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Bigfishbest

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  • How Trump's followers would see Jesus.

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  • You clearly have issue with the old cartoon. It seems it generates a lot of anger in you, or perhaps disgust might be the most accurate sentiment. And you feel a need to distance yourself from it consequently. And so you have. My point was that there is something to be learned from the passage, even if it is fiction. It is my opinion that the quoted section reveals something about the nature of power politics. How the wants of those with power can override principle and justice. If I had quoted Voltaire or Marx, with the same message, you likely would have nodded in agreement.

  • Carney: "Iran’s nuclear programme is a grave threat to international security, and Canada has been consistently clear that Iran can never be allowed to develop a nuclear weapon."

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  • Well they're pretty determined to get one now!

  • Monster Hunter Wilds game reviews hit "Overwhelmingly Negative" on Steam — can Capcom turn it around?

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  • Cause stupid people buy games on pre release and there's apparently a lot of them.

  • Pakistan nominates Trump for 2026 Nobel Peace Prize

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  • Norwegian here. I can still hear the gasping from the laughter of the nobel committee in Oslo. And I'm on vacation abroad.

  • The World Is Completely DONE With The United States | The Kyle Kulinski Show

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  • I've wanted Kyle to be right about just about everything he says, but sadly it's rarely so. There are plenty of countries that have no problem going from liking the US for its role in the world, to being sycophants who coddle up to power. Others will respond by playing nice to not have the administration turn their eyes towards them, and others still have leaders who have no objection to what's currently going on. Just because you want something to be true, doesn't make it so. There's a definite shift happening, but I doubt it's size and effect will result in any short term results. Just my opinion.

  • Americans are losing spending power, say researchers: Most can no longer afford a 'minimal quality of life'

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  • Compensating for relative lower income with low cost of consumer products is a bit like pissing your pants to get warm. The underlying issue is declining wages, caused by the loss of labor power. If people had decent wages a rise in prices would not be a problem. But while scraping by a rise in prices is a huge problem.

  • How Trump's followers would see Jesus.

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  • I love this part. John 18:28 Pharisees: This man is a criminal! Pilate: which law did he break? Pharisees: We would not have brought him here if we wasn't a criminal. Pilate: Then judge him by your law. Pharisees: We don't have the right to execute anyone. In other word, we just want him dead. Then after you execute him, he will be a criminal.

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  • Half your age +7 is the formula. Anything within that is fine. Of course, that's a guideline, not a law. Or let me put it like this, do you believe a woman of 30 to be capable of making her own choices? If so, go on the date and see if there's anything there. If not, slap yourself and rethink your answer.

  • It's almost like a colonial power intentionally divided the region so they'll be focused on infighting instead of competing with said colonial power

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  • The Empire podcast goes quite deep into some of the issues and roots of partition. It was very clear that the English wanted out ASAP. One reason was the sectarian violence they could no longer contain.

  • Showing who's in charge

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  • Yeah, his name was Simeon bar Jonah, Simon, son of Jonah, or by modern style, Simon Johnson. Then Jesus pops up and starts calling him the Rock... Simon the Rock Johnson. (also fun gravy, Dwayne means fishhook)

  • Cleaning plastic containers in a dishwasher is a source of microplastic pollution, study finds

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  • Multiply by nr of persons and years...

  • Imagine paying for Paramount Plus to then have missing episodes

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  • I get that, had the same initial reaction, but I felt it picked up and got good.

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  • I would just fucking love it if there was discovered a correlation between autism and microplastics, or between autism and stress during pregnancy, or between autism and some food coloring or whatever. Just to see RFK shut the fuck up cause he would never challenge the owners of the country.

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  • Read a book. Some light fantasy usually.

  • N-no... that can't be true...

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  • Roman emperors didn't flee from battle. is one way to read this.

  • Jesus crime was words and dialog about equality and love in The Bible storytelling, Law and Order. - Remedial Morality

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  • I love the section when the pharisees bring Jesus to Pilate, and he asks them "What charges are you bringing against this man?" The pharisees response: "If he were not a criminal we would not have handed him over to you".

    They don't have any real cause, they just want to get rid of him, which in my reading, Pilate sees right away.

  • Always remember to flex on your disciples

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  • Dude! This is the most prophetic thing in the whole Bible. Hear me out. Simon son of Jonah (not the whale guy), is a fisherman, and Jesus tells him to come along and fish people instead. Jesus gives him a nickname, Kephas, this nickname was then translated from Aramaic into Greek, Petros. Jesus later says that "On this rock I will build my church", and that's the meaning of the nickname Kephas/Petros, Stone, or Rock.

    Now considering that Simon's full name was Simon bar Yonah, in English: Simon son of John, or even Simon Johnson, then his full name with Jesus' nickname is: Simon the Rock Johnson!

    Funny coincidence? Skipping ahead a few thousand years, our current Rock is called Dwayne, and the meaning of that name happens to be Fishhook. And if you really wanna bring it home, Dwayne the Rock Johnson's daughter is named... SIMONE! We've come full circle! The end times are near.

    Am I mad as a hatter?

  • Germany's far-right AfD tops poll for first time in blow to chancellor-in-waiting Merz

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  • You seem well read and would probably agree that capitalism will climb or remove any barrier. The post war years that gave the boomers the biggest part of wealth creation in history was the result of policy that has since been dismantled bit by bit until we are once again back at the conditions for war, Fascism and social division.

  • I am God.

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  • I've been thinking about that particular event. Leonard Cohen has a song about it as well that put me on this track.

    Now, as a historical fact, back in those days, sacrificing ones children was a not uncommon thing to do. The old testament god in several places tells the israelites NOT to put their children to the fire, as the term was. But if you read the texts you find that the israelites weren't very good at following commands, and one could guess that god knew that.

    So he puts his favorite follower through the worst nightmare imaginable, demanding that he sacrifice his beloved son. Put him through the ringer, of doubt, despair, fear, and sorrow, let it sink in what it actually means to sacrifice a child. Then stop him. It's basically show don't tell. Put the experience of the evil of that action into his heart, and vaccinate him against such ideas. And while Abraham took that lesson to heart, I'm reasonably certain that Isaac took the lesson even more, and taught it well to all his descendants.

    Is it a shit thing to do? In one man's perspective, yeah. But to set a people on a path away from human sacrifice, I'd say it wasn't a very high price to pay.

    And that's if you take the story and all literally. If you take it figuratively, as a demonstration of what is the path to goodness, to people in a bronze age culture, I'd say the story carries the message across exceptionally well.

    I'm a history teacher, and the first thing you learn is that history must be understood by its own time and standards, not by ours. The story of Isaac is a great example of what in our modern eyes is pure malice, but to its original culture it was a story that had the function of making a culture better.