GoldenBoy89 said:

Are they narco terrorists or do you just believe what your government tells you?

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Do you believe what your government tells you?

Oompa Loompa said:

You sound unsurprisingly disappointed that narco terrorists are being killed.

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Are they narco terrorists or do you just uncritically believe what your government tells you?

Would you even care if they weren’t narco terrorists? Probably not.

That’s the point of my comment.

sjastro said:

That is not how it works.
Using the chair analogy, a chair balanced on one leg will react strongly to the slightest change, it is in an unstable equilibrium.
Currently the climate is in a metastable equilibrium it can still react positively to cooling such as reducing CO2 emissions.

A chair balanced on four legs will be far less responsive to slight changes compared if balanced on only one leg.
The climate has the added complication if it exceeds the tipping point and falls into a more stable equilibrium the change effects become asymmetrical, warming effects are amplified and cooling effects are dampened.

Feedback	Amplifies Warming	Amplifies Cooling?	Notes
Ice–albedo feedback	Strong: melting ice lowers reflectivity → more absorption → more melt	Weak: regrowing ice increases reflectivity, but requires large sustained cooling first	Asymmetric — warming triggers it easily; cooling reverses it sluggishly
Water vapor feedback	Strong: warmer air holds more water → more greenhouse trapping	Weak: drier air reduces trapping, but condensation releases latent heat, resisting further cooling	Asymmetric due to latent heat
Carbon cycle feedbacks	Warming releases CO₂ and CH₄ from soils and oceans	Cooling can absorb CO₂, but slowly (centuries–millennia)	Very asymmetric timescales
Cloud feedbacks	Complex — can amplify warming depending on cloud type	May slightly amplify cooling, but less efficiently	Strong regional dependence

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Exactly! And the worrying part is that there are maybe 16 systems like this that are large enough to be called a feedback loop in their own right, and some of them trigger earlier than others. Some might only trigger at over 2.5 or 3 degrees of warming - and others even more. BUT some might trigger very soon - at maybe 1.5 or 1.8 degrees.

The obvious question then becomes are the earlier ones large enough to warm the earth till the next one triggers, and so on, falling like dominos in a row?

Is that what you meant by 'falls into a more stable equilibrium'?

I've set this Johan talk to the relevant moment - the graphics are fun.

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SabbathBlessings said:

Let me know if you want the Biblical definition.

Whatever you think under the law means, which I can show you if you want, Paul made it clear it doesn't mean sinning and breaking God's laws 1John3:4 James2:11-12

Rom 6:15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not!

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I am not saying sin is okay but Paul is talking to Jewish Christians in verse 15, who are under the Law. If you don't understand, look at the pronouns. He uses "us" or "we" when talking to the Jews and "the Gentiles" when talking about the Gentiles to Jews.

He starts talking to the Gentiles from Romans 11:13. He stops talking about the Law and addresses their place in Christ.

SabbathBlessings said:

The Sabbath connects to God of Creation, the only God who can sanctify a day Gen 2:1-3 and only God who can sanctify us Eze20:12 its part of God's identity. Exo20:11 We are told in the last days to get back to worship this God Rev 14:7 Exo 20:11before its too late Rev 14:11-12 Rev22:11

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Yeah but my only point was that AI will support whatever side of the debate that you want it to support as I clearly demonstrated in my previous post. I asked 2 questions about Colossians 2:16 and the Sabbath and got 2 completely opposite responses. The first response said that Colossians 2:16 clearly says that we don’t have to observe the Sabbath and the second response says we do have to observe the sabbath. It’s all in how you word the question to coax the preferred response.

Say it aint so said:

The "you" is actually "they" as expressed in the article pertaining to an DOJ lawyer in the room where it happens. What is being said is they were just going to ignore the courts and violate the constitution and ignore due process. As I have said before it wouldn't be a uphill argument to prove they are who they said they are given due process. If they are who the government says they are, then bye-bye and don't let the door hit ya where the God Lord split ya. Yet so far what we know given Garcia in example, government claims of him being MS-13 is failing.

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Wow! So intrigued. Just like how every military strike in history required authorization from anyone other than the president. LOL!

Who is this "we" Trump keeps talking about?

While many in Israel are concerned that this crackdown underlines Hamas’ intent to reassert its control over the Strip and signals that the group will not disarm, contrary to the agreement it signed, U.S. President Donald Trump appeared to suggest he had given Hamas a green light to police the enclave.

“They do want to stop the problems, and they’ve been open about it, and we gave them approval for a period of time,” he said Sunday, responding to a reporter's question.

“You have close to 2 million people going back to buildings that have been demolished, and a lot of bad things can happen. So we want it to be, we want it to be safe. I think it’s going to be fine. Who knows for sure,” he added.

On Tuesday, he compared Hamas’ bloody crackdown to his own fight against Venezuelan drug cartels. “They did take out a couple of gangs that were very bad… and they killed a number of gang members. That didn’t bother me much, to be honest with you. That’s okay. It’s a couple of very bad gangs. It’s no different than other countries like Venezuela [that have] sent their gangs [into the U.S.],” Trump said.

Nevertheless, he asserted that the terror group would comply with the agreement and disarm. “If they don't disarm, we will disarm them. And it will happen quickly and perhaps violently,” Trump said.

Palestinian Authority warns against Hamas crackdown in Gaza while Trump signals his approval

Hamas said to use heavy weapons, public executions against internal dissenters

allisraelnews.com

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Clare73 said:

Yes, true (complete) free will is the power to make all moral choices.
Man does not have true (complete) free will, the power to make all moral choices.

Man has limited "free will," the power to make some oral choices, but not all. . .he cannot make the moral choice to live sinlessly.

Partial freedomv is not complete freedom.
One is not truly free if his freedom is not complete.

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Free will doesn't have to be "complete"... absolute, to be free will, just as perfection does not have to be absolute, in order to be perfection... among a whole lot of things. Have a good day Clare.

Oompa Loompa said:

What you meant to say was "for the mass deportation of more than 100 MS-13 gangster thugs who terrorized the country."

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The "you" is actually "they" as expressed in the article pertaining to an DOJ lawyer in the room where it happens. What is being said is they were just going to ignore the courts and violate the constitution and ignore due process. As I have said before it wouldn't be a uphill argument to prove they are who they said they are given due process. If they are who the government says they are, then bye-bye and don't let the door hit ya where the God Lord split ya. Yet so far what we know given Garcia in example, government claims of him being MS-13 is failing.

ranunculus said:

Ecuador says it has no evidence that survivor of a US strike in the Caribbean committed any crime​

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While I trust Trump about as far as I can throw him, there are really only a few types of people tooling around the Caribbean in submersibles:

1.) Rich guys
2.) Tourists/divers
3.) Drug smugglers

A 4+-person craft can easily run into the 7 figures (assuming this wasn't a DIY thing), and given how few people (esp in Central America) can afford a million-dollar toy like that, it ought to be pretty easy to identify the operators if they were on the up-and-up.

Thanks. I fixed it.

To me, it seems like the left really wants to punish everyone who donated money for this ballroom, through extensive legal investigations on the origins of their money.

Realistically it's just attacks on everything Trump. On and on...

bèlla said:

Why are you getting jaw surgery? Do you have a medical problem or is the procedure wholly aesthetic? You can have the excess fat removed without messing with the bone structure. Long term obesity often requires plastic surgery to deal with excess skin. But your post has undertones of looksmaxxing which is another matter entirely.

There are things you can do to improve your appearance naturally. Qoves covers this in their pieces or you can work with an image consultant. But your DNA is fixed and the face you see today will contribute to your children. Getting jaw surgery won’t necessarily improve your chances for finding a spouse or a girlfriend for that matter.

Most of the people in this forum are male. Some are six feet and some earn six figures and a few are both and they’re single. The majority have never dated or been alone for a while. Looks, height and resources aren’t the whole nor are they the qualities that will make anyone stay put long-term.

Funding a procedure out of pocket in the hope you’ll find someone is a recipe for disaster. If you were going to put money on anything it’s better spent on attire, communication and elocution. Women are typically drawn to a man’s presence more than his face and improvements in those areas will boost your confidence and aid your career.

There’s an inequitable price to plastic surgery and you have to know it before you begin. You can make alterations from the shoulders down that will remain in place if you maintain your weight and take care of yourself. But the face is different and every improvement has a cost you‘ll pay later on. That’s why no one ever has one procedure nor does it last as long. Altering one element brings others to the fore. You see the same with your weight loss. Your eyes and brows are more prominent now and will increase with age. You’d have to fill out the rest to be more symmetrical and maintain it.

Kim Kardashian is the perfect example of this principle. She was already attractive before the enhancements. In spite of her siblings attempts they don’t look the same. She looks like her mother and Kris Jenner’s recent facelift drove it home. She looks just like Kim. You can’t escape your DNA and the things that bother you today may be a godsend later on.

You weren’t single because of your obesity. Women date larger men all the time and men do the same.

~bella

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Firstly, I do agree that most people who get plastic surgery end up looking worse, mainly because they miscalculate how the procedure affects their general proportions, or simply because they get too many procedures done and look unnatural. The difference in my case is that my dentist recommended this back in Jan 2024 for my lower jaw (picture attached) because the chin doesn’t align with my mouth. Everything on my face looks good except for that, so it’s just one feature that’s not in sync. You mentioned “looksmaxxing”. My dentist said the common cause of this was mouthbreathing and poor oral posture, the opposite of “mewing”. I don’t think it’s all genetic; I would’ve had good jaw development if I had better habits. Regrets…
Of course there are men who aren’t attractive that are in relationships, because they had a different roadmap than I did. They are likely less anxious or more extroverted or had a lot of life achievements early in life. That’s probably how they were able to have some success in dating.

This ties into the why part of improving myself physically. Generally, I base my confidence on how I look because I didn’t have the opportunity to develop skills over years due to being diagnosed with Asperger’s (which is doubtful because my parents used to fight and scream so the home trauma led to me acting out in school). Due to the diagnosis, I was put in remedial classrooms and subject to both bullying and sub-par academics. Students with an IEP had limited potential and unfortunately miss out on the pivotal elements of education and social life. I had to spend all my free time in college studying (memorizing instead of using tact) because I didn’t have the study skills that other students picked up in HS. After college due to mediocre grades, I worked a few customer service and driving roles (like Amazon) until I finally got a good role for my major in STEM 3 years ago.

I think special education in schools is despicable and it clips the wings of students that possess a lot of potential and brain power.

Sure, I have a few hobbies like running and traveled to a few states. I’ve learned Spanish to an intermediate level and have been invited to 3 weddings from the few good friendships in college (one was my roommate). That’s about it. I didn’t have the graduation-to-corporate America setting at age 22 like most of my peers did. They had good upbringings and academics which meant they had more free time to pursue traveling, hobbies, etc.

As an adult, I’m responsible for fixing myself, so I don’t blame myself for mistakes I did under 18. Most of the laziness and low self esteem in my school years were due to the bad family setting. It’s just hard to catch up in all aspects of life when you had a poor foundation. However, I believe that when I’m more attractive, I can feel good about myself the way God made me. People do treat you better when you’re lean and that confidence will become second nature.

AetheriusLamia said:

I've studied for decades, and read all of the Bible multiple times, continue reading the Bible daily, and now I'm praying in accordance with Mark 11:24, Jesus telling us to 'believe that you have already received it'. Yet though I will to do this, thoughts occur in my brain involuntarily such as,

1. "You're just engaging in wishful thinking."
2. "This probably isn't going to happen."
3. "Your experience and observations of the world are better explained by atheism."
4. "Your petitions haven't been granted because God wants you to be 'Eastern Orthodox', or Mohammedan, or some other religion."

Although I try repudiating these thoughts as demons whispering to me, by recalling Sacred Scripture, by engaging in logcal argument, by prayer for the demons to be banished from me, and continue asking God to give me more faith and unwavering faith, the thoughts continue, and it appears to me I genuinely believe them - that when I die everything will be over, life done - because I am discouraged, downhearted, depressed, sad, rather than excited about being healed soon, rather than be happy that God is bringing about a greater good every moment I'm not healed, rather than be content knowing no matter what happens God will make it right.

What do you think? Is there some way to stop doubting? to be finally convinced the Gospel is true?

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You will have to decide that God's word is your only authority. Satan is the one who casts doubt on God's word - exactly as he did with Eve in Eden. He tried the same trick with Lord Jesus - "If you be the Son of God............"

Start each day by declaring the truth of God's word, whether you feel it or not, even if you doubt at the same time. Speak God's word out loud. Quote Galatians 2:20 regularly. Read the gospel of John, which was written so that we might believe. Quit praying for demons to be banished. Lord Jesus has given you His authority and power. Can you imagine a policeman asking a criminal to quit? No, he commands the criminal to quit! Why? because the cop has the full authority of the Law behind him. And his gun gives him the power to apprehend a criminal.

Always in His Presence said:

Heh - - yeah

It is very clear that this is a Schumer shutdown trying to strongarm the government because he can't get what he wants through the proper process.

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Have you checked what thread youre posting in?

timewerx said:

Nothing's happening right now so perhaps, it's "not yet time". I'm only getting ideas but nothing more.

Getting this thing out is probably more complicated than building the prototype. Getting Chinese patents etc. I'll worry about those when the prototype is working.

For now, I just have to stay alive!

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Everything has it`s time.

Not so much about inventing but more discovering.

Everything we need already exists, it is about finding a use for what already is.

GoldenBoy89 said:

More proof of Trump’s Fifth Ave comment from his most faithful supporters.

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You sound unsurprisingly disappointed that narco terrorists are being killed. I it because Trump is giving the orders?

Hans Blaster said:

Not without energy transfer. If you write the distribution of particles as a moment expansion, you get the fluid dynamics equations.

The "clues" you keep dropping imply an attempted violation of the laws of physics. Your engineering books aren't going to help you do that.

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It's fully described by fluid dynamics. I just have to show kinetic molecular theory to bring clarity not just to you but other readers as well that I'm not trying to make something out of nothing.

I'm not even trying to move heat from cold to hot for free (Maxwell's demon).

I just can't tell you how exactly because that's my bargaining chip. To bring people to the negotiating table.

keras said:

Then comes Eternity.

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You make it sound as though eternity will start at some point in the future.
Eternity is eternity. God is eternal - he has no beginning nor end.

Anyway, you don't think that Jesus is even returning for another 15-20 years. We may not be here then.

keras said:

Explain then; why is there so much dissent and variety of opinion among those 'learned and wise' theologians?

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Dissent regarding, what?
If it's dissent about translations of the Bible; new discoveries are/have been made and language changes. There are passages in the OT which have a footnote to the effect, "the Hebrew for this sentence is unclear." If even the original language is unclear, how do you expect people to agree how to translate it?
If you're talking about dissent in how to interpret a passage - you tell me. A quick glance at the Eschatology forum shows me that you make several long posts, with Scriptures and others disagree with you and also quote Scriptures.
This thread, alone, is supposed to be about debunking myths - yet others disagree with you.

keras said:

From what I read of those 'highly qualified' people, they are floundering in assumptions, suppositions and plan guesswork. They generally fail to use other scriptures, modern knowledge and hindsight, to help explain the Prophetic Word.

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I have no doubt at all that you will tell me that I am wrong - but I don't agree it's our job TO explain the prophetic word.
Or at least, explain it in context, yes. Explain what the people of the day would have understood by it, yes.
But applying it to our age, situation and circumstances? I do not believe anyone has that authority.

For example, in one thread somewhere you seem convinced that the "flying scroll" that Zechariah saw and which had writing on both sides, was actually a nuclear bomb and one country is going to use it, soon, to nuke another.
How on earth did you come to that conclusion?
Why does that Scripture apply to us now, rather than to anyone in the past or to people who are still to come?
You wrote about that as though it is the truth. Several people disagree with you, not only about that, but seemingly about most things that you write.

keras said:

Isaiah 42:18-20 shows that Gods servants can be fooled

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Fooled about what - and which of God's servants are you talking about? Moses wasn't fooled, neither was Isaiah, Jeremiah, Micah, Amos etc.
And they are OT examples - are you saying that God would let his children be deceived? Or that Jesus was wrong and we can be snatched out of God's hand?

keras said:

AS the forthcoming Day of the Lords wrath, will be the great Day of our test of faith, 1 Peter 4:12, it is not the Lords will that many will understand His plans. As Daniel 12:10b says.

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You seem to be mixing random OT and NT Scriptures to try to make your point.
Why?

DaisyDay said:

Simple oversight and common accounting is the usual way of avoiding corruption both private and public. Trust BUT verify.

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You said you were concerned about "money laundering" in post #48 - as in illegally acquired money being used to build the ballroom, disguised as innocent, private donations.

...Now you say verifying the legality of the donations is "simple oversight". What a joke.

It would be extremely difficult (not simple at all) to ask private donors on the origins of the funds they donated, just to check if they were legally earned or not. It seems way overboard. But that *is* the definition of money laundering, unless you meant something else.