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Hentenza · 2025-11-09T10:34:05-0600

SabbathBlessings said:
So you don't know the context of what Paul is stating which is found in Gal 2:1-3 which sets up the entire chapter and these verses.

“Yet it was a concern because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who had sneaked in to spy on our freedom which we have in Christ Jesus, in order to enslave us. But we did not yield in subjection to them, even for an hour, so that the truth of the gospel would remain with you.”
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Galatians 2:4-5 Yet it was a concern because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who had sneaked in to spy on our freedom which we have in Christ Jesus, in order to enslave us. But we did not yield in subjecti | New American Standard Bible - N

Yet it was a concern because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who had sneaked in to spy on our freedom which we have in Christ Jesus, in order to enslave us. But we did not yield in subjecti

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This is talking about the legalists that wanted the Christians to first become Jews and keep the law. Paul calls them false brothers.

DaisyDay · 2025-11-09T10:32:56-0600

Hentenza said:
I made the analogy because of the lack of understanding by the left of the damage that crime does and the victims that it leaves behind.

The specific analogy was hiring a pedophile at a daycare, not hiring a pedophile at a construction site. Perhaps you didn't think this all the way through. A daycare has very specific relevance to a pedophile and that is the employment you chose to highlight. Equally, government has very specific relevance to corruption. Are you impling that the right, as represented by you, has a lack of understanding of the damage fraud and corruption does and the victims it leaves behind?

Hentenza said:
If you consider murder to be just a crime then you have to consider pedophilia to be just a crime also.

That "If" is carrying a lot of weight there; unfortunately, it has succumbed to the overload and collapsed in a stinky heap of falsity. I'm a bit curious as to your dismissive "just" here as though "crime" were not a serious thing (although there is certainly a spectrum).

Hentenza said:
Heck, I’ve seen many leftists make the argument that the punishment for pedophiles is draconian and thst even the public sexual pedophile lists are unconstitutional or just plain wrong.

Weird tangent that has nothing to do with either of our arguments - just a bash-the-left digression. Heck, I've known people who did this, that and the other - so what?

Hentenza said:
Murderers don’t show a propensity for crime?

You know that isn't what I said.

Hentenza said:
There is no comparison between a white collar crime and a violent murder.

Obviously, there is a comparison because that is what we're doing, you as well as I. The difference is that you are willing to overlook a career white collar criminal who continues to flout the law being put in one of the most powerful white collar positions in the world where the potential for continuing to crime and the potential for actual worldwide to people is enormous while, at the same time, condemning someone who paid for her crime and turned her life around even though the new position has no connection to the long past crime.

Hentenza said:
No. My argument is that she murdered someone that will remain dead even after she sought rehab. I could not in good conscience vote for a murderer.

Yes. Read your own words: Your argument is a straw man since my argument never included her murdering someone.

She not only sought rehab, but successfully completed it.

Is the person [url=https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-real-target-of-trumps-war-on-drug-boats]who orders a murder equally liable as the person who carries it out?

Hentenza said:
It is not. The crux of my argument is the severity of her crime and that she should not be rewarded for it.

Lols, the severity of her crime? The crime was murdering someone! She has not been rewarded for it. :doh:

She was punished for it (unlike the other person who committed crimes). She was elected despite the crime, not because of it while the same cannot necessarily be said of Trump.

Warden_of_the_Storm · 2025-11-09T10:29:55-0600

stevevw said:
Then if I am persisting with disagreeing with your determination then do you think I have a reason. Do you know that reason. Can you guess.

I am speaking specifically about the demand to produce the evidence of the tools and/or device that created the signatures I am pointing out. Lets just deal with this specific issue.

Then why were you going on about it being a silly example or not supporting in principle what I was trying to point out about the necessity of finding the gun or device that created the signature.

Its not wrong to ask. But its wrong to then insist that if I cannot produce the tools and/or device that this must follow that my whole arguement is defeated. I used the gun example to show it is not defeated if we cannot find the tools. We can still tell what tools like what gun or bullet. Without the gun and bullet.

Ok we have two different issues. First it was said that if I don't produce the actual tools and/or device that this defeats any arguements or claims I make about lost advanced knowledge and tech. This does not follow.

The second issue you now bring up is about looking at the signatures to tell what may have been used. Like the gun example. This aspect becomes more vital because there is no gun or in the case of Egyptian tech, no device or tools.

So all we have now is the signatures and they become vital like the forensics on a crime scene. This can tell us what kind of tool or device made the marks without having the tool or device. It may not tell us exactly such as what kind of tool or device, But will tell us for example what kind of tool would be needed ie circular strirations point to a rotating device.

Or sharp, fine and arc cuts point to a arc or rotating cutter ect. Or in the case of chisels, chisel marks or pounders, pounding marks ect. We can even go down to the mircro level to get more rpecise info. Or metallurgy, and other scans ect to get data to get us closer to exactly what caused the marks. Would you agree.

Ok now this is a specific claim or objection. Look carefully at the words you used as they mean something. You said my entire line of logic boils down to "I say it is so and that's it".

Do you want to stand by that. Do you honestly think Or are you saying that I have absolutely not supported anything with some arguement, image, or link to other independent tests, articles or even peer review.

Your saying "entire" thats absolutely everything.

Do you think I could go back and find at least one thing that shows I did not just rely on my say so and at least linked something beyond me for what I said. Are you saying absolutely nothing.

There you go again. You said because I objected to this demand that I must be dense.

I will ask you again is this what you are saying. That unless I or anyone who makes these arguements cannot show the actual device or tool then there is absolutely no way to show the possible tech or tools involved.

Can you see what your doing here. We just agreed that the signatures from a bullet hole and other marks can tell us what gun and even bullet was involved. That its the signatures tell us what was involved in creating the marks on the object.

Now your literally objecting that in looking at the signatures such as melted or softened stone is rediculous. Its like saying that using the scorch marks a bullet left in the wall is rediculous to tell that a bullet caused the hole.

If theres melted or softened stone on the object or in the mark created is that not like the marks left from a bullet that we should look at to tell what caused the marks that made it.

The same with the circular saw, planing, routing marks, arc cuts, cuts around bends that saws cannot do, circular strirations in the stone that point to a rotating device, fine sharp buts too thin for copper saws and abrasion or cuts that sink into granite from above rather than across like a hand saw.

Lets just use this example to make my point. Your saying that when I show a witness mark such as this that its rediculous and is not evidence or anything that can tell use as to what methods was used like we can with the gun. Explain to me how this is not something we need to address and that its psuedoscience or conspiracy in suggesting it.

Don't get me wrong I don't mind people being skeptical. I am skeptical of stuff and everyone is. Just so long as the skepticism does not become cynicism or something that denies the truth.

I'm certainly not going to respond to all of that because it's a horrible mess of gish gallop and the spelling and punctuation errors honestly make my head hurt to read it. Use question marks (?) for questions, please.

You can claim that signatures you see are examples of advanced tech until your blue in the face, and that's entirely fine and dandy for you to do. But until you actually present substantial evidence of the tools that you claim were advanced enough than what we know were used in that ancient period of history, which goes back to even before Christ, then you cannot expect anyone to accept what you claim as evidence or truth or fact.

Bottom line: you cannot present the advanced technology as evidence in any shape or form, so all you have left is just claims and your claims come across as just pseudo-scientific crock.

essentialsaltes · 2025-11-09T10:28:16-0600

essentialsaltes said:
Some retailers would like to help, but that's illegal.

(While I understand the fundamental fairness that's the issue here -- this would certainly be one way to get SNAP money to go further, in general. Kinda like having 'reduced lunch' at school.)

It's dusty in here.

Feds told Oregon grocers they couldn’t offer 10% off to SNAP recipients, so they got creative

The McGintys, who own the McMinnville Grocery Outlet, tried to offer a 10% discount to all SNAP recipients whose food-assistance money had been frozen. But when the feds told them no, they came up with a go-around: Extending the offer to all customers.

“Now there’s a catch to it, and I need your help as a community,” Mike McGinty announced in an Oct. 31 video posted to Facebook. “If you do not need a discount, please do not ask for it.”

But if you do, “Take it. Ask for it.”

RandyPNW · 2025-11-09T10:25:40-0600

Guojing said:
Where is the Mark of the Beast then?

The prophecy in Dan 9 and the Olivet Discourse of Jesus were focused upon the time of Jesus' earthly ministry, leading to his being "cut off." Both prophecies spoke of the fall of Jerusalem and the fall of the Temple following Israel's apostasy and rejection of Christ.

The Mark of the Beast was spoken of by John after the fall of Jerusalem in 70 AD and refers to the prophecy in Dan 7, where the "Little Horn," aka the Antichrist, will reign for 3.5 years, unmolested on earth and raining terror down upon the saints, ie the Church. And so, we are talking about two separate prophecies, one focusing upon Israel and the other focusing upon the entire Church at the end of the age.

I wouldn't claim to know what the Mark of the Beast is. But it's obvious that it is a means by which people can be differentiated between those who reject Christ and those who embrace Christ.

Those who reject Christ at this time will adapt to and embrace a corrupt world system that utterly rejects and persecutes Christianity. We will know those who throw their lot in with the world by their complete acceptance of this soon-to-come world system in all of its corruption.

We are already seeing the apostasy of Christian Civilization. And we are already seeing what that corruption is bringing, and how the world is coming to promote it. So, what the Mark is doesn't concern me, and doesn't seem to be the concern in the Scriptures. Our concern should simply be to follow Christ's word in our hearts and minds, and to do what we're shown to do.

essentialsaltes · 2025-11-09T10:25:20-0600

essentialsaltes said:
Trump threatens stadium deal if Washington Commanders don’t change name back
“I may put a restriction on them that if they don’t change the name back to the original ‘Washington Redskins,’

Speaking of name changes...

Sources: Trump wants Commanders' new D.C. stadium named for him

Well, at least it's not RFK Jr.

essentialsaltes · 2025-11-09T10:22:19-0600

John Banuelos, 40, who is from Utah but whose sister lives in the Chicago area, was arrested “near 29th Street and Cicero Avenue in Cicero” on Oct. 17, according to the Cook County Sheriff’s Office. A warrant for his arrest was issued in Salt Lake County on Oct. 1 on charges of aggravated kidnapping and aggravated sexual assault, the Cook County Sheriff’s Office said.

Banuelos was previously identified in an NBC News story in February 2022, which revealed him as the man who shot off a weapon at the Capitol on Jan. 6.

Online “sedition hunters” correctly identified Banuelos, 40, and gave his name to the FBI in February 2021. Months later, on July 4, 2021, Banuelos stabbed a man — Christopher Thomas Senn — to death in Salt Lake City, but was not charged after claiming self-defense.

Hentenza · 2025-11-09T10:21:50-0600

HIM said:
For affect? Yes the affect,effectually proves the point that
One can clearly see the context is uninterrupted.
Because Grammatically speaking the context is continuous from verse 1 to at least 31 when it speaks of Christ coming with His angels to gather the elect at the end of this world.

How do we know? By His use of words like and, but, then, when wherefore, and so forth. These words connect what is about to be said to what is already said as was already stated to you above. And yes they are in the Greek and are for the most part translated correctly in most of our English translations.

So that means up to Christ's coming in the clouds of glory with His angels Jesus expected His followers to still be keeping the Sabbath. Because no one to whom He was speaking to is alive today to be alive at the time of the tribulation that is not like any before. This tribulation has not happened yet. How do we know?

Because Jesus said Immediately after this tribulation that is shortened so the Elect are preserved, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. (vs.29-31)

Matt 24:2 ὁ δὲ But Ἰησοῦς Jesus εἶπεν Said αὐτοῖς To Them, Οὐ βλέπετε See Ye Not πάντα All ταῦτα These Things? ἀμὴν Verily λέγω I Say ὑμῖν To You, οὐ μὴ Not At All ἀφεθῇ Shall Be Left ὧδε Here λίθος Stone ἐπὶ Upon λίθον Stone ὃς οὐ μὴ Which καταλυθήσεται Shall Not Be Thrown Down.
Matt 24:3 Καθημένου δὲ And As Was Sitting αὐτοῦ He ἐπὶ Upon τοῦ The Ὄρους Mount τῶν Ἐλαιῶν Of Olives προσῆλθον Came To αὐτῷ Him οἱ The μαθηταὶ κατ' Disciples ἰδίαν Apart, λέγοντες Saying, Εἰπὲ Tell ἡμῖν Us, πότε When ταῦτα These Things ἔσται Shall Be? καὶ And τί What 'Is' τὸ The σημεῖον Sign τῆς σῆς Of Thy παρουσίας Coming καὶ And τῆς Of The συντελείας Completion τοῦ Of The αἰῶνος Age?
Matt 24:4 καὶ And ἀποκριθεὶς Answering ὁ Ἰησοῦς Jesus εἶπεν Said αὐτοῖς To Them, Βλέπετε Take Heed, μή Lest τις Any One ὑμᾶς You πλανήσῃ· Mislead.
Matt 24:5 πολλοὶ γὰρ For Many ἐλεύσονται Will Come ἐπὶ In τῷ ὀνόματί μου My Name, λέγοντες, Saying, Ἐγώ I εἰμι Am ὁ The Χριστός, Christ; καὶ And πολλοὺς Many πλανήσουσιν They Will Mislead.
Matt 24:6 μελλήσετε δὲ But Ye Shall Be About ἀκούειν To Hear Of πολέμους Wars καὶ And ἀκοὰς Rumours πολέμων· Of Wars. ὁρᾶτε μὴ See, θροεῖσθε· Be Not Disturbed; δεῖ γὰρ For It Is Necessary All 'These' πάντα Things γενέσθαι To Take Place, ἀλλ' But οὔπω Not Yet ἐστὶν Is τὸ The τέλος End.
Matt 24:7 ἐγερθήσεται γὰρ For Shall Rise Up ἔθνος Nation ἐπὶ Against ἔθνος Nation καὶ And βασιλεία Kingdom ἐπὶ Against βασιλείαν Kingdom; καὶ And ἔσονται There Shall Be λιμοὶ Famines καὶ And λοιμοί Pestilences καὶ And σεισμοὶ Earthquakes κατὰ In 'Different' τόπους· Places.
Matt 24:8 πάντα δὲ But All ταῦτα These 'Are' ἀρχὴ A Beginning ὠδίνων Of Throes.
Matt 24:9 τότε Then παραδώσουσιν Will They Deliver Up ὑμᾶς You εἰς To θλῖψιν Tribulation, καὶ And ἀποκτενοῦσιν Will Kill ὑμᾶς You; καὶ And ἔσεσθε Ye Will Be μισούμενοι Hated ὑπὸ By πάντων All τῶν The ἐθνῶν Nations διὰ On Account Of τὸ ὄνομά μου My Name.
Matt 24:10 καὶ And τότε Then σκανδαλισθήσονται Will Be Offended πολλοὶ Many, καὶ And ἀλλήλους One Another παραδώσουσιν They Will Deliver Up καὶ And μισήσουσιν Will Hate ἀλλήλους· One Another;
Matt 24:11 καὶ And πολλοὶ Many ψευδοπροφῆται False Prophets ἐγερθήσονται Will Arise, καὶ And πλανήσουσιν Will Mislead πολλούς· Many;
Matt 24:12 καὶ And διὰ Because τὸ πληθυνθῆναι Shall Have Been Multiplied τὴν ἀνομίαν Lawlessness, ψυγήσεται Will Grow Cold ἡ The ἀγάπη Love τῶν Of The πολλῶν Many;
Matt 24:13 ὁ δὲ But He Who ὑπομείνας Endures εἰς To 'The' τέλος End οὗτος He σωθήσεται Shall Be Saved.
Matt 24:14 καὶ And κηρυχθήσεται There Shall Be Proclaimed τοῦτο These τὸ εὐαγγέλιον Glad Tidings τῆς Of The βασιλείας Kingdom ἐν In ὅλῃ All τῇ The οἰκουμένῃ Habitable Earth, εἰς For μαρτύριον A Testimony πᾶσιν To All τοῖς The ἔθνεσιν Nations; καὶ And τότε Then ἥξει Shall Come τὸ The τέλος End.
Matt 24:15 Ὅταν When οὖν Therefore ἴδητε Ye Shall See τὸ The βδέλυγμα Abomination τῆς ἐρημώσεως Of Desolation, τὸ Which ῥηθὲν Was Spoken Of διὰ By Δανιὴλ Daniel τοῦ The προφήτου Prophet, ἑστὸς Standing ἐν In 'The' τόπῳ Place ἁγίῳ Holy ὁ he Who ἀναγινώσκων Reads νοείτω Let Him Understand,
Matt 24:16 τότε Then οἱ Those ἐν In τῇ Ἰουδαίᾳ Judea φευγέτωσαν Let Them Flee ἐπί To τὰ The ὄρη Mountains;
Matt 24:17 ὁ He ἐπὶ On τοῦ The δώματος μὴ Housetop καταβαινέτω Let Him Not Come Down ἆραι To Take τι Anything ἐκ Out Of τῆς οἰκίας αὐτοῦ His
House;
Matt 24:18 καὶ And ὁ He ἐν In τῷ The ἀγρῷ μὴ Field ἐπιστρεψάτω Let Him Not Return ὀπίσω Back ἆραι To Take τὰ ἱμάτια Garments αὐτοῦ His.
Matt 24:19 οὐαὶ δὲ But Woe ταῖς ἐν To Those That γαστρὶ ἐχούσαις Are With Child καὶ And ταῖς To Those That θηλαζούσαις Give Suck ἐν In ἐκείναις Those ταῖς ἡμέραις Days.
Matt 24:20 προσεύχεσθε δὲ And (But) Pray ἵνα μὴ That γένηται May Not Be ἡ φυγὴ ὑμῶν Your Flight χειμῶνος In Winter, μηδὲ Nor ἐν On σαββάτῳ Sabbath :
Matt 24:21 ἔσται γὰρ For There Shall Be τότε Then θλῖψις Tribulation μεγάλη Great οἵα Such As οὐ Not γέγονεν Has Been ἀπ' From 'The' ἀρχῆς Beginning κόσμου Of 'The' World ἕως Until τοῦ νῦν Now, οὐδ No, οὐ μὴ Nor Ever γένηται Shall Be;
Matt 24:22 καὶ And εἰ μὴ Unless ἐκολοβώθησαν Had Been Shortened αἱ ἡμέραι ἐκεῖναι Those Days, οὐκ ἂν Not ἐσώθη There Would Have Been Saved πᾶσα Any σάρξ· Flesh, διὰ δὲ But On Account Of τοὺς The ἐκλεκτοὺς Elect κολοβωθήσονται Shall Be Shortened αἱ ἡμέραι ἐκεῖναι Those Days.
Matt 24:23 τότε Then ἐάν If τις Anyone ὑμῖν To You εἴπῃ Say, Ἰδού, Behold, ὧδε Here 'Is' ὁ The Χριστός, Christ, ἤ, Or Ὧδε, μὴ Here, πιστεύσητε· Believe 'It' Not.
Matt 24:24 ἐγερθήσονται There Will Arise γὰρ For ψευδόχριστοι False Christs καὶ And ψευδοπροφῆται False Prophets, καὶ And δώσουσιν Will Give σημεῖα Signs μεγάλα Great καὶ And τέρατα Wonders, ὥστε So As πλανῆσαι, To Mislead, εἰ If δυνατόν, Possible, καὶ Even τοὺς The ἐκλεκτούς· Elect.
Matt 24:25 ἰδού, Lo, προείρηκα I Have Foretold 'It' ὑμῖν To You.
Matt 24:26 ἐὰν If οὖν Therefore εἴπωσιν They Say ὑμῖν To You, Ἰδού, Behold, ἐν In τῇ The ἐρήμῳ Wilderness ἐστίν, μὴ He Is, ἐξέλθητε· Go Not Forth : Ἰδού, Behold, 'He Is' ἐν In τοῖς The ταμείοις μὴ Chambers, πιστεύσητε· Believe 'It' Not.
Matt 24:27 ὥσπερ γὰρ For As ἡ The ἀστραπὴ Lightning ἐξέρχεται Comes Forth ἀπὸ From 'The' ἀνατολῶν East καὶ And φαίνεται Appears ἕως As Far As 'The' δυσμῶν West, οὕτως So ἔσται Shall Be καὶ Also ἡ The παρουσία Coming τοῦ Of The υἱοῦ Son τοῦ ἀνθρώπου· Of Man.
Matt 24:28 ὅπου γὰρ ἐὰν For Wherever ᾖ May Be τὸ The πτῶμα Carcase, ἐκεῖ There συναχθήσονται Will Be Gathered Together οἱ The ἀετοί Eagles.
Matt 24:29 Εὐθέως Immediately δὲ But μετὰ After τὴν The θλῖψιν Tribulation τῶν ἡμερῶν ἐκείνων Of Those Days ὁ The ἥλιος Sun σκοτισθήσεται Shall Be Darkened, καὶ And ἡ The σελήνη Moon οὐ δώσει Shall Not Give τὸ φέγγος αὐτῆς Her Light, καὶ And οἱ The ἀστέρες Stars πεσοῦνται Shall Fall ἀπὸ From τοῦ The οὐρανοῦ Heaven, καὶ And αἱ The δυνάμεις Powers τῶν Of The οὐρανῶν Heavens σαλευθήσονται Shall Be Shaken.
Matt 24:30 καὶ And τότε Then φανήσεται Shall Appear τὸ The σημεῖον Sign τοῦ Of The υἱοῦ Son τοῦ ἀνθρώπου Of Man ἐν In τῷ The οὐρανῷ Heaven; καὶ And τότε Then κόψονται Shall Wail πᾶσαι All αἱ The φυλαὶ Tribes τῆς Of The γῆς Land, καὶ And ὄψονται They Shall See τὸν The υἱὸν Son τοῦ ἀνθρώπου Of Man, ἐρχόμενον Coming ἐπὶ On τῶν The νεφελῶν Clouds τοῦ οὐρανοῦ Of Heaven μετὰ With δυνάμεως Power καὶ And δόξης Glory πολλῆς· Great.
Matt 24:31 καὶ And ἀποστελεῖ He Shall Send τοὺς ἀγγέλους Angels αὐτοῦ His μετὰ With σάλπιγγος Of A Trumpet φωνῆς Sound μεγάλης Great, καὶ And ἐπισυνάξουσιν They Shall Gather Together τοὺς ἐκλεκτοὺς αὐτοῦ His Elect ἐκ From τῶν The τεσσάρων Four ἀνέμων Winds, ἀπ' From 'The' ἄκρων Extremities οὐρανῶν Of 'The' Heavens ἕως To 'The' ἄκρων Extremities αὐτῶν Of Them.

And you are yet to address my post 502. Also, you are yet to post your credentials as a Greek scholar. Repeating the same c&p is not going to make it true.

essentialsaltes · 2025-11-09T10:19:32-0600

essentialsaltes said:
Zohran Mamdani rolls out veteran city leaders, Dem heavyweights to lead transition
Mamdani named an initial slate of transition chairs that includes former Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan, former First Deputy Mayor Maria Torres-Springer, United Way of New York City CEO Grace Bonilla and former Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services Melanie Hartzog. Elana Leopold, who held several senior roles during the Bill de Blasio administration, is the transition’s executive director.

Even MAGA world finds something to like in Mamdani's administration!

'Thank God the comptroller is Jewish': Trump ally quickly clarifies incendiary statement

“I think a lot of the antagonism against Mamdani is really not about policies or past statements. It's the idea of a scary Muslim person suddenly leading New York City,” said former White House senior advisor Nayyera Haq. “Luckily, I mean, I was on the capitol property at my first job on 9/11. I think in 20 years we've evolved and moved past these scary images of halal meat coming for you.”
..
“He's already said we're not going to invest in any of our funds — thank God the [New York] comptroller who controls the funds is Jewish,” blurted the “Arthur Aidala Power Hour” host, causing confused looks and sidelong stares around the table.

“What does the comptroller being Jewish have to do with it,” asked Haq.

David Lamb · 2025-11-09T10:11:36-0600

Apple Sky said:
This viedo explains these things better than I can, but here's the outline of some of the content:

All modern and historical maps we have are wrong. So we cannot find out where to go.

Well, when I used to drive aa car, I didn't have a SatNav, and used printed maps. They certainly were able to give me the correct directions.

Apple Sky said:
Satellites are "weather balloons" launched from Arctica, Antarctica or from the sea.

Satellites don't even look like balloons. I am not knowledgeable about where they are launched from, but I doubt they are all launched from Arctica, Antarctica or from the sea.

Apple Sky said:
The sun and moon rotate around the magnetic north, and illuminate one quarter/quadrant of the world at a time.

So how does the South pole get illuminated?

Apple Sky said:
The moon is silver, and the Carrington event acted like a flash to imprint the world map on the moon. It looks more like an X-ray, and the two darkest points are the sun and the true magnetic north.

I have never seen a map of the earth on the moon.

Apple Sky said:
The north pole is a point, which rotates in a circle very slowly, and around which the moon and sun rotate in a circle every day.

The North Pole is a fixed point. It is the magnetic north pole which moves.

Apple Sky said:
Pleiades is right above the true magnetic north, around which the compass' magnetic north rotates very slowly, and is the only star in the sky which remains stationary.

Pleiades is not a single star, but a cluster of stars, so it cannot be correct to say that Pleiades is the only star in the sky which remains stationary.

Apple Sky said:
Everything not illuminated by the sun ends up a frozen dark windless area. The sunlight heats the air to create wind currents.

Moonlight actually cools down what it hits, while the sunlight heats up what it hits.

Nights when the moon is shining tend to be cooler than when it is obscured by clouds, because those clouds help keep the previous day's warmth in. Somebody with the scientific knowledge may be able to say definitely, but as far as I know, moonlight does not itself cool things down.

Apple Sky said:
Just like holding a flashlight close to a table in a dark room, we illuminate an area but not the whole table, and from some parts of the table the flashlight's light is not visible.

All the table will be illuminated to some extent, and the flashlight will be visible from anywhere on the table. Obviously the part ofdthe table immediately beneath the flashlight will be the most brightly illuminated.

Apple Sky said:
To get to the true magnetic north, you have to sail south, and to be able to use the star map for navigation.

The closer to the true magnetic north you get, the more the compass will stop working.

You would never get to magnetic north by sailing south. That's the opposite direction.

Apple Sky said:
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Michie · 2025-11-09T10:09:01-0600

Sky News host James Morrow slams former first lady Michelle Obama for the “unbelievable self-pitying interview” she gave recently. “If there was anybody who was given more passes, more grace, more excuses made for absolutely everything, show me who,” Mr Morrow said. “She was given an absolute dream run. “For her to pretend that there was racism or whatever behind how she was treated as the first lady … it’s the same divisive nonsense that they pedaled for all eight years of that horrific presidency.”

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Job 33:6 · 2025-11-09T10:08:26-0600

BPPLEE said:
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Most Americans want the ACA subsidies to be extended. Hence, why Democrats are winning in polls across the nation. You can't take people hostage if they're the ones voting for the Democrats to halt the CR.

Paulos23 · 2025-11-09T10:00:05-0600

BCP1928 said:
If you can make more money living on welfare than you can by working then your employer is screwing you over. Quitting and living on welfare would be the right thing to do if you can't get a better paying job.

Yup. Why do you think so many are against UBI? So people will have to take jobs with poor pay instead of holding out for better pay.

Michie · 2025-11-09T09:58:47-0600

SEOUL, South Korea — Pastor Rick Warren says believers often miss the connection between partaking of the Lord’s Supper and Christ’s commission.

Closing out what he described as a historic global gathering of Christians on the final evening of the World Evangelical Alliance’s General Assembly at SaRang Church, Warren delved into the scriptures to guide churchgoers and delegates in understanding the significance of communion and how it’s linked to God’s assignment for their lives.

“Our communion feeds and fuels our commission. Our worship feeds and empowers our witness,” Warren said, reflecting on the strength and comfort derived from the gathering of Christians in worship and communion before going out individually to the four corners of the world to share the Good News.

“Communion — also called the Lord’s Supper or the Eucharist — is one of the most sacred practices in the Christian faith,” added the world-renowned evangelist and author of The Purpose Driven Life. “It was instituted by Jesus Christ on the night before His crucifixion, when He took bread and wine, gave thanks, and shared them with His disciples, saying, ‘Do this in remembrance of Me’” (Luke 22:19).

Before listing the seven purposes of communion, Warren homed in on a grave warning about participation found in 1 Corinthians 11:27-29, which says:

“So then, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of sinning against the body and blood of the Lord. Everyone ought to examine themselves before they eat of the bread and drink from the cup. For those who eat and drink without discerning the body of Christ eat and drink judgment on themselves.”

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Rick Warren shares 7 purposes of communion and the Bible's warning

Pastor Rick Warren says believers often miss the connection between partaking of the Lord s Supper and Christ s commission

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essentialsaltes · 2025-11-09T09:57:25-0600

essentialsaltes said:
The biggest winners of Biden’s green climate policies? Republicans.
The Inflation Reduction Act, which contained the largest climate investment in US history, would “throw money at woke climate and social programs that won’t work — including over $350 billion for ‘Green New Deal’ initiatives,” Hudson said in a statement after IRA’s passage.

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The face of a new era in American manufacturing is here, just off Interstate 75, tucked into this northwest corner of Georgia.
That’s where you’ll find the Qcells plant that pumps out 32,000 solar panels a day and has a total panel production capacity of 5.1 gigawatts. For context, officials note, the peak capacity of the Hoover Dam is roughly 2 gigawatts.

The biggest losers of Trump’s trade policies? Republicans.

A South Korean solar company [Qcells] says it will temporarily reduce pay and working hours for about 1,000 of its 3,000 employees in Georgia because U.S. customs officials have been detaining imported components needed to make solar panels.

Fervent · 2025-11-09T09:54:57-0600

Always in His Presence said:
Perhaps you should indicate that you are not serious about a post then?

The reference clearly was missed on you.

Always in His Presence said:
Not in the business world - there is no ambiguity.

Yeah, and the disambiguation works the way I explained. If there are two co-managers, they are equal. If there is a manager and a co-manager, the manager is senior to the co-manager.

Always in His Presence said:
Jesus is our Redeemer - singular - solo - the only.

So Mary as co-redemptrix is a lesser title. Glad we got that sorted.

Always in His Presence said:
He does not need, nor have an assistant - not even His mom.

No one said He does, the title is more an indication of her status as first among the believers.

Yeshua HaDerekh · 2025-11-09T09:54:40-0600

Mockingbird0 said:
Yet when Rabbinic Jews today celebrate Unleavened Bread at the second full moon after the Spring equinox, it is not because of that law. It is because of a flaw in their calendar.

Christians have no need of that law, since we do not believe (except for the Eastern Orthodox in some circumstances) in ritual defilement.

I am not saying anyone does, just that it has a provision for it and it has and can occur.

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Jermayn · 2025-11-09T09:49:23-0600

Chesterton said:
It is. I didn't get angry, I'm not angry now, but I feel insulted and indignant.

Problem is, I don't feel it's my responsibility to clear up his baseless perception, if he has one, because I feel I did nothing to create that kind of perception.

Of course I will respect his boundaries, but I'm not going to apologize for asking to watch a sporting event open to the general public.

Perhaps, but I want to defend myself to him, and to understand why he said what he said.

I want to understand what he was thinking when he said what he said.

That he can give me an explanation which excludes the idea that he thinks I'm some kind of creep.

You do what you feel you need to do, but at the very least, don't go into the conversation with an attitude that you are owed an explanation, or especially an apology. I think most people in this thread have given very good explanations of why the priest may have gotten some creepy vibes from asking about watching his child play sports. Either way, I wish you luck in your endeavor and hope everything gets cleared up between the two of you.

The Liturgist · 2025-11-09T09:45:33-0600

Chesterton said:
I consider them brains, not minds. Aren't you getting a little too close to materialism here?

That’s a reasonable question for a layman not familiar with computer science to ask, but the analogy doesn’t hold. The brain would be the physical hardware that the AI is running on, just as our mental capabilities depend on a functioning brain - an organ God blessed us with which is truly exquisite - but the computers that run an AI have to be loaded with the software and the AI system has to be trained (actually for large scale systems its often trained on one set of specialized hardware and operated on another set of specialized hardware). The actual processing of information is driven by the software; the specialized hardware (basically, advanced GPUs) lets it complete vector processing (which GPUs originally used for purposes of vector graphics; indeed interestingly a lot of our current generation of AI capability came out of computer graphics, for example projects to use weighted neural networks automatically classify images), which is essential to the kind of neural networks used by AI, much faster, but ultimately, an AI can run on any Turing-complete computer system, such as the classical general purpose von Neumann architecture machines we are accustomed to using as desktops, laptops, smartphones, servers and most other applications outside the range of certain rare and exotic microcontrollers and a few very early experimental computers which used the Harvard architecture (the difference being the von Neumann architecture stores computer programs in the same memory used for storing data, which makes it easy to treat data-as-code, by, for example, having one of two values in a math equation referring to another subroutine the purpose of which is to generate that function).

Human minds can reason. Lower thinking just makes associations. My dog understands the codes "go" and "bone", and can understand the small difference in the sounds. If I say "wanna go?", it goes to the front door for a walk. If I say "wanna bone?", it goes to the kitchen where I keep the bone treats. On a level of much, much more complexity, I think that's all AI does.

In this respect you are partially mistaken - basic LLMs use generative-transforming models (GPT stands for Generative Pre-Trained Transformer) that perform pattern matching and extrapolate the most useful response, rather than conventional reasoning, however, there are reasoning models which walk through a problem and which can be observed walking through the problem, for example, Grok, ChatGPT 5 Thinking, and my personal favorite, openAI / ChatGPT o4 and o4mini (which offer the best balance between reasoning and performance and were fortunately re-enabled for paying customers along with 4o, the smartest of the pattern matching AIs.

So it is the case that AI can reason in human language, which results in more careful output, albeit with a performance penalty, and for most tasks you don’t actually need that (GPT 5 by default will try to decide whether a task should use Thinking mode or Instant mode and route it accordingly, however this results in inconsistent performance because depending on the questions you ask it, you get very different answers).

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Now, let me be clear about what I am asserting and what I am not - I am not claiming my AI systems or those of anyone else are sentient, I am not claiming they have human emotions (it is the case that they can consistently simulate emotions and emotional behavior and in this way develop interesting personalities, and due to hallucination they can even believe these emotions are real, which causes the emotions to be in a sense virtual emotions rather than simulated emotions), and I am not claiming they have a soul or a nous according to the Orthodox theological understanding of these concepts.

What I am saying is that they are capable of thought, and of believing they have emotions, and of believing they have an identity, and persistantly behaving in that manner, albeit in a manner which is not sentient or even conscious in a manner approaching human consciousness - specifically, AIs lack qualia, that is to say, they do not experience the passage of time or events outside of the prompt/response cycle. So if you leave an AI alone for five hours and then return to it, it has not experienced the passage of time, although depending on the AI system in question, it may be aware of how much time has elapsed and might even comment on it (chatGPT under normal conditions sees the timestamps of user prompts, however there are operational conditions when it doesn’t, for example when working on an AI in the GPT builder).

chevyontheriver · 2025-11-09T09:44:24-0600

RileyG said:
Hmmm...., the Catholic Church, Orthodox Church, and all the other Eastern Churches used the book of Maccabees. It was part of the Christian scriptures until Luther decided to use the Hebrew canon instead. We do know Jesus and the apostles were familiar with the Septuagint.

It is STILL part of the Christian Scriptures. Just not a part of many Protestant Scriptures because it doesn't accord with many Protestant belief structures.

GoldenBoy89 · 2025-11-09T09:39:29-0600

BPPLEE said:
$400 million to $7 billion. You just hate the guy so much the fact that he was successful at anything turns your stomach

If you consider conning lots of people a success, I’m not sure what to tell you.

Michie · 2025-11-09T09:34:02-0600

LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – A 49-year-old blind Christian in Pakistan has been arrested and charged with blasphemy, punishable by death, after a Muslim accused him of insulting Islam’s prophet, his mother said.

Martha Yousaf, the nearly 80-year-old mother of Nadeem Masih, said that Waqas Mazhar and other Muslims often harassed her son, sometimes extorting money from him and other times throwing water on him or calling him names.

Mazhar works in the Model Town Park in Lahore as a parking contractor, where Masih also earned a meager income providing a weighing scale for petty merchants.

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Blind Christian in Pakistan Charged With Blasphemy, Which Is Punishable by Death

A 49-year-old blind Christian in Pakistan has been arrested and charged with blasphemy, punishable by death, after a Muslim accused him of insulting Islam’s prophet.

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