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JD Vance Defends Hope That His Wife Will Come to ‘Believe in the Christian Gospel’

I didn't know Shirer had written a book about Gandhi. I read his book "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" several times until my paperback copy fell apart.

I thought it was the definite history of the Third Reich.

South African racism, which was the home of Aparthied, had a bearing on his dislike of Christians.

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Nancy Pelosi to retire from Congress after nearly 4 decades in office

How exactly is she destroying the US? She's a single legislator from the minority party and has absolutely no power.
Let's see, funding Planned Parenthood and abortion, supporting the LGBTQ+ transgender epidemic, supporting DEI and of course unfunded wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Supporting a budged that increases the national debt and in deficit.

Just to name a few.
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BUSTED - 12 False theories refuted:

In the USAF, I programmed those missles.

May God bless all with good cooperative families, good health, prosperity, long life, wisdom and someone find a cure for the virus.
Point being all of mankind remains engaged with internal unseen adversaries, missiles and oh my's notwithstanding
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But you did write this, 'The word "earth" occurs 44 times in Job, and not one of those times says anything about the shape of the earth.'

And this is what I was replying too.
And I was replying to what you claimed that I had not asked you where in the book of Job we are told that the earth is a flat disc. You had written: "This is not what you said."
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But if you look at the full post, which you did quote, it ended, "I wonder which part of the book of Job you are thinking of that says the earth is flat."

But you did write this, 'The word "earth" occurs 44 times in Job, and not one of those times says anything about the shape of the earth.'

And this is what I was replying too.
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Am I Weird, Or Is He Weird?

If a parent even gets a sniff of someone who might be a paedophile they are persona non grata and likely face extra-judicial attention at some point in the future.
Not to mention, saying “even if I was a pedophile, I wouldn’t be able to do do anything with all the adults around” is a phrase not likely to make parents comfortable as it seems to excuse pedophiles being around kids as fine…
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And he is correct.

It is you who has said , "Job said that the earth is like an image taking shape under clay. Here is a picture of a round seal which has produced a round image. Therefore, Job does mention the shape of the earth; he says the shape of the earth is round."

Read it again. Where does Job say"the earth is round; like when someone has a round seal and stamps an image"?
I think you'll find that it's not there and this is only your interpretation of what is poetic language anyway.
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Nope.
Yet you said in post 587: "There is no verse that specifically states that the earth is flat." Now you say that the Book of Job does. The word "earth" occurs 44 times in Job, and not one of those times says anything about the shape of the earth. The words, "He (God) hangs the earth upon nothing" (Job 26:7) do fit well with a globe earth. I wonder which part of the book of Job you are thinking of that says the earth is flat.

This is not what you said, you said.

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This is what you said & the post which I replied too.
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AI Image Generators

With my copy of Adobe CS 2 back in 2005 I was unaware of that, other than Garamond Premiere Pro, but I thought I had a decent font library at the time (it had Univers, Helvetica and so on), but I reckon your library is better.
Oh, not far at all from your issue, mine, Adobe Illustrator 10 (2001) and Photoshop 7 (2002) but some of the biggest changes we know, happen overnight with big-tech. You're likely correct on the vast majority that are commonplace fonts.
Do you use a Mac like most designers? I love how Apple products render type compared to Windows or especially Linux, but dislike a lot of aspects of Mac OS, especially earlier Mac OS X when HFS+ was still the default filesystem for backwards compatibility with Mac OS Classic; also the neutered UNIX features from the BSD Subsystem (for example there is an /etc/passwd but you can’t use it to manage user accounts) have become more of a scourge on recent releases. A lot of this is configurational; I have a feeling one could probably build, using Apple’s internal tools, a version of MacOS that I would be happy with for reasons other than elegant typography; indeed jailbroken iPad OS is almost what I want except it requires a warranty-voiding procedure.
Wow, won't even attempt to unpack all this!! Yes, Cut my lab teeth on the Mac OS back in 99', another longtime commonplace reality amongst the graphics folk. But after the lab duration, reverted back to Windows as this insured the family could jump on their accounts between my graphics side work-flow. Features of Mac over Windows I never ran into but suppose WIndows and Linux were mavericks on a handful of goodies I'm sure? Correct me if I'm wrong but, I suppose with all Linux being known for such areas of rock-solid securities, has to have hurt their marketplace presence, am I correct that in the last ten years has eased somewhat to their more cross-platforming?
I thought I had a decent font library at the time (it had Univers, Helvetica and so on), but I reckon your library is better.
If didn't think I was abusing the bounds of copywrite privileges', I wouldn't mind posting some other more drastic changes that happened to PostScript Type 1. Irks me every time I think of their slap-in-the-face to a loyal Adobe constituency.
By the way @rockanchor forgive me, I just realized I forgot to upvote several very thoughtful posts from you. This oversight has been corrected.
So so kind! I'm not the best by any stretch in that dept. :relaxed:
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Are professed Christians that worship our Lord on Sunday instead of Saturday sinning?

Nah. You can’t just isolate the definition you like.


σάββατον sábbaton, sab'-bat-on; of Hebrew origin (H7676); the Sabbath (i.e. Shabbath), or day of weekly repose from secular avocations (also the observance or institution itself); by extension, a se'nnight, i.e. the interval between two Sabbaths; likewise the plural in all the above applications:—sabbath (day), week.
Definitions? No my friend, context, grammar and syntax. A Sabbath is a day of repose by definition. It looks like you cited Strongs. That is nice. But in respect to studying the Greek it is so much more involved than a definition.

Be that what it is, There was the weekly Sabbath of the Decalogue and the sabbaths to which were mandated for the festivals and Holy days. The context to which the word sabbath is used shows us which sabbath is being spoken of.

Passover, the Day of Atonement and what not all had sabbaths that were separate from the Sabbath of the Decalogue. They were instituted because of our sin. The Sabbath as you know was made for man on the Seventh Day of creation as the commandment states and Scripture affirms

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you know that the certificate of debt consisting of decrees being canceled is the law, right?

“having canceled the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.”
Of decrees is a bad translation. As is, the translation "of ordinances" as seen in the KJV which I use. The Greek word translated decrees in the translation you are using is in the Dative case not the Genitive. In English, this relation is expressed by the words like. by or to not of. The Genitive case is that of possession. If the case was in the Genitive, then we would use the word of or something similar..

Also, how does verse 14 help your argument,
The Body of sin has been separated from us, and we have been forgiven all trespasses.

Therefore the handwriting to the decrees or as your translation states, certificate of indebt to the decrees has been blotted out.

These are they which dealt with our sin. The judgements, ceremonies in the Temple and holy days, like Passover and the Day of atonement and what not. These are they which have been blotted out. They are not needed anymore because we have been forgiven and the Temple and it's services have been eliminated.

These are they which were of the handwriting to the decrees. Mind you not the decrees themselves, but those which were by or to the decrees. Those which were because of our sin, not those which tell us what our sin is. Fofrby the Law is the knowledge of sin. And if the Law is used righteously, it is for the sinner as God says in Romans and Timothy

The context of verse 14 is connected to verse 16 by the word, and in verse 15 and the word therefor in verse 16. As you know these words connect what is about to be said to what was previously stated. So with that understood, these meat and drink, holydays, new moon and sabbath days are they which were of the handwritings to the ordinances, The Book of the Law. Not the Ten Commandment and the Laws and statutes that showed us our sin.



Col 2:13 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
Col 2:14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
Col 2:15 [And] having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
Col 2:16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath [days]:
Col 2:17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body [is] of Christ.
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Fr. Josiah On Pornography, and Nick Fuentes

You obviously need prayer.
I readily and openly admit I'm in need of prayers. Have mercy on me the sinner.

I do not believe that the Orthodox message, on any topic, benefits by aligning itself with one of the preeminent voices in our culture favoring Stalin, Hitler, anti-Semitism, and white supremacy. In my not so humble (at the moment) opinion, it diminishes any good that is trying to be conveyed.
Perhaps Chesterson and a few others think the extermination of fellow human beings by the Nazis in WW2 is a real knee-slapper.
I don't see it a laughing matter. ymmv
I'm really disappointed that Fr Josiah, which is someone I do admire, would make such a poor choice.
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That's not what you asked.
In Post 671, I wrote: "I wonder which part of the book of Job you are thinking of that says the earth is flat." Then in post 677, I wrote: "Well, perhaps you could tell me which of the 44 mentions of earth in Job says that it is a flat disc." So that is what I asked.
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Why do people hate ICE...

ICE grabs father by the neck—send him into violent seizure while his arms lock up around his toddler.

"He's having seizure and they're trying to rip the baby out of his hands!"

Agents then handcuff him—before putting in ambulance with his child.

Mother is detained by agents as the original target of arrest during the traffic stop—according to witnesses.

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