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Answer: Risk of Tempting Dispair, (Causing Doubt One Can Become a Child of God), Leading Others to Commit the Unforgiveable Sin. Good advice to conflict prone people is, "Most People Aren't Against You, They're Just For Themselves". But the main exception is, people who are defective, who know they are, who have personality flaws not their fault, but who haven't achieved the adjustment of looking squarely at the ugly picture in the mirror, and acknowleding, "I am a less than perfect specimen (and I need God's mercy every day"). So we deny reality, in the face they can't see as...

One of the two bodyguards found dead alongside Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar on Wednesday was an employee of the United Nations, according to a report Thursday. As Breitbart News reported, Sinwar’s death was confirmed Thursday after infantry and armored troops engaged three terrorists hiding in a building in southern Gaza, in Rafah, near the Philadelphi Corridor along the Egypt-Gaza border. He was found with two other terrorists. One of them was a senior commander of Hamas terrorists in the Khan Yunis area. The other, according to Israeli news website Ynet, was a teacher employed by the United Nations Relief and...

Democratic congresswoman Rashida Tlaib recently sent a letter to Kroger over the grocery giant’s purported plan to introduce digital price tags that could be changed in an instant to raise or lower prices for shoppers based on the time of day, the weather, or any other number of factors. But one particular detail in Kroger’s plan is raising the most eyebrows: The company intends to put cameras in stores that would be used for facial recognition. News leaked over the summer that grocery giant Kroger was partnering with Microsoft to use electronic shelf labels, shortened in the grocery industry as...

[Catholic Caucus] Synod members look at how synodality relates to papal primacyEncouraging greater “synodal” practices in the Catholic Church should help the church find a greater balance between the power of the pope and the power of local bishops in their dioceses, said theologians participating in the Synod of Bishops.The balance between the authority and jurisdiction of the pope as the bishop of Rome and the authority of local bishops — a balance that would allow for greater diversity within the universal church — also would benefit efforts to restore Christian unity since for many other Christian churches, the way...

A stuffed Tasmanian tiger (Thylacinus cynocephalus) at the Natural History Museum in Berlin, Germany. Image credit: Mazur Travel/Shutterstock.com Scientists claim to have pieced together the most complete genome of a Tasmanian tiger to date – with the help of RNA from a head that’s been preserved in alcohol for over a century. The potential breakthrough is the latest chapter in an effort by Colossal Biosciences and the University of Melbourne’s Thylacine Integrated Genetic Restoration Research (TIGRR) Lab to resurrect the extinct animal, also known as a thylacine. The team estimates that their new genome of the animal is over 99.9...

Scientists working in the remote rainforests of Madagascar say they’ve discovered seven new frog species whose calls sound similar to Star Trek sound effects, which are often heard on the iconic TV franchise’s various series. Due to these auditory similarities, the researchers have named the newly discovered amphibians after seven of the franchise’s most iconic captains. “Not only do these frogs sound like sound effects from Star Trek, but it seems also fitting that to find them, you often have to do quite a bit of trekking!” quipped senior study author, Assistant Professor Mark D. Scherz from the Natural History...

America Is Undergoing a Political Realignment When I was growing up, the left regularly criticized Big Pharma and its influence on American politics. As recently as 2015, progressive stalwart Elizabeth Warren had “Big Pharma in her sights.” The right, meanwhile, was slow to criticize pharmaceutical companies. That dynamic was even evident in lobbying, with about 55 percent of Big Pharma’s political contributions going to Republican candidates from 1989 to 2020. Yet today, that dynamic has been completely reversed.In 2020, Big Pharma gave over 60 percent of its political contributions to Democrats. Party leaders promptly backed COVID-19 vaccine mandates across federal...

Will Israeli air strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities spark a larger shooting war between the two belligerent countries? Any aerial attack by Israel against Iran would be difficult. Israel has no long-range bombers to hit the nuclear sites that are over 1,000 miles away. Jet fighters would require a significant number of bunker-busting bombs that may have limited efficacy. The Israeli jets would need to be re-fueled, and the air force has limited means to conduct these operations (except for re-fashioned 707 tankers). The Israelis would have to fly over Iraqi air space, which is anathema to Baghdad. Plus, the...

Teary-eyed sources at the Washington Post have just confirmed that the paper's entire staff has just been given the day off to mourn the loss of the Hamas leader who masterminded the Oct. 7 attacks in 2023. According to mid-level WaPo editors who spoke under condition of anonymity, all of the staffers, writers, and editors had managed to drag themselves into work but were simply too dispirited to do anything more than a few half-hearted tweets critical of Trump and JD Vance. "People were crying everywhere," said one WaPo writer. "In the breakroom, in the bullpen, in the editor's office...

Joy Behar told her co-hosts Thursday on ABC’s “The View” that supporters of former President Donald Trump are addicted to his lies, adding, “They want to believe it.” Behar said, “To the lying, though, George Conway, I like George Conway, I wish he would come on here, he says that his base is addicted to the lies, you know. They are addict. And I have a friend who was a drug counselor and he said that nothing trumps an addiction, an addiction trumps everything.” Co-host Sunny Hostin said, “You have to admit it.” Behar said, “Even relationships which is why...

In her first formal sit-down interview with Fox News, Vice President Harris tangled repeatedly with anchor Bret Baier as he pressed her on immigration policy and positions she took in 2019 when she was running for president that she no longer holds. About half-way through the intense 30-minute interview, Baier asked Harris a question she didn’t answer very well in more friendly interviews last week on The View and on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert: What would she do differently from President Biden? This time, she was prepared.

The wife of a Conservative councillor has been jailed for 31 months after pleading guilty to publishing written material to stir up racial hatred after the Southport stabbings. Former childminder Lucy Connolly published a post on her X account, which she later deleted, that called for "mass deportation now", and for hotels housing asylum seekers to be set on fire, adding: "If that makes me racist, so be it." Her comments were viewed 310,000 times and reposted by 940 other X users. She wrote the post on the day three young girls were killed in a knife attack at a...

SOSDD another FUBAR for Harris. To label the interview that happened yesterday between Bret Baier and Kamala Harris a shit show, would be a insult to shit shows. It has been obvious since well before Kamala Harris made her presidential bid in 2020, that she was not a mental giant. It was also obvious she was not a very likable human being. Reports of her treatment of staff and those she views as beneath her abound and have been in the news her entire political career. The veneer spackled heavily on Harris since the decision to replace Biden has been...

Research published in the June 2024 issue of Infection: A Journal of Infectious Diseases found that after being infected with COVID-19 that 8.3% of the children who were vaccinated for the disease got asthma, but only 4.7% of the children who were not vaccinated got asthma. Further, the fatality rate for those who were vaccinated was nearly six per thousand. For those who were not vaccinated the fatality rate was fewer than one per thousand. These differences were considered statistically significant. COVID expert Dr. Anthony Fauci called the differences "mercifully small. Six deaths per thousand is a very small percentage....

"The elimination of Sinwar creates an opportunity for the immediate release of the hostages and a potential change that could lead to a new reality in Gaza — without Hamas and without Iranian control," he said in a statement, according to NBC reporting.

Mark Cuban has been one of the Harris campaign’s most visible outside surrogates in recent months. Now he’s making it official. The billionaire businessman will embark on a series of formal campaign appearances for Kamala Harris beginning with stops alongside the vice president later today, a campaign aide told Yahoo Finance exclusively. It’s a move that comes as the Harris campaign amps up its efforts to reach young men and further capitalize on the "Shark Tank" star's popularity in the worlds of both finance and sports. The first stop will be alongside the vice president today in Milwaukee and La...

Joe Biden made some concerning remarks about former President Donald Trump while campaigning for Vice President Kamala Harris at the Sheet Metal Workers Local 19 Training Center in Philadelphia. The 81-year-old president wasn’t in good shape and appeared so desperate to attack Trump that he botched his line. “She beat Trump so badly in the debate, he’s scared to death to beat her again!” Biden rambled. Watch: VIDEO AT LINK.............. Then came the kicker. Biden openly admitted his DOJ is working to jail Trump after the election. “The same guy who has three other major cases waiting for him when...

Former President Donald Trump will be in New York City tonight delivering remarks at the annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation dinner. In a typical year, it’s traditional for both major party candidates to set aside differences and attend this charity event. However, Vice President Kamala Harris declined the invitation. Here are the details on Trump’s speech tonight including the live stream and how to watch it online. President Trump Addresses Alfred E. Smith Dinner in New York, NY When: Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024 Time: 7:00 pm ET Where: New York Hilton in Midtown Manhattan Watch live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00AgeK1uWr8

President Trump endorses my YouTube Channel. https://youtu.be/5omxQlsO_wo?si=x_QXvjY_LyvFJSF6

Day #36 of the Top 50 songs on my iTunes playlist -- ranked in reverse order by play frequency from #50 to #1 and presented here on a series of FR threads. I've been posting them here on a new thread that compiles the growing list one day at a time over the course of several months. I only post them on weekdays and may miss a day or two here and there, so we are getting down to the last few weeks here. And to show my gratitude to the FR management for giving us all a forum to...