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As we are coming up to Easter.
ReplyDeleteI suppose this is the definition of Conservatism if ever there was one.
What IS the Christian view on strike action ?
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/what-is-the-christian-view-on-strike-action/
This is straight out of one of those Scottish Parish Kirks in the 14th Century. When the rich landlord owned everything and funded and built the Church. You thanked the invisible being living in the sky for being a slave.
I did find this very interesting about Knox.
https://www.conter.scot/2023/1/12/knox-was-right/
Hollywood and TV and mainstream history never gives you the full picture. The actual truth is probably buried in propaganda a long time ago. Can you actually believe anything you are told anymore ?
Everybody has an agenda to try and hitch you to a political ideology and shoehorn it into everything. I used to think that these people who when you went into their house and they never had a TV were completely bonkers. Now I believe these people were probably cleverer than the rest of us.
Easter - a weekend of propaganda par excellence ! The cream de le creme of shaping ones mind.
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I want chocolate eggnog for Easter.
ReplyDeleteA strike would be considered a dispute…
ReplyDeletePaul provides the preferred approach in 1 Cor 6
“ 1 Dare any of you, having business with another, be judged before the unjust, and not before the saints?
2 Or are you not aware that the saints shall judge the world? And if the world is being judged by you, are you unworthy of the least tribunals?
3 Are you not aware that we shall be judging messengers, not to mention life's affairs?
4 If indeed, then, you should have tribunals for life's affairs, the contemptible in the ecclesia, these you are seating?
5 To abash you am I saying this. Thus is there not among you one wise man who will be able to adjudicate amidst his brethren,
6 but brother is suing brother, and this before unbelievers!
7 Already, indeed, then, it is absolutely a discomfiture for you that you are having lawsuits among yourselves. Wherefore are you not rather being injured? Wherefore are you not rather being cheated?
8 But you are injuring and cheating, and this to brethren!”
We should establish tribunals and appoint non contemptable fellow believers to staff them…
We are (supposed to be) ideally the judgemental cohort of mankind…
Where “Judgement” means “to set right”…
So you would establish a tribunal to perform a mediation function then appoint only your best people to it…
Figure it out..,
Then get back to work..
But instead we have been infested with and still suffer under Art degree Platonist morons who just want continuous discussion and dialogue…
ReplyDeleteThese people are the “diabolos” in literal form from the Greek scriptures… those who exclusively use the dialogic methodology… the figurative form is the personification “el diabolo” or “the devil!” figure of speech which is typically reified and you have all these people in Christendumb going all around thinking this personification is REAL…
If you thought reification was bad in Art degree macroeconomics you ain’t seen nothing compared to Art degree theology…
In US we have arbitration in pro sports … it works pretty well..
ReplyDeletehttps://www.mlb.com/glossary/transactions/salary-arbitration
“ Players and clubs negotiate over salaries, primarily based on comparable players who have signed contracts in recent seasons. A player's salary can indeed be reduced in arbitration -- with 20 percent being the maximum amount by which a salary can be cut.
If the club and player have not agreed on a salary by a deadline (typically in mid-January), the club and player must exchange salary figures for the upcoming season. After the figures are exchanged, a hearing is scheduled (typically in February). If no one-year or multi-year settlement can be reached by the hearing date, the case is brought before a panel of arbitrators. After hearing arguments from both sides, the panel selects either the salary figure of either the player or the club (but not one in between) as the player's salary for the upcoming season.”
Strikes have become very rare if ever..,