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I remember the first two weeks of basic training. Everybody got shat upon, we were treated unfairly, blamed for things we didn't do, run ragged, everybody was punished for the mistake of one, etc., etc. They treated us like that on purpose, they wanted to see how we handled it. Some folks took it, continued to do the best they could, helped others that were having trouble and soldiered on. Others bitched and complained and blamed everybody else. After a while, they let up on the first group but came down even harder on the second.
I think life is a lot like that. The problems aren't there to be solved, they are there for a reason. Someone just wants to see if we - each person individually - can rise above them.
Gunnery, gunnery, gunnery. Hit the target, all else is twaddle!
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Gus,
You are presuming a god exists.
Pretty hard for things to get fixed by a non-existent entity. You have asserted He doesn't exist, without evidence. Get back to us when you can create anything from nothing.
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i understand things aren't perfect in this world,.]
we've worked to present the world to the god that will save us, and vice versa.
it would be good to see a god that is on our side, finally.'
humans, eating the urth, and humans loving god.
let's talk about the system, ok?
Because it doesn't work that way. The world and the humans are in a fallen state. The pathway for us is through Christ to elevate us from our own fallen state. The Earf and all in it is temporary and is going to pass away eventually. We are required to try and do our part to try and make it a better place. The fact that we fail miserably at it proves that without God we aren't schitt and that His plan is going to fall into place at His choosing. For Him to interfere and try to fix our failure would also violate the free-will thing that we have.
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Gus,
You are presuming a god exists.
Pretty hard for things to get fixed by a non-existent entity. You have asserted He doesn't exist, without evidence. Get back to us when you can create anything from nothing. No, I did not. I pointed out that Gus's question rests upon an unproven presupposition. Perhaps you also noticed I referred to a general god, not your specific God. If Gus wants an answer to why no god seems to be looking out for us, his first question should be does one exist, and if so, which one or ones?
You didn't use logic or reason to get into this opinion, I cannot use logic or reason to get you out of it.
You cannot over estimate the unimportance of nearly everything. John Maxwell
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Gus,
You are presuming a god exists.
Pretty hard for things to get fixed by a non-existent entity. You have asserted He doesn't exist, without evidence. Get back to us when you can create anything from nothing. The left has spent trillions of dollars and murdered millions of people( believers in communist countries) in an attempt to disprove the existence of God. Remember the billions spent on the particle accelerator in Switzerland which was supposed to prove or disprove the existence of God. How did that work out ?
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why should he, he gave us the ability to solve are own problems.
God bless Texas----------------------- Old 300 I will remain what i am until the day I die- A HUNTER......Sitting Bull Its not how you pick the booger.. but where you put it !! Roger V Hunter
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Of the 14 different gods I pray to, none has given me a good answer yet. because your a f ucking idiot walt.
God bless Texas----------------------- Old 300 I will remain what i am until the day I die- A HUNTER......Sitting Bull Its not how you pick the booger.. but where you put it !! Roger V Hunter
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why should he, he gave us the ability to solve are own problems. Yep.
I am MAGA.
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Gus, in a very small nutshell, because we wouldn't learn anything. Real answer.
The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. -- L. Zadeh
Which explains a lot.
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Gus,
You are presuming a god exists.
Pretty hard for things to get fixed by a non-existent entity. You have asserted He doesn't exist, without evidence. Get back to us when you can create anything from nothing. The left has spent trillions of dollars and murdered millions of people( believers in communist countries) in an attempt to disprove the existence of God. Remember the billions spent on the particle accelerator in Switzerland which was supposed to prove or disprove the existence of God. How did that work out ? The scientist operating the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) were not on a quest to prove, or disprove the existence of any specific god, but, among other things, the existence of The Higgs Boson, which they succeeded in doing. The Higgs related experiments at the LHC, worked out very well.
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You didn't use logic or reason to get into this opinion, I cannot use logic or reason to get you out of it.
You cannot over estimate the unimportance of nearly everything. John Maxwell
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God does have a solution to the world's problems and it will come but most people are NOT going to like it. The world is how it is because of man's sin. God will bring back a sinless world, peopled by those who believe in him. The rest will fall deeper into depravity until God destroys it all.
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” ― George Orwell
It's not over when you lose. It's over when you quit.
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I’ve been busy.
And y’all [bleep] are too damn needy.
“Life is life and fun is fun, but it's all so quiet when the goldfish die.”
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God gave us free will and over time that free will lead to bad deeds and greed. There’s much good in the world but there seems to be more bad as time goes on. There will be a forced realignment (a reckoning) with good Ultimately winning out.imho
�Politicians are the lowest form of life on earth. Liberal Democrats are the lowest form of politician.� �General George S. Patton, Jr.
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God does have a solution to the world's problems and it will come but most people are NOT going to like it. The world is how it is because of man's sin. God will bring back a sinless world, peopled by those who believe in him. The rest will fall deeper into depravity until God destroys it all. Absolutely. It is playing out exactly as prescribed.
It is irrelevant what you think. What matters is the TRUTH.
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Of the 14 different gods I pray to, none has given me a good answer yet. You must be asking where you could get brains.
Ecc 10:2 The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but that of a fool to the left.
A Nation which leaves God behind is soon left behind.
"The Lord never asked anyone to be a tax collector, lowyer, or Redskins fan".
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It is playing out exactly as prescribed. Yep!
The Karma bus always has an empty seat when it comes around.- High Brass
There's battle lines being drawn Nobody's right if everybody's wrong
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Of the 14 different gods I pray to, none has given me a good answer yet. You must be asking where you could get brains. If you had one you could ask the real God, since Pelosi and Zero just isnt coming through.
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Ecc 10:2 The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but that of a fool to the left.
A Nation which leaves God behind is soon left behind.
"The Lord never asked anyone to be a tax collector, lowyer, or Redskins fan".
I Dindo Nuffin
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He could do another great flood. He promised he wouldn't do it again. There is fire though .....
The Karma bus always has an empty seat when it comes around.- High Brass
There's battle lines being drawn Nobody's right if everybody's wrong
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Things are moving along at exactly the pace intended.
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Because so many of the problems have been created in his name?
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