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Nithavela · 2025-12-07T00:41:11-0600

Oompa Loompa said:
Those are rookie numbers compared to the rape and deaths caused by these cartels every year.

I seriously doubt that even if you include drug deaths caused by people willingly getting into a drug habit and buying the drugs, you get to more than 200.000 deaths caused by "these cartels" every year.

stevevw · 2025-12-07T00:37:40-0600

sjastro said:
Here we go again you can't stick to the same story.
So now the latest version is dolerite pounders at Aswan are not contemporary with the melting process technology???

Stop trying to put things in my head lol. I never said any of this and your are creating strawmen. Its not an either/or answer. We are trying to work it all out.

All we can do is gather data to get a better understanding. I am not saying the marks are from melting stone or any particular method. Only that the studies done show it was not from small dolerite pounders. Along with the analysis of the patterns in the mark showing a different and more uniform method.

As though the granite was scooped or dug out with a uniform method that was similar to the shape of the scoops. Along with other evidence showing the impracticality of using pounders in tight situations where its impossible.

sjastro said:
Where is the support by showing evidence of vitrification on the unfinished obelisk, instead you post images that have nothing to with the unfinished obelisk let alone vitrification.

Like I said this is not a one size fits all kind of determination. There may be a number of methods employed over 1,000s of years. Knowledge comes and goes and changes.

It may be that the scoops in stone come from a different method to thermal treatment. Look at the scoops in stone throughout the world. There are many that show no vitrification. Yet they show softened or weakened stone.

It may some way the structure of the granite was weakened and it was not melted but rather then material was changed at the molecular level. Such as with sonic cutting which weakens the crystals within the stone.

But the point is I am only guessing at the method. All we can do is look at the data which definitely shows the marks of a different method to dolerite pounders and nore like the stone has been scooped out as though the stone was compromised in some way.

sjastro said:
For example the image of "melted stairs" of the temple of Hathor is wrong on many counts.

Firstly the steps are not made out of granite but limestone which does not not undergo vitrification but chemical decomposition of the calcium carbonate to lime. This is basic high school chemistry.

If its basic highschool stuff then the ancient Egyptians knew about this. We should expect that many of their works will contain softened or melted limestone. Making it easier to work with. Including the building works containing limestone.

But then we also have examples of basalt and granite melted. What do you say about these.

sjastro said:
Secondly the temple and stairs were constructed during the Late Period thousands of years after your invisible technology supposedly disappeared.

No this is the point. Knowledge can come and go. The important thing is they were still living within the same immersion of direct conscious experiences of nature. Which enabled them to discover chemistry and physics. How nature worked and how it could change the physical world.

sjastro said:
Thirdly since the stairs are made from limestone which is vulnerable to a process known as haloclasty where salt crystallizes in cracks and pores which breaks down the limestone. This in combination with limestone being of low hardness and wear resistance results in erosion from centuries of people walking on the stairs giving the melted appearance look.
Limestone outcrops which degrade due to haloclasty but subject to wind and water erosion instead can also exhibit a melted look.

I want to know why you specifically choose this example and avoided the others. None of what you have said negates the facts and reality that we have examples of softened and melted stones around the world. Showing there was advanced knowledge in how to mess around with the material structures of rocks.

sjastro said:
Fourthly vitrification can only be confirmed in the laboratory to precisely characterize the structural change from crystalline to an amorphous glass state at the atomic level.

• X-ray diffraction (XRD)
• Sharp peaks = crystalline; broad diffuse humps = amorphous (vitrified).

• Scanning electron microscopy (SEM)
• Reveals surface morphology: smooth glassy vs. granular crystalline.

• Transmission electron microscopy (TEM)
• Atomic-scale imaging of amorphous vs. ordered lattice structures.

• Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC)
• Measures glass transition temperature (Tg) to confirm vitrification.

• Spectroscopy (Raman, FTIR)
• Detects changes in bonding and molecular structure after vitrification

As usual your images are next to useless they do not show vitrified or melted rocks, it is another example of pareidolia where you see things that are not there.

As usual you skip over the evidence and ignore most of it.

Rvmb · 2025-12-07T00:17:26-0600

Tuur said:
Consider the following:

Approximately 71% of the Earth's surface is water.
Of that, approximately 2.5% is fresh.
Of fresh water, very little is carbonated to the point where it releases CO2 when shaken.

Therefore, in terms of carbonated water, the Earth is most definitely flat.

Lake Baikal is flat & frozen flat many months of the years (80kmX600km)
If you sat on the edge of the lake with a 100km range powerful tripod telescope approx 1 meter above the ice, how far away on the flat ice would I have to be before you could no longer see me ?

Christsfreeservant · 2025-12-07T00:07:21-0600

“I have other sheep, which are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and they will hear My voice; and they will become one flock with one shepherd. For this reason the Father loves Me, because I lay down My life so that I may take it again. No one has taken it away from Me, but I lay it down on My own initiative. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This commandment I received from My Father.” (John 10:16-18 NASB1995)

When Jesus spoke these words, his sheep (his followers) were primarily the Jews who had believed in him to be their Lord and Savior. So, the “other sheep” he was speaking of were the Gentiles who were soon to be included in the family of God, by faith in Jesus Christ, because of Jesus’ sacrifice on that cross for the sins of the world. And Jew and Gentile, by faith in Jesus Christ, were to become one people of God, no longer divided by Jew and Gentile, but now all one family, with Jesus Christ as their only shepherd.

For Jesus Christ made both groups into one and broke down the barrier of the dividing wall that stood between them, and he made the two (Jew and Gentile) into “one new man,” that he might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross. For through Christ we both (Jew and Gentile) have access in one Spirit to the Father so that non-Jews who believe in Jesus Christ are now fellow citizens with the Jewish saints of God who have trusted in Jesus Christ to be their Lord, both of whom are now of God’s household.

For not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel, and not all who are physical descendants of Abraham are the children of Abraham. For it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but it is the children of the promise who are counted as offspring. So, if you belong to God, by biblical faith in Jesus Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise, because Jesus Christ is the seed of Abraham, and God’s promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed (Galatians 3:16).

So, there is no more division between Jew and Gentile. We are all one people, one holy nation, by genuine faith in Jesus Christ. And all who deny that Jesus is the Christ are not of God, but they are antichrist, denying both the Father and the Son (Jesus Christ). So physical Jerusalem is no longer God’s holy city because she is of Hagar, the slave woman, and not of Sarah, the free woman. But spiritual Jerusalem, which is not a physical place, is the family of God by faith in Jesus Christ. We are God’s holy city, his people.

[Genesis 17:7-9; Genesis 18:19; Matthew 5:13-16; John 8:18-19,38-47; Romans 2:28-29; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 9:4-8,25-28; Romans 11:1-36; 1 Corinthians 3:16-17; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 3:16,26-29; Galatians 4:22-31; Ephesians 2:11-22; Ephesians 3:1-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-16; Hebrews 8:6-13; 1 Peter 2:9-10,24; 1 John 2:22; Jude 1:5; Revelation 2:9; Revelation 3:9]

But we are not included in God’s family merely by verbal professions of faith in Jesus Christ. So here is what it means to be of faith in Jesus Christ:

Jesus Christ taught that to come to him we must deny self, take up our cross daily (die daily to sin), and follow (obey) him. For if we hold on to living in sin and for self, we will lose our lives for eternity. But if we deny self, die daily to sin, by the Spirit, and we walk in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in his power, then we have eternal life with God. For not everyone who calls him “Lord” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one DOING (obeying) the will of God (see Luke 9:23-26; Matthew 7:21-23).

For by God-gifted faith in Jesus Christ, which is not of our own doing, we are crucified with Christ in death to sin and raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin but as slaves to righteousness in walks of obedience to God’s commands. We are no longer to permit sin to reign in our mortal bodies to make us obey its desires. For if sin is what we obey, it results in death. But if obedience to God is what we obey, it results in sanctification, and its end is eternal life with God (see Romans 6:1-23).

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 1:18-32; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 3:23; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 10:19-39; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22]

Seek the Lord

Based off Isaiah 55
An Original Work / July 20, 2012
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
Musical Instrumentation by Mark Bradley

“Come to Me all you who thirst; come to waters.
Listen to Me, and eat what’s good today,
And your soul will delight in richest of fare.
Give ear to Me, and you will live.
I have made an eternal covenant with you.
Wash in the blood of the Lamb.”

Seek the Lord while He may be found; call on Him.
Let the wicked forsake his way, in truth.
Let him turn to the Lord, and he will receive mercy.
Freely, God pardons him.
“For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways,”
declares the Lord, our God.

“My word that goes out of My mouth is truthful.
It will not return to Me unfulfilled.
My word will accomplish all that I desire,
And achieve the goal I intend.
You will go in joy and be led forth in peace.
The mountains will burst into song… before you,
And all of the trees clap their hands.”

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One Flock with One Shepherd
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Paidiske · 2025-12-07T00:00:25-0600

Sigh. How is it the second Sunday of Advent already?

RileyG · 2025-12-06T23:44:49-0600

Good! I hope they become more common! My parish and several parishes in my city and diocese have them!

jonojim1337 · 2025-12-06T23:43:01-0600

Maybe not the day, but at least the year.

Nithavela · 2025-12-06T23:39:17-0600

Factotum said:
In this case, "People" = terrorists.

I think that changes a lot of things not mentioned in your post where the excerpt came from.

Why the scare quotes. Terrorists are still people, not "people". They are not vermin you are free to exterminate without regard for human rights.

Well, they are, but only because human rights are a joke. Not because they are terrorists.

jonojim1337 · 2025-12-06T23:35:28-0600

SabbathBlessings said:
2. The Sabbath was made for man Mark 2:27

And not man for the sabbath :doh:

jonojim1337 · 2025-12-06T23:14:46-0600

Tobacco and marijuana users have less parasites:

https://archive.news.wsu.edu/press-release/2015/06/01/medical-marijuana-hunter-gatherer-users-have-fewer-parasites/

timothyu · 2025-12-06T23:12:45-0600

Jesus was not concerned about having the child know who He was, but that the child understand they could completely trust in the Father as we are to do.

jonojim1337 · 2025-12-06T23:10:56-0600

There are those why try to cheat justice, because in the world, you can do that and get away with it. But God says, you can’t do that. So regarding the form of their inevitable end, I couldn’t care less. I don’t intend to join them.

jonojim1337 · 2025-12-06T23:05:34-0600

I think it has to do with double standards, so that, if you judge in a certain way, you can expect to be judged accordingly.

jonojim1337 · 2025-12-06T22:59:20-0600

I believe the command to care for the ‘poor and orphaned’ was given to the ordained powers. Sure, I can give my last cents to the poor, but I will still belong to the poor.

As for the non ordained powers, I don’t think the command applies to them. They are the wicked shepherd and are unable to be reasoned with.

stevevw · 2025-12-06T22:58:40-0600

NxNW said:
I'm glad you agree that the recent Republican violence is unacceptable.

That you say this actually shows your bias and in doing so are promoting the very thing I am talking about.

NxNW said:
He is a convicted fraud and rapist, after all.

Ah the old Trumps a felon. I have not heard that one for a while. When all else fails revert back to the stock standard narrative. We have already seen the witch hunt with all that lawfare trying to get Trump.

I wonder if the same level or even half that level will expose the dirty secrets of those who tried to get him. Already some are being exposed. More will come out. It seems the Dems fingerprints are all over the Epstein files. Give me a break you have no moral ground to stand on.

NxNW said:
Compared to Trump the convicted fraud and rapist?

So far Trump has done exactly what he promosed and it seems most people supported this. I would be very careful about throwing stones from glass houses.

NxNW said:
Have you asked Stormy Daniels about this?

Hum have you asked Epstein exactly what Clinton was doing on the plane so many times. Or exactly what he was saying to a Dem rep in congress. Or what all the other Dems connection is with Epstein. Why had this not been invested by the Dems with the same vigor in getting Trump. Blantant hypocrites and vipers. .

Why did the Dems including Waltz who was actually a VPC not investigate the many frauds under his watch as though he knew all along but kept it quiet because he would lose votes. Or at the least was grossly incompetent and yet was made the Vice Presidential candidate.

Which shows how far out of touch with reality they were. Not that everyone already knew that with a inadequate presidential candidate who was not even vetting democractically but chose by the same elites who look like also being connected to all the fruad and dirty deeds.

While gaslighting the nation over Biden and the auto signing of a record number of people including known felons or those potentially who did wrong being shielded.

There is still more Dem states to be investigated and it looks like more fraud and corruption. In fact the biggest fraud scandel in US history.

Like I said I would be very careful about throwing stones. There is absolutely no moral ground and they have disqualified themselves as credible.

In fact their corruption and incompetence is so bad that this is why such drastic action i sneeded. Because this is a system wide breakdown. The system in place is completely gone. Its unreliable, untrustworthy and actually a national safety and security risk. Thus a complete restructuring is needed.

lucypevensie · 2025-12-06T22:46:45-0600

Chocolate sprinkles

lucypevensie · 2025-12-06T22:44:52-0600

Reds umpires got booed yesterday.

CINCI

MrMoe · 2025-12-06T22:40:12-0600

I have a lot of unresolved anger in me. A lot of thoughts of revenge on people who have hurt me. I have also struggled with addiction to pornography for many years. I have used it as a stress relief. I want these sins gone from my life forever. Please pray for me. Thank you.

The Liturgist · 2025-12-06T22:39:01-0600

peter2 said:
Mary is the woman that tells Gabriel yes, likely assents this yes is valid for her son too, at least as long as Jesus 's not given the signal for the end of her protection, when she, with Joseph, finally discover him in the temple.

I feel it like Jesus' protection switches then from hers to God's, and she tells "yes" to this change as well.

Which makes me assume she tells yes to the death of Jesus too. Actually, i'm not sure, and thus is it i have a question please :
Hadn't there been this episode of his 12 year od in the Temple, wouldn't have Mary tried and avoid the cross for him ?

And, second question :
what makes me subsequently wonder whether she'd not guessed about resurrection is this trustful yes of her, for her giving birth to the son of God, for her accepting God's protecting takeover of the 12 year old Jesus, and finally this death, is (at least in my opinion) to make sense or consistency with the plan God gives through Gabriel's initial speech.
So, do you think, please, she could have guessed about resurrection, since it seems it was the only option that could make sense for her after the cross ?
(Actually up back to recently, i considered the three days for the finding Jesus in the Temple was linked with the three days for resurrection, but i just saw this as a mean for her to not fall in despair, whereas i question myself now up to what preceeds)

Sorry i wonder whether i shouldn't have post this thread in christian apologetics..

Remember, Jesus Christ is God, the Logos (John 1:1-18), the second person of the Trinity, incarnate of the Virgin Mary, in her immaculate womb putting on our humanity in order to restore and glorify it on the Cross.

That He was God was known to some, clearly, for at the Visitation of the Theotokos, when the Blessed Virgin Mary visited her cousin St. Elizabeth, mother of St. John the Baptist, St. Elizabeth referred to her as “The mother of My Lord.” Likewise we have St. Symeon at the start of Luke chapter 2 seeing the infant Christ and singing “Let thy servant now depart in peace, having seen the salvation of Israel…”

And we know that the Blessed Virgin Mary did work out who her son was, from the Gospel According to John - the Wedding Feast in Cana, where St. Mary said to the servants, and to us, the reader, “do what he commands you to do.” Thus, the people at the wedding feast got the best wine, and we get something even better- salvation in Christ.

linux.poet · 2025-12-06T22:36:50-0600

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The Liturgist · 2025-12-06T22:30:52-0600

SabbathBlessings said:
To add Paul said traditions can cheat one if they conform to principles of this world and not according to Christ. To the point you made, Christ made clear the case applies when placing traditions over the commandments of God. Mat15:3-14 Mark7:7-13. The Sabbath is a commandment of God that comes with the power of God’s blessings Exo20:11 Isa59:2 and God’s sanctification Gen2:3 Eze20:12, why anyone would want to trade this for the basic principles of the world, I will never understand.

Col 2:8 Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ.

Thank you for your comment. You’re right that Paul warns against “the tradition of men” in Colossians 2:8—but he also exhorts believers to “stand firm in the traditions” given by the Apostles, whether by word or letter (2 Thess. 2:15). So clearly, not all tradition is equal. There is a distinction between the Tradition of the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, which is followed by Nicene Christians such as the Orthodox and SDA, since we both adhere to the Nicene creed and the 27 book New Testament, and the traditions of men, such as, for example, Christian Science refusing medical treatment and interpolating the Bible with the heretical writings of Mary Baker Eddy.

The key distinction is between man-made traditions that contradict God’s law (as Christ critiques in Matthew 15 and Mark 7), and the Apostolic Tradition, which is rooted in Christ and the Gospel itself.

Regarding the Sabbath: no one is “trading” it for worldly philosophy. The Orthodox Church honors the Sabbath as sacred—especially on Great and Holy Saturday, when we commemorate Christ resting in the tomb. But we also worship on Sunday, the Day of Resurrection, as did the Apostles (Acts 20:7, 1 Cor. 16:2)

This is not worldliness. This is the Church doing exactly what Christ commanded: remembering His death and proclaiming His resurrection.

linux.poet · 2025-12-06T22:24:11-0600

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PloverWing · 2025-12-06T22:18:32-0600

comana said:
Many are also born dual citizens so which should they denounce?

This is the context in which I've encountered dual citizenship -- people born as dual citizens. A number of my college friends, for example, were children of American missionaries serving overseas, so they were citizens both of the US (because of their parents) and of the country in which they were born.

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