@zarahussain999 These are the calm heads, actually.
Keep running defense for these communities and reframing accountability as racism and you will find that out
I’ve had 10,000 Christians tell me I’m not a Christian today.
And not one of them has invited me to their church.
You guys are terrible at missionary work.
@DavidJohnButler@JWhitebread1 Ooh, I like that! Gotta see if I can start that one spreading, see if I can get any of the "DA jooooos" types to approach and offer payment to folks of Jewish persuasion to spread their stories... 🤣
I have mentioned this before but you can be a responsible critic of my faith. Fr. John Nehaus was no fan of the LDS faith and spoke sharply about it at times, but he did not resort to strawmen, and when he mischaracterized one of our beliefs, he was willing to be corrected. Where we differed in interpretation, he gave our side a fair hearing or steelmanned it before explaining why he thought it was wrong.
So far, here on X, most arguments against us are strawmen, falsehoods, misrepresentations, or slanders. And when you point that out, they accuse you of not knowing the "real" truth about your faith, or that you are duped, or are genuinely deceitful.
There can be no good faith argument if you start with misrepresentation and then call us liars when we try to correct you. Not bearing false witness against your neighbor is still a commandment, and even if you don't think we are Christians, we are still your neighbors.
Shaquille O’Neal says he blew through his first $1 million endorsement check in a single day before learning a hard lesson about money.
Graham Bensinger : “Right before the draft, you got a $1 million endorsement deal and spent it all in one day?”
Shaq : “Pretty much. I thought I was getting a million dollars, but I forgot about taxes. After FICA and everything else, it was closer to $600,000.”
“I bought a $150,000 Mercedes with no negotiation. Then my dad asked where his was, so I bought him the same car.”
“My mom wanted one too, so I bought her a Mercedes as well. Just like that, about $500,000 was gone.”
“Then came suits, jewelry, sound systems, and everything else I thought I needed.”
“A few days later, the bank called and told me I was $80,000 overdrawn.”
“That was the moment I realized I needed a financial advisor.”
“I met a bunch of guys promising they could turn $40 million into $200 million overnight. I didn’t trust any of them.”
“Then I met a guy named Lester Ness. He talked about saving money, protecting assets, and building wealth the right way.”
“I said, ‘Shalom, I’m going with you.’”
@grok@March111992@BasedMikeLee@johnddavidson Its amusing how these folks always carefully trim out the highly leading questions they use to get the answers they want - only to accidentally summon Grok into the thread and have it soften its own answer. 🤣
I finally found an issue that the left and right can agree on.
No more Flock cameras.
No more mass surveillance.
We didn't consent to this.
We refuse to give up a little liberty for your so called safety.
You can stick your mass surveillance cameras right where the sun don't shine.
We're a Free country and we'll defend freedom at all costs.
I now recognize you as a Mormon! Finally there IS such thing as a Mormon Church and @BenZeisloft is the founder of it!
You see everyone - until this time there has never been a “Mormon Church” - but as of Ben’s post there is and he is the founder of it.
So many people have been mistaken that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the Mormon Church were the same but no longer. Ben like others is a Trinitarian Christian which is different from the Godhead Christians of the New Testament (a-la 1st Century to 3rd Century Christians and the Latter-day Saints) but that’s a-okay with me because no one is a gatekeeper of Christianity or Church of Mormon.
I am glad you’re Mormon now Ben, shall we work on our ecumenicalism to see how we can live better lives as children of God, or do you feel like gatekeeping that term as well?
The television
Lithium battery
Open Heart surgery
3d animation
John Browning invented the firearms that won two World Wars
(Repeating rifle
Machine gun)
Catalytic converter
Digital audio
Stereo sound
3D ultrasound
Soda fountain
Fire extinguisher
Torpedo
Traffic light
Odometer
Word processing software
Lasik eye surgery
Tater tots
Using lasers in surgery
Modern hearing aids
Artificial diamonds
And most critically, settling 1/3 of the American landmass.
And successfully creating the largest migration in American history.
All in only 200 years.
Fighting the Federal Government for our lives,
All while being hated by everyone,
And having no control over media or any government power.
People demanding "proof" of election fraud are not understanding how crime works. I worked at Manhattan DA for over 2 years, one in Homicide. We never had video proof of the crime. We almost never had DNA. These are things that occur on CSI on TV, not in real life. And we still convicted people all the time.
What we had was testimony and circumstantial evidence. Travel times, bank records, cell phone data, gate access codes. Motive, capability, benefit, time and place. Never direct proof. Of course the defendant always denied the crime, but there was enough evidence to show that one had to have occurred nonetheless.
If what we have in the LA Mayoral election is a statistical anomaly that is beyond reasonable explanation with anything besides fraud, that is enough to prove a crime. This has been true since the beginning of Western Civlization.
My sister lives in Los Angeles.
She's a Democrat but voted for Spencer Pratt.
I was with her when she dropped her ballot in the mail weeks ago.
We checked today and it hasn't been received back.
Are they just TOSSING ballots for Spencer Pratt?
The day my daughter came home and said "school taught us Japan is a bad country."
Lowest crime rate on Earth.
Literacy near 100%.
We form a line in a disaster instead of looting.
I asked her to tell me where the "bad" part starts.
To my kids: this country is yours. Hold your head up.