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peter2 · 2025-12-15T00:52:39-0600

Doesn't the women's face veiling unveils some kind of morale male mediocrity, or some fatalism before this phenomenon ? And subsequently, does this veiling help them to mobilize to tackle this (*)?
If no (*), is it God's will men don't try and convert themselves to sacrify pulsion towards women, from a true love and respect for the body God gives them ?

My questions are open, for i'm truly looking for a moral motive to veil, but have failed, up to now

Unqualified · 2025-12-15T00:50:41-0600

O-o-h thanks for the pictures. It’s a mzldr, with the. Long barrel. I’m in the market for one. Does this one have any difficult gunsmithing for you to do. My skills are limited. But with the price of mzldr these days a fixer upper might be a good idea. Where did you find it?

sorry about the picture but I think it’s a google or apple picture. Neat back yard shot. We can’t have open fires here- chaparral- fire prone. Every 50 years it turns into spontaneous combustion. But we have had them started by the electric company too. Thanks I guess I’ll switch gears and do a search on gunbroker. This year promises mild, probably no snow and not enough rain. 50s this week. But you’re tough. Did you hunt this year?

rockytopva · 2025-12-15T00:48:17-0600

Nikola Tesla didn't have one single "life equation," but he often spoke of life as an "equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors," emphasizing universal principles like **vibration, frequency, energy, and his fascination with the numbers 3, 6, and 9, suggesting these divine numbers held the universe's secrets and keys to understanding reality and consciousness. He believed humans are automata responding to the environment, but focused on harnessing these universal constants.

Key Concepts in Tesla's "Equation"

The Unsolvable Nature: Life is complex, a puzzle beyond a simple formula, yet manageable by understanding core elements.

The Power of Vibration & Frequency: Tesla believed everything is energy, and understanding frequencies (sound, light, electricity) unlocks the universe's secrets.

The 3, 6, 9 Key: He thought these numbers revealed cosmic patterns, linking to growth, creation (like cell division), and hidden dimensions.

Mechanistic View: Humans are complex machines (automata) responding to external forces, implying we can control our destiny by mastering our environment and internal state. - Google Search

Apple Sky · 2025-12-15T00:45:45-0600

Mixed Races

NBB · 2025-12-15T00:37:42-0600

ARBITER01 said:
I do plan on revisiting the spirit of Christ and The Holy Spirit differences in this thread some time here. I decided to make this a fellowship thread so I can get rid of the riff raff that occurred in the discussion thread I opened up a few months back.

What I'm looking at currently is the identification of our born again experience, being that it is an immersion into The Holy Spirit. That immersion adds us to the body of Christ, not some sort of change of mind.

i believe you could be christian and saved and not be filled with the Holy spirit.
But people are missing greatly because of bad theologies like 'everyone gets filled at believing'
Things, like 'seeking constantly God, and reading and praying lets you enjoy the fullness of the Spirit'
Is not like that, it could a 1 second blink of an eye event where the Holy spirit fills your inner being, like a glass that was empty and now it has something filling it.

1Tonne · 2025-12-15T00:36:05-0600

Jipsah said:
Exactly. I use the normal English meaning, while you have an ad hoc definition to make it suit your doctrine.

You’re insisting on using your ‘normal English’ meaning, but that’s exactly where annihilationist's go wrong. The Bible defines life and death, not your personal dictionary. Scripture makes it clear: life is union with God through Jesus, death is separation from Him. John 17:3: ‘Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.’ Romans 6:23: ‘The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.’ To be with Jesus is life; apart from Him is death. So stop twisting definitions to suit your argument and start letting God’s Word define life and death.

Apple Sky · 2025-12-15T00:33:20-0600

The globe is not all bad it's just a sphere that has been over inflated & set in motion to orbit our golden sun & wonders lonely as a cloud through dark murky fields of blackness through the infinity of space.

And God said 'Let there be light'.

To believe or not to believe that is the question.

rebornfree · 2025-12-15T00:15:10-0600

I'm old fashioned!

Secular - I love White Christmas and Walking in a Winter Winderland.

Christian - I like nearly all the carols, especially O Little Town of Bethlehem, Silent Night and Hark the Herald Angels Sing. The words "born to raise the sons of Earth, born to give them second birth" are wonderful. Also Mary Did You Know and O Holy Night. But my favourite has to be:

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DialecticSkeptic · 2025-12-15T00:11:03-0600

If a fundamentalist is someone who insists on strict adherence to what he regards as the foundational principles of a belief system and resists reinterpretation, accommodation, or revision in light of modern thought, culture, or scholarship, then I am a Christian fundamentalist.

JosephZ · 2025-12-15T00:09:01-0600

The search for the shooter continues.

Police release man detained in connection with Brown University shooting

Two people were killed and nine others, all or nearly all of whom are also believed to be students, were injured in the attack on Saturday.

news.sky.com

A2SG · 2025-12-15T00:06:17-0600

Factotum said:
I don't think Exxon Mobil nor Shkreli showed up to sit at any defendant's table, in this similar circumstance:

"Trump and his lawyers said his financial statements weren’t deceptive, since they came with disclaimers noting they weren’t audited. The defense also noted that bankers and insurers independently evaluated the numbers, and the loans were repaid... Trump’s lawyers argued that many of the case’s allegations were too old... The defense also contends that James misused a consumer-protection law to sue Trump and improperly policed private business transactions that were satisfactory to those involved." Trump's massive civil fraud penalty for exaggerating financial statements is thrown out by appeals court

You can do better research next time, to avoid excluding vital info.

That's completely irrelevant. You claimed New York had "never...experienced this type of crime until Trump was charged with it." I showed you the law, and two recent examples of prosecutions based on that law. Neither Trump's defense in that case nor that the judgment against Trump was tossed changes anything, Trump was still found guilty of fraud under New York Executive Law § 63(12), just as Shkreli was.

New York Executive Law § 63(12) is not some obscure law that has not been used in 105 years, as you asserted.

-- A2SG, nor has that law anything to do with the failed indictments of Letitia James....

DialecticSkeptic · 2025-12-15T00:06:01-0600

lismore said:
How far do historical writings go back in time?

Not as far back as human societies. If Adam and Eve lived 6,000 years ago, that would be ~3976 BCE. It would take another several hundred years for written language to appear (c. 3300 BCE), but large human societies already existed. Jericho and Tell Qaramel had been around for ~5,000 years by that point; Nevali Cori had been around for nearly as long; Catalhoyuk was over 3,000 years old by that point. (And this is just Mesopotamia.)

So, yeah, human societies pre-existed written records by thousands of years; even Adam and Eve existed ~700 years before writing. (They entered a world full of human societies, from the ancient Near East to the North American plains.)

Lady Bug · 2025-12-14T23:53:11-0600

This one priest gives a homily at the Vigil Mass and then in the morning Mass he practically gives the same verbatim homily, but he's not reading from anything - he is reciting out of his mouth (while "walking around"). It's no small homily either, yet the words seem practically identical to the one the evening before. I find that puzzling, how he can achieve that.

RileyG · 2025-12-14T23:34:26-0600

Double

RileyG · 2025-12-14T23:34:01-0600

Arcangl86 · 2025-12-14T23:22:54-0600

Bob Crowley said:
While it is obvious that a Moslem terrorist cell was behind this massacre,

Why is that obvious? There are plenty of CHristian antisemites.

Stopped_lurking · 2025-12-14T23:13:42-0600

ThatRobGuy said:
I linked a few of the articles before discussing it from Canadian news outlets (one of which being the CBC), here's another

24 Sussex is 'our line in the sand,' say restoration supporters | Heritage Ottawa

heritageottawa.org

Noting, that no Prime minister as lived in it since 2015 because it doesn't accomplish certain needs.

Ironically enough, the CBC and Ottawa Citizen articles I linked before made mention specifically about having the ability to hold larger events.

The author of the latter piece referred to the fact that the Prime Minister not having better house with better amenities (and having to actually live somewhere else) was a "national embarrassment"

There was nothing controversial about Michelle Obama's "modernizations" to the State Dining room and Family Dining room.

Times change, residents want a different look, or some more modern amenities, etc...

The "historical preservation groups" still complained (they always do), but republicans did the same pearl clutching when she did that. Pretending to have a profound respect for preserving the history, when we all know it wasn't really about that.

This current iteration about "preserving history" also comes across as a little hollow due to the fact that the people complaining the loudest about tearing down the east wing, were the same people who were advocating for tearing down other historical things.

A DC city commission (in conjunction with Mayor Bowser) was pitching things like this in 2020:
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Where was the progressive ire when ideas like removing or relocating the Jefferson Memorial or Washington Monument were being floated?

"We need to rip down a Ulysses Grant statue, because he married into a slave owning family" (Despite being a Union general)

Yet, making alterations to a building (that was built with slave labor) is suddenly "whoa, this is history, you can't change that!"

C'mon, isn't it a case where sometimes the most obvious answer is the right one? Which is, it's Trump doing it, so that's why they're pretending to be all bent out of shape about it?

It is a preservation society that has brought forth the suit. Personally, I find the proposed interior looking tacky and the size ludicrous (compared to the main house and the west wing). I guess at least some other do as well, regardless of any political leaning.

Michie · 2025-12-14T23:12:41-0600

Wolseley said:
Hollywood Director Rob Reiner, 'All in the Family' Star, Dead at 78

Acclaimed actor-director Rob Reiner, maker of such timeless classics like "Stand by Me," "The Princess Bride," "When Harry Met Sally," was reportedly found dead in his Brentwood home at age of 78. Police are investigating it as a possible homicide.

www.breitbart.com

They are suspecting their son Nick.

Hans Blaster · 2025-12-14T23:09:22-0600

Valletta said:
Y

You need to remember that the Biden administration insisted that the border was safe, secure, and closed, one of the biggest government hoaxes in American history. Some, such as Victor Davis Hanson, would put the number at the lower end of the range I provided, 10-12 million while others at the higher or even higher. We really don't know how many totally evaded detection but it is reasonable to assume that those are not people likely to fill out surveys. I understand the effort to downplay the numbers, be aware that much of it comes from the same people who were participants in the Biden administration hoax.

10 million hoplites?

VD Hanson is an ancient historian (retired I think), not an expert on immigration or any other subject in the last 2 millennia.

Mercy Shown · 2025-12-14T23:06:16-0600

SabbathBlessings said:
Of course, the notion we can disobey God and thats an example of faith is not found in our Bibles. So no one should be teaching we do not have to keep God’s commandments- and let Him be the one to sort out who is doing it for the right reason because He only taught if you love Me, keep My commandments, never once taught if you love Me, don’t obey Me.

When Jesus says, “If you love me, you will keep my commandments” (John 14:15), He is not reducing love to rule-keeping, nor is He singling out one commandment in isolation. In that same conversation He goes on to say, “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you” (John 15:12). Love, expressed in a life shaped by Him, is the center.

The New Testament consistently teaches that love for Jesus is first a matter of trust and allegiance, not perfect observance. “We love because he first loved us” (1 John 4:19). Our obedience flows out of grace; it does not create it (Ephesians 2:8–10).

Regarding the Sabbath specifically, the early church wrestled with this question. Paul writes, “One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind” (Romans 14:5). He also warns against judging one another “with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath” (Colossians 2:16–17), saying these were a shadow pointing to Christ.

Jesus Himself reframed the Sabbath: “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath” and “the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath” (Mark 2:27–28). He consistently showed that mercy, restoration, and life are at the heart of God’s commands (Matthew 12:7).

So, do Christians who do not keep Saturday holy love Jesus? According to the New Testament, yes—if they are trusting in Him, receiving His grace, and seeking to follow Him in faith and love. Love for Jesus is not proven by flawless law-keeping, but by abiding in Him (John 15:4–5), walking by the Spirit (Galatians 5:22–23), and growing in obedience over time.

At the same time, Scripture allows room for conviction. If someone honors Saturday unto the Lord, that can be an act of love and faith. If another honors Christ without observing that day, that too can be an act of love. The warning is not to turn either practice into a measure of salvation or a test of genuine love (Romans 14:10–12).

We love Jesus not because we perfectly keep every command, but because He has loved us first—and that love, over a lifetime, teaches us how to obey.

Paidiske · 2025-12-14T23:01:10-0600

The word of their testimony is their martyrdom. Their death is the "word" by which they conquer.

For who "they" is go back to verse 10; "our brothers and sisters," in context, those who have been martyred.

A2SG · 2025-12-14T22:58:49-0600

civilwarbuff said:
Sounds as if the D's are willing to partner up with criminals in order to win elections. Isn't that something that can be prosecuted under RICO statutes?

Gee, remind me again, in the last election, which party ran a convicted felon and which ran someone who prosecuted criminals?

-- A2SG, so easy to forget these things....

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