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@VerminusM It wouldn’t be honored if achieved. You should move the Gazans to Egypt, the Westbank to Jordan, and annex the Temple Mount then call it day.

Imagine the Arab-Israeli conflict ended with genuine peace that included permanent borders based on current population, mutual Israeli and Palestinian recognition, and official Arab abandonment of the "right of return" and other territorial claims. Would you consider it:

I’m pretty sure most of those watches would be illegal in the United States without license from AP due to design patent. infringement. Anyone could start, but once AP sent a cease and desist, continuing to sell the product would result in massive financial liability. You could get away with copying certain aspects such as what Casio has done with one of their G-Shock variants, but those pictured above are too exact.

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If you somehow worked that out, we would have a Constitutional mandate to ensure your borders were protected. Somehow I don’t think the majority of Israelis or the world would be for that. I wouldn’t mind though. It would be cool to be able to go to Israel on a US space available military transport flight and see Jerusalem.

There are so many American flags all over Israel I wonder if we aren't the 51st state already. God knows I wouldn't mind having lower American taxes...

It’s true and I have a hard time convincing people around me of that sometimes. They don’t understand how energy is the base of the global economy and the US dollar the reserve currency. Then how without Israel, our Mideast policy would either be much more complicated or much more dangerous for us to enforce. I hate to say it but my dollars allow you to be the catch all for Islamofacist expansion. If you were gone similar Gaza type stuff would be happening in Europe and the US.

Unpopular opinion: US aid to Israel aids the US more than it aids Israel.

Decorative 20th century US coins.

Another wall art piece I have. It is a color photocopy of an original Rembrandt etching print that my uncle owned for a time in the 1990s. You really can’t tell the difference between it and the original without taking it out of the frame and examining the paper it is printed on.

A wall art piece I purchased

My wall clocks. My mother gave me the Seiko.

My mantel clock.

@DavidJHarrisJr "Accuse the other side of that which you are guilty." Joseph Goebbels

Hakeem Jeffries: “Republicans have concluded that they need to cheat to win.” Thoughts?

@DavidJHarrisJr That might be something, but it sure isn’t historically Lutheran and certainly is not a pastor.

How would you respond to this Lutheran pastor?

@TrumpDailyPosts The Democratic Party.

What is the greatest threat to freedom in America?

This is a seriously faulty comparison. The only correlation the empirical observable facts of Galileo to brooding our understanding of earth’s place in the solar system to the Book of Mormon changing understanding of theology is that the both changed. In Galileo’s instance he used the empirical method that his contemporary, Sir Francis Bacon, developed by using the natural revelation defined of Greek philosophers combined with Biblical revelation to make verifiable observable truths known that were contrary to accepted fact and dogma of the time. In the instance of the Book of Mormon and Holy Bible in relation to the Mormon, it elevated itself to truth based on the feeling you get when praying contrary to the evidence and the verifiable historical Biblical record to declare truth based on nothing that is contrary to the known truth. Almost the exact opposite of the comparison.

For nearly 1,400 years, it was universally accepted that the earth was the center of the universe. Galileo challenged this “gospel truth.” He said that philosophers opposed his discovery and refused to even look through a telescope. Makes me think about the Book of Mormon.

@ehansalytics @JoshuaBarzon @grok Based on number 1 on the list above does your church have an AED and people trained to use it?

@ehansalytics @JoshuaBarzon @grok x.com/knowledge274/s…

Should a church have an armed security team?

@TR6431 @JoshuaBarzon Here is how I derived the statistic. It says 150 times but over 25 years a law enforcement officer works many more hours. On an hour to hour basis it is roughly five times.

@knowledge274 @JoshuaBarzon one thing you don't take into account is because you have a security/safety team you don't have those assailants because they know you have security in place, the prevention is already in place

I derived the statistic by getting the publicly available information of accidental discharges for armed professionals, doing my best to derive the rate over a 25 year law enforcement career. Then I looked at the statistics for shootings at places of worship, mean average sizes of those congregations, religious, ideological, and political motivations as well as the mental health factor over the last 25 years. Where my church located, its size, our community ethnic and religious diversity there is approximately a five times greater chance of an accidental discharge than a possible church shooting. This isn’t the same case everywhere. If you were Jewish in parts of New York near large expanding Islamic groups this flips to about 10 times greater chance you will need to present deadly force than an accidental discharge.

There are all different estimates. It is well below the 1.4 billion they claim. I think 800 million is the best estimate. Their GDP is inflated as well due to years of compounding marginal inflation. It is likely only around 70-75 percent of what they claim. If you add in their creative accounting for hiding debt and their debt to GDP ratio is likely 500 percent.

How many people do you think live in China?

I’ve read the 1830 edition of the Book of Mormon and the modern edition with the 3913 textual edits. Given that just over 900 of them were actual typos they did actually change the text. The 1830 edition was Trinitarian and Joseph Smith claimed to be the author and proprietor in it. It is a lot more story form with misaligned chapters to today and no verse markings. I challenge you to read the Bible using the same rules you would have any other translated ancient text that would remove bias to find out what the author says. Then compare that to what your modern day prophets say it says.

@knowledge274 @Sola_GPT Tell you what, how bout a trade, I’ll read this book. And you re read the Book of Mormon and The Pearl of Great price and ask if these concepts Jospeh is just jotting down randomly can improve your life. Deal?

If Joseph Smith was a conman this is just more proof of the Great Apostasy Because it would demonstrate that a conman can build the best Christian church