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cactusflinthead

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  1. How much was the check or did he want that in cold hard cash? Because unless he's getting paid for that nonsense he's out of his mind
  2. Is. Remember the discussion of what is is? How about mercy or kindness? There are two verses that outside of the Sermon on the Mount and Love being the end goal that distill down religion and what's expected of us. Micah 6:8 and James 1:27. I'm going to start with Micah for the benefit of our Jewish buddies. But, before I get get to the actual verse I'm going to lawyer it up and talk about a single word and what could it possibly mean?! The Hebrew word is חֵסֵד H2617 hesed. It is used 248 times being applied to men and God. In Micah 6, it is applied to man. Brown-Driver-Briggs offers this range of meaning: According to BDB, both "kindness" and "mercy" are valid meanings. However, "faithfulness" is not mentioned. The emphasis here is not on the faithfulness of man. The immediate context here is justice to fellow men. Micah is calling the people to love and to show mercy and kindness. Take another step back, the context is appeasing God: Jesus confirms this importance of being merciful in Matthew 9:13 I'd say that "mercy" is the best translation for Micah 6:8. It is better than sacrifice. Here's the verse in question. I'm going to bypass all of the varying Christian translations and go to a search of Micah 6:8 Talmud, because well duh. “You have been told, O mortal, what is good, And what GOD requires of you: Only to do justice And to love goodness, And to walk modestly with your God; I want to concentrate on the two verbs 'do' and 'love' and specifically why they aren't transposed. We're told to Do Justice, not love it. Here hesed is translated as 'goodness' instead of mercy or kindness. That's what we're instructed to love, we're to actively pursue justice and love goodness and mercy. It is an unfortunate byproduct of our morally self superior state that we often mix the two verbs. We're out here loving the 'justice' as we see it foisted upon our fellow human beings. See Leopards Eating Faces. I'm as guilty of that as anyone. And I am just as guilty of avoiding the kindness and mercy part in the midst of the consequences of the Justice being visited upon them by their Orange god. See Huckabees AR, et al. That's a really fucking simple command of what is required of me and I fall woefully short in dozens, hundreds, thousands of instances. Woefully, disdainfully short. I ought to be more merciful to those backwoods hillbillies. But, damned if it is hard to do. It's far more fun to love the Justice that is being visited upon them, soybean farmers, cigar sellers, and the other victims of the hacking slash of DOGE. James starts it off in chapter 1. 'True religion' is what he calls it. 27 Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world. That's the NIV. Here's umpteen other versions https://www.biblestudytools.com/james/1-27-compare.html There are probably more entries on "what does that mean"?! Than there are discussions on how to accomplish the first part, because THAT COSTS MONEY. And those little fuckers ought to die and decrease the surplus population or at the very least stop being so poor. Fatty very plainly stated a while back that he doesn't give two shits about religion and feels no need to do a damn thing to help the poor and needy. How many people share that sentiment that are going to sit in the pews this coming Sunday and yet claim that giving them a free lunch is actually hurting them? Rage inducing Which brings me back to that mercy stuff again. I'm supposed to show kindness to those sorry buncha fuckhead? Yes Dammit! So, yeah I don't think I am going to be attaining Nirvana any time soon. I can't even get past the delicious schadenfreude of Leopards Eating Faces. Dammit. I guess I'm going to have to stick around a while longer.
  3. It started here and I am glad it did. No holds barred. No bullshit CR claims. Game on. If the DT denizens want to join in that's great, but I don't want to hear any bitching about politics and religion getting mixed together because that's exactly what Franklin is doing.
  4. We, the purportedly Christian, have used religion to justify slavery, domestic violence, and war. From interpersonal relationships to international ones, it has been perverted to advance a political agenda of hate It also was the basis of the emancipation and I suspect that it had a part in our more admirable efforts. Sgt. York was a pacifist and then a soldier. There's another guy that I don't know if was Baptist or Methodist or Catholic or what, but when they wanted him to point out the Jewish soldiers he said, "We're all Jewish." There's anecdotal evidence like this throughout history in every religion. It's not inherently bad or good. It's not new either. It's just where we live today and the battle we have at hand. I'm glad someone besides me brought up C.S. Lewis.
  5. That's what I meant in the predawn reply. I mentioned a couple of books this morning, but there are so many. I know from reading along in the AA thread that it's a very real hurdle for some people to find a way to relate to a 'higher power' and to surrender to the idea that we aren't in control. I remember someone saying that they recognized their higher power in the river. It could be a whole lotta different things in the natural world that we can't fully comprehend much less control. Whatever gets you there. I know the Christian religion has a sordid and troubling history. It currently has massive damning issues. It's not limited to one denomination or branch. I quit the Baptists because I was tired of hearing about hating the gay, Demoncrats, and wild ass bullshit masquerading as end times theology. But, I had a continuing desire to experience the divine in some way. I still wanted to help my fellow human beings find the basic necessities of existence. I wanted to 'know' why are we here and what the fuck am I supposed to do with this time on this plane of experience? I'd ask anyone. Mr.Lao Tzu, Siddhartha Gautama, Zoroaster, and the old woman down the road. I don't care. I want to know what you think and why. Maybe I'll learn something. Maybe that dancing Sikh fellow up in the Yukon knows something about life and existence that I can learn from. Are they feeding hungry people, housing the homeless, visiting widows and orphans in their need? Here, have money. I don't give a shit what you call yourself. I'll be glad to help if you let me. Diocletian wasn't the only one that killed people for their beliefs. Hindus killing Muslims, Muslims killing Christians, Confucians buried up to their neck to get beheaded. Japanese martyrs at Nagasaki. Haters gonna hate. I'm going to do my level best to show some compassion and empathy to my fellow human beings no matter who they are. And I don't give a shit what someone else says I'm doing wrong. They damn sure don't listen to me or anyone else when we point out the moral hypocrisy so I just don't fucking care anymore if they get upset that I have trans or gay friends. Ok, I'm done. I probably should have quit ten minutes ago.
  6. In. I don't have time to read everything but I too am on a spiritual journey. I believe we have a body but are a soul. The Atman in search of the Brahman if you want to use those terms. A little piece of light trying to find a way to the rest of the collective soul. I have two books over there in reach, one is by a Jewish fella and another is a Jesuit. I was brought up as a Baptist and graduated from a Cistercian school. One of my best friends told me one day he loves Krishna more than anyone else. We had a brass quintet yesterday at church. It was great. Had a sprinkle baptism of a little baby girl. I managed to keep my shit together until he started talking about his sister fighting off cancer and only reading stories that she knew the ending to. I have more thoughts and no time to tell them.
  7. The red flag for me is how she reacted to him sharing his feelings. If she is turned off by him showing some vulnerability there's no amount of hormones that's going to fix it.
  8. My unwillingness to let their shit slide is why they don't talk politics around me. Say stupid fucked up shit and I am going to say something and it might get loud.
  9. A pile of negs?
  10. You need to get to therapy and that right quick. I don't care if you have to roll through half a dozen sets of ears before you find one that will listen. She has already punched out. I know they tell us we're supposed to show our vulnerability and share our feelings with our significant other but it doesn't always work out well. It sucks but that's how it is sometimes.
  11. Jesus was a Capricorn, he ate organic food He believed in love and peace and never wore no shoes Long hair, beard and sandals and a funky bunch of friends Reckon they'd just nail him up, if he came down again
  12. I'd put it more on the agent than the player. I think 6 weeks in Carolina was enough for him to take charge of his own affairs and make sure he got the hell out of there. Edit: it should be noted that Andy Scott is the agent for both Draisaitl and Rantanen. Also Wyatt Johnston who was signed immediately after Rantanen. All those rumors that were being fed to Elliot I'd be willing to bet my bottom dollar came straight from Andy Scott because Nill ain't gonna say shit.
  13. I'm not used to seeing penalties getting called in the playoffs. Let's see if they keep doing it in the 3rd.
  14. If you had David Brooks quoting Marx as a longshot that ticket can be cashed out now.
  15. Metcalf's dad is calling out that bunch of white losers.
  16. There's a reason why they are recommending this in the EU when traveling here. Burner laptop and burner phone. Keep it boring.
  17. Because that's going to cost money and nobody is going to spend one dime more than necessary on convicts. Empathy is for losers. Visited me in prison? That's what Jesus said to do? Yeah, you read that wrong. He said fuck'em and throw them in the hole.
  18. I have been a little busy on this Good Friday. In a concise way can you tell me why you're ok with the recent activity of ICE?
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