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That’s an overstatement, IMO. One of my boys recently bought an electric Mustang and loves it.

Mustang in name only. It’s not a good vehicle.
All life is precious. We can’t just kill people who some declare undesirable. That’s a slippery slope.
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Spent round-matched to the rifling on the rifle.

Have you ever seen “Shooter” with Marky Mark Wahlberg?

re: Teaching a 5 y/o to shoot

Posted by Harald Ekernson on 9/11/25 at 9:16 pm to
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BB gun and she'll find out fast which eye is dominant.

You’ll shoot your eye out, kid.
How do we know the gun they “found” is the actual gun used to shoot Kirk? That young guy in black might be a patsy for the deep state. “They’ll never think it was us if we write some tranny bullshite on the gun and throw it in the woods beside the main highway for someone to find.”

re: Atheism

Posted by Harald Ekernson on 9/11/25 at 8:36 pm to
I’m a nonconformist to any mainstream religion.

I think there’s some people who want to be labeled and some that don’t care.

It’s usually not a choice any way because a label is something someone else puts on you.

re: Atheism

Posted by Harald Ekernson on 9/11/25 at 8:28 pm to
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they believe nothing exists

Some don’t believe in a deity. Some don’t believe in the deities of the world religions while not excluding the possibility of other cosmic powers.

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Say, man-made climate change. Lots of people believe in that and lots don’t. I don’t. The people who do believe in it are called Idiots and those of us who don’t are just ….people.

But they would call you a “climate change denier”. What’s so hard to get about labels? And get it right so you sound a little more intelligent- it’s “anthropogenic climate change”.

re: Atheism

Posted by Harald Ekernson on 9/11/25 at 8:24 pm to
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Atheism is the faith that something somehow came from nothing.

Most believe that matter and energy can neither be created or destroyed.

Theists (some) believe God speaks things into being, so it is theists who generally believe something came from nothing, just fyi.

re: Atheism

Posted by Harald Ekernson on 9/11/25 at 8:16 pm to
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So maybe this is stupid

Pretty much

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I’m genuinely wanting to know

Or are you trying to flame?

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Why do atheists have a label?

Most people are right handed. Hey you can call left handed people nothing, as in don’t give them a label. But it’s human nature to give labels so we call them lefties.

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I don’t have a label because I don’t believe in Bigfoot.

That is the vast majority position. There’s not always a need to label 99.9% based on a belief.
That’s an absolute miracle if he didn’t die within about 10 seconds! So sad.
I searched and couldn’t find anyone recently discussing feeders like you do with tractors, guns, and trucks.

I’ve always hanged my feeders up real high due to fears of bears, but I never have seen one on camera at this place. I need a new feeder and there’s no good tree to hang it from. Thinking of doing a big tripod with a winch or maybe one of those short stubby tank looking things. Any opinions?

Also I’ve used Moultrie parts in the past but damn they break. Motors seize up. Timer screens go out. Is wild game a decent value brand? What about game winner? Boss Buck? Should I go with another brand like the tanks they sell at bucees like All Seasons Feeders?

It doesn’t need to be fancy, but it needs to work and to be raccoon proof and hog proof. I can add tack strips and barbed wire for the coons if needed.
Allowing women to kill their babies but not men to kill their babies violates the equal protection clause.
Just get a 10/22 with a can and shoot standard velocity CCI and profit. The loudest sound will be the bullets hitting the target.
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Joined 3 months ago with the DU Wave.

You’re an idiot.

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A shitty opinion.

A hundred fold better than your shitty opinion.

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Kindly gfy.

Same to you minus the kindness.
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What happened to the black bird flocks

Probably the same place as all the mallards.
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Speculative

Sure and it’s my opinion just like you have one. No one actually knows and there’s no scientific proof (yet) either way.

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You have an agenda

I have an opinion, just like you do.
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They targeted the Boomers and Silents with the idea that if they were born that way they couldn't help it, they convinced generations with zero evidence that they couldn't be blamed for their behaviors

Narax, it’s personal experience and faith. You’re right the scientists haven’t found what makes a gay a gay but it exists. Throughout my life the kids that I thought were gay at 8, 10, 12 years old before they even knew anything about sexuality turned out to be gay later in life. That includes children of very conservative churchgoing Christian families where every kid turned out straight except one. That one kid would have loved nothing more than to make their parents proud by being normal.

Many people think Paul’s “thorn in the flesh” was that he was attracted to men sexually. He talks about the sin he kept committing in Romans 7:19. Perhaps that’s why he never got married. Think about why he never got married as an adult even while he persecuted Christians. Jesus even sent him an evil spirit to haunt him or make him sick (or gay) and he talks about it in 2 Corinthians. I wonder if he would have preached that all Christians should be celibate preferably if he wasn’t himself gay and wanted to hide it and wanted others to share in his suffering.

People have been gay for thousands of years. There’s got to be a natural component. However there’s a nurture component as well and that’s the component that has ramped up in our society. Why they hell to they want people to be gay or trans or whatever I don’t know. Either way it is a mental illness.

re: Question on Israel.

Posted by Harald Ekernson on 8/26/25 at 10:46 am to
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How long are we going to do Israel’s bidding before we wake the frick up?

Never, because our corrupt politicians from both parties are enriching themselves and their families at our expense.
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Why?

It objectively doesn’t work and doesn’t stop the spread. It directly causes pulmonary, cardiac, and immune system disorders. It correlates to excess deaths beyond those unvaccinated, controlling for health, age, sex, race, etc.

It causes personal harm, decreases wellbeing, and increases suffering unnecessarily.
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Pope Callixtus I, bishop of Rome, forged letters in Ignatius' name around 220 AD to garner support for a monarchical episcopate. The Catholics hunted and rooted out the followers of the original church, so that they could make nice with the Romans. Thats specifically why they call it the ROMAN catholic church. Even though documented history is unequivocal in it being the Jewish Christian church from origin. You have been lied to. A church body in the first 300 years would have never stood by and allowed their leadership to sodomize young boys, then hide their sin.


I agree with this.
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So your textiles are pure?

My textiles aren’t “pure”.

Leviticus 19:19
“You shall keep my statutes. You shall not let your cattle breed with a different kind. You shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed, nor shall you wear a garment of cloth made of two kinds of material.”

And Deuteronomy 22:11
“You shall not wear cloth of wool and linen mixed together.”

They both seem to prohibit wearing garments of mixed fibers or maybe wearing two garments of each pure material. But wait, the Bible actually contradicts itself…

Exodus 28:6-8
“And they shall make the ephod of gold, of blue and purple and scarlet yarns, and of fine twined linen, skillfully worked.
It shall have two shoulder pieces attached to its two edges, so that it may be joined together.
And the skillfully woven band on it shall be made like it and be of one piece with it, of gold, blue and purple and scarlet yarns, and fine twined linen.”

Exodus 39:1
“You shall make a breastpiece of judgment, in skilled work. In the style of the ephod you shall make it—of gold, blue and purple and scarlet yarns, and fine twined linen shall you make it.”

Exodus 39:29
“And the sash of fine twined linen and blue and purple and scarlet yarns, embroidered with needlework, as the Lord had commanded Moses.”

But upon further investigation there is no contradiction. It is the priests of the sacrificial temple that are to wear mixed fibers. The common folk are forbidden from wearing mixed fibers because that is reserved for the priests. But there isn’t a sacrificial temple anymore, and Jesus was sacrificed as the ultimate sacrifice to replace the temple sacrifices, therefore the priestly garments and the prohibition of the common folk are obsolete. That is my interpretation.

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Your food is kosher?

Jesus himself said no food is unclean. It’s not what you put into your mouth but what comes out of your mouth (your words) that can defile yourself.

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You uphold the festivals?

Yes, just like any Jewish family today. Passover on Nisan 14, and most importantly Yom Kippur on Tishrei 10. When God said to keep these festivals forever, and keep the Sabbath forever, maybe we should actually do what he commanded forever. Where Jesus clarified and superseded God’s original commandments, we should listen. Where Jesus reinforced God’s existing commandments, we should listen too.
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I provided scores of verses that say one must "believe" with no other qualifiers. Can anyone dispute those verses? Harald chose not to.

I already answered you, but you choose not to comprehend. You gave me a bunch of verses about belief in Jesus. Yes, we must believe, of course. Duh. But Jesus’ own words was that believe, though a requirement, was not simply enough. One must also act and do per God’s will, including keeping the commandments (works of the law). I think you are being obtuse.
You are quite the conspiracy theorist

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Paul’s word not good enough for you? (I know how you feel about Paul)

I think Paul is suspect. I prioritize the words of the creator of the universe rather than the one who persecuted Christians.

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How about straight from the mouth of Jesus? Matthew 10:32 “Therefore everyone who confesses Me before men, I will also confess him before My Father who is in heaven.

Yes let’s hear from Jesus.

“And He said to him, “Why are you asking Me about what is good? There is only One who is good; but if you wish to enter into life, keep the commandments.””

The Torah, which Jesus did not come to abolish, contains much more than 10 commandments.

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John 6:40 ESV For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”

Maybe God’s will is a little more complex than one sentence. This is evident by Jesus explaining that not everyone who believes in the Son will have eternal life in Matthew 7:21. There is no contradiction here between these two passages. One must have faith in Jesus, and one must also do God’s will including keeping every dot and tittle of the commandments.

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I challenge you to show me one verse that infers that one’s salvation is performance based.

I already showed you a couple. There are more.

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It's amazing to me that you can look at all of those verses and there are others I'm sure, and basically just say that it means something else. You don't know what you are talking about.

I saw you mentioned going through the narrow gate is faith alone to another poster. I think you have it arse backwards. The wide road with the giant gate is “faith alone”. The narrow gate is a challenge to truly following God’s laws and Jesus’ teachings and not just following the easy bandwagon of “I believe, and that’s all I have to do”.

So sure, you have to believe in Jesus to attain salvation. But you must also be more righteous than the Pharisees and keep all of God’s commandments until heaven and earth pass away and are recreated perfect. Did heaven and earth pass away yet? No????? Well anyone who tells others to not keep God’s law will be least in His kingdom.

You “faith alone” guys like to take the easy path - the Paul path - just simply believe in Jesus and that’s it.

Study this verse from Matthew 7…

Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
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Harald, can you tell us what all of these verses really mean? And don't come back with some obscure verse that you think says something different.

The devil believes in Jesus.

Sorry many you wasted a bunch of your own energy.
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otherwise we could all just do what we want and claim salvation anyway

Many Christians believe this - that all that is required is they must believe in Jesus and accept him as Lord and Savior - that’s it.

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"Not everyone who says unto me Lord, Lord shall enter the kingdom, but only those who DO the will of my Father." Also John 14:15 "If you love me, keep my commandments (Torah)"

Many of those people I mentioned do not know these verses. Some, like Foo, do know these verses and ignore or reject them.

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I don't know how I tried to get around these verses in the traditional church

It wasn’t really your fault. You didn’t know any better and had been conditioned through years of preaching. But after someone studies the Bible and realizes verses like this exist, they can no longer be ignored if you want to be saved.
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The first entury believers still observed all these things. These verses directly correlate to the added law by the pharisees and not God's Divine Torah. (Unril heaven and earth pass away, Not one jot or tittle shall pass from the law until all is fulfilled, last I checked heaven and earth are not gone, therefore the Torah still stands).

Foo teaches others that the Torah is no longer applicable. He will not be more righteous than the Pharisees because he rejects Jesus’ own teachings in favor of a “faith alone” doctrine rather than “doing the works commanded by Jesus” and so he will be least in His kingdom and may even be thrown into the lake of fire on judgement day if he doesn’t repent and follow Jesus.
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Was Honkey barrel already taken?

Do we have free speech? I wonder if you can say the other word.
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Well, God didn't "choose" Israel. As in, He didn't look down upon the Earth and pick them out from among other peoples.

Exactly, 100%.

“When the Most High (Elyon) gave to the nations their inheritance,
when he divided the sons of Adam,
he fixed the borders of the peoples
according to the number of the sons of God (El).
9But the LORD’s (YHWH) portion is his people,
Jacob his allotted inheritance (nachalah).”

The Hebrew word used is “nachalah” which always means an inherited property passed from one person to another - normally a father to a son. Example is from Numbers.

“ And you shall speak to the people of Israel, saying, ‘If a man dies and has no son, then you shall transfer his inheritance (nachalah) to his daughter.”

Here’s another from Proverbs 19.

“House and wealth are inherited (nachalah) from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the Lord.”

This concept of God (El the most high) giving to his favorite son the LORD (YHWH) his inheritance was so important to the early church that Pope/Saint Clement quotes the Septuagint version in 1 Clement 29:2:

“For thus it is written: ‘When the Most High divided the nations, when He dispersed the sons of Adam, He fixed the boundaries of the nations according to the number of the angels of God. His people Jacob became the portion of the Lord, and Israel the lot of His inheritance (kleronomía).’”

The same Greek word Clement used is also used in Luke 12:8:

“Someone in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance (kleronomía) with me.””

These biblical verses preserve the original beliefs of separate deities. A high God - the Father, and his subordinate son - the great Angel - called the Lord, before the heresies like the Trinity were fabricated. Philo of Alexandria referred to the Logos as created by God and subordinate to God and he called the Logos “Deuteros Theos” (a second god). Justin Martyr called the Logos “Heteros Theos” (another god) in his dialog with Trypho. The earliest true Christians understood Jesus to be a separate god, but fully subordinate and one in purpose to God the Father, and this is evident in John 1:1c as the Logos is called “a god” or “divine” and is NOT called “the God”.

The Lord Jesus didn’t choose Israel, but rather his Father, the high God, gave the people group of Israel as inherited property to his favorites and most special son and Angel - the Lord Jesus Christ (pre-incarnate). The Lord was prophesized to one day inherit all the nations (Psalm 82) when he judges the heavens and the earth, so at the time the psalmist was writing, the Lord Jesus did not have authority over the whole earth (only Israel) but his brothers - the other sons of God - had that authority over the other nations. Those other gods (of Greece and Persia) is who Daniel records as fighting against Gabriel and Michael. Those other gods is who Paul struggles against in Ephesians 6:12). Sure only God through his son Jesus is the only god worthy of worship but all those other gods are real and do exist and do have power over things in heaven and earth.

For any who claim “there is only one God” you are being duped.

ETA: The point is that there are multiple gods, and one God gave inherited property to another god (his son the Lord). One cannot give oneself inherited property, nor can one receive inherited property from oneself. The Trinity is a post-biblical false rationalization meant to fix a problem that never existed in the first place.
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I did use the internet...

You either didn’t, or you are bad at math.

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you are intentionally using the absolutely highest rated 22 short stats and the lowest .177 pellet stats from the weakest air rifles

I told you a good 22 short vs a decent .177 cal break action air rifle, and I stand by my comments as true and accurate.

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Average 22 short makes half what you are claiming and average .177 makes twice what you are claiming.

If you walk into academy and grab a medium power 22 short hunting load, it’s going to be 29 grains at 1100fps out of a 16” barrel. That’s about 75 ft-lbf of muzzle energy.

If you take your puny .177 cal break action air rifle that says on the box “up to 1000fps!” or even “up to 1200fps”, realize that that is a lie. I know because I have a chronograph and I’ve tested them. Expect a pellet in the 8 grain range to come out at least 200 to 300fps slower than what the box claims “up to”. Then do the simple formula for muzzle energy and you’ll see a “good” break action .177 does about 10 to 12 to mayyyybe 14 ft-lbf of energy on a good cold dense air day.

Do the math and then re-check your comment that a 22 short only has twice the energy of a .177 break action air rifle to see if it holds water.

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All I wanted to say is that it's ridiculous to say coons/opossum skulls aren't penetrated by pellet guns.

Now you’re creating a straw man argument. I said my experience shooting possums point blank in the head demonstrated to me that a .177 break action air rifle wasn’t suited for that task. I never said “pellet guns”. A good large caliber (.25 and .30 cal) PCP air rifle is on the same level as 22 short.

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As a kid even my shitty Crossman that you had to pump up numerous times

Well that sucks. I had a high powered German built .177 break action air rifle as a kid, so I have a pretty good idea about what they can reliably do.