When the Black out came here the thing I missed the most was the internet. But that was maybe a warning to me that I was maybe counting on the net too much . So I went back to reading as I used to do when I was young and read a bio of Fulton Sheen. It was nice. I learned something. I learned something by loosing something.
I could agree with the idea of a magnetic disruption as I did have the same conversation with @jackzokay because we both agreed that the sun was most definitely not the reason for the outage but I don't now agree with a magnetic reason as it makes no sense as it only affected spain and Portugal it didn't affect any other region along a magnetic pole to explain better magnetic poles will run in a parallel line so given the area that was affected other regions in the same parallel were not..bottom line in my opinion is an evil agenda was in force testing the water for who knows what
Transformers contain mineral oil, so when they explode the temperatures can get high enough that they catch fire. Normally this happens due maintenance being neglected. The oil has to be checked regularly to ensure adequate quantities and that it isn't breaking down. Also, it is very likely that Britian experienced problems on it's grid since it is connected to France and France is connected to Spain. Grids do not respect geographical boundaries but rather the laws of physics. I also think a lot of these data breaches are due to companies cutting costs and neglecting maintenance and upgrades to their own infrastructure. It's not just happening in Europe but in general in the west. So we are now starting to see a compounding of failures due to neglect and bad choices. Not necessarily espionage, which is used as a scapegoat for such failures. One thing I have noticed with globalists is that they never fix anything correctly. They only ever put a cheap patch. Listen to why Putin says he will never invade Germany. It gets at exactly what I am saying but better. https://x.com/WyattCatarina/status/1917402644462854552
The wood-burning season is finished here. It was cool today, sunny, but around 50. I had to smile, though. When inserting the last log about 9 days ago, I got my only burn of the season, just below the base my thumb. I noticed the scab finally fell off today, my last parting trophy to the winter season. Dandelions were popping up today!
Well, a new militant cult full of brainwashed adherents, following a guy who should be in a mental asylum, seems about right for these times. Probably another CIA funded psyop too, trying to capture Muslim converts to Christianity.
I wouldn’t take the guy so seriously if he hadn’t repeated a heresy I’ve already seen in "Christian circles in Brazil" — that Paul was a “false apostle
The topic is about signs of the end times. You might find it amusing or interpret it as a comedy sketch, but the fact is that there's a small group of people who are inclined to believe that the apostasy within Christianity means it was essentially corrupted from the very beginning—stemming from the same initial spark as the idea that Constantine corrupted Christianity by deciding which Scriptures would be accepted.
There always have been and always will be, until the end, people who believe nonsense. Someone believing they're the legitimate Pope and that Paul was false is laughable. I honestly and sincerely am not concerned at all about this small group growing into something bigger. We have the internet, the ability to research faith at levels never before in history. Anyone who buys into this likely has serious problems, which is why I don't believe it is even real in the first place and is a psyop. Even the way it is edited is ridiculous. The guy is talking off of a teleprompter in English to a crowd whose first language is obviously not English. Finishes the speech, it looks like they shake their hands in unison at a bust, likely not understanding a single word he said earlier. It's just so bad and obviously scripted, none of it is organic.
Forgive a silly question from a city boy ,Terry, but does that mean you don't use the stove until next Autumn? I was wondering about that. I use my stove for some cooking too and was wondering about that. Sometimes here it still gets a bit chilly and my electrics are not sorted yet.
I am pretty settled on the notion now that the black outs were caused by going 100% Green and that this is not a reliable power source for the system. Not that the Government would ever admit this. At least not in public, But it seems logical..
I didn’t watch the video but just to clarify. Strictly speaking Paul as we all know was NOT an apostle, in the sense that he was not one of the 12 chosen by Jesus. He never met Jesus and when the first Christian groups were beginning in and around Jerusalem after the death of our Lord he was actively engaged in killing and persecuting Christians. He was also actively engaged in the death of Stephen the first Christian martyr who had angered members of various synagogues in Jerusalem by his teachings. But then Damascus happened and the rest as they say is history.
1 Corinthians 15:9-11 9 For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. 10 But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me. 11 Therefore whether it were I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed. https://www.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/audiences/2008/documents/hf_ben-xvi_aud_20080910.html Therefore, according to St Paul's conception, what is it that makes him and others apostles? In his Letters three principal characteristics of the true apostle appear. The first is to have "seen Jesus our Lord" (cf. 1 Cor 9: 1), that is, to have had a life-changing encounter with him. Similarly, in his Letter to the Galatians (cf. 1: 15-16) Paul was to say that he had been called or chosen, almost, through God's grace with the revelation of his Son, in view of proclaiming the Good News to the Gentiles. In short, it is the Lord who appoints to the apostolate and not one's own presumption. The apostle is not made by himself but is made such by the Lord; consequently the apostle needs to relate constantly to the Lord. Not without reason does Paul say that he is "called to be an apostle" (Rm 1: 1), in other words, "an apostle - not from men nor through human means, but "through Jesus Christ and God the Father" (Gal 1: 1). This is the first characteristic: to have seen the Lord, to have been called by him. The second characteristic is "to have been sent". The same Greek term apostolos means, precisely, "sent, dispatched", that is as ambassador and bearer of a message; he must therefore act as having been charged and as representing a sender. It is for this reason that Paul describes himself as an "apostle of Christ Jesus" (1 Cor 1: 1; 2 Cor 1: 1), that is, his delegate, placed totally at his service, even to the point that he also calls himself "a servant of Christ Jesus" (Rm 1: 1). Once again the idea of someone else's initiative comes to the fore, the initiative of God in Jesus Christ, to whom Paul is fully indebted; but special emphasis is placed on the fact that Paul has received from him a mission to carry out in his name, making every personal interest absolutely secondary. The third requisite is the task of "proclaiming the Gospel", with the consequent foundation of Churches. Indeed, the title of "apostle" is not and cannot be honorary. It involves concretely and even dramatically the entire life of the person concerned. In his First Letter to the Corinthians Paul exclaims: "Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are not you my workmanship in the Lord?" (9: 1). Similarly in the Second Letter to the Corinthians he says: "You yourselves are our letters of recommendation... a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God" (3: 2-3).
Jerusalem on fire. And on Independence Day! Irony: the reporter says Israel has been asking countries as far away as Argentina for help! And they don’t have sufficient airplanes to dump water on the raging fires. But there’s no shortage of planes to drop 2,000 pound bombs on women and children living in tents in Gaza!
Perhaps he was ordained directly by Peter, in what would be the first direct instance of apostolic succession. Peter and Paul, as two foundational pillars of Christianity in Rome, seem to point to this—one coordinating the universal shepherding of the Church as a whole, the other assigned a ministry focused specifically on the Gentiles.
To my knowledge there is no mention in the Bible of Paul having been ordained by Peter or by any other apostle. But who knows? There’s a lot that happened that wasn’t recorded in the Bible.
