Joshua Jones

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2024-06-06 23:30:03

Oof
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2024-03-15 06:00:12

100% correct
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2024-03-14 17:31:48

I think my days of shilling for minds are over.
It was one thing when it was just eternally glitchy and unpopular. Because at least it's an actual free speech platform. But the fed integration is too much.
Free speech is what made America great, and the reduction of free speech is a big part of what's killing it. But the thing is, you know it's good because the results are good.
But all I've ever seen from the fediverse is bad. Same with a lot of other platforms that espouse free speech. And if that is what @npub1ha5…wz24 wants Minds to be, then I couldn't be less interested.

2024-03-14 17:31:48

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New Rule
The first winners regarding my new policy: all feds who comment on my stuff get blocked. You're allowed to look, but I dont need your grubby comments mucking up my posts.
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2024-03-14 17:31:48

Still a win
My Christian meme got removed by the mods, but not until after it started getting a lot of traffic
But it's the first such post where a majority of the comments were civil, and many were even Christians.
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2024-03-14 17:31:48

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Probably. They're fleeing their shithole and they're bringing shit with them.

2024-01-23 22:08:18

Turn the other cheek
It can be read in the actual context of Matthew 5:39, but if you needed any more reason to believe that Jesus wasn't advocating that we just let people abuse us - you can find an example in John 18.
When Jesus was quite literally slapped in the face, He didn't simply turn the other cheek. He retorted and challenged why He was slapped. But is He then contradicting his statement in Matthew?
No, because the example of the slap, as well as the examples that follow in the passage, were used to express a more complex idea. This was an instructional method commonly used in Jesus's ministry. We can see the point He was making by analyzing the passage:
“You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’(v38)
- He begins by recalling an old Law that called for 1-for-1 punishment. That you should pay people back in kind for damages done to you.
But I say to you, Do not resist the one who is evil.(v39)
- "But I say to you", implying this concept runs against the way someone would generally interpret the old Law. Ie. "You've heard to repay in kind, instead {do this}..."
But if anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also. And if anyone would sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well. And if anyone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles. Give to the one who begs from you, and do not refuse the one who would borrow from you. (v39-42)
- He then gives a list of examples that demonstrate the thing you're suppose to do instead of repaying in kind. It's not exhaustive because the individual examples are not prescriptive. You're not necessarily suppose to always physically turn your head to a slap. But then what do these examples demonstrate? What is that thing you're suppose to do? He explains that too, in the following verses.
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you (v43-44)
So here we see what we are meant to do in the face of people who do evil. We are to oppose evil, because we are commanded to (Ephesians 6:12, Romans 12:21, James 4:7, etc). But we are not to oppose the person, we are suppose to love and help them. Which is exactly what Jesus did when he was slapped. He didnt physically turn the other cheek, because that wasn't the point. Instead, He pressured the man to see the evil he was doing by challenging his logic.
This is nothing new to the average Christian, to "hate the sin, love the sinner". But the idea of when and how you're suppose to resist can be confusing. Because you have people like Jesus, John, Paul and others who remained passive in the face of imprisonment, torture and death. But you also have Jesus telling his followers to arm themselves, and plenty of examples of violent resistance in the OT.
As for that, see:
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2024-01-09 22:18:51

Case and point
One example of countless, let the feds play in the fediverse. They don't align themselves with the entire purpose of Minds - dialogue.
Minds being part of the fediverse is a desperate move, and a dumb one. @npub1ha5…wz24
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2024-01-07 21:31:26

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Because the FEDiverse is stupid and has nothing to do with freedom of speech at all.

2023-12-01 14:25:25

The more I play Outer Worlds, the more I get the sense that it's less satirical and more literal.

2023-10-21 01:44:33

It's right there in the name
#FridayMemeWar
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2023-10-20 18:05:35

No, Brave, that's not the definition I was looking for lol
#FridayMemeWar
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2023-10-20 03:16:27

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Lesson learned
Fediverse is just a community of jeffroids
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2023-10-20 03:16:27

Idk what poa.st is, but it seems to be filled to the brim with neonazis.

2023-10-20 02:19:12

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@shadowman311@poa.st And why should an old church matter to a Christian? Shouldn't those within it be the fixation?

2023-10-20 01:55:21

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Wouldn't you know it, this was disproved 8 days ago.
https://youtu.be/eiwU5s-qWwg?si=OUy5rBVgvjKL6-_p

2023-10-20 01:55:21

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Oh, so it's not fake this time?

2023-10-20 01:55:21

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@shadowman311@poa.st I'm a moron for not immediately trusting the terrorist organization after they already lied about this exact thing once? Lol

2023-10-20 00:07:29

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Wouldn't you know it, this was disproved 8 days ago.
https://youtu.be/eiwU5s-qWwg?si=OUy5rBVgvjKL6-_p
And it was being used to shelter people as recent as 2 days ago:
https://www.christianpost.com/news/gaza-church-shelters-christians-muslims-after-destruction-rumors.html
How many times will this church be destroyed and rebuilt in just over a week??
These people have no shame. They just blindly believe and propagate anything that will justify their hate.

2023-10-13 01:27:33

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Hamas will die. Cry about it.

2023-10-07 19:20:05

@npub10uk…mqdg
Dancing because terrorists invaded a country she didn't like and are indiscriminately killing civilians.
Dancing because a woman is being paraded half dead, bloody and naked in the back of a pickup truck.
Dancing over the piles of bodies of people who were just going about their lives.
I pray that what you celebrate when it happens to others never happens to you. I hope one day you find God and recieve a change of heart. Because you're scum. A lowlife and a coward. Hoping evil on people you never met.
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2023-09-21 16:43:27

It's stuff like this that's the dumbest of all lol
A) That's not what Republicans do. They get power and then they either sit on their hands or they put out the same leftist policies, only slower.
B) IF, in some alternate universe, Republicans DID use government for good, wHy WoULd yOU ComPLaiN? Is good not good? Would you prefer they do nothing or do something bad?
Sloganeering at its finest. People say stuff without any regard to what the words actually mean.
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2023-09-19 22:44:10

Australian man overpowered and raped a knife wielding meth head who broke into is home.
Confirming for the lefties that we are in fact NOT allowed to use our penises in self defense, and thus own guns instead.
https://www.1news.co.nz/2023/08/29/aus-man-jailed-for-raping-masked-intruder-in-home/

2023-09-07 19:30:52

This dude has to be a fed, there's no way
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2023-08-31 16:45:25

It's weird explaining to people that murder should be illegal.
Anarchists are... odd.
Especially because they fundamentally agree, they just take fault with the word "illegal". But even in their ideal worlds, the end result is the same. So it's illegal by any other name.

2023-08-30 07:29:32

Isn't that the stuff that turns people trans?
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2023-08-29 06:01:13

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Ezekial 23 is a good one, the whole thing.
For more concise points: https://www.openbible.info/topics/lust