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Speaking specifically about the Save America Act, why can't the American people make enough noise to get this done? There have been other issues that action has been forced on.
94% of them want it so bad. They can't stop talking about it. Everywhere I go I over hear someone talking about it. And with all of the trust he's built with the american people, why wouldn't they? I don't get what is holding it up other than Biden at this point. How much power does this mofo have?
being tossed to and fro has never been for me... in other areas I am a real person and aging and I have health issues and in that area I do seemed to be tossed to and fro..
how do people get so invested in theories? explain.. someone is shot.. the very first thing I think is, ok that person is shot and he should pray for that person and his family. The second thought is, God knows the truth.
anyone that is in the arena of political sphere is going to has confusion in the USA. Nothing is new on that front. It is a way to burn out those people who are tossed to and fro...
It is called gossip. Gossip is a sin.
today I hear on someones show a bleep of the reason much stuff is still not released to the public is because there is a N that will wipe out half the USA...
that is gossip too. that is control of thought.
God knows all and in the end all will be revealed. Those like Candace are snakes by their own gossip and I do not blame Candace for it because there is a demand for that.
You are watching a movie. On a screen. Order popcorn. Laugh when other people laugh.
haha. I do not do what other people do. never have. I do what many other people do nonetheless, by design. I am just hanging around the movie theater.
But we float down here!
WTF! US Federal Reserve taps Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, who just laid off 3,200 employees, to lead task force on jobs.
There's a club..
We knew this already:
https://fortune.com/article/bosses-firing-gen-z-right-after-hiring-them-what-needs-to-change/
Recently, the following entities added significant job numbers:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DakGFQoIujM/
Why is https://communities.win
and
https://patriots.win
down?
Figured out the problem. Just google scored.co, they have an app as well. It functions just as before. Same layout and has the Donald listed under communities. Weird it wouldn’t redirect to the correct URL.
That's giving me a 503 as well
https://communities.win comes up for me as https://scored.co
Patriots.win is working for me.
Same here. Been down all morning. Every website status site says it’s up. Ive cleared everything, used a different browser and even turned on a VPN, nothing. 503 error over and over.
It’s Cartoon Time
https://www.therightreasons.net/topic/121609-todays-toons-7926/
RIP Bonnie Tyler. You will always be remembered. The Karaoke sing halls thank you for your beautiful song. Total Eclipse of the Heart.
In case you didn't get the memo:
https://greatawakening.win/p/1ATBlzhT3i/x/c/4ed439n8vOJ
What Fatality said...
u/#WoahCat
u/#ridetofreedom
Ahead of my time?
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians%2013%3A8&version=NIV
Aquinas: Summa Theologica
Possible PDF: https://archive.org/details/st.-thomas-aquinas-summa-theologica/page/n25/mode/2up
New Advent HTML version: https://www.newadvent.org/summa/
Catholic encyclopedia on "Aquinas": https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14663b.htm
Something to jump around reading bits and pieces of, or like a piece a day for a while if you want to read the whole thing...
Jesus performed so many wonders in miracles, but did he ever cure stupidity? To the scriptures!
• Jesus healed the blind so they could see miracles, but the Pharisees saw the same and still called him a fraud – some stupidity comes with a lifetime warranty.
• Man: “Lord, touch me and cure my stupidity!” Jesus: “Be healed… of leprosy. For stupidity, here’s a parable – take notes or repeat the class.”
• Why didn’t Jesus heal stupidity? Because multiplying loaves fed 5,000, but multiplying brain cells would have left no one to explain the parables to.
• He restored the demoniac to his “right mind” (Mark 5:15), but five minutes later the guy probably asked, “Wait, what happened to the pigs again?”
• “Your faith has made you whole!” said Jesus to the woman. To the guy begging for an IQ boost: “Your faith has made you… the star of this story.”
• Disciples after parable #73: “Explain again, Lord?” Jesus: “I healed the deaf but apparently not the selective hearing.”
• In non-canonical texts Jesus imparts gnosis to cure ignorance, but the recipient still replied, “Cool story, but flat earth tho?”
• Jesus opened their minds to understand the Scriptures (Luke 24:45) – finally a cognitive miracle, but only after three years of “O foolish ones…”
• If Jesus had touched someone to cure stupidity, the temple money-changers would have become CPAs instead of getting the table-flip special.
• Peter: “I will never deny you!” Jesus: “O ye of little faith… and even littler impulse control.”
• He touched the leper and made him clean, but touched the fool and the fool said, “Does this come with fries?”
• “Blessed are the poor in spirit,” not “poor in processing power” – Jesus left the second group plenty of material for future sermons.
• Nicodemus: “How can these things be?” Jesus internally: “If only stupidity healing was a thing, this conversation ends in thirty seconds.”
• The 10 lepers were healed but only one thanked him – if he’d healed stupidity, zero would remember the event existed.
• “Ephphatha! Be opened!” worked for ears, but for brains it was “Ephphatha… never mind, another fishing story.”
• Judas sold him for 30 silver; clearly no stupidity-healing DLC was installed before the betrayal quest.
• After healing the paralyzed man, Jesus said “Take up your mat.” If it was stupidity he’d have said “Take up a scroll and actually read it this time.”
• Child Jesus in the Infancy Gospel cursed a bully but never gave him an A in wisdom class – even edgy apocrypha drew the line.
• “Go and sin no more.” For the stupid guy: “Go and think twice… or at least Google it before tweeting.”
• In heaven the guy asks, “Lord, why no stupidity healing on earth?” Jesus smiles: “Because then how would we be having this exact conversation right now?”
These are comical, and sadly very true. People don’t believe what they clearly see with their own eyes, because they are easily distracted and swayed by the masses. Freewill….I grew up a “freewill” baptist. Even as an 8 year old child sitting in Sunday school I would fixate on what that really meant.
113 His disciples said to him, "When will the (Father's) imperial rule come?" 2"It will not come by watching for it. 3 It will not be said, 'Look, here!' or 'Look, there!' 'Rather, the Father's imperial rule is spread out upon the earth, and people don't see it."
57.75 spot silver.
$59.03 @ 7:58 on silverprice.org
59.81 war must be over.
Again.
60.51
Jeff Beck Group - Going Down (1972)
https://youtu.be/ukwNIziuU6I?si=Mz_v5pcttAUQjYsY
this is dedicated to ____ “going down”. my thoughts are DSA, CoL, and a whole lot of others who go along with their programs.
this is dedicated to ____ “going down”. my thoughts are DSA, CoL, and a whole lot of others who go along with their programs.''
...you have a firm grasp of the situational reality...
Human Evolution and the Inner Ear BY FRANK SHERWIN, D.SC. (HON.)
https://www.icr.org/article/human-evolution-and-inner-ear/
The vain attempt by evolutionists to make an evolutionary connection between people and ape-like ancestors continues. This time, it is in regard to the inner ear of a supposedly six-million-year-old ape fossil called Lufengpithecus.
To begin, scientists from New York University made a refreshingly blunt admission: "While scientists have long been intrigued by the question of how humans’ bipedal stance and movement evolved from a quadrupedal ancestor, neither past studies nor fossil records have permitted the reconstruction of a clear and definitive history of the early evolutionary stages that led to human bipedalism."1
This is certainly true, and some scientists have suggested some truly outrageous theories for how and why mankind started walking upright.2,3,4,5 So, this disclaimer is appreciated; however, as is typical with macroevolutionary stories, this report is still awash with speculation, bias, and subjectivism.
Terry Harrison, a New York University anthropologist, lists a three-step process toward human bipedalism, “First, the earliest apes moved in the trees in a style that was most similar to aspects of the way that gibbons in Asia do today.”1 This is hardly a first step toward our alleged ancestors walking upright. Apes are designed to move in trees.
He continued,
Second, the last common ancestor of apes and humans was similar in its locomotor repertoire to Lufengpithecus, using a combination of climbing and clambering, forelimb suspension, arboreal bipedalism, and terrestrial quadrupedalism. It is from this broad ancestral locomotor repertoire that human bipedalism evolved.1
Scientists do not know what the last common ancestor of humans and apes was.6 So, to say this unknown common ancestor was similar to Lufengpithecus (an extinct ape) is sheer speculation. Then, to state human bipedalism evolved “from this broad ancestral locomotor repertoire” is simply unwarranted extrapolation.
With regard to the fossilized inner ear, Professor Xijun Ni, who led the project, said, “It appears that the inner ear provides a unique record of the evolutionary history of ape locomotion that offers an invaluable alternative to the study of the postcranial skeleton [emphasis added].”1
Professor Ni also explains that people diverged from the great apes after acquiring bipedalism even though evolutionists do not know when, who, where, or how this divergence occurred. He describes Australopithecus as “an early human relative,” despite it being shown over and over again to only be an extinct ape.
“Most fossil apes and their inferred ancestors are intermediate in locomotor mode between gibbons and African apes,” adds Ni. “Later, the human lineage diverged from the great apes with the acquisition of bipedalism, as seen in Australopithecus, an early human relative from Africa.”1 (emphasis added)
But is this supposed acquisition of bipedalism in Australopithecus certain? For example, there has been some disagreement over just how “modern” the bipedalism of Lucy (Australopithecus afarensis) was.7 A study reported by John Hopkins suggested, “Even when Lucy walked upright, she may have done so less efficiently than modern humans, limiting her ability to walk long distances on the ground.”8 A group of evolutionists from Stony Brook went further. They did not agree that Lucy (Australopithecus) walked upright like modern people: “Their analysis showed that the carrying angle of the Afarensis knee joint overlaps with those of orangutans and spider monkeys, and is therefore poor evidence of bipedal locomotion.”9
To conclude, evolutionists do not know Lufengpithecus’ ultimate position in hominoid evolutionary relationships. Even with more research, creationists maintain it will remain merely an extinct ape that was killed by the Flood thousands of years ago.
Mankind was uniquely created to walk upright in the beginning.
References
Inner ear of 6-million-year-old ape fossil reveals clues about the evolution of human movement. New York University. Posted on phys.org January 29, 2024, accessed January 29, 2024. Sherwin, F. Upright Walking Ancestor? Creation Science Update. Posted on ICR.org September 15, 2022. Sherwin, F. Man: Created to Walk Upright. Creation Science Update. Posted on ICR.org May 8, 2023. Sherwin, F. 2006. Walking the Walk. Acts & Facts. 35 (11). Thomas, B. 2015. Did Humans Evolve From Ape-Like Ancestors? Acts & Facts. 44 (4): 15. Tomkins, J. 2018. Separate Studies Converge on Human-Chimp DNA Dissimilarity. Acts & Facts. 47 (11): 9. Kimbel, W. H. and L. K. Delezene. 2009. “Lucy” Redux: A Review of Research on Australopithecus afarensis. Yearbook of Physical Anthropology. 52: 2–48. 3.2 million-year-old human ancestor Lucy was a tree climber, new evidence suggests. John Hopkins Medicine news release. Posted on hopkinsmedicine.org November 30, 2016. Rupe, C. and J. Sanford. 2017. Contested Bones. Livonia, NY: Feed My Sheep Publications, 117; See also Collard, M. and L. Aiello. 2000. Human evolution: From forelimbs to two legs. Nature