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You know who else was “dangerously” misaligned according to those who wanted to control him?
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The apostles did not invent a new religion. They were Jewish followers of a Jewish teacher. That teacher claimed to fulfill Israel’s own Scriptures. He established the New Covenant promised in those Scriptures. After his resurrection he commanded them to take the message to all nations. The prophets had already foretold this expansion.
Jesus claimed to be the long-promised Messiah of Israel. When the high priest asked, “Are you the Messiah, the son of the Blessed One?” Jesus answered, “I am; and ‘you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of the Power and coming with the clouds of heaven’” (Mark 14:61–62). He accepted Peter’s confession: “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God” (Matthew 16:16). He also said, “Amen, amen, I say to you, before Abraham came to be, I AM” (John 8:58). He used the divine name. He said, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me” (John 14:6).
These claims matched specific Old Testament prophecies the apostles already knew. Micah said of the ruler from Bethlehem: “Whose origin is from of old, from ancient times” (Micah 5:1). Isaiah’s Suffering Servant would be “pierced for our sins, crushed for our iniquity. He bore the punishment that makes us whole, by his wounds we were healed. … the Lord laid upon him the guilt of us all” (Isaiah 53:5–6). The same servant “shall justify the many, their iniquity he shall bear” (Isaiah 53:11). Jeremiah announced the New Covenant: “I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. … I will place my law within them, and write it upon their hearts. … I will forgive their iniquity and no longer remember their sin” (Jeremiah 31:31, 33–34). Jesus presented his death as inaugurating that covenant (Luke 22:20).
The risen Jesus then sent his Jewish apostles (and later Paul) to the nations exactly as the prophets said. Before ascending he told them: “You will receive power when the holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, throughout Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth” (Acts 1:8). He also gave the Great Commission: “Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you” (Matthew 28:19–20). When the question arose whether Gentile believers had to become full Torah-observant Jews, the Jerusalem apostles (including Peter and James) ruled that they did not. The Holy Spirit had already accepted them by faith. This fulfilled the prophetic promise that the rest of humanity would seek the Lord (Acts 15:7–19, citing Amos). Paul, a Pharisee trained in the Law, understood his mission to the Gentiles as the fulfillment of Israel’s own calling to be a light to the nations.
In short, the apostles did not abandon Judaism for something new. They concluded from Jesus’ own words, his fulfillment of the Suffering Servant and New Covenant prophecies, and the resurrection they claimed to witness that the Messiah had come. God’s plan had always included the nations. The expansion beyond ethnic Israel was not an invention. It was the completion of what the Hebrew Scriptures had already described.
That’s not how it works. It’s not like they had 115k sitting around. At the end of the day they ended up $170k in equity.
Had they not bought the home and rented they’d only be able to invest the remaining cash flow. The cash flow picture turns negative quick with the average 3.5% rental growth rate the last 21 years.
Renting is would be -$350k over the 21 years. There is no reality where someone didn’t buy a house and it’s a millionaire in the market.
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While this may be a bit “too little too late,” if you go back over the episode count vs chapter count the anime has ALWAYS been at least 1/3 longer.
So an at least one episode per chapter rule will definitely help curb the filler and stretching in rhe final arc. And will cut the wrap up by years, even if they go seasonal.
We could seriously see it end before 2030.
1 EPISODE X 1 CHAPTER
Toei confirmed that the new production policy for the One Piece anime is to adapt 1 MANGA CHAPTER PER EPISODE.
The goal is a more faithful and condensed adaptation, without unnecessary filler. ✍️
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Well at least that makes sense. The whole thing that wouldn’t square in all the polling was the idea Abbott was winning beyond the margin of error, but somehow Paxton was losing by more than 10. Texas doesn’t split tickets; so one had to be wrong.
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CriticalZaku retweeted
Replying to @OsheaJacksonJr
He's not in a tower, he's in a dark radar room in Miami watching a blip drop with zero idea what broke in that cockpit. "What do you need" means the whole sky is yours, name it and it's done.
He can't reach through the headset and grab the yoke.
CriticalZaku retweeted
Here’s a story for you. We started filming without owning the title and had to do alternates.
Taft Broadcasting owned the title Ghostbusters as part of their half-hour sitcom starring Larry Storch and Forrest Tucker (F-Troop) and a gorilla chasing ghosts. I had never heard of it. They didn’t have proton packs or Bill Murray. Columbia paid $500,000 to buy the name, but they really should have paid Dean Martin, from whom I first heard the term.
In the film Scared Stiff (1953), he and Jerry Lewis (check out his acrobatic stair descent) are in an old haunted castle, and Lizabeth Scott asks Dean: “Who are you guys?” And Dean answers: “You’ve heard of Trustbusters and Gangbusters, we’re Ghostbusters!”
For my research writing the first movie, I watched every single ‘ghost’ comedy ever made. Bowery Boys, Hope and Crosby, Abbot and Costello, Martin and Lewis all did such films.
Happy Halloween 2026.
This is called presentism, where the viewer interprets the past through a modern lens.
In 1987, taking on major household projects was a common use of time for a SAHM. Now they see her and think: Why isn’t she working? How does she have time? Why is she doing this herself?
We watched Fatal Attraction (1987) last night, had never seen it
We were struck by the scene of Michael Douglas's wife painting the interior of the house they buy in the country herself, he's a partner-track lawyer in NYC
The kind of thing that used to be common, now rare
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KJV is based on a medieval Byzantine manuscripts, while NIV, ESV, NASB, CSB, and NABRE are all based on the Greek New Testament, which proctorizes 4th century texts and original papyri.
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And yet:
PISA 2022 overall scores
Top performers + US broken out by race
1. US Asian — 1700
2. Singapore — 1679
3. Japan — 1599
4. Taiwan — 1599
5. US White — 1572
6. South Korea — 1570
7. Hong Kong — 1560
8. Estonia — 1547
9. Canada — 1519
10. Ireland — 1512
Striking detail in the big NYT piece on Taiwanese families adjusting to working at the huge new TSMC chip plant in Arizona: their surprise at the lack of rigor in US schools.
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There’s a formula that takes body fat and muscle mass into account. FFMI…
And you’re correct most people who grouse over BMI are usually just fat and in denial.
the comments… lol. “but bmi doesn’t consider muscle” is fat cope. YOU ARE FAT.
people who are actually athlete-level fit and technically overweight have no problem with the bmi scale. they know they’re outliers because they put in outlier-level effort. bmi is a perfectly fine —
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No this is EXACTLY what would be expected if engineers are sent off with no supervision. It’s not about coding ability.The issue is setting up a project so agents are creating all the appropriate documentation, Specs, Test Scripts, RTM, decisions so Why and How are never lost.
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My favorite is the Anamanaics /Slappy Squirrel “Who’s the band on stage”
youtu.be/Mdqv5xIsFLM
Family Guy recently made a Civil War version of "Who's on First" that had me crying laughing. It had no business being that good.
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