Ferb

But that section of scripture also had a fulfillment in the first century. And Jerusalem certainly did experience a lot of poverty - if there was a time when people took no note in Jerusalem because they were busy going about their day to day lives, it was before the Christians had fled, before the great tribulation. But then there was indeed an end to their casual eating and drinking and building - still not for the right reason, but still, Jesus application of Noah's example could logically only apply to the time leading up to the tribulation.

Given the way we were created, I think it is in everyone's nature to want to get married. However, it isn't necessarily in everyone's nature to want to get married within the first hundred years of their life. Looking at the first five chapters of Genesis, you find that many people were of ages in three digits before having their first child, which suggests that either they weren't very fertile (which isn't what you'd expect for perfection) or they were content to wait a while to get married. So while getting married is part of Jehovah's design for us, it may well be true that getting married in your twenties or younger is more of, as you put it, an educated need. As you acknowledge, God chose this manner of reproduction. Not all creatures reproduce in the same fashion. Flowers engage in sexual reproduction but without having two different sexes - each individual has both male and female organs, and God could have made us the same way, hermaphroditic, with no differences between us. Some other creatures reproduce just by cloning themselves, without even needing another organism, and God could have made Adam that way. But Jehovah saw fit to make a man and a woman as complements of each other, even though this was not strictly necessary to allow the earth to be filled. Jesus explicitly said he made them male and female and said for this reason a man would leave his father and his mother and would stick to his wife, and the two would become one flesh. It seems to me that this is why men and women exist - not merely to reproduce, but to marry, to complement each other's unique abilities. For this reason, I believe all people will eventually marry if they live long enough.

I just had a look at their webpage. I'm not sure what there is on there that you think sounds like hate speech. There's opinion pieces like you get in all newspapers, but opinions aren't misinformation. And according to the article, the particular issue sent out apparently claims that the Chinese government endangered the world by not accurately reporting the danger of the Coronavirus. Is this what you are calling misinformation? Are you saying the CCP were being truthful when they said the Coronavirus had been studied and found not to spread from person to person, and so it was safe for the world to accept tourists from China, and therefore that the newspaper's claim that the CCP lied is misinformation? Do we have reason to believe the CCP generally act with good motive?

It's a good job they put that 'literally' in there, or I'd have thought they were talking about a figurative catastrophe.

Rogue One was good though. A group of girls from a nearby congregation said that K2SO reminded them of me. 🙄

I was just looking up something about pushing a branch in git. Autocomplete scares me sometimes. I've been here 5 minutes imagining under what circumstances someone googled this - and that it happened enough times for it to be the top autocomplete result.

The idea isn't to avoid dopamine altogether. It's to avoid having too much of it, because if you easily get the sensation of reward from tapping a game on your phone or getting likes on a forum, you find little reward by comparison by actually doing hard work. The point is to make sure that you only allow yourself reward, or dopamine, from doing things that actually deserve a reward, like getting jobs done that you need to do. Even if the media is upbuilding like this forum, the fact remains that it's a way of satisfying yourself without doing any work - in simple terms, procrastination.

Katty is currently rearranging her Windows taskbar by icon colour. "I need something red, David! Oooh, Adobe Acrobat Reader is red! What's something purple? Visual Studio!" "But Katty, we hardly ever use Visual Studio now we have Visual Studio Code." "Who cares, it's purple!" Weird things happen when someone's an artist and a nerd.

We are all victims - victims of Adam's sin, victims of living of Satan's world and the bad governments he rules over, and more. I think what you're talking about is more than just victimhood per se, it's a kind of learned helplessness, being taught that the problems of which you are a victim are innate to the nature of reality and are always the way things will be. Really, the worst victimhood people are taught to accept is the idea that this life is all there is.

In the first minute, with him pointing out that these people believe that valuing hard work was racist, I think what particularly came to mind was a story he reported on regarding the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, which stated that having a work ethic was part of 'White Culture' - and bear in mind, this museum was set up to promote African American History and Culture. Newsweek states: Notice on the infographic in the article (taken from the museum website, the one removed after it caused widespread outrage, but similar things exist in most race theory teaching course materials) that such biblical values as the husband being the head of a household are also regarded as 'white values' that have been imposed on black people. (And being a national museum, this may well have been something used in school education, in field trips etc. and been government funded - exactly the kind of thing to which this memo would apply.) This is why you should be aware of what critical race theory means - if such people have their way, you will be called racist for being a Christian, because as you can see, believing a man should be the head of the family is, in some convoluted way, deemed racist. It is not something to let your children be taught. So no, he's not making sweeping statements to be provocative. If you've seen previous stories like these over the past year you know he's practically quoting these teaching materials verbatim.

How much do you know about Marxism? I'm not sure why you'd even associate it with freedom of speech. You don't really have freedom of speech under a Marxist government. Marxism is about making everybody equal - by force if necessary. Have a read of The Communist Manifesto - it's a pretty short read. Children must be school-educated because otherwise some children would be taught be smarter parents than others, and have an advantage, and not be equal - how can you think that's not what we're taught to believe when you're for some reason convinced of it yourself despite it not being what the Bible says? Women must all have jobs regardless of whether that makes them happy, because otherwise they wouldn't be equal to men - you don't think that's what they're taught in school these days? It's wrong for some people to have more money than others, regardless of how much harder those people work to earn the extra they have, because it's inequality - for some reason most young people believe that, where do you think they get the idea? I wouldn't say that. Or was that an autocorrect from intersectionalism? (I'd still think that's an oversimplification, but that would make more sense.) I'm not sure if mere 'racial sensitivity training' refers to something more benign, but the memo specifically refers to 'white privilege' and, as Katty correctly said, 'critical race theory'. It states: I don't want to speak for or against any particular politician, but I am certainly against the teaching that any race or ethnicity is inherently evil. I don't know if any official curriculum contains such material, though I have seen occasional news about it in schools, and the memo doesn't state that schools have been teaching it, it refers to government employees. Certainly you can see detailed here some examples of how racist 'critical race theory' is, and how some adults have had to undergo training courses in it.

He's even got the protectors on his wrists and my receding hairline. But you know, because I was listening to it in Spanish at the time (just practising recognising basic words), I didn't notice the meaning of the song - it's only now I'm recalling the English words back to mind and notice how it suits us, particularly today while we're submitting our visa application and praying about its outcome.

Just to be clear, when I facepalm while shaking my head from side to side, that does not mean, "That's my favourite idea!"

It seems to me there's a pretty big margin of error in this test! 🙂 It can be measured as well as this test measures stuff. Just put a bunch of strongly agree to strongly disagree statements like 'I read the Bible every day' and 'I always pray before making a big decision'. Throw in some things to try to add some variation, like, 'I attend every ministry meeting', ignore the circumstances that might affect that (just as the questions in these personality tests do - in fairness, the real personality tests used by psychologists are much longer in order to weed out such factors, but people just doing it for fun on the internet couldn't be bothered with such a long test) and the result you'll get will be no less inaccurate than this. Incidentally Timothy, I was looking at travelling through South Korea a while ago (trying to find some way of being allowed to see Katty again during this lockdown hysteria) and I noticed that all the websites in South Korea refer to it as just 'Korea'. So what do they call North Korea? Do they even acknowledge it's existence as a country, or do they just consider it to be a part of their country that is currently occupied by an enemy force?

I've added it to my wishlist, but it'd have to come down in price a lot before I'd try it!