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durangodawood · 2025-12-07T00:10:05-0600

Nithavela said:
Depending on the time that happened, they probably had standing orders not to help shipwrecked people because the allies kept attacking them during their rescue attempts. The german navy never had a habit of killing shipwrecked people.

Laconia incident - Wikipedia

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I would not have assumed killing the shipwrecked was either German habit or policy back then.

Christsfreeservant · 2025-12-07T00:07:21-0600

“I have other sheep, which are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and they will hear My voice; and they will become one flock with one shepherd. For this reason the Father loves Me, because I lay down My life so that I may take it again. No one has taken it away from Me, but I lay it down on My own initiative. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This commandment I received from My Father.” (John 10:16-18 NASB1995)

When Jesus spoke these words, his sheep (his followers) were primarily the Jews who had believed in him to be their Lord and Savior. So, the “other sheep” he was speaking of were the Gentiles who were soon to be included in the family of God, by faith in Jesus Christ, because of Jesus’ sacrifice on that cross for the sins of the world. And Jew and Gentile, by faith in Jesus Christ, were to become one people of God, no longer divided by Jew and Gentile, but now all one family, with Jesus Christ as their only shepherd.

For Jesus Christ made both groups into one and broke down the barrier of the dividing wall that stood between them, and he made the two (Jew and Gentile) into “one new man,” that he might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross. For through Christ we both (Jew and Gentile) have access in one Spirit to the Father so that non-Jews who believe in Jesus Christ are now fellow citizens with the Jewish saints of God who have trusted in Jesus Christ to be their Lord, both of whom are now of God’s household.

For not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel, and not all who are physical descendants of Abraham are the children of Abraham. For it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but it is the children of the promise who are counted as offspring. So, if you belong to God, by biblical faith in Jesus Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise, because Jesus Christ is the seed of Abraham, and God’s promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed (Galatians 3:16).

So, there is no more division between Jew and Gentile. We are all one people, one holy nation, by genuine faith in Jesus Christ. And all who deny that Jesus is the Christ are not of God, but they are antichrist, denying both the Father and the Son (Jesus Christ). So physical Jerusalem is no longer God’s holy city because she is of Hagar, the slave woman, and not of Sarah, the free woman. But spiritual Jerusalem, which is not a physical place, is the family of God by faith in Jesus Christ. We are God’s holy city, his people.

[Genesis 17:7-9; Genesis 18:19; Matthew 5:13-16; John 8:18-19,38-47; Romans 2:28-29; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 9:4-8,25-28; Romans 11:1-36; 1 Corinthians 3:16-17; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 3:16,26-29; Galatians 4:22-31; Ephesians 2:11-22; Ephesians 3:1-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-16; Hebrews 8:6-13; 1 Peter 2:9-10,24; 1 John 2:22; Jude 1:5; Revelation 2:9; Revelation 3:9]

But we are not included in God’s family merely by verbal professions of faith in Jesus Christ. So here is what it means to be of faith in Jesus Christ:

Jesus Christ taught that to come to him we must deny self, take up our cross daily (die daily to sin), and follow (obey) him. For if we hold on to living in sin and for self, we will lose our lives for eternity. But if we deny self, die daily to sin, by the Spirit, and we walk in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in his power, then we have eternal life with God. For not everyone who calls him “Lord” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one DOING (obeying) the will of God (see Luke 9:23-26; Matthew 7:21-23).

For by God-gifted faith in Jesus Christ, which is not of our own doing, we are crucified with Christ in death to sin and raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin but as slaves to righteousness in walks of obedience to God’s commands. We are no longer to permit sin to reign in our mortal bodies to make us obey its desires. For if sin is what we obey, it results in death. But if obedience to God is what we obey, it results in sanctification, and its end is eternal life with God (see Romans 6:1-23).

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 1:18-32; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 3:23; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 10:19-39; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22]

Seek the Lord

Based off Isaiah 55
An Original Work / July 20, 2012
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
Musical Instrumentation by Mark Bradley

“Come to Me all you who thirst; come to waters.
Listen to Me, and eat what’s good today,
And your soul will delight in richest of fare.
Give ear to Me, and you will live.
I have made an eternal covenant with you.
Wash in the blood of the Lamb.”

Seek the Lord while He may be found; call on Him.
Let the wicked forsake his way, in truth.
Let him turn to the Lord, and he will receive mercy.
Freely, God pardons him.
“For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways,”
declares the Lord, our God.

“My word that goes out of My mouth is truthful.
It will not return to Me unfulfilled.
My word will accomplish all that I desire,
And achieve the goal I intend.
You will go in joy and be led forth in peace.
The mountains will burst into song… before you,
And all of the trees clap their hands.”

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One Flock with One Shepherd
An Original Work / December 7, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Paidiske · 2025-12-07T00:00:25-0600

Sigh. How is it the second Sunday of Advent already?

Nithavela · 2025-12-06T23:48:35-0600

Oompa Loompa said:
Cartel drug smugglers are not uniformed combatants deserving of special rights and privileges. Especially after they rape the illegal immigrants the left loves so much before making them sex slaves to pay off their debts. Comparing these monsters to Japanese pilots is an insult to Imperial Japan.

Lol

Nanjing Massacre - Wikipedia

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An insult because they don't rape enough people I assume.

Nithavela · 2025-12-06T23:45:00-0600

durangodawood said:
In WWII my grandfather served in the Royal Navy when his ship was sunk in the English channel. There he bobbed around for a day more or less. I dont know if the Germans were in a position to come back around to kill the shipwrecked. But at least for my sake its a good thing they didnt.

Depending on the time that happened, they probably had standing orders not to help shipwrecked people because the allies kept attacking them during their rescue attempts. The german navy never had a habit of killing shipwrecked people.

Laconia incident - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

RileyG · 2025-12-06T23:44:49-0600

Good! I hope they become more common! My parish and several parishes in my city and diocese have them!

sjastro · 2025-12-06T23:43:38-0600

stevevw said:
Show me where I said this.

Ok so you got me there lol.

Its funny as you want to make claims without evidence to tell whether its fact or fiction and now you want to make destinctions. The line between fact and fiction has already been blurred with all the logical fallacies.

I was taking your word and maybe I should have checked. But the thing is thats exactly what has been happening on this thread and you have never called it out. So the precedent had already been set. If anything you should be flattered that I respected your word enough to take it as truth.

But it was not just out of thin air. There is evidence that the pyramid can have influence on the brain.

Yes but this does not show that they were used to pound the block out. The tests done show that the signatures don't match small pounders.

This is the problem that your associating tools found with the work must have created the work. Thats an assumption.

As mentioned the pounders may have been from a different period. The fact is the signatures within the scoops do not match small dolerite pounders. So we can discount them. Whether it was from a different time or the pounders were used for something else. It was not dolerite pounders.

There is lol. The vitrification of many of the megalith stones.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VX4Qv5upeE&t=236s

Remember I showed the snake cut into the stone block wall which had melted glass like edges and you ignored it. I have shown these before and they were ignored.

The ‘melted’ granite stairs in the Temple of Hathor, Egypt.

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Here we go again you can't stick to the same story.
So now the latest version is dolerite pounders at Aswan are not contemporary with the melting process technology???
Where is the support by showing evidence of vitrification on the unfinished obelisk, instead you post images that have nothing to with the unfinished obelisk let alone vitrification.

For example the image of "melted stairs" of the temple of Hathor is wrong on many counts.

Firstly the steps are not made out of granite but limestone which does not not undergo vitrification but chemical decomposition of the calcium carbonate to lime. This is basic high school chemistry.

Secondly the temple and stairs were constructed during the Late Period thousands of years after your invisible technology supposedly disappeared.

Thirdly since the stairs are made from limestone which is vulnerable to a process known as haloclasty where salt crystallizes in cracks and pores which breaks down the limestone. This in combination with limestone being of low hardness and wear resistance results in erosion from centuries of people walking on the stairs giving the melted appearance look.
Limestone outcrops which degrade due to haloclasty but subject to wind and water erosion instead can also exhibit a melted look.

Fourthly vitrification can only be confirmed in the laboratory to precisely characterize the structural change from crystalline to an amorphous glass state at the atomic level.

• X-ray diffraction (XRD)
• Sharp peaks = crystalline; broad diffuse humps = amorphous (vitrified).

• Scanning electron microscopy (SEM)
• Reveals surface morphology: smooth glassy vs. granular crystalline.

• Transmission electron microscopy (TEM)
• Atomic-scale imaging of amorphous vs. ordered lattice structures.

• Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC)
• Measures glass transition temperature (Tg) to confirm vitrification.

• Spectroscopy (Raman, FTIR)
• Detects changes in bonding and molecular structure after vitrification

As usual your images are next to useless they do not show vitrified or melted rocks, it is another example of pareidolia where you see things that are not there.

jonojim1337 · 2025-12-06T23:43:01-0600

Maybe not the day, but at least the year.

Nithavela · 2025-12-06T23:39:17-0600

Factotum said:
In this case, "People" = terrorists.

I think that changes a lot of things not mentioned in your post where the excerpt came from.

Why the scare quotes. Terrorists are still people, not "people". They are not vermin you are free to exterminate without regard for human rights.

Well, they are, but only because human rights are a joke. Not because they are terrorists.

jonojim1337 · 2025-12-06T23:35:28-0600

SabbathBlessings said:
2. The Sabbath was made for man Mark 2:27

And not man for the sabbath :doh:

Nithavela · 2025-12-06T23:35:17-0600

Bradskii said:
I read a book a few weeks ago called One Second After. It's about what happens in the US, primarily in one small town, when some unamed enemy sets off a number of Electro Magnetic Pulse weapons over the country. All electrics are fried. So next to no transport, lighting, power, comms...almost everything is dead.

It is chilling how convincing the collapse in 'civilised' behaviour is portrayed and the rule of law goes out of the window. New rules are the norm. Brutal laws. Severe punishments. People who were upstanding members of the community revert to being judge, jury and executioner.

In one case a couple of relatively young guys are caught stealing and dealing drugs. Their 'trial' lasts a few minutes. The sentence is carried out when they are dragged out to the local basketball court and shot in the head in front of cheering God fearin' town folk.

I was honestly chilled reading that at the time at how society can revert to carrying out such barbaric acts so quickly. It's positively medieval.

You're already there, my friend.

It's been shown that in times of crisis humans are actually more likely to help each other than to instantly revert to barbarism.

Nithavela · 2025-12-06T23:34:08-0600

NxNW said:
Looks like they were surrendering.
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Come on. They were obviously signalling the positions of the us navy towards their allies for a missile strike by semaphore.

7thKeeper · 2025-12-06T23:19:37-0600

Factotum said:
In this case, "People" = terrorists.

I think that changes a lot of things not mentioned in your post where the excerpt came from.

It doesn't.

jonojim1337 · 2025-12-06T23:14:46-0600

Tobacco and marijuana users have less parasites:

https://archive.news.wsu.edu/press-release/2015/06/01/medical-marijuana-hunter-gatherer-users-have-fewer-parasites/

The Liturgist · 2025-12-06T23:13:25-0600

For me it was the Apodosis of the Entry of the Theotokos into the Temple, but if I were on the Western Rite, it would have been the Feast of Christ the King.

Now, the Syriac Orthodox celebrated the Annunciation (they do this on the Sunday following the feasts of the Sanctification of the Church) - and this marked the start of Lent (the Roman Rite and its derivatives such as the Sarum Rite, Lutheran Rite and Anglican Rite are unique in having only four Sundays in Advent; all other liturgical rites have a longer Nativity Fast, usually six Sundays long, even the Ambrosian Rite of Milan, which is the ancient rite most closely related to that of Rome (it uses the Roman Canon rather than the highly variable Eucharistic Prayer of the Gallican and Mozarabic Rites, which changes so much that it might as well be multiple prayers). The Copts, who are on the Coptic Calendar, which is aligned with the Julian Calendar, were also one Sunday away from starting the Nativity Fast, and were celebrating the feast of St. Mina, the Holy Martyr and Wonderworker. The Eastern Orthodox on the Julian Calendar were celebrating the 24th Sunday after Pentecost and the feast of several Apostles of the Seventy, but basically, primarily it was Sunday according to tone seven in the Octoechos, more than anything, the closest thing to a Feria you’ll find in the Byzantine Rite. Definitely an occasion in the Slavonic churches for the use of the default gold vestments (which serve a role similar to green in the Western rites). Of course, this is purely a convention; it is not baked into the Typikon, which only specifies light or dark vestments. In the West Syriac Rite, I’m not sure what the Maronite practice is (although their vestments are beautiful, similiar to Eastern Orthodox vestments), but the Syriac Orthodox will often use multiple liturgical colors, and if two clergy are concelebrating, they will color-coordinate but not color-match, so one might be wearing a blue chasuable and the other a violet chasuble.*

* Technically, these are Phaynos; related to the Byzantine vestments; and some use Copes, sourced from Western vestment houses; the Church of the East also uses copes from Western vestment houses; conversely, if you’re able to track them down, the manufacturers of Syriac vestments in India produce the Phaynos for around $250, and the quality is exceptional - and business has not been good for many of them, for various reasons, so along with vestment makers in the Ukraine, its a good way to ethically source vestments by supporting a struggling community. For Anglican purposes, a Syriac Phayno would make an excellent Cope; also Syriac stoles would be usable, mainly by deacons over a plain white alb. The standard design features bunches of grapes in gold embroidery on a colored background.

timothyu · 2025-12-06T23:12:45-0600

Jesus was not concerned about having the child know who He was, but that the child understand they could completely trust in the Father as we are to do.

jonojim1337 · 2025-12-06T23:10:56-0600

There are those why try to cheat justice, because in the world, you can do that and get away with it. But God says, you can’t do that. So regarding the form of their inevitable end, I couldn’t care less. I don’t intend to join them.

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