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Pontifex Geronimo 13 said:
It’s cute how the left doesn’t get satire.
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Especially when presented as god's truth!

Something more for demonstrable effect of bending all things out of shape ... to generate the secular world of the Lei ... and thus we carry on ...

If gods are bought down do they become demons? Imagine all the fallout here on the earth ...
 
Do extremely successful tyrants ... like the truth told about how they succeeded in their slick ways?

Thus first and second person slicks on the pool ... prior to arrival of the third person ... of what the first two were saying about the third coming forth! Thus the bump in the system ... a heap of trouble and concern!
 
Economists tell us that two-thirds of North America’s own economy is geared to producing “consumer” goods and services.

We need food, clothing, housing, transportation, and energy to run all this.

But as Vance Packard astutely observed half a century ago, most of what corporations produce today is produced not for the needs of people but for the needs of corporations to sell to people.

From the ever-more obscene and pointless vanities of ruling class consumption – the Bentleys and Maseratis, the Bergdorf Goodman designer collections, the penthouses and resorts and estates and yachts and jets, to the endless waste stream of designed-in obsolescence-driven mass market fashions, cosmetics, furniture, cars, “consumer electronics,” the obese 1000 calorie Big Macs with fries, the obese and overaccesorized SUVs and “light trucks,” the obese and ever-growing McMansions for ever-smaller middle class families, the whole-house central air conditioning, flat screen TVs in every room, iThings in every hand, H&M disposable “fast fashion” too cheap to bother to clean, [34] the frivolous and astonishingly polluting jet and cruise ship vacations everywhere (even Nation magazine cruises with Naomi Klein!), and all the retail malls, office complexes, the packaging, shipping industries, the junk mail/magazine/catalog sales companies, the advertising, banking and credit card “industries” that keep this perpetual consumption machine humming along, not to mention the appalling waste of the arms industry, which is just total deliberate waste and destruction ...

At least three quarters of all the goods and services we produce today just do not need to be produced at all.

It’s all just a resource-hogging, polluting waste.

Pontifex Geronimo 13 said:
But seriously, what’s the plan.
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We could all live happier, better, more meaningful lives without all this junk — and we do not need ever-more energy, solar or otherwise, to produce it.

We could shut down all the coal-powered electric generators around the world, most of which, especially in China, are currently dedicated to powering the production of superfluous and disposable junk we don’t need and replace them with — nothing.

How’s that for a sustainable solution?

Same with nuclear. Since the 1960s, Japan built 54 nuclear power plants. But these were built not so much to provide electricity for the Japanese (their population is falling) as to power Japan’s mighty manufacturing export engine producing all those disposable TVs and Gameboys and Toyotas and Hondas the world does not need and can no longer afford to consume.

Endless growth or repair, rebuild, upgrade, recycle?
 
If we suffered relaxation syndrome ... would less energy be consumed?

Won;t happen when folk are so stressed about things about us! Round about environment? Then there is that mysterious muttering ...
 
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https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/global-warming-god-end-times/

CLIMATE NOTE · Jul 26, 2016
Global Warming, God and the “End Times”
By Connie Roser-Renouf, Edward Maibach, Anthony Leiserowitz and Seth Rosenthal
Filed under: Beliefs & Attitudes
Global Warming, God and the “End Times”

For a significant number of Americans, the reality, causes and meaning of global warming are seen through the lens of their religious beliefs. Some reject the evidence that humans are causing global warming because they believe God controls the climate. Others believe that global warming is evidence that the world will be ending soon, and that we don’t need to worry about global warming in light of the approaching apocalypse. To assess the level of acceptance of these beliefs among Americans, we surveyed a nationally representative sample of 1,204 American adults in March, 2016.
 
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Some of the most inspiring words in the entire Bible are found in the opening pages of Genesis. Here we are told that humans were created in God’s image and given a divine mandate to care for Creation (Gen. 1:26-31). Our vocation—our calling—is to partner with God in preserving and sustaining the earth with all the creatures and species that God has made. The word used in most translations is “dominion,” and the true meaning is what we would today call “stewardship.”

Unfortunately these passages have often been used and abused to advance countless agendas, often to the great detriment of the Earth and its inhabitants. The deep sense of stewardship implied by and inherent in these verses is ignored and the word “dominion” has been interpreted as domination—and a license to destroy. Such thinking is not just unfaithful to God; it is dangerous to all God’s creation and creatures.

As Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. so often quoted, “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” Of this I have no doubt. My only question is whether we’ll have the moral courage on climate change to bend it fast enough before catastrophe becomes unavoidable. For the sake of my grandchildren—for the sake of my grandchildren’s grandchildren—I hope we start taking our calling as stewards of God’s Creation a lot more seriously.

It’s time to stop denying science, denying our created instructions, and denying the sovereignty of God.

Instead, let’s start acknowledging our moral responsibilities.


Jim Wallis is president of Sojourners
 
In the beginning a vast formless void representing all that we don't know ... and still we know little about eternal concerns ... it is beyond us!

Builds a great structure for the beginning of a folk lure ... into literature and the devices thereof! People of the book will swallow what? Allows room for the indeterminate cat of Schrodinger ... something else we don't know for sure anything about it! Thus generalized abstraction ... as a dark and mysterious force! The shadow of thought under the town hall light ... it dies in the vale of pas Zions ... and we still inquire about where do thoughts go when predisposed of ...

The YID left it angh 'n ... thus the Hins moved on ... endogenously! Profound process ...
 
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I don't know but I get the feeling something naw' dites way in through the word of folk lure ... and thus that alien is in the dark of human exposure to phi*shing! It can be passionate and cause rivers to flow ... and sunshine gleams off the waters ... that irregular bounce!

Some don;t like the ups, downs, rights, lefts, backs and forths and thus are left standing at the edge and don;t know it either ... conservative stoicism? There they'd elle ... some say dwell ... like nodes in a motive system! Carried on an unfamiliar toon ...

Some will have NU 'n 've it! Thus we are cool and in you wit ... and denied by folk that believe not in Shaman ... but still do it!

Thus the finger of question ... even been fingered for that ... and still without answers regarding things beyond?

Be cautious around digitalization ... generates nominal codes ...

Might as well make fun and few are serious about what we've done to ourselves to bring on vert Egos! That hole within ...
 
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Honestly? Ontario is finished in terms of CO2 reduction until we scrap Ford's government. They just have no interest in the problem. Buck a beer and easier access to booze and pot seems to be their signature policy. Communities and individual citizens will have to do what they can with little or no support from the province, though some may be available from the Feds depending on what happens on Oct. 21.
 
Ritafee this is my view ----

Ritafee ------your quote ---Our vocation—our calling—is to partner with God in preserving and sustaining the earth with all the creatures and species that God has made. The word used in most translations is “dominion,” and the true meaning is what we would today call “stewardship.”

But here is the thing ------we didn't partner with God in the Garden we rejected God's stewardship practices and went our own way ------and everything fell as a result including our stewardship of this planet ---------we became disconnected from God ------

Now we humans were given Dominion ----over the animals and insects of this earth and the earth itself ----- it says nothing about us being in charge of any atmosphere or climate ----God is in charge of that we are not -------

So if we put bad gases in the atmosphere that belongs to God ---do you not think that God would be capable of keeping the poisonous gases or whatever bad we humans put into His space that we have no dominion over clean and Holy ---there are 3 heavens according to scripture -----the upper Atmosphere is one of the heavens ------

Think about this ---Jesus got a coin out of the fishes mouth ------in 2 Kings 4 ----poison food is made good to eat --and Paul was bit by a snake and had no effect -------God will never allow humans to poison His atmosphere if He doesn't want to ------God is in charge of His Atmosphere and the Climate ------- He could blow on the bad gases we send up and send them back to us who are bad stewards of what belongs to Him but in His Love for His Human Creation gave Humans the control over the land on earth only -------we are only hurting what we are in control of ------
God making Poisonous stew eatable ------

Study Bible
Elisha Purifies the Poisonous Stew
…39One of them went out to the field to gather herbs, and he found a wild vine from which he gathered as many wild gourds as his garment could hold. Then he came back and cut them up into the pot of stew, though no one knew what they were. 40And they poured it out for the men to eat, but when they tasted the stew they cried out, “There is death in the pot, O man of God!” And they could not eat it. 41Then Elisha said, “Get some flour.” He threw it into the pot and said, “Pour it out for the people to eat.” And there was nothing harmful in the pot.…



this is the Hebrew word for dominion and earth used in this passage ------see scripture below
Word: DCX

dominion
Pronounce: raw-daw'

Strong: H7287
Orig: a primitive root; ----to tread down, i.e. subjugate; specifically, to crumble off:--(come to, make to) have dominion, prevail against, reign, (bear, make to) rule,(-r, over), take.

earth ----

Word: UX@

Pronounce: eh'-rets

Strong: H776
Orig: from an unused root ---- meaning to be firm; the earth (at large, or partitively a land):--X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness


this is the scripture and it gives you Strong's Concordance numbers to look up what the words mean in this passage - -----
http://www.godrules.net/library/kjvstrongs/kjvstrongsgen1.htm
KJV W/ STRONGS BIBLE - GENESIS 1

1:26 And God 430 said 559 8799, Let us make 6213 8799 man 120 in our image 6754, after our likeness 1823: and let them have dominion 7287 8799 over the fish 1710 of the sea 3220, and over the fowl 5775 of the air 8064, and over the cattle 929, and over all the earth 776, and over every creeping thing 7431 that creepeth 7430 8802 upon the earth 776.



So for me ----I see we humans as very ---very bad Stewards of this physical world and the damage is not over yet as we humans will continue to be bad stewards over this planet till Jesus comes back and fixes it -------


The Bible has scripture on climate change -----

https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Bible-Verses-About-Climate-Change/


Ritafee ----your quote -------Our vocation—our calling—is to partner with God in preserving and sustaining the earth with all the creatures and species that God has made

Yes that is what was suppose to be ----but when Adam fell from God's Grace so did we ------Now today unless one has receive Jesus as their Lord and Saviour and has God indwelling in the person they are away from God and Satan is in charge of that person ----Satan is here to kill --steal and destroy what God has made ---- and that is why this planet is in the shape it is in ------Godless people who are behaving in Godless ways ------ bad Stewards of looking after this planet ------

This is what scripture says about this world and what will happen to it ------no human will stop this as God is in charge here ------

2 Peter 3 New Life Version (NLV)
The World Will Be Destroyed
3 Dear friends, this is the second letter I have written to you. In both of them I have tried to get you to remember some things. 2 You should remember the words that were spoken before by the holy early preachers. Do not forget the teaching of the Lord, the One Who saves. This was given to you by your missionaries.

3 First of all, I want you to know that in the last days men will laugh at the truth. They will follow their own sinful desires. 4 They will say, “He promised to come again. Where is He? Since our early fathers died, everything is the same from the beginning of the world.” 5 But they want to forget that God spoke and the heavens were made long ago. The earth was made out of water and water was all around it. 6 Long ago the earth was covered with water and it was destroyed.

7 But the heaven we see now and the earth we live on now have been kept by His word. They will be kept until they are to be destroyed by fire. They will be kept until the day men stand before God and sinners will be destroyed.


You either believe this scripture or you don't ----we have free choice to believe what Science says ---what humans say about the climate or believe God's word -----I'll take God and stay with His word -------that is my choice ----

I so agree with this statement by - [U]Pontifex Geronimo 13[/U] --- There is no climate crisis ----The “Powers that be” are trying to frighten you into wanting them to take total control of your lives.
 
“There’s no doubt that certain elements of Christianity have been hijacked by forces that are really antithetical to justice and the gospel,” said Berndt, who serves as an environmental justice minister in the United Church of Christ. “There’s a long history of Christianity, back to the Roman Empire, where there’s faith that gets co-opted by empire and faith that forms resistance to empire.”

As the story goes ... Jesus was on the resistance to empire side of this debate.
 
The Extinction Rebellion bridge boycotts seem to have had some success today.

The Don Valley one was ended by noon. The Vancouver one continues.
 
It is hard to redirect thoughts when thoughts are declared evil intelligence --- from someone who denies any and all NU's!

In such case many people are stuck with the caning by tyrants ... case of PTSD? The Rod of measuring up to static mental activity!
 
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