“Whoever has the gold makes the rules”
John Hart
Medieval Kings were created by wars and conquest and passed on their titles to their descendants. There are no kings in Western democracies. The majority in Europe are ceremonial relics of antiquity so it is highly irregular that successive governments in Barbados have created a strange phenomenon where they elevate men to the position of kings at the expense of the public purse after Independence legally ended colonialism. Perhaps it is intended to complete the gratification of the island being called Little England. It has been done decades ago for the Williams brothers and is now being done for Mark Maloney by the previous and present Administration.
The present Administration is now in the habit of sayings one thing and doing another. In theory, the Prime Minister says that she is moving the country to Republic status, notably with only a few cosmetic changes in the current system. In practice, this is not what has been happening. We have all been witness to a series of events starting with the last Administration, all of which seem bent on elevating one man in a position above all Barbadians by way of lucrative contracts and secretive sweet heart deals. In other word the making of a king. There was Coverley peppercorn deal, the Grotto, being on the board of the Central Bank, Chairman of the Boards of LIAT, the Government’s agent to buy vaccine that resulted in a scam and the list is not complete.
As far fetch as it may seem, is the change to republican status only an illusion? As act of cognitive dissonance as one writer called it a few days ago of saying one thing yet doing another.
This may be all speculative, however, what is fact is that for every asset given to Mark Maloney, there is a corresponding loss to the livelihood of present Barbadians in terms of assets that can earn revenue, to reduce taxation, to pay workers and revenue to provide for health care if the assets are put to good use.
The wealth present and of future Barbadians are also tied up in these assets so it is mind boggling why time and time again, the government is bent on giving them all away to one man. If this is what is happening, it is beyond logic that any sitting prime minister of Barbados would agree to such for financial contributions to their party or even worse if that person has sinister information on the Prime Minister. One might question what gives Mr. Maloney the audacity to approach government with these schemes and one must also question the integrity of persons elected to service who have the same audacity to misuse the funds from the public purse. It is instances like these that are the precursor to rampant corruption in any country.
In the quest for Republican status, one must not forget that the Crown owns a considerable amount of lands. The government has not mentioned what the status of the crown lands will be in the transition to a Republic. Literally, in a Republic land must belong to the people first and then their representatives. It will not like Crown land that did not belong to the people. In this grey period of transition what will happen to those lands will more be given away? Is there an existing list of crown lands to be viewed by the public?
Land is a scarce and expensive commodity in Barbados. The average man in the streets may not even be able to afford a 5,000 square feet plot of land a $25 per square feet. If he can afford it, then comes the difficulty of building a house on the said plot of land. It makes one wonder why the government of Barbados is continuously giving away this asset to a Billionaire who has already made his fortune as the expense of the public purse. Why can’t everyone else be able to enjoy their luxuries especially someone who sit in the majority 95%?
The latest acquisition that we now know of is that the 27 acres of land at Chancery Lane has been given to Mr. Maloney through a partnership with the government and is in the process of developing it at the disadvantage of the persons who live nearby. It was simply too good for them. There has been a video making its round on social media. This could be 235 lot of 5000 sq ft each for middle and low income housing!
One hopes that the Prime Minister realizes that with only 166 sq miles available, that this unnecessary giving away land is not sustainable. One may therefore have cause to wonder, if when the lands runs out will Mr. Mark Maloney will be given ownership of the beach and the sea.
If Mr. Maloney wants to be king, he has a choice, try his hand in elected politics since the Prime Minister already has her exit plan in place or start a war to conquer the 95%.
An excellent post.
It is extremely difficult to understand the reasoning behind actions taken by both administrations.
TheOGazerts November 22, 2021 6:47 AM
An excellent post.
It is extremely difficult to understand the reasoning behind actions taken by both administrations.@@@
What is so hard, they both agree to help each other cover up their Massive Land Fraud and PONZI ,LAND and Money Laundering RICO government, They can change their names but the DNA in their Crimes is Well reported and on stand by for the “COLLAPSE” !!Crooks Liars and Scumbags all need to be in Jail! No Rule of Law, they cant write no laws they have already broken! Constitution or Intergary false laws , all a set of Nasty lawyers, Thy Kingdooom come! Bajan Free Party BFP
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When people enter or break up from a relationship they have doubts
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Will I be used and abused again?
Can I find someone else better?
Here is a psychometric Questionnaire
Yes it is another Heather Cole column . If we are already a republic de jure and de facto,what is there to discuss? Is there somebody with cold feet unsure what is required of him in a republic?. What is the issue we are invited to discuss?
A change in the designation of the head of state underlines the fact that we have no body external of ourselves to blame if we mess things up. The last scape goat has been released of her colonial burthen. Amen..
What an opportune time to change the tired passed by date narratives and be firm craftmen of our fate! How about looking into that mirror EW Barrow bequeathed to us and ask:”Do I like that fellow staring at me?” What do I need to do to make him more lovable? No more “long talk. No more moving with our begging bowl to another colonial master. No. We need more sweat from our own brows.
RE Vincent CodringtonNovember 22, 2021 9:18 AM
Yes it is another Heather Cole column
VINCENT, HEATHER MEANS WELL………BUT IT SEEMS THAT SHE IS KICKING AGAINST THE PRICKS——-THOUGH IN A DIFFERENT WAY TO MIA
Is there a list of lands that the Crown owns?
Isn’t the crown land owned by the government of ( independent) Barbados which is representing the people of Barbados ?
What an.opportune time to change hands from one slave master to another
Those who have ears to hear let them hear
@John2, If this is correct why was the name Crown not replaced by Independence lands?
RE What an.opportune time to change hands from one slave master to another
IT CAN NOT BE REFUTED THAT OVER TIME SINCE THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY, WE HERE IN BARBADOS AND ELSEWHER
HAVE JUST CHANGED ONE SLAVE MASTER FOR THE OTHER.
ENSLAVEMENT TO THE BANKS
ENSLAVEMENT TO EVEN UNREASONABLE DICTATES BY GOVERNMENT
EVERYBODY THAINKS THEY ARE SOME KIND OF “MASTER” THESE DAYS
RE If this is correct why was the name Crown not replaced by Independence lands?
I SUPPOSE THAT THEY KNEW DAT SOMEDAY THEY WOULD NEED TO BE CALED REPUBLIC LANDS. UH LIE?
HEATHER
I THINK THAT THE ANGLICAN CHURCH PROBABLY OWNS MORE LANDS THAT THE CROWN—SO CALLED “GLEBE LANDS”
“What an.opportune time to change hands from one slave master to another”
Good sound bite
not
The Half that has never been told
Shackles and Chains
You are just a slave of your own mind
and still feel the chains around your feet
https://youtu.be/GLQ2TIul8pI
I have an idea!
You guys could build a factory and make misery. Then you could create the cure, since you are so good at making the disease.
Frustrated Incorporated.
We gun be rich!
“Another Heather Cole Column – Republic or Monarchy?”
By my calculations (30-22=8) in 8 days time BBD will be a Republic
But, what time is kick off?
When the Jolly Old Pirate Brits Union Jack Flag is lowered to a one fingered salute
Post Republic, should Heather Cole’s column be rebranded as
Another Mind Blowing Heather Cole Column .. .. or
Another Mind Numbing Heather Cole Column .. .. or
Do you remember the days of Slavery? Vs Still down here in Slavery
Sound Clash
Slavery Vs More Slavery
Burning Spear Vs Joe Higgs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ObaXgIEFh8
The Anglican Church should sell the land to the people at low rates and do something for each community where the lands are with the proceeds.
Last time I checked they did have more land than they should have.
Listened to Brasstacks today another tiefin lawyer complaint from a woman in Canada.
Barbados- Feel Free to lose your inheritances. CanBajans beware. Wunna are very ” trusting ” of members of men in wigs and robes.
Barbados Edit
In Barbados, the term crown land, extends to all land that is under the control or ownership of The Crown (a.k.a. the Government).[5] This can pertain to land seized by the government, (either through eminent domain or due to criminal activity), or toward lands with backed taxes. The term Crown lands has been used in relation to government owned farms, beaches, and other land areas also maintained by the National Housing Corporation.[6] The Government does not allow private ownership of Barbados’ 97 kilometres (60 mi) of coastal beaches in the country, and all areas below the high-tide watermark in the country are considered specifically as “Crown land”.
Taken from Wikipedia
I still got mine. Unscrupulous lawyers all over the world fleece trusting clients.
REPUBLIC OR MONARCHY?
I was of the opinion this question was already answered.
Somewhere in de future years Bajans will cogitated Republic vs Monarchy.
Today, are we a (free) people ???
Religious soil.
“The Anglican Church should sell the land to the people at low rates and do something for each community where the lands are with the proceeds.”
Xxxx
Grow some of de finest weed on this here earth 🌍.
@ Heather November 22, 2021 11:32 AM
“…………. If this is correct why was the name Crown not replaced by Independence lands?”
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Heather, what is your position on the GoB’s plan to award the incoming British king with the highest honour of the Republic of Barbados (RoB) styled the Order of the Freedom of Barbados?
What is the ‘ungrateful’ government of GB going to contribute to the imminent ‘royal’ divorce settlement other than an exchange of medals instead of rings and manacles?
Apologize (again) and then cough up the compensation owed to the patrimony of the black Barbadian slaves which must be no less than the amount (today’s equivalent in pound sterling) paid to the slave owners by an Act passed in the British Parliament called the “Slave Compensation Act 1837”?
@Miller
Is the transition to a republic designed to be adversarial?
7 days to go
https://gisbarbados.gov.bb/republic/
De system arrives at a decision by having each side to a dispute present its best opinion and then permitting a neutral decision-maker to determine the facts and apply the law in light of the opposing presentation of the two sides.
An inquisitorial system is a legal system where the court or a part of the court is actively involved in investigating the facts of the case/process going forward..
No conflicts/opposition tolerated on this given day.
Miller.
What is your response to David’s question.
Going forward, Crown lands are to be known as Republic Lands. The change has to be approved by the IMF and the Government of China who allowed the Gov of Barbados to mortgage these lands to 80% of their book value, as security for loans extended to the Gov of Barbados. This is known as conciliatory financing.
Currently there are over 800 parcels of Crown lands on record. Unfortunately, when contacted, the Auditor General, speaking off the record, suggested his office had only been able to locate 425 of these. Of immediate concern to him were two large waterfront parcels in each of St.George and St.Thomas, while another in the parish of St.Stephen had not been located by surveyors hired by his office. He also was concerned that several had been counted more than once. However, while some requests from his office predated his term, his office was yet to receive a single reply. However, he had been promised a response by 2025. He has been advised by the office of the Supreme Leader, that all 800 parcels on record shall be duly transferred to Republic Lands,
A spokesperson who cannot be named, told ONG that Republic day, will see the creation of a new Ministry of Republic Lands, and that a work permit was being sought for the new Minister, as a suitable local candidate had not been found.
@ David November 22, 2021 10:49 PM
“Is the transition to a republic designed to be adversarial?”
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Should have been.
Wasn’t it “adversarial” when Little England staved off Cromwell’s navy in order to retain the monarchy instead of pandering to the Roundhead’s republic?
By tearing up the 1952 Treaty of Oistins isn’t Barbadoes simply attesting to the saying that: ‘history has a way of repeating itself’; even if, on occasions, in a reverse order.
A show of defiance to show defiance to the removal of King Charlie No.1 and to usher in a ‘post-Republic’ king of England called Charlie No.2.
Now a pageant to say goodbye to a king very long in waiting, Charlie No.3.
By severing all monarchical ties and Constitutional association with GB Barbadoes has just thrown the reparations baby through the republic window.
Barbados ‘was’ the country with the strongest case of a claim for reparations for the wrongs of chattel slavery in the British ‘West Indies’.
Jamaica had Independence before Barbadoes and ceased loitering on the doorsteps of the Colonial Office since 1962.
But why do you think it has been so reluctant to make that final move to republic status?
To ‘walk away’ and leave those millions in reparations on the table just to show ‘We’ are a republic (man) and can stand on our own two financial feet while under the total control of the loan sharks called the International Monetary Force?
Wouldn’t republicanism without a ‘fight’ be displaying the hallmark of an ‘open-and-shut’ case of: letting bygones be bygones including all adversarial issues like those nauseating calls for reparations despite the gift of your perceived ‘cultural superiority’?
Clearly, that is not who “We are” in Little Chinbados!
@ Miller November 23, 2021 2:03 AM
“By tearing up the 1952 Treaty of Oistins”
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A clear case of taking a ‘9 for a 6’ .
Should have read:
By tearing up the ‘1652’ Treaty of Oistins.
@Miller
We have the luxury of cherry picking points in history.
“Apologize (again) and then cough up the compensation owed to the patrimony of the black Barbadian slaves which must be no less than the amount (today’s equivalent in pound sterling) paid to the slave owners by an Act passed in the British Parliament called the “Slave Compensation Act 1837”?
but did you not hear the Prof say that they DO NOT NOT INTENT TO GIVE A DIME of any reparations to the descendants of the enslaved, they said very loud and very clear that they already had the money earmarked for infrastructrue…read….right into the hands of the minority THIEVES AND CRIMINALS, as usual….and as documentation has shown, to prop up dependency slavery tourism by building a RACIST city in St. Lucy…what the descendants will get is 8 dollars an hour as dependant Slaves…for another 3 or 4 generations, if the people are dumb Enuff to allow it..the intent is to keep the survivors and descendants UNDERNEATH everyone else socially and financially as perpetual slaves at all cost..
July 2020
CARICOM
Beckles calls for High-Level International Reparations Summit
https://today.caricom.org/2020/07/09/beckles-calls-for-high-level-international-reparations-summit/
Freedom in Barbados is an illusion. Our naïve masses are just as economically and financially unfree as the slaves of the past. The only difference between slavery and conditions today is that slaves then did not have to pay excessive taxes and tariffs.
Therefore, the people should elect Mia Mottley as president with omnipotence for life. So that she can change the conditions.
Faith based organizations are letting their voices heard on the initiative to remove God name from laws and guidelines for good governance
Only people with agonist ideologies would agree to such a change
If Mia agrees to such change it would be a change one which would speak volumes and which exposes her hypocrisy of having a belief in God
False, reference to God was not removed. It was expanded to include Creator to recognize ALL faith based entities.
The next train will be leaving from Platform 1
It is now time to get on board the Freedom Train to Zion
The Bottom Line is to start working on the Conscious Guide Guide Line
as the Prophet Marcus Garvey of Black Star Liner expounded 100 years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZx4jUNSR8w
The Prophets Robert Nesta Marley, Winston Hubert McIntosh, Neville O’Reilly Livingston of the group The Wailers also carried the Torch of Freedom in their songs
DavidNovember 23, 2021 6:44 AM
False, reference to God was not removed. It was expanded to include Creator to recognize ALL faith based entities.
Xxxx
Bull shi..it
All Faith based used the word God in their teachings
Those who don’t are agnostic or aethesist or lovers of witch craft
Mia cannot use that flimsy excuse Bajans not going to entertain that type of manipulation where the replacement of God can be an introduction for the atheist and agnostic or whoever wanting to gain a foothold on the Constitution whereby opening up a door for any and all to ask govt to include or excuse whatever fits purpose unto themselves
Source: Nation
@angela cox November 23, 2021 6:28 AM
People are supposed to believe in Mia Mottley. She gives them clothes, food and much more. She leads her people with a firm hand through deserts, pandemics, volcanic ash and hurricanes. Just as Moses once led the people of Israel and Mao the Red Guards.
Those who believe in our Supreme Leader are among the chosen ones.
@ 555dubstreetNovember 23, 2021 4:01 AM
(Quote):
July 2020
CARICOM
Beckles calls for High-Level International Reparations Summit
(Unquote).
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Let us see if the same Professor is prepared to put his ‘republic-status’ head where his big mouth is and discontinue the use of that archaic monarchical title of SIR when Barbados becomes a full-fledged republic.
Would he still insist on being called SIR Hilary under the old colonial dispensation of the new republic of Barbados of 2022 while holding out the begging bowl for reparations to a guilt-ridden illusion called “Gov. UK” burdened with so many modern social and economic problems at home?
You Kiki, of all bloggers, know very well that the future political movers and shakers (aka policymakers) in the UK government will be made up mainly of university graduates and business people of (East) Indian descent and who are not burdened with that guilt of black chattel slavery in the West Indies previously carried by their white predecessors.
@Miller
A man of your intellect do yourself an injustice with some of your assertions. Will Beckles have a choice regarding his title based on government policy?
“Let us see if the same Professor is prepared to put his ‘republic-status’ head where his big mouth is and discontinue the use of that archaic monarchical title of SIR when Barbados becomes a full-fledged republic.”
i made a close enuff wish and hope in my book, without calling names, when i go through the chapters again, will post an excerpt….
the intent is to keep the survivors and descendants UNDERNEATH everyone else socially and financially as perpetual slaves at all cost….while they ALL enjoy what they tief…
i don’t believe they will get a DIME and they SHOULDN’T, not these traitors….and they know it, that’s why they LATCHED on to the AU (Africa Union) when the 50 billion dollars did not emerge/materialzie….just in case they can get their slimy TREACHEROUS tiefing hands on the survivor’s inheritance through that avenue…..what they are still IGNORING is that any reparations in the form of paper MUST GO DIRECTED TO THE DESCENDANTS OF THE ENSLAVED….the SURVIVORS….and not to minority criminals and black thieves on the island…
China China where are thou
CONTEMPORARY CONSERVATIVE THOUGHT
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Chinese Military Bases in The Caribbean?
Lawrence A. Franklin • Winter 2021
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Kingston Harbor in Jamaica. (Photo: Lucia Gajdosikova / Alamy)
China’s Communist Party (CCP) seems to be implementing a multidimensional strategy in the Caribbean, reaping economic, political and potentially military gains a few miles offshore the United States. China’s ultimate objective of its Caribbean strategy may well be to confront the U.S., not only with its presence near the mainland U.S., but also with a situation analogous to America’s military presence in the region of the South China Sea. There, China created new islands in the sea, pledged not to militarize them, then went and militarized them.
It is important to remember that China also promised Hong Kong autonomy until 2047, then, in 2020, jumped the gun by 27 years. “Hong Kong will be another communist-run city under China’s strict control,” U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declared in July. China is clearly not a government that honors its agreements.
Source: Nation
TronNovember 23, 2021 8:04 AM
@angela cox November 23, 2021 6:28 AM
People are supposed to believe in Mia Mottley. She gives them clothes, food and much more. She leads her people with a firm hand through deserts, pandemics, volcanic ash and hurricanes. Just as Moses once led the people of Israel and Mao the Red Guards.
Those who believe in our Supreme Leader are among the chosen ones
Xxxccc
Supreme leader of
Poverty
Unfair practices towards the poor
Food Baskets for the most vulnerable
Open up business to foreign interest like Big Cruise to fleece the poor worker looking to make a living
Even the name 8f God is under attack by the Supreme Leader
Let her carry on
God does not sleep
@ David November 23, 2021 9:20 AM
What is the government’s policy? To continue to use the title Lady or Sir in official state functions even though the positions which gave rise to those titles of the Crown like “GG” no longer exist in the new republic?
Why should Beckles–a man of much greater intellect- who has riled against a system all his public life and then turn around to represent the epitome of that very colonial / monarchical system which he claims to be responsible for the dysfunctional state of the black masses in the ‘West Indies’?
Why cuss the monarchy while continuing to adhere to their system of patronage with its royal bells and whistles?
Isn’t it a case of hypocrisy at its zenith and double standards at their lowest?
What is wrong with calling him “His Excellency” or the “Most Honourable” as is standard in ‘real’ republics?
This is the point Miller, we do not know.
The Bible has a Name for the Senator Anglican Priest
Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
His reasoning does not aligned with the Bible or that of the Founding Fathers
So what is his purpose of being called Priest if he does not stand for or understand the principles of the teachings in the Bible
Throughout the Bible the leaders appointed refer to the name God which represent righteousness
The Senator /Priest has adopted a principle and a style which diminishes the Word and Name of God in pursuit of what pleases an agnostic and atheist radical fringe
Not Good
Not Godly
What is wrong with calling him “His Excellency” or the “Most Honourable” as is standard in ‘real’ republics?
WHAT IS WRONG WITH CALLING HIM LORD BULLSHITER, HIGH JACKASS OF THE ORDER OF THE MOST LOWLY OF THE EQUINOIDS?
OR JUST HIGH JACKASS OF THE ORDER OF BALLAAM’S ASS?
How bout President Dame Slave…that’s all it will always be.
angela coxNovember 23, 2021 9:52 AM
YOU ARE 100%
THE MAN IS A TWIT AND ENGAGING IN HYPOCRISY AND PROMOTING COMPROMISE …….WHICH IS OFTEN SIN ON THE INSTALLMENT PLAN.
BUT BEING A PRIEST IS MOST TIMES JUST A JOB, WHICH DOES NOT REALLY CALL FOR A COMMITMENT TO THE EORD OF GOD OR TO RIGHTEOUSNESS.
Reparations to make good for damages made to humanity are not out of line with British values of today.
Blacks and other non-whites were deemed inferior to whites perceived superiority due to the complexion of their skin colour and more sophisticated culture.
But, that same biased logic has been proven a fallacy, which they readily admit today.
The biggest sin to hue-man kind in world history must be remedied to save the souls of the descendants of the perpetrators of crime and their legacy of the sins of the father being passed down to subsequent generations.
In 2015 Wide Boy Cameron told Jamaicans that Reparations would unhelpful but he has received bad luck in abundance due to his fobbing off of the matter in hand. He lost Brexit and his leadership, and, has recently been called out for corrupted lobbying of Government for his business sponsors interests on multiple counts.
Don’t know what any of you have been SMOKING, but regardless of bullshit titles…as long as you are in the west under the present RECURRING legal and other frameworks and STRUCTURES….you will ALWAYS be labelled as Slaves or descendants of….so keep fooling yaselves…it’s YOU fooling YOU and LYING to yaselves…no one else is doing it….especially those shite title holders.
FYI…the real MEANINGFUL titles are RESERVED for innnercircle family members of another hue….
Our future Afrikan descendants are QUITE CAPABLE of negotiating reparations for themselves without black face colonial agents…i say leave it to our FUTURE GENERATIONS to handle…and not these gangs of thieves and sellouts who are trying to get their hands on billions to impresss and prop up/support minority THIEVES and RACISTS…at our ancestor’s and our expense.
I would imagine that the British government and monarchy will be over the moon not to be spending money and precious time on these small Caribbean nations. You think you have got rid of them but in truth they have got rid of us. Without the British influence Barbados will be robbed blind, it is a license for banditry. Being rid of the Monarchy will also mean less British tourists, they found comfort in the association. Of course Barbados will want to remain members of the British Commonwealth, because they will still want to catch some crumbs from the table. I suppose that now being a left wing society with a left wing government, you can become much closer to Cuba, Venezuela, and China, good luck for that future, what a choice.
@MillerNovember 23, 2021 9:45 AM
We now presumably return to the salutation on the plantation.
formerly Sir, Dame, Honourable Minister, businessman = massa
taxpayer = slave
Prime Minister = Supreme Leader
Tron = chief ideologue and whipper-snapper
@ jolly green, keep your green nose out of bajan affairs. Did I not hear that you are a Vincentian?
“@ jolly green, keep your green nose out of bajan affairs. Did I not hear that you are a Vincentian?”
Oh my.
Not the tolerance and mutual respect we usually find coming from one Nation’s capital.
@ NO
I am an old woman, I don’t have a lame foot, but uh still miserable. So leff muh lone.
These hypocrite Christians! What does it matter if God is in our Constitution or not?
What difference does it make?
A word on a paper that nobody reads besides lawyers who mainly ignore it.
Yuh tink putting G-O-D in a Constitution will convince the young people of ANYTHING?????
Wunnuh does mek me laugh!
G-O-D is not a magic word!
By the way, John Rodgers is not compromising. He simply has no problem with recognising other religious faiths.
Nor should he.
Christians have no proof that they are right. Nobody has any proof that their beliefs are true.
It never ceases to amaze me that people are so convinced that their book is right and everybody else’s book is wrong when which book you believe is mostly a function of where you were born.
Steupse!
@555
He’s gonna cuss me again …
If only you were able to share your weed
I have provided the opportunity for a fresh start in 3 posts
Have a great day
Heather…you will find that depending on what you are using your website(s) for, you have to hand it over to programmers eventually so they can work their magic…..and that is ALSO VERY COSTLY….as PLT imparted, am just fortunate that i have a few of them in my family..cut down on costs, but still costly..there is no inbetween or cutting corners, not if you want to reach that goal..
@ Northern Observer
On reflection, I was wrong and your are, as usual right. I am not usually a screeching owl. Apologies to all who were offended. It was rude.
Big up de Dame! Way to go!
Yuh tink putting G-O-D in a Constitution will convince the young people of ANYTHING?????
DAT IS THE PROBLEM
LET US ABIDE BY WHAT THE YOUNG PEOPLE TINK— THE DEAR UNEXPERIENCED DARLINGS
G-O-D is not a magic word!
TOO MANY ALL OVER THE WORLD HE MATTERS. AND HE IS A MAGIC WORD. TO US HE IS ALL IN ALL
THAT HE DOES WILL SOON BECOME CLEAR
PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE IN HIM HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO SAY SO JUST AS THE UNBELIEVING AND UNGODLY HAVE THE RIGHT TO BELIEVE WHAT THEY WISH AND EFFLUX FROM THEIR UNGODLY HEARTS
SUCH FOLK ARE WELL DESCIBED IN JUDE IO-I6 THUS
0 But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.
11 Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.
12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
15 To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage.
THESE WORDS COULD NOT BE BETTER SAID
their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration
BUT VERSE I4 A & I5 IS COMFORTING
Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
15 To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
HE WILL JUDGE THE UNREPENTANT UNGODLY FOR BOTH THEIR ORAL AND MORAL SINS
HE WILL JUDGE NATIONS BEFORE DAT TIME…..JUST AS HE IS DEALING WITH THE USA TODAY…THE SO CALLED GREATEST COUNTRY IN DE WORLD EVER —– TOO SWEET
Wunnuh does mek me laugh! G-O-D is not a magic word!
HE IS TO MANY
IT WOULD BE NICE IF WE STILL HAD THE GOD OF THE OT AND THAT HE STILL LISTENED TO MEN LIKE ELIJAH WHO COULD CALL DOWN FIRE FROM HEAVEN
BUT GOD IS WORKING HIS PURPOSE OUT AND TRUE SINCERE BIBLE BELIEVERS COMFORT THEM SELVES IN THE WORDS OF DAVID IN PSALM 73.
SO CALLED SELF RIGHTEOUS HYPOCRITES ACTUALLY KNOW AND REALIZE HOW SINFUL THEY ARE AND HOW AWFUL THE EFFECTS OF SIN REALLY ARE …AND THEY ACTUALLY SEEK TO LIVE GODLY LIVES.
SO CALLED SELF RIGHTEOUS HYPOCRITES UNDERSTAND THE WORDS OF JUDE I7 &I8
17 But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
18 How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
SO CALLED SELF RIGHTEOUS HYPOCRITES ACTUALLY SEEK TO FOLLOW THE PRECEPTS OF JUDE I8 -24
20 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
22 And of some have compassion, making a difference:
23 And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
24 Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,
SO CALLED SELF RIGHTEOUS HYPOCRITES ACTUALLY EXULT AND REVEL IN THE THOUGHT EXPRESSED IN VERSE 24 IN THE KNOWLEDGE THAT THE LORD HIMSELF PROMISES TO
I- PREVENT THEM FROM FALLING …I.E STUMBLING AND FALLING AND NOT BEING ABLE TO GET BACK UP IS THE SENSE OF THE GREEK WORD TRANSLATED FALLING
2- PRESENT US AS FAULTLESS
NOW AINT THAT A SWEET PROMISE AS WE APPROACH REPUBLICANISM
Source: Nation
Source: Nation