chevyontheriver said:

I listened to her speak and … yuck. It is appropriation. Tell them you aren’t the only one objecting to it.

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Indeed, that’s why I tagged this thread, among other things, “disgusting heretics,” because regular heretics just doesn’t seem to cut the mustard as far as these wackos are concerned. Actually come to think of it I wish I had tagged it wackos as well…that would seem apt. Admittedly uncharitable, but so are the invectives UUAs hurl at bona fide Christians.

Don't they have middle names to distinguish between the two or like the article Robert? Everyone called my dad Bob we all call my son Robert. Why drop out?

Those that make laws like this should be able to be made accountable.
Those that drafted the bill, those that voted for it, they should have to pay this woman's medical bills and should have to compensate her handsomely for forcing her to become infertile.

After reading more internet articles and forums regarding christian singles and the reasoning behind so many wanting marriage but cannot find partners, I know of one culprit for certain.

Dating apps, even the likes of eHarmony, are flawed when it comes to filtering out one's desires and preferences.

I explicitly put over and over that I do not want someone who drinks alcohol in any capacity nor do I want children. Every match I get are women who want one or both and it just gets old. I have walked away from apps and websites and the church is no better, when I even go.

It just seems to be a hopeless road that ends with me driving off a cliff into oblivion.

Has anyone else been less than satisfied with the results of matches or filtering systems with these?

Should I just accept my fate with my non-negotiables?

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The Independent previously reported that the creditors’ committee is “discussing” taking legal action against Mr Trump to recover this [allegedly owed] $2m — a move that Mr Giuliani has said he does not want to take.

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Rudy gains nothing from getting money owed to him. Any and all of this money goes to creditors who entrusted Rudy with loans or services rendered or have been grossly defamed by his public lies.

Rudy doesn't care if these people get money that he owes them.

Meanwhile, poor old "broke" Rudy has had to reduce his monthly living expenditure to a measly $40,000 per month. Now that's rough living. Poor Rudy.

RileyG said:

I never stated that. Rather, some parents, emphasis on some, can manipulate their children.

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Which we allow. For example we do not interfere with religious indoctrination nor do we outlaw the "cosmetic surgery" for religious reasons.

RileyG said:

If he wants to call his *daughter a he, that’s his choice.

I cannot and will not accept transgender ideology. I have my own convictions.

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What, exactly, do you imagine "transgender ideology" to be?

RileyG said:

I respect your right to disagree.

It’s all good.

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Oh look, another pro Russian thread.

prodromos said:

I only know an Australian movie by that name (great movie too)

As Time Goes by (1988) ⭐ 5.4 | Comedy, Sci-Fi

1h 36m

m.imdb.com

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The British comedy series starred Geoffrey Palmer and Dame Judy Dench, and was so popular it inspired their casting in the James Bond films (which for me, having seen it first, in 1998 I did a doubletake when at an electronics store, I saw Tomorrow Never Dies playing on the televisions in the store, having not seen it in theater (it had just been released on video), and it featured the two of them as M and one other character.

My experience is that dating apps and websites are flawed in their sorting features when it comes to compatibility. I don't want kids or someone who drinks and it never fails to be sent tons of matches of women who do or want one or both.... I gave up online and the churches told me I am wrong for not wanting kids and they did not support my stance, though I feel it is well justified. I'll go to my grave alone

Clare73 said:

How did they determine if what Paul said was true? . . .If it agreed with the word of God.

Did they find any disagreement with or contradiction of the word of God in what Paul taught them?

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I know the answer as Im sure you do to. As we are able to reason and use our God given mental capacities yielded to the Spirit to discover this mystery. Which you indicated we shouldn't do.

I'm not sure the of the relevance of Jn 8:13 to the conversation.

In any case I think we really are reaching beyond the scope of the OP.

As I don't think any of us will be moving to the Catholic faith anytime soon.

Zaha Torte said:

That's the question. Whoever is pushing all this LGHDTV nonsense.

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Everyone thinks they need a new TV every 3 or 4 years. Im getting fed up with it too. But the electronics lobby and Walmart have their agenda.

This is encouragement for a lifetime. I keep it in my heart for dark times. It has brought me through terrible troubles. I mean God, of course.. as I clung to the scriptures.

JesusFollowerForever said:

see the link below;



Here is what I know;

please see this link, it is one of many but hard to find.

Global Warming: A closer look at the numbers

water vapour varies in the atmosphere from about 2.5 to 5.5%, this gas has a GWP index factor of 300, this number is now almost impossible to find on the internet, you might have to go to a library to confirm, Personally I did confirm.

CO2 on the other hand has a value of 1, water vapour is 300 times more effective in trapping heat then CO2.

some graphs (data) exists that you have never seen in the news before such as;
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you can find more of these on the internet, co2 is a contributor to global warming but a minor one only,

the gases in our fridges and ac units have a GWP's in the range of 35,000, imagine industrialization in Asia, China, India, since a few years ago, most now have ac's and fridges, i speculate here and did not research this but it might be a factor to consider seriously. it is not CO2 I am certain. I am not the only one to denounce that CO2 is NOT the main factor, thousands of climate scientists think the same, that is is something else than CO2 ( 0.04%) with the lowest GWP of 1!

Blessings.

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Since warming of the surface of earth (land, air, water), no matter what cause or combinations of causes, will then lead to that warmer air above the surface always then holding more water than cooler air would hold (and when a given air mass with a lot of water vapor cools, it rains, since the air can no longer hold as much water at a cooler temperature) -- this means any graph that graphs the surface temperature against the amount of water vapor in the air MUST correlate perfectly.

No matter what causes warming, the total water in the air must follow the temperature perfectly.

Just as your graph shows.

Because Earth has open standing -- water, oceans, lakes.

But regarding the GWP of water vapor, the wiki reports: "Water vapour does contribute to anthropogenic global warming, but as the GWP is defined, it is negligible for H2O: an estimate gives a 100-year GWP between -0.001 and 0.0005.[25]"

Water vapor helps retain heat in the atmosphere also, so why is the GWP so low?

As I think of it in analogy: it's anagolous to when someone turns the handle on a motorcycle for more gas to the engine -- as you turn the handle, the engine increases its power output. But the cause of the greater engine power in the analogy isn't really the engine or even the gasoline in the tank, but in our analogy, the overall causation here is from the turn on the handle to put more gas into the engine, analogy wise. In parallel, while water vapor is sorta like the gas in the tank -- it flows into the engine more in response.... so, the water vapor is like a response, even though it also participates in retaining heat.

But this will be something you'll like: more about what water does, how even though it's not the driver, it's still participating:

Some people mistakenly believe water vapor is the main driver of Earth’s current warming. But increased water vapor doesn’t cause global warming. Instead, it’s a consequence of it. Increased water vapor in the atmosphere amplifies the warming caused by other greenhouse gases.

Mark Quayle said:

Zen?? I'm sorry, but this does not sound like scripture. There is a time for something like indulging in the mental state of mere admiration and delight in God's transcendence, I do not disagree, but this is not the proscribed practice of worship, I don't think.

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I understand why that would cause you to scratch your head.

Maybe we aren't in agreement on this, but I do see "worship" more than a practice, but an aim in practice toward giving reverence, adoration, gratitude, and devotion to God. Contemplation and appreciation, therefore, is the driving purpose of our prescribed practices in worship. Our meditation on God's holiness is the heart of worship, without which, it becomes meaningless. It is the greatest form, in my view, because it is everything that any practice of worship aims at, therefore, it requires no particular form to achieve that end.

Team Fortress 2, Counter Strike 2, and Lies of P. Lies of P has been great so far, I hope it keeps up as I keep playing.

Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández will unveil guidelines for discerning Marian apparitions and other supernatural phenomena on Friday, but it is not the first time that the Vatican’s doctrine office has issued a directive for how the Church should respond to news of an alleged apparition.

Fifty years ago officials from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith identified how the emergence of mass media had created an environment in which news of an alleged apparition could spread rapidly and quickly draw larger crowds than in past centuries thanks to the ease of modern travel.

Officials from the congregation met to discuss problems that could come up in examining apparitions in November 1974 and agreed on a procedure for Church authorities to follow in the case of a reported apparition.

The Vatican’s doctrine office made these norms public with the approval of Pope Paul VI in 1978, just three years before Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was named the prefect of the congregation.

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Campo’s cooking style mixes Cajun, Creole and Italian cuisine.

Recipe: Smoked and Braised Beef Short Ribs​

“This my way of cooking simple smoked-and-braised beef short ribs,” says Trey Campo.

Ingredients

• 8 beef short ribs
• 2 tablespoons cooking oil
• Salt
• Coarsely ground black pepper
• Garlic powder
• 2 stalks celery, chopped
• 2 onions, peeled and diced
• 1 bell pepper, diced
• 2 garlic cloves, peeled and diced
• 1 to 2 cans of 12-ounce beer, preferably dark
• Beef stock, preferably homemade
• 2 carrots, sliced

Directions

Smoke 2 to 3 of the beef short ribs at 225 degrees F with hickory/oak smoke for 1 to 2 hours. Note: don’t smoke all the BBQ beef ribs as this may overpower the dish and we want to reserve some of the ribs for browning to make gravy.

With remaining beef ribs, heat up Dutch oven with 2 tablespoons cooking oil to brown the ribs. Brown ribs meat side down for 2 to 3 mins, until brown bits begin to form in bottom of enamel Dutch oven.

Remove beef ribs, and deglaze pot with the vegetables. Don’t add garlic just yet as it could burn. Deglaze until the vegetables are soft and onions are translucent. Add garlic at end and cook down until aromatic. Add 1 to 2 cans of beer. Add the beef stock. Bone broth works great too.

Add just enough stock (approximately 2 to 3 inches deep) to cover the bones of the beef ribs in Dutch oven. Add all beef ribs to the Dutch oven.

Simmer with lid on for 2 to 3 hours, then remove lid and cook for another 30 to 45 minutes. May need to thicken with cornstarch or flour to desired consistency.

Beef ribs should be shreddable and very tender. Remove bones and membrane from ribs leaving only tender meat in Dutch oven. Gravy can be put into fat separator to remove some of the fat, then returned to pot as gravy. Carrots may be added as well with 1 hour left at simmer to ensure they’re soft. Potatoes work well too. Serve over white rice with herbs and parsley.

mark46 said:

I am not sure that the housing inflation of the last10 years is due to new zoning regulations.

Let's be clear, before the pandemic we had a long time of very low inflation,

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New zoning? Well, maybe sometimes. Mostly zoning regulations are old stuff, so, the highest inflations I'd bet are typically in areas with old zoning regulations.
Compare with Houston to see how housing costs tend to trend with less zoning rules.

Yes, we had low inflation a long time before the pandemic. Inflation is just the outcome of precisely how many dollars are chasing precisely how much available supply of goods/services.

JoeT said:

I don't assume the Kingdom here on earth, His Kingdom did come at His ascension. Reading Sacred Scripture, you'll find His Kingdom. Don't dismiss it as another symbol, "For they have not rejected thee, but me, that I should not reign over them" [1 Kings 8:7]

The Apostles came to Christ asking if He will establish his Kingdom on the spot. He said, “ It is not for you to know the times or moments, which the Father hath put in his own power But you shall receive the power of the Holy Ghost coming upon you, and you shall be witnesses unto me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and even to the uttermost part of the earth [Acts 1:6-8] And when did the Holy Spirit come? At Pentecost, where they were filled with the Holy Spirit, "they were all filled with the Holy Spirit [Acts 2:4]

One God, One Church.

Jesus did indeed "set up His earthly Kingdom or if you please His earthly Church. He said, "I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it" [Matthew 16:18]. Not only did Christ build His Church, He built it on Peter whom you renounce as head of the Church. Jesus commissions empowering the one true church [Matthew 28:16-20].

There is but one family of believers, spanning all ages, and nations, those who are members of the Body of Christ, the Catholic Church. Do you reject Him by rejecting the Church?

Non-Catholics believe they have absolute sovereignty and independence of God and His authority; believing one religion is as good as another, i.e. relativism. Looking inward for authority, each rationalist holds the necessary individual authority to establish basic cosmic truths. This seems to transform into complete independence from any social morality not otherwise originating from their own interior. This degradation continues with the implied right to judge moral and civil law. The argument extended is to say that God’s laws are relative; “what’s true for you, may not be true for me”. Polls becomes the important indicator for right and wrong; rather than God’s immutable truth. And finally, in the extreme the relativism requires absolute freedom of thought in matters of morality and religion. The paradigm resulting from this is complete independence from God's will unless it happens to coincide with the current paradigm.

Thus, believing in Him means you are of the one sheep, not multiple sheep in thousands of flocks with an equal number of truths.

JoeT

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And in John 3:13 reads , No Man // Oudeis , is in the Greek Nominative case , meaning the subject , Active Voice , in teh Indicative Mood , means you better believe it , in the Singular .

Hath Ascended // Anabaino , is in the Present Tense , in the Active Voice , in the Indicative Mood , in the Singular .

To Heaven // Ouranos is in the Accusative Case , in the Singular .

No one has GONE to Heaven , period .

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Other businesses speak to growing popularity, too.

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A Veils by Lily creation (photo: Lily Wilson / Veils by Lily)


You might not think of chapel veils (also known as mantillas) as a booming market item, but since Lily Wilson started selling them, her company, Veils by Lily, has grown an astonishing 2,000%.

“I started out in 2010 in the corner of my kitchen, filling 30 to 60 orders per month. Now, there are 12 of us working out of an office in historic Kimmswick, Missouri. We fill an average of 900 orders per month, including wholesale orders,” Wilson told the Register.

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Qubit said:

We know that they died physically because God does not lie.

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If they had died physically, the text would have said so.

Qubit said:

We can safely assume that the worst had happened

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I'm not assuming anything.
Genesis 2:20 says "But for Adam no suitable helper was found". In the NIV there is a note to say "or, for the man....". Adam was the first man who was created; that is what his name means: man.
Now read Genesis 3:17 - "to Adam, God said ....".
Genesis 3:20 "ADAM named his wife Eve".
Genesis 3:21; "The Lord made garments for Adam and his wife
Genesis 4:1 "Adam lay with his wife, Eve".

It sounds as though you are saying that a man and his wife were created: they both died immediately they ate the fruit. A new man, called Adam was created/the original one was resurrected and a new woman called Eve was created/the original woman was resurrected. And this couple - Adam and Eve mark 2 - were the ones who were evicted from the garden, had Cain and Abel etc.

But that doesn't make sense.
a) the man is called Adam in chapter 2 - before the fall.
b) the text doesn't say anything about a man and a woman dying and then being resurrected.
c) the Lord punished Adam and his wife and then drove them from the garden. Why would God have cursed them if they had died as soon as they ate the fruit? Why would he have resurrected them if they had died in their sin? If they had been resurrected as sinners, what was the point of their having died?

Qubit said:

It was Ishshah that died. She was then resurrected here as Eve...

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So the woman physically died, was resurrected as Eve, (not mentioned in the text), banished from the garden then slept with Adam, her husband, and gave birth to Cain.

If the woman's physical death was punishment for sinning, why did God resurrect her, make her a garment to clothe her because she had been ashamed of her nakedness - and then drive her form the garden?
If both man and woman had been raised from the dead by God, they could have stayed in the garden and eaten from the tree of life. They would have had their punishment - physical death.

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Obviously, these are two different women. Eve was not named twice.

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Eve was her name - given after the fall.
And if you are saying that they were different women, then there was no resurrection. If there had been, it would have been the same woman brought back from the dead.
Read about Elijah raising a boy to life; or Jesus raising Jairus' daughter and Lazarus. In each case, it was the same person brought back to life.
As with Jesus himself - he gave the disciples many proofs that HE, Jesus, was alive again. He wasn't a different man.

Even a baby cannot be fooled by this tragic game called surrogacy.
Two viral posts on X recently went viral and speak volumes on the tragic dangers of surrogacy. (photo: Screenshots / Taken from X last visited on May 14, 2024. )

A newborn is placed on a mother’s chest.

The mother is recovering from a C-section delivery. I know the image well, as I laid in the same position after four days in active labor with my daughter, waiting for my sweet baby to be taken from my womb. A clear plastic veil allows you to see the baby when the doctor finally cradles the little one, now up in the air and quick to cry. Why is it cold? Where am I? This is so unfamiliar, the newborn wail seems to say.

Quickly, the baby is cleaned and placed on the mother’s chest.

And the little one calm downs.

No more tears. No more wincing of the eyes.

The baby instantaneously senses that, yes, her mother is here, as the tiny hand clutches the side of her mother’s face to embrace her. This safe space with her momma is home.

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