Lust of the flesh, theft, etc. is selfishness, so if we follow God's will we already know not to go there. We are to be servants, not self-serving.

2PhiloVoid said:

Actually, as I think about it, maybe it is a far left agenda. Because empathy alone, by itself and shorn of any other additional context, is surely a cheap imitation of a fuller, more robust expression of genuine COMPASSION which all Christians are OBLIGATED to show to other people around them in the world at large. It's not an opt out.

Of course, those who prefer to go to 'Hell' in the long run can opt out of having to be chained to showing compassion, I suppose.......

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The main difference between empathy and compassion is that empathy entails an attempt to understand the context of another while compassion has no such requirement.

So, taking the context out of empathy is basically just compassion. No?

rambot said:

Any thoughts on the new chain of command TRump and his folks have put into place?

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Trump is carrying out the purge of military leadership that the right-wing falsely accused Obama of doing.

DaisyDay said:

Unfortunately, as is so often the case with these things, this is ironically named as the civil service system is merit based. Trump is scrapping that for fealty based. This is corrupt.

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Let's remember that the 2025 plan is to remove merit-based selection entirely from the Senior Executive Service (the Civil Service equivalent of general officers) and replace them with political appointees.

BCP1928 said:

Because Trump is already on record as wanting to give illegal orders to the military.

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No. He is not.

I have always believed the Book of Enoch could be very helpful if it is carefully read. Parts of it seem to clearly express the Trinity as that of our God Who we worship.
A major example is chapter 48 which I have copied below. It is in conformity to Daniel 7 & even has a description of a divine Person in the “Lord of Spirits” which must be the Holy Spirit.

Per the translation of 19th c. Anglican Bishop Richard Laurence.

stevevw said:

That is a great song line my friend. Your a song writer lol. "those country-night skies are a cathedral without walls" paints a great picture.

Yes so true. Your inspiring me now lol. My mum and step dad use to live in the country not far from the Warrumbungle National Park
where the space observatory was. So this location was ideal for having a clear uninterupted view of the night sky.

I use to lay on my back and watch shooting stars going off everywhere across my field of vision. You could actually see the distant spiral of the milky way. This alone was something that had Gods fingerprints all over it and stayed with me.

Now putting the chords to that is not so simple lol. But we can capture some of it and your words above did just that for me or any one I reckon. But also the music has to flow with the vision or experience as well.

Yes I think this is the key (pardon the pun). Sharing helps because sharing ideas and inspirations makes it real and alive and it can then grow into something.

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Steve, your Warrumbungle memory gave me memories of NZ country skies—shooting stars and the Milky-way spiral are cathedral chandeliers, just that same big sky God hung in the outback!

Just a note on those chords:

If putting chords to that feels huge, try this tool without guilt: use A.I. (e.g. Chat-GPT or Band-in-a-Box) as a coaching assistant, not a ghost-writer.

• Feed it your lyric snippet + mood words (“ethereal, slow-build, country-night”) and ask for three chord-progression options.
• Keep what resonates, ditch the rest, rewrite until the music breathes the same air as your memory.

Think of A.I. like a digital David—it can strum rough ideas, but you still crown the melody with spirit and truth.
If the final goal is glory to God, every tool (pen, piano, or prompt) is just borrowed wood for the altar of praise.

Press on—your next note under those stars may be the one that helps someone else hear the “something beyond.” Technology is not the issue it is how people use it which lies within the heart. Use it for God's glory just like the printing press was.

All the best Steve. Have a wonderful day/night. Jason in Japan.

Say it aint so said:

Judge dismisses Comey, James indictments after finding that prosecutor was illegally appointed​

Jim Comey (and Tish James) are going to have a nice Thanksgiving.

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James isn’t out of the woods yet. They can indict her again. She might have a separate case requesting dismissal over malicious prosecution pending though. If so, I don't know what happens with that since this is currently dismissed.

chevyontheriver said:

Conscience is that guide for the times you don't hear God telling you in the moment, for example, 'Adultery is wrong'.

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I don't experience any gaps in God's leadership that need to be filled by a well-informed conscience. Doesn't the the fact that we live in the Spirit and the command to walk in lock step with the Spirit (Galatians 5:28) presume there are no gaps? Also, when we walk in the Spirit, isn't it guaranteed that we will not at the same time fulfill the lusts of the flesh since the Spirit and the flesh have desires in adversarial opposition to one another (Galatians 5:16-17)?

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When it comes to being empathetic to those who are LGBTQ and the idea of creating an environment where they can just live and let be, it's no one other than progressives who have pushed that same idea through history come pretty much all minority groups. So when it comes to this, apparently empathy is a left ideology.

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You call it empathy but I call it politicization. Your camp wants to dislodge any semblance of traditionalism from most areas of life. I believe that is quite empathetic to care about the cohesion and importance of the family where parents are still responsible for their children. The left wants to eliminate the “evil” parents from raising their kids as they see fit. The left sexualizes children from early age to follow the LGTBQ agenda. There is no empathy there at all only manipulation.

rambot said:

How many times throughout history do Americans have to be terrified of Immigrants before you realize "oh...it's a nothing burger".

Irish came? EWWW!! Catholics
Italians came? Eeeewww gansters
Polish people came? they're so dumb and dirty.

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How many of those you mentioned came with the goal of implementing foreign policy in America? None? Oh, I guess that's the difference.

Now we see that waving bacon and non-violent speech is being prosecuted as a hate crime, just like 'back home'.

Jipsah said:

So it was all about merit.

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Call it what you will. One thief was me me me while the saved one was about the will of God and selflessness.

stevevw said:

I thought the electromagnetic wave effect at the location of the pyramids has already been established with the Schumann resonance frequency.
Resonating electromagnetic waves with a frequency of around 8 hertz which can be measured in the Earth's atmosphere. This natural phenomenon is called the Schumann resonance frequency.

This causes a constant vibration in the quartz crystals. So any further effects are building on this. The way the stones are located in relation to each other. The granite chambers are under tremendous pressure and the addition of certain acoustics and all sorts of activity can be produced.

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Did you make this nonsense up or is there a pseudoscience site you can point me to.
As a reference here again is the peer reviewed science article I referred to which went over your head involving radio waves reaching the King's chamber and amplifying the field through constructive interference.


The researchers needed to take into consideration the energy loss of >99% as radio waves are scattered and absorbed by the surrounding limestone before reaching the interior chambers, composed of granite.
Theoretically electromagnetic waves can interact with the Great Pyramid in the kHz-MHz range and in the MHz range for the pyramid's internal chambers.

By comparison a Schumann resonance electromagnetic wave of 8 Hz and a wavelength of around 38,000 km has an unimaginably small amplitude with a field strength of round 1 picotesla. It will not penetrate the limestone exterior to reach the granite lined interior chambers of the Great Pyramid.
If on the other hand you are entertaining the even more absurd idea of a Schumann resonance electromagnetic wave interacting with the Great Pyramid causing it to vibrate and everything inside it including quartz crystals in the granite, there is the physics known as the "Long Wavelength Limit" which states if the wavelength of the radiation is very much larger than object in question, the object is essentially transparent and nothing happens. The wavelength of Schumann resonance is enormously larger than the dimensions of the Great Pyramid which cannot support or significantly interact with Schumann modes.

This highlights the difference between science and pseudoscience, the peer reviewed scientific paper is constrained by the physics, whereas the physics shows the pseudoscience is wrong.

RDKirk said:

As much as I detest Donald Trump, and will argue any day that his regime is a fascist regime...

...I do agree that this group is trying to disrupt the military chain of command at the lowest levels. That is the worst thing they can do to the US military and, consequently, to the nation.

They are coyly urging mutiny. This is a suicide option. If they are successful, it will take 30 years of good administration to bring the military back from that disaster...the current lower ranking NCOs and officers will have to have age out of service before the military would be reliable again.

They are hoping the literal cavalry will rescue the country from 20 years of bad voting decisions. But the military does not have the authority to stop the Commander in Chief, and we don't want them to try.

The nation elected this plate of green wienies, so we have to eat it.

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Any thoughts on the new chain of command TRump and his folks have put into place?

RDKirk said:

Why would anyone expect the president to be as smart as the White House lawyers in crafting Executive Branch documentation?

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He should at least have general sense of the limits of presidential power even if its not lawyer-level. I dont think he does tho.

Hentenza said:

Again, that could not be further from the truth.

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When it comes to being empathetic to those who are LGBTQ and the idea of creating an environment where they can just live and let be, it's no one other than progressives who have pushed that same idea through history come pretty much all minority groups. So when it comes to this, apparently empathy is a left ideology.

Apparently, certain politicians are above the law. Our two teir justice system that is more about politics than it is about justice is a joke!

chevyontheriver said:

Is this dementia diagnosed by any doctors?

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Its analogous to the "court of public opinion". We can observe real things and make judgments that, even if correct, dont carry any force of law.

For my part, Im not sure. If not dementia, then something else is causing his mind to take its drunken walks from notion to notion. Could be a generic lack of focus tho.

Delvianna said:

I mean, they already are lol Have you seen the numbers that are trying to leave right now? It's insane. Link

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Wow! I've seen the numbers of people talking about how if something happens they're going to do this thing that they won't end up doing!

Do you know how often people make this thread? EVery presidential election.

jonojim1337 said:

Doesn’t make sense why it’s covered in dirt for this type of structure. It’s supposedly a grave for a royal and yet badly maintained?

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It's the middle of the Scottish Highlands and the Scottish weather is terrible at the best of times. Have you never heard of weathering?

jonojim1337 said:

Also there is this there and it’s clearly not a modern British structure.

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Well, it was built in 1852, it's not really modern, but that's an entirely you problem.

BryanJohnMaloney said:

Trump is working so very hard to go down in history as the second Neville Chamberlain.

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For worse or worse, I think he's gonna end up being the first Trump.

Aaron112 said:

Amen. It is so. Jesus Alone May set someone (not everyone)free to seek the truth and to keep seeking truth, to be set free by truth. There are not many resources for those seeking truth (really only one = Jesus Himself) while there are a lot of resources promoting death and lies and false gospels in the dark dark dark society.

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You too seem to have understanding.

Hegseth is an idiot.

The Department of Defense has threatened to recall Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz), a retired Navy veteran, back to active duty to face a possible court-martial or administrative measures a week after he and five other lawmakers issued a video urging troops not to obey orders that violate the law or Constitution.

...but if he wants to double down in dumbness, have at it. Arizonans will repay MAGA next November.