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@Greyparrot
US Customs does the seizing, not Canada, and they have found that less than one fifth of one percent of the illegal fentanyl comes in through Canada.I wasn't exactly blaming Canada or the USA, I was just asking you if you thought they were doing enough. Apparently, you don't care enough to answer that question.
According to the stats, what they are doing is 485 times more effective than what Mexico is doing, and I know that a trade war with Canada will have absolutely no effect on the problem.
I also think as long as Trump is using Canada and Tariffs to distract away from the real problem, that he is making the problem worse.
What more do you want? Don't tell me, let me guess, you think since the Canada/US border is only 5,525 miles, Trump should build a wall and make Canada pay for it.
That would fix a fifth of one percent of the problem...and raising the price of avocados would fix the rest.
Problem solved the MAGA way.
Yes, I have, several in fact, and I don't blame Canada because...well, because I'm not a fucking idiot.X to doubt.
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@RemyBrown
There is literally no non-rebuttable non-emotional reason for RemyBrown to be opposed to peaceful extradition to North Korea.This is a bad opinion, but I'll present 1 argument:1. It would be bad for the US economy to do that.
Why would it be bad for the US economy?
Don't tell me, let me guess first. Is it because the demand for Cheetos and Kool Aid would go down?
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@Greyparrot
Canada makes up just 0.2% of US border fentanyl seizuresYeah, do you think that's enough? Or do they need to seize more?
US Customs does the seizing, not Canada, and they have found that less than one fifth of one percent of the illegal fentanyl comes in through Canada.
Jewish Space Lasers.All those tens of thousands of dead Canadians can't laugh at your dumb memes.
You think Jewish Space Lasers have killed tens of thousands of Canadians? Did you learn that at Trump University?
The poorly educatedHave you had anyone young and close that died from drugs? I have.
Yes, I have, several in fact, and I don't blame Canada because...well, because I'm not a fucking idiot.
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@Greyparrot
Canada makes up just 0.2% of US border fentanyl seizures, Mexican border makes up 97%.
The Canadian tariffs were not about Fentanyl, that is just another lie Trump told the MAGA folks, he can tell them anything he wants, and they believe it, that's why he says, "I love the poorly educated".
Remember, these are the people that believe forest fires are caused by Jewish Space Lasers.
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@Casey_Risk
Children are banned on debate art.From the Code of Conduct:
There is literally no non-rebuttable non-emotional reason to think RemyBrown is not a pre-teen.
Prove me wrong.
There is literally no non-rebuttable non-emotional reason to think Mall is from planet Earth.
Prove me wrong.
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@RemyBrown
There is literally no non-rebuttable non-emotional reason for RemyBrown to be opposed to peaceful extradition to North Korea.
Prove me wrong.
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@Greyparrot
You remind me of this guy:
Thanks, he's my physics hero, the other one is Niels Bohr.
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@FLRW
Quantum mechanics famously has a measurement problem where physicists debate the extent to which conscious observers determine reality, or if they do because it seems the particles are not there as particles until they are measured or observed by the experimenter which causes the system's wave-function (representing a figurative cloud of probabilities instead of a particle, a manifold of so called superpositions) to "collapse", i.e. being instantly transformed into a classical object now with definitive physical properties such as location and momentum that we can identify, such as a particle, which didn't exist as such until that instant.
You are talking about the Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Physics, the only thing the wave function tells us about is our ability to calculate the probabilities.
Some people have already alleged this could be a way to prove God's existence because God as a universal observer will sustain reality, and a casual web search with the keywords "quantum mechanics god" shows how widespread the idea is.
Some quantum physicists (John Wheeler and Henry Stapp for example) interpret the fact that electrons are probability waves that only collapse into locatable particles when a measurement is taken or when an observation is made to mean that consciousness is a fundamental aspect of physical reality. Reality is experiential, consequently, David Chalmers and Sidewalker concur that reality cannot be adequately described without recognizing that consciousness if a fundamental aspect of reality.
However it seems to me that the exact opposite is true; because if there was a God who observes reality before or beyond human observers then we wouldn't have a measurement problem at all: the continuous ever-present observation of God would cause all wave-functions to have already collapsed or otherwise all quantum systems would have already decohered before we made our observations
All quantum systems have already decohered before we make our observations, every observation ever made was of an already decohered quantum system. When we take a look, the cat is either dead or alive, no observation of a superposition has ever been made, we find out which state the cat is in when we look in the box. What the superposition tells us about is our lack of knowledge about the outcome.
and we would experience a classical world at all times, never detecting a quantum superposition.
Except, we do experience the classical world at all times, a superposition has never been observed, it isa mathematical thing, not a physically real thing. The superposition only exists in theoretical mathematics, it has no ontological existence in the real world. What is a “probability wave” in the real world, in what was does it ontologically exist? Heisenberg said that quantum particles “are not as real; they form a world of potentialities or possibilities rather than one of things or facts.”
The fact that we can cause any quantum system's wave-function to collapse at all is proof that there is no such universal observer such as God. Our observation came first before any other observer, but this should be impossible if there was an ever-present conscious observer such as God.Therefore, Quantum mechanics implies atheism.
The wavefunction is a probability wave, it tells us the probability of finding the particle in a certain place. We don’t know where it is until we look, but that is not the same as saying it isn’t anywhere until we look.
If the weatherman says there is a 40% chance of rain tomorrow, that is a probability, it doesn’t mean that tomorrow it is in a superposition of raining and no training until we look and see that it is raining. Do you really think we make it rain by looking out the window? If so, maybe you are God.
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@Swagnarok
It's not supposed to be. It's real talk that a lot of college students/grads aren't told. OP, I think, is going to be fine, but the mismatch between the average young person's post-graduation expectations and their lived post-graduation experiences is pretty big.
Nonsense, "it is better to shoot for excellence and miss the mark, than to shoot for mediocrity and achieve your goal".
Striving for greatness is always better than expecting less, it's not about the destination, it's about how you take the journey.
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@Vader
Congratulations Vader, you are not old, you are young, you are educated, and the rest of your life is ahead of you, it will be what you choose to make it.
The previous generations have pretty much fucked the place up, we are handing you a turd sandwich, but that is the past, you are the future, you can fix what we broke, and you can make the world a better place.
It’s the greatest show on earth, and it is happening right here right now. The only way to enjoy the show, to enjoy life, is as a participant, so get in the game. Throwing yourself in the water is the best way to learn how to swim.
Relax, be self-confident, have faith in yourself, realize that you are naturally buoyant, if you relax and push forward, you will not drown.
Building self-confidence is the key, and the only way to build self-confidence is to start doing things you’re not sure you can do. To keep your self-confidence, keep giving yourself new challenges. The key is commitment. So just go ahead and do it and grow that much stronger and surer.
Once you start, keep at it. Never give up. Push harder when you have to, relax when you can. If you don’t keep going until you’re satisfied, you will never know how much you can do. If you put your mind to it, you can do anything.
Your secret weapon is inertia, so use it, inertia is a force that works against you when you want to do something, but you are doing nothing. But if you seize the day and start doing something, then inertia works with you, it keeps you going till the job is done, and you decide when the job is done.
If you do not feel free, it is because you have not yet declared your own freedom, if you are waiting for it to be given to you, you will wait forever.
It’s all up to you. You are completely responsible for your life; it will be what you choose to make it, choose well, take a path with a heart, be real and genuine and honest, be yourself.
And finally…sorry about that turd sandwich.
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@Swagnarok
That's the worst motivational graduation speech I've ever seen.
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@WyIted
You build a rocket that can do better please. Show him how it's done.
Musk won't give you a doublewide either.
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Letting Putin win will not bring peace, the war will just move to where he wants it to go next.
In the "Munich Agreement" of 1938, Britain and France allowed Hitler to annex the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia believing that would bring peace...,...and we saw how that worked out.
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@FLRW
Nearly two months after an explosion sent flaming debris raining down on the Turks and Caicos, SpaceX launched another mammoth Starship rocket on Thursday, but lost contact minutes into the test flight as the spacecraft came tumbling down.
He'll probably blame it on DEI
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@Swagnarok
Today, March 6, a 40-day boycott of Target kicked off. This event was declared by majority-Black churches in protest of Target's cancelling of its DEI policies. Presumably, most participants will be Black, while at the same time, the average Target customer in Feb. 2023 was "a woman who is 39 years old, White, married, with a household income of $80,000."What are your predictions of the boycott's impact on Target's quarterly profits? What, if any, social ramifications of the boycott do you anticipate?
I don’t think it will have any effect, and I have to wonder why Target is being singled out.
Some of the other companies that are cutting, or cutting back on their DEI programs are Google, Ford, GM, Lowe’s, Amazon, Meta, McDonald's, PepsiCo, Molson Coors, Goldman Sachs, John Deere, Harley-Davidson, Accenture, the US Government, the US Military, and plenty more are coming.
Given the political climate and the attitudes of the majority voters, if the boycott brings major attention to the move, it will probably increase Target’s business.
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@zedvictor4
The bible is what it has become.
The information in the Old Testament was passed down verbally through many generations before it was finally written down in Hebrew and Aramaic, not exactly the most precise way to transmit information. Then, four hundred years after the Old Testament the New Testament began and it was written is Koine Greek. Until the invention of the printing press, each written copy had to be transcribed by hand, which is a very inaccurate process. For the oldest books of the Bible this went on for over 3,000 years, every single copy was transcribed by hand for generations and generations, started with information that had been handed down through the generations verbally.
So yes, the Bible is what it has become, but that is no basis upon which to reject it as a valuable spiritual resource that speaks to the historical development of a people in whom profound metaphysical truths were emerging over time
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Who knows if it is an accurate reinterpretation, transcription, translation of historical fact, folklore or fanciful hypothesis.
The Bible is a book that includes history and prophecy, poetry and love songs, allegories and parables, none of which is conducive to any kind of literal translation.
Constantine and his cadre of translators were 300 years too late.
Words are socially derived and they have to be put into a certain context in order to be understood. They are very inexact, ambiguous and equivocal and they can have multiple meanings or different meanings to different people.
All language requires the individual to translate the words into something meaningful.
So context is unachievable unless the Big Guy does a fly by and puts the record straight.And I was simply pointing out that modern Christianity and Trinity are clearly of much later European production.
Thank you, Captain, Obvious, but isn’t modern anything of later production, isn’t that what makes anything modern? Modern science is not the same as ancient science either, can you explain what your point about Christianity is supposed to be?
The Bible was written over a period of about 1,500 years by around 40 different authors, in three different languages, on three different continents. The authors lived in different times, in different cultures, in different contexts, and all of them they were seeking to convey an experience, literalism in that regard is uninformed and meaningless, the value of this evolving story can only come from going beneath the words, to discover the experience that made the words necessary, and seek the meaning to which the words point.
Your insistence on a static literalism may serve an agenda, it may be useful if your goal is to sharpen doctrinal debate and attain divisiveness, but it does not foster religious awareness, and it betrays a complete lack of understanding of the subject matter.
If true intelligence is mental expansion, which is to say, it involves the ability to view and understanding widely different things from multiple different perspectives, an aptitude for grasping a wide range of truths, relationships, and meanings, and the capacity for abstract and symbolic thought, then it follows logically that the contention that one can reduce reality to only one of its modes, to know it in only one of its forms, to represent it in a static, literalist, surface level manner, is an unintelligent claim.
Science and religion both concur that reality cannot be reduced to a single ontological level, on the contrary, science asserts that reality is in fact, multileveled, it asserts that the four dimensions of existence that we call reality, are contingent and relative to a greater reality of more dimensions, of which we cannot have certain knowledge, and which can only be expressed metaphorically. Access to transcendent understanding is clearly a function of abstract and symbolic thought, and simply cannot be grasped by surface level, simplistic, and literal thought processes.
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@zedvictor4
Trinity is a middle English word, derived from the Latin trinitas.Nothing remotely Semitic or Hebrew about the word.So clearly made up later by Europeans.As was most of modern Christianity.
If you are in need of a literal, word for word, translation of the original text, such a thing doesn’t exist by any stretch of the imagination, and it doesn’t follow that the use of different words means something was “clearly made up”.
Different languages use different words, syntax and grammatical structures and therefore there is no such thing as a “literal” or "word for word” translation from one language to another, different languages have very different sets of words, grammatical structures and syntax. The point being that every language has rules, and the rules are very different in Aramaic, Koine Greek, Hebrew, Latin, and English, which is a rough approximation of the journey that had to be taken to arrive at an English translation of the Bible.
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@zedvictor4
And the US is Canada's arse.
After Trump became President, if God wanted to give the world an enema, he'd definitely stick it in the US, specifically Mar a Lago.
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@zedvictor4
You can't make a silk purse out of a sows ear, as the saying goes.
Damn Zed, how old are you. I'm pretty sure the last time that phrase was used the Dead Sea was just sick.
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@zedvictor4
Well, it wouldn't be the same thing would it.And I'm sure that Canada is reasonably self sufficient and well connected enough, to not worry too much about a trade war with the US.
Yes, Canada should remain as it is, America's hat.
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@RemyBrown
I don't know about your IQ, but mine is 142.
Why of course it is, and you are also an astronaut and MMA fighter, got it.
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@RemyBrown
I don't know about your IQ, but mine is 142.
Why of course it is, and you are also an astronaut and MMA fighter, got it.
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@cristo71
Wow, that’s impressive. This will challenge the idea of “the hard problem of consciousness.” What exactly is consciousness, what causes it, and can humans create it? If we can create it, intentionally or not, is it really that hard of a problem? I remember reading about an experiment where robots were given a program which was designed to evolve and mutate on its own. What resulted were robots which acted heroically and selflessly and others which acted selfishly out of pure self preservation. It was a mind-blower.The movies which come to my mind which have raised and explored these concepts are 2001, AI, and The Matrix.
I don’t follow your reasoning, the hard problem ofconsciousness is the problem of explaining why any physical state is conscious rather than nonconscious, whydoes a physical system have subjective experience. We know we are having asubjective experience, there is something it is like to be conscious, and wecan observe other creatures and conclude that they are having a subjectiveexperience, but why that is the case is completely unexplained, and perhapsunexplainable. Even if we conclude thatAI is having a subjective experience, that consciousness has emerged in someway, that doesn’t do anything to explain why. The presumption of its existence in an AI system has no explanatory power, and consequently, would have nobearing on the hard problem.
From "If we can create it" it doesn't logically follow that we can explain it.
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@zedvictor4
I'm guessing that there will be more than one Interventionist Super-Intelligence cruising the Universe.Possibly three.Maybe more.
OK, so there's Sidewalker, and possibly two more?
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@Savant
That's what everyone thought about Germany in the 1930s.Germany didn't have nukes, so they could be conquered.
We have nukes and all it took to conquer the US was a charlatan who's only weapons were lies and conspiracy theories.
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@Savant
Khrushchev was right.“We will take Americawithout firing a shot. We do not have to invade the U.S. We will destroy youfrom within”. - Nikita Khrushchev 1956I think it's underestimated how much leeway America has to screw up and not collapse. The country survived some pretty awful leaders, slavery, the Jim Crow era, Civil War, and basically throwing money in a hole every year. Some things are too big to fail easily.
That's what everyone thought about Germany in the 1930s.
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@Greyparrot
"Don't tell us what to feel, you are in no position to dictate to us how to feel"My favorite quote.
#2 and #3 are "Seig Heils" and "I love Putin"
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Khrushchev was right.
“We will take Americawithout firing a shot. We do not have to invade the U.S. We will destroy youfrom within”. - Nikita Khrushchev 1956
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I think the electric chair should be eliminated.
It should be replaced with electric bleachers.
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@FLRW
I think 5 people will buy the Gold card. How many people do you think will?
It will be a lot more than that, and here's the problem with that.
They will be people that have lots of problems, and they'll bring those problems with them. They'll bring drugs. They'll bring crime. They will be rapists. but some, I assume, will be good people."
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@n8nrgim
Total employee salaries are less than 2% of the Federal Budget, this performance with the chainsaws and the flamboyant showmanship is just a distraction, as you pointed out, it will make the government dysfunctional, but in terms of effectiveness, it will be no more than a drop in the bucket in terms of cost cutting.
Why make all that noise then, why all the performances and chainsaws, why use it to dominate the news cycle every day, what are they distracting us from?
Well, let's look at the recently released 2025 budget, the US has around $35 trillion in debt, the current plan will increase US debt by $20 trillion, which is an economic death warrant for the US economy. But what about all the cuts, we saw a chainsaw and everything, why are they dancing, aren't there other cuts?
Well yeah, one of them is $800 billion in cuts to Medicaid, effectively kneecapping the largest source of health care coverage in the United States, one that plays a critical role in rural communities (Overwhelmingly, the people that got Trump elected, you know, suckers). Medicare keeps rural hospitals open, in rural areas it provides for maternal health and deliveries, and access to primary care and critical health services that would not be available without it. 50% of children in rural areas rely on Medicaid for health care. The budget will put rural communities and their health care systems at serious risk, it could put millions of lives at risk.
Working Americans will suffer, especially in rural areas, with all these cuts, with all this revenue from Americans paying Tariff taxes, with all this pain and suffering, why does the country get over $20 trillion in additional debt, where does all that money go?
The simple and demonstrable answer is the billionaires get it, we pay for it through pain and suffering, and the billionaires get it all.
The budget calls for tax cuts for millionaires, billionaires, and multinational companies (you know, the companies owned by billionaires). All of those cuts and another #20 trillion, it all goes to the wealthiest people, we suffer, and they get the money. No fucking wonder Trump and the richest billionaire of all is doing the chainsaw dance to distract us.
Theses are the facts, all you need to do is get informed to see it, the country has been sold out by a charlatan, Trump and his oligarchy ruling class get $20 trillion dollars, and the country collapses (OK, so Putin benefits too). Federal jobs, rural children, millions dead because they can't get health care, economic collapse, all of it is a small price to pay so millionaires and billionaires can get richer.
America is the world's only superpower, it is the most powerful country in the world, and it has been defeated by a charlatan armed with nothing but lies and conspiracy theories.
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@Sunshineboy217
I am not basing this off of Trump. Literally every Cold War President knew that compromise is key when opening peace talks with a capable enemy. It’s kind of common sense that when you’re dealing with an opponent who is just as powerful (if not, more) as you, you need to make sure that they feel that they’re getting something out of it, too. If we vote to directly condemn Putin, he’s just going to walk away from the negotiating table. I personally would have abstained, but this vote might be what we need to get Putin to finally be rational and become open to peace talks.
I get it, Trump is betraying our allies to please Putin, and MAGA followers call that strategery, now lay some "weave" on me.
He should probably give Putin a free Trump bible, Trump golden sneakers, and a cabinet seat too, you know, to put him in the mood to negotiate for California next.
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@FLRW
God doesn't talk to anyone from a burning bush anymore. Doesn't that mean God is dead?
Then who is it that talks to ne from that burning bush in my backyard? An imposter?
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@Sunshineboy217
He probably is. And that’s a good thing. Do you know why? Because now he feels like he’s gained something, even though he really hasn’t (that UN resolution does nothing but verbally condemn him). It’ll make him more open to peace talks (hopefully).
Yes, when Trump bends over and squeals like a pig for Putin, it's called strategy.
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@Lemming
What is the process in how America decides what to vote in the UN?
It's a pretty straightforward process actually.
Putin tells Trump how to vote and then Trump tells the US ambassador to the United Nations how to vote.
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@FLRW
The size of Trump's penis became an actual, legitimate, real life, no-foolin' issue in the campaign in 2016 when Rubio made light of what he said were Trump's small hands."And you know what they say about men with small hands," Rubio told rowdy supporters, pausing for effect as the crowd laughed. "You can't trust him."
When Trump takes Viagra, he just gets taller.
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@Shila
OMG, are you a republican?I am a liberal in Canada.
The planet you are from has a place called Canada too?
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@fauxlaw
If you cannot justify your personal value to a private industry company or to the government by calculation and description of your personal contribution to the bottom line value of that entity, then move over, be entitled, and accept your worthlessness, because reality demands it's one or the other.
I suspect most people believe that only a “worthless” person defines the “value” of a humanbeing by their contribution to the bottom-line value of acompany.
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@FLRW
I'm glad I'm a Pastafarian. I hope that they will now teach it in schools.
They will, but only to the kids that ride the short bus.
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@Shila
Judaism is still a religion followed by the Jews competing with Christianity.
So what, the fact that Christianity was a Jewish sect that evolved through syncretism into a separate religion over the centuries has no bearing on your contention that the Jews rejected Jesus, during his lifetime he was a Jew, his followers were Jews, every single word of the Bible was written by a Jew (Luke was a convert), the explosive growth of this Jewish sect was a tremendous acceptance by Jews.
Jesus betrayed the Jews even though he was a Jew and followed Judaism.
No, Jesus did not betray the Jews, he did not start a new religion, Jesus was a Jewish Rabbi within a Judaism that allowed a wide latitude for individual teachers to think independently. Jesus was not a Christian, a new religion based on his life and death evolved long after his death, over time it became Christianity, and it is Christianity that betrayed Jesus and the Jews.
Judaism is a religion of Prophets; Jesus came forth squarely in the Hebrew prophetic tradition as a Prophet who kept Judaism vibrant through criticism of the faith. Religiously, it was an internal affair, Jesus passionately challenged the corruption and legalism of his own beloved Judaism and did so in the tradition of the great Jewish prophets such as Isaiah, Joel, Jeremiah, and Amos and he did so in the social and political context of his day.
No matter how you interpret the account, it was the two individuals, Caiaphas and Pilot who are implicated in the death of Jesus and betrayal. Jesus fearlessly threatened both a cruel Pilot’s stability of the region and a corrupt Caiaphas’s authority and wealth by scathingly condemning the perverting and betraying nature of all forms of power – social, religious, political, and sexual. That is why he was killed by the Romans, and it is only through stereotyping that leads to bigotry that has turned it into a question of whether “the Jews” or “the Romans” are at fault.
The foundational Christian concepts of the Incarnation, the virgin birth, a second coming, or his Messiahship did not even exist in the decades following his death, any idea that the Jews of his time rejected these ideas is simply misinformed bigotry.
It is certainly not my intent to contend that what was implicit in His life and was made explicit through theological discourse four hundred years later is not an image of truth; I am one who embraces that truth, but the projection of divisiveness between Jews and Christians into the first century is a betrayal of Jesus by Christianity.
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@Sunshineboy217
Great post, didn't know much of that and have been convinced (that rarely happens here, and it unusual that I feel more informed after reading a post here)
Regarding "The Small Stuff". I sure wouldn't call any of those items small stuff.
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@RandomChristian6395
Okay from that POV your right, in today’s society it probably wouldn’t be possible and stuff, church and state used to be more mixed,
There is tremendous diversity of faiths in this country, to accommodate that fact requires the freedom of religion from the government, but any further involvement by the Government in religion is going to affect religion adversely. There are only a few things the government does well, they jack up everything else they touch.
The relationship between the American people and the government was defined by the fourteenth amendment, and the foundational principles of Freedom and Liberty. Americans have traditionally wanted the government to stay out of our personal lives, what we do in our home is none of their business (as long as it's legal), how we worship is none of their business, we are much better off if the government respects our privacy. The trend is towards more and more government encroachment, always with negative consequences.
if the world was still for Christ it would be easier.
Even that would be problematic, there are around 30,000 denominations of Christianity, with a large amount of diversity.
There are multiple theocracies in the world today, none of them provides an example of something we want to achieve here.
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@Greyparrot
It's gonna be really rough the next 8 years of JD Vance...
No way this last 8 more years, MAGA will be in power less than six more months, something good will happen to stop the insanity.
I don't know if it will be by military coup, successful insurrection, 25th Amendment, or something else, but in some way, Americans will wake up and realize this was all a nightmare.
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@Greyparrot
Are your posts basically orangeman bad?
Actually, it's MAGA bad, not just orangeman, but those who support orangeman, so in effect, it's Wylted and Greyparrot bad.
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@fauxlaw
@Shila
I already recognize that Jesus does not have any sireship by Joseph, but that is not my point. My point is that Jesus was not just King of the Jews by virtue if his being the Messiah, but by actual Judah-Davidic lineage, as I said.
Mary’s bloodline has nothing to do with it, the strictly Christian idea of the virgin birth and the incarnation are inconsistent with Jewish Messianic prophecy. The Messiah of Judaic prophecy was to be completely human, born of two human parents, and descended on his father’s side from King David (Genesis 49:10, Isaiah 11:1, Jeremiah 23:5, 33:17; Ezekiel 34:23-24).
Please read my entire commentary of post #81. It is pure irony that the First-century first-decades Jews really did kill their rightful king, even by virtue of Mary's bloodline.
Nonsense, first of all, it wasn’t the Jews, it was the Romans that killed Jesus, and Jesus did not fulfill the Messianic prophecy of “First-century first-decades Jews”, so he can’t be considered their “rightful king” because He did not fulfill the Messianic prophecies of Judaism and He did not possess the personal qualifications of Judaism’s Messiah.
He did not fulfill the central theme of Judaic Messianic prophecy, which was to bring about an age of perfection with universal peace and worldwide acceptance of the God of Judaism. (Isaiah 2:1-4; Zephaniah 3:9; Hosea 2:20-22; Amos 9:13-15; Isaiah 32:15-18, 60:15-18; Micah 4:1-4; Zechariah 8:23, 14:9; Jeremiah 31:33-34).
Jesus did not build the Third Temple (Ezekiel 37:26-28) and he did not bring all Jews back to the Land of Israel (Isaiah 43:5-6) during his lifetime. There is absolutely no concept of a “second coming” of the Messiah in Judaic Scripture and the Jewish Messiah is to rule Israel during the age of perfection, Jesus did not do so. (Isaiah 11:1-9; Jeremiah 23:5-6, 30:7-10, 33:14-16; Ezekiel 34:11-31, 37:21-28; Hosea 3:4-5).
In fact, the fundamentalist Christian contention about the Messiah regarding divisiveness and exclusivity between Jews and Christians is diametrically opposed to the Judaic prophecy that the Messiah would unite mankind to live in perfect harmony as one.
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@Shila
God sent Jesus as his messenger to the Jewish people. The Jews rejected Jesus.
Christianity grew directly out of Judaism and become 2 billion strong.
You call that a rejection?
I think it represents a remarkable acceptance.
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@WyIted
I Actually have not admitted that Trump was anything less than the Messiah in this post. Nice try
I was just paraphrasing your last 900 posts.
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@zedvictor4
Well, one has to assume that half the population was already slightly daft.
Good Point, the question becomes, did Trump make half the country crazy. or did he just attract the crazy half of the country to him.
I think it's probably both, he attracted the crazies and then cranked them up to crazy squared.
Obviously you are one of the other half.Was America ever great?
Britain was great once, but we're never going to regain that status.
You should be grateful to the US, the further into a cesspool America goes, the better we make Britain look.
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@WyIted
Fake news, witch hunt, politically motivated, outrage.
You know that Trump is a pillar of virtue, he is incapable of committing a crime, if he did something that means it is legal.
Any assertion that Trump may have broken the law just proves that he is innocent and people are just out to get him, your post proves you are a hateful libtard suffering from Trump Delusion Syndrome.
You are never going to get that doublewide now..
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@RandomChristian6395
Church and state shouldn’t be separated, God calls us (to do what is right) and include him in everything we do, and bring up children in his ways aka discipline and school.
Have you lost your mind; if you get the church involved with the government you will get the government involved with the church.
The separation of church and state protects the church from the government.
Let's not forget that Jesus advocated the separation of church and state.
"Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's"
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