MarcusGregor said:

This has been a plan for longer than 100 years. I mean they've already infiltrated math with their Arabic numerals, the concept of zero and their al-gebra.

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It’s already happening. I can’t even speak Spanish with my family without having to rely on several Arabic words!

2PhiloVoid said:

The point that I was attempting to make and was apparently unsuccessful in expressing is that, for the Christian, empathy should already be a part of, or an inherent aspect of, compassion.

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I had a feeling you were speaking to that as a wholistic position....and to that I agree.

2PhiloVoid said:

And I'm sorry to hear your rights have been infringed upon of late.

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Thank you actually. I know we've disagreed a lot but it's a surprisingly HUGE gut punch to feel like a 2nd class citizen in North America....and it seems strange that it would happen to a straight, white, male (but I guess I'm in a girly profession). And it's worse when some of my fellow citizens agree I don't deserve the same constitutional protections as they receive.

Hentenza said:

Your interpretation is. Ever heard of symbolic and poetic language?

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Yes, it’s not literally clay under a seal, only like it.

Hentenza said:

Your interpretation is. Ever heard of symbolic and poetic language?

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Here we go again ..............

FaithT said:

I can’t even believe I’m discussing such silliness with you.

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Believe it.

Hentenza said:

Actually a couple of areas being studied today with regards to the dramatic increase in children questioning their gender are social transition and social contagion. Their exposure to both is suggested to contribute tremendously to kids questioning their gender. This probably accounts for the large number of children which their gender questioning resolves by their late teens or early twenties.

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That's good. It's always good to be sure who you really are is who you want to be. Let them ask all the questions they can.

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You definitely took the crown.

Always in His Presence said:

The bolded and underlined I concur.

The assertion that Paul lived as an ascetic is partially correct - there were times that he indeed suffered want - but there were also times he experienced abundance.

As evidenced in his own words

Philipians 4:11 Not that I speak in regard to need, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content: 12 I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound. Everywhere and in all things I have learned both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. 13 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.​

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If read exegetically, its clear he is speaking of one and the same thing - spiritual abundance in the faith through abasement of the carnal passions. We are talking about a celibate male Apostle who clearly, according to all epistles, voluntarily sacrificed personal and social comfort to spread the Gospel among the Greeks, just as the other Apostles did in their apostolates (St. Thomas to the Syrians, Mesopotamians and Indians, both gentile and Jewish, following the northern trade route to Kerala via Edessa, Nineveh, Seleucia-Cstesiphon and Basra; St. Bartholomew to the Armenians, St. Peter to the Jews of Antioch and Rome, St. James the Just to the Jews of Jerusalem and Judaea, and so on).

jonojim1337 said:

Are you saying the Bible is wrong?
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Your interpretation is. Ever heard of symbolic and poetic language?

ChubbyCherub said:

Thanks.

I mean, personally, I don't care one way or the other. Someone's viewpoint has no bearing on my life, whatsoever, but I wanted to know if I was missing something about why so many people passionately engage in this specific topic.

The second point you make makes sense and, really, is such a shame. There are bigger issues in the world but I appreciate we all need distraction and entertainment.

I hope you all figure it out! I don't want to fall off the Earth on vacation because we got it wrong!

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Don’t worry…..that’s impossible. We don’t have it wrong.

jonojim1337 said:

I already posted this. It’s not about the Church. Although I would definitely say the seat of Peter is in Moscow.
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It was and is a myth though. It even says it right up there.

In fact, as well, the first person to be crowned a tsar was the Bulgarian prince, Simeon I, in 913. Not a Russian. A Bulgarian.

wing2000 said:

...oops.

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He's trying to increase those tariff revenues to pay off our debt!

FredVB said:

This world having life would be for thousands of years, I am believing it would not have been millions of years. It was the unformed world before the days of creation, and it could have been much longer that way. We have nothing revealed showing what it was in any case.

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Thankfully God took the guesswork out of it. God created the world ~6000 years ago and it took him 6 days to create the heaven and the earth...and all that is in them. Jesus died a little less than 2000 years ago - Matthew (to Abraham) and Luke (to Adam) both explained that creation was ~4000 years from the birth of Jesus.

Hentenza said:

Actually a couple of areas being studied today with regards to the dramatic increase in children questioning their gender are social transition and social contagion. Their exposure to both is suggested to contribute tremendously to kids questioning their gender. This probably accounts for the large number of children which their gender questioning resolves by their late teens or early twenties.

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Sexual identify and gender are different. I agree 100% with gender questioning.

My daughter went through it all too. I didn't fight her. I told her I'd support her. She had a bunch of ideas and we've had several "Big talks". She's been 1000% open with me every step of the way and my ONLY message to her is "You're gonna figure it out. It sounds like you have an idea now and that's great. But that may change. Don't commit to anything. You'll figure it out".

But she's already coming out of the other side of all this stuff and is back again to mentioning the idea of being married.

I would argue that for many kids (though not all), this gender stuff is essentially just another kind of social group like the "Artsy fartsies; jocks;whathaveyou". That's why it's important to have a measured, informed response.


IT should also be noted that youth who are identifying outside of their birth gender are dropping a LOT too.


Being homosexual CANNOT be erased by reading a tonne of Harlequin romance so we need to abandon this idea that our heterosexual kids are gonna go queer cause they're reading about two daddy penguins.

Robban said:

The earth is round like sphere formed, a ball this we know.

A flat earth is not what is generally meant by some, like some kind of flying carpet.

However, it is not to be taken so but a deeper explanation is required, it is written in the Tanya that certain things are imossible to explain in writing.

For what it is worth, it is possibly describing a scroll, which is round when rolled up, but can be rolled out flat.

For if one sets out on a journey with the help of a compass, and keeps going due West, 270, one will come back to where one started.

Unlike if one sets off due North, there is a hinder, a pole as in Npole.

To continue one would have to change course from N to South, where there is another pole.

If seen as for example a Torah scroll, with a handle at top and bottom, so as to be able to roll out flat.

Just my way of trying to make sense of the claim of flat earth.

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Is it bad that I thought you were going to do this as a poem because of the way the first line was built?

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Sheldon Surya on Instagram: "This guy literally just proved NASA lies about the stars. He puts sunlight through a crystal glass of water… and the exact same star patterns appear. Not burning balls of gas, just frequencies of light interacting with w

A groundbreaking video reveals a possible alternative explanation for the nature of stars and our reality. Using a crystal glass of water, the video shows patterns that resemble starlight, raising questions about NASA's depiction of the stars as burning balls of gas. The video challenges the...

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Oh look, another instagram scientist. Gotta throw away all of my beliefs about stars now.

stevevw said:

What we know is that there are some very different and weird mammals and marsupials in Australia. Just as there are some unique animals to certain locations in the world. Such as elephants in Africa.

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Elephants aren't unique to Africa. There's also the Asian elephant.

Elephants also had a huge range historically. The Asian elephant has a historical range that ran from the southern fringes of the Middle East all the way through the Indian subcontinent and across to Eastern China and Southeast Asia.

The ancestor species of African elephants were spread even more broadly. Remains have been discovered across the entirety of the Eurasian land mass and parts of North America.

probinson said:

Interesting.

So the Democrats shut down the government for 43 days because they said it was the only way to force the administration to extend the subsidies. They then ended that shutdown without achieving, well, anything.

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They received a promise that the GOP would consider the subsidies. Apparently, they have.

probinson said:

Then they ran around making apoplectic proclamations about how Republicans and Trump would never extend the subsidies

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No, they were asking the GOP to come to the table to discuss the matter, but Trump wasn't talking to them and Johnson put the CLOSED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE sign on the House chamber. The Democrats were saying, correctly, that the law as written didn't extend the subsidies.

prodromos said:

The Moscow Patriarchate likes to consider themselves "new Rome", but that has nothing to do with any empires past or present. It doesn't matter how many churches fall under their jurisdiction, a Patriarch is just a bishop, and he gets a single vote in a Church Council, same as every other bishop. The Orthodox Church rejects the papacy, so there is really no basis for claiming Moscow to be 'new Rome'. Constantine actually expanded the city of Byzantium into what he initially called "New Rome", but it simply became known as "Constantine's city" aka Constantinople.

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I already posted this. It’s not about the Church. Although I would definitely say the seat of Peter is in Moscow.

The earth is round like sphere formed, a ball this we know.

A flat earth is not what is generally meant by some, like some kind of flying carpet.

However, it is not to be taken so but a deeper explanation is required, it is written in the Tanya that certain things are imossible to explain in writing.

For what it is worth, it is possibly describing a scroll, which is round when rolled up, but can be rolled out flat.

For if one sets out on a journey with the help of a compass, and keeps going due West, 270, one will come back to where one started.

Unlike if one sets off due North, there is a hinder, a pole as in Npole.

To continue one would have to change course from N to South, where there is another pole.

If seen as for example a Torah scroll, with a handle at top and bottom, so as to be able to roll out flat.

Just my way of trying to make sense of the claim of flat earth.

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He was not talking nor complimenting you. Check your ego.

essentialsaltes said:

The brand also deleted earlier claims that the T1 would be "Made in the USA," now advertising the phone as being "brought to life right here in the USA."

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...oops.

FaithT said:

Probably because anyone with a working brain knows better.

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Are you saying the Bible is wrong?

jonojim1337 said:

No it has been the official narrative for 500 years.

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The Moscow Patriarchate likes to consider themselves "new Rome", but that has nothing to do with any empires past or present. It doesn't matter how many churches fall under their jurisdiction, a Patriarch is just a bishop, and he gets a single vote in a Church Council, same as every other bishop. The Orthodox Church rejects the papacy, so there is really no basis for claiming Moscow to be 'new Rome'. Constantine actually expanded the city of Byzantium into what he initially called "New Rome", but it simply became known as "Constantine's city" aka Constantinople.