melcharaz

What awaits those who refuse to obey God?

Hell, which can be called sheol or hades. It has enlarged its self to recieve the millions and millions after christ, who would not repent after he told them to.

Hell is a physical place, where the souls of men are cast into. It is a place of torments (more than 1) it is a place where the fire doesnt die it is a place of waiting for the final judgement. And then they are cast into the lake of fire

It is referenced as a place of darkness

The lake of fire is a place of no rest, day or night. A place where God's infinite wrath is poured out continually upon all the ungodly and all who reject what God did through Jesus Christ

There is hope however, thats in obeying the scriptures, believing and obeying God.

The name that saves us and brings us into right standing with God is Jesus.

Repent obey, flee from the torment and wrath to come!

Save yourselves!

God deals with every person in certain ways.

No one will be lost by what they do or fail to do, they will be lost because they refuse to repent and obey.

Here is the 5 steps God deals with every person about sin.

1: conviction, you feel bad for what you done, you repent and all is made well.

2:chastisement, which often is sickness or affliction, but not always. Hebrews 12:6-8

3: open rebuke, where God will publically show your sin so others can see, that you might be ashamed and repent.

4:Judgement, when God strips you and takes from you, he allows you to reap the sin in your life, which brings loss, destruction or death

5: reprobation, you will not let him save you, so he gives you the mindset to defile and entertain your lusts. Romans 1:28-32 all that awaits you is wrath of God.

Now the bad news.

If you do not hear his voice, if you have never regarded God, if you think God to be fake, foolish or evil. It is likely you no longer feel or hear any of this.

He does not see you as a son, he sees you as an enemy or as wicked.

When God chastens, he loves, and he speaks.

If he hated you, he could remain silent and let you do what you want.

And the only hope you have is in Jesus and to obey psalms 50:23.

Psalms 50:16-23

Repent and obey, there is no other way.

Acts 2:38

Love is not just a means of expression, it takes many forms, not all of them are an evil, though they can be manifested selfishly.

Agapetos. The selfless love of God is a shelter, it is a banner, a place of safety and strength. Not only a place of vulnerability and truth, but a place where your weaknesses are not dispised, where you dont have to be a hero, but a vessel.

Love that is selfless demands sacrifice and openness, and with it, it grants both parts an opportunity to become greater to each other, to explore and intimately know someone deeper.

Song of solomon 2:1-4

1I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys.

2 As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.

3 As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.

4 He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love.

Love is a house of strength, a place to share joy and riches together.

Why?

Revelation 1:1-3

1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:

2 Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw.

3 Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.

Note: These standards only apply to ultra rated debates

Topic Creation Guidelines

Resolution

Must be specific, with a clear scope of what is and isn’t being debated.

Must be fair, with each side having a roughly equal opportunity to win.

Recommended formats:

“THBT: …”, “THW:…”, “Resolved: …”, or a Yes/No question. It is a good idea to limit the scope to a particular location or circumstance.

Descriptions

Short Description: Should summarize the topic.

Long Description:

Should clarify the resolution, specify the scope, set limits, and fix an evidence deadline for current events.

Burden of Proof

Specifies which side is responsible for proving something.

BoP Explanation:

Should clearly state what each side aims to establish and how the burden is shared or divided.

The goal is to provide a clear scope while allowing debaters creative freedom.

Definitions

Define any terms that could be interpreted in multiple ways (e.g., Justice, Capitalism). Definitions should be specific but not make the debate a truism.

Avoid defining terms only if the debate is about the definition itself.

Good vs. Bad ExamplesCriteria ✅ Good ❌ BadResolution

“THBT: On balance, US states ought to pass right-to-work laws”

“Right-to-work laws”

Long Description:

“Right-to-work laws are state-level regulations that prohibit agreements requiring employees to join a union... This debate focuses on whether or not states ought to pass these laws.” “Do people have a right to work?

”BoP Explanation “Shared equally. Pro argues that generally, under current circumstances, passing right-to-work laws is better... Con argues that allowing these agreements is better...” “Pro.” (No further explanation)

Definitions

Defines "Current circumstances," "On balance," "Right-to-Work Laws," etc.

Just incase I or someone else forget.

Votes are scored on a 5-point scale. A score of 4 or higher is required for a vote to be considered sufficient and count toward the outcome of a debate.

5 Excellent

In addition to meeting all the criteria for a sufficient vote (Score 4), the vote does at least TWO of the following:

Analyzes the overall strategies of each side and explains how the clash of these respective strategies led to the outcome.

Explains how a side could have argued more successfully to win on a point they lost on.

Compares the quality of evidence and sources and explains how this impacted the debate outcome.

Analyzes the clarity and presentation of arguments, explaining how points were either easily understandable or could have been improved.

Analyzes how the weight of arguments or margin of victory shifted over the course of the debate.

4 Sufficient

Votes solely based on relative strength of arguments made in the debate, and analysis of these arguments by the debaters, including relevant responses and weighing analysis.

Explains why the arguments analyzed are enough to determine the outcome, not ignoring key arguments that could change the outcome.

Displays neutrality, making clear that any personal opinions mentioned do not affect how arguments are weighed.

Votes based on the scope set by the debate resolution and rules.

If disagreeing with the debate's framing, the voter clearly establishes why their interpretation is more faithful and how it influences their vote.

3 Almost Sufficient Weighs arguments from each side against each other, but may fall prey to one or more of the following flaws:

Voting based on arguments not made in the debate.

Voting on arguments without considering rebuttals or further analysis.

Voting based on something other than argument strength (e.g., conduct).

Voting based on personal opinions rather than the debaters' analysis.

Ignoring one or more key arguments or pieces of evidence.

Displaying significant bias that calls neutrality into question.

Not voting based on the scope set by the resolution and rules.

Voting based on their own framing without sufficient reasoning.

2 Insufficient Addresses an argument or arguments made in the debate but does not weigh arguments from each side against each other.

1 Irrelevant

Does not address arguments made in the debate.

1 chronicles 15:5

2 chronicles 5:12

Acts 1:15, acts 2:4

From the ark, to the temple to the upper room, the Lord will anoint his place of rest.

Acts 1:8

Ephesians 1:13-14

You can be filled with the glory of God and be a son of God with power.

Yield to him your all.

John 8:56 Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad.

I am glad because i know His day is coming.

Trump interview

Paying fishermen tens of thousands of cents and they could have been strippers.

Some of the standards of how a debate should be done is getting weird, there should be a guideline on what makes the debate to win or lose.

Should the title account for it? Or should the description be unchallengable? Does arguementation have to include certain patterns of wording? What logical fallacies should end a debate?

I ask this because apparently there is people who believe that every syllogism must be agreed with, or that descriptions are somehow not the guideline of the debate and determine the burden of proof?

Why do we get a voting rubric but not a debate rubric?

I recommend if one is established that it is pinned under debatecraft forum.

I am not saying we need to make an ironclad can or cant to qualify/win a debate, i am advocating a guideline that people can refer to on structuring the debate. Topic creation quiz is not enough, as people forget it.

I also ask/recommend the voting rubric and topic rubric be pinned in debatecraft forum to refer to.

Isaiah 45:11-12

11Thus saith the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command ye me.

12 I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.

Ask him concerning the future, ask him concerning the world

James 4:1-3

1 From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?

2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.

3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

Seek life, not the lusts of your heart, seek peace and the true riches.

James 1:5-7

5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.

7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.

Ask! The greatest ego is to believe you are sufficient and in need of nothing, that by your own hand you will supply or save yourself! What you lack, God can provide, be it through man or circumstance or nature its self. The Lord of hosts calls you to ask!

Matthew 7:7-8

7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:

8 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.

God has given everyone of us abilities, talents and motives. He intended humanity to rule over the world.

The problem is sin entered the picture, but the answer to that is Jesus Christ.

So instead of treating sin as the natural or common cause, treat it like an invader, a disease, an illegal alien into your mind, soul and spirit.

Those who find their life shall lose it, because sin is destruction.

But those who lose their life (or surrender their life) to Jesus shall recieve eternal life.

Do not let your fallen state be the dictator, it is invasive disease that once we are cleansed of, we will desire what is Good and Holy as we were meant to.

Too many see it as evil when surrendering to God, but its more akin to a factory reset to a rebellious ai or software that was corrupted.

Shock my dog i cant stop

By guccimarx

One of the problems of Preferred Optional Requirements Now is the demand of expedency of people attempting to apply cultural standards to online negotiations. For example, some see it as culturally appropriate to bow and exchange business cards in 1 culture, while another culture exalts shaking a hand or giving a gift.

In online negotiations the value is deterministic, it is too closely related to cultural values and personal ideology on how a person presents themselves IN FRONT OF A SCREEN! The method or medium of interaction tends to be less personal than say, face to face meeting, but is somewhat more INTIMATE than simply using words, and this connection of imagery and voice association tends to reinforce cultural understanding.

What do you think? Should we reevaluate online negotiations? Are all online negotiations deterministic based on culture and ideas?

... did you pick up what i put down?

Discuss/debate

So this idea was inspired by a debate where mal talked about translation of the bible by the spirit.

I do agree that the Holy Spirit or Spirit of God must be in us and with us, other wise as scripture says, we are carnally minded, and cannot recieve the things of God. For they are spiritually discerned.

But what about Sola Spīritus sanctus? Which means Holy Spirit alone. Which is HOW we can understand the spiritual things of God, and be led to expound the Word of God before rulers as Jesus tells us about.

Yet its not part of the 5 sola's of the protestant faith.

(1 corinthians 2:14, romans 8:5-10, mark 13:11)

And by it we are sealed in God ephesians 1:13-14

Discuss/debate

Because snap or ebt or supplemental income is gonna tank, millions are gonna miss their monthly ebt.

Moms and dads will try to steal from stores to feed their kids.

What can we do to help prevent the dependency on snap/ebt and lower the risk of theft?

Should there be another tax bracket or 2 to get more taxes to help offset the cost?

Should there be higher standards or in person interviews?

Discuss/debate

What are your thoughts on multiplayer lobbies?

Ive heard some people say its similar to cod mw2 lobby

Yall describe what you would want in a partner/companion, be as specific as possible.

If im able to ill use ai to see what if any meet those critiera (disclaimer! Cant account for billions of people who arent millionaires or multi millionaires, money can be tracked easier than personalities!)

Happy birthday to all after december!

Walt whitman archives

What kind of man who was a quaker, yet says "the best government is that which governs the least" (Gathering 1:60)

Yet also contridicted himself in some ways and never saw it as an evil.

Do I contradict myself?Very well then I contradict myself,(I am large, I contain multitudes.)

What are your thoughts on such a man?

Discuss/debate

The Bible already tells us what shall happen to the land of palestine, or philistia as it was called.

Obadiah 1:9

Zechariah 9:7

It shall belong to Judah and a governor shall be set over it.

Day 12 of the shut down, people are starting to fold.

Over 40 million people depend on ebt and will miss this their check this month.

What are your thoughts on the Government shutdown?

What do you think when a democrat says

"of course there are gonna be families that suffer... but its one of the few leverages we have."

Is the ACA and other things really that important?

Discuss/debate

Twitch is actively trying to cover up the optics of their streamers getting SA at twitchcon, stuff is getting really bad, not to mention last year there was SA as well.

Should we boycott twitch/twitchcon? Is it too soon to make a call?

Discuss/debate

Most of the amount of wins people achieved in dart and possibly ddo was from people who foreited a debate, be it more than half or the whole debate entirely.

Why should that count toward the other person's rating just cause someone didnt show up? This doesnt show merit on the side of the person who debated more than half the debate, it shows faithfulness to a discussion.

I personally dont believe it should be counted if debate is Full Forfeit or over half forfeit. Wether from 1 side or both sides.

Spacejams

Lola bunny

Back in 1980s this move came out, is it possible people wouldnt watch the GOAT of basketball in a movie? Sure.

But after that, furrism increased dramatically.

Was MJ to blame?

Discuss/debate

The concept of ultra debating is as flawed as the former DART version of it, you segregate people based on effort instead of ideas, you create a vaccum and gate keeping effect that spirals towards echo chamberism. Sure it may be consider minimal now, but it wont be in the future. Dart and ddo proved that with the website adaptations to it.

What is most concerning is that it hints at the idea that rating is meaningful. Debates dont mean a thing if they dont convince someone of a arguement or a postion, otherwise all you have is philosophical ranting.

Further, the concept insist upon its self and build egoism, "look at me, im great cause of my rating or debate wins!" When on any given day someone smarter or more eloquent can come along and win in a debate against you by bringing better arguements. The ratings, the rankings are meaningless.

I encourage people to discuss the concept of this idea, but experience from dart alone should make most people here pause and consider, cause where there is higher approved debates, that means other debates, despite context, must be lower.

And that, i refuse to acknowledge in the realm of intellectual discourse, as people are favored above ideas.

But what do yall think? Is ultra rated debates meaningful? Should merit really be so important as long as people follow the rubrics in debates?

Why should people invest their time in such a thing when they can already debate ideas with anyone, instead of an echo chamber of familar names?

Discuss/debate.

#ultroegoism

Some of the arguementation and words are getting pretty weird in some debates. But think of it in this way, ai can be used to interpret your own or your opponents debates when you have a hard time understanding their wording.

What would ai generalize or summarize your debate arguements as, and compare that to what you actually are trying to say?

Would they be identical or different?

If you look at scripture at when God changed the names of people, you find he always did it once they completed something in him, NEVER in recognition of what they could be.

Revelation 2:17 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.

Genesis 17:5 Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.

Genesis 17:15 And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be.

Genesis 32:28 And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.

Numbers 13:16 These are the names of the men which Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Oshea the son of Nun Jehoshua.

2 samuel 12:24-25

24 And David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in unto her, and lay with her: and she bare a son, and he called his name Solomon: and the Lord loved him.

25 And he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet; and he called his name Jedidiah, because of the Lord.

Acts 13:9 Then Saul, (who also is called Paul,) filled with the Holy Ghost, set his eyes on him.

This then i must ask. Why do people say that peter is the rock, when Jesus gave him that name for what he said?

Matthew 16:16-18

16 And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.

17 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.

18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

Jesus christ is God in flesh, did he change the way he named people? NO, he recognized simon's revelation and named him peter because he recognized THE ROCK

Deuteronomy 30:30-31

30 How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the Lord had shut them up?31 For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.

1 corinthians 10:1-4

1 Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;

2 And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;

3 And did all eat the same spiritual meat;

4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.

Psalm 62:1-2

1 Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation.

2 He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved.

1 peter 2:3-8

3 If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.

4 To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious,

5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

6 Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded.

7 Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner,

8 And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.

Isaiah 51:1-2

1 Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the Lord: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.

2 Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.

If Christ is the rock, then how can christ say that a man called simon is the rock?

He called him peter because God recognized and it was fulfilled in peter the Revelation of Jesus Christ, that he is The Christ, the son of the living God.

So he promised a church to be built, not on a man, but the revelation of Jesus, the one true God.

The rock that followed israel in the wilderness.

If you knew without any doubt that you had a year to live.

What would you do with your time?

Who would you reach for?

What would be your main focus?

What will you leave when the year is up?

TRAIN Act

Transparency and Responsibility for

Artificial

Intelligence

Networks

Act

What is your opinion on using copyrighted works to train ai?

Should we wait till information becomes public domain?

Should AI creators pay copyright holders before using material to train ai?

What legacy will copyrighted material have if given to ai?

Discuss/debate