Agreed--that was brilliant.
Indeed. "Brain death" is a convenient fiction to make that possible.
Good point. Even they realize "go woke go broke" is a thing.
Who's the guy in the pic?
Jesus is God: the Bible is quite clear.
John 10:30 I and the Father are one.”
John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
John 20:28 Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!”
Phil 2:10-11 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, 11 and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Hebrews 1:2-3 But in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world. He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,
Islam arose AFTER Jesus Christ. Therefore from the beginning it was wrong! Jesus Christ is God, not "Allah". And Mohammed is no prophet.
I've seen many posting this was to mock Communion...I didn't get that impression at all.
Since when is someone feeding someone else something immediately Communion?
Put your hands out and receive the host... put it in your own mouth... That's how I did it anyway.
The put-your-hand-out style was brought in in the late 1960s. Before that, one always received kneeling, and on the tongue. A lot of people are actually going back to that old-style, for a number of reasons I won't get into because it would derail the thread totally.
Not familiar with those; a quick internet search just turned up "a former telephone company". Would be interested in details (frequency, power, type e.g. handheld vs. mobile etc.). If they were good, one might be able to get some on the used market!
Depends on the frequency.
Most handheld "walkie talkie" style radios are in the VHF band (i.e. 30 - 300 MHz). VHF and UHF (300 MHz to 3 GHz). These waves travel line-of-sight only and do not bounce off the ionosphere. If you are on top of a mountain then ya you can get out. But the higher you go in frequency the more the waves are absorbed by vegetation, too. So, that kind of radio is not useful for what you're after.
More expensive HF band radios (3 - 30 MHz) are used by radio amateurs mostly to make long distance contacts. In that frequency, the waves will bounce off the ionosphere. Radio amateurs normally put their antennas as high as they can, to get radio waves to go more or less horizontally towards the horizon, so they can bounce very long distances.
But if you deploy the antenna quite low, 10 feet down to knee height even, the radio waves go more or less straight up and back down again in a more localized area. This is called "near vertical incident skywave" or NVIS. Check out this link: https://oh8stn.org/blog/2018/11/05/ham-radio-nvis-for-regional-communications/ From that link:
In terms of a grid down scenario in large population centers, near vertical incidence skywave becomes critical, where Communications infrastructure has failed. We’re going to use near vertical incidence skywave for communications beyond the the range of handheld radios, usually somewhere local, out to a few hundred miles/kilometers.
That whole blog is all about the technology required for grid-down comms. His emphasis is on digital modes such as "Winlink" (email over radio) and "JS8Call" (keyboard to keyboard chat over radio) as these can be heard and decoded below the noise floor whereas voice needs to be significantly above the noise floor to be intelligible.
Another good outfit is the American Redoubt Radio Operators' Network (AmRRON). https://amrron.com/ They are a radio club based in the western USA (but with members all over) who practice this sort of thing regularly and have a lot of good learning information on their site. I'm not a member, but I read their webpage regularly.
They, too, favour digital modes, but they also have an emphasis on CB, FRS, and GMRS radio which most normal amateur clubs don't cover. The beauty of those is that no licence is required (well, GMRS does but the requirement is light). FRS and GMRS are VHF radios and suffer from the same low range.
CB is just under the top end of the HF band, and often bounces off the ionosphere ("skip shooting") and thus has much of the usefulness of HF radio, without a lot of the technical complications of amateur radio (multiple antennas and antenna "tuners" and so forth) and the requirement for the government to know you have a license. It's supposed to be all-voice on CB, but I have heard people using Morse Code (which is pretty intelligible close to the noise floor). No doubt some people are sneaking-in with digital, too. Talking on CB is sometimes like trying to have a conversation in a noisy restaurant with lots of other conversations going on around you: with only 40 channels to choose from, you are almost always talking over someone else.
The key to radio being USEFUL in a disaster is that there is more to it than just having a radio. You have to have people to talk to, people you trust. No point in just talking into the wind! AmRRON is good because they have a set group of frequencies and modes that they use so they can always find each other.
Find a group like AmRRON (or just have a small group of friends or a church group or something) then decide what frequencies and modes you will use, and practice with your group regularly in battery-only grid-down mock scenarios. Then you will know you have a system that would be workable in a disaster.
The sun goes on an 11-year cycle of burping-up electromagnetic particles. The ham radio people love it, because propagation is good at the "peak" of one of these cycles. And we're at the peak now. So, just sit back and enjoy the show!
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Yes. If a woman were to become president it should be someone in the mould of Margaret Thatcher not the cackling hoe.
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Significant--thanks for posting.
Exactly. You can't kill someone just because their presence is inconvenient to you.
And you would rather pray to a creation of His, than to Him directly?
We ask each other for prayers all the time, here on GAW even. Why not ask people already in heaven, who have direct access to the Throne, to also pray on your behalf? We are all one community, the church on earth and the church in heaven.
Why pray to the created and not the creator?
Prayer is just a mode of communication, it is not worship (unless the content of the prayer is worship).
Worship God alone, but you can ask anyone, on earth or in heaven, to pray with you when petitioning God for something. The church on earth and the church in heaven are one community.
We can all "mediate" for each other--that's what someone asks for when they ask for prayers. There are prayer requests all the time here on GAW! The church on earth and the church in heaven are one community. We can ALL pray for each other.
There's a massive difference between asking someone to pray for you and praying to someone / something to intercede / meditate on your behalf.
No, actually, it's the same thing. The church on earth and the church in heaven are one community. We can ALL pray for each other.
Angels are amazing, but they don’t answer your prayers. The mother Mary can’t save you.
We get prayer requests posted here on GAW all the time. We can pray for each other and help each other out; God very much wants us to do this. The angels and saints, the blessed virgin Mother of God can also pray for you. The church on earth and the church in heaven are one community.
There are prayer requests posted all the time here on GAW. There is no difference asking for an angel or saint to pray for you than asking another living human being to pray for you. The church on earth and the church in heaven are one community.
Today is the traditional Feast of St. Michael the Archangel, now restyled as the Feast of Saints Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, Archangels. Makes sense to post that prayer this weekend.
Mostly links to Truth Social, which all say "this resource is not available". I don't think the site is active.