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wing2000 · 2025-12-03T07:15:53-0600

rjs330 said:
I suppose theee may be some that believe that, but everyone I know of doesn't believe that.

Did you think there are that many people who think ALL their problems can be blamed on illegal immigrants?

It can't be denied some problems in the US can be blamed on illegals, but all? No I don't think so.

Do you think that illegals should be allowed to come and stay?

I believe many people blame illegal immigrants for a good portion of their problems. And I think the US Congress should pass legislation that: 1) Allocates sufficient work visas to meet the U.S. labor demand
2) Provides a path to citizenship for those who are here illegally provided they meet certain conditions.

Chesterton · 2025-12-03T07:14:39-0600

A Romanian priest in my city told me that he and some members of his congregation do complete fasts for 40 days during Lent - no food at all, water and coffee only. He said it's a great experience.

Apple Sky · 2025-12-03T07:13:41-0600

Ophiolite said:
Well there is this:
Primary sources contain no such statements. Byrd’s expedition logs, radio transmissions, and official reports from his 1926 flight over the Arctic and his later Antarctic expeditions contain no references to hollow Earth entrances, polar openings, hidden civilizations, or unexpected warm areas.

• The infamous “secret diary” is not authentic. A text often cited as Byrd’s suppressed personal account, describing flying into an inner world or meeting non-human beings, surfaced decades after his death and is demonstrably not in Byrd’s hand, tone, or known writing style. There is no archival trail for its origin.

• Misinterpretation of a 1947 remark. Byrd made public comments in the late 1940s about the strategic significance of the polar regions, describing them as potential avenues for military attack or rapid travel. A key phrase—often quoted as him saying there was “a land beyond the Pole”—referred to the geographical and geopolitical importance of the Arctic basin, not a literal landmass.

• Operational records show the expected Arctic environment. Meteorological notes, flight logs, and scientific observations from Byrd and his contemporaries match what is now well-established about the polar climate and geography. No anomalous warm regions, hidden valleys, or unexplored continents appear in the data.

• No corroboration from other explorers. Amundsen, Nobile, Ellsworth, MacMillan, and later Arctic researchers crossed the same regions by air and ice, producing detailed maps and measurements that leave no room for the extraordinary features attributed to Byrd’s accounts.

• Fringe interpretations arise from later authors. Most extraordinary claims first appear in 1950s–1980s hollow-Earth or esoteric literature that used Byrd as an authority figure but provided no primary documentation.

Summary by ChatGpt. I shall expand on any of these to which you offer an evidenced refutation.

I believe their extraordinary story.
Richard Byrd was an American polar explorer known for his arctic and Antarctic expeditions, which gained him fame and recognition. His most notable Arctic event was a 1926 flight over the North Pole with pilot Floyd Bennett

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Nithavela · 2025-12-03T07:13:37-0600

Desk trauma said:
We all must be prepared to give our lives for the drug war.

Y'all really should consider fleeing the country.

Maria Billingsley · 2025-12-03T07:11:52-0600

another_lost_guy said:
In my profile it says I am a republican but that's only because I'm a single-issue voter when it comes to abortion. I believe there is no greater issue. I can understand the problems a Christian may have with Republicans based on immigration (problems that I myself have with the Republicans), but is it really worth siding with abortion enablers over? At least immigrants were allowed to be born!

This issue is no longer relevant. It has been proven now that abortion has seen a rise with maternal death rising along with it. Overturning Roe.Wade made things worse. The pro- life advocates chose the wrong solution. The freedom of choice actually saved lives.

Here is a short synopsis of the overall climate today. Using CDC data and its underlying findings.

The overturning of Roe v. Wade has resulted in a profound and immediate polarization of healthcare outcomes across the United States. While the national abortion rate has surprisingly increased due to a massive surge of patients traveling to and receiving care from states without restrictions, effectively compensating for the near-zero rates in ban states, the impact on maternal health is demonstrably negative in restricted areas. States that enacted severe abortion bans are now seeing their maternal mortality rates rise, a trend that contrasts sharply with the significant decline in deaths observed in states that protected access. This divergence strongly suggests that the stable, universal access to safe, legal care that the Roe framework provided was, in the long run, essential for managing public health and maintaining a protective floor of care, whereas the current system of state-by-state fragmentation has introduced barriers directly linked to worsening maternal safety in nearly half the country.

BCP1928 · 2025-12-03T07:11:20-0600

rjs330 said:
A man cannot have a female body. A man can have surgeries in order to try and look like a female, but they do not have a female body.

Exactly. You may eventually figure out what trans is after all.

BCP1928 · 2025-12-03T07:07:48-0600

Postvieww said:
And you know that how?

By paying attention. Those "go-fast" boats have a range of no more than a few hundred miles so they have to tranship at some point. The boats from Venezuela were probably heading for Trinidad and Tobago for offloading to a seagoing vessel bound for Europe.. European drug agencies have tracked them, of course, having the mother ships in mind as their main target. One of the reasons Europe stopped sharing intel with us, because blowing up the individual boats does little in the long run to stop the drugs and our slipshod handling of Intel might reveal their sources. No, blowing up those boats does little good. In the Pacific the Coast Guard is actually doing some really good work by stopping the bats and arresting the crew. In the Carribean the "war on drugs" is mostly part of a power game Trump is playing with Maduro and blowing up the boats and killing the crews is just a show to satisfy the Christian Right's lust for blood.

rjs330 · 2025-12-03T07:06:06-0600

wing2000 said:
A certain group of Americans have bought into the political narrative that all their problems can be blamed on illegal immigrants.

I suppose theee may be some that believe that, but everyone I know of doesn't believe that.

Did you think there are that many people who think ALL their problems can be blamed on illegal immigrants?

It can't be denied some problems in the US can be blamed on illegals, but all? No I don't think so.

Do you think that illegals should be allowed to come and stay?

Brightfame52 · 2025-12-03T07:02:31-0600

Christs death is a saving death because its a gathering death Jn 11:50-52

50 Nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.

51 And this spake he not of himself: but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for that nation;

52 And not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad. 9

samaus123456789 · 2025-12-03T07:02:25-0600

There are 2 canons. The protestant one for everyone wise or not, then the apocrypha which means hidden extra books only for the wise. Jesus said God has hidden (apocrypha) some things from the wise of the world, and revealed them to babes (the humble?). Jesus referenced 1 Enoch, and called it scripture too. Him, and Jude both believed it was written pre flood not pseudepigrapha. Like I said Rev 13-22 is future. Yes flight to Pella was the 2nd woman fleeing in Rev 12 taken out of Jerusalem on eagles wings like the Israelites came out of Egypt on eagles wings. Commentary on Revelation 1-12 that happened 70 AD.
Rev 1-12 was just judgement on Judea for killing Jesus, the apostles, the prophets, and all the blood back to Abel. Pay attention to all the grammatical verb tenses in the NT/time statements... this generation won't pass, some of you standing here will not taste death, this will come on this generation, I wont this apostle to remain alive until I return etc. Only the Israelites rose from the dead 70 AD like Daniel 12, and some NT stuff said they would. Rev 20 the final judgement did not happen 70 AD. Rev 13-22 is future still.

rjs330 · 2025-12-03T07:01:04-0600

Larniavc said:
One would have thought no demand was required if people just went with what was preferred by the person.

Is using the non-preferred pronoun really so hard for you to do?

That doesn't answer the question. Are you demanding?

Chesterton · 2025-12-03T06:59:53-0600

...wait till you meet Mr. Zanu. He's brilliant. He's like a reverse visionary when talking about the past. So far, in every conversation I've heard, people who disagree with him end up agreeing with him in under an hour. He's like a steamroller made out of information and insights.

My whole adult life I've heard people on TV saying "we need to have a serious conversation about race in America", but it never happened. It's finally happening.

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Reluctant Theologian · 2025-12-03T06:57:04-0600

Yanky said:
I watch Christians (mostly male) torture themselves over lust. I think it is fair to say that most Christians have been misled about what kind of lust that Jesus was talking about. Here it is in a nutshell.

The word almost always translated as “lust” in Matthew 5:28 is the Greek ἐπιθυμέω (epithumeō). In every other place in the New Testament it’s translated as “covet” or “desire” (sometimes even positively), and in the Septuagint (the Greek Old Testament that Jesus and the apostles quoted) it’s the exact word used for “You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife” (Exodus 20:17). So the context is clearly coveting → mentally violating the Seventh Commandment by fantasizing about adultery with a married woman.

Jesus was intensifying the Torah’s command against adultery, not issuing a blanket condemnation of sexual desire or attraction. The early Church Fathers (Augustine especially) later universalized it into “any sexual thought outside of procreative marital sex = mortal sin,” and that sex-negative overlay got baked into Western Christianity (and then influenced some Jewish and Muslim interpretations too). But Jesus didn't say that at all.

So yes: noticing an attractive single woman and feeling turned on? Perfectly normal, healthy, and morally neutral.

Mentally undressing your friend’s wife and cultivating the fantasy? That’s the “adultery in the heart” Jesus was talking about.

Other later church figures widened the topic to saying that all lust is bad. But that's not at all what Jesus said. I feel bad hearing Christian males feeling guilty for no good reason.

Can anyone relate to this?

Your statement is correct and has been presented similarly earlier on this forum as well by others - but not everyone agrees to it. Interpreting Yeshua's statement in Matthew 5:28 should be done in the context of what the definition of adultery was in those days according to Torah and given Yeshua is warning a thought/mind-set is preceding actual physical sin. Indeed an expansion on Exodus 20:17.

Coveting someone else's possessions may lead to actual theft, adultery, murder, etc. I agree to your analysis - it's perfectly logical given the overall message of the Sermon on the mount.

Noticing the beauty of a unmarried woman by a man is not inherently sinful - it's simply nature and what may lead to a marriage proposal. But please guard or avert your eyes in the case of a married woman - as otherwise you're setting yourself up for physical sin later on.

wing2000 · 2025-12-03T06:56:23-0600

Aryeh Jay said:
BUT BIDEN!!!!!!!!!!!

It worked pretty well for Juan Orlando Hernandez.

wing2000 · 2025-12-03T06:55:37-0600

Yes, times have changed. A certain group of Americans have bought into the political narrative that all their problems can be blamed on illegal immigrants. Of course, our country has been here before....just ask the Irish, Italians, Chinese, etc.

Aryeh Jay · 2025-12-03T06:50:23-0600

BUT BIDEN!!!!!!!!!!!

Postvieww · 2025-12-03T06:49:44-0600

wing2000 said:
Don't embarass yourself further pretending that Donald J Trump cares one bit about those affected by illegal drugs.

You mean like some embarrass themselves by support for the previous administration that allowed much of this to happen.

Larniavc · 2025-12-03T06:49:42-0600

Say it aint so said:
The White House on Monday confirmed a second strike in September had killed wounded civilians after the first effort failed, and put responsibility largely on the naval commander leading the mission.

Why is this such a big deal? American police kill people all the time. The person issuing the order may have felt threatened.

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