Perpetual Student said:

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Login to view embedded media "We lead the world in only three categories. Number one the number incarcerated citizens per capita. Number two, the number of adults who believe angels are real and defense spending"

Add to that number one in amphetamines deaths per capita.

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What sickens me the most, is that when we had an incurable pandemic, we were able to develop a vaccine lickety split. But that's because everyone was a potential victim.

...With drug addiction, it's meh.

Bob Crowley said:

I've used Redhat Fedora Linux for some years, and this was typed on a Linux computer.

I'm just a user, with no formal training and until I saw your post i had no idea what GNU HURD was. I'd heard of GNU, but the idea of a computer HURD which may or may not stampede over the finish line before Elijah returns is something I'll have to leave to far more educated IT people like the Liturgist.

If Elijah comes first, GNU HURD will be the least of our worries. Meanwhile what is the Liturgist going to do all day with no computers in heaven?

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And no one to debate with!!!

keras said:

Conventional teaching is that the sun and stars obtain their energy by nuclear reaction, that is: atoms splitting to become less complex elements, thereby releasing energy.

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No, just the opposite. Stars are powered by nuclear fusion, where hydrogen atoms ared fused together. Here's the drill:

• In the first stage two protons combine and one of them converts into a neutron to form a nucleus of the heavy isotope of hydrogen known as deuterium.
• Next, the deuterium nucleus combines with another proton to form the light helium isotope known as helium-3.
• Finally, two helium-3 nuclei combine to form helium-4, releasing two protons.

Tada!

Perpetual Student said:

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This is a world chart amphetamine deaths per capita. The USA is in the darkest colour.

Opioids, Cocaine, Cannabis, and Other Illicit Drugs

How common is the use and addiction to opioids, cocaine, amphetamines and cannabis? What is the impact?

ourworldindata.org

On this page other charts with slightly different statistics are available. Nearly always the USA is in the darkest colour. Instead of saying "we don't have a pill, we can't do anything", you should ask yourself (well competent authorities should do that) "what do other countries do different and what can we apply here?".
Other nations didn't wait for medication to come, why is the Greatest Nation on Earth, with the Greatest President ever waiting for?

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No countries that I am aware of are resolving "addiction", though some, such as with Switzerland have curbed overdose deaths by providing syringe exchanges and safe injecting rooms. That's two different things.

I'm not interesting in safer drug use. I'm interested in finding a revolutionary medication that stops addictive inclinations. The tremors, the panic attacks that people experience - those are unfair disadvantages in making normal decisions. I'm proposing a new, revolutionary direction that will both save lives, and curb addiction - a  total solution, as opposed to a half solution.

I'm proposing a better solution than what is found anywhere else.

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If you like I can send you some CBT resources that can be used to help manage OCD symptoms.

The Wastelands by Stephen King

They should easily be able to. They just need to believe God's promise that anyone who believes in Jesus for Eternal Life (God's free gift) has that life at the very moment of their belief in Jesus and crosses over from death to life.

They must not look at themselves, but only God promise.

ARBITER01 said:

I do plan on revisiting the spirit of Christ and The Holy Spirit differences in this thread some time here. I decided to make this a fellowship thread so I can get rid of the riff raff that occurred in the discussion thread I opened up a few months back.

What I'm looking at currently is the identification of our born again experience, being that it is an immersion into The Holy Spirit. That immersion adds us to the body of Christ, not some sort of change of mind.

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Isn’t repentance needed . Unless we repent we will likewise perish, Jesus came preaching the gospel saying repent and believe the gospel. Immersion in water , as I understand is to be washed from our sins, to symbolically be buried with Christ and coming up out of the water as a living sacrifice looking forward to the resurrection, but the Holy Spirit is given by the laying on of hands. GOD is the one who grants repentance. GODLY sorrow produces repentance. Peter said to the crowd on Pentecost, repent and be baptized or have sins washed away, then by the laying on of hands receive the holy spirit . Seems to be a process; GODLY sorrow, repentance, baptism, Holy Spirit. From what I have read and studied this process was always used with only one exception, Cornelius and his household. What do you think ?

BasedLutheran said:

The same applies there. The mentally ill in particular are unlikely to know the laws at all or if they do, believe they apply to them

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The same applies to individuals, let alone their religious groups, that missed the memo about rendering unto Caesar, when they insist they are to follow God's laws only.

Yeah it would be very shameful for a citizen of Rome to behave in this manner.

Dan1988 said:

Thank you for expressing your private opinion of all the above

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De nada. amigo. We've all noted your interesting opinions as well. Dang, even Islam is closer to Christianity than the claptrap you're peddling.

I have to admit, I think you have to be taking the Mickey here. Atheists. and particularly "Satanists" like to come into groups like this to "stir the pot" as it were by posting inflammatory flapdoodle like yours just to see how big an uproar they can create. While I'm sure there are some sects like the one you claim to represent out there, i don't think you're in one of them. You're just larping. That's fine. I don't think anyone here is gonna take your rantings very seriously. You set out to wind us up, and you did for a bit, but I think you've gotten about as much mileage out of it as you're going to.

Dan1988 said:

, but may I remind you that "opinions are like noses". Everybody has their own

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And some have ones that they play at having just to see how people react. <Laugh>

Dan1988 said:

, so your private opinion is absolutely worthless to me

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Egad sir, you've cut me to the quick! (And few things hurt more than a cut quick.) 8)

Dan1988 said:

I just follow the Lord.

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This is we're supposed to react with shock/horror/outrage/ anger/indignation/ superannuation (no, I already have that)/whatever, right? OK, I'm oficially expressing all of the above.

Friendly hint, though. Don't play this game with the Muslims. Those geezers will actually come after you. Just sayin'

JohnClay said:

I wasn't sure but this is what copilot said: These passages emphasize that on Judgment Day, Jesus will be the ultimate judge, and past examples of repentance (Nineveh, Queen of Sheba) or rejection (Chorazin, Bethsaida, Capernaum) will stand as witnesses against those who refuse to recognize him. They highlight that Jesus is greater than Jonah and Solomon, and that failure to repent in his presence carries heavier consequences than past generations faced.

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John. Can I make a suggestion...
I know you are intelligent, and it doesn't matter how young you are, I know you can think.
I'm sure you can do better than Copilot, so would you mind leaving Copilot out of something that requires an intelligent mind using thinking faculties, and just use your brain for this?
Copilot can only give you what people feed it.

You can do better John.
Besides, I'm asking what you think. Not what other people believe.
You don't have to be correct, and you don't have to be incorrect. You just have to look at it, and say what it looks like.
I would prefer that because it's coming from a mind that's 'clean' - no indoctrination, or bias.

Take a look at each text.
So that you can see it in its almost original form, I put it kind of raw. I hope it's not confusing. Let me know if it is.
Pay attention more so to what it is saying, without trying to interpret it.

Matthew 12:41
Men of Nineveh will anistémi: To raise, to rise, to stand up, to resurrect en: in, on, at, by, with, among the judgment meta: with, after, among this generation
Matthew 12:42
basilissa: Queen of [the] south egeiró: To raise, to awaken, to arouse en: in, on, at, by, with, among the judgment meta: with, after, among this generation

Luke 10:14
It will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon en: in, on, at, by, with, among the judgment than for you.

There is also Matthew 10:15, which I forgot to add.
Truly I say to you, on the day of judgment, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and of Gomorrah than for that city.

I liked A Separate Peace. I enjoy the prestigious-school-with-intense-friendships-and-rivalries "genre," so I'm gonna read another book in the same vein, Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld. (Though, judging by the review on the cover, this one might feature more identity politics than what I prefer.)



Synopsis from Amazon:

"Lee Fiora is an intelligent, observant fourteen-year-old when her father drops her off in front of her dorm at the prestigious Ault School in Massachusetts. She leaves her animated, affectionate family in South Bend, Indiana, at least in part because of the boarding school’s glossy brochure, in which boys in sweaters chat in front of old brick buildings, girls in kilts hold lacrosse sticks on pristinely mown athletic fields, and everyone sings hymns in chapel.

As Lee soon learns, Ault is a cloistered world of jaded, attractive teenagers who spend summers on Nantucket and speak in their own clever shorthand. Both intimidated and fascinated by her classmates, Lee becomes a shrewd observer of—and, ultimately, a participant in—their rituals and mores. As a scholarship student, she constantly feels like an outsider and is both drawn to and repelled by other loners. By the time she’s a senior, Lee has created a hard-won place for herself at Ault. But when her behavior takes a self-destructive and highly public turn, her carefully crafted identity within the community is shattered.

Ultimately, Lee’s experiences–complicated relationships with teachers; intense friendships with other girls; an all-consuming preoccupation with a classmate who is less than a boyfriend and more than a crush; conflicts with her parents, from whom Lee feels increasingly distant, coalesce into a singular portrait of the painful and thrilling adolescence universal to us all."