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Criminal Illegal Alien Who Offered $10,000 Bounties to Murder ICE Agents Arrested in Dallas, TX

You said I had explained your experience. I said I didn't because I don't know your experience. Instead of explaining your experience as I asked you to, you repeat your claim. You okay?

And yet you did. You dismissed my experience as being a product of propaganda from "lamestream" media.

I see. So what is my side? What do I believe. Do tell.
I don't recall seeing any. Remind me what they were.
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So you don't recall my objections that you literally started your response with?
You said I had explained your experience.

To correct me?

I have been trying, but it has been an uphill slog.
Do you always answer questions with questions? Usually you're supposed to answer with answers.
I generally find it useful in demonstrating my specific issues with a response. This time it certainly has proved fruitless.


I must be slow. What things are those?
Do you have evidence my news sources are simply propaganda? What is my understanding? Why do you dismiss my point of view and minimize it ?
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Heating up down under

Here are some suspected tipping points in Earth's geological history.

Period / EventApprox. TimeTipping MechanismWhat TippedConsequenceHow a New Stable Equilibrium Was Reached
Snowball Earth transitions720–635 million years agoIce–albedo feedbackGlobal ice coveragePlanet froze, then abruptly deglaciatedVolcanic CO₂ built up over millions of years → intense greenhouse warming melted ice → climate stabilized at warmer, ice-free equilibrium
Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM)~56 million years agoCarbon release (volcanic + methane hydrates)Carbon cycleRapid 5–8 °C global warming, ocean acidificationWeathering and carbon burial slowly drew down CO₂ → radiative balance restored over ~200,000 years
Eocene–Oligocene transition~34 million years agoCO₂ decline + orbital coolingAntarctic glaciationPermanent ice sheets formedNew radiative–albedo balance established: reflective ice maintained colder global equilibrium
Younger Dryas (onset/termination)~12,900–11,700 years agoMeltwater disrupted AMOCOcean circulationAbrupt cooling, then rapid warmingAMOC gradually re-established; radiative forcing and ocean–ice feedbacks stabilized modern Holocene climate
African Humid Period collapse~5,500 years agoOrbital precession reduced monsoonsSaharan vegetation and rainfallSahara turned from green to desertNew dry equilibrium formed where weak monsoons sustain desert albedo feedback
Dansgaard–Oeschger / Heinrich events60,000–20,000 years agoIce–ocean–atmosphere couplingN. Atlantic ice sheets / AMOCRapid glacial climate oscillationsEach event stabilized temporarily when ice-sheet geometry and circulation re-balanced heat transport
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Trump live updates: President expands ‘narco’ boat strikes to Pacific Ocean as 8th boat is struck

Presented "zero evidence?" Or you have seen zero evidence from the liberal media?

What evidence have you seen? And no, Hegseth or his spokesperson making a claim is not evidence.
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What are you listening to right now? (24)

Today I was listening to hymns on violin or something. It was so good for my soul. It was almost trance-like. W/in a couple minutes. It was very strange. & they were old Christian hymns so I didn't understand but didn't really trust that. So I ended up just going back to piano hymns.
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What's on your mind?

I know, a lot of I wish's lately.

You'd think I'd be more grateful w/ what I have & what I know.

Here's something grateful: When I first started my job, I didn't think I'd make it. It came after a couple jobs I didn't make it at. I've been here a long time now. It wasn't worth the concern. But maybe it was a little bit, otherwise you wouldn't have tried as hard.
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Trump live updates: President expands ‘narco’ boat strikes to Pacific Ocean as 8th boat is struck

Not this government. They lie every day.

To date, the government has presented zero evidence to back up their claims. And even if they did, the US military should never be used to murder civilians suspected of a civil crime.

We are not at war with Colombia or Venezeula.

These killings are illegal.
Drug smuggling is a civil crime? Are you sure?
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What's on your mind?

I wish I was more an evangelist. It's hard being an evangelist when you're more introverted. I have the passion.

That is not me tho. I am more a discipler, I want someone to be deep, not shallow. The evangelists can help plant it, I will help water it so it doesn't stay a seed.

The Bible teaches we all have different talents & the Bible teaches we can all 'evangelize' in what we do.

But be ready to evangelize
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Trump live updates: President expands ‘narco’ boat strikes to Pacific Ocean as 8th boat is struck

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Two “narco-terrorists” were killed in the strike off Colombia’s coast Tuesday, he said. The latest strike raises the death toll from the administration’s attacks to at least 34 people.

There was a lot of money made in human trafficking during the Biden administration and the money the crime organizations now have to push drugs is going to make this a long war.

While we have problems I do pray this is moving towards the diplomatic solution of other countries enforcing their own laws.

I'm not big on this. It helps when we enforce our own borders also.

Maybe it shows my ignorance but I don't know if the cartels warrant this. I know they do a lot of bad, if it's illegal these cartels traffic in it, that's not the issue, but I do believe we have treated these people differently in the past.

And since we have treated them differently from the legal perspective in the past perhaps some leeway is in order to give adequate warning and see how much effect it is just having stepped up our own borders more.
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Trump live updates: President expands ‘narco’ boat strikes to Pacific Ocean as 8th boat is struck

Truman killed hundreds of thousands of civilians in Japan. Sometimes these things happen.

But shooting a random fishing boat doesn't help anyone.

Congress could put every drug dealer out of business by legalizing the stuff and directing the proceeds toward treatment. I don't endorse drug abuse, but at least we'd have a better grip on it.

What point did you think you were making?
I agree. Shooting a random fishing boat doesn’t help anything. But shooting a narco terrorist boat filled with narcotics helps the entire country.
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Trump live updates: President expands ‘narco’ boat strikes to Pacific Ocean as 8th boat is struck

Not this government. They lie every day.

To date, the government has presented zero evidence to back up their claims. And even if they did, the US military should never be used to murder civilians suspected of a civil crime.

We are not at war with Colombia or Venezeula.

These killings are illegal.
Presented "zero evidence?" Or you have seen zero evidence from the liberal media?
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Trump live updates: President expands ‘narco’ boat strikes to Pacific Ocean as 8th boat is struck

Do you think that was fine for Obama?
Nope.
Did Obama ever promote these strikes like they were something to be proud of and celebrated?
Nope. As far as I know. It was swept under the rug with Bengazi.
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The Reality of Free Will

No, Jesus never tried to get the crowds or assembly to understand. He specifically told His personal disciples that He spoke in parables so that they (the audiences) WOULD NOT UNDERSTAND.
Thanks Aaron.
Let me rephrase Jesus explained in a way that people could understand... at times. :smile:
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Is Romans 3:25 in the Greek in ANY manuscript version the same? (Some who knows greek - help)

how is that not a teaching about His blood sacrifice?
I'm being literal. Figurative, as I stated before, he mentioned it to his disciples in instances like the last supper, but he never did a teaching on this topic to crowds or other people that is on record. If I'm wrong, please show me scripture where he made these public statements when talking about how others can be saved. If knowing about his blood sacrifice was going to save people, or requiring people to know about it in order to be saved, then Jesus would have taught it out in the open instead of telling it to his disciples and by your inference, having them spread the message. Jesus taught about vitally important stuff to crowds and the fact it's not mentioned, says something. Essentially, it's good info to know, but not a requirement in order to be saved.

Jesus blood was necessary for our salvation and it is clear from scripture that He wants us to understand atonement, blood sacrifice for sin, 'the atoning sacrifice" of 1 John 2:2 NIV that we see all through the OT.
Yes, again, what he did on the cross is good to understand on a nuance level how his sacrifice attoned for our sins, but understanding or knowing it has no sway towards salvation.

once we accept Christ as the Way the Truth and the life... "My Words are life" John 6.
Exactly, we accept Christ and him alone. We put our faith that he forgives us of our sins but we are not required to understand how he forgives us, just that we have faith that he does. That is all that is necessary. You're adding to the requirement list of salvation if every single person has to be a scholar in order to be saved. You're making it about "study this book in order to be saved" instead of "go to Jesus for your salvation as your belief in Him saves you". You're changing the big picture on salvation.

When Peter 'stopped short" of the next teaching of Christ in Matt 16 Jesus said to him "get thee behind me Satan" and that was right after Jesus had blessed Peter saying "flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but rather My Father in heaven"
Peter was being influenced, this isn't an indication Peter wasn't saved and I'm not entirely sure where you're going with this or what your point is.
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Jesus is trying to save us, again and again

We see God coming again and again to try to save the individual, if they don’t bear fruit, God still tries further. If the person responds, then they are saved. If they still refuse, they are damned.
Which of the false churches/ false gospels teaches this (in great and obvious error!) It has shown up in other posts/ops as well.
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Trump live updates: President expands ‘narco’ boat strikes to Pacific Ocean as 8th boat is struck

The same reason why they "make a case to the American people" every time Obama ordered a drone strik that killed innocent civilians?
Truman killed hundreds of thousands of civilians in Japan. Sometimes these things happen.

But shooting a random fishing boat doesn't help anyone.

Congress could put every drug dealer out of business by legalizing the stuff and directing the proceeds toward treatment. I don't endorse drug abuse, but at least we'd have a better grip on it.
Get my point? Or would you like to continue?
What point did you think you were making?
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Why Does the Bible Tell Us to Behave In Ways We Can’t? How Can Anyone Be Saved?

I’ve often wondered why the Bible gives us so many commands that seem impossible to follow — things like be holy, love your enemies, be perfect, and do not sin. If no one can actually live up to that standard, how can anyone possibly be saved? I want to be perfect, God' wants me to be perfect, so why am I not perfect?
Are you believing or participating in a group (a church) that you honestly think or used to think was telling and living the truth, that they were willingly serving Jesus ? That's the main reason that keeps people from being mature in Jesus, even keeps multitudes from ever seeking or following Jesus.
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Jesus is trying to save us, again and again

Predestination, a doctrine I fervently deny, states that God has pre-chosen certain people for life, and no matter their deeds, they will be saved. The rest are left to damnation. However, this is not the way Jesus described salvation in the following parable.

Luke 13:6-9 He also spoke this parable: "A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it and found none. Then he said to the keeper of his vineyard, 'Look, for three years I have come seeking fruit on this fig tree and find none. Cut it down; why does it use up the ground?' But he answered and said to him, 'Sir, let it alone this year also, until I dig around it and fertilize it. And if it bears fruit, well. But if not, after that you can cut it down.' "​

We see God coming again and again to try to save the individual, if they don’t bear fruit, God still tries further. If the person responds, then they are saved. If they still refuse, they are damned.

Predestination says that God just randomly selects people to give sight, the rest are blinded. But that is not consistent with the above view of scripture.
From my understanding predestination is not about God already saving certain people "no matter what they've done."

Some people seem to forget God already knows our ending, just as he knows our beginning. They seem to forget he is the alpha and Omega the beginning and the end. ISAIAH 46:10 KJV Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying,...

Ecclesiastes 1:9 & 3:15 tells us nothing is new up under the sun, that which is has already been and that which will be has already been.

God has seen it already, he has seen our lives and what we will do. That is how predestination can come in, predestined is becahse God already knows who is saved and who isn't, we because we are in the present tense are just living out our choices.

Either God is omnipresent or he isn't.

To be omnipresent he knows all things and to know all things he knows the past, present, and future. So he knows who made what choices, when they made them, why they made them, we're just living it out through Time, until the moment time cease to exist, the Bible refers to it as the end of days.
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Why Does the Bible Tell Us to Behave In Ways We Can’t? How Can Anyone Be Saved?

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Can a person believe in God's promise. I do not see why they believe in all other kind of junk that is not true. Why not simply believe in God's promise, which is 100+% true.

I will say satan has been very successful throughout churches, in making belief in God's promise of Eternal Life to all who will believe in Jesus for Eternal Life. Out to be a lie or some kind of crazy Un-Biblical theological teaching.
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