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In 1 Thessalonians 4:15, the apostle Paul says that Jesus would return while he was alive. The apostle died and Jesus did not return. 1 Thessalonians 4:15 "According to the Lord’s word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will certainly not...

How does Congress get any work done when things are so toxic?

Here's a story that reminds me of the Kyle Rittenhouse case from a few years ago. From an article in USA Today: What is Daniel Perry accused of? Regarding the pardon... It's that the part that I highlighted that gets me. It could show that Daniel Perry had intent to cause trouble. But...

This story came across my news feed from an article in Newsweek: My initial thoughts are that these Democrats probably are against immigrants committing violent crime, but they voted against this bill for some other reason. Or maybe this article is leaving out some facts?... Just my guesses...

Here's driving through one... would make a good clip for Twister part 2: Tornado decides to visit a neighborhood in Nebraska: I've stayed in the Pacific Northwest and in Southern Florida. I've never seen a tornado in person but would love to get one on tape.

A lot of Christians believe that the world is becoming more evil as society strays further away from Christianity. I thought the world was becoming more evil for other reasons. But then I read this post on Reddit that has me questioning my view. Perhaps I'm mostly focusing on the negatives...

Report from April 23, 2024 - Ukraine receives $61 billion dollars: - AP Report from May 10, 2024 - Ukraine to receive another $400 million worth of support: - AP My point in bringing this topic up is not to take away from Russia being wrong to attack Ukraine, but rather it's to question if...

The Bible is full of prophecies. Some prophecies amount to warnings from God regarding present day matters. But then, some would say that there are also prophecies that speak to future times. If this is the case, then that would be solid evidence for God's existence. Of course, it depends on...

On another thread, I made a point about the Bible not being against polygamy. One of my supporting points that there were no examples of a man being called an adulterer for having sex with multiple woman (who were also his wives or were going to be or served the function as such - concubines)...

Imagine today, that all of mankind is united. There are no wars, no fighting over land, we're all a true and respected democracies, etc. Then, we start planning to work together to build all of these great technologies, and then God says, no, this is bad. He then breaks it all up. I believe...

As many of you may already know, there has been a lot of protests at US colleges mostly of pro-Palestinian supporters. Some report that some protests have turned violent and have made Jewish students feel threatened. President Biden gave an excellent response to that (3 minutes long):

Just thought of another hot button issue that can be discussed here in an agnostic environment. The calls for ceasefire and the death of Palestinian civilians. You have one side, especially all of the protestors on the college campuses, calling for a ceasefire. Many of these protestors also...

There's been a pick up in the amount of coverage in the Israel and Palestine conflict. Most noticeably to me, there's also a lot of biased perspective. This will be the place to try to set aside those biases and reach reasonable conclusions as should be expected from agnostics and other...

I've been reading some interesting articles about panpsychism and how it relates to the mind-body problem. The only problem I'm running into is that I'm not finding a direct answer to the crux of the mind-body problem, that is, how 2 different substances (one physical and the other nonphysical)...

I've been reading some interesting articles about panpsychism and how it relates to the mind-body problem. The only problem I'm running into is that I'm not finding a direct answer to the crux of the mind-body problem, that is, how 2 different substances (one physical and the other nonphysical)...

One major objection to substance dualism is that a non-physical soul or consciousness would not be able to interact with the physical world. One simple reason is that only physical things (or matter) can occupy space and interact with other physical things in space. This point is used as an...

amelian joined the forum this morning. Their first 2 posts were blatant rule violations involving advertising for a website. Therefore, amelian is banned. Normally I delete all spam posts but I decided to leave one of the posts up to serve as an example. Rule violations - 1. Post 2. Profile...

For those unaware, I have a Featured Thread section on my home page that lists all of the popular discussions going on in the forum. I changed the layout. Instead of the featured threads showing up in a slider, it now shows up as a block, and all of the featured threads are listed together, one...

My website was down for less than an hour because I messed up some security settings. But now it's back up! A Big thanks to Godaddy support. I highly recommend them for website creation/hosting if you're a newbie at that stuff.

The approval of Bitcoin ETFs provided a big boost to Bitcoin. But now we have an even bigger price catalyst coming when it comes to the Bitcoin halving. FOr those unfamiliar with it, it's basically the Bitcoin emission being cut in half. In other words, new Bitcoin is created about every 10...