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The NEA is pushing far left teaching upon children

So forget about the studies for a second, If gender affirming care led to lower suicide rates would that be enough for those who are not supportive to those actions to reconsider?
This is hypothetical. There aren't any reliable studies that show this. There is a lot that isn't covered in a questionnaire. Often we cant even see the questionnaire. We dont know anything about the people. We have no idea what other comorbitities they have. No, sorry, this is not real scientific research. It's interesting. It is something to consider, but its not reliable.
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The earth is circular in shape, like a
compass.


Pro 8:27 When he prepared the heavens, I was there:
when he set a compass upon the face of the depth.
Setting a compass on the face of the deep doesn't mean that the earth is circular.
Isa 40:22 It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the
earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers;
that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain.
For the umpteenth time you quote this verse as though it said, "It is he that sitteth upon the
earth, and the earth is a circle." The verse does not say that. It says that the Lord sits on the circle, compass or circuit of the earth, so the earth has a circle. Spheres have circles. The earth's equator is one. "The circle of the earth" does not mean the same thing as "The earth is a circle." If somebody visited you t home, they could say, "I visited the home of Apple Sky." Nobody would think he or she meant, "Apple Sky is a home," would they? So why do you twist Isaiah's words, "The circle of the earth" to make them mean, "The earth is a circle?"
Job 38:14 The earth is changed as clay is by a seal; its
hills stand out like the folds of a garment.
Once again, you have missed the context, which is the coming of the dawn, whose light causes the features of the earth to be clearly seen.
Job 26:10 He hath compassed the waters with
bounds, until the day and night come to an end.
True, but that says nothing about the earth's shape.
Psa 88:17 They came round about me daily like
water; they compassed me about together.

Again, nothing about the earth's shape.
Isa 44:13 The carpenter stretcheth out his rule; he
marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes,
and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh
it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty
of a man; that it may remain in the house.
Once more, nothing about the earth's shape.
The Earth has borders. Antarctica is
an ice wall surrounding us.


Gen 1:10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the
gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and
God saw that it was good.
Psa 33:7 He gathereth the waters of the sea together
as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses.
Pro 8:27 When he prepared the heavens, I was there:
when he set a compass upon the face of the depth.
Isa 40:22 It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the
earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers;
that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and
spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in.
Job 26:10 He hath compassed the waters with
bounds, until the day and night come to an end.
Job 38:8 Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it
brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?
Job 38:11 And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but
no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
Psa 74:17 Thou hast set all the borders of the earth:
thou hast made summer and winter.
Psa 104:9 Thou hast set a bound that they may not
pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.
Act 17:26 And hath made of one blood all nations of
men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and
None of those verses even mention an ice wall that surrounds the earth, or Antarctica. Indeed neither of those things is even mentioned in the bible.
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Hell doesn't exist and there is no eternal suffering, instead bad peolle just cease to exist

49,000 denominations
"Among the 23,600 “Independents” and “Marginals” (70% of the whole) are large numbers of groups one would have a hard time calling Protestant. They include Mormons (122 denominations), Jehovah’s Witnesses (229 denominations), Masons (28 denominations), Christadelphians (21 denominations) Unitarians (29 denominations), Christian Science (59 denominations), Theosophists (3 more denominations), British Israelites (8 denominations), Prosperity Gospel groups (27 denominations), Oneness Pentecostals (680 denominations), “Hidden Buddhist Believers in Christ” (9 denominations), wandering bishops (12 denominations), Independent Nestorians (5 denominations), occultists (3 denominations), spiritists (20 denominations), Zionists (159 denominations), even “Arab radio/TV network” (19 denominations), “gay/homosexual tradition” (2 denominations), and schismatic Catholics (435 denominations). It is a strange and eclectic list. (See here and here.)" We Need to Stop Saying That There Are 33,000 Protestant Denominations | National Catholic Register

"Critics point out that the high numbers often come from counting every national branch of a global communion as if it were a separate denomination. For example, instead of treating the Catholic Church as a single worldwide body, some tallies list it multiple times—once for each country—so that it appears as hundreds of separate denominations rather than one unified church."


and

"While headlines or casual conversations may repeat the figure of 45,000 denominations, that number is based on overly broad definitions. A more careful tally—focusing on major denominational families or communions—puts the figure in the low hundreds." Bolding mine.

How Many Denominations of Christianity Are There? — Anthony Delgado

The source of the highly questionable statistic "49,000" is here - https://www.gordonconwell.edu/center-for-global-christianity/research/quick-facts/
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Why do people hate ICE...

Is it your claim that if the executive department disagrees with the legality of a judges order it can simply ignore it?
Yes I do if the order is out of the judges jurisdiction. In many of the cases regarding district Court judges it was questionable whether it was or wasn't and Trump didn't ignore those. In this case however, we have specific judges to deal with immigration law. Their word is final. Except for the Supreme Court. This judge has no legal jurisdiction by law over immigration courts.
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There’s a Giant Flaw in Human History

No but understanding the marks left by the egyptians tools matter.
The marks left by the Egyptians is the same marks the experts are trying to determine what made them. How are the marks any different because they are Egyptian. If they are made on a lathe it does not matter if they are Egyptian marks lol. They are lathing marks, not Egyptian marks.

Unless there is a special Egyptian lathing mark. Or maching mark. The machine cuts in granite such as the arc cuts are not Egyptian cuts but machined arc cuts. Similar mached arc cuts we may see later in history made by the same method. You don't have to be Egyptian to know this.
Not making the code though.
I am sure his expertise came in valuable in developing the software. You don't know whether he knows coding as part of the areas he specialises in. So you can't make these absolute claims without evidence. This is what I mean by the double standards. You double down without showing this is the case.
I know I've read his articles.
Then show he has no understanding of coding. From what I understand Marian specialises in the 3D digitalisation of ancient and cultural artifacts. That is transforming 3d objects into the digital space. I would say that includes knowledge of coding in digitalising objects into ,amagable software programs.

Nevertheless he may offer a specific expertise in the process of relating artifiacts in the software. The unusual and unprecedented shapes and how best to accommodate this in specific aspects of the software.

The point is we don't know and your making claims without evidence based on your unsupported opinion. All the researchers were called amatuer and I know the others have software expertise.

Dr. Márton Szemenyei, PhD is an assistant professor at the Department of Control Engineering and Information Technology
Suit yourself.
lol fair enough. Everyone can suit themselves.
You do you, what do you want me to say?
Just be fair and honest. Thats all. So long as the criteria is fairly applied to all.
Suit yourself.
Now its just not acknowledging the bias.
The measure is decided by the method not the object of the result.
Yes and the different ways the vase can be measures all come to the same result. Whether you use a professional ruler like Petrie 100 years ago. Or the guague metrology that monitors the vase directly through sensors. Or the different scanning techniques such as structured light, X ray or Photgrametry.

The end result is the come to the same measures. Just some are more refined and down to the micron. But the micron level today is not disputing Petries measures. They are actually confirming them with even tighter precision.
They didn't get the same results, they used different quality criteria. The 1968 vase is grouped with modern replicas, I know.
So are you saying that if they took one of the vases from say Karoyls results and applied Dr Max's and the Vase Scan Projects methods that they would come to a different measure for circularity for example. Some will find it with good circularity and the other will find poor circularity for the same vase.
Perhaps they are but it has not been shown. I don't believe they are.
I am glad you say "don't believe" as there is ample evidence they were lathed or turned on something to achieve such high precision.

Part of Karoyls scanning was to scan the best example of an 18th dynastic alabasta vase made with the Bore Stick method depicted on the walls. I linked this vase before here. As Christ King says the Alabasta vase clearly matches the Bore Stick method. Which could grind out a softer vase but because it was a wobbly device you can see it is lop sided.

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So we accept that the pretty good finish from the 18th dynasty using a form of lathe in the Bore Stick produced softer vases.

Yet in the British museum they have two preynastic large precision hard stone vases sitting just under a picture of the same 18th dynastic relief implying they were also made by the Bore Stick method. Quite deceptive. They never state how the predysnastic vases were made. Just that they were for Royalty.

So if the soft alabasta vase shows evidence of a simple lathing mechanism that created 18th dynasty vases. Then why all of a sudden argue that there was no lathing involved in far superior vases with better circularity.

Its inconsistent and double standards. Somehow ancients by sheer freehand grinding, poundin g and rubbing made better vases than later ones which we know were made using Bore sticks and not freehand.

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I thought you referred to Marians article about using photogrammetry for estimating the effects of pounders. Did you mean some other article?
Lol I actually forgot this was Marians work. I didn't refer to it because of Marian but as an example of evidence showing that the small dolorite pounders was not the method.
Ok, link that article then.
I already have.
The body's are in aluminium, not stone. They don't have surface deviations in the mm range. One material is highly ductile the other is not.
Do the use similar principles for setting the cuts, the angles of the arm and how a machine can manovour to cut such shapes.

But I keep saying this is hypocracy. Others have cited their knowledge and experience of lathing on wood and metal and there was no issue. Why are you now making it an issue. This is why I don't trust what is said as its double standards.
Smith? Chris King? Where I involved in a dialogue with the others at the time?
Sorry King. No people were using their knowledge and experience of lathing on wood and metals to argue their case and it was all acceptable then. Funny how the goal posts change when it comes to the people I link.
So get it in a journal then.
We don't need to. We can check it out ourselves and see the measurements. Numbers don't lie.
They could have modeled a receiver in the chamber, and calculated the transmitted power as a function of the external field strength and wavelength.
This is what they said was next

The team is now looking at how pyramidal nanoparticles can be used in new and innovative ways to create new technologies such as nanosensors and highly efficient solar cells. The team also plans to do further simulations of the Great Pyramid using radio waves at shorter wavelengths.
It is not accepted as true until it is experimentally verified, the chase after the Higgs boson stretched over decades.
I think this is a bit different. But nevertheless no one was calling the idea of the Higgs boson as psuedoscience. It was expected that it would be found because the modelling was correct.
You do realise that granite is a common material? Today we have terrestrial medium wave radio wave sources that are in the 2 MW range (in Hungary), it can be picked up in the US in good conditions. Have anybody picked up any hungarian news on the radio inside the king's chamber?

Or is the granite blocks in Hungary laying vibrating on the ground, cracking as they vibrate at 560 kHz?
Or Quartz watches that only need a shake to get the electro charge going. Its a common material but potententially a material that can be utilised to generate electrical effects.
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Progressive government is the antithesis of a biblically based republic.

Pseudo science that you yourself push by acting as if America is the only country that exists
The existence of other countries or not is not a matter of science or pseudoscience. You should stop using that those terms as you aren't using them correctly.
You asked "Who are these men killed for their belief in your god". Shouldn't your endgame be to find out who the men are? But obviously it isn't, because once I gave you examples of the men killed, you claimed it was impossible to know whether someone can be killed for belief in God or not, meaning there was no lose condition for you to begin with. You are a bad faith actor and really should be banned for wasting everyone's time here
And Steve answered, and the answer was "Charlie Kirk". As I posted earlier, it is a dubious notion that he was "killed for believing in God".
As shown by my previous reply there'd be no amount of motivation or evidence satisfactory to you anyway because you aren't actually open to changing your mind on anything
You are rather quick to evaluate things (and people) you don't know. You've been on this board for a couple weeks. have a little humility.
I know it doesn't but you act as if it does because you ignore every other country besides America
I already explained this.
You should probably leave the guy alone
I've made that suggestion to him, but he keeps writing longer and longer replies.
Seem to have no problem using 'a' now.
I didn't say it had completely failed.
I claimed science says black people exist. Are you disagreeing?
That isn't a determination of science. Do you know what science actually is?
Progressives bend over backwards to serve minorities that are actually majorities globally
What makes you think I am a "progressive"? Did I say I was?
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Porneia, sexual immorality and romantic love, committed love in marriage.

AI overview:

Porneia

is a Greek word that translates to "sexual immorality" or "fornication" and refers to any form of illicit sexual activity. It is a broad term that can encompass prostitution, adultery, incest, and other forms of sexual misconduct or "sexual sin of any kind". The English word "pornography" is derived from this Greek term.

Specific meanings and uses of porneia
  • General sexual immorality: It is a broad term for sexual relations outside of marriage.
  • Prostitution: The word is related to the Greek porne, meaning "prostitute" or "harlot," and porneia can refer to prostitution or harlotry.
  • Adultery: In some biblical passages, porneia is used to describe adultery, which is sexual intercourse with someone else's spouse.
  • Incest: The New Testament uses porneia to describe an incestuous relationship in 1 Corinthians 5:1.
  • Other sexual sin: It can also be used as a catch-all term for any sexual transgression, including fornication (premarital sex) and lewdness.
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Gracious Heavenly Father and Lord Jesus,
I pray for Your mercy on FoundinGrace's financial situation. I pray for another job if that is Your Will, but also Your wisdom about what forms of aid are available to them and what You would have them do. 2 jobs not enough to make ends meet? Please help them and shower them with relief.
In Christ's Name,
Amen
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Trump's Warrior Board

Let's remember that the 2025 plan is to remove merit-based selection entirely from the Senior Executive Service (the Civil Service equivalent of general officers) and replace them with political appointees.
More like removing the enemies within, better known as cleaning house
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Texas A&M fires lecturer, administrators over classroom gender discussion caught on video

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"Don't Give up the Ship"

The “official “ liberal narrative of Jan 6 is bunk! Go figure. The unofficial Jan 6 committee was a sham and is being exposed.

No damage done then?

Yes a young woman was murdered and many people were denied rights.
Who was the incumbent President who presided when this young woman was killed?
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