Chesterton said:

It says they worked 119 days in 2023. Yes they do other stuff, but a lot of that is handled by clerks and assistants. The only real hard part is the work put in to getting your face in front of a TV camera as often as possible. Theoretically, one could be illiterate and be a congressman. Of course it would be nice to be able to read a restaurant menu while you're in a place with which we have important relations, that you've taken a taxpayer-paid-for junket to, like Tahiti.

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You should jealous. Maybe you should run for a seat yourself.

rjs330 said:

Why on earth would we use the word food dessert? Oh I know to make sound like prople are living in the Sahara and its much more dramatic effect to do so.

People live more than a mile from a Supermarket? A whole mile? Maybe its 3 miles? Good grief what do we expect? That there be a Supermarket on every block?

Whats the point. Most human beings dont live within a mile of a Supermarket. I live about 3 1/2 miles from one. I know plenty of people that live further than that.

Yeah, if you live out in the country its expected you wont be close to one. I lived out in the country about 10 miles from one for years. I would just have to make a special trip or stop on my way home after work.

People need to stop.making excuses. There will never be a grocery store within a mile or 3 from every person living there. They would never stay in business. Who on earth in their right mind would think thats a possibility?

Secondly these same people will complain about there not being a grocery store within a mile but will happily jump on a bus and ride halfway across town go to a clothing or electronics store.

Life isnt easy for most of us. Most of us have to fet off our butts and drive or take public transportation to go anywhere worthwhile. Its not all just out our front door down the block. Man we are an entitled society.

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Easy bro - I didn't make up the term. I just point to the info that is out there.

Besides - "dessert" is like apple pie. Desert is the Sahara like thing you are talking about.

Regardless of how you feel about it, it is a thing.

stevevw said:

Exactly how have we gone into pseudoscience lol.

How do we know that its actually pseudoscience. Is belief in God pseudoscience. Explain to me how its pseudoscience.

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Post #1098. The claims you've made about the Incas having 'stone softening technology', same as the Ancient Egyptians according to you. Your claims that we should accept any and every claim made by indigenous people without thought or actual study is definitively an example of pseudoscience.

This whole thread is pseudoscience.

And no, believe in God is not pseudoscience since it's a religious belief. You cannot be dumb enough to even pretend that your question was sensible to begin with to ask that question.

stevevw said:

No. science itself as an enterprise is designed to only measure the material world that is quantified in physical and naturalistic processes. This has nothing to do with atheism. Christians can be scientists.

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So they can, and science is the same for both Christian and non-Christian scientists.

stevevw said:

The difference is they know its limitations when it comes to other aspects of reality that may not fall into the scientific paradigm.
In fact even within science there are conflicts about which paradigm is correct.

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No, there is not.

stevevw said:

Look at say behaviour sciences where it use to be that all behaviour was conditions on the physical environment and conditioning. Thenm we discovered the Mind and psychology. Another aspect of reality different to the physical processes and not necessarily the result there of. In fact said to be the actual driver of the physical as well.

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That is a grotesque misrepresentation of the behavioral sciences.

stevevw said:

Even the so called epiphenomena is a sort of magic idea that the physical can pop out some unquantifiable aspect of reality like a genie in a bottle. That actually alters reality itself as a force. Without any evidence or explanation. Thats sound just as much a belief as in God.

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And this is a grotesque misrepresentation of the scientific understanding of epiphenomena. Have you ever in your life made a post here without at least one bare-faced lie in it? If so I am not aware of it.

essentialsaltes said:

National Guard troops briefly deployed to Portland despite judge’s order, federal trial reveals​

Jean Lin, special counsel for the Justice Department, confirmed the deployment to the U.S. District Court Judge Karin Immergut on Wednesday but provided few specifics — minutes before the trial began.

“We’ll talk later about whether that’s contempt,” the judge responded to Lin Wednesday.

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Judge rules Trump administration failed to meet legal requirements for deploying troops to Portland​

The ruling from U.S. District Court Judge Karin Immergut, a Trump appointee, followed a three-day trial last week in which both sides argued over whether protests at the city’s U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building met the conditions for using the military domestically under federal law.

Judge says the protests have had 'minimal' effect on the federales, while the WH spox continues to assert continuous rioting and lawlessness.

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Bradskii said:

Thanks again for the info. It is a bonus having someone put forward an argument for moral absolutism rather than simply deny relativism. So...

There is a lot with which I disagree in the highlighted section. But let's not get down into the weeds at the moment. At one point Geisler says: 'either there is a moral absolute or else everything is morally relative.'

I'll go with that. And I also take it to mean that nothing is morally relative and that it's all absolute. The other side of the same coin as it were. Do you agree with that or not?

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I agree with the text in that it basically says what I have said before. But is much better articulated. What stood out to me was his comment that relativity requires an absolutes.

mark46 said:

Yes, he could succumb to blackmail by a minority, have the bill changed and force the House and Senate to pass the new bill.

Schumer could simply vote to continue the government. Democrats want to use blackmail to change legislation.

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They want to negotiate . It is the American way, or used to be.

Reluctant Theologian said:

Read Moses' speeches in Deuteronomy - that's the outline of what was considered Life or Death for the believer in TNK/OT times. You should not read the TNK/OT through the lens of the NT, it's the other way around. The average God-fearing Israelite didn't know about Yeshua as the Messiah yet - faith in Him had not been defined yet as the key criterion for Life in Deuteronomy (or the Torah in general).

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It was defined in the same way much was defined in the OT, through types and shadows, where
faith in the promise (Ge 15:5-6, Seed, Jesus Christ, Gal 3:16) was reckoned by God as salvific.

Augustine got it right. . ."The OT is the NT concealed, the NT is the OT revealed."

BPPLEE said:

If he overstayed his Visa does he deserve special treatment because he works for the Department of Criminal Justice?

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rjs330 said:

If he overstayed, whats the problem with him being picked up? Why is this bad?

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We were all told that ICE would be going after the bad guys. Instead, they are going after priests working for the good guys.

This provides an answer to the question "Why do people hate ICE?"

Job 33:6 said:

God created Israel ...

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Not exactly. We agree that God created Jacob, and that after successfully wrestling with God's messenger, Jacob asked for a blessing before releasing the angel. The angel renamed Jacob to Israel, ie., one who wrestles with God. The renaming tradition occurs often in the Bible when a mortal engages with the eternal or His angel showing the individual's transformation after encountering the other-worldly.

Humans have been humans for a very long time. It is of considerable interest that from very early times, the evidence shows they had much in common with humans today.

Trump is trying to assist Latin American governments as stable trading partners instead of China filling the vacuum.



Much more work needs to be done for US farmers but a start has been made with soybean sales resuming with China.

The Barbarian said:

Of course it's significant. But we have evidence of human structures earlier than that. I don't think anyone was surprised that humans would stay in a place that had all the resources they needed, or that they'd be making tools, possibly for trade. Interesting, but not a surprising find.

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Yes ,interesting - and encouraging that evidence of hominid culture can be unearthed and interpreted after such a long time frame and generation spans.

(I have no expertise in the field myself)

Warden_of_the_Storm said:

Oh, we've gone WAY into pseudoscience territory now, haven't we?

The premise was bad enough to begin with.

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Exactly how have we gone into pseudoscience lol.

How do we know that its actually pseudoscience. Is belief in God pseudoscience. Explain to me how its pseudoscience.

Dan1988 said:

No, you misinterpreted what I clearly stated. I never claimed that there were only two "camps of Christianity". I simply said there are two opposing interpretations of the gospel.

All of the 49,000 Christian Denominations hold to one of these two interpretations.

There's a big problem with those three Denominations your refer to, "Roman Catholic", "Eastern Orthodox" and "Oriental Orthodoxy", all departed from the truth and formed their man made religions.

Here's what Gods Word reveals about your Denominations >>>>>

1 John 2:19, which reads: "They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but they went out that they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us"

Your promoting this idea that the Body of Christ is divided into vehemently opposing Denominations, which teach mans wisdom, instead of Gods truth. God never intended His people to be enemies who kill each other, as we know happened when the Vatican declared war on Protestants and tens of thousands were butchered to death in the name of Christ.

I don't know why you support denominations which justify violence against their brothers in Christ. There is only One true Church, not 49,000 radically opposed denominations.

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Obviously you know nothing about church history. Those were the only three denominations of Christianity before the reformation and it’s indisputable. Also I never said that I support the Roman Catholic Church. But you can’t deny that the Roman Catholic Church wasn’t established by the apostles because Paul wrote the entire Epistle to the Roman church in Romans. If you knew anything about church history you’d know that. If you knew anything about church history you’d know about the schism of 1054. You don’t know that because it’s not important to you what the early church taught and what happened to the early church otherwise you would’ve studied it. It’s indisputable that the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, and the Eastern Oriental Church were all planted by the apostles. If you knew anything about church history you’d recognize that what you’re saying is that every single church planted by the apostles, who endured persecution and even martyrdom because of their enduring faith in the gospel, who were spread out across thousands of miles apart, all decided to preach a different gospel WITHOUT ABSOLUTELY NO EVIDENCE OF ANY RESISTANCE WHATSOEVER. These thousands upon thousands of believers who were spread out across thousands of miles with no type of communication other than meeting in person or letters all unanimously decided to preach a different gospel as soon as the apostles were dead even to the point of dying for that false gospel. So stop pretending that you know anything about church history because it’s obvious to everyone in this thread that you don’t.

A2SG said:

I would fully support such legislation....but, if gerrymandering is perfectly legal, and Texas is going to do it to favor the GOP, I see no problem with California or any other state doing the same thing. What's good for the goose and all that.

-- A2SG, how dare democrats do what republicans are already doing!!

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Precisely. Republicans are angry and indignant that the democrats are leveling the playing field. I suspect that if all blue state were to do this, we'd finally see some progress in eliminating corruption in redistricting.

Job 33:6 said:

... formless void ... And over 6 hours I created a pizza and at the end of my creation.

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Do you see the contradiction? You did not create a pizza from a "formless void". Rather than from a "formless void", you transformed flour, water, etc. into a pizza.

ThatRobGuy said:

https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/politics/nancy-pelosi-congress-retirement

Nancy Pelosi, the first and only female speaker of the US House of Representatives and one of the most powerful figures in Democratic politics for decades, has announced she will not seek reelection.

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...widely viewed as the most effective Speaker....ever.

Given how lone she has lived in the heads of the far right for so long, that's probably true.

jasperr said:

What about the finding of continuous use in the same location?

Is that not significant ,or is that something that was already known or assumed to be the case even if not directly ascertained till now. ?

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Of course it's significant. But we have evidence of human structures earlier than that. I don't think anyone was surprised that humans would stay in a place that had all the resources they needed, or that they'd be making tools, possibly for trade. Interesting, but not a surprising find.

Gregory Thompson said:

Re-reading the verse in an inclusionary light would invoke one of the curses at the end of the book, so I wouldn't recommend it.

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I was basing it off of what you said "The 144,000 are unmarried men, virgins." Which draws more implications. If this is not your point, then can you reframe or expound on it? Because based on what you claim, those issues I see come up. Warning me to believe something doesn't make sense when I literally following what you said and this is a discussion. I'm trying to understand your points while also draw my own conclusion. So if your interpretation is literal that these are men only, then my argument for that is expounded on what I stated to counter your interpretation. We are supposed to study the word are we not? Your answer comes off like, "If you don't agree with me, then you'll get one of the curses at the end of the book while I'm not going to back up my statement." That's not the way to have any discussion really..

Gregory Thompson said:

The new testament fulfills what the old testament proclaimed. Manifestation meaning the new testament fulfillment of the old concept.

The old testament was a shadow of the things to come, the body casting said shadow is the manifestation. Much like how the elements of the temple all pointed to Christ.

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I agree with that but help me understand how you link the 144,000 as a manifestation of the OT. There is no OT mirror of a bunch of unmarried virgin men anywhere in the bible when it comes to tribes. Anytime God had a remnant of people he was saving, it was based on their spiritual state, not being married/unmarried or even virgins. So I'm really failing to see any of your points.

Job 33:6 said:

Ah no I'm not confusing anything. Genesis 1 tells us that God created man. But we know that man was made of dust. When God created the blacksmith, or Jacob, The Bible doesn't say that God transformed them, it explicitly states that God created them as I cited in passages above.

But now, this is what the LORD says— he who created you, Jacob, he who formed you, Israel: “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name; you are mine. Isaiah 43:1

See, it is I who created the blacksmith who fans the coals into flame and forges a weapon fit for its work. And it is I who have created the destroyer to wreak havoc. Isaiah 54:16

God doesn't merely transform Jacob or Israel or the blacksmith etc. God explicitly creates them.

In fact, it's the same Hebrew word as used in Genesis 1. "Bara".

And to create does not explicitly mean "ex nihilo".

I created a sandwich. But that doesn't mean that I therefore made a sandwich appear out of thin air. I can create a recipe. I can create a football team. I can create a work of art. I can create a piece of furniture etc.

And God can create things this way too.

This is a simple and commonly overlooked misconception about Genesis that has plagued the church for a long time.

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We believe that God creates each soul individually at conception. After His animating act, the bodies begin their material transformation from egg and sperm and develop into fully formed bodies. Does the acorn create the oak tree? No. It is the seed with the potency to transform under the correct condition to become an oak tree.

Servus said:

It will be interesting to see how things are going in NYC a year from now. Hopefully it won't end up being a hard lesson for NY citizens.

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Mandami cannot fulfil half of his campaign promises since a city mayor lacks the authority for those changes. The rest may be possible, but would require two or three years, so significant change in NYC seems unlikely.

Oh, aside, for a country in crisis, Trump has an awful lot of spare time posting on Truthsocial in a day. Should he not be working to end the crisis?

wing2000 said:

“I could feel it through my ballistic vest,” the agent testifies. “The sandwich…exploded all over my uniform. I could smell the onions and the mustard.” As Joseph Conrad’s Kurtz might have testified....

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Does this man have any self-respect?