Lately, I started playing a video game again but mostly NOT for entertainment. In fact, the game I'm playing now (Battlefield 2) is not even one of my favorites. But found it significantly improved my situational awareness and mental focus in street skating, and improving safety as well. So I play the video game immediately before my skating sessions.

It's disturbing how the AI in the 20 year old video game mimics the behavior of people on the road both as motorist and pedestrian. Taught me fairly accurately to anticipate people's next moves on the road. Either the game AI is that surprisingly advanced for the period or people have become quite distracted all the time, they act worse than AI on the road.

2PhiloVoid said:

It sounds like he has trouble from childhood with aligning with God's will for whatever reasons.

To be frank, this is a public forum and it's no one's place here to tell you to divorce him if he is indeed NPD, and I'd prefer to think that if you could just sit down with him and read the New Testament together that even he could get a clue.

But being that I'm aware of human psychological reality, that sometimes certain people are just broken inside.......................then if things are bad between you and him, get some certified professional counseling before you make any important, final decisions.

It would be ideal if both of you could work it out over the next few months, but if he's NPD, I know that's a low probability.

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Thank you so much for your feedback. He’s refusing to go to counseling and he doesn’t read the bible. So I’m going to keep praying and continue trying to talk things over with him. Not sure where things will end up but I am taking this decision very seriously and will not make any final decisions until I know God has confirmed it.

I think he has a really good point. Me? I've never used chat bots and I have no desire to.

BukiRob said:

Both ROME and the Church in Asia minor celebrated AND OBSERVED PASSOVER exactly as prescribed in scripture. A disagreement over when was to be observed rose. Rome departed from scripture opting for a FIXED Sunday was chosen by the Bishop in Rome(Victor) and Polycarp the bishop of SMYRNA and a direct disciple of John the apostle disagreed and said that John taught otherwise that it was to be observed the 14th of Nissan.

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False. Eusebius's account identifies both the Nisan 14 practice and the Sunday practice as being old and established by the time the quarrel between Victor and Polycrates (not Polycarp) broke out. The Sunday practice was the majority practice (Church History 5.23). The Nisan 14 practice was used only in the Roman Province of Asia (not all of Asia Minor).

Christsfreeservant said:

And this ministers to me, too: For all the times in my life where I was walking by faith, and I was obeying God, which was the majority of my life, I kept getting mistreated by men, many of them serving as pastors, who had no regard for me, for I was a woman and I didn’t have credentials that made me important in their sight. And so some of them misjudged me because of my sincerity of faith in the Lord and my seriousness of purpose in speaking the word of the Lord, and many of them just cast me aside as a nob

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I think that over the last half century, men have engaged in corrupt professional practices here and there, while women were still wisely staying at home. And instead of reforming themselves, some have degraded them in turn, so as not to have to face their shame in their eyes.
Corrupting one's brother (or sister) has been an international sport. Facing this is probably the only policy that can prevent decadence.

Evil communication corrupts good manners... Or in his words... Bad company corrupts good morals.

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The Liturgist said:

To clarify: @MarkRohfrietsch didn’t say that you had, after all, you identify as non-denom so one would assume you don’t accept her writings as inspired prophecy. Rather, he was giving an example of what he believed St. Paul was referring to.

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I am fully aware of the intent of his posts. But thank you for your reply.

And yes, according to his post, I gather that he believes Paul was teaching to the Colossians; "It was, in the first place, declared improper to follow the custom of the Jews in the celebration of this holy festival, because, their hands having been stained with crime, the minds of these wretched men are necessarily blinded. ... Let us, then, have nothing in common with the Jews, who are our adversaries. ... Let us ... studiously avoiding all contact "with that evil way". ..

But it is clear that the Jews were not following God's Feasts, or His Judgments or His Sabbaths. This I know because EVERY Word Jesus used to define the doctrines and philosophies of the Pharisees religion, exposed this undeniable truth. And the Law and Prophets is full of the rebuke of the "Jews Religion", as Paul calls it, who despised God's Laws, Judgments and Commandments, and went about establishing their own.

So the religious philosophy being promoted here, in my view, is promoting the rejection of God's Word, because of the disobedience of men who rejected God's Word. As if it was the Feasts of the Lord, that caused them to persecute and murder the Lord's Christ. When the truth is, they polluted and defiled the Feasts of the Lord, and rejected His Judgments.

According to what is actually written in scriptures, had the rebellious Jews repented and turned to God, like Peter and Paul did, and, as Paul teaches both Jew and Gentile, "Yielded themselves" a servant to obey God, which Paul said was simply "their reasonable service", they wouldn't have murdered anyone.

They would have known the Lord's Christ, just as Zacharias and Elizabeth knew the Lord's Christ, before HE was even born, as Simeon and Anna did. And the Wise men did.

I do not believe Paul was promoting the rejection of God's sabbaths or Feasts to the Colossians based on what is actually written, as they are shadows of things yet to be fulfilled.

While The Jewish feast of Hanukkah, and other man made high days created by this world's religions, are shadows of nothing to come.

I am happy to discuss this understanding, and I appreciate your zeal and willingness to engage. And I know we might not agree concerning Paul's teaching. But the discussions are a good thing in my view.

Homan is giving them every opportunity. However, it seems to me that the agitators, led by Walz, Frey, and Omar, are not going to comply with federal law.

JacquelineDeane55 said:

Have any of you ever felt this way about where you were born?

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Yes, and it is a long way from a small town in Florida - it is on the southern edge of London.

My birth, in my family's then home, caused a load of complications in life too.

I have been back to the town a few times, it is only an hour away, I can get there. But it is not the same now, the local community has changed beyond all recognition since the army were moved to somewhere else.

London is not exactly the same, but London is much harder to change...it has been there, being itself, for a very long time.

Um, hi earthbear. I am not going to ask you what wrong deed you did that made you a criminal, but I implore you to ask Jesus to help you develop more empathy. Jesus can do everything after all.

Fred Flinstone

I will never grow facial hair. I'm fine looking young as possible.

Please pray for an elderly woman who recently died.

Eternal rest grant unto her, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon her. May she rest in peace. Amen. May her soul, and all the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen!

Lord have mercy! Lord have mercy on the Russian faithful! Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us!

Well, look at that, federal funding for higher education is the next thing the administration is trying to break.

I'm surprised this is still a thing. Haven't heard of the "bronies" in a while.

Aryeh Jay said:

No, that's the official solid 24kt gold plated Trump 2020 election coin.

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Thank you.

Sometimes it's difficult to tell.

Take care.

Here in the states, in inner cities struggling with many who are troubled, this would have resulted in him being rushed by users and thrown out.

I have actually seen this done in real life during the mass.

It was horrific and over the top for a hurting stranger who harmed no one at all.

Pushing and shoving the person who did nothing at all except walk in and walk towards the altar.....

No gun, no threats....nothing.

Message being sent was to get lost, because we hate you here.

A few years later, I saw him attending a non-denomination church I often passed by in transportation

I know....its actually hard to know what's up in these situations

However, the priest did nothing at all to even ask us to pray for this man.

Nothing.

But there sure was a lot of ridiculous and over the top responses of bringing in armed off duty and retired military, because nothing at all had ever happened, except for the one....who was simply seeking Jesus.

He found Him

Somewhere else.

It's Punky Brewster

Ending credit song from Bugonia.

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A cave in Bethlehem, revered by Christians around the world as the place of Christ’s birth, will undergo a restoration for the first time in 600 years as part of a collaborative effort to preserve a sacred site that connects believers to the roots of their faith.

The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem and the Custody of the Holy Land announced the restoration of the Grotto of the Nativity in a joint statementon Jan. 23. The project involves the cooperation of the Armenian Apostolic Orthodox Patriarchate and is carried out under the auspices of the Presidency of the State of Palestine.

An Italian firm that also restored the Basilica of the Nativity will carry out the renovation project on the Grotto of the Nativity. The grotto, identified by many as the birthplace of Jesus Christ, features a large, 14-pointed silver star encased in white marble that marks the scene of the nativity.

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