tonychanyt said:

Moses commanded the weekly Sabbaths in Ex 20:


Moses also commanded other festival days of rest. E.g., Leviticus 23:


i.e. at the end of Nisan 14


Moses commanded that the day after Nisan 14 was to be a day of rest, whatever day of the week it fell on. Actually, the term high Sabbath is not in the Bible. The confusion came from John 19:


Jesus was crucified on Friday, Nisan 15, a Paschal day of rest. Nisan 16 was a weekly Saturday Sabbath day. There was a Sabbath day followed by another Sabbath day. I suppose that one can define the second Sabbath day as a High Sabbath day.

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I understand it to mean that when Holy days of celebration coincide with a sabbath day, it becomes a High Sabbath day. So for eg, a Saturday is Sabbath but when Passover or any other holy day occurs on a certain day it is also a day of rest. A high Sabbath day.

Leviticus 23 speaks of these days, when no ordinary work is to be done. A day of rest.

iluvatar5150 said:

This seems like a pretty easy technical legal fix - just make the database not subject to such requests. Restrict access to law enforcement and other government entities, and to individuals looking up their own information.

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That closes up the loophole of that one scenario like the newspaper using a FOIA request to get it and build an interactive map to publish.

Although, it doesn't necessarily solve the issues of hack or other technical failures...like for instance (hypothetically) if their system is on Windows, and a company...let's call them Crowdstrike... pushes a botched update that disrupts the system.

A display case at the Museum of Cheese in Paris – credit, Musee du Fromage, released to the media

Fromage, Formaggio, Käse, Queso: cheese—one of the Old World’s great romance stories.

In the heart of Paris, a new museum has opened dedicated to the ages-old craft of cheesemaking in France, the second most prolific producer on the continent (behind Italy).

At the newly-opened Musee du Fromage, visitors can learn about the history of cheese making, something which may have been going on for 5,000 years. They can learn about the story of various famous French cheeses, see cheese made, talk to real cheesemakers, and yes, taste them.

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What do you think of John 3:1-5 about being born again

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Spiritual rebirth is by sovereign choice of the Holy Spirit (Jn 3:3-5), who is as unaccountable as the wind (Jn 3:6-8).
Man has nothing to do with his spiritual rebirth, just as he had nothing to do with his natural birth.

A woman who rescued a dog from a shelter was amazed and overwhelmed to learn that the Siberian husky returned the favor.

Samantha Griffen might have died before the carbon monoxide detector even went off, but the husky, Luna, had other ideas.

Moving into a new house on 54th and Prestwick Sq, Marion, Indiana last June, her water heater started leaking, spilling the dangerous gas into the home.

Griffen had only adopted Luna, a now two-year-old husky, 6 months ago.

“I had a migraine, so I went into my room and was resting like I normally do and she was not going to let me sleep,” Griffin told WRTV.


“If she hadn’t gotten me outside, I would fallen asleep in here like completely fallen asleep and probably wouldn’t have woke up.”

Griffen said that Luna jumped on the bed and kept her from falling asleep until she took the dog outside, where, eventually, the CO1 detector did go off. She then got all the children out of the house as fast as possible and called her utilities company.

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In Cambodia, 60 eggs were found in the nest of one of the world’s most endangered large reptiles which after hatching set a new record for an international conservation effort to save them.

It was believed the Siamese crocodile, with the distinctive bony crest running down its skull, was extinct in the wild until it was rediscovered in 2000. Almost all of the 400 animals remaining live in Cambodia.

A network of private-public partnerships have been organizing conservation measures to protect the species, including captive breeding and reintroduction programs, and village patrols to ensure their nests and habitat are not tampered with.

In May, locals in the Cardamom Mountains found a nesting site in an area that crocodiles hadn’t been released, suggesting they are expanding and breeding under their own powers: a tremendous sign for the species’ recovery.

“The hatching of 60 new crocodiles is a tremendous boost,” said Pablo Sinovas, who leads the Cambodia programme of conservation group Fauna & Flora International, which has been running a captive breeding program since 2012.


They’ve successfully reintroduced 196 crocs back into the wild, and it was they who deployed a team of conservationists to the nest site found in May for round-the-clock care and observation until every last one of the 60 eggs hatched, bringing their precious cargo into the world.

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Peace in Christ.

Christ Jesus the Lord takes out of our way the handwriting of “ordinances” ….that is, “dogmas” which means in ancient Greek “that which one thinks is true” or “opinion.”
The handwriting speaks of the governing church handwritings of ordinances such as “statements of faith,” church constitutions, church bylaws, creeds, etc, etc, etc. that many observe more than they observe the “handwriting” of God’s laws which are written within our hearts and minds.

His kingdom/government is within and does not come from observation of external man’s writings.

Col 2:13-15 KJV
(13) And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;

The church handwritings are “contrary” to us…..that is, “opposed” or “adversarial” to us.

They are the device of “Satan” (which also means “opposer” or “adversary”) used by the false prophets to deceive us into serving THE sin: judging others using the handwriting of ordinances. Judging another is not having love for them. We mortally perish with the using of their handwritings for the serving of the sin. The wages of the sin is the death….the death of the mortal body.

(14) Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;

But He forgives us for this….nailing it to His cross.

And so we who are the vessels of His mercy must go forth from them….making a show of them openly . They….the principalities and powers of man’s handwritings… have no power over us.

(15) And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

We have a commandment from the Father: “Arise, let us go from here”.

We show them that we love the Father when we depart from those who are worshipping their “graven images”….the graven-by-the-pen church scribes’ handwritings. We are to follow in His footsteps and also go to the Father who will then receive us.

John 14:30-31 KJV
(30) Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me.
(31) But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence.

For what agreement has the temple of God with “idols”…that is, IMAGES (the graven image of their handwritings)? “idol” = “image” = Greek “eidōlon” - an image (that is, for worship).

The “images” are their church handwritings of ordinances that they are careful to keep….bowing down to them.

2Co 6:16-18
(16) And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols (images)? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

We have a commandment to come out from among them and be separate.

(17) Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,

We show that we love the Father by doing so.

(18) And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

The “customs”….that is, statutes or ordinances…. of the people are empty. Their handwritings are dead works of the workman of the church scribes. A tree cut out of the forest is dead. There is no life in their church handwritings of ordinances.

Jer 10:
(3) For the customs (STATUTES/ORDINANCES) of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.

Yet, they make it precious in their sight. They fasten it with nails and hammers…that is, they continue to preach them over and over again to their congregations making them “sure”…fastened… in the ears of many. Their handwritings do not move out of their churches. They are fixed and never move.

(4) They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

They appear outwardly righteous but they are not.

Be not afraid of their church handwritings of ordinances for they cannot do evil to you for not keeping them. They are powerless and empty. We make an open show of them by leaving this all behind.

(5) They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.

Why be subject to their “ordinances”/dogmas? They have a show of wisdom in keeping them but do not do anything to save your mortal flesh. They are empty and cannot save anyone as all perish with the using up of them.

Col 2:20-23 KJV
(20) Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,
(21) (Touch not; taste not; handle not;
(22) Which all are to perish with the using) after the commandments and doctrines of men?
(23) Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body; not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh.

Satan savors the things of men….their handwritings…and not the things of God.

Satan….the opposer… is transformed into a messenger of light (knowledge). He uses the handwritings of men to deceive many into being slaves to the sin by using that false knowledge (the handwritings of the ordinances of men which are opposite to us).

2Co 11:13-15 KJV
(13) For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
(14) And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.

Satan’s ministers also preach his handwritings as though keeping them are the works of true righteousness. The keeping of their handwritings do not save our mortal flesh. It only destroys it. They only come to steal, kill and destroy those they deceive.

(15) Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works

From south Texas comes the incredible story of how a TikTok content creator channeled his channel for good—rescuing a cat and a cat shelter by inspiring thousands in donations.

Broken by Victoria Lopez at My San Antonio, the story is a reminder of social media’s stunning potential to do good if it can just manage to capture enough people’s fleeting attention.

Spencer is the brains and motor behind the SB Mowing TikTok and YouTube channels, which document his hobby of finding people who can’t mow their lawns and doing it for them. With a combined following of 15 million people, it’s a great showing that kindness pays.

In Corpus Christi, Spencer was fighting back a terribly overgrown yard when he found a little tabby cat with puncture marks from a fight with a dog or another cat, which to Spencer’s mind seemed infected.

Spencer called rescue centers in the area to see if anyone would help the cat, who would later be named Esbee, and only one reached out: Edgar and Ivy’s Cat Sanctuary and Rescue.


Edgar and Ivy is run by Director Anissa Beal, who was falling into a growing financial pit attempting to fund the cat rescue center. She had vowed to call it quits at year’s end if she couldn’t manage to turn things around.

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Luke 8:18 Therefore consider carefully how you listen. Whoever has will be given more; whoever does not have, even what they think they have will be taken from them.”

That short phrase struck me to day as if I had never hear it. "Consider carefully how you listen."

akouete
ἀκούετε ;
you hear akoúō – properly, to hear (listen); (figuratively) to hear God's voice which prompts Him to birth faith

But to hear and to listen can be quite different. Almost leads more to "understand" Consider carefully how you understand.

16 “No one lights a lamp and hides it in a clay jar or puts it under a bed. Instead, they put it on a stand, so that those who come in can see the light.
17 For there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be known or brought out into the open."

It is difficult not to bring this back to the political understandings in our country and in the world. Each position seems so sure of its own understanding, its own hearing and ability to listen. But listening first takes silence. I think of being home alone and hearing a strange sound. What was that? Turn the tv off and try to get as quiet as possible and then just listen closely. To listen without preconceived notions?

"Consider carefully how you listen."

mindlight said:

The world is becoming more, not less religious, because atheism is not that attractive an option and because atheists do not reproduce

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How silly!

How religious the world is is incalculable. All the sums I have seen depend on huge assumptions, such as the one that counts the children of practising Christians as Christians; it is just daft to refer to christian, Muslim or Hindu countries and include entire populations in the calculation.

Then again, so many Christians are prone to denying the Christianity of their co-religionists on doctrinal grounds.

I understand the religious optimism behind the contention. I don't think the optimism is warranted.

But I agree that atheism is 'not an attractive option'. Nobody says it is.

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Is it blasphemous to write "God" for example, and for that note to end up being disposed in the trash?

Can blasphemy also happen when a word that has sacred meaning which was written down goes through an act of disposal?

The context for this is bc when I was eating a snack, I noticed the wrapping had written on it the address of where it was made, and in the country where I live in I often see addresses (streets, cities, etc) with religious names on such food wrappers like “Holy Faith” or “Saint Peter” etc… Out of doubt, I have been collecting so many food wrappers with addresses like that due to me not knowing yet for sure what I should do with them, and I don’t want to offend the sacredness of the meaning behind such words by the way of disposing the wrapper…I’m terrified of the blasphemy against The Holy Spirit..

I now started to worry on even doing transactions with businesses that have food wrapped with addresses like that, bc it seems for some reason wrong to me to sell or buy something with such words and for that to probably end up in the trash by many..

Is there something in the Bible that can give some thought to this? What verses are out there talking about a similar topic to enlighten my conscience? Is it blasphemous to dispose of those wrappers in the trash?

I think I saw somewhere that Jews try not to write the name of God, idk why, maybe out of a similar fear as mine? And that they bury texts with sacred words instead etc… is there a way to treat the thing (paper, wrapper, etc) where a word with a sacred meaning has been written? Does the paper require a special treatment out of the sacred meaning of the word it may have?
And is it okay to transaction with a business that sells food wrapped in paper with an address which contains word that has a sacred meaning and for it to end in the trash by many?

I’m a non-denominational Christian btw


Pls help my conscience
Thank you!

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No, it's not.

You can stop worrying.

Arcangl86 said:

I never made a claim about the efficiency of the vaccine. All I said was that even if you had been vaccinated you could still catch it, as a way of showing that Biden being sick isn't suspicious.

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No, I don't think it's suspicious at all. In fact, there is a near certainty that vaccinated or not, EVERYONE will get COVID at some point in their lives.

Arcangl86 said:

You are the one who decided to go into detail about the purported efficiency, not me.

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Yes, to show just how much the vaccines were oversold to people.

Arcangl86 said:

My apologies, I missed this before. But yes thank you, Dr. Walensky did speak broader then she should have. It's not "big pharma" but I will openly admit that somebody in an authoritative position spread disinformation about the efficiency of the vaccine.

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You probably missed this then also. Here is Albert Bourla, CEO of Pfizer claiming data showing the vaccine to be "100% effective". Certainly the CEO of Pfizer qualifies as "big Pharma".

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Still doesn't really effect my point though.

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Not sure what your point is. Big Pharma (represented by Albert Bourla) claimed that the vaccine was 100% effective and the CDC overstated the efficacy by telling people they wouldn't carry the virus or get sick if they got vaccinated. Neither of these things has ever been even close to true.

Really, who knows for sure. I never said or assumed he was but the fact is, none of us really know.

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Actually; all the Prophesies are in plain view, all we need to know about Gods plans for our future.
But the problem arises when people have other ideas, they mis-read, mis-interpret and add to scripture. Classic examples are the verses like John 14:1-3, which those who like to think the Lord will rapture them away from testing and trials, use to support that false idea. John 14:1-3 has nothing to do with such a fable..
People should have no objection to reading what I present from the Prophetic Word.

Operative Words: ....when you see the AoD......

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It is not though the only problem when people have other ideas about the purely object aspects of future events.
There is the problem of not heeding the moral aspects of spiritual prepardness for the Lord.

Let me illustrate. The experts in the law OBJECTIVELY correctly informed Herod that the King of the Israel would
be born in Bethlehem. They were right objectively.

Yet why do we read that not one of them WENT there to see this tremendous fulfullment of prophecy? (Matt. 2:2-5)
Where was their heart? Where was their hunger for this Messiah King?
They may have been self satisfied just to "know the facts" as right information.
Where, I ask you was thier love, their heart, their longing to SEE the born King?

Compare thier attitude to the attitudes the unleared shepherds who went there to see?
And when the angels departed from them into heaven, the shepherds spoke to one another, Let us go then to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us. And they came in haste and found both Mary and Joseph, and the baby lying in the manger. (Luke 2:15,16)

Where was the hunger like Anna the prophetess who earnestly petitioned God for the Messiah's coming?
And she was led by the God to see the young child and give thanks.
And she [Anna] was a widow up to the age of eighty-four, who did not depart from the temple, serving God with fastings and petitions night and day. And at that very hour she came up and returned thanks to God,
and spoke concerning Him to all those waiting for the redemption of Jerusalem. (Luke 2:37,38)

Where was the eagerness like Simeon who asked not to die before he saw with his own eyes the Messiah?
Now You release Your slave, Master, according to Your word, in peace;
For my eyes have seen Your salvation, (Luke 2:29,30)

You see that some were just satisfied to be learned, accurate, knowledgeable and correct as to the letter.
But there are those who had that AND such a cooperation, coordination, praying spirit - for God to fulfill His word.
They lived in the moral expectation of His coming and not just to be "dead right" about all the objective information.

So we need to ask the Lord to save us from just the self satisfaction of having it "all right".
We may not have it as right as we should because we see it only objectively.

Valletta said:

It's not for elitists.

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The gathering of rich people speaking for other rich people isn’t for elitists? LoL, k.

All the kids are wacky. We just know this one is nuts. The rest are secrets.

He's got that Robert Downey Less Than Zero vibe.

~bella

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Like I've said, Trump has done a lot of things. Can't have a conversation if I don't know what they are.

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But Trump's off topic. remember?
Were you serious?

Tell you what...I'm game if you are.

Let's see....nothing about Trump, and I'm not going to start defending Biden from whatever it is you have a problem with...

And....we're left with....

-- A2SG, have a nice day!

And yet the idea of getting rid of culture war nonsense altogether and focusing on studying and learning doesn't seem to occur to most people; strange. Maybe I had a somewhat unique college experience (I completed my undergraduate degree in a year and nine months, so I didn't have time to do anything else), but even the few signs I saw of potential activity like that on campus (e.g., the street preacher guy with the big sign that told various groups that they were going to hell because his reading of a Bible verse in isolation told him so) were so distasteful that nobody seemed to really want to engage. Occasionally the agitators were laughed at, but that was it.

JUDGES 11:1-33

This lesson is about “Yephtah” who was bullied and mistreated by his brothers and was excluded from his father’s inheritance, he ran away and got together with a gang of thugs and became like the “Jessie James gang” However, when trouble started back home, who did the brothers look for? Yes, Yephtah! Even though he was mistreated, he didn’t let a negative attitude take control, he returned and became their commander.

Then he “vows and vow” “If you deliver the Ammonites into my hands, whatever comes out of the door of my house I will offer up to you as a burnt offering” The Israelites won the war, and when Yephtah returned home and his “only daughter came out to greet him”. There are mixed emotions and opinions over this. Some suggest that He DID offer his daughter as a burnt offering, he killed her and burned her body on the altar. BUT… would the Holy GOD of Israel accept this kind of abomination? A human sacrifice? I would say NO! (my opinion)

So, what MIGHT have happened? Some believe that he did “offer up” his daughter, but to serve as a servant in the tabernacle of YHVH, perhaps helping the Levites or something similar. Again, just an idea, but no one knows for sure, we’ll find out the truth in Heaven! Others say that in the original translation, the words were misunderstood, and the phrase, “Whatever comes out of my house to meet me when I return in peace, it shall be the LORD’s and I will offer it up as a burnt offering” was really, “it shall be the LORD’s “OR” I will offer it up as a burnt offering! This explains why Yephtah might have offered up his daughter to serve in the Tabernacle. Had an animal, like a lamb or a goat come out, THAT animal would have been offered up as a burnt offering, but again, this is just an idea.

What does this teach us? Be careful of what we “vow” we might end up “swallowing” our words, best not to promise anything, and again, not to hold a grudge against those who have mistreated us, forgive those who have mistreated us.

How do Yeshua and all of us fit into this equation? Yeshua, who was 100% God and 100% man, lived a perfect, sinless life, and in the end, offered himself up as a sacrifice for sin. He was the "Lamb of God, who took away the sin of the world." He bore the weight of our sin on HIS shoulders. He died so we could have life, life eternal.

We, on the other hand, should offer up ourselves as "living sacrifices" to serve the LORD here on this earth, using the spiritual gifts that God has endowed to us, and using them to serve HIM and serve others, winning lost souls and leading others in the understanding of God's Word.

LUKE 21:1-38

Yeshua talks about the “end times” “Watch out” he warns, that things will get worse before they get better. Many think we will look forward to better times, yet Yeshua says just the opposite! Wars, rumors of wars, earthquakes, famines, etc., the world is going downhill fast, not only physically, but morality is taking a tailspin downward.

He is returning soon, but the Bible states that no one knows the exact date, hour, or minute of his second coming. To those who are lost or spiritually dead, he will come as a thief in the night. Yet to us who are spiritually alive and study the Scriptures, we have learned that he will return at the "Final Trumpet sound" of God. Many believe that during the times of Yom Teruah (Rosh HaShannah) and Yom Kippur, there is a final Shofar blast that announces the end of this period of repentance and returning. Could this be the time of the LORD's return? Something to think about!

We need to take heed and be faithful, await the coming of Messiah Yeshua, AFTER He returns, the world will enter a thousand-year time of real SHALOM. Yeshua taught all of this in the temple in Yerushalayim and would camp out on the Mt. of Olives during the night. What an interesting life! I think it would have been great to have seen and heard Yeshua in person back then. Yet we can still hear his voice through HIS WORD.

Shalom

daq said:

Calling @RabbiJames for a thread title spell-check!

I'm pretty sure you can simply edit the OP and the thread title box will appear at the top of the edit page.

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Thank you, Toda raba

I think that when things are going well in our lives that it is easy to sing praises to God and to thank him for all his many blessings to us. Yet, when life kicks us and knocks us down; when severe trials come our way; when we are faced with great persecution and rejection from those we love, including from the family of God; when illness or heartache come our way; and/or when it seems there is no end in sight to these trials, it is then harder to give praise to God. Yet, it is most necessary and healing at those times that we do.

In fact, our Lord Jesus gives us songs of praise and joy during these times to heal our wounded hearts and to soothe our troubled minds so that we get our focus off the temporal and onto Christ Jesus, our Lord, and to what is eternal - the salvation of human lives, and our worship of God.

We Will Sing!

An Original Work / December 4, 2013
Based off The Psalms

I will praise You, Lord, among all peoples.
I will praise You for all that You have done.
I called to the Lord, and He heard my cry.
He turned weeping into a song of joy!

I will sing praise to my Lord all my life;
I will sing praise to my God evermore.

I will praise You, Lord, for Your mighty works,
For Your love is great, reaching to the heav’ns.
O my Strength, I sing my praise unto You,
For Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.

I will sing praise to my Lord all my life;
I will sing praise to my God evermore.

Shout with joy to God all who’re on the earth.
Say to God, “O how awesome are Your deeds.”
The redeemed sing praise to their Savior, King,
For He saved them all in His righteousness.

We will sing praise to our Lord all our lives;
We will sing praise to our God evermore.

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Clearly, I have been misunderstood. Let me rephrase:


The duty of those secret service agents that day was to protect Donald Trump. They failed to do their duty. It doesn't matter what excuses they can come up with or what shadowy conspiracy they might have been the tools of or what they might or might not have heard from local LEOs. They failed. All by themselves without any help