The Swamp King

The world is a fine place and worth fighting for ~ Robert Jordan (For Whom The Bell Tolls)

[The Swamp King @GatorRy]

@elsathora Miami would be the most international. Specifically for the Fourth of July, Washington DC would be the most American/patriotic location.

[The Swamp King @GatorRy]

@SickosCommittee 8 red cards and 11 yellow cards just for Brazil

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@kylesheldon The post game had 8 red cards for Brazil

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@FreddyLA7 You need to go to Baton Rouge or Gainesville (Florida) for a college football game at night; on a completely different level.

[The Swamp King @GatorRy]

@FreddyLA7 Colorado literally runs an actual buffalo out onto the field with “handlers” trying not to get trampled over

[The Swamp King @GatorRy]

@lobagotbanned @king_koddy Game of Thrones
Dark
True Detective (season 1)
Chernobyl

[The Swamp King @GatorRy]

@TimBrando @NCAA

[blue @bluewmist]

I'm finally reading Dune. This quote, which is in the first few pages, hits hard:

"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."

[The Swamp King @GatorRy]

@jameslineky I don’t think you can call this a megalopolis when there is a whole lot of nothing except farmland in between them

[Ryan S. Walters @ryanswalters73]

As a historian, here are just a few issues I have with the Book of Mormon and the whole tale:

National Geographic Society has stated that they’ve never found any evidence from the Book of Mormon. The cities Joseph Smith names have never been found. He mentions writing systems; none have been found. He mentions coinage; none have ever been found. He talks of great battles being fought, yet no graves, no weapons, nothing has been found. He mentions horses and steel, which didn’t exist in the ancient Americas. He mentions a temple like Solomon’s built be the Nephites. It has never been found. In fact, he claims they are lost tribes of Israel, Jewish people. Jews can’t have a temple anywhere on earth but the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. The whole tale is fanciful! Why anyone believes it is a great mystery to me.

[i/o @avidseries]

LDS is not part of Christianity.

In the interest of being tolerant and nice, we've let this nonsense claim persist for too long.

When you take elements of one religion and then pile up a bunch of contradicting novel elements on top of them, you've created something else.

Which is fine. But Mormons need to move on and stop the charade that they're part of Christendom.

Sure, one or two heretical claims wouldn't necessarily place it outside Christianity, but polygamy enthusiast Joseph Smith loaded up his sect with claims that God was once a man (and is married to a female goddess), Jesus and Satan are brothers, there are an infinite number of gods, there is no original sin, and that every historic Christian creed should be rejected.

And when you add stuff like the planet Kolob, baptizing the dead, special underwear, an ancient Israelite presence in the US (along with the "Egyptian" language and Jesus himself)... well, you get the idea.

[lia @tallsnail]

I was raised Mormon and it took me a long time to understand how fundamentally different it is from historic Christianity. Even as recently as 3 years ago, I didn't get why it was a big deal that we didn't believe in the Trinity

Mormon theology does not present God as an "uncaused cause", existence itself, the "Logos". In Mormonism, God *is* a "man in the sky", a created being, someone who was once human but is now exalted within our known universe. This opens up a lot of problems imo. For example: what happens when death and evil are overcome on our planet, and you reach exaltation? You are now a God of a new universe/planet to create a new race of humanity and evil arises all over again and the drama continues into eternity? There is no message of the ultimate overcoming of death/evil as in historic Christianity

In all my childhood and young adult instruction in the LDS church, I never learned that Jesus was "God in the flesh" or anything like that. Jesus really was taught as a distinct BEING from God the Father (who again... Is a *created being*). It is a fundamentally different Christ that is believed and worshipped.

[The Swamp King @GatorRy]

@ThroneSpud Georgia, Tennessee, and Florida should be on there too

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@OKSTBourbonBro @heavenhill 22yr is better than the 90th but not as good as the 17yr. 90th better than the 19, 18, and 20 (obviously).

[Brandon Waltens @bwaltens]

NEW: @GregAbbott_TX says the spread of New World screwworm into Texas poses an “imminent threat” of widespread damage to the state's livestock industry and economy.

He's now declared a disaster for all 254 Texas counties.

[The Swamp King @GatorRy]

@Hightop_Dave Talent wise… 100%. I just don’t think you’ll see him ranked very high because of his height. I don’t agree with it and neither does UF.

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@AriWasserman @AndyStaples slaughtered you

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@DaGoatYear87 @Smooth189 That dude is football fast

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@TheGreatoneJon UF and Miami are getting after it.