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Reminder that, once investigators got past Elon’s tactics of hiding real driving and accident data, #Tesla cars were found to be the most dangerous and lethal cars on US roads.
President Vladimir Putin sent greetings to The Primakov Readings International Forum today, posted on the Kremlin site. Excerpts:
”The Readings have established themselves as a highly respected international expert forum.
TEHRAN, Jun. 23 (MNA) – In a meeting with Iranian top diploamat, Russian President emphasized that the unjustified aggression against Iran has no basis and that Moscow will work to help the Iranian people.
@LeftistLawyer here's the thing. there was this interesting post from aj a little bit ago, so i went from assuming trump was just tryna bully everyone into it and risking his credibility to... it looks like netenyahu might have lied to him again? which could be very bad for israel.
@LeftistLawyer eh yes and no. iran has made pretty clear that every time they are hit, then will hit back. so tehran was getting hit up until like 80 or 90 minutes ago, so this last missile barrage (that might be over now?) was retaliation for that. lets see what happens now, bc netanyahu has maybe publically accepted?? thats what im seeing on al mayadeen but nowhere else.
I'm completely lost. Trump says there's a "CEASEFIRE". The M5M says there's no ceasefire. And I could swear that Trump said he would not settle for a ceasefire.
This war has no human characteristics, but fierce because it is properly beastly, in the sense of Liu Cixin who in Dark Forest makes Thomas Wade say: “If we lose our humanity we lose something, if we lose our bestiality we lose everything.”
Zionist beasts have managed to drag the world into a war whose nature is racial.
Global race war – this is the reproach in which the resurrected Nazism with Israel has dragged the world.
In this war, genocide becomes the rule. Gaza was the first chapter, now it’s up to Iran, a country of ninety million inhabitants that has been the victim of colonialism and Islamic fundamentalism since 1953 (when President Mossadeq democratically elected was hanged because he intended to nationalize oil by stealing it from Western companies).
I don’t think there is a way out of this war, I don’t think mankind will come out alive.
This war is the tail stroke of the dying colonialist lion but still capable of obliterating life on the planet. Its nature is therefore essentially racial: the senescent white race uses all the strength of its over-killing to prevent the front of the revanchist nationalisms of the south from gaining dominion over crucial resources.
If true, that is rather ironic. White nationalists have been trying to start a racial war for the last 50 years, without much success. Now the Israelis have kicked it off? Well, hopefully this thing will die down. Israel is getting hit hard enough to want this to stop, as does Iran.
#Trump: A complete agreement has been reached between #Israel and #Iran that there will be a full and comprehensive #ceasefire, which will come into effect within approximately 6 hours.
In response to the continuing Israeli aggression against Iran, on June 18, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi held telephone talks with the Foreign Ministers of Egypt and Oman at their request.
@scathach the tech industry doesn't even seem worth it unless you go into some new AI tech. Like why is everyone getting laid off and being unemployed for months, that's wild
@arlon utilizava o Manjaro, mas comecei a ter muitos problemas de congelamento de tela, mesmo instalando os drivers da placa de vídeo. O Debian foi uma tentativa no sentido de algo mais simples e mais estável, e tá respondendo bem nos dois computadores.
Caraca! Que diferente. Imaginava que tu fosse do Ubuntu, que em geral é o SO que a galera fora da área de TI usa. Eu mesmo sou ubunteiro, mas já pensei em migrar pro Debian, porque não queria mais mexer com atualização. Só que ao mesmo tempo, gosto de experimentar software…
@arlon pois é, eu gostava do manjaro justamente por essa facilidade de simplesmente instalar qualquer software kkkkk mas acho que já estabilizei os que eu uso no dia-a-dia, e consigo fazer tudo que preciso usando o repositório do debian, o que não tem lá uso flatpak.
@arlon mas, realmente, minha porta de entrada foi o Ubuntu Studio. Depois migrei para o Xubuntu, justamente por conta do XFCE, que é o meu ambiente gráfico preferido, que uso até hoje.
manjaro justamente por essa facilidade de simplesmente instalar qualquer software
Qual ambiente era? XFCE?
o que não tem lá uso flatpak.
Dizem qu misturar repositório zoa o Debian…
Depois migrei para o Xubuntu, justamente por conta do XFCE
Eu era usuário de Linux Lite, que é baseado em Xubuntu. É Xubuntu mais cru, quase sempre eu tinha que usar comando. Aí passei pro Xubuntu porque achei mais prático e mais bonito.
@arlon - Manjaro XFCE - Eita beleza, vou ficar de olho aqui, mas são poucos os flatpaks, tomara que não aconteça nada hehehe - Xubuntu é massa mesmo, se der problema os meus flatpak no Debian, eu volto pra ele.
I'm taking the day off. I discovered my bank closed all of my firm accounts yesterday, including my credit cards, in error, which meant I was dead in the water. I was fucking pissed. I called their east coast office at 5am and got it all fixed by 7ish, but that kind of anger wore me out. That's about a pissed as a fire ant I've been in a few years. Someone was very close to getting a severe beating.
Recent polling reveals that the ‘genocide fever’ in Israeli society has reached its logical conclusion: ‘If we can get rid of them all, why not?’
Twenty years ago, Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh, the spiritual father of the 'hilltop youth,' sketched out his vision for destroying Israel's democratic institutions & establishing Jewish supremacy. After Oct. 7, it seems that his vision is coming to fruition
Apparent and covert Israeli goals in the military conflict with Iran can trigger a massive escalation in the Middle East. The pragmatic Israel would not
These lesser courts are subservient tot the Supreme Court. They are supposed to be doing the minor work so the Supreme Court can focus on the big ticket items.
The whole idea of Stari decisis is to let the Lower Courts understand what the ruling is from the Supreme Court and they can't undermine it.
This guy is an idiot. Watch him run for office after Justice Roberts fires him
the pandemic Biden declared over, just after the trumpists closed schools and public spaces and handed out checks to everyone with trump's name on it? Yeah as an immune compromised + medical family who have been distancing and masking for coming up on 6 years now, we had to choice but to pay very close attention to all this, and we know who did what, and when. Biden declared it over, and then trump2 took the reigns and walked away with it.
Exclusive – Al-Khabar Al-Yemeni:Violent explosions shook areas in “Israel” due to a missile shelling carried out by Iran.Hebrew media said that sirens sounded in several areas in “Tel Aviv” as a result of Iran launching at least 7 missiles.It added
My local library uses CloudLibrary, which doesn’t actually support ebook readers. It forces you to install an app and read from your phone. I literally have a card in a neighboring town, just to have Libby access on my Kobo e-reader.
Every time I go in to my local library, I make a point of mentioning that CloudLibrary doesn’t work on e-readers, in the hopes that they’ll consider switching to Libby instead.
The Trump administration has proposed to eliminate the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board by October 2026, citing fiscal responsibility and redundancy.
I now do some work with computers that involves making graphics cards do computational work on a headless server. The computational work it does has nothing to do with graphics.
The name is more for consumers based off the most common use for graphics cards and why they were first made in the 90s but now they're used for all sorts of computational workloads. So what are some more fitting names for the part?
I now think of them as 'computation engines' analagous to a old car engine. Its where the computational horsepower is really generated. But how would ram make sense in this analogy?
Theorethical physicists, astrophysicists, nuclear engineers, mechanical engineers, and countless other professions depend on the computational capabilities it provides.
Don't let your anger and bitterness blindside you into thinking it's for all the bullshit.
And of course you have to be missing my point entirely. I didn't say to not have the anger and bitterness, but instead to not turn it against the ones that have nothing to do with it.
Australian Senator Malcolm Roberts: Climate change is being used as a pretext to de-industrialise Western civilisation, enabling unelected bureaucracies like the UN to establish socialist global government. "They're pushing it for control and wealth transfer... It's all deliberate."
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The Iraq invasion and the bombing of Iran are acts of desperation — the conduct of a wounded, uncertain nation that went on the defensive when the Twin Towers went down and history arrived on its shores.
Support Palestine Deep Dive: https://www.palestinedeepdive.com/supportIsrael and the US’s current war on Iran has been a long time in the making. Palestine D...
The anti-nuclear hysteria that captured the public imagination for generations has not only contributed significantly to climate change, it has literally been responsible for killing hundreds of millions of people.
The Israeli-US military strike on Iran's Fordow nuclear facility marks a significant escalation in the confrontation between Washington and Tehran, potentially leading to a broader regional or global conflict.
The incident reveals a deeper ideological battle between the US and Iran, with Washington targeting Iranian sovereignty and independence, and Tehran standing as a civilizational alternative to Western hegemony.
@DBG3D that's an internal contradiction for the people of Iran to resolve themselves. Values cannot be imposed on a society from outside. That logic is basically the colonial missionary mindset.
It's also worth keeping in mind that Iran was socialist and progressive until CIA fuckery put an end to that. The reason the Middle East is the way it is entirely due to western meddling.
Values like the right to exists are a fundamental part of any civilization that deserves to be called that.
LGTBQ+ is not a fashion. We exists since the dawn of time and pursued since them, so there is no impossition of values. Is defense of the human rights. Iran is violating exactly that.
"Iran ceased to be a civilization after 1953. After the intervention of the CIA."
@DBG3D again, my point is that attempts to do things like regime changes and force culture on people does not work. We have plenty of evidence of this now. This is an internal contradiction for people of Iran to solve.
Meanwhile, the west very clearly does not give a flying fuck about human rights in general. It's a civilization fundamentally built on war and exploitation. You can't just consider rights of a single group while ignoring the rest.
@DBG3D I'm pointing out that the values the west has are not consistent, and as such the west has no right to dictate morals to other civilizations. It's not just the US or Israel. The entire western civilization is built on horror and atrocities. The west is responsible for many of the worst crimes against humanity. The genocides, the slave trade, capitalism, and the climate crisis are products of western civilization. The west is a threat to humanity in a very literal sense.
@DBG3D again, I'm pointing out that you have to look at this holistically. The socially liberal values of the west cannot be separated from the rest of western values and considered in isolation. The same culture that produced LGBT rights is also the one that's responsible for capitalist exploitation of the world.
@DBG3D and Israel conflict is a perfect example of how the west uses liberal social values to justify atrocities. Israel has been presented as progressive liberal state that's fighting against uncivilized barbarians who with regressive social values. This logic has literally been used for decades to paper over the atrocities Israel committed in Palestine.
@DBG3D I'm pointing out that these things are directly related. You can just cherry pick aspects of western society you like, and ignore the rest. You have to look at how this civilization behaves holistically. The positive aspects such as social liberties, are often used to justified horrific atrocities against other cultures.
The LGTBQ+ rights were a product of the fights of trans people. In the 1930's for example there were less rejection against us, that changed with the nazis. And I was not talking about that.
LGTBIQ+ people is even recognized as valuable members of the Indian American tribes (maybe not for all the right reasons...). And we were present even in Chalomagne times. He was gay.
We ARE NOT VALUES, we ARE PEOPLE like you or anyone else.
I stop this going backwards and forwards, because you do not know what you are talking about.
The fight against the destruction of surplus product and against hoarding in Brazil cannot be carried out through the state, but through consumer cooperatives, which affiliated with powerful federations, will be able to deliver to the market and finance production and regulate prices on a fair basis. -- Mario Ferreira dos Santos
>"O Mary, Mother of God, as you are above all creatures in heaven and on earth, more glorious than the Cherubim, more noble than any here below, Christ has given you to His people, firm bulwark and protectress, to shield and save sinners who fly to you. Therefore, O Lady, all-embracing refuge, we solemnly recall your sweet protection and beg the Christ forever for His mercy. Amen."
>Blessed, most pure Virgin, you chose to manifest yourself shining with life, sweetness and beauty, in the Grotto of Lourdes. To the child, St. Bernadette, you revealed yourself, "I am the Immaculate Conception." And now, Immaculate Virgin, Mother of Mercy, Healer of the Sick, Comforter of the Afflicted, you know my wants, my troubles, my sufferings. Look upon me with mercy. By your appearance in the Grotto of Lourdes, it became a privileged sanctuary from which you dispense your favors. Many have obtained the cure of their infirmities, both spiritual and physical. I come, therefore, with confidence in your maternal intercession. Obtain for me, O loving Mother, this special request. Our Lady of Lourdes, Mother of Christ, pray for me. Obtain from your Divine Son my special request if it be God's will. Amen
Yes. She is blessed "among women". I'm not a woman. Also her blessing is that she was to be the womb to carry Jesus. But none of this is any indication she is favorable above all else, or special in any way that you decide she is special in. The apostles were selected as well, and they are far from special. Peter is pretty awful actually.
You believe you can understand the will of God. Many have thought this. You don't know why he chose Peter any more than I do. You assume it had to be for special *good* reasons. He also chose Judas. I'm sure there were plenty of bad men he could have selected in the place of Judas, as I'm sure there are people He could have selected in the place of Peter.
You view it like a human interviewing a hiree. >You seem like the perfect candidate for the job!
Sure, maybe Peter was? But that doesn't make him "special" either. He was a tool to perform a task. No one in the kingdom of heaven is greater than anyone else. All of Gods children are Saints. All are equal. This idea of "greatness" is an wholly human feature.
That I can mostly agree with, but at the same time is it not accurate to state that one tool is better suited for a specific purpose (and thus greater) than another?
I mean my Milwaukee impact driver is better than my craftsman hammer. But I see no indication God views us like this, and nor should you. This is a large part of the stories in the bible. The Israelites not understanding that it's us vs them, not us vs us.
Fair I do still believe that as God calls us to certain tasks depending on our abilities and His will it would certainly make sense that some are more apt for certain tasks than others and thus Mary was set apart in some regard
Of course people are more apt to do things. we aren't actually equal in ability. But how is a fisherman more apt to be an apostle? How is a random shitposter more apt to influence national socialism than any other? If you want to know why Mary was selected, it's in the protoevangelium of James. Jesus HAD to be born then, because it was prophesied over 600 years prior by Daniel. The pool of acceptable women wasn't exactly as large as you want to make it out to be. It might have been like 50,000 people. And yes, Mary was very holy, and I never said she wasn't. But nothing says Mary was better than you or me just because she pushed Jesus out of her body.
I would tend to think that if God were to create prophecies and plan to enter the earth as Jesus at some point that He would create the ideal woman to come out of
What does this even mean? What makes a woman ideal? She was his mother. Here is my best guess as to why it was Mary. If you read the Gospel of James, you'll see that she is claimed to have been excessively holy even by the standards of the priests, not just the other girls her age. She was then trusted to a man far her elder (Joseph). If virtually anyone else had become pregnant, they would have probably assumed they just had sex.
>Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
>“For I the Lord do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed.
>God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?
>But you are the same, and your years have no end.
So does God want us to retake Jerusalem, or does he want us to let infinity niggers into our coutries?
if it counts for anything once I move I plan to go to the local Orthodox Church and I'll have my woman come along
My woman does not believe in the Pope as anything other than a figurehead which I suppose makes her not a "true Catholic" but I don't care on that part
It isn't nonsense. He is a young man working his way through issues you've had a lot longer to deal with. His family isn't religious and the woman he loves has driven him to believe the lies of men (denominational Christianity).
But Elizabeth was the mother of John, and among those born of woman no one greater than John existed, so clearly Elizabeth was very blessed, by your logic.
This is the invention of man. Mary has no special connection to Christ. She is not any more connected than any other child of Adam. If anyone was blessed, no one was more blessed than Adam, his first creation.
She was chosen by God to house God inside her for 40 weeks (give or take). This 100% means she has a special connection to Christ just as any other mother does to her child, as well as that she was the perfect person to be Christ's mother
Mothers don't have special connections to their children. Mary has no more of a connection to God than John, Abraham, Isaac, Adam, Moses, or any other. If anyone could be called "blessed" it would be Enoch, as he is the only man to have never died.
Never said she was the perfect mother, but that she was the perfect mother for Jesus. Do you believe that Jesus being left at the temple was not perfectly according to God's will
Let me rephrase, because that didn't actually clarify. This is an English problem. Petros refers to a "rock or stone" something that an English speaker might say when referring to something that you could pick up. This is in contrast to something like bedrock, or a mountain, or even a large bolder, which you cannot.
The catholic view is that God was calling Peter the "bedrock" or foundation of His "church" which is not true.
English isn't a language that generally uses different words to refer to the same object of varying size/use etc. This canned AI response does a good enough job of conveying my point.
What about the verse after -- "I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”"
From what I'm gathering from this discussion Jesus is using wordplay on a nickname He gave Peter and saying he's the foundation on which the Church is to be built upon (especially considering the following verse)
You only see it as word play because it is in English. Jesus didn't give Simon the nickname of "foundation" and Jesus isn't saying Peter is the foundation. Also just because Jesus is still referring to Peter is verse 19 doesn't mean Jesus is saying ONLY Peter has this special power. There is also no other witness to this special power catholics seem to think Peter had, which would have invalidated the works of all the other apostles.
No, if it were English it wouldn't be wordplay. Rock and Peter are nothing alike in English. However Petra and Petros are quite similar
I understand it doesn't mean only Peter has it, but it sounds an awful lot like the rest of the disciples are also there and He doesn't reference them specifically
He does reference them in verse 20. He doesn't reference them in verse 19 because the entire exchange is 3 fucking sentences and the bible isn't a transcript of entire conversations. He references Peter in verse 19 because he was specifically speaking to Peter.
The catholic view has to be along the lines of
>Jesus asks a question, 2 sentences later Peter gives the correct answer, so Jesus rewards Peter with the ultimate prize and not the other 11.
It's juvenile, but also contradictory to the entirety of the rest of scripture, and isn't even what the sentence is actually saying. As the AI image i posted says, Petros is not a foundation. Peter is Petros. He is a stone. He is one among many. He WAS tasked with proselytizing which perfectly tracts with the context of verse 19, but in no way should this be read to say Peter is the foundation (serious heresy against Jesus) or that he was the only one given this special power. This is an inference by men who had a vested interest in propagating their views.
Pretty sure God knew Peter would get it right before He even asked the question (considering He knew about His death, the denials, et cetera) and it was just to further prove the validity of Christ and His Church
Also it's not a heresy against Jesus to say that Peter is the foundation on which the new Church is to be built upon after Jesus is no longer physically on Earth -- foundation doesn't mean "guy you worship" it means "main support and what everything else has the ability to grow upon"
If the foundation is removed without there being another foundation to take its place, the house falls. If there is another to take its place, it stays. When Christ leaves earth, He is no longer physically there to ensure that the faith remains stable, hence Him ensuring there is a new stabilizing force ("foundation") before He leaves
"But what happens when Peter's time on Earth ends" hence apostolic succession
"But a Church without Apostolic succession runs just fine with only Jesus as a foundation" yeah but He's not there to correct the issues that arise which is why you get so many different denominations that are totally incompatible with one another
Doc, he was responding to my comment that Peter’s name was rock. He merely pointed out that the name Jesus gave him is not the same word He used to when He said Peter was the rock to build on.
D0c believes that because a few words earlier "Petros" is translated as "Peter" that Jesus is somehow telling Peter that he is special and will build this "church."
But God is calling Simon a stone.
>And I tell you, you are Peter,
Grammatically, this would make Jesus autistic/retarded. he knows he is Peter.
>18 And I tell you, that you are a stone, and on this bed rock I will build my "congregation", and the powers of death shall not prevail against it.
I have a pinned post about this. Jesus is the foundation. Calling Peter the foundation is heresy.
In Hebrews 11 he names many of the witnesses for Hebrews 12:1 including Abel, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Jacob, Sara, et cetera
Saying you have a cloud of witnesses looking down upon you could mean it's metaphorical except for the fact that it's stated that God is only the God of the living, not of the dead, and thus if they are looking they have eyes and ears
If they can see and hear you, what is wrong about asking them to pray for you?
(Not entering the thread; I'm just popping in during a bathroom shid--here to share a something cool about the word 'cloud'. 🤍 🍻 🤍 )
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You know how we, in English, say a "flood" of people? In Koine Greek (both within and outside of scripture) a gatherings of people are sometimes called "clouds."
An example from scripture would be how Christ's second coming is described as being "with the clouds of heaven" in some verses and "with His tens of thousands" in another about the same event (within any version). (Some versions lean full on with the actual idea of physical clouds and say "on" the clouds but still say "with" His tens of thousands in the other verse, but the "on" is not there.)
Anyway, the idea ties with the Koine Greek way of saying that you and I are "in the air" (which is not to say in the 'ouranos', the 'heavens'), and this is the same as what we, in English, would call "on the earth." (Wave your arms. Feel the air? You are in the air, but not the "sky." So "in the air" people might gather into "clouds.")
That's the meaning too of the "prince of the authority of the *air* " in Ephesians 2:2--it's the "prince of the authority of *here* " in our way of speaking.
I've heard people say >Do you think you're smarter than all the priests who came before you who dedicated their lives to this?
Well yes, I actually do (because I probably am, at least smarter than a good 99.99% of them), but people refuse to accept that I have so much more information at my fingertips than they could dream of. Translations are based on THEIR understanding of language at the time they translated, and what they FELT fit the meaning the best, not on what the words ACTUALLY meant. Take John 3 where Jesus says you must be born from above, not born again, as just one simple example.
yeah my bad when I ask people to pray for me I'm actually going against the Bible (I'm not) just like how when I ask Mary to pray for me (and specifically mention her Son) I'm actually somehow bypassing the Son
Also "Queen" is used as a reverent title, not a literal descriptor
But she's not a queen. At all. She is not worthy of such a title.
There's a difference between asking someone here to pray for or with you than there is asking a deceased individual to do that. Mary can't hear you. It's not her part to pray for you.
Mary? Simply Mary. What else is she? A Human alike any other.
For being so special Jesus talked of her and to her very little in the scripture. As a matter of fact Scripture has very little to say about her. Heck even Jesus said John the Baptist was the greatest.
"Truly, I say to you, among those born of women there has risen no one greater than John the Baptist; yet he who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he"
a) if you're quoting that then why do you not believe that John is greater than Jesus (born of women) b) It's clearly a simple praise that is then used to illustrate a point c) Mary is in Heaven and thus greater than you, why insult her?
I thought I had a post bookmarked I made commenting on all of the verses that say "kingdom of heaven" or "kingdom of God" but I can't find it. those 2 phrases are interchangeable. You should listen to this though.
This program is going to be titled The Kingdom of Heaven, or the Elections of Men? We are going to begin by presenting a short sermon by Bertrand Comparet, and making some remarks in reference to it.
I don't get the point you're trying to make. They weren't healed because they physically touched his clothes, vs those who tried to but couldn't reach.
Im not sure why i should have to explain something so self evident
> And behold, a woman who had suffered from a hemorrhage for twelve years came up behind him and touched the fringe of his garment; 21 for she said to herself, “If I only touch his garment, I shall be made well
But it clearly states that the belief they would be healed is the reason. It had nothing to do with physical contact of linen.
Not if I didn't know about it. My point is simply that the bible is clear that God does not have a mother. God is the first, and no honest priest would try to imply otherwise, so when people like Paleface say things like
>Are you denying that Christ is God or are you saying that the Bible is lying when it calls Mary His mother?
They are being disingenuous. It's jewish pilpul.
>Well aksually, Mary gave birth, so so she is Jesus's mother, but since Jesus is God, that means she is the mother of God, so you see she is really special because God wouldn't exist without...
blah blah blah.
I grow tired of pseudo-intellectual nonsense, especially when it fails to understand the simple concepts the Bible is trying to convey. Luke 3:38 is there to explain what "son of God" means. Jesus IS God. He is not a separate entity, or a "part" of God. God is One, and Jesus is Him.
I'm sure he did, but this view that they walked around speaking Aramaic is most likely modernistic academic nonsense. There are verses that are quoted throughout the new testament that are grammatically different between the LXX and masoretic texts, and clearly support a translation from the LXX.
My view is that they started to get it wrong rather quickly, and the wrong survived. If I quote an apostle as saying X and a rebuttal is >yeah but this church father from 300 years later said Y
Why would anyone have had to? It sounds like what you are saying is >unless X exists in the way you think it should, X isn't valid. >Because Y exists, that means Y could at least be valid.
But this is literally what happened before Jesus. The established orthodoxy got it wrong. All of them. So why would you expect it to be different? The entire point of Revelation, and Daniel, and Isaiah and Jeramiah etc where it talks about anything having to do with "end times" is that we still all got it wrong, so Jesus finally returns to save us for good. Jesus's first coming was about redeeming His chosen, not about fixing all of our problems.
From my point of view, you're saying something like >to debate whether or not Hitler was evil, you first have to admit that he tried to systemically eradicate all jews and did kill 6 million of them.
I don't take it personally. I'm not mad, and I'm not trying to be aggressive. I just fundamentally disagree.
We could discuss Daniels 5th kingdom and who you think that might be, but I notice this funny trend where people (I'm not saying you) generally tend to hyper focus in on words or phrases and not others. Like Matt 16:18-19. But I could argue that at least from my perspective, the gates of hell have prevailed against the catholic church, so Jesus was lying, or the RCC isn't "Gods church."
Meanwhile I can quote Jer 30:30/Heb 8:8 until I'm blue in the face and people will deny that the new covenant is only for the biological children of Israel. And that Israel was a living person, not a country, and not "jews."
“The days will come, says the Lord, when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah;
Donald Trump will be remembered as a uniquely unqualified and terrible President.
What was all this for? You destroyed whatever shred of credibility the U.S. retained with other nations. You demonstrated that Israel, in particular Benjamin Netanyahu, dictates U.S. foreign policy. Iran's nuclear program was not destroyed, and they will likely decide to ramp it up and build nuclear weapons.
Truly unhinged and disconnected from basic humanity.
Washington’s military intervention in the Iran-Israel conflict has affected the foundations of the global security order and further destabilized the situation in the Middle East, according to the Chinese newspaper Global Times.
That's a dramatic mischaracterization. She said she might go independent, but there's a lot of stuff she doesn't like about Democrats so would rather not join them.
President Trump posted on social media that Iran and Israel have reached a "Complete and Total CEASEFIRE." There has been no official word yet from Israel or Iran.
![Screenshot from Al Jazeera's liveblog:
Iran says ‘no agreement’ on any ceasefire as of yet
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says there is no agreement on any ceasefire or cessation of military operations as of now.
“However, provided that the Israeli regime stops its illegal aggression against the Iranian people no later than 4 am Tehran time [00:30 GMT], we have no intention to continue our response afterwards,” he wrote on X.
“The final decision on the cessation of our military operations will be made later.”
X post:
Seyed Abbas Araghchi
@araghchi
As Iran has repeatedly made clear: Israel launched war on Iran, not the other way around.
As of now, there is NO "agreement" on any ceasefire or cessation of military operations. However, provided that the Israeli regime stops its illegal aggression against the Iranian people no later than 4 am Tehran time, we have no intention to continue our response afterwards.
The final decision on the cessation of our military operations will be made later.](https://friendica.eskimo.com/photo/preview/640/7719226 "Screenshot from Al Jazeera's liveblog:
Iran says ‘no agreement’ on any ceasefire as of yet
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says there is no agreement on any ceasefire or cessation of military operations as of now.
“However, provided that the Israeli regime stops its illegal aggression against the Iranian people no later than 4 am Tehran time [00:30 GMT], we have no intention to continue our response afterwards,” he wrote on X.
“The final decision on the cessation of our military operations will be made later.”
X post:
Seyed Abbas Araghchi
@araghchi
As Iran has repeatedly made clear: Israel launched war on Iran, not the other way around.
As of now, there is NO \"agreement\" on any ceasefire or cessation of military operations. However, provided that the Israeli regime stops its illegal aggression against the Iranian people no later than 4 am Tehran time, we have no intention to continue our response afterwards.
The final decision on the cessation of our military operations will be made later.")
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