AV1611VET said:

I'm not obligated to sit in a classroom and parrot what I'm fed in order to placate the system with good grades.

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You are, of course, entitled to your opinion.

AV1611VET said:

When I go to bed at night, I'm not guilty of having misled someone by telling them the Grand Canyon was formed by the Colorado River.

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No, of course not. But you are guilty of saying that it was created by something as lubricious as the world being broken apart a few thousand years ago.

... which further doesn't make sense when the San Andreas Fault Line is a MUCH better example of that happening.

Always in His Presence said:

Current inflation is 3% vs Biden's 5% -

In 2025, overall food prices are anticipated to rise by approximately 3.0%, with food-at-home prices increasing by about 2.4% and food-away-from-home prices by around 3.9% compared to the previous year.

and then there's the $2,000 checks being discussed.

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Perhaps the issue in America is that basic math isn't a strong suit for most people. As of November 1, tariff revenue reached $195 billion, which also includes high tariffs from the summer. Providing $2,000 USD to every American family earning less than $150,000 would conservatively cost between $350 and $450 billion USD. The extra funds would likely need to be borrowed from China.

Introducing an additional $450 billion into the US market could further exacerbate high inflation, which is a distinct consideration. Typically, such consequences are only addressed when one is part of the opposition.

rambot said:

The "no new foreign wars" guy is starting a "new foreign war" with someone who was, barely on American radar 3 years ago......heck 10 months ago...

It's getting a bit absurd at this point really.

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Trump isn't starting anything. This was is being forced upon us by Venezuela the same way Ukraine forced Russia to defend itself from naked aggression and an unhinged unpopular leader.

NxNW said:

I'll give you a dollar to learn how to use apostrophes.

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I'll give you 100 dollar's to quit the grammar patrol.

Servus said:

Nah, just remove the wretched refuse plaque that was put on the pedestal years afterwards.

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I do feel like the symbolism of the 7 pointed crown was 'enough'.

Apple Sky said:

Am I ?

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Yes.
I'm not questioning the presence, or the nature, of the pit but the fact that you said "where is a bottomless pit on a sphere?"
But as Scripture does not say that the bottomless pit is on earth; it's irrelevant what shape the earth is.

I am certain that you are bright enough to realise that. And I think you're refraining from saying "you're right; the bottomless pit does not prove the earth is flat" because you don't want to weaken your argument.

Danthemailman said:

Zohran Mamdani Dragged on Twitter/X for Passive Statement About Murder of National Guard Member Sarah Beckstrom | The Gateway Pundit | by Mike LaChance Zohran Mamdani Dragged on Twitter/X for Passive Statement About Murder of National Guard Member Sarah Beckstrom | The Gateway Pundit | by Mike LaChance

Many noticed that the X comment from Zohran Mamdani, the mayor-elect of New York City, in response to the news of Beckstrom’s death, was seriously lacking in some fundamental things.

I’m devastated to learn of the passing of Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, a member of the West Virginia National Guard. She was only twenty years old. As families across the nation come together today to celebrate Thanksgiving, let us take a moment to think of those in West Virginia who have been plunged into unimaginable grief.

He didn’t mention anything about Beckstrom being killed or murdered. He didn’t mention it was allegedly by an Afghan national who yelled, “Allahu Akbar.” He didn’t mention that the police are alleging it was an ambush and are investigating it as possible terrorism. He didn’t mention Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe.

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He didn’t need to make a public statement at all, but since he did, and he left politics out of it, you are upset?

Release International’s partner in Tanzania provides resources and support for persecuted Christians. It also seeks to raise awareness about their plight.

Pray for persecuted Christians in Tanzania, with the increasing challenges they are now facing, including violence, discrimination and social isolation.

Pray for God’s protection, strength and encouragement for all those who suffer for their faith—and for Release International’s partner.

Pray for all those in Tanzania affected by the post-election violence at the end of October. Thank God for an improved situation, but pray for healing and reconciliation in the country.

Landon Caeli said:

If they were actual, non-biased academics, they would include analyzations of opposing research.

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How do you know what they did or did not analyze? Did you read the papers they cited when compiling the page? Do you have a subscription to the American Psychologist journal or some other way around the paywall?

Oompa Loompa said:

However, it are people lake those "group of academics" who perpetuate racism that divides the country, so Democrats can continue to cling onto power through identity politics.

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Yeah, because the white nationalists shouting “Jews will not replace us”, basing immigration policy on blatant bigotry, or trying to redefine “American” as being predominantly about birthplace and not adherence to a creed aren’t playing identity politics at all.

d taylor said:

It has been 40 years for me being on a college campus. I am guessing i would last about a day on one now.​

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Yeah, there’s a lot more stuff to cover these days. It’s hard keeping up when you’re older.

The Casting of Frank Stone

Andrewn said:

If my cat or my dog made a mess, how much punishment do they deserve? Very little, if at all. I would be an evil person if I tortured them.

Despite our errors and addictions, we trust ourselves and others in the loving hands of God and Christ.

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Amen to that. I remember you expressing worry over hell and how you are faring spiritually the other day in one of the Singles threads, @Dreyma . I think you would do well to listen to @Andrewn 's words here.

Paulwat said:

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There is no eternal torture mentioned in the bible. Annihilation or (preferably) UV are the two real options

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Revelation uses very strong language to describe unending punishment in fire. Revelation 14:11, for instance, speaks of those who worship the beast, stating, "And the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever; and they have no rest day or night." Similarly, Revelation 20:10 says the devil, the beast, and the false prophet "will be tormented day and night forever and ever" in the lake of fire.
Thoughts?

Truth7t7 said:

More like removing the enemies within, better known as cleaning house

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These are not enemies, they are rank and file employees with years of experience. Imagine getting a rookie postal worker delivering to your neighborhood every four years.

Nithavela said:

Even if that is the case, that is not proof positive that EVERY EO signed by autopen was without Biden's knowledge.

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Let’s see. One executive order signed by autopen that Biden didn’t even know about doesn’t PROVE that all executive orders signed by autopen were without his knowledge. Which ones signed by autopen were with his knowledge? With his consent? With his active intent as constitutional head of the executive branch as president? You can’t say “all of them” so which ones?

Nithavela said:

Besides, we are talking about end of term Biden. He probably forgot what he had for breakfast before he got lunch.

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This man was made out to be fit for duty.

Nithavela said:

Anyone, this is a huge nothingburger. Trump has done nothing except write another tweet.

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It’s not a nothingburger even though Trump-tweeting is generally rediculous. It’s a matter of being governed by people who are elected vs being governed by someone in the shadows. Who wrote the executive order Biden didn’t even know about? What is his or her name? Who elected them? Why were they acting like they were president when they were not?

DaisyDay said:

WaPo: Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all

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I knew Mr. Crusader's Deus Vult tattoo was gonna be a problem. Now he's gone straight to

Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius.

bbbbbbb said:

As always, thank you for your excellent and very enlightening reply. It seems that virtually every branch of Christianity has had and continues to have cults that shoot off from it, Rastafarianism being one of the better-known examples.

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While that’s true, the situation here is literally the opposite: the Ethiopian Orthodox converting non-Christian Rastafarians away from their decadent and indulgent false religion to the true religion of Christ our God.

To be clear, Rastafarianism didn’t consist of Ethiopian Orthodox Christians who decided to reject 1600 years of Christian teaching in order to smoke massive amounts of marijuana and perform obnoxious Reggae music, but rather, consisted of Jamaicans who heard of Emperor Haile Selassie, and, contrary to the wishes of the Emperor, decided that he was God, for reasons derived mainly from the color of his skin and the connections between Ethopia and ancient Israel. Among Ethiopians the small Rasta community that immigrated there is not well regarded.

Neither the Emperor, nor the Ethiopian church, refused to take action, however - actions to evangelize the people of the Carribean, including the Rastas, were undertaken, and these have been very successful in converting many Rastas to Christ.

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Now that being said, Ethiopia did have, for several centuries, two schismatic, heretical sects which competed with the Orthodox for control of the church, both of which had seriously deranged teachings, however, through the grace of God, the Orthodox party associated with the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria and most members of the Imperial household triumphed. But the schism was probably the worst one to happen to an Oriental Orthodox church since the Maronites broke away from the Syriac Orthodox Church in (many believe this was because the Maronites opted to embrace the Monothelite heresy being promoted at the time as a means of achieving EO-OO reconciliation, which resulted in St. Maximos the Confessor losing his tongue, and which also resulted in Pope Honorius I being the only legitimate Bishop of Rome (not counting anti-Popes) to ever be anathematized as a heretic by the Roman Catholic Church post-mortem).

Laodicean60 said:

Not really, it has helped me in reversing my Type 2 diabetes. A lot of autoimmune diseases can be reversed, did you know that? Do you have parents or grandparents taking medication? I'd like to think I can critically think problems through and I use the internet and Google Scholar for verification. I grew up in a time when most diseases were not a problem and I always questioned why cancer was so prevalent. Especially when a couple of my wife's friends and family died of it in the early 2000. I used to think cancer was genetic but now genetics has a small part of it and nutrition and environmental factors play a big role.

In my youth in the 70s, only alcoholics got fatty liver and in the 80s nonalcoholics started getting fatty liver. Since alcohol isn't the problem then the sugar content must be the problem. Today we have kids with fatty liver disease, how sad is that? I hope no one has to see their parents deteriorate like I watched mine do. My dad died of diabetes and I know I have a genetic disposition to it my mom had a stroke that ruined her life. Both of these diseases can be prevented with a lifestyle change.

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While I will agree risks can be affected by lifestyle change.......

Thin fit people get strokes.
Thin, fit people have diabetes.

It's not safe to buy into the youtube message of anything can be prevented.

That is an important part, I think, of what Tropical Winds was getting at.

stevevw said:

I am saying whatever it is that the secular majority determines as good and will keep us safe is not a good proposition. I would not trust them whatever the idea or basis is for how they decide to order society and reality for that matter.

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It seems likely you'll experience it long before we in the US do.

Religion in Australia (2021 census)

1. Christianity (43.9%)
2. No religion (38.9%)

Let us know how it turns out.

BCP1928 said:

So it's about sex. But you are right. If women get to decide for themselves who to go to bed with and when some men might not get any. Boo Hoo.

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Actually, yes, boo hoo. If people slept with whoever they wanted to, adultery would run rampant, children would be born into broken homes, and STDs would go out of control. Which actually ended up happening, following the sexual revolution. The only solution to this is abstinence until marriage. Enforced legally.

iarwain said:

There's a difference between believing there may be some scribal errors, or even that accuracy was not always the main objective, but that the actual meaning and message still gets through - and discounting passages that might disagree with your idea of morality (especially "modern" morality). But does it matter, for example, if Job actually existed, or was just a parable? Don't we get the same meaning out of it either way?

All that said, I would not feel comfortable saying that ANY scripture is in error.

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Of course, the existence of Job and the Book of Job is significant, especially considering that both are referenced multiple times in the New Testament by Paul and James. If neither Job nor the Book of Job existed, it would raise doubts about the reliability of Paul or James writings.

Similarly, if certain laws from Leviticus conflict with contemporary moral values, it raises the question of whether Moses was genuinely a prophet or simply someone who devised rules to govern his followers.

trophy33 said:

Premises:
1. The Sabbath was a part of the Mosaic Law and of the Mosaic Law only.
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If these premises are all true, we are not supposed to keep the Sabbath.

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Do you mean Sabbath law?

Rescued One said:

No one has any right to judge Trump unless he or she can prove himself/herself as being deemed worthier of God's love.

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Trump in particular or any person at all?

Some issues I'm right of center. Some issues I'm left of center. Some issues I am in the center.

I've yet to find a party that I agree with 100% of the time on all issues.

I've not really changed my views, but somehow both the democrats and the republicans seem to have gotten the idea that if you don't agree with their views 100% and agree 100% of the time then you are most likely an enemy.

Hey Folks.

Almost 2 years later and [drumroll]

$1.21 trillion


If you compare trends....well, that's pretty awful.

Good luck Americans! For the richest country, you guys have some spending problems. How are you gonna sort that out? Children of Men kinda thing?