Author: shuttle1

Revelation 2
New International Version
To the Church in Ephesus
2 “To the angel[a] of the church in Ephesus(A) write:

These are the words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand(B) and walks among the seven golden lampstands.(C) 2 I know your deeds,(D) your hard work and your perseverance. I know that you cannot tolerate wicked people, that you have tested(E) those who claim to be apostles but are not, and have found them false.(F) 3 You have persevered and have endured hardships for my name,(G) and have not grown weary.

4 Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken the love you had at first.(H) 5 Consider how far you have fallen! Repent(I) and do the things you did at first. If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand(J) from its place. 6 But you have this in your favor: You hate the practices of the Nicolaitans,(K) which I also hate.

7 Whoever has ears, let them hear(L) what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who is victorious,(M) I will give the right to eat from the tree of life,(N) which is in the paradise(O) of God.

MSgt USAF (Ret.) Vet
Nov 21, 2020 at 19:34
To those of you who voted for Biden. You have better own it for the next four years if he wins; (its looking like he may, I’m praying that he does not). I don’t want to hear you complain about your taxes going up or gas prices doubling. I don’t want you to complain when your health insurance cost go up even further than they already are. Don’t complain when you bring home less on your paycheck because you’re being penalized for climate justice. Don’t complain when you lose your job because 15 millions illegal immigrants suddenly become legal and your employer decides to hire someone at a lower wage. Don’t complain when your job is just out right eliminate because the minimum wage is too high and your employer can no longer afford to stay open or even pay you. Don’t complain when your automotive or industrial job is eliminated because its shipped back to China. Don’t complain when interest rates double or even triple and home/automobiles are not as affordable as they used to be. Don’t complain when your stock and 401k take a massive hit. Don’t complain when we are locked into more endless wars in the middle east. Don’t complain when otherwise safe communities are overrun by crime and start resembling Chicago, Portland, Seattle and Baltimore. Don’t complain when the educational system goes down and higher education becomes unaffordable. You obviously didn’t vote your paycheck or your future. You voted your feelings. Unfortunately facts don’t care about your feelings and you will soon (sadly) learn this under Biden/Harris administration. Just own it!!! And if you do complain? I must say: “I told you so…suck it up, your doing “. Also when the new administration makes a play for all of our legally owned weapons, don’t look to me for support, safety, or compliance because I will be busy defending my family, home, and fighting to death defending my GOD GIVEN 2nd ammendment rights…

If it really is an unprecedented threat, politicians are celebrated for their tough measures such as lockdowns. And politicians can always argue that without their decisive action, there would indeed have been a disaster. If the measures ultimately turn out to have been exaggerated because the hazard was not so great after all, the possible negative consequences of the measures are not as directly associated with the politicians as the photos of mass burials, because these consequences are more indirect and long term. The indirect and long-term health costs of lockdowns include suicides, depression, alcoholism, stress-related illnesses, earlier deaths from canceled surgeries and screenings, and a generally lower standard of living. However, these costs are not directly associated with the drastic interventions and blamed on the policy. Many of these consequences will occur after the next elections or even later and are not visible. For instance, we cannot observe to what extent a higher standard of living would have increased life expectancy. And if someone dies six years from now from alcoholism or depression developed in the wake of lockdowns, most people probably will not make the lockdown politicians responsible, and if they do, these politicians will possibly already be out of office. Thus, it is in the interest of politicians to overestimate a threat and overreact.

In order to justify and defend the harsh measures such as lockdowns that are so attractive to politicians, it is necessary to stir up fear. When politicians stoked fear and hysteria during the covid-19 crisis, implementing highly restrictive measures such as lockdowns, the damage to the economy and social fabric was immense. Yet a society cannot be cannot be locked down forever, as the costs keep rising. At some point, it must exit lockdown and return to some normality. However, how can one at the same time stir up fear of the threat of a killer virus and return to normalcy?

The way out is vaccination. With to the vaccination campaign the state can stage itself as the savior from the great danger. The state organizes vaccination for its citizens and gives the vaccinations to the citizens for “free.” Without this “vaccination rescue” and in a permanent lockdown, the negative economic and social consequences of the restrictions on civil rights would be so great that resentment among the population would continue to grow and ultimately unrest would threaten. So, sooner or later, the lockdown must be ended. If, however, the state authorities were to back out of the lockdowns and restrictions without further explanation and imply that the danger was not so great after all and that the restrictions were an exaggeration and a mistake, they would lose a great deal of support and trust among the population. Consequently, from a governmental perspective, a good and face-saving “exit scenario” from the most severe restrictions is needed, and the vaccination campaign provides it.

Through state-provided vaccination, the state can continue to hold on to the narrative of the great threat and still get out of the lockdown. At the same time, it can pass itself off as a savior that is making somewhat more normality possibly through vaccination. To do this, it is necessary that as large a proportion of the population as possible also get vaccinated, because if only a fraction of the population gets vaccinated, the vaccination campaign cannot be sold as a necessary step toward opening up. Thus, it is in the state’s interest to get a major part of the population vaccinated.

If this strategy works, the state will have set a precedent, expanded its power, and also made citizens more dependent. Citizens will believe that the state has rescued them from a mortal predicament and that they will need its help in the future. In return, they will be willing to give up some of their liberties permanently. The announcement that a state-organized annual vaccination booster is needed will perpetuate the citizens’ dependence.

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Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 “The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep His commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. Fo God will bring every deed into judgement, with every secret thing, whether good or evil”.

https://mises.org/wire/vaccine-mandates-and-great-reset

Seven of our Military either killed or wounded in Afghanistan today. This administration is far more interested in the proper pronouns for the perverts and the perverted. Far more interested in controlling anyone opposed to their nefarious agenda. People in France, Australia, and even NYC are standing up! We will all need to do the same where we are. I’m not really sure it does any good anymore to contact or government representatives, but we must continue to do so. The powers that be want any who oppose them removed, by any means necessary. Freedom lives for us ALL if we ALL live and fight for our freedom. Too many have already died for our freedom for us to let freedom die!

I will not live my life in fear. Life is a gift from God and too precious to live by the lies, misinformation, and propoganda put out by Big Tech, Big Pharma or Big Government. All of them are going about it in different ways, but the end is the same, control of your life. Don’t let them do that to you or your family. Knowledge is power! That’s why they are censoring what they wish.