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RDKirk · Sep 10, 2025

rjs330 said:
What is going on in this country. Im beginning to wonder if there is demonic piece of what is going on in this country. The exceptional violence of the seemingly mentally ill is reminiscent of possession. I'm no expert on the matter for sure, just beginning to wonder.

I told y'all that years ago.

rjs330 · Sep 10, 2025

What is going on in this country. Im beginning to wonder if there is demonic piece of what is going on in this country. The exceptional violence of the seemingly mentally ill is reminiscent of possession. I'm no expert on the matter for sure, just beginning to wonder.

MehGuy · Sep 10, 2025

Chesterton said:
I'm sure she loves it. I've never seen a single thing she's done in show biz. The only reason I know who she is is because of her back-and-forths with Trump, and I probably speak for a lot of people younger than me.

She voiced an ape in a Tarzan movie.

So don't knock her career.

RileyG · Sep 10, 2025

rambot said:
Considering HOW overweight I am, I'm surprised how infrequently I am teased about it. I've worked with some broken people who would just insult me for an hour and a half with no joke tied to it at all.
Angry insults...but never jokes.

That’s awful. Sorry about that.

iarwain · Sep 10, 2025

The schools, the teachers, the government, the department of education have all failed us in educating the upcoming generations. But I think the real problem is a spiritual one. Families don't stay together, too many single parents, not enough Christ in the household, so we don't have true morals or work ethics.

Tropical Wilds · Sep 10, 2025

Hvizsgyak said:
Do you want school names? I can give you 4 schools here in Florida that I know of and I've heard of one in Pennsylvania that has. And listening to other teachers online in forums, it happens in other schools in other states.

Bro, you shouldn’t be telling me, you should be telling the state, I’m not the auditor.

Hvizsgyak said:
And what I'm saying about "back in the day" reminiscing is that learning was simpler - you had to memorize the stuff.

Blind memorization is good for short term memory, not long term education. It is an answer devoid of context and the idea behind school is to execute methodologies and concepts.

Hvizsgyak said:
These "new" approaches that the administration forces teachers to use are just a distraction to the learning. The kids need to clear their minds of the sports, social media, cell phone texting and video game clutter and memorize their school lessons like we use to. I'll give you though that some kids do take longer than others the memorize and learn things and the school should be set up to handle that.

This just reads again like somebody who doesn’t understand tech and is thus afraid of it and/or thinks it’s useless. If kids are learning the same thing they learned 45 years ago when you were in school, we will have surely failed them. No other country says that reversal of progress is the answer to educational advancement.

johansen · Sep 10, 2025

I had an interesting conversation with a dr of psychology. I mentioned how its interesting that mentally ill people always think they are Jesus, or someone else is satan. But never the other way around, he replied we see a number of people claiming to be moses. Or other biblical patriarchs even though they have never read the bible.

But mixing up michael with the angel of death is a new one for me. Dude is probably possessed.

Douggg · Sep 10, 2025

RandyPNW said:
The "time of the end" is a common term applying in our use to the "endtimes," or the "last days." But in Daniel's time, the term applied in context to the end of Antiochus 4, as I've showed you.

Randy, the term "time of the end" corresponds to our use of the "endtimes", "latter days", "latter years".

In Daniel's time, it corresponded the same. Take a look at Daniel 12, when the abomination of desolation will take place.

In verse 7, we have that same time, times, half time as in Daniel 7:25. In verse 9, to take place in "the time of the end"

In my chart below, I took all of the end times time frames in the bible and listed them. If you will notice, there are repeats of several of them. Organizing is one of my personal traits.

Daniel 12:7 And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that it shall be for a time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.

8 And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things?

9 And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.

ranunculus · Sep 10, 2025

Three people in critical condition but still, they're lucky that they got shot in the US of A. Because every year around 115K people are shot. That's 1 in 2800-ish. You have to consider the upsides to this. Just think of how adept doctors have gotten at treating gunshot wounds. If you're going to get shot, the best place for it is in a country where every doctor is already an expert at treating gunshot wounds by the time they get out of residency. You wouldn't have 2 out of 3 people survive a gunshot wound if you were in a country where almost no one ever gets shot.

Jipsah · Sep 10, 2025

Platte said:
I don't have a doctrine to embrace.

Of course not! I mean, who does?

Platte said:
...I simply believe what Moses told us..

And believe it to be literally, technically, true. Which it is not. It was meant to convey the understanding that God createds the universe and everything in it, to primitive people who had no basis at all for understanding it, or using it, for any technical purpose whatsoever.. It's a page and a half of "here's how God created everything", and It served its intended purpose admirably. But we're not, comparatively, speaking, little children. There's no need to act as though we were, or to pretend that the book intended for comparative children ought to be accepted an authoritative account of how God brought the universe to be.

Platte said:
.you don't.

Obviously not. I know more at a glance about how God designed this universe to work than those folks thousands of years ago could possibly have imagined. Like any good teacher, God met His students where they were, so He didn't tell them about astronomy, or electronics, or semiconductor processors, of anything else that would have been gibberish to them. He told them as much ad they could grasp, and left the more advanced lessons for those who came later. Some of whom, sadly, would reject it, preferring to cling to a child's brief glimpse of the unimaginable magnitude of what God has made.

Platte said:
I suppose next you'll tell me that eternal life with Jesus is just a metaphor.

Let's not be idiotic, shall we? If that sort of rubbish is the best you have to offer, then maybe a primeval shepherd's understanding of God's Creation is the best you can bring to bear, and thus we have little or no basis for communication at all. In which case good day to you.

pawkiki · Sep 10, 2025

Hello, I hope I'm posting in the right place. I'm experiencing some problems with trusting my husband. I have heard him saying good morning beautiful at night when he thinks I'm sleeping, He stands in the kitchen and makes weird faces at his phone and mouths words so that he's silent but still conveying words, has said in his 'sleep' ... Don't tell my wife but I think I love you..
After experiencing those things, I decided to record him sometimes when I'm not around. I told him I heard more than he knew I did and I knew more than he thought I knew. He knew that if I heard a woman's voice that I would freak out. So, as I listen to the recordings most of the time you can't hear another voice but on occasion I hear a thank you when he tells her that she looks pretty!, or things like that. I have confronted him 3 times about this and he just gets mad. He always says that he didn't do it and I'm playing games. I feel like I'm crazy because he says I'm hearing things that aren't there. He won't listen to the recordings. My question is... If I spy on his phone, would that be wrong? I feel that somehow this will allow me to catch him in a lie and I feel that I need to prove to myself that I'm not crazy.

ranunculus · Sep 10, 2025

DaisyDay said:
He came out in favor of vaccines this week! He said, “Vaccines work.” Unfortunately he appointed an antivax crank with no public health experience or knowledge to be in charge of the nation’s healthcare.

I think speaking out of both sides of his mouth is a political strategy. He'll make a statement and then a while later he'll state its negation. That way you can't pin him down on anything. Is he for vaccines or does he think they're poison? His base will only glom onto the statements that they personally like and forget that also said the exact opposite. The ones who think vaccines are a net positive will have heard him say likewise and that's all they need. This shifting of positions is very hard to keep up with. It's a way to always have cover.

Of course it could also be the case that he always walks away with the opinion of the last person he spoke to. It's possible that at the time he posted "all vaccines are poison" the last people he spoke to were Mark and David Geier. Two anti-vaccine activists (who respectively lost their medical license / never had one), as they are leading an inquiry within the Department of Health and Human Services, at the direction of Trump and RFK Jr., into debunked assertions of a link between vaccines and autism.

If you asked him about either position my bet is that he would say, “Did I say that? I can’t believe I said that.”

John Robie · Sep 10, 2025

…killing Charlie Kirk is just meh.

comana · Sep 10, 2025

Hvizsgyak said:
Do you want school names? I can give you 4 schools here in Florida that I know of and I've heard of one in Pennsylvania that has. And listening to other teachers online in forums, it happens in other schools in other states. And what I'm saying about "back in the day" reminiscing is that learning was simpler - you had to memorize the stuff. These "new" approaches that the administration forces teachers to use are just a distraction to the learning. The kids need to clear their minds of the sports, social media, cell phone texting and video game clutter and memorize their school lessons like we use to. I'll give you though that some kids do take longer than others the memorize and learn things and the school should be set up to handle that.

The problem with memorizing is that it’s a use it or lose skill. It is much better to teach the whys and hows of problem solving and critical thinking. Unfortunately, AI will be responsible for a loss of research skills in the younger and future generations.

FreeinChrist · Sep 10, 2025

ADVISOR HAT

Apparently I didn't click a certain box closing the thread when making the earlier Advisor Hat

The decision of staff is to leave the thread closed, so all the posts made after the earlier hat are removed

The thread is closed.

Chesterton · Sep 10, 2025

Michie said:
I’m surprised she did not say she was escorted to Ireland. She has a tendency to jump to conclusions and embellish.

In the OP's article, Rosie is talking about her security people. IMO the story is totally bogus. Does she really think she's so important that her setting foot in America would "rile up Trump's base"? No one would have even known.

MarkRohfrietsch · Sep 10, 2025

The Liturgist said:
The Roman Catholic Church has not declared the Blessed Virgin Mary to be Co-Redemptrix. Indeed the group pushing for that, the so-called “Fifth Dogma”, does so on the basis of an apparition apparently experienced by Ida Peerdeman, a Dutch woman who had personal difficulties, and the vision she experienced was, in my opinion, disturbing and inauthentic, and the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith under Pope Benedict XVI and if I recall, even more recently than that, declared her visions “Unworthy of belief.”

Roman Catholics do tend to regard her as Mediatrix of all Graces, but that’s not the same as Co-Redemptrix. If the RCC declared the Theotokos to be Co-Redemptrix, it would likely terminate ecumenical reconciliation with the Orthodox, the Assyrians and other dialogue partners of the Roman church.

Now, the Roman Catholics do believe the Blessed Virgin Mary to be the Mother of God (Theotokos) and to have been assumed into Heaven, but so do the Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox; the strange thing is that this was only officially made dogma in the Roman church in the 1950s, whereas it had been dogma in the Orthodox Church since the first century AD, but the Roman liturgy was always … parsimonious. This was probably in part due to the language barrier, since the Eastern churches used Greek and Syriac, and much of the liturgical development actually occurred among Syrian fathers like St. Ephraim, St. Jacob of Sarugh, St. Romanos the Melodist and St. John of Damascus, whereas in the Roman church only the Patricians and educated Equestrian Plebeians spoke Greek - and also the Roman liturgy in the first millennium inclined towards extreme brevity.

Also regarding the title of Mother of God, and the Perpetual Virginity of St. Mary, this was believed in not just by Martin Luther, Thomas Cranmer and John Wesley, but also, begrudgingly, by John Calvin (he hated to admit that the Blessed Virgin Mary was Theotokos, but understood both that the title was semantically and in all other respects correct, for Jesus Christ is God and St. Mary did absolutely bear him, and also the severe problems embracing Nestorianism would cause to the model of the Incarnation, so he swallowed his pride and earned respect from myself and many other Christians). The rejection of the status of the Theotokos as Theotokos and of her perpetual virginity originated with the Radical Reformation, the Anabaptists, and were continued by various groups, most recently the 19th century Restorationist denominations, and obviously if you can accept the Real Presence you don’t fall into that camp.

While what your wright is true, there is a cult of Mary and a cult of other saints, there are also superstitious practices that have worked their way into local or even general custom. Unfortunately, not always have these issues been dealt with by the leadership.

rambot · Sep 10, 2025

bèlla said:
PG students spend an extra year in high school to increase admission possibilities to better schools. Both girls fared well. One went to Johns Hopkins and the other enrolled at Princeton if I recall. They were given scholarships for the program at Exeter.

I didn’t allow my daughter to row in college. The sport falls under the NCAA and the practice time was extensive. I felt it would interfere with her studies and that was the primary reason for going. But given the cost of attendance I can understand why some go that route.

My daughter played golf competitively beforehand and both sports are very demanding. If you look at most athletes in that arena you’ll find the majority are in the top of their class. Unlike most sports golf has a dual element. Team competitions are a separate entity from private events. You can be part of a team and enter others individually.

The entry fees are paid by competitors along with travel expenses and aren’t subsidized. And that doesn’t count greens fees or time at the range. Coaches, sports doctors, etc. It adds up fast!

I think some sports are worth the investment. Whether you do them competitively or not. Golf is one of them and tennis is another. I’d add skiing to the list if you live in an area with access or sailing, shooting and riding of course.

~bella

I love this. Thanks for sharing.

I don't ski but I kinda disagree about skiing. For the amount of money you spend on the mountains here in alberta and the amount of time going downhill? I personally dont' know if it's worth it. It's funy of course.

Richard T · Sep 10, 2025

From Sen. Rand Paul in this article.
"The vice president's remark drew criticism from Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., who questioned Vance.
"Did he ever read To Kill a Mockingbird?" the Republican lawmaker wrote in a Saturday X post, referencing the 1960 novel by Harper Lee. "Did he ever wonder what might happen if the accused were immediately executed without trial or representation?"
"What a despicable and thoughtless sentiment it is to glorify killing someone without a trial," Paul added.

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