The_Patriot21

Yes, lots of it lol

I just have to say one thing. Yes, pineapple does indeed belong on pizza!

Lol ok. That's why in the 2000s they were running articles on flat earth and on how Obama was a space alien wearing a human suit. No...it's a tabloid. Granted most of your MSM isn't really any more reliable then tabloids, but still. Apparently it doesn't take much to go from a supermarket tabloid to "reliable news source" apparently, all it takes is "sources" and a crazy story that people actually want to hear. And it's sad there's not much difference between CNN and the gaurdian. Just goes to show that true journalism is a thing of the past

Lol you know, once upon a time no one would take tabloids like the gaurdian seriously. In fact, even the left hasn't, I mean if trump had actually said any of this CBS, NBC, CNN, etc would be all over it. Yet we have a few cringe anti Trumpers who will believe what even the MSM who hates trump won't believe, just because it tickles their ears.

Ok, so what's stopping you from going and doing so?

You went from jezebel to influencers, with no mention of it being used for good. The natural assumption in your natural post is your talking about all influencers, and going back and reading the comments it's obvious I'm not the only one who came to that conclusion. While I believe you when you say that wasn't your intention, that was how it came across, and it maybe wise to make your intent a little clearer in the future. It's the curse of online forums like this, in that were depending on the written word to coney our message and intent. If we don't use enough words we often fail to convey our intended message, but if we use to many the post goes to long and people stop reading before getting a full understanding. It's a fine line we all walk my friend. Im not saying this as an attack, but merely a suggestion for you in the future. Have a good day.

Well, that is not the message that is conveyed in your original post-which is what I was referring to when I said OP. Most people aren't going to take the time to read 5 pages of comments to figure out if your backtracked your initial post, so in the future you may want to take that into consideration when making your first post.

You know we're all influencers in one way or another. Are we mass murderers? Now on to the ops definition. I watch a lot of FB reels and find a lot of christian influencers on there, spreading Christ's love. Are they mass murderers? I would say no. I would say the ops claim is a unscriptural generalization at best. Social media is a thing now. It's an integral part of culture and it's not going away. It's where the people are, like it or not. And If we hide from it that doesn't do anything to further the kingdom of God. Because social media isnt inherently evil or good. It's a tool. Nothing more, nothing less. And it's largely used for evil, that is true. But going through the reels I see many Christian influencers using the platform of their choice to spread the gospel. They're being in the world but not of it, using the tools available to them to preach Christ to those that will listen, just like the apostle Paul did on Mars hill. I myself have used social media for good. It's a powerful tool that can indeed be used for good, hence why it's being censored so badly. So to compare influencers to mass murderers, isn't scriptural. At least not as a blanket term, there certainly are a great many of them that are following selfish desires, but they aren't all doing so and it's a disservice and a false claim to paint them all under the same flag.

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Interesting notion, had gollum not gone after the ring, it would not have been destroyed. It would have taken frodo, and ultimately fell into saurons hands. Hobbits had more resilience to the ring then humans, but they were still susceptible to it. It would have even taken sam had he been the ring bearer. There were people in middle earth who could. The ring held no power over dwarves, for example. However most dwarves would not have tried to destroy it but rather bury it in their treasure heap. The few that would, such as gimli, would have never have been able to get it there, as they would have killed gollum on sight and as such never found the secret entrance. Outside of dwarves the only person that was impervious to the ring was Tom Bombadil, who according to Tolkien's other writings was a equal match to sauron in power If not more powerful, as long as he stayed in his woods. Keyword there. He lost his power if he left, and even if he did was far to absentminded to be able to make the journey. Gandalf of course knew all this, including that frodo wouldn't be able to destroy the ring on his own, but that's a study for another time.

Interesting. The white house has proven it can actually run a budget and cut costs when it comes to circumnavigating congress, but not when it comes to eliminating national debt.

I should add, that Tolkien didn't intentionally write analogies into the LOTRs like lewis did with Narnia. in fact, in an interview he was asked about analogies and he denied it, according to him the LOTRs was intended for entertainment purposes only. However one can easily make analogies out of a lot of the content, I believe a lot of that was because his faith just naturally flowed into his writing. But it was not intentional, and there certainly are elements that cannot be made into analogies at all.

You've completely missed my point but that's ok I see no further point to this discussion. Have a good one.

I would say don't blame him for the actions of others. Now I don't condone all of his actions, but his actions did lead to a lot of good as well. I mean he's not even the first man of this nature that God's used. Abraham was a horrible father. Moses was a murderer. King David was an adulterer and a murderer. King Solomon was a womanizer. Samson was not only selfish but also a womanizer who let his lust control him. Matthew was a tax collector. Paul before coming to Christ was a persecutor of the saints. In fact going through the Bible many of the people God chose to use would not only be considered immoral by our standards, but they would make Calvin look positively tame by comparison. God has His plan, and He uses corrupt men to do it. Which is good, because we are all corrupt. None of us are perfect and we all come with our own moral baggage. Calvin was a product of his time. We look back on him and say hey look at all this evil he did, but to many don't take into account the time he was in. Luthor and Armenian were every bit the extremists Calvin was, but I don't see you going after them. None of us are perfect. But it helps to take into context the world historical figures lived in to understand the why they did what they did, and it helps to remember that just like them, were sinners to, and we are all in need of the same grace.

Well, you are indeed proving it. I said nothing about homosexuality I simply answered the question. The truth of the matter is I made a single, factual statement. You inferred things that weren't even hinted at in my post, and now your trying to make it like I was at least partially to blame. While there are certainly times where I have been guilty of such, it is not this time. It seems to me your simply trying to prove your point and not actually caring about what I said, and as such the only out come is further division. So I'm out. Have a good evening.

It's inferred. I made a comment and you brought homosexuality into it by asking if I was ok with it, even though I never said anything about it. You brought it up, the inference is that it's in response to what I said, I.e. I must be ok with it even though I provided no context to suggest that. It's not a example of division it's an example of you failing to properly communicate online. Now with that said, it's easy to do online. It's often very easy to misunderstand others intent when one only has the written word, and it's even easier to read into it. It's something all of us, myself are guilty of. Have been, will be, again. So if it's anything it's an example of why we should be careful of how and why we write what we do online.

Nope. Never said anything about that, all I said was at some point Jesus will unite His church. Which is true Jesus is coming back for His bride, and those that are not of His church will be left behind Where did you get that I'm ok with homosexuality in the church from that?

He definitely took it to the extreme. But he was the right man for the job. At the time the roman catholic church would kill anyone who stood against them if they could. The only ones who weren't were those that could garnish enough of a following that the church wouldn't move on them for fear of backlash. And extremists attract followers. Calvin dragged heretics behind horses, Luther would as soon burn them at the stake. It's amazing How God uses us, despite ourselves.

Was that the time he tied the "heretics" up and dragged them behind horses through town?

God can and will unite us. Nothing we do or do not do can change His plan.

Thought for the day. LOTRs has always been one of my favorite stories because of how in depth the story is. Well, on a LOTRs FB group I'm in it was brought up that gandalf brought 3 eagles to mt doom in return of the king to rescue the hobbits-one of them was for gollum. In fact throughout the series gollum has always been portrayed as a horrid creature and a villian. He killed his best friend over the ring and will do anything to keep it/get it back. He's literally evil, and in the end proves to be unredeemable. And Gandalf knew just how despicable he was, and even though he had multiple chances to kill him, he stays his hand, and even encourages frodo to show him mercy as well, which frodo does even going so far as to save gollums life on more then one occasion, once from his best friend sam. And in the end gollum dies due to his own treachery, and gandalf while not knowing that, does know just how treacherous gollum is still sent an eagle to rescue him. That's love. That's what Christ does for us, over and over, it's why He came here and died for us, even though He knew most of us would spit in his face. And yet, as Christians when we run up against someone who has done us wrong over and over and over again, were more apt to take the attitude that samwise and most of the rest of the characters in the LOTRs took towards Gollum, and write them off as evil, instead of loving them like Jesus does. We don't know if they are unredeemable or not, only God knows that, we need to love them regardless.

Yeah, no they weren't. I mean his character was horrible....but bill was rotten to the core and his policies were horrid. If they were even his and not his wife's. Does trump have some nasty character flaws? Sure. We all do. But he at least doesn't want to destroy America.

What people forget is everyone has moral baggage. Some of us just figured out how to give it God.

Labor shortage is real...even where I'm at it's difficult to find employees... especially quality employees. But yet inflation is through the roof. Interest rates are sky high. The stock market is hanging by a thread. Government debt is growing at a faster rate then it ever has. It's all pointing to a crash of such epic proportions as to make the great depression look like the good ol days. And immigration....yeah really isn't doing any more then putting a drain on the system. Just look at all the sanctuary cities that Abbott has been bussing immigrants to. The immigrants arnt working. They're not making money. They're not spending money. Even if they were allowed to work there's not enough jobs for them. Most of them are living on the streets after they filled up the shelters and most of the local hotel-all on the governments dime. They're also being fed by tax dollars. So yeah... The Washington post article is pretty much all baloney. All these immigrants are just straining the system. I mean if you work for a hotel in say NYC you might think it's great, your place is booked solid with a garenteed paycheck. But on the scope of things, that paycheck is coming from money the government likely doesn't even have and is having to borrow to keep footing the bill.

Anyone who thinks the economy is roaring either has no idea how the economy is supposed to work, or is lying through their teeth.