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We Need Public Representation for Low and Medium Wage Workers If This Great Reset Takes Place

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I've been thinking about this "Great Reset" and the World Economic Forum (WEF)(headed by Charles Schwab) lately. The problems I see in businesses today (and I feel others are realizing now too) is that a lot of them totally ignore the needs of the low and medium wage worker. So if the world's wealthiest business owners are going to lay out a plan so that all people will be better off and happier then these wealthy business owners need to know what make us low and medium wage workers happier in the workplace. It seems only right that low and medium wage workers should contribute to the plan of the so called "Great Reset". So here are my lists of things that would make me a happier worker.

Every worker entering the workforce will get good, affordable health insurance. We don't need to have centralized government healthcare. Companies that have over 200 workers should be able to give their workers different options of healthcare. Companies that have less that 200 workers would work with other companies with less than 200 workers to buy good quality health insurance for their workers.

Worker's should be given the necessary tools (and fairly up to date) to accomplish their jobs adequately. Workers should be equipped with fairly up to date computers (if necessary), sitting and furniture, vehicles, training, handheld devices, first aid supplies and so on.

A good wage so he/she can afford to live on their own.

At least one week of paid vacation a year and one week of sick leave a year.

No part time work status unless the worker is the one who requests it.

The chance to save for one's retirement.

If the WEF is going to set the way we workers work they need our input. A lot of us are tired of others making the rules without our input. If we are equals in this society then we need to have equal say in things.
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Well I got halfway through the video before realizing that no substantive arguments would be forthcoming. Therefore it wasn't worth wasting any more time on. It's silly.
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FTX, "Who is watching the Watchmen?"

1) I find the FTX scandal very amusing, especially that many Democrats love to talk about regulating stocks, business, people "paying their fair share" etc. but can be in bed with one of the biggest abusers of the system and this guy seems to have gotten really far by being a big Democratic fund doner and seemed to use the promise of much, much greater donations to get the benefit of the doubt before the wheels fell off of his operation. Not only this but the FTX founder was one of the major advisors to regulating such people that they sought counsel from.


2) It also is amusing that this entrepreneur went out of his way to exploit woke language to get the best coverage from the press, liberal politicians, and liberals on social media (A point he also later admitted too in some of his personal online correspondence). This kind of thing reminds me of
some pet areas of mine in psychology, such as: social psychology, neurolinguistic programming, and the power of framing various topics.


3) Besides this I also found it amusing that House Representative Maxine Waters (who took a photo with him that was soon deleted off her web sites and social media accounts soon after the scandal broke) tried to spin this as a Bipartisan scandal when it is really a mostly Democratic one. So far, we only know of one Republican took money the FTX Crypto currency founder. I suspect if you actually audit the money of who gets what the money going to even that candidate is going to be very low compared to all the money going to Democratic candidates.


(And if you don't know what I'm talking about... go Google FTX, not posting any links lest I miss something forbidden in the TOS, nor do I want to take the time to vet content when people can just google something themselves)

I don’t want to go to church.

My church has been a great comfort for me for over the last two years but I find myself trying to attend less and less. Especially when my church is an hour away and I have to be in the car for two hours every Sunday. It gets quite annoying and costly. Of course my elder and Deacon always offer to pay for gas but I feel badly just taking money from them even for food and to pay my rent once. Our congregation isn't the largest (maybe about 40 people) so I feel really bad taking their money. Especially when I was hospitalized in New Hampsire last year for blood clots. The church gave me $500 so I could take a cab home.

I always put some money in everytime I attend because I feel guilty taking so much money from the church in the two years I've been attending. And let's face it, I'm an introvert. So every luncheon and every Christmas, Easter, even refromation day I try to stay far from the church because I don't want to socialize with the congregants and I'm afraid they would make fun of me. It doesn't matter how close I am to my elder (We're like inseparable friends) my elder is all I talk to. So I attend Church maybe 1 to 2 times a month. Not good and I feel guilty for not attending. Every single social event I don't attend and now I feel like not attending at all. What should I do?
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Hebrews 10:25
not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.
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Is this a theological issue?

I bought some Vanilla Pepsi Max (diet pepsi) as an experiment, intending no theological consequences of any kind.

But, upon sampling it I discovered a theological issue with it. I am sure it is Satan's spawn and the Devil's drink!
An evil brew from the tartarus!
Take my warning, shun this evil brew.
Excommunicate it from your midst!
Dispose of it down the drain and never let a drop pass between your lips.
For fear of some terrible fate befalling you.

Hello

Hi Everyone

My Name is Keith
I am british, but live in China
Am 63 years of age. Have been a christian since just before my 16th Birthday
Married to Helen, a chinese church leader serving the unregistered church.
Have a beautiful daughter who is a teacher and fine arts major

New 10 commandments, rebranded as 10 spiritual principles for climate repentance. NOT A CONSPIRACY THEORY, SO DONT MOVE THIS THREAD.

Initially i asked "what do you think? Seems like mockery to me"

Here it is. CURRENT EVENT

Citing the name change

Heres the rebranding

Lets see if any sniveling happens....

Chinese believers forum

I am a christian writer living in Nanjing China

I have a large quantity of Devotions translated into Chinese from English. They come in english and chinese and am praying for all the people groups and provinces. Please could we have a forum, where people could read these devotions and pray for china.

I live in china and see the need here

keith

Texas woman, 35, forced to carry unviable fetus suffers life-threatening infection because state refused to give her an abortion. Another one.

Texas woman denied abortion, forced to keep unviable fetus nearly dies

A Texas woman nearly died due a severe bacterial infection because doctors were legally barred from performing an abortion even though the fetus would not survive.

Amanda Zurawski and her husband Josh, both 35 and living in Austin, were overjoyed when they found out they were expecting a baby after over a year of fertility treatments.
Everything changed when Amanda entered the 18th week of her pregnancy. One October day she suddenly experienced abnormal discharge and 'what felt like water running down my leg.'
This is unacceptable.

The Reset of Civilization

The Word of God [the Bible] tells us that He is the Creator of all things. He has the ability to do anything that he chooses. He made the earth and set humans upon it.
It’s been nearly 2000 years since the last time we were given Divine instructions, that is: as written in the Bible. Since then, people have mostly pursued their own interests, worshipping false gods, promoting evolution and denying the existence of their Creator.

We are told that thousands of years ago people were in a similar situation, having degenerated into apostasy and sin. Only one righteous man and his family were kept alive as God destroyed all the rest by a worldwide flood. Jesus predicted that ‘once again it will be as in the days of Noah’ and when He comes again, we should be prepared. Matthew 24:37-44

The Creator God ‘reset civilization’ in Noah’s day and now we are facing the same judgement. God promised after the Flood, to never again use water or wipe out life so completely. Genesis 9:11
But in Deuteronomy 32:22 & 34-35, He tells us of a terrible fire punishment stored up for His enemies, on their Day of Doom. Isaiah 54:9-10

There are many descriptions in the prophesies of this sudden and devastating worldwide Day of fire and earthquakes, most are either ignored or allegorized because people cannot see any literal fulfilment. The biggest difficulty that most have, is realizing the difference between the Lord’s Day of vengeance and wrath and the Return of Jesus in His glory.

Isaiah 13:9-13 The Day of the Lord is coming, that cruel Day of wrath and fierce anger, to reduce the earth to desolation and to destroy the wicked there. The sun, moon and stars will give no light. Humans will become scarce, as rare as fine gold and the earth will quake at the wrath of God on the Day of His blazing anger.

This and many other prophesies cannot be reconciled with the glorious Return of Jesus, when ‘every eye will see Him’. It is clearly stated that on the Day of wrath, He will not be seen. Psalms 18:11, Habakkuk 3:4, Psalms 11:4-6

We are told in Revelation 6:17, that the Sixth Seal judgement is the Day of the Lord’s wrath and then the Seventh Seal is an ‘about a 20 year’ time gap when the world recovers, enabling righteous Israel, that is; every faithful Christian, from every race, nation and language, Revelation 5:9-10, to return to the holy Land and the rise of a One World government. Then, after most of the rest of the prophesies are fulfilled, Jesus will Return and commence His Millennial reign.

The main reason that most people fail to get what the Bible tells us, is that the Lord has placed on us a spirit of misunderstanding and ‘If you confuse yourself, then you will stay confused’ Isaiah 29:9-12. Only in the last days, before this shocking event, will a few finally understand what the Lord has planned. Daniel 12:9-10

*Revelation 8:1 The Seventh Seal... there was silence in heaven for about a half hour...
This time period is for ‘about a half hour in heaven’, and Psalm 90:4, 2 Peter 3:8, tell us that one day to God in heaven is the same as a thousand years on earth. Therefore, a half hour of heavenly time calculates to 20.8 years of earthly time. So then ‘about 15- 20 years’, is right for all that must happen, starting very soon.
Ref: logostelos.info

Body-Cam Footage Confirms Paul Pelosi Opened Door for Police, Contradicts DOJ Account

While the DOJ claimed in an indictment filed on November 9 that the officers opened the door themselves, body-cam footage viewed by the San Francisco district attorney’s office confirms that it was Pelosi who let them into the home, a source who personally viewed the footage told the NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit.

This why I called for the release of body-cam footage from the beginning--but like other important information for the American people they waited until after the election. The DOJ has a recent history of corruption and needs to be dealt with.

House GOP hones in on Biden’s role in son’s business deals: ‘This is an investigation of Joe Biden’

House Republicans are zeroing in on President Biden’s direct involvement in an array of potentially illegal business dealings spearheaded by his son Hunter Biden.


Republicans who will soon run the House Oversight and Reform and Judiciary committees fired their first shot across the president’s bow on Thursday by laying out evidence that they say “raises troubling questions” about whether Mr. Biden has been “compromised by foreign governments.” They pledged to expand their investigation into Mr. Biden when Republicans control the House in the next Congress, which convenes in January.

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Body-Cam Footage Confirms Paul Pelosi Opened Door for Police, Contradicts DOJ Account

Newly revealed body-cam footage reportedly contradicts the Department of Justice’s account of the sequence of events that led up to the attack on Paul Pelosi, the husband of outgoing Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, confirming that Pelosi opened the door for the police officers who responded to the 911 call he placed from his residence.

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I am so curious why you guys do things the way you do.

There are no clear instructions or helpful tools to navigate this website and forum without frustration or with success beyond the most obvious; it's like playing the lotto especially after updating the platform and/or changing guidelines. Please forgive me and my criticism and truthfulness. An instruction page or tutorials would be helpful to navigate this forum.

Instruction Page: List each function, tab or tool bar tabs/icons directing us to that function and/or information as instructions, the obvious is not necessary, but I click on things that are in blue font our tool bars and tabs highlighted blue or with blue font, but it doesn't take me anywhere like the other highlighted or blue font tabs normally would/should (Use a different color if not a tab leading to another link). If you want me to pay for a better functioning forum, tell me "You must pay" then showing me a credit card icon. If any aspect of this forum is free, please list how that works or how you work in the future or that is simply manipluation and not of God; like the rest of the world.
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Confessing Divine Impassibility

Do you believe God is impassible?

  • Yes

    Votes: 5 27.8%
  • No

    Votes: 10 55.6%
  • Maybe

    Votes: 1 5.6%
  • Who cares?

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Option 4

    Votes: 2 11.1%

Impassibility (from Latin in-, "not", passibilis, "able to suffer, experience emotion") describes the theological doctrine that God does not experience pain or pleasure from the actions of another being. It has often been seen as a consequence of divine aseity, the idea that God is absolutely independent of any other being, i.e., in no way causally dependent. Being affected (literally made to have a certain emotion, affect) by the state or actions of another would seem to imply causal dependence.

Do you believe that God is impassable? Feel free to vote and/or explain.

Trump endorsed candidates did not lose at the level that lib media claims

from: Here's how candidates endorsed by Trump performed in the midterm elections
"On the House side, Trump-endorsed candidates broadly performed well: 141 of the 162 endorsed candidates had been deemed election winners by AP as of Wednesday afternoon.​
"Nine candidates backed by Trump have lost their elections"​

"When it comes to general-election candidates endorsed by Trump, the former president’s win rate is relatively high: at least 68% on the Senate side, with four races yet to be decided, and at least 87% on the House side, with 12 outstanding races.​
"Trump’s Senate win rate could go as high as 88% if all his remaining candidates win; if only the candidates who are currently leading win, his rate would be 76%. His House rate would tick up to 90% if the five candidates he endorsed who are currently leading win.​

ok so that is an "odd" result to then have all the liberal doom-and-gloom summaries about Trump as if the election results demonstrate that he did not know up from down about elections. It is almost as if the rule they use is "if Trump does not perform miracle then we can ignore his views".

I looks to me like he is still taking up a lot of real estate in liberal news minds these days.
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German priest backs pornography as sexual ‘relief’ for celibates, says Pope Francis was wrong to associate porn with the devil

A priest of the Diocese of Münster, Germany, Father Hermann Backhaus, said that consuming pornography “can have a relieving effect” on celibate people. He also considers it a “very strong” statement to associate the devil with pornography, as Pope Francis did at a meeting with seminarians in Rome last month.

Backhaus has been a priest since 2001. He works as a psychologist in an accompaniment center for people in the service of the Catholic Church. At the center he offers support with the aim of “growing in interior freedom” and “recognizing and living the vocation given by God.”

This work, as explained on his website, is offered to full-time pastoral workers, religious, and people preparing for those ministries.

In an interview with Katolisch.de, the news outlet of the Catholic Church in Germany, Backhaus warned against “the somewhat dirty connotation” attributed to the term pornographic.

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Is CF in a time warp?

I just noticed that newer CF posts are dated "tomorrow" or "later today" so I'm getting to see posts before they are posted. :scratch:

It looks like the CF clock is getting confused by time zones. I live on the east coast of Australia which is 17 hours ahead of the west coast of the US. so my today is your tomorrow and my yesterday is your today.

The time/date stamp I'm seeing is operating relative to US time.

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House Republicans allege Biden directly involved in business dealings with son Hunter Biden


Republican Reps. James Comer and Jim Jordan alleged at a press conference Thursday that President Biden was actively involved in overseas business dealings alongside his son Hunter. Comer is the incoming chair of the House Oversight Committee and Jordan is expected to soon chair the Judiciary Committee.

The representatives alleged that Hunter Biden and Joe Biden participated in "waste, fraud, and abuse" in
I am curious how long it will take before House Republicans bring up articles of impeachment. I give it less than a year.

international business dealings.

The Republicans released a report Thursday outlining their findings.

I dreamt that I was killed by demons and my spirit was cast down to Hell.

I've been having a lot of sleepless nights lately with trying to start my own freelancing business in SEO, as well as running a YouTube channel and engaging in multiple other ambitions endeavours where I'm constantly neglecting or rejecting things in my life. Since the age of 9 my mother had abandoned the Church that we went to which removed the sense of stability I had in my life, ever since then I've just been living in chaos and lack conscientiousness. I used to think that I was alright living in this chaos and being ambivalent in my beliefs, I never dedicated myself to any faith fully before except from my brief stints in Buddhism. In fact, I was more inclined to read books written by non-believers and atheists, where success became my sense of identity. My identity became correlated with what I could achieve and recently I've been very boastful of this.

I have a cat at home called Snowdrop, she is a 1-year-old shorthaired indoor cat who is very playful and curious. Recently she ate plastic, causing an argument with my family where my dad is trying to deter me from going to the vets because we don't have the money (I'm basically unemployed) and I had this dream as a result of this where I was in the middle of the riot. In fact, this is a recurring dream from when I was younger where I stole a box of Lego and was hunted down by authorities. In this dream, I suddenly raged and started a riot. I fumbled through the crowd to meet the men in charge, the police officers at a mall type of convention full of children, who started mocking me. Angered, I tried to break the glass atop of a balcony like in some sort of Arnold Schwarzenegger movie, but the lady behind the grass grabbed hold of my throat and pushed me down into the rails. The other guy was laughing with a red demonic face. The lady then stabbed me in the throat with a shard of glass as I awoke from my sleep.

I awoke in my bed, still asleep, where this shadowy figure was stood beside me. His arms looked like the legs of a praying mantis, and he was completely naked. He pinned me down and said that he was a 'negomonom' and that he was going to make me bleed. I was stabbed in the chest, whilst awake in my bed fully, as I started to fall from the clear blue sky. I saw the pearly gates and a rainbow as I fell away from Heaven into the fiery depths of hell. Then I started to research dream (tarot) interpretations and found that this dream is usually associated with witchcraft. I think someone cursed Snowdrop, there's a lot of neighbour conflict that's been happening over the past couple of years so it's probably them. Or my time could be coming to a close on this Earth because my mother has been cursed by witchcraft. 7 years after she dies, I supposedly die. I want this curse removed and I'm willing to relinquish all material possessions and ambitions to become closer to God if there's a chance that my soul will be spared. But is my soul even worth sparing at this point?

I think that someone in my family might pass away very soon and be sent to Hell, the demon in my dreams is probably their torturer. I wasn't afraid of him, I just felt anger. I felt like squeezing this demon's head until his eyeballs pop out, maybe that's just denial for my sins.
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