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  • Trump is Teaching Us a Great Word: Discernment

    When historians write about Donald Trump, they will tell the story of a great teacher. Jesus taught by parables. Trump teaches with administrative acts.

    Trump is teaching us we need better discernment. For example, we know foreigners who enter our country illegally have broken the law. It is right to round them up and ship them out. The men and women who ran over guards, injured some and damaged federal property on Jan. 6th also broke the law. Using his power, Trump released them from jail. He used discernment to decide where to enforce laws and where to ignore laws.

    Another example is in the shutting down of businesses by blockades, threats and physical force. When the mob wants to exhort money from a business it threatens to block all customers until payments are made. This is illegal and has put people in jail for a long time. Anti-abortion protestors at abortion clinics have frightened and driven away customers and were put in jail. Trump, again using discernment, released all these protestors.

    We will all be better people if we master Trump's use of discernment. Our public sector wasted millions of dollars prosecuting and jailing the Jan. 6 rioters and abortion protesters. If all public officials had a better understanding of this word big mistakes would have been avoided. Let's resolve to individually study the concept of discernment and use it properly in the future.

    The Bible provides Trump with his skill in discernment and can help all of us. Deuteronomy 4:6 tells us "Surely this great nation is made up of wise and understanding people."

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    Isaiah 24:1-3 Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty (2)...as the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him. (3) The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken his word.

  • #2
    Originally posted by Johny Joe Hold View Post

    The Bible provides Trump with his skill in discernment and can help all of us. Deuteronomy 4:6 tells us "Surely this great nation is made up of wise and understanding people."
    There is even more good news today. The Republican majority is learning Trump's skill at discernment and ignoring laws that do not measure up. This is how we Make America Great Again.

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    Isaiah 24:1-3 Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty (2)...as the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him. (3) The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken his word.

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    • #3
      Originally posted by Johny Joe Hold View Post
      Deuteronomy 4:6 tells us "Surely this great nation is made up of wise and understanding people."
      If that was so, why did they need the law?
      Proverbs 20:23 Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Adam Fag View Post
        If that was so, why did they need the law?
        It's a bit revealing, Mr. Fag, that you ask such a question. Laws are needed by those who will otherwise sin. Homers and trans are such a group. When they sin law enforcement and the judicial system must step in with fines and jail times. Might this be a lesson to you.

        The laws need not be observed by people with proper discernment, i.e. Donald Trump.

        Isaiah 24:1-3 Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty (2)...as the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him. (3) The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken his word.

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        • #5
          The concept of discernment shows up everywhere. For example, today a Democrat, Bob Menendez of New Jersey, was sent to prison. The sentence was 11 years. There should be discernment even for Democrats. The only thing Bob did was accept lavish gifts from Egyptian business interests. He had sponsored some legislation that helped the Egyptians. Who can say, really, some exchange took place here. Friends give each other gifts all the time. Maybe Bob passed legislation as a gift to his friends, and they gave him gifts as their friend. More discernment was needed here.

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          Isaiah 24:1-3 Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty (2)...as the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him. (3) The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken his word.

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          • #6
            Not everyone is equally clear-sighted.

            Originally posted by the OECD
            The Indian Ocean tsunami that hit South and Southeast Asia in December 2004 was one of the worst natural calamities of recent times . . . As befits a disaster of such magnitude, the humanitarian response was massive . . . widespread concern that significant amounts of tsunami aid may be being diverted to unscrupulous hands.
            Not that anyone needed the OECD to tell us that! When visiting somewhere foreign, it's important to know how the place functions – for instance so you don't get your head chopped off or receive a thousand lashes. Discernment is needed to appreciate differences between one place and another, especially regarding payment of officials (such as policemen, building inspectors, planning regulators and the like) who may receive no salary at all. Or at best a pittance, enough to buy paper and pencils. But not enough to run a car. Perhaps the government provides a vehicle, traffic cops would need one, but moving on: how do they live or buy food or a house? And the answer is simple. They charge a fee for their services which they keep.

            The higher up the professional ladder one advances, the greater the fee becomes. For a street-level matter, someone's broken a window and run off with the TV, let's say $100. What happens next? The cop arrests the first layabout he sees, gets a conviction the same day, case closed. But the layabout was in fact the owner's servant having a cigarette break! “It can't be him!” you protest. “He was with me at the time of the break in!” Clearly there's no point complaining to the first cop so you need to go one up the chain. For that person, a fee of $1,000 applies and if you don't like that, the next one up charges $10,000 and so on. Those without discernment call it a bribe.

            The alternative is for everyone to pay so-much-a-month into a common pot, whether they use the service or not, with an administrator setting up police departments, planning offices, building reg. inspectorates etc., etc., paying staff a living wage or even a substantial salary for top commissioners. Then nobody pays for a police investigation regarding the TV. (Other than the monthly amount.) Egypt is not such a place.

            When working there, discernment is required, to understand how they do things. An official probably does get paid, but not really sufficient for his needs. Fees payable on a case-by-case basis make up the difference and more importantly, without paying the fee (because your employer prohibits bribery) nothing will be done at all. That was the norm during tsunami relief and since many aid agencies had a NO BRIBES the result was very little got done or, if it did, was done without supervision – such as from building inspectors. So the houses just fell down. Unless you'd paid the fee enabling regulations to be enforced and the building inspector to eat. It hardly needs stating that building reg. inspectors do not themselves live in tsunami zones: their homes would be intact. But they still need to eat.

            Originally posted by Transparency International
            Oversight Committees, the Auditor General's department as well as the Commission to Investigate Bribery and Corruption are generally lacking powers and are not independent. The Bribery Commission does not even have suo moto powers.
            That's because they have a different definition of bribery! Duh!! When visiting Egypt, discernment is needed to avoid insult, by insinuating that one's home system is superior to their own crummy model. To refuse their payments is to insult their country, surely the last thing a visiting official wants to do.

            Clearly the senator was most assiduous in this respect.

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            • #7
              President knows a teaching moment when he sees it. The crash of a miliary helicopter into an airliner in DC provided a lesson in good government. President Trump immediately saw the cause. It was diversity hiring. Diversity was pushed by Biden. Now lots of bodies are in the Potomac. When will they master discernment like our President.

              What to know about Trump's comments about DEI after plane crash
              Isaiah 24:1-3 Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty (2)...as the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him. (3) The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken his word.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Johny Joe Hold View Post
                President knows a teaching moment when he sees it. The crash of a miliary helicopter into an airliner in DC provided a lesson in good government. President Trump immediately saw the cause. It was diversity hiring. Diversity was pushed by Biden. Now lots of bodies are in the Potomac. When will they master discernment like our President.
                Look, Brother Mayor - who knew that air traffic control was so complicated? Mr. Trump deserves the benefit of the doubt. He told us the cause - DEI hires - and he should apologize that he wasn't able to fire the FAA chief and all the staff sooner to prevent this disaster. Now the real work begins to gut the agency and let Elon's self-flying cars drive us to Mars.

                https://www.yahoo.com/news/faa-got-r...165311806.html

                The tech CEO and fascism enthusiast repeatedly attacked Whitaker from his X account, claiming in one post that the FAA was “harassing SpaceX.” Musk also replied to an X poster who said the FAA “should not exist” and attacked Whitaker for preventing his goal of colonizing Mars.

                “The fundamental problem is that humanity will forever be confined to Earth unless there is radical reform at the FAA!” Musk posted in a reply to Australian YouTuber Marcus House.
                If I have seen further, it is by standing on the heads of others.

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                • #9
                  Here is another example of our President's wise use of discretion. Robert Kennedy Jr. is his choice for Health Secretary. Someone in that position needs to be a person of known integrity and trusted across the board. Kennedy had several letters from doctors testifying as to his credentials and honesty. Trump knew some of these doctors had been kicked out of medicine, had no valid licenses. Using his skills in discretion he decided to ignore this little detail. Now Dems are having a cow over this nothing issue. Onward Mr. President and Kennedy.

                  Some doctors who signed letter in support of RFK Jr. had licenses revoked. | AP News
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                  Isaiah 24:1-3 Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty (2)...as the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him. (3) The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken his word.

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                  • #10
                    The President gave a memorizing speech at the annual Prayer Breakfast. We expect a President to pray and testify his faith at the event. The President did just that, not a dry eye in the house. He spoke about the need to fire lots of the air traffic controllers and get people who can do the job. If ever there was a time when we needed a testifying Christian President it is now. And, we have one.

                    Donald Trump presses for overhaul of air traffic control
                    Isaiah 24:1-3 Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty (2)...as the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him. (3) The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken his word.

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Johny Joe Hold View Post
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                      Ecclesiastes 1:17-18 I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

                      Can we say that where sorrow is greater, knowledge is greater too? Jesus was born without sin—because His father was God & the means of transmitting sin was absent from His conception—but unlike every other human postdating Eve, as He grew He became filled with grace and love and knowledge AND SORROW. At some point the facts of creation (God is Jesus and He created everything John 1:3) must have dawned on Him; having that knowledge as a baby would separate Him from the human experience, the whole point of being here in the first place to be murdered as fully human to rid us from sin forever.
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                      The principle holds true: where there is zero knowledge there is zero sorrow: infinite sorrow accompanies infinite knowledge. Kennedy sits somewhere in between. What about those more roundly impoverished? Discernment is needed to assess the sorrow quotient in any case but someone who's lost their living must be at a pretty low ebb. Jesus lost His life but someone with less knowledge might experience less sorrow, by being struck off, say. Sacrifice of one's living is recommended by Jesus – but of course it does depend what is enabled as a result.
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                      Mark 12:41 - 13:2 Jesus sat over against the treasury, and . . . there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing . . . even all her living. And as he went out of the temple, one of his disciples saith unto him, Master, see what manner of stones and what buildings are here! And Jesus answering said unto him, Seest thou these great buildings? there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.

                      Without discernment, how can I know whose endorsement is valid or reliable? Unless relying on someone who DOES know, my decisions are likely to be flawed at best or even catastrophic. How many more millions will die before understanding that we who know little know little – and they who know more know much? It's a basic principle so few really understand. The word we use is: discernment.

                      Mark 9:45-46 And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched: Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.

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                      • #12
                        I don't know about details - I'm an ideas guy - but I do know I'd rather choose a bronzed stallion over a pasty white guy any day of the week. They just, you know, that's what appeals to me right now as a voter.
                        If I have seen further, it is by standing on the heads of others.

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Dr. Anthony J. Toole View Post
                          I don't know about details - I'm an ideas guy - but I do know I'd rather choose a bronzed stallion over a pasty white guy any day of the week. They just, you know, that's what appeals to me right now as a voter.
                          Amen, dear Brother Dr. Toole. Amen.

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                          Hebrews 10:19 " Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the of "

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