I expect the community to evolve with input from the members - as any good community should!
But initially it will be kind of a mish-mash of political & cultural talk, a place for memes & also weird stuff like ugly doll pageants & an occasional odd-ball item giveaway (everything staying within the TOS, of course).
My hope is that it will be a good balance of fun & thought-provoking.
Pastor Spell refused to close his church during the Covid lockdowns.
He spent quite a bit of time in jail, but still wouldn't comply.
It turns out that the Louisiana Supreme Court determined that closing down churches was unconstitutional!!
Let's hope that this ruling may help others who were subjected to the tyranny and perhaps prevent a repeat.
I actually attended (and FB livestreamed) a Freedom Rally / protest where Spell's dad spoke on behalf of his son, who was in jail at the time for refusing to close down .
Not-so-fun fact: the protest was held outside in sunny 80+° weather. Even though data demonstrated that Covid wasn't spread outdoors, everyone practiced social distancing.
Although photographers covered the event from all angles, so it was obvious that we were spread out, the local newspaper printed a hack piece, claiming the TRULY peaceful protest was a "super-spreader event."
Anyway, they used a single picture of people (members of the same family) standing closely together to illustrate that "fact."
At least my FB friends knew the truth.
Even so, I was livid.
But I am so thankful to God Almighty for this ruling. At least the US Constitution still has meaning here.
Sometimes.
After the taking of this video, 2 of the 6 died. I don't know if it was Marek's, Newcastle, severe dehydration, or whether I accidentally poisoned them with the enzyme mix in their water. Turns out there are a lot of chicken diseases and it's all very gross.
Anyway, I have been doing my best to eliminate possible causes, and the other four still seem healthy, touch wood.
In keeping with the video just posted about a Mini Ice Age, we have had a VERY cold May here, with many late freezes. Chicks have to be kept very warm at this age, so I have brought them inside at night.
Learning as we go.
But I was wrong.
Video does really capture the intensity of the storm, but I had seen weather this bad before. Unfortunately, Ida was nowhere near finished. Conditions deteriorated rapidly after this.
I thought maybe we would catch the eye, so we'd have a temporary reprieve before the wind changed directions, but no such luck. We spent hour after hour in the eye wall as Ida wobbled a bit before shooting north.
We were told that there were local reports of 180 & 200 mph gusts, and I can believe it. The house shook & the noises were pretty scary. Not something I'm in a hurry to repeat.
Neither is a week without running water, power & cell service.
I'm thankful we didn't take on more water.
Secularism and democracy are not synonyms.
If they were foundationally democratic, secularists ought not to mind, after 500 years, if an overwhelmingly Christian populace voted in blue laws again, where ordinary commerce ceased on the Lord's Day. But if they are foundationally secularist, it doesn't matter to them if that's what society-at-large wants to do. They are still against it.
--DW, Mere Christendom, p. 7
"The liberties of the individual are too precious to be left in the hands of a civic agnosticism."
--Douglas Wilson, Mere Christendom, p. 5
"I argue here for a principled abandonment of the disastrous experiment of secularism, and for a corporate confession of the fact that Jesus rose from the dead, and all done in such a way as to preserve and protect our liberties. This no doubt raises questions, and hence this book."
--Douglas Wilson, Mere Christendom, Preface, p. xi
