Apple Sky said:

This my friends is pure EVIL.

EVIL NAZI SCIENTISTS AT NASA​

You tube https://youtu.be/8Qx_wJ_8BMc?si=9gzlZHuhOxFnEncA

It breaks my heart to report such evil but people should wake up to these facts.

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Rubbish.

True, I only watched the first few seconds - but that was enough.
NASA have NOT banned the name of Jesus. I recently gave you three links to articles written in Christian magazines by NASA scientists who are Christians. You didn't answer or provide any comment.

What IS heart-breaking is that anyone can make a video about anything and post it on YouTube without checking their facts. Once that is done, it is "out there" for anyone to believe.
You only had to look at all the "end times" prophecies that were made in 2012 - a lot of which centred on, and denounced, the London 2012 Olympics, and which promised judgement and bloodshed - to know what rubbish some people speak.
And there is never any accountability for these videos. No one ever seems to make a follow up one which says, "I was wrong; I'm sorry I mislead everyone."

It should "break your heart" that you are so quick to believe, and re-post, other people's lies.

HARK! said:

Not really. It's a vague cliche.

I find cliches to be crutches for intellectual sloth.

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And I find that people who resort to personal attacks tend to lack any sort of real argument

HARK! said:

If you have an objection to enforcing laws that were duly passed to protect our citizens; I'd like to understand your rationale.

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Not sure how this relates to my posts. You gave the impression that you don't really care what the government does, so long as it is in the service of your vision of "justice". I was asking if that was accurate. Hence my question, "The ends justify the means?"

Apple Sky said:

I did with a video.

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You provided a short video clip that someone else had made.

What is your evidence that NASA are "brainwashing our kids"? Or are you so gullible that you believe anything you are told?

rambot said:

Oh. I guess skin colour DOES matter? Cause that sounds like woke talk.

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Right. Minorities have no 'special access' to history. Lived experience? Lived experience and $15 will get you a cup of coffee at Starbucks.

RileyG said:

Human is human. Once conception occurs, the unborn child is different from its mother.

I know it’s not my decision to make. But when someone’s CHOICE harms others, it’s NOT about them. Period.

Also the last paragraph is red herring.

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Since we can't discuss it, I'll just say: You're wrong.

And, no, you don't know what a red herring is.

public hermit said:

Justice is achieved when life flourishes.

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Justice is achieved when everyone is given what he has earned, what he is due.

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The divine intention is for life to flourish (ultimately for created life to abide in eternal life).

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It is not the divine intention that all abide in eternal life.

public hermit said:

Justice just is flourishing life. So something is just if it works toward the divine intention for life and unjust if it works against the divine intention for life.

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Nowhere is justice defined as "flourishing life."

public hermit said:

I think Christians should use whatever means they have to promote the divine intention for flourishing life for all life, individually and corporately, and do so in ways that honor the dignity and agency of intelligent creatures. Social justice is not an ideology for Christians but simply the result of obeying God's intention.

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What God intends is what happens.
If it's not happening, God didn't "intend" it to happen.

public hermit said:

For Christians in a functioning democracy/republic, the means are available to work toward justice, i.e., flourishing life.

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Justice is not "flourishing life," it is giving everyone what he has earned, what he is due.

That's why Jesus had to die on the cross, to satisfy the justice of God which is due to those who are in Christ.

ozso said:

Like I said, the word lost it's original meaning when it was too widely applied by the left. Just like the left over-uses other words like racist.

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It didn't lose it's original meaning the Right wingers started using it in disparaging ways. It still means the recognition of social justice to those that first used it that way but many on the right seem to only recognize the way far righties have twisted it to mean.

Christians should recognize the need for social justice. They should recognize that race means nothing to God. Christians should always treat everyone as equals.

This my friends is pure EVIL.

EVIL NAZI SCIENTISTS AT NASA​

You tube https://youtu.be/8Qx_wJ_8BMc?si=9gzlZHuhOxFnEncA

It breaks my heart to report such evil but people should wake up to these facts.

Always in His Presence said:

Are you a minority? I am and I can tell you that is complete rubbish.

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Oh. I guess skin colour DOES matter? Cause that sounds like woke talk.

chevyontheriver said:

I generally support executive clemency for any reason for any crime. But it can be abused. I am free to wonder about who is pardoned and why. For example many of the Biden pardons were crazy political. I suppose that is OK if only because we don’t want to just routinely imprison all the members of the old regime when we get a new regime. Even if they may have been scoundrels.

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While I agree Biden absolutely DID have A handful of very political pardons I understand his reasoning behind it.
On this side of things I understand but I'm not a fan. I could see why a trump lover would HATE that.

I believe we are saved by grace and show our thanksgiving to the Lord by doing works worthy of repentance. I believe St. Paul originally summed this up in Acts 26:20, explains elsewhere like in Colossians 1:10-24, Ephesians 2:8-18, 2 Corinthians 9:6-16 etc. This is for most of us since we want to have some life to live.

The thief on the cross was saved by grace of the Lord recognizing the thief’s faith & repentance. The thief did all he could do in extreme physical pain & the Lord is merciful.

so it seems the consensus is that the law remains the law even on the New Earth, does that include things like Kosher dietary laws and not wearing mixed fabrics? Does that include laws regarding slaves?

and why did Jesus give possible expiration clauses? Why is it "till all is fulfilled" rather than just saying never?

BeckyJ said:

Friendship isn't "enforced by strict moderation protocols".

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Enhances it, really.

ozso said:

So people only like restaurants because of mythical corporate garbage? Is there a particular method in which people are indoctrinated before or after eating in a restaurant, that controls how they feel about the place and what their experience is? Maybe subliminal messaging put into the muzak? Mind altering chemicals added to the food?

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The restaurant doesnt implant a vulnerability to nostalgia and cultural mythology into its customers.

This particular chain restaurant takes advantage of a customer base whos already primed for that (by using decor, imagery, key menu words, architecture, the whole aesthetic package.) So... why are so many American customers feeling this way?

1. Perennial golden age mythology: everything was morally better in the past. This isnt particularly American. And its not at all particular to our time. . But I do think American companies leverage this better than any others.

2. Real negative reaction to the de-localizing of everything. More people than ever live in a suburban slop that feels placeless, and actually is culturally placeless. Oh for the days of the "Old Country Store" where you could see neighbors you knew by name and buy some wholesome ingredients for a homecooked meal prepare with love and care. (Absent any actual old country stores in suburban and near interstate-highway zones, people will play along - using the Chinese made junk and flavored sugar / corn syrup items).

3. Really big picture, Americans are generally good people (though that might be shifting a bit) and this character has been maintained by various myths that we cling to. (This absolutely includes Christianity - and making no claim to its truth value, its mythic values suffuse the culture even among non believers.) This is a positive, generally imo. But.... it and other myths takes up so much personal and cultural headroom that it doesnt leave enough space for the real, the facts of whats going on both over the horizon in the rest of the world, or even in front of our own faces. We shut our eyes a lot and prefer to run old time morality tale reels over and over in our mind. These work to the extent we can pretend the real world facts match the scenes contrived for us.

Of course some people just want a reliable meal after a long drive on the interstate. But thats completely aside from the "go woke, go broke" discussion about aesthetic changes. If it was just about a sturdy greasy meal, then why would removing old gramps from the logo matter one way or the other?

(Essay over)

rambot said:

I think it's funny that because trumps website said that you are now using it as an argument.

That's not an accurate statement about what they're doing. They are politicking history and downplaying the experience of minorities so that fragile white folk continue to feel good about their fantasy land.

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Are you a minority? I am and I can tell you that is complete rubbish.

ozso said:

He's systematically undoing the woke.

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See above.

Always in His Presence said:

"Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History," which accused the Smithsonian of coming under the influence of a "divisive, race-centered ideology" and sought to remove what it described as "improper ideology" from the institution's museums.

Yeah - truth and sanity is so over rated -

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I think it's funny that because trumps website said that you are now using it as an argument.

That's not an accurate statement about what they're doing. They are politicking history and downplaying the experience of minorities so that fragile white folk continue to feel good about their fantasy land.

DamianWarS said:

Either the points are valid or they are not. it really doesn't matter if it's AI or from my grandmother. It's on us to refute them if we disagree.

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I say it's less about valid points and wanting to refute anything and more about trying to get people to accept that any AI will accept virtually anything you feed it, because it's just a computer progam at the end of the day, one that is VERY shoddily done. It can't accept anything or refute anything of its own, it's all user input.

joechristianwarrior said:

I know many Christians are hesitant to connect "following Jesus" with what's often called "social justice". But I believe there's compelling biblical support - even in passages like Micah 6:8 - that following Jesus compels us to pursue justice, including in societal forms.
What do you think - does Scripture call us to systemic justice, or is the focus primarily on individual devotion?
I'd love to hear your thoughts, especially after watching this video:

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One is personally obligated to practice justice at all times and in all places.
Our free republic will not stand apart from its practice of justice; i.e., giving everyone what he has earned--what he is, therefore, due.
In addition, our Constitution grants certain rights to individuals.
Anymore than this can be exercised personally, as charity.

BelieveItOarKnot said:

What makes you think every word of that parable does not apply to you and everyone else?

Matt. 4:4, Luke 4:4, Deut. 8:3

Man shall live by "every word of God." Not just the words we prefer to heap upon ourselves and cast upon other people the words we don't care to apply or hear.

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Oh. But has it occurred to you that Christ's followers may be challenged by His words, open to all of them while knowing that they may not live up to them, rather than heaping any particular ones upon themselves.

OTOH, you've managed to disregard and ignore a whole bunch of His words here so far, being pretty selective on which ones you heed as far as I can tell.

Quasiblogo said:

Your help, please, concerning which English translations most closely fit the Koine Greek text of 2 Thessalonians 1:11. Some examples of what I'm reading online; what I bold are the words which I ponder:
Therefore we also pray always for you that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfill all the good pleasure of His goodness and the work of faith with power (NKJV)
and may fulfill every resolve for good and every work of faith by his power (ESV)

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I started to question which "direction to go" when reading this verse in the ESV. I was about to make a blog post citing the importance of personal zeal ("resolve") mixed with faith. However, when I looked at the NKJV, that "resolve" is instead rendered as a "pleasure" proceeding from God.
I looked at the Interlinear, but I'm unsure how to parse the meaning/intent.

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2 Th 1:11 - "For which indeed we pray always concerning you, in order that the God of us may deem you worthy of the calling and may fulfill every good pleasure of goodness and work of faith in power,"

Paul is praying that God will bring to fulfillment every good purpose and every act prompted by faith which God initates.

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My conviction, I should say, is that if the NKJV is the best way to translate, then it stands to reason that since we are being conformed to the Image of Messiah Jesus, His pleasure that He takes in goodness stemming from holiness becomes, and should continue to be, ours.

Postscript: a little after posted the above, I was reminded of how the NKJV and the ESV come to clash again over good/goodness/the Lord's pleasure, when it comes to Luke 2:14 (bold texts are mine):

“Glory to God in the highest,
And on earth peace, goodwill toward men!” (NKJV)

“Glory to God in the highest,
and on earth peace among those with whom he is pleased! (ESV)

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stevevw said:

is the most powerful example today that is so radical to how the world is.

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It is a third option. A culture countering the default ways of mankind.

prudent_commenter said:

I wonder if it's reversible. I'm not sure it can be cured.

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God said since the Garden not to put our will ahead of His? Adam and Eve set the tone. Some reverse it, most don't.

Strong in Him said:

You made the accusation - you need to back it up.

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I did with a video.