Wednesday, January 31, 2024

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22 comments:

  1. There would be no Clintons

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  2. Those days are just ahead of us. At the rate things are deteriorating, political death squads will be commonplace.

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    1. Not for nothing, but... Seriously, we talk about "rule 308"? Well....
      These people are known to all of us, have names and addresses, places of work, shop, dine out... It's not hard, folks. Just need a set of balls. How far will they push you before you push back? Did you take the shot, they knew it would kill you... Forced you anyways. They didn't take it, took a placebo, haha, fuck you!
      It's a legit question for each of us, to answer to ourselves and on our own.
      Waiting for someone or something else to solve this problem is a cowards choice. If nothing else, the last 3 years should have proven to you there will be no white knight, even if orange cheeto Jesus gets in (hint: he won't, they'll give him the Kennedy treatment first).
      When the fox is running the hen house, you need to shoot the fox. That's the only thing that's going to fix this problem. We need to grok that, and start blowing some brains out from 800 meters away!
      Leave no brass....

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    2. And you're doing... what... exactly?... LEAD US, CHARLIE BROWN!!!

      Oh; and I didn't take the shot...

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  3. Pretty lame, ours will be top of the line, cream of the crop, GOAT

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    1. You call BC ?! My Indian name is Wind Doper…
      JJ (VC)

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  4. The Clinton's "ghost team" functions so successfully and efficiently because it has the full cooperation and assistance of the Federal law enforcement agencies. Such a group operating for "we the people" would be hunted down and eradicated with a ruthless efficiency rarely seen from any government agency.

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    1. "The Clinton's "ghost team" functions so successfully and efficiently because it has the full cooperation and assistance of the Federal law enforcement agencies".

      Nope!

      "The Clinton's "ghost team" functions so successfully and efficiently because it 'is' the Federal law enforcement agencies".

      There, fixed it for ya!

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    2. The "ghost team" should remember the Golden Rule, "do unto others as you would have them do unto you." What they do to the people they go after will be returned to them.

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  5. No need. We have something far more effective. We have the power of prayer.

    If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
    -ht tps://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/7-14.htm [emphasis mine]

    Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
    ht tps://biblehub.com/james/5-16.htm [emphasis mine]

    Some may say prayers don't do any good! Nothing ever changes!?!? The Bible says otherwise. If your prayers aren't being answered then maybe you haven't humbled yourself, or sought God earnestly, or turned from your wicked ways (e.g. FFFF). How about sincerely asking God, the Father, for permission for anything your read, listen to, or watch, or post? How about asking God to help you remove any known sin in you life! Any takers?

    How about asking God to help you with anything that is hindering your relationship and prayers with Him? Even if it hurts ... bad ... for a long time! Even if it costs a lot time/money/energy/friends/whatever!

    Got any pride in your life? Are you proud of your work or marriage or children or something else? God resists the proud (e.g. doesn't answer prayers or doesn't even hear them).

    Do you love/respect Jesus? Remember He said, "If you love/respect me, keep my commandments." Do you keep the Sabbath? Have you ever kept the Sabbath even once? Do you even know what keeping the Sabbath means? It's not going to church on Sunday.

    I'm surprised anybody would be more willing that a hit team "take out" a bunch of "bad guys" than to sincerely ask God to help them clean up their own lives, to help them get out of sin. Oh and remember Jesus saved us while we were *still* sinners (AKA bad guys).

    -Outlier

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    1. Ahhhh.....but I'm sure you still enjoy FFFF... ; )

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    2. “Some may say prayers don't do any good! Nothing ever changes!?!?”
      So if God has this Grand Plan - His Plan. Why would the prayers of some insignificant peons change anything?
      After all, His Plan is supposed to be the one thing that is GOING to happen.
      As the Led Zeppelin song goes, “Crying won’t help ya, praying won’t do you no good.”
      You do you but I think waiting for the afterlife to fix things is just going to drag this shitshow on indefinitely.

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    3. @Anon 11:57
      No, I don't look at that kind of stuff anymore. You shouldn't either.

      @Anon 2:11
      God gave us free will. He wants a family not a bunch of robots. His plan? He loved the world so much that He gave His only son so that whosoever believes should not perish but have everlasting life (John 3:16).

      "Waiting for the afterlife ..." You don't get it. Have you read the book of Revelation? Do you know what has been prophesied about the end times? Get your preps in order: 1) forgive anyone who has ever done you wrong, 2) confess and repent of all the sin you know about, 3) humble yourself. That's part of doing spiritual warfare. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

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  6. Good thing David defeated Goliath on his knees in prayer.

    Good thing Psalms 144 is ONLY about prayer.

    Bible illiterates are annoying. Violence does solve many issues in the Bible.

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    1. Are you comparing yourself to David? Are you a man after God's own heart like David? Have you been anointed to be king like David? Not a fair comparison between the anointed king fighting the champion of an attacking army and an extrajudicial kill team.

      Psalm 144 only about prayer? That makes no sense.

      Here's some old testament references:
      How about Elisha's prayer for his servant in 2 Kings 6 when the king of Aram sent his army against Israel.
      16 “Do not be afraid,” Elisha answered, “for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.”
      17 Then Elisha prayed, “O LORD, please open his eyes that he may see.”
      Do you even know that story? Do you know what happened?
      Or how about the sword of Gideon in Judges 7? Too many soldiers? A loaf of bread in a dream?

      From the new testament:
      43Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. 44But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; 45That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. 46For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? 47And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so?
      - Matthew 5 KJV [emphasis mine]

      When was the last time your prayed *for* (not against) your enemies? Something like: God, please help them. Please open their eyes and ears and soften their heart to your Word. Please give them understanding about Jesus and His free gift of salvation.

      Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men. -Romans 12:17

      9Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing. 10For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile: 11Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it. 12For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil.
      - 1 Peter 3 [emphasis mine]

      There are people that know the Bible better than me. That's for sure. But I try to ask God every day for help with everything in my life. How about you? Please give me insights into your prayer life and walk with God? What do you do on a daily or weekly basis that you would be willing to stand in front of a congregation and preach about? I'll be waiting for your response.

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    2. A lot of us know the bible. Not enough know that getting preachy with it just pushes people away from learning about God.

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    3. @Charlie,

      That push people feel is conviction from the Holy Spirit. They know they're doing wrong/sinning but don't want to change. They want God's help/blessings but also want to keep sinning. But if they are forced to choose then they choose sin. That's why they feel pushed away. You have to admit (read: confess) you have problems/sin in your life and that you need help. If you can't handle being told an extrajudicial hit team is wrong and/or that you should be working every day to get *known sin* out of your life then you are BIG trouble. And by BIG trouble I mean the eternal kind as in "Depart from me. I never knew you."

      If you aren't will to stop the *known sin* in your own life, why would you expect God to stop someone else from sinning. The process starts with you!

      The solution to this is easy. God gave us simple instructions.
      1) Humble yourself. That means you need to admit to yourself and God that you have problems in you life and that you need help. You don't have to involve anyone else - just you and God.

      2) Pray. That means you actively ask God to help you every single day. Ask Him as many times for help as you need. He doesn't get mad about that. He wants to be involved in every part, the small and the big, of your life. He is willing and able to help you BUT ... *you have to ask first.* He will not force Himself into your life. He knocks but you have to open the door.

      3) Turn from your wicked ways. That means if *you know* about sin in your life then, as a man, STOP it. If it is big serious sin (e.g. adultery, fornication, watching porn) then ask God to help you stop. It's that simple. God, I need help to stop X and that's probably just a symptom of an underlying problem. God, Father, please help me with both the symptoms and the root cause.
      Pro tip: say "Thank you" every time God helps you. Even if it's some time afterwards say, "Thank you." You'd say thank you if someone helped you with your car or your taxes or bills or yardwork. Why not say thank you to God.

      4) Seek His face. That means *every day* you need to spend time working on your relationship with God. You can ask God for help with that too. God, I'm sorry I haven't worked on my relationship with you. I don't know you or your ways. Please help me as a good father would help his son. Please help me to read the Bible and understand it. Please help *me* to change. Your Word promises that you will help if I ask. I am asking you in Jesus' name, please help.

      This is a mild rebuke for people with *known sin* in their lives. The instructions I have given you are the *easy* way. You do NOT want to do things the hard way (e.g. stern rebuke). Trust me on that one. Been there done that. Start by giving God, THE creator of everything, just 15 minutes a day. Make a reminder on your phone/computer if you need help remembering. If you can't do 15 minutes then start with 10 or 5. Sit in your car for 5 minutes before you go into work and say, "God, please, I'm a sinner, I repent, I need help." Read just a few verses of the Bible. Pick something easy like a Psalm or the sermon on the mount. Sit in your car for 5 minutes after work and say something like, "Thank you, God. I appreciate your help today. Please help me when I get home with wife, kids, dinner, x, y, z. Thank you."

      Try not to make it any harder than that.

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  7. So this "god" of yours, he is just hanging around letting evil have its way, but will intervene if we "worship' him and pray??
    Needing worship and begging seems more like a human foible, not one a so-called perfect god would have. Hey but whatever gets you thru the night,

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  8. He's not just my God. He is the most high. He is the creator of everything. "He is just hanging around letting evil have its way" - That is false. He is not just hanging around. He is *waiting* for His children to ask for help. If you have ever done evil (e.g. lied, stolen, cheated, hurt someone), why didn't *you* do good instead? Why haven't you asked for His help? The solution starts with you.

    Worship = saying thank you and acknowledging how amazing He is. It's not hard. Something like, "Thanks, God. You're awesome." You can beg but you don't have to. Just ask sincerely and politely.

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  9. Raised a Roman Catholic, I grew up and became an atheist. I realized an omnipotent god would never allow the things done to children in our world, from being dismembered in the womb to being gang-raped by pedophiles hired by Kinsey to give him something to watch and get his rocks off, to being burned to death by Hamas sub-humans in front of their parents - then beheaded. So, I'm certain God doesn't exist - but if I am wrong and he does, he's an a**hole, and I want nothing to do with him.

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  10. @RegT,

    "I realized an omnipotent god would never allow the things done to children in our world ...". Realized? How? Help us out. Explain it to us, please?

    God gave us free will. There are consequences for doing wrong (sinning). Sometimes those consequences are immediate. Sometimes those consequences are delayed. The delay in justice is because he is long suffering and wants that none should perish (He wants all of his kids to come home). The extra time is to allow people to learn from their mistakes and repent/change their ways. Many times in the Bible it talks about how God will serve justice to those who do evil. Don't worry. Nobody is getting away with anything.

    God is good and he wants a family. That's why he created us. The proof of his love is that he gave his only son, Jesus, so that whosoever believes might be saved and have everlasting life. Jesus suffered horribly on the cross and died to pay the price for all the wrong we have done. What many people don't realize is that God, the Father, had to watch his son suffer. He had to allow his torture, suffering, and death. Then (this is so heart breaking), he had to abandon Jesus ("My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?"). I can't even begin to imagine how painful it was for both of them. To be separated like that. The pain ... unbearable. But God made the decision that all the suffer and pain (even his own) was worth the price for his children.

    A lot of people don't remember that the night before the crucifixion that Jesus prayed not once, not twice, but three times that this cup be removed from him nevertheless, your/God's will be done. Jesus said, "My soul is deeply grieved, [almost] to the point of death." The weight of what he was going to do was so horrible that is almost killed him just thinking about it!!! This was no easy thing for Jesus or the Father.

    This life is a test. You better wake up and jettison the bad attitude. We have to choose between death and life. Examples of this are all over the place both in our everyday lives and in the Bible (wheat vs. tares, good vs. evil, fruit vs. no fruit, etc) Those people doing bad things you talked about, they have chosen ... with their actions. And they will be punished unless they repent and accept Jesus. Those children that were killed ... they are in heaven with God right now. He has rewarded them for all their sacrifices.

    I would strongly suggest that you go talk to God the Father or Jesus and ask for help to get over your anger and unforgiveness. Ask him to help you understand. If you are sincere then he will help. He promised he would (Ask and you shall receive. Seek and you shall find.).

    -Outlier

    P.S. There's a good book by the late Dr. Michael Heiser entitled, "What does God want." I recommend you read it soon.
    Here's a link but you can find it yourself by going to his website miqlat dot org and go to Resources/WDGW translations.
    ht tps://pby.s3.amazonaws.com/M/Miqlat/media/wdgw/english/av/What%20God%20Wants%20manuscript%20AUDIOBOOK.pdf

    Let me know if you have any questions.

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