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  1. Here we will write the politics what are the most important factors; the pro's and con's. How to create alternative economies like using bitcoin to create A system where you use green energy. Create A new coin of palladium and people who workout in gym's get money for their workout they get the money. undersatnd our future is that we chaneg the economies and change money into something that big bank don't control everything in the world. What other system does exist ? Or have you think about USA using and changing using technology for the best so the day we wake up people have controls of thier lives ?
  2. I don't know if anyone's read the Sinclair Lewis novel It Can't Happen Here, but... Here and there, I've heard people showing alarm at the direction America's headed. A Google search for "totalitarian America" will show what I mean. The political left, who seem to be socialist-minded and unabashedly hate their country, dominate education, the media and now Washington--at least that's what I keep hearing. Yes, it's hearsay, but still... I tend to think it couldn't happen because of the safeguards built into our government by the Founding Fathers, the separation of powers between the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches. The left has triumphed in the past as well, particularly in 1992 when Clinton swept into the Presidency. I remember well how the evangelical community reacted to that ("America isn't going down the tubes, America is down the tubes" one pastor asserted). But the next election always lies ahead, as 1994 showed. I guess we would have to have a one-party system and no more elections. Or get to the point where elections are so fixed, with no one able to do anything about it, that they become just a formality with one party always winning. What does everyone think? Am I worrying too much, or am I just being naive in believing the United States couldn't possibly devolve into another Soviet Union? Thanks in advance.
  3. This is just a thought that's been pestering my mind since the election, as well as that whole riot debacle last week. Biden has been saying we need to "reunite," but it looks to me like we were only ever "divided" because of the media's unbelievable hate campaign against President Trump. Stoking hate, inciting hate, blasting hate even worse than when Bush II was president. Trump pummeled them back, of course, which made things even worse and finally hit critical mass with the DC riots. Anyway, the thought is: Biden and the media are going to preach to us that no, America is not great. We're a disgrace. And shame on us for letting a president get into office who actually said out loud that we were great. We should be ashamed, wring our hands, blubber apologies to the rest of the world because we Americans are so bad. We're bad because, well, we're Americans. Will Biden put us back into that Iran deal? I'm imagining him handing them even more cash (and probably raising our taxes to do it), giving them his blessing even while they chant, rage, shout "Death to America!" Hate is a laudable virtue if it's AGAINST AMERICA. I'm imagining this is what the TV news and politicians will try to instill into us to "de-Trump" the country. In terms like the Council of Trent, something like "If anyone in any way connects the idea of greatness with America, LET HIM BE ANATHEMA." Just a thought.
  4. Last night I got an fundraiser email from Joe Biden's camp. It proclaimed that the economy is now pretty much in the worst state ever. It failed to mention that this is because of the pandemic, but rather skewed it to make it look like it's all Trump's fault. An little conspiracy theorist inside me is saying, what if the political left is seizing upon this as a golden opportunity? They couldn't lambast Trump out of office, they couldn't impeach him out of office. Now this pandemic hits and so they play it up, wanting to keep the country locked down until the economy is wrecked and we're all so miserable that we vote in November to change everything? So the cynic in me is wondering if, after the election, the pandemic suddenly clears up and everything reopens. I do find this whole "asymptomatic" business suspicious. First I heard symptoms can take up to 2 weeks to show. Then I heard it's up to a month. I'm no medical expert, but surely something that deadly would show up in my system, like with the familiar dry coughs, shortness of breath, fever etc.? That's why I haven't gotten tested, and am afraid to. They might inform me I have the virus. "What?" I say. "But I don't feel sick, or any different at all." Nonetheless they say I have it, and so I become an instant leper, banner from my job, the gym and am placed under house arrest. I'd really like to hear everyone's thoughts, feedback and insights, along with any helpful news sources you might point me to. Thanks much...
  5. The Social Democratic Party of Germany (the SPD) will hold an extra party congress on January, 21, which is practically aimed to determine the destiny of the future government of the country. The party members are to take a decision on the entering the coalition with the alliance CDU/CSU, won during the elections. However, according some data, there're series of agreements between the parties on the creation of a coalition under some specific conditions. This fact is proved with a correspondence between the Secretary-General of the SPD Lars Klingbeil and his ilk from the CDU Peter Tauber. Translation: Dear Dr. Tauber! The SPD leadership absolutely agrees with both Mrs. Merkel and Mr. Seehofer that it's necessary to find the way out of the current setup as soon as possible, and to form the government to avoid the escalation of the situation in society and in the country at large. In common with the CDU/CSU, we reject the idea to repeat parliamentary election, because we think it won't change the alignment of forces. In reply to your letter we inform you that the party board has discussed Mrs. Merkel and Mr. Seehofer's proposals on immigration and tax policy, and is ready to adopt a positive decision with some reservations. The SPD considers it possible to reach a compromise with the CDU/CSU and dissociate itself from the Female Young Socialists and Male Young Socialists in the event members of the SPD are named to the posts of the Federal Minister of the Interior, the Federal Minister of Economic Cooperation and Development, and the Federal Minister of Finance. If the Union provides our party a relevant reassurance, we're ready to sign an agreement on the formation of a coalition. Best regards, Lars Klingbeil According to the message, the leaders of the SPD agree with the CDU/CSU on the matter that the formation of a new government is to be carried out as soon as possible for the avoidance of the destabilization of the situation in the country. In the words of the General-Secretary of the party, the SPD may be ready to reach a compromise with the CDU/CSU and sign an agreement on the formation of a coalition government, provided, however, that the social democrats get several key ministerial posts in the new government. Herewith, the leaders of the party expressed their readiness to 'be distant from the Female Young Socialists and Male Young Socialists' which stands against entering the coalition by the SPD. In this way, the leaders of the social democrats are ready to shy away from the party youth, carrying authority in the SPD, without thinking about the consequences. It's anybody's guess how the youth branch will react to such clams of the leadership. Perhaps, the leaders will be able to convince the young social democrats of the necessity of the entering the coalition, and in that case the breach will be avoided. One thing is pretty clear – the dissociation of the Female Young Socialists and Male Young Socialists won't have a positive influence neither on the reputation of the SPD, nor on its future. Such a decision will make impossible the renewal of the party, which will be left without bright leaders and original ideas, that in the future will lead the SPD to complete disintegration.
  6. I don't even know where to begin, but I need to say this. There is a huge moral and ethical scandal going on in American churches, and that involves sex abuse. And it's been going on for FAR too long. To everyone reading this post, this needs to be said right now, to everyone. I don't care what your beliefs are, I don't care who you know, I don't care what gender you are, what age you are, what your job is, etc. I don't care about ANY of that stuff! You have NO right, to take advantage of the vulnerable, or stick up for those who do, for your own disgusting personal gain! This isn't a matter of the recent Hollywood scandal, or any specific scandal, this is about a virus Satan has been spreading around underneath our willfully ignorant noses, and it needs to be stopped NOW! Church people, Christians, I DEMAND as a fellow Christian, that you start taking your beliefs about defending the vulnerable and weak seriously. The world is watching how we treat those very people, young and old. If Hollywood is doing a better job taking down and separating themselves from predators... This isn't only embarrassing, this is disgusting, shameful, and SINFUL! Church, God does not NEED YOU to defend his reputation! He doesn't NEED YOU for anything! And he does NOT offer forgiveness willy nilly to just anyone! People are ONLY given forgiveness when they REPENT! When they genuinely show they're sorry not just through their words but their actions! I don't care if the abuser is a pastor or elder or anything. If you have evidence that they abused, they need to be removed from their post and be kept far away as possible from people they can abuse until they can show themselves trustworthy. And I have the BIBLE to back me up on this! The fact of the matter is, as much as we would like to believe otherwise, there are evil people in this world. Evil people who do not have a conscience. No matter how bad someone's past may have been, people CHOOSE to abuse! And they DO NOT have my sympathy! In fact, I'd like to quote now from a person who can say it much better than I can. Seriously, if I could, I would make you read this post until you finish reading it, because this. is. serious. Does it seem harsh or un-Christian-like to you to refer to a child rapist as a pervert and a dirtbag? Or to call someone who would terrorize her own 2-year-old to the point that he can't catch his breath and is gasping for air, and then laugh at his panic, a sadist and a sociopath? Or to call a mother who stays married to the pedophile who raped her child, fails to do anything to protect that child, and then tops it all off by babysitting OTHER PEOPLE'S children and leaving them alone with the pervert so he can (and did) rape THEM too, a lowlife who belongs in the cell next to him? Is calling a baby-killer a "murderer" going to hurt his poor widdle feelings? Is there even a name bad enough, or should I say "descriptive" enough, to call a mother who would set up her own child to be raped repeatedly by her husband, to keep him from focusing his attention on HER? What about a father who pimps out his children to his friends for money and beer? Or the jackass who has a fight with his girlfriend and then beats their 5-week old baby to death for spite, to get back at her? Or the parents who lock their child in a room for seven years, make her use a litter box for a bathroom, and starve her so badly that she weighs only 35 pounds when she finally dies? Hey, they are what they are. I'm not here to help them feel good about themselves. Seriously, what else would you call them? What would be the politically correct way to refer to scum like this? "Slightly irresponsible"? "Child torture-challenged"? "Having low self-esteem which results in unintentional acting-out of their frustrations and beating the baby"? "Having boundary issues with sexually touching children"? "Being a little temperamental, sometimes resulting in accidentally going too far and killing a child"? Oh, puleeze. Enough, already. Someone who LIKES to see pain and gets their pleasure by making a helpless victim suffer is a SADIST. That's the definition of the word "sadist."A person who remorselessly and brutally inflicts his malice and violence on an innocent target, has absolutely no conscience or compassion about it, and in fact often then tries to use what he did to elicit sympathy for HIMSELF, is a SOCIOPATH. That’s what a sociopath IS. No, really. Look it up. Let's not disrespect the victims and minimize their experiences and pain by making up more pleasant sounding euphemisms to cover up their abusers' true natures. That sends a false message to victims and to the world, that what was done to them wasn't really so bad. But it WAS, so let's stop beating around the bush. Let's stand up and make our disapproval of and contempt for their abusers loud and clear. Tell it like it is. Jesus certainly didn't pull any punches when he called the Pharisees just about every name there was in the book at the time. Hypocrites, snakes, brood of vipers, unclean, greedy, whitewashed tombs full of dead men's bones, blind fools, full of wickedness, sons of hell (Matthew 23:13-33). He used the strongest possible language of his day to denounce them. He made an example of them. He spoke, not just directly to the Pharisees, but for the benefit of everyone else within earshot. Do you think the people who heard him got his point? Evil is evil. It is never un-Christian-like to tell the truth, nor is it un-Christian-like to use strong language when you tell it. This is not a subject we need to be wishy-washy, calm, or easy-going about. We don't need to phrase it kindly lest we insult a dirtbag or offend his partners-in-crime. Using strong language to describe abusers and their enablers serves a purpose. It gets people's attention. It underscores for them just how disgusting, shameful, and, yes, EVIL, the behavior of these so-called "parents" is, and how disgusting, shameful, and EVIL the parents themselves are. It says if you protect an abuser by tolerating or minimizing abuse, then YOU are just as guilty as he is. It brings things that are often hushed-up or whispered about out into the open, and gives others the courage to stand up and tell it like it is, too. It makes a big deal out of something that many people would just as soon pretend isn’t happening or isn’t really that bad. It makes it UNACCEPTABLE to ACCEPT abuse. It drives home the point that abuse, and enabling abuse, is NOT "accidental." It is NOT something "they can’t help." It is NOT a "mistake" or a "misunderstanding." It is DESPICABLE. It is INTENTIONAL, DELIBERATE, and supremely SELFISH. Abusers victimize others to get their own needs met, and their enablers allow it, and even encourage it, to make their own lives easier and to get their own needs met. It's a sick, twisted dynamic. And they continue until they are exposed, or better yet, arrested. They continue until the silence is broken. They continue until we stop circumventing the issues, coddling them, walking on eggshells around them, and talking about them in nice, mild, smiley-face terms - terms that are vague, deceptive, and fail to present the TRUE picture and emphasize the gravity of it to the listener. It's not OUR fault if the truth is ugly. They continue until they are embarrassed and shamed. Until someone stands up and shouts the truth about them from the rooftops. They continue until the people who know them stop sugar-coating their behavior, sweeping it under the rug, and making excuses for them, and start looking at them with the appropriate revulsion and loathing. They continue until nobody wants to be associated with them anymore, until others start avoiding them like the plague, and warning everybody else to stay away, too. In the Bible, this is referred to as "shunning," and it’s meant to produce shame and repentance. They continue until it gets through, not just to them, but to everyone around them, that what they are doing is WRONG, wicked, evil, and bad, bad, bad. Until we make our opinions of their behavior so crystal clear that there can be no mistaking our repulsion and condemnation for anything even slightly milder. They continue until we start forcing them to OWN what they are: degenerate, sadistic, sociopathic, psychopathic, lowlife, dirtbags. As for me, believe it or not, I do try to tone it down a bit. Imagine what my ramblings would sound like if I didn't! My calling as a Christian is to minister to the VICTIMS, not the abusers. Victims need to know that other people support them and agree that what was done to them was terrible, and that the lowlifes who did it are terrible. Survivors need to know that we validate them and their experiences. I'm here to help victims heal, to give them a voice, a nice, BIG voice. Not to help abusers gloss over, justify and feel okay with, or even good about, what they've done. Abusers don't deserve the privilege of being able to walk among the rest of us with their heads held high. I believe in letting the dirtbags live with the consequences of their own actions - including shame, embarrassment, and the disgust of good people everywhere. That's the way God made me. And I believe in keeping it up, relentlessly, until MAYBE, just maybe, they'll repent of their evil ways, turn to the Lord, and be saved. There you have it. Now tell me I'm not the only one who's willing to say all this. Hate is not the opposite of Love. The opposite of Love is indifference, passivity. I take this seriously because God takes this seriously. I hate sexual immorality, but I hate hypocrites even more. We need to show this is NOT okay, no matter who does it, and it never WILL be okay. And let me tell you, if I ever come across something like this in my church... There. is. going. to. be. HELL. to. pay.
  7. In which ways does (or does not) libertarianism correlate well with Christian values and beliefs?
  8. The Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate is the only canonical church in Ukraine recognized by the Ecumenical Patriarchate. 39 percent, that is, the majority of Ukrainian Orthodox is parishioners of the Moscow Patriarchate. There is another denomination - the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate (UOC-KP), which did not get the status of canonical. The UOC-KP is considered an alternative Orthodox (in religious terminology this is called "the schism", split of the church). How do the churches of the Moscow and Kiev Patriarchate differ in practice and why the first one is recognized as canonical? A person who goes to Ukrainian churches once or twice a year to put a candle on, will not find differences, but they are significant. The Moscow Patriarchate, for example, does not accept a free interpretation of prayer, inventing new icons or frescoes. For the clergy and parishioners of the UOC-MP it is inadmissible to pray for the peace of the conditional enemy-more precisely, they do not define enemies in principle, which can not be said about the UOC-KP. Also, the Moscow Patriarchate holds divine services in the Church Slavonic language, and the Kyiv Patriarchate in Ukrainian, translating the Holy Scripture in its own way. But the key difference is that the founder of the UOC-MP is Jesus Christ. The Church is in unity with the Universal Orthodoxy, with common ordinances, whereas the Kyiv Patriarchate recognizes only those ordinances that are pleasing to him. It was in order to undermine the unwanted faith, Ukrainian politicians developed a bill that oppresses the UOC-MP. Moscow Patriarchate decided to oblige to obtain from the state consent to the appointment of priests and abbots right up to the regional level. In such a situation, the threat of destroying the parishes of the country's main confession is an excuse for distraction. Political technology is clear: national radicals, hiding behind icons, will demand the closure of "pro-Moscow" temples throughout the country. Ukrainian citizens will stand up for their parishes, priests, spiritual guides. Examples, when the temples of the UOC-MP captured the banned in Russia nationalist groups, is already enough. In different regions of Ukraine radicals attack cult buildings, beat parishioners and forcibly transfer temples to the Kyiv Patriarchate.
  9. apparently, this town has ad og for a mayor. This town is going to the dogs. A politically-minded pooch just won his third term as mayor in the small Minnesota town of Cormorant http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/dog-wins-term-small-town-minnesota-mayor-article-1.2763120
  10. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bfrFeIm2YE Stand for You – Jonny Diaz ----Lyrics---- So long politics it's time to start being me Take the chains off my lips it's time to set my tongue free Some might just turn their heads but some will raise a fist And You told me to stand so I won't back down from this They say there are no absolutes but are they absolutely sure In a world that tries to water You down Where beliefs cannot be spoken to loud I'll stand for truth Where they claim Your way isn't wide enough And they do their best just to cover You up I'll stand for You Hello reality it's time we embrace honesty Teach me to speak with truth and love and with humility You made a promise that You're coming back to earth So how selfish am I if I don't go tell the world They say just be sincere but could they all just be sincerely wrong In a world that tries to water You down Where beliefs cannot be spoken to loud I'll stand for truth Where they claim Your way isn't wide enough And they do their best just to cover You up I'll stand for You They might remove Your name from money But You own it all the same They kicked You out of school that's funny Cause how could You go away In a land that's built upon Your word It's amazing You've been banned To think that we control You is absurd So for truth I'm here to stand In a world that tries to water You down Where beliefs cannot be spoken to loud I'll stand for truth Where they claim Your way isn't wide enough And they do their best just to cover You up I'll stand for You
  11. ..URGENT RFID CHIP MESSAGE & CRISIS INFORMATION: ..AUSTRALIAN JWS/CHRISTIANS CALL LAST AMERICAN CHRISTIANS TO COME QUICK If you live in America & you believe Jesus is your Lord & saviour, then Australia calls you come flock with us now, so that we in our numbers might outlaw the RFID chip otherwise due to be manditory to you late March 2013, & boycot America - which is not your home any more. "Do not think of yourself more highly than you should. Instead be modest." Romans 12:3. You are supposed to follow the laws of your government After the word of God. It is what those of your whereabouts pray 4 , & to disobay makes 1 vagabond there. Also weather for or against RFID, to remain 1 would be effectively prayer for it too, & that it will take over the world, ..as losing you, the last American Christian, we could find ourselves outnumbered just the same as you are now, & to our peril aswell. Do you see how important it is you come now? Do not fight your government, but as the bible suggests please be ready. Move for Christ our Lord his blood, leave what ties tie you, & do not look back for any1, it is not the time, & without waiting & ths making of excuses, Hurry. Let the whole world see@ that Jehovah Is the kingdom , the power & the glory forever & ever. i now insist. that Australian Christians not see American Christians as American anymore, but fighting & vagabond in a place they don't understand to leave, or that sorrow only will create more sorrow. Or that they be sitting on a very unsound fence. Help them. INVITE them, 5 per every person so they might come in numbers to fill & shield this place, as no name of who accept in them the mark controlling buying&selling are found in the book of life. *bows head & lays hands on Australia & America, praying* .Dear Heavenly Father Jehovah? Please send your angels to guide and watch over us, and keep us safe & off the path of who with holes in their reasonings know not what they do. In Jesus Holy name, Amen.
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