My sister, who up until last month still defended Biduhn, said that at the country club in Boston where she was, when the announcement came over the TV, the people cheered and started chanting Trump Trump Trump.
I said I didn’t understand. Biduhn hasn’t actually been in charge for the last 4 years, but his administration implemented the entire D agenda perfectly.
If that’s what they support, why do they want him out? She changed the subject.
Listening and reading comments from people on other sites and pages is appalling. 🤦🏼♀️ To listen to the regurgitated media lies from people who STILL actually believe bidum was a wonderful “pRESIDENT” makes me want to vomit. And to hear them say food is going to double under Trump and we’re all going to starve, he’s going to destroy America, he’s a dictator blah blah blah just makes me throw up in my mouth. “Those people are stupid sheep” is an understatement.
At this point - anyone still asleep is CHOOSING to leave their head buried under concrete. I heard it said a small percentage of the population will never wake up - I think we are here.
The Thessalonians verse is rapidly becoming one of my favorites.
2 Thessalonians 2:10-11
... they perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie ....
Tripped and fell running to my Bible after you posted this scripture! I Read the verses just above what you quoted and got more chills..
7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work. But the one who restrains is to do so only for the present, until he is removed from the scene.
8
And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord [Jesus] will kill with the breath of his mouth and render powerless by the manifestation of his coming,
Dr. Tenpenny did a talk in 2021 that featured these verses. She was addressing the mass delusion about so many trying people to shove jabs down everyone's throat. I think many of us are getting used to the willfully deaf & blind by now, but in 2021 the scale of it was a rude awakening.
But I can see how the Left could use v. 9 ("pretended signs and wonders") against the assassination attempt. Not, I imagine, that they are likely to do so.
I wish more people would come to know the fallacies of the Scofield Bible. “Pre-tribulation rapture” and “Israel can do no wrong” are such dangerous teachings, believed by SO MANY Evangelicals.
Perhaps you reading this now are one of the mislead. Do not be fooled by those that say they know. You can look it up on wels.net. Basically the Jews forfeited the designation as the chosen people when they rejected the promised Messiah, Jesus the Christ. God chose Israel as the people to bring Jesus into the world. The (edit: "Extremist" Jews) Jews not only rejected him, they killed him and continue to believe that Christians should be killed as heretics (Edit: Talmudic Jews believe Christians are heretics, AFAIK). God still wants Israel to accept Jesus as the savior, as well as all Gentiles (non-Jews). (See 1 Timothy 2:4; 2 Peter 3:9).
God’s focus is on Christians; followers of his promise; followers of his murdered son. All are welcome to the table of Christ. Not all will accept the invitation and many will try to prevent others from learning of or even walking towards the feast.
Many believers will be fooled (per the Bible). Educate yourselves and don’t be fooled. Be in the world but don’t be of it. Be prepared for tribulation, be prepared for Jesus’ return, and like John Rich said, don’t fall for the mark of the beast. The vaccine mandates were a test. If you failed that one, don’t fail the next one, which may be digital currency requirements through the (non) Federal Reserve.
I really don’t know much about the Schofield Bible, but I’ve read the Bible through more than 35 times, whole cloth, so to speak; not verses picked here and there to support an argument. I think your camp is like the Pharisees of old who missed the first coming of the Messiah because they were so sure they had the corrupt and only interpretation of the Holy Scriptures.
Paul makes it plain in Romans that God is not done with Israel. The Old Testament prophets speak of events involving Israel that have yet to come to pass. God’s chastisement of Israel drives them from the land. Repeatedly. But remnants return at the appointed times.
They came back miraculously in 1946.
You mischaracterize those who see it differently from you. None in my camp believe ‘Israel can do no wrong, anymore than we believe America can do no wrong.’ The government is not the people.
But we stand with Israel in her religious war against the Muslims, who seek her complete and final destruction and we believe it is the correct interpretation of scripture to do so.
I am curious as to how you think our present state of affairs would be greatly improved if somehow we all began to believe as you do.
I also stand with the nation called Israel of the present time. But I utterly reject the premise that they are a God fearing nation that is submitted to His word and serves/acknowledges Him. I hope and long for the day this happens, but have little assurance it will happen even in my lifetime. Israel of today are no more "God's Own people" than are the people of France or ARgentina.
I abhor the way much of the world treats Israel, as I also abhor the same for Argentina and India and Brasil and..... yet I also know His people ARE in all thiose countries.
Israel rejected Jesus when they hollered for Barrabas to Pilate whcn asked their preference. Note well that same crowd of JEWS then cried the liuder CRUCIFY HIM and refused to repent after He rose from the dead and walked amongst them again for forty days.
Yes,thousands heard the Word preached in Jerusalem on Pentecost and later, and turned in response. But over the next while God made it abindantly clear that judaism as it was is no more. Note well, it was not long after that He made it abundantly clear that the old dietary laws, feasts, the very temple itself, were no longer tied to knowing the One who made all and demanded their trust. Luke's treatise on the birth and early function of the Church carries this story well. Which is WHY God had him writeit. You might stop and go read again Peter's earthshattering experience during the time shortly before and then after his amazing encounter with Cornelius and his household. Acts was completed right about 68 or 69 AD.. very shortly before Jerusalem was sacked and destroyed (precisely as Jesus fortold in every particular) in AD 70.
To read the Bible without proper hermeneutics is like sailing the ocean without a compass and a transit. How did you read the Bible? As far as their war against the Muslims, all intel I’ve looked at points to another false flag operation like the USS Liberty. And for them to shoot their own people so that they wouldn’t have live hostages? The Hannibal directive? I find that unconscionable. However, I stand with any innocents murdered in the name of religion. Education is the way to get out of the mess and the only way to get out of it. Not war. Jesus wants peace makers not just peace keepers or conquerors. Being less wrong doesn’t make anyone right.
WHO wrote those commentaries, and in wat bases? Jhn's Revelation clearly reveals how the perfidious jews, as a people, rejected Jesus.. remember for whom they called when Pilate asked whom he should free and whom he should kill? WHO were that crowd?
You would do well to learn more about the zealots, who they were, their history up to the days of Jesus, and then over the next forty years.
Next read John's writings on what was comng down the pike "shortly".
Oh, and put down your scofield notes and learn to exegete the scriptires yourself. Its not rocket science.
Failed logic without linking the commentaries. Similar to “scientific consensus”. Who had Jesus put to death? Where did they go after his death and resurrection? What do you know about Noahide laws? It’s uncomfortable when you realize that a belief is wrong, like all those vaxed that won’t see the damage that’s been done and still believe ‘safe and effective’. It’s ground shaking/shattering when your views are found to be incorrect. It’s hard to look at changing paradigms. May God bless you with the ability to at least look at the possibility that what you believe may not be the truth. BTW, Christianity doesn’t believe in killing to make others believe. The ‘Christian Crusades’ were not Christian at all. Other religions are currently killing Christians worldwide. More Christians are persecuted now than ever in history. See www.opendoors.org for more information.
No you are not the only on. And any Scofield 'bible' ought to be chucked out. Much better to rely upon Geneva notes, Matthew Henry notes and the confessions of faith from the Reformation.
Scofield is very suspect. Here is a another guy who comes out of nowhere, goes everywhere, has no visible means of support and has a powerful connection to a New York Jewish lawyer named Untermeyer. Scofield ends up with easy access to either the Oxford Press or Cambridge Press (I forget which) ... and gets promoted everywhere by then propaganda press of the day as 'the latest new thing'. The whole Scofield Saga has 'the look' of an especially designed effort to tears down orthodox Christian doctrine by making chopped liver out of the Bible. Basically, the Law is consistent from the first book to the last book of the Bible and in Christ's Church, we are either Christians or not at all. Christian means that we cannot tack on a certain 'dispensational elements' willy-nilly using the grammatical device of a hyphen.
I had never heard of the Scofield Bible until the John Rich interview with Tucker. I was born and raised a Lutheran and nothing about there being a Rapture was ever taught, only Christ’s second coming; “and we know not the hour”. I am in a Bible Study with several, mostly Wesleyan older ladies. One of them wanted to do a study on Dr David Jeremiah’s books on the coming rapture. To say I was skeptical is putting it mildly. After a few chapters, Jeremiah relies almost exclusively on Thessalonians 4 and “a gathering up”, and quotes from many authors who have like theories. I was happy to hear John Rich’s take.
I was very gladden to see this post. And I too noticed that John Rich in a Tucker Carlson interview spoke against the heretical tendencies of Scofield and 'his bible'. This surprised me in a big way. And so it appears that word might be getting on a Christian subversive named Scofield.
So, thank you.
Edit: The edit is that I read your post for a 2nd and 3rd time since I left this comment. Yours is a deep well and the water of life. So double and triple thanks.
John Rich’s comments about Scofield & I believe John Meade were so interesting to me. Causing me to do some historical research on the topic of Rapture of the Church & the timing of it relative to Tribulation years.
THIS IS SO INCORRECT! "Jews forfeited the designation as the chosen people when they rejected the promised Messiah, Jesus Christ" God NEVER placed a condition for the Jewish people to be or not be HIS
let's not misrepresent God by saying "God's focus is on Christians" bc we are not privy to the mind of God. Instead let's go back and revisit the scriptures that speak of God's relationship with the Israelites and understand that God has not, will not EVER give up on His people.
Romans 11
I say then, has God cast away His people? Certainly not! For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
2 God has not cast away His people whom He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel, saying,
3 “Lord, they have killed Your prophets and torn down Your altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life”?
4 But what does the divine response say to him? “I have reserved for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”
5 Even so then, at this present time there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
6 And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.
Romans 11:25-36
25 For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.
26 And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written:
“The Deliverer will come out of Zion,
And He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob;
27 For this is My covenant with them,
When I take away their sins.”
28 Concerning the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but concerning the election they are beloved for the sake of the fathers.
29 For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.
30 For as you were once disobedient to God, yet have now obtained mercy through their disobedience,
31 even so these also have now been disobedient, that through the mercy shown you they also may obtain mercy.
32 For God has committed them all to disobedience, that He might have mercy on all.
33 Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out!
34 “For who has known the mind of the Lord?
Or who has become His counselor?”
35 “Or who has first given to Him
And it shall be repaid to him?”
36 For of Him and through Him and to Him are all things, to whom be glory forever. Amen.
IF God ever breaks His promise to Israel, why would He not break His promise to the rest of us? Perish the though!!!
Romans 11:19-24
19 You will say then, “Branches were broken off that I might be grafted in.” 20 Well said. Because of unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Do not be haughty, but fear.
21 For if God did not spare the natural branches, He may not spare you either.
22 Therefore consider the goodness and severity of God: on those who fell, severity; but toward you, [e]goodness, if you continue in His goodness. Otherwise you also will be cut off.
23 And they also, if they do not continue in unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.
24 For if you were cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, who are natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?
Then why did Jesus chide Saul for persecuting him? Saul was Jewish and by all accounts chosen. Yet here, in Romans, he speaks of a remnant elected by grace. These are the Messianic Jews. Those that believe Jesus was the Christ. Jesus said no one, no one, goes to heaven except through Him. He didn’t say, no one but the Jews and those that believe in me. Jesus was the final living sacrifice and he created a new covenant with all the people of the world. He died for everyone’s sins. The veil was torn and we were given direct access to God through Jesus. We can pray to God without intercession of a priest. God promised that the tribe of David would give birth to the savior, the messiah. He promised forgiveness of our sins. I don’t recall him promising that the Jewish tribe must be protected by the Gentiles to go to heaven. Please show me where it says that and I may change my mind based on an updated knowledge. By the way, I don’t agree with many of the MIC driven wars of the USA, either. War is hell and should be the very last resort.
READ Jesus' words on the mark of tthe beast, in Matthew... WHERE was that thing placed? What does the word we read as "mark" mean in the original?
The covid shot goes in the arm, deltid muscle. NOT right hand/wirt, now forehead. MARK is something permananent., and VERY visible. Even if the one poking your arm is a spastic brute, the hole will heal and be gone in a few days.
Next, continue reading till the end of that conversation.. His guys ask "when will these things BE"??? He said ALL THESE THINGS (everything spoken in that conversation up on the Mount of Olives) WILL TAKE PLACE before THIS generation passes away. (go back now and reread all the things He spoke ofin that cnversation.... WHY do you pinder when this or that will finally happen? Per HIS words it all hppened within about forty years of the date He said these tings. ALL these things, or Jesus is a liar. Don't like that? Take it up with HIM.. I'm only quoting HIS words.
I have heard supposedly legit "prechers" and "prophets" and
pastors" trying to convince me this or that is the Mark of the Beast, or that "the Tribulation" is coming here and then and will be like this, that this or that world leader is The Antichrist" and will come at tis time and do that ting over there. Hah!! Antichrist is not even a person, it is a simple way of determining which "category" George or CHarlie or Pete or Mary are in. Jesus said "you are either WITH Me or AGAINST Me". Bob Dylan put it this way: you mist pick one or the otehr, there ain't NO netural ground"/ John the apostle put it thusly: whoever denies that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is anti christ. Synonyms are against, contra, opposed to, yet some wonks have turned John's adjective into a noun, even a proper noun, then attributed all manner of crazy powers to that constructed creature. "The Antichrist" will destroy the temple". hey fail to consider that's a bit late.. Rome's armies under Vespasian and Titus Imperator destroyed that in 70 AD. Once the temple was gone, they turned and did the same to the entire city of Jerusalem, laying it to utter desolation (just as Jesus had also predicted) where it remained for centuries. Oh, bht "the jews" will rebuild that temple and THAT is the one Mr. AC will destroy..... Nah. I'm sticking with the REAL Jesus not the fictional one drifting about these past two milennia.
We have to be here but we don't have to be grafted into it; be a part of it. To not be swept up with the concerns of this world and the bread and circuses, but to focus on the greatest commandment first and then the others. To love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your mind and all your soul. Next is to love your neighbor as yourself. I, for one, fight my daily hunger for the latest news; to see what's going on in this world. I guess it fuels my endorphins. I would do better to study the Bible and work on being like Jesus. I have a lot of 'work' to do but I'm saved by Jesus' blood and God's grace. I just wish to do better and be more pleasing to God, not to earn favor, but because he's given so much to me.
Most of what you say I already agree with excepting the idea that Jews want Christians dead as they are "heretics". It could be some really far out Hebrews, the ultra-orthodox for example, may believe this. However, you saying this as a general fact about Jews is just wrong and UN-Christian.
It's a shame you color the huge good part of what you proclaim with such a statement.
I retract the huge brush statement and will point out that the same is true for Muslims. Only a small contingent of Muslims and Jews believe that Christians are heretics and must be beheaded. I believe they are called Talmudic Jews, and you are correct, I should have been more specific. Thank you for pointing than out. My apologies and I hope you’ll find forgiveness for me in your heart.
I think a lot of observant Jews today think that Christians are "heretics" / "pagan tritheists", but don't have any intention of executing anybody. For the most part the (modern) Jewish attitude seems to be "we have our rules, and what anybody else does is between them and G-d".
I thought the saints were lifted away the moment that Jesus returns. Where does the Bible state otherwise. Of course, know that I don’t believe in millennialism or dispensationalism. I believe Christ’s second coming and the final judgment occur simultaneously and there is no second chance. That’s what I understand from my Bible studies. As John Rich said, we will not avoid the hardships and sufferings predicted in the Bible. I guess like Job, we will suffer and our faith will be tested.
Firstly, I must tell you there are 2 separate events that will happen. I will try to explain as best I can in this post. The Rapture or Snatching Away happens and Jesus does not come to Earth... It happens in the air ...
In Matthew 24 where Jesus' disciples ask Him about the End to come v.3, Jesus reply takes up several chapters and it appears that some things correspond to the Tribulation like v.15 and others to the Rapture v.31
1 Cor 15:51 Paul says, "Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed—
52 in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed."
Again, in 1 Thes 4:13-17 13 "Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope. 14 For we believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him. 15 According to the Lord’s word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. 16 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever."
Keep in mind Matthew 24:36 - NO ONE KNOWS THE DAY OR THE HOUR!
And John 14:3 tells us He has gone to prepare a place for us, so that we may be where He is, Heaven! (This is part of another teaching that says Jesus prepares a place for us, just as in a Jewish betrothal, the son goes to prepare an abode for his bride and comes back for her when His father gives the OK)
ALL OF THIS is not what we all recognize as Second Coming.
2nd Coming is when Jesus comes as King and Judge to parse out judgement to the nations. Revelation 19:11-18 "I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True. With justice he judges and wages war. 12 His eyes are like blazing fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has a name written on him that no one knows but he himself. 13 He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God. 14 The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean. 15 Coming out of his mouth is a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations. “He will rule them with an iron scepter.”[a] He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty. 16 On his robe and on his thigh he has this name written:
KING of KINGS and LORD of LORDS
17 And I saw an angel standing in the sun, who cried in a loud voice to all the birds flying in midair, “Come, gather together for the great supper of God, 18 so that you may eat the flesh of kings, generals, and the mighty, of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all people, free and slave, great and small.”
I TOTALLY DISAGREE with Rich's interpretation that we'll be here for the Tribulation. God is not going to beat up His Bride before taking her away.
1 Thes 1:10 tells us "...Jesus who delivers us FROM the wrath to come"
and again 1 Thes 5:9 "For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ"
I'm not sure what you mean by "millennialism or any other ism, but let me point you to Revelation 20:4-5 and see what you find.
Wow! John Rich, American Country Music star, turned theologian overnight, goes on Tucker to promote his new song and proclaims that Evangelical Christians are deluded and dangerous.
Completely agree with you. Once you have heard Pastor Jack Hibbs teach on the Rapture and Second Coming, one cannot be fooled by the "Johnny come-lately Rich"
Ah, Jack Hibbs. That statement explains a lot. Follow Jesus not preachers.
Dispensationalism - The church and the Jewish people make up two distinctly different dispensations with different futures. Developed in the 1830's.
I have looked at both sides of the coin, dispensationalism versus the belief I hold to be true: The second advent of Christ, the general resurrection, the final judgment, and the end of the world are immediately united and each follows the other without an interval of time.
Millennialism was debunked in the 17th century, yet it still rears its ugly head. I do not wonder why. It is a spiritual war being waged. The rest is bread and circuses.
Is the end near? I don't care other than to warn the un-Christian, and the "think I am Christian enough" that time MAY be running out.
John Rich: American Country Musician, newly turned amateur theologian.
So, he appeared on Tucker Carson to talk about a song God directly instructed him to write called Revelation. I have no doubt this happened. But I think John stepped a bit out of the bounds of that calling to go on Tucker Carlson and claim a special understanding of theology, which apparently someone he bumped into in a proud vulnerable moment was happy to teach him. And it gave him some good talking points for the Tucker interview, although he admitted he wrestled with the idea of presenting them. That might have been the Holy Spirit trying to warn him that he might not be up to the task.
If this had been a theological debate, with say Jack Hibbs providing a counter argument to what John Rich was saying, it would certainly have been a better interview.
As it was, John thought he had discovered some scriptures never before read by Evangelicals.
Having been raised with that doctrine, I assure him he did not.
These Christians are very familiar with 2Thessalonians 2, Matthew 24, the book of Daniel, Ezekiel and all the Old Testament prophecies. They believe the second coming of Jesus is a separate event from the ‘in gathering’ of Thessalonians 2, which precedes it.
Speaking of Matthew 24; to Jesus all time is present simultaneously. He switches back and forth from present impending disaster to future. For example,
Matthew 24:15-17 “
Therefore when you see the ‘abomination of desolation,’spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place” (whoever reads, let him understand),
“then let those who are in JUDEA flee to the mountains.
“Let him who is ON THE HOUSETOP not go down to take anything out of his house.
Jesus is obviously speaking of those in Judea in that era, who will have to flee the attack of the Romans.
This is complex and complicated stuff, needing a lot of study. WHICH, John Rich has not had.
John seemed to say that the delusion sent by God was for Evangelicals, not unbelievers who refuse to repent. That was unfortunate. But I learned there is fear of Evangelicals. And I hope to come to understand that more fully.
And poor Tucker, if he really is being bombarded almost daily at his home (one imagines a multi million dollar mansion) by weird persons using numerology to tell him when Jesus is returning (Jehovah Witnesses?) he needs better security!
Thank you! I've been trying to find a scripture to hold on to during this insanity of USA! And covid delusion. Thank you so much for this scripture from our Holy Fathers love book! Keeping me centered on Him! Thank you, Kelli, dear one! 🦋🙏🙌👑🙌
Amen!! I pray for my granddaughters whose stepmother filled their minds with LGBTQ and liberal pro Palestinian thinking. She influenced them to the point, my daughter and I are estranged. They look at us as if we are strangers and have refused to talk to us for 4 years now. Satan is prowling, devouring innocent minds, conditioned by others...
I'm thinking that he's wave surfing the lake behind the OhBummer Mansion. Or perhaps he stumbled into the Clinton Veggie Quiche Omatic. Maybe they were serving leg of lamb at the White House last night. Ask k'mala and see if she cackles.
lol @ hyena in heels. She really does look just like a hyena. Their entire administration made me think of the Lion King all the time when Scar destroys everything and the hyena are sitting around laughing at everything
Clinton/Obama tribes hate each other. Clinton supported Harris to spit in Obamas face. THAT's why Obama won't back Harris. A cursory search will show anybody this.
Same mzlizzi, though I lasted until 2022 before I was ready to admit that I would never feel safe with these people while their heads were buried in concrete. But now I have wonderful new upgraded friends.
It's a shame we have become so polarized that THIS seems to be the dividing issue. For most of my friends, they don't equate their political affiliation with the things I see (spending the US into oblivion fighting wars against the rest of the world while enabling the vilest segments of our population with entitlements, pointless virtue signaling over a range of ridiculous subjects, denying their personal sovereignty while bowing to utterly-corrupt authority figures, etc.).
I admit, I can't understand how they can turn these things around in their heads so they can see them as pluses. And other than that, I can still have engaging conversations with them, as long as we stay away from certain areas of discussion. But that was the situation with my ex-wife, too; over the years of our marriage, there were fewer things we could discuss without one or the other of us getting launched. At the end, there was almost no significant conversation between us, and we knew it was over.
My best friend who has been for 64 years, told me he had to block me on farcebook, because I shared that perfect meme of the pretty blonde with the cigarette saying “ I effing told you so”! It offended him, because he’s a staunch libretard. There is nothing that will ever change him. He just came home from the hospital after ten days whilst having part of his bladder removed. Cancer, naturally. Vaxxed and boosted out the ass. This just a couple days after we had a great conversation reminiscing all the ridiculous fun we had over the years laughing and crying, and now I’m blocked. Sad.
Man, Facebook blocking is the coldest thing ever. My ex-wife and I were friends for years after splitting up, and then she un-friended me after I posted some "crazy conspiracy theory nonsense" about 9/11 being an inside job. It was so nasty. I swore I'd never do that to anyone, at least anyone I know. Sorry to hear that about your friend.
I lost a 50 year childhood friend during the Obama years. I miss her but I know we can never have the friendship we once had. She is a liberal Christian and I am a conservative Christian. I will let the Lord sort it all out in the end.
It’s almost like there’s an alternate universe overlaid upon ours…or maybe the Matrix explained it all. Red pill/blue pill. (I was late to The Matrix party, so I’m no expert on all that…but it sure seems like there’s an alternate reality in which all my family members live! They’re Dhimmicrat Washingtonians & Oregonians 🙄)
I don't accept the reality of this view, and tend to see it as a metaphor for the games we play and take seriously (confusing the map with the territory) that I detailed in another post here today.
So sorry about your family, but I think you’re right about the matrix thing. I too was late to the matrix. Lol, but I totally believe they’re in a different reality than us.
I was one as well. Woke up like you around the same time. Still not convinced about Trump given his past blunders (or was he playing 5 D chess). Vote 1 Jesus!
Right??? My mom used to say “profanity makes ignorance audible” and while I can understand (though generally don’t indulge in it myself) the well-placed curse word for emphasis and emotion from time to time, I honestly get really annoyed at listening to and reading strings of several sentences that contain one or more of them. It actually becomes difficult to follow what they are trying to express and so I tune out 🤷♀️
Agreed. Intellectually, curse words are just not necessary. The "f" word is particularly offensive to many of us. My advice to those who insist on using it: pick up a thesaurus please and be more creative.
I was at a garage sale recently talking old books with the owner. She went and got one of her prized possessions: a dictionary from the early 1800s. It was MASSIVE, with teeny tiny type. We proceeded to discuss the degradation of our language to just a few thousand words, the most common one being the f-bomb.
My grandfather had one of those old massive Webster dictionaries! The type was so small, but we loved going through it as kids. He displayed it on a pedestal in the foyer when you entered his home!
Exactly how I feel! People who crow about “swearing like a sailor” seem to me to be just perpetual adolescents trying to prove what “rebels” they are 🙄🙄🙄
The reasons sailors' swearing was so impressive is that, traditionally, it was done in ten different languages, for fifteen minutes straight without repeating a single curse. Something of a lost art these days...
I think the offensiveness is precisely the point. George Carlin had great routines about this. He understood that humans interact using signals, and words are the main signals we use. The science that studies this is known as semiotics.
The childhood rhyme about "sticks and stones" represents this concept. Words only hurt when we allow them to - usually because we're trained to interpret them that way. In daily life, we use symbols so constantly that we think that's all that exists. We confuse the map with the actual territory.
But if you can go to a quiet place and embrace the silence, you can hear all the words running around in your head. There are disciplines that teach a person how to observe and to quiet that internal stream, like meditation. I've been able to experience this a few times in my life, that utter peace that comes from silencing all internal thoughts and symbols - it's incredible when you achieve it, and very difficult for the average person to hold in that state for long.
My experience coming out of that state brought an understanding that our modern human world is an extremely-complex, overlapping collection of games - and symbols are the medium in which those games are played.
I know why the yogi laughs. To one who can slip into that state at will, the world of men looks like a huge maze full of rats chasing one another without purpose. The laugh is one of sadness mixed with irony and empathy.
And despite all that cosmic stuff, I agree that casual profanity does make a person sound ignorant and imprecise. As a longtime casual swearer, I'm attempting to mend my ways in the latter part of my life.
You make some good points. Oh I agree, the point is the offensiveness but tbh to me, especially when used regularly, it just comes across as puerile attempts at provocation and lack of self control. Sorry to those offended by my reaction 🤷♀️ I’ve just always felt that way and I haven’t seen anything in my lifetime so far to prove the contrary.
And yes, words are offensive because as a society we’ve decided they are offensive and carry certain meanings and connotations. But when people despite being completely aware of those meanings and connotations, deliberately use such language, they are imo either trying to show they’re “rebels”, attempting to be gratuitously aggressive and provocative, or just don’t have the self control to stop themselves. None of which are qualities I personally would be proud of, but of course not everyone has to agree with me 🙂
When I worked for the DOD I got tired of soldiers' casual cursing in my office, so I put a sign on my desk (along with a curse jar): "Profanity is the effort of a weak mind to express itself forcefully."
I encountered a "weak mind" in a parking lot, who was seriously gumming up the flow of traffic. After he finishing cursing me out for the problem HE caused, I replied: "If you were to remove all the expletives from your tirade, it would render you completely inarticulate." He stared at me and said, "Whaaat?" I said, "Exactly!" and drove off.
Mrs. "the Knife"
P.S. I did have an engineer throw $5 in the curse jar and ask, "How much will that buy me?"
When my kids were little and finding the power of curse words I used to tell them my secret curse words: purple gallinuel or troglodyte, both are birds, the first is a coot and the second is a wren. I still amuse my grown son when we talk about that. Although I think I just revealed how weird I am.
I had never heard that phrase before, “profanity makes ignorance audible”, but I have often had the exact same reaction. And thought along the same lines with my adult children who use it interchangeably in every other sentence.
My kids, especially my younger son, are not big fans of curse words, fortunately. My older one uses them sparingly and usually more for punning/joking purposes than anything else. My younger one will not use any at all, although that may change once he gets into his later teens. I’m glad we see eye to eye on this overall but there is definitely a very strong cultural push towards casual use of profanity.
My kids don’t use any profanity around me. I think even though they’re adults, that they’re still afraid of getting their mouth washed out with soap 🤣😂🤣 BTW I never did that to them.
My son uses it around friends and around me because he knows it jerks my chain. He’s a successful business exec. When I have listened to him take business calls, it never enters into conversations. That would not be professional.
I like to use the edited for T.V. profanity strings. "I'm sick to death of all these monkey-fighting snakes on this monday-to-friday plane" is a favorite.
Another good one is from Die Hard 2, "Yippee-kiyay mister falcon!"
Love that saying from your mother. I'll have to remember that one. Curse words are a default used by people who are caught up in emotions rather than stopping to think intelligently for the word that will properly describe a situation. Curse words are feelings rather than descriptions. That's probably why the left more frequently defaults to curse words.
Mine drug us 4 kids to church every Sunday which was a 36 mile round trip. 2 are believers and 2 are not. She was a saint in my eyes. My dad was an unbeliever.
I was a research librarian for 25 years, hold an advanced degree, regularly hit 120 books read per year (i.e. I'm not incapable of expressing myself otherwise) and enjoy swearing occasionally (in the right company). I think it's because it's so unexpected that it can be used with humor.
As St. Teresa said, "Lord, save us from gloomy saints."
Well I don’t generally like foul language but used judiciously, it can be indeed be effective or even amusing on occasion. I guess my objection is more to the constant peppering and casual usage of those words in all kinds of situations. And your point about being in the right company is well taken also. But so many people don’t even take that into account.
Oh I just knew someone was going to say that. I keep hearing people talk about these “studies”, I guess the “experts” have spoken again 🙄 Who did them, how were they carried out and what was the agenda? And if they supposedly have a higher IQ, then why are they hiding it by using the same curse words repetitively instead of a richer and more varied way of expressing themselves?
For some cursing is just part of their culture. You won't find it as much in the south as the north (from my experience) and you should see less cursing in those who are following Christ as our language should bring glory to God.
I’ve just been beat senseless here, because I curse. And I’ve always considered myself rather intelligent. So to all of you that will virtue signal just like a good progressive over curse words, well @#*&$=(*$! Because to me,that’s what all y’all sound like. Tut tut.
I’m not virtue signaling. Just expressing an opinion 🤷♀️ Which apparently has ruffled a few feathers here. If *you* enjoy using foul language, what do you care what *I* or anyone else might think about it? I just think it sounds crass and crude and I don’t enjoy hearing it. I’m not saying people who curse can't be intelligent but to me it doesn’t *sound* intelligent. That’s all. And as to the complaint about being judgmental, every single human being is judgmental. It’s our nature. You just don’t agree with my judgment and that’s okay. You don’t have to agree.
My husband and I were just watching a very brief video that juxtaposed Kamala against Julia Louis Dreyfuss in “Veep”. It was funny and I’d never watched the show so I thought I’d go watch a longer video of show clips. Nope. The f-word was her whole vocabulary. From what I’ve read and heard, DC and political circles are really like that 🤮 I don’t get offended by an occasional apt swear (though I don’t choose to use foul language) but when people can’t speak without this sewage spewing…well, the Bible says that “out of the fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.”
Ephesians 4: 29 Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.
And Jesus reproved the Pharisees who were criticizing the disciples who had not washed hands before eating, "It's not what a man puts into his mouth which defiles him, but what comes out of his mouth".
I suspect it's more a negative correlation with having read literature, or commentary of high order. Noticing evidence of this in people writing weather for whether, slight for sleight (several times just last week), rye for wry, desserts for deserts (just now and last week).
My wife and I are constantly cracking up at the people on Nextdoor mentioning dogs "wondering" around their neighborhood. It's another contender for my next band name: The Wondering Dogs.
I have personal experience with this but it's just a one-person study. On occasion when I have done something (hit my head on the same overhanging shelf for the 2nd or 3rd time, for instance) and feel it is an ignorant and unintelligent thing to do, I have found myself bursting forth with a string of invective ala Linda Blair in "The Exorcist". This response then makes me feel even more ignorant and unintelligent. I reported my study in the "Journal of Bullshit" some years ago.
Interesting response. Could you , for the satisfaction of many of us, Supply at least one or two of the studies that have proven your theory and perhaps give a link as well. Evidently, in order to prove my IQ level, I need to add a lot of swear words to my vocabulary.
Just saying it so does not make it so. And again Studies! God deliver us from Studies and Safe and Effective! And the like! And so very often so very wicked!
By observation many, many gutter mouths have severely truncated vocabularies. And I would think that there is an inverse correlation between expanse in vocabulary and truncation in expression as a general observation.
One thing I’m proud of about my adult children. They don’t often swear (never use profanity in their parent’s presence), and most importantly, do not take God’s name in vain.
The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.
All I can say is…too many (formative) years on a fire crew imprinted rude, crude language into my brain. Have gotten much better about “using clean words” but every once in awhile…and I have to laugh, as a Big Lebowski fan…when The Dude is asked by The Stranger why he has to cuss so much…he replies, “WTF are you talking about?” And there you have it. It’s unconscious and a reflex response. ☺️☺️☺️
God bless you for your service! My journey began with 4 yrs of USFS brush-disposal/Type II district crew up in WA; then one season on a NPS hotshot crew in Yellowstone NP (rained all summer…boooooo…!!) and then engine crews on the Shasta-T and lastly Fire Prevention on the Plumas NF. I’d grown out of my rude/crude by then but always had it at the ready when called for!! Can’t let the fellers intimidate us females, right? LOL
In the 1990 Steven Spielberg movie, Joe Versus The Volcano, Patricia (the character played by Meg Ryan) utters these words to Joe Banks (Tom Hank's character):
"My father says that almost the whole world is asleep - everybody you know, everybody you see, everybody you talk to. He says that only a few people are awake, and they live in a state of constant, total amazement."
another example of saying evil is good and good is evil. It mushroomed after the bioweapon was released, and they started changing definitions everywhere.
Heard it all before when Reagan was running for POTUS. A very polite Democrat friend told me that if Reagan is elected there will be a race war. I didn't even respond. And you know, I bet he never learned from that either.
They will definitely be pushing the race war, and likely the domestic terrorist angle too. You know, if democrats were not also beholden to the same criminal banking cartel, they could easily go after Trump for announcing he may nominate literal permanent state scum bags like Jamie Dimon and Larry Find to high positions. And then of course there is Peter Thiel, who has close ties and financially supported Clearview AI, who brags about using their facial recognition to lock up J6 protesters.
Your real name must be ‘Misery’. You never try to build anything up, just tear it down. I have never seen you make anything but negative comments, hoping to make others a miserable as you. Since you love misery so much, why not join the RAT party? They would LOVE you!
What is like to ignore the blatant reality around you? Trump is talking about appointing the literal swamp. People point it out and you go on the attack. It's very sad.
My sister, who up until last month still defended Biduhn, said that at the country club in Boston where she was, when the announcement came over the TV, the people cheered and started chanting Trump Trump Trump.
I said I didn’t understand. Biduhn hasn’t actually been in charge for the last 4 years, but his administration implemented the entire D agenda perfectly.
If that’s what they support, why do they want him out? She changed the subject.
Those people are stupid sheep.
Listening and reading comments from people on other sites and pages is appalling. 🤦🏼♀️ To listen to the regurgitated media lies from people who STILL actually believe bidum was a wonderful “pRESIDENT” makes me want to vomit. And to hear them say food is going to double under Trump and we’re all going to starve, he’s going to destroy America, he’s a dictator blah blah blah just makes me throw up in my mouth. “Those people are stupid sheep” is an understatement.
At this point - anyone still asleep is CHOOSING to leave their head buried under concrete. I heard it said a small percentage of the population will never wake up - I think we are here.
The Thessalonians verse is rapidly becoming one of my favorites.
2 Thessalonians 2:10-11
... they perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie ....
That verse says it all. God chose the exact right word too. Delusion. 🎯 Thanks for the verse reminder today.
amen
Tripped and fell running to my Bible after you posted this scripture! I Read the verses just above what you quoted and got more chills..
7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work. But the one who restrains is to do so only for the present, until he is removed from the scene.
8
And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord [Jesus] will kill with the breath of his mouth and render powerless by the manifestation of his coming,
Dr. Tenpenny did a talk in 2021 that featured these verses. She was addressing the mass delusion about so many trying people to shove jabs down everyone's throat. I think many of us are getting used to the willfully deaf & blind by now, but in 2021 the scale of it was a rude awakening.
❤️ ❤️ I love those verses too! Thanks for posting them.
But I can see how the Left could use v. 9 ("pretended signs and wonders") against the assassination attempt. Not, I imagine, that they are likely to do so.
Have you watched the Tucker interview with John Rich? Very powerful.
I wish more people would come to know the fallacies of the Scofield Bible. “Pre-tribulation rapture” and “Israel can do no wrong” are such dangerous teachings, believed by SO MANY Evangelicals.
Perhaps you reading this now are one of the mislead. Do not be fooled by those that say they know. You can look it up on wels.net. Basically the Jews forfeited the designation as the chosen people when they rejected the promised Messiah, Jesus the Christ. God chose Israel as the people to bring Jesus into the world. The (edit: "Extremist" Jews) Jews not only rejected him, they killed him and continue to believe that Christians should be killed as heretics (Edit: Talmudic Jews believe Christians are heretics, AFAIK). God still wants Israel to accept Jesus as the savior, as well as all Gentiles (non-Jews). (See 1 Timothy 2:4; 2 Peter 3:9).
God’s focus is on Christians; followers of his promise; followers of his murdered son. All are welcome to the table of Christ. Not all will accept the invitation and many will try to prevent others from learning of or even walking towards the feast.
Many believers will be fooled (per the Bible). Educate yourselves and don’t be fooled. Be in the world but don’t be of it. Be prepared for tribulation, be prepared for Jesus’ return, and like John Rich said, don’t fall for the mark of the beast. The vaccine mandates were a test. If you failed that one, don’t fail the next one, which may be digital currency requirements through the (non) Federal Reserve.
I really don’t know much about the Schofield Bible, but I’ve read the Bible through more than 35 times, whole cloth, so to speak; not verses picked here and there to support an argument. I think your camp is like the Pharisees of old who missed the first coming of the Messiah because they were so sure they had the corrupt and only interpretation of the Holy Scriptures.
Paul makes it plain in Romans that God is not done with Israel. The Old Testament prophets speak of events involving Israel that have yet to come to pass. God’s chastisement of Israel drives them from the land. Repeatedly. But remnants return at the appointed times.
They came back miraculously in 1946.
You mischaracterize those who see it differently from you. None in my camp believe ‘Israel can do no wrong, anymore than we believe America can do no wrong.’ The government is not the people.
But we stand with Israel in her religious war against the Muslims, who seek her complete and final destruction and we believe it is the correct interpretation of scripture to do so.
I am curious as to how you think our present state of affairs would be greatly improved if somehow we all began to believe as you do.
Pulseofisrael.com
Israelunwired.com
Carolineglick.com
Before Almighty God, I stand with Israel!
I also stand with the nation called Israel of the present time. But I utterly reject the premise that they are a God fearing nation that is submitted to His word and serves/acknowledges Him. I hope and long for the day this happens, but have little assurance it will happen even in my lifetime. Israel of today are no more "God's Own people" than are the people of France or ARgentina.
I abhor the way much of the world treats Israel, as I also abhor the same for Argentina and India and Brasil and..... yet I also know His people ARE in all thiose countries.
Israel rejected Jesus when they hollered for Barrabas to Pilate whcn asked their preference. Note well that same crowd of JEWS then cried the liuder CRUCIFY HIM and refused to repent after He rose from the dead and walked amongst them again for forty days.
Yes,thousands heard the Word preached in Jerusalem on Pentecost and later, and turned in response. But over the next while God made it abindantly clear that judaism as it was is no more. Note well, it was not long after that He made it abundantly clear that the old dietary laws, feasts, the very temple itself, were no longer tied to knowing the One who made all and demanded their trust. Luke's treatise on the birth and early function of the Church carries this story well. Which is WHY God had him writeit. You might stop and go read again Peter's earthshattering experience during the time shortly before and then after his amazing encounter with Cornelius and his household. Acts was completed right about 68 or 69 AD.. very shortly before Jerusalem was sacked and destroyed (precisely as Jesus fortold in every particular) in AD 70.
Well said. I concur with your statement!
Amen and Amen, Willing Spirit!🙏✝️🙌
To read the Bible without proper hermeneutics is like sailing the ocean without a compass and a transit. How did you read the Bible? As far as their war against the Muslims, all intel I’ve looked at points to another false flag operation like the USS Liberty. And for them to shoot their own people so that they wouldn’t have live hostages? The Hannibal directive? I find that unconscionable. However, I stand with any innocents murdered in the name of religion. Education is the way to get out of the mess and the only way to get out of it. Not war. Jesus wants peace makers not just peace keepers or conquerors. Being less wrong doesn’t make anyone right.
"Basically the Jews forfeited the designation as the chosen people when they rejected the promised Messiah, Jesus the Christ."
This is summarily untrue. Countless commentaries have been written countering this theory.
Hitler no doubt promoted this idea widely, broadly and thoroughly.
If you hate Jews, just say so.
WHO wrote those commentaries, and in wat bases? Jhn's Revelation clearly reveals how the perfidious jews, as a people, rejected Jesus.. remember for whom they called when Pilate asked whom he should free and whom he should kill? WHO were that crowd?
You would do well to learn more about the zealots, who they were, their history up to the days of Jesus, and then over the next forty years.
Next read John's writings on what was comng down the pike "shortly".
Oh, and put down your scofield notes and learn to exegete the scriptires yourself. Its not rocket science.
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Failed logic without linking the commentaries. Similar to “scientific consensus”. Who had Jesus put to death? Where did they go after his death and resurrection? What do you know about Noahide laws? It’s uncomfortable when you realize that a belief is wrong, like all those vaxed that won’t see the damage that’s been done and still believe ‘safe and effective’. It’s ground shaking/shattering when your views are found to be incorrect. It’s hard to look at changing paradigms. May God bless you with the ability to at least look at the possibility that what you believe may not be the truth. BTW, Christianity doesn’t believe in killing to make others believe. The ‘Christian Crusades’ were not Christian at all. Other religions are currently killing Christians worldwide. More Christians are persecuted now than ever in history. See www.open doors.org for more information.
thanks, thought I was the only one
No you are not the only on. And any Scofield 'bible' ought to be chucked out. Much better to rely upon Geneva notes, Matthew Henry notes and the confessions of faith from the Reformation.
Scofield is very suspect. Here is a another guy who comes out of nowhere, goes everywhere, has no visible means of support and has a powerful connection to a New York Jewish lawyer named Untermeyer. Scofield ends up with easy access to either the Oxford Press or Cambridge Press (I forget which) ... and gets promoted everywhere by then propaganda press of the day as 'the latest new thing'. The whole Scofield Saga has 'the look' of an especially designed effort to tears down orthodox Christian doctrine by making chopped liver out of the Bible. Basically, the Law is consistent from the first book to the last book of the Bible and in Christ's Church, we are either Christians or not at all. Christian means that we cannot tack on a certain 'dispensational elements' willy-nilly using the grammatical device of a hyphen.
Why are people attacking Christians who support Israel on this post today?
It has nothing to do with Jeff Childers’ topic.
Why are you creating this spirit of controversy at this period of time?
I call you out as a bunch of Pharisees!
You are sure you know what is true and you have no room for God acting in any way you might not agree with.
I had never heard of the Scofield Bible until the John Rich interview with Tucker. I was born and raised a Lutheran and nothing about there being a Rapture was ever taught, only Christ’s second coming; “and we know not the hour”. I am in a Bible Study with several, mostly Wesleyan older ladies. One of them wanted to do a study on Dr David Jeremiah’s books on the coming rapture. To say I was skeptical is putting it mildly. After a few chapters, Jeremiah relies almost exclusively on Thessalonians 4 and “a gathering up”, and quotes from many authors who have like theories. I was happy to hear John Rich’s take.
Why are people attacking Christians who support Israel on this post today?
It has nothing to do with Jeff Childers’ topic.
Why are you creating this spirit of controversy at this period of time?
I call you out as a bunch of Pharisees!
You are sure you know what is true and you have no room for God acting in any way you might not agree with.
I was very gladden to see this post. And I too noticed that John Rich in a Tucker Carlson interview spoke against the heretical tendencies of Scofield and 'his bible'. This surprised me in a big way. And so it appears that word might be getting on a Christian subversive named Scofield.
So, thank you.
Edit: The edit is that I read your post for a 2nd and 3rd time since I left this comment. Yours is a deep well and the water of life. So double and triple thanks.
Why are people attacking Christians who support Israel on this post today?
It has nothing to do with Jeff Childers’ topic.
Why are you creating this spirit of controversy at this period of time?
I call you out as a bunch of Pharisees!
You are sure you know what is true and you have no room for God acting in any way you might not agree with.
John Rich’s comments about Scofield & I believe John Meade were so interesting to me. Causing me to do some historical research on the topic of Rapture of the Church & the timing of it relative to Tribulation years.
Amen!
Why are people attacking Christians who support Israel on this post today?
It has nothing to do with Jeff Childers’ topic.
Why are you creating this spirit of controversy at this period of time?
I call you out as a bunch of Pharisees!
You are sure you know what is true and you have no room for God acting in any way you might not agree with.
THIS IS SO INCORRECT! "Jews forfeited the designation as the chosen people when they rejected the promised Messiah, Jesus Christ" God NEVER placed a condition for the Jewish people to be or not be HIS
let's not misrepresent God by saying "God's focus is on Christians" bc we are not privy to the mind of God. Instead let's go back and revisit the scriptures that speak of God's relationship with the Israelites and understand that God has not, will not EVER give up on His people.
Romans 11
I say then, has God cast away His people? Certainly not! For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
2 God has not cast away His people whom He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel, saying,
3 “Lord, they have killed Your prophets and torn down Your altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life”?
4 But what does the divine response say to him? “I have reserved for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”
5 Even so then, at this present time there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
6 And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.
Romans 11:25-36
25 For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.
26 And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written:
“The Deliverer will come out of Zion,
And He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob;
27 For this is My covenant with them,
When I take away their sins.”
28 Concerning the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but concerning the election they are beloved for the sake of the fathers.
29 For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.
30 For as you were once disobedient to God, yet have now obtained mercy through their disobedience,
31 even so these also have now been disobedient, that through the mercy shown you they also may obtain mercy.
32 For God has committed them all to disobedience, that He might have mercy on all.
33 Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out!
34 “For who has known the mind of the Lord?
Or who has become His counselor?”
35 “Or who has first given to Him
And it shall be repaid to him?”
36 For of Him and through Him and to Him are all things, to whom be glory forever. Amen.
IF God ever breaks His promise to Israel, why would He not break His promise to the rest of us? Perish the though!!!
Romans 11:19-24
19 You will say then, “Branches were broken off that I might be grafted in.” 20 Well said. Because of unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Do not be haughty, but fear.
21 For if God did not spare the natural branches, He may not spare you either.
22 Therefore consider the goodness and severity of God: on those who fell, severity; but toward you, [e]goodness, if you continue in His goodness. Otherwise you also will be cut off.
23 And they also, if they do not continue in unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.
24 For if you were cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, who are natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?
Amen and Amen again, Concerned Mom!
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Then why did Jesus chide Saul for persecuting him? Saul was Jewish and by all accounts chosen. Yet here, in Romans, he speaks of a remnant elected by grace. These are the Messianic Jews. Those that believe Jesus was the Christ. Jesus said no one, no one, goes to heaven except through Him. He didn’t say, no one but the Jews and those that believe in me. Jesus was the final living sacrifice and he created a new covenant with all the people of the world. He died for everyone’s sins. The veil was torn and we were given direct access to God through Jesus. We can pray to God without intercession of a priest. God promised that the tribe of David would give birth to the savior, the messiah. He promised forgiveness of our sins. I don’t recall him promising that the Jewish tribe must be protected by the Gentiles to go to heaven. Please show me where it says that and I may change my mind based on an updated knowledge. By the way, I don’t agree with many of the MIC driven wars of the USA, either. War is hell and should be the very last resort.
READ Jesus' words on the mark of tthe beast, in Matthew... WHERE was that thing placed? What does the word we read as "mark" mean in the original?
The covid shot goes in the arm, deltid muscle. NOT right hand/wirt, now forehead. MARK is something permananent., and VERY visible. Even if the one poking your arm is a spastic brute, the hole will heal and be gone in a few days.
Next, continue reading till the end of that conversation.. His guys ask "when will these things BE"??? He said ALL THESE THINGS (everything spoken in that conversation up on the Mount of Olives) WILL TAKE PLACE before THIS generation passes away. (go back now and reread all the things He spoke ofin that cnversation.... WHY do you pinder when this or that will finally happen? Per HIS words it all hppened within about forty years of the date He said these tings. ALL these things, or Jesus is a liar. Don't like that? Take it up with HIM.. I'm only quoting HIS words.
I have heard supposedly legit "prechers" and "prophets" and
pastors" trying to convince me this or that is the Mark of the Beast, or that "the Tribulation" is coming here and then and will be like this, that this or that world leader is The Antichrist" and will come at tis time and do that ting over there. Hah!! Antichrist is not even a person, it is a simple way of determining which "category" George or CHarlie or Pete or Mary are in. Jesus said "you are either WITH Me or AGAINST Me". Bob Dylan put it this way: you mist pick one or the otehr, there ain't NO netural ground"/ John the apostle put it thusly: whoever denies that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is anti christ. Synonyms are against, contra, opposed to, yet some wonks have turned John's adjective into a noun, even a proper noun, then attributed all manner of crazy powers to that constructed creature. "The Antichrist" will destroy the temple". hey fail to consider that's a bit late.. Rome's armies under Vespasian and Titus Imperator destroyed that in 70 AD. Once the temple was gone, they turned and did the same to the entire city of Jerusalem, laying it to utter desolation (just as Jesus had also predicted) where it remained for centuries. Oh, bht "the jews" will rebuild that temple and THAT is the one Mr. AC will destroy..... Nah. I'm sticking with the REAL Jesus not the fictional one drifting about these past two milennia.
“Be in the world, but don’t be of it”
I’ve been hearing these words a lot past 4 years. Could you please explain what this means exactly?
We have to be here but we don't have to be grafted into it; be a part of it. To not be swept up with the concerns of this world and the bread and circuses, but to focus on the greatest commandment first and then the others. To love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your mind and all your soul. Next is to love your neighbor as yourself. I, for one, fight my daily hunger for the latest news; to see what's going on in this world. I guess it fuels my endorphins. I would do better to study the Bible and work on being like Jesus. I have a lot of 'work' to do but I'm saved by Jesus' blood and God's grace. I just wish to do better and be more pleasing to God, not to earn favor, but because he's given so much to me.
May be helpful.
https://www.openbible.info/topics/being_in_the_world_but_not_of_the_world
https://biblehub.com/john/17-16.htm
https://bible.ca/ef/expository-john-17-15-17.htm
I killed Jesus with my rejection and my sins. He chose to pay the price I could not pay and forgave me and reconciled me to himself.
Welcome, brother! This is the most attention this subject has ever gotten, and I thank you for it.
Most of what you say I already agree with excepting the idea that Jews want Christians dead as they are "heretics". It could be some really far out Hebrews, the ultra-orthodox for example, may believe this. However, you saying this as a general fact about Jews is just wrong and UN-Christian.
It's a shame you color the huge good part of what you proclaim with such a statement.
I retract the huge brush statement and will point out that the same is true for Muslims. Only a small contingent of Muslims and Jews believe that Christians are heretics and must be beheaded. I believe they are called Talmudic Jews, and you are correct, I should have been more specific. Thank you for pointing than out. My apologies and I hope you’ll find forgiveness for me in your heart.
I think a lot of observant Jews today think that Christians are "heretics" / "pagan tritheists", but don't have any intention of executing anybody. For the most part the (modern) Jewish attitude seems to be "we have our rules, and what anybody else does is between them and G-d".
The most accurate Bible is the Book of Yahweh from the House of Yahweh.
Fables well told are often believed.
It was absolutely incredible. Just loved it!
I watch it all (over one hour) and Rich should have stopped talking after recounting the astonishing way God gave him the Revelation song....
Rich's understanding of the Rapture is sorely lacking. He confuses it with Jesus' Second Coming. These are 2 separate events...
I thought the saints were lifted away the moment that Jesus returns. Where does the Bible state otherwise. Of course, know that I don’t believe in millennialism or dispensationalism. I believe Christ’s second coming and the final judgment occur simultaneously and there is no second chance. That’s what I understand from my Bible studies. As John Rich said, we will not avoid the hardships and sufferings predicted in the Bible. I guess like Job, we will suffer and our faith will be tested.
Firstly, I must tell you there are 2 separate events that will happen. I will try to explain as best I can in this post. The Rapture or Snatching Away happens and Jesus does not come to Earth... It happens in the air ...
In Matthew 24 where Jesus' disciples ask Him about the End to come v.3, Jesus reply takes up several chapters and it appears that some things correspond to the Tribulation like v.15 and others to the Rapture v.31
1 Cor 15:51 Paul says, "Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed—
52 in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed."
Again, in 1 Thes 4:13-17 13 "Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope. 14 For we believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him. 15 According to the Lord’s word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. 16 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever."
Keep in mind Matthew 24:36 - NO ONE KNOWS THE DAY OR THE HOUR!
And John 14:3 tells us He has gone to prepare a place for us, so that we may be where He is, Heaven! (This is part of another teaching that says Jesus prepares a place for us, just as in a Jewish betrothal, the son goes to prepare an abode for his bride and comes back for her when His father gives the OK)
ALL OF THIS is not what we all recognize as Second Coming.
2nd Coming is when Jesus comes as King and Judge to parse out judgement to the nations. Revelation 19:11-18 "I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True. With justice he judges and wages war. 12 His eyes are like blazing fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has a name written on him that no one knows but he himself. 13 He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God. 14 The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean. 15 Coming out of his mouth is a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations. “He will rule them with an iron scepter.”[a] He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty. 16 On his robe and on his thigh he has this name written:
KING of KINGS and LORD of LORDS
17 And I saw an angel standing in the sun, who cried in a loud voice to all the birds flying in midair, “Come, gather together for the great supper of God, 18 so that you may eat the flesh of kings, generals, and the mighty, of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all people, free and slave, great and small.”
I TOTALLY DISAGREE with Rich's interpretation that we'll be here for the Tribulation. God is not going to beat up His Bride before taking her away.
1 Thes 1:10 tells us "...Jesus who delivers us FROM the wrath to come"
and again 1 Thes 5:9 "For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ"
I'm not sure what you mean by "millennialism or any other ism, but let me point you to Revelation 20:4-5 and see what you find.
Blessing on your searching
John Rich needs to stick to music unless he wants to get his theological facts straight. At least Tucker admits to being clueless.
https://evangelicaldarkweb.org/2024/07/19/john-rich-tucker-carlson-vs-pretribulation-rapture/
Wow! John Rich, American Country Music star, turned theologian overnight, goes on Tucker to promote his new song and proclaims that Evangelical Christians are deluded and dangerous.
Tucker is confused to say the least.
Completely agree with you. Once you have heard Pastor Jack Hibbs teach on the Rapture and Second Coming, one cannot be fooled by the "Johnny come-lately Rich"
Ah, Jack Hibbs. That statement explains a lot. Follow Jesus not preachers.
Dispensationalism - The church and the Jewish people make up two distinctly different dispensations with different futures. Developed in the 1830's.
I have looked at both sides of the coin, dispensationalism versus the belief I hold to be true: The second advent of Christ, the general resurrection, the final judgment, and the end of the world are immediately united and each follows the other without an interval of time.
Millennialism was debunked in the 17th century, yet it still rears its ugly head. I do not wonder why. It is a spiritual war being waged. The rest is bread and circuses.
Is the end near? I don't care other than to warn the un-Christian, and the "think I am Christian enough" that time MAY be running out.
John Rich: American Country Musician, newly turned amateur theologian.
So, he appeared on Tucker Carson to talk about a song God directly instructed him to write called Revelation. I have no doubt this happened. But I think John stepped a bit out of the bounds of that calling to go on Tucker Carlson and claim a special understanding of theology, which apparently someone he bumped into in a proud vulnerable moment was happy to teach him. And it gave him some good talking points for the Tucker interview, although he admitted he wrestled with the idea of presenting them. That might have been the Holy Spirit trying to warn him that he might not be up to the task.
If this had been a theological debate, with say Jack Hibbs providing a counter argument to what John Rich was saying, it would certainly have been a better interview.
As it was, John thought he had discovered some scriptures never before read by Evangelicals.
Having been raised with that doctrine, I assure him he did not.
These Christians are very familiar with 2Thessalonians 2, Matthew 24, the book of Daniel, Ezekiel and all the Old Testament prophecies. They believe the second coming of Jesus is a separate event from the ‘in gathering’ of Thessalonians 2, which precedes it.
Speaking of Matthew 24; to Jesus all time is present simultaneously. He switches back and forth from present impending disaster to future. For example,
Matthew 24:15-17 “
Therefore when you see the ‘abomination of desolation,’spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place” (whoever reads, let him understand),
“then let those who are in JUDEA flee to the mountains.
“Let him who is ON THE HOUSETOP not go down to take anything out of his house.
Jesus is obviously speaking of those in Judea in that era, who will have to flee the attack of the Romans.
This is complex and complicated stuff, needing a lot of study. WHICH, John Rich has not had.
John seemed to say that the delusion sent by God was for Evangelicals, not unbelievers who refuse to repent. That was unfortunate. But I learned there is fear of Evangelicals. And I hope to come to understand that more fully.
And poor Tucker, if he really is being bombarded almost daily at his home (one imagines a multi million dollar mansion) by weird persons using numerology to tell him when Jesus is returning (Jehovah Witnesses?) he needs better security!
What an awesome interview. Two men talking about Jesus!!! Powerful!!
John Rich talking about what he knows NOT, is dangerous... Poor Tucker being misled...
Yeah, that was a fantastic interview
It was fantastic! Need to listen again.
That verse so describes the covid era! Good golly.
Thank you! I've been trying to find a scripture to hold on to during this insanity of USA! And covid delusion. Thank you so much for this scripture from our Holy Fathers love book! Keeping me centered on Him! Thank you, Kelli, dear one! 🦋🙏🙌👑🙌
Love book!
Wow that is spot on for sure!
Thanks Kelly.
Amen!
Amen!! I pray for my granddaughters whose stepmother filled their minds with LGBTQ and liberal pro Palestinian thinking. She influenced them to the point, my daughter and I are estranged. They look at us as if we are strangers and have refused to talk to us for 4 years now. Satan is prowling, devouring innocent minds, conditioned by others...
Here is historical Scriotural teaching that all post-Trib believers should hear:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jack-hibbs-podcast/id1610645427?i=1000608779793
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jack-hibbs-podcast/id1610645427?i=1000610868170
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jack-hibbs-podcast/id1610645427?i=1000611730458
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Correction - it’s the writings of John Darby.
Projection. It's always about projection with them. Accuse the other side of doing what you are doing, and repeat it until the sheepies believe it too
I’ve screamed this for years!!
Wanna know what “they” are up to?
Watch what they accuse us of doing!
TRUTH
Agreed. It was summarized for me many years ago:
"Deny everything, admit nothing and make counter accusations!"
I would not doubt this statement is imbedded in the DNC Manifesto.
Yeppers
you might enjoy this analysis of how propaganda works. its quite amusing
https://conspiracysynergy.com/EP5.html
exactly!
That is so unethical and immoral.
Baaaaa’d Baaaaaaaa’d 🐑🐏
I was a Dem once.
I had a really lovely Dem friend who I had to break ties with in 2020 because, well, 2020.
I bet she still ‘believes.’
Biden's BEST Decision was choosing Hyena in Heels Harris as his VP---maybe his least worst decision would be more accurate
Ha. "If they want to remove Biden under the 25th Amendment, they’ll have to find him first." Jeff C
Ps Check his other homes lower level basement first.
Find those used ice cream containers for tell tale signs.
I'm thinking that he's wave surfing the lake behind the OhBummer Mansion. Or perhaps he stumbled into the Clinton Veggie Quiche Omatic. Maybe they were serving leg of lamb at the White House last night. Ask k'mala and see if she cackles.
lol @ hyena in heels. She really does look just like a hyena. Their entire administration made me think of the Lion King all the time when Scar destroys everything and the hyena are sitting around laughing at everything
Speaking as a woman, she is an embarrassment.
agree
🌶️🌶️🌶️🔥🔥🔥🎯🎯🎯‼️‼️‼️
correction, he didn't choose her, obama/clintons did. lol
True. Joe hated her and Jill still harbors a grudge against her.
Obama now is holding out an endorsement, for a better candidate.
MO????
RFK
Clinton/Obama tribes hate each other. Clinton supported Harris to spit in Obamas face. THAT's why Obama won't back Harris. A cursory search will show anybody this.
but that makes me wonder why is harris a spit in his face. what does he hate about her?
Interesting
Same mzlizzi, though I lasted until 2022 before I was ready to admit that I would never feel safe with these people while their heads were buried in concrete. But now I have wonderful new upgraded friends.
September 2021 for me. Never looking back. They are lost.
It's a shame we have become so polarized that THIS seems to be the dividing issue. For most of my friends, they don't equate their political affiliation with the things I see (spending the US into oblivion fighting wars against the rest of the world while enabling the vilest segments of our population with entitlements, pointless virtue signaling over a range of ridiculous subjects, denying their personal sovereignty while bowing to utterly-corrupt authority figures, etc.).
I admit, I can't understand how they can turn these things around in their heads so they can see them as pluses. And other than that, I can still have engaging conversations with them, as long as we stay away from certain areas of discussion. But that was the situation with my ex-wife, too; over the years of our marriage, there were fewer things we could discuss without one or the other of us getting launched. At the end, there was almost no significant conversation between us, and we knew it was over.
My best friend who has been for 64 years, told me he had to block me on farcebook, because I shared that perfect meme of the pretty blonde with the cigarette saying “ I effing told you so”! It offended him, because he’s a staunch libretard. There is nothing that will ever change him. He just came home from the hospital after ten days whilst having part of his bladder removed. Cancer, naturally. Vaxxed and boosted out the ass. This just a couple days after we had a great conversation reminiscing all the ridiculous fun we had over the years laughing and crying, and now I’m blocked. Sad.
Man, Facebook blocking is the coldest thing ever. My ex-wife and I were friends for years after splitting up, and then she un-friended me after I posted some "crazy conspiracy theory nonsense" about 9/11 being an inside job. It was so nasty. I swore I'd never do that to anyone, at least anyone I know. Sorry to hear that about your friend.
I lost a 50 year childhood friend during the Obama years. I miss her but I know we can never have the friendship we once had. She is a liberal Christian and I am a conservative Christian. I will let the Lord sort it all out in the end.
It’s almost like there’s an alternate universe overlaid upon ours…or maybe the Matrix explained it all. Red pill/blue pill. (I was late to The Matrix party, so I’m no expert on all that…but it sure seems like there’s an alternate reality in which all my family members live! They’re Dhimmicrat Washingtonians & Oregonians 🙄)
The Matrix is just a more recent version of the Hindu/Buddhist concept of the Veil of Maya ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_(religion) , and also Plato's Allegory of the Cave ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_cave ).
I don't accept the reality of this view, and tend to see it as a metaphor for the games we play and take seriously (confusing the map with the territory) that I detailed in another post here today.
So sorry about your family, but I think you’re right about the matrix thing. I too was late to the matrix. Lol, but I totally believe they’re in a different reality than us.
That’s hard. Blessings to you.
I was one as well. Woke up like you around the same time. Still not convinced about Trump given his past blunders (or was he playing 5 D chess). Vote 1 Jesus!
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Notice that they can’t say two words without injecting the F word. Why is that?
Right??? My mom used to say “profanity makes ignorance audible” and while I can understand (though generally don’t indulge in it myself) the well-placed curse word for emphasis and emotion from time to time, I honestly get really annoyed at listening to and reading strings of several sentences that contain one or more of them. It actually becomes difficult to follow what they are trying to express and so I tune out 🤷♀️
Agreed. Intellectually, curse words are just not necessary. The "f" word is particularly offensive to many of us. My advice to those who insist on using it: pick up a thesaurus please and be more creative.
I was at a garage sale recently talking old books with the owner. She went and got one of her prized possessions: a dictionary from the early 1800s. It was MASSIVE, with teeny tiny type. We proceeded to discuss the degradation of our language to just a few thousand words, the most common one being the f-bomb.
My grandfather had one of those old massive Webster dictionaries! The type was so small, but we loved going through it as kids. He displayed it on a pedestal in the foyer when you entered his home!
I also can't stand how people use emojis in place of an actual sentence. Use your WORDS people! Let's not devolve into communicating with pictures.
NB I loved that line, "pick up a thesaurus" lol, they don't know what that is.
Ya wanna bet? I own several. They're some of my favorite things.
Exactly how I feel! People who crow about “swearing like a sailor” seem to me to be just perpetual adolescents trying to prove what “rebels” they are 🙄🙄🙄
The reasons sailors' swearing was so impressive is that, traditionally, it was done in ten different languages, for fifteen minutes straight without repeating a single curse. Something of a lost art these days...
(/j, somewhat)
People who curse are already more creative than you who don't. As well as having higher IQs than you.
Prove it! 😆
I think the offensiveness is precisely the point. George Carlin had great routines about this. He understood that humans interact using signals, and words are the main signals we use. The science that studies this is known as semiotics.
The childhood rhyme about "sticks and stones" represents this concept. Words only hurt when we allow them to - usually because we're trained to interpret them that way. In daily life, we use symbols so constantly that we think that's all that exists. We confuse the map with the actual territory.
But if you can go to a quiet place and embrace the silence, you can hear all the words running around in your head. There are disciplines that teach a person how to observe and to quiet that internal stream, like meditation. I've been able to experience this a few times in my life, that utter peace that comes from silencing all internal thoughts and symbols - it's incredible when you achieve it, and very difficult for the average person to hold in that state for long.
My experience coming out of that state brought an understanding that our modern human world is an extremely-complex, overlapping collection of games - and symbols are the medium in which those games are played.
I know why the yogi laughs. To one who can slip into that state at will, the world of men looks like a huge maze full of rats chasing one another without purpose. The laugh is one of sadness mixed with irony and empathy.
And despite all that cosmic stuff, I agree that casual profanity does make a person sound ignorant and imprecise. As a longtime casual swearer, I'm attempting to mend my ways in the latter part of my life.
You make some good points. Oh I agree, the point is the offensiveness but tbh to me, especially when used regularly, it just comes across as puerile attempts at provocation and lack of self control. Sorry to those offended by my reaction 🤷♀️ I’ve just always felt that way and I haven’t seen anything in my lifetime so far to prove the contrary.
And yes, words are offensive because as a society we’ve decided they are offensive and carry certain meanings and connotations. But when people despite being completely aware of those meanings and connotations, deliberately use such language, they are imo either trying to show they’re “rebels”, attempting to be gratuitously aggressive and provocative, or just don’t have the self control to stop themselves. None of which are qualities I personally would be proud of, but of course not everyone has to agree with me 🙂
When I worked for the DOD I got tired of soldiers' casual cursing in my office, so I put a sign on my desk (along with a curse jar): "Profanity is the effort of a weak mind to express itself forcefully."
I encountered a "weak mind" in a parking lot, who was seriously gumming up the flow of traffic. After he finishing cursing me out for the problem HE caused, I replied: "If you were to remove all the expletives from your tirade, it would render you completely inarticulate." He stared at me and said, "Whaaat?" I said, "Exactly!" and drove off.
Mrs. "the Knife"
P.S. I did have an engineer throw $5 in the curse jar and ask, "How much will that buy me?"
Love his sense of humor! 😆
Just like an engineer to pre-pay: always seeking maximum efficiency!
I think he was going for a bulk discount!
When my kids were little and finding the power of curse words I used to tell them my secret curse words: purple gallinuel or troglodyte, both are birds, the first is a coot and the second is a wren. I still amuse my grown son when we talk about that. Although I think I just revealed how weird I am.
You revealed how creative you are.
I love unusual words!
Mine died laughing when one time I yelled, "Poodle Farts". That was 30-40 years ago and they still laugh about it.
I used "bat's breath" in grade school and junior high. Don't know where I picked it up.
Mrs. "the Knife"
My husband uses “piggy-brat”! 🤷🏻♀️
I had never heard that phrase before, “profanity makes ignorance audible”, but I have often had the exact same reaction. And thought along the same lines with my adult children who use it interchangeably in every other sentence.
My kids, especially my younger son, are not big fans of curse words, fortunately. My older one uses them sparingly and usually more for punning/joking purposes than anything else. My younger one will not use any at all, although that may change once he gets into his later teens. I’m glad we see eye to eye on this overall but there is definitely a very strong cultural push towards casual use of profanity.
My kids don’t use any profanity around me. I think even though they’re adults, that they’re still afraid of getting their mouth washed out with soap 🤣😂🤣 BTW I never did that to them.
My son uses it around friends and around me because he knows it jerks my chain. He’s a successful business exec. When I have listened to him take business calls, it never enters into conversations. That would not be professional.
I like to use the edited for T.V. profanity strings. "I'm sick to death of all these monkey-fighting snakes on this monday-to-friday plane" is a favorite.
Another good one is from Die Hard 2, "Yippee-kiyay mister falcon!"
Love that saying from your mother. I'll have to remember that one. Curse words are a default used by people who are caught up in emotions rather than stopping to think intelligently for the word that will properly describe a situation. Curse words are feelings rather than descriptions. That's probably why the left more frequently defaults to curse words.
My mother was an amazing woman and I miss her so much 💔
I miss my mom as well.
Mine drug us 4 kids to church every Sunday which was a 36 mile round trip. 2 are believers and 2 are not. She was a saint in my eyes. My dad was an unbeliever.
And very well said about the words being feelings rather than descriptions!
Can't please all of the people all of the time.
I was a research librarian for 25 years, hold an advanced degree, regularly hit 120 books read per year (i.e. I'm not incapable of expressing myself otherwise) and enjoy swearing occasionally (in the right company). I think it's because it's so unexpected that it can be used with humor.
As St. Teresa said, "Lord, save us from gloomy saints."
Well I don’t generally like foul language but used judiciously, it can be indeed be effective or even amusing on occasion. I guess my objection is more to the constant peppering and casual usage of those words in all kinds of situations. And your point about being in the right company is well taken also. But so many people don’t even take that into account.
My dad used to say “Profanity is a sign of ignorance”. There is a lot of wisdom from that generation worth listening to!
My dad used to say of those speaking vulgarities, "They've got something in their mouth that I wouldn't hold in the palm of my hand." :o)
My mother as well, although less neatly put.
I am so hoping my elderly mother doesn't catch any of the current shows on cable TV. She would fall off her walker.
Too bad for you that it's been shown, time and again, that the people who curse have higher IQs than those of you who do not.
Oh I just knew someone was going to say that. I keep hearing people talk about these “studies”, I guess the “experts” have spoken again 🙄 Who did them, how were they carried out and what was the agenda? And if they supposedly have a higher IQ, then why are they hiding it by using the same curse words repetitively instead of a richer and more varied way of expressing themselves?
For some cursing is just part of their culture. You won't find it as much in the south as the north (from my experience) and you should see less cursing in those who are following Christ as our language should bring glory to God.
Well, it shows that we can read studies, understand them, and are able to apply them to the real world, instead of just being judgmental prigs.
I’ve just been beat senseless here, because I curse. And I’ve always considered myself rather intelligent. So to all of you that will virtue signal just like a good progressive over curse words, well @#*&$=(*$! Because to me,that’s what all y’all sound like. Tut tut.
I’m not virtue signaling. Just expressing an opinion 🤷♀️ Which apparently has ruffled a few feathers here. If *you* enjoy using foul language, what do you care what *I* or anyone else might think about it? I just think it sounds crass and crude and I don’t enjoy hearing it. I’m not saying people who curse can't be intelligent but to me it doesn’t *sound* intelligent. That’s all. And as to the complaint about being judgmental, every single human being is judgmental. It’s our nature. You just don’t agree with my judgment and that’s okay. You don’t have to agree.
And self righteousness is so attractive, all.
My husband and I were just watching a very brief video that juxtaposed Kamala against Julia Louis Dreyfuss in “Veep”. It was funny and I’d never watched the show so I thought I’d go watch a longer video of show clips. Nope. The f-word was her whole vocabulary. From what I’ve read and heard, DC and political circles are really like that 🤮 I don’t get offended by an occasional apt swear (though I don’t choose to use foul language) but when people can’t speak without this sewage spewing…well, the Bible says that “out of the fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.”
Ephesians 4: 29 Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.
And Jesus reproved the Pharisees who were criticizing the disciples who had not washed hands before eating, "It's not what a man puts into his mouth which defiles him, but what comes out of his mouth".
“…but no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.”
James 3:8 ESV
https://bible.com/bible/59/jas.3.8.ESV
We may not use profanity but certainly we use our tongue for bad as well
Watch Mommyrn88 on insta—she does a killer KH cackle and “unburdened…” that shatters me.
There is a positive correlation between the amount of foul language use and level of ignorance, and a negative correlation with intelligence.
Yes!
I suspect it's more a negative correlation with having read literature, or commentary of high order. Noticing evidence of this in people writing weather for whether, slight for sleight (several times just last week), rye for wry, desserts for deserts (just now and last week).
My wife and I are constantly cracking up at the people on Nextdoor mentioning dogs "wondering" around their neighborhood. It's another contender for my next band name: The Wondering Dogs.
Well, dogs are pretty curious, aren’t they? They go about sniffing at little girls’ crotches and at piles of other dogs’ feces?
Sorry, many studies have shown the exact opposite. People who swear are smarter, higher IQs, than you who don't.
However, you do show your narcissistic tendencies of thinking you're better than everyone else, as well as your lower IQ.
Confucius says: Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."
I have personal experience with this but it's just a one-person study. On occasion when I have done something (hit my head on the same overhanging shelf for the 2nd or 3rd time, for instance) and feel it is an ignorant and unintelligent thing to do, I have found myself bursting forth with a string of invective ala Linda Blair in "The Exorcist". This response then makes me feel even more ignorant and unintelligent. I reported my study in the "Journal of Bullshit" some years ago.
😅 nicely done
Wow. Higher IQ - maybe a bit. Surely doesn't correlate with classiness. I'm happy to forego a few IQ points if need be.
Interesting response. Could you , for the satisfaction of many of us, Supply at least one or two of the studies that have proven your theory and perhaps give a link as well. Evidently, in order to prove my IQ level, I need to add a lot of swear words to my vocabulary.
https://www.sciencealert.com/swearing-is-a-sign-of-more-intelligence-not-less-say-scientists#:~:text=The%20use%20of%20obscene%20or%20taboo%20language%20-,more%2C%20rather%20than%20less%2C%20intelligent%20use%20of%20language.
Just saying it so does not make it so. And again Studies! God deliver us from Studies and Safe and Effective! And the like! And so very often so very wicked!
By observation many, many gutter mouths have severely truncated vocabularies. And I would think that there is an inverse correlation between expanse in vocabulary and truncation in expression as a general observation.
Please post a study for us. I'm interested.
One thing I’m proud of about my adult children. They don’t often swear (never use profanity in their parent’s presence), and most importantly, do not take God’s name in vain.
I cringe whenever I hear 'Jesus' in vain, on television.
Whenever I hear anyone take God’s name in vain, I quickly pray “Bless God’s Holy Name” in reparation.
Low IQ language
The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.
George Washington
I'd always heard (I forget where) that Washington himself was known to be quite the swearer.. Is that inaccurate?
Cussing is the language of hell
That caught my attention as well
Is the "F" word considered a verb...as it shows action?
I'm asking for a friend.....Maybe....
They use it as all word types: verb, noun, adjective, adverb...
Consult George Carlin.
uneducated and only fluent in cussing
All I can say is…too many (formative) years on a fire crew imprinted rude, crude language into my brain. Have gotten much better about “using clean words” but every once in awhile…and I have to laugh, as a Big Lebowski fan…when The Dude is asked by The Stranger why he has to cuss so much…he replies, “WTF are you talking about?” And there you have it. It’s unconscious and a reflex response. ☺️☺️☺️
I had the same experience on a Forest Service Hot Shot crew for 3 summers.
God bless you for your service! My journey began with 4 yrs of USFS brush-disposal/Type II district crew up in WA; then one season on a NPS hotshot crew in Yellowstone NP (rained all summer…boooooo…!!) and then engine crews on the Shasta-T and lastly Fire Prevention on the Plumas NF. I’d grown out of my rude/crude by then but always had it at the ready when called for!! Can’t let the fellers intimidate us females, right? LOL
They can seldom make a movie anymore without the studied script being doubled by the F word.
Which is why we don't go to the movies anymore.
My mother used to say that use of profanity was a sign of a limited vocabulary.
It seems many people use it as an adjective. Hearing it is kind of like nails on a chalkboard.
In the 1990 Steven Spielberg movie, Joe Versus The Volcano, Patricia (the character played by Meg Ryan) utters these words to Joe Banks (Tom Hank's character):
"My father says that almost the whole world is asleep - everybody you know, everybody you see, everybody you talk to. He says that only a few people are awake, and they live in a state of constant, total amazement."
and in today's world, those most asleep like to call themselves WOKE!
the very definition of irony right there
another example of saying evil is good and good is evil. It mushroomed after the bioweapon was released, and they started changing definitions everywhere.
One of my all-time favorite movies! The great Lloyd Bridges as her father. Meg Ryan before she ruined her face with surgery.
That's such an underrated film!
Agreed. Gonna watch it again (2nd time) this weekend.
to those who say we will starve under Trump, tell them to eat bugs. Unlimited supply, and free to harvest
Hakuna Matata
Heard it all before when Reagan was running for POTUS. A very polite Democrat friend told me that if Reagan is elected there will be a race war. I didn't even respond. And you know, I bet he never learned from that either.
They will definitely be pushing the race war, and likely the domestic terrorist angle too. You know, if democrats were not also beholden to the same criminal banking cartel, they could easily go after Trump for announcing he may nominate literal permanent state scum bags like Jamie Dimon and Larry Find to high positions. And then of course there is Peter Thiel, who has close ties and financially supported Clearview AI, who brags about using their facial recognition to lock up J6 protesters.
Your real name must be ‘Misery’. You never try to build anything up, just tear it down. I have never seen you make anything but negative comments, hoping to make others a miserable as you. Since you love misery so much, why not join the RAT party? They would LOVE you!
Misery does love company.
What is like to ignore the blatant reality around you? Trump is talking about appointing the literal swamp. People point it out and you go on the attack. It's very sad.