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GodAndChocolateVanilla · 2025-11-10T17:06:22-0600

I'm still trying to learn how to customize a Theme and change Theme colors with phpbb. I'm slowly figuring it out, but making progress nonetheless!! ^w^

I do prefer ProBoards though because it's easier to use. But I don't mind a challenge. ^w^

And I did some Drawing today!! ^w^

RileyG · 2025-11-10T17:04:40-0600

Pretty awesome! Thanks for sharing!

RileyG · 2025-11-10T17:04:14-0600

Michie said:
Thanks Riley.

No problem

Peace

Tropical Wilds · 2025-11-10T17:00:22-0600

Valletta said:
Eight Democrats knew how bad the situation that they had created was and made the correct choice to do something about it.

Yes, eight Democrats fell for the con, stabbed 1,000 people based off “I won’t shoot the guy, I promise” and the guy got shot anyway.

Not like I expect you to understand, anyway, because you just talked about how bad Obamacare is and then explained the system you think should replace it, then described Obamacare. Clearly it’s not the program you dislike, but the party that made it happen, and you’re not sure why you dislike it, only that you were told to dislike it and so you do.

Yawn.

RileyG · 2025-11-10T16:58:17-0600

Yup. Drives me nuts when people say "Heaven has gained a new angel." Never assume. Pray. Pray. Pray.

seeking.IAM · 2025-11-10T16:57:59-0600

Valletta said:
Tech jobs vary widely, there are certainly many outstanding Americans in tech.

I agree, My son is one of them. He just can't find enough others like him to fill out his team. Interstingly, I asked him this weekend if the change in HB-1 visas changed hiring practices in his org. His answer was, "No."

RileyG · 2025-11-10T16:57:42-0600

Thanks for sharing!

RileyG · 2025-11-10T16:57:17-0600

If they don't know the Our Father, then they probably aren't going to Mass regularly or paying attention....yikes! Lord have mercy!

RileyG · 2025-11-10T16:56:21-0600

Hail Mary,
Full of Grace,
The Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among women,
and blessed is the fruit
of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary,
Mother of God,
pray for us sinners now,
and at the hour of our death.
Amen

ChubbyCherub · 2025-11-10T16:56:09-0600

redraven said:
Not at all, this is a good discussion - though it will be uncomfortable for some - particularly Kirk supporters who want to conveniently ignore his actions and how they contradict his 'Chirstianity'.

You call me an atheist yet you have no idea what I believe. I do believe in a higher power, so you're wrong in your assumption.

It's very fair to call out behaviour from someone who claims to stand by something

The crux of the matter is that if you call yourself a Christian, make your behaviour and actions match that if you want it to be believed.

Otherwise, your faith is meaningless. Christianity is supposed to have meaning and stand for values. It can't be whatever you decide it means based on your personal whims.

Why call yourself a Christian if you don't even stand by it's teachings? If you're really a Christian, you should be comfortable being held accountable to the teachings of Christ and you should appreciate if others hold you accountable.

I wasn't pointing to you, specifically, as an atheist decrying Christians supporting Satanic behavior. You'll note you weren't the only one who suggested it although you may have been the initial person to make the statement.

Yes, it is fair to call someone out on hypocrisy. I completely agree with you on that and we should be doing that as much as we can. As you state, if we all support a false or flawed version, than we are not supporting Christ who is true and unchanging.

But, I would be cautious in making assumptions about all Christians, their viewpoints around politics and others. You water your own logic down with bias and assumptions and lose your argument through emotional supposition. I can see this subject has aggravated you and I can see why but I can also see that when people are trying to show you a different perspective, you do not acknowledge it so you are tied to your bias, for now.

Maybe reread with a clearer head and you will see that many are actually agreeing with you, as far as tackling hypocrisy etc, but not your view of it as it pertains to Charlie Kirk and have given reasons why.

RileyG · 2025-11-10T16:54:27-0600

FaithT said:
i can understand how different results occur during various studies but if God can or does answer prayer, shouldn’t there be SOME indication that God answered them sometimes? I mean, don’t all the studies prove prayer has no effect whatsoever? And if so, what’s the point of prayer other than thanking God?

You know the old saying "God works in mysterious ways?"

RileyG · 2025-11-10T16:54:03-0600

NxNW said:
It's a contradiction, isn't it?

To be entirely accurate, Trump was a criminal, so I assume so, yes.

Bro.T · 2025-11-10T16:53:00-0600

pasifika said:
Brother! can you keep All the 10 commandments under the old covenant? If yes then you're deceived, if No then you need to be under a new covenant.

Paul concerning the unchangeable Royal Law of God. (Rom. 13:7-10) (v.7) Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour. (v.8) Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. That’s the biblical definition of love, the keeping of God’s law. (v.9) For this, THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT ADULTERY, THOU SHALT NOT KILL, THOU SHALT NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS, THOU SHALT NOT COVET; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, THOU SHALT LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR AS THYSELF. (v.10) Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

And that is what God’s holy commandments are all about; the first four tells you how to love God and the last six tells you how to love your neighbor. If you love your God you will not do any thing to offend him, like having other gods before him. You will do as he says like remember the sabbath day to keep it holy on the seventh day of the week. If you love him you will obey him when he tells you not to eat certain meats etc… And the same goes for your fellow man, if you love your neighbor you wouldn’t steal from him, you wouldn’t kill him, you wouldn’t try and sleep with his wife and so on and so forth. (See exodus 20: 1-17)

This is God’s definition of love and it is perfect in its ways. The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: The testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple. The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: The commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes. 9 The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: The judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: Sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. Moreover by them is thy servant warned: And in keeping of them there is great reward. (Psalm 19: 7-11)

So if you say that you know God, but you don’t keep his commandments, lets see what the Lord had specially written for you.

(1John 2:3-4) (v.3) And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. (v.4) he that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

friend of · 2025-11-10T16:52:22-0600

essentialsaltes said:
It is hardly the same thing

Trump protected the people who tried to steal an election for him.
Biden protected the people investigating the people who tried to steal an election for Trump. (and his son)

What about all the pardons Biden's autopen signed?

essentialsaltes · 2025-11-10T16:49:54-0600

Fervent said:
Democracy is 2 wolves and a sheep deciding what to have for dinner. If the democrats cared about free and fair elections,, they wouldn't be moving to gerrymander an already gerrymandered state.

California is not 'already gerrymandered'. We have had an independent commission draw the lines for more than a decade.

GloryToHisName · 2025-11-10T16:43:32-0600

Douggg said:
The 7 years of Daniel 9:27 coincide with the 7 years following the Gog/Magog event of Ezekiel 38-39.

The 7 years are the 7 years of Ezekiel 39:9.

So the key thing to remember is the Gog/Magog attack on Israel event, then the 7 years.

I thought it was after the thousand years

NxNW · 2025-11-10T16:40:58-0600

Chesterton said:
Funny how the going always gets tough under Communism.

Let me know when that happens.

Pommer · 2025-11-10T16:40:30-0600

rjs330 said:
Right now it's mostly 60 months. 5 years? You have to be kidding me. If you are a healthy adult you shouldn't be in welfare any longer than 6 months. At least in today's economy.

Providing one’s own bootstraps is mandatory?

ChubbyCherub · 2025-11-10T16:31:43-0600

Some context to this question:

I read the bible to my family most nights. They are not believers but they listen to me read because they are eager to learn. I believe they are being called but their hearts are hard, atm, according to my church elders words.

My adult daughter did not like what Paul said was the only redemption path for women. She seems to believe she will be condemned to sin if she does not have children out of choice or circumstance even if she accepts Jesus as saviour.

I have tried to show her the error in her thinking but came to a brick wall with Paul so that is where this has all stemmed from.

Modern and historic examples leave the leadership of men lacking. This is not to say that women are perfect, far from it, but we are surely guilty in sin and equally redeemable? But, I can't say for sure one way or the other given Paul's teachings.

Thanks all for your help, as always, God bless!

sjastro · 2025-11-10T16:24:51-0600

stevevw said:
Not too different to how we see both the precision vases and primitive knapped knives and tools in the same cultures and sites. Two different signatures showing different methods.

Maybe their were incredibly smark or knowledgable that they knew of several ways to work with hard stones. Thats seems to be what the signatures are saying. You put a ? over weakened stone. This is a possibility and would make an incredible difference and help explain a lot. That makes then very smart that they got around having to spend literally years and years all day long in the hot sun grinding and abraising away hard stone.

They say to be able to complete the Giza pyramid in 25 years it would take cutting and laying a block every 5 minutes 24/7 for 25 years. Thats not counting the inside, subterrainian tunnels and tombs and all the surrounding works like the foundations, pavers, plumbing, waterways, shafts, temples, cemetaries ect ect ect.

Why not find smart ways to deal with all that stone work. If they worked with it so much then surely they would have come to understand how to work with it in all sorts of ways.

Well if they are cutting each and every block then its going to take massively longer than if the stone was weakened. Or they came up with a way to quicken the works. You know the saying work smarter not harder. They had the equivelant brain power.

This is creating a false analogy. First the tests done show the out layer of limestones were human made and molded. Thats one thing. Not even cutters used full stop. So thats one method. This takes us straight into advanced tech itself. Or tech well outside the orthodoxy. Lets forst acknowledge this and not try and sweep this away.

Second I did not say the inner blocks were molded so your misrepresenting what I said. I said they may have been cut even by a saw if you like. I don't know. Like you said they did not have to worry about looks or quality because it was going to be covered.

It does not follow that somehow because the inner blocks are rough that all methods of cutting blocks had to be rough. They could have had other methods for the quality cutting. The point being the method that created the rough finish cannot create the smooth, sharp and flat finish.

So theres obviously more than one method involved. Your trying to create an either/or of methods. There could have been a rough cutting method for the hidden work, and high quality cutting for finished works. Or as the evidence shows a third option of actually molding the blocks so that they set perfectly into place.

Similar to the evidence found in Sacsayhuaman Fortress Peru. The evidence starts to mount up for alternative and advanced methods for that time.

Yes thats another way. See how many different ways we can find. But let me clarify. Are you saying all the inner blocks were split and not cut or pounded now. Which is it, pounded, split or cut lol.

As I keep saying there can be more than one method so we can't make it an either/or when it comes to methods. It may not necessarily be that every method was happening at the same time and over 5,000 years some methods will overlap.

I think in the Aswan quarry we can see several methods on the stones and archeologists acknowledge these all don't ccome from the same time or dynasty. In fact some are from the Romans as well.

Before I address the main line of your nonsense again let me dispel two of your red herrings.

(1) The ancient Egyptians did not soften granite or limestone.
Of the thousands of dolerite pounders found at the Aswan granite quarry many were cracked and shattered meaning the Egyptians had to consistently resupply them. This would not have occurred if they had a method of softening the granite.

(2) So now you are resorting pseudoscience nonsense which according to your link the outer casing stones not made of limestone but some moulded Nile mud concrete mixture.
Geologists have used a high school test of applying a drop of concentrated hydrochloric acid on limestone which produces a fizzing reaction as carbon dioxide is released. Both the core and outer casing react in the same way.
If this was not enough the limestone casing have distinctive oxygen and carbon isotopic ratios which matches the Tura quarry from where it was sourced from.

Now that these two distractions are out of the way I want you to explain why over two million limestone core blocks were produced by a process you admit is slower, even with their (non-existent) softening method, instead of their (non-existent) high tech cutting equipment which would have cut years off the construction time.

Tropical Wilds · 2025-11-10T16:21:13-0600

Valletta said:
Transgender ex-lawmaker, first in state's history, pleads guilty to federal child sex abuse charges

Stacie-Marie Laughton, who has been called the first openly transgender elected lawmaker in U.S. history, pleaded guilty to federal child sex abuse charges in Boston court.

www.yahoo.com

It's sad that there is a part of our culture that promotes transitioning.

I mean, for me the sad part is that a child was sexually abused… But sure, let’s pretend the bullet point one should come away with is about transgender people.

Always in His Presence · 2025-11-10T16:20:36-0600

Democratic unity fractures, paving the way for the government to reopen

Enough Democrats caved.

A Sunday night Senate deal may be on the verge of resolving the longest government shutdown on record — after a group of moderate Democrats dropped their key demand — a guaranteed extension of Obamacare subsidies.

The agreement opened the way for a Senate vote in which eight Democratic defectors voted to break the filibuster and to clear the first hurdle to reopening the government after nearly six weeks. Their move will offer relief to millions of Americans whose lives have been severely disrupted by the shutdown.

Guojing · 2025-11-10T16:20:17-0600

fli said:
There were requirements for both offers. One, to believe, required no work. The other required that you are not against Jesus, which required work. Anyone against Jesus would cause continual war on the new earth, and those who were not against Jesus could not live in peace. I thank God that He has requirements for both.

So you are saying there are 2 different offers to eternal life at the same time?

"One, to believe, required no work", which you have.

"The other required that you are not against Jesus, which required work", which others have.

Why can't the others have the same offer you had?

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