tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post7653040190580021292..comments2024-03-28T11:58:42.109-07:00Comments on Raconteur Report: SignpostsAesophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-73166848676693844412022-09-22T05:47:23.010-07:002022-09-22T05:47:23.010-07:00I read somewhere that he would not trust a God who...I read somewhere that he would not trust a God who never wept ..and Jesus did weep when he saw the sorrow a family friend went through .<br />It's also understandable God himself was in the tlesh like you and me...was tempted at every point like every person is but he suffered...when you are tempted and not give in..that is what is called suffering...so God is able to understand the human pain, anxiety, God would know how the bite of hunger feels, as he also once was hungry, lonely, being mocked and bullied etcAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-46143934471784980052022-09-21T18:05:22.788-07:002022-09-21T18:05:22.788-07:00Prayer and Faith are important, but without works ...Prayer and Faith are important, but without works achieve very little.<br /><br />There are millions of us out here thinking the same thing, when will be the time for us to go on the offensive, I've thought a lot about it and I know I'm not by myself.<br /><br />I've come to the conclusion that we should keep preparing for something 100 times worse than our imagination can fathom, and like firewood in a cold camp, you always need 10 time more than you think.<br /><br />I have Faith that God will tell us when to go, some will think it's an arbitrary time, or a line that's crossed, but I think it will be gods signal to stand up as his warriors.stormsailor1981https://www.blogger.com/profile/03969419453019681956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-46600665239720316152022-09-21T15:43:42.247-07:002022-09-21T15:43:42.247-07:00The pain we suffer in this life is as a second of ...The pain we suffer in this life is as a second of time compared to the eternity that awaits. I have been in pain so bad I have blacked out, several times, and G*d did not appear and make it all better. I have chronic pain daily now. G*d did not create robots or automatons, but people with a free will, and hopefully an understanding that He is G*d, and we are not. The awful things that happen in this world are mostly a result of man and his ambitious sin. Can't say or judge about people, good people, who get horrible diseases, and who suffer long times before they die. It is all G*d's Will, and we won't know why until.......... Aesop, as usual your penetrating wit and guile have lent us to what we need, and that is understanding. The news is bad, yes, and you're not withholding how bad it is. You're one of those people who tread heavily, but speak the truth. Don't know how your batting average is going to hold up re Russia X Ukraine, but, skins in the game will in the end figure it out. Please keep holding forth, as a lot of normies are still sound asleep out there. Seanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18410045398729979497noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-34440760049486370052022-09-21T14:19:20.766-07:002022-09-21T14:19:20.766-07:00amen, Aesop. For JustinR - He has even told us &qu...amen, Aesop. For JustinR - He has even told us "when you seek Me with all your heart, you will find Me." You are deceived by the world's enemy, who has you looking at the creation not the Creator. I am confident saying that many of us are praying that the veil will be lifted from your eyes.<br /> Original Grandpa Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-83031778942261305962022-09-21T14:13:36.758-07:002022-09-21T14:13:36.758-07:00JustinR, it's called "free will". He...JustinR, it's called "free will". He gave it to us so we could choose to love Him - or not. Folks used to understand that. Many today still do, others will stand before Him one day, and think "oh shit, it was all true". And, no one is coming to save you, the One who did come to save you, also came to save us all, a couple thousand years ago. He also gave you free will to accept it and believe, or not. At this juncture, the choice is yours. Pro tip: practice repentance, you acknowledge that there likely is a deity, and I am confident He does not appreciate being called an asshole. <br /> Original Grandpa Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-61680231272214026532022-09-21T12:11:32.406-07:002022-09-21T12:11:32.406-07:00This, all this, plus the covid injections and the ...This, all this, plus the covid injections and the fallout from them haven't even begun.<br /><br />Martyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06483792328409191566noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-77611367003028758792022-09-21T07:38:01.701-07:002022-09-21T07:38:01.701-07:00"Nobody is a good person in God's eyes.&q..."Nobody is a good person in God's eyes."<br /><br />Everyone is a sinner, everyone needs to ask forgiveness for their sins and be genuine in their repentance, I get that concept. And supposedly, God accepts those into heaven that genuinely accept salvation. But is being a little envious about a neighbor's house really the same as murdering thousands? Someone that does horrible things their entire life just expects to repent before they die? I would suspect sincerity in ones heart would play a factor. But then what motivation would man have to live a wholesome life if his life in totality was not taken into account during judgement?<br /><br />"You think God's job is to stop everything bad that ever happens. Why should that be?"<br /><br />No, I don't, not at all. I believe we have free will, regardless of how it came about. We can treat each other as well or as poorly as we chose. My beef is that God appears to choose to treat (or doesn't do anything about random chance) those that are most penitent with the worst suffering. What a kick in the teeth. That's not a creator I feel the need to go to church every Sunday for, nor bother asking anything of in prayer. If he isn't going to answer good people, he sure as hell (pun intended) isn't going to answer me. <br /><br />JustinRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02480403385302542892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-2888137001846052302022-09-21T04:14:41.555-07:002022-09-21T04:14:41.555-07:00Well said Sir!!!Well said Sir!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-90891044076015134232022-09-21T04:12:04.901-07:002022-09-21T04:12:04.901-07:00Winner winner chicken dinner!!!Winner winner chicken dinner!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-8484194659743743422022-09-21T04:04:29.795-07:002022-09-21T04:04:29.795-07:00"I felt like Murphy in One Flew Over The Cuck..."I felt like Murphy in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest suddenly thrust among the really crazy, and seeing just how batshit nuts they all are, right up in my face.<br /><br />Worse, nearly half the country thinks this is fine, and The Way It Ought To Be. With absolutely zero self-awareness of what total fucknuts they are"<br /><br />GOOD GOD SIR WE ARE IN AGREEMENT!!! Well said as always, your deftness with a pen is like a surgeon with a scalpel.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-6461812560060204742022-09-21T00:17:02.723-07:002022-09-21T00:17:02.723-07:00I feel for the pain you've witnessed, Justin.
...I feel for the pain you've witnessed, Justin.<br />But two things stand out.<br />1) <i>Nobody</i> is a good person in God's eyes.<br />2) You think God's <i>job</i> is to stop everything bad that ever happens. Why should that be?<br />Should God also stop planes from crashing too? Or prevent people from driving off cliffs? What about from killing each other?<br />Why or why not?<br /><br />You suffer (and I mean that, literally) under dual (at minimum) misapprehensions:<br />The nature of man.<br />And the nature of God.<br />And because of them, what you see happening isn't what you expected.<br />People have sat exactly where you're sitting for at least 6000 years.<br />In fact, this exact set of questions and answers about man and God has been asked and answered so many times, it wears a furrow through all philosophy and religion, since ever.<br />Human suffering has been around since nearly the beginning of time.<br />If you really want the answers to your questions, they're out there.<br />Dig deeper.Aesophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-23676750391750583282022-09-20T23:29:55.884-07:002022-09-20T23:29:55.884-07:00Oh I don't assume that God must do anything. I...Oh I don't assume that God must do anything. I'm just saying that inaction is also a choice. I've watched two of the best people I've known, my mother and her middle sister, both religious, church-attending school teachers, who care about everyone, can make friends with anyone, would give the shirt off their backs to a kid in their class without a shirt, endure hell. My aunt met a good man and got married to him after a bad first marriage, had her first child at 40, who is now a wonderful young woman. But my aunt developed breast cancer, which eventually spread to her brain, and after years of fighting it with every means available finally passed. My mother had a botched foot surgery and developed RSD, then breast cancer, them lymphoedema after chemo, and rheumatoid arthritis. She is in pain every single day. This is the reward she gets for being a good person in god's eyes? Suffering and pain for the last 30 years? If it's God's inaction, he's an asshole. If it's due to humans polluting our environment with chemicals, microplastics, radiation, and poor foods, then God is just sitting there watching as we kill ourselves off, and he's an asshole. I have zero faith that God cares about the suffering of anyone down here, that's all I'm trying to say. I don't mean to insult or say anyone else's faith is wasted, because we are each our own person and entitled to our own beliefs. I just don't expect God to come rescue us from this mess that has been created, nor would I bother asking Him. JustinRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02480403385302542892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-79985053908049007992022-09-20T19:15:39.779-07:002022-09-20T19:15:39.779-07:00I feel badly for those who in their pride and arro...I feel badly for those who in their pride and arrogance denounce the One who paid the price for our sins . Who took those stripes for our healing . I am sorry that he has never been flooded with grace and mercy as I have in my life . There have been many times and many things I have not understood but it has always been my ignorance and pride that kept me bound . Might Justin one day repent and receive grace and mercy . He gave me beauty for ashes ! prayermannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-39925307728150128842022-09-20T15:16:57.875-07:002022-09-20T15:16:57.875-07:00@JustinR,
Just because God can do something, it do...@JustinR,<br />Just because God <i>can</i> do something, it doesn't necessarily follow that he <i>must</i> do something.<br />Trying to squeeze him into a box will never work. If one imagines a God that can't do what <i>he</i> wants to do, then one isn't thinking of God.<br />And clearly you've never considered that God may allow bad consequences to teach what can happen when some go their own way. And when they don't. Consider that Job's life was a lesson for Satan himself.Aesophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-31130012216879421362022-09-20T15:04:14.667-07:002022-09-20T15:04:14.667-07:00Very good column! I have been doing most of the re...Very good column! I have been doing most of the recommended items and acts...it's costly, the consolation is the money I would save will likely be worthless anyway.Yankee Terrrierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00987917731481126618noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-52979276839282246892022-09-20T12:59:06.208-07:002022-09-20T12:59:06.208-07:00In my experience, most people don't like what&...In my experience, most people don't like what's going on, so they pretend that it isn't really going on and get on with their lives...the awakening will cause mental breakdowns in many people, especially older people...I am personally sanguine, having my faith and having accepted that I probably won't survive a major collapse, but hope to help family members survive...pyrrhushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06150605108788285274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-2126490579857436142022-09-20T12:53:55.422-07:002022-09-20T12:53:55.422-07:00"I was up in central Ohio last week for a ver..."I was up in central Ohio last week for a very short gig, and I stopped at a gunstore looking for another toy. No one else in the store, so the owner was very chatty. He wants gun control because he figures that he'll sell his semi-autos that he overpaid for a while back."<br /><br />Can't stand these people. With friends like this, who needs enemies? Aesop is right about not being able to hiding in a hole and waiting it out. The bulk of my supplies are going to the war effort if the fight starts. We can all hang together or we'll all hang separately.Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04370041458673263311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-73318304950177963042022-09-20T12:53:37.726-07:002022-09-20T12:53:37.726-07:00Bravo Zulu
Sink all floaters
CA
WRSABravo Zulu<br /><br />Sink all floaters<br /><br /><br />CA<br />WRSAAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-71243686785540319672022-09-20T12:46:24.986-07:002022-09-20T12:46:24.986-07:00If God is all powerful and controls everything, th...If God is all powerful and controls everything, then he's an asshole for inflicting enormous pain and suffering on the kindest, most caring, and most religious people I know.<br /><br />If God is not all powerful, but instead omnipresent, he's an asshole for creating us, then watching us destroy ourselves and cause each other pain and suffering while he watches. For what? The ego of wanting to be worshiped and see who is redeemable?<br /><br />I'm not an atheist because it would be the height of human arrogance to assume no god exists because we don't yet understand him. I also have had experiences in my life, and know of other people that have had experiences that indicate to me there is more to this world than is visible.<br /><br />But God isn't coming to save us. The asshole of the old testament that flooded the world, turned people into salt, etc, has no intention of saving us from ourselves.JustinRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02480403385302542892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-44853997954365111632022-09-20T08:48:46.252-07:002022-09-20T08:48:46.252-07:00Your closing meme was GREAT----BUT (there is ALWAY...Your closing meme was GREAT----BUT (there is ALWAYS a "BUT")<br /><br />Rule 5 NEEDS to be finished, so it means something to folks not familiar with "Graham Combat's 'Kill House Rules' "<br /><br />If you just leave it "Always be working" without the "on your position" the new folks don't know WHAT to be working on, and it needs to be transparent to them that they need to be doing SOMETHING every Hour-Day-Week-etc to improve where they are standing and delivering from.<br /><br />link to the complete set of 5 rules written a TAD more verbosely: http://grahamcombat.com/the-killhouse-rules/<br /><br />These are good to be reminded of, daily.<br /><br />Night Driver.Night driverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14034183882627686763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-59817049128903958922022-09-20T08:43:42.673-07:002022-09-20T08:43:42.673-07:00Tens of millions, possibly hundreds of millions of...Tens of millions, possibly hundreds of millions of people inhabiting North America will perish in the coming years, regardless of how well they are prepared. <br />The globalist de-population wet dream is that 90% of earth's people will be killed off leaving the golden 10% in control of everything and everyone who is left. <br /><br />As far as Christianity, indeed there are many wolves in pastor's clothing, bowing their knees to the dictates and whims of governments, as well as their many sheep who embrace and encourage their pastor's weaknesses. June Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06327786101441126271noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-50462711685416558502022-09-20T08:22:40.218-07:002022-09-20T08:22:40.218-07:00I tend to follow the "Resistance to tyrants i...I tend to follow the "Resistance to tyrants is duty to God" Christianity of the Black-Robed Regiment preceding, and during, the opening up of the 1776 America-Britain rifle range. Passive Christianity is not Biblical IMHO, however it is appealing to those who only want to sit in a pew on their 4th point of contact and rely on someone else to do the job. Find a good Church with like-minded men and start your own study group - time is short and studying/meeting/organizing among Christian believers for the upcoming unpleasantness is critical.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-76614934653453233172022-09-20T06:52:13.252-07:002022-09-20T06:52:13.252-07:00Big difference between Christianity and many churc...Big difference between Christianity and many churches these days. The fact that I don't use an interlocutor doesn't by any means subtract from my belief.<br />Once again, Brother Aesop is spelling it out.<br />Boat GuyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-91177304971312196602022-09-20T06:39:24.942-07:002022-09-20T06:39:24.942-07:00Damn shame what the US (and by extension many of &...Damn shame what the US (and by extension many of 'the west') have allowed to happen.<br />Good luck.jadair04https://www.blogger.com/profile/10755158098385969288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-53495164531389733782022-09-20T06:22:52.593-07:002022-09-20T06:22:52.593-07:00I don't think he was throwing out Christianity...I don't think he was throwing out Christianity. But there are more than a few wolves in sheep's clothing, including no small number of milquetoasts.Aesophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.com