Anony Mous

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  Memorial attendance

  by Balaamsass2 in

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  curious.

  what was your local memorial attendance like tonight?

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  Isn’t Easter next week?
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  Trump Tariffs started today, Some Countries Caved in early morning.

  by liam in

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  usa politicians in charge of the economy for the past 50 years were too stupid to understand how the economy works.

  this just proves my theory, that an education on the top tier universities just sucks and means nothing in the real world, unless its in the stem education.

  for 50 years usa had zero tariffs on other countries.

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  Claiming we will be entering a recession when we have effectively been in a depression for 4 years+.

  Note that the current global market correction is not even the worst in the last 4 years, and both the US domestic markets and bonds have risen significantly over the last week. So the EU and China are doing a bit worse, who cares, if you’re that dependent on the US markets doing poorly, then perhaps that’s a you-problem, not a US problem.

  yet we hear crickets when we remember:
  

  when inflation was at 10+% annually

  when the top advisor to the president was a Chinese cutout

  when top Democrat senators were sleeping with Chinese spies.

  when our president was brain dead and incoherent on live television

  Pepperidge Farm remembers.
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  Why worship a God that does not help!

  by Witness 007 in

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  so god let 10 million people die in world war 2 but was too busy to help....what kind of diety does this!

  if i was god i would have done something .

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  The counter case to that is that if God intervened at any point things go awry, would we really have free will? People did intervene, some say that is God/good in the people.
  Specifically about Nazism and most of the 20th century atrocities, that all sprung out from the writings of Marx, even though, to our knowledge, Marx himself did nothing ‘wrong’, God would have had to prevent Marx but also similar writings of his day, the entire area of 18th and 19th century philosophy would’ve looked much different. And that built upon itself from a rejection of prior ideas and you can keep going, everything is chained to ‘the beginning’ - so where should’ve God have intervened?
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  Trump Tariffs started today, Some Countries Caved in early morning.

  by liam in

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  usa politicians in charge of the economy for the past 50 years were too stupid to understand how the economy works.

  this just proves my theory, that an education on the top tier universities just sucks and means nothing in the real world, unless its in the stem education.

  for 50 years usa had zero tariffs on other countries.

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  There are movements that want to reduce and even eliminate governments - somewhere between proper conservatives (not neocons, which are disillusioned progressives) and anarcho-capitalists you can get pretty close to a “near-zero, local-only” ideal governance model.

  It’s not impossible, the early US was pretty close, there are some countries today that get pretty close because 20th century socialist government has failed (eg. Somaliland which is a federation of tribes).
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  What is really Babylon the great?

  by Halcon in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  for believers of god and christ, it seems that it should be obvious that babylon the great of revelation should be all religions and spiritual practices associated with the one true enemy of christ...the devil, satan, the snake etc.

  essentially any group or individual practicing and promoting witchcraft, sorcery, devil worshipping etc.

  all things practiced in ancient babylon (the nation presumably used as the model for the one in revelation).. or is this too simple of an explanation?.

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  @Vanderhoven: since I learned that Revelation really was talking about the Roman Empire and not as much about Jerusalem (as it had been destroyed 20-30 years prior to its writing). Christianity was still mostly recently converted Jews trying to look for an explanation as to why their promised land got destroyed and thus a new theology developed.

  Most scholars accept that 666 refers to Nero, Babylon the Great refers to those that recently destroyed the Temple, aka Rome, the repeated number 7 (hills, heads etc) refers to the physical Rome (which has and evolved from settlements on the surrounding 7 hills), 10 horns = patchwork of (10) local rulers in and around Judea in the first century (eg. Herodians) as clients of Rome.

  You can understand pretty much all of Revelations as a political commentary against Rome and classical Judaism from an early Christian-Jewish perspective. It is thinly veiled, with a bit of historical context, you can still get most of the references, but back then it would be even better understood, probably not a very popular guy in his day, pissing off both exiled Jews and Romans.
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  Trump Tariffs started today, Some Countries Caved in early morning.

  by liam in

  1. social
  2. current

  usa politicians in charge of the economy for the past 50 years were too stupid to understand how the economy works.

  this just proves my theory, that an education on the top tier universities just sucks and means nothing in the real world, unless its in the stem education.

  for 50 years usa had zero tariffs on other countries.

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  What’s funny to me, like the first term: Trump does thing A - oh no evil orange man bad, how could he do such things. Trump does the opposite of thing A - oh no evil orange man bad, how could he do such things.

  The markets in the US traded about equally throughout the days, China’s market cratered. Tariffs were promised during the election to those that didn’t lower theirs; tariffs were instituted to those that didn’t listen; 75 countries came to the table as they saw he was serious; tariffs were temporarily lowered from averaging ~20-30% to 10% (but not removed) for countries that didn’t retaliate; China still has high tariffs, the rest of the world has 90 days to come up with a plan.

  This Is nothing but consistent with his message. It is what Main Street voted for and these market swings haven’t affected your pensions. Some day traders on Wall Street lost a few billion in foreign markets and repatriated their money from Hong Kong and Beijing into US bonds. Major companies announced billions in trade and build out of China.

  Seriously; what was the downside here? Did you personally lose any money? Did you have millions invested in Asian markets? Because if so, this wasn’t insider trading, this was announced 6 months ago and people (as usual) didn’t believe it was possible Trump could move that fast with all the bureaucracy. Guess what, the president has powers donated to him by a century of near continuous Democrat and Neocon rule - you created this monster - rein it in, which means cutting down government to proper size.
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  Trump Tariffs started today, Some Countries Caved in early morning.

  by liam in

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  usa politicians in charge of the economy for the past 50 years were too stupid to understand how the economy works.

  this just proves my theory, that an education on the top tier universities just sucks and means nothing in the real world, unless its in the stem education.

  for 50 years usa had zero tariffs on other countries.

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  @truthlover: Please note that what you are proposing here is illegal and risky and you would not be covered under Canadian healthcare cost. Additionally you would not have any recourse against either your provider or the pharmacy or the pharmaceutical company for ANY issues that crop up (wrong dose, wrong product, manufacturing defects etc).

  Unlike Canadians on public healthcare, you would pay full non-insurance price for those medications which between that and the travel and the fact you're facing thousands of dollars in fines and court costs, is unlikely to make it worth the trip - I've just reviewed some common medication and sometimes it's slightly more expensive, sometimes slightly less expensive than the non-insured cost in the US, but in the US you would still be covered by insurance or some discount program like GoodRx.
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  Narcissist challenges culture ingrained with the concept of “saving face” to perform humiliating retreat

  by slimboyfat in

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  oh yeah, this is going to end well.

  hold on to your seats, folks, we’re on the front row of history for, as the chinese might say, “interesting times”.

  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8rgkkl7v8lo.

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  Somehow the US survived the Cold War without ever trading with the USSR. China has gone down the same path as the USSR, developing nuclear weapons and increasingly hostile to the world and the EU and US keep feeding the beast.

  China needs the world more to keep its economy afloat. Under Trump 1 many factories moved their production out of China already due to threats of tariffs, Biden kept the tariffs in place. Their housing market crashed as a result, the rest of the world was fine.

  Nobody should need China or Russia. If the EU needs them then they’ve screwed up royally and will bear the pain. Meanwhile my gas prices have dropped below $3/gallon again. Groceries are slowly dropping in price, they moved about -0.5% in the last 4 months, despite Bidenflation in the market still having its effect. Remember when they shot up by 2% per month after Biden got into office? Nobody was concerned back then? Nobody was concerned when China said they had the ability to shut down the export of critical medication? Nobody was concerned when Russia dictated to the EU the prices on oil and gas?

  Despite all the news outlets squawking about what MAY and LIKELY and POTENTIALLY happen, none of this has realized yet. The markets are correcting for massive inflation and cash printing from the feds over the past 4 years, but it is not affecting the common person. While federal employment has gone down significantly, so is unemployment, meaning all those fired federal workers are creating jobs in the private sector, under Biden it was the reverse, more federal workers than ever and unemployment rose.
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  The point of existence and how it refutes the Trinity

  by slimboyfat in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  rowan williams, the former archbishop of canterbury gave an interesting answer to the somewhat stark question, what’s the point of us existing?

  as a christian, my starting point is that we exist because the most fundamental form of activity, energy, call it what you like, that is there, is love.

  that is, it’s a willingness that the other should be.

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  @slimboyfat: Universalist Unitarians and LDS are examples of belief systems similar enough to Arians as are various offshoots of the Millerite theology. Although early Millerism held to trinitarianism, its offshoots such as some SDA churches down the line (Ellen White’s cult) as the Bible Students (Barbour and CT Russell’s cult), JW (Rutherford’s cult distinct from the various extant Bible Student movements after CT Russell died) did reject the trinity and Jesus divinity in some form.

  JWs held/hold that Jesus was not Jesus but Michael before he came to the earth, so you could say that they too didn’t believe in Jesus being in heaven in his Messianic role. LDS also believes Jesus was in heaven before he came to earth if that’s a (rather arbitrary) definition you want to make of Arianism.

  What is rather telling that in each of the cases mentioned above (whether or not you consider them Arian) is that to justify the non-divinity of Christ they each had to modify significant passages and interpretations of the what I would call “catholic” (small C) Bible.
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  Trump Tariffs started today, Some Countries Caved in early morning.

  by liam in

  1. social
  2. current

  usa politicians in charge of the economy for the past 50 years were too stupid to understand how the economy works.

  this just proves my theory, that an education on the top tier universities just sucks and means nothing in the real world, unless its in the stem education.

  for 50 years usa had zero tariffs on other countries.

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  @joey: name me an example of a product that is absolutely not at all manufacturable or being manufactured in the US today.

  TAA compliance requires most goods the government buys are manufactured or substantially modified in the US. Expand that base.

  There are loads of things that without China subsidizing their exports would be too expensive to ship across the oceans. Placing a reciprocal tariff on those things is going to reduce that heavy, unnecessary shipping which is a large cause of carbon emissions.

  People have long complained that certain products are being sourced in the US, shipped to China, assembled, shipped back to the US where the US then pays China through their tariffs. And there is plenty of that going on around the world to evade taxes and export controls.

  What will end is being able to get the cheap junk from China that fills up our landfills. I don’t know why one of the richest countries per capita should not get more durable products.