That's exactly what I hear. "We can end the cancer as we know it." At least he's an optimist. If that were Trump it would be, "We had the greatest cancers, they were great cancers, I mean, I ended all the cancers, it was beautiful what I did, to end these cancers..."
Here's an example chosen especially for you. Joe appears to be reading from a script and thanks the "Prime Minister" of Colombia -- at an ASEAN summit meeting* in Cambodia! *As far as I know, the President of Colombia was not involved in the summit.
Yep, he does that. So you think it's the devil has him or just stereotypical old age stuff? Colombia mixed up with Cambodia? Shocker, but he still said Prime Minister as Cambodia has that. While on the subject, do the 80 percent of Amercians visiting Colombia but spell it Columbia also have catastrophic brain decline.. Rhetorical. I've always said I believe that presidents should at a minimum pass the same physical and psych test commercial airline pilots must. This is however not the system and there is nothing really going on with Joe beyond a speech impediment and getting on as much as Fox and Fiends want to convince everybody. I've spent over 30 years volunteering in hospices. I've seen a lot of elderly people in various states of decline and Joe is not bad for a man his age. I have known a lot of people who had multiple strokes and really recovered remarkably. For good or ill to society, driven ambitious people use it and don't lose it so much as average. One must always take into account that he was a gaffer 20+ years ago unless you want to deceive yourself and others... That's the Devil's job
Do you believe in angels? About 7 in 10 U.S. adults do, a new AP-NORC poll shows By HOLLY MEYER July 30, 2023 https://apnews.com/article/religion-poll-belief-angels-devil-bee64258d6a47067a046ba7f3c50933a Compared with the devil, angels carry more credence in America. Angels even get more credence than, well, hell. More than astrology, reincarnation, and the belief that physical things can have spiritual energies. In fact, about 7 in 10 U.S. adults say they believe in angels, according to a new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. “People are yearning for something greater than themselves — beyond their own understanding,” said Jack Grogger, a chaplain for the Los Angeles Angels and a longtime Southern California fire captain who has aided many people in their gravest moments. That search for something bigger, he said, can take on many forms, from following a religion to crafting a self-driven purpose to believing in, of course, angels. “For a lot of people, angels are a lot safer to worship,” said Grogger, who also pastors a nondenominational church in Orange, California, and is a chaplain for the NHL’s Anaheim Ducks. People turn to angels for comfort, he said. They are familiar, regularly showing up in pop culture as well as in the Bible. Comparably, worshipping Jesus is far more involved; when Grogger preaches about angels it is with the context that they are part of God’s kingdom. American’s belief in angels (69%) is about on par with belief in heaven and the power of prayer, but bested by belief in God or a higher power (79%). Fewer U.S. adults believe in the devil or Satan (56%), astrology (34%), reincarnation (34%), and that physical things can have spiritual energies, such as plants, rivers or crystals (42%). The widespread acceptance of angels shown in the AP-NORC poll makes sense to Susan Garrett, an angel expert and New Testament professor at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Kentucky. It tracks with historical surveys, she said, adding that the U.S. remains a faith-filled country even as more Americans reject organized religion. But if the devil is in the details, so are people’s understandings of angels. “They’re very malleable,” Garrett said of angels. “You can have any one of a number of quite different worldviews in terms of your understanding of how the cosmos is arranged, whether there’s spirit beings, whether there’s life after death, whether there’s a God … and still find a place for angels in that worldview.” Talk of angels, Garrett said, is often also about something else, like the ways God interacts with the world and other hard-to-articulate ideas. The large number of U.S. adults who say they believe in angels includes 84% of those with a religious affiliation — 94% of evangelical Protestants, 81% of mainline Protestants and 82% of Catholics — and 33% of those without one. And of those angel-believing religiously unaffiliated, that includes 2% of atheists, 25% of agnostics and 50% of those identified as “nothing in particular.” The broad acceptance is what fascinates San Francisco-based witch and author Devin Hunter: Angels show up independently in different religions and traditions, making them part of the fabric that unites humanity. “We’re all getting to the same conclusion,” said Hunter, who spent 16 years as a professional medium, and started communicating as a child with what he believed were angels. Hunter estimates that a belief in angels applies to about half of those practicing modern witchcraft today, and for some who don’t believe, their rejection is often rooted in the religious trauma they experienced growing up. “Angels become a very big deal” for long-time practitioners who’ve made occultism their primary focus, said Hunter, an angel-loving occultist. “We cannot escape them in any way, shape or form.” Jennifer Goodwin of Oviedo, Florida, also is among the roughly seven in 10 U.S. adults who say they believe in angels. She isn’t sure if God exists and rejects the afterlife dichotomy of heaven and hell, but the recent deaths of her parents solidified her views on these celestial beings. Goodwin believes her parents are still keeping an eye on the family — not in any physical way or as a supernatural apparition, but that they manifest in those moments when she feels a general sense of comfort. “I think that they are around us, but it’s in a way that we can’t understand,” Goodwin said. “I don’t know what else to call it except an angel.” Angels mean different things to different people, and the idea of loved ones becoming heavenly angels after death is neither an unusual belief nor a universally held one. In his reading of Scripture as an evangelical Protestant, Grogger said he believes angels are something else entirely — they have never been human and are on another level in heaven’s hierarchy. “We are higher than angels,” he said. “We do not become an angel.” Angels do interact with humans though, said Grogger, but what “that looks like we’re not 100% sure.” They worship God who created this angelic legion of unknown numbers, he said, adding that evangelicals often attribute the demonic forces in the world to the angels who fell from heaven when the devil rebelled. The Western ideas about angels can be traced through the Bible — and to the worldviews of its monotheistic authors, Garrett said. Those beliefs have changed and developed for millennia, influenced by cultures, theologians and even the ancient polytheistic beliefs that came before the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, she said. “There are sort of lines of continuity from the Bible that you can trace all the way up to the New Age movement,” said Susan Garrett, who wrote “No Ordinary Angel: Celestial Spirits and Christian Claims about Jesus.” The angels in the Bible do God’s bidding, and angelic violence is one part of their job description, said Esther Hamori, author of the upcoming book, “God’s Monsters: Vengeful Spirits, Deadly Angels, Hybrid Creatures, and Divine Hitmen of the Bible.” “The angels of the Bible are just as likely to assassinate individuals and slaughter entire populations as they are to offer help and protect and deliver,” said Hamori. She doesn’t believe in these angels, but studies them as a Hebrew Bible professor at Union Theological Seminary in New York where she teaches a popular “Monster Heaven” class. “They’re just God’s obedient soldiers doing the task at hand, and sometimes that task is in human beings’ best interests, and sometimes it’s not,” she said. The perception that angels act angelic and look like the idyllic, winged figurines atop Christmas trees could be attributed to an early centuries belief that people are assigned one good angel and one bad — or have a good and bad spirit to guide them, Garrett said. This idea shows up on the shoulders of cartoon characters and is likely what Abraham Lincoln was alluding to in his famous appeal for unity when he referenced “the better angels of our nature” in his first inaugural address, she said. “It’s also tied in with ideas about guardian angels, which again, very ancient views that got developed over the centuries,” Garrett said. For Sheila Avery of Chicago, angels are protectors, capable of keeping someone from harm. Avery, who belongs to a nondenominational church, credits them with those moments like when a person’s plans fall through, but ultimately it saves them from being in the thick of an unexpected disaster. “They turn on the news and a terrible tragedy happened at that particular place,” Avery said, suggesting it was an “angel that was probably watching over them.”
In my opinion, Mr. Biden has too many "senior moments" to be a good fit for President of the U.S., as does his current chief rival. Regarding the spelling you mentioned, it's easier to get into Colombia than Columbia.
I'm not so sure, took years to get residency here. Not to mention I had to do a lot of fancy trust corporation stuff to protect me millions.. But the wife's family are here.. She is happiest here. Yep he is old, too old but you saw what happens when a much younger president tried to take the tiny hands sized driving wheel before, 1.3 million died and he crashed the economy. I'm of the belief having seen in my long career with rich private companies that management holidays can result in remarkable outbursts of productivity. You hire good people and they make you money. The mechanism of government is a big old thing, it operates autonomously and often does better without anybody messing with it. I honestly believe that even an empty chair is perfectly OK for long stretches. Joe is an ambitious guy, took a long road too but he is not a danger who if the dementia does kick in hard will kill us all. He would leave.
All christians think they are exclusively saved, chosen, special, so much so, many christians even believe that their particular denomination is saved while other christian denominations are deluded. What religion offers to humanity is assurance or reassurance that they'll be ok. For example, soldiers at war get this feeling of empowerment or peace when their priest prays and blesses them on the battlefield. But such assurance is not restricted just to christians, all religions, muslim, hindu, budhist, you name it, all can tap into a feeling of security that something higher than themselves is watching over them. Are these beliefs a myth or delusional? Who knows. God, if there is a God and whatever form this God might be, is bigger than us that we can understand the workings of the spiritual. Or maybe God is in everything, us, them, every rock, tree and creature. Its not bigger than us, it is us.
Since you are so anti, I will chock this statement up to ignorance. I also suppose this thread, and posting and thought line, give you whatever assurance you need to make you feel better and superior to any that claim any type of religion in their lives.