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Have You Lived and Worked In a Totalitarian or Authoritarian Regime-Run Country for At Least One Thousand Days?
Baptist Committee of Correspondence | November 14, 2025 | John Leland 1789

Posted on 11/15/2025 3:00:21 PM PST by John Leland 1789

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We are interested in hearing from any Christian individual who has the experience of living and working (or having lived and worked), for 1,000 days or longer, inside of a country governed by a totalitarian or authoritarian system or regime; that governing system/regime being either religious or atheistic.

When we say, totalitarian or authoritarian, we give as examples: communist, National Socialist, authoritarian military junta, Islamic or Mohammedan, or the like. If otherwise, you may describe your own situation, and we may find that it applies.

We hope to form a council or fellowship for educational and informational purposes, and our goal is a minimum of twenty-four (24) persons to form such a council.

PLEASE DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS ON SOCIAL MEDIA.

Please contact:

Baptist Committee of Correspondence
P.O. Box 95
Campbellsburg, IN 47108
baptcommitteeofcorrespondence@gmail.com


TOPICS: Education; Society
KEYWORDS: authoritarian; buddhist; california; catholic; christian; communist; confucian; eu; hindu; islamic; mohammedan; socialist; totalitarian; uk; usa; vanity
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1 posted on 11/15/2025 3:00:21 PM PST by John Leland 1789
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To: John Leland 1789

Does living in Commiefornia count? If so, yes.


2 posted on 11/15/2025 3:01:36 PM PST by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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To: Texas Eagle

Ditto..43 years.


3 posted on 11/15/2025 3:03:11 PM PST by rfp1234 (E Porcibus Unum)
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To: John Leland 1789

Yes. Those girls in NYC are not going to like it.


4 posted on 11/15/2025 3:04:11 PM PST by stanne
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To: rfp1234

Howdy, neighbor. Still a newbie. Only been here for 38 years.


5 posted on 11/15/2025 3:04:36 PM PST by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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To: Texas Eagle

Does America under President Autopen count?


6 posted on 11/15/2025 3:07:14 PM PST by Vigilanteman (The politicized state deschotroys many aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: John Leland 1789
Chile, Venezuela, Tanzania would maybe qualify at least in Dar es Salaam. Moshi was pretty chill.
7 posted on 11/15/2025 3:08:14 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (It's like somebody just put the Constitution up on a wall …. and shot the First Amendment -Mike Rowe)
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To: Vigilanteman

Autopenocracy? Yes.


8 posted on 11/15/2025 3:08:50 PM PST by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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To: John Leland 1789

Yeah, Irish guy, O’Something.


9 posted on 11/15/2025 3:11:54 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (Annnd....TRUMP IS RIGHT AGAIN.)
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To: John Leland 1789

Yep

Lived through Biden and Obama and Bush II creating the DHS and Toilet Security Administration


10 posted on 11/15/2025 3:13:31 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: John Leland 1789
No, but if anyone wonders what it's like, the 2015 Russian TV series The Red Queen (Krasnaya koroleva), available on Amazon Prime, explains it very well.

If anybody knows what it's like, it's the Russians.

https://www.amazon.com/The-Red-Queen/dp/B01GU8D7A0/ref=sr_1_11?crid=2I4S8MD5D0OQM&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.nX2AXUSrOjU1uxxhIstox_InhoGmIi_fDXS5ULhshuoP7vy0u7ZevKZQnTAL6oXwurRvvWR7vTzAE1TuuKJYx379xzN0t83Mq0CjLaFJEResVoAvdDuJ0V7z4EFd1kiGPbiHXj_AvPKtBuDt0ubI-oXS2uMu4ICZJZArmeJfG_Vg2olnnJXZ5d9bV-BsOWs5.s-3nMQymjPe-Hhl2XcIEL_jugrcDMjIYu_p5pDmCMDM&dib_tag=se&keywords=The+Red+Queen&qid=1763047295&s=movies-tv&sprefix=the+red+queen%2Cmovies-tv%2C135&sr=1-11

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5924966/ Post

11 posted on 11/15/2025 3:14:03 PM PST by Savage Beast (When the student is ready, the teacher appears.)
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To: SaxxonWoods; John Leland 1789
"Taking a page from Baptist history, and particularly from John Leland in the late Eighteenth Century, I ask Bible-believing independent Baptist preachers (pastors, evangelists, missionaries, etc.) residing in the Indiana 9th Congressional District to join me in prayer and consideration regarding the formation of a Baptist Committee of Correspondence, for the purpose of presenting an effective Baptist witness to our Representative in the United States Congress, as well as to other elected representatives and assemblies within our Congressional District.'"

Source: Baptist Committee of Correspondence

Looking for Baptist pastors in your neck of the woods? There is a directory..... A Baptist directory. Strange to post your "thing" on this forum.

12 posted on 11/15/2025 3:18:08 PM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: Vigilanteman

Yep.


13 posted on 11/15/2025 3:18:25 PM PST by FreeperCell
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To: John Leland 1789

My mother did under Franco . She lived thru the Spanish Revolution and we arrived here in ‘70. I not only heard enough to understand. .When I worked at the airport and large groups of Chinese tourists would come thru… it was remarkable to see how they didn’t seem capable of thinking for themselves.


14 posted on 11/15/2025 3:20:47 PM PST by HollyB
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To: Vigilanteman

If you were arrested, fired, and/or your business closed during The Covid Years for not wearing your maks, not taking the jibby-jab, questioning the authorities about anything related to Covid-19, enjoying the out of doors, keeping your business open, or doing anything elected officials and annointed specialists could do with impunity that you could not…then I’d say yes, you can send it in for review.


15 posted on 11/15/2025 3:24:07 PM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: HollyB
. . . and large groups of Chinese tourists would come thru… it was remarkable to see how they didn’t seem capable of thinking for themselves.

I've seen that on my visits to Japan . . . up-close and ugly. Rushing elevators, crowding in line and making general arses of themselves. The contrast with the ultra-polite Japanese is like night and day.

16 posted on 11/15/2025 3:32:38 PM PST by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys many aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: John Leland 1789

I don’t know if the covid lockdowns lasted a thousand days but.....


17 posted on 11/15/2025 4:00:17 PM PST by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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To: Texas Eagle

Right. I did not like our trial subscription one bit!


18 posted on 11/15/2025 4:18:13 PM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: John Leland 1789

I was born and grew up in the good old Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR or СССР). All in all, I lived there for 40 years and experienced it personally inside out. They may pig it out in spades in NYC, I’ve eaten my fill. Thanks but no thanks. That’s why I live in Texas. I was not born in Texas but I got here as soon as I could.


19 posted on 11/15/2025 4:23:26 PM PST by Mi-kha-el ((There is no Pravda in Izvestiya and no Izvestiya in Pravda.))
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To: Texas Eagle

Oblast of illannoy here.


20 posted on 11/15/2025 4:42:34 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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