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“Speak the truth in love” - always together

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@TwoAGuy Anthropic is noble but naive. Human nature is evil. We need to be prepared to fight fire with fire.

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Likewise, I do have concerns about these things but the genie is out of the bottle. If we don’t have these weapons and assistance but our enemies do, their history books will say that we caused them to need to destroy us. Like the democrats already do, they blame others for what they’re already doing.

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The depravity of the human heart when man walked out on God. Then it raises another disturbing thing when we say, well, make your choice which one's it going to be Christ or is it going to be the world?
You and I may say, well, why couldn't we have both? Why couldn't there be some way that we can sort of have Christ and we can take the sinful world too and have both? Why can't we get away with that? Why can't we just go out and with the lust of the eye and with the lust of the heart and with the pride of life, why can't we go out and live to the world and still have Jesus?
Why won't he let us do that?
Well, I think if we just look at ourselves, how happy would you and I be in heaven if we spent all our earthly days in fulfilling the lust of the eye and in fulfilling the lust of the heart? How happy would we be in heaven when heaven is holiness? We would be the most miserable people in the world.
If Christ would take you and me to heaven when all we've done in this life is live for the world, live for all of its lusts and all of its evil and all of its wickedness, and then suddenly find ourselves in heaven with all of that gone, why, there'd be mutiny in heaven. I think we'd go to him and we'd say, please let me go back to earth, I'm anything but happy here, if there has been no control, no control over the lust of your eye and mine or over the lust of your heart and mine.
Heaven would be hell.
That's the reason why Jesus would remind you and me, you can't serve two masters. You just can't do it because he wouldn't dare or ever be so unkind as to subject you and me to an eternity of holiness when all that the heart has ever lived on has been lust and has been wickedness.
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-Rev ME Hollensen, March 18, 1970

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“There are those in our country tonight who would destroy this nation within the next ten minutes if they could. They would destroy this government. They would reduce you and me to an abject slave. They would put communism in control of this government. They would see to it that you and I would have no right to live except by the government, that we would die if the government decided it, that we would have no right to work where we wanted to work, no right of choice, no right of income, no right to live except given us by the state.

I'd like to know how many of you tonight would like that. I think you and I come back to this when we see it. We say, who in the world would ever sell his freedom in this great land of ours for slavery?

Who in the world would want to live under a government that denied God and where I would lose the right of choice, where I would be denied the right to go to church, I would be denied the right to work where I wanted to, I would be denied the salary that I ought to have, I would be denied even my life if somebody in that communistic government decided to put me to death.

And I'm sure when we begin to think of that, we say to ourselves, thank God for America. Thank God that here is a land that still gives you and me the right of choice.

You came to church tonight and so did I because we wanted to come, the right of choice. And those who didn't come, not all, but some didn't come because they didn't want to come.

And therefore the answer to this disturbing question, why didn't God make us that we didn't have the right of choice?

God didn't want us to be slaves. God wanted us to rise above. He wanted you and me to be free moral agents.”

Rev ME Hollensen, March 18, 1970

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@davefarley77 Clear coding is much more valuable than clever coding.

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I just sponsored isontheline. Go sponsor your open source dependencies! https://t.co/FqL6y6PAEL

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@unclebobmartin Our second one was the shoulder carry. The first was a luggable VHS recording unit (think Kaypro) with a small camera connected by a 50ft cable. Although we still have the components, their capacitors and transformers are shot. The tapes are barely viewable.

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@JDVance I couldn't agree more.

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@TwoAGuy The Dems are in more trouble than they expected. DOGE is actually doing its job.

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@KnottsSoftware @unclebobmartin @ThePrimeagen Not easier but at least there was still a sense of common decency, respect, and propriety. Most kids today don’t know what to expect from each other.

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@unclebobmartin @ThePrimeagen Same here. We’ve been married since 1972. We were both in high school. Our son didn’t come along until the day after our 7th anniversary. We thank God for each other and for the hard times that we endured together.

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@HashCons @unclebobmartin I keep my pocket (5") Pickett in my truck with me :-)

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Thank you for sharing! Before being a software developer... before having access to electronic calculators... I was a mechanical draftsman. I did trig all day using Smoley's Handbook to get 4 places of accuracy. My trusty slide rule was indispensable for giving me quick answers which I then fleshed out with Smoley's and proved the results with Pythagoras.

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[John Rich🇺🇸 @johnrich]

All I want for my birthday today is for you to forward this post: "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life." -John 3:16

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1 Timothy 4:7 (LSB)
But refuse godless myths fit only for old women. On the other hand, train yourself for the purpose of godliness

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Life is full of light and shadow
O the joy and O the sorrow
O the sorrow

And yet will He bring
Dark to light
And yet will He bring
Day from night

When shadows fall on us
We will not fear
We will remember

When darkness falls on us
We will not fear
We will remember

When all seems lost
When we're thrown and we're tossed
We remember the cost
We rest in the
Shadow of the cross

- “Shadows” (David Crowder Band)

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@TwoAGuy Merry Christmas! May God bless you and your family throughout the year. I remember you in my prayers daily.

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Some people in the US government know exactly what the mystery drones are. Instead of explaining, they want to distract from traitorous actions they are taking while they still can. Now they want us to beg for even more legislation against civilian drones.

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@joelgrus It isn’t answerable. Many of us programmers stumbled into our profession because we were needed capable.

Technology was moving too fast for anyone to choose the right hierarchy.

Now I look back on my career and give thanks to God for the people and experiences I have had.