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Yes, thank you for that. You are correct. That is what really matters.

96 Bible Verses About Profanity (KJV) | StillFaith.com

This is just a safety reminder. There are some of us who are more vulnerable than others because of our compromised health conditions. There has been a spike in Covid 19 cases in hospitals and a spike in deaths in the past number of weeks. Don't believe the Covid deniers. They don't know what they are talking about. People in the older age bracket should be especially careful about gathering in groups this Thanksgiving weekend. Those of us who are more vulnerable than others also need to remember to practice mask wearing, social distancing, and avoid groups. Enjoy Thanksgiving weekend, but be safe.

" James 3:10 - Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. Proverbs 18:21 - Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof. 2 Timothy 2:16 - But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness. Exodus 20:7 - Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. Matthew 12:36 - But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.

Thinly disguised profanity.

Colossians 2:8 KJV: Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

" Euthanasia without brakes. This article was published by the Epoch Times on December 7, 2022. By Wesley Smith: Wesley Smith In my first ever anti-euthanasia piece, which was published in Newsweek back in 1993, I warned that legalizing assisted suicide would lead to organ harvesting of those killed by doctors “as a plum to society.” For my trouble. I was called alarmist and hysterical—and those were the nice letters. Alas, rather than being alarmist, I was prescient. Today in Belgium, the Netherlands, and Canada, people who ask to be killed by doctors are sometimes organ harvested too. Not only that, but the phenomenon was celebrated in the media as “a growing boon to organ donation” in the Ottawa Citizen, with the story sighing, “Ontarians who opt for medically assisted deaths (MAiD) are increasingly saving or improving other people’s lives by also including organ and tissue donation as part of their final wishes.” Understand that in Canada, one need not be terminally ill to qualify for a lethal injection. The patient can be disabled, elderly and lonely, or chronically ill—and starting next year, people with mental illnesses will also be eligible for killing. Not only that, but once someone is accepted for euthanasia in Ontario, he or she doesn’t receive suicide prevention. No. No. Instead, the Trillium Gift of Life Network in the province contacts the soon-to-be-killed person to ask for their heart, liver, and kidneys. As the story reports, “Ontario, through Trillium, immediately moved to the forefront of organ and tissue donation through MAiD, becoming the first jurisdiction in the world to proactively reach out to those who had been approved for assisted death to discuss donation.” Remember, many of these patients wouldn’t be dying if they weren’t going to be lethally injected. That serves the organ harvesting agenda well, according to the Citizen, “MAiD donations also typically provide more time for testing donor organs and better matching with recipients.” Again, that time lag would also permit intensive suicide prevention efforts, but that isn’t a public policy priority in Canada when one asks for euthanasia. But here’s the thing that rarely gets mentioned: Conjoining organ donation and euthanasia can be the tipping point for deciding to choose to be killed by a suffering patient, particularly one who is mentally ill. Remember, these are despairing people who could easily come to think that their deaths have greater value than their lives. It’s a monstrous abandonment. I wish I could say that organ donation conjoined with lethal injections was the only slide down the slippery slope I have predicted correctly in my decades of anti-euthanasia advocacy. Here’s a short list of some of the other wrongs I warned against that have, indeed, come to pass. unquote For more of this piece: Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Euthanasia Prevention Coalition: Andrew Coyne (alexschadenberg.blogspot.com)

Five Reasons to Oppose Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide There are many reasons to oppose euthanasia and assisted suicide (also known as assisted death). Here we focus on five key reasons. 1 Assisted death should be opposed because it involves causing a person’s death (killing) Laws permitting assisted death give doctors (and nurse practitioners in Canada) the right to cause a person’s death. Society should never allow one person to legally kill another. In Canada, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg, assisted death is done by euthanasia. Euthanasia is intentionally injecting a person with a combination of lethal drugs. In most countries it is prohibited under murder or homicide laws. In the United States and Switzerland, assisted death is done by assisting a person’s suicide. This is when a doctor prescribes a combination of lethal drugs that the person self-ingests. Euthanasia and assisted suicide involve another person, Five Reasons to Oppose Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide There are many reasons to oppose euthanasia and assisted suicide (also known as assisted death). Here we focus on five key reasons. usually a doctor, who directly kills or is involved with causing the death of another person. Those who promote assisted death focus on the difficult life conditions that pressure someone to request to die. They argue from a situational ethics’ standpoint to justify killing, an act which is normally considered to be universally wrong. Assisted death is sold as healthcare. In an interview, psychiatrist and ethicist Mark Komrad said: “If you were just to replace the image of the needle or the pill with a gun, I think that would make a much more vivid picture of something that would be transculturally wrong.”1 People go through difficult physical or psychological conditions, but these human experiences must not be exploited to justify killing. Providing proper care and support is the appropriate response. 2 Assisted death should be opposed because “safeguards” only protect the physician; they do not protect vulnerable people. Assisted death laws are designed to protect the physician (or another) who is willing to participate. These laws do not provide effective oversight and protection for the person who is being killed. These “safeguards” are designed to sell the legalization of assisted death to politicians who have concerns about killing, but they include exceptions that are wide enough to drive a hearse through. The State of Oregon was the first jurisdiction to legalize assisted death in 1997.2 The assisted suicide lobby did not challenge the safeguards in the law because they wanted to convince other jurisdictions that there is no “slippery slope”. However, in 2019, the assisted suicide lobby announced that the problem with assisted suicide laws is the restrictions. That year the Oregon legislature removed the 15-day waiting period.3 The euthanasia lobby alleges that the Netherlands have not changed their euthanasia law since it was passed in 2002. This is inaccurate: the language of the Netherlands’ euthanasia law has not changed but the interpretation of the law has. The most recent example is the extension of euthanasia to include incompetent people with dementia.4 Canada is a prime example of a country where safeguards lack effective definition or meaning. For instance, Canada’s euthanasia law required that a person’s “natural death be reasonably foreseeable”. However, the meaning of this phrase was not defined5 and, consequently, the application of the law varied. In September 2019, a Québec Superior Court decision struck this phrase from the law.6 Canada is also a prime example of how a euthanasia law can incrementally expand. Canada passed its assisted death law in June 2016. In February 2020, Parliament introduced Bill C-7 to expand the law by eliminating the waiting period, permitting euthanasia of an incompetent person who requested an assisted death in advance, and eliminating the terminal illness requirement.7 Safeguards in assisted death laws are designed to politically sell killing. These laws protect physicians who are willing to kill; they do not protect those who die from the lethal drugs. 3 Assisted death should be opposed because it is fundamentally incompatible with the physician’s role as healer. The American Medical Association Code of Ethics Opinion 5.7 (Physician-Assisted Suicide) states that: …permitting physicians to engage in assisted suicide would ultimately cause more harm than good. Physician-assisted suicide is fundamentally incompatible with the physician’s role as healer, would be difficult or impossible to control, and would pose serious societal risks. Instead of engaging in assisted suicide, physicians must aggressively respond to the needs of patients at the end of life.8 Assisted death laws are designed to protect physicians who are willing to cause the death of a patient, usually upon request. When the role of a physician changes from healer to killer, it fundamentally changes the physician. In August 2016, 25-year-old Candice Lewis, who had several medical conditions, was pressured by a doctor to “request” an assisted death while she was in the hospital. Candice’s mother Sheila Elson stated in a CBC News story: “His words were ‘assisted suicide death was legal in Canada,’” she told CBC. “I was shocked, and said, ‘Well, I’m not really interested,’ and he told me I was being selfish.” According to Elson, Lewis was within earshot when the doctor made the comment – which she said was quite traumatic for her daughter to hear.9 Sheila said the following in the film Fatal Flaws: Not once did Candice say to them, “I want to end my life.” The doctor came in the next day after he told me about assisted suicide, stuck his face down in Candice’s and said, “Do you know how sick you are?” When I got his eye contact, we went out in the hallway and I told him, “Don’t you ever pull something like that again.”10 The fact that Candice was a person with disabilities should not change the value of her life. How many people are pressured by a medical professional and, unlike Candice, die by assisted death? I will only give three of the five reasons. You may read the full article at: 5-Reasons-to-Oppose-Euthanasia-and-Assisted-Suicide.pdf (epcc.ca)

A few other things we have because of "democracy" and the belief that liberalism backed by democracy always knows better. Legalized gambling, free drugs for addicts, places to take them, public schools teaching sexual freedom, sexual orientation and gender identity to young people, have sex as long as you take precautions (grooming), widespread bullying, repeat offenders constantly offending, robbing, shoplifting, being caught and immediately released.

A doctor was asked if the signature on a paper for MAID was from the patient's. He said someone told him it was.

That is exactly why we have assisted suicide, around 100,000 abortions a year, promotion of sexual orientation, gender identity, same-sex marriage, pride days, catch and release criminal justice system, no capital punishment for murderers, and on and on. Let's not forget the ideology a criminal is not responsible for his crimes; it is either society's fault, the influences in his past life or he is NCR because of mental problems. A decadent, crumbling society sliding deeper into depravity. But not only that, there are reports the MAID protocols are not being followed anyway and because of the secrecy surrounding it, it can be abused and people given MAID who never really chose it or didn't know what they were doing.

That's what the Nazis thought would justify killing six million Jews. They propagandized the public for years in Germany to turn them against the Jews. They invented evil science and evil theology to convince the public. One of Hitler's right hand men was Gerhart Kittel, a theologian turned Nazi. He was one of HItler's chief propagandists. He wrote articles for Hitler in publications for years to turn the people against the Jews. He was convicted and sentence as a war criminal after the war. You can Google him. Shockingly Gerhard Kittel wrote the ten volume Theological Dictionary of the New Testament that is used by all modern Bible translators to find the meaning of words. (even though he was a convicted war criminal). The King James Version is the only reliable Bible to use being produced in 1611 and based on the Received Text. They painted the Jews as evil and needed to be destroyed while promoting their Aryan race. I see a similar pattern here in Canada. First brainwash the people into believing in the Trudeau liberal democracy church. The ideology that democracy makes things right and moral if that is what the majority want is the basis of diabolical legalized suicide or murder. That is the liberal ideology in a nutshell. Then you can use it to do whatever you wish just as the Nazis did. Historic Christian teachings about what is right and what is wrong do not count any more. Only the new ideology of liberal "democracy" determines right and wrong. MAID is based on evil ideology/theology that they are being merciful in allowing legalized assisted suicide. After all who would question the phrase "death with dignity"? First brainwash the people with the ideology that Liberalism knows what is best for you; then use it to enforce the evil agenda.

You have found a new word or invented one, "CHUD" that you think adds something or sheds new insight? Won't be of much value though because nobody knows what it means.

The simple fact is the parents love their children and have a responsibility to raise them. They have a right to know what is going on no matter what it is. We know LGBTQ/trans issues are not a normal and any normal parent would not be too happy to find out their child is into that. But, and this is important, the parents have a right to know what is going on. They are the primary caregivers. The reason the government does not want parents to know is because they know what is going on is WRONG and they know parents will not be happy. The bottom line is the government should not be enabling this behavior and grooming kids in school to think this is normal. What the government is doing is outrageous and borders on the criminal and child abuse. SOGI123 is basically evil ideology being put into young minds.

It is reasonable to believe the higher numbers of suicide among LGBTQ/trans youth is the breakdown of the family structure and the drift of society away from God and the Bible. Society is becoming more heathen if I may put it that way and there is a common belief that anything goes. By that I mean the liberal ideology is that everyone should be free to do their own thing regardless of what it is, if it does not directly affect other people. A rejection of God and his word is a rejection of a stable, sane, law-abiding society and the end of a normal family structure.

Why is that? The reasons are complex but there is no proof it is because the parents become aware of what is going on. Of course any parent may be concerned or upset when learning about a child's abnormal behavior. But that does not mean they do not have a right to know. They are the primary caregivers and absolutely have a right to be kept informed of what their children are doing. A psychology website goes into some detail about the causes of why suicide rates are higher for LGBTQ/trans youth. There are many factors that may contribute to it. Whether parents know what their kids are doing or don't know may not have any bearing on it. But it seems to be the left's go-to now to somehow blame the parents for suicide among youth. quote According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, suicide is the second leading cause of death among youth aged 15 to 24 and the third leading cause of death among youth aged 10 to 14 (CDC, 2010). Among youth who identify as sexual minorities, the likelihood of death by suicide has been estimated to be two to seven times greater than the likelihood of death by suicide among heterosexual youth (Haas et al., 2011). Haas et al. suggest that such a range exists because records of death rarely include a person’s sexual orientation. More precise data exist on the prevalence of suicidal ideation among sexual minority youth, however, with twice as many reporting a desire or intent to die when compared to heterosexual youth (King et al., 2008). Various theories abound as to why rates of suicide and/or suicidal ideation are higher among youth who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, intersex, or asexual (LGBTQ-IA). Chief among them: the minority stress hypothesis and the interpersonal psychological theory of suicide (Russell & Fish, 2016). Irrespective of theoretical orientation, however, most researchers, psychologists, and mental health practitioners agree that youth identifying as a sexual minority are exposed to a higher number of risk factors than their heterosexual counterparts. Sexual minority youth also face several unique risk factors for suicidal ideation and completed suicide (Mustanski & Liu, 2012). General risk factors for suicide identified over the past several decades include a family history of suicide, childhood maltreatment, having a mental illness (in particular: borderline personality disorder, schizophrenia and psychotic disorders, antisocial personality disorder, conduct disorder, and depression), struggling with substance abuse, experiencing chronic feelings of hopelessness, and having access to a means of completing suicide (i.e., access to a weapon) (Franklin et al., 2017). Perceived burdensomeness and thwarted belongingness have also been shown to increase one’s risk of suicidal ideation and death by suicide (Baams, Grossman, & Russel, 2015). Additionally, a substantial amount of evidence has linked episodes of self-harm to suicidal ideation and suicide attempts. Though the relationship between self-harm and suicide is complicated by the fact that not all episodes of self-harm are directly related to or derivative of an intention to die, a systematic review and meta-analysis by Chan et al. (2016) of various factors correlated with suicide in the wake of self-harm found self-harm to be predictive of death by suicide. The same review also found that poor physical health and male gender increased one’s risk of suicide completion. unquote Why Are Suicide Rates Higher Among LGBTQ Youth? | Psychology Today The truth is which is being left out of this conversation is that the parents and family are the foundation of youth. It is a fact that a good home and parents are the basis of stable youth of sound mind. If you break and divide the family structure you are asking for instability and harm. That is what leads to suicide ideation and suicide.

Some commenters on here think MAID is a simple matter of individual free choice. In actual fact that is not how it has worked in the world. Read some of the many articles to learn the truth of what has been happening in the world. Politicians who pass MAID laws think they have everything solved and do not realize that is not how things work out in the real world. " Euthanasia: impossible to police once legal Alex Schadenberg Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Professor Theo Boer The Irish Law Society Gazette published an article on September 26, 2023 reporting on the presentation by Professor Theo Boer to the [Irish government] Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying. Dr. Boer, who is from the Netherlands, supported the Netherlands euthanasia law in the past. However, after being a euthanasia case reviewer for 9 years (2005 - 2014) he has come to the conclusion that it is impossible to police the euthanasia law. Boer told the Committee: Loneliness and meaningless are constituent reasons for asking for euthanasia. Boer gave an example of how the law could not be upheld: He cited a Dutch case where there was a question over the legitimacy of a signature requesting euthanasia, and from which an ethics committee had to step back, because it did not hold criminal investigatory powers. “When the doctor was asked ‘are you sure that this signature is the signature of the patient’, the doctor said ‘I was told that it was’. “So, in the end, we backed off,” Prof Boer said. Boer commented on the "silent pressure" of euthanasia: “Once you have a law … it is absolutely impossible to put a police officer in every hospital room or in every bedroom … and look [for] some silent pressure,” “That is impossible, because that will infringe very much on the privacy of their patient-doctor relationship so there is no solution,” Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Euthanasia Prevention Coalition: Euthanasia: impossible to police once legal (alexschadenberg.blogspot.com)

" The recording from an October 2021 training session documents the use of sedation to obtain consent. Raikin explains the importance of the use of sedation to obtain consent for death: At the core of death care is the presumption that safeguards work and that consent, the most important safeguard, prevents death care from slipping into rampant homicide or suicide contagion. Instead, it is turning into the end of medicine. Raikin provides examples of the use of sedation to gain consent for death: In Belgium last year, after a lethal injection failed to kill a 36-year-old woman with terminal cancer, the presiding physician smothered her with a pillow. In New Zealand and Canada, suicidal patients seeking medical care for suicide prevention were prompted to consider assisted suicide instead. In the Netherlands, a similar story of a physician sedating her patient into accepting euthanasia led to the first criminal trial of a euthanasia physician. She was acquitted. The judges said, “We believe that given the deeply demented condition of the patient the doctor did not need to verify her wish for euthanasia,” even though the patient repeatedly attempted to fight off her physician." Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Euthanasia Prevention Coalition: Canada: How Death Care is pushing out Health Care (alexschadenberg.blogspot.com)

"Recently Kathrin Mentler went to the Assessment Centre at Vancouver General Hospital for help as she was experiencing suicidal ideation. While being assessed the counsellor asked her if she had considered Medical Assistance in Dying. Mentler told the media that she was shocked and sickened that she was given recommendations on how to kill herself. A report from the Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying (AMAD) that was tabled in the House of Commons on February 15, 2023 calling for a drastic expansion of (MAiD). The report recommended that "mature minors" and patients with dementia should be permitted to make advanced requests for MAiD by advanced directive. We need you to help slow the growth and normalization of MAiD in Canada. Enough is enough. Death-care for some is not a substitute for healthcare for all." Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Euthanasia Prevention Coalition: Conservative Party of Canada passes Policy 908 opposing expansion of euthanasia (alexschadenberg.blogspot.com)

I will be surprised if they release any records on the Nazis because they lean toward being Nazis themselves with abortion on demand and medical assistance in dying. They have a death culture engrained in their thinking and zero respect for human life. They are an elite inner circle that strictly looks out for themselves. Everything they do is weighed on the number of votes they might get. Never what is right or wrong. This was also evident when they turned away the ship of Jewish refugees from Europe around WW2, yet accepted Nazi war criminals as refugees after the war.

Say no to a culture of death. Never give in, never back down. Do the right thing and defend the sanctity of human life at all stages. No Options, No Choice (nooptionsnochoice.com) Euthanasia Prevention Coalition | Building a broad based network to oppose euthanasia & assisted suicide worldwide. (epcc.ca)

Who wants carbon taxes reduced or killed is a no brainer. If the conservatives stick to this, I am sure they will have a good chance in the next election. That plus PP's plans to help fix the housing crisis. He has announced what sounds like a good plan to start. The Liberals have little to offer but more carbon taxes and I think I heard 300% increase in some particular tax which I can't recall what it was exactly. Maybe someone remembers.

This has nothing much to do with the subject of this thread. You should start another thread on Iraq or whatever if you want to talk about that.

This is appalling that this is going on in Canada. Very tragic.

I am sorry you lost your wife that way. Tragic. But I would not blame God. God does not do that.