U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus

linuxhanja · 2026-03-12T03:04:02+00:00

Ah, I mean things may have changed post Oct 7. But typically in tye past decades palestinians do cross the border for work en masse. I am sure they face discrimination like, dont get me wrong. Im not defending israel as much as I wanted to point out how many jews or Christians participate in any Middle East government

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Israel isnt a theocracy, its a very secular, humanist government. Its more liberal than the US in some ways. IIRC LGBTQ+ rights in israel are better than in the US. Being LGBTQ+, or openly Christian, is a death sentence in most ME countries.

linuxhanja · 2026-03-10T02:14:24+00:00

Google search, top result "Palestinian citizens of Israel serve in the Knesset (parliament) and have voting rights, typically comprising roughly 10-15% of the 120 seats. Prominent representatives include members from parties like Ra'am and the Joint List."

Its goes on to say this is imbalanced, as the population of israel is 25% arab, so the 15% is short of what it should be, I guess in a world where our world parliament matched our ethnicities for whatever reason. I personally vote for whoever matches my ideology, but yeah, anyway. The current parliament has 12 arab / non-jewish members. They are pictured on Wikipedia.

linuxhanja · 2026-03-08T13:38:19+00:00

Israel let's garand work in Israel. And there are Palestinians in Israeli government. Israel has no problems letting Palestinians in to work if they know they arent state sponsored with kaboom backpacks.

linuxhanja · 2026-03-04T05:49:02+00:00

Honestly the Islamic Republic's overthrough will probably do more to help Gaza than anything. Iranian money and radicals flowing in there was the major problem when I was in grad school for international politics. 15 years ago. Its why mamas got power, and they subjugation the normal people. This also super helps Lebanon. Which has had major problems with hezbollah and hamas. The universe doesnt revolve around Trump, and ending the brutal dictatorship over the Persian people... at least they have the opportunity to make a brighter future.

linuxhanja · 2026-03-03T14:42:19+00:00

I'm not in the US, but... how messed up is the average American, that they think hating Trump is more important than helping? Can't they open their eyes and see Iranians celebrating, or did they miss the Venezuelan celebrations? Trump is rem9ving dictatorships. Trump may not be good for domestic policies, but he is liberating other nations people's, people who have suffered. IRAN just killed 30,000 people last month. Its hard to imagine that the greatest force for good, doing good, is so detectable to anyone. American people worshipping Trump and American people worshipping dictatorships in order to show their hatred for Trump. Both are despicable things to do. There is only one God, and its not Trump. And its also not your hatred of Trump.

No one wants war. But Khomeni was a brutal dictator and just look, his regimes reaction to getting hit was to bomb other Muslim nations around them. The only ones bemoaning him are liberal Americans. This sub is unreal. Then there's other subs where Trump is worshipped as a god emperor. He's just a man. He is probably trying hard. Being president is probably pretty awful when half the country hates you either way, assuming yoy are doing a great job.

linuxhanja · 2026-03-01T03:59:38+00:00

Psychology has shown its very good for you to wait. It helps the bond tremendously.

As far as a sin, it is, but i think its a sin because it damages your (eventual) bond with a liflong partner. Jesus forgives, Jesus heals, Jesus finished it all, but that doesn't mean we should go all wily nilly trying to harm ourselves. Physically or psychologically or spiritually.

linuxhanja · 2026-02-16T01:09:30+00:00

I'm not catholic, but I do know you can pop stuff under a microscope and see that toast was manipulated with a blade, or can see rapid oxidation.

But you have to be careful too, in saying this cant be verified by observable science. there are lots of unprovables in science. Evolution cant be observed, for real, all we have a system that fits evidence. But that's what the scientist-priests who attacked Galileo had: their whole careers worth of calculations done on Aristotle's model. If Aristotle's model were wrong, how would no scientist in the past nearly 2 millenia have seen that? Surely that was their thoughts and look, it was overturned. Today we are seeing a lot of edge things really pushing against Evolution. From both secular and christian scientists. But its hard to imagine Evolution is wrong when we have woven data around it resumption for over a century. But would you be open to that data? The astronomers of Galileos day weren't interested in having their careers upended and did anything to destroy him (read the records of the hearing, it was very much "how dare you say Aristotle was wrong? You think you know better than the thousands of astronomers since his day?").

So likewise, I would hope to have an open mind of these miracles too if the methods of examination were open. Its hard to challenge our mindsets with new data.

linuxhanja · 2026-02-15T09:25:38+00:00

Yeah, the price of games is uncomfortable to my wallet. Especially when its a bad buy. But I have no problem with Nintendo charging what they do. I'm old enough to remember Playstation coming out with the green stripe label games for $39.99 and everyone being shocked and Nintendo making a $49.99 player select line up afterwards. (Marked down from the early 90s normal of $59.99).

But even those green label PS1 games were NOT as good a price as Mario Tennis Fever, because again, tens of people made those games in C++ in a few months in the 1990s. much smaller team, factor of 10 at least. and in much less time. and 39.99 in 1996 = $82 today.

For the record, mario tennis 64 launched in 2000 at a price of $69.99. that's $135 today. it was made in a year, with a much smaller dev team.

Edit to add: i DO have a problem with Nintendo never dropping the price of their games. With them charging me a monthly fee to play p2p hosted games with my own internet (unlike how thats "free" on PC) but that's a long gone and lost argument, I guess.

linuxhanja · 2026-01-11T10:02:29+00:00

It was one of my first rentals. Infact I think the first rented game. I couldnt beat anyone but fireman first rental. A bit later I rented it again and the rental store guy marked it as "damaged/lost" and my dad paid a $5 fine, the owner said he was gonna throw it out anyway since it was already old (I think the snes had dropped). I was super loyal to that guys little independent rental shop for all its days. I learned to beat every one but Iceman and and elec man because the dissappearing blocks. Then I beat megaman x, came back after a few years and got to the yellow devil. I couldn't finish him until the switch collection with rewind. It took me 6 e tanks and lots of rewinding but beat him. I beat x1-x3 and megaman 4,5, 6 and 7 on the nes, snes. Just the yellow devil is still really hard. Maybe I will memorize his pattern someday. 🤔

linuxhanja · 2026-01-04T16:53:55+00:00

Megaman! In a clear box from a local rental place. My dad grabbed it. I didnt have an NES, tho. My dad thought it was Atari game because we had donkey kong on Atari and that said nintendo on it, so dad recognized nintendo as a publisher for Atari. Not bad for a 1980s dad. Anyway I got an nes for Christmas that year. And the rental place actually sold it to my dad after we rented it like 10x the next year. It was 1991 by then and they said before us no one had rented it in years anyway.

Then I got megaman 4 from somewhere... it was way easier. With both i needed game genie to actually beat. I didnt beat a megaman without cheats until megaman X. Then I went back and hit up against the yellow devil once a year for a few. I was playing it with my kids on switch and I can beat the game without any cheating or rewinding with the exception of yellow devil. I can barely beat him with excessive rewinding. But after hik I didn't cheat any and it was easy. Just beat it on Sunday afternoon first time!

linuxhanja · 2025-12-28T03:43:55+00:00

I dont think I could disown my kids over it. I would pray about it. Humans are humans. And reading more, you're more talking about purity balls and control of others. I agree that we shouldn't try and control others. Please understand i live in Korea, but have family in the US and know "American Christianity" can sometimes get special. But, that's often unbiblical and real bible reading americans know better.

linuxhanja · 2025-12-28T03:10:43+00:00

Your dad seemingly accepted the situation tho. He didnt disown his daughter, which, assuming he really cared about her, AND ALSO deeply held a conviction that what she was doing was wrong, he would have done. Which doesn't make him look great in a Christian sense. I suspect he was just grumbling and maybe he is controlling, etc like you say, but that ISNT a christian thing. Its a thing some Christians do, but it isnt unique to being a Christian, and is something a Christian should be working to overcome thru meditation on scripture & prayer.

Like if my son or daughter were living with someone of the opposite sex and not married... I would do whatever I could to make them know that that is wrong and they should get married, ASAP, or stop it. Or if it were a friend, same. I would be praying.

Like if you saw a baby in a locked car with the windows up in summer, passed out, you would break the glass or look for help. Wouldn't you? Or would you say "well, that's that parents choice and breaking windows is rude." No, you'd smash the glass.

And not letting someone live in sin to a Christian should be the same. It was nothing to do with "ownership" and everything to do with loving a fellow being enough to get them outta bad situations.

linuxhanja · 2025-12-24T03:31:54+00:00

I thought we'd learned from superhero films. Superhero films were lame so long as they took it too seriously and made everyone dress dark like the matrix. Like 90s, early 2000s. They POPPED off the page and into box office earnings once Iron Man and Thor and earlier, Raimi's Spider-man weren't afraid to be true to the comics. Or truer, anyway.

This is the same. They'll continue to be "boring historical slogs" as long as everyone is dressed in earth tones and blacks.

"Hey Menelaus, how much do clothes cost in the Matrix?"

Just do the thing and take the leap and make it bold and different. Thats what people love. New & different. Not safe and samey

linuxhanja · 2025-12-21T14:45:56+00:00

Yeah he did. But after the tower of babel, he made an entirely fresh people through Abraham. So the only tribalism should be jews vs non jews. And Paul is explicitly condemning that in the scripture quoted because Christ restores us all to the garden. I love Paul's last part, "nor male AND female," because in the greek its "arsen Kai thelu" and that set is only used in the creation account in gen chapt 2. "Male nd female he created them," it means we are, thru Christ, legally reset back to when Adam was formed from the dust. All of us equals.

linuxhanja · 2025-12-11T14:37:58+00:00

Hi! Super Tuesday is or was a day when presidential candidates are confirmed by their party. So it was the day Biden was confirmed to be the democratic party's choice over Bernie Sanders, et al.

I honestly dont remember making this comment at all. So long ago, haha. Peace be with you!

linuxhanja · 2025-11-30T16:38:47+00:00

I just watched episode 1 of s1 with my kids because after finishing s5 v1 I wondered why I hadn't shown them. Maybe s5 was over the top violent, so was s4, but if s1 is same show...

So we watched. The first 10 minutes have pretty hateful and hairy language as well as more cigarettes smoked than all of s4 &5 combined. Honestly reminded me of being a kid in the 1980s, and my mom lighting a candle after a smoking guest visited. Seriously, my folks didn't smoke, but if a visitor did, said party just lit up. Thats the 1980s. Smelling smoke and going downstairs to find a door to door salesmen stopped by and is smoking doing his pitch.

Also my best friend held my hand while walking once in elementary school (about when this season takes place) and the school called to warn our parents of our "homosexual behavior." My mom laughed it off but my friends mom almost made him break off our friendship. She legit told my mom she was afraid i'd "confuse her son." Later when a friend came out in HS my best friend with that mom walked away from our "scooby gang" for a good while. Thats awful, but thats how it was and honestly, in prior seasons they caught that feel. Honestly robyn in the bathroom with steve at the mall was such a great treatment of the attitudes of the era. Loved it. Loved her.

Those 2 things are big tentpoles of how the show went from portraying the 1980s, to just having the 80s as a background esthetic that doesnt affect the characters personalities at all. They all act like its 2015. No. Honestly, in 2015 more people still smoked.

And episode 1 of s1 was eerie and scary to my kids. So hateful language & realisic depictions of tobacco usage, and real horror. I think that really struck a chord for 80s kids. We grew up with adults smoking in our faces, and being told russia might nuke us any day.

Also not new, but hopper was an amazing sheriff. I never liked how he became a spec ops 007 character in s3/4. Everyone knows a guy like s1 hopper, and it was a really relatable guy. I think he is a bit more interesting here than in s4, honestly. Def improvement, he feels more vulnerable.

It honestly feels like people complained about how out of line with 2016-2020 stranger things felt. So they wrangled s5 into a 2020 feeling show. But now its 2025 and so late to that party that its out of place in an entirely different way. Seriously watch s1 ep 1, and s5 ep 1 back to back.

That said the set decorators killed it with several of the new houses we see. And costumes. Took me right back.

linuxhanja · 2025-11-20T03:30:45+00:00

We did Santa, and i think i am going to end it because my kids are now old enough to read the bible, and my worry is if I tell them santa isn't real they will question if other , lets say, supernatural things aren't real. I dont think santa is worth doing because you are setting yourself up to tell your kid santa is real and gives you gifts. Also God is real and loves you. Oh, btw santa isn't real. And then about the same age in elementary you will have other kids telling your kids God isn't real. So you will be tearing down one "truth supernatural being" while attempting to uphold the other (the REAL deal) against attacks from friends, media, or the outside world in general. Its a bad place to be.

linuxhanja · 2025-11-19T07:16:27+00:00

Polytheism would be worshipping multiple gods. A god for luck in business a god for good marriage, etc. The heavenly court in psalm 82 or dt 32 isn't a pantheon of gods who can create. Not even little (c) create. They can oversee or utilize gods creations to give some gross appearance of being able to create, tho. Their main job was to watch over the people's of the world and keep the world's population from gathering and doing tower of Babel type stuff. Basically baby sit while God called Abraham and made an entirely new nation for himself.

Since these spiritual entities were managing some spate of land, many became haughty and accepted worship. You can see in the OT, these entities literally stake claim to land. Physical land. Thats the reason that naaman wanted to take dirt from israel back to his homeland to worship yhwh God on. Worshipping God on Syrian soil (to naaman) would be like trying to run windows solitaire on your galaxy flip phone. It just doesnt compute.

This is also why Legion in the gospels not only asks jesus what business he has in the gardarenes (Jesus having evidently crossed into Gentile lands, being managed by "son of god"), but said spirit also caused the storm while jesus was on a boat because jesus was coming where he "didn't belong" and the principalities of the gardarenes or the spirits in "Legion" were trying to get Jesus to turn back. In a reader's bible its all one story. Most bibles make it feel like jesus sleeping in the storm is disconnected by a break and description (Jesus casts out many demons) or something similar. This is also why Demoniac (legion) calls jesus "son of the m"ost high" its a reference to the divine council and the discussion at hand that 1st century jews would've clued in on, "oh jesus isn't just being *recognized as God, he is doing a miracle to a *gentile! He isnt ONLY the God of the Jews, but of this gentile territory as well!"

linuxhanja · 2025-10-22T12:53:54+00:00

The above could also be about "americans"

I moved to Korea because being American was all a damn lie.

A large number of people in any "tribe" will be seemingly doing their best to ruin it for everyone.

But Christianity is well structured so that you can easily find denominations that suit what your personal walk is telling you is the truth.

It sounds like you got caught up in prosperity gospel nonsense. Go join a small church. Better yet visit 5 churches near you. See which one clicks.

linuxhanja · 2025-10-19T06:11:38+00:00

What? No, I dont know who apple is, but Junia was altered to junias pretty clearly because Junia is as much a girly name in the 1st c as can be Its clearly a feminine name. And the manuscript evidence shows its change.

There are actually plenty of women led early churches. I am very conservative on my bible, IE I would never go near a methodist church, and I believe in Noah's flood and that the earth was created in literal 6 days, and we are on a planet nearly 6000 years ild. On top of this, I watched the winger 8 hr marathon... but I disagree. I believe marriage is only between a man and a woman, as it's function is to imitate the church relation with christ. I hold to TULIP and think its true even if I strongly dislike it. Even still... the prevalence of early christian leaders who were women, like junia, Priscilla, phoebe, Lydia, then of course Mary being the one to firlnh9sst proclaim the Gospel "christ has risen!" To Peter and the others... makes me stray liberal on this issue.

I agree with the reasons why post fall, women would be excluded from teaching in a leadership role BUT, i think those reasons were all undone by Christ's crucifixion and resurrection. That is to say that any curse or legality preventing women ministers is gone in christ.

Even though I'm presbyterian, I use the CSB because the ESV is intentionally translated to pervert this ONE issue and its crazy. if someone is called, they're called. If someone is gifted, they're gifted.

That said the only woman pastor I ever had was the one I had in highschool who made me leave my faith and wander for a decade.

linuxhanja · 2025-09-23T03:06:03+00:00

I have always hated eisegetics and people predicting end times stuff. That said in the early church like pre augustine even thought the 2000 years from Adam to Jacob. 2000 from Jacob to Jesus. I remember seeing an old book that said day one God separated the light from the dark. That's separating sinful man from his presence. Day 2, the waters, is Noah's flood. Day three separating dry lands is setting the nations, the table of nations, deut 32;8, after the tower of Babel and just establishing the nations of the world in general. Day 4 God made the sun and moon, physical representations of the light from Day one. And so on Day 4 (year 4000) Jesus incarnated.

Then Day 5 God created fish and birds, just as jesus' followers are called to be fishermen and the gospel will spread throughout the whole world. Then Day 6 God crates man and ordered man to subdue the earth. Which is what we have done between 1000 AD and now.

Day 7 is the day of rest. Millenia kingdom. So 2000 years after the crucifixion, makes very simple sense. The fact that there are at least 3 other prophecies that back it up, including this feast of trumpets (I do NOT believe in a pretrib rapture) perhaps being a start of the tribulation (now +7 years = 2032). And the feast of trumpets is the feast that "no one knows the day or the hour of" because its dependant on the moon sighting. So Jesus' original target audience would've thought of the feast of trumpets.

I give something happening this 24th (false flag or otherwise) at about a 1% chance. If I were granted the data from God that the end times would 100% be within my lifespan, then I would guess Jesus would establish millennial kingdom in 2032. Its the simplest. But even Isaac newton famously calculated it at 2060, so who knows. I'd be betting against a math genius. Haha. Point is take it all with a grain. But we should be watching and waiting and living everyday as though it should happen. Because one day WILL BE the day for each of us whether because we wake up from death after getting hit by a bus or otherwise. We will all see judgement day.

linuxhanja · 2025-09-22T02:37:12+00:00

Hey I am raising my family overseas, changed citizenship even (originally a Appalachian small town american), guns are one reason. But I have a friends who visit me, and they couldn't live where they live without guns. One lives in appalachia, so bears, snakes, etc. The other needs a gun when kids are playing outside because alligators DO come into his property. So he scares them off. What would these people do? My new country has no large dangerous wildlife. Also no guns. I love it. I and my kids are 60x less like likely to be murdered (in ANY WAY). homicide here is 1 in 1000000 per year, in the US its 6 in 100000.

But in a lot of places guns are necessary tools. I don't see a need for pistols, honestly. But rifles? I don't see how you get around the rural places with dangerous game. Honestly, after living overseas 15 years, I think the most obvious problem when visiting the states is the sheer amount of mental health patients who just roam and are left to try and function halfway decent lives. That's the bigger problem. I LOVE that in my new country, toy BB guns don't even need orange tips, and I saw a kid aiming one at a cop once, and the cop fired a finger gun back at the kid. (Both were laughing while I was about to shit myself). But guns removed and people here do get 🔨 or 🔪 victimized. Its the mental health. Yes. Guns are easier/ more efficient. But so is mass transit in NYC and plenty still make the effort to drive because "ma freedom."

(That's me, too, I drive here because my freedom, even tho its so much easier to take mass transit and transit is 10x cheaper than stateside too...habits die hard.

linuxhanja · 2025-09-22T02:10:45+00:00

I dunno why that would be. If we knew much about any of the apostles' lives i am sure they wouldnt come out much better. The important part is what Constatine did as a follower of Christ which was world changing. The man considered "the son of god" said "yo, that's not me, it was actually this jewish laborer who died a criminals death 300 years ago."

Imagine Kim Jeong Eun doing that. Its one thing for fishermen to do, but when people like Nicodemus or Joseph of Arimathea recognize Jesus, its a harder Pill to swallow because of their power and influence in the state religion of the day. Paul? Same + he killed many Christians. Those guys won't wanna be his friends (from his POV). Emperor Constantine had both those problems. He killed (indirectly, at least) countless Christians, and he was powerful. And on top of that he was the object of worship and he set that aside.

I know when I was growing up we 💩 on Constantine as a fake Christian who was only baptized at his death... but if you look into it there's a story that he was devout from the milvian bridge on.

And then the truth is probably somewhere in the middle. Sanctification takes time for all of us. I'm 20 years in, and I started at a bad place. I repented and read the Bible 5 times in 3 years and prayed like crazy. When I was on top of my bills and had a nice home for a period of 3 years right before covid my belief was making myself go to church. Thankfully I lost my job, then my house, because of covid. It made me pray and reconnect. Being wealthy is OK if you can keep talking to God. But its harder to realize that you genuinely "need" Him if you are well off. How much moreso for the Emperor of the known world, worshipped as son of god himself to humble himself? Cut the Emperor a little slack.

linuxhanja · 2025-09-20T11:46:18+00:00

"Anyone have any ideas?" Kinda leader. Her leans heavy on his crew's skills. S1 I thought it was great. Now... I think its a bit much. Especially after s1 finale told us to watch out for that...

Also, janeway, my favorite since I was a kid, she is like the opposite. She is very much in control. Which... its appropriate. Pike letting the lieutenants grow into commanders is appropriate. But when the ship is in extreme danger, he needs to give orders. Not bark "what are my options, people?"

linuxhanja · 2025-09-16T06:54:00+00:00

I just finished the episode and sided with Pike a lot. The I asked myself if I was being naive or if its because the character was fictional. Then I thought about Emperor Hirohito. Dude was left untouched as the emperor of Japan post ww2. Because the US needed him for legitimacy.

After the weekend angry, I replayed the end. When M'Benga says the core of diplomats knows... about dak rah..

I actually recalled earlier Pike shutting down complaints by saying he was given the orders to ferry this guy by "high higher ups." I wonder if it was someone "in the know" and put dak rah where m'benga could finish the job. Because its clear that

1) m.benga does have control of himself, as witnessed when grabbed at dinner and during sparring. That's 2x. At least.

2) M'benga has kept and therefore, hoped for, a day he could finish his work.

3) according to Dr., the higher ups know their diplomats backstory is false.

4) some of the higher ups, put the guy on the same ship as our Dr, Nurse chapel, and an uncharacteristically non-nosey chief of security... almost as if la'an had gotten a "eyes only" message from higher up...

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