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RE: Australia is lost
The Tyrannical Scenes out of Australia Grow Darker and More Disturbing
Quote:What’s going on in Australia may be the most disturbing story of the year. A once, somewhat flourishing democracy has been reduced to a tyrannical medical state in which people are violently abused by government authorities for daring to walk outside. All in the name of fighting COVID-19, of course.
Unfortunately for those that live Down Under, there is no end in sight, and the scenes are only growing darker.
Both of those videos purport to show people being violently assaulted by police for the sin of not wearing a mask outdoors. The fact that masks are ineffective outside (just as they are everywhere else) doesn’t matter. The state says you have to wear one, and if you don’t, physical abuse will follow. There appear to be no lines whatsoever, when it comes to the force being used by the police in Australia.
On that note, this next video may be the worst one I’ve seen.
Imagine how much of a coward one has to be to choke a woman like that over not wearing a mask outside, where science says COVID-19 spread is essentially non-existent. Instead, because these tyrannical governments are typically irrational, Australia wants people to remain sealed inside, where the spread of COVID is scientifically far more likely.
What we are seeing in the above videos would draw outrage from the US government, if this were a country in the Middle East or Asia. But because it’s Australia, a supposed Western democracy, these tyrannical acts are being ignored.
By the way, how is all this violent enforcement of mask mandates going?
Meanwhile, Australia’s leaders aren’t even hiding the ball anymore. Emboldened by the lack of international and internal pushback, they are now publicly admitting that they never plan to return to normal. Enforcement will be indefinite, based on ridiculous, likely unachievable COVID goals.
I’m not sure who that woman is, and I have little desire to look it up. I just know that she’s been at the forefront of Australia’s COVID insanity since the beginning. The word “evil” comes to mind. This is what happens when you hand a bunch of unimpressive bureaucrats and elected officials total power. Australians gave up their guns willingly, and now their government has no reason to fear them. There is no deterrent for tyranny.
And I realize the standard response from those who support what Australia is doing is to point to their low COVID deaths. But I don’t buy that at all. One, their closed borders and climate likely have far more to do with a lack of COVID deaths than beating people up for not masking outdoors. Further, as their sudden surge in cases shows, they’ve only been delaying the inevitable. That’s not a success. Rather, it’s just failure arriving late to the party.
Lastly, even if one does believe these disgusting police tactics are slowing the spread, what is the line? What’s the limiting principle? How much tyranny is acceptable in the name of “saving lives,” and where does it end?
Australia is no longer a free country, and those in other nations better hold the line — or this dystopian nightmare will come to their shores as well.
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RE: Australia is lost
My God! Look at this!! Straight out of a Dystopian novel or movie.
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RE: Australia is lost
(09-26-2021 11:29 PM)BigTigerMike Wrote:
No! It's going to take generations to recover from the past two generations!
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RE: Australia is lost
We are not going to "recover" at all. This is only the beginning of the end.
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RE: Australia is lost
(09-27-2021 05:23 AM)ericsrevenge76 Wrote: We are not going to "recover" at all. This is only the beginning of the end.
We should continue to stand and fight for what’s right and not give up. This may not be the end or the even the beginning of worse days to come. As a quote goes:
“If God ordains that Man should die without a fight, then why does He give us the will to live?”
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RE: Australia is lost
(09-27-2021 06:02 AM)BigTigerMike Wrote: (09-27-2021 05:23 AM)ericsrevenge76 Wrote: We are not going to "recover" at all. This is only the beginning of the end.
We should continue to stand and fight for what’s right and not give up. This may not be the end or the even the beginning of worse days to come. As a quote goes:
“If God ordains that Man should die without a fight, then why does He give us the will to live?”
I didn't remotely suggest we should give up.
But I am also not going to deceive myself into thinking good times are ahead. They are not for this lost, corrupted nation and world.
Things are going to get worse, not better. He told us the end from the beginning.
I think if we are being honest with ourselves we know things have already gone too far. This cancer has already metastasized and is already beyond the knife. We should resist and fight for whats right, but we know how this ends.
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RE: Australia is lost
(09-27-2021 06:19 AM)ericsrevenge76 Wrote: (09-27-2021 06:02 AM)BigTigerMike Wrote: (09-27-2021 05:23 AM)ericsrevenge76 Wrote: We are not going to "recover" at all. This is only the beginning of the end.
We should continue to stand and fight for what’s right and not give up. This may not be the end or the even the beginning of worse days to come. As a quote goes:
“If God ordains that Man should die without a fight, then why does He give us the will to live?”
I didn't remotely suggest we should give up.
But I am also not going to deceive myself into thinking good times are ahead. They are not for this lost, corrupted nation and world.
Things are going to get worse, not better. He told us the end from the beginning.
I think if we are being honest with ourselves we know things have already gone too far. This cancer has already metastasized and is already beyond the knife. We should resist and fight for whats right, but we know how this ends.
No man knows the hour or the day but the signs of the season is upon us. We are given a life and we all die. And each one of us is expected to do something with our lives which indicates our faith.
One of today's issues is that everyone expects someone else to handle everything for them. Soldiers handle wars, politicians are supposed to send aid when there is a disaster, and insurance covers the rest. It is this fantasy along with the one that morality was a choice and the lack of it has no consequences that has placed us squarely in a world where good is now evil and evil is now good. In reality it became that the moment we quit disciplining our children and allowed the nanny state to teach them that parents who discipline were abusive, and any one who taught that certain life choices were evil were bigots, or that evil could be good in its own way.
When those who know better, and yet don't fight, are in the majority and parents are too lazy to teach their own children, this is what happens. But so it is with those who only talk and do nothing. We have become a nation of image projectors instead of defenders of our beliefs.
God expects active faith and faithfulness even in the arenas of the wicked. The need to be popular is contrary to courage. We are now a nation which craves the approval of the masses on social media rather than a clean conscience and the approval of God.
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RE: Australia is lost
(09-27-2021 06:19 AM)ericsrevenge76 Wrote: (09-27-2021 06:02 AM)BigTigerMike Wrote: (09-27-2021 05:23 AM)ericsrevenge76 Wrote: We are not going to "recover" at all. This is only the beginning of the end.
We should continue to stand and fight for what’s right and not give up. This may not be the end or the even the beginning of worse days to come. As a quote goes:
“If God ordains that Man should die without a fight, then why does He give us the will to live?”
I didn't remotely suggest we should give up.
But I am also not going to deceive myself into thinking good times are ahead. They are not for this lost, corrupted nation and world.
Things are going to get worse, not better. He told us the end from the beginning.
I think if we are being honest with ourselves we know things have already gone too far. This cancer has already metastasized and is already beyond the knife. We should resist and fight for whats right, but we know how this ends.
The end of days will certainly come upon the world but the day or hour no one knows and could be next month or centuries away for all I know. I’m just saying we need to keep doing what we’re doing in season and out of season; when the world says down is up or up is down. Yes we should look for his coming but also when he does come he’s looking for faithful servants doing what is required of him even in the worse of times
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RE: Australia is lost
(09-27-2021 03:44 PM)MileHighBronco Wrote:
They are just trying to keep their citizens healthy... muahahahahahahahahahaha
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RE: Australia is lost
(09-27-2021 09:01 AM)BigTigerMike Wrote: (09-27-2021 06:19 AM)ericsrevenge76 Wrote: (09-27-2021 06:02 AM)BigTigerMike Wrote: (09-27-2021 05:23 AM)ericsrevenge76 Wrote: We are not going to "recover" at all. This is only the beginning of the end.
We should continue to stand and fight for what’s right and not give up. This may not be the end or the even the beginning of worse days to come. As a quote goes:
“If God ordains that Man should die without a fight, then why does He give us the will to live?”
I didn't remotely suggest we should give up.
But I am also not going to deceive myself into thinking good times are ahead. They are not for this lost, corrupted nation and world.
Things are going to get worse, not better. He told us the end from the beginning.
I think if we are being honest with ourselves we know things have already gone too far. This cancer has already metastasized and is already beyond the knife. We should resist and fight for whats right, but we know how this ends.
The end of days will certainly come upon the world but the day or hour no one knows and could be next month or centuries away for all I know. I’m just saying we need to keep doing what we’re doing in season and out of season; when the world says down is up or up is down. Yes we should look for his coming but also when he does come he’s looking for faithful servants doing what is required of him even in the worse of times
You aren't supposed to know the day or hour but you are supposed to know the season. You are not supposed t be in darkness have have no idea when the season is come.
I think we also have to ask ourselves ....what is doing what He expected of us? Its is a political war or a spiritual war?
What did His followers do 2000 years ago? What was their main focus? Did they wage a political war against the evil Roman government or did they raise their children up right and spread the Word to as many people as possible?
Were they fighting to "fix" that lost world or preparing for the world to come?
As I said we should stand up for what is right and speak out, just as they did. But their main focus was on the world to come.
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RE: Australia is lost
There is a problem today where Christians want to fight for for this lost world than they want to fight for the Gospel and the world to come.
They love this world more than the things of God and world to come which is for us.
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RE: Australia is lost
(09-27-2021 03:52 PM)ericsrevenge76 Wrote: (09-27-2021 09:01 AM)BigTigerMike Wrote: (09-27-2021 06:19 AM)ericsrevenge76 Wrote: (09-27-2021 06:02 AM)BigTigerMike Wrote: (09-27-2021 05:23 AM)ericsrevenge76 Wrote: We are not going to "recover" at all. This is only the beginning of the end.
We should continue to stand and fight for what’s right and not give up. This may not be the end or the even the beginning of worse days to come. As a quote goes:
“If God ordains that Man should die without a fight, then why does He give us the will to live?”
I didn't remotely suggest we should give up.
But I am also not going to deceive myself into thinking good times are ahead. They are not for this lost, corrupted nation and world.
Things are going to get worse, not better. He told us the end from the beginning.
I think if we are being honest with ourselves we know things have already gone too far. This cancer has already metastasized and is already beyond the knife. We should resist and fight for whats right, but we know how this ends.
The end of days will certainly come upon the world but the day or hour no one knows and could be next month or centuries away for all I know. I’m just saying we need to keep doing what we’re doing in season and out of season; when the world says down is up or up is down. Yes we should look for his coming but also when he does come he’s looking for faithful servants doing what is required of him even in the worse of times
You aren't supposed to know the day or hour but you are supposed to know the season. You are not supposed t be in darkness have have no idea when the season is come.
I think we also have to ask ourselves ....what is doing what He expected of us? Its is a political war or a spiritual war?
What did His followers do 2000 years ago? What was their main focus? Did they wage a political war against the evil Roman government or did they raise their children up right and spread the Word to as many people as possible?
Were they fighting to "fix" that lost world or preparing for the world to come?
As I said we should stand up for what is right and speak out, just as they did. But their main focus was on the world to come.
It’s both but spiritual warfare always comes first in priority above all else.
You said it’s a political issue. This isn’t a political issue we’re facing, it’s a justice and helping our neighbor issue. God has blessed us saint here to be in a country where we can have the freedom of speech, press, assembly, practice of our religion as well as voting and petitioning our elected representatives. This has nothing to do with evangelicalism or the Moral Majority of yesterdays or anything else of that kind; it’s akin to pre WW2 Germany where many saints there saw what was going on and spoke out against it and were persecuted for the injustices that they saw
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RE: Australia is lost
(09-27-2021 03:52 PM)ericsrevenge76 Wrote: (09-27-2021 09:01 AM)BigTigerMike Wrote: (09-27-2021 06:19 AM)ericsrevenge76 Wrote: (09-27-2021 06:02 AM)BigTigerMike Wrote: (09-27-2021 05:23 AM)ericsrevenge76 Wrote: We are not going to "recover" at all. This is only the beginning of the end.
We should continue to stand and fight for what’s right and not give up. This may not be the end or the even the beginning of worse days to come. As a quote goes:
“If God ordains that Man should die without a fight, then why does He give us the will to live?”
I didn't remotely suggest we should give up.
But I am also not going to deceive myself into thinking good times are ahead. They are not for this lost, corrupted nation and world.
Things are going to get worse, not better. He told us the end from the beginning.
I think if we are being honest with ourselves we know things have already gone too far. This cancer has already metastasized and is already beyond the knife. We should resist and fight for whats right, but we know how this ends.
The end of days will certainly come upon the world but the day or hour no one knows and could be next month or centuries away for all I know. I’m just saying we need to keep doing what we’re doing in season and out of season; when the world says down is up or up is down. Yes we should look for his coming but also when he does come he’s looking for faithful servants doing what is required of him even in the worse of times
You aren't supposed to know the day or hour but you are supposed to know the season. You are not supposed t be in darkness have have no idea when the season is come.
I think we also have to ask ourselves ....what is doing what He expected of us? Its is a political war or a spiritual war?
What did His followers do 2000 years ago? What was their main focus? Did they wage a political war against the evil Roman government or did they raise their children up right and spread the Word to as many people as possible?
Were they fighting to "fix" that lost world or preparing for the world to come?
As I said we should stand up for what is right and speak out, just as they did. But their main focus was on the world to come.
It’s both but spiritual warfare always comes first in priority above all else.
You said it’s a political issue. This isn’t a political issue we’re facing, it’s a justice and helping our neighbor issue. God has blessed us saint here to be in a country where we can have the freedom of speech, press, assembly, practice of our religion as well as voting and petitioning our elected representatives. This has nothing to do with evangelicalism or the Moral Majority of yesterdays or anything else of that kind; it’s akin to pre WW2 Germany where many saints there saw what was going on and spoke out against it and weee persecuted for the injustices that they saw
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RE: Australia is lost
(09-30-2021 01:01 PM)BigTigerMike Wrote: (09-27-2021 03:52 PM)ericsrevenge76 Wrote: (09-27-2021 09:01 AM)BigTigerMike Wrote: (09-27-2021 06:19 AM)ericsrevenge76 Wrote: (09-27-2021 06:02 AM)BigTigerMike Wrote: We should continue to stand and fight for what’s right and not give up. This may not be the end or the even the beginning of worse days to come. As a quote goes:
“If God ordains that Man should die without a fight, then why does He give us the will to live?”
I didn't remotely suggest we should give up.
But I am also not going to deceive myself into thinking good times are ahead. They are not for this lost, corrupted nation and world.
Things are going to get worse, not better. He told us the end from the beginning.
I think if we are being honest with ourselves we know things have already gone too far. This cancer has already metastasized and is already beyond the knife. We should resist and fight for whats right, but we know how this ends.
The end of days will certainly come upon the world but the day or hour no one knows and could be next month or centuries away for all I know. I’m just saying we need to keep doing what we’re doing in season and out of season; when the world says down is up or up is down. Yes we should look for his coming but also when he does come he’s looking for faithful servants doing what is required of him even in the worse of times
You aren't supposed to know the day or hour but you are supposed to know the season. You are not supposed t be in darkness have have no idea when the season is come.
I think we also have to ask ourselves ....what is doing what He expected of us? Its is a political war or a spiritual war?
What did His followers do 2000 years ago? What was their main focus? Did they wage a political war against the evil Roman government or did they raise their children up right and spread the Word to as many people as possible?
Were they fighting to "fix" that lost world or preparing for the world to come?
As I said we should stand up for what is right and speak out, just as they did. But their main focus was on the world to come.
It’s both but spiritual warfare always comes first in priority above all else.
You said it’s a political issue. This isn’t a political issue we’re facing, it’s a justice and helping our neighbor issue. God has blessed us saint here to be in a country where we can have the freedom of speech, press, assembly, practice of our religion as well as voting and petitioning our elected representatives. This has nothing to do with evangelicalism or the Moral Majority of yesterdays or anything else of that kind; it’s akin to pre WW2 Germany where many saints there saw what was going on and spoke out against it and weee persecuted for the injustices that they saw
If we are born again Christians it has everything to do with evangelism and how the Apostles taught us to live as Christians in this lost world.
A lot of Christians today would rather pick up a gun and go to war with the far left liberals than pick up their cross walk with Christ and spread the Gospel.
Jesus warned us that the last church age would be marked and dominated by apostasy and love the this world and worldly things. And that is exactly where we are. People are all fired up to fight for their love of the the things of this fallen wicked world but they have Jesus and the Gospel on the back burner and in the closet.
And I am also fully aware that a lot of Christians do not want to hear these things. They love this world and want to fight for this world. But this is the devils kingdom and he is the god of this lost and fallen world.
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