Or that isn't plausible?

Snopes detailed in its fact check that Trump was clear he was not calling neo-Nazis "fine people" when he made the comment at a press conference that year. "While Trump did say that there were ‘very fine people on both sides,’ he also specifically noted that he was not talking about neo-Nazis and White supremacists and said they should be 'condemned totally.' Therefore, we have rated this claim 'False,'" Snopes wrote.

Good for them! They surprised me and I hope Snopes continues to strive for the truth.

The construction industry has one of the highest suicide rates among professions — with the rate among male construction workers 75% higher than men in the general population, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. An estimated 6,000 construction workers by suicide in 2022, an increase from 2021, according to the most recent data available. That compares to around 1,000 who died from a construction work-related injury.

“When you’re more likely to be killed by your own hands than to get killed in a jobsite accident, that’s a crisis in our industry,” said Brian Turmail, vice president of public affairs and workforce for the Associated General Contractors of America. “We know pretty much what needs to happen to protect people physically. We’re figuring out how to protect people mentally.”

While construction wages are up and jobs are plentiful, those in the industry fear that the pressures on their workers’ mental health are only getting worse. A recent surge in construction projects, spurred by billions of federal dollars for infrastructure, clean energy and semiconductor projects have put increasing strain on an already stretched workforce.

As a result, workers are putting in more than 10-hour days in harsh weather conditions, facing high-pressure deadlines and having to spend months away from home living in hotels, temporary workforce housing or their vehicles. There is also the risk of workplace injuries and a higher rate of opioid misuse along with the general financial instability of hourly work.

Joe Biden’s campaign planned to bury Donald Trump in an avalanche of cash.

Instead, his allies are bracing for a slugfest without the benefit of a fatter wallet, as financial reports showed Trump outraising Biden in back-to-back months, hauling in huge sums after his 34 felony convictions and erasing Biden’s longstanding financial edge.

Blessed feast everyone!

During Mother’s Day everyone praises both married and single mothers. Yet during Father’s Day last weekend women across social media wanted the day to include them saying they do the job of both. Why can’t fathers get any sort of praise without women wanting to be the main character of both days?

Hello folks. Do any of you like Yu Yu Hakusho (1992)? It is a classic anime. Watched it from January through March 2024, and it was great. Kuwabara is my favorite character, as he has grown up a lot in maturity during the series, and his two to five hairs nestling out of his bangs over his forehead are adorable. This anime was done by the same guy who made Hunter x Hunter, which is the anime that introduced me to anime in November 2021. Yu Yu Hakusho is non-woke (cos it is from the 1990s), and is wholesome, as the evil powers get defeated in the end by a group of four friends.

Summary: Yu Yu Hakusho is a popular Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yoshihiro Togashi, later adapted into an anime. The story revolves around Yusuke Urameshi, a troublesome teenager who dies saving a young boy from being hit by a car. Despite his questionable life, he is resurrected as a ghost by Koenma, the son of the underworld's ruler. To return to the living world, Yusuke must pass various challenges and prove himself worthy in the Spirit World, becoming an Underworld Detective. Along with his friends Kazuma Kuwabara, Hiei, and Kurama, they take on different missions involving supernatural entities that disrupt the balance between the human and spirit worlds. These tasks range from solving mysteries to battling powerful demons, ultimately leading to larger conspiracies within both realms. Throughout their journey, they grow stronger and develop complex relationships while learning more about themselves and their roles in maintaining peace.


Yu Yu Hakusho (1992)


Kuwabara's stray bangs

Pray that Jesus Christ heals & comforts all those affected by the antisemitic terrorist attacks on a synagogue in Dagestan, Russia:

Deadly attacks on Dagestan synagogue and churches

Just a question: is it possible to be/ become a virtuous woman ( or have virtue restored) after living a worldly lifestyle?

Greetings in Jesus name. I have a friend that is in his 60s and disabled. He lives by himself in an apartment and has no wife or children. He has a caring heart, but sometimes that gets him into trouble.

To make a long story short, he had a careworker that helped him for a few years. But she didn't have a car and have children. Richard (my friend's name) bought her a car. He found out a little later that her driver's license was suspended. But throughout the whole time, he accumulated over $100,000 in debt.

After a few cars later, she has another car that was probably bought from someone else. She went to jail for 9 months because she had an accident with a previous car with no license or insurance. He said that her new car had her window smashed. He keeps saying that she has no choice. She has to continue to break the law of driving unlicensed and uninsured because of her children. I said that we shouldn't enable others to break the law. What does anyone think about this situation?

(OSV News) — After St. Mary’s High School in Colorado Springs, Colorado, launched its inaugural school year in 1885 — staffed by the Sisters of Loretto and planted on the front range of the Rockies under Pikes Peak — generations have passed through its doors going through students’ typical challenges to scholastic success and emotional well-being: lost homework; forgotten textbooks; maybe even a bully or two.

But now schools are finding students face a new typical challenge: cellphones.

St. Mary’s High School confronts cellphone challenge​

“Dress codes have always been a challenge in Catholic schools,” Thomas Maj, president of St. Mary’s, told OSV News. “But phones became a bigger one.”


Maj dates the “explosion” of student cellphone use to approximately 2005. In May of that year, Maj — who has been a Catholic school administrator for 25 years — said he could easily count the number of kids who had one. By the next year, it was easier to count those who didn’t.

“You see the social deprivation; you see the sleep deprivation; you see attention fragmentation in class; you see the addictions; you see how social media harms girls more than it does boys,” said Maj, inventorying detriments before concluding, “Something had to give.”

Implementing a cellphone ban​

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A woman in Texas has been charged with attempted capital murder and injury to a child after trying to drown a 3-year-old child at an apartment complex pool and making racial statements, according to police.

On May 19, Euless Police Department officers responded to a call at an apartment complex pool regarding a disturbance between two women. Witnesses told officers “a woman who was very intoxicated had tried to drown a child and argued with the child’s mother,” police said in a news release.

The woman, identified as Elizabeth Wolf, 42, was approached by officers as she tried to leave and placed under arrest for public intoxication.

Wolf also made statements about the mother not being an American and made other racial statements, according to police.

“When the mother answered her, she stated that Wolf tried to grab her 6-year-old son but he pulled away from her grasp, which caused a scratch on his finger. The mother began helping her son when Wolf grabbed her 3-year-old daughter and forced her underwater,” the [CAIR] news release said.

The Euless Police Department confirmed to CNN Wolf posted bail out of Tarrant County Jail.

“The bond for the Attempted Capital Murder charge was $25,000. The bond for the Injury to a Child charge was $15,000,” Captain Brenda Alvarado told CNN.

Former President Donald Trump told a national gathering of Christian conservative activists Saturday not to let the secular left "silence" and "shame" them in a bid to keep them from voting, saying Christianity would be in "tatters" if President Joe Biden is reelected.

On Saturday, Trump addressed the Faith & Freedom Coalition's Road to Majority conference in Washington, D.C., encouraging attendees to do all they can to encourage fellow Christians to vote in the upcoming November election, bemoaning that not all Christians vote.

"We need Christians to turn out in the largest numbers ever to tell Crooked Joe Biden … 'Joe, you're fired,'" said Trump, the 2024 presumptive Republican nominee for president.

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Chuck Schumer's stance on illegal immigration in 2009

It is well said and I agree with it.

The anointed cherub in Ezekiel 28:14 is the created angelic being once in heaven, near the throne of God, who played instruments in the heavenly praise of God. Until, one day, he sought that same sort of praise to himself, being full of pride and beauty. And became Satan, the adversary against God and man, who God created also. The name Satan means "adversary".

The serpent in the garden that tricked Eve and Adam into sin by eating from the forbidden tree, was of the beasts of the field, i.e. beasts that God created. The serpent got his name as the serpent from Adam.

Genesis 3:19 And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.

20 And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.

So the most human-like beast of the field - Adam named as the serpent. Satan, the adversary to God and man, spoke through the serpent to get Eve and Adam to sin.

Revelation 12:9 documents the connection between Satan and the serpent beast. Both of which are deceivers.

9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

Satan:
The anointed cherub > sought to be worshiped himself and became Satan, the adversary > entered the serpent beast to deceive Eve and Adam to sin> became the power, the prince of the air > became the red dragon who sought to have baby Jesus killed > now goes about like a roaring lion seeking who he can destroy > will enter the man of sin to commit the transgression of desolation > will be cast down to earth from the second heaven > will then indwell the statue image of the beast-king > will be exposed on the temple mount that everyone will see him when Jesus returns > and will bound in chains and cast into the bottomless pit prison for a thousand years to be a terror no more.

the serpent:
The serpent beast, used by Satan in the garden of Eden, died and his spirit sent to the bottomless pit. Someday, as a disembodied spirit will be allowed to come out of the bottomless pit and possess the revealed man of sin, at the time the slain man of sin is brought back to life. The possessed returned to life man of sin is called the beast in Revelation 13.

the Antichrist:
The common name for the end times person of evil. He begins as the little horn person > then becomes the prince who shall come > then becomes the Antichrist > then becomes the revealed man of sin > then becomes the beast-king.

You:
a child of God, anyone who has been saved by believing upon Jesus, His death on the cross for atonement of your sins, and His resurrection, for eternal life, looking forward to the redemption of your body.

According to my current reading of the Bible using First-Order Logic, yes, homosexual acts are sinful. As usual, I could be wrong. FOL isn't the be-all and end-all. I am not a prophet of the Lord.

Leviticus 18:

22 You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.

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Leviticus 20:

13 If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.

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Romans 1:

26b For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; 27and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.

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1 Corinthians 6:

9 Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men [a] 10 nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

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NIV Footnotes: [a] The words men who have sex with men translate two Greek words that refer to the passive and active participants in homosexual acts.

1 Timothy 1:

9 We also know that the law is made not for the righteous but for lawbreakers and rebels, the ungodly and sinful, the unholy and irreligious, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers, 10 for the sexually immoral, for those practicing homosexuality, for slave traders and liars and perjurers—and for whatever else is contrary to the sound doctrine

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Jude 1:

7 In a similar way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion. They serve as an example of those who suffer the punishment of eternal fire.

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1 Corinthians 7:

2 But since sexual immorality is occurring, each man should have sexual relations with his own wife, and each woman with her own husband.

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Are homosexual acts sinful?

For each of the above passages, list the pros and cons factors. Be exhaustive and objective in listing the factors. Then, for each factor, assign a weight between 0 and 10. I would put a higher weight on Bible verses and a lower weight on extra-biblical writings. Try not to let your preconceived notions influence your weighting strategy. Do this for all the pros and cons of all the passages. Sum up the weights for the pros. Sum up the weights for the cons. Decide for yourself probabilistically.

I use Occam's razor hermeneutically when I interpret Bible verses. Some ad-hoc nuance can explain away each of the above passages as referring to a man having sex with a temple prostitute, or a man having sex with a boy, or men having sex with angelic beings, etc. However, there is a simple unifying explanation: it is talking about a man having sex with another man, consented or not. This simple explanation satisfies all seven passages nicely. To me, this simple unifying factor is worthy of a heavyweight.

In any case, a Christian needs to sympathize and empathize with gay people with the love of Christ.

Can a person call himself a Christian if he doesn't believe homosexuality is wrong?

Sure, some denominations don't believe that homosexuality is a sin. I have no authority to decide who is a Christian or not. If a person calls himself a Christian, I'll treat him as a fellow brother.

Will such a person inherit the new earth?

Some will, and some will not, like anyone who calls himself a Christian. God is the final judge, not I.

Are people born homosexuals?

Some are. Everyone is born with a tendency to sin one way or another. E.g., some men are born with the inclination to watch porn. Some like to get drunk. Some take drugs. Some can't control their eating habit. Some like to pray to Mary. Etc.

See also:

• Was lesbianism a sin?
• The concept of men having sex with men and the word for it
• Why is a homosexual act a sin when it hurts no one?
• How to treat LGBTQ+?

...be called a loose canon?

Hello and blessings, everyone;
My name is Cynthia, and I'm from Florida. I'm glad to be accepted on this forum. I'm a born-again Believer, seasoned, unmarried, with a mind to serve the Lord. I am learning to think outside the box, detaching from this world's matrix. I am looking forward to fellowshipping with many like-minded believers.

I would like to bring to your attention the following groups that are sort of borderline in terms of whiteness. Lets see what you think

Irish: Common sense tells us Irish are White, yet back in the past in the US they were considered non-white for some reason

Russians: Common sense says they are White, yet one might argue otherwise. They say Russia is part of Europe. But, geographically, majority of its territory is actually in Asia. Although its true that its population is more dense in its European part rather than Asian part. Politically, Russia isn't allied with Europe either. On the contrary, it is allied with various Asian, Middle Eastern and African countries, while it views the West as the enemy. But, interestingly enough, a lot of White Nationalists actually side with Russians in their conflict with Ukraine. Which makes it a bit of a twist since the very conflict that makes Russia look non-white (where it is opposed to the West and finds support in various African countries) is the exact thing that makes it look White (since it gets support from White Nationalists). Finally, genetically speaking, Russians are not fully white either, they have some Mongolian admixtures. However, let me be clear though: when I talk about "Russians" I am talking about people that are genetically Russian. So I am not discussing actual Mongols or other Asians that live in Russian territory, nor am I discussing people from Caucus or Siberia that happened to live in Russia either. I am talking strictly about ethnic Russians. And I suspect ethnic Russians might not be fully white genetically due to the interbreeding that resulted from Tatar-Mongol conquest. I read somewhere they might be something like 90% European and 10% Asian. However I also read that other European countries might have non-white admixtures too. So the key here is to compare and see if Russians have more non-white admixtures than others.

Non-Russian Slavs: In the political context discussed above, non-Russian slavs are all opposed Russia (in fact, even more vehemently so than US) so they would be "white" from this perspective. But it would be silly to say that they are different race from Russians since they are of the same (slavic) group. However, there is a nuance to this. Speaking of Asian admixtures mentioned above, I heard that Russians might have more of those admixtures than other Slavs. In particular, those admixtures came from Tatar-Mongol conquest and subsequent interbreeding, and this affected Russia-proper more so than other Slavic countries.

Ashkinazi Jews: Jews look White yet genetically they are Middle Eastern, and we don't normally regard Arabs as White. Which by the way makes it a bit interesting. Arabs have darker skin than Jews do, despite them both being Middle Eastern. I am not racist, so I apologize in advance for any misunderstanding. But I would have to refer to White Nationalists simply because they are the ones who give it the most thought, and a lot of them famously do NOT regard Jews as White (as exemplified by Stormfront) yet other White Nationalists do see Jews as White (as exemplified by American Renaissance). It is also interesting to compare Jews to Russians in terms of Whiteness. If you look at Stormfront, they regard Russians as White (they even have a section "Stormfront Russia") but they regard Jews as non-White (and view them as their main enemies). On the other hand, if you look at the politics, then Jews side with the West while Russia is against the West. The pro-Western opposition within Russia is largely Jewish, and this is one of the big contributting factors to Russian antisemitism. So if you look at it from this perspective, then Russian antisemitism can be seen as non-white hatred against whites (where Russians are being non-white while Jews are being white) especially if you notice how it is coupled to Russian alliances with various non-white countries. This is the exact opposite to what you would gather from "stormfront Russia" where Russians take up the role of Whites and Jews take up the role of non-whites. Finally, United Church of God believes that Jews are two southern tribes while Western Europeans are 10 Northern tribes, and they don't think Eastern Europeans or Russians are any of the tribes. So from this perspective, again, Jews would be "whiter" than Russian -- which again contradicts Stormfront that regards Russians as White but doesn't regard Jews as such.

Sephardic Jews: By some twist, some White nationalists hate Ashkinazi Jews but don't hate Sephardic Jews, despite the fact that Sephardic have darker skin than Ashkinazi. This is due to some genetic studies that claim that both non-Jewish Western Europeans and Sephardic Jews are Israelites, while Ashkinazi Jews are not.

Arabs: Normally one would assume Arabs are non-white, but in light of discussion about Jews this too might be more complicated than it seems. If one is of the opinion that Jews are White, and since Jews and Arabs share middle eastern ancestry, would Arabs we white too?

Iranians: I heard Iranians are not Arabs but instead they are of European stock that just happened to be in the area. In fact, the word Aryan comes from "Iranian" or something like that

Spaniards: On the one hand, Spain is part of Europe, but on the other hand they are considered Hispanic. However, I talked to Indian guy who told me that Spaniards have some African blood (just like other Hispanics do) so they are non-white in this respect.

Hispanics: Some people argue Hispanics are White (as exemplified by Spaniards) while others argue they are different race

Latino: Since Latino are distinct from Hispanic, perhaps its possible to argue that one of those two groups is white while the other isn't

Indians (as in, from India): I been talking to an Indian guy who told me he believes that Indians are genetically of the same stock as Europeans, while Chinese aren't. So Indians are "whiter" than Chinese, despite Chinese having lighter skin. He also told me that Spaniards have 10% African blood, while Indians don't have any African blood at all, which makes Indians "whiter" than Spaniards, again contrary to what skin color would tell you.

Chinese: Even though Chinese are clearly non-European, who is to say that White should be European and not Asian? Look at the word white: it refers to color. So if Chinese have white skin, why aren't they white?

If you are living outside the Will of God, ie committing adultery, no longer worshipping God, reading your bible, pursuing your own
will, hobbies, interests, having an interest in other religions, (ie Buddhism)
could God still bless you with winning awards and money and being recognised in the Art world?

I should start by saying, although I'm not a Catholic, I am a Christian who practices confession, probably being in a category of her own in a way (my gateway into Christ was an obscure book called The Mune Shinri, which is relatively random in terms of spiritual commentary). There exists a lot about me, from trivial traits that should have no bearing (hypergraphia for example, people are borderline superstitious about my communication habits), misconceptions about who I am, and past actions I've committed that inspire what one might call judgment towards me, often by other Christians, with the last thing being what I am judged for on the widest scale, with the misdeeds I'm associated with being the kind that one might expect a human being to have a "psychologically ingrained" inversion to, enough for it to be common to bring up interpretations of Matthew 18:6, even though I don't stand by the version of me they think I am.

If there is anything that I or scripture has perceived that I have inarguably done wrong to someone, I have apologized, and I've had long conversations about these in detail with priests/ministers/etc. and they seem to be understanding, even if they themselves are under pressure by public perceptions of honor. I go to a number of churches from a number of different groups because that's how the local community is combined with the denominational ambiguity which is just a part of me, so this doesn't just pertain to one group either. It's the populace part that intrigues me enough to consult about though.

Anywho, without actually naming the real/perceived misdeeds (except by demand), coming from a very relatively openly judging society, I have gone to confessions and spoken at length about the things people say they don't like about me. Doctrine would say I only have to do this once, but I often bring the same things up on many occasions because larger society invalidates these (a common recurring theme in my life being that those in charge don't mind me while commoners despise me), and it's well-known they invalidate any major apology I've ever given as well, even if the people I've actually apologized to have actually forgiven me (as in people are judging me based on feeling cheated via a sense of disgust it seems, as the people active in judging me are not any who have truly been affected in any classic sense by me).

There is what would be argued as being a weird recurring phenomenon as well, where I might explain to total strangers situations of mine, and they claim to understand, then the more gossipy among those who judge me (who often even make up things about me if they think other people are waning in their judgment) barely say two exaggerated words about my guilt, and suddenly the person who says they understand become one of the judgers, which demonstrates how utterly powerful the situation is over peoples' very cores. It is as if the words of the latter are taken as superior or that I am of lesser personhood, and if my social environments were one big courtroom, they don't ask me questions or present anything for support, they simply imply the deal is sealed and I am permanently evil.

I'm fully considerate that the people here are not like the people I experience, but elsewhere, I'm often told, even by brothers and sisters in Christ, that my past is the kind of past that, if forgiven by someone, that person's ethical standing is dubious. A priest once even was threatened by a whole mass of having his church abandoned forever based on positive, even neutral things he was going to imply about my past, and I could see in his eyes that his hand was forced to vaguely condemn me, though I was able to pretend he didn't have me in mind as I knew that "wasn't him", though that was at a church I've only ever gone to once due to being detoured by the Vermont floods last year, with many seeming to have hoped I didn't make it out of that (I was on the brink), as well as to imply I shouldn't be considered welcome among the sheep of the lord, which is the mindset that made me reflect on all of this, as we're all thinking "one of us has to go" in different senses of the words.

Jesus says he does not expect we would be successful in being like him, but when the power of populace pressure takes precedent over the purity of his ideal message and causes people to be so absolute, at least among the parts of the populace who do not violate Proverbs 6:16-20 and are simply people going by their own unimposing instincts, is there an overlap with grounds for mortal sinfulness/anathema, a call to educate, or is this a matter of acceptance of them, in which case I do not feel like a Christian surrounded by other Christians and get lost in of myself trying to comprehend that I might be even though I consciously know I am? This train of thought also loomed in my head when I was watching the recent new TV show Shogun, which takes place during the Portuguese Jesuit missions in Japan, with the people there having a reputation for being very in-tune with majority thinking, which I've heard compared with the idea of "following two masters", especially due to things like the bit about the priesthood above, while other people say condemnation of such a core aspect of humans is to be partial among God's many cultures if not also implying it implies the very act of anything resembling judgment is to be seen as under the microscope. In short, where is the burden placed, and what happens in response, considering pious incentive is at stake?

Internal documents obtained by AFL show the board characterizing “supporters of the former president” as constituting “most of the Domestic Terrorism threat” in the United States. The documents also classified traits such as having served “in the military” and being “religious” as “indicators of extremists and terrorism,” citing unnamed research. It is not shocking to me.

“I, as a taxpayer in this country, resent using the system for your own personal self-aggrandizement,” the Amazon Freevee “Judy Justice” personality said of Bragg.
She doesn't think Trump should have been president, but is honest enough to speak about the case objectively. In my opinion the witch hunt against Trump is election interference. Trump won't be able to speak about most of his case during the debates, and that's a violation of my right to hear what both candidates have to say--that's more election interference.

I know I might pizz off a few by this post but I'm going through some sheet again and two people in my life who I normally talk to about this, are sort of out of commission.

It's basically a "I'm alone the whole day looking at the walls and you went out to CHURCH" (church is only one hour of that day) and is cursing at me calling me a B and miserable person for leaving him alone and yet at the same time (though not in the same convo) he barks that I'm all alone in this world and doesn't know what to do about it. I also got groceries for him but he doesn't appreciate it, he's more biching about the church stuff instead saying "G D F church."

I feel like I'm losing my mind, or if I'm going crazy, wondering if I'm supposed to be treated like this. In case this sounds like the dumbest question of all time, I think when you're being "abused" you have to ask yourself if you're doing something to cause it.