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ViaCrucis · 2025-11-26T22:06:46-0600

A man who needs to have a side hustle in order to keep his needs met (food, water, lodging, travel) isn't someone who is living high off the hog. St. Paul had a trade/craft skill that he could use to meet his bare necessities. I don't know about the East, but in the West there is a long tradition of monastics engaged in a trade (e.g. beer brewing or wine making) for the purpose of meeting certain basic material needs for the community, and raising funds for certain purposes.

It seems common sense to me to think that Paul was probably living, generally speaking, low on the dime. I can't imagine any of the Apostles living in reasonable comfort, their poverty would have been part of the Cross to which they were called to carry. Christ told them that they would have it rough, but to be courageous in Him who has overcome the world.

Oompa Loompa · 2025-11-26T22:05:49-0600

durangodawood said:
An absolute ton of pardons say otherwise.

Says the auto pen. But this is the mantra of the left. Do you deny it? Why not put your money where your mouth is and send that woman back home?

Oompa Loompa · 2025-11-26T22:04:15-0600

comana said:
I have my doubts that late teen/ early 20s service members pay much attention politics.

They pay more attention to it than any other late teen/early 20s person. Why? Because they have more responsibility and more directly affected by politics than the others.

essentialsaltes · 2025-11-26T22:02:17-0600

Oompa Loompa said:
Un oh. Apparently the suspect are illegal immigrants from Afghanistan. What are liberals going to say now?

He applied for asylum in 2024 and was granted asylum in April 2025, under the Trump administration, according to three law enforcement sources.

Dreyma · 2025-11-26T22:02:00-0600

Hello, my name is Dreyma! (Or at least, that is the alias I typically use online.)

I graduated from college last year with an education degree, and now I'm teaching English to high-school students at a small public school in a rural area. This is my first time working in a profession and my first time living away from parents, so it's been quite the adjustment.

I'm here because I spend too much time chatting in online communities that draw me away from Christ instead of towards him. I thought this might be a good substitute, a place that could strengthen my faith instead of making me feel ashamed or uncertain of it.

(I just need to make sure that I don't use conversations here as another excuse to procrastinate chores and lesson planning and grading...)

Oompa Loompa · 2025-11-26T22:00:59-0600

Valletta said:
Reports identified the suspect as 29-year-old Rahmanullah Lakanwal, who is said to have entered the country in 2021 during the Biden administration. Little is known about Lakanwal, who reportedly used a handgun in the shooting. He reportedly entered the United States as part of former president Biden’s Operation Allies Welcome in the wake of the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal.

Suspect in DC Ambush of 2 National Guardsmen Is Afghan National Who Entered US During Biden Admin

An Afghan national who entered the United States during the Biden administration allegedly shot two National Guardsmen in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday in what authorities described as a targeted attack, according to reports.

freebeacon.com

President Trump gave a speech about the terror attack, where he spoke of lifting up our prayers to those shot and their families. He spoke of the "20 million unknown and un-vetted foreigners" let in by the Biden administration, and renewed efforts to stop such actions of terror by stepping up the investigation of these people.

What are liberals supposed to do now?

Oompa Loompa · 2025-11-26T22:00:07-0600

Un oh. Apparently the suspect are illegal immigrants from Afghanistan. What are liberals going to say now?

Hvizsgyak · 2025-11-26T21:58:42-0600

another_lost_guy said:
I am not sure which party you're talking about but there is not really anything socially conservative about homosexuality. The closest thing we have to social conservatism + fiscal liberalism is groyperism

Oh, what a "brilliant" connection! You aren't even in the same ballpark with that answer. Here I'll give you the initials to the political party, ASP. Please stop trying to use unnecessary labels like groyperism for shock points.

JosephZ · 2025-11-26T21:56:28-0600

Valletta said:
Yes. And apparently his legal status to stay expired in September of this year, so he was here illegally.

Not if he was granted asylum in April.

Hvizsgyak · 2025-11-26T21:51:26-0600

DaisyDay said:
What is your basis for saying that gender identity is not a genre of children's literature?

It's called that uneasy feeling in one's gut when one even thinks about the idea of teaching young children that junk. I'll even go as far as saying it's natural law that says it shouldn't.

RDKirk · 2025-11-26T21:50:15-0600

Postvieww said:
Many current and former former military men and women have figured out what these disgraceful six were trying to do and have called them out. Not my problem if you can’t figure it out.

Well, there are a few million of us, so, sure, you can find some.

RileyG · 2025-11-26T21:47:30-0600

Gnarwhal said:
I think it's probably a both/and situation. Like you can pray it as a novena but you don't have to stop there either, especially if you find the prayer particularly beneficial to your faith and/or maybe that you have a particular devotion to Our Lady Undoer of Knots.

I agree.

Hvizsgyak · 2025-11-26T21:46:56-0600

comana said:
College students are adults. I think they can handle discussions around gender identity.

My point is that gender identity is a made up "science" and for a society, we shouldn't even have to engage in such nonsense (including wasting money on teachers to talk about it in college).

RileyG · 2025-11-26T21:46:53-0600

Dan Perez said:
aND THIS IS WHAT THE GREEK TEXT has to say in 1 Cor 11 :26 says

# 1 FOR // GAR is a Conjuncation

# 2 AS OPFTEN AS //. HOSAKIO. is an ADVERB

# 3 YE EAT //. EARHIO. in. the PRESENT TENSE. in the ACTIVE VOICE. is a SUBJNUCATIVE in. the PLURAL

From. this. , IT MEANS any assembly can have communion as many times as they wish !!

dan p

Some do daily!

Hvizsgyak · 2025-11-26T21:43:51-0600

rambot said:
I'd guess 80-90% of doctors are also cookoo.

I totally agree with you :oldthumbsup:

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rambot said:
Said that, for YOUR world to be comfortable, people who you disagree with have to be burdenned with a "mental disability".

Hey, I have a "mental disability" so does that mean I disagree with myself

. And on top of that, I pretty much agree with alot of people and I feel perfectly at ease talking with other mentally disabled people. You should try it, it can be rather enlightening and interesting.

Apple Sky · 2025-11-26T21:34:53-0600

d taylor said:
It does not take a genius to see that God has placed the sun, moon and stars in the sky above the earth. That these created lights move in the sky over the earth, where they have been placed.

I agree & neither does it take a genius to know that both the sun & moon gives off their own light.

bling · 2025-11-26T21:32:24-0600

Mark Quayle said:
Strawman argument. Instinctive robotic ability is not what I am espousing. What I am saying is that ALL fact begins with God, so whatever will we have is HIS doing. We cannot (and do not) operate on his level of fact. We do not create fact.

You say: “whatever will we have is His doing”, so how is that not something programmed into us?

Mark Quayle said:
If it helps to see what I mean, consider that modern Cosmology and Physics are suggesting that all that has happened or will happen in time has "already happened" —that is, that all time exists "simultaneously". I have no doubt that is a stilted way to see it, but the fact is that it is all in-hand, to God. It isn't a matter of him inserting himself into time, but that time flows FROM him. ALL FACT is his.

I am a believer in a “Block Universe”, but that does not eliminate the individual making autonomous free will choices.

From God’s perspective everything happened at once, He is outside of time, but we are in time (time God most likely created).

The question is what “set” the free will choice an individual made? Scientist do not believe in a god making the choices, since that is outside their realm of reasons, so it is the individual themselves make the choices.

Mark Quayle said:
Thus, there is no need for humanly-derived interpretations of Scripture nor for humanly-derived "fill-in-the-gap" logic to demonstrate how things work. The Bible does not speak of "free will" except as concerns 'voluntary' offerings; that is, not obligated by command. So there is no need to invent it.

Verses supporting free will

Gen. 1-3 Did Adam and Eve have free will?

Exodus 35:29 “All the Israelite men and women who were willing brought to the Lord freewill offerings for all the work the Lord through Moses had commanded them to do.” Are these truly free will offerings?

Jonah 3: 10 “When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, he relented and did not bring on them the destruction he had threatened.” Did the people of Nineveh change what God said he would do?

How is this not saying that God’s actions are contingent on the choices of the people?

"You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me, yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life." (John 5:39-40). Note that Jesus does not say, "you cannot come", which the Greek does not say here, but, "you refuse to come", in order that you may have eternal life. It was their own rejection of Jesus and the Gospel, that would damn their souls, and not because they were "unable" to make the "choice" themselves.

Christ is God here on earth. The “whomsoever” does not mean only the elect, but lots of people, who then made the choice to accept or reject Christ. "You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me, yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life." (John 5:39-40)

To say: “Christ only reveals Himself to those who God have chosen to accept Him”, means God is guilty of not helping others to accept Christ.

John 15: 22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.

If they have no free will, they have an excellent excuse for sinning?

There are all the “whosoever” verses making it contingent.

Mark Quayle said:
Nothing I have tried to show denies God's love, but only the demonstrations of love that humans demand— particularly things that feel unloving to us DURING THIS TEMPORAL existence, as though there is no bigger picture to consider. "For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us." Romans 8:18-23

If God is only saving some and not all for some unknowable reason, while saving all is just as easy for God to do, then a God that does not save all has less Love than a God who saves all.
The reason some are not "saved" is because they are unwilling.

mark46 · 2025-11-26T21:31:06-0600

7thKeeper said:
There's also this case.

ChatGPT: US lawyer admits using AI for case research

The lawyer told the judge he did not know content from the artificial intelligence could be false.

www.bbc.com

I remember a few other stories where lawyers used ChatGPT or some other model to try and do their work faster and they got into hot water because the model produced references to cases that simply didn't exist.

Yes, and the lawyer used the reference without checking? He should be disbarred.

Dan Perez · 2025-11-26T21:29:13-0600

RileyG said:
Some Churches still do agape meals, such as the Protestant Moravian Church. It’s not Holy Communion- but it’s sharing a sacred meal together?

aND THIS IS WHAT THE GREEK TEXT has to say in 1 Cor 11 :26 says

# 1 FOR // GAR is a Conjuncation

# 2 AS OPFTEN AS //. HOSAKIO. is an ADVERB

# 3 YE EAT //. EARHIO. in. the PRESENT TENSE. in the ACTIVE VOICE. is a SUBJNUCATIVE in. the PLURAL

From. this. , IT MEANS any assembly can have communion as many times as they wish !!

dan p

JosephZ · 2025-11-26T21:27:23-0600

Valletta said:
Could be. I believe Trump mentioned the legislation was passed during the Biden administration.

Yes, he entered the US under the Biden administration's Allies Welcome Program in 2021, but he didn't apply for asylum, which is a totally separate and unrelated process, until 2024. His vetting and asylum approval in April of this year occurred during the Trump administration.

Apple Sky · 2025-11-26T21:26:30-0600

Strong in Him said:
When I said that I accept a globe earth and believe Genesis 1, and you replied, "you can't do."
When I made some comments once and your reply was, something to the effect of, "you don't believe Scripture", "your motives are .....".

This is not calling you a liar.

Strong in Him said:
If I say that Charles Duke walked on the moon and then he became a Christian, and you claim that Charles is a liar; by implication, I am lying too.

This is not calling you a liar.

Strong in Him said:
I'm lying when I repeat that he walked on the moon or - at best - I'm just a gullible person who repeats everything that she hears.
And if that was the case, my reply to you would be "pot ..... kettle".

Again this is not calling you a liar.

RileyG · 2025-11-26T20:59:02-0600

iluvatar5150 said:
They’re not dead. The governor was incorrect.

Oh. Ok. My mistake. Hoping and praying for them.

Landon Caeli · 2025-11-26T20:58:05-0600

Nithavela said:
Your stated desire to change the constitution to ban islam after learning that muslims will outnumber christians in 75 years reminds me of a child trying to change the rules once they start losing a game.

Well, there's a difference between losing a game, and losing a nation, and even losing the world, as examples of differences in degrees of severity.

JosephZ · 2025-11-26T20:57:30-0600

Valletta said:
He spoke of the "20 million unknown and un-vetted foreigners" let in by the Biden administration, and renewed efforts to stop such actions of terror by stepping up the investigation of these people.

If CNN's reporting is correct, he was vetted and granted asylum during the Trump administration.

BPPLEE · 2025-11-26T20:54:09-0600

joymercy said:
Pope Leo wants us to pray for people suffering under the heavy burden of despair.

Not all suicides are obvious ones.....

I am going to guess that this Afgan citizen lost all hope, because he was going to be greatly outnumbered and most likely killed

CNN is reporting that he is here legally

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