#frustration — Public Fediverse posts

Ah yes, the age-old question: can guitar frets perform mathematical operations? 🎸🤔 Spoiler alert: the only multiplication happening here is the exponential increase in #frustration as you're blocked from accessing the riveting content on this site. 🚫🔒
https://www.charlespetzold.com/blog/2026/09/Can-Guitar-Frets-Perform-Multiplication.html #guitarfrets #mathoperations #accessblocked #hackernews #HackerNews #ngated

Ah yes, the age-old question: can guitar frets perform mathematical operations? 🎸🤔 Spoiler alert: the only multiplication happening here is the exponential increase in #frustration as you're blocked from accessing the riveting content on this site. 🚫🔒
https://www.charlespetzold.com/blog/2026/09/Can-Guitar-Frets-Perform-Multiplication.html #guitarfrets #mathoperations #accessblocked #hackernews #HackerNews #ngated

Ah yes, the age-old question: can guitar frets perform mathematical operations? 🎸🤔 Spoiler alert: the only multiplication happening here is the exponential increase in #frustration as you're blocked from accessing the riveting content on this site. 🚫🔒
https://www.charlespetzold.com/blog/2026/09/Can-Guitar-Frets-Perform-Multiplication.html #guitarfrets #mathoperations #accessblocked #hackernews #HackerNews #ngated

Ah yes, the age-old question: can guitar frets perform mathematical operations? 🎸🤔 Spoiler alert: the only multiplication happening here is the exponential increase in #frustration as you're blocked from accessing the riveting content on this site. 🚫🔒
https://www.charlespetzold.com/blog/2026/09/Can-Guitar-Frets-Perform-Multiplication.html #guitarfrets #mathoperations #accessblocked #hackernews #HackerNews #ngated

Ah yes, the age-old question: can guitar frets perform mathematical operations? 🎸🤔 Spoiler alert: the only multiplication happening here is the exponential increase in #frustration as you're blocked from accessing the riveting content on this site. 🚫🔒
https://www.charlespetzold.com/blog/2026/09/Can-Guitar-Frets-Perform-Multiplication.html #guitarfrets #mathoperations #accessblocked #hackernews #HackerNews #ngated

Brazil plans reciprocal actions following EU’s suspension of Brazilian imports

Brazil’s government and exporters of meat, poultry, eggs, honey, and other an…
#Europe #EU #ABIEC #Agriculture #animalproducts #antibiotics #antimicrobialdrugs #Brazil #Brazilianimports #Competition #EUMercosuragreement #EU'ssuspension #Europeanagribusiness #EuropeanCourtofJustice #EuropeanUnion #frustration #healthinspection #Livestock #LuizInácioLula #RobsonGoncalves #Trade
https://www.europesays.com/europe/130561/

Yesterday, I told @VeroniqueB99 that I did not experience too much frustration in the allotment.

Today, all my tomato plants were dead, the pumpkin and zucchini were infected with severe mildew, and my raspberries and runner beans seem to stop producing. And all that in just four days time.

😤

#moestuin #gardening #allotment #frustration #karma #gemusegarten #potager

Yesterday, I told @VeroniqueB99 that I did not experience too much frustration in the allotment.

Today, all my tomato plants were dead, the pumpkin and zucchini were infected with severe mildew, and my raspberries and runner beans seem to stop producing. And all that in just four days time.

😤

#moestuin #gardening #allotment #frustration #karma #gemusegarten #potager

Yesterday, I told @VeroniqueB99 that I did not experience too much frustration in the allotment.

Today, all my tomato plants were dead, the pumpkin and zucchini were infected with severe mildew, and my raspberries and runner beans seem to stop producing. And all that in just four days time.

😤

#moestuin #gardening #allotment #frustration #karma #gemusegarten #potager

Yesterday, I told @VeroniqueB99 that I did not experience too much frustration in the allotment.

Today, all my tomato plants were dead, the pumpkin and zucchini were infected with severe mildew, and my raspberries and runner beans seem to stop producing. And all that in just four days time.

😤

#moestuin #gardening #allotment #frustration #karma #gemusegarten #potager

[P] Gosh! I wonder why that is, do you think? The hiverarchian inability to parse the concepts of yesterday and tomorrow is why everything's in a sorry state. If they didn't have this problem, they'd be much more neurodivergent. They'd be very patient, introspective, and ruminative, resulting in wise votes. But no, the majority simply has no concept for aught but today, so politics haes to be barmy.

#psychology #actuallyautistic #politics #thelionking #hiverarchiansaredumb #frustration

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[P] Gosh! I wonder why that is, do you think? The hiverarchian inability to parse the concepts of yesterday and tomorrow is why everything's in a sorry state. If they didn't have this problem, they'd be much more neurodivergent. They'd be very patient, introspective, and ruminative, resulting in wise votes. But no, the majority simply has no concept for aught but today, so politics haes to be barmy.

#psychology #actuallyautistic #politics #thelionking #hiverarchiansaredumb #frustration

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[P] Gosh! I wonder why that is, do you think? The hiverarchian inability to parse the concepts of yesterday and tomorrow is why everything's in a sorry state. If they didn't have this problem, they'd be much more neurodivergent. They'd be very patient, introspective, and ruminative, resulting in wise votes. But no, the majority simply has no concept for aught but today, so politics haes to be barmy.

#psychology #actuallyautistic #politics #thelionking #hiverarchiansaredumb #frustration

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[P] I'm sorry if my frustration is all too evident, but when hiverarchians are the majority? It results in clinically insane & unhinged politics. In a neurodivergent world, politicians would debate over policies, and everyone would give them time to enact those politics. The hiverarchy mindset feeds into some incredible idiocy. "Things are always good Today under the right, but bad Today under the left."

#psychology #actuallyautistic #politics #thelionking #hiverarchiansaredumb #frustration

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[P] I'm sorry if my frustration is all too evident, but when hiverarchians are the majority? It results in clinically insane & unhinged politics. In a neurodivergent world, politicians would debate over policies, and everyone would give them time to enact those politics. The hiverarchy mindset feeds into some incredible idiocy. "Things are always good Today under the right, but bad Today under the left."

#psychology #actuallyautistic #politics #thelionking #hiverarchiansaredumb #frustration

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[P] I'm sorry if my frustration is all too evident, but when hiverarchians are the majority? It results in clinically insane & unhinged politics. In a neurodivergent world, politicians would debate over policies, and everyone would give them time to enact those politics. The hiverarchy mindset feeds into some incredible idiocy. "Things are always good Today under the right, but bad Today under the left."

#psychology #actuallyautistic #politics #thelionking #hiverarchiansaredumb #frustration

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[P] For those who might need the help: No, I wasn't claiming that Scar was the most efficient manager of the Pridelands. I was making the point that the deeply flawed and racist first film (I liked the second better, not perfect but a marked improvement) perpetrated the hiverarchian perception. "A new politician means that the world is magically different today! Because yesterday & tomorrow don't exist!"

#psychology #actuallyautistic #politics #thelionking #hiverarchiansaredumb #frustration

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[P] For those who might need the help: No, I wasn't claiming that Scar was the most efficient manager of the Pridelands. I was making the point that the deeply flawed and racist first film (I liked the second better, not perfect but a marked improvement) perpetrated the hiverarchian perception. "A new politician means that the world is magically different today! Because yesterday & tomorrow don't exist!"

#psychology #actuallyautistic #politics #thelionking #hiverarchiansaredumb #frustration

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[P] For those who might need the help: No, I wasn't claiming that Scar was the most efficient manager of the Pridelands. I was making the point that the deeply flawed and racist first film (I liked the second better, not perfect but a marked improvement) perpetrated the hiverarchian perception. "A new politician means that the world is magically different today! Because yesterday & tomorrow don't exist!"

#psychology #actuallyautistic #politics #thelionking #hiverarchiansaredumb #frustration

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[P] The TLK dialogue went as thus:

"Looks like Simba's back to ruin the Pridelands, just like his dad did."
"It was Scar who ruined them!"
"Oh? So, you think that Simba's return caused a mystical, magical renewal, immediately?"
"...yes??"

And this is how hiverarchians think. A new politician immediately changes the world, with magic and wishes! It's very annoying. Autism privilege again, I guess.

#psychology #actuallyautistic #politics #thelionking #hiverarchiansaredumb #frustration

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[P] The TLK dialogue went as thus:

"Looks like Simba's back to ruin the Pridelands, just like his dad did."
"It was Scar who ruined them!"
"Oh? So, you think that Simba's return caused a mystical, magical renewal, immediately?"
"...yes??"

And this is how hiverarchians think. A new politician immediately changes the world, with magic and wishes! It's very annoying. Autism privilege again, I guess.

#psychology #actuallyautistic #politics #thelionking #hiverarchiansaredumb #frustration

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[P] The TLK dialogue went as thus:

"Looks like Simba's back to ruin the Pridelands, just like his dad did."
"It was Scar who ruined them!"
"Oh? So, you think that Simba's return caused a mystical, magical renewal, immediately?"
"...yes??"

And this is how hiverarchians think. A new politician immediately changes the world, with magic and wishes! It's very annoying. Autism privilege again, I guess.

#psychology #actuallyautistic #politics #thelionking #hiverarchiansaredumb #frustration

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[P] I've spoken prior about my issues with the hiverarchian "Because it's what I know!" consensus. An asoect of its obscenity is that hiverarchians have no concept whatsoever for tomorrow or yesterday. I'm reminded of a funny conversation from decades ago about The Lion King, but I'll get to that. What frustrates me is that any new politician today is blamed for every problem created yesterday.

#psychology #actuallyautistic #politics #thelionking #hiverarchiansaredumb #frustration

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[P] I've spoken prior about my issues with the hiverarchian "Because it's what I know!" consensus. An asoect of its obscenity is that hiverarchians have no concept whatsoever for tomorrow or yesterday. I'm reminded of a funny conversation from decades ago about The Lion King, but I'll get to that. What frustrates me is that any new politician today is blamed for every problem created yesterday.

#psychology #actuallyautistic #politics #thelionking #hiverarchiansaredumb #frustration

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[P] I've spoken prior about my issues with the hiverarchian "Because it's what I know!" consensus. An asoect of its obscenity is that hiverarchians have no concept whatsoever for tomorrow or yesterday. I'm reminded of a funny conversation from decades ago about The Lion King, but I'll get to that. What frustrates me is that any new politician today is blamed for every problem created yesterday.

#psychology #actuallyautistic #politics #thelionking #hiverarchiansaredumb #frustration

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[P] I've spoken prior about my issues with the hiverarchian "Because it's what I know!" consensus. An asoect of its obscenity is that hiverarchians have no concept whatsoever for tomorrow or yesterday. I'm reminded of a funny conversation from decades ago about The Lion King, but I'll get to that. What frustrates me is that any new politician today is blamed for every problem created yesterday.

#psychology #actuallyautistic #politics #thelionking #hiverarchiansaredumb #frustration

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[P] I've spoken prior about my issues with the hiverarchian "Because it's what I know!" consensus. An asoect of its obscenity is that hiverarchians have no concept whatsoever for tomorrow or yesterday. I'm reminded of a funny conversation from decades ago about The Lion King, but I'll get to that. What frustrates me is that any new politician today is blamed for every problem created yesterday.

#psychology #actuallyautistic #politics #thelionking #hiverarchiansaredumb #frustration

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🏷️ #Venezuela #Caraballeda #LaGuaira #Earthquakes #Rubble #Residents #Anger #Frustration #RisingDeathToll #CollapsedBuildings

🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w00EWYL5m9g

A quotation from Marcus Aurelius

Tell yourself, when you feel exasperated and out of all patience, that this mortal life endures but a moment; it will not be long before we shall one and all have been laid to rest.
 
[ὅταν λίαν ἀγανακτῇς ἢ καὶ δυσπαθῇς, ἀκαριαῖος ὁ ἀνθρώπειος βίος καὶ μετ᾿ ὀλίγον πάντες ἐξετάθημεν.]

Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 11, ch. 18 (11.18) (AD 161-180) [tr. Staniforth (1964)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/marcus-aureleus/8183…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marcusaurelius #anger #annoyance #brevity #death #frustration #grievance #impatience #indignance #life #lifeisshort #loseyourtemper #mortality #passageoftime #provocation #resentment #upset #vexation #worry

Are Medtronic CGM sensors programmed to die unpredictably early and always when I should be sleeping or am sleeping, and can't put in another till the next day? Usually the evening cause I gotta like work during the day. It's so much fun being forced back to blood tests on a device that is renown for being prone to hypoglycaemic events.

#cgm #insulinpumps #T1diabetes #Medtronic #T1D #bloodtests #medicaltechnology #frustration

Are Medtronic CGM sensors programmed to die unpredictably early and always when I should be sleeping or am sleeping, and can't put in another till the next day? Usually the evening cause I gotta like work during the day. It's so much fun being forced back to blood tests on a device that is renown for being prone to hypoglycaemic events.

#cgm #insulinpumps #T1diabetes #Medtronic #T1D #bloodtests #medicaltechnology #frustration

Are Medtronic CGM sensors programmed to die unpredictably early and always when I should be sleeping or am sleeping, and can't put in another till the next day? Usually the evening cause I gotta like work during the day. It's so much fun being forced back to blood tests on a device that is renown for being prone to hypoglycaemic events.

#cgm #insulinpumps #T1diabetes #Medtronic #T1D #bloodtests #medicaltechnology #frustration

Are Medtronic CGM sensors programmed to die unpredictably early and always when I should be sleeping or am sleeping, and can't put in another till the next day? Usually the evening cause I gotta like work during the day. It's so much fun being forced back to blood tests on a device that is renown for being prone to hypoglycaemic events.

#cgm #insulinpumps #T1diabetes #Medtronic #T1D #bloodtests #medicaltechnology #frustration

Einige Zeichen der Hoffnung

Etwas, das uns vor der Verzweiflung bewahrt

Von Elizabeth Doerr, 25. Februar 2025 Seit dem täglichen Ansturm von #Putschversuchen aus der #Exekutive habe ich immer wieder nach Nachrichten gesucht und dabei die Frage „Was halten republikanische Wähler von Elon Musk?“ eingegeben. Ich konnte mir ehrlich gesagt nicht vorstellen, dass die meisten von ihnen es wollten oder dafür gestimmt haben, dass Elon #Musk und seine jugendlichen #Hacker-#Schläger Zugang zu jedem noch so kleinen Teil unserer persönlichen Daten haben.

Sicher, ich wusste, dass es die unvermeidlichen bedauernden Behauptungen geben würde: „Ich hätte nicht gedacht, dass er [unverschämte Sache XYZ, die #Trump während der Wahl versprochen hat] tatsächlich tun würde, als ich für ihn gestimmt habe.“ Aber ich glaube nicht, dass die meisten von uns Elon Musk als unseren Co-Präsidenten als das gesehen haben, was passieren würde. Also fragte ich mich, ob die Trump-#Wähler dasselbe dachten.

Leider war es in den ersten Wochen schwierig, etwas zu finden, das meine Frage beantwortete. Aber dann, letzte Woche, begannen die #TownHalls. Ich hatte das Gefühl, dass sich letzte Woche etwas geändert hat und die Risse im #Putsch beginnen sich zu zeigen. Und wir sehen es in den Town Halls. Und nicht nur in Versammlungen, die in liberalen Distrikten abgehalten werden, sondern auch in Distrikten, in denen Trump mit zweistelligen Margen gewonnen hat.

Und genau da keimte Hoffnung auf. Mir wurde klar, dass der #Widerstand lebendig und stark ist und vielleicht nicht überall gleich aussieht. An manchen Orten wird es so aussehen, als würde man auf der Straße protestieren, und manchmal wird es eine #Bürgerversammlung sein. An anderen Orten wird es ein stiller Widerstand sein, nicht auf eine E-Mail zu antworten, in der ein R#egierungsmitarbeiter gebeten wird, Elon Musk eine E-Mail mit den Errungenschaften der letzten Woche zu schicken, und in einigen Fällen wird es das Aufhängen einer umgedrehten amerikanischen Flagge an einem Wahrzeichen des Nationalparks sein.

Um euch ein wenig Hoffnung zu geben, hier eine kleine Zusammenfassung dessen, was ich gesehen habe und was mir #Hoffnung gibt, dass der Widerstand an Fahrt gewinnen könnte.

Rathäuser mit Menschen, die von ihren #Gesetzgebern Maßnahmen fordern

Beispiel 1: Am 19. Februar hielt der Abgeordnete Cliff #Bentz in La Grande im Union County im Osten Oregons – dem konservativen 2. Kongressbezirk, in dem bei der letzten Wahl 68 % der Bevölkerung für Trump stimmten – eine Bürgerversammlung ab, bei der die Menschen ihn nicht ungeschoren davonkommen lassen wollten. Das Theater der Eastern #Oregon #University, in dem die Veranstaltung stattfand, war bis auf den letzten Platz gefüllt, und hier ist ein Highlight aus der Geschichte des La Grande Observer:

„Eine deutliche Mehrheit des Publikums drückte #Frustration und Wut über die #Exekutivanordnungen von Präsident Donald Trump, die Entlassung Tausender Bundesangestellter und die Maßnahmen des von Elon Musk geleiteten Ministeriums für #Regierungseffizienz aus.“

Beispiel 2: Der Abgeordnete Rich #McCormick aus #Georgia, dessen Wahlbezirk Trump mit 20 Punkten Vorsprung gewann, wurde letzte Woche in einem Rathaus von der Menge ausgebuht und ausgepfiffen, als er nach Kürzungen bei der #Bundesbelegschaft gefragt wurde. Ihr könnt alles darüber auf CNN nachlesen. Es ist einfach toll, wenn man sieht, wie diese Verrückten angeschrien werden.

Beispiel 3: Der Republikaner Troy #Balderson aus #Ohio (dessen Wahlkreis Trump mit 18 Punkten Vorsprung gewann) sagte, dass die #Kürzungen von Trump „außer Kontrolle geraten“. Er sagte auch: „Der #Kongress muss entscheiden, ob das #Bildungsministerium abgeschafft wird oder nicht. Nicht der #Präsident, nicht Elon Musk. Der Kongress entscheidet.“ Hurra, ein Republikaner im Kongress meldet sich tatsächlich zu Wort! Nun wollen wir mal sehen, ob das auch in Taten umgesetzt wird.

Hier ist ein Überblick von Crooked Media über diese beiden, komplett mit einem Clip, in dem McCormick angeschrien wird:

crookedmedia

Ein Beitrag geteilt von @crookedmedia

Beispiel 4: Die Menschen machen nicht nur Druck auf ihre republikanischen Vertreter, sondern auch auf die #Demokraten. Ich war so wütend, als ich sah, dass die Demokratische #Partei kaum einen winzigen Versuch unternommen hat, und die Leute sind sauer. In NY-20 hielt ein Lehrer mit langjähriger Erfahrung eine leidenschaftliche Rede in einer Stadthalle, in der der Abgeordnete Paul #Tonko ihn aufforderte, wie John #Lewis und Jimmy ##Carter zu denken. „Du solltest verhaftet werden“, sagte dieser Mann, „und ich werde an deiner Seite sein.“ Das ist die Art von Energie, die wir jetzt brauchen, und es ist wunderbar!

agirlhasnopresident

Ein Beitrag geteilt von @agirlhasnopresident

Widerstand von den „Workers From Within“

altnatparkser

Ein Beitrag geteilt von @altnatparkser

Dieses Bild hat mich wirklich zu Tränen gerührt. Ich hatte über unsere öffentlichen Ländereien und die Mitarbeiter des National Park Service und des #ForestService nachgedacht, die entlassen wurden (wie ihr aus dem Beitrag von letzter Woche wisst), und es hat mich emotional berührt, die Geschichten dieser aufrichtigen Menschen zu lesen, die kurzerhand von ihren #Traumjobs gefeuert wurden.

Wenn wir schon vom National Park Service und dem Widerstand von innen sprechen, sollten wir auch die wunderbaren Menschen hinter den Alt National Park Service-Social-Media-Konten erwähnen, die durch ihre #Kommunikationsbemühungen als Anführer des Widerstands fungieren. Ihre Bemühungen geben mir Hoffnung.

Trumps Beliebtheit sinkt bereits nach einem Monat

Trumps #Zustimmungswerte rutschen deutlich in den 40er-Bereich (sie waren ohnehin nie besonders hoch, sondern lagen nur bei etwa 50 %). Die Umfrage von Washington Post-Ipsos ergab, dass die Entlassung von #Regierungsangestellten (39 %), die Schließung von USAID (38 %), die Blockierung der Kommunikation von #Gesundheitsbehörden ohne Zustimmung von Trump-Ernannten (25 %) und die #Begnadigung von Personen, die am 6. Januar wegen #Gewaltverbrechen verurteilt wurden (14 %), zu den unbeliebtesten Maßnahmen der Amerikaner gehören.

Und was Elon betrifft, so betrachteten die meisten Amerikaner (52-28 – fast zwei zu eins) Musks Rolle in der Regierung als „schlechte Sache“. Selbst Republikaner (etwa 37 %) sind zumindest „etwas“ besorgt über Musks Rolle.

Es ist frustrierend, weil wir wussten, dass eine zweite Amtszeit von Trump verheerend wäre, und es macht wütend, dass die Menschen erst nach ihrer Wahl zu dieser Erkenntnis kommen. Aber so ist es nun mal.

Der Lärm zeigt Wirkung

Einige #Entlassungen im Gesundheits- und #Landwirtschaftsministerium wurden rückgängig gemacht, was wahrscheinlich auf politischen Druck des Kongresses zurückzuführen ist. Dies alles geschah, nachdem die Regierung daran erinnert wurde, wie wichtig die Menschen sind, die für die #Sicherheit unserer #Atomanlagen sorgen und zur Verhinderung der #Vogelgrippe beitragen, und sie mussten versuchen, diese Menschen „im Humpty-Dumpty-Stil“ wieder einzustellen, wie ich den Nachrichtensprecher von #NPRs Morning Edition sagen hörte, was mich zum Lachen brachte.

Gestern sagte Trump zu #Regierungsmitarbeitern, sie sollten die E-Mail ignorieren, die Elon Musk ihnen geschickt hatte, um ihre Arbeit zu rechtfertigen. Sie könnten die E-Mail ignorieren. Bröckeln die Burgmauern von Trump und Musk?

Ein Bundesgericht erließ eine einstweilige Verfügung gegen die Anti-#DEI-#Durchführungsverordnungen. Ganz zu schweigen von den #Gerichten, die Verbote der #Staatsbürgerschaft durch Geburt, #Bundeszuschüsse und das Einfrieren von #Darlehen, die Verlegung von #Trans-#Gefangenen und Verbote der geschlechtsangleichenden Behandlung von Minderjährigen blockieren.

All diese Siege fühlen sich so klein und schrittweise an, wenn wir darüber nachdenken, womit wir es zu tun haben. Aber sie sind etwas. Besonders ermutigend finde ich, dass sich Menschen im ganzen Land laut und deutlich zu Wort melden und handeln. Natürlich gibt es Umstände, in denen eine Frau von einem ungenannten „Sicherheitsbeamten“ aus einem Rathaus gezerrt wurde. Aber wir sehen auch, dass republikanische Abgeordnete sich vor ihren Wählern dafür verantworten müssen, dass sie Trump gehorchen.

Das gibt mir Hoffnung, denn der Widerstand wächst.

Möchte ich, dass demokratische #Gesetzgeber radikalere Schritte unternehmen? Auf jeden Fall – was haben sie denn gemacht, außer herumzustehen und einen Typen zu filmen, der ihnen den Weg ins #Bildungsministerium „versperrt“? Aber es gibt Bewegung, und wenn wir von diesen Leuten radikalere Schritte fordern, dann werden sie das vielleicht auch tun.

Mein Punkt ist, dass all diese Momente zusammengenommen groß sind. Es ist eine kollektive Anstrengung, die aus dem ganzen Land kommt. Und so beschissen soziale Medien auch sein mögen, es ist hilfreich zu sehen, wie Menschen mutige Maßnahmen ergreifen, für das einstehen, woran sie glauben, und ihre Gesetzgeber auffordern (und sogar anschreien), das Richtige zu tun. Ihre Handlungen geben mehr Menschen Mut, dasselbe zu tun. Und wenn mehr davon passiert, haben wir eine #Revolution, Leute!

Quelle: Some Signs of Hope - Something to keep us out of despair

Übersetzung [Nicht authorisiert]: Thomas Trueten

#Anarchismus

Asking people to calm down protects privilege – and silences people who are hurting.

Tone policing: https://everydayfeminism.com/2015/12/tone-policing-and-privilege/

#emotionality #frustration #discomfort #tonePolicing #RobotHugs #languagePolice #conversations #debates #blameTheVictim #adultSupremacy #manliness #humor #humour #feminism #empathy #grievability #mentalHealth #school #adultDomination #adultism #maleSupremacy #adults #patriarchy #whiteSupremacy #JKRowling #transGender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #transPhobia #transLaw

The Big conversation Why it matters

Looking at our small community we must remember that it is God Who calls and for what we can offer in our community He takes what we have and makes it go further!

• Church is the place to bring empty lives for God to fill.
• Church is about meeting not just meetings!

In our previous postings we also pointed out that some people may have a wrong opinion about unity and expect all people in a community to say the same and to act the same. But “being one” doesn’t mean “being a clone”. God blesses unity! And we should have and should share our unity in Christ and unity with Christ. All being one in following the teachings of Christ, believing what he says and following up what he asked his followers to do. Not just following a church because it pleases us but because it follows the teachings of the son of God, Jesus Christ, and stays truthful to the Words of God, following God’s Will and willing to share His Gospel. Our union should be in the love for God which should be noticeable for outsiders, being a union of loving people, loving Jehovah God and His son Christ Jesus, Jeshua the Messiah, as lovers of the truth, sharing this love and Good News and spreading unselfish, mutual, unconditional Agape brotherly love and love for all creation under the Covenant of love as beloved disciples and as Bible lovers making a circle of love under the Royal Law of love.

Having different people coming together there should be allowance for every one to have their say. All gathered should have respect for all present and give them the opportunity to share their ideas. Being together it also must be an occasion where public confession, based on a word from God, can take place. This may demand courage to stand up and declare truth, but in a real church of God this should not be a problem because that has to be a place of sharing the love of Christ and working at getting the love of God.

Spending time together to study the Word of God, must do something to those present. Change is inevitable…

except from a vending machine

said Arne Roberts, on October the tenth, at the Big Conversation. For him it is clear what is going to happen to other Bible Students which all came form the same source.

Here’s what will happen to Jehovah’s Witnesses: They will become increasingly like the religious group that influenced Charles Russell: The Christadelphians…

The Christadelphians were once an outspoken, vibrant, edgy “Christian” group who spread their urgent end-times message far and wide. They grew exponentially in the latter half of the nineteenth century, but their heyday is long past. For several decades now they resemble a heavy rusty old steam locomotive that is running out of speed as it lumbers along ill-kept tracks, but still tries to muster the motion needed to take on steep mountain slopes.

The Christadelphians ooze sad irrelevance and faded glory of times well passed. They are an old people’s religion – old people who don’t have the self- and other-awareness to see that they are clinging to a dead dream. The Christadelphians have long since passed their used-by date and the only ones who still ‘practice’ this religion are older individuals who cannot muster the strength to look out their windows at the real world passing them by.

This is the future of Jehovah’s Witnesses, who will not go out with a bang, but who will slowly whimper to an ever slower crawl as the decades pass and the world, in its infinite fascination with religious novelty, will fix its distractable attention on to other more modern belief systems.

For Arne Roberts that is not the end. He asks us to keep in mind that we are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone.

We as followers of Christ should make sure that the Clarion of the Torah may sound. We hearing the sound loudly should make sure that there might be a stimulant for others in our community to become co-workers, helping each other, not working against each other, or not considering each other rivals. As individual beings, planets or stars, we may be totally different, but together we are one part of the universe, just some small elements in the creation of God.

When people just not come to join others because they are part of a small community than that community shall never have any chance of growing. When people keep waiting before willing to join a small community because it does not attract them for it is so small that they shall be noticed, we do have to convince them that they should not hide themselves behind the numbers. It is true that when there is a small church people will be noticed. In a mega church nobody shall notice it when you come in later, slip out earlier, shall fall asleep or shall not be attentional. When we encounter such doubting people who are afraid to join a small church we can ask them

How long to wait before bringing religiousness and spirituality in practice

It is up to us that God is in our life and that we want to share it with them. They should not be afraid to feel having a naked identity it such a small group, because as followers of Christ Jesus we have abandoned our sinful ‘I’ and actually have taken an other identity, no identity of our own apart from our union with Christ. Not that we have no unique personality or value or purpose, but that Christ defines our new life. It is that inseparable connection within Christ as a believer, which unites us and in the love of Christ we found the love for each other and have to show the world that we want to share that love. When we fail to see our true existence in Christ and fail to find our life and, thus, seek it outside of Christ we shall become victim of our own vain pursuit that only leads to frustration and angst in our God-thirsty soul.

We must understand that whatever happens the majority of people will not want to take the divine Creator as their God and lots of people shall prefer to be part of the contemporary world, belonging to it, being in it, and enjoying a worldly philosophy, inventions of men designed to rob you of your inheritance (Col.2:8-10) and as such shall not be so much attracted to the Christadelphian world, which demands a change in their attitude. The friendship with the world is for most people much more important than the friendship with God loving people. Most shall prefer to stay in the Godless world having not to wonder about their own responsibilities.

It is up to the lovers of God to show the others the light of the world and that no one should worry to much about living in this world. When people could come to know that New world better they might think twice and be prepared easier to leave the Old world for what it is, looking forward to a better and perfect world. We understand it is not easy for man to get away with the worldly traditions, so this shall always be some of the obstacles to join or to stay in our community. But people should not be afraid that they cannot take part in worldly events in a Godless world.  Christadelphians for sure also can enjoy worldly life, having enough time fore worldly pleasures, and not to become frustrated under the yoke of the world.

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Preceding articles:

Counting sands and stars

The Big conversation

The Big conversation follow up

Reasons why you may not miss the opportunity to go to a Small Church

++

Additional reading

1. A call easy to understand
2. Jehovah steep rock and fortress, source of insight
3. How long to wait before bringing religiousness and spirituality in practice
4. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love
5. He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.
6. Many forgot how Christ should be our anchor and our focus
7. The business of this life
8. Church sent into the world
9. Work with joy and pray with love
10. Love for each other attracting others
11. How do you keep people from stealing your joy?
12. Love is like playing the piano
13. Creator and Blogger God 9 A Blog of a Book 3 Blog about Prophecy
14. Not all christians are followers of a Greco-Roman culture
15. Misunderstandings concerning C.T. Russell
16. Looking at older articles series over Russell on the previous Bible-scholar Association
17. Was Russell and Rutherford “Illuminati”?
18. Charles Taze Russell and what he started
19. Jesse Hemery and the The Goshen Fellowship
20. To remove the whitewash of the Jehovah Witnesses as being the only true Bible Students and Bible Researchers
21. Using the name Jehovah but not a witness of that name
22. Different approach in organisation of services #1
23. Different approach in organisation of services #2
24. Different approach in organisation of services #3
25. A man from the North wanting to have control in Belgium
26. Priority to form a loving brotherhood
27. Commitment to Christian unity
28. Parts of the body of Christ
29. Dissolution of Bijbelvorsers (Bible scholars), Association for Bible study
30. Two new encyclopaedic articles
31. Who are the Christadelphians
32. What are Brothers in Christ
33. Discipleship way of life on the narrow way to everlasting life
34. Christadelphian people
35. Christadelphians or Messianic Christians or Messianic Jews
36. About the Belgian Free Christadelphians
37. What Christadelphians teach
38. Small churches of the few Christadelphians
39. Priority to form a loving brotherhood
40. 19° Century London Christadelphians
41. Breathing and growing with no heir
42. Preaching to an unbelieving world
43. Commitment to Christian unity
44.  Parts of the body of Christ
45. What part of the Body am I?
46. The Church, Body of Christ and remnant Israel synonymous
47. United people under Christ
48. Fellowship
49. The Ecclesia
50. The Ecclesia in the churchsystem
51. The ecclesia or Christadelphian church
52. Our relationship with God, Jesus and each other
53. Our ecclesia or Christadelphian-church
54. Intentions of an Ecclesia
55. An ecclesia in your neighbourhood
56. Communion and day of worship
57. Christadelphians today
58. Small churches of the few Christadelphians
59. Harvest in Belgium

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Further readings:

1. I Once Was Blind but Now I See
2. Day 28: Where Are They?
3. Day 28: Where Are They?
4. Cornerstones
5. Narcissist Case Studies – How We Know The Pharisees Were Narcissists, Part 2
6. Jesus The Cornerstone Of The Church
7. Hey You, Cornterstone! (Who???….me?) Yeah, You!
8. God Is Not Human
9. Where to Draw the Line: Culture vs Religion
10. The Cornerstone: The Response of the Church in Violent Times
11. Gospel Doctrine 2015 – Lesson 39 – “For the Perfecting of the Saints”
12. Finding Joy in the Little Things
13. Word Wednesday: Jesus Our Cornerstone
14. The Cornerstone of Your Life
15. Cornerstone
16. Walking With Intentionality
17. What is God’s Will For Your Life?

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Related articles

• Jesus Christ is not REAL to most Christians (finalcall07.wordpress.com)
• Loving the Sinner (heartfixxer.wordpress.com)
• We stand together proudly (chronicle.augusta.com)
• A Perfect Inheritance (birdchirp.wordpress.com)
• Spiritual Growth (faithandfootsteps.wordpress.com)
• “By the Power Invested in Me” (breakawaybylintrollins.wordpress.com)
• Victory (myspiritualbreakfast.com)
• Torah for Today: What does the Torah say about the migrant crisis? (jewishnews.co.uk)
• Slavery (thought.dcwillis.com)
• The differing origins of humankind (iol.co.za)

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The Big conversation Why it matters

Looking at our small community we must remember that it is God Who calls and for what we can offer in our community He takes what we have and makes it go further!

• Church is the place to bring empty lives for God to fill.
• Church is about meeting not just meetings!

In our previous postings we also pointed out that some people may have a wrong opinion about unity and expect all people in a community to say the same and to act the same. But “being one” doesn’t mean “being a clone”. God blesses unity! And we should have and should share our unity in Christ and unity with Christ. All being one in following the teachings of Christ, believing what he says and following up what he asked his followers to do. Not just following a church because it pleases us but because it follows the teachings of the son of God, Jesus Christ, and stays truthful to the Words of God, following God’s Will and willing to share His Gospel. Our union should be in the love for God which should be noticeable for outsiders, being a union of loving people, loving Jehovah God and His son Christ Jesus, Jeshua the Messiah, as lovers of the truth, sharing this love and Good News and spreading unselfish, mutual, unconditional Agape brotherly love and love for all creation under the Covenant of love as beloved disciples and as Bible lovers making a circle of love under the Royal Law of love.

Having different people coming together there should be allowance for every one to have their say. All gathered should have respect for all present and give them the opportunity to share their ideas. Being together it also must be an occasion where public confession, based on a word from God, can take place. This may demand courage to stand up and declare truth, but in a real church of God this should not be a problem because that has to be a place of sharing the love of Christ and working at getting the love of God.

Spending time together to study the Word of God, must do something to those present. Change is inevitable…

except from a vending machine

said Arne Roberts, on October the tenth, at the Big Conversation. For him it is clear what is going to happen to other Bible Students which all came form the same source.

Here’s what will happen to Jehovah’s Witnesses: They will become increasingly like the religious group that influenced Charles Russell: The Christadelphians…

The Christadelphians were once an outspoken, vibrant, edgy “Christian” group who spread their urgent end-times message far and wide. They grew exponentially in the latter half of the nineteenth century, but their heyday is long past. For several decades now they resemble a heavy rusty old steam locomotive that is running out of speed as it lumbers along ill-kept tracks, but still tries to muster the motion needed to take on steep mountain slopes.

The Christadelphians ooze sad irrelevance and faded glory of times well passed. They are an old people’s religion – old people who don’t have the self- and other-awareness to see that they are clinging to a dead dream. The Christadelphians have long since passed their used-by date and the only ones who still ‘practice’ this religion are older individuals who cannot muster the strength to look out their windows at the real world passing them by.

This is the future of Jehovah’s Witnesses, who will not go out with a bang, but who will slowly whimper to an ever slower crawl as the decades pass and the world, in its infinite fascination with religious novelty, will fix its distractable attention on to other more modern belief systems.

For Arne Roberts that is not the end. He asks us to keep in mind that we are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone.

We as followers of Christ should make sure that the Clarion of the Torah may sound. We hearing the sound loudly should make sure that there might be a stimulant for others in our community to become co-workers, helping each other, not working against each other, or not considering each other rivals. As individual beings, planets or stars, we may be totally different, but together we are one part of the universe, just some small elements in the creation of God.

When people just not come to join others because they are part of a small community than that community shall never have any chance of growing. When people keep waiting before willing to join a small community because it does not attract them for it is so small that they shall be noticed, we do have to convince them that they should not hide themselves behind the numbers. It is true that when there is a small church people will be noticed. In a mega church nobody shall notice it when you come in later, slip out earlier, shall fall asleep or shall not be attentional. When we encounter such doubting people who are afraid to join a small church we can ask them

How long to wait before bringing religiousness and spirituality in practice

It is up to us that God is in our life and that we want to share it with them. They should not be afraid to feel having a naked identity it such a small group, because as followers of Christ Jesus we have abandoned our sinful ‘I’ and actually have taken an other identity, no identity of our own apart from our union with Christ. Not that we have no unique personality or value or purpose, but that Christ defines our new life. It is that inseparable connection within Christ as a believer, which unites us and in the love of Christ we found the love for each other and have to show the world that we want to share that love. When we fail to see our true existence in Christ and fail to find our life and, thus, seek it outside of Christ we shall become victim of our own vain pursuit that only leads to frustration and angst in our God-thirsty soul.

We must understand that whatever happens the majority of people will not want to take the divine Creator as their God and lots of people shall prefer to be part of the contemporary world, belonging to it, being in it, and enjoying a worldly philosophy, inventions of men designed to rob you of your inheritance (Col.2:8-10) and as such shall not be so much attracted to the Christadelphian world, which demands a change in their attitude. The friendship with the world is for most people much more important than the friendship with God loving people. Most shall prefer to stay in the Godless world having not to wonder about their own responsibilities.

It is up to the lovers of God to show the others the light of the world and that no one should worry to much about living in this world. When people could come to know that New world better they might think twice and be prepared easier to leave the Old world for what it is, looking forward to a better and perfect world. We understand it is not easy for man to get away with the worldly traditions, so this shall always be some of the obstacles to join or to stay in our community. But people should not be afraid that they cannot take part in worldly events in a Godless world.  Christadelphians for sure also can enjoy worldly life, having enough time fore worldly pleasures, and not to become frustrated under the yoke of the world.

+

Preceding articles:

Counting sands and stars

The Big conversation

The Big conversation follow up

Reasons why you may not miss the opportunity to go to a Small Church

++

Additional reading

1. A call easy to understand
2. Jehovah steep rock and fortress, source of insight
3. How long to wait before bringing religiousness and spirituality in practice
4. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love
5. He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.
6. Many forgot how Christ should be our anchor and our focus
7. The business of this life
8. Church sent into the world
9. Work with joy and pray with love
10. Love for each other attracting others
11. How do you keep people from stealing your joy?
12. Love is like playing the piano
13. Creator and Blogger God 9 A Blog of a Book 3 Blog about Prophecy
14. Not all christians are followers of a Greco-Roman culture
15. Misunderstandings concerning C.T. Russell
16. Looking at older articles series over Russell on the previous Bible-scholar Association
17. Was Russell and Rutherford “Illuminati”?
18. Charles Taze Russell and what he started
19. Jesse Hemery and the The Goshen Fellowship
20. To remove the whitewash of the Jehovah Witnesses as being the only true Bible Students and Bible Researchers
21. Using the name Jehovah but not a witness of that name
22. Different approach in organisation of services #1
23. Different approach in organisation of services #2
24. Different approach in organisation of services #3
25. A man from the North wanting to have control in Belgium
26. Priority to form a loving brotherhood
27. Commitment to Christian unity
28. Parts of the body of Christ
29. Dissolution of Bijbelvorsers (Bible scholars), Association for Bible study
30. Two new encyclopaedic articles
31. Who are the Christadelphians
32. What are Brothers in Christ
33. Discipleship way of life on the narrow way to everlasting life
34. Christadelphian people
35. Christadelphians or Messianic Christians or Messianic Jews
36. About the Belgian Free Christadelphians
37. What Christadelphians teach
38. Small churches of the few Christadelphians
39. Priority to form a loving brotherhood
40. 19° Century London Christadelphians
41. Breathing and growing with no heir
42. Preaching to an unbelieving world
43. Commitment to Christian unity
44.  Parts of the body of Christ
45. What part of the Body am I?
46. The Church, Body of Christ and remnant Israel synonymous
47. United people under Christ
48. Fellowship
49. The Ecclesia
50. The Ecclesia in the churchsystem
51. The ecclesia or Christadelphian church
52. Our relationship with God, Jesus and each other
53. Our ecclesia or Christadelphian-church
54. Intentions of an Ecclesia
55. An ecclesia in your neighbourhood
56. Communion and day of worship
57. Christadelphians today
58. Small churches of the few Christadelphians
59. Harvest in Belgium

+++

Further readings:

1. I Once Was Blind but Now I See
2. Day 28: Where Are They?
3. Day 28: Where Are They?
4. Cornerstones
5. Narcissist Case Studies – How We Know The Pharisees Were Narcissists, Part 2
6. Jesus The Cornerstone Of The Church
7. Hey You, Cornterstone! (Who???….me?) Yeah, You!
8. God Is Not Human
9. Where to Draw the Line: Culture vs Religion
10. The Cornerstone: The Response of the Church in Violent Times
11. Gospel Doctrine 2015 – Lesson 39 – “For the Perfecting of the Saints”
12. Finding Joy in the Little Things
13. Word Wednesday: Jesus Our Cornerstone
14. The Cornerstone of Your Life
15. Cornerstone
16. Walking With Intentionality
17. What is God’s Will For Your Life?

+++

Related articles

• Jesus Christ is not REAL to most Christians (finalcall07.wordpress.com)
• Loving the Sinner (heartfixxer.wordpress.com)
• We stand together proudly (chronicle.augusta.com)
• A Perfect Inheritance (birdchirp.wordpress.com)
• Spiritual Growth (faithandfootsteps.wordpress.com)
• “By the Power Invested in Me” (breakawaybylintrollins.wordpress.com)
• Victory (myspiritualbreakfast.com)
• Torah for Today: What does the Torah say about the migrant crisis? (jewishnews.co.uk)
• Slavery (thought.dcwillis.com)
• The differing origins of humankind (iol.co.za)

Rate this:

#19Century #Agape #ArneRoberts #BeingOfTheWorld #BibleStudents #BrotherlyLove #CharlesRussell #ChristadelphianCommunity #ChristadelphianWorld #Confession #Cornerstone #Courage #FellowCitizens #FollowersOfChrist #FollowingAChurch #FollowingChrist #FollowingJesusChrist #FollowingTheSon #FollowingWordOfGod #FriendOfTheWorld #Frustration #Gathering #GodCalling #GodlessWorld #HouseholdOfGod #JehovahWitnesses #JehovahSWitnesses #LightOfTheWorld #LivingInThisWorld #LoveForChrist #LoveForCreation #LoveOfChrist #MegaChurch #ModernBeliefSystems #Respect #RespectForEachother #Share #SmallChurch #SmallCommunity #Stimulant #toGather #TorahSClarionCall #Union #UnionWithChristJesus #UnionWithGod #Unity #UnityInChrist #UnityWithChrist #WordOfGod #WorldlyLife #WorldlyTraditions