Shawnster

Life is full of irony. I expect a right wing (formerly) ultra religious (even if it's lip service) politician to be in charge when the attack on BTG begins

A brother and I were talking the other day and he shared an experience about visiting a large-ish Midwest US city and how disappointed he was there wasn't much to do while visiting. That prompted me to come here and ask all of you this question What do you find to do when you go away to another town for a few days? What type of recreation do you look for? What do you look for in summer vs winter. What is there to do in this town?

I'm a Star Trek fan. We've hotly debated the size of the Enterprise for 60 years. I used to such discrepancy.

The image of the site is boat shaped. That's enough to tell me they've not found the Ark. Even if they find wood, that's not enough evidence to support it is or was the Ark. Bits of wood are bits of wood and could have been used to build absolutely anything.

He wasn't meaning leave in the way you took it. He meant leave as in remains. Let Le reword it for you. IF Canada does become part of the EU, in some official way, not just as a trade partner, it would still remain that the UK, an actual European country, and Australia not part of the EU - all under the same monarch.

This is an interesting point worth discussing. Does the EU have more power than the UN? Is the EU stronger? More authoritative? More binding on individual members? Currently every country is a member of the UN yet we feel this membership is not "giving their power" to the UN.

Since the entire world under Satan's power is going to play a role in the great tribulation, then the answer is yes. It's not like some countries are going to not be involved in the destruction of false religion and the final attack on true worship. Will one country or a group of countries take the lead? Who knows? It's possible some countries might be more eager or zealous than others. It's also possible they all act with equal effort when that time comes. The Bible presents the efforts as a united front. The wild beast as a whole (all nations) attack the harlot. All the nations turn against Jehovah. All the kings of the earth are destroyed at Armageddon.

Where were you when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor? Where were you when man landed on the moon? Where were you when Lincoln, Kennedy, or Reagan was Shot? Where were you when the Challenger exploded? Where were you when 9/11 happened? My apologies for the US-sentric examples. What is your EARLIEST "where were you when" moment? It might be the moon landing. It might be the Union Carbide deaths in India. It might the Chernobyl disaster. It does not mattw5 what the historical event was. What I want to know is what is the earliest event that happened during your life that is now in the history books?

While I see what you both are saying and I can agree, I also have to admit it's Jehovah's one thought. I have no idea how that idea will be implemented. I've grown to be open to something unimaginable.

Why does there need to be any excuse?

AI is a tool, nothing more. Like a by tool, potential for abuse exists. This potential abuse is not the fault of the tool but, rather, the user. The amount of people currently abusing this tool is saddening and is only getting worse.

Except it's Jehovah that brings about the Great Tribulation, right?

Republican politics is killing churches... Only because the stereotypical Democrat already stopped going decades ago

The United States is not the only country with nuclear weapons. The US President is not the only leader with a button to push. Could? Possibly. If not today, then maybe tomorrow. There are plenty of movies that warn of such an event. In real life there has been at least (maybe more) where a nuclear launch was almost triggered due to an accident. For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alarm_incident Is it likely? No. Am I worried in the slightest? Absolutely not. Why do I say this? From my understanding, a nuclear war would destroy much of the planet Earth. In fact, so much would be destroyed that this would affect Bible prophecy. Nobody's going to saying, thinking, or believing in "Peace and Security" when they are digging all the major cities out of nuclear rubble while millions die from starvation, disease, and radiation exposure. Therefore, my faith has convinced me Jehovah would intervene if there was ever such a full scale war. Does that mean nuclear weapons would never be used? No, it does not mean that. 2 such weapons have already been used in Japan 80+ years ago. Jehovah did not stop those bombs so we should be open to the possibility another such device could be used in the future. However, from everything I've read such use would need to be limited and it would depend on which group detonated such a bomb. A nuclear exchange between Russia and the United States would likely be full scale while India or Israel using the Bomb might be more limited and the likelihood of some rogue terrorist state having more than a single bomb is unlikely.