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rjs330 · 2025-12-15T01:33:22-0600

JosephZ said:
It doesn't, as I explained in this response to you back in October.

Yes it does. Your explanation is incorrect.

JosephZ said:
Those practices predate Islam and occur in non-Islamic cultures as well.

Yes some do. But it IS STILL an Islamic practice. As you showed in your experience Islamism is radical and teaches subjugation of women.

JosephZ said:
tribal traditions, not the teachings of Islam, that led to their deaths

Tribal traditions based on Islamist thought and instruction.

JosephZ said:
Under tribal - not religious - tradition, marriages are carefully arranged by elders. Marrying without permission is considered an affront to the honour of the tribe.

They are simply trying to downplay the religious aspect of it, by denying things that are occurring because of Islamist teaching. Honor killings are a part of Islam.

JosephZ said:
Honor killings predate Islam and occur in Pakistani Christian families as well.

Honor killings are part of Islam.

JosephZ said:
As you can see from those verses, Muslims can be friends with those who do not fight against them or mock them.

All those things are from the Quran. Did yoi notice the war like stance in all of it? These things are all used by Islamists to be violent and antagonistic to non-believers. According to the Quran when we speak out against the call to prayer in yhe middle of American towns, disturbing the peace of those who don't and aren't interested in their religion, they consider us enemies.

And we all know what they do to their enemies.

I've heard enough of this nonsense regarding a clearly authoritarian religion that seeks to take over places with violence or by political means in the NAME of their false religion. And those who have come out of this religion have told us what really goes on. You should these things. They are authorized to do whatever it takes to obtain power. And that is what they are doing.

FromWesternCanada · 2025-12-15T01:11:23-0600

I do freestyle poems that aren't poems. I'm making this thread just to have a collection of my journey to actually knowing what I'm doing.

Apostolic Succession

The Cross of God has the Scripture
To have the Holiness explained
A Blessing of the Crucifix
To listen and Love within
The Godly and Ordained
This Beautiful love of Life
Spoken in the time of Christ

Christ Jesus praise

As You encompass Light
Your Skies They enlighten my love of Life
This journey brightly put as the Horizon to my Soul
Our Hero is the Prominence of our Whole
For our Faith and Belief in Christ
We have come to live by Life

Time's running out

How long do we belong?
To a world of the passing?
Our belongings rot
Our earthly desires fade
No longer alive
Will come to this day
And when our ego is on fire
What should we say?
The curtain has closed

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.

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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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

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

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.

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

Valletta said:
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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....

Say it aint so · 2025-12-14T22:52:31-0600

NxNW said:
DOGE found so much fraud that nobody was indicted for fraud.

Remember at the Musk voter money give away rally where he announced impending fraud indictments?
He even stated while on stage, "Yes. In fact, I believe someone is going to be arrested tomorrow,"
That never happened either.

saved24 · 2025-12-14T22:38:01-0600

saved24 · 2025-12-14T22:29:36-0600

It's sad the lies some are telling about Charlie Kirk. It's sad also that they are say unkind things about Erica too. She lost her husband, let her grieve. I feel bad for her. People are coming to Jesus because of Charlie's death, he was a true Christian just trying to lead people to Christ and show them a better way and the lies about wokeism.

RDKirk · 2025-12-14T22:28:06-0600

mark46 said:
"Each other" means other Christians for so, so many.

Many don't believe that is what Jesus taught. Many do.

I don't know what you mean to say.

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