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UFO folklore—we’ve heard, I’m forgetting his name now, it’s G—Millennial Hospitality was the book. I’m forgetting his name, but he allegedly worked at S4 or on Dreamland and said that he was a weather observer and that he ended up coming across different forms of ETs, right? He says, this is his story, and he was really the only person to do that, and nobody else was chosen but him, because of the ETs that were visiting. It was kind of like a pit stop where they would learn about humans. There were students, there were children, so he says that within this one contact with him, he does say that one of the teachers was passing and said to the student, “They believe in God, but it’s a different God than our God.”
I thought that was really interesting. Out of all those stories that I’ve heard from him, I thought that was really interesting. It’s not saying I believe it,

Very dubious I think, but if it was true then it would be much more than just really interesting.

Also, I surmise you used AI to provide this transcript, as I have done before (as with Genesis Impact (I told them what I did out of copyright concerns, but rcvd no reply, and normally I should only provide a excerpts of such) which is impressive.

How would ChatGPT summarize the vid? Meanwhile, 'Highly Maneuverable' UFOs Defy All Physics, Says Government Study. - https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/research/a43298283/ufos-defy-physics-pentagon-study/

By taking a neutral position, I have had it strongly condemn Marxism and Wokeism. On several occasions, I have based my questions on a need for information on all sides of certain issues. And using that technique, I have been shocked by its condemnation, for example, of Postmodernism's moral relativism.

That is wisdom! Thank God.

Simple and sure way to avoid a shutdown, if indeed it should be. Provision that any shutdown will include suspension of congress members pay as well. The problem is that

Lawmakers will continue to draw a paycheck even if they haven't reached a deal to fund the government. The reason is because of how their pay is treated under the Constitution and federal law. Article I, Section 6 of the Constitution states: "The Senators and Representatives shall receive a Compensation for their Services, to be ascertained by Law, and paid out of the Treasury of the United States." This means they must get paid whether or not other parts of the government are funded.

Lawmakers' pay has been funded by a permanent appropriation since 1983, according to a recent Congressional Research Service report, meaning funding for their pay doesn't need to be renewed annually.

I think I made a mistake pinging you in my initial comment. I thought you would be interested in the way ChatGPT "perceives" God and Holy Scripture.

Sorry for that impression, as I was expressing how impressed I was in ChatGPTs response, but wondered if it was tailored.

While I don't think AI (it's only a tool BTW) is smart enough--yet--to figure out what I want to hear and provide a response accordingly, I do find that there is something about God that AI finds easier to grasp than humans do. Logic, rationality, mathematics.

Yes, as it showed in the past to me, described in some past post to you i recall, though it had to be told to forget the liberal view addition, and just follow the logic.

As an AI, I process logic and rationality based on the consistency of given premises, and within the theological framework of Scripture, God's righteousness would indeed be logically consistent and rational.

ChatGPT gives an "A" in theology class! Thanks.

BTW, i think you would like https://www.oneplace.com/ministries/generations-radio/

....roughly 30% are not even registered, and of those that are registered, 40% do not vote.

Source, and compared to who else?

See https://www.statista.com/statistics/713921/share-americans-registered-vote-faith/

Related:

And it is women who lead the liberal side.

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/04/09/party-identification-among-religious-groups-and-religiously-unaffiliated-voters/

n summary, the strong delusion in today's world could be described as the widespread acceptance of falsehoods and the rejection of truth in various forms—moral, intellectual, and spiritual. This delusion manifests in society's embrace of moral relativism, ideological extremism, misinformation, pseudo-science, and the belief in self-sufficiency apart from God. These trends align with the biblical description of a society that, having rejected the truth, is left to believe in lies, leading to confusion, division, and ultimately, judgment.

Now all that is hard to believe it came from AI, as it sounds much like a evangelical sermon! But ChatGPT could tailor its responses to what the user wants to year.

Likely most support the new "Woklitary" with its extensive list of "accomplishments."

His university biography cites his interests as “decolonization, revolution, metaphysics, [and] consciousness,” with his research topics focusing on “question of the self, soul, and spirit..

A lost soul, in need of repentant salvific faith in the risen Lord Jesus, as does a feminist wordcrafter in wokeducation who he would likely find some kniship with, warring against what God ordained, teaching that:

"...intersections with race, ethnicity, coloniality, class and ability, the sex/gender system of oppression has long served as a taxonomizing apparatus. And yet, the literary, in league with anticolonial, civil rights and LGBTQ social movements,...animates the liberatory potential of imagining embodied relations otherwise... representations of gender and sexuality can leverage critiques against normativity...Taking our transnational cue from subjugated knowledges and intersectional epistemologies, we’ll constellate the diverging genealogies and methodologies...
Against the traffic of binary opposition, we’ll index the possibilities of intimacy and performativity... As a class collective, our aim is to read and reread as well as write and rewrite texts that interrogate and complicate how gender and sexuality, as contested sites of pleasure and pain, are embodied and experienced."

This counts toward the methods requirement for the major. Prerequisite: ENGL 103 or 104. Open only to first-year and sophomore students.

Author is Brianna Thompson, who teaches courses in American women’s literature, queer theory and utopias/Afrofuturism at Kenyon college (founded by Episcopal Bishop in 1824). Course is Reading and Writing Gender and Sexuality ENGL 214, https://www.kenyon.edu/academics/departments-and-majors/english/academic-program-requirements/courses-in-english/

Her college was founded in 1824 by Episcopal Bishop Philander Chase, who now has a potential candidate ("Brianna Thompson") for the office of implementation of WOKE policies under the auspices of a Council of Transexuality:

I'm your servant boy who has to do your work for you because you don't want the inconvenience of watching a video about something CRUCIAL that affects the state of our nation? Naw! I'll pass.

Rather, it is the author of this report who is at fault for not providing a supplementary list, and does not even enable any transcript. And with 250 articles per page on FR to scan, few want to take 28 minutes for info one should be able to provide a summary of.

I myself took at lot of time to provide a formatted transcript of this informational video, Genesis Impact (2020), by the grace of God.

Why are 30 min. videos needed to simply provide information? This is not a matter to mechanics.

The Earth is extremely resilient with built-in thermostats that keep the global temperatures a stable 58.5 F.

I like around 80 myself, but God knows best, while the Climategeddon panic as well as the Covid over-reaction (as well as the "plague" itself) are part of the judgments of God.

Spare me

? That should be the prayer of this nation to the God whose salvation it needs.

Thank you for your service.

Woke people form a 21st century-born indigenous tribe much like the American Indian tribes of yesteryear.

A fitting intro to a Wikipedia page.

As for the Presidency, I suspect she doesn't really care if she wins or loses.

I see Waltz are being a greater adversary.

The spike in global temperatures after 2021 are most likely from the Hunga Tonga volcanic explosion of Jan. 2022. The explosion rang the Earth like a bell. But the injection of water vapor into the stratosphere is beginning to dissipate. I expect a slight cooling to resume into the 2030s from low solar and a stadium wave effect of warming and cooling (with a period of ~60 years (see Judith Curry).

My response is that there ought to be some increase in temp after 100 years of industrialization, plus the tonnage of bombs, including nuke tests, but whatever linked changes that we see is that of the earth making adjustments, as God "over-engineered" it, while the long-term positive effects - which are marginalized - will be positive.

And yet, catastrophic events are part of Divine judgment, and future fearful warming is when,

And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire. (Revelation 16:8)

And,

But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? (2 Peter 3:10-12)

Focused admirably on winning overseas, but once they got back, had huge, gaping blind spots that allowed the leftists to start their slow but unstoppable march through the American institutions (starting with the universities), and raised a clueless, selfish generation of hippie progressives that started the decline of Western civilization.

The final fatal test of a nation which endured affliction and adversity, is affluence. Which God wants redeemed man to overcome by surrender and consecration to the risen Lord Jesus.

Likewise, keyboards vs. smartphones.

Also,

Sugar seems to be a major source of anxiety and fear for people with cancer. There is a myth circulating that sugar feeds cancer and that avoiding sugar will prevent the growth of cancer. To set things straight…sugar does not cause cancer on its own. Giving sugar to cancer cells does not make them grow faster and depriving cancer cells of sugar does not make them grow more slowly. However, sugar may be indirectly involved in the development of cancer.

How it happens

Much research shows that it is sugar’s relationship to overweight and obesity that may influence cancer cell growth the most. Sugar is a major source of extra calories, which can contribute to weight gain and obesity, but it’s not just sugar. Too many calories from any source - carbohydrate, fat and even protein – can lead to weight gain. - https://connect.mayoclinic.org/blog/cancer-education-center/newsfeed-post/sugars-role-in-cancer-1/

One of the ways excess weight can lead to cancer is through insulin resistance and insulin-like growth factors in the blood. Both excess weight and lack of physical activity can lead to an increased risk of insulin resistance. Although insulin resistance can also be hereditary, it usually happens when the overweight body can no longer make enough insulin to remove sugar from the blood. Exercise also helps remove sugar from the blood. - https://connect.mayoclinic.org/blog/cancer-education-center/newsfeed-post/sugars-role-in-cancer-1/

Sugar feeds cancer and if you have it, eliminating it is even advised by doctors. Sugar is also in the top 5 foods causing inflammation in the body.

Thank. I usually do not eat until tank is needing energy to function, often after many hours when active, and I seem to have low blood sugar, and while I eat protein and greens daily, sweet food supplies energy. Arthritis is an issue though, esp. with after must exercise.

If WaPo is against it, then it must be good. Bezo's bombast would not be at home in a majority Christian America.

Alexis de Tocqueville (1805—1859. French political thinker and historian; best known for his two volume, “Democracy in America”) — The sects that exist in the United States are innumerable. They all differ in respect to the worship which is due to the Creator; but they all agree in respect to the duties which are due from man to man. Each sect adores the Deity in its own peculiar manner, but all sects preach the same moral law in the name of God...Moreover, all the sects of the United States are comprised within the great unity of Christianity, and Christian morality is everywhere the same...

In the United States the sovereign authority is religious, and consequently hypocrisy must be common; but there is no country in the whole world in which the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America, and there can be no greater proof of its utility, and of its conformity to human nature, than that its influence is most powerfully felt over the most enlightened and free nation of the earth...

There is certainly no country in the world where the tie of marriage is more respected than in America or where conjugal happiness is more highly or worthily appreciated, In Europe almost all the disturbances of society arise from the irregularities of domestic life. To despise the natural bonds and legitimate pleasures of home is to contract a taste for excesses, a restlessness of heart, and fluctuating desires. Agitated by the tumultuous passions that frequently disturb his dwelling, the European is galled by the obedience which the legislative powers of the state exact. But when the American retires from the turmoil of public life to the bosom of his family, he finds in it the image of order and of peace...

The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other; and with them this conviction does not spring from that barren traditionary faith which seems to vegetate in the soul rather than to live...

Thus religious zeal is perpetually warmed in the United States by the fires of patriotism. These men do not act exclusively from a consideration of a future life; eternity is only one motive of their devotion to the cause. If you converse with these missionaries of Christian civilization, you will be surprised to hear them speak so often of the goods of this world, and to meet a politician where you expected to find a priest.

They will tell you that "all the American republics are collectively involved with each other; if the republics of the West were to fall into anarchy, or to be mastered by a despot, the republican institutions which now flourish upon the shores of the Atlantic Ocean would be in great peril. It is therefore our interest that the new states should be religious, in order that they may permit us to remain free." (Democracy in America, Volume I Chapter XVII, 1835; http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/DETOC/religion/ch1_17.htm)

• There are certain populations in Europe whose unbelief is only equaled by their ignorance and their debasement, while in America one of the freest and most enlightened nations in the world fulfills all the outward duties of religion with fervor.

Upon my arrival in the United States, the religious aspect of the country was the first thing that struck my attention; and the longer I stayed there, the more did I perceive the great political consequences resulting from this state of things, to which I was unaccustomed. In France I had almost always seen the spirit of religion and the spirit of freedom pursuing courses diametrically opposed to each other; but in America I found that they were intimately united, and that they reigned in common over the same country. (Democracy in America, [New York: A. S. Barnes & Co., 1851), pp. 331, 332, 335, 336-7, 337; http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/DETOC/religion/ch1_17.htm)

A quote often attributed to Tocqueville but which is not documented by any early sources, states,

• Not until I went into the churches of American and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.”

Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790. One of the Founding Fathers; leading thinker; author; printer; statesman; postmaster; diplomat, and a non-Christian deist) — ...serious religion, under its various denominations, is not only tolerated, but respected and practiced. Atheism is unknown there; Infidelity rare and secret; so that persons may live to a great age in that country without having their piety shocked by meeting with either an Atheist or an Infidel. And the Divine Being seems to have manifested His approbation of the mutual forbearance and kindness by which the different sects treat each other, and by the remarkable prosperity with which He has been please to favor the whole country. (Benjamin Franklin, "Information to those who would Remove to America" In Franklin, Benjamin. The Bagatelles from Passy. Ed. Lopez, Claude A. New York: Eakins Press. 1967; http://mith.umd.edu//eada/html/display.php?docs=franklin_bagatelle4.xml. Also, John Gould Curtis, American history told by contemporaries .... Volume 3, p. 26)

Best (search headline) to use a source that provides more substance. Excerpts from one:

Created by combining more than 150,000 pieces of fossil evidence with state-of-the-art climate models, it shows the intimate link between carbon dioxide and global temperatures and reveals that the world was in a much warmer state for most of the history of complex animal life. At its hottest, the study suggests, the Earth’s average temperature reached 96.8 degrees Fahrenheit (36 degrees Celsius) — far higher than the historic 58.96 F (14.98 C) the planet hit last year. ...

At the timeline’s start, some 485 million years ago, Earth was in what is known as a hothouse climate, with no polar ice caps and average temperatures above 86 F (30 C). The oceans teemed with mollusks and arthropods, and the very first plants were just beginning to get a toehold on the land. .. rapid cooling is thought to have triggered the first of Earth’s “big five” mass extinction.. Michael Mann, a climate scientist at the University of Pennsylvania who is known for his analyses of past global temperatures, said he was also surprised by the suggestion that the planet got so warm. ... Even under the worst-case scenarios, human-caused warming will not push the Earth beyond the bounds of habitability. But it will create conditions unlike anything seen in the....years our species has existed. - https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/scientists-have-captured-earth-s-climate-over-the-last-485-million-years-here-s-the-surprising-place-we-stand-now/ar-AA1qRbUP