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A nation divided cannot stand.............it will be all one or all the other.

https://learntocarry.com/files/On-Sheep-Wolves-And-Sheepdogs.pdf

It is denial that turns people into sheep. Sheep are
psychologically destroyed by combat because their only
defense is denial, which is counterproductive and
destructive, resulting in fear, helplessness and horror
when the wolf shows up.

Denial kills you twice. It kills you once, at your moment
of truth when you are not physically prepared: You didn’t
bring your gun; you didn’t train. Your only defense was
wishful thinking. Hope is not a strategy. Denial kills you
a second time because even if you do physically survive,
you are psychologically shattered by fear, helplessness,
horror and shame at your moment of truth

The girl was transported from Baton Rouge to Georgia by 62-year-old Ronald Smith of New Orleans and another man, then placed on a bus to Pittsburgh via Washington, D.C.

At the D.C. bus station, she met a woman who offered assistance, and the group proceeded to Pittsburgh, where the teen stayed in the basement with Crumity and the woman.

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that is a lot of people and organization involved.

To take your position you have to ignore other parts of the Bible, the parts you don’t like. Now is God a liar? Does He contradict himself?

Joh 10:28 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them away from Me,
Joh 10:29 for My Father has given them to Me, and He is more powerful than anyone else. No one can snatch them from the Father’s hand.

Joh 6:39 And this is the will of God, that I should not lose even one of all those He has given Me, but that I should raise them up at the last day.

Rom 8:29 For God knew His people in advance, and He chose them to become like His Son, so that His Son would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.

And there are others which I will let you discern. The point is God speaks to false assurance of faith but also speaks to real assurance of faith. It is both, not one or the other.

Let me repeat, both are part of God’s Word. It is not one or the other.

If the power of salvation is your choice, then you also have the power of not choosing Gods salvation. Your salvation depends on how you feel that day.

If God chooses it is a lock.

So the heart testing question is, Did you choose God or did God choose you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ochre

When natural sienna and umber pigments are heated, they are dehydrated and some of the limonite is transformed into hematite, giving them more reddish colours, called burnt sienna and burnt umber. Ochres are non-toxic and can be used to make an oil paint that dries quickly and covers surfaces thoroughly. Modern ochre pigments often are made using synthetic iron oxide. Pigments which use natural ochre pigments indicate it with the name PY-43 (Pigment yellow 43) on the label, following the Colour Index International system.

Barack Obama praised Zohran Mamdani in a private telephone call on Saturday

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private call..............................

That DOGE thing sure fell off the map quickly. Quite a disappointment.

I can’t believe that Trump or Musk would back down just because the Uniparty doesn’t like DOGE. Something else must be going on here.

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My recollection is that this was a short term program to get things started. It was not meant to be long term.

After taxes, the man will take home $364,375,

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that is 28% tax, I would guess half is state. What would the take have been under the democrats?

Remember when lottery tickets were in the news every day?

Remember when the stock market was in the news every day?

Remember when tulips were in the news every day?

Somalia’s “founding fathers”

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawiye

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>> Well said,

Repeat LOUD and OFTEN............................ <<

Thanks.

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I sincerely mean what I wrote. I remember attending an advertising class once and the main take away was that it took a large quantity of exposure for people to finally hear the message. You don’t say something once and expect people to respond.

I finally understood the purpose of God’s repetition in the Bible.

It’s not an either/or situation. We’re both a democracy and a republic. We’re one particular kind of the many varieties of democracies and republics (most of them tyrannies) — one that rules with the consent of the people but with protections for individual and regional rights.

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Well said,

Repeat LOUD and OFTEN............................

The only way to slow this is to take the public schools back, and stop the indoctrination.

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and we do this by talking to one person at a time. If you can find that one person, you have done your duty.

I often reflect on Jesus instruction to the disciples. Go tell every one the message, if you find receptive ears, stop and camp, else move on to the one with ears to hear.

Rush left such a big void.. lots of two bit podcasters trying to carve out a niche and fill whatever they can.

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I would propose that is a good thing and Rush would perceive it that way also.

The message continues.......................

The library sent Diehn notices by mail, notifying her of overdue items and fines. The library also sent a collection agency regarding un-returned library material and unpaid fines,

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Now, what would you do if you were the librarian? let it past or enforce good rule keeping.

The arrest could have been avoided by one person’s actions. Hint, it was not the librarian.

These voters “can’t name what Democrats stand for, other than being against [Donald] Trump,” according to the report.

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maybe this is one survey i agree with.............

Where is this coming from?

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sorry, cross post and I don’t know how it happened.

I thought, “Get ready.”

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The emphasis is on the rapture. The reality is we might die before that. Either way it is over for us.

Both posit it is something to happen in the future. The warning is “decide” now, while there is still time.

People can self delude themselves. How about the phony televangelists? Do they not tell themselves they are delivering a service and are worthy persons.

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Yes, there is deluded assurance of salvation, but that does not negate that there is REAL ASSURANCE OF SALVATION.

So the question is who decides your salvation? If salvation was your decision, you also have the power to undo your salvation. Your salvation depends on how you feel that day or the bit of undigested meat in you digestive tract.

If God chose you for salvation, then your salvation is a lock.

So understanding that salvation is all God is one aspect of assurance of salvation.

(Matthew 22:14) “For many are called, but few are chosen.”

(Matthew 24:22) In fact, unless that time of calamity is shortened, not a single person will survive. But it will be shortened for the sake of God’s chosen ones.

(Matthew 24:24) For false messiahs and false prophets will rise up and perform great signs and wonders so as to deceive, if possible, even God’s chosen ones.

(Matthew 24:31) And He will send out His angels with the mighty blast of a trumpet, and they will gather His chosen ones from all over the world—from the farthest ends of the earth and heaven.

(Mark 10:40) But I have no right to say who will sit on My right or My left. God has prepared those places for the ones He has chosen.”

(Mark 13:20) In fact, unless the Lord shortens that time of calamity, not a single person will survive. But for the sake of His chosen ones He has shortened those days.

(Mark 13:22) For false messiahs and false prophets will rise up and perform signs and wonders so as to deceive, if possible, even God’s chosen ones.

(Mark 13:27) And He will send out His angels to gather His chosen ones from all over the world—from the farthest ends of the earth and heaven.

Now some will say that is not fair, don’t I get a say in this?

The fact is NONE would choose God of their own ability and thus if God did not choose at his great pleasure, NONE would be saved.

We may inherit the propensity to sin,

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and that is what original sin is. You cannot not sin. All have fallen short.

If you think it is just a propensity, then you all claim it is possible to not sin.