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I’ll ask again because I’m trying to prove a point: How old were you the first time you ever fired a gun?

@ThoughtfulSaint @CapturingChrist @emuse1955 It's a good prompt.

@CapturingChrist @emuse1955 What an awkward prompt. Why not just “Is the Book of Mormon Demonically Inspired?”

Big update: LDS apologist Luke Hanson has agreed to take Hayden Carroll's place in the debate on the Book of Mormon with @emuse1955. The new proposition is: "It is more likely that the Book of Mormon was inspired by demons than by God." New date is June 9 at 7pm Central.

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How its made - CNC machine weaving to create flex pipes:

@MatrixMysteries Simplistic. The system has rules for how things are to be done. Those rules matter.

“Minnesota watched a Somali man walk FREE after a jury CONVICTED him of stealing $7.2 million in taxpayer money.” The jury called the evidence overwhelming. The judge overturned the verdict anyway. If a unanimous conviction can be thrown out, justice is DEAD.

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@STL_Shooter @ThoughtfulSaint Adoption.

@ThoughtfulSaint If everyone is a child of God in LDS theology, how can one become a child of our spiritual brother Jesus?

A gospel that literally teaches this. ——— And now seeing that ye know the light by which ye may judge, which light is the light of Christ, I beseech of you, that ye should search diligently in the light of Christ…; and if ye will lay hold upon every good thing, and condemn it not, ye certainly will be a child of Christ. (Moroni 7).

@tnsampson2 @ThoughtfulSaint You'll remain ignorant until you read the Book of Mormon for yourself. Cliffs notes don't count.

@ThoughtfulSaint Nice, but you become a 'child of Christ' though faith in the biblical Jesus. The BofM and Mormonism itself tries hard to present itself as Christian, but it's not. It's 'jesus' is a creation of Joseph Smith, who endorsed polytheism after he managed the acceptance of polygamy.

@CuriosityonX That's freaking cool. I hope it never comes back. Makes me nervous that there are lab samples remaining.

You've seen this scar on older people's arms. That weird little starburst on the shoulder. It's not from a normal shot. The smallpox vaccine wasn't injected like a regular jab. They used a bifurcated needle - basically a tiny fork with two prongs. Invented in 1965 by a guy named Benjamin Rubin, who ground down the eye of a sewing machine needle to make it. Here's the wild part. You dip the needle in the vaccine and one drop gets caught between the prongs. That's the whole dose. Then you jab the arm 15 times, fast. Quick shallow pricks, just deep enough to draw a bit of blood and slip the weakened virus into the skin. Your immune system does the rest. Red bump. Blister. Pus. Scab. Falls off. Scar for life. The mark isn't from the needle. It's from your body fighting the virus. And the reason it looks like a starburst instead of a dot? Those 15 rapid punctures. That scar is basically a receipt. Proof you survived one of the deadliest diseases in human history before we wiped it off the planet.

I love my Tesla I dislike Elon Musk greatly Elon isn't wrong about everything I hate Trump Trump isn't always wrong I lean Democrat Democrats do stupid things Republicans are not always wrong All these points of view are possible simultaneously.

The Savior has commanded each of us to love God and to love our neighbor. We are grateful for the faithful efforts of members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who strive to fulfill this divine commandment. Their service is a witness of discipleship.    My counselors in the First Presidency and I recently visited the Church’s new humanitarian center in Salt Lake City. This facility will serve an important role in preparing and distributing emergency supplies to meet global needs.    I express appreciation for members of the Church and for all who minister in quiet and consistent ways. I testify of Jesus Christ, whose light and Spirit guide the children of God in caring for the poor and the distressed throughout the world.     May we each accept and act upon this sacred responsibility to bless the lives of all of our Father’s children.

@aakashgupta Huge problem. This channel is not in actual use. It's being run as a demo. That would have been carrying waste out of the city 2,000 years ago.

That water clarity is an engineering decision, and the math behind it is wilder than the video. Roman aqueducts ran on gravity alone. No pumps, no pressure systems. Engineers carved channels with a gradient so shallow it borders on absurd. The Pont du Gard in southern France drops 2.5 centimeters over 275 meters. That's roughly the thickness of a coin over the length of three football fields. They surveyed that accuracy with plumb lines and wooden leveling instruments. The clarity you're seeing is a direct product of flow velocity. Too steep and the water erodes the channel walls, picks up sediment, turns brown. Too flat and it stagnates. Roman engineers targeted a slope of about 20 centimeters per kilometer, which kept the water moving fast enough to stay fresh but slow enough to stay clear. Before the water reached the city, it passed through multi-chamber settling tanks where velocity dropped near zero. Suspended particles sank. Clean water flowed out the top into the next chamber. Repeat three or four times. Pliny specified the minimum slope in writing. Vitruvius published the exact mortar ratio for hydraulic cement: one part lime to two parts volcanic ash for underwater work. The pozzolana from Pozzuoli reacted with water to form a calcium-aluminum-silicate compound that actually gets stronger the longer it sits submerged. Modern concrete degrades in water. Roman concrete bonds with it. Scale the whole system and it gets harder to process. Eleven aqueducts fed Rome at its peak. Combined output: roughly 1 million cubic meters of water per day. That works out to about 250 gallons per person for a city of one million. Modern New York delivers about 125 gallons per person per day. Ancient Rome had access to double the per capita water supply of the largest city in the United States, running entirely on slope and stone. The Trevi Fountain in Rome is still fed by one of them. Two thousand years, same source, same gravity, same water.

A culture is in severe decline when condemning a sin is viewed as a greater sin than the sin itself.

@marcado_razon @SwissArmySpoon1 @AdamHendrickso3 @jaredadairbell I'll take you more seriously after you repent of lying.

@GoodandBasic @SwissArmySpoon1 @AdamHendrickso3 @jaredadairbell What's a good way to sum up that difference between the LdS Jesus and the Jesus that billions of us know? LdS APPROVES of choosing Abortion in some cases, and can give confirmation in prayer. The Jesus that we know does not.

@uscfan981 Very green. Easy to garden here. Good homesteading culture. Few regulations (no building code in my county).

Say something nice about Missouri.

@MarketPalmer_ Want.

I have no idea why Tesla hasn't come out with a Tahoe-style SUV. Pair that with FSD and it would be one of the top-selling vehicles in the world.

@BasedMikeLee Every nuke gets used by the opposition in the next election cycle. Ergo, bad idea.

No other success can compensate for the Senate’s failure to pass the SAVE America Act We should nuke the filibuster to get it done

@marcado_razon @SwissArmySpoon1 @AdamHendrickso3 @jaredadairbell You mixed lies into the question, similar to "have you stopped beating your wife". But yes. The churches were corrupted with false doctrines. Joseph wasn't a Free Mason until 1842, 22 years after the first vision.

@GoodandBasic @SwissArmySpoon1 @AdamHendrickso3 @jaredadairbell The Gospel is the same in 33 A.D. and right now. Are you saying that billions of Christians had a corrupted Gospel until a family of Freemasons in New York came along in the 19th century ?

@marcado_razon @SwissArmySpoon1 @AdamHendrickso3 @jaredadairbell Don't lie. "Vetted..." Jesus is alive. I used your style of misrepresentation in something we both believe, to show the dishonesty of your method.

Your Zombie analogy doesn't work because Jesus is alive. Everything on that chart has been vetted by multiple LdS apologists. Let's look at your handbook for example. Section 38.6.1 below gives instructions on how to proceed with the CHOICE of killing a baby in tough cases. What kind of "god" would approve of killing a baby that it just created ?

@dttpeople @HelamansArmyYT @jaredadairbell Nice theory. But you haven't even read the book. Lazy.

well I'm not an egyptologist so I did copy off of someone's homework 😂 6. And you copied off of Joseph Smith's homework 7 hypocrisy. To test them, you have to test if they are an accurate translation. 8. It isn't. What your'e advocating and what most Mormons advocate when they face the dead end which is the facts not adding up to Joseph Smith people a reliable prophet, instead the facts show the opposite, what you want is for me to be misled by the same thing that swayed you: called "Narrative transportion". That's when: - Getting so caught up in a story that you mentally “travel” into it. - You feel the emotions as if they’re real. - Your critical thinking temporarily takes a backseat. - The story feels true or real while you’re in it. It's a psychological phenomena and would work to convince people that Harry Potter, Star Wars etc were real if someone started claiming that. And would work for Bernie Madoff even if people knew up front he was a fraud. When people don't have good defenses or they WANT to believe something, or their family all believes that thing, narrative transportation can happen. But does that make it true? No. The merits make it true or not.

Mormons are, by definition, not Christian? Somebody, please, tell me, what is, by definition, a Christian?