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Topic: When Will The End-Times Be And How Will We Know?
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Phat
Member Posts: 18745 From: Denver,Colorado USA Joined: 12-30-2003 Member Rating: 3.2
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Message 706 of 794 (894718)
05-27-2022 11:25 AM
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Reply to: Message 705 by Tangle
05-27-2022 3:43 AM
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Prayer Is More Than Muttering
Tangle writes: Whether we're actually capable of fully shrugging off the superstitious nonsense that's still holding back most of the world AND saving ourselves from the animal behaviors we inherit from our recent history as descended apes, is still in the balance. One man's superstitious nonsense is another man's recipe for sanity. For one thing, most who call themselves churchgoers and members of the club are not at the level where they see prayer as anything more than a group ritual.
"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." ~Mark Twain " *** “…far from science having buried God, not only do the results of science point towards his existence, but the scientific enterprise itself is validated by his existence.”- Dr.John Lennox “A God without wrath brought men without sin into a Kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a Cross.”
H. Richard Niebuhr, The Kingdom of God in America “The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of a doubt, what is laid before him.” — Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God is Within You
(1894).
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Tangle
Member Posts: 9666 From: UK Joined: 10-07-2011 Member Rating: 5.6
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Message 707 of 794 (894721)
05-27-2022 11:46 AM
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Reply to: Message 706 by Phat
05-27-2022 11:25 AM
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Re: Prayer Is More Than Muttering
Phat writes: One man's superstitious nonsense is another man's recipe for sanity. Superstition is objectively nonsense - the fact that some dumb humans need to cling onto it for their sanity is sad but irrelevant.
For one thing, most who call themselves churchgoers and members of the club are not at the level where they see prayer as anything more than a group ritual. Well they'd be right about that at least.
Je suis Charlie. Je suis Ahmed. Je suis Juif. Je suis Parisien. I am Mancunian. I am Brum. I am London. Olen Suomi Soy Barcelona. I am Ukraine. "Science adjusts it's views based on what's observed.
Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved."
- Tim Minchin, in his beat poem, Storm.
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ringo
Member (Idle past 774 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: 03-23-2005
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Message 708 of 794 (894731)
05-27-2022 1:17 PM
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Reply to: Message 703 by Phat
05-27-2022 1:24 AM
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Re: JarThink
Phat writes: What scriptures have I misused recently?
ringo writes: Genesis 2. You call the truth a lie and the lie truth.
No. I call your (and) jars interpretation of the truth a lie.
It's not an interpretation. It's what the Bible says.
Phat writes: God does not lie. (There would be no reason to do so)
Sure there would. A parent sometimes lies to his child to protect him.
Phat writes: And there is no truth in the devil, according to scripture.
There is no devil in Genesis 2.
Phat writes: Secular humanism is neither good nor evil.
And yet you never say anything good about it.
Phat writes: It is simply mans attempt to ignore the "God concept" and figure life out on our own.
No. It's man's attempt to get things done without relying on fantasies.
Phat writes: How is that working for us?
Pretty well.
Phat writes: Besides....God wants Communion with humanity.
Here's a hint for Him: If you want to commune with me, don't threaten to fry me.
Phat writes: He is not OK with us simply being indifferent due to "lack of evidence".
That's just a convenient lie. God wants what you want Him to want.
Phat writes: And by the way, who told tou that unbelief is a default option?
You know it is. You don't believe in Zeus. Why not? Because unbelief is the default option. You don't believe in Quetzalcoatl. Why not? Because unbelief is the default option. You don't believe in Rael. Why not? Because unbelief is the default option. You don't believe in Thor. Why not? Because unbelief is the default option. You don't believe in Brahman. Why not? Because unbelief is the default option. Why do you pretend that belief is a wonderful thing when you have almost as much unbelief as I do?
quoting romans, Phat writes: as it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one; 11 no one understands; no one seeks for God. 12 All have turned aside;
No one seeks for God. Not seeking God is the default.
Phat writes: You and jar both mention Genesis 2. That view is very much a minority viewpoint.
Fallacy of appeal to popularity. The truth doesn't have to be popular.
Phat writes: Yet you say it every darn time we interact.
If you had anything to back up your popular opinion, we could finish with it once and for all. But as long as you continue to repeat the lie, I will continue to expose it as a lie.
"I call that bold talk for a one-eyed fat man!"
-- Lucky Ned Pepper
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Phat
Member Posts: 18745 From: Denver,Colorado USA Joined: 12-30-2003 Member Rating: 3.2
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Message 709 of 794 (894763)
05-28-2022 3:21 PM
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Reply to: Message 696 by nwr
05-24-2022 5:01 PM
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Re: Steering Back Towaards The Topic
Attempting to go to a gold standard would be an attempt to set the value through common agreement. Somehow, you are blind to that. No. The value of the dollar sets the price of Gold (for now) but the value (in dollars) of the Gold only reflects the worth of the dollar. In my opinion, humans attempted to use the dollar to replace Gold (as an international barometer) but in my opinion, will soon see that as futile.
I do not see any evidence supporting this.
So answer me this. If the purchasing power of the dollar dropped (as it always has in relative terms) less Gold would be required to back the central Banks in the event of a fiat currency collapse. Do you not see how Gold will always invisibly "back" fiat currencies even if decoupled from them. Well maybe not always...but in the foreseeable future. 
"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." ~Mark Twain " *** “…far from science having buried God, not only do the results of science point towards his existence, but the scientific enterprise itself is validated by his existence.”- Dr.John Lennox “A God without wrath brought men without sin into a Kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a Cross.”
H. Richard Niebuhr, The Kingdom of God in America “The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of a doubt, what is laid before him.” — Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God is Within You
(1894).
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nwr
Member Posts: 6492 From: Geneva, Illinois Joined: 08-08-2005
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Message 710 of 794 (894768)
05-28-2022 3:57 PM
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Reply to: Message 709 by Phat
05-28-2022 3:21 PM
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Re: Steering Back Towaards The Topic
Do you not see how Gold will always invisibly "back" fiat currencies even if decoupled from them. No, I don't see that at all.
Fundamentalism - the anti-American, anti-Christian branch of American Christianity
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jar
Member (Idle past 201 days) Posts: 34140 From: Texas!! Joined: 04-20-2004
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Message 711 of 794 (894772)
05-28-2022 4:54 PM
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Reply to: Message 710 by nwr
05-28-2022 3:57 PM
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Re: Steering Back Towaards The Topic
For a long, long time it was not gold but salt. For a long time it was not salt but incense. For a long time it was not incense but tobacco. For a short time it was tulips.
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Phat
Member Posts: 18745 From: Denver,Colorado USA Joined: 12-30-2003 Member Rating: 3.2
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Message 712 of 794 (894778)
05-29-2022 1:36 PM
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Reply to: Message 710 by nwr
05-28-2022 3:57 PM
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Maybe You Want To Share The Wealth
Maybe you wouldn't mind at all if currency became digital and everyone (rich and poor) was forced to pay their fair share for the common good. Nobody could hoard anything then.
"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." ~Mark Twain " *** “…far from science having buried God, not only do the results of science point towards his existence, but the scientific enterprise itself is validated by his existence.”- Dr.John Lennox “A God without wrath brought men without sin into a Kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a Cross.”
H. Richard Niebuhr, The Kingdom of God in America “The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of a doubt, what is laid before him.” — Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God is Within You
(1894).
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AZPaul3
Member Posts: 8733 From: Phoenix Joined: 11-06-2006 Member Rating: 5.1
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Message 713 of 794 (894780)
05-29-2022 2:26 PM
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Reply to: Message 712 by Phat
05-29-2022 1:36 PM
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Re: Maybe You Want To Share The Wealth
The vast wads of currency in this world are already digital. If you're talking crypto then, well, that's as productive as NFTs. Foolish. We do not have $100s of billions in actual bills. But many $100s of billions is wire transferred digitally every day. Do you know how currency is created? It does not roll off a printing press. It is created by bank loans. Shocking. And that newly created currency is all digital. Does this mean governments can get a hold of this stream to extract payments as it may want? Probably, but not easily given the elite's political control over the governments and the courts, and they haven't done so since digital took over. There is not much incentive to disrupt a system that works for elites and governments alike. Now, if we get rid of the elites and their political puppets we can better equalize wealth over the world. So digital currency, whether fiat or crypto, means nothing. What is important is the humanity behind the politics and, today this sucks.
Stop Tzar Vladimir the Condemned!
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nwr
Member Posts: 6492 From: Geneva, Illinois Joined: 08-08-2005
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Message 714 of 794 (894781)
05-29-2022 3:07 PM
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Reply to: Message 712 by Phat
05-29-2022 1:36 PM
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Re: Maybe You Want To Share The Wealth
Maybe you wouldn't mind at all if currency became digital and everyone (rich and poor) was forced to pay their fair share for the common good. Nobody could hoard anything then. As AZPaul3 said, currency is already digital. Perhaps you intended that as a reference to crypto-currency. I'm skeptical of crypto-currency. It is not at all clear what you were really trying to ask. There will always be those who live by theft and fail to pay their fair share toward the common good. And there will always hoarders. That's just human nature. Christianity has not been able to repeal human nature, and humanism won't be able to do it either
Fundamentalism - the anti-American, anti-Christian branch of American Christianity
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Phat
Member Posts: 18745 From: Denver,Colorado USA Joined: 12-30-2003 Member Rating: 3.2
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Message 715 of 794 (894782)
05-29-2022 3:08 PM
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Reply to: Message 713 by AZPaul3
05-29-2022 2:26 PM
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Re: Maybe You Want To Share The Wealth
Quora writes: World GDP, which is around $73 trillion[1], is just the income generated every year by all the economies of the world combined. However, the question asks about the distribution of wealth - and wealth and income are two different concepts. Wealth is stock, while income is the flow adding to that stock. In simple terms, wealth is the total productive assets in the world reduced by the total liabilities of the world. Now, the total assets in the world can be clubbed in two broad categories: Assets like patents, buildings, machines, gold etc which you own with you or put to use to earn money Assets like bonds, debentures etc which are monies lent out to others What’s a cool but obvious thing about no. 2 kind of assets? These are the liabilities for someone else - your liability is my asset and they cancel each other out. So what’s left? Real assets as in no. 1 assets - gold mines, patents, anything which can generate income. Now, true equality would mean equal ownership of these assets! But how do we measure the value of these assets? According to research done by Credit-Suisse, this number stands at ~$250 trillion today, which is distributed like this: Therefore, assuming the population of the world to be around 7.4 billion, if all the wealth were to be distributed equally, each one of us would be worth $34,000. You think that’s not too much huh? Nearly 75% of the world earns below that today. Except not most of us here at EvC.
"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." ~Mark Twain " *** “…far from science having buried God, not only do the results of science point towards his existence, but the scientific enterprise itself is validated by his existence.”- Dr.John Lennox “A God without wrath brought men without sin into a Kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a Cross.”
H. Richard Niebuhr, The Kingdom of God in America “The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of a doubt, what is laid before him.” — Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God is Within You
(1894).
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AZPaul3
Member Posts: 8733 From: Phoenix Joined: 11-06-2006 Member Rating: 5.1
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Message 716 of 794 (894783)
05-29-2022 4:03 PM
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Reply to: Message 715 by Phat
05-29-2022 3:08 PM
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Re: Maybe You Want To Share The Wealth
What does your Quora quote mean? What do you think it means? How does this impact your currency fears? And, if I may, a source to this. I would like to see their "which is distributed like this:" list. Edited by AZPaul3, .
Stop Tzar Vladimir the Condemned!
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jar
Member (Idle past 201 days) Posts: 34140 From: Texas!! Joined: 04-20-2004
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Message 717 of 794 (894784)
05-29-2022 4:29 PM
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Reply to: Message 715 by Phat
05-29-2022 3:08 PM
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Re: Maybe You Want To Share The Wealth
Phat, once again you are simply showing that you are totally ignorant when it comes to almost every subject including money. The Quora passage is simply utterly stupid and created to impress those who are unwilling or incapable of thinking. Step back and explain why the Quora passage is simply utterly stupid and created to impress those who are unwilling or incapable of thinking.
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AnswersInGenitals
Member (Idle past 513 days) Posts: 673 Joined: 07-20-2006
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Message 718 of 794 (894786)
05-29-2022 6:25 PM
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Reply to: Message 715 by Phat
05-29-2022 3:08 PM
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Re: Maybe You Want To Share The Wealth
Phat, you need to correct/update your numbers. this wikipedia article, based on Credit Suisse (2021) data shows world total net wealth as $418 trillion(USD). If I weren't too lazy to figure out how to post images from that article, I would do so. And I'd also post images of an apple and an orange for your edification - after giving a careful explanation of the difference between earnings (income) and wealth you go on to compare the world wealth per person to income! Most interesting in this article (to me) is that the US owns 30% of the world's wealth at $126 Trillion(USD) while Russia owns all of 0.73% at $3 Trillion(USD), and are ranked 20th. (China owns 18% with $75 Trillion and comes in 2nd after the US.) Many military experts will tell you that modern wars are not won, they are bought. If this is true, Russia would not stand a chance against the US if we were to get serious about any conflict.
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Candle3
Member Posts: 982 Joined: 12-31-2018 Member Rating: 4.0
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Message 719 of 794 (894818)
05-30-2022 9:37 AM
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Reply to: Message 708 by ringo
05-27-2022 1:17 PM
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Re: JarThink
Ringo, you call believing in God a fantasy. Yet, God commands those who truly seek Him to prove everything. Blind faith is worthless. The Bible contains many prophecies; some have already been fulfilled, others will soon be fulfilled. There are more than 50 specific OT prophecies about Jesus that have been fulfilled in the NT. Some Biblical scholars insist that the actual number is better than 300. For the sake of brevity, I will mention just eight. A mathematician friend at Murray State (he teaches Probabilities and Statistics) says that the probability of just eight prophecies being fulfilled is 10 followed By 17 zeroes. I will cite the OT prophecy, followed by NT fulfillment. Isaiah 7:14 born of a virgin Luke 1:35. Micah 5:2 born in Bethlehem Matthew 2:4-6. Psalms 78:1-2 teach in parables Matthew 13:34-35. Isaiah 9:1-7 begins ministry in Galilee Matthew 4:12-17. Isaiah 40:3-4 Christ preceeded by forerunner (John the Baptist). John 1:23. Isaiah 53:3 despised and rejected Luke 4:28-29. Zechariah 11:12-13 betrayed for 30 pieces of silver Matthew 27:6-10. Psalms 22:6 hands and feet pierced John 19:36-37. My church was aware from 1951 that East and West Germany would reunite. I realized this in the early 1980's. Without a clear understanding of prophecy, I never would have thought that the Soviet Union would have freed East Germany. We knew beyond a doubt that Britain would withdraw from the EU. We also know that the EU will slim down to just 10 nations (married in a sense to a powerful universal church). To know what is in store for certain nations today, it is paramount that we identify who they were in Biblical times.
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PaulK
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Message 720 of 794 (894821)
05-30-2022 10:44 AM
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Reply to: Message 719 by Candle3
05-30-2022 9:37 AM
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Re: JarThink
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The Bible contains many prophecies; some have
already been fulfilled, others will soon be fulfilled.
Some have certainly failed. For instance the end times did not arrive on the schedule of Daniel 8.
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There are more than 50 specific OT prophecies
about Jesus that have been fulfilled in the NT.
Some Biblical scholars insist that the actual
number is better than 300.
That sort of so-called “Biblical scholar” often says things that aren’t true.
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For the sake of brevity, I will mention just eight.
Let’s see how far you can go before getting one wrong.
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Isaiah 7:14 born of a virgin Luke 1:35.
Oh dear, the first one is an obvious error. The child born in Isaiah 7 is not the main prophecy but a sign that the main prophecy will shortly be fulfilled. That prophecy being that the attacks from Aram and Israel will soon be brought to an end by the Assyrians. Unless Jesus was born in the reign of Ahaz, he has nothing to do with this prophecy.
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