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Re: TheGarlic
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08/11/21 06:54 PM
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Just like some who say God will tell them when to stop eating eggs despite all the facts staring them in the face, there will be some who will say, it's not yet time to leave, God will let us know when it's time, we should not be urging people to leave, now is not the time to put hardship on people...etc.
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Re: TheGarlic
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Adventists have long sought to lay out a step by step outline of last day events, yet, while we've been warned about the crises, we were not told the steps that make it possible for the whole world to be subjected to that crises. Prophecy was given so when things start shaping up, we may know where it is leading, but too often we take the prophecies and erect our own time lines, thus not recognizing the groundwork taking place to bring about the crises. Satan knows the prophecies, and he knows Adventists would largely be alarmed if a Sunday law would simply appear before the groundwork was in place, and many would prepare. So is it any surprise he would first get everything in place so such a law could be slipped in and enforced with lightning speed -- an overwhelming surprise --and find most unprepared? When the constitution is revoked and Sunday laws come, it will be an OVERWHELMING SURPRISE simply because people refused to see the carefully laid trap . Transgression has almost reached its limit. Confusion fills the world, and a great terror is soon to come upon human beings. The end is very near. God's people should be preparing for what is to break upon the world as an overwhelming surprise. {CG 555.2}
Those who are yielding to the passion for confederation are working out the plans of the enemy. The cause will be followed by the effect. Transgression has almost reached its limit. Confusion fills the world, and a great terror is soon to come upon human beings. The end is very near. We who know the truth should be preparing for what is soon to break upon the world as an overwhelming surprise. --Testimonies, vol. 8, pp. 27-28. (1904) {Ev 623.1}
The agencies of evil are combining their forces, and consolidating. They are strengthening for the last great crisis. Great changes are soon to take place in our world, and the final movements will be rapid ones. --Testimonies, vol. 9, p. 11. {ChS 52.2}
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Re: TheGarlic
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August 3 it was announced that everyone who wants to enter a restaurant, gym, and indoor venues in New York, must present proof of vaxcination. This new mandated to be fully enforced by Sept. 13.
Mayor said this requirement was to send a clear message, "If you want to participate in our society fully you have to get vaxcinated."
Also all city workers need to either get vaxcinated or face weekly testing.
And folks -- this is just the beginning.
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Re: TheGarlic
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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/02/opinion/covid-vaccine-mandates-civil-liberties.htmlDavid Cole and Daniel Mach - By reducing our civil liberties we actually increase them. - By restricting speech, we promote approved speech. - It's kind of like during the early part of our nation where promotion of slavery was actually a promotion of freedom for the slaves. - Another way of looking at it is, if we mandated women's tubes to be tied, it is actually freeing women. By reducing population, it actually gives more freedom of resources for those of us who remain. Because, women don't have a right to inflict harm to the world by their choice to have babies. - Besides, civil liberties don't count if we can come up with a good excuse to eliminate them. - The Covid vaccines are extremely safe (except for when they are extremely lethal). - We care deeply about your freedoms which is precisely why we support taking them away. According to Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, doublethink is:
To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again, and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself?that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word?doublethink?involved the use of doublethink.[2][5]:32, 220 ...
The three slogans of the Party?War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, and Ignorance is Strength?are also examples.[1]
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Re: TheGarlic
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09/16/21 07:36 AM
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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/02/opinion/covid-vaccine-mandates-civil-liberties.htmlDavid Cole and Daniel Mach - By reducing our civil liberties we actually increase them. - By restricting speech, we promote approved speech. - It's kind of like during the early part of our nation where promotion of slavery was actually a promotion of freedom for the slaves. - Another way of looking at it is, if we mandated women's tubes to be tied, it is actually freeing women. By reducing population, it actually gives more freedom of resources for those of us who remain. Because, women don't have a right to inflict harm to the world by their choice to have babies. - Besides, civil liberties don't count if we can come up with a good excuse to eliminate them. - The Covid vaccines are extremely safe (except for when they are extremely lethal). - We care deeply about your freedoms which is precisely why we support taking them away. According to Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, doublethink is:
To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again, and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself?that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word?doublethink?involved the use of doublethink.[2][5]:32, 220 ...
The three slogans of the Party?War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, and Ignorance is Strength?are also examples.[1]
? Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!? Isaiah 5:20
"...I will not forget you. Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands..."
Isaiah 49:15-16
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