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Is America Really Free

Discussion in 'Political Debate & Discussion' started by poncho, Jul 5, 2010.

  1. poncho

    poncho Well-Known Member

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    No wonder this country is in such a mess.

    You seem to equate freedom with your "relative" happiness and bank account.

    Freedom my friend is the absence of government coercion.

    An example. The income tax is unconstitutional, (yes it is) yet you pay it anyway. Do what's right as in resist and you get pain. Do what's wrong as in giving in to thugs using "color of law" you get a refund check.

    Which do you prefer, pain or pleasure? I think we all know the route you follow now. :smilewinkgrin:

    You don't care about the global scam that is the centralized bank and fractional reserve banking because you can still do what you like???

    What about the others? What others? The others that have not been so lucky as you. The ones that had their savings looted by inflation, or the people that lost their pensions or their homes or their property?

    Don't you even care about them? I get angry and upset when anyone is robbed of his labor or property or denied his rights or even his life. So how is it you don't?

    Because you're well off and comfortable, I almost forgot.

    No worries cuz I'm fat and happy!
     
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  2. targus

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    Nope - I equate freedom with making my own choices for my life regardless of what others are doing.

    I don't know what you equate freedom with because there will always be someone out there doing something that you think effects you - so I guess that you will never be free.

    You will never be free of government coercion.

    There will always be a law that you do not like.

    I follow the route of being responsible for my own life and the lives of those that I am charged by God to care for - my family, my neighbors, the poor etc.

    You seem to be following the route of making excuses and whining.

    Not really - there will always be someone attempting to manipulate the money system, the markets, whatever.

    Money is just a tool.

    Why do you have this fantasy that you can control the world money system?

    It is much more profitable to control your own money to benefit yourself and those you are charged to care for by God.

    I have no control over the choices that others make.

    I have no control over inflation, burst market bubbles, the mortgage industry etc.

    I donate a portion of my treasures to those who have less.

    What more do you do than that?


    I just love the silly accusations that get thrown around on this board like the above.

    You know nothing of my personal circustances or what I have done or currently do to care for others.

    You just look silly.

    Still waiting to hear what freedoms you are being denied.
     
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  3. ReformedBaptist

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    So, there are many in America, Bible-believers, who would to God see a constitutional government re-established. What is the work we can do to effect that? Vote? Let's see, I have choice of socialist #1 and socialist #2.

    That's not gonna work.

    More importantly, what is the biblical answer to a people living under an empire? Where is the new world that our generation can go to? Maybe the North Pole.

    And why are we oppressed in this country? Why am I taxed forcibly and my money stolen through inflation (which is not real money anyway) or my property robbed from me by taxation?

    Friends, I was born in 1973. I was born into this system. I didn't choose it or create it.

    Whenever Israel had sinned against the Lord, and turned aside to other gods, the Lord raised up oppressors who ruled over them and robbed them of their liberty and property. When they repented and turned back to the Lord, then the Lord heard from heaven and delivered them.

    I would like to see this repentance among God's people. A solem assembly, earnest prayers, hunger for the Word of God and prayers. And a spirit of evangelism setting men's tongues on fire.

    Why is this happening in America? Isn't it obvious? This nation does not have the Lord Jesus. The only thing that seems to lack is for the nation's leaders to call upon false gods.

    As Christians soujourning in America, we live in a nation not much unlike the Roman Empire. We have our Ceaser, and we pay him tribute. But let us act as Christians in the midst of a perverse generation.
     
  4. Ed Edwards

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    Look on the back of a US $1 Bill. Find the words under the bottom of the pyramid: NOVUS ORDO SECLORUM. What does that Latin mean?
    NOVUS - word from which we get the English word "new", and it means "new"
    (Latin endings mean a lot of thinks about the structure of the sentence or phrase. I do not know much about that.)
    ORDO - word from which we get the english word "order" meaning "the way things happen or are arranged" in other word "order"
    SECLORUM - word from which we get the English word 'SECULAR" which is the oposite of the clergy and hense "of the world"

    NOVUS ORDO SECLORUM
    means
    NEW WORLD ORDER

    (some say somehow 'seclorum' means "of the ages", but I thing my translation is more telling.) Remember the front says FEDERAL RESERVE NOTE, which the $1 is. I can use it in the USA as "legal Tender for all debts public and private".
    According to scripture to whom must I render this $1 bill?
    Not George Washington, he is dead.
    IMHO (in my humble opinion), I should render it unto it's owner:
    the New World Order (NWO). But hey, I betcha I will drop it in the plate Sunday Morning :)
     
  5. billwald

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    >Freedom my friend is the absence of government coercion.

    Web definitions for coercion
    the act of compelling by force of authority
    wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

    Far as I can tell, the word infers being forced to do something, do something in an active sense, and not in the sense of refraining from doing something.

    So, what is the government forcing you all to do? You don't want to pay your taxes? OK, don't pay them.

    There is always an up side and a down side for doing and for not doing. That's life! Not liking the down side of you choice is not the the same as being forced to choose. No one can MAKE
    you do anything.
     
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    What an absolutely sane post. I agree.
     
  7. targus

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    Novus ordo seclorun means" New Order of the Ages"

    http://www.greatseal.com/mottoes/seclorum.html

    Novus ordo seclorum is the Latin motto suggested in 1782 by Charles Thomson, the Founding Father chosen by Continental Congress to come up with the final design for the Great Seal of the United States.

    On June 20, 1782, Congress approved Thomson's design for both sides of the Great Seal whose official description for the reverse side specifies:

    "On the base of the pyramid the numerical letters MDCCLXXVI
    & underneath the following motto. 'novus ordo seclorum'."

    Although Thomson did not provide an exact translation of the motto, he explained its meaning in conjunction with the date 1776 on the foundation of the pyramid:

    "The date underneath is that of the Declaration of Independence and the words under it signify the beginning of the new American Era, which commences from that date."
     
  8. ReformedBaptist

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    This is an insane post, imo.
     
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    Please explain why #28 is an insane post.
     
  10. poncho

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    For one thing today's citizens don't need to be coerced all that much.

    Today's citizens like Pavlov's dogs are conditioned to obey the state and all the little tin pot globalist minnions that hate and fear the idea of individual freedom that make it up.

    Today's citizens have to be the most dumbed down drugged up misguided submissive generation ever.

    But what can we expect from a school system that has been turned into a big (global) government indoctrination center. With UNESCO doing the indoctrinating?

    Explain it to me how our minds are free when the United Nations are in charge of indocrinating our youth? Conditioning them to be good global citizens instead of good American citizens. Is America free? No most certainly it is not.
     
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    Still waiting for that list of freedoms that you are being denied.
     
  12. poncho

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    Even though your choices are limited. When you vote you are given a choice between globalist number 1 and globalist number 2. Again which do you prefer, a left wing NWO or a right wing NWO?

    Probably not. The closest we'll come to being free on this earth is having a limited constitutional government. And we'll never have that again so long as people like you keep believing you are powerless in the face of a corupt government.


    No kidding.

    More than likely.

    You have no duty to your country?


    There it is I knew if you kept typeing long enough you'd expose your true feelings. There is always going to be people trying to ripp us off, this all the reason you need (evidently) to keep letting them do it!

    It's also a weapon in the right hands. Say for instance an unelected parasitical elite that controls a global fiat money system.

    Probably for the same reason our founding fathers did. Why are you so set against holding crooks accountable for their actions against you and your kin?

    Don't you love your family enough to want to protect them from common parasites?

    It would be one thing if we were talking about sound money system here but we are not. We are talking about fiat money system that can easily be manipulated to benefit a handful at the expence of many. I'm starting to suspect that you may be an apologist for these unelected parasites.

    You are begining to sound like it.


    I view this as a good thing because from the sounds of it we'd all be obediently bowing at the alter of the fiat financiers if you did.

    You might if you joined the fight against the unelected parasitical elite who control the fiat money system instead of making excuses for them and their crimes.

    Think of how much more you could donate if we had a constitional government and sound monetary system. One in which you weren't forced to pay a tax you do not owe on the thin air our government borrowed from a private banking cartel at interest.

    I try to educate people about the fiat money system that's set up to rob us blind and "leave us homeless in the land our fathers conquered".


    Yeah me too.

    Uh, you just told me of your personal circustances. So, yes I do know.

    Of course I do to you. I believe in individualism, a constitutional government and a sound money system. One that cannot be manipulated by a handful of jokers in expensives suits. You believe in making excuses and letting crooks get get away with their crimes against us. I also believe in state's rights. You seem to believe it's all about you and your relative freedom to make choices between those you are allowed to choose from.

    So, of course I look silly to you.

    Why are you still waiting to hear from me what you as an informed citizen of these United States should already know? How is it you do not?

    Now you're the one looking silly :smilewinkgrin:
     
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    Poncho, still waiting for that list of freedoms that you are being denied.
     
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    The trees must be blocking your view of the forrest then. I'm still waiting for you to tell me why you seem so bent on protecting common thieves.
     
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    You are talking in generalities and platitudes.

    I don't think that you are able to give three simple freedoms that you are being denied.
     
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    I am free because of Jesus Christ. Man cannot take that away.
     
  17. poncho

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    You know it is kind of hard to explain the freedoms we have lost to people that cannot diferentiate between God given rights and government granted privileges.

    You sound alot like one of those people to me.

    So tell me, why should I waste my time trying to explain something you probably wouldn't even understand?

    And instead of this "You are talking in generalities and platitudes."

    Why not reply to my post point by point like I did with your's?
     
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    Yet to hear most folks around here tell it Jesus only freed us from sin so we can unquestioningly obey the commands of anyone that poses as one of our leaders.

    Whether that person has lawful authority over us or not. Most of our leaders today are acting well beyond their lawfull authority by either ignoring the law or subverting it.

    I may be shot or imprisoned for appealing to the higher power (the law) as the bible instructs. Does that make me more or less free than those who obey corupt unlawful leaders?

    Will I get a better seat in heaven if I obey the orders of unlawful leaders like the "men" here tell me I must do to be a "good Christain" or will I get a better seat in heaven if I speak the truth about them and refuse to obey their unlawful orders?
     
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    So your way is to blame others for your inability to articulate.

    And this inspite of the fact that you are an expert in this particular area?

    Why? Because as the expert in this area holding a special knowledge that the rest of us lack you have an obligation to save us from our ignorance.

    Because you started this thread lamenting your lost freedoms - it is your responsibilty to at least tell us what freedoms are being denied to you.

    How can we possibly have a discussion about your lost freedoms if you can't even tell us what they are?

    By the way - good job on the black helicopters. I don't know what you did to get rid of them but whatever it was must have worked because you and your crowd never talk about them anymore.:smilewinkgrin:
     
  20. poncho

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    No, I started a thread that asks the question "is America free". You haven't answered that question. Well I guess you did in a "relative" sort of way letting us all know that you are free to choose from the choices hand picked for you.

    The black helicopters can be seen flying over Smyrna Tennessee about any time of day or night. Come on over and visit some time I'd be more than happy to point them out for you. You can try and take pictures but be careful the police and military don't care much for people being free to photograph them. :smilewinkgrin:

    Apparently someone told them the first amendment doesn't give citizens the right to report on what they are doing in our skies, cities or towns.

    Fat and "relatively" happy cats certainly are complacent cats. Thanx for making that one point so abundantly clear for us! :thumbs:
     
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