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Aaron112 · 2025-10-17T00:42:44-0500

ChubbyCherub said:
due to a very specific cultural movement that Paul was trying to address

That is not the cause, purpose, nor plan nor design how the Creator inspired all Scripture, as if pertaining to anything cultural other than to show all society is deadly/ death dealing/ pernicious (re Galatians et al).

Scripture is inspired with no help from man's ideas , or man 'trying' to address anything.

Yttrium · 2025-10-17T00:30:07-0500

Sure, we need to crack down on the mishandling of classified information. Let's get some political precedents going here.

Of course, such precedents could come back to haunt members of the current administration in another 5-6 years...

Say it aint so · 2025-10-17T00:19:30-0500

U.S. working on doubling aid to Argentina to $40 billion

Argentina +40B.
U.S Farmers, another stick in the eye.

But hey, once again then voted for it.

7thKeeper · 2025-10-17T00:17:51-0500

RileyG said:
Yikes!

Yikes that teens weren't sent to prison?

Say it aint so · 2025-10-17T00:16:14-0500

mark46 said:
???
Do you mean that the states can't borrow?

If the feds didn't spend lets say $100B and returned the money to the states, how are the states unable to fund the programs. The savings is in the cost of administration,
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RICH STATES CAN AFFORD IT
After all, now they pay for their own costs, part of the costs from other states, plus the cost of lots of wasted federal administration.

POOR STATES WOULD BE BETTER OFF
If 2% was to go to Mississippi, would they like it to come before or after the waste of government admin is subtracted?

Yes they can. They can sale more bonds, but states are already in arrears. Less Pell grants, I think orgs like the Dept of Ed pretty much do allocate money to states in the form of grants. I am more comfortable with the Fed requirements tied to them to keep things like "What's the matter with Kansas" from happening.

ChubbyCherub · 2025-10-17T00:14:40-0500

Delvianna said:
But see I dont see it as derailing. How is a woman supposed to, and according to you,

If the change is leadership based and so far your only answer is to become a leader themselves. So my question is very much relevant. If a woman has these issues, what do they do? I can only guess based off your last reply that you mean they say nothing? Because that's not scriptural when we are all called to hold each other accountable.

I don't know if it helps or not but I can only say what I did, bearing in mind that I have never done anything like this before, so wouldn't like to say if the approach was right or wrong.

I emailed the church secretary, who is a woman and who has been very, very kind to me. She was not raised in England and came from a Pentecostal background in her country so we had a lot in common from the beginning.

I laid out my concerns about what was/was not being addressed during sermons, why I thought it was important, asked if I had the wrong end of the stick, if there was miscommunication or misunderstanding, who (if anyone) I should speak to about it since the elder who I was very close to and had baptized me earlier this year had retired due to health reasons, if I was breaching etiquette in any way and was it okay to address things with a church or just quietly leave?

I also asked if I was expecting too much from the main sermon and if there were any extracurricular activities in the church I could attend that would further my understanding or any studies outside of the church which they could recommend.

I explained it was all very important for me to approach this correctly out of respect for the church, the individuals within and the fact that moving may affect my husband and adult child who attend with me but are not yet believers.

She responded by saying that maybe God led me there to challenge the way they do things and thanked me for doing so. She said she'd refer me to the lead pastor. After a few weeks, I got an email from a different pastor and the director of ministry (who is a woman) and they invited me to meet with them to discuss why they do what they do etc.

I hope that helps in case you ever find yourself in a similar position and want to discuss things before considering a change.

God bless!

timewerx · 2025-10-16T23:59:44-0500

timothyu said:
Its always about the money. Ask any church, especially the institutions

Probably most of the time, but they're not going to admit it or too blind to see it. They genuinely believe they're not even though they are.

DragonFox91 · 2025-10-16T23:45:54-0500

DragonFox91 said:
Today I was pondering how would Christians define sacrifice as opposed to the non-believers/unsaved/lost/pagan/the world's version of sacrifice. We all have to make sacrifices, so there must be a difference

Do you know what one is? He is invisible

Aaron112 · 2025-10-16T23:26:51-0500

AV1611VET said:
Indeed.

This place used to really hop.

Observed, yet unhelpful. Deception was promoted and encouraged along with many falsehoods, not truth which was denied, erased, censored, and forbidden.

Fantine · 2025-10-16T23:25:06-0500

Now if they just go after the rural entrepreneurs along I49 cooking meth out of sudafed.

GodAndChocolateVanilla · 2025-10-16T23:19:50-0500

I saw this on Facebook!! Yes God's Timing is Perfect!! Thank You God!! :hug:

19 I am doing something new;
it’s springing up — can’t you see it?
I am making a road in the desert,
rivers in the wasteland.
Isaiah 43:19 CJB

Aaron112 · 2025-10-16T23:18:47-0500

AV1611VET said:
Eyes barn ignit; eyes die ignit.

I don't need to blaim my stoopidity on AI.

Correct.

ai did not make people stoop..... people have been for generations.

Bob Crowley · 2025-10-16T23:15:57-0500

Oh yeah! Now you're speaking my language. My sister-in-law has a Phd in this stuff - and I have my own hobby blog about it.

I've emailed the link to your blog to my other computer. I'm writing this on my "Vinnies" computer which I should only be using for "Vinnies" stuff.

I'll have a look at it later, and maybe bookmark.

One day I might get around to doing a blog (most likely with a Catholic bias, except for by hobby horse below about contraception). If so I may ask you for advice from time to time.

CONTRACEPTION

I disagree with the Catholic Church's ruling on contraception. As my old pastor thought "I think the Contraceptive Pill was God's gift, given at the very time population pressures were becoming a real problem in some parts of the world."

I could go on about the two committees set up by Pope John XXIII and Pius VI (I think) which BOTH recommended the pill should be available for married couples but a hardline core said they couldn't possibly admit the Protesants were right. Apparently the Protestants haven't got a brain between them.

Let's take modern India for example.

The population of India is now 1.45 billion people - 1,450,000,000.

The area of India is 3.287 milion square kilometres - 3,287,000.

This means the average land avaiable to a modern Indian is 3287000/1450000000 square kilometres, viz. .00223 square kilometres.

Multiplying by 1,000,000 to get square meters, we get 2230 square meters.

The square root of that amount is 47.22 metres.

This means the average block available to the average Indian citizen today is 47 x 47 metres to grow all their food, provide all their water, provide all their energy, with a margin required for roads, buildings, parks, gardens, houses, pets if any, schools, factories, hospitals, military bases etc. etc.

I'm not impressed one bit with the Catholic appeal to "Tradition". God gave us a brain and He expects us to use it.

DragonFox91 · 2025-10-16T23:10:34-0500

I am watching the TV show Life Goes On. It's so wholesome! & it does it w/out being preachy. In the end the characters always end up making the right decision when faced w/ a conflict or temptation. Sometimes it takes a lot of time, you meet the adults where it's fallen apart & it clicks for them. It's motivational to make good decisions yourself. There's no bad episodes. A lot of the episodes focus on disability too. The family is Catholic so it brings that dynamic too (tho it rarely gets mentioned). But one thing you have to remember watching the show is, reality is harder then what TV makes it look to be.

I watched a lot of the MLB playoff series Detroit vs Seattle. Seattle won. I wanted Detroit

I've been watching a lot of college football

.Mikha'el. said:
I am watching a Netflix series about the Roman Empire. It's called "Roman Empire". What a creative name.

That's when Jesus came!

rjs330 · 2025-10-16T23:09:45-0500

DaisyDay said:
Maybe, should he be forced out of Congress, he could get a job in the Executive Branch - sounds as if he'd fit right in....

I would support ANY Congressman being forced out of office for impropriety of any kind, Financial, legal and immoral.

rjs330 · 2025-10-16T23:04:15-0500

eclipsenow said:
It's not a conspiracy theory

You just love the conspiracy theories. I just dont have to listen or believe in them. It must be an interesting world you live in.

eclipsenow said:
The immigrant studies are not bogus

Yeah they are.

Aaron112 · 2025-10-16T23:03:44-0500

GoldenBoy89 said:
Wrong. The left wants healthcare for all, not just for undocumented folks.

Historically a few tribes lived in health, for all.

Everywhere government got power, that became a fiction, they wanted money and power instead of healthy people.

GodDoesListen55 · 2025-10-16T23:00:18-0500

RileyG said:

Aaron112 · 2025-10-16T22:57:19-0500

j75 said:
God has told me to warn that the economy will soon collapse. In this way we might prevent war and death i guess.

The world canral church brought on all the wars and conflicts - never prevented one unless it was seen as advantageous to securing more power.

rjs330 · 2025-10-16T22:53:33-0500

MarkSB said:
By that line of reasoning, we should get rid of murder laws as well. Criminals aren't going to care about the law anyway.

Why on earth are certain folks bound and determined to do something thats either completely unrealistic or propose things that wouldn't have prevented this type of attack.

What gun law would have stopped this?

FaithT · 2025-10-16T22:41:21-0500

Christworshiper said:
Hi,

I've been back to Mass regularly now for the four straight weeks. I have only seen a couple of very old timers that still receive the Eucharist by mouth. I grew up in the church before the hand option was around. I did by mouth 1x and the priest did seem a bit surprised when I didn't extend my hands. Comments? Thx

I receive in the hand.

fhansen · 2025-10-16T22:32:22-0500

A New Dawn said:
Justification is a legal term for declaring you righteous.

No

A New Dawn said:
Everyone hears the same things taught, but without ears to hear they cannot respond

Yes

Paulos23 · 2025-10-16T22:32:04-0500

Always in His Presence said:
Again - who exactly hates ICE?

There are a whole lot of Voters who support them.

American citizens. And the fault is ICE being over aggressive and even arresting citizens.

Whoever trained ICE really did a poor job. I have never seen any police being this community tone deaf.

Hans Blaster · 2025-10-16T22:31:55-0500

Nithavela said:
The right truly are the masters of branding. The GOP holds all centers of power of the federal government and their leader is on record saying that a shutdown is always the fault on the president, and yet they immediately labeled this the "Schumer Shutdown".

I thought it was the "Epstein Shutdown" or maybe it is only the current "Epstein House Recess".

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