Mriana

That’s not even talking about the domestic violence against women in the U.S. and other countries.

I’ve been wondering why she didn’t say something sooner, like before she left for Tokyo. I get people thought of her as a GOAT (Greatest Olympian of All Time) and “The Greatest Olympian of the World” etc etc. This would instill fear of not living up to what people thought, which in turn would cause her issues with performing. I get all of that,…[Read more]

I’m glad I’m not the only one angry about the current situation in the U.S., especially in MO, AR, TX, and other states with high Delta. As I said, I’m also scared that the unvaccinated will cause all our efforts to get vaccinated will be all for not. A few weeks ago, my husband and I went down to Southern MO to see my mother, who I had not seen…[Read more]

@mikeyohe

Moral teachings must start at a young age. As a way of life and living. Kids should grow up in a moral society. Not study it in a class so much as live and breath morality without having to think about it.

Who said it doesn’t start early in a secular household?

A very bad example. COVID-19 is a textbook reason in the making of why not to listen or trust scientists. Today there are 4.2 million reasons not to trust COVID-19 scientists.

Really? I think not trusting scientists is the very reason we are in this mess today. The dotard didn’t pay any attention to them, even fired them, and then the virus…[Read more]

President Biden did err when he said that, but I don’t think it was intentional, unlike the dotard’s lies to the public. It seems to me his generation makes that mistake concerning vaccines. They seem to have this belief (at least my mother does) that once vaccinated, you are immune. I keep having to explain otherwise.

@martin peter clarke

ya got me, no problem.

I have found that CoG Anderson and WCG have quite a bit of similarities, as well as some differences. My grandparents only turned on the TV for the weather. Once the weather was over with on the news, the TV had to go off again and while music was OK, it had to be Xian music. My grandmother was…[Read more]

I’m off today, so I’ll give it a look-see. It does sound interesting.

@martin

But I woke up this morning cringing with shame over not acknowledging my grandmother’s birthday.

That’s what happens when one is in a cult. There is something in that particular cult that gives you regrets. I apologize if I overstepped by translating what you were saying about missing out on life due to being in a cult. Some cults a…[Read more]

@lausten

I don’t follow this. I saw 2001 and 2010 but never heard of the others. I don’t know how they relate to this thread.

He’s saying, because he was in the WCG, he had his head up his butt and missed a lot of life. Church of God, whether it is World or Anderson, everything is a sin. Language (unless it praises God or is without foul lan…[Read more]

More on vaccines, masking, social distancing, etc and vaccine resistance variants:

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/955777?src=mkm_covid_update_210730_MSCPEDIT&uac=357905CZ&impID=3538517&faf=1#vp_1

@djtexas

You mean like America imposes its shit culture on others?

Please what the language.

@djtexas Please read the rules, in particular the parts include trolling and disrupting threads 3 e, f, and g. Your last several posts in this thread and others have contributed nothing to the conversations, except disruptions. Unless Lausten has given you a waring in a thread I have yet to read, this is your first warning. If you get three you…[Read more]

… you can’t even call them ignorant anymore.

Nope. At this point they are just plain stupid.

If people do not get vaccinated the virus will not only become endemic, but our vaccines could be useless. The key is everyone getting vaccinated against COVID-19. We need at least 80%, but even then it it could still evolve. Right now, the Delta variant could even infect fully vaccinated people, but at this point, the majority who do get it…[Read more]

@martin peter clarke

If the WCG hadn’t deconstructed itself I’d still be in it.

Another World, I’m sorry. That was worse than the CoG Anderson, Indiana. No b-days, no Xmas, no holidays period.

Nah, I couldn’t lean Anglican- too restrictive, especially for women (and other groups I’m not part of). Although, my younger son was informally exc…[Read more]

I’m not, and never did disagree that putting a few of the statues, built between 1890 and 1950, into museums, and the history of how they were built in the Jim Crow era, and their purpose of trying to paint the old south in a better light.

Actually, from my African-American studies, the North wasn’t much better. Many ex-slaves and some of t…[Read more]

Aye @mriana. I brainwashed myself in to the chiliast cult of Armstrongism from age 15 as a shallow, wee-wee end of the pool bright, lower middle class English child of The Bomb. The cult did the astounding thing of deconstructing itself 25 years later. Not far enough for our rich tastes obviously. 25 years on my deconstruction continues. Only…

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@write4u part of humanism is science and no I did not say that which you quoted as me saying. Mikeyohe said it.