IMO This is not an ‘either/or’ situation IMO.
Despite assumptions I believe both propositions can be true at the same time… đ
Let me explain.
I say 1. We have free will and 2. God controls the universe.
Just as my young son was not my slave I could guarantee that if I held out an ice cream… he would grab it.
He was not *compelled* to grab it… yet I knew that I only had to put the cone in front of his face… and he would behave exactly as I planned/ foresaw.
We read in Exodus that God ‘hardened pharaoh’s heart’ so that he would not let the people go.
All God had to do is via some inconsequential way provoke Pharaoh’s pride/ego… to know Pharaoh would of his own volition *harden his own heart*!
There is no *deterministic mechanism* involved in what God did that absolves Pharaoh of his personal volition and culpability for what he did!
He was tested… and failed because of his own evil… and God is fully just in holding him accountable for what he did.
Does this make sense?
So God’s Authority does not negate Freewill.
He simply knows the heart of every one of us.
Pharaoh could have acted differently… yet chose the wicked path.
Christian X user asks the question… “Should Porn be allowed on this platform?”
Public nudity in a free and civil society has always been a contentious issue. Even the discussion of Sex is contentious.
As a Libertarian Christian I have defended the rights of Sex workers, and Public parades such as ‘Boobs on Bikes’ from Oppressive Councils and laws that were under pressure to prohibit these things largely from Christian activist lobby groups.
Some people will wonder how as a Christian I might take such a position? I take that position because I believe in a separation of church and state, and I do not like Christianity and the bible being used as a bludgeon to persecute sinners and infidels. I believe that to be absolutely Unchristian, and also a corruption of the Law… and a violation of individual rights.
Many anti-freedom people think that by taking the side of prostitutes that I am endorsing prostitution, yet that is false. I do not want anyone (man or woman) to prostitute themselves, yet that does not mean I therefore should support laws against them.
I believe In liberty.. as a Libertarian Christian we have far more hope of saving people from prostitution if we show love for them rather than hateful oppression. Christians can still work to reduce prostitution via the gospel… which is the true Christian way to battle sin and improve the world…. all under freedom.
Now I said all this here to give context to the question raised above. Porn in Western society may be construed as being anything from showing a nipple… to full on Sex. I personally am not bothered by the former being allowed in public yet would be very bothered by the latter… so even Libertarian Tim thinks there must be a line drawn *somewhere*.
Myself… applying the principle of Equality before the law when supporting ‘Boobs parades in Hamilton’ was that if men are allowed to walk topless down the street so too should woman be lawfully allowed to. Instead of allowing woman to do so, we could instead simply create a new prohibition against men having bare chests…. yet is this the best direction for society… less freedom… more laws/rules/punishments? It’s obvious to me thats the wrong direction to take society… that leads to what is happening in the Islamic world with Burkas and Beard police.
The truth is Christians need to be tolerant of others who do not share *all* the same values and sentiments we do… yet who are still peaceful and civil. Ie seeing a boob on the street you may find offensive (I don’t) but is certainly does not violate any of your rights!
If we were to apply that to social media platforms and boobs were allowed… then anyone offended by it could scroll past that post… and even block the sender of the post…. thereby *self policing* their own content without imposing their views on others. And this is how a free and civil society really works. Tolerance… and Individuals taking responsibility for their own moral standards rather than expecting the government to act like the Taliban.
X could set up an ‘R18’ tab (maybe they already do) and users could click that tab to prevent any R18 content appearing in their feed. They probably already do this… I’m not sure. I’m fairly certain most x users don’t want explicit porn turning up in their feed, yet I’m sure the odd boob pick from a chick on the back of a motor cycle does not bother too many people????
Ultimately such questions are for the Platforms themselves to figure out… yet if they get it wrong It would impact on their User satisfaction and cause people to leave. Lets say X allowed nudity yet not explicit sex acts… at first some millions who cant handle the sight of a boob to leave. That would be an expected cost. yet eventually those numbers would recover and users would just take such stuff in their stride like adults. And personally speaking I think that is progress… an escape from the petty legalistic prudish attitudes that still support Legal oppression under the guise of Christian virtue.
If nudity was allowed on X that would not mean Christians could no longer maintain their own virtues. They might face more ‘temptation’… yet it would be up to them to overcome that as all Christian ought. Ironically It’s the more Pious types that have the most problem when confronted with a boob! Everyone else just laughs… or scrolls past.
Powerful testimony by Lara Logan: "I have worked at the highest levels of the media as a full-time correspondent for 60 Minutes, chief foreign correspondent for CBS News, chief foreign affairs correspondent for CBS News. That was my home for 16 years. And as a journalist, I have⌠pic.twitter.com/ocY7hmWYYe
Powerful testimony by Lara Logan:
“I have worked at the highest levels of the media as a full-time correspondent for 60 Minutes, chief foreign correspondent for CBS News, chief foreign affairs correspondent for CBS News. That was my home for 16 years. And as a journalist, I have sat down with world leaders, mass murderers, and terrorists. And I have held people on both sides of the aisle accountable. I have seen suffering and I have faced evil and I have walked through the fires of hell on distant battlefields. I faced my own death at the hands of a mob of some 200 men in Egypt when I was gang-raped and sodomized and beaten almost to death while on assignment for 60 minutes. And yet for almost a decade I have been targeted and falsely branded and accused of many things that I did not do.
They have attacked my work, my character, my sanity, and my marriage. And I am not alone. We are many. And we will not give up, and we will not give in. It’s important to all of us, because of everything discussed today, that we address the vital principles and values that exist really only in the United States of America.
And that said, these are the worst of times for the media in this country. We live in the age of information warfare, where propaganda is not simply a weapon, it is the entire field of battle. This is a war for our minds that is aided by advanced technology, and we have never been here, not in all of human history. It is a moment when we as journalists should stand together, united, and regardless of politics, we should fight for the truth and we should fight for freedom. Yet, not very long ago, we allowed one of our own to be branded as a traitor simply for doing his job. In fact, there were many so-called journalists who were leading the charge against Tucker, accusing him of treason for the simple fact of interviewing the president of Russia. And to my knowledge, there was not a single legacy media institution that spoke up. This was more than a politically motivated attack on one man. It was a betrayal of the most sacred principles of a free press. And my media colleagues know this to be true, no matter what they say. My fear is that they either no longer care or that they lack the moral courage to be honest, including with themselves to those who wish to censor the idea of free speech in America and all over the world. Media companies, institutions and journalism schools have failed all of us. And for too long we have allowed non-profit organizations to masquerade as non-partisan media watchdogs, when in fact they are little more than highly paid political propagandists and assassins whose entire reason for being is to crush anyone who stands in their way and along with them the long held and cherished ideas of free speech, free thinking, and free minds. This is a blood sport for them, their political allies, and their puppet masters. They know how to kill a journalist without murdering them. We call it cancel culture. In truth, it is a death sentence. And they get away with it because they have information dominance. Some are strong enough to survive, but only a few like Glenn Greenwald, Tucker Carlson, Matt Taibbi, only a few like them are able to reach greater heights and thrive.
These nonprofits that I’m talking about are part of a vast censorship network that includes government agencies. They use deception to mask their actions with lofty goals like preventing the spread of misinformation, disinformation, hate speech. They use phrases like protecting democracy and make no mistake, words matter. While propaganda and censorship are not new. Technology means unprecedented power and reach in the hands of a few. Companies like Facebook, Instagram, and Google, as you have heard many times today, have been allowed to amass monopoly power. And as a result, they not only reach billions of people across the world every second of the day, they have absolute control over what we see and what we hear.
Mao, Hitler. When I became a journalist more than 35 years ago, we were under emergency restrictions in apartheid South Africa. And I was 17 years old. Public safety and security were the weapons of state censors. Ours was the truth. We had no Bill of Rights, no Constitution, no First Amendment, no Declaration of Independence and journalists would have to hide their footage from the security police, sometimes sewing the tapes into their mattresses at home so they could not be seized and used to identify and target the protesters that we had filmed. The light of freedom that set fire to our hearts in South Africa was lit thousands of miles away. It was lit right here where we sit today in the United States of America.
When the Founding Fathers put freedom of speech first, it was not by chance, it was by design. The rights that followed were in part created to protect the First Amendment. Without it, they knew that freedom itself would perish. I am reminded today of the words spoken by the British Foreign Secretary, Sir Edward Gray, in 1914, at the beginning of the First World War. He said, the lamps are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in our lifetime. We are once again watching the lights of freedom. They’re going out here and all over the world. And it is up to us to determine if they will be lit again ever.”
I’m against New Zealand building Nuclear Power stations, yet not for the ‘usual’ reasons regarding it’s safety. but rather because I know the WEF Globalist New World Order Seeks to overthrow the Oil based Civilisation and install their *Electric Based totalitarian system whereby they control the lives of every individual on Earth via their consoles.
This includes a Global Cashless system. 666.
This includes a Global ID social credit system of control whereby dissidents and critics of government get punished and silenced.
It will include some sort of Mark or chip imbedded into the body. All our Biometrics will be scanned and recorded. We are told it’s all for our own convenience and social good.
It’s a system of absolute slavery… yet the biggest hurdle to their New World Order is that there is currently not enough Electric generation to replace Coal, Oil, and Gas.
They are not doing this ‘to save the planet’. That is a gigantic scam. The Politically generated Climate Alarmism and hysteria is merely a ruse to deceive the gullible masses into complying with their tyrannical dictates.
So NO! I do not support the government or anyone setting up Nuclear power stations in New Zealand!
That is what they will use to enslave my children. That is when they will outlaw petrol cars and trucks.
Coal, Oil, Petrol, and gas represents *FREEDOM*.
I will not comply or support the building of a tyrannical system.
I fully admit that I am alarmed by the way everything is being assimilated into the electronic matrix. The total loss of privacy… the way Tech corporations invade our personal spaces… steal our data… track us and spy on us and I am gobsmaked by the apathy of my fellow citizens to all this… their sheepish compliance… their acquiescence… their surrendering their rights for the sake of petty conveniences. I think it has all gone way too far.
The balance between Smart tech and analogue stand alone tech that is not reliant on the Matrix has been well and truly crossed with no end in sight!
So much of the ‘Smart tech’ is absolutely unnecessary… quite ridiculous really so that our societies dependency on the internet is like Crack cocaine… a very real form of enslavement… Am I really that crazy to point these things out?
Given the WEF agenda for the Great Reset, we must expect a heavy propaganda spin campaigns promoting Nuclear energy under the guise of fighting ‘Climate annihilation’… yet we know the real game plan.
It’s Ironic when you know people like Bill Gates and the WEF Transhumanist want to reduce the population… yet these demons sucker so many fools into thinking they are trying to save the world.
Satan laughing spreads his wings.
Scott Stapp lead singer of the band Creed performing at the Cruzan Amphitheater West Palm Beach, Florida – 16.09.09. Where: United States When: 16 Sep 2009 Credit: WENN
Scott Stapp from Creed goes off on epic screed explaining the need for Rs & Ds to unite against Soros and the WEF.
Scott Stapp from Creed goes off on epic screed explaining the need for Rs & Ds to unite against Soros and the WEF.
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“That’s exactly what they want. The powers that be want us divided. They want us separated. They want us compartmentalized in our own little niches, in our own little groups. Thinking weâre right, theyâre wrong, and bickering. You know why? To keep us distracted from holding them accountable.”
“They start dividing us and programming us in kindergarten. They teach us about how to be slaves to authority, about how to think this way, and think that way; All conforming us into this divided group of assets and pawns.”
“WAKE UP! WAKE UP! WAKE UP!”
“Itâs divide & conquer. We say theyâre doing it everywhere else, but itâs happening right here at home. Everything we accuse every other country of doing, weâre doing right here.”
“Your civil rights are being violated every single minute of every single day. And what do we do about it? We focus on what divides us. We argue like keyboard warriors. The only way to make change is to come together as one to focus on what we have in common. Life. Freedom. Love.”
âWe start reminding them of what our Constitution says. We start reminding them what our Bill Of Rights says. We remind them that we are a Constitutional Republic built upon the Bible and the word of God and NOT a democracy.â
“Take back the power that was rightfully given to us. Itâs our birthright. We canât do it alone, the only way is Unity. We’re One but we’re not the same. We get to carry each other, carry each other. One.â
Amen! I couldn’t have said it better.
As soon as you want to hold the elite accountable more than you want to attack your fellow Americans, we will have the change we all want.
The judge ordering Alex Jones’ Infowars to be auctioned off, to pay $1.5 billion defamation damages (a sum he could never pay), proves it was always really about destroying Alex Jones.
The shooter was the one who horrifically murdered those innocent children, not Alex Jones.
He might have said things that were wrong and then he repeatedly apologized.
How many times have you ever heard the mainstream media ever apologize about all the horrible things they have said? And lies they have told? And character assassinations they have made on people?
Never.
And are they being ordered to pay their victims billions or their media companies being auctioned off?
From a comment….
“This boat is called the Miss America VIII and was build in 1929 to be the fastest boat on planet earth. It is fitted with twin V16 Miller engines that combined deliver approx. 3.600 horsepower. In 1931 it topped out at 104mph on the Harlem river. Even though that is eye watering fast – especially for its time – the boat never obtained any actual world speed record. It did however win the Harmsworth trophy twice. It was designed and build by Gar Wood and Napoleon Lisee. Lastly, the current world speed record on water is 317.6mph. Achieved by Ken Warby in his Spirit of Australia in 1978.”
Watch National party spokesman lay out the New Coalition Gov legislation that is said to be getting ‘Tuff on violent Crimes’… Tuff on Gang Criminals activity.
From Nov this year all gang insignia will be banned in public.
Courts will be able to issue Non-Consorting orders.
Police will be able to stop Criminal gangs from associating and communication.
Over the past 5 years gangs have surged 51%
Violent crime has spiked by 33%
National wants to stop this.
Changing sentencing laws to make criminals “face real tough consequences”.
Capping ‘discounts’ Judges can apply.
Making being a Gang member an aggravating factor.
Addressing serious retail crime.
Prioritising victims in our legal system.
They have set targets…. 20 000 fewer victims of violent crime and a 15% drop in serious youth offending by 2029.
National says this is about taking back control from Jacinda Ardern’s failed weak on crime approach.
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Most of this sounds very good, yet not a fan of governments telling people what they can/cant wear… I mean who will the ‘insignia’ ban affect?
Ulysses motorcycle club?
Will it be illegal for people to wear Red shirts, Red caps, Red Sneakers, and drive red cars?
What about Tattoos?
It may find popular support among the sheeple yet IMO it is not well conceived, and will result in Bad policing.
We don’t want to end up like Jack booted Australia… yet that’s where this is heading.
We all know who the real criminal gangs are… what protections will there be for the rest of us citizens from police harassment?
At a minimum I think that there ought to be some sort of legal due process whereby Organisations are given a day in court to argue their case *before they are deemed to be a criminal gang*… that way Non-criminal associations won’t be wrongfully prohibited from wearing their organisational attire.
We will see If National has the resolve to enforce this policy as I can easily imagine huge groups of Gang members flouting this law… what are you going to do about that???
The other thing is you may have just made it harder to prove crimes were ‘gang related’ because they will no longer be wearing their insignia.
And so now the Police will harrass Gang members and others who are causing no real trouble… just walking/riding down the street… simply because of their clothing. That’s not being ‘hard on crime’… is it?
It’s just a gimmick really… a publicity stunt.
Even without their patches the gangsters will still be out there yet harder to identify.
No… all the other initiatives are Good… Enforce Good Laws… crack down on real crime 100%, yet the banning of clothing…esp without a due process is not good… probably counter productive..
How will ‘Police be able to stop people ‘associating and communicating’? Does this legislation give Police Powers to spy on all citizens?
What exactly are these Powers and how might they be abused?
Labour was super-soft on crime… they blamed Pakeha for Maori Crime!
Remember when the Mob took over Opotiki?
Blogged about it…
âThe greatest perpetrator of misinformation during the pandemic has been the United States government.â
Dr. Martin Makary
(Johns Hopkins Surgeon
Misinformation that Covid was spread from surface transmission. That Vaccinated immunity was far greater than natural immunity. That masks were effective.
Now we have the definitive Cochrane Review.
What do you do with that review?
Cochrane is the most Authoritative evidence body in all of medicine and has been for decades, do you just ignore it, not talk about it.
Misinformation that Myocarditis was more common after infection than the vaccine *Not True* its 4 to 28 times more common after the Vaccine.
That young people benefit from a Booster. Misinformation.
Our two top experts on vaccines quit the FDA in Protest over this particular Issue. Pushing Booster in young healthy people. The data was never there. That’s why the CDC never disclosed the hospitalisation rate among booster Americans under Age 50.
The Vaccine mandates would increase Vaccination rates. George Mason University studies shows it didn’t.
It did one thing. It created ‘Never Vaxers’… who are now not getting the childhood vaccines they need to get.
Over and over we’ve seen something that goes far beyond using judgement with the information at hand. We’ve seen something which is Unforgivable and that is the weaponisation of medical research itself.
The CDC putting out their own shoddy studies like their own study on natural immunity looking at one State for two months when they had data for years and years on all 50 States… why did they only report that one sliver of data? Why did they Salami slice the giant data base? because it gave them the result they wanted. Same with masking studies… well the data has now caught up in giant systematic reviews and public health officials were intellectually dishonest. They lied to the American people. Thank you.
