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Does the political system need to fail before people wake up?

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Oh man VLC and Winamp. I'm getting nastolgic. I m not an audiophile due to the cost of the hobby. Even if I do obsess over speaker type, size and amp type for guitar and bass.

I have too much music collected to go all out with lossless formats like Flac. I still have a lot of mp3s, lot of b side or lesser known stuff I have trouble finding Cds to. Downloading isn't much better as I don't have internet at home so I do everything on phone or wifi. So if I can get the CD at least i can convert it to different formats based on how much memory I got. I'm still playing catch up too.

VLC though is still very audiophile friendly and I like the convenience of bluetooth, although I still need an aux adapter for my car stereo. Didn't realize Sony required a special adapter.
 
Well Vinyls are being sold again. You can get them again at your local Walmart. Read a story though that people don't even use them, they just collect them.
Not like it was.
It's not like I can find them with the cracking sound .analog fully not digital to analog .
 
Not like it was.
It's not like I can find them with the cracking sound .analog fully not digital to analog .
I posses old records from the late 40s to the 70s.these are my wifes collection and I can play them .

I also remember am only radio and mentioned my gf who had one that still works
 
@Tenchi you got to get rid of the corruption in the political system. Otherwise we're being held down by a tyrannical evil government, which is already happening.

No, America needs to return, as a nation, to God, not to a better, less corrupt political system. What Romans 1:18-32 describes is true, not just for individuals, but for entire societies. In fact, both Canada and the States are presently demonstrating the truth of what the apostle Paul wrote in his letter to the Christians at Rome. Individually, or corporately, when the population of a nation rejects God, that nation necessarily moves toward darkness, deception and delusion and the deep evil that such things produce. Reality and Truth are located ultimately in God; and so, to turn one's back on Him is to turn one's back on Truth and Reality. All that remains are falsehoods and fantasies.

The corruption, delusion and increasing chaos that characterizes North American culture and politics are part of the judgment of God upon those who have rejected Him. There is nothing else but our own natural selfishness (aka - sinfulness) to obey if we won't obey Him. And as that selfishness, wedded to the darkness and delusion of a Man-centered universe, bears its fruit, every hellish thing comes bursting out. Think: drag queens in demonic garb reading books to children in public libraries; think: children being forced by their parents to watch perverts in skimpy outfits dancing sexually, then made by their parents to put money in the thongs of the perverts; think: children chemically-castrated and surgically-mutilated by virtue-signaling, Woke-crazed parents eager to have "special" children; think: public parades of sexual deviants marching in celebration of their abominations and debasing themselves with each other in full view of all who want to watch; think: judges who can't define what a woman is; think: Big Pharma in bed with government health agencies forcing their woefully under-tested, experimental (and, as we're seeing, increasingly lethal) products upon a frightened public. And so on.

Where is all this headed, if North American societies don't return to God? Destruction. No nation can shake its fist in God's face with impunity. Every "great nation" that did has dissolved, becoming a mere artifact of history. Egyptian, Persian, Roman, Greek, Hunnish, Aztecan, Incan, and many other godless "empires" have risen and fallen, collapsing under inner, political, economic and social corruption and under the pressure of outer aggressive, rising nations. Sound familiar?

We were all made, not for ourselves, but for our Maker. He made us to know, love, enjoy and glorify Him. And He's determined that we either live under the purposes for which we were made, or to suffer the damage and destruction - in the present and/or in eternity - that defying Him always produces. Returning to God in repentance, and confession, and submission is the only route to the peace, blessing and strength that God has said can only be found - individually and nationally - in Him.
 
jasonc ah, yeah. They've eliminated that I guess. I wonder if they got any special players out there but it doesn't seem like it.

If you were lucky enough to have an older record player, if there was some way to capture the audio to CD or whatever it would carry the sound but that greatly depends if you want the full experience by having the player going instead of a phone or CD player.

By that, I'd want a nice home from the 40s then. Lets get the music from that time period with the home decor.
 
jasonc ah, yeah. They've eliminated that I guess. I wonder if they got any special players out there but it doesn't seem like it.

If you were lucky enough to have an older record player, if there was some way to capture the audio to CD or whatever it would carry the sound but that greatly depends if you want the full experience by having the player going instead of a phone or CD player.

By that, I'd want a nice home from the 40s then. Lets get the music from that time period with the home decor.
Fire lighter.most 40s homes here are woodframe. I have photos galore of them
 
Essentially all systems have flaws. The US Founders were heavily inspired by enlightenment authors such as Thomas Pain, John Loke, and Adam Smith.
Indeed. None of these men would ever be electable in America today. Instead of relying on logic and reason, Americans today would rather us rely on ancient scrolls found in caves, divine revelations, and prophecies.

It's really nuts to think that people living in the 1700's were more in touch with reality than the people living today.
 
Nobody knows for sure, however you got a tyrannical political system that is currently in power and that can't stay that way forever. People don't realize that Trump was put into office to attempt to stop that but it obviously went the wrong way and now there's something worse thats going to happen. We might have another war or something, but when people are angry and frustrated it's not going to be good.

Hence why you got so much road rage, shootings and overall an increased amount of violence. If our political system isn't fixed its going to collapse. Just like our crumbling roads, our society is collapsing.
The signs Jesus gave announcing his presence to his disciples have been observable for over 100 yrs now sir. Toward the end of the generation that would not expire before all the things occurred that he prophesied he stated: (Matthew 24:12) . . .and because of the increasing of lawlessness, the love of the greater number will grow cold.
I think that is happening and escalating. I believe that we are very near the outbreak of the great tribulation, as many unbelievers are observing the fulfillment of those signs as well.
 
And what's happening? We're being ruled by tyrants.
You know, you really could read the Scriptures!!!! Tell me, how do you define 'tryranny', because I'm 67 years old and I've lived here in the states all my life and I would have never classified the government of the United States as tyrannical. Or, is this more of the hyperbolic 'scare' words that the Republicans are so fond of using to throw fear into our wicked hearts? Like 'socialism' OOOOOOOOOh I'm scared to be called a 'Socialist' because I have mercy and sympathy for those less fortunate. The poor that Jesus said we would always have among us. Or antifa. And that's the oddest one, I mean, what patriotic American isn't against fascism?

God bless,
Ted
 
Here, I got this from Merriam-Webster: Antifa: a person or group actively opposing fascism.

I mean really, is that what this is about? The majority of Democrats and Independants are against fascism, but the Republican party think it's the new order of things. Hmmm. I just honestly don't get how Donald Trump and his entourage made up that word and it actually means the opposite of what they claim to stand for. Or, is it as I've proposed? The Republican party is on its way to turning our nation into a fascist ruled nation?

I mean again, in all honesty, the Grump seems to be wanting to establish an autocratic, hardline fascist government where we throw out the rule of law and the job of legislators to discuss and debate and enact laws and just hand all that power over to a king? For a bunch of folks who cling to their guns because that's what the constitution says, it sure looks odd that they want to throw the rest of the constitution down the tubes.

God bless,
Ted
 
Hi Tenchi
Sure you can. And when a country is truly "God filled," there won't any longer be a corrupt political system in it.

Yes, but according to the Scriptures, that isn't a prophecy that God has given, that some nation of the earth is going to be "God filled". There aren't any "God filled" nations. There are only born again believers who are God filled. Nations are just a body of people who have defined a boundary and all the people living within that boundary are its people. Within any nation there can be, and likely are, God filled people, but according to the Scriptures, that's going to be a very, very, very small minority of people. Those few who trod the straight and narrow path through this life to God's goodness, while proclaiming and teaching God's goodness to the people of all the godless nations. Nations don't have an identity such that they can even be God filled.

Curious question: Would you say that Israel is God filled today?

God bless,
Ted
 
Yes, but according to the Scriptures, that isn't a prophecy that God has given, that some nation of the earth is going to be "God filled".

I didn't say that there was. And though there is no such nation prophesied of in Scripture, it doesn't follow that no such nation is possible.

There aren't any "God filled" nations. There are only born again believers who are God filled.

I never said there was a God-filled nation. But it is certainly something to shoot for, in my view.

Nations are just a body of people who have defined a boundary and all the people living within that boundary are its people.

This is a very simplistic definition of a nation.

Within any nation there can be, and likely are, God filled people, but according to the Scriptures, that's going to be a very, very, very small minority of people.

Yes. I've not suggested otherwise.

Curious question: Would you say that Israel is God filled today?

No.
 
You know, you really could read the Scriptures!!!! Tell me, how do you define 'tryranny', because I'm 67 years old and I've lived here in the states all my life and I would have never classified the government of the United States as tyrannical. Or, is this more of the hyperbolic 'scare' words that the Republicans are so fond of using to throw fear into our wicked hearts? Like 'socialism' OOOOOOOOOh I'm scared to be called a 'Socialist' because I have mercy and sympathy for those less fortunate. The poor that Jesus said we would always have among us. Or antifa. And that's the oddest one, I mean, what patriotic American isn't against fascism?

God bless,
Ted

Tyranny is preventing ICE vehicle sales when consumers demand it. Tyranny is when you slap lawsuits on the oil companies driving up the consumers! This administration is tyrannical!
 
Tyranny is preventing ICE vehicle sales when consumers demand it. Tyranny is when you slap lawsuits on the oil companies driving up the consumers! This administration is tyrannical!
Look MayGodHeal I get it. You've got a bee in your bonnet that won't stop buzzing. But your definition of tyranny is quite a bit off the mark of the real definition of the word. You're just an angry person over some future problem about cars that you likely won't even live to see. You can still buy and drive an ICE vehicle to your heart's content. I do mine.

God bless,
Ted
 
miamited explain to me how banning/restricting ICE in favor for EV and slapping lawsuits against the oil companies raising the cost of fuel isn't tyranny? You can look for the state ICE bans in 2035 but this insanity is going to be hell for millions of motorists.

But in your mind I suppose God is doing this.






 
Look MayGodHeal I get it. You've got a bee in your bonnet that won't stop buzzing. But your definition of tyranny is quite a bit off the mark of the real definition of the word. You're just an angry person over some future problem about cars that you likely won't even live to see. You can still buy and drive an ICE vehicle to your heart's content. I do mine.

God bless,
Ted

Did you read the article in my EPA post? You're not going to get 50% sales of EVs in 2030 unless planning to restrict ICE. That's in 8 years and in 2035 some states are outright banning new ICE sales. That's tyranny! I posted the definition which fits quite well here.
 
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