Yarddog said:

Did you not read what I wrote saying only Right wingers were saying that it was Antifa? Now, if you have proof,please provide it. The Jewish paper says that it was "Crown Heights Bites Back" and they don't claim to be Antifa.

Yes, but you haven't proven that it was Antifa. We all know that the Right fakes videos.

I have been discussing that story. I wrote and provided news reports from the Jewish Chronicle, saying that it was CHBB.

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If you'd bothered to read, you'd know that these are two different occurrences occurring on different dates. You didn't even have to read. If you'd looked at the pic and video, you would've seen that one took place at night and the other during the day. But thank you for reminding us that Antifa and Crown Heights Bites Back share the same goals.

I'm going to say something that is going to trigger both sides! (I'm an Independent)
Firstly, this shooter had something in common with the shooter in Tennessee in 2023, who was a female to male transgender.
Minneapolis shooter was a male to female transgender who started transitioning as a teen(changed his birth certificate at age 17,had gender affirming care,etc) and his mother worked at the school and he attended the school. So , was familiar with how the school operated, worked,etc.
We don't know the home-life.
I support the 2nd amendment but I agree with durangogodwood above. I also propose to raise the legal age to purchase firearms to be 21, maybe even 25(heck you can't rent a car until you're 25!)nationwide. The frontal cortex of our brains aren't fully formed until the early 20's (I've raised children and been a child myself.) They may not make a difference in all school shootings like this one, but it's a start. I also support red flag laws. Can they be abused, sure but I support them nationwide.
Secondly, and I don't know if it would have made a difference in this case, But gender affirming care/hormones/surgery should not be legal until age 18, or even 21. I can't believe it's even a debate in our society,but children are being sterilized and given hormones before they are fully mature. This is nothing to do with bigotry it's common sense.
Once you are a legal adult then if you want to change your gender, go for it!
This case has strong similarities to the one in Tennessee.
I would add that there is so much toxic stuff on social media and corners of the internet, his manifesto was in Russian, apparently.

When the Terrorist organization called "Israel" stops bombing civilians and allow aid and food for starving people, maybe they can find some common ground. Temporarily at least.

Tropical Wilds said:

If a group of rowdy people showed up to Christian unwed mother's group home and started yelling "I love crucifixion" and "I love abortions" especially after riots and skirmishes were already in the area, they'd be arrested too.

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No they wouldn't. And it was not private property.

Aldebaran said:

They're open, and you still haven't answered.

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I have several times told you that your ridiculous question has no basis. That was my answer and that remains my answer. I can't understand it for you, sadly. A spurious question, at best.

Aldebaran said:

Crime is going down because of Trump's policies. Thank him!

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Crime was already at a 30 year low. The emergency was a bogus excuse for governmental overreach.

Aldebaran said:

Blaming rioters' actions on those who are there to enforce laws is like saying we need more criminals on the streets to make things more peaceful.

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So far, there aren't any rioters and no rioters' actions. Trampling on people's rights is the opposite of enforcing laws. The federales are not there primarily to enforce laws, but to provoke a reaction to provide an excuse to extend the 30 day takeover.

Aldebaran said:

It was the logical response to the things you keep saying.

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No, it came from where the sun don't shine, not from anything I said.

Aldebaran said:

And yet you claimed his healing was "remarkable". He was attacked more than 3 weeks ago, so don't be surprised if a 19 year-old is going to show some healing in that time.

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Huh? Yes, his healing is quite remarkable - no visible signs remain - but, again, why would you suppose that is healing ability was the reason he was allegedly attacked? Makes no sense, but that is in keeping with most your arguments in this thread.

Aldebaran said:

What accusation would that be?

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@Hans Blaster, if I may: the accusation contained in the form of "just asking questions" is a disingenuous rhetorical device. This is the same ridiculous bit you' keep trying to pull on me....not falling for it.

Gene2memE said:

You've got various cultures throughout the late Epipaleolithic spread across the Fertile Crescent, North Asia and Southwest Asia which show evidence of transitions from mobile hunter-gatherer populations with limited diets to more permanent settlements with broader diets (helped by the start of domestication). Some of these are estimated as early as 25,000 to 30,000 years back, others more in the 12,000 to 15,000 year ago ra

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The earliest known cultivated crop is cannabis. Probably for fiber, not recreational use.

essentialsaltes said:

Trump tells Fed’s Lisa Cook she’s fired; she says ‘he has no authority to do so’​

Cook, in a statement Monday, said, “President Trump purported to fire me ‘for cause’ when no cause exists under the law, and he has no authority to do so.”

Cook, who was appointed by former President Joe Biden, has hired the high-profile attorney Abbe Lowell to represent her. She has not been charged with any crime.

Lowell, in a statement, said, “President Trump has taken to social media to once again ‘fire by tweet’ and once again his reflex to bully is flawed and his demands lack any proper process, basis or legal authority.”

Congress curbed the president’s authority to unilaterally fire a Fed governor in the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, which states that the president can only do so “for cause.”

While the law does not elaborate on what constitutes “cause,” it has historically been understood to mean malfeasance or dereliction of duty.

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Violations of law could certainly be included under "cause." In this case her job is in setting monetary policy, which includes interest rates. Unless she offers some defense it looks like she twice lied to get herself a better interest rate. Would you want an IRS commission who was caught for not filing his taxes for two years to continue on in his or her job? No more exemptions for crimes by Democrats, this two tiered justice system is going to be stop one way or another.

Thanks for sharing some personal experience and theological views, which if I understand them right agree with you on. For instance, about not
worrying in some contexts about laying hands on no man suddenly. I once witnessed a pastor of a mega church in the foyer after a service just chatting and shaking hands. All of a sudden, and quite out of the blue, he went straight to a man and asked him if he had received the Holy Spirit. The man replied no, and the pastor just laid his hands on him and he was baptized in the Spirit right there with no or few other English words spoken. Now that is flowing in God. There are some possible reasons why that is rarer today. Some I might have suggested before.

We could be a seasonal lull?

There is a grieving of the Holy Spirit that needs to be addressed? This grieving might include some fleshly counterfeits of the gifts of the Spirit. Are some churches trying to recreate the emotion and experience, but God is not in it? For example, On an occasion the Holy Spirit might ask someone to run around the church a couple of times. This of course stirs things up and if God was in that activity, it may prepare the crowd for something more. However, if the following weeks someone does it in the flesh, the emotion is there but God is not in it.

Other types of grieving exist too. Like if God expects someone to step out and they fail to even try. We all have done this but if we confess and are willing to try again, that can reopen the door. I think that is far better than quashing things (intentionally or not). I have attended some
services where the Holy Spirit does not have a chance to speak. Churches can be so busy with their own plans and just assume that is what God has for the day. So any deviation is rare as they devote little or no time to really invite the Holy Spirit.

Though not AOG, I like Eastwood Anabe a Pastor from Ghana that will shift directions during a service, even having the church pray in tongues for some time before moving the service on. Not to mention those services can last three hours.

But perhaps the biggest culprit is of a lack of movement in tongues and many other things of the Spirit is a lack of faith. Do members and even Pastors come to service and try to draw out the faith that is required for God to move in the service? Can Pastors not only allow others to engage but can they cultivate the gifts in their congregation by raising expectations of God moving and then allowing it to happen? Along with this is the ability to discern and shut down any distractions that are not of God. So that is where teaching can move a congregation along. Natural barriers to tongues do exist. Some are theological misunderstandings while others are practical such as communicating exactly what may happen and letting go of all the intellectual considerations.

So a confluence of things possibly but God will move on those whose heart and mind is centered and who expect. Thanks for sharing the thread. I pray you can be a catalyst to bring out the gifts in whatever place you worship.

The Liturgist said:

Actually literacy in the Christian East was much higher than in Western Europe during the Dark Ages, and the use of icons has only increased along with literacy in the Orthodox world, so the idea that the icons are some sort of visual substitute for reading the Bible, aside from being entirely contradicted by the Iconodule fathers like St. John of Damascus and the Seventh Ecumenical Council, is also debunked

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Interesting. That is different information than I have from other Orthodox sources. What about the Bible in the hands of the common man during the dark ages, when copies were generated at the hand of scribes?

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Hi, Jamdoc > Possibly, I see something here > > >

So, you did not on purpose get yourself stubbed or bumped. However, you were not ready to handle it with a sensitive reaction honoring God. Plus, of course, you might have done something to help the stubbed toe to happen, plus may be you were not as good as you could have been with defensive driving . . . even if the other was wrong to not stay back more.

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Well the stubbed toe is just a thing that happens to most people, going to the bathroom at night etc, the other one that parents deal with in particular.. stepping on a lego.

as for the car accident.. how could I be better at defensive driving? I was stopped at a stoplight. 0mph.

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In any case, you could be more with God so you are ready to stay kind and personal and caring and sensitive to God and strong in being satisfied so you are ready to stay this way and not get into cursing or whatever.

Right . . . you stubbed your toe while walking in the dark, and "stumble" while maybe doing some other thing which you did not need to be doing, plus which got you where you could be ambushed by the porn.

One time, I was on the beach with my family. And I was not looking for a prostitute, but I was looking around at women instead of staying attentive to my family. Then one woman moved out to get my attention and started doing some things which I would expect a stripper to do in order to invite me somewhere private for more of what she might do.

Well . . . that was an ambush, but I got myself into those "bushes" ! ! ! !

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Pornographic advertisement is all over the place, or it can be thrown around on social media.

Daniel Carlton said:

What is a biblical church to you? What are the must have or must not have to be considered a biblical church?

I will give my answer later on as I do not want to influence answers.

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A biblical Church is one that predates the Bible.

chevyontheriver said:

One wonders if there isn't more to the story. Just maybe.

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I certainly hope so or I am going to be really disappointed in a bunch of Christians. I tried to look for it in the article, but could not find anything that makes it look better.

Us Husbands need to know. so please be open about it. my wife and I disagree as to the extent Christian woman like want foreplay. In marriage, her Love language is fulfilled. this is contention in many marriages. how prudish are Chistian women. please respond to better clarify answers (if you can, this is my first post, not sure home this works)

timewerx said:

You risk becoming a hypocrite if you're avoiding sinners while you're still sinning (whether you're aware of it or not)

You also risk judging others unfairly by doing so.

Matthew 7:2
For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.

You are judging sinners with indifference and coldness if you're avoiding sinners. You don't even bother to know what pushes them to sin. God might take it against you if you even make the smallest sin and God won't even bother considering the circumstances that pushed you to sin.

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I love separating myself from sinners. I find it to be most wonderful.
And it serves me well. Praise the Lord.

It gets better...
Unintended Consequences

• Republican State Senator Phil King acknowledged the map's potential for increased competitiveness during its introduction. He stated that the map "is more competitive, but there are no guarantees that it'll elect more Republicans".
• Packing and cracking strategy: The map uses "packing" and "cracking" of Democratic voters to secure five new Republican seats. This concentrates Democratic voters into existing districts and redistributes remaining Democrats into surrounding Republican districts.
  
  • The downside is that it removes Republican votes from surrounding districts, potentially leaving incumbents vulnerable in a strong Democratic year.
• Political gambles: Republicans are gambling that Texas voters will continue to shift right, as seen in the 2024 presidential election. However, the map relies on 2024 data and doesn't account for potential shifts in voter behavior during the 2026 midterms, when Democrats may be more energized.
• Vulnerability in key districts: Democratic leaders, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, have warned that the redistricting map could make several incumbent Republicans vulnerable in the 2026 general election. Democratic analysts have noted that in past midterm years (like 2018 and 2022), some of the new districts would have been far more competitive

I wonder if Newsome was this careless. I'm thinking not.

Valletta said:

There is mounting evidence that the Biden administration tried to cook the books to give Democrats an unfair advantage, which explains why a minority of Democrats (43% compared to 83% Republicans) approve of President Trump’s decision to take a new census that excludes illegal aliens from the population count.

Joe Biden threw open the border to rig the census — and elections for Democrats

We know that the Biden administration deliberately broke the border and ushered in over 20 million illegal aliens, at a huge cost to the nation’s social welfare system.

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Certainly by now many Democratic realize that illegals counted in the census did substantially help Democrats.

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Wait - when was the census? How did that have anything to do with Biden?

When will the next one be? What is it that the Constitution says should be counted?

DOGE put Social Security numbers and other data on a risky server, whistleblower alleges​

The Social Security Administration said it is "not aware of any compromise" to the server and "remains dedicated to protecting sensitive personal data."

The report, filed by the chief data officer for the Social Security Administration (SSA), Charles Borges, alleges that the actions of multiple DOGE staffers “constitute violations of laws, rules, and regulations, abuse of authority, gross mismanagement and creation of a substantial and specific threat to public health and safety.”

Borges' complaint accuses SSA Chief Information Officer Aram Moghaddassi, a longtime ally of Elon Musk, of violating agency policies to “create a live copy of the country’s Social Security information in a cloud environment that circumvents oversight,” in violation of multiple federal statutes.

Following the high court’s ruling [giving DOGE access to SSA data], DOGE staffers requested to move the SSA's database, known as "Numident," to a private cloud server that only DOGE personnel could access “without any independent security or oversight mechanisms in place in violation of laws and creating enormous vulnerabilities," the complaint said.

Those liberals ruined my Uncle Ben's!

What???

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Laughing about a presidential candidate nearly being assassinated. Oh, how hilarious Newsom's Press office is! That'll increase his popularity!

FWIW, I hope he continues. Keep on digging, Gavin!

essentialsaltes said:

West Virginia, South Carolina, Ohio to deploy National Guard troops to D.C.​

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'Downright disrespectful': Military vets blast OH governor's cooperation with Trump​

Violent crime in Washington D.C. is at a thirty year low and Toledo, Dayton, and Cleveland all had a higher crime rate than Washington D.C. in 2024.

“This is not a national emergency,” said VALOR Media Network President Kenneth Harbaugh. “The impact on the morale of these soldiers on the ground is palpable when they are pulled away from their families, when they have to miss birthdays and graduations and the beginning of school and things like that to go guard a Shake Shack.”

“The current deployments … and the ones that are being contemplated in other places throughout the country in the near future are unnecessary and disruptive to the lives of all these citizen soldiers,” said Christopher Dziubek, retired U.S. Army Brigadier General.

“Our loved ones are being deployed, not for defense, not for disaster relief, not for emergencies, but for missions that are vague, polarizing, and even cosmetic,” said Brandi Jones, an Ohio military spouse and co-executive director of Secure Families Initiative.

There is no coming to a deeper/relative understanding of the parable of the richman without seeing it through the lense of the single verse that comes before it ...

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Mass in English - rather than in Latin.

iluvatar5150 said:

But if they were trying to hide it, why did they hang onto it instead of burning it? Your theory doesn't even make logical sense unless the theory is that they tried to burn it, but screwed up and forgot to do so.

Again, unless your guys put it in those burn bags within the last few months, it was not put into the bag during an active, relevant investigation.

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It's been a month.

Michael Steele erupts over 'dumbest' moment of Trump meeting​

MSNBC host and former Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele singled out exchange between President Donald Trump and the U.S. government's top intelligence official as the "dumbest moment" of Tuesday's three-hour Cabinet meeting.

Trump asked Gabbard to update him on former President Joe Biden's supposed abuse of "burn bags."

"You've also found many bags of information. I think they call them burn bags. They're supposed to be burned and they didn't get burned, having to do with how corrupt the 2020 election was," Trump said. "When will that all come out?"

"Mr. President, I will be the first to brief you once we have that information collected, but you're right," Gabbard responded.

Hentenza said:

I am a deacon in my Baptist church in a town right outside of Houston. There is my church, a Methodist church, and a Catholic Church within a couple of blocks. We all talk to each other, fellowship with each other, and even have charitable events together. However when it is time to break bread, as Jesus commanded and as Acts 2:42 states, only the Catholic Church is not welcoming because of their closed communion policy.

Jesus stated that where 2 or 3 are gathered in my name there He is so every one that is gathered in His name whether in a building or not are part of His church. If the Catholic Church wishes unity among the churches and Christians then there is much that they need to change. We still love our Catholic brothers and will continue to fellowship with them simply because that is the call of every Christian.

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The Catholic Church affirms that all baptised persons who believe in Christ are in some way joined to her (cf. Unitatis Redintegratio, §3). However, the Eucharist is not merely a symbol of unity—it is its culmination and visible expression of union and communion in Christ. The Church’s discipline of “closed communion” is not a rejection of others’ faith, but a safeguard of the sacrament’s integrity. As the Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches, “Ecclesial communities derived from the Reformation… have not preserved the proper reality of the Eucharistic mystery in its fullness” (CCC §1400). Because the Eucharist signifies full communion in faith, sacraments, and ecclesial governance, it cannot be shared where that unity does not yet exist (Redemptionis Sacramentum, §84).


You rightly cite Matthew 18:20, and Christ is present where believers gather in His name. Yet His presence in the Eucharist is of a different order—“substantial,” “real,” and “true” (CCC §1374)—requiring full communion with the Church He founded. The Catholic Church earnestly desires unity, but this unity must be rooted in truth and sacramental fidelity. As Pope Benedict XVI affirmed, “The Eucharist is intrinsically linked to full communion with the Church” (Sacramentum Caritatis, §56). Your love for your Catholic brethren is appreciated, and the Church reciprocates that love while remaining faithful to the deposit of faith entrusted to her by Christ.

FAITH-IN-HIM said:

What is your source for claiming the DNC is losing every demographic? Here are the facts.

• In seven of the last nine presidential elections, the Democratic candidate received the most votes in the popular vote.
• Over the past 50 years, less than 20% of African American voters have supported Republican candidates in each election.
• Past 50 years, most Hispanic voters have voted for Democratic candidates.
• Past 50 years, majority women have also tended to support Democratic candidates.
• Past 50 years, majority Americans under age 35 have generally favored Democratic candidates.
• Past 50 years majority of voters with a college degree have chosen Democratic candidates.
• In addition, about 80% of non-Hispanic immigrants have supported Democratic candidates during the last five decades.

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Like I said. I’m not looking for a fight

If you do not want to answer the question, just say so.

Yeesh, I was actually congratulating them and asking if it would help the party

Take a deep breathe. I was on your side wondering if you knew something I didn’t. Sheesh!