You want me to post every time a black person is murdered in The Delta.

1 dead in Tuesday night Greenville shootings

concretecamper said:

2 Tim 3:15 And because from thy infancy thou hast known the holy scriptures which can instruct thee to salvation by the faith which is in Christ Jesus.
3:16 All scripture, inspired of God, is profitable to teach, to reprove, to correct, to instruct in justice:

The Scriptures Timothy knew from his infancy ( most likely before Christ was crucified ) is the Tanakh. Paul COULD NOT be referring to the Bible. Paul was referring to the Tanakh.

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There's also the question of what theopneustas means in context, because there is a good case to be made that prior to Origen the idea was a life-giving property to the texts which fits with Pauls focus on the usefulness of the Scriptures in pastoral service rather than a theory of inspiration. It is out-breath not in-breath.

essentialsaltes said:

McDonald's is losing its low-income customers. Economists call it a symptom of the stark wealth divide​

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Gracious Heavenly Father and Lord Jesus,
I pray for healing for Rami’s mother, and that Your wisdom be given to her as to whether to seek Your common grace of medical attentIon.
In Christ’s Name,
Amen

Welcome to CF!

RDKirk said:

True free will requires the ability of one moral agent to make moral choices without coercion, constraints, or consequences imposed by another moral agent. Anything short of that is not "free will," but "volitional agency."

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Free will doesn't require freedom from consequences, nor does it need to be absolute and without constraint. Coercion is also debateable, depending on whether it is resistable or irresistable. Free will just requires that the origin of the actions be in the person's will, rather than being something imposed upon them. So distinguishing between volitional agency and free will is an artificial one, as they amount to the same thing.

Kimba the White Lion

With regards to the nonsense of the ancient Egyptians using pyramids to 'focus or amplify' electromagnetic energy, all objects including pyramids can exhibit electromagnetic resonances.
These resonances occur when an external electromagnetic wave matches one of the natural oscillation modes of the object.
In conductive materials this involves free electrons oscillating collectively while in insulating materials like limestone or granite, the response is much weaker and consists mainly of small polarization shifts rather than free electron motion.
At resonance the frequency of the electromagnetic radiation matches the frequency of the oscillating electrons or polarization shifts resulting in an increase in the amplitude of the oscillation.

The internal chambers of the Great Pyramid have different dielectric properties than the surrounding limestone and granite walls, so can alter the distribution of electromagnetic fields and support their own weak resonance modes. Inside the chambers, electromagnetic fields can form weak standing-wave patterns due to reflections off the walls to form constructive interference with the incident radiation creating regions where the field is slightly stronger and is normal cavity resonance found in any enclosed space.

It is blatantly obvious the ancient Egyptians were completely unaware of the physics by simply comparing the interiors of the Great Pyramid with the second largest pyramid that of Khafre.


Khafre’s pyramid contains intrusive tunnels created by tomb robbers but would show a far weaker electromagnetic field enhancement than Khufu’s because it lacks internal chambers and therefore dielectric discontinuities which cannot support internal standing-wave resonant modes.

If the ancient Egyptians were aware of the physics they would not have constructed Khafre’s pyramid with the internal chamber below the pyramid where enhancements would have been negligible.

Aldebaran said:

The ACA is about as close to universal healthcare as you can get. That's why it cost so much. If we had actual universal healthcare as some other countries do, it would cost even more, and the quality of healthcare would plummet. You can ask residents of those other countries who come to the USA for healthcare all about it. The long wait times are enough to cause them to come here where it's not universal, but higher quality.

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You apparently don't know anything about universal healthcare if you think the ACA somehow resembles it. This post is objectively wrong.

Universal Healthcare:
Covers everyone, regardless of income, employment, pre-existing conditions, or age.
Single system ensures no gaps in coverage.

ACA:
Expands coverage but does not cover everyone.
Many people still rely on private insurance or fall into gaps in Medicaid eligibility (especially in states that didn’t expand Medicaid).
Coverage is often tied to employment or eligibility for subsidies.

Universal Healthcare:
Typically government-administered (single-payer) or heavily regulated multi-payer system.
Government negotiates prices for hospitals, doctors, and drugs.

ACA:
Relies on private insurance companies.
Government sets rules and provides subsidies, but does not control hospital, doctor, or drug prices.

Universal Healthcare:
Uses centralized negotiation to control costs for services, medications, and procedures.
Administrative costs are low due to one system handling billing and claims.

ACA:
Does not regulate provider prices, so costs for premiums, deductibles, and medical services remain high.
Administrative costs stay high because multiple private insurers and billing systems are involved.

Universal Healthcare:
Funded by taxes (federal and sometimes state), rather than premiums alone.
Individuals do not pay separate premiums for essential coverage.

ACA:
Funded by premiums (from individuals and employers) plus taxes.
Subsidies help lower-income people afford premiums, but middle- and upper-income people often pay more out-of-pocket.

Universal Healthcare:
Entire population is pooled, so risk is spread across everyone.
People cannot be denied coverage, and coverage is lifelong.

ACA:
Risk is pooled within insurance markets, not nationally.
People can still face high deductibles, copays, and gaps in coverage if subsidies aren’t enough.

Universal Healthcare:
Simpler: one system handles enrollment, billing, and reimbursement.
Less paperwork for patients and providers.

ACA:
Complex: multiple private insurers, different plans, marketplaces, subsidies.
High administrative overhead, confusing enrollment, and claim disputes remain common.


The ACA is vastly different than universal healthcare. Hence why universal healthcare is cheap in every modern nation that uses it, while the ACA is not.

CoreyD said:

Why are you judging me, and are you not attacking the poster rather than addressing the post?

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I think you are confused. I did no such thing. Also, I did address the post, twice.

Best regards.

eleos1954 said:

Yes ... our elections should be a high priority and everything possible should be put in place to ward off "interference" and so far that has not been done. Ending mail in voting and requiring proper ID would help.

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Neither would help.

WordSword said:

We are "walking as He walked" (1Jo 2:6), when we are about the Father's business (Luk 2:49).

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According to the Scriptures, we walk as He walked when we follow in His example that He set forth for us 1John2:6 1 Peter 2:21-22 So how did Jesus live what did He teach this is the faith we are to have, not just faith in Jesus, but the faith of Jesus Rev14:12

Valletta said:

Have you considered smaller insurers?

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Smaller insurers have a smaller risk pool by nature. Therefore, they must either be very choosy about who they accept (which is problematic for people with, say, pre-existing conditions) or charge a lot of money for their premiums because they lack the leverage to negotiate with providers and don't have a large pool of insured individuals to spread costs among. While they might be a good option for some people, they can't (and won't) insure everyone.

Valletta said:

Free competition is the key,

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The problem is that health insurance (and healthcare in general) doesn't operate on free market principles. You can't shop around for the best price or highest-rated hospital when you're having a heart attack or you suddenly go into labor or you run over your foot with a lawnmower. On the insurance side of things, as I said, smaller companies have to cut coverage or limit access in order to compete on price with the giant conglomerates. While that may look like a "free market" at a glance, offering lesser coverage (e.g. a catastrophic coverage policy rather than full coverage) or blocking the guy who has a family history of colon cancer is not something that we should be aspiring to.

Realistically, if you have the principle that everyone should receive medical care if and when they need it, the only thing that makes sense is a single-payer, government-run system.

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Blacks Lives Matter, for example, can offer their members health care and share the cost between members. They can cap the salary of a CEO at $100,000 and put it in their bylaws that every employee must make at least half of the salary of the CEO in order to keep costs affordable for patients. Anyone can incorporate and offer those same salaries and go into health insurance only, with a goal of making health insurance affordable for everyone.

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What's the incentive for that? The government has a good reason to want a healthy population, but a private corporation? Please. Moreover, it's far from simple to run such a company.

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A person should be able to CHOOSE insurance from companies other than the ones Obama and Pelosi decided to favor.

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The ACA does not restrict what companies are permitted to participate in the marketplace. They must offer plans that meet certain standards (e.g. no rejecting people based on pre-existing conditions, no lifetime benefit caps, etc), but there's nothing that says that Joe & Mary's Family Insurance Co. can't list their plans on the marketplace. The main reason why you only see plans from the "big, fat, rich insurance companies" on the marketplace is because they have a huge risk pool, and thus can offer better rates for plans that meet the ACA standard. And people buying their plans on the marketplace are going to look at two seemingly identical plans and pick the one that costs $500 less per month.

Some tidbits from the outvoted 5th Circuit judge

When a judge warns readers to “Fasten your seatbelts!” before a 104-page legal diatribe — best to buckle up.

[Judge Jerry] Smith, on the losing end of that 2-1 ruling, attacked the plaintiffs as tools of left-wing donors George and Alex Soros, who featured at least 17 times in the ruling.

While dissenting judges typically refer obliquely to the “majority” opinion, Smith’s relentlessly personal and withering opinion [used opinion author Judge] Brown’s name more than 360 times, often accompanied by colorful insults.

Smith lit into Brown as an “unskilled magician” who “prefers living in fantasyland.” Smith said Brown committed “pernicious judicial misbehavior” by racing to issue his opinion. Brown emphasized [this] was intended to allow Texas leaders to return to the state’s earlier congressional boundaries before a Dec. 8 deadline for candidates to declare their bids for Congress.

“Whether Judge Brown likes it, gravity exists,” Smith wrote.

Although judges typically couch their deliberations in a veil of secrecy, Smith revealed them in great detail, even quoting from the text of email exchanges with Brown as the ruling was being prepared.

I'm not all that concerned about "the Islam" factor of Mamdani.

If he was actually devout, then that may be some cause for concern, but given his political stances (both social and economic) he's clearly not a devout adherent to Islam.

In that debate between him, Cuomo, and that "Guardian Angel" wanna-be, he openly admitted to patronizing legal pot dispensaries, and his position on LGBTQ issues are pretty well-known, so clearly he's not that "strict".

Two people celebrating the Sabbath together in the Holy land. Then one travels west, the other travels east.

The one traveling west will celebrate about an hour later for each thousand miles they travel. The one traveling east, about an hour earlier.

When they meet up on the opposite side of the earth, they will be celebrating the Sabbath a day apart.

I love you all!

We're praying in Church, for it not to become law, and I've written to my MP twice, urging him to vote against it. I know others have written too. There are some of us in England and Wales who see the dangers of it going ahead, including many medical personnel and disability groups.

Nancy Mace moves to force vote on censuring Cory Mills​

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) introduced a resolution to censure fellow Republican Rep. Cory Mills (Fla.) and remove him from committees Wednesday, listing allegations of harassment, assault, stolen valor and improper contracts by his arms sales company.

Mills has been at the center of numerous personal controversies this year. [stuff in posts #1 and #3]

Mace’s censure resolution references reporting in The Daytona Beach News-Journal questioning how and why he was awarded a Bronze Star, with two service members “disputing that Mills was involved in their rescue or provided live-saving care.”

And finally, Mace’s resolution notes Mills is under investigation by the House Ethics Committee after the Office of Congressional Conduct found that his companies “may have entered into, held, or enjoyed contracts with federal agencies while he was a Member of Congress in violation of House rules, standards of conduct, and federal law.”

Dick Cheney funeral: Biden to attend, Bush to deliver tribute​

The service is being held Thursday at the National Cathedral.

Former President George W. Bush, who Cheney served for two terms, will offer a tribute at the service. According to the cathedral's program, Cheney's daughter, former congresswoman Liz Cheney, and his grandchildren will also give remarks.

Akita Suggagaki said:

If you have a point to make please do so.

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Ok I’ll give you some clues. Byzantine Emperor. His name means man. As in, See the man. Or, See, the man. Also, by mere happenstance and completely unrelated, a king of Jerusalem died at the same time.

DragonFox91 said:

Is that bad?
Do you donate plasma often?

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Usually, I'm in the donation bed for over an hour. I knew it was going like crazy, and the nurse told me it was done in forty-eight minutes flat today. It was a new nurse poking my arm that I had never seen or dealt with before. Whatever she did, it really worked. I donate as often as my left arm will cooperate. My right arm isn't usable at all, which sucks for being left-handed, haha. If the donation doesn't go through to completion, a full two-month wait is required, and I have more of those than I care for. I am trying to do it every two weeks now or so, more than the required seven-day interval.

University of Wisconsin Police investigating stickers promoting violence against ICE​

The University of Wisconsin-Madison Police are investigating stickers that appeared on campus encouraging violence against federal immigration agents.

Republicans are pointing to the imagery as another example of the hostile climate conservatives face on college campuses.

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Dan Perez said:

And how will you explain how anyone can be saved by the NEW COVENANT TODAY ??

And explain Heb 9:18. !!

And when. do you believe the BLOOD of Christ BEGAN. to saved anyone ??

dan p

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Jesus brought grace when he came in the flesh, but example of grace was in the days of Noah. But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD. (Genesis 6:8), And Noah and his family was saved. Not save from eternal life, but saved from the flood. This is why Jesus had to come. Paul says in Hebrews 9: 24 For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us: 26 for then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

Now Paul said in (Rom. 3:23-25) (v.23) For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God. (v.24) Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

(v.25) Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God.

So the bible tells you to repent and be baptized in the name of Jesus for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost." (Acts 2 :36-38). And by doing so you come up under his precious blood and then you are saved from your sins that are past, not present or future sins but for sins that are past. We were all locked under death by Adam’s sin, even the second death, which is the lake of fire. But when Jesus became (he was God in the beginning) man and died for the sins of the world, he gave us access back to the tree of life (himself) which Adam had caused us to lose. That’s what grace is, our free gift our access back to the tree of life but that’s another lesson for another time.

So by coming under the blood of Jesus being baptize, you are saved from your past sins. And if you are saved now, it is on a day to day basis. Because for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God (Romans 23:3), and if you continue to live you will sin again.

When the bible speaks of laws we no longer have to keep, it is speaking of the sacrificial laws and Priesthood laws. These animal sacrificial laws were a school master pointing us to the fact that Jesus would be sacrificed for our sins. Since Jesus died we are no longer under a school master, (required to offer up bulls and goats for our sins). Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. This animal sacrificial law was only a schoolmaster.(Gal 3:24)

Now we must believe (have faith) Jesus died for us (Hebrews 10:4,9-10) 4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. 9 then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. 10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

This doesn't mean we don't have to obey God's moral laws of conduct. That would be like a man getting paroled from prison and then ignoring the same laws that sent him to prison in the first place. Jesus only died once, so if we willingly break God's law, after accepting Jesus, our reward will be eternal damnation

It is the willful sinning that you need to put in check. For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. (Hebrew 10: 26, 27)

Silly China.

It's MORTON salt!



Okay, just kidding.