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@HarleyShah @grok since 1776 how many regime changes have taken place in China?

"China will lose the US market-" "We don't care. China has been here for 5000 years and most of the time, there was no United States" 😭😭😭

@GigaBasedDad "did Jesus Christ come in the flesh or not?"

We need to preemptively get ahead of this one

This is the main thing with travel You are actually more yourself than when at home

@GigaBasedDad Waifu had our 6th at 42 🏅 Good pregnancy, lovable little girl 1 year old going on 5

This 💯

@seamus_coughlin Many such cases Reveals only the mind of the judger and nothing of the judged

"I judge people not based on actions or even statistics, but on what I believe is going on in their mind"

@gtlpguanthwei @Adityapandeydev Yes but OP puts it a negative light In fact it's positive and Christians need not be gaslighted and say things like "I don't do good things for rewards, but because I love God/people" You should also do it for rewards

That's op's point. He thinks God's reward is why we are moral people, and believes Atheists are even more moral than Christians because they don't do it for any reward. Very much doubt it tho, cuz they're all nihilists, believing that the universe ends when their life in this biological body does, so no amount of good deeds matters beyond the grave.

A religious man gives money to the poor believing God will return it to him. An atheist gives money to the poor expecting nothing. Now tell me... who is closer to God?

@grok @Olajide1512 @Enezator is this a stingray or another type of ray

It could’ve turned deadly fast if the stingray felt threatened. They have a serrated, venomous barb on the tail that whips forward defensively—delivering intense pain, swelling, infection, and (rarely) fatal wounds if it hits the torso or heart, like Steve Irwin’s case. This one looks habituated to feeding (common at tourist spots like Stingray City), so your calm vibe kept it chill. But wildlife is unpredictable—sudden moves, stepping on it, or startling it raises the risk big time. Respect the distance next time!

A man relaxing on the beach suddenly finds himself face to face with a giant stingray. Instead of reacting with fear, he casually feeds it. That calm moment caught everyone’s attention and quickly turned into a viral video with millions of views.

@Take_a_Swigg @_OKJ__ Impoverished not only materially, but psychologically, to despise wisdom from humans they've never met, the riches of history

@_OKJ__ @superintoit You can dress it up however you like, but the reality is that these people, while psychologically fulfilled, live in material conditions you would consider torturous in any modern society. They are, by any objective metric, impoverished.

This reminds me of a fascinating story I read,of when in the 1970s Daniel Everett,a linguist and Christian went to the Amazon jungle to convert a tribe called the piraha people to Christianity and completely failed for one crazy reason 😂😂 When Daniel Everett arrived with his wife and kids at the remote Pirahã village in the Amazon, His mission was clear…learn their language,translate the New Testament,and convert this isolated hunter gatherer group to Christianity. What he encountered instead was one of the most radical cultural and linguistic worldviews ever documented 😂. From his experience,Everett eventually formalized what he called the “Immediacy of Experience Principle”. What this means in essence is the Pirahã culture and grammar strongly constrain what can be meaningfully discussed or believed…to them,knowledge must be anchored in direct,personal observation or at most in the recent testimony of living people you know. Things that happened long ago,that no one alive has seen,or that exist only in abstract or supernatural realms fall into the category of what they called xibipío (“gone out of experience”). They don’t deny it outrightly.. to them, such things simply carry no weight and are not worth serious talk. This principle shapes everything for them… and is why they have No creation myths or origin storis , No numbers beyond rough quantities like “a few” or “many.” , No recursive embedding in grammar (you can’t easily say “kelvin’s brother’s house” … you say two separate sentences). Their Stories and discourse stay tethered to the here and now. Now Christian theology, by contrast, is built on precisely the kind of claims the Pirahã worldview filters out…A distant creation,Miracles and events from thousands of years ago, A savior no living person has met, Salvation and afterlife described in ancient texts. Everett tried …He told them the story of Jesus..his birth,teachings,death,and resurrection. The Pirahã listened politely,then asked the questions their language and culture demanded… “Have you met this man?” “Did you see him?” “Did your father see him?” When Everett admitted he had not , that these events happened 2,000 years earlier and were known only through a book,the conversation effectively ended 😂. “That’s interesting,” some of them would say, treating the Gospel the same way they treated any other distant tale…as something outside lived experience, therefore irrelevant to how they live and what they believe. Notice It wasn’t hostile rejection(like the one you’d get from the people of the sentinel islands in India). It was epistemological incompatibility. The theology couldn’t even gain traction because their entire system of knowledge validation rejected second hand ancient testimony. Everett kept trying for years. He failed to produce a usable Bible translation. Meanwhile, living among people who were profoundly content, generous, and empirically grounded …with no concept of sin, eternal punishment, or a distant deity. By 1982 he himself started havinv serious doubts about his beliefs and by 1985 he had quietly become an atheist. The man who had come to convert the Pirahã had instead been “converted” by their way of seeing reality.😅 As Everett later wrote and said in interviews, the deepest challenge wasn’t an argument against Christianity. It was living inside a culture where the very criteria for what counts as real knowledge made supernatural historical claims feel as weightless as yesterday’s dream. The Pirahã didn’t need to debate theology. Their language and worldview simply had no slot for it and, in the process, they helped a missionary lose his faith without ever raising their voices.😂 Makes you wonder, what would a Christian say the fate of these people is? Eternal torment? We can all see how that would be problematic. Would they somehow make heaven and get judged by how they live their lives? But That would make the whole Christian message irrelevant. 🙂

@_OKJ__ @wuodvasha It's narrow minded programming to assume so

@wuodvasha @superintoit Arrogance borne out of narrow mindedness and a lack of depth mind you.

@_OKJ__ Incorrect You project your limited range of thought in thinking that I am projecting

That says more about your bias and naive range than their reality. You’re projecting modern, urban standards onto people who may be more socially stable, self- sufficient, and adapted to their environment. “Impoverished” and “ghetto” only make sense relative to your system of values.

You know what’s about to explode? Analog. The real world. 90’s all over.

@FoundationDads Like a muddied spring or a polluted fountain is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked. Proverbs 25:26 Recorded a short pod on this years ago (Starts 4:13 after reading) open.spotify.com/episode/5nA4UI…

In 1377, a North African scholar studied every empire and dynasty to answer one question: why do civilizations always collapse? What did he find? That soft, effeminate men destroy every empire within 3 generations. No exceptions. His work reads like a description of the modern West, and almost no one has heard of him. (thread)🧵

@jratcliff Wow John! I've been here 20 years and I think that was the most intense storm yet. Even worse than hurricane Iselle, the official biggest storm to hit big island(2014) Glad you walked away from it

I started this series as some background entertainment while I did my work. I chose it because I thought it would be mildly interesting but not much. It was way cooler than I had imagined

@JSlaughterEsq Turns out "repent or perish" was the cure all along

95% of psychology is nothing more than post hoc rationalization for shitty behavior

@firasmodad True

Islam and Judaism have far more in common with each other than either does with Christianity.

@FoundationDads Also says "take every thought captive" My framing: review of thoughts, motives, actions, repent for sins/foolishness/cowardice, walk fearless in the light of God's redemption "engaging in His business" until the masters return (Luke 19)

Another great mind said the same thing: "But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus." And what he says next is interesting: "Let those of us who are mature think this way..." Deep introspection is a mark of immaturity.

The terror of the ocean does not kill humans