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Oompa Loompa · Sep 6, 2025

Pommer said:
Them files get released and we might all find out?
(Like that’s ever going to happen!)

So the court of public opinion has already found Trump guilty, but they just have not found the evidence yet.

FreeinChrist · Sep 6, 2025

An opinion written by Glee Violette and posted on facebook is interesting.

Glee Violette

17h ·

The more I think about the boat full of people that was blown up by military officers of the United States of America under Donald Trump, the more things don't add up......

So, a small boat goes speeding past the Navy, and what? The captain picks up the phone and calls the White House? ....

Because Trump and Marco Rubio have made it clear that Trump PERSONALLY gave that order.

But Trump - AND the captain of that Navy ship - had NO idea who was on that speedboat.

They did not have TIME.

They did not board the boat. They did not collect evidence. They did not even have an accurate head count. Not one of them has been identified. Do they have ANY of the names ? Even now? No.

So how could they possibly know if they were gang members?

Or if, as some have suggested, the boat was full of refugees fleeing Venezuela, like hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans have done already. Maybe speeding TOWARDS the US Navy ships hoping to find refuge and safety under our protection.

After all, there were 11 to 13 people aboard that boat. The number differs, because the boat was not close enough to tell. Nor could the gender of the people be determined. Or if there were children on board.

One thing is for sure. If there were so many people on board such a small vessel, there was not much room for a drug shipment. Was there?

They were off the coast of Venezuela, in international waters, nowhere near America. They were NOT threatening our borders. They were not threatening any Americans. They were not even threatening our ships. There were no weapons in the pictures. There is not even any EVIDENCE that a crime was being committed.

The Navy officers aboard our ship may have SUSPECTED the boat was carrying drugs, but that is not a violent crime like piracy, or kidnapping that warrants immediate intervention.

This administration is incompetent and untrustworthy.

The Barbarian · Sep 6, 2025

bèlla said:
Consider the context that made it possible. The American dream is dead or dying for many that’s why former times appeal. They want to go back to a period when life was good. And if it means slavery and oppression so be it. They’re focused on the spoils.

I grew up in the time when the New Deal changes had transformed America. An ordinary working-class guy could have a family, a car, and a house on his wages. For most of us, it was the best of times. Racism was still legally enforced in much of the nation though. If you were really rich there were downsides; the top tax rates were high enough to prevent the kind of wealth we see guys like Musk getting today, and workers were getting a larger share of the wealth they produced. And the economy was doing great.

Mostly it was good times, if you were a working-class white male, a farmer, or a small business owner. The irony is, these demographic groups are those who most support Trump, who has done everything he can to keep from going back to those times.

Except for the racism, of course.

thisguy777 · Sep 6, 2025

PloverWing said:
I'm hearing you say that you and your wife disagree about what your wife wants. I'm pretty sure that she's the expert in what she wants, so listen to her.

I'm uncomfortable with collecting statistics to use as a weapon in the bedroom. If it turns out that 99% of women like X (for some X), but your wife doesn't like X, then that's what's true -- she doesn't like X, regardless of what all those other women are doing. She shouldn't feel like she has to pretend to like X just to conform to what other women like.

I could tell you what I like in the bedroom (except that it's none of anyone's business), but that's irrelevant to what your wife likes.

I am not questioning what she wants or doesn't want. the question is to what extent does the Christian female population like. I think its higher than what she thinks. because they don't want to look "sinful"

rambot · Sep 6, 2025

Help me understand why all nations should abide by international rules except the United States.

I'm just having trouble grasping that level of American Exceptionality. How come other countries with drug problems are obliged to abide by those agreements but the US is not.

BassLine · Sep 6, 2025

stevevw said:
Yes its a strange thing that some of these great artist die young and often through self inflicted lives. Look at Kurt Kobain who I think was also like a reincarnation of an old blues singer at heart. But really pioneered a new kind of music that represented his generation.

Or of course the classic icon of artistic music in Jim Morrison. Who actually was an arty academic and a poet before a muso. Though his rantings became wierd in the end lol. But each captured a time well for what it was.

I think it was partly because they died young and lived on the edge is what gave them that edge and their downfall. They became their lyrics or were their lyrics.

Yes, sometimes an artist can disappear into the world they sing about. The best ones draw from what they’ve seen or lived, their songs communicating what they feel.

timothyu · Sep 6, 2025

Like Jesus would care about a worldly country when He clearly told us what His priorities are. Institutionalized Christianity sold out and destroyed itself when it tried to make Rome great again. We humans for 2000 years are not even capable of making the Kingdom great again, although a few try. The politics of man is a joke, and so is our attempts at religion which always turns worldly in nature. Self interest is the true religion of man, as that poster shows.

Larniavc · Sep 6, 2025

RocksInMyHead said:
Trump ordered a strike in Yemen that killed an 8-year-old girl who was an American citizen.

How do you know that Trump did not retroactively label her as a terrorist with his mind?

pastorwaris · Sep 6, 2025

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I am Pastor Waris from Pakistan. I usually do not write such posts here, but today I feel it is my duty to share the real and urgent situation of my community.

Pakistan is facing severe floods again. These floods have destroyed houses, villages, and basic infrastructure. Families have lost their homes, cattle, and livelihoods. Many Christians, already living in poverty, slum areas, and under daily discrimination, are now left homeless and without food, clean water, or clothing. Winter season is only weeks away, and the situation is alarming. Children, women, and elderly people are suffering the most. Issues of child protection, abuse of young Christian girls, and health crises are increasing day by day in the flood-hit areas.

Our Christian community in Pakistan already faces many challenges: poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, lack of clean water, and persecution through blasphemy accusations and discrimination in daily life. Now this natural disaster has added to their suffering. The slum areas where many Christians live have been badly damaged, and they are crying out for emergency shelter, food, medical care, and clothes.

I am not writing this for myself but for the sake of the marginalized Christian community in Pakistan. As a pastor, I believe it is my duty to report and make you aware of what is happening here. This is an emergency situation. I humbly request all forum members and the respected administrative team to please keep our Christian community and others affected in your prayers. If God puts it in your heart to support in any way, please consider doing so for the sake of humanity and our unity in Christ.

The Bible teaches us that we are one in the blood of Jesus Christ. When one part of the body suffers, we all suffer. Today, our community is in deep pain. Please feel that pain with us, stand with us, and pray for us.

In Christ,
Pastor Waris

childeye 2 · Sep 6, 2025

Fervent said:
There's a difference between entertaining questions and thinking your beliefs are false.

The way I see it, if I or someone else is questioning their beliefs, we're at least considering we could be wrong.

Fervent said:
And constantly questioning isn't exactly a productive exercise, since if someone truly engages with it they'll either end up paralyzed and unable to believe anything, or throw up their hands and become a nihliist.

I agree equivocating back and forth between absolutes is unproductive, but it doesn't mean there is no fixed point whereby we can navigate. On the contrary it denotes that there is. Thats why your statement is itself circular reasoning. For example, if it were true that we can't discern truth, that would still be the truth.

Light carries information, darkness doesn't. Therefore, if I am correct in believing that reality dictates what is factually meaningful, then it would be wrong to believe reality is meaningless.

Fervent said:
Though if they could offer an unproblematic solution to Munchaussen's trilemma, they'd likey win some sort of award, whatever awards there are for philosophy/epistemology.

I study semantics particular to psycholinguistics. There is an unproblematic solution. ---> Whatever is Eternal existed before whatever is false.

See this below is from another post:

We project bias in the absence of proof. The question 'Why?' is eternally regressive. So, without axioms there can be no logic nor mathematics. This is an axiom ---> Something is true. Another axiom --->something is false. True/false is a fundamental dichotomy.

Fact --->What is True precedes a lie in existence because the lie only exists to undermine what is true.. Positive/negative is therefore a cycle of energy. <--- This is important for sound reasoning when discerning positive from negative.

We therefore can conduct "Subjective semantic analysis" applying objectively true dichotomies. ---> Positive prejudice vs. negative prejudice, Trust/distrust, Reasonable/unreasonable. ---> Hence, it's reasonable to presume someone is innocent until proven guilty and it's unreasonable to presume someone is guilty until proven innocent.

FreeinChrist · Sep 6, 2025

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www.washingtonpost.com

Some golden age.

Job growth is weak. Inflation is strong. The outlook is deteriorating. And the headwinds are blowing from Washington, D.C.

Whether you blame President Donald Trump’s unorthodox tariff and immigration policies or a slow-footed Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell, the federal government is not doing the economy any favors these days.

The United States began the year having grown at an annual rate of 2.4 percent in the final three months of 2024. Hiring was robust: employers added 323,000 jobs in December.

Fast forward to today and the news is less cheery. On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said the economy added only 22,000 jobs in August, meaning the labor market has basically stalled since the president kicked off his historic “Liberation Day” tariff offensive in April. Some on Wall Street are mulling the likelihood of a recession.

Wolseley · Sep 6, 2025

jamiec said:
Short of suggesting that God’s Love is a fiction - which is what I usually think - there seem to be at least two other possibilities:

1) When speaking of God, what human beings understand by attributes such as Goodness & Truth & Love bears no relation to what those attributes might be in God; God’s “idea“ of a circle might be what among us is a polyhedron, or even a chicken, or something else even less like a circle;
- and, it could be that God‘s “idea” of good, is what we would think of as evil.

Either way, it could be that the notion of goodness among humans is completely useless as a guide to indicating what God judges to be good. IOW, God is ultimately completely unknowable, and revelation is impossible.

Or:

2) God’s Love is real, but, the word falls so far short of the reality that it is of little use as a guide to it. Because there is “far more to” God’s Love - and thus, to God - than can possibly be conveyed by the word or the concept.

Since suffering is a fact, that cannot be trivialised, my guess is that there is no intellectual answer. Some things cannot be known by being reasoned about; human relationships are encounters between persons, not between a person‘s thinking, and what he is thinking of. Reason alone is not adequate to account for human relationships, though it is not of no importance in them. We know people by the act and state of knowing them; just as we swim by swimming, and not by studying swimming, or by thinking about swimming. Human relationships are, so to speak, a form of human personality in practice, & not simply in theory.

I think that coping with suffering is so intimately & irreducibly personal, and even private, that an intellectual answer to it would be useless, & perhaps an impertinence, a piece of all too glib & superficial bad taste. I think God gets round these difficulties, by sharing in the suffering of creatures; and by using and transforming & transnaturalising it, and by redeeming it. And by living it out through human beings, especially in His Church, which is His Body. I don’t think there is an “answer” to “the problem of suffering”, except Christ Crucified and Raised and Ascended.

Why not get rid of suffering entirely; perhaps by never allowing it to arise in the first place ? I think there are several answers to this, none of which is the only possible one.

1) Maybe some goods cannot come to be, unless suffering is allowed as well.
2) Maybe some evils are evil, not in themselves, but from the POV of some, but not all, who encounter them. Among these would be evils that are misused goods.
3) I think there is something to be said for the idea that an evil can be an uncompleted good - that would apply to something such as the imprisonment of Joseph in the Book of Genesis. The theological point stands, even if the story is fiction.

One must of course be very wary of falling into the trap of justifying enormities, however unintentionally.

Maybe I just haven't had enough coffee yet this morning, but I think interpreting that ^^^ is a little over my pay grade......

Larniavc · Sep 6, 2025

essentialsaltes said:
We are protesting what appear to be extrajudicial killings. One again, under the Constitution, no person is to be deprived of due process.

Silly goose! Once the administration has identified someone or someones as the 'bad guys' they can be killed at will.

BelieveItOarKnot · Sep 6, 2025

honey badger said:
not so ... we just view him through the lens of the scriptures ... you see when you hold to a truth this truth you hold to becomes an idol

You are what you think?

What happens when you think honestly?

In any case people do not control the mind of the tempter. It is what it is, not you.

honey badger said:
much like when you say Jesus is the son of God in view that only he is the only son and by default not yourself ... in this thinking Jesus is now an idol to you

The Spirit of Christ lives in us

Doesn't mean it eradicates evil present

honey badger said:
as in its true he is the son of God but then so are we ... you see if you don't see yourself as the son of God and by being his son equal to him then this mind in you is anti-Christ\Truth ...l

You're doing no more than thought conjuring an idol as well at the expense of excusing and covering up for the tempter

IF there weren't parties in people other than the people you'd have a case. But that's never been the case

honey badger said:
also you condemn people

You still can't even manage to get TWO parties on the table

People and devils

honey badger said:
who don't hold to your perception not knowing that for example both Aseyesee and myself believe that we all like a lamb innocent of the sacrifice and therefor the one which is lost never was ...

Yeah whatever. Such sights are one sided and void, just like all who deny they have sin and their sin is of the devil

Everyone has their infection. You're exemption claims are just another voice of hypocrisy claiming you're better just because you think so

Show discipleship by hatred of your own life

Show discipleship by calling yourself an unprofitable servants

These are just the first step through the door and half of you both will never get thru

rambot · Sep 6, 2025

prodromos said:
You don't need to. ObObama.

And how did the right react to that?

rambot · Sep 6, 2025

ozso said:
Probably because I can't stand Trump ads, much less emails.

What's wrong with them? Seems like regular ads feom what I've seen..

PTW · Sep 6, 2025

Troops

rambot · Sep 6, 2025

Here's a question. If America is so great why can't they win within the bounds of the law?

Like trump and golf. If he's so great and wins tournaments why does he have such a reputation for being a flagrant cheat in golf?

Because for Trump, it seems that's the only way he can ever win.

dlamberth · Sep 6, 2025

AV1611VET said:
Prior to the Fall, they were both 24.0000000000 hours.

After the Fall, they parted ways.

Could you explain exactly how the Fall has anything to do with any of this.

BassLine · Sep 6, 2025

stevevw said:
One more thing. I reckon the best chance of seeing a music artist who is reflecting the culture today is busking on the streets. Many are never commercialised but boy there are some good musos out there. I think the basic quality is believability.

Even if the voice is not the best like Dylans. Its an embodiment of life in music. But also these musicians express themselves through the music as opposed to art or literature. They are not just playing the tune but living it I think.

Sorry but music is my thing lol.

Yes, you can still find creative musos out busking, playing in local bars, or at Jam sessions, open mics, and song circles.

boughtwithaprice · Sep 6, 2025

Lady Bug said:
I'm very sensitive to anything I perceive as melancholy or eerie.

There is also the fact that demons hate Gregorian Chant. I would say play the song as much as possible till it does not hurt anymore
If you cringe at that song, and treat it as an aversion, the demons know what feelings to use to get you to stay away from something.
If that is true, you may find those feelings of pain with this song appearing in unrelated situations.
If not then it is just the mood of the song that grieves you and not what the words are meant to project.
Either way, whenever we have bad feelings and can’t understand why, it is good to try and figure it out

Also take the time to pray and ask God, remember to say Jesus, I trust in you.

The Barbarian · Sep 6, 2025

stevevw said:
Or of course the classic icon of artistic music in Jim Morrison. Who actually was an arty academic and a poet before a muso. Though his rantings became wierd in the end lol. But each captured a time well for what it was.

I think it was partly because they died young and lived on the edge is what gave them that edge and their downfall. They became their lyrics or were their lyrics.

And then the movie, with Val Kilmer, who was perfect for the role, riding the same highway in his own way.

The Barbarian · Sep 6, 2025

bèlla said:
We’ve entered a period where political correctness is beginning to fracture and the truth is coming forth. Whether we like it or not.

It's no longer dangerous for a public figure to express anger at an institution that says slavery is bad. That's America today.

The Barbarian · Sep 6, 2025

AFrazier said:
I didn't disagree with this. The point being made was that I don't have the information in front of me to know if the plants in question had the same similarities. let's not forget that proponents of evolution will readily take the tooth of a pig and build an entire psuedo-human skeleton out of it just to prove their point.

No. Never happened. That was a British popular magazine story; no scientists involved. Would you like to hear the real story, and how scientists solved the question? Wasn't actually a pig, BTW.

YECs peddled the um, "enhanced" story. And most people who accept the fact of evolution are theists of some kind, mostly Christian. Would you like to see what we know about that?

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