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Please note: If I haven't replied to a tweet you posted to me or in a thread we're in, it could be for a number of reasons; I might be really busy, distracted by another thread, or you just might have become a blathering idiot.
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As you can see, I lost my check-mark. It's only a billing issue that we're working on. Please forgive my recent absence from the platform; things here have been "busy" here. --SK
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In May 2023, 13-year-old Owen Burns was in his bedroom in Alpena Township, Michigan, when he heard his 8-year-old sister screaming outside. At first, he thought she was playing with friends. Then he heard another scream. Owen looked through his bedroom window and saw a 17-year-old grabbing his sister, covering her mouth and trying to pull her toward the woods behind their home. He reached for a slingshot his mother had bought him on clearance for about 3 US dollars. Owen found a marble, loaded it and fired from the window. It struck the teenager in the head. He quickly loaded a rock and fired again, hitting him in the chest. The attacker's grip loosened, giving Owen's sister the chance to break free and run back into the house. Police later found the teenager with injuries to his head and chest consistent with the slingshot strikes. He was arrested and faced charges including attempted kidnapping and assault. Owen had practiced with the slingshot before, usually aiming at old orange juice cans. When people praised his accuracy, he simply said he was lucky because the attacker was a much bigger target. Later, when a reporter asked why he had risked himself to save his little sister, Owen gave an answer that sounded exactly like a 13-year-old brother. “I only did it because I kind of love her a little bit.”
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Men can’t be women.
Dear Friends, Check out my new Substack on supporting Transgender and Non-Binary Latter-day Saints. Please subscribe and share. Thank you, Richard ♥️ papaostler.substack.com/p/su…
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If believing you're the wrong gender is not a mental illness, then what is?
Dear Friends, Check out my new Substack on supporting Transgender and Non-Binary Latter-day Saints. Please subscribe and share. Thank you, Richard ♥️ papaostler.substack.com/p/su…
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Democrats then... Democrats now. May 21, 1961, a meeting for the Freedom Riders at First Baptist Church in Montgomery was surrounded by a mob including KKK members that vandalized cars, threw rocks and projectiles, and threatened to overrun the building.
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London — I’m at the memorial attended by thousands of DEI supporters and leftist radicals for disgraced academic and serial hoaxer Jason Arday. The speakers repeatedly target academic @nathancofnas for breaking the story about Arday’s plagiarism. Labour MP Diane Abbott was one of the speakers who smeared Cofnas. Arday k—lled himself after journalists revealed he had lied about his academic work and purported major life accomplishments. He delayed the truth by siccing police and lawyers on journalists early on. Support my journalism at ngocomment.com
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“White lies matter” Photos from my secret attendance at the Jason Arday memorial in London on Aug. 17. Arday was a Cambridge University DEI academic who had to resign in disgrace after journalists began reporting on his plagiarism, academic fraud and serial hoaxes. Thousands attended the rally, many of them nearly in tears. Arday k—lled himself after his lies were revealed by the press. The speakers said those who exposed Arday are to blame for his death. Support my journalism at ngocomment.com
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I saw this post from Blake Ostler on Facebook a few minutes ago and thought you guys might want to see it, so here goes: “I have seen several claim that there is no evidence for the Book of Mormon at all. I believe that this claim is uninformed. To account for the Book of Mormon, one must explain the following in the Book of Mormon: 1. An accurate description and recitation of the Hebrew Covenant Renewal Festival Form -- not detected by Hebrew and biblical scholars until the late 1950s (4 times in the BofM); 2. An accurate description and recitation of the prophetic lawsuit procedure and Formsgeschichte -- not detected by biblical scholars until the 1960s (3 times in the BofM); 3. An accurate recitation of the Prophetic Call Form in 1 Nephi 1 -- not detected by biblical scholars until the 1970s; 4. Resemblances between Israelite law, international treaties, and laws governing war and oath forms (Rasmussen 1982; R. Johnson 1982; Moriss1982). 5. Hebrew, Egyptian, and classical names which appear in the Book of Mormon but not in the Bible (Nibley 1973, 192-96; Nibley 1957, 242-54;Nibley 1948, 85-90; Carlton and Welch 1981; Tvedtnes 1977). Though many of these names could be biblical variants, others are difficult to explain as Joseph Smith's inventions. Paanchi, Pahoran, and Pacumeni, for example are Egyptian names which are sometimes transliterated exactly as they stand in the Book of Mormon, while Korihor is a close variant of Herihor, predecessor to 'Amon-Pi'ankhy in about 734 B.C. (Baer 1973). 6. Description of military, social, and political institutions of sixth-century Israel corroborated by the Lachish letter and other recently discovered sources (Nibley 1982b; Nibley 1952, 4-12, 20-26, 107-18; Nibley 1957, 47-111; R. Smith 1984). 7. Accurate and consistent geographical detail (England 1982; Nibley 1952,123-28). 8 . Ancient forms of government (Bushman 1976; Nibley 1973, 281-82; Nibley 1952, 20-26; Nibley 1957, 82-86). 9. Evidence that the Book of Mormon assigned value to the cardinal directions with south representing the sacred and north the profane (Alma 22; 46:17; Eth. 7:6). It also presents a social organization revolving around a ritual center from which government, territorial order, and communal sanctity flowed. The moral order of life and understanding of the covenant were also linked to territoriality (Olsen 1983). These symbolic aspects of territoriality are common in ancient societies. 10. Studies have demonstrated an ingenious structure characterized by literary typologies, or exposition of symbolic similarities between peoples, places and events (Tate, Rust, and Jorgensen, 1981). 11. Other unifying structures are the various forms of parallelism (synthetic, antithetic and synonomic) that are the basis of Hebrew poetry (Welch 1969 and 1981). Steven Sondrup (1981) has demonstrated that the poetic parallels with numerous ancient works in the Ancient Near East. The Book of Mormon parallelism of 2 Nephi 4 resembles poetic structure in the Psalms. Noel Reynolds (1982) has argued that chiasmus (inverted parallelism) is the organizing principle for the entire book of 1 Nephi. 12. Several Computer Word Print studies show that the appearance of non-contextual words showing patterns that differ significantly from author to author AND THAT NONE OF THE WORDPRINTS MATCH JOSEPH SMITH.”
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The final boss for @Manhattva has been discovered 😆
At least he's got an appropriate "TOXIC" label on his shirt.
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Some Anti-Mormons claim Satan can deceive the heart. He cannot. Jesus promised us the comforter. The gift of the Holy Spirit of God. Can Satan imitate peace? Assurance? Witness that Jesus is the Christ? A witness of the gospel of Jesus Christ in the Book of Mormon is of God.
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Joseph Smith was a prophet of God called to restore His truth that man corrupted.
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One day the Prophet was visiting his parents’ home in Far West, when a group of armed militiamen came in and announced that they had come to kill him for a supposed crime. Lucy Mack Smith, the Prophet’s mother, described his gift for peacemaking: “[Joseph] looked upon them with a very pleasant smile and, stepping up to them, gave each of them his hand in a manner which convinced them that he was neither a guilty criminal nor yet a cowering hypocrite. They stopped and stared as though a spectre had crossed their path. “Joseph sat down and entered into conversation with them and explained to them the views and feelings of the people called Mormons and what their course had been, as also the treatment which they had met with from their enemies since the first outset of the Church. He told them that malice and detraction had pursued them ever since they entered Missouri, but they were a people who had never broken the laws to his knowledge. But if they had, they stood ready to be tried by the law. … “After this, he rose and said, ‘Mother, I believe I will go home. Emma will be expecting me.’ Two of the men sprang to their feet, saying, ‘You shall not go alone, for it is not safe. We will go with you and guard you.’ Joseph thanked them, and they went with him. “The remainder of the officers stood by the door while these were absent, and I overheard the following conversation between them: “First Officer: ‘Did you not feel strangely when Smith took you by the hand? I never felt so in my life.’ “Second Officer: ‘I felt as though I could not move. I would not harm one hair of that man’s head for the whole world.’ “Third Officer: ‘This is the last time you will ever catch me coming to kill Joe Smith or the Mormons either.’ … “Those men who went with my son promised to go disband the militia under them and go home, and said that if he had any use for them, they would come back and follow him anywhere.” Speaking the truth in a kind, forthright way, Joseph Smith overcame prejudice and hostility and made peace with many of those who had been his enemies. churchofjesuschrist.org/stud…
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Rome, Italy Temple #SaintsOnX
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An apostate testifies to how adultery made his family 'stronger and happier'. Oddly, no mention of whether his parents are still together...
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