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NxNW · 2025-10-24T16:53:14-0500

Chesterton said:
Not so much a flaw in logic. You're just very confused and confusing.

Feel free to elaborate. I made my point.

christianlloydteegardin · 2025-10-24T16:52:27-0500

bèlla said:
Welcome to the site. I’ll tag our resident philosopher so he can chime in. @2PhiloVoid is well informed.

Maybe you can channel your intellectual hunger towards more profitable pursuits. Curriculums are really popular and if you aren’t familiar with the trend you can reference my post.

What's on your mind? Friendship Court edition.

Regular family time? Eating dinner together? No, sorry, that's not the answer. I've already given a hint somewhere in this subforum.

www.christianforums.com

~bella

Thx!

Fervent · 2025-10-24T16:51:23-0500

bèlla said:
I thought you posted. Sorry, I had a blonder. ;-)

Bully evangelism? Gosh. That’s part of the reason I don’t make christian content. I don’t have the temperament for the extremes. Sometimes I peek on X and shake my head.

~bella

Yeah, that's understandable. I don't mind taking the risk, because I doubt I'll get any attention for my blog. Though I do keep my head down in church because of it.

NxNW · 2025-10-24T16:51:15-0500

HARK! said:
What bogus purchase?

Precious metals.

Richard T · 2025-10-24T16:42:51-0500

Valletta said:
Current intelligence is, as always, classified. The decisions are left up to the president and are reviewed by the oversight committees in Congress.

Given that the USA let the Ecuador citizen go back home, there must be a lack of intel on who is in the boats? If he were a narco-terrorist why let him go?

Yttrium · 2025-10-24T16:34:20-0500

I wanna see a video of a squadron of FA-18s taking out a drug smuggling boat. Make if for me, Donald.

Fervent · 2025-10-24T16:32:41-0500

bèlla said:
I suspect this has a lot to do with Kirk and how he interacted with students which has some asking the question. There’s a difference between doing that with someone familiar who respects you or your position and a stranger. His ‘results’ may compel some to adopt a similar approach which may be inappropriate. Have you seen this thread?

Is being a jerk a good evangelism strategy?

In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, there’s been a massive surge of his followers who have a newfound curiosity in what he was most passionate about — his faith in Jesus Christ. But I’ve been dismayed that at such a pivotal moment, with so many searching for answers, there are a...

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~bella

Possibly, and I agree. And yeah, I saw that thread and posted in it twice. It inspired me to write an article for my blog about bully evangelism.

wing2000 · 2025-10-24T16:30:36-0500

Oompa Loompa said:
Not necessarily. These trug cartels have been designated as terrorist organizations. Because we are technically fighting a global war on terrorism, these drug traffickers are legally enemy combatants. No different than US troops engaging the enemy on a battlefield. Would you expect Ukranians to capture a Russian convoy bringing ammunition to the front line and give them a trial, or would you expect them to send an artillery? I understand there has been a lot of political spin, but as long as enemy targets have been confirmed and are not on US soil, the president has the authority to use lethal force.

No one familiar with the laws of war accepts that interpretation.

Hazelelponi · 2025-10-24T16:27:27-0500

ThatRobGuy said:
...so there are people who want to see the faction that supported those things, have to face some of those consequences from their own playbook. As sort of "social retributive justice" of sorts.

You might enjoy this and while not exactly the topic is still the topic in general. I think there's some of what you said but there's actual principal too. There really are, in my opinion, things that are bridges too far.
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christianlloydteegardin · 2025-10-24T16:26:59-0500

SabbathBlessings said:
Yes, what we surround ourselves with and what we feed ourselves with has a lot to do with our thought process.

One of my favorite verses in the Bible

Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.

I just deleted my Discord. :satisfied:

Fervent · 2025-10-24T16:25:03-0500

bèlla said:
We’re really going backwards and comments like these shouldn’t be required. Why would someone try to minister through offense for a religion that prizes love? Who’d want to provoke a stranger in this climate with everything taking place? You may get more than you bargained for.

~bella

Yeah, though there can be a time when offending someone serves a pastoral purpose. Possibly to shock someone who is prideful, such as how Jesus called the pharisees "sons of the devil' and "sons of vipers" because of their religious chauvenism and their failure to attend to the basic duties that they were put into their offices to do like ensuring that the vulnerable members of society received care.

Oompa Loompa · 2025-10-24T16:24:27-0500

rebornfree said:
Okay, I can accept that surveillance showed that they were drug smugglers. Then arrest and prosecute, either in the USA or back in their home country. Surely everyone is entitled to a trial.

Not necessarily. These trug cartels have been designated as terrorist organizations. Because we are technically fighting a global war on terrorism, these drug traffickers are legally enemy combatants. No different than US troops engaging the enemy on a battlefield. Would you expect Ukranians to capture a Russian convoy bringing ammunition to the front line and give them a trial, or would you expect them to send an artillery? I understand there has been a lot of political spin, but as long as enemy targets have been confirmed and are not on US soil, the president has the authority to use lethal force.

Tinker Grey · 2025-10-24T16:23:19-0500

There's a stick from my yard that measured, with an electron microscope, to 1.7323459 meters. God did it!

Apple Sky · 2025-10-24T16:23:07-0500

Servus said:
Just wait until the oval office is torn down and replaced with a throne room.

He'll be needing one of these then ^_^

FenderTL5 · 2025-10-24T16:20:41-0500

It was a perfect metaphor for his Presidency and policies.

dumping on America

Fervent · 2025-10-24T16:18:13-0500

ralliann said:
Rudeness.

It goes beyond rudeness, it's callous and arrogant.

camille70 · 2025-10-24T16:13:28-0500

Democrats are fed up with ICE traumatizing kids at schools

Democrats are fed up with ICE traumatizing kids at schools

At least half a dozen Democratic senators, led by Tammy Duckworth of Illinois, are calling on the Department of Education to stop immigration raids near schools. The letter, which was sent on ...

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iluvatar5150 · 2025-10-24T16:12:38-0500

ralliann said:
News outlets.

Oh? Which news outlets? Got any links?

eclipsenow · 2025-10-24T16:10:09-0500

Tuur said:
The output change is in the range of tenths of a percent., maybe closer to around 1 tenth of a percent. The point is it isn't steady, and, as the hydrogen depletes will slowly grow hotter over just a few billion years before it becomes a red giant. At least, that's the current forecast, and no, that's not a joke.

My point in mentioning that is that it's not stable output. Someone with a keen eye might notice a difference in brightness of those old incandescent bulbs as voltage fluctuates within accepted levels. It's a slight change, but still a change. Even a slight change in solar output affects the energy a planet receives from the sun. It may be in the range of tenths of a percent, but it's still a change. It's not equilibrium.

But scientists have studied the sun? They understand the variations and they just do not account for the amount of warming the earth has experienced. That extra heat energy has to come from somewhere, right?

Check the IPCC on it. They've accounted for every forcing we know of. Analyzed, dissected, meditated on it even.

Joseph Fourier calculated how much warmer the earth was than the moon because of our atmosphere - about 200 years ago. Then Eunice Foote did her experiments with thermometers in 1856. Equal glass jars with the different gases in the same sun, and demonstrated that CO2 was a powerful greenhouse gas.

It's 127 years since Nobel Prize winner Svante Arrhenius developed the world's first model of what doubling CO2 would do to the earth's temperature.

The physics of CO2 was established old science when our grandparents were in kindergarten.

prodromos · 2025-10-24T16:09:55-0500

David Lamb said:
The obvious difference is that the ball is solid, whereas the part of the earth shown in the picture on the right is liquid sea.

Apart from the massive difference in scale (huge light source on the ball, really close to the ball vs the massive earth), it is a false comparison in so many ways but yes, the sea surface is not flat like a sheet of glass but is covered in waves, causing the long streak of reflected sunlight. If the earth were flat as @Apple Sky claims, then the sun's reflection would still not be a long streak.

Fervent · 2025-10-24T16:07:37-0500

JimR-OCDS said:
Has Trump declared himself King or prime ruler? No, he hasn't and he'll be out of office in three years and not allowed to run for president again.

He's posted pictures of himself with a crown and overstepped his authority time nd time again. That is, of course, leaving off the fact that after he lost the election last time around he tried to start an insurrection and prevent Biden from being sworn in.

JimR-OCDS said:
So, what are the no-Kings protests really about?

Over-reach of authority and acting as if he were a monarch.

ralliann · 2025-10-24T16:06:57-0500

Fervent said:
Sure, we shouldn't censor ourselves purely out of fear of offending someone. But that doesn't justify knowingly offending people for the sake of offending them.

Rudeness.

ralliann · 2025-10-24T16:05:52-0500

iluvatar5150 said:
Who is reporting these things and on what are they basing this reporting?

News outlets.

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