HOW EXCITING…

said no one ever.

It’s not quite as bad as you make it seem. Yes, crows prey on nests with eggs and young. They also prey on adult birds. As do most predators you can name: snakes, opossums, cats, etc etc.

They themselves are prey, with only sbout half of all crows making it to adulthood. Rarely are they responsible for “wiping out” other species. They do it sometimes, rarely, but it is not more so than other predators

AI Bundy

I like the grid, but I don’t really understand how the animals are meant to be interpreted

You were a normal kid, a curious kid with a LOT of hormones.

Now, that thing you did with Aunt Peggy…

Don’t forget pizza and child-eating. It’s a weird thing.

I suggest you look at a few different translations. The word is translated chaos confusion disorder.

Not only that but it’s absurd to say that the God of the Bible is a God of peace. In Matthew 10:34 Jesus says, “Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword."

The Bible itself ends with a great battle and a great celebration of victory.

This is at best a sophomoric argument.

It’s like a new postgraduate physics student trying to apply Newton’s Laws to quarks. While Newton’s laws provide a framework for understanding motion in everyday contexts, the behavior of quarks requires a different set of principles that are part of quantum mechanics. Newton’s laws are still valid for macroscopic objects, but do not apply to the quantum realm, where quarks operate.

The laws of reason and logic are dependent on the order God imposed on the universe. God is metaphysical. He is not subject to His creation, BUT, the fact that there IS order and understandable systems tell us that God IS understandable, to a degree. His creation reflects His self. But if you think you’ll crush Him in his own vise, you are quite mistaken. There is no epistemological dilemma you’ll spear God with

God is a God of order. (1 Cor. 14:33)

Well, Christianity presents us with many things with seemingly contradictory qualities that are nonetheless to be held in tension, and not resolved.

For instance, Jesus Himself is fully man, and fully God. Not half and half. No division, no partiality. Completely 100% a man. And completely 100% God.

Same with the Bible. Who wrote it? Humans, of course. Every word. AND…

2 Timothy 3:16

All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness

There are earthly parallels as well. Light is both a wave and a particle (we’re still sorting that out). Schrödinger’s cat. There are lots of examples.

There’s nothing unusual about a situation where God is fully in control of everything and humans have free will. It’s just hard to wrap your head around.

The answer isn’t to say, “God can’t (or won’t) do anything about that.” That denies God’s power and goodness.

The answer is also not to say, “Since I’m God’s puppet I have no will or blame.” That denies our responsibility and sin.

The Bible is quite clear that both are true. God is powerful, good, and in control. And humans are capable, sinful, and responsible for their actions.

Yes, we agree completely. I just meant the word “wanted” is pejorative. You can intend something without necessarily wanting it.

When he was little my son broke the growth plate off of his arm at the wrist. It was essential that it be pushed back into place. The doctor needed me to hold him still, to hold his arm still as he pushed that bone back on top where it belonged.

My son had a lot of pain. I didn’t want to hold him still while he endured that pain. But I intended to. I did it.

“Wanted” is a funny word. The idea that there’s something difficult to understand about a supreme being who is so far above us that he created not only us but the entire universe according to what’s revealed about him? That shouldn’t seem a strange idea.

Imagine if we met an advanced alien who had technology far beyond ours. We might not be able to understand a lot of the way they thought, spoke, or acted.

The thing is, it actually says that in the Bible.

Isaiah 55:8-9 NLT “My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,” says the Lord. “And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine. For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so my ways are higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.

Yet we keep wanting to subject Him not only to our reasoning, but to our language.

Pish. Calvinism teaches that God was the serpent? You’re a bit off base there.

Waiting for reference. Other than a Chick tract.

Well, since this is a religious discussion, I’m a Christian. It’s always God.

Job 1:6-12 very clearly shows God granting permission for Satan to test Job.

1 Kings 22:19-22 shows the “court in heaven” and God soliciting ideas from spirits for enticing Ahab to attack Ramoth Gilead, where he will die. When a good suggestion is made, God grants permission.

Exodus 10:1-2 states clearly that God hardened Pharaoh’s heart to not let the slaves go, so that God could display his “signs” (plagues).

Satan is a liar, and the father of lies.

Romans 9:19-21 NIV

One of you will say to me: “Then why does God still blame us? For who is able to resist his will?” But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God? “Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, ‘Why did you make me like this?’ ” Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for special purposes and some for common use?

The AI. They’re using it to produce 15-year-old girls. You actually looked at the picture before commenting, right?

Oh heck. I forgot the /s

Oh good, just what we need.

More 15-year-old girls.

Edit: /s

They did a better job than we are.

I happily had one note for 8 years. One note 2017. Used it offline. All my notes.

Windows 10 put Microsoft 365 on my computer. Tried to sync a bunch of stuff too OneDrive. I said no. Still it made my desktop on one drive. It kept trying to sync documents. A constant nuisance.

This year I tried to save my taxes to my One Note files. I was told they were erased. I couldn’t imagine what was going on. They were on my computer, local and private. But no I would have to log into OneDrive and rebuild them if I wanted to use my files. I could see them. But I couldn’t open them, I couldn’t save new things, I couldn’t do anything, unless I logged into OneDrive.

I uninstalled Windows and installed Linux Mint 22.1. I ain’t going back no more.

I wanted to clarify, but there were so many comments coming in, I didn’t see how I could do it effectively. And not seem like I was what some people thought I was

I was arguing that there was a terrible war, and the enemy was dangerous and capable. Many of our and other country’s soldiers died to destroy them, and it wasn’t easy.

They weren’t “Colonel Klink” from “Hogan’s Heroes”, they were efficient at killing, rounding up and killing millions while fighting on a number of fronts.

My grandfather fought in World war I, and my uncles fought in World war II. From what I heard the Germans were not incompetent bumbling idiots. They were a very competent and difficult enemy.

I don’t know what history everybody’s been reading, but there sure as heck are some major changes to history interpretation that have taken place in the last 40-50 years. Probably peer-to-peer instruction, rather than accounts from those who endured it