GoldenBoy89 said:

Investigate?

Why wouldn’t the White House just be open and transparent with We the People about the expenses and changes being made to the White House?

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What is your fear about it?

You think it's stolen money?

Landon Caeli said:

Is that how you want the world to operate? We have no evidence of wrongdoing, but let's investigate everything anyways, just in case we might be able to find something.

That's communist mentality!

...Who's going to investigate the investigators then?

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Investigate?

Why wouldn’t the White House just be open and transparent with We the People about the expenses and changes being made to the White House?

GoldenBoy89 said:

Right, so what’s he gotten for his efforts?

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Nothing - Schumer is asking for 1.5 trillion dollars - no one in their right mind would give it to them

GoldenBoy89 said:

How much have the republicans given up to open up the government?

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It's a Clean Continuing Resolution - non partisan - they are never supposed to be bargaining tools.

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GoldenBoy89 said:

They do want this government back open, right?

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Yes they do - The Republicans never wanted to close it.

durangodawood said:

Have you checked what thread youre posting in?

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Yup - I'm answering the question -

RamiC said:

The differences that you are referring to there are irrelevant to your OP...we all believe that we are participating in communion because "26 Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; this is my body.” 27 And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, saying, “Drink of it, all of you, 28 for this is my blood of the[c] covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. 29 I tell you I will not drink again of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom.” Matthew 26 - 29 ESV . That is universal.

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Ok so how exactly would that hinder my mental exercise?

RamiC said:

Ok, here is my question...“If” Jesus came back to dwell among us humans again in the form of a man. Would He be able to have communion in your church?

So what is your answer?

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If He wanted to. In the NT Jesus tested His disciples and the Pharisees so it follows that He would also test his body of believers here. Like I said before my interest from the OP is in the invitation. In my opinion, and without insulting anyone, I think today’s churches have gotten quite legalistic rather than welcoming.

Clare73 said:

So you are saying the false Jesus will descend from heaven on a cloud just as Jesus ascended into heaven on a cloud?

Where did you get that idea, certainly not from the aposolic teaching (1 Th 4:16-17) of Jesus Christ (Lk 10:16).

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Hey, if I can come up with this scenario, don't you think Satan (who is way smarter and clever than me) can do the same thing? I really don't understand here all this over-confidence that we would easily be able to identify the real Jesus from the false Jesus.

Let me give you a couple of scenarios:

1. The real Jesus comes from the Heavens at the same spot He ascended into Heaven. After cordial talk with the people there, He says "we are off to the Vatican to meet with my Vicar on Earth here." Jesus hangs out with Pope Leo and reassures the faithful that the gates of Hell could never destroy His Church. Are you ready to follow Jesus into the Catholic Church?

2. A False Jesus comes from the Heavens at the same spot where the real Jesus ascended into Heaven. After cordial talk with the people there, the false Jesus says "we are off to the Vatican to meet with my Vicar on Earth here." Jesus hangs out with Pope Leo and reassures the faithful that the gates of Hell could never destroy his church. Would you believe this false Jesus and follow him into the Catholic Church?

3. A False Jesus comes from the Heavens at the same spot where the real Jesus ascended into Heaven. After cordial talk with the people there, the false Jesus says "lets us meet with all the Evangelical leaders". A Catholic who was in the crowd says "Will you meet with the Pope too?" The false Jesus says "the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church are idolators and will be punished". Do you follow the false Jesus thinking he is the real one?

And there are many, many more very gray scenarios that can be created. Do you not think about how you would react to these?

Oompa Loompa said:

Do you believe what your government tells you?

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Sure. If they can make the case to the American people, I’ll believe it.

Why haven’t they?

GoldenBoy89 said:

Are they narco terrorists or do you just believe what your government tells you?

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Do you believe what your government tells you?

Oompa Loompa said:

You sound unsurprisingly disappointed that narco terrorists are being killed.

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Are they narco terrorists or do you just uncritically believe what your government tells you?

Would you even care if they weren’t narco terrorists? Probably not.

That’s the point of my comment.

sjastro said:

That is not how it works.
Using the chair analogy, a chair balanced on one leg will react strongly to the slightest change, it is in an unstable equilibrium.
Currently the climate is in a metastable equilibrium it can still react positively to cooling such as reducing CO2 emissions.

A chair balanced on four legs will be far less responsive to slight changes compared if balanced on only one leg.
The climate has the added complication if it exceeds the tipping point and falls into a more stable equilibrium the change effects become asymmetrical, warming effects are amplified and cooling effects are dampened.

Feedback	Amplifies Warming	Amplifies Cooling?	Notes
Ice–albedo feedback	Strong: melting ice lowers reflectivity → more absorption → more melt	Weak: regrowing ice increases reflectivity, but requires large sustained cooling first	Asymmetric — warming triggers it easily; cooling reverses it sluggishly
Water vapor feedback	Strong: warmer air holds more water → more greenhouse trapping	Weak: drier air reduces trapping, but condensation releases latent heat, resisting further cooling	Asymmetric due to latent heat
Carbon cycle feedbacks	Warming releases CO₂ and CH₄ from soils and oceans	Cooling can absorb CO₂, but slowly (centuries–millennia)	Very asymmetric timescales
Cloud feedbacks	Complex — can amplify warming depending on cloud type	May slightly amplify cooling, but less efficiently	Strong regional dependence

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Exactly! And the worrying part is that there are maybe 16 systems like this that are large enough to be called a feedback loop in their own right, and some of them trigger earlier than others. Some might only trigger at over 2.5 or 3 degrees of warming - and others even more. BUT some might trigger very soon - at maybe 1.5 or 1.8 degrees.

The obvious question then becomes are the earlier ones large enough to warm the earth till the next one triggers, and so on, falling like dominos in a row?

Is that what you meant by 'falls into a more stable equilibrium'?

I've set this Johan talk to the relevant moment - the graphics are fun.

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SabbathBlessings said:

Let me know if you want the Biblical definition.

Whatever you think under the law means, which I can show you if you want, Paul made it clear it doesn't mean sinning and breaking God's laws 1John3:4 James2:11-12

Rom 6:15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not!

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I am not saying sin is okay but Paul is talking to Jewish Christians in verse 15, who are under the Law. If you don't understand, look at the pronouns. He uses "us" or "we" when talking to the Jews and "the Gentiles" when talking about the Gentiles to Jews.

He starts talking to the Gentiles from Romans 11:13. He stops talking about the Law and addresses their place in Christ.

SabbathBlessings said:

The Sabbath connects to God of Creation, the only God who can sanctify a day Gen 2:1-3 and only God who can sanctify us Eze20:12 its part of God's identity. Exo20:11 We are told in the last days to get back to worship this God Rev 14:7 Exo 20:11before its too late Rev 14:11-12 Rev22:11

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Yeah but my only point was that AI will support whatever side of the debate that you want it to support as I clearly demonstrated in my previous post. I asked 2 questions about Colossians 2:16 and the Sabbath and got 2 completely opposite responses. The first response said that Colossians 2:16 clearly says that we don’t have to observe the Sabbath and the second response says we do have to observe the sabbath. It’s all in how you word the question to coax the preferred response.

Say it aint so said:

The "you" is actually "they" as expressed in the article pertaining to an DOJ lawyer in the room where it happens. What is being said is they were just going to ignore the courts and violate the constitution and ignore due process. As I have said before it wouldn't be a uphill argument to prove they are who they said they are given due process. If they are who the government says they are, then bye-bye and don't let the door hit ya where the God Lord split ya. Yet so far what we know given Garcia in example, government claims of him being MS-13 is failing.

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Wow! So intrigued. Just like how every military strike in history required authorization from anyone other than the president. LOL!

Who is this "we" Trump keeps talking about?

While many in Israel are concerned that this crackdown underlines Hamas’ intent to reassert its control over the Strip and signals that the group will not disarm, contrary to the agreement it signed, U.S. President Donald Trump appeared to suggest he had given Hamas a green light to police the enclave.

“They do want to stop the problems, and they’ve been open about it, and we gave them approval for a period of time,” he said Sunday, responding to a reporter's question.

“You have close to 2 million people going back to buildings that have been demolished, and a lot of bad things can happen. So we want it to be, we want it to be safe. I think it’s going to be fine. Who knows for sure,” he added.

On Tuesday, he compared Hamas’ bloody crackdown to his own fight against Venezuelan drug cartels. “They did take out a couple of gangs that were very bad… and they killed a number of gang members. That didn’t bother me much, to be honest with you. That’s okay. It’s a couple of very bad gangs. It’s no different than other countries like Venezuela [that have] sent their gangs [into the U.S.],” Trump said.

Nevertheless, he asserted that the terror group would comply with the agreement and disarm. “If they don't disarm, we will disarm them. And it will happen quickly and perhaps violently,” Trump said.

Palestinian Authority warns against Hamas crackdown in Gaza while Trump signals his approval

Hamas said to use heavy weapons, public executions against internal dissenters

allisraelnews.com

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Clare73 said:

Yes, true (complete) free will is the power to make all moral choices.
Man does not have true (complete) free will, the power to make all moral choices.

Man has limited "free will," the power to make some oral choices, but not all. . .he cannot make the moral choice to live sinlessly.

Partial freedomv is not complete freedom.
One is not truly free if his freedom is not complete.

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Free will doesn't have to be "complete"... absolute, to be free will, just as perfection does not have to be absolute, in order to be perfection... among a whole lot of things. Have a good day Clare.

Oompa Loompa said:

What you meant to say was "for the mass deportation of more than 100 MS-13 gangster thugs who terrorized the country."

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The "you" is actually "they" as expressed in the article pertaining to an DOJ lawyer in the room where it happens. What is being said is they were just going to ignore the courts and violate the constitution and ignore due process. As I have said before it wouldn't be a uphill argument to prove they are who they said they are given due process. If they are who the government says they are, then bye-bye and don't let the door hit ya where the God Lord split ya. Yet so far what we know given Garcia in example, government claims of him being MS-13 is failing.

ranunculus said:

Ecuador says it has no evidence that survivor of a US strike in the Caribbean committed any crime​

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While I trust Trump about as far as I can throw him, there are really only a few types of people tooling around the Caribbean in submersibles:

1.) Rich guys
2.) Tourists/divers
3.) Drug smugglers

A 4+-person craft can easily run into the 7 figures (assuming this wasn't a DIY thing), and given how few people (esp in Central America) can afford a million-dollar toy like that, it ought to be pretty easy to identify the operators if they were on the up-and-up.

Thanks. I fixed it.

To me, it seems like the left really wants to punish everyone who donated money for this ballroom, through extensive legal investigations on the origins of their money.

Realistically it's just attacks on everything Trump. On and on...