Have you ever introduced friends to each other who then replaced you with their friendship? How did you deal with the hurt from that if it didn't get addressed?

Following World Wars of the 20th century, there is a collective paradigm shift that presented the system of liberal democracy of the United States, and the west generally, as a kind of sacred center for the protection and promotion of universal human rights for the entire world. The "Shining City on a Hill" enlightening the nations of the world with its system of liberal democracy.

The Church enters into this through the stream of Liberation Theology and the Social Gospel. This was the belief that Christians could begin building the Kingdom of God here on earth now through governmental social reforms. The command to feed the hungry and help the needy was gradually transformed and merged into a rapidly growing beauracratic system of social planning and social engineering.

The result appears to be a mainstream church that is spiritually fastened to 'sacred democracy'... where the spreading of Democracy and the Gospel has become syncretized into one common mission. Light spills into the world when a foreign dictator's palace is bombed by NATO airplaines, the same as it might when the Gospel is preached to some distant tribe.

A kind of universal "Moral Therapeutic State" is formed by a syncretic mixture of Christianity and Secular Democracy.

When liberal-minded Christians get upset about the prospect of "Christian Nationalism", it's not because they dislike the idea of mixing Christianity with the Nation-State, it's because *they already did it themselves* and would rather a competing Christian sect not try and overturn the syncretic religious order they've already established.

The Messianic figure of Christ becomes detached from the Bible, and floats freely in a kind of Gnosticism. Jesus becomes a "personal experience" for each individual, detached from the scripture that contradicts the sacred freedoms granted by the sacred Democratic State, freedoms such as the promotion of homosexuality and gay marriage or the individual right to kill one's child. This gnostic Jesus stands next to a deified George Washington... the light of the Gospel shines beside the equally bright torch of humanistic freedom blazing from the Statue of Liberty.

Curious to read others' thoughts on this subject.

It's not good, it's harmful even, for one person to post a dozen or more new threads every day, in that it tends to crowd out other new threads by other people, some of whom might be making urgent prayer requests or such, say about 20 hours since we have last visited the site, so that if one person has during that 20 hours made 12 or 15 or more new threads, that urgent prayer request can become basically invisible to most people looking for new threads.

Of course, it's not only urgent prayer requests that can be made invisible by one person posting 15 new threads, but even just ordinary fellowship threads someone makes, where we have a chance to join in and practice "love one another" together, so the problem isn't only about what is urgent, but also about what is best.

To steal a phrase from The Clash - "Should I stay or should I go"
We hear lots of news lately about Elon Musk's heavy hand blazing a trail of destruction through his newly acquired company Twitter.
He fired half his staff and with his heavy hand he has been monitoring and spying on staff internal conversations on private slack channels and firing people that have said negative things about him.
He has demanded people to work in office and to commit to long hours at high intensity or leave. Early reporting is suggesting that the majority of staff are choosing to leave.
Way to go Elon, how to, within the space of two weeks turn a workforce from highly engaged, passionate, valued, proud and excited, to disgusted, disengaged, unvalued, disappointed and wanting to leave.

Anyway, this thread isn't about staff. This is about users and how they might be answering the question "Should I stay or should I go"
There doesn't seem to be much media focus on this.
We have heard about the Blue Check fiasco, where user's could trust that celebreties and people and organisations with official positions had been verified by Twitter and so the messages coming from accounts with the Blue Check could be trusted as coming from the people and organisations that user think these are coming from. But now with the Blue Check just meaning that a subscription fee has been paid, now users have no idea who is saying what.
But other than this Blue Check, we don't really hear much about the impact on users.
Are users staying or leaving?

After Elon Musk’s abrupt takeover of Twitter, many people saw and heard so many SEOs and marketers take the bold but necessary step of leaving the platform.

But a recent poll that was conducted in this regard proved that users are not ready to leave just yet.

The bizzareness of the above narrative is that from that linked to poll, 21% have said that they have left already (which is massive) and a further 12% have said that they are planning to leave. This makes 33% of the user base (at least those responding to the poll) have said that they have already left or are planning to leave. Which completely contradicts the article which says "proved that users are not ready to leave just yet"

Twitter is struggling to keep its most active users - who are vital to the business - engaged, underscoring a challenge faced by the Tesla chief executive as he approaches a deadline to close his $44 billion deal to buy the company.
These "heavy tweeters" account for less than 10% of monthly overall users but generate 90% of all tweets and half of global revenue. Heavy tweeters have been in "absolute decline" since the pandemic began, a Twitter researcher wrote in an internal document titled “Where did the Tweeters Go?”
...interest in news, sports and entertainment is waning among those users. Tweets on those topics, which have helped Twitter burnish an image as the world’s "digital town square," as Musk once called it, are also the most desirable for advertisers.

So it seems that Twitter was facing some big problems (even before Musk's takeover) of the active users becoming disengaged and less active and moving towards links and conversations that are less appealing to advertisers.

Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter has some in Hollywood heading for the exit.

"Grey's Anatomy" creator Shonda Rhimes and others in the entertainment industry say they plan to quit the platform now that it is owned by Musk, a self-proclaimed "free speech absolutist" who has vowed to make sweeping changes — including potentially reversing the ban on former President Donald Trump.

"Not hanging around for whatever Elon has planned. Bye," Rhimes tweeted to her nearly 2 million Twitter followers Saturday afternoon, two days after Musk closed his $44 billion deal to purchase the service.

I don't know what the above means. Is this just a few anecdotes. Are all celebreties thinking this way, or just some? Are celebretities significant to keeping Twitter interesting for other users????

Anyway, I'm not a Twitter user, I don't have an account. I am just interested in whether Musk is destroying this platform or not. Twitter is obviously a very significant platform to many people.

I feel badly that you all are getting so much snow. Looks like you all accumulating it really quick!

Attorney General Merrick Garland plans to announce Friday that he has appointed a special counsel to oversee investigations into the retention of national defense information at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort and key aspects of the criminal investigation into January 6, 2021, according to a senior Justice Department official.

Well, that should end all complaining about the political nature of these investigations!

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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.

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)

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?

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.

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

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....

What is the acceptable requirement of income to get married because I was told by married men from one of my previous churches us single men must make a bare minimum of $75K per year but it should be $100K per year in USA dollars in USA.

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

she has pains in her chest.. the dr says she needs surgery, but says this is non urgent.. Please pray for God to heal her

keith

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.

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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.

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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.'

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This is unacceptable.

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

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.

I’m joy. I’ve been a Christian all my life but rededicating my life to Jesus currently on a walk

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.

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.

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.

What are your plans for Thanksgiving? Even if you are spending it by yourself I'd love to hear.

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.

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