“In Judges, Gideon asks God how to choose his men for battle. The Lord told Gideon to take his men down to the river and drink. The men who flopped down on their bellies and drank like dogs were no good to him. Gideon watched as some of his men knelt down and drank with their heads watching the horizon, spears in hand. Though they were few, they were the men he needed.” ― Jack Carr, The Terminal List
Comments (39)
sorted by:
Jack Carr and Brad Thor have some great books, but they still perpetuate the 9/11 and OBL lies. Brad Thor has one recent book about bioweapons and there are some pretty good insights to be gained from it.
I love Brad Thor's Scot Harvath character and books. I can't remember where I left off to pick back up. :(
Me too but he's not fully away from the republican/democrat narrative.
I finally made a list a few years ago because they started to run together after reading 2 or 3 in random order. I started at the oldest and am down to the last 3. I'm not much for all the technical military jargon, and some have been better than others, but overall it's been a great series.
Baby steps for the normies
Yeah, it's Rip-the-bandaid-off time.
Hope deferred and all that.
Man, a lot of decodes didn't impact me whatsoever. Nukes being fake, dinosaurs being fake, sitcoms encouraging Clown parents to turn their kids into school shooters...
But Inspector Gadget being a Comms vehicle for the 1983 McMartin Preschool Sex Abuse Trial...that knocked me back. That put me down. End this God-forsaken Clown World we live in.
Thor and a few others wrote good novels. They just force me to write corrections about stuff like 9/11, OBL, etc. in my reviews.
Hidden Order
Update: It's a 2013 book
Yea this one sound like it would be good.
The most secretive organization in America operates without any accountability to the American people. Hiding in the shadows, pretending to be part of the United States government, its power is beyond measure. Control of this organization has just been lost and the future of the nation thrust into peril.
When the five candidates being considered to head this mysterious agency suddenly go missing—and soon turn up as murder victims—covert counter-terrorism operative Scot Harvath is summoned to Washington and set loose on the most dangerous chase ever to play out on American soil. With the United States on the verge of collapse, Harvath must untangle a web of conspiracies going back to the 1700s and head off the greatest threat America has ever seen.
In this riveting new thriller, the stakes have never been higher, nor the lines between good and evil so hard to discern. Action-packed from page one, Hidden Order demonstrates yet again why Brad Thor is the “master of thrillers.”
The terminal list, starts with SEALS in tunnels. Critics hate it.
I’m not the OP but you gotta check it out. Like an 8 hour movie you don’t wanna stop watching.
It is interesting. It does start with the SEALS looking for Assad’s chemical weapons expert to bolster the lie that Assad “Gassed” his own people during a UN inspection that he had absolutely nothing to gain from.
Won’t be bs free but it’s better than anything lately.
Will definitely get normies noggin’ joggin’.
Is there a biologist here who can answer this anon's question?
If it is it’s natural and not part of a forced agenda.
LEEEEROOOYYYY. JEEENNNKKKIINNNSSSSSS!!!
This seems to be a pretty low bar for winning.
An incorrect conclusion in a passing reference to a narrative from the Bible doesn't seem to be a sign of winning.
The entire point of the Gideon account is NOT that Gideon had a clever way of determining who his best fighters were, but that it was impossible for him to win in his own strength -- victory would be a result of God.
Your description of the show suggests that God is left out of the picture entirely and that victory is achieved through use of the right personnel.
Yep the point in that filter was to reduce the numbers not assess who is most alert. That's man's assumption. God didn't need anyone to do it, He wanted to establish an event where they listened and obeyed Him (faith) and He delivered. We still talk about it to this day.
Why are you still supporting Amazon?
Jeff Bezos thanks you for his donation to his fund :)
Can't stick your head in the sand, gotta engage with the 'mainstream' to wake up the sheeples.
(Before the invention of the cup, I'll wager.) "We're winning anons." Yessir we are!
Very good book. Hope the show does as well.
The show is pretty savage… but really good too.
The Terminal List
I am really liking this show I encourage people to watch it!
I binge watched it because the left rags hated it. Look at the rotten tomatoes review vs audience rating. That tells all. The tide is turning frens
So I started the show so I can see what you were talking about and I am now on episode 3. Good show so far. I was a little impressed that when the news came about the guy he was wanted to find in the bar with madam secretary when they showed the t.v. it was Fox News!! Although I don't bother with them anymore usally on all the shows/movies it is always CNN. But I'm glued to it and I fear it may be an all nighter!! Thanks
Using dirty hands to drink in a survival situation is dangerous.
I love this commentary. It has its issues and I use others as well. But here’s the commentary on judges and why a few were chosen (they were still ready to fight). If you don’t want to read it all here is the one quote which sticks out
“ We see that those who lapped like a dog, did not lay their weapons down to drink. Their first thought was being ready to fight the good fight. Their own personal needs were not that important to them. A good soldier of the cross never lays his weapon (Bible), down.”
Judges 7:5 “So he brought down the people unto the water: and the LORD said unto Gideon, Every one that lappeth of the water with his tongue, as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself; likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees to drink.”
His whole army of 10,000 men.
“And the Lord said unto Gideon, everyone that lappeth of the water with his tongue, as a dog lappeth, him shall thou set by himself”: For they first took the water in the hollow of their hands out of the stream, and then lapped it (as in Judges 7:6). Whereas a dog does not and cannot take water that way. And this lapping was standing upright. And by this these men were distinguished from those that bowed on their knees to drink. For had they not taken up water in their hands, they must have bowed down on their knees to have lapped, as well as those did. Now all those that thus lapped were to be set apart by themselves; but whether they were to go with Gideon or not, as yet he knew not.
“Likewise everyone that boweth down on his knee to drink”: Were to be set by themselves also, but which of those were to go with him is after related.
We see that those who lapped like a dog, did not lay their weapons down to drink. Their first thought was being ready to fight the good fight. Their own personal needs were not that important to them. A good soldier of the cross never lays his weapon (Bible), down.
Judges 7:6 “And the number of them that lapped, [putting] their hand to their mouth, were three hundred men: but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water.”
That is, that took up water in the hollow of their hands, which they lifted up to their mouths, and so lapped it. As the Egyptians about the Nile are said to do, who drank not out of pots and cups, but used their hands to drink with.
“Were three hundred men”: Only such a number out of 10,000: but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water (even 9,700).
This is saying, that only 300 of the original 32,000 were ready to go to war. Those who bowed down on their knees to drink, used both hands to drink. They were also not ready to instantly take up the fight.
Judges 7:7 “And the LORD said unto Gideon, By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thine hand: and let all the [other] people go every man unto his place.”
“The Lord said … By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you. It is scarcely possible to conceive a more severe trial than the command to attack the overwhelming forces of the enemy with such a handful of followers. But Gideon’s faith in the divine assurance of victory was steadfast, and it is for this he is so highly commended (Heb. 11:32).
We know that the LORD told Gideon earlier that the enemy would be like one man to fight, it would be so easy to defeat them. Everyone was sent home except these 300 chosen men of the LORD. They were not chosen because of their great physical strength. They were chosen because of their readiness to do what had to be done.
https://bible-studys.org/judges-chapter-7/
anybody else get white squall as a suggestion when they finished?
It’s a great show. Just started episode 5. Gonna finish it in 2 days lol.
Never seen or heard a Bible verse quoted in a show like that. It was awesome.