talks before, or written memes, or books, etc.

So if you have never done something before, and it is an area where you believe you lack giftedness, if God calls you, do not refuse him. For he is able to do far beyond any of us can imagine. He can do the impossible. Like when I started college the first time I was reading on a 4th grade level. I got up to 7th grade level, still with a reading comprehension disability. And then God called me to read all kinds of articles on history, science, politics and all sorts of news articles about what was going on in the world, things I would never have touched before, but he gave me understanding of them.

So, just saying here that we should not refuse God because we think we are not qualified for the task. Yes, we must be surrendered to our Lord, obeying his commands, living holy lives, pleasing to him, and he is the one who empowers us to do that, too. But we should not refuse the callings of God on our lives because we think we are not up to the task or because we never did something before. For he can give us all we need to do what he has called us to do, and in miraculous ways we would never have imagined. Then, all the honor, praise, and glory go to God, and not to our human flesh.

Your Servant Witness

An Original Work / March 13, 2012
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love


Humbly I bow, Lord, before You,
Bringing my requests to You.
May I listen; hear You speaking.
May I follow You in truth.
Gently lead me in Your service.
Guide my steps and strengthen me.
Fill me with Your love and mercy.
May I live for Thee!

Let me be Your servant witness,
Telling others of Your grace.
May I always share the gospel
With those I meet face to face.
May I show the love of Jesus,
Caring for the needs of men;
Be Your servant witness always
For my Lord, Amen!

My desire to be like Jesus,
Living for Him ev’ry day.
May I obey all His teachings
Given me, so I’ll not stray.
Love You, Jesus, Lord, my master.
You are the King of my heart;
Follow You where’er You lead me;
Not from You depart!

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An Original Work / November 22, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Release from Epstein files

I don’t see how anyone can expect this administration to release anything that might be damaging to the president or anyone loyal to him.
But the Denocrats sure could have. And from everything they gave done to him over the years we know they good and well would have if they had anything. There isn't.
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Trump plan for peace in Ukraine leaked; calls for Ukraine to cede additional territory, cut military forces. US Ukraine envoy to leave role

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THE BUDAPEST MEMORANDUM (1994)- the agreement that should have prevented the Ukraine/Russia conflict!

1) With the demise of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) in 1991, Ukraine and the other 14 Republics would emerge as independent sovereign states!

2) Four of those former 15 republics, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Ukraine and the Russian Federation all inherited nuclear stockpiles from the now defunct USSR - upon obtaining the status of a new nation in 1991, Ukraine also found itself to be the unwitting custodian of the world's 3rd largest stockpile of nuclear weapons!

3) The United States, United Kingdom and the Russian Federation proposed that Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine relinquish control of their aging nuclear weapons from the Soviet era in exchange for security guarantees - America agreed to provide political and economic support but would not commit to military intervention!

4) Some Ukrainians opposed handing over these nuclear weapons - given their nation's "tortured" relationship in the past with the former USSR, they argued that these stockpiles would provide the only viable deterrent to prevent aggression along the 1226 miles of joint international border that it shared with the Russian Federation!

5) The majority, however, would view the exchange of nuclear weapons for border security as their best option - Ukraine subsequently joined Belarus and Kazakhstan with all 3 former republics signing the Budapest Memorandum (1994) with the nuclear nations of the USA, UK and Russian Federation serving as guarantors!

6) Fast forward 20 years and in 2014 the Russian Federation reneges on the terms of Budapest Memorandum agreements by occupying the Crimean Peninsula and then promoting civilian unrest in Ukraine's eastern provinces west of the Russian border - perhaps with the added assistance of Putin's military dressed as Ukrainian civilians!

7) In 2022, the Russian Federation directed its military to invade all of Ukraine - after occupying approximately 20% of that nation's territory that included 3 to 4 million inhabitants, the war then degenerated into a standoff, a 21st C version of trench warfare from WW1!


8) Within this context, its paifully obvious that Trump is totally committed to imposing a peace treaty on Ukraine, any peace treaty - given that Russia's Putin has proven virtually impossible to manipulate, the pressure from the White House will be placed on Zelensky to provide this American President with an agreement that will in turn fuel his personal campaign to lobby for his real priority - the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize!

9) President Trump and his Administration appear oblivious to the fact that as a signatory to the Budapest Memorandum, with its exchange of nuclear stockpiles for preserving border security - why should Ukraine which is already in total compliance with the terms of the Memorandum, now be expected to provide additional concessions to the one member that has actually violated it repeatedly?

10) While not providing direct military intervention, America's first priority should be providing Ukraine with all the considerable political, economic and military support at its disposal that would pressure Putin to return to Ukraine's original 1991 borders - which were supposedly already guaranteed under the terms of the Memorandum!

11) Given that Putin already has a history of not honoring past signed agreements, why should the Ukraine allow itself to be pressured by the Trump Administration's into accepting a bad peace agreement, only to find itself in a similar position at some later date - once again negotiating with an adversary that can't be trusted and with supposed allies that continue not to hold the Russian Federation accountable for its actions!

12) With the continued proliferation of nations having nuclear weapons, the problems that continue to plague Ukraine, despite having signed the Budapest Memorandums, will only make those nations in the future that may find themselves confronted, under similar circumstances, all the more reluctant to dispense with their stockpiles - given its role as a deterrent in discouraging nations from engaging in military incursions into a neighbor's territory!
Take note: acquire nuclear weapons and never let go of them.
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Trump praises NYC Mayor-elect Mamdani after White House meeting

Neither one of them appeared to be groveling. They were grinning in each other's face like they both just found their new best friend.
You saw the discussion after the meeting. Do you know what conversations took place during the closed door meeting between Trump and Mamdami?
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