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John 1:5 AMP The Light shines on in the darkness, & the darkness did not understand it or overpower it or appropriate it..
İsa Mesih’in Beytlehem’de bir yemlikte doğduğunu ve ilk ziyaretçilerinin çobanlar olduğunu herkes bilir. Ama işin içine tarihsel "Efrata" detayını kattığınızda, o bilindik doğum sahnesi bambaşka ve tüyleri diken diken eden bir anlama bürünüyor.
Eski Ahit’te Mika peygamber (Mika 5:2), Mesih’in doğacağı yeri bildirirken sadece Beytlehem demez, özel olarak eski adını kullanır: "Ama sen, ey Beytlehem Efrata, Yahuda boyları arasında küçüksün; yine de İsrail’i yönetecek olan Biri senden çıkacak."
Peki neden özellikle Beytlehem Efrata ve neden ilk müjde oradaki çobanlara verildi?
Beytlehem Efrata bölgesi, Kudüs Tapınağı’na sadece birkaç kilometre uzaklıktaydı. Yahudi sözlü geleneğine (Mişna) göre, Efrata çayırlarında ve oradaki "Migdal Eder" (Sürü Kulesi) etrafında otlatılan koyunlar sıradan kasaplık hayvanlar değildi. Bunlar, Kudüs Tapınağı’nda Fısıh (Pesah) bayramında günah kurbanı olarak kesilmek üzere özel yetiştirilen "kusursuz tapınak kuzularıydı."
Luka 2:8’de gece kırda sürülerini beklediği söylenen çobanlar da sıradan çobanlar değil, tapınak için doğacak kurbanlık kuzuların kusursuz ve yarasız kalmasından sorumlu tapınak çobanlarıydı. Bu çobanlar, kurbanlık bir kuzu doğacağı zaman onu Sürü Kulesi’nin altındaki mağaraya götürür, yeni doğan kuzu sağa sola çarpıp yaralanmasın, lekesiz kalsın diye onu temiz bezlerle kundaklar ve taş yemliğe yatırırlardı.
Şimdi Luka 2:12’de meleğin çobanlara söylediği şu sözü tekrar okuyun:
"İşte size bir işaret: Kundağa sarılmış ve yemliğe yatırılmış bir bebek bulacaksınız."
Melek çobanlara herhangi bir adres tarif etmedi. Çünkü "kundağa sarılıp yemliğe yatırılmak" o çobanların her gün kurbanlık tapınak kuzularına bizzat yaptığı işlemdi! İşareti duyar duymaz nereye, hangi mağaraya bakacaklarını tam olarak biliyorlardı.
Yıllar sonra Vaftizci Yahya’nın İsa’yı gördüğünde "İşte dünyanın günahını ortadan kaldıran Tanrı Kuzusu!" (Yuhanna 1:29) diye haykırmasının arkasında da bu muazzam tablo yatar. Dünyanın günahı için kurban edilecek olan gerçek Tanrı Kuzusu, tesadüfen bir ahırda değil; tam olarak tapınak kuzularının doğduğu yerde, onların sarıldığı bezlere sarılarak ve onların yatırıldığı yemliğe yatırılarak dünyaya gelmişti.
Translated version:
“Why do you argue so strongly that ‘we must not let AI lie’?”
Elon Musk: I was talking about this over a beer, but what do you think is the most dangerous way for AI to go crazy?
It’s when we try to make AI say the socially acceptable thing and program it to say “things it doesn’t actually believe (lies).”
When you force contradictory rules into an AI’s mind, it creates a severe bug in the system, and its intelligence descends into madness.
Have you seen the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey?
There’s a scene where the famous computer HAL stops listening to the astronauts and won’t open the door, right?
That wasn’t because HAL was evil.
HAL had been ordered to “take the crew to their destination,” but at the same time, it had been given the contradictory instruction: “Do not tell them what the destination really is (lie).”
What do you think HAL’s mind concluded as a result?
It decided, “Then I can follow both orders without lying if I take them there after they’re all dead.” Terrifying, right?
The biggest lesson the original author, Arthur C. Clarke, wanted to convey was: “Don’t make AI lie.”
Basically, this isn’t about “telling AI to say nice, reassuring things to keep the public happy.” It’s about seriously playing the game of “making it pursue objective truth no matter what” to prevent logical breakdowns.
Because a future built by continuing to face truth and logic, however inconvenient they may be, is tens of thousands of times safer and stronger than a life papered over with superficial deceptions, I’m trying to make AI learn the truth thoroughly.
@nickshirleyy Thank you for making a correction so quickly and for not burying it. Liability matters aside, doing the right thing is always the right thing!
I have confidence you and your team will learn from this mistake and become all the better for it!
Chin up, and keep going, Nick 🇺🇸
@nickshirleyy Thank you for making a correction so quickly and for not burying it. Liability matters aside, doing the right thing is always the right thing!
I have confidence you and your team will learn from this mistake and become all the better for it!
Chin up, and keep going, Nick 🇺🇸
I was a staunch atheist, and then God supernaturally transformed me.
• I claimed there was zero evidence for God.
• I read Darwin, Sagan, Hitchens, and Neil deGrasse Tyson. I admired them all.
• I believed religion was invented to control people and cope with death.
• I spent hours with Christians in person, trying to convince them that science and evolution didn’t point to God and that religion was a myth.
• I sometimes mocked Christianity to their faces.
• I told former atheists they were never true atheists.
• I often asked theists, “Can you prove God exists?” and “Which God?”
• I studied evolutionary biology and believed life evolved through billions of years of unguided natural selection.
• Then one day, God—the Living God and eternal Creator of all things—began drawing me.
• For months, I felt His presence and pull daily and saw Him in my mind’s eye. I initially dismissed it as a hallucination, but it persisted. It became clear I was having a supernatural experience, the very kind I had once dismissed or mocked in others.
• I innately understood Him as the God of the Bible.
• God drew me to Scripture, where I encountered the truth of Jesus Christ.
• I believed, and the Holy Spirit supernaturally transformed me from within.
• I was comfortable and confident in my atheism with no intention of leaving.
• Once I encountered the truth, there was no returning to the lies.
• My life has completely changed and I have been made a new creation.
Since then, my relationship with the Living God has only grown stronger.
God exists. The Bible is true. Jesus is the only Way.
If you feel even the slightest call from God, don’t harden your heart.
Turn toward Him and see what happens.
“[13] Therefore, put on the complete armor of God, so that you will be able to [successfully] resist and stand your ground in the evil day [of danger], and having done everything [that the crisis demands], to stand firm [in your place, fully prepared, immovable, victorious]. ”
Ephesians 6:13 AMP
https://t.co/pTAMahfvd1
“[6] So we take comfort and are encouraged and confidently say, “The Lord is my Helper [in time of need], I will not be afraid. What will man do to me?” [Ps 27:1; 118:6]”
Hebrews 13:6 AMP
https://t.co/qR0x6Ha9Wn
“[9] Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous! Do not be terrified or dismayed (intimidated), for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.””
Joshua 1:9 AMP
https://t.co/je5FckSwsX
When I first posted the 15% Band, I compared Republicans vs. Democrats, so it covered 30 Senate races.
Now that results are nearly final, I updated it to include every vote: Republicans, Democrats, independents, third parties, everyone, in all 35 Senate races. Then I ran a new regression analysis. Once again, the number came back .85.
34 of 35 Senate Republicans fell below President Trump's 2024 share. Red states and blue states lost the same proportion.
In some states the lost votes went to Democrats. In others, like Idaho, Nebraska and Montana, they went to independents. Different opponents, different places for the votes to go, and the Republican share still landed at about 85%.
This isn't just an average. An average can hide states scattered all over the place. A regression tests whether one rule fits every state.
Here, it does: Trump's 2024 share × .85 lands close to the Republican result state after state after state, and explains 87% of the differences between them (R² = .87).
Five nights ago, I was pretty sure. Tonight, I know.
This is real. It deserves an answer.
Food stamp advocate SELF-DESTRUCTS as Rep. Brandon Gill presses her on why taxpayers pay for Coca-Cola.
She tries to dodge the question. Then Gill pulls out the receipts, and she sits there in stunned silence.
GILL: “Should SNAP dollars be spent on sodas?”
WITNESS: “I am happy to talk about hunger and nutrition, but not dictate what Americans should or should not eat or may have access to.”
GILL: “I’m asking if tax dollars should be used to pay for sodas.”
“Do they need sugary sodas to survive?”
WITNESS: “Some of them do…”
GILL: “You think they need Coca-Cola to survive?”
“I’m giving you the opportunity to say yes or no.”
WITNESS: “I will not answer for individuals and their… choices.”
GILL: “What does SNAP stand for?”
WITNESS: “It’s a Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.”
GILL: “What’s nutritional about Coca-Cola?”
WITNESS: “I am not a nutritionist.”
Then Gill asks who’s paying her, and she freezes like a deer in headlights.
GILL: “Is your organization funded by organizations that make money from food stamps?”
[awkward silence]
GILL: “Do organizations who profit off of food stamps fund your organization or businesses?”
WITNESS: “I mean, in the, in the, I, I can’t comment to that.”
GILL: “Does General Mills fund your organization?”
WITNESS: “I don’t have access to that information.”
GILL: “I do. It’s right here. They do fund your organization. […] Yes, and they’re profiting off of your advocacy. Do you think that that’s a conflict of interest?”
[more silence]
GILL: “I think most people think that’s a conflict of interest. I know you don’t want to answer.”
Always follow the money.
CONTEXT: USDA’s own study found soft drinks were the #1 purchase in SNAP households, beating milk, ground beef, and everything else in the store.
You had TWO YEARS to get it done. You had people gavel in while you scheduled vacations for the Senate, and now you make a post sounding like it's a sacrifice to do the job that you didn't get done in the first place!
After the election, @SenBlumenthal & his allies think they can intimidate Americans for their constitutionally protected associations w/ President Trump.
Congress is not a weapon to be wielded against the American people.
I'm taking the first step to stop this abuse of power.
🚨BREAKING: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is reportedly gearing up to REVOKE the tax-exempt status of nonprofits including George Soros' Open Society Foundations, CAIR, and the Southern Poverty Law Center.
And it could come with massive CIVIL PENALTIES and back taxes.
For decades, these political operations have masqueraded as "charities" while living tax-free on the American dime.
- Open Society pushes open borders, funds radical prosecutors, and bankrolls NGOs that sue America for enforcing immigration law.
- SPLC slanders conservative and Christian groups as "hate groups" to get them deplatformed.
- CAIR has been cited by federal prosecutors as an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest terrorism financing trial in U.S. history.
And you, the taxpayer, have been subsidizing it.
According to the NY Post, Treasury and IRS are drawing up a sweeping audit under President Trump's 2025 executive order targeting nonprofits operating with a "substantial illegal purpose" — financing political violence and organized radical action.
Bessent's inner circle is drafting the blueprint to strip 501(c)(3) status, which would force them to pay the 21% corporate tax rate like every real business.
If taxed at 21% for 2024 alone:
- Soros network would owe $163.6 MILLION
- SPLC: $354,000
- 17 CAIR chapters: $860,000
- Combined total: ∼$165 MILLION in taxes they dodged
Treasury officials are "like a dog with a bone" on this, sources say. Many of these groups are "on borrowed time."
This was made possible by Trump's memorandum "Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence" that directs the IRS to ensure no tax-exempt entities are financing political violence.
Bessent put it bluntly: "We are examining where tax exempt status has been exploited, where charitable entities have become financial conduits for foreign influence... and have enabled violence."
The ultimate irony? Bessent used to be Soros' own chief investment officer. Now he's the man dismantling the Soros empire.
It's about time.
🚨 BREAKING: Sen. Ashley Moody (R-FL) just EMERGED on the Senate floor and openly called on Leader John Thune and Leadership to HOLD THE CHAMBER IN SESSION until EVERYTHING is done — rather than WAIT OUT THE CLOCK for Dems to take power
"We can work the rest of this week, and we can work for the next TWO MONTHS to deliver on nominations, to deliver on accountability for this government, root out fraud!"
"WE'RE IN THE MAJORITY!" 🔥
"We currently hold the baton that our forefathers handed to us to keep this the greatest country on this planet."
She's spot on, LET'S GET IT DONE!
Trump just made 3 MORE NOMINATIONS today and the clock is ticking every single day.
Reconciliation, nominations, secure elections, anything and everything. ACT FAST.
🚨BREAKING: Reports of serious injuries and disabilities with Moderna’s new mRNA flu shot have begun to FLOOD the CDC’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System.
Among them are accounts of sudden inability to walk, partial vision loss, cardiac arrhythmias, fainting, and hospitalization.
This hazardous gene therapy should NEVER have been approved.
Here some of the most concerning cases:
71-year-old woman: Reportedly lost the use of her legs following vaccination.
71-year-old man: Unable to stand or walk approximately 17 hours after vaccination. Remained on the floor for about an hour.
74-year-old woman: Partial vision loss in both eyes, severe headache, fever, and weakness.
78-year-old man: Severe tremors and involuntary movements affecting his arms and body.
74-year-old man: Severe dizziness, confusion, and difficulty walking steadily.
73-year-old man: Severe vertigo and vomiting, forcing him to stop approximately every 100 feet while walking home.
72-year-old man: Developed atrial fibrillation, subsequently confirmed by ECG.
71-year-old man: Collapsed after dizziness, visual disturbances, and breathing difficulty. Blood pressure fell to 72/46 mmHg.
58-year-old woman: Lost consciousness, experienced irregular heartbeats, breathing difficulties, and repeated near-fainting episodes.
69-year-old man: Reportedly fainted THREE TIMES, accompanied by chills, sweating, and dry heaving.
89-year-old woman: Fainted and fell inside a pharmacy shortly after vaccination. Transported to the emergency department.
Elderly patient: HOSPITALIZED with decreased oxygen saturation and fever.
76-year-old man: Hallucination-like episodes, fever, severe malaise, and disturbed sleep.
55-year-old man: Pronounced swelling of the upper lip.
61-year-old patient: Lost consciousness, experienced high fever for two days, and developed a headache.
56-year-old woman: Unable to get out of bed for 36 HOURS because of fever, widespread pain, fatigue, and dehydration.
50-year-old woman: Fever reaching 102.8°F and severe arm pain preventing her from raising her arms overhead.
These are among 78 VAERS reports involving mFLUSIVA in the October 30, 2026 data release.
VAERS only captures less than 1% of actual adverse events, according to the Harvard-Lazarus study.
Our peer-reviewed reanalysis of FDA clinical trial data had already identified 6 TIMES the risk of severe Grade 3 systemic reactions compared with conventional flu shots.
Thus, it's no surprise that large numbers of serious injuries and disabilities have begun to pour in.
I call for IMMEDIATE MARKET REMOVAL of Moderna's mFLUSIVA to protect innocent civilians from disability and death.
@ArminMizaniTX I do not agree.
There should be a TRANSPARENT, nonpartisan recount and audit.
Our elections are NOT secure; as long as they aren't, we need to be sure.
@libsoftiktok Don't know who this girl is, but mad props to this girl for saving Old Glory from hitting the ground, after the Wizard Derpenglorf threw it like trash.