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rambot · Sep 6, 2025

Help me understand why all nations should abide by international rules except the United States.

I'm just having trouble grasping that level of American Exceptionality. How come other countries with drug problems are obliged to abide by those agreements but the US is not.

BassLine · Sep 6, 2025

stevevw said:
Yes its a strange thing that some of these great artist die young and often through self inflicted lives. Look at Kurt Kobain who I think was also like a reincarnation of an old blues singer at heart. But really pioneered a new kind of music that represented his generation.

Or of course the classic icon of artistic music in Jim Morrison. Who actually was an arty academic and a poet before a muso. Though his rantings became wierd in the end lol. But each captured a time well for what it was.

I think it was partly because they died young and lived on the edge is what gave them that edge and their downfall. They became their lyrics or were their lyrics.

Yes, sometimes an artist can disappear into the world they sing about. The best ones draw from what they’ve seen or lived, their songs communicating what they feel.

timothyu · Sep 6, 2025

Like Jesus would care about a worldly country when He clearly told us what His priorities are. Institutionalized Christianity sold out and destroyed itself when it tried to make Rome great again. We humans for 2000 years are not even capable of making the Kingdom great again, although a few try. The politics of man is a joke, and so is our attempts at religion which always turns worldly in nature. Self interest is the true religion of man, as that poster shows.

Larniavc · Sep 6, 2025

RocksInMyHead said:
Trump ordered a strike in Yemen that killed an 8-year-old girl who was an American citizen.

How do you know that Trump did not retroactively label her as a terrorist with his mind?

pastorwaris · Sep 6, 2025

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I am Pastor Waris from Pakistan. I usually do not write such posts here, but today I feel it is my duty to share the real and urgent situation of my community.

Pakistan is facing severe floods again. These floods have destroyed houses, villages, and basic infrastructure. Families have lost their homes, cattle, and livelihoods. Many Christians, already living in poverty, slum areas, and under daily discrimination, are now left homeless and without food, clean water, or clothing. Winter season is only weeks away, and the situation is alarming. Children, women, and elderly people are suffering the most. Issues of child protection, abuse of young Christian girls, and health crises are increasing day by day in the flood-hit areas.

Our Christian community in Pakistan already faces many challenges: poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, lack of clean water, and persecution through blasphemy accusations and discrimination in daily life. Now this natural disaster has added to their suffering. The slum areas where many Christians live have been badly damaged, and they are crying out for emergency shelter, food, medical care, and clothes.

I am not writing this for myself but for the sake of the marginalized Christian community in Pakistan. As a pastor, I believe it is my duty to report and make you aware of what is happening here. This is an emergency situation. I humbly request all forum members and the respected administrative team to please keep our Christian community and others affected in your prayers. If God puts it in your heart to support in any way, please consider doing so for the sake of humanity and our unity in Christ.

The Bible teaches us that we are one in the blood of Jesus Christ. When one part of the body suffers, we all suffer. Today, our community is in deep pain. Please feel that pain with us, stand with us, and pray for us.

In Christ,
Pastor Waris

childeye 2 · Sep 6, 2025

Fervent said:
There's a difference between entertaining questions and thinking your beliefs are false.

The way I see it, if I or someone else is questioning their beliefs, we're at least considering we could be wrong.

Fervent said:
And constantly questioning isn't exactly a productive exercise, since if someone truly engages with it they'll either end up paralyzed and unable to believe anything, or throw up their hands and become a nihliist.

I agree equivocating back and forth between absolutes is unproductive, but it doesn't mean there is no fixed point whereby we can navigate. On the contrary it denotes that there is. Thats why your statement is itself circular reasoning. For example, if it were true that we can't discern truth, that would still be the truth.

Light carries information, darkness doesn't. Therefore, if I am correct in believing that reality dictates what is factually meaningful, then it would be wrong to believe reality is meaningless.

Fervent said:
Though if they could offer an unproblematic solution to Munchaussen's trilemma, they'd likey win some sort of award, whatever awards there are for philosophy/epistemology.

I study semantics particular to psycholinguistics. There is an unproblematic solution. ---> Whatever is Eternal existed before whatever is false.

See this below is from another post:

We project bias in the absence of proof. The question 'Why?' is eternally regressive. So, without axioms there can be no logic nor mathematics. This is an axiom ---> Something is true. Another axiom --->something is false. True/false is a fundamental dichotomy.

Fact --->What is True precedes a lie in existence because the lie only exists to undermine what is true.. Positive/negative is therefore a cycle of energy. <--- This is important for sound reasoning when discerning positive from negative.

We therefore can conduct "Subjective semantic analysis" applying objectively true dichotomies. ---> Positive prejudice vs. negative prejudice, Trust/distrust, Reasonable/unreasonable. ---> Hence, it's reasonable to presume someone is innocent until proven guilty and it's unreasonable to presume someone is guilty until proven innocent.

FreeinChrist · Sep 6, 2025

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/09/06/trump-policies-recession-fears-golden-age/

Some golden age.

Job growth is weak. Inflation is strong. The outlook is deteriorating. And the headwinds are blowing from Washington, D.C.

Whether you blame President Donald Trump’s unorthodox tariff and immigration policies or a slow-footed Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell, the federal government is not doing the economy any favors these days.

The United States began the year having grown at an annual rate of 2.4 percent in the final three months of 2024. Hiring was robust: employers added 323,000 jobs in December.

Fast forward to today and the news is less cheery. On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said the economy added only 22,000 jobs in August, meaning the labor market has basically stalled since the president kicked off his historic “Liberation Day” tariff offensive in April. Some on Wall Street are mulling the likelihood of a recession.

Wolseley · Sep 6, 2025

jamiec said:
Short of suggesting that God’s Love is a fiction - which is what I usually think - there seem to be at least two other possibilities:

1) When speaking of God, what human beings understand by attributes such as Goodness & Truth & Love bears no relation to what those attributes might be in God; God’s “idea“ of a circle might be what among us is a polyhedron, or even a chicken, or something else even less like a circle;
- and, it could be that God‘s “idea” of good, is what we would think of as evil.

Either way, it could be that the notion of goodness among humans is completely useless as a guide to indicating what God judges to be good. IOW, God is ultimately completely unknowable, and revelation is impossible.

Or:

2) God’s Love is real, but, the word falls so far short of the reality that it is of little use as a guide to it. Because there is “far more to” God’s Love - and thus, to God - than can possibly be conveyed by the word or the concept.

Since suffering is a fact, that cannot be trivialised, my guess is that there is no intellectual answer. Some things cannot be known by being reasoned about; human relationships are encounters between persons, not between a person‘s thinking, and what he is thinking of. Reason alone is not adequate to account for human relationships, though it is not of no importance in them. We know people by the act and state of knowing them; just as we swim by swimming, and not by studying swimming, or by thinking about swimming. Human relationships are, so to speak, a form of human personality in practice, & not simply in theory.

I think that coping with suffering is so intimately & irreducibly personal, and even private, that an intellectual answer to it would be useless, & perhaps an impertinence, a piece of all too glib & superficial bad taste. I think God gets round these difficulties, by sharing in the suffering of creatures; and by using and transforming & transnaturalising it, and by redeeming it. And by living it out through human beings, especially in His Church, which is His Body. I don’t think there is an “answer” to “the problem of suffering”, except Christ Crucified and Raised and Ascended.

Why not get rid of suffering entirely; perhaps by never allowing it to arise in the first place ? I think there are several answers to this, none of which is the only possible one.

1) Maybe some goods cannot come to be, unless suffering is allowed as well.
2) Maybe some evils are evil, not in themselves, but from the POV of some, but not all, who encounter them. Among these would be evils that are misused goods.
3) I think there is something to be said for the idea that an evil can be an uncompleted good - that would apply to something such as the imprisonment of Joseph in the Book of Genesis. The theological point stands, even if the story is fiction.

One must of course be very wary of falling into the trap of justifying enormities, however unintentionally.

Maybe I just haven't had enough coffee yet this morning, but I think interpreting that ^^^ is a little over my pay grade......

Larniavc · Sep 6, 2025

essentialsaltes said:
We are protesting what appear to be extrajudicial killings. One again, under the Constitution, no person is to be deprived of due process.

Silly goose! Once the administration has identified someone or someones as the 'bad guys' they can be killed at will.

BelieveItOarKnot · Sep 6, 2025

honey badger said:
not so ... we just view him through the lens of the scriptures ... you see when you hold to a truth this truth you hold to becomes an idol

You are what you think?

What happens when you think honestly?

In any case people do not control the mind of the tempter. It is what it is, not you.

honey badger said:
much like when you say Jesus is the son of God in view that only he is the only son and by default not yourself ... in this thinking Jesus is now an idol to you

The Spirit of Christ lives in us

Doesn't mean it eradicates evil present

honey badger said:
as in its true he is the son of God but then so are we ... you see if you don't see yourself as the son of God and by being his son equal to him then this mind in you is anti-Christ\Truth ...l

You're doing no more than thought conjuring an idol as well at the expense of excusing and covering up for the tempter

IF there weren't parties in people other than the people you'd have a case. But that's never been the case

honey badger said:
also you condemn people

You still can't even manage to get TWO parties on the table

People and devils

honey badger said:
who don't hold to your perception not knowing that for example both Aseyesee and myself believe that we all like a lamb innocent of the sacrifice and therefor the one which is lost never was ...

Yeah whatever. Such sights are one sided and void, just like all who deny they have sin and their sin is of the devil

Everyone has their infection. You're exemption claims are just another voice of hypocrisy claiming you're better just because you think so

Show discipleship by hatred of your own life

Show discipleship by calling yourself an unprofitable servants

These are just the first step through the door and half of you both will never get thru

rambot · Sep 6, 2025

prodromos said:
You don't need to. ObObama.

And how did the right react to that?

rambot · Sep 6, 2025

ozso said:
Probably because I can't stand Trump ads, much less emails.

What's wrong with them? Seems like regular ads feom what I've seen..

PTW · Sep 6, 2025

Troops

rambot · Sep 6, 2025

Here's a question. If America is so great why can't they win within the bounds of the law?

Like trump and golf. If he's so great and wins tournaments why does he have such a reputation for being a flagrant cheat in golf?

Because for Trump, it seems that's the only way he can ever win.

dlamberth · Sep 6, 2025

AV1611VET said:
Prior to the Fall, they were both 24.0000000000 hours.

After the Fall, they parted ways.

Could you explain exactly how the Fall has anything to do with any of this.

BassLine · Sep 6, 2025

stevevw said:
One more thing. I reckon the best chance of seeing a music artist who is reflecting the culture today is busking on the streets. Many are never commercialised but boy there are some good musos out there. I think the basic quality is believability.

Even if the voice is not the best like Dylans. Its an embodiment of life in music. But also these musicians express themselves through the music as opposed to art or literature. They are not just playing the tune but living it I think.

Sorry but music is my thing lol.

Yes, you can still find creative musos out busking, playing in local bars, or at Jam sessions, open mics, and song circles.

boughtwithaprice · Sep 6, 2025

Lady Bug said:
I'm very sensitive to anything I perceive as melancholy or eerie.

There is also the fact that demons hate Gregorian Chant. I would say play the song as much as possible till it does not hurt anymore
If you cringe at that song, and treat it as an aversion, the demons know what feelings to use to get you to stay away from something.
If that is true, you may find those feelings of pain with this song appearing in unrelated situations.
If not then it is just the mood of the song that grieves you and not what the words are meant to project.
Either way, whenever we have bad feelings and can’t understand why, it is good to try and figure it out

Also take the time to pray and ask God, remember to say Jesus, I trust in you.

The Barbarian · Sep 6, 2025

stevevw said:
Or of course the classic icon of artistic music in Jim Morrison. Who actually was an arty academic and a poet before a muso. Though his rantings became wierd in the end lol. But each captured a time well for what it was.

I think it was partly because they died young and lived on the edge is what gave them that edge and their downfall. They became their lyrics or were their lyrics.

And then the movie, with Val Kilmer, who was perfect for the role, riding the same highway in his own way.

The Barbarian · Sep 6, 2025

bèlla said:
We’ve entered a period where political correctness is beginning to fracture and the truth is coming forth. Whether we like it or not.

It's no longer dangerous for a public figure to express anger at an institution that says slavery is bad. That's America today.

The Barbarian · Sep 6, 2025

AFrazier said:
I didn't disagree with this. The point being made was that I don't have the information in front of me to know if the plants in question had the same similarities. let's not forget that proponents of evolution will readily take the tooth of a pig and build an entire psuedo-human skeleton out of it just to prove their point.

No. Never happened. That was a British popular magazine story; no scientists involved. Would you like to hear the real story, and how scientists solved the question? Wasn't actually a pig, BTW.

YECs peddled the um, "enhanced" story. And most people who accept the fact of evolution are theists of some kind, mostly Christian. Would you like to see what we know about that?

Chesterton · Sep 6, 2025

A Venezuelan drug ship

2404 · Sep 6, 2025

We have all probably read of cases where individuals have entered into personal relationships with Open AI sources and were lead off into a fantasy world where the mind was altered causing abnormal behavior. Some victims were saved by counter balancing feed back from 'outside' sources such as family or significant others. Said all that to say that AI is still in it's infancy what happens when it becomes the norm? This brings us back to where we need to focus on what scripture says about us and keep all other environmental feed back as it should be, being pulled through the scriptural filter.

Chesterton · Sep 6, 2025

No. I hid your piano keys because your playing is terrible.

Come with me to go tornado chasing.

Benaiah468 · Sep 6, 2025

And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord G-d Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come. Rev 4:8

The verse is the 30,777th verse

From the 30,777th digit in π, the following 5 numbers are 18326

The 18326th verse in the King James Bible refers to the restoration of Israel and the gathering of the dispersed

Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. Isa 35:5

From the first decimal place in π, the number 284 appears for the second time at this point. The numbers between the first and second appearances of the number 284 in π are 81117450

The sum of these numbers is 8+1+1+1+7+4+5+0 = 27!

The 27th digit in π is 3279

3279 is the gematria of another verse in which the prophet Isaiah refers to the deaf and the blind

And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness. Isa 29:18

In the preceding verses 9-12, Isaiah explains that people are deaf and blind because God removed their ability to perceive, but now he speaks of a day of redemption

Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink. For the Lord hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered. And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed: And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned. Isa 29:9-12

qadosh, meaning holy, has a gematria of 410. Strong's number #H410 is translated as G-d 213 times in the King James Bible.

The sum of the 213th prime number and the 213th composite number is 1575.

1303+272 = 1575,

the gematria of

Total = 1575
Original Text
Hebrew Value Inc
בורא 209
שמים 390
חדשים 362
וארץ 297
חדשה 317

For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. Isa 65:17
כי־הנני בורא שמים חדשים וארץ חדשה ולא תזכרנה הראשנות ולא תעלינה על־לב

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