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When the Sacrament Bites Back: Has Communion Ever Frightened You?

Paul says some of you are sick and dying because you gulp the Supper unworthily (1 Cor 11). Share the moment the bread and wine stopped being routine and started feeling dangerous.

What happened, and how did it change the way you prepare?
I've never had a negative experience with the Eucharist. I have received miraculous healing though.
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What are you listening to?

Another sign that AI is about to redefine the music industry, and I'm 100% behind it. And don't look now, but the movie industry is next. Some people think that the stock market is in an AI bubble. I think that the AI revolution is just getting started.

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What's on your mind? Friendship Court edition.

What was it like 5 years ago?

This might sound crazy or stupid, but I actually used to have time to do my job accurately and without the anxiety I experience now. Now, it's all about "rush, rush, rush", "meet your goal", "money, money, money". Our work is closely monitored now. I (and others) actually have to calculate when to go to the bathroom so we're not accused of taking too long on a task. Have you ever heard of such a thing happening in the workplace? This is something you would expect in a Communist country.

What is your ideal job?

I've desired to do something with Linux for some time. I don't know how I would go about that. When I look for Linux jobs, they want knowledgeable people with schooling. I do not ever want to go back to college again. American colleges are scams and you can't do anything with your degree. I've tried twice to get a good job with college, it doesn't work.

If I could make money off of my writing, I would do it.
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Discussion 2: Adam...with some of Eve (God's Word to Women book)

Here's my thoughts on what I covered from the book:

  • I have heard that Adam and Eve were in one body before, but it was on Gab and they insisted that it was unbiblical, and the idea came from the Talmud and Satan. But after awhile, I do think what Katharine Bushnell says in her book, it is true, especially when you consider that Eve was taken out of Adam's side.

  • The parts about Adam having freedom to eat from the Tree of Life (before he ate from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil) and Adam having responsibilities for the Garden of Eden - it's little things like this we miss, and when someone points them out, we have to go back and look.

  • The part about Adam's condition of "good" not lasting - I'm not so sure about this. It's hard to think that Adam was sinning before he ate from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. And if it is true, why was God so patient with him and helping him? Don't we tend to view God differently?

  • In both Discussion 1 and 2, I think that Bushnell's analysis on Scripture and what Scripture says itself derails Patriarchy. Patriarchy likes to protect Adam and blame everything on Eve, but God is not one sided and will always judge truthfully and accurately.
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Are the Jews Israel, or is the church Israel? Or does it depend on the context of the passage?

How about addressing the biblical evidence above instead of merely expressing your bias and faulty opinions.

I have presented my point above already why the Body of Christ cannot be the Israel of God.

If you think it is faulty and bias, explain why the premises do not lead to the conclusion.
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Not a lot of respect for men

I have serious doubts about men leading anything because they seem weak willed and weak minded.

Satan runs the world (Eph 2:2)He has worked for centuries to manipulate and collectivize the world. He needs collective to leverage his influence. In order to get people willingly to form and enter these collectives, he needed a compliant population. In order to get each generation to be more compliant he has made great use out of public education.

There is a joke about a mother complaining, "When Billy was five years old and the teacher told him to shut up and sit down. When Billy was ten years old, the teacher told him to shut up and sit down. When Billy was 15 years old the teacher told him to shut up and sit down. Billy is 25 now and I wish he would go out and find a job.

In addition to the programming of youth, Satan has done a lot to destroy families such that parents think that putting their children in Sunday school and public school is all that is needed. It is sad to see how much is lost. It is not just men who have been crippled as a result of these changes Satan has directed us into.
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Matt Gaetz

Devastating Report Details How Underage Homeless Girl Allegedly Had Sex With Matt Gaetz For Money to Buy Braces

A federal judge in Florida unsealed the civil case documents in October following a request from the McClatchy newspaper chain, according to The New York Times.

“Hoping to save up to buy braces to fix her teeth, she falsely advertised herself in 2017 as 18 years old on a website that matches men looking for ‘companionship’ with young women looking to make money.”

According to the report by the House Ethics Committee, the girl signed up with a “sugar dating”website that arranged “mutually beneficial relationships,” usually with younger women and older men. That’s when she met Gaetz associate Joel Greenberg who allegedly paid her $400 for sexual encounters.

The documents continued that the girl met Gaetz at a party where she took cocaine and ecstasy and allegedly had sex with Gaetz twice for $400. She later told congressional investigators that she saw Gaetz use cocaine that night.

Greenberg, who cooperated in the case against Gaetz, pleaded guilty to underage sex trafficking, wire fraud, stalking, identity theft, producing a fake ID card, and conspiring to defraud the US government. He was handed an 11-year sentence.
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DOGE wants to Make Aliens Great Again: Increase Visas to bring in Skilled Foreign Workers to Take Lucrative Jobs from Mediocre Americans

Tucker’s ‘[Poop]show’: Pardoned Convicted Felon Dinesh D’Souza Warns of ‘Mass Desertions’ of Minorities From the GOP Following Racist Attacks on Ramaswamy

Vivek Ramaswamy, the former presidential candidate running as a Republican for governor of Ohio, posted a Halloween photo of himself and his two sons on Friday. The post received a wave of xenophobic and racist replies [and Dinesh didn't like it]

Pardoned Convicted Felon Dinesh D'Souza really knows how to bring the party together.

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