While most of the kids I see are not Jewish, i do marvel at some of the names that parents give their kids. I think the one I had the hardest time taking seriously was a little girl named "Beautiful Lady"

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First we don't have copper saws from the time. We have small carpentry saws that cut wood as far as I know. We have reliefs showing these small 40cm saws cutting wood. But we have absolutely nothing showing cutting of blocks.

Second why do you completely ignore the point about the signatures that cut around bends and move up and down with the contours of surfaces or cuts and leave an arc. Which is impossible for a hand held straight edge copper saw.

This immediately stops the idea of a hand held copper saw from even being considered.

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You were corrected on this 10 days ago with a 3rd dynasty saw part. That's the dynasty before the pyramid builders.

@GloryToHisName

Here is a chart of the Ezekiel 39 framework, I made.

Thanks all, so much, for your input here!

Things have evolved, insomuch that I have spoken to the elders about how I feel about their sermons etc, and I have given this many months of prayer.

I believe God is working through me, via this church, and so will stay for now.

I am still looking to visit local churches, only because this one is kinda far from me and I think it's important to support local churches and the community, but I don't want to leave until I feel God has instructed me to do so.

God bless you all!

Race matters only to humans.

sit shiva

Apple Sky said:

Yes one can. Impossible for many reasons outlined in the following video.

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Back to the anti-christian Eric "the idiot" Dubay.

Michie said:

The parents are not teaching them either.

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Yup! You’re spot on!

Michie said:

Yeah that saying drives me nuts. People do not morph into angels…ever.

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Amen! Unfortunately, some people don’t have much theological or biblical education. It’s really not their fault, I guess?

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But they had the budget for Octoberfest I bet

To be honest, I'm a bit cynical about the claims of "revival" which seem to be coming out of some parts of the US.

It may be true church attendances are up, and more Bibles are being sold, but I think it's a long way short of a revival.

Hopefully it will become a "revival", but I've been Christian long enough to have heard similar claims before and they have all fizzled out.

Valletta said:

The Democrats had previously talked about the suffering a shutdown would cause but went ahead full steam. The administration stated that since Congress had not authorized the funds they could not be required to use the contingency funds. Trump has said full benefits would be paid once enough Democrats voted to stop the shutdown. Activist judges interceded and order that the contingency funds must be used to pay full SNAP benefits, Justice Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, a Biden nominee, temporarily blocked the lower court ruling.

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Every President, including Trump in his first term, authorized the payment of SNAP contigency benefits during a government shut down. No authorization from Congress was needed (but you knew that didn't you).

Just about finished with Absolution by Jeff Vander Meer. I plan on reading several sci fi books by Stanislaw Lem. The books are Fiasco, Solaris, and The Invincible. Lem was Polish but he was born in Lviv, Ukraine (USSR) in 1921. He passed away in 2006. The books I plan to read take a philosophical look at potential "first contact" of Humans and aliens and how we likely won't even be able to relate to an alien intelligence and they likely will find us as incomprehensible. Lem's story, His Master's Voice, tells how scientists try to comprehend what they think is a message from an intelligent alien civilization and they fail to do so. I find I tend agree with Stanislaw Lem on the concepts of Humans dealing intelligent aliens (if they even exist). Although I enjoyed Cixin Liu's trilogy Remembrance of Earth's Past (AKA Three Body Problem) I am not completely convinced of the Dark Forest answer to the Fermi Paradox. I also do not agree with the more positive views of first contact Carl Sagan wrote about in his book Contact or Ted Chiang's Story of Your Life (film title Arrival).

Just about finished with Absolution by Jeff Vander Meer. I plan on reading several sci fi books by Stanislaw Lem. The books are Fiasco, Solaris, and The Invincible. Lem was Polish but he was born in Lviv, Ukraine (USSR) in 1921. He passed away in 2006. The books I plan to read take a philosophical look at potential "first contact" of Humans and aliens and how we likely won't even be able to relate to an alien intelligence and they likely will find us as incomprehensible. Lem's story, His Master's Voice, tells how scientists try to comprehend what they think is a message from an intelligent alien civilization and they fail to do so. I find I tend agree with Stanislaw Lem on the concepts of Humans dealing intelligent aliens (if they even exist). Although I enjoyed Cixin Liu's trilogy Remembrance of Earth's Past (AKA Three Body Problem) I am not completely convinced of the Dark Forest answer to the Fermi Paradox. I also do not agree with the more positive views of first contact Carl Sagan wrote about in his book Contact or Ted Chiang's Story of Your Life (film title Arrival).

Fantine said:

Could it be the Dobbs decision and opposition to birth control?

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Unless killing the child in the womb has been now considered birth control.

There is no opposition.

Aryeh Jay said:

Another job stolen from a law abiding citizen.

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If you notice the charge they got him for, it wasn't for running for (or holding) office, it was for voting for himself in the mayoral election.

While I can't find great information on the matter on Kansas laws for various cities, from what I am seeing, there technically is the possibility for cities that have robust "home rule" provisions to elect non-citizens to various public offices provided they have "legal resident" status.

You'd think if a person was going to live here for that long (30 years), and was willing to put in the effort to run for elected office (and win) twice, they would've found the time to fill out some paperwork and take a citizenship test.

RileyG said:

Good point!

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It is not repetition that is condemned rather than “vain repetition” Jesus even gives us the hint that God knows what we need before we ask Him.
If we keep repeating a request over and over again and act like God can’t hear us unless we repeat the request or think the greater member of times repeated gives a greater reward. That’s vain

The Rosary has repetitions not so God can hear us, but rather recondition our mind and bodies to hear from God. They are spiritual exercises, and we need exercise because the spirit is willing but our flesh is weak. The repetition focuses our minds to meditate on the works of God and off of our fleshly desires. That is proper use of repetition in prayer. Don’t just mouth the words but actually think about what you are saying and keep doning it until your mind is properly aligned with your mouth. That kind of concentration takes practice which is why we repeat and practice it often

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Camp Mystic Is Reopening Next Summer, Sparking Outrage From Parents as the Search for Missing Campers Continues​

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Families of Camp Mystic campers, counselors who died in Texas flood file lawsuit​

The lawsuit alleges gross negligence and reckless disregard for safety.

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Trump codefendant Harrison Floyd. He's also indicted for assaulting a federal officer when he was served with a subpoena in the Trump-related case.


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Man pardoned by Trump in 'fake electors' scheme hopes it extends to unrelated assault charge​

Floyd was charged with [a Georgia state] racketeering alongside Giuliani and others in Georgia for his role in the aftermath of the 2020 election. But he also faces an unrelated federal charge for assaulting a federal agent in 2023.

Floyd allegedly attacked two FBI agents dispatched on behalf of Special Counsel Jack Smith to serve Floyd with a subpoena as part of the federal investigation into 2020 election subversion, according to the Washington Post. The Post, citing a sealed affidavit, reported that Floyd body-slammed one of the agents and shouted "Who the f--- do you think you are?"

The language in Trump's pardon covers individuals charged with "any conduct relating to their efforts to expose voting fraud and vulnerabilities in the 2020 Presidential Election."

I think "Blood and soil" is pretty well-known to anyone who's read WW2 stuff (though I'd never heard it before the past decade) but some variant of "x belongs to x and y belongs to y" is a self-determination, anti-imperialist creed I've read in older leftward-leaning literature (the Barsoom series springs to mind, and it pops up as an ideal minus the exact words in Jules Verne.)

Paired with "blood and soil" the Nazi reference is probably intended though.

Hans Blaster said:

It's a partial answer to a question that I'd already answered. (To which you promptly asked the question again.) I don't know how many times or ways I can tell you that absolute/ultimate/objective morality isn't needed to condemn things you find morally objectionable, only the subjective moral is needed. Subjectivity doesn't remove the moral objection, and it doesn't remove the "debate" about the objection once made. (At this point I should note that there are disagreements on moral objections between two or more people claiming objective or absolute moral bases for their own moral opinions.

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Subjectivity requires you be inconsistent by claiming that something is wrong in any real sense of the word. Either it was acceptable by the standards of the society it took place in, and so cannot be condemned consistent with relativistic morals, or it was truly wrong regardless of what anyone thinks of it. You may be able to be subjectively incensed, but you don't have a leg to stand on because no one cares what your preferences are but you.

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No. I am talking about how we primates form moral frameworks from our primitive, emotional moral instincts and build moral frameworks from reasoning on top of them incorporating what moral goals we possess. I have made nothing even close to an "ought" claim here. (And in this sequence of interactions I have been assiduously avoiding making specific moral claims, particularly "oughts" as they are not needed to discuss the nature of morality.)

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So you believe that morality can be had without any "oughts"? How so?

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I see, you seem to fundamentally be a nihilist leaning on the claim of absolute/objective/universal morality source from your religion and the god you believe in to avoid nihilism. I'm not. I don't mind at all that you base your moral foundation on your religion and its teachings. Found your moral opinion on whatever system you like. It is just that I have no reason to acquiesce to their position when I disagree.\

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I've made no secret that if I didn't believe God to exist then only nihilism would be consistent in my view. Which is why my role in these discussions is the skeptic, not trying to enforce my moral system on others.

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I don't think there was ever a time when my church dictated the fullness of my moral foundations. There were always influences from society and culture, particularly on the things they didn't emphasize. There was a lot of discussion of personal conduct and its relationship to eternal damnation, but never any discussion of civil rights or discrimination. I couldn't bring myself (not that I tried) to condemn divorce, or especially remarriage, or birth control as my church did. (Come to think of it, I disagreed with my church on morality far more than on theology, at least until the serious doubts set in, at which point nothing they said mattered to me anymore.)

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I've never been particularly impressed by "church" morality, particularly because most seem to try to enforce some form of deontological ethics and I have always been inclined to believe that the Bible presents virtue ethics as its central framework.