• Biblical Families is not a dating website. It is a forum to discuss issues relating to marriage and the Bible, and to offer guidance and support, not to find a wife. Click here for more information.

Random Comments

Not the bee is freaking out that US travellers now need to apply for a cheap online visa to visit the EU:
They don't seem to realise that the entire rest of the world, every single country even those supposedly with visa waivers, has for many years (I think since 2007) had to apply for an online visa to visit the USA. Every time I have visited I've needed one of these. If you're from a visa waiver country it's called an "ESTA" instead of a visa (electronic system for travel authorisation) but it's fundamentally the same thing, just automated to a greater degree so humans only have to deal with the ones the computer flags as suspicious. Looks like the EU is finally retaliating by putting the same system in.
That’s fine, as long as they meet their NATO obligations and don’t constantly beg us to station troops nearby to protect them.
 
Should Biden be impeached? Will he be? I personally think the Democrats will find a way to get rid of Biden so they can run Gavin Newsom.

What's up with ol' Joe bumbling and stumbling all over the place. Doesn't exactly instill confidence.
I'm more interested in why this poll didn't ask the obvious question of who would win in a Trump / Kennedy election. Based on the favourability ratings, it seems that Kennedy would be a shoo-in. If polls make it clear that if the Democrats chose Kennedy they'll win, and if they chose Biden they'll lose (as polls say at present), then they'll find it tough to justify why they're refusing to consider Kennedy.
Of course, US politics is irrelevant to me but it's interesting as it's more hopeful than NZ politics. You've got Trump and Kennedy in the mix, both of whom would be decent options. NZ has nobody decent in the running for our election in a few months and it's all rather depressing.
 
I'm more interested in why this poll didn't ask the obvious question of who would win in a Trump / Kennedy election. Based on the favourability ratings, it seems that Kennedy would be a shoo-in. If polls make it clear that if the Democrats chose Kennedy they'll win, and if they chose Biden they'll lose (as polls say at present), then they'll find it tough to justify why they're refusing to consider Kennedy.
Of course, US politics is irrelevant to me but it's interesting as it's more hopeful than NZ politics. You've got Trump and Kennedy in the mix, both of whom would be decent options. NZ has nobody decent in the running for our election in a few months and it's all rather depressing.
Kennedy is only a decent option in contrast to how bat shit crazy the rest of the Democrats are. He’s good on vaccines and he’s not a complete psychopath on guns. In every other way though he is a creature of his party.

That notwithstanding, the Democrat donor class and influencers would never support him in a general. He would have no chance.
 
That notwithstanding, the Democrat donor class and influencers would never support him in a general. He would have no chance.
I actually expect Kennedy to be assassinated. It's a family tradition. But seriously, if it becomes obvious he's their best shot of winning the election, the easiest solution is for him to not exist so the question goes away. He's a brave man standing up and doing what he is doing, knowing full well that's a real possibility.
 
Not the bee is freaking out that US travellers now need to apply for a cheap online visa to visit the EU:
They don't seem to realise that the entire rest of the world, every single country even those supposedly with visa waivers, has for many years (I think since 2007) had to apply for an online visa to visit the USA. Every time I have visited I've needed one of these. If you're from a visa waiver country it's called an "ESTA" instead of a visa (electronic system for travel authorisation) but it's fundamentally the same thing, just automated to a greater degree so humans only have to deal with the ones the computer flags as suspicious. Looks like the EU is finally retaliating by putting the same system in.
Feels like frogs in a controlled fire pot since around 1913. Many defending the controller powers like some kind of Stockholm syndrome.
They don't realize powers (Pharaoh type) wants to enslave and depopulate them.
He would say it's "for their own good" "climate change", "too many useless eaters" etc.
God can still do miracles equal to parting the sea for whom He will. End time events for this era are written.
Another thing I wonder is the stars falling from heaven and heaven opened like a scroll. I guess time will tell if it's literal. 🤔
Do we believe in a literal creator or "another gospel" interpretation man's theories superseded silly antiquated scripture. Is he literal or some kind of metaphor created by man, before we had the enlightenment, theory of evolution with it's "trust the science" trade mark. Now that same structure tells us there are how many genders?
Guys like Noah Harari are spilling the beans. Maybe they have to tell us what's coming before implementation like some legal notice.
I ponder all those things.
 
Kennedy is only a decent option in contrast to how bat shit crazy the rest of the Democrats are. He’s good on vaccines and he’s not a complete psychopath on guns. In every other way though he is a creature of his party.

That notwithstanding, the Democrat donor class and influencers would never support him in a general. He would have no chance.
They would never support him, he's too awake and can light up vampires with sunlight.
 
I actually expect Kennedy to be assassinated. It's a family tradition. But seriously, if it becomes obvious he's their best shot of winning the election, the easiest solution is for him to not exist so the question goes away. He's a brave man standing up and doing what he is doing, knowing full well that's a real possibility.
Unfortunately, being real and awake, trying to really expose swamp vampires, would get him killed. Then, we have electronic voting so seriously doubt he will even come close to winning.
 
You've got Trump and Kennedy in the mix, both of whom would be decent options.

From more than one person I am hearing people talk about a Trump-Kennedy unity ticket. I'm not sure who would be more upset about that, the country club Republicans or the Red Diaper Democrats.
 
I actually expect Kennedy to be assassinated. It's a family tradition. But seriously, if it becomes obvious he's their best shot of winning the election, the easiest solution is for him to not exist so the question goes away. He's a brave man standing up and doing what he is doing, knowing full well that's a real possibility.
The Democrats will figure a way to quietly get rid of Biden so they can run Gavin Newsom, the left wing governor of California who is relatively young (for a politician), a good speaker, and looks good on TV.
 
I love my animals.

Today I had to get 160 young sheep and a handful of cattle out of a large, complicated paddock and across a stream. I didn't want to use the dog as I had electric fences which they'd likely go through if they were too excited, and it would be hard to direct them where I wanted them to go. So I just walked to the centre of the paddock and called them. All of my sheep and cattle know my voice, and trust me enough to follow me knowing I lead them to food. They all came and gathered around me. Then I walked to the gate calling them. They followed me around some obstacles and across the stream, and went just where I wanted them to. Even though I had a dog with me, they still followed me, their trust for me being greater than their fear of the dog. What would have been an extremely complicated job was made so simple through simply leading and trusting them to follow.

But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out. And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.

There is so much joy in God's creation.
 
Last edited:
What Niger stuff is about:


Probably not full picture, but it's important. No Russian oil replacement for EU. Same with Uranium for nuclear energy.

Neighbors choosing sides:



Hopefully we don't get another war. If this potential war gets same passion as Ukraine's one, we will become war discussion forum. 😟
There is the uranium and gold that has been cut of that was going to France, according to one source.
 
“Niger is considered the fourth largest exporter of uranium in the world and is responsible for approximately 25% of the supply of uranium to the nuclear power plants in the European Union. It is responsible for 8% of the world's uranium output.

France owns 63% of the mines in Niger through a company it owns.

The announcement of the cessation of exports is definitely a serious problem for the French.

In addition, it was reported that Burkina Faso also announced the cessation of uranium exports to France and the USA.

The battle in Africa between Russia and the West is stepping up.”
 
This is good article to read:


Only two groups have been able to keep reproduction rate up and survive modernity. It attempts to answer why.
Excellent read. However, too much credit is directed Trump's way. I don't doubt that the Mormons reacted negatively to Trump, but the graph points directly to what is probably the largest influence on the birth rate, which itself is an indirect indicator of the mainstreaming of Mormon culture. The article correctly notes that mainstream LDS long ago caved to the federal government's insistence that they outlaw polygamy if they wanted Utah to get statehood, but Starbucks is actually the proximate cause.

In recent years, Salt Lake City has won awards for being the most up-and-coming hip place to live in the United States. Starbucks is also the proximate cause for that trend.

Modern Mormons are famous for two things: social conservatism and refusing to drink coffee (all hot liquids, actually). My father the coffee-addict rocket scientist was on some kind of classified assignment n the early 1960s and had to pack up bottles of instant coffee with him, because back then it was illegal for coffee to be sold in either restaurants or grocery stores in Salt Lake City. Somewhere along the line, that restriction was ended. In 2008 (and look at the graph), Howard Schulz returned as CEO, and one of his first acts after doing some housekeeping to avert effects of the 2007/8 recession was to declare war on Salt Lake City. He had long been perturbed that such a beautiful place for both winter and summer recreation was dominated by the rigid Mormons, and he set about building so many Starbucks locations that eventually SLC had both the most Starbucks per square mile and the most Starbucks per capita of any city in the world, surpassing Starbucks' headquarters city of Seattle. In many locations Salt Lake City, multiple Starbucks are on multiple corners of the same intersection; two intersections have a Starbucks on all four corners. Starbucks also purposefully bought up as much property bordering on LDS-owned property. By 2016 when my sons and I visited Salt Lake City while we were considering moving there, the tension between the Mormons and the rapidly-increasing yuppie hipster and woke feminist culture was achingly palpable, with the newspapers I bought actively chronicling it: wishing Starbucks would ultimately drive the Mormon church out of SLC but begrudgingly acknowledging that the Mormons would win the long war.

But I could see even then that, while the power structure of the church wasn't going anywhere, the hipsterization and thumb-in-the-noseism of Howard Schulz's Starbucks campaign had already tremendously affected young Mormons, who had become in almost all ways indistinguishable from their non-Mormon contemporaries.

Many lessons can be learned from this.
 
Excellent read. However, too much credit is directed Trump's way. I don't doubt that the Mormons reacted negatively to Trump, but the graph points directly to what is probably the largest influence on the birth rate, which itself is an indirect indicator of the mainstreaming of Mormon culture. The article correctly notes that mainstream LDS long ago caved to the federal government's insistence that they outlaw polygamy if they wanted Utah to get statehood, but Starbucks is actually the proximate cause.

In recent years, Salt Lake City has won awards for being the most up-and-coming hip place to live in the United States. Starbucks is also the proximate cause for that trend.

Modern Mormons are famous for two things: social conservatism and refusing to drink coffee (all hot liquids, actually). My father the coffee-addict rocket scientist was on some kind of classified assignment n the early 1960s and had to pack up bottles of instant coffee with him, because back then it was illegal for coffee to be sold in either restaurants or grocery stores in Salt Lake City. Somewhere along the line, that restriction was ended. In 2008 (and look at the graph), Howard Schulz returned as CEO, and one of his first acts after doing some housekeeping to avert effects of the 2007/8 recession was to declare war on Salt Lake City. He had long been perturbed that such a beautiful place for both winter and summer recreation was dominated by the rigid Mormons, and he set about building so many Starbucks locations that eventually SLC had both the most Starbucks per square mile and the most Starbucks per capita of any city in the world, surpassing Starbucks' headquarters city of Seattle. In many locations Salt Lake City, multiple Starbucks are on multiple corners of the same intersection; two intersections have a Starbucks on all four corners. Starbucks also purposefully bought up as much property bordering on LDS-owned property. By 2016 when my sons and I visited Salt Lake City while we were considering moving there, the tension between the Mormons and the rapidly-increasing yuppie hipster and woke feminist culture was achingly palpable, with the newspapers I bought actively chronicling it: wishing Starbucks would ultimately drive the Mormon church out of SLC but begrudgingly acknowledging that the Mormons would win the long war.

But I could see even then that, while the power structure of the church wasn't going anywhere, the hipsterization and thumb-in-the-noseism of Howard Schulz's Starbucks campaign had already tremendously affected young Mormons, who had become in almost all ways indistinguishable from their non-Mormon contemporaries.

Many lessons can be learned from this.
Caving on polygamy didn't damage Mormon fertility. It must be something in recent times.

Article claims that Mormons wanted respectability from state. It seems they can't avoid family destruction now if they want to remain respectable.
 
Caving on polygamy didn't damage Mormon fertility. It must be something in recent times.

Article claims that Mormons wanted respectability from state. It seems they can't avoid family destruction now if they want to remain respectable.
Amen on both counts. The Mormons didn't want respectability from the 'state;' they were the state when they were a territory. The Mormons wanted Statehood and all that entails.

And, yes, Mormons continued to have large families well past (mainly) giving up on polygyny and even long after the introduction of hormonal birth control. The infiltration by Starbucks et al has definitely jump-started gynocentric feminism there without having to fire a shot.
 
Back
Top