The "guardsman" with the head injury is a woman. So sad, especially since they were on a legally dubious and morally unconstitutional assignment.
The wrong place and the wrong time.

Hvizsgyak said:

My point is that gender identity is a made up "science" and for a society, we shouldn't even have to engage in such nonsense (including wasting money on teachers to talk about it in college).

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It is a part of humanity. Whether it is embraced or forbidden, it is not new and historically, cultures around the world have dealt with it.

College students pay for and study what they feel is interesting and important. This is capitalism, not a moral issue.

Fervent said:

I have issues with anxiety, and borderline panic attacks. One thing that I've found works for me extremely well is reciting the Jesus prayer, "Lord Jesus Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner." Most of the time when i do this, I get this sense that I am not alone and my anxiety disappears and is replaced with a sense of bold confidence. I sense the Spirit carrying me, and know that what He wills, He makes provisions for.

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I resonate with this a lot. I was diagnosed with an anxiety disorder over 15 years ago. Many, many years ago I took up the practice of praying the Jesus Prayer after reading about The Way of the Pilgrim. I have frequently sought refuge in that Prayer more times than I can count when anxiety rises. To remind myself--for in the panic it is easy to forget--that I am in Jesus' hands and He has my back. I rise and fall by the mercy of the Lord.

A man who needs to have a side hustle in order to keep his needs met (food, water, lodging, travel) isn't someone who is living high off the hog. St. Paul had a trade/craft skill that he could use to meet his bare necessities. I don't know about the East, but in the West there is a long tradition of monastics engaged in a trade (e.g. beer brewing or wine making) for the purpose of meeting certain basic material needs for the community, and raising funds for certain purposes.

It seems common sense to me to think that Paul was probably living, generally speaking, low on the dime. I can't imagine any of the Apostles living in reasonable comfort, their poverty would have been part of the Cross to which they were called to carry. Christ told them that they would have it rough, but to be courageous in Him who has overcome the world.

durangodawood said:

An absolute ton of pardons say otherwise.

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Says the auto pen. But this is the mantra of the left. Do you deny it? Why not put your money where your mouth is and send that woman back home?

Hello, my name is Dreyma! (Or at least, that is the alias I typically use online.)

I graduated from college last year with an education degree, and now I'm teaching English to high-school students at a small public school in a rural area. This is my first time working in a profession and my first time living away from parents, so it's been quite the adjustment.

I'm here because I spend too much time chatting in online communities that draw me away from Christ instead of towards him. I thought this might be a good substitute, a place that could strengthen my faith instead of making me feel ashamed or uncertain of it.

(I just need to make sure that I don't use conversations here as another excuse to procrastinate chores and lesson planning and grading...)

Gnarwhal said:

I think it's probably a both/and situation. Like you can pray it as a novena but you don't have to stop there either, especially if you find the prayer particularly beneficial to your faith and/or maybe that you have a particular devotion to Our Lady Undoer of Knots.

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I agree.

Dan Perez said:

aND THIS IS WHAT THE GREEK TEXT has to say in 1 Cor 11 :26 says

# 1 FOR // GAR is a Conjuncation

# 2 AS OPFTEN AS //. HOSAKIO. is an ADVERB

# 3 YE EAT //. EARHIO. in. the PRESENT TENSE. in the ACTIVE VOICE. is a SUBJNUCATIVE in. the PLURAL

From. this. , IT MEANS any assembly can have communion as many times as they wish !!

dan p

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Some do daily!

7thKeeper said:

There's also this case.

ChatGPT: US lawyer admits using AI for case research

The lawyer told the judge he did not know content from the artificial intelligence could be false.

www.bbc.com

I remember a few other stories where lawyers used ChatGPT or some other model to try and do their work faster and they got into hot water because the model produced references to cases that simply didn't exist.

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Yes, and the lawyer used the reference without checking? He should be disbarred.

Michie said:

Agency says Biden administration arrested, then released suspect

Federal authorities have placed an immigration detainer on a 17-year-old Mexican national accused of savagely attacking a woman with a hammer while she jogged in a Texas park.

The incident unfolded on Nov. 13 at approximately 5 p.m., when police in Plano, a suburb of Dallas, say they responded to reports of an assault in the 2300 block of Shiloh Road, according to a Plano Police Department news release. The female victim was jogging in Bob Woodruff Park when she was ambushed by a male assailant who struck her repeatedly with a hammer before fleeing the scene.


Police say the attacker tried to duct tape the woman, but she was able to fight him off.

Paramedics transported the victim to a nearby hospital, where she was treated for non-life-threatening injuries.

In an initial update on Nov. 14, the Plano Police Department identified the suspect as Sergio Noe De Nova Duarte, who had been living in Plano, and charged him with aggravated kidnapping bodily injury, a first-degree felony. He was booked into the Collin County jail.

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ICE: Illegal suspect in hammer attack on woman jogging in Texas park overstayed visa

Federal authorities have placed an immigration detainer on a 17-year-old Mexican national accused of savagely attacking a woman with a hammer while she jogged in a Texas park

www.christianpost.com

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So much suffering caused by lax policies.

Laughter's not necessary, simply smile.

GCMPT

Xeno.of.athens said:

"Baptism" implies water.

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And in. 1. Cor 10 :2. And all WERE ALL BAPTIZED UNTO MOSES in. the CLOUD. and in. the SEA ??

Does anyone see the WORD (. WATER //. HYDOR ) in. the Greek text ??

And how were thousands of ISRAELITES BAP[TIZED UNTO Moses ??

AND BA[TIZED INTO THE CLOUD and BA[PTIZED UNTO THE SAE. ??

SO why do you say it is IMPLIESD ??????

Is IMPLIES in. the GREEK TEXT ??

And there are 7 diffenent. kind of BAPTIZING. which is IT. ??

And in. Eph 4:5 it reads ONE LORD , ONE FAITH ONE BAPTISM. , so. we know there is ONLY ONE GOD

ONLY ONE FAITH. and who. are the ONES // HEIS. FAITH and ONE // HEIS BAPTISM SO WHO HAS ONE BABPTISM

SINCE there 7 pop them. ??

dan p

Dan1988 said:

Talk about filling in the blanks, do you really think that God has to justify everything He does to the likes of yourself.

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Or the likes of you. You've no guarantee that you aren't one of the Evil Robots, now do you?

Dan1988 said:

You come across like a control freak

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Really? How interesting! How long have you been into amateur psychology?

Dan1988 said:

, who demands detailed explanation of every single thing God does.

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Nah, I just sit back and marvel at the sort of rubbish that some folks believe that God does or doesn't do based on God-only-knows what. And part of the marvel is how that can blow and posture and pontificate s though they'd been given their, she we say, dubious, notions of what God will or won't do via Divine revelation of some sort.

Dan1988 said:

• Isaiah 40:13-14 These verses highlight that God has no need for counsel from humanity

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How novel! I'd have sworn that He hangs on your every word. <Laugh>

Dan1988 said:

• • "Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD, Or as His counselor has taught Him?"

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The actually question isn't whether God should accept my counsel, but whether anyone at all should accept yours. I read the Gospels, and I read your beliefs, and I'm dogged if I see very much overlap there. Why did our Lord have to die if He had already who would roast and who wouldn't before He created Adam.

Could He have done that? Of course! Did He actually do that? If so, why? Why God through all the trouble of ctrting the illusion that there was hope for at least some of humanity, when in fact there was none? And why did our Lord say so much stuff that, if your pernicious beliefs are true, were simply false?

Nah, the trick is that if your rubbish was actually true, then the gospel is simply a practical joke played to see how many will fall for it.

Dan1988 said:

• • "With whom did He take counsel

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Not with you, matey; on that we may rely.

linux.poet said:

My dad tried to evangelize her multiple times over the years with no luck. You can pray for witnessing opportunities for me and my brother if you want. I think we share the belief that people have inherent value, regardless of their behavior, and so if we are given opportunities, we will take them.

On the other hand, if she goes to hell, it's precisely what she deserves and I'm not going to have any regrets.

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God gives faith to every person He intends to save. We love others and desire their salvation, but God alone gives faith. True Christians are Christlike.:

EPHESIANS 4:32!

Lybrah said:

Well, everyone sings and there’s no music. I don’t like to sing, so I listen ir sing in my head. Then it’s like a RC where we get crackers and little wine things, and take “the Eucharist.” Then we sit through readings and the preacher comes on. I find the sermons to be pretty good but sometimes they have a Spanish guy there and they take turns where the preacher says a sentence and the Spanish guy translates.

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Based on what you said, are you a member of The Church of Christ?

I don't consider him the most evil person on the planet. But like all the leaders out there making bad decisions, we are to pray for them in the hopes they turn from their ways. If they don't now, maybe they will during the trib.

I worked in DC near the White House and am praying God will protect all the law enforcers that are there and heal the wounded men who were shot by the man from Afghanistan. Please join me in prayer.

Akita Suggagaki said:

“We recognize that nations have a responsibility to regulate their borders and establish a just and orderly immigration system for the sake of the common good. Without such processes, immigrants face the risk of trafficking and other forms of exploitation. Safe and legal pathways serve as an antidote to such risks.”

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Sounds good to me!

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Why am I not surprised.

Mockingbird0 said:

You seem to have missed the part about how, under my proposal, no one would be forced to adopt the Gregorian paschalion.

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Adjusting our Lunar tables would just create another schism. I wish this wasn’t the case, but that’s the reality of the situation. Any change would either cause a schism, interfere with EO/OO reunion, or cause more Orthodox to join the toxic schismatic Old Calendarists (who are opposed to the calendar largely due to their opposition to ecumenism, which they believe is a “pan-heresy” based on a remark made by a primate of ROCOR in the late 1980s, when ROCOR was canonically isolated due to communism.

......Enzo, driven purely by animal instinct, lunged at the plate and devoured the food without hesitation. His animal nature left no room for doubt or deliberation. On the other hand, Fred resisted, guided by caution.

The food was drugged. To Fred’s horror, Enzo collapsed—now the food hawker took off his mask.

Who was the 'thief in disguise' in Ruggero's life?
It might not be what you think.

drjean said:

It needs to be done correctly or not at all. It is a portrayal of Christ's sacrifice....

anything with leaven in it portrays sin and Christ had no sin. ... etc.
It has it's basis in the Passover Meal.

The first-century congregation of Corinth did not understand the significance of the Passover. They observed it “in an unworthy manner,” not “discerning the Lord’s body” (1 Corinthians 11:27-29); they did not comprehend its real meaning.

The Passover Bread and Wine: The Meaning of the Passover Symbols

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And VINES GREEK. DICTIONARY G371. says that UNWORTLY MANNER means that they were treating IT

as a COMMON. MEAL !!

dan p