A Minnesota mechanic working on a 2015 Ford Edge discovered a wallet under the hood that a Michigan Ford assembly plant worker lost 11 years earlier.

Chad Volk, who runs LC Car Care in Lake Crystal, Minnesota, was under the hood replacing the vehicle's cooling fans and had pulled out the airbox when he made the discovery, he told KARE 11.

When the airbox would not fit when he attempted to put it back into place, Volk had to investigate the problem.

"And that's where the wallet was," Volk told KARE 11.

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essentialsaltes said:

Trump had promised 'severe consequences' to Putin if a ceasefire wasn't reached

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....he conceded the demand he made just two weeks ago.

...so much for the sanctions on India for importing Russian oil.
...so much for the threats against any other country doing the same.

TACO. And Putin knows it.

Vambram said:

Trump wasn't in the government when he was talking about the Obama birther nonsense. Therefore, he didn't come close to committing treason, unlike Adam Schifft.

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Neither one is an example of treason per our constitutional definition. Treason is when you help a country we are war with. We are not at war with Russia or China anymore than we are at war with Mexico or Canada.

And his name is Adam Schiff. No T.

This timeless practice has remarkable benefits for the human mind.​

Every once in a while, you run into a new piece of information that really opens your eyes to a whole new world.

Today, I am taking a break from the regular news cycle to bring you something that really rocked my world: this Epoch Times article on classical music.

Now, before you close this page, thinking this Substack will be a waste of time, give me just two short minutes to prove why you are wrong.

It turns out the “Mozart effect” truly exists, and you don’t have to be a musician to reap the benefits. Take dementia patients, for example.

Professional violinist Ayako Yonetani told The Epoch Times that when she performs for people with dementia, something remarkable happens: they often become more alert, are visibly moved by the music, and at times experience moments of clarity with their families again.

In one particular case, a gray-haired older woman, whose cognition was degraded to sitting motionless with her gaze lowered, suddenly had “her eyes brightened” as she tried to follow along with Yonetani’s performance.

The family reported that “They had never seen her react like this before,” but Ms. Yonetani says this was just one of many times where she noticed a staggering response in dementia patients.

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The Barbarian said:

President Donald Trump claimed without evidence early Monday that his predecessor’s pardons for members of the House select committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attacks on the Capitol are invalid because then-President Joe Biden didn’t use a real pen. And when asked on Monday if he has used autopen, the president said he has.

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Without evidence? It is clear that many EO’s were signed with auto pen. There is evidence some were signed without Joe’s knowledge. All recent presidents have used it but not to the extent In Biden’s case. Your point that Trump says he has used the auto pen is a weak defense for what happened with Joe and a ridiculous comparison.

Bradskii said:

I think we need some light relief from this all-too depressing thread...and with cow bells! Goes full Animal at 2:50. Yeah!

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This gal used to be in Beyonce's band. She really opens it up toward the end. (Dueling sax solos are amazing too).

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A new article from two university professors presents data-based advice about what parents can do to help their kids stay Catholic after they reach adulthood.

“We are losing nine out of ten cradle Catholics,” Michael Rota and Stephen Bullivant write in the Aug. 12 article. For every one convert who enters the Church, nine to 10 of those raised Catholic leave Her.

“Simply put, no realistic amount of evangelizing new people, or bringing back those “prodigals” who have left — mission-critical as both those apostolates are — can make up for these kinds of losses,” the authors say.

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There is a difficult balance to maintain in the spiritual life between the daily discipline of our prayer and learning to love the Lord in our prayer with heart, mind and soul. Nothing brings this into starker relief than times of transition, such as when we travel, go on vacation or move residences. Anything that takes us out of our routine can stress what normally feels like a seamless rhythm of prayer, revealing the tension between discipline and devotion.

The admonition from St. Paul to “pray without ceasing” is an invitation to maintain a consistent relationship of dialogue with God, but this call to unceasing prayer is not as much about discipline as it is about a disposition of the heart. In fact, Christ underlines the importance of this approach to prayer in the Gospel of Luke, encouraging his disciples that they ought “to pray always and not to lose heart.” We can be assiduous in our discipline of prayer, but unless we pray with all of our heart, mind and soul, we risk developing a temperament akin to what Christ corrected in the Pharisees. In Matthew’s Gospel, Christ is adamant that those who live according to the covenant but are not transformed by fidelity to it are like “whitewashed tombs, which on the outside look beautiful, but inside they are full of the bones of the dead and of all kinds of filth.”

‘A surge of the heart’

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Hoping2 said:

Won't true contrition for sin produce a life without sin ?
Won't humility to God produce obedience to God ?
The answer is "Yes" to both questions.
Salvation IS the reward for our love for God and neighbor.

Stop right there.
My comments are about converted people.
That conversion can change, as actual salvation won't be assigned until the day of judgement/day of judgement.

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That's new. I didn't know people who thought they were perfect (Matt 5:48) and holy (1 Pet 1:16) also thought they might not survive judgement.

Hoping2 said:

I see no inconsistency here.
God cannot be tempted, but we can.
We are not God, just His children.
Jesus was tempted !

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There is no way the devil's temptations could ever have been successful against Jesus just as it was impossible that death could hold Him (Ac 2:24).

Hoping2 said:

"Only reflecting the attributes of Father" only applies to the fruit brought forth, as 1 John 3:9 makes clear.
Attributes and characteristics are two different things.

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Your argument is circular in that the fruit of the Spirit include "love", "kindness", "goodness", "faithfulness", and "self-control" (Ga 5:22–23) but then you say these may not apply to a person when "he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed" (Jas 1:14).

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As His offspring have crucified their past lusts, with the affections and flesh, (Gal 5:24); temptations/enticements have no power.
So you are correct.

What is the opposite of "legal" ?
Illegal !
Is that what you want to be ? Illegal ?
BTW, the only real legalists are those who want us to go back under the Mosaic Law.
Complete with circumcision, dietary rules, feast keeping, sabbath keeping, etc.

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No, thinking and preaching that what began in the Spirit is perfected by the flesh is legalism (Ga 3:3).

Hoping2 said:

Folks can claim they are converted all their lives, but salvation will only be granted at our resurrection; either to eternal life or eternal damnation.

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It's not possible to undo what has already been declared. Those of us who have rested from our works and have placed all our hope in Christ (and have been verified to have done so by God who sees the thoughts and intents of the heart per Hebrews 4:11-13) have be saved (Eph 2:5, 8).

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Everyday is a battle to remain on the narrow path, and there are many adversaries.
Heed the Lord's, and the apostle's exhortations and admonissions, and live forever.
"Drop your guard", and experience the lake of fire.
Our final judgement will be on how we lived: not on some self-repeated sayings.

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Stepping back, I now must admit I am more confused than ever before about the doctrine of Sinless Perfection. Until now, I thought that it took 1 John 3:9 literally when it said the one born of God can not sin because His seed remains in him. Now, I see that succumbing to temptation is not impossible for the one born of God in the eyes of those who hold the doctrine. Now it appears that the doctrine is nothing more than to say we must avoid all sins to get into heaven. This would be impossible if there were no forgiveness of sins. Where does that play in?

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Trump who said he could end the war in 24 hours wasn’t expecting to get a ceasefire out of the meeting?

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He said it would be very.

“Back in my internet apologetics days,” my young friend Tim told me, “I mostly used converts as weapons against various strains of Protestantism.” He’d grown up Catholic and had read lots of conversion stories, and he found those converts’ testimonies about their former religions’ problems and failures useful.

He learned something else. He found the converts he liked the most “were not those who had the most devastating arguments against their former sect, but the ones who looked back on their previous experiences with sincere appreciation and affection. Ex-Catholic evangelicals often seemed to look back on Catholicism with bitterness or disdain, but Catholic converts saw God working in their lives before they crossed the Tiber.”

Three qualifications​

Tim’s observations generally fit my own as a convert, with three qualifications. First, I’ve known some Catholic converts who feel very bitter about the religious bodies they grew up in, especially if they grew up fundamentalist.

Second, grateful converts often remember with gratitude the good people they knew, but not so much the religion itself. They see goodness and holiness in people whose religion they came to believe is defective.

I credit my own conversion to serious Christianity in part to a saintly Baptist deacon and his son. They were wonderful people whose lives made the Gospel story credible, but they believed things I knew even then were wrong. Some of those things were destructively wrong, like their bigoted view of the Catholic Church, which they tried to impart to me.

Third, some people who talk publicly the way Tim describes are much more bitter and critical in private. A former Episcopalian I knew many years ago, and quite admired, who eventually became a friend, would talk about the wonders of the evangelicalism of his youth and the beauties of the Anglicanism to which he’d moved as an adult.

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RileyG said:

That’s fair.

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I wouldn't go that far.

JosephZ said:

I have added additional context.





Your post is dehumanizing, and you don't dehumanize people you care about.

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When did the Palestinians of now begin to call themselves Palestinians?

A pastor, his wife and his mother were fatally shot in their home by a teenage relative in North Carolina.

The victims died after the pastor's 15-year-old nephew opened fire inside the family's residence.

The victims have been identified as Danny Richards, 57, his wife, Sabrina Richards, 54, and his mother, Clara Richards, 74, according to The Fayetteville Observer, which reported that the shooting was reported on Tuesday evening at the couple’s house on Kentucky Derby Drive in the Trotter’s Ridge neighborhood of Harnett County, North Carolina, north of Anderson Creek.

The Sheriff’s Office said the teenager was the nephew of Danny and Sabrina Richards and had been living in the home, Spectrum News1 reported.

A 10-year-old child in the house, identified as a cousin of the suspect, called 911 to report that several family members had been shot. The child was not injured.

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I don't think AI has been around long enough to have had much of an effect on Christianity and the Gospel. As far as that goes, the "Gospel" doesn't change, although Christianity changes in the sense of having cultural baggage.

By cultural baggage I mean the various outward forms the church has taken since it's inception. It began as a persecuted religion under the Roman Empire, but also spread very rapidly due to the Roman roads and so on. After it's legalisation the centre of gravity moved to Constantinople for a period, then back to Rome.

This was followed by the Reformation, with Protestant USA as one result, and Catholic Latin America as another. With the rise of the printing press, democracy, and modern society it has changed again. The Catholic Church moved from a Vatican I mentality to a Vatican II viewpoint.

Modern style evangelisation took place, with Christianity well represented on the airwaves and television, and nowadays on the internet.

AI is just one more development. Maybe we're moving towards Dietrich Bonhoeffer's "secular Christianity" (whatevet that is) in a "world come of age".

For my part I think God is going to drive us off the planet and out into the universe. If He does, AI and robotics are going to play a critical role.

Since they're both here, along with space exploration and nascent teleporation, I think that's on the cards.

But the Gospel doesn't change.

Hail Mary,
Full of Grace,
The Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among women,
and blessed is the fruit
of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary,
Mother of God,
pray for us sinners now,
and at the hour of our death.
Amen

Fantine said:

Friends heard him speak today. He is the son of Holocaust Survivors whose doctoral thesis was on Zionism but who, in 1982, after Israel attacked Lebanon, became convinced that Israel was creating a holocaust of its own against Palestinians.

He has taught in a number of universities and written several books, including "A Nation on Trial" and "The Holocaust Industry."

I am sorry I missed his speech (at the state capitol.) I think that, as the son of Holocaust survivors, he has an important message for the US and Israel.

To me it almost seems as if the citizens of Israel are suffering massive PTSD--even though most never lived through the Holocaust themselves. The conflicts between Hamas and Israel, greatly exacerbated by Israel's continuous human rights violations and incursions into territory they had not been given in 1948, has also caused residual PTSD.

But at some point people with PTSD have to do whatever they can to heal from their trauma and move on with their lives. Bitterness and revenge will never give them the peace they so badly need.

I may look up his book.

Norman Finkelstein - Wikipedia

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Yes. I have been following him for years. Now his fears have come to fruition.