Top 3 choices for 2025

[Just Iron]

What would they be if you had the genie in the bottle.
Stop oil?
End Ukraine/Russia war?
Impeach Donald?
Free the remaining hostages?
End the TV Licence fee?
Win promotion?

Any offers.

[billpuntonsghost]

No wonder so many love a silent Christian.
I would start with an outpouring of the Holy Spirit…but hey,why speak what is in your heart?

[Just Iron]

Thank you. May you and your family have a blessed New Year.

[Siderite]

Some of these are easier said than done. Everyone wants peace in all wars, but it’s a matter of ensuring long lasting peace and justice for those wrongfully caught up. A ceasefire or end to war in Palestine is welcome, but without return of the hostages it’s unlikely. A ceasefire or end to war in Ukraine would be good, but it’s hard to commit to without rewarding the Russian aggressor. Appeasement doesn’t work and will only lead to Russia being emboldened to push for more in years to come, when their army is strengthened (manpower is the main reason they have any gains, which is embarrassing after trying to showcase how professional their army was before), just as they have done previously. NATO membership for Ukraine would be one way to bring forth some compromise if the hard decisions need to be made, but I can’t see that happening with Trump, so it will be more of the same in all likelihood.

[Siderite]

billpuntonsghost wrote:

No wonder so many love a silent Christian.
I would start with an outpouring of the Holy Spirit…but hey,why speak what is in your heart?

I take letting go of personal vendettas isn’t on your New Year’s resolutions.

[Northumbiron]

An end to ALL religions would be my choice.

Iron League Champions.

A decent British summer.

[Just Iron]

Unfortunately you would have to eliminate a huge % of humanity to achieve the first choice, NI. And then declassify atheism and humanism as belief systems. Starts to get complicated. Iron as champs seems more realistic.

[Heath]

Putin on trial for war crimes.
Assad on trial for war crimes.
Netanyahu on trial for war crimes.

[Siderite]

I don’t agree with NI, but atheism as a belief system would be easy to disprove as it isn’t one. Humanism is, but atheism has nothing to it but disbelief. As the adage goes, atheism is as much a belief system as the off screen is a TV channel.

[billpuntonsghost]

..so would you class yourself as an atheist or an agnostic?

[64]

No stop the genocide?

[Heath]

“End the TV Licence fee?”

Stop people banging on about this!

[Northumbiron]

Just Iron wrote:

Unfortunately you would have to eliminate a huge % of humanity to achieve the first choice, NI. And then declassify atheism and humanism as belief systems. Starts to get complicated. Iron as champs seems more realistic.

Atheism is NOT a belief system. The very structure of the word tells you that!

Why would you have to eliminate sections of humanity? Is that what happened in the past? The religions of the Babylonians, Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Norse, Celts, Aztecs, Mayans and countless others are now nothing more than mythology. One day Christianity, Islam and Judaism will follow the same path.

I’d just prefer that it was sooner rather than later.

[Just Iron]

Heath wrote:

“End the TV Licence fee?”

Stop people banging on about this!

So … an end to freedom of speech then. (I’m guessing that you’re a fan of the Beeb.)

[Just Iron]

NI .. no mention of Hinduism, Buddhism, Shinto, Animism, Zoroastrians etc The religious impulse seems pretty deep-seated in humankind and far more widespread than just the Abrahamic religions you mentioned. It’s as if there is some kind of hunger within vast swathes of humanity throughout the generations for connection with a transcendent realm. Even an historic atheistic state like the USSR or a current one like China cannot persuade or coerce its population into completely abandoning religious belief.

[billpuntonsghost]

JOHN 3:8, “The wind blows wherever it pleases.You hear its sound,but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going.So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”
Salvation is all of God.

[Northumbiron]

JI if I had listed all then I’d have been on all night as there’s around 5000 gods worshipped by humanity.

Yet every worshipper believes theirs is real and the others are false. See the problem?

Could it possibly be that all of them are just fictional characters?

[Just Iron]

Could be. Personally I know what I know. I’d stake everything on the truth I’ve experienced in the person of Christ. I know the change he’s brought to my emotions, my perception of the world and the way I relate to others. There’s many different ways to describe reality. That’s reality for me. The one who said ‘I am the way, the truth and the life.’ Not about theories or doctrines .. that’s not life in the Spirit of Jesus. I’d want you, NI … and everyone.. to encounter what I’ve been granted. And you can .. if this messed up bloke can ..then anyone can. Happy New Year.

[Deereyme66]

1. Go to more gigs
2. Spend less time looking at my phone
3. Have less altercations with tossers in the public arena

[Heath]

“So … an end to freedom of speech then”.

Err…no. Just that you have raised the issue before, as has Dorries and many other Tories.

If you want to replace the BBC with multiple pay per view platform subscriptions and do way with a lot of good radio and world service stuff, I question your judgement of value.

I’d rather keep the Beeb and stop the likes of Musk, Trump and Murdoch controlling world media.

[Just Iron]

1. For the zillionth time Heath..I’m not a Tory. 2.I didn’t ‘advocate for it above. Neither do I want to ‘stop oil’ or ‘impeach Donald.’ They were examples to get the ball rolling. I DO think you’ve taken some kind of dislike to me. Looking at parallel posts .
maybe it’s a gift I have.:) Anyhow ..to stop people ‘banging on’ surely must entail taking away their freedom to speak.

[Heath]

1. For the first time, never said you were.
2. Couldn’t give a toss what you think I think, but you might be right.

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