BC and AD come from the Gregorian Calendar which is the most accurate calendar ever conceived.

Even a secular man like Neil DeGrasse Tyson recognizes who made the calendar. He says CE and BCE are non sensical and refuses to use them. I first heard CE and BCE from Jehovahs witnesses because they do not believe Jesus is God.

Secular scholastics are not very scholastic as they pass narrative off for science. Science has been reduced to fables and stories and no one notices because it is current thought that science does not include God. We all just go along and believe what so called science says, even though they have no idea what they are talking about.

So called modern science has abandoned philosophical first principles in favor of their narrative that is becoming increasingly suspect, the more you look at it.

Most people don’t look, because of ridicule and peer pressure. Serious scientist are beginning to see that Genesis is more scientific than the outlandish myth of evolution. Just look at the data rather than listening to the narrative

Let’s get back to first principles and observational science, rather than the Cliff Calvin like narrative we are subjected to today

The first thing is to not say it is no big deal to let the atheists control the narrative

You know that well known story about Shadrach, Meschach and Abedneago in the fiery furnace? Well, there was "Another in the Fire".

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May God bless them abundantly!

comana said:

Even if there was a plan to grant amnesty, they would still have to meet the same eligibility requirements for Social Security as everyone else. That means working and paying into SS for at least 10 years.

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My analysis is just stating facts about the impact of amnesty on social security. I do not know the potential numbers, ages, or incomes of the group that will most likely have amnesty. However, I do state some factors to consider when it comes to social security solvency.

There are lots of undocumented working in the USA for years. Could they receive benefits? "Undocumented immigrants are not “destroying” Social Security, either, as Trump suggested. Instead, there is evidence that they “actually improve Social Security’s bottom line,” AARP I do not trust AARP or the actuaries because I am uncertain how they figure the impact.

I can say that if the law granting amnesty included benefits for work already done, then they could recoup monies that were paid in the past. A smart congress might allow that exception only for ones that filed income tax returns.

I would argue too that amnesty will affect social security because it favors giving a far higher percent to those that work less. "90% of the first $1,115 of average indexed monthly earnings (AIME), plus 32% of AIME over $1,115 through $6,721, plus 15% of AIME over $6,721"

Here is an example. Suppose you get amnesty at age 50. Ok, so you work the next 15 years and make 3,000 a month. That would mean 540,000 in lifetime earnings and an average of 1285 a month because the other 20 years are counted as zeroes. The check would be 90% of the first 1115 and 32% of 170 dollars. So the high payout rate redistributes money to those who work far less in years, or who actually have less income. The new legal immigrant would get around 1075 a month, whereas the person who worked 35 years would get around 90% of the first 1115, and then 32% of roughly 23,000/12. which equals to about 1700 a month. Yes, you work 2.3 times more and get just 600 more a month. Social security is a system for redistribution because of the way benefits are calculated against those that work more years. Sadly if you worked 50 years, the top 35 years are the only ones that would count. Anyone who works fewer years drains the system because of SS formulas. The drain becomes more prominent too because they will likely be eligible for Medicaid, disability or reduced Medicare costs as well as snap or other transfer payments. Lastly, whites actually die earlier on average than Hispanics. So this again, is a drain on the system that likely is not being taken into account.

If you learn anything else about retirement, the best deal you can get unless you find a pension is to go overseas to work and gain a social security benefit from an EU or other rich Western nation. In Germany for instance just 5 years will get you something and you do not have to be a citizen.

Takes me back on God's Past faithfulness in my life working in my profession and today walking by faith not by sight trusting more fasting, praying, doing ministry in how Jesus Christ is the only God giving me liberty

Exodus 20:3 KJV
'Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
giving me liberty.

Liberty- Fairness and integrity Civil liberty, is on exemption from the arbitrary will of others, which exemption is second by established laws, which restrain every man from injuring, & controlling another.

Ecclesiastes 3:1 KJV
'To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: '

My Respond:

God has blessed me to obtain the fullness of God in season, time, every purpose under heaven. Giving me the ability to prove & reprove.

Published and Word spoken by Reginald Taylor Jr

Other than the one part I love being single.

I did some sales jobs to overcome the worst of my Autism. Since going to public school didn't help me learn to socialize like my dad thought would magically happen. If my parents knew how often they were going to get called up to the school for me fighting people, they would have never sent me.

If not for Jesus my life would have likely led to some version of live by the sword, die by the sword. Still there are times I'd prefer to do things my way and it's a cross to bear.

A Man Was walking down a boardwalk just after a winter storm and passed by a bird that was crying desperately for help after being frozen to the railing just above the water; however, the man even though he noticed the bird screaming at him to melt the ice his mind was thinking; What would this critter offer me in return? So, instead of taking the time to help, he kept on moving down the boardwalk to a lower level of the pier where there was an oar leaning on the side of the railing.

Suddenly an osprey was diving for a fish in the water where the bird failed to catch its meal and then was stuck in the water close to where the man was standing. The osprey was calling for help. But the man looked at the oar and then back at the osprey and thought “Those are some sharp talons he’s got, better not get near him, he may attack me with them”. And again, proceeded to walk along.

As the temperature rose, the man had a five-dollar bill and a debit card in his wallet. He soon passed by a feed n’ seed store, and when he turned the corner there was an empty bird feeder with a fledgling cardinal that was whimpering “Please sir could you spare some birdseed or some suet from the store” When the man thought back of the store, there was a small bag of sunflower seeds for seven dollars and some change and a suet cube for four fifty. But then he thought “I could save the money and buy a hamburger later on.”

As the man walked to the nearest Fastfood restaurant he found a strange colorful ball on the ground, picked it up and started shaking it, suddenly a golden cassowary greeted him on the street and the man asked the bird; “Are you here to grant me a wish or two?” The cassowary replied, “Unfortunate for you I will have to deny you even one wish for the way you’ve denied me”. The man replied, “What did I do to deny you Golden bird?” The giant bird explained further; “It’s not what you did, more like what you didn’t do you see.” “You left me stuck in the cold, you left me to drown, and you let me go hungry.” “You’re lucky I don’t decide to cut you down right now, but instead I will let you live to tell the world this.” “Take care of us birds for one day you will be rewarded for your good deeds, and those that deny us have denied the Lord just as any other creature on earth” ...

Fantastic

TheRisingSun said:

In answer to your question, a "feminine man" is a man who has more feminine traits (physical, mental, emotional, virtues, vices, interests) than masculine ones. A "masculine woman" is the inverse; a woman with more masculine traits than feminine ones.

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That doesn't really say anything unless you define what those traits are, and explain what makes certain traits either masculine or feminine.

-CryptoLutheran

comana said:

Perhaps the students have learned a lesson about voter apathy.

“In the March election, in which less than 20 percent of students turned out to vote, Shut It Down won the presidency and vice presidency, and secured 22 of 45 seats in the assembly.”

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They certainly learned the "shut it down" tactic from the GOP Congress.

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There are 3 men involved here: Rev 17:10-11's 6th King (the 'one that is'), the 7th King (the one that stays for a little while), and the 8th King that is of the 7.

There is also the dragon, beast, and False Prophet from Rev 16:13, each having a mouth.

The dragon is the one with 7 crowns (Rev 12:3) - he is the 7th King. The dragon can't be the 6th King because, while having 7 mountains which symbolize 7 heads, there are not 7 crowns. The 6th King fits as to having 7 heads and 10 horns (Rev 17:7), but not 7 crowns.

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The dragon - Satan - is not any of the kings. The 7th king will be the little horn person - who after being killed and brought back to life, becomes the beast - king 8.

The mouths of the dragon, the beast, and the false prophet are...

the beast - king
the false prophet
the statue image, that will speak and has life to it, by being indwelt by Satan..

The day that Jesus returns, the statue image will burst into flames, turned to ashes - exposing Satan there on the temple mount, for everyone to see him.

1. There were the weekly Sabbaths (Saturdays).
2. Annually, no matter what day of the week, Nisan 15 and 21 were Sabbath days of the Feast of the Unleavened Bread (Le 23:6-8).
3. Annual Pentecost occurred 50 days after the first day of Passover (v 15-16). Usually fell on Sivan 6, no work (v 21).
4. Feast of Trumpets, Tishri 1, no work (v 25).
5. Day of Atonement, Tishri 10
   32a It shall be to you a Sabbath of solemn rest, and you shall afflict yourselves.
6. Feast of Booths, Tishri 15 and 22 (v 33-36)

There were seven annual feast Sabbath days in the biblical Jewish calendar.

7. Every seventh year was designated as a "Sabbath for the Land" (Le 25:1-7), i.e., a sabbatical year. Farmers did not work the land for a whole year.

8. Every 50th year was the year of Jubilee (v 11), and there was no sowing or harvesting and no work on the land for two consecutive years.

There were weekly, yearly, and multi-yearly Sabbaths in the OT. They foreshadowed the eternal Sabbath rest in Jesus. Matthew 11:

28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest."

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In Mexico, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who has also cracked down on NGOs he doesn’t like, is pushing sweeping constitutional reforms targeting the country’s judicial system.

His plan to replace Mexico’s current judicial appointment process with popular elections for all judgeships at the federal and state level might sound democratic — except for the fact that López Obrador’s Morena party will effectively decide who the candidates are.

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Sound familiar?

Who decides what candidates will be placed on ballots in the erstwhile USA?
HINT: it darn sure isn't the People. It's a couple of political parties, who write, control, and manipulate the election laws.

Apparently the Egyptian Pyramids incorporate the metric system as well as the Heliocentric model. This puts us at odds, who believe in a Geocentric model. Hehe.

COMMENTARY: St. Francis of Assisi’s prayer to the Author of Life offers ample inspiration to celebrate this day.
The Basilica of St. Francis stands over the countryside surrounding Assisi, Italy. (photo: Brad Ingram / Shutterstock)

Sept. 1 brings us “Creation Day,” also known as “Feast of Creation” or “World Day of Prayer for Creation.” This moment returns, like the seasons, timely, routine, but not taken for granted. It invites us to reflect on creation, a mystery that marks us deeply. It is the wonder in which everything is born. It is the wonder of the flowers and the glaciers, of the sparrows and the cetaceans.

“Look at the birds in the sky; look at the lilies of the field” (Matthew 6:26-34). This invitation from Jesus to observe what is around us with an amazed and grateful eye stimulates us to study the musical score of the universe and listen to the great concert of the world — to try not to be, as unfortunately we are, the note out of tune.


Experiencing this in Assisi means letting ourselves be given the “la” by our singer par excellence, the Poverello. Eight hundred years ago — next year is the eighth centenary of “The Canticle of Brother Sun” — Francis of Assisi became a “maestro” even of our troubled era, an educator never followed enough by our gaze, so that it becomes a contemplative gaze, capable of inspiring the logic of prayerful gratitude and thoughtful care. We will ponder all of this, the heart of the ecological challenge — as Pope Francis proposed in Laudato Si — during the “Season of Creation,” which experiences its beginning on Sept. 1.

This date has a very ancient history in the Judeo-Christian tradition. For a long time, it has symbolized the creation of the world. In the Eastern Church, Sept. 1 was considered the moment in which God began the creation of the universe, a reason why it is the beginning of their liturgical year. It parallels the feast of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, which also falls in September, albeit on a mobile date. On this feast, some Jewish liturgies proclaim: “Today is the day of the creation of the world.”

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Too bad. It should be banned from conception.

Genesis 4:

2b Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, and Cain a worker of the ground. 3In the course of time Cain brought to the LORD an offering of the fruit of the ground, 4 and Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat portions. And the LORD had regard for Abel and his offering, 5 but for Cain and his offering he had no regard. So Cain was very angry, and his face fell.

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Cain was angry at God's preference.

6 The LORD said to Cain, “Why are you angry, and why has your face fallen? 7 If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is contrary to you, but you must rule over it.”

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God was still nice to Cain and advised him. I don't think Cain was angry at God. He was angry at Abel because Abel did better than him. He was angry enough to kill his brother:

8 Then Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let us go out to the field.” And while they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him.

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1 John 3:

12b why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother’s righteous.

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Even after the murder, God was merciful to Cain, Gen 4:

15b “If anyone slays Cain, then Cain will be avenged sevenfold.” And the LORD placed a mark on Cain, so that no one who found him would kill him.

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Was Cain angry at God?

Perhaps a bit, but he was mostly angry at Abel and God's preference for his brother's offering.

essentialsaltes said:

I guess the anticipation whetted people's appetites. Ratings were better than the Trump/Vance interview. (Speaking of anticipation, I can almost hear the ketchup hitting the walls).

Initial ratings released by Nielsen on Friday, which were expected to rise slightly in the final accounting, show that the interview of Harris and Walz drew in just under 6 million viewers

In comparison, Trump's first televised joint interview with Vance, airing on Fox News' Jesse Watters Primetime on July 22, was watched by 4.266 million. T

[For the alternative facts view: ] Responding to a request for comment, Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung claimed that other metrics, which could not be verified, meant that ratings for the Republican ticket interview "far surpasses the lowly rated" interview of Harris and Walz.

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The "ratings" are based on how many tuned in, and has nothing to do with how the interview itself went, or how Kamala performed. People tuned in because she hadn't done an interview in the past and the wait was so long. People wanted answers and thought they'd finally get some.
She looked terrible though. Not very confident, sat off to the side, didn't look the interviewer in the eye but kept looking down, wore a gray suit that blended in with the background, and looked like the smallest of the three people there.
Not a great look for the woman who wants the job of leader of the free world.

Ain't Zwinglian said:

Yeah, yeah, yeah..... the same guy who wrote John 1:1 wrote Rev. 19:13.

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As well as Rev 6-7.

Why do those Biblical facts (post #57) bother you so much?

I really don't like our disagreeing. . .

Repurposed peonies, ready for delivery in Harrisonburg – credit, Friendly City Florals
A pair of Virginians who found themselves habitually dismayed by the amount of floral waste they saw over a series of weddings and funerals decided to launch a small nonprofit to reuse them.

Friendly City Florals delivers flowers to hospice care homes, hospitals, and other events like funerals and weddings to make sure that the joy and special feeling a vibrant bouquet inspires can continue to do so as long as there is color in the petals.

The story begins when Rebecca Shelly, an experienced wedding industry worker, was cleaning up in the aftermath of a wedding reception in North Carolina last year, and was agonizing over stuffing hundreds of perfectly perky peonies into black garbage bags.

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The squirrel spa – Breyana Elwell.

Breyana Elwell never liked rodents, but after it became clear the neighboring squirrels were suffering from the heat, she began to warm to them.

Living in New Braunfels, Texas, she maintains a sort of “squirrel resort” where the arboreal rodents can stop by, cool down, grab a bite, and lounge until the heat of the day passes.

It all started when Elwell was playing with her toddler out on the deck and the mother of two left a fan on after they were finished. A local squirrel came to realize the value of the fan and plopped himself on the railing to cool down.

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Nellie, left, and Waylon ride the Keller Creek Boarding and Grooming pup bus in Franklin County, Georgia. Waylon was later adopted by one of the daycare’s clients. (Keller Creek Boarding and Grooming)

A determined Lab has found a new home in Georgia after galloping alongside a doggie daycare bus until he won over the driver and found a new home.

In Franklin County, the story begins when the driver of the ‘pup bus’ was doing his rounds to bring clients’ dogs to daycare.

Coming to a house he knew well, a Labrador retriever who had been attending Keller Creek Boarding and Grooming for three years named Motley was waiting for the bus like normal, but this time he had a friend.

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The ‘Flintstones’ home in Larkspur, Colorado – The Thayer Group / SWNS

Check out this real life ‘Flintstones’ home, a property built around a giant 200 million-year-old red rock.

The two bedroom house in Larkspur, Colorado, has a unique style, with the boulder incorporated into the interior of the home—perfect for a geology (or Flintstones) fan.

The home, which is on the market for $989,900, is integrated with nature, nestled around a 45-foot-high section of one of Colorado’s beloved ancient red rocks.

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