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Vance rebuked European allies for leaning in on 'soviet'-style censorship​

Secretary of State Marco Rubio defended Vice President JD Vance's speech in Germany slamming Europe's penchant for censorship on Sunday.

Rubio clashed with CBS host Margaret Brennan on "Face the Nation" after she suggested that free speech had been "weaponized" to bring about the Holocaust in Nazi Germany.

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Talk about chomping at the bit! Lol!

Pray that Jesus Christ guides people ( 1 John 4:1-3 ) test & ( 1 Thessalonians 5:21 ) examine ( using the Bible Word ) the teachings of all Christian leaders like the (Acts 17:10-11) Bereans because they should Never mistakenly join a cult:

Aryeh Jay said:

Canada didn't open the fentanyl floodgates until after the agreement was made.

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Floodgates? It's a leaky tap. The amount of fentanyl coming over the border would fit in a backpack.

All Becomes New said:

Adam. The first man. That was part of his job.

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What did he call a budgie?

Emmett

Vambram said:

110,000 dead Americans is a poisonous crisis that must be stopped by any means necessary.

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I've got a GREAT way to stop it - and it does not involve economically punishing your closest allies while trying to wean off the seductively cheap goods coming out of China! Again - Trump is doing exactly the wrong thing from a geopolitical point of view. The west cannot hope to compete with China's 1.4 billion people producing cheap solar and wind turbines and EV's and T-shirts in the largest production line in history. But we can avoid being bankrupted as we wean off Chinese goods if we create the most efficient trade block outside of China. "Friend-shoring". We should permanently put in our democratic constitutional cores that we trade with friends in the most efficient way possible - so that whatever our friends can do cheapest - we buy - so that we all win! But Trump is strutting around like a sulky teenager suddenly put in charge of the classroom - punishing those kids he perceives once teased him!

WANT A WAY TO PREVENT DEATHS?

WAR ON DRUGS HAS FAILED

ECONOMIC INCENTIVE: I can’t believe that the conservative right in America has forgotten the basic economics of supply and demand! By making drug use and supply a criminal offence, the drugs in question become scarce, which drives up the price. That creates an IRRESISTABLE incentive for criminal cartels to grow. They now rival huge corporations like Walmart and have their own submarines and engineering departments digging tunnels across the border!

COST TO AMERICA: The USA has 5% of the world’s population, but 25% of the world’s inmates. Are Americans really 5 times more criminal than the rest of the world? No - they are suffering bad drugs policies that much of the world are steering away from. (If Elon’s “DOGE” wants to cut costs - they should investigate the war on drugs as creating 5 times as many jails! Imagine the sheer COST of running all this!?) Comparison of United States incarceration rate with other countries - Wikipedia

ANSWER: Create a mental health policy. Decriminalise drug use. Instead of the threat of jail, create safe injecting rooms where drug users can have a safe environment and not commit theft to support their habit. Social workers can also offer counselling and encouragement and monitor other health conditions the users might have - and avoid further harm. The results? Many drug users deal with their issues in these places - and end up back in the workforce and leaving drugs!
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ozso said:

A dystopian nightmare to whom?

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The 99%, most likely including you.

Does anyone see civil war? Martial law? The complete disintigration of society?

Its ALL evil, but ironically its fulfilling last days prophecy, complete with Paula White as the false prophet, or at the very least A false prophet, setting the stage for the finale of the Apocalypse.

Repent and turn to Jesus Christ, all of you, for ALL have sinned, and without being born again by the Spirit, you will perish and face the judgment.

Hell shall be your portion: every one who lived for pleasure, and self, and pride, The idols you have chosen will be your undoing.

Repent and turn sinner: the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, and a judgment is coming.

In fact, even now America is being judged for despising God and mocking His ways.

Repent and turn, for the time is short.

Lord Jesus, in wrath remember mercy, that we all be not consumed. Shorten these days dear LORD, or no flesh shall be saved, and make a short work upon the earth, cutting it short in righteousness. Amen!

Mark Quayle said:

I can't help but think something is going on here in this subject of light speed, that HAS TO assume some static point of reference. I can't see how it could be otherwise.

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Y'know I've had this same inkling myself, over the years of discussing the topic.

In my case, I've settled on the idea that its not 'a point' (as you're visualising there), .. its all relative to the 4 dimensionality of spacetime.

I'm willing to be corrected on this by say @sjastro or @Hans Blaster, maybe AI DeepSeek analogies(?) .. If I am corrected though, I'd like to know how there is another way of visualising it(?)

Mark Quayle said:

And because of that, two things approaching one another at more than half the speed of light, are indeed traveling above the speed of light relative to each other.

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No.

THE PURER I GET, THE MORE VILE I AM

When, as a believer, you've compounded sin upon sin, expecting blessings, there'll be accursedness at almost every turn!
In 2018 I was stripped of almost everything like Job, except for my house & land. And like Nebuchadnezzar in Daniel 4, I was lifted up with pride, and then greatly humbled. And it's been almost 7 years now. God stripped away that flesh, and showed me 2 Corinthians 7:1, "Therefore having these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God."

I'd always done the first part, avoiding sin in the flesh, but holding on to it in the Spirit, and in the mind, instead of being transformed by the renewing of my mind, and having the mind of Christ, and casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. (Romans 12:2, 2 Corinthians 10:5)
When you do that, the sin within, that you haven't purified; purified the SPIRIT, you are likely to yield to temptations. The Scripture says cleanse ourselves from ALL filthiness of the flesh AND spirit.
And now for the past few years, pressing in to the Vine, abiding in Christ, striving for holiness, in all holy conversation and godliness, pressing towards the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus (2 Peter 3:11, Philippians 3:14), I find the purer I get the more vile I am: the purer I get, the filthier I am, and I cry out: "O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?" (Romans 7:24)

Indeed, the closer you get to the light, and the brighter that light shines, the more dirt becomes visible, and thus must be cleansed!
Thomas Goodwin wrote way back in the 1600s, in "Vanity of Thoughts,"
"Thoughts are to be repented of: Yea, repentance is expressed as to begin at the thoughts, "Let the unrighteous man forsake his thoughts" (Isa 55:7). And a man is never truly and thoroughly wrought on until his "every thought is brought into obedience" (2 Cor 10:5), which argues that they are naturally rebellious and contrary to grace. And this also argues the power of grace, which is able to rule and subdue so great an army as our thoughts are, to command them all, now, as well as in the day when we are perfectly holy.
- Thoughts defile a man. But nothing defiles except sin, "but of the heart proceed evil thoughts... these defile the man" (Matt 15:18,19)."

Oh, don't go the stubborn rebellious way I did: do not think compromise is but a little trifle, and not of much significance. Be sure your sin will find you out, a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump: a little sin will defile the whole man: and despise not the chastening of the LORD.
"It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I might learn thy statutes." - Psalm 119:71
So, the closer you draw to the LORD, the greater you should see your sin. Things you may not have considered sin, especially thoughts, these will become more exceedingly sinful. The battle turns within, and the Sword of the Spirit pierces deeper and deeper, carving out hidden iniquities, dredging up vile affections, and slaying them by the mighty working of the Holy Ghost, whose very name portrays that attribute of God: HOLY, and as it is written, the LORD commands, Be ye holy, for I am holy.
Amen.

When Jesus Christ gave his life up for us on that cross it was to put our sins to death with him so that, by God-persuaded faith in him, we would die with him to sin and be raised with him to walk in newness of life in him, no longer as slaves to sin, but now as slaves to God and to his righteousness. He died that we might no longer live for ourselves but for him who gave his life up for us. And he shed his blood for us to buy us back for God (to redeem us) out of our bondage to sin so that we will serve and obey him with our lives.

Jesus did not go through that painful death on that cross, taking upon himself the sins of the entire world, just to forgive us our sins so that we can go to heaven when we die. He died to change us, to transform us, to pull us up out of the miry pit of sin and to give us a new lease on life free from the control of sin and Satan, and free to now live holy lives pleasing to God, in the power of God, by the grace of God. So, by faith in him, we die with him to sin and we now walk in obedience to his commands in holy living.

So, if we make a profession of faith in Jesus Christ, but we continue to live just like we did before, still living to please our flesh in deliberate and habitual sin, while ignoring our Lord and his commandments, then according to the teachings of Jesus, of Paul, of John, and of the other New Testament apostles, we are not in relationship with God, we don’t have salvation from sin, nor do we have the hope of eternal life with him in heaven. So we should not let anyone teach us otherwise and deceive our minds.

For what did Jesus say? He said that not everyone who says to him, “Lord, Lord,” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one DOING the will of God the Father who is in heaven. And many who profess him as Lord will stand before him on the day of judgment professing all that they did in his name, and he will say to them, “I never knew you! Depart from me you workers of lawlessness.” Why? Because they would not give up their sinful practices, and they would not walk in obedience to our Lord and to his commands.

Jesus also said that if anyone would come after him that he must deny self, take up his cross daily (die daily to sin and to self) and follow (obey) him. For if we hold on to living in sin and for self, we will lose our lives for eternity. But if for Jesus’ sake we deny self, die daily to sin, by the Spirit, and we walk in obedience to his commands, in practice, in his power, then we have the hope of salvation from sin and eternal life with God. But if we deny him by our actions, he will deny us when he returns for his bride.

Now I am well aware that this is not what is popularly being taught as the gospel of our Lord Jesus today, but it is the truth of God’s word. And I am aware that the “gospel” message which is gaining the most ground today will not teach this passage of Scripture or any other passage which tells them that they must die to their sins and walk in obedience to the Lord. For they call that “works salvation,” but it is us living out the salvation that our Lord already provided for us who are of God-persuaded faith in the Lord Jesus.

So, we have to be careful who we are listening to, for not everyone who professes faith in Jesus Christ is of God and has the mind and heart of God, and is willing to teach the whole counsel of God and not a diluted and altered version of the true gospel in order to pacify human flesh and to not offend the people of the world they are trying to attract to their gatherings. So please be people who read the Scriptures in their context and who take them seriously and who are doing what they teach us we must do.

[Matt 7:13-14,21-23; Lu 9:23-26; Jn 10:27-30; Ac 26:18; Rom 2:6-8; Rom 6:1-23; Rom 8:1-14; Rom 12:1-2; 1 Co 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Co 10:1-22; 2 Co 5:10,15,21; Gal 5:16-24; Gal 6:7-8; Eph 2:8-10; Eph 4:17-32; Eph 5:3-6; Col 1:21-23; Col 3:1-17; Tit 2:11-14; Heb 3:1-19; Heb 4:1-13; Heb 10:23-31; Heb 12:1-2; 1 Pet 2:24; 1 Jn 1:5-10; 1 Jn 2:3-6,15-17; 1 Jn 3:4-10]

As the Deer

By Martin J. Nystrom
Based off Psalm 42:1

As the deer panteth for the water
So my soul longeth after You
You alone are my heart's desire
And I long to worship You

You alone are my strength, my shield
To You alone may my spirit yield
You alone are my heart's desire
And I long to worship You

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Let No One Deceive You
An Original Work / February 16, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

SelfSim said:

Nope .. I'm about staying consistent with the benefit of the evidence of the published and widely taught scientific method and the purpose for which it was devised .. (but you already knew that).

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And I'm staying consistent with my sources. You can have yours, and I can have mine.

SelfSim said:

No .. just the overwhemling well-tested evidence that it works, practically .. that's all that's behind it ..

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Pragmatism (and so-called practicality) has its limits, as do all human positions in the sciences.

SelfSim said:

We all make mistakes ..

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That's what I'm told. And not just by scientists. But by philosophers, and by theologians.

SelfSim said:

Ever examined a truth table in say, in science's field of digitial logic? There's often 'don't care' conditions appearing in them.
Aka: its not my logic!

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No, I can't say I've studied digital logic specifically, just standard Logic textbooks. I suppose you mean to suggest I need to engage something like--even if not exactly---the following info:

tonychanyt said:

Jeremiah 1:


God told Jeremiah that He knew him and had a purpose for him even before he was physically formed. God’s knowledge and plan for each person precede their biological existence.

Psalm 139:


This passage poetically described God’s intimate involvement in the formation of the psalmist’s body and life. It emphasized that God was actively at work in the womb, shaping each person's DNA.

Job 10:


Job acknowledged that God personally formed him and gave him life, body, and spirit.

How do these verses apply to us? Where do our human spirits come from?

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The breath of life comes from the uncreated Spirit of God. When it attaches to our body, we become a living soul. When God withdraws it, we die.

In which sense God made me?

1. In his sovereign power, God determined my DNA.
2. In his omniscience, God knew everything about me.
3. I have the uncreated breath of God in me.
4. I was created in the image of God.

God formed my body, soul, and spirit.

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This deals with the sometimes-contradicting (to our minds) Immanence of God. I love the idea of God being so completely involved that if he was not, the particulars (of which the general is made) would cease to exist or to even have ever existed.

I've noticed among the Reformed or Calvinists, one of the general assumptions is of two separate ways:

1) being almost theistic-sounding to me, that God has set things in motion and they continue naturally, though they do cling hard to the idea of God's immanence here too, within "In whom we live and breathe and have our being";

2) being certain things in which he is intimately involved in detailed ways. This would include not only miracle as such, and other interventions, but his personal relationship with his elect, and his common grace, providence and use of every person. (I'm not sure in this if they have thought through the implication that his use of every person isn't so much different from his use of every fact, but...)

To be sure, these are both true, but to me, neither is quite the story, but only a way to look at things. I see no need for a delineation concerning the depth/detail of his involvement in his creation. To me, to imply that his notice of one thing is not so particular as the next denies his omnipotence. But, that's me.

Australia abolished 1 and 2 cents 23 years ago, think it made perfect sense. I'd be happy to get rid of 5 cents as well.

SelfSim said:

Well, evidently not in your case, where/when your provisional truths are conceived as being deliberately untestable!

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I don't think you even have a solid handle on what I think or believe. And I don't really see any sufficient effort on your part to find out either.

SelfSim said:

I'll just ignore that complaint ...

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That's sort of trollish, don't you think?

SelfSim said:

Well then take away all the philosophy .. it don't belong in a Physical Sciences & Life Sciences forum, dude .. err, man!

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Take it away? Oh, I'm just getting warmed up. Duh-oood.

The Democratic response to Trump, one Texas lawmaker said, is “too slow and too tepid and not meeting the moment.”

The Department of Government Efficiency created its own account on X last November, amassing 4 million followers with a stream of news on contract cancellations and other cuts to the bureaucracy. Elon Musk has posted relentlessly on the social media platform he owns, promoting his own voice on an algorithm he controls.

The Democratic National Committee, meanwhile, started a rapid response accountin January with about 121,000 followers, a fraction of DOGE’s reach. And Democrats held traditional rallies outside the USAID and Treasury buildings, where Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader, was mocked on late-night TV and by even some within his own party after leading a chant of “We will win!”

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The Liturgist said:

Hey @Michie the next time you have a Novena like this with a cause, for example, on pro-life issues or another area where you want me to pray, or some other prayer, for example, the Officium Defunctorum for someone who has reposed in the Lord or the Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary, or a Byzantine Rite Akathist or Paraklesis (also known as a Moleben) send me a PM please. I frequently engage in Western Rite prayers as well as those of the various Eastern liturgies. I also maintain lists of people to pray for by their Christian name.

I was very ill at the time you posted this. I want you and @RileyG and @chevyontheriver and my other Roman Catholic friends to know how much I appreciate your prayers.

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I will definitely do so. Continued prayers for your health!

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Vatican released a partial schedule of Pope Francis’ liturgical celebrations in March and early April, including a group Lenten retreat for the pope and top members of the Curia for the first time in five years.

The calendar of papal celebrations was released Feb. 12 as the 88-year-old pope has been active and maintaining his scheduled appointments but has curtailed reading long speeches and homilies as he has been recovering from a “strong cold” and bronchitis since at least Feb. 5.

Lent begins March 5 and ends at sundown on Holy Thursday, April 17, but the calendar only goes to April 6 and does not cover events for Holy Week and Easter, which falls on April 20. The 12th anniversary of Pope Francis’ election is March 13.

From the evening of March 9 to the morning of March 14, Pope Francis and members of the Curia will attend a Lenten retreat in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican, according to the schedule released by Archbishop Diego Ravelli, master of papal liturgical ceremonies. The schedule did not say who was chosen to lead the reflections.

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Hamas continues provocations during release ceremony, including use of vehicle stolen from captive’s brother

The three hostages released by Hamas on Saturday, Yair Horn, Alexander Trupanov, and Sagui Dekel-Chen, described physical and psychological abuse of the hands of their captors.

While there was some trepidation in Israel regarding the condition of the hostages following the previous release in which the three hostages came back emaciated, the three men released on Saturday appeared in better physical condition.

However, as with previous groups of hostages, the men who returned on Saturday shared stories of physical and psychological abuse at the hands of Hamas.

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ozso said:

Supposed quotes from supposed anonymous Trump supporters

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Our churches can be an important source of guidance about how to behave. If the Holy Ghost is in the lead of their traditions and the group in the now, which is the precedent set in Acts at Pentecost. Christianity is more that way of life since then, on top of following the appropriate commands.

State and local public health officials have gone weeks without regular updates on avian flu from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention after President Donald Trump froze nearly all external communications from the agency, said a person familiar with the situation. It wasn’t until this week that some of those communications began to resume, the person said.

Widespread funding cuts across the government and new restrictions on funding for National Institutes of Health grants have also created uncertainty among infectious disease researchers and local health officials, who are unsure about what resources they will have to work with going forward. Meanwhile, cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development have limited monitoring of the virus overseas.

The White House didn’t respond to a request for comment on its strategy for addressing avian flu and what additional steps it planned to take to address the spread of the virus.

Rollins, who was confirmed by the Senate Thursday, told reporters that she had a briefing in the Oval Office Thursday night and would be announcing more on the department’s plan to address egg prices “in the coming days.”

essentialsaltes said:

When an authorization expires, Congress can extend the program through new legislation or by providing new appropriations, according to CBO.

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Doesn't seem they specified which law that is. Could you provide that for us?.....cuz something tells me that really does not exist.