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>> ^grinter:

>> ^deathcow:
>> ^grinter:
Well, that's what they get for being built so high.

No dude, they build them on the ground, only once they are done and fueled up do they get way high up.

oh. that would explain it.


Greatest exchange on Videosift ever. Man, I'm tearing up I'm laughing so hard.

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*military *quality

Thank you so much for the quality!

>> ^notarobot:

Anyone catch the plate number of that jet? I think there's been a little accident.
tell it to the judge

>> ^deathcow:

>> ^grinter:
Well, that's what they get for being built so high.

No dude, they build them on the ground, only once they are done and fueled up do they get way high up.

oh. that would explain it.

>> ^grinter:

Well, that's what they get for being built so high.


No dude, they build them on the ground, only once they are done and fueled up do they get way high up.

Right to Work Laws are a fucking joke. They should be called Anything but Right to Work, in Texas we are Right to Work and that basically means my employers can do whatever the hell they like to their employees they can cut your benefits at anytime without notice, they can cut your hours, your vacation, your sick time, and they can fire you for ANY reason whatsoever if you sneeze wrong in your bosses direction he can fire you, he can fire you if he doesn't like your haircut or the clothes you wear. I've was fired because I got hit by a frickin car and shattered my ankle and had to miss work until I was recovered didn't matter that it wasn't my fault or that it was well documented and I had doctors excuses I didn't show up for work so they fired me end of story. Fuck Right to Work Laws! Unions were the best thing that ever happened for employee's rights and now they are taking them away so they can make the U.S into a machine state like China. They better start building nets around all the buildings like they do at Foxconn because it's gonna be raining employees pretty soon.

This video includes none of the messages whispered to you by the universe and doesn't even attempt to explain the pact of secrecy with God and Satan atop the mountain of sugary mind matter. This is worse than the Dune movie. My suspension of disbelief is shattered.

I know the restaurant statistic was right I worked as a cook for the last 10 years until I shattered my ankle recently in a car accident. And in virtually every restaurant I've worked for (some very large chains too) I've had to deal with at least one of the following: no overtime pay, no overtime pay for working holidays(xmas/thanksgiving), no breaks, no lunches, missing hours, being hired at a certain pay rate only to find out I was getting less when I actually got paid, delayed checks(up to 2 weeks once), and at one place I got a paycheck advance and was forced to payback the sum I owed twice because the manager didn't write it down the first time and I was stupid enough not to get a receipt.(Granted the last one was sorta my fault but still they took me for $400 that time). And that doesn't even cover the horrid conditions at most of these so called high class restaurants many of which I won't eat at anymore.

Hey Adam,

Thank you for sharing your background with me, and for your kind-hearted attitude. I haven't taken any offense to what you've said. I'll try to answer your questions as best I can.

I'll relate some of my background to you first of all. I grew up in a secular home, and there wasn't any talk of religion in my household, for or against. There was a bible in my house, and although I attempted to read it as a child, I didn't get past the "begats" in Genesis. I thought that perhaps that was the entire rest of the book. I grew up knowing nothing much about religion, and so I was agnostic by default.

It wasn't until a bit later in life that I received revelation that there is a God. At the time, I had started to ponder what the truth actually was. I started to search for it, because I felt that the love was slowly draining out of this world, that things were going really wrong, and it got to the point where I felt personally convicted to stand up and do something. What, I had no idea, but more than anything else, I wanted to know the real truth.

It was very shortly after this that I received revelation from God of His existence. Although I wasn't precisely looking for God at the time, I believe that He gave me this revelation because I was searching for the truth. God showed me that He was there, and that He is personally interested and involved in my life, and that He loved me. Needless to say, this was utterly shocking, and as naturalistic materialist, my mind was blown. I found out in a moments time that all that I knew was in some way, wrong. There was no room in my worldview for a Spirit, but God shattered that mold.

He didn't come out and say who He was, though. Instead, He had me investigate all of the various religions, belief systems, philosophies etc that I could..everything from Asatru to Zen Buddhism, and while I was doing this He gave me clues about Himself along the way. What I ended up believing was that none of the worlds religions were correct. I essentially believed that while they all might contain some element of thetruth about God, they were imperfect representations of who He is. I definitely did not believe that Christianity could be the one true faith. I had that picked out from the beginning as something I profoundly disagreed with.

Which is why it was the last religion I investigated. The actual truth was that I didn't know very much about it. I had, like many atheists do, a lot of things picked out of the bible which made me believe I could just dismiss it outright. It turned out though when I actually really read the bible that the understanding I thought I had was incredibly superficial (and self-deceiving). I had tried to read it before, but there was always veil there that prevented me from really understanding it. This time though that veil was taken away and everything became alive to me. The reason for this was that what I was reading was corresponding to those clues that God had given me about Himself that I had mentioned earlier. God had reinforced certain ideas and principles about Himself to me, which didn't really make any sense at the time (and indeed drove me crazy trying to figure out what He meant), but suddenly the meaning was unlocked and made crystal clear through what I was reading in scripture.

Because of that, I started to develop a simple faith in what I was reading. On that basis I put some faith in the bible as being at least potentially accurate, and I decided to give my life to Jesus Christ. That's when God showed me that is who He is. When I gave my heart over to Him, He supernaturally transformed me, and He gave me a new life free of anxiety, addiction and depression. He exchanged those things for peace and love and joy. Where there was darkness before, He had brought light.

So, that's my testimony. When you ask why didn't God reveal Himself to you at that time, a few things come to mind. The first is that everything is done in His timing. God has a plan, much bigger than our plans, and I believe that there were many things God wanted to show me before He brought me to Christianity. He wanted me to experience what I did so that when I became a Christian, I would be more effective in communicating with others who are seekers like I was. So that I would be able to relate to them better than someone who grew up in the faith could have. It could be the same for you, that God has had many things to teach you, to give a certain ministry to others, and for your own understanding.

Second, although you are a non-believer, you seem to have a genuine desire to know the truth, and to know, if there is a God, who He is, and what He wants from you. I believe God has placed that desire into your heart so that it would lead you to find Him, as He did in mine. I believe that you're asking me this question for a reason, and that reason is that God is reaching out to you. I would suggest to you that you pray to God and invite Him into your life, and ask Him to forgive your sins. Part of the Lords prayer is "Your will be done, your Kingdom come". Tell God, if this is so, that you're willing to surrender your will for His will in your life. I have prayed that God would hear your prayer and lead you to Him. I also recommend that you read the Gospel of John.

You're right, that from your perspective there may be no reason why you should believe one religion is any better than the other. I shared that view for all of the years I was searching. I can give you a lot of good reasons why Jesus is the way, the truth and the life, but only God can change your heart.

What God doesn't expect is that you are going to figure Him out. Only He could reveal the truth to you. What He does do is give you opportunities in life to get closer to Him. They could be, for instance, situations that test your moral fabric. "What does he do when no one else is looking?" "How does he treat people when he has nothing to gain?". It's how you live your life that is proof of what is in your heart, and that is what God is interested in. I think that is what determines how close to Him you will get. What scripture guarantees though, is that everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved. That you would have the desire to do that is a gift from above.

In regards to your forest question, God speaks to us in many different ways. A person doesn't need language to understand that there is a higher power. In Romans 1:18-21 it speaks to the fact that God gives a general revelation through His creation of His power and Godhead. How could this man learn about who God is? Well, no one is unreachable on this planet. God could lead him out, or lead someone in. He could give the man dreams and visions.

So I hope that is a satisfactory answer. I couldn't tell you precisely why God hasn't reached out to you before, but what I feel is that He is reaching out to you now. The question is, will you answer His call?

God bless you,

Joshua

>> ^PalmliX

Hard to go wrong with bacon, but the shot of "burned, crumbly bacon" that this video suggested as the "wrong" way to cook it looked like the way that I personally prefer mine... It's done when it will shatter if you drop it on a plate from a few inches.

Is the video messed up for anyone else? When it shatters it reappears for a second and blurs a bit and then disappears again.

>> ^Yogi:

>> ^Shepppard:
>> ^Yogi:
Ya know what I see being cool with this. Video Games that you play in the real world. You can have augmented reality created by people, certain things you can do within their world they created in a city or part of a city or even in a field somewhere. It could be as simple as a ball program that try to work around the city to score a goal or something. I don't know there just seems like a ton of possibilities and I think it would be really cool. This is the first thing I've seen in my lifetime that has the chance of being something seriously science fictiony that I'd actually want.

Heh, think of a version of Assassins Creed multiplayer with these glasses.

I can see lots of people with shattered kneecaps screaming in pain surrounding 2-3 story buildings they thought they could jump off of easily.


Or, you know, I more meant the compass marker towards your target, all the while someone else has you as a target.

>> ^Shepppard:

>> ^Yogi:
Ya know what I see being cool with this. Video Games that you play in the real world. You can have augmented reality created by people, certain things you can do within their world they created in a city or part of a city or even in a field somewhere. It could be as simple as a ball program that try to work around the city to score a goal or something. I don't know there just seems like a ton of possibilities and I think it would be really cool. This is the first thing I've seen in my lifetime that has the chance of being something seriously science fictiony that I'd actually want.

Heh, think of a version of Assassins Creed multiplayer with these glasses.


I can see lots of people with shattered kneecaps screaming in pain surrounding 2-3 story buildings they thought they could jump off of easily.