Moonbox

Funny you should say that, given how you're ceaselessly re-arranging the same witless slogans. MSM woke apologist Liberal elites something something...blah blah blah WEF. The funniest thing about it is that you think you're actually saying something substantive. 🤡

and there's my point! 1500 years or whatever after they were written, the Protestants decided that the Deuterocanonical Books didn't "appear" to be divinely inspired...anymore.

Languages and ideas almost never, ever carry over with their full meaning and cultural context. For this reason alone, you'll never get a precise and literal translation from one language to the next. Beyond that, you have numerous books missing from all of the Protestant Bibles, but still included in the Catholic, Orthodox, Coptic Churches etc. Evidently, there was a revision in the Protestant faiths that decided that these books were not actually Divinely inspired, as had been believed for 1000+ years, but these other ones were.

I don't need a "big comeback". Every time you launch into one of these farcical performances telling people how upset you've decided you're making them, everyone can see your fragile ego projecting. If it's always, always you bringing up emotions, hissy fits, butthurt and muffins etc, maybe the problem is you? 🤣

My two sentence responses vs your multi-paragraph performances, but I'm the one making a fuss. There's that stunning lack of self-awareness again. Being elite and elitist aren't the same thing. There's no debate to have about. 🙃

You said he was elitist, which is pretty different than elite. Being elite is good. Being elitist is not. As for who's getting upset, it looks like you're reverting back to your programming and making up what you want to argue against, and how the other poster is feeling. If you want to argue with yourself, go for it. 😄👌

Yep, just a bunch of befuddled apes making loud noises. It doesn't matter what the issue or the topic is, it always goes back to green woke globalist msm-fake news Big Tech something something WEF.

I'm saying that if you believe the Bible was written via Divine Revelation and that everything contained within is infallible, then it's pretty convenient that you also believe that the Church of England was divinely inspired to edit and remove the parts of the Bible they had previously accepted but now disagreed with. It's almost as if human beings were involved in deciding which parts of the Bible they believed, and which they didn't.

Such deep thoughts. You missed a few off your list though. You still need to tick off: -Fascists (or Communists) -Something about the MSM and fake news -Big-Tech (or Big Pharma) Otherwise, that was a passable attempt at conspiracy donkey word-salad. 🤡

You know what other nonsense very few people believe? The idea that the Church of England accepted that the old Bible was written through Divine Revelation, except for the parts that they didn't like! 😆

Where did anyone, anywhere, say he was an average guy? He's one of the most respected financial minds in not just Canada, but the world. Calling that "elitism" is a pretty transparent attempt to frame his competence and success as something nefarious, but this sort of stuff is chicken-soup for the slogan-loving apes. Sounds to me like you're making up what you want to argue against again. 🤷‍♂️

🥱 Tell us more about how the WEF bad-man touched you Zeitgeist. 🤡

Read it. I've also read War and Peace, which was actually a better historical/social commentary that Dickens'. Regardless, a basic knowledge of history prior to 1914 would firmly establish that the world was not "wonderful" prior to 1914.

You're seeing all of this through an enthusiastic fan's eyes. Less of what he's shown us so far, more adult stuff, and you could be right. Doesn't seem like you know much at all. Calling him 'elitist' is a rather weak and meaningless emotional plea. Your claim that he's a tax-and-spend Liberal is also silly and I suspect based on nothing, particularly because he was never in charge of taxation or fiscal spending. That was the responsibility of the man who appointed him, Stephen Harper.

Sorry to say, but I'm not reading your wall of text. The Belief that the Bible was a Divine Revelation is absurd. That counts doubly for the King James Bible you like to reference, which was commissioned by a King who liked to plow other dudes and was necessitated by the lifestyle choices of a previous king who decided that the sanctity of marriage was inconvenient for him. 😆

He's done that off of Justin's brutal losing performance. The ground doesn't get more fertile than this for an opposition leader, so if anything I'd say it's remarkable that Poilievre is still as disliked as he is. I don't think you know much about him, if that's your synopsis.

If Pierre Poilievre behaves as Prime Minister the same way he has so far, Mark Carney would wipe the floor with him in 4 years. If Pierre can tone down his performances and stop clowning for the dumbest common denominator, the Liberals could be in the stinker for a decade. I would agree that no Liberal has a chance in the next election though.

Uh...didn't you start a thread on this exact same topic with the exact same info like...a week or so ago? Did you forget? 🤔

No, I would say starting a thread would be about promoting a new or interesting discussion, rather than using it as your personal venting space. Your need to make sure strangers on the internet know how you feel about the same things over and over again is silly, but keep doing if you insist. Sometimes it's good for a chuckle.

I think I understand what you're trying to say, but they are two separate arguments. Productivity doesn't automatically mean better standards of living for everyone, but if it doesn't then that's a problem of its own, with its own causes and effects. It's almost never a bad thing when your productivity is going up, and almost always a bad thing when it goes down. This is always relatively speaking and in comparison to peer nations as well. Why it matters is because it's a competitive global economy, and the effects of productivity gap aren't felt right away. You could, for example, prop up wages and living standards by lavish government spending for a time, but the long-term consequences could be disastrous. I wouldn't spend too much time on this. Fair warning. 😄

Doesn't hurt me, because I don't believe in Divine Revelation, nor do most thoughtful, intelligent and reasonable human beings. Clinging to that frankly absurd belief (especially as an Anglican) is contradictory to begin with, but the point remains: You believe that if people don't think the same way as you, and believe the same things, then they're going to Hell. As an Evangelical message, that's about as bad as they come, and it's why your Church is dying. 🤷‍♂️ It's not against the rules, but there can be all sorts of things "wrong with it". Starting a thread for the sake of starting a thread doesn't have much value. If all you're here for is to shake your fist at the clouds and rant about whatever is grinding your gears on that day or whatever Twitter told you to get upset about, you're not going to be taken very seriously.

A terrorist is an enemy combatant. Puerile reasoning, and I think you know it. Would Canadians hide, help and support these terrorists? Would they enlist in the mission to destroy America, and would they allow them to take over our government? 🙄

Inflation was/is global. Canada's economic laggardness is a problem we've had for decades, and that Trudeau has managed to make worse. I don't think anyone ever argued that this was a global problem.

No, they absolutely didn't. This is just more of your clueless and revisionist history.

Yes, you are. That's why you start a half dozen threads every week on this forum to rant about all of the things you don't like. He says, obliviously, before immediately contradicting himself: 🤡