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stevevw · 2025-12-07T21:32:37-0600

Hans Blaster said:
All this what about in defense of Trump (which is not the topic). Did you even bother to vote for him?

I am not American so I could not vote lol. I am explaining how there is a deranged level of bias and partisan politics against Trump and by extenstion his admin and supporters.

That this motivates haters to create falsehoods in the negative before any evidence or facts come out. They have been busted time and time again.

So all this negative spectualtion is not just coming hate and is biased.

stevevw · 2025-12-07T21:23:52-0600

AV1611VET said:
Life didn't "emerge."

It was implanted.

Anyone asking for how life got started scientifically is begging to be confused.

Yes I agree life has been introduced by God the creator of life.

peter2 · 2025-12-07T21:21:40-0600

The Liturgist said:
and we get something even better- salvation in Christ.

i agree, but i wouldn't find useless to assume Mary was supported (and may be supported the apostles) by her belief during the three days of death. As called Peter, i assume the apostle (Peter) must have felt sheepish of his denials before her, even after resurrection, at least up until Jesus gives him back the leadership over his shep, may be still when waiting for the Holy Spirit.
i wonder whether it's not in what preceeds that part of this motherhood of Mary Jesus gives to John (indirectly to Peter) consists

FaithT · 2025-12-07T21:14:48-0600

lismore said:
Hello FaithT. I found a wikipedia article explaining the practice, but it maybe too harrowing for posting here. If you go to wikipedia and search for the term you'll find the article. It says the practice is 'significantly present in some countries of Africa, Asia and Middle East, and within their diasporas'.

Kind Regards.

I knew it happened in Africa, don’t know if I ever heard of it in Asia or Middle East. So this is happening with people From these countries when they move to Scotland?

The Barbarian · 2025-12-07T21:10:18-0600

BPPLEE said:
He couldn't even get a second term

And yet he succeeded in the job where Trump has failed. That's what eats at Trump, now. He'll never get over it. Even republican historians put Biden far above Trump. And by now, Trump has declined too far to hope for a recovery.

Shane R · 2025-12-07T21:08:38-0600

RamiC said:
“one in being with the Father”

I dislike that language in the Nicene Creed. And it's a translation issue. The older texts read: "Of one substance with the Father". Let me explain.

In the American context, where anyone with a little charisma and a 6th grade education and a King James Bible can scrape together a group of 20 followers (hence the meme of Pr. Bob, the ignoramus), the quoted phrase tends to lead to a Modalist view. Of course, the people I just referenced don't use creeds but they seem to be particularly effective at spreading their views through media. So those who do are tainted with the influence of these ignorant people.

I can live with 'consubstantial with the Father' as the Romans were using recently, although that is a word that needs unpacked for 93% of the faithful; essence and substance are both better.

Chesterton · 2025-12-07T21:06:04-0600

ThatRobGuy said:
The right to be tried in front of a jury of our peers is supposed to be a benefit or "check" on institutional power and biases.

One of the many problems with multiculturalism is that finding peers becomes increasingly harder.

stevevw · 2025-12-07T21:02:31-0600

timothyu said:
Obviously. The population has been diluted by those with no such values. If you build it, they will come.

Yes and its a strange development that the host nation who were the icon of freedom and opportunities ended up become more like the troubled nations it was welcoming rather than maintaining that way of life.

I remeber when young people use to say thank God we have a relatively safe and free society and that all this trouble was in far away nations. ut now it seems many western nations are becoming like the troubled nations. We have imported the trouble along with the immigrants.

It use to be people came and integrated into the host nations way of life. Thats why they came to places like the US. But then we had this ideology that we must somehow give way to our way of life and promote or allow other cultures to develop in the name of multiculturalism.

Thats ok and its good to experience other cultures. But not to allow them to actually allow the culture to take over. In Britain and Europe there are large enclaves of immigrants who cannot even speak English.

Thats ok if the culture is reasonable like us. But when they are not what happens.

I think it was unreal that we allowed this to happen. Now people complain and hate the host nation. Its a complete turn around and undermining of the free nations.

Almost a suicidal mentality that we should sacrifice our own security and freedom and become divided and in chaos for the sake of appeasing some ideal about putting people from other cultures above our own in the name of DEI. .

You begin to wonder whether multiculturalism would ever work. How can two or more cultures with completely different worldviews all have equal rights at the same time in the same place. Someone has to give up something about their culture so not to deny another.

In attempting to achieve this unreal ideal we have lost our own identity. We have actually given up our way of life for the ways of other cultures and in doing so created a mess of division and hatred.

jonojim1337 · 2025-12-07T20:54:54-0600

prodromos said:
Meme responses show lack of ability to respond intelligently.

Oompa Loompa · 2025-12-07T20:47:13-0600

ranunculus said:
Those screengrabs come from a video from NBC titled "Watch: U.S. Coast Guard crew intercepts drug-smuggling vessel. Note how it says intercepts, not blows up and then double taps the survivors clinging for life to the wreckage.

More importantly, the article and video are from 2019. So these are not in fact "pictures of the supposed "fishing boats" that were blown up by the US Navy"

Coast Guard unloads 26,000 pounds of cocaine seized from Pacific

An estimated $350 million in cocaine has been hauled in from Pacific Ocean in recent weeks, the military said Friday.

www.nbcnews.com

I'm sure you'll be apologetic about misleading people

I suppose this is another fishing boat?

peter2 · 2025-12-07T20:46:50-0600

eleos1954 said:
she likely didn't know the specific details of His crucifixion beforehand but experienced the joy of His resurrection, emphasizing that she, like all humans, had to trust God's unfolding plan. She likely didn't despair but trusted.

Helle Eleos.
Actually, I also assume she believed what Gabriel 'd told her about Jesus overall kingship (not just for her giving birth to the Lord), since Elisabeth 'd blessed her as the one that 'd believed.
Now, with Jesus, dead on the cross, just with this little writting on the top from Pilate, the only one testimony indicating his kingship, only jewish one, and not a general kingship, wouldn't not believing in his resurrection 'd meant disbelieving the word of God, through the angel's ?

Richard T · 2025-12-07T20:41:54-0600

Fantine said:
You are making a big assumption. There is no proof of narcotics on the boat. One verified ship attack contained narcotics that were going to a larger vessel bound for Europe, not the US.

The double tap boat was going to Suriname.

samaus123456789 · 2025-12-07T20:40:52-0600

List the locations in Isaiah 11:11–12 “In that day the Lord will extend his hand yet a second time to recover the remnant that remains of his people, from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the coastlands of the sea.” (ESV / similar in most) Key places: Assyria Egypt (includes Pathros = Upper Egypt) Cush (Ethiopia / Sudan region) Elam (SW Iran) Shinar (Babylonia / Mesopotamia) Hamath (Northern Syria) Coastlands / Islands of the Sea (Mediterranean coastal & island regions)
List the locations in Acts 2:9–11 “Parthians and Medes and Elamites and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya belonging to Cyrene, and visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabians…” (Acts 2:9–11) Key places (grouped): East / Mesopotamia–Iran area Parthia Media Elam Mesopotamia Anatolia (Turkey) Cappadocia Pontus Asia Phrygia Pamphylia Levant / Judea Judea Africa Egypt Libya (Cyrene) Mediterranean islands & West Crete Rome South / East Arabia
Now map conceptual matches: Isaiah 11 ↔ Acts 2 It’s not a 1:1 name match, but a regional / typological match. Here’s the breakdown: 1) Elam Isaiah 11: explicitly Elam Acts 2: explicitly Elamites ✅ Exact same name, same region (SW Iran). 2) Shinar (Babylonia / Mesopotamia) Shinar in the OT = region of Babylonia / Mesopotamia (Gen 10:10; 11:2; Dan 1:2). Acts 2 mentions Mesopotamia. ✅ Shinar (Babylon) ≈ Mesopotamia (Greek term for same general area). 3) Assyria Isaiah 11: Assyria (upper Mesopotamia / N Syria–Iraq area). Acts 2 has Jews from Mesopotamia, Parthia, Media—all territories in or east of what was Assyria/Babylon/Persia. Not a literal “Assyria” label, but the same broader exile zone beyond the Euphrates. ✅ Regional continuity: exilic lands of Assyria/Babylon/Persia. 4) Egypt Isaiah 11: Egypt and Pathros (Upper Egypt). Acts 2: Egypt. ✅ Direct match: Jews from Egypt in both. 5) Cush Isaiah 11: Cush (south of Egypt, Nubia / Sudan / Ethiopia). Acts 2: Egypt and parts of Libya around Cyrene—so Jews from North Africa; also, in the broader NT we meet an Ethiopian eunuch (Acts 8), indicating a known Jewish/God-fearing presence in Cush-region. Not named directly in Acts 2, but: Cush = African belt south of Egypt Acts = African Jews from Egypt/Libya, plus Ethiopian believer shortly after This one is adjacent region, not exact name in Acts 2, but fits the African axis of the dispersion. 6) Hamath (Northern Syria) Isaiah 11: Hamath = city/region in Syria, to Israel’s north. Acts 2 doesn’t list Hamath by name, but Jews from Cappadocia, Pontus, Asia, Phrygia, Pamphylia (Anatolia) and Arabia represent the northern/eastern surround of Judea. Again, more regional continuity than exact labeling. 7) Coastlands / Islands of the Sea Hebrew ’iyyim = coastlands / islands—usually: Mediterranean coast Maritime / island peoples Often extended symbolically to western lands Isaiah 11: “coastlands of the sea”. Acts 2: Rome (far western Mediterranean), Crete (Mediterranean island), and “visitors from Rome” clearly representing the “islands/coastlands” of the sea. ✅ Strong typological match: western maritime diaspora.
So is “matches exactly” literally true? Strictly, no: Isaiah doesn’t say “Parthia, Media, Cappadocia, Rome, Crete, Arabia”… Acts doesn’t explicitly say “Assyria, Shinar, Hamath, Cush”. But the pattern is the same: East / Mesopotamia–Persia (Assyria, Shinar, Elam) ↔ Parthia, Media, Elam, Mesopotamia South / Africa (Egypt, Cush) ↔ Egypt, Libya, Ethiopian contact North (Hamath, Syria-region) ↔ Anatolia & northern territories West / coastlands & islands ↔ Rome, Crete, other Mediterranean Jews present So a more accurate statement is: Isaiah 11:11–12 sketches the same geographic directions of the Jewish diaspora (east, west, north, south; Egypt, Mesopotamia, coastlands) that we then see specifically named in Acts 2:9–11. In other words: Isaiah gives the prophetic compass directions & key archetypal exile lands. Acts gives the actual list of provinces & cities in that same “world”. Your theological move—linking Isaiah 11’s remnant-return with the multinational Jewish crowd in Acts 2—is legit and well-grounded typologically, but it’s better phrased as echo / fulfillment / pattern, not “every individual name matches 1:1.”

It says God will reach out his hand a second time, and this was Pentecost. The first time was rescuing the Israelites from Egypt

Exodus 3:20

“I will stretch out my hand and strike Egypt…”

Exodus 6:6

“I will redeem you with an outstretched arm…”

Exodus 7:5

“I will stretch out my hand on Egypt and bring out Israel…”

Isaiah 11 There will be a highway for the remnant of his people
that is left from Assyria,
as there was for Israel
when they came up from Egypt.

it is looking back when talking about the first time not a prophecy about it happening twice in the future.

It means around the time of Pentecost a bunch of rivers / bodies of water dried up so the remnant of Israelites from the 10 tribes exiled by the Assyrians 722 BC in Kings/Chronicles could come back to Jerusalem. The rivers drying up was not recorded.
They will swoop down on the slopes of Philistia to the west;
together they will plunder the people to the east.
They will subdue Edom and Moab,
and the Ammonites will be subject to them.

This seems to be about Maccabees as Israel fought against all of those nations in Maccabees except one, and Josephus mentions Israel fighting against that one in his writings.
The start of Isaiah 11 is about Jesus, and

The wolf will live with the lamb,
the leopard will lie down with the goat,
the calf and the lion and the yearling[a] together;
and a little child will lead them.

was fulfilled in the gospel of Pseudo Mathew which Jerome said was written by Mathew the apostle, and I believe that.

So all of Isaiah 11 is in the past, and none is in the future.

prodromos · 2025-12-07T20:39:38-0600

jonojim1337 said:
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The Liturgist · 2025-12-07T20:36:21-0600

MarkRohfrietsch said:
I saw one based on the statement "Jesus flipped over the tables at the Temple" it provided a picture of our Lord summersaulting over tables.

That’s hilarious! I would actually like to see that. I wonder if some people interpret that verse, or if in the future if knowledge of Koine Greek becomes extinct, and English is the only surviving language, if our descendants will grow up assuming that in response to sacrilege, our Lord drove the money changers out of the temple by crushing them in a dance-off.

The Liturgist · 2025-12-07T20:33:47-0600

FaithT said:
If you ask AI two of the same questions just worded differently, sometimes you’ll get two different answers.

That’s entirely correct, and as a result its possible to fish for questions that produce the answers you want, which is another reason why using AI in an appeal to authority is inherently an example of the Appeal to Unqualified Authority logical fallacy. It’s the same as citing a Wikipedia article - the article might be right, but it might also contain biased information put in by an opinionated editor, and in some cases, the editorial decisions of Wikipedia regarding major articles are themselves highly controversial. But Wikipedia and an AI system can be used to find sources, provided one is willing to follow the breacrumbs to the original source document and verify that it says what the AI system thinks it says.

By the way, because the answers and behavior of AI systems can vary so dramatically (for example, several of my custom GPTs do things which are impossible on Google Gemini or Grok), I think we should avoid speaking of AI as a singular entity, and we should also be careful about using the term AI to refer to LLMs, which are the specific subtype of AI that all of the popular AIs use for most of their processing (a few, like chatGPT, also engage in reasoning, and use routing, so that math questions for example are not processed by the LLM, which can solve them but is extremely inefficient compared to the arithmetic logic unit built into every CPU and the floating point capabilities of every GPU; a classic LLM does not perform reasoning in transparent steps like chatGPT o4, 5.1 Thinking or Grok 3, but rather, just relies on the LLM component.

AI extends to many systems beyond the current popular LLM-based systems, however, and also predates it by a number of years; there are much simpler AI systems going back to the “fuzzy logic” used in the 1970s to control elevators in large skyscrapers, for example, as an extremely primitive example. The most common AIs in use are the AIs used in video games to control the behavior of adversaries - for many years, gaming was the only field where any active work on AI was being done, during the “AI winter“ of the mid 1980s to the mid 2000s.

Richard T · 2025-12-07T20:28:52-0600

mindlight said:
The new American national security review suggests Europe needs strengthening. Is Europe facing civilizational erasure? Is American policy good for Europe or not?

The report points to various weaknesses and issues to work with:

1) A declining share of global GNP - 25 --> 14% since 1990
2) Problematic cultural and civilization erosion - activities of the European Union and other transnational bodies that undermine political liberty and sovereignty, migration policies that are transforming the continent and creating strife, censorship of free speech and suppression of political opposition, cratering birthrates, and loss of national identities and self-confidence.
3) Despite possessing a greater hard power than Russia in every category but nukes Europe lacks self- confidence.

The policy of the USA should therefore be:

Our broad policy for Europe should prioritize:
• Reestablishing conditions of stability within Europe and strategic stability with Russia;
• Enabling Europe to stand on its own feet and operate as a group of aligned sovereign nations, including by taking primary responsibility for its own defense, without being dominated by any adversarial power;
• Cultivating resistance to Europe’s current trajectory within European nations;
• Opening European markets to U.S. goods and services and ensuring fair treatment of U.S. workers and businesses;
• Building up the healthy nations of Central, Eastern, and Southern Europe through commercial ties, weapons sales, political collaboration, and cultural and educational exchanges;
• Ending the perception, and preventing the reality, of NATO as a perpetually expanding alliance; and
• Encouraging Europe to take action to combat mercantilist overcapacity, technological theft, cyber espionage, and other hostile economic practices.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025-National-Security-Strategy.pdf

Sounds sort of anti-federalist. If individual nations want to give up their sovereignty to a regional body the only reason to care is that as a group they are far more powerful. The USA 13 colonies did just that. But weakness 2 seems to contradict some of the broad policies that suggest working together. Wonder what "Cultivating resistance entails?"

Sounds like talk from S. Africa before they gave up apartheid. Does Trump really just want the EU to be whiter? I call this the last gasp of white hegemony. Lets all consolidate the whites for a longer lasting leadership?

Sif · 2025-12-07T20:26:30-0600

When I send/give out Christmas cards I use my own photos. I also tend to make sure the message is for the specific person. What I mean is to a Christian, I will make sure it says, "Merry Christmas". To a Jew I will have it say "Happy Hannukah". If the person celebrates some other holiday (Yule, Solstice, or Kwanzaa) I will have the card say that. I print my own.

Here are some of the images I've used:

Late Fall 2012 Never Summer Range 013.JPG

Late Fall 2012 Never Summer Range 010.JPG

Late Fall 2012 Never Summer Range 001.JPG

jonojim1337 · 2025-12-07T20:18:53-0600

Clearly not a solid object.

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jonojim1337 · 2025-12-07T20:14:10-0600

FaithT · 2025-12-07T20:12:48-0600

The Liturgist said:
Apparently not, based on the fact my results contradict yours, given the same question.

If it’s any consolation, the rationale it provided for enumerating the LCMS, WELS and ELS I found to be deeply flawed, but that’s the result of the use of a highly subjective categories such as ”Administration“ and “Denomination.“

If you ask AI two of the same questions just worded differently, sometimes you’ll get two different answers.

Apple Sky · 2025-12-07T20:09:31-0600

Hentenza said:
You are welcomed to substantiate your claim with credible evidence.

First we need credible evidence that they even went to the moon as these videos just don't cut it.

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