“For two years, the transparency and accountability that you promised to obsessively uphold during your inauguration has been nowhere to be found. The incompetence and failure within your administration cannot continue to be ignored when Americans’ health and safety are at risk. I hope you will change course in order to uphold your so-far-unmet promise to the American people by requesting the immediate resignation of Secretary Buttigieg,” he said.
You just can't believe that a federal agency in charge of disasters is not interested in helping people in dire need. I wonder whether it's because Ohio voted for Trump in 2020.

I am having doubts about this. Here is an article. Did God Hate Esau?
Read this article.

A giant cat has gotten so big it is now 4.27 feet long, the average height of a nine-year-old (1.3m).

The enormous Maine Coon has often been mistaken for a dog, leaving many people stunned.

Owner Natalie Bowman adopted Finn in 2017, when he was just three and half months old.

The cat’s stupendous size makes him an expensive pet to maintain.

Finn gets fed three or four times a day and Natalie spends $150 a month on his food.

The 32-year-old often walks Finn through their neighborhood on a leash, and he has now become a local celebrity.

“It’s really funny, they think he’s a dog, and then when they get closer they say oh my god it’s a cat and they love him.”

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Psalms 101:1-3 ESV


God is love and God is holy and righteous and pure, so love is holy and righteous and pure, if it comes from God. And justice is fairness, uprightness, righteousness, honesty, and integrity, and God is all these things in his character. And if we are in Christ, by God-given faith in him, then we are to take on the character of Christ, and we are to walk in his ways and in his truth. And so we are to be people of God who are honest and upright and morally pure and who walk in righteousness and holiness to the glory and praise of God.

And with regard to the word “blameless”, it means to be without blame. So, if we are in Christ, by God-given faith in him, and so we are walking (in practice, in conduct) according to the Spirit, and not according to the flesh, and if by the Spirit we are daily dying to sin and we are denying self and we are walking in obedience to our Lord, in practice, then we are without blame. But if we make a profession of faith in Christ and then we continue in deliberate and habitual sin, we are not blameless. For the Scriptures teach that living such a life will result in not entering into the kingdom of heaven.

Now, to walk with integrity of heart within our houses involves us being people, in character, who are honest, upright, and reliable (faithful), who honor God with our lives. And we are people who are who we say we are no matter where we are or who we are with. We are not one person out in public in front of an audience and then different when we are home in our comfort zone, and/or when we are alone with no one else looking. We are consistent in who we are and in what we practice day in and day out. We are not double-minded and we are not a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

We, as followers of Jesus, are not to set before our eyes anything that is worthless. And worthless is what is pure rubbish, junk, good for nothing, useless, ungodly, wicked, and destructive to our souls. For when we set before our eyes such things, we are also taking these things into our minds and hearts, so it is like garbage in and garbage out. For what we take into our minds and into our hearts influences our character, our attitudes, and our behaviors. But just the act of viewing such things, depending on what it is, can be a sinful and immoral act, such as in viewing pornography.

And so many people today who profess faith in Jesus Christ are filling their minds and hearts with such things because they are not guarding their minds and hearts against what is sinful and worthless and against what is pure garbage and what is immoral. But it isn’t just the content, though that is huge, but it is time spent on these things, too, that can be wasteful and useless and which may be sinful and against God, depending on the content. And that is time that could be better spent obeying and serving the Lord in doing his will for our lives and in doing things which are helpful to others.

[Matt 7:21-23; Matt 24:9-14; Lu 9:23-26; Rom 1:18-32; Rom 2:6-8; Rom 6:1-23; Rom 8:1-14,24; Rom 12:1-2; Rom 13:11; 1 Co 6:9-10,19-20; 2 Co 5:10,15,21; 1 Co 1:18; 1 Co 15:1-2; 2 Tim 1:8-9; Heb 9:28; 1 Pet 1:5; Gal 5:16-21; Gal 6:7-8; Eph 2:8-10; Eph 4:17-32; Eph 5:3-6; Col 1:21-23; Col 3:5-17; 1 Pet 2:24; Tit 2:11-14; 1 Jn 1:5-9; 1 Jn 2:3-6,24-25; 1 Jn 3:4-10; Heb 3:6,14-15; Heb 10:23-31; Heb 12:1-2; Rev 21:8,27; Rev 22:14-15]

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I Surrender All

Hymn lyrics by Judson W. Van De Venter, 1896
Music by Winfield S. Weeden, 1896

… Lo, we have left all, and have followed Thee. (Mark 10:28)

All to Jesus I surrender,
All to Him I freely give;
I will ever love and trust Him,
In His presence daily live.

All to Jesus I surrender,
Humbly at His feet I bow;
Worldly pleasures all forsaken,
Take me, Jesus, take me now.

All to Jesus I surrender,
Make me, Savior, wholly Thine;
Let me feel the Holy Spirit,
Truly know that Thou art mine.

All to Jesus I surrender,
Lord, I give myself to Thee;
Fill me with Thy love and power,
Let Thy blessing fall on me.

All to Jesus I surrender,
Now I feel the sacred flame;
Oh, the joy of full salvation!
Glory, glory, to His Name!

I surrender all,
I surrender all;
All to Thee, my blessed Savior,
I surrender all.

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About Wooyoung’s birth chart

I found Wooyoung’s birth chart on tumblr

[https://at.tumblr.com/rainy-astrolo...z-birth-chart-analysis-wooyoung/vv8ngoadjcve).

And I came across this: Mars Capricorn in 4th is a hardworking and protective placement. Mars Capricorn is exalted, so Woo definitely takes his work and responsibilities seriously. He may have felt responsible for his family at a young age (as most Capricorn in 4th house ppl do...) and matured earlier than most people. Mars in 4th makes him very protective of those he considers family (if i recall correctly, he said he would bite whoever upset Seonghwa lol. And honestly I can see it happening. He is not hesitant to call out whoever hurts ATEEZ). Do not mess with his loved ones.


I try my best to be respectful and friendly to his loved ones

people who are the kindest are the scariest. Wooyoung is scary when he’s angry. Wooyoung extremely loyal and takes no crap

When I meet Ateez in person maybe at Kcon in VIP, I’ll make sure to behave and be the friendliest and kindest person I can be in front of Wooyoung and for him.

What do you think?

A group of researchers has suggested the terms 'male' and 'female' should not be used in science because they assume sex is binary.

The recommendation is one of many made by the EEB (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology) Language Project, which includes scientists in the United States and Canada. Instead, they say more inclusive terminology like "sperm-producing" and "egg-producing" should be encouraged.

The term 'survival of the fittest' could also be considered offensive to people with disabilities, scientists have argued in the journal Trends in Ecology and Evolution. Terms like "invasive" or "non-native species" have "xenophobic, anti-immigrant and militaristic" connotations, they claim, and suggest inclusive alternatives like “newly-arrived” or “nuisance species”.

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There is a saying "give them an inch they take a yard". What was only suppose to be limited to social sphere has infected and starting to destroy the intellectual sphere. Wokeness is more of a religion at this point. There are taboo words and subjects that people cannot question. In comes the old blasphemy & less majeste dressed as progressiveness.

I now live in a world where authoritarian nations like China and Russia teach proper science and free democratic nations teach pseudo science. No wonder the younger generations of the west especially North America is no where near the top ten smartest people on earth. America is 20 and Canada is 16. With what is transpiring in the west I doubt North America nations will be in the top 20 for long.


Feelings should never interfere with truths. Unfortunately in the west wokeness is the new state religion. And like any state religion there is always a form of doctrinal supremacy enforced. You're all doing great ruining the future generations.

Cyclone Freddy looks like a very powerful storm!

I think I’ve hit it a few times by accident. It sort of pops in and out of every page you go to.

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Anyone been getting this as well?

The churches I visit normally keep their eschatology simple with a statement such as...

"We believe in the premillennial second coming of Jesus. First, to resurrect the righteous dead and to catch away the living saints to Him in the air. Second, to reign on the earth a thousand years."

And a chat on my views on eschatology with a preacher of that view will normally result in a simple, "Looking for Jesus" reply along with a smile. To get any heavier in Revelation is never fruitful so I rarely bring it up outside Christian web forums. Even on Christian forums the chats normally end up unproductive and one makes more enemies as it is rare to find Christians who have studied Revelation, church history and have arrived at the same conclusions. Folks will get angry at you for disagreeing with them and one creates more enemies than friends, To make a long story short a detailed view of Revelation often comes across as ego, as the Apostle says...

Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth. - 1 Corinthians 8:1

Spirituality... But I believe that a key to true spirituality is in the looking for the appearing of the Lord Jesus Christ...

Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure. - 1 John 3:2-3

11 For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,
12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; - Titus 2

1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. - Hebrews 12

A good man will continue to look unto Jesus and that hope to "see him as he is" is a sanctifying hope. A man heavily into eschatology seldom comes across as a charitable soul.

What do you think about the Salvation Army use of uniforms? What about other Christian sects that have a dress code?
Does clothing matter?

In Romans 9:1-18 Paul says: But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For they are not all Israel who are descended from Jacob; nor are they all children because they are Abraham’s descendants, but: “Through Isaac your descendants will be named.” That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as descendants.

In verses 1–5 he expresses his grief over the lostness of his kinsmen, the Jewish people. He says in verse 3, “I could wish that I myself were accursed, separated from Christ for the sake of my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh.” And what receives the emphasis in verses 4–5 is not that Israelites are Paul’s kinsmen but that they are God’s kinsmen. It says: They are Israelites, to whom belongs the adoption as sons, and the glory and the covenants. So the crisis in verses 1–5 is not only a personal one for Paul, it is a theological one all of us whose eternity hangs on God’s faithfulness. The crisis created in verses 1–5 is that ethnic Israel is God’s chosen, covenant people, and that most of them seem to be accursed and cut off from Christ and from salvation. Has God been faithful to his promises? If not, what are we hoping for?


We must keep in mind that this is the crisis Paul is dealing with. Israel is God’s chosen people and most of them are perishing, cut off from the Savior, Jesus Christ. And the reason it is a crisis for you, and not just for Jews, is that, if God’s promises to Israel do not hold true, then there is no reason to think his promises to you will hold true. The rock solid security of God’s Christian elect in Romans 8:33 Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies!. This security that we exult in, at the heart of our faith, is worthless if God proves unfaithful to his covenant people. If God does not keep his promises to Israel, will he keep the promises he makes to us Christians?

But it is not as though the word of God has failed. That is Paul’s assertion against the crisis described in verses 1–5. Yes, it is true that many in the covenant people are accursed and cut off from Christ, and yes it is true that God chose Israel and made a covenant with her and gave her promises, but, no, it is not true that the word of God has failed. That is Paul’s assertion.

But everything else through this chapter, and indeed almost everything through the next three chapters, is an argument or a support for this assertion. And so keep in mind as we see in this chapter that some of the clearest and most forceful statements in the Bible about unconditional election and the sovereignty of God in salvation are made here to prove God’s faithfulness to his promises.


Now then, what is Paul’s argument in support of God’s faithfulness? How can he say that the word of God has not failed even though many Israelites are accursed and cut off from Christ? He states his answer three times in verses 6–9 and gives two Old Testament quotations to support it.

First, in verse 6b he says, For they are not all Israel who are descended from Israel. In other words, Paul’s argument is that the promises of God always hold true for the true Israel, the spiritual Israel, but not all ethnic Israel is true Israel. The fact is: there is an Israel of God, His saving promises are made to them, the ‘set apart people’ and these promises have never failed.

Second, in verse 7a he says it a little differently, but makes the same point: Nor are they all children because they are Abraham’s descendants. In other words, he is distinguishing here between two kinds of “children” – there are all of Abraham’s descendants, and there is a group within that number whom he calls here “the children,” or we could say, “the true children” since the others are physical children also. The truth is that the promises of God hold true for the true children of Abraham but not for every descendant of Abraham. So in verse 6 he says that not all Israel is Israel, and in verse 7 he says that not all the children of Abraham are God’s children. The word of God has not failed, because it was meant for the true Israel, the true Spiritual children, and it has never failed any of them.

Third, in verse 8 Paul states the argument a third time in more general terms without naming Israel or Abraham so that we see the principle involved. That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are regarded as descendants.

This, he says again, is why the word of God has not failed –why the promises of God have not failed – even though many of Israelites according to the flesh are accursed and cut off from Christ. It’s because the promises are for the children of promise – the children of God – and not every child of Israelite flesh is a child of promise.

And when he then says that these “children of God” are “children of promise,” he means that they have their spiritual position not because of their physical connections, but because of God’s effective promise. The promise produced the position.

Now we need to look at Paul’s Old Testament support for this. But first remember that we have seen three different statements of Paul as to why the word of God to Israel has not failed:

Verse 6b: They are not all Israel who are descended from Israel.

Verse 7a: Nor are they all children because they are Abraham’s descendants.

Verse 8: It is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are regarded as descendants.

That is why the word of God has not failed even though so many Israelites are lost and cut off from Christ. They were not true Israelites. They were not true children of Abraham. They were children of the flesh but not children of promise, that is, children of God.

Where does Paul find the idea that the promise of God is not simply for every Israelite, but for those who are children of promise? And what does that mean – children of promise?

Paul gives two illustrations in verses 6–9 and in verses 10–13: The children of Abraham and Sarah and the children of Isaac and Rebecca. After Paul says: Nor are they true children because they are Abraham’s descendants, he quotes Genesis 21:12 Through Isaac your descendants will be named. Even though you have an older son, Ishmael, he will not be the heir of the promise.

Then Paul quotes Malachi 1:2-3…Jacob I love and Esau I hate….

So, again, it is God’s choice that dictates the line of the Promise.
I make the promise, God says. And I bring it to pass. My promises are not predictions of what may come about with your help. My promises are declarations of what I intend to bring about by my sovereign power. I will come, and Sarah shall have a son.

So what is a child of promise, a child of God? A child of promise is the recipient of God’s saving grace, not because of ethnic origin or physical birth, or of any human action, only because of God’s sovereign Word. The birth of Isaac is a picture of how every child of God spiritually comes into being. The decisive work is God’s work. Not Abraham’s and not Isaac’s and not ours. Only God’s choice. John 15:16

What then is the answer to the crisis of verses 1–5: Has the word of God failed because many Jews are accursed and cut off from Christ? Have the promises of God come to naught? The answer is no.

The reason Paul gives three times is that the promise of God itself accomplishes its purpose, and that purpose is to gain for Himself a righteous holy people, who will live in all of the holy Land as His witnesses, Isaiah 43:10 and be the Light to the nations, Isaiah 49:8, as He always intended.

Ezekiel 20:38 says how God will take the ethnic Israelites out of the nations where they now live, judge them and only the righteous, joined by every other true Christian believer, will enter the holy Land. Isaiah 35:1-10

The way God brings into being His true Israel is, finally by sending his Son, Jesus Christ, as the true Seed of Abraham, the Son of David, and, in the deepest sense, Israel Himself. And now every person, Jew or Gentile, who trusts in Christ, is united to him and becomes part of God’s true Israel in Christ. And that Israel includes people from every tribe, race, nation and language. Isaiah 66:18b, 1 Peter 2:9-10, Revelation 7:9

Ref: John Piper

One verse does not establish a fact. One phrase within a verse does not establish anything. Other verses always back up anything that we are to accept as a fact! There is only one exception to this rule. Some verses teach about God's sovereignty and can stand alone, 2Chron 20:6, Psalm 115:3, Psalm 135:6, Ecc 3:19, Dan 4:35, Job 13:13, and Is 14:24. But, the doctrine of God's sovereignty is also shown through many other verses, showing that in Scripture, other verses are always used to establish doctrines, or are found as a part of the Jewish culture and history.
English translations are not accurate word-for-word translations of Scripture. No two English translations are exact duplicates of each other. There are English translations that have added verses not found in any original text and other English translations that have removed words and verses from original texts. And others that have changed the original text. Anything found in the New Testament can always be referenced by the same or similar teaching in the Old.

In English translations, 2Pet 2:5 states that Noah was a "preacher of righteousness." You have to ask yourself, "Why is that said?" Why is that part of the verse, and to what Old Testament passage or example is Peter referring? Nowhere in the Old Testament do we see Noah "preaching" to anybody! In all of Scripture, there is only one example of "preaching righteousness," Psalm 40:9. How many hundreds of years between Noah and the Psalms being written? No other person is called a "preacher of righteousness. This phrase is only found once in English translations. I'll say it again, just because something is said in a translation doesn't mean it is true or found in the original Scripture. "Preaching righteousness" is not a theme or practice in Scripture.
There were no "preachers" in Noah's day. The English word "preacher" isn't used until the book of Ecclesiastes, and even there, the word is an incorrect translation of the Hebrew word qoheleth. The practice of "preaching" is not found in Scripture until we reach the Gospels. Preaching is teaching/proclaiming Scripture. There was no Scripture, God's written word, in the days of Noah.

We don't see Jehovah commanding Noah to "preach" anything. Noah wasn't a prophet foretelling the coming disaster. Let's look at what Scripture says.

Gen 6:5-7 "...And the LORD said I will destroy man...from the face of the earth..."

Pretty simple, Jehovah said He was going to destroy man, all of mankind.

Gen 6:8-9 But Noah found Grace in the eyes of the LORD. Noah was a just man, blameless among the people, and he walked with God.

Gen 6:13 And God told Noah, "The end of all flesh is come before me...behold I will destroy them with the earth."

Gen 6:17 "...And I will bring a flood upon the earth to destroy all flesh...everything in the earth shall die."

Gen 6:18 But with you, Noah, I will establish my covenant. And you, your wife, your sons, and their wives will go into the ark.

When Jehovah gave Noah instructions for building the ark, He didn't mention having extra space for anyone on the earth who would repent and go into the ark. Jehovah was specific about the number of people who would enter the ark. He didn't add, "and anybody who repents." We see three times Jehovah where He stated that He was going to destroy all people on the earth.
From the end of chapter 6, until Noah enters the ark, 100-120 years pass. To build the massive ark, using only hand tools, would have taken long days of constant work. As far as we know, Noah only had his three sons to help him. When would Noah have had any time to walk around the people "preaching righteousness?" Righteousness means to live right and do the right things. How would preaching righteousness have helped people Jehovah clearly stated He was going to destroy? Preaching righteousness does not mean preaching repentance. Preaching righteousness would have nothing to do with warning people about the coming flood. Where do you see Noah spending time preaching? Jehovah had told Noah three times He was going to destroy all people. Why would Noah waste any time on a lost cause? If Noah had "preached repentance," doesn't it make sense that Peter would have said that Noah was a "preacher of repentance?" If the Old Testament showed Noah being a "preacher of righteousness," I wouldn't be doing this study. I base what I study and believe on what I find in Scripture, not a tradition of man, not popular Evangelical teaching.
Let me debunk another lie. Where do we see Noah being mocked by people? We don't see Noah having even one conversation with another person while he built the ark. It would have been impossible to keep other people from being aware of the ark being built due to its size and the time frame. How is it that we don't see any interference with the construction? I have no doubt God kept the wicked, violent people from being able to see the ark. Knowing people, there is no doubt that evil people would have burned up the ark if they had seen it or even killed Noah and his family. In Mat 24:37-39, Jesus said the people on the earth were unaware of the coming flood.

Gen 7:1 Jehovah instructs Noah and his house to enter the ark.

Gen 7:4 Jehovah repeats that He is going to destroy all people in the flood.

Gen 7:16 God shuts the door.

Some may think that the flood was some gradual rising of the water. Gen 7:11 describes a great onslaught of water from the ground and the sky. The amount of water was so great that all of the people and animals on the face of the earth were underwater in minutes, instantly drowned, like a tsunami. There wouldn't have been any time for people to try and climb up on anything to escape the "slowly rising water." The flood caught them completely off guard.

This wasn't the only time Jehovah sent sudden destruction upon people without warning. When He drowned Pharoah's army, Sodom and Gomorrah, and when the walls of Jericho came crashing down. We know that Noah was righteous in Jehovah's eyes, Gen 7:1, Eze 14:14, 20. There are three possible reasons why we find the phrase "a preacher of righteousness" in 2Pet 2:5:

1 At some point, a person making a copy of a Greek text added the phrase. Others then copied the altered copy, and it was accepted as a part of the original text over time. This is what I believe happened. Since there is no reference to a "preacher of righteousness" anywhere in Scripture, it would make sense if Peter had written "a righteous man," which would have referenced the Old Testament.

2 There are a number of extrabiblical writings that state that Noah preached to people. Perhaps Peter was aware of this and decided to include it. But, extrabiblical literature was not included in the Canon for a reason.

3 It's possible that Peter used the phrase as a metaphor for describing how Noah was a preacher of righteousness by how he lived his life.

Rep. Erin Healy's tweet was bombarded with social science literature.

PIERRE, South Dakota (LifeSiteNews) — A Democrat lawmaker in South Dakota is under fire for declaring it “dangerous” and “un-American” to believe that children should have both a mother and a father.

On Monday, State Rep. Erin Healy tweeted, “Extremist group Family Heritage Alliance said this morning that the safest place for kids are in families that have a married mom and dad. What a dangerous and un-American belief,” apparently in reaction to comments against an unsuccessful bill to remove sex-specific language from South Dakota’s legal definition of marriage.

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How does one wire Electric Motors? I have tried in the past and caused fires. I only wire them outside so I can walk away and pretend, I did not start another fire.

Happening now at a College from what I've gathered. Thoughts?

Live link on YouTube:

Is this true? Should not "Rejected" been rubber stamped on this ridiculous lawsuit before it hits the Supreme Court?

The Supreme Court declined to consider the lawsuit on January 9, but the plaintiff, Raland Brunson, filed an appeal on January 23. Now, the court has to reconsider whether or not to hear the case, according to an update on the SCOTUS' website that read that the lawsuit was "distributed for conference" on Friday.
How much "reconsideration" should it take to decide that there is no possible reason that Biden should be removed and Trump reinstated? Has this not been investigated and studied and litigated and relitigated as the potential indictments and lawsuits and criminal charges pile up?

In addition, it gives the insurrectionists and most irrational of his supporters "hope" and keeps them in an agitated and potentially dangerous frame of mind.

Top House Republicans are exploring significant changes to the nation’s food stamps program, including benefit cuts and stricter work requirements, as some in the new majority scramble for ways to slash government spending this year.

The emerging GOP campaign arrives at a pivotal moment for the nutrition program, which is set to cease providing emergency pandemic payments this March. Congress terminated the allotments as part of a $1.7 trillion deal to fund the government reached at the end of last year, though some states — including Arizona, Florida and Mississippi — already had returned SNAP benefits to their normal amounts. [But some in the GOP are looking to cut even more.]

A key federal law that authorizes agricultural subsidies and nutrition programs including SNAP is set to expire at the end of September. Lawmakers must approve some sort of extension before Oct. 1, or enact a newer version of the measure, known colloquially in the Capitol as the “farm bill.” Otherwise, millions of farmers and families alike could experience significant economic disruptions this fall.

Firing an early warning shot, a group of five conservatives led by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) last week cited the country’s “untenable” debt levels as they called for new “work requirements as a feature of welfare reform.” They specifically pointed to the need to make “structural reforms of SNAP,” saying such rules would restore “dignity” for beneficiaries.

So now that Fox News anchors admitted in court that they knew what they were saying on the news was a lie but they "didn't want to alienate their audience", we can communally, disavow them as a news network right? Or are we just gonna focus on the SPECIFIC anchors who testified?
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/16/1157558299/fox-news-stars-false-claims-trump-election-2020

Because between them and Tucker "any reasonable person would know you can't trust" Carlson, I would hope to not see news stories featuring these journalistscelebrities.

And yes, I know "CNN DOES IT TOO". Well I "know that". But I don't "they testified under oath and that leads their integrity to come into question" know that.

I'm just curious, I think we're more familiar with Mardis Gras than Shrove Tuesday but they're both pre-Ash Wednesday celebrations. It usually involves going to confession, locking in what your Lenten sacrifice will be and PANCAKES!

I'm curious if it's a tradition for anyone here...

Va. elementary school hosts first After School Satan Club meeting.

America First Republicans now control local party leadership in more than half of Michigan's 83 counties, a senior party official estimated, paving the way for an important victory on Saturday when an election denier is expected to be elected to state party chair.

Jon Smith, a local leader in rural Michigan of America First, a far-right Republican faction that denies the results of the 2020 election, wants to shift the entire party to the right - even if it means short-term losses at the ballot box. "We need to redefine what it means to be a Republican," he said in an interview.

In pursuit of that aim, Smith and other hardliners deployed armed guards to bar moderate delegates from a county meeting last August, threatening to bring criminal trespassing charges against them, according to an email to the moderates seen by Reuters.

Last July, the far-right faction adopted a resolution to "protect the party from a hostile takeover of actors with intent to dilute or destroy the values of the party," voting to expel 70 moderates. The resolution, which Reuters has seen, claimed the party had been "infiltrated" in the 1970s by members who practice socialism.

"To me, this is like a coup of the Republican Party," said Penny Swan, who joined the moderates after seeing the armed guards at the August meeting. "It's like the radical right is trying take over."

I live in Kentucky. I started working at my job in June 2018 and starting in January of 2020 a man came up to me out of the blue and told me “Jesus loves you”. And I had a handful of strangers talk to me about Jesus. They brought Him up first. I didn’t. It seems to me with most of those strangers is that God prompted them to. Any thoughts? I have been seeking God as well.

Hi everyone, I would greatly appreciate your prayers. I am in severe pain right now in my foot and lower back and also my leg, I believe this pain is due to a reaction to a supplement I am taking but I am taking a huge cocktail of supplements and I have no idea which one is causing it. I also have a headache and and sick to my stomach, also I am in distress mentally and God heals me but then it just comes right back, sometimes within minutes. There are also other things wrong with me, I am very ill.

To keep a good eye on the scope of the problem, I'd like to see this thread reporting incidents of sexual misconduct against minors so we can see the data.

Florida Deacon Sentenced for Producing Child Porn in Church

I don't think we want to be going too deep in history (my first quick research shows the last drag queen attack reported was last year summer)....so please share here anything you hear about from the beginning of February 2023 until, let's say end of April. Let's compare which demographic is a greater propagator of sex crimes against children during this time frame.


JUST to be clear: I would only be sharing christians IN CHURCH LEADERSHIP positions. There are probably many other christians who perpetrate but are not in leadership positions. I think that would also give a slightly better comparison of populations; There are a LOT of Christians in American but FAR fewer of those people are in leadership positions.

Hello,
My previous post, "Will We Ever Get Past This?" got moved to Face the Board, but this post is related to that if anyone wants context.

I am not sure what to do in my relationship with my boyfriend. I showed him the post I made, how I was feeling so guilty about our sin 6 months ago. He reiterated that he's trying to forgive but it takes time. He also said that he has a lot of external factors in his life that is making it hard to think about this issue and work through it (ie job struggles).

Also, I had had an outburst last Thursday, and long story short he told me then that he wasn't sure if he should stay with me, because I need to work on being content in my current situation (its been almost 11 months and i want to marry him, and ive mentioned this months ago, but he said recently he's nowhere near being ready as he's not sure about me). I called my parents after, and my father instructed me to not wallow in self pity, but to know that I've been told what to work on, and now I need to work on it. So I've been trying to do that.

And my boyfriend is still with me. He's been nice to me, we went swimming 2 days after that night, and have been getting along. But he says he still needs to process my outburst from last week. He says right now he wants to be in a relationship, but I feel as though I've given him an essay that I'm waiting for him to review and grade.

So I asked if I could just have this weekend pretty much to myself. I want him to prioritize processesing what happened and I want to just clear the air and move forward... or break up. I just don't want to be in limbo.

What do I do? What do I ask him to do? Do I ask him to prioritize processing what happened and prioritize fixing our relationship? Do I just keep quiet and see what happens?