Vambram said:

Americans Differ on Ukraine and Gaza

American attitudes toward the wars in Ukraine and Gaza highlight the shifting political perspectives and public sentiment.

www.dailysignal.com

When Russia invaded Ukraine, Americans overwhelmingly supported Ukraine—as they did with Israel after Oct. 7. No wonder: Ukraine was surprise-attacked by Russia, and Israel was by Hamas.
It seemed an easy binary of good versus evil: Both the attacked Ukraine and Israel are pro-Western. Both their attackers, anti-Western Russia and Hamas, are not.
Now everything is bifurcating. And the politics of the wars in America reflect incoherence.
Both Ukraine and Israel are portrayed in the media as supposedly bogging down in their counteroffensives.
More pro-Israel Republicans are troubled by Ukraine’s strategy, or lack thereof, in an increasing World War I Somme-like stalemate.
Yet more pro-Ukrainian Democrats are turning away from Israel as it dismantles Gaza in the messy, bloody slog against Hamas. The Left claims either Israel cannot or should not defeat Hamas, or at least at the present cost.

So the Left pushes Israel to a cease-fire with Hamas.
It blasts Israeli “disproportionate” responses.
It demands that Israel avoid collateral damage.
It pressures it to form a wartime bipartisan government.
It lobbies to cut it off from American resupply.
It is terrified that Israel will expand the war by responding to aggression from Hezbollah and Iran.
Yet on Ukraine, the Left oddly pivots to the very opposite agenda.
It believes Ukraine should not be forced to make peace with Russian “fascists.” It must become disproportionate to “win” the war.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy deserves a pass, despite canceling elections while suspending political parties.
America must step up its resupply to Kyiv with more and far deadlier weapons.
Ukraine has a perfect right to hit targets inside Russia.
Russian threats to widen the war should be considered empty and thus ignored. America should hate Russia far more than Hamas.

Click to expand...

Are these just shifting views on the left side of the aisle? Or a more general shift in views of the general pop?

eclipsenow said:

Also, it takes time to build the special super-wide wing jets to fly the dust up 20 km. Smith et al 2018 said that back then it would cost about $2.25 billion annually to build 6 super-wide wing jets a year. That’s only 0.02 degrees of cooling every 6 jets. If we adjust for inflation that’s probably $4 billion a year for an extra 6 planes. It takes 15 years just to get to 0.3 degrees of cooling - and that’s not even at Pinatubo levels yet! Given all that time and effort the moment there was even a hint of bad side effects the nations concerned would protest and we would be able to sort it out. It’s not like we can do this overnight!

Click to expand...

Do you have a link for Smith et al 2018 on the cost estimates? Part of my work is aerospace consulting and $2.25 billion per year seems very, very low for a major aircraft engineering programme, particularly for something as novel as that with such limited output.

Developing large aircraft is expensive.

Boeing was estimating ~$4 billion at the start of the 1990s just to develop the technologies needed for a blended wing airliner with similar size/weight to a 767 (circa 350,000 pound MTOW). That's ~$10 billion in current dollars.

Airbus looked at a blended wing airliner before developing the A380 (I got to spend time with the guy who was in charge of aerodynamics for the programme). They estimated that the development cost of a flying wing design would be somewhere around 50% to 80% more than a traditional tube with wings design. Airbus ended up spending about $12-15 billion on R&D for the A380, and another $8-10 billion on tooling up for production.

Fantine said:

There was one charge against OJ. Jurors have to decide on 34 counts, one by one, with Trump. The probability that he would beat all 34 counts is highly unlikely unless there is a plant.

Click to expand...

Eh. I disagree. Since all the charges are the same behavior I think it's going to be all or nothing. None of the entries were substantially different from each other. If you find one to be legal, then you almost have to find them all to be legal.

BPPLEE said:

Statistically you’re more likely to get struck by lightning than attacked by a shark, until you get in the water. Same thing applies to the woods. The chances of a bear attack go up when you are in their territory.
Still women are wise to avoid strangers and some men they know. I don’t understand men who can harm women. When I was in patrol I arrested more people for domestic violence than anything else. I could never treat anyone like that, especially someone I’m supposed to care about

Click to expand...

I am not suggesting you are dangerous. However, should I ever cross paths with you, I would be on guard, as you would of course be a stranger. The point is simply that a bears’s behavior is fairly predictable and encounters usually end with the bear taking off. With men, a miscalculation could have us tied up in a basement awaiting something far worse than a bear attack.

public hermit said:

Thank goodness for reporting that uncovers this kind of nonsense.

Click to expand...

This was all old news tmk. It was just conveniently dragged up as a distraction.

Hans Blaster said:

"Post from a Manhattan Courthouse conference room" (Original - sharpie on legal pad, 1 page)

THE CRAZY, TRUMP HATING JUDGE HAS LOCKED UP YOUR FAVORITE PRESIDENT (ME) FOR POSTING TO TRUTH SOCIAL ABOUT HIS CORRUPT RULING ON BEHALF OF CORRUPT HILLARY AND SLEEPY JOE (FAKE PRESIDENT AND LOSER). NO PRESIDENT HAS EVER BEEN SO POORLY TREATED BY ANYONE. NOT EVEN LINCOLN WHEN HE GOT SHOT HAD IT SO BAD. LINCOLN GOT TO GO TO A COMEDY PLAY AND I MUST STAY IN THIS HORRIBLE COURTHOUSE WHERE THEY BELIEVE THE LIES OF THAT ROTTEN LIAR MICHAEL COHEN ABOUT AN AFFAIR I DIDN'T HAVE WITH STORMY DANIELS. (WHO LIES ABOUT MY XXXX.) I WOULD NEVER CHEAT ON MY BEAUTIFUL WIFE MELANIE OR ABANDON OUR SON (THE SKINNY ONE). IT IS ALL A BIG LIE TO KEEP ME FROM GOING TO OUR WONDERFUL RALLYS WHERE YOU ADORE ME SO MUCH, YOUR FAVORITE PRESIDENT (TRUMP), SO WE CAN STOP THEM FROM STEALING OUR ELECTION AGAIN. THE HORRIBLE, CORRUPT, JUDGE HAS KEPT ME IN THE UGLY ROOM FOR THE LUNCH BREAK AND ONLY BROUGHT ME A TUNA SANDWICH AND A DIET PEPSI.

Click to expand...

The embarrassing notes for Biden are the ones instructing him what to do. They now include “Don’t say PAUSE outloud “

Vambram said:

The millions of Americans who are supporting Donald Trump KNOW that he is not truly a criminal. Instead, the multiple millions of USA citizens who are voting for and supporting Donald Trump know for a fact that the liberals in power are targeting Trump for political reasons. This is called lawfare.

Click to expand...

See? Insanity.

A lot of things have come to light since the overturning of Roe V. Wade. Something I've come to realize while watching the news is that unexpected circumstances are occurring. One of these concerns the miscarriage laws in Exodus 21:22-25

This law implies that the punishment for causing a miscarriage will be determined by the husband. In recent news, however, some people being denied abortions are married. If the couple is married, and the husband wants an abortion because of health implications, then there is nobody to determine the punishment. Before Roe V. Wade was overturned, I did not realize this Biblical understanding.

keras said:

Those verses do not prove a rapture at all. You falsely insert a rapture, where nothing like that is intended in scripture.

The only correct part of this guesswork is; the GT martyrs will serve Jesus in the MK.
The Great Multitude are living people, it is them who come through the terrible Sixth Seal event, by their faith and trust in the Lords protection. Rev 7:14

Deaths by the sword, famine plagues and wild beasts are not natural. They have all happened over the last 2000 years. It could hardly have been worse! It is the way, it can be estimated; that about a quarter of the people born since AD 1, have deid.

Click to expand...

You now say “fable” and “not true.” You never prove those verses wrong. Your opinions are not proof.

Those verses do prove the pre-Trib rapture, and you can’t prove they don’t.

So, Any AOG care or have an interest in what was once fundamental to their beliefs?
[I have attended AOG weekly in past for several years, including while in Quaker Seminary]
https://www.amazon.com/Christian-Pacifism-Fruit-Narrow-ebook/dp/B005RIKH62/ref=pd_rhf_dp_p_t_1

Bradskii said:

Some people might consider the second to be free will.

Click to expand...

If we're going to define a choice/decision as a free will, then the term free is redundant.

Bradskii said:

It's the past experience and acquired wisdom that determines your decisions. Are you in control of what experiences you have and what wisdom you aquire? If it's a deterministic world, then no.

Click to expand...

The fact is that sometimes I was sitting when I could've been standing and other times I was standing when I could have been sitting. As long as I've been alive, I've always been doing something.

The Barbarian said:

I was pretty sure O.J. would be convicted. And the evidence against him was nearly as overwhelming as the evidence against Trump. So, it's not inconceivable that Trump might get away without being convicted.

Click to expand...

There was one charge against OJ. Jurors have to decide on 34 counts, one by one, with Trump. The probability that he would beat all 34 counts is highly unlikely unless there is a plant.

Michie said:

Aristotle, Anselm, Aquinas, Liebniz, and William Lane Craig provide famous reasons to believe that God exists. Less well known is a way proposed by the African intellectual Augustine. In his fantastic book Five Proofs of the Existence of God, Edward Feser explains this argument at length. Inspired by Augustine, let’s begin with the reality that 2+2=4.

Some realities exist in matter. A house is made of wood, nails, and cement. A dog has fur, muscles, and bones. Other realities exist in a mind. My memories of seeing the Grateful Dead in concert and of running track against Harvard exist in my mind. Your beliefs about dogs and about chocolate exist in your mind.

Does the reality of 2+2=4 exist in matter or in mind? Well, material realities have a particular weight, length, and density. But the reality that 2+2=4 does not have a weight, a length, or a density. So, the reality that 2+2=4 does not exist as a material object.

Continued below.

If 2+2=4, Then God Exists - Word on Fire

2+2=4 is a timeless reality and an unchanging truth, so it cannot depend upon minds like ours that come into and go out of existence.

www.wordonfire.org

Click to expand...

God invented math and fined tuned His creation, and the human brains that can process math. So yes, God exists.

public hermit said:

Okay, well, since we've hopelessly done away with mundane matters, we can talk about what really matters: grits are better with cheese than without.

Click to expand...

I've never had them with cheese.

And I do agree with Spurgeon
https://www.amazon.com/Christian-Pacifism-Fruit-Narrow-ebook/dp/B005RIKH62/ref=pd_rhf_dp_p_t_1

comana said:

But a woman cannot know the intentions of a stranger, and so many have been harmed in one way or another, whether by a stranger or a man they know, that is safer to avoid them. And statistically, the bear is far less likely to harm them.

Click to expand...

Statistically you’re more likely to get struck by lightning than attacked by a shark, until you get in the water. Same thing applies to the woods. The chances of a bear attack go up when you are in their territory.
Still women are wise to avoid strangers and some men they know. I don’t understand men who can harm women. When I was in patrol I arrested more people for domestic violence than anything else. I could never treat anyone like that, especially someone I’m supposed to care about

Eve_marie said:

Yes I do!

Click to expand...

Eve_marie said:

Does anyone ever have dreams about praying in tounges, but can’t actually pray in tounges in real life?? This has happened to me 3-4 times. What does this mean?

Click to expand...

Greetings, Eva Marie.

It suggests the Spirit of God is wanting to lead you in that direction, only you may be more submitted to the Spirit in dreams than in waking life, so He is trying to make you more accustomed to the idea in your dreams. But three or four times is a lot, so something is going on. You see, it takes letting go of the tongue when you are consciously awake, and this is what some are not very capable of, so they hinder the Spirit of God from speaking through them.

The dreams would also suggest He possibly wants to move through you prophetically, as tongues are part of the prophetic gift. So tell me, if you would like to do these things, how familiar are you with operating in tongues or prophetic gifts?

I find your posts interesting, btw. This is the first time I've read of the Lord speaking through someone in tongues in their dreams (though I'm sure there may be others).

Blessings in Christ,
Hidden In Him

What would you write on your child's Christmas Present if you didn't know their name?

keras said:

Those verses do not prove a rapture at all. You falsely insert a rapture, where nothing like that is intended in scripture.

The only correct part of this guesswork is; the GT martyrs will serve Jesus in the MK.
The Great Multitude are living people, it is them who come through the terrible Sixth Seal event, by their faith and trust in the Lords protection. Rev 7:14

Deaths by the sword, famine plagues and wild beasts are not natural. They have all happened over the last 2000 years. It could hardly have been worse! It is the way, it can be estimated; that about a quarter of the people born since AD 1, have deid.

Click to expand...

1 Th 1:10 is proven to be about the pre-Trib rapture, in the following:

1 Th 1:10 (NIV): and to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, even Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come.

The applicable definition of “Delivers us" “snatched away” (raptured): "The second usage of deliverance refers to the Acts of God whereby he rescues his people from danger. The key words nasal [l;v"n] ("draw out, snatched away")," --- Source: Baker's Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology.

We are forcefully “taken” in John 14:3, which is about the same rapture:

John 14:3 (NIV): And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.

We are “gathered to Him:”

2 Th 2:1 (NIV): Concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to him, …

We are “caught up:”

1 Th 4:17 (NIV): After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.

We next have to answer: What is God’s wrath? Ezekiel 14:21 (NLT): “Now this is what the Sovereign Lord says: How terrible it will be when all four of these dreadful punishments fall upon Jerusalem—war, famine, wild animals, and disease—destroying all her people and animals.

Therefore, God’s wrath can be wars, famine, wild animals (who brutally kill humans), and disease.

This is the 2nd seal: Rev 6:4 (NLT): Then another horse appeared, a red one. Its rider was given a mighty sword and the authority to take peace from the earth. And there was war and slaughter everywhere.

God’s wrath in the Trib starts in the 2nd seal. 1 Th 1:10 proves the timing of the rapture is pre-Trib. That’s the Bible saying it; not me

keras said:

Those verses do not prove a rapture at all. You falsely insert a rapture, where nothing like that is intended in scripture.

The only correct part of this guesswork is; the GT martyrs will serve Jesus in the MK.
The Great Multitude are living people, it is them who come through the terrible Sixth Seal event, by their faith and trust in the Lords protection. Rev 7:14

Deaths by the sword, famine plagues and wild beasts are not natural. They have all happened over the last 2000 years. It could hardly have been worse! It is the way, it can be estimated; that about a quarter of the people born since AD 1, have deid.

Click to expand...

1 Th 1:10, Ezekiel 14:21 and Rev 6:4 prove the pre-Trib rapture. You can’t disprove that. Your opinion is not proof.

As of Rev 9:4, the only folks living on the earth are the 144k (sealed servants of God) and unbelievers. This is even more proof of the pre-Trib rapture.

Rev 9:4,(NIV):,They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only those people who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads.

The 144k are God’s servants in creating the greatest revival in the Trib. The unbelievers who are converted become martyrs. Those martyrs are in Rev 6:9 and Rev 20:4. They are resurrected in the last sentence of Rev 20:4. They are then seen in Heaven in Rev 7:9-17. They will serve Jesus in the MK (last sentence in Rev 20:4). It is they who are the GM.

Your citation of AD1 means you don’t accept the fact that Daniel’s 70th week is only seven years long. AD1 has no part in a future “week” of seven years. All of Rev 4 and beyond (the only exception is Rev 3:10) are in the future.

Alan Dershowitz.

As I said, there is a great deal of money, time, hot air and malevolence being spent to portray Trump as a "victim."

I like your poem. Ooh, 1 Chronicles 16:11 discusses about Looking to God: "Look to the LORD and his strength; seek his face always."

Looks like that will be a topic in my Bible analysis on meditating on the Gospel and God, for tomorrow.