@Brujah_6000_BCE@howertonjosh Blessed are you when people hate you and when they exclude you and revile you and spurn your name as evil, on account of the Son of Man! Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven; for so their fathers did to the prophets. Luke 6:22-22
She was very hard to listen to and take seriously. โMy strategy is to vote against anyone with an R after their name.โ Wowza.
You make some good points, although I think maybe you project thoughts of white people about black people that most donโt generally have and wasnโt really expecting the podcast to be mostly anti-white/evangelical.
My line of thinking when it comes to voting: Jesus calls us to be the salt of the earth. Salt was/is a preservative that slows decay. Which politician that I can vote for is going to enact policies that slow the decay of society.
A woman once approached the great evangelist D. L. Moody to air a grievance. (Moody was an international evangelist of great renown in the 19th Century.)
The woman said to him, โMr. Moody, I donโt like the way you do evangelism!โ
โWell, maโam, let me ask you, how do you do it?โ Moody asked.
She replied, โI donโt!โ
Moody responded, โWell, I like my way of doing it better than your way of not doing it!โ
@johnrich how are you evangelizing?
@shagbark_hick In 63 he clarifies: โIt is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.โ
I donโt think many men in sexless marriages are just grieving the loss of orgasm.
I think theyโre grieving the loss of desire, the loss of feeling wanted, and the loss of feeling chosen by the person whose desire matters most.
Men, am I wrong?
A man who spent thirty years reviewing sports cars has taught this country more about its own food than every minister, union and campaign of the last fifty years combined.
Here is what five series of Clarkson's Farm put in front of the public, and not one line of it is opinion.
- A thousand acres, worked flat out for a year, made a profit of ยฃ144. Under forty pence a day.
- By year six the same farm was losing money, weather and prices turning a projected ยฃ37,000 into a five grand loss.
- A crop can drown in the field after months of work and take everything with it, and nobody is coming to help.
- The farmer is the only man in the food chain who sells at a price he does not set. The supermarket sets it. He takes it or he takes nothing.
- The council can shut his restaurant, refuse his car park and stop him selling his own food off his own land.
- The subsidy he was told to lean on can be closed overnight, the big estates first through the door, the small farms locked out.
- One outbreak of bovine TB can lock a farm down for months, banned from buying or selling a single cow, through no fault of its own.
- Rear pigs with real care and the butcher's maths can still make them a loss, so the animals go and the loss stays.
- The margins are so thin that a rich man buys farmland not to earn from it but to shelter money that earns elsewhere. The shelter exists precisely because the farming does not.
Now hold that against the story you were sold. Greedy farmers. Subsidised for doing nothing. Wrecking a countryside they are somehow also the custodians of.
There is no profit. That was the reveal. A show that set out to be funny accidentally filmed the slow strangling of the people who feed us, and the country watched it happen and finally understood what its cheap food actually costs.
Clarkson has now admitted the plainest part out loud: it is the television money keeping Diddly Squat alive, and most farms do not have a television show. Britain grows about sixty per cent of its own food and the average farmer is past sixty. That is why both numbers are heading the wrong way.
It took a Lamborghini tractor and a man doing it for a laugh. Fifty years of earnest campaigning could not manage it.