Rick Rack

NASA Ret. Senior Tech Staff (Mission & Systems Arch). A science book convinced me of the Bible's authenticity (Eyewitness to Jesus-Theide).

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@MarioNawfal A self sustaining prison on Mars is actually what would work. Australia turned out really well.

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@DineshDSouza @EWErickson Enjoying your posts

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@elonmusk @SpaceAbhi I presume cracking was cracked but hopefully not while smoking it.

[Megan Basham @megbasham]

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered.... Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right."

~George Orwell, 1984

[Jenna Ellis 🐊 @realJennaEllis]

Another serious problem with Calvinism is that it functionally undermines assurance of salvation.

Calvinism teaches that Christ died only for the elect and that only the elect receive genuine saving faith. But election is God’s hidden decree. So how does a Calvinist know that he is actually among the elect?

He cannot simply point to his present faith, because Calvinism also recognizes people who appear to believe, display spiritual fruit, and profess Christ for years—only to fall away and thereby be declared never truly regenerated. Present faith is therefore treated as genuine only if future perseverance eventually validates it.

The Calvinist is pushed inward, constantly examining the quality of his faith, the sufficiency of his fruit, and the durability of his perseverance for evidence that he may be elect. But if apparent faith can later prove false, how can he possess settled assurance now? His confidence becomes dependent upon correctly interpreting his own spiritual condition rather than resting upon the objective promise of Christ.

Biblical assurance does not require us to deduce whether we were included in a secret decree. It rests upon God’s revealed promise: “Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life” (John 3:36), and “I write these things to you who believe…that you may know that you have eternal life” (1 John 5:13).

The believer’s assurance is not: “I hope my faith and perseverance eventually prove that I was secretly elected.”

It is: “Christ died for sinners, God promises eternal life to everyone who believes, and I am trusting in Christ.”

Fruit confirms faith; it is not the foundation of assurance. The foundation is Christ’s finished work and God’s promise to the believer.

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@SpringSteps It is trivial to not be modalist, the difficulty is not being a hypocrite.

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@elonmusk @teslaownersSV Nothing beats truth

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

I've had a change of heart on federal income tax. On the surface, it's just a way for the government to generate revenue—it has to get its funding from somewhere. But I now see that the method of taxation itself fundamentally alters the relationship between the government and its people.

When the government relies on taxing individual income, it shifts from serving its citizens to exploiting them as a revenue source. This dynamic creates an inherent friction, where the government no longer answers to the people but to the system that extracts from them. And if you look around, it's clear—whatever our tax dollars are funding, it’s not serving us.

This is what modern economists fail to grasp when they dismiss tariffs, sales taxes, or luxury taxes as harmful. The structure of taxation matters, not just the amount collected. The income tax distorts governance itself—and it needs to go.

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@DerrickEvans4WV For sure, security detail at first.

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@brockpierson I definitely used one of those in high school. I was an Explorer using one of the largest main frames around. The facility was called TIPO.

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@RTB_HRoss Very true God did not give us this amazing toolbox, not intending for us to use it.

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@DrMichaelLBrown The two have become one, so there is one entity now where formerly there was two.

“…by your blood you ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation, and you have made them a kingdom and priests to our God, and they shall reign on the earth.”

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@libsoftiktok Proverbs 16:18 (ESV)
Pride goes before destruction,
and a haughty spirit before a fall.

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@w_bitterman I was about three or four when i fell into the pool at the windjammer motel and a complete stranger saved me.

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@birdchadlouis It applies profoundly to marriage but not limited to that.

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@Kyangs_Thang How tall is that compared to Saint Peter’s Cathedral?

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@bennyjohnson BS: was recently ruled unfit for trial on weapons charges, shifting the case to mental health court ahead of a September 9 hearing.

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@DerrickEvans4WV @BestBuy Great to know in advance of my next appliance purchase.

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@wholemars She's the safest person on the road TBH. An AI4 Tesla would have avoided every single accident I have ever been involved with and that is with no assistance from me.

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@nettermike Justice delayed Justice Denied

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@5Solas If God knew everything about the future, he would be powerless to change it

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@5Solas God, repeatedly tests, his servants throughout scripture, if God knew everything about the future these tests would have no meaning. God gives us a free will, and he intervenes in the future to make his word come to pass.