Back when I was a residential electrician. I used to drill out all the houses on my crew. Every damn hole that needed drilled for a wire to go through it. Almost every single stud. Tons of top plates, and of course all the holes that used to go above the panels. Through the concrete foundations, sometimes up to two feet thick.
But it was my job to drill. I took that job and I didn't let up on it, I assumed many other responsibilities along the way, but I always wanted to drill the houses out.
Everybody else didn't like drilling out. Because it was hard. And dirty. And usually ended up with being covered in wood chips galore, EVERYWHERE.
If you weren't careful, that corded half-inch electric hole-hawg would rip your arm off if you hit a nail or knot...
But I loved it.
Why am I writing about drilling holes in houses?
Because, this post reminded me of it.
Drilling out those houses was it. I don't care who else ran the wires through the holes, I drilled those holes. I paved the way. You didn't get from A to B without me. And damn was I good at drilling the corners of rooms while not ruining the structural integrity.... Whewwww... Yeah!!!
If you were running wire and complaining about how much you pulled??? I had already been and gone where you were, I had already made your way easy for you. That was what was up. Made me feel great! I was leading in a sense.
But not only that, doing that hard work, made me physically strong. I chewed nails for breakfast. Seriously, when I hit a nail with that 7/8 inch auger bit, I braced for impact and pushed harder, because I wanted that spot. Usually top plates or under windows. But either way, I got stronger.
Each hole I drilled made my body that much stronger and added to my endurance.
This is how I feel about the plight of an Anon.
Working not because it is your job, but because you are driven to make good work. Grinding when normalfags would give up or take a break. Blazing new trails for others to follow. And making the way easier for those following behind you.
I love this place, so much from here has affected real people in my life, and has opened so many eyes.
To all the anons who read this very long response, hats off!! You might not see the fruits of your labors right away, but they are far reaching and appreciated!!!
“Everyone who breathes, high and low, educated and ignorant, young and old, man and woman, has a mission, has a work. We are not sent into this world for nothing; we are not born at random; we are not here, that we may go to bed at night, and get up in the morning, toil for our bread, eat and drink, laugh and joke, sin when we have a mind, and reform when we are tired of sinning, rear a family and die. God sees every one of us; He creates every soul, . . . for a purpose. He needs, He deigns to need, every one of us. He has an end for each of us; we are all equal in His sight, and we are placed in our different ranks and stations, not to get what we can out of them for ourselves, but to labor in them for Him. As Christ has His work, we too have ours; as He rejoiced to do His work, we must rejoice in ours also.”—John Henry Cardinal Newman, "God's Will the End of Life," from Discourses Addressed to Mixed Congregations (1849)
Look anons, if you've been through a tough few years, and feel like you're barely hanging on, just keep hanging on. I've been awake since the 90s. Nothing phases me anymore, and i hope the world is fully awakened soon, but i've done too much datefagging in my life to do it anymore now.
When I was in college, a girl in my general orbit (friends, friends of friends, acquaintances, classmates, etc.) was “getting mugged” every week. She lived a commuter train ride away in a dicey area, so it was plausible, but after the third time, I said to myself that some guy in her life (boyfriend? father? brother?) was beating her up. It continued. I expressed my beliefs to some people in my circle. I was instantly and universally shot down, ridiculed, and scorned for having this belief. I shrugged my shoulders and kept my mouth shut. This girl kept showing up to school with black eyes, her arm in a cast, etc. Everyone bemoaned her terrible luck, asked her to try to get home during daylight hours, etc. Me: hmmm....that won’t make any difference. Eventually, she disappeared. A year went by, and she reappeared. She spilled the story that her boyfriend had been pummeling her. She fled after a particularly brutal beating and had to go into hiding. When she felt safe enough she registered for school again and was no longer keeping secrets. Reaction of the crowd: OMG can you believe it????? Me: WTF. Do you think anyone said something along the lines of “you were right all along!” to me? Nope. No one did. I could see it, plain as day. No one else, nobody, could see what was right in front of them. I think about that a lot now. I know all those people got jabbed. It’s a blessing and a curse to be able to see what no one else can. In this case it’s keeping me alive. As always, people mostly resist and reject my (very seldom offered) opinions.
You are looking at it the wrong way. You expect the sheep to thank you for seeing things they could not see, long in advance. That will never happen... and it also does not matter.
Seeing things that others cannot or will not see for themselves often has advantages all its own. Knowing not to inject yourself with an experimental poison is one recent example. In other cases, it can also be an opportunity to earn money and/or other benefits.
Knowledge is power. We often have knowledge long before all the sheep. Learn to use that knowledge effectively to your own advantage.
sad that she went through that/no one noticed:( as I'm the way you decribed, can Always spot little things that are off, Way before everyone else. I'm old/used to it now, and all you guys help verify that I'm not totally batshit, but it's been a tough 'skill' to have. Karens don't like it when you 'notice' and I was surrounded by them growing up/was alway in trouble;)
Its extremely wearying. I am in my middle 70's, have multiple disabilities, no one to talk to about all this and the churches around me are full of normies and others of the same ilk.
I try to tell them about whats going on and ridicule and derision come my way.
Its very disheartening but then i sit down at home in my little prayer alcove, light some candles, read the good book and pray, and lovely peace and calmness comes to me.
Prayers are very powerful. God doesn't expect everyone to be physically active in the healing of the world. He needs people who pray alot as that helps the world tremendously even when you don't see it.
Same boat as you. It is disheartening, but reading my Bible and praying over it smooths my soul. I believe the Antichrist is here and getting close to the Tribulation. I am ready and praying to be Raptured any day now. Any mention of this to a fellow Christian and I am met with scorn or disbelief. Look around, people! Wake up!
I was selfish once..I went along with things because I was too weary of social backlash, and poisoned by too much black-pilling from angry cowards like my mother, who has always denied that which made her uncomfortable. No more.
Finally my 'weirdness' and rebellion has proven to be sanity in an insane world, and I am no longer alone in the dark, full of self-doubt. I have total faith in the plan, things are different than before. This is pure ascension, on a global scale, and it is good. I'm so grateful.
Yes. I don't care because I trust in God and the plan. It's not blind trust either. I see the awakening happening and every painful thing occurring is waking up the masses to the global cabal. I see Elon being controlled by WHs, I see various areas of corruption being exposed everywhere, I see wall street being destroyed by a coincidentally named company "GameStop".
yes, once I see through BS, or if someone is operating behind a facade, I stop caring. and I don't like a lot of emotionalism/being too sentimental, as I know this world is just a stopping point, not our final destination.
especially after President Trump called Puerto Rico a shithole...knew we have a brighter world ahead, so can't 'care' too much about our current serpent conditions.
I'm someone who never really went with the norms and didn't really care if I thought differently than others. I ended up in a shouting match with my manager 2 weeks into my first job because I believed he was wrong to just copy paste product info from a website to ours without verifying the information. A second manager stepped in and let me do the work of checking all the info before it made it to our site.
But I'm also more of a snake in the grass. I can converse with the normies very well. It is easy for them to open up to me and like me. I'm able to sneak in the information I have to share during these conversations, be it family or a random stranger on the street.
The frontline warriors who are able to shout it out loud to people's faces and take more flak for it are far better than I am.
It’s funny that we’re trying to do exactly to everyone with what they tell for. Tricked to caring about thy neighbors. Now, in actuality, WE are doing that. Watching out for total strangers across the earth.
😎🤯😎🤯😎🤯😎🤯😎
My own wife thinks I'm a bit nuts. Because I prepare. We recently had an argument. It was basically because I want to grow some food in the yard and I installed a rain barrel.
I said to her "you think I'm nuts because of these things I do, don't you?". She agreed. What I told her is that what she overlooks is that it is my responsibility to provide for this family and by God, I'm going to do it. Argument was basically over at that point.
And there are plenty of normies out there that think I'm nuts because of what I believe is going on. So many still can't see the forest for the trees. But honestly, I don't give a shit. I will not stop preparing and I will not shut up.
Someday they'll understand and maybe I'll be redeemed.
I mean, I don't like to toot my own horn either, but while we're at telling the Truth, I guess it's safe to say we all really are heroes, aren't we? Well hawt damnit! WWG1WGA
“Everyone who breathes, high and low, educated and ignorant, young and old, man and woman, has a mission, has a work. We are not sent into this world for nothing; we are not born at random; we are not here, that we may go to bed at night, and get up in the morning, toil for our bread, eat and drink, laugh and joke, sin when we have a mind, and reform when we are tired of sinning, rear a family and die. God sees every one of us; He creates every soul, . . . for a purpose. He needs, He deigns to need, every one of us. He has an end for each of us; we are all equal in His sight, and we are placed in our different ranks and stations, not to get what we can out of them for ourselves, but to labor in them for Him. As Christ has His work, we too have ours; as He rejoiced to do His work, we must rejoice in ours also.”—John Henry Cardinal Newman, "God's Will the End of Life," from Discourses Addressed to Mixed Congregations (1849)
This reminds be of “a light among others”/“chosen people” mentality.
People here aren’t smarter than people who aren’t “awake”.
Everyone who has free speech and freedom to consider every idea through debate and reasoning comes to the exact same conclusion about who the good guys are/were and who the bad guys were and are. There is a coordinated effort to stop this from happening.
Everyone agrees, except the people who choose for whatever reason to feel called out by what I said, and who know I’m talking about them even though I didn’t mention them a single time.
It’s bc some anons believe this is spiritual. I believe God uses people for certain things at certain times. It’s seen all the way through the Bible- God picking a person or group of people and giving them a task that will change the course of humanity. I do believe we are in that kind of situation now. In that way, yes we are chosen
We had to walk in the darkness, WHILE shining our light. That has attracted every moth, good and bad, to our flame. Truth is that light. Many times people just don't want to know that by giving their child a vaccine, they have condemned the child, or that child trafficking is a thing, or that their vote hasn't counted for many years, etc, etc. But, of all the truths you anons have spread, they have had to SEE. A person can only bury their heads in the sand for so long until they have to confront those demons that have kept them in the dark. They'll remember the truths, they'll remember who told them. They'll remember who has the light that they will be drawn back to. Anons are the way-showers, walking through the valley of the shadow of death.
I knew since young I'm meant to bear the pain and be persecuted as Jesus has warned us in the Bible. Now I know exactly what Jesus meant, as if he had been preparing us for present day. This IS of a biblical proportion.
Yeah, lucky us! We are still way better off than the normies living in "The Illusion" created specially for them!
Hope and optimism is necessary in order to win the WAR we are in, we Anons play an important role in the battle, "information warfare", "spiritual warfare"! Praying is a very important part, each of us can PRAY, every day!!!
Decades, yes, even centuries u/ILoveIvermectin, yes, for the restoration of Humanity! Including rewriting the history books! I think (and hope) we are close to a "next phase", last phases: "war in Khazaria", taking over their biggest weapon "twitter" / creating Truth Social started long ago, I think a "next phase" is imminent!!!
Adapt. I just bought a giant prime rib for 6.99 a pound for Christmas. Stop complaining. A global cabal is being taken down at the moment and you're worried bout the cost of some eggs. Anons are the least concerned, you do not speak for us.
I 1000% don’t mean to diminish the struggles, or suggest that it’s an easy task, because I know it isn’t, and families are being crushed daily. But we have to hold the line as well — as difficult as that is.
We have to strengthen our resolve, because otherwise what’s the alternative? Capitulation? No.
They become strong in our weakened state, but weak in our strength.
"We fucked up, the pedophiles got off on a technicality, and now they're regrouping their PMCs to ensure their power can never be threatened again, but at least your mommy's alive!"
Back when I was a residential electrician. I used to drill out all the houses on my crew. Every damn hole that needed drilled for a wire to go through it. Almost every single stud. Tons of top plates, and of course all the holes that used to go above the panels. Through the concrete foundations, sometimes up to two feet thick.
But it was my job to drill. I took that job and I didn't let up on it, I assumed many other responsibilities along the way, but I always wanted to drill the houses out.
Everybody else didn't like drilling out. Because it was hard. And dirty. And usually ended up with being covered in wood chips galore, EVERYWHERE.
If you weren't careful, that corded half-inch electric hole-hawg would rip your arm off if you hit a nail or knot...
But I loved it.
Why am I writing about drilling holes in houses?
Because, this post reminded me of it.
Drilling out those houses was it. I don't care who else ran the wires through the holes, I drilled those holes. I paved the way. You didn't get from A to B without me. And damn was I good at drilling the corners of rooms while not ruining the structural integrity.... Whewwww... Yeah!!!
If you were running wire and complaining about how much you pulled??? I had already been and gone where you were, I had already made your way easy for you. That was what was up. Made me feel great! I was leading in a sense.
But not only that, doing that hard work, made me physically strong. I chewed nails for breakfast. Seriously, when I hit a nail with that 7/8 inch auger bit, I braced for impact and pushed harder, because I wanted that spot. Usually top plates or under windows. But either way, I got stronger.
Each hole I drilled made my body that much stronger and added to my endurance.
This is how I feel about the plight of an Anon.
Working not because it is your job, but because you are driven to make good work. Grinding when normalfags would give up or take a break. Blazing new trails for others to follow. And making the way easier for those following behind you.
I love this place, so much from here has affected real people in my life, and has opened so many eyes.
To all the anons who read this very long response, hats off!! You might not see the fruits of your labors right away, but they are far reaching and appreciated!!!
Loved this post!
I think I love you.
Seriously, I had a dream about Heaven once.
To enter my Heaven, it didn't matter what you did as long as you loved it and wanted to be really good at it.
If you were a rice farmer, and you wanted to be the best at farming rice, and you loved it, then you were in.
These are the people who are the elite.
It's not about money.
It's about the ability to love growth and dedication to something higher.
Dare I say it? To find the Divine in the Mundane.
I'm printing this out and hanging it on my wall.
I absolutely love this.
Beautiful
People who are good at what they love make the world better.
https://boatagainstthecurrent.blogspot.com/2009/03/quote-of-day-john-henry-newman-on-each.html
Thanks. I needed it
So awesome. Well spoken. I can hear the joy in your voice. Thank you for sharing your insight.
Sounds like you really loved your job. That's great!
By the way:
Was that with or without milk?
A SpongeBob reference.
Without any milk!!!
"Ohhh I'm sorry go right on in!"
Ah, so you're a SpongeBob aficionado. Glad to see that.
I grew up with SpongeBob. As much as I hate the mental repercussions... I still love SpongeBob for some damn reason!!!
Nice one, very inspiring, thank you!
Look anons, if you've been through a tough few years, and feel like you're barely hanging on, just keep hanging on. I've been awake since the 90s. Nothing phases me anymore, and i hope the world is fully awakened soon, but i've done too much datefagging in my life to do it anymore now.
Jell-O and Inspector Gadget. Those Comms decodes hit me deep.
And where could I find these decodes? Tried searching but not getting any hits.
This is new to me, help point in the right direction?
This is some of the darkest decodes out there. Don't let it get you down. The world we lived in was absolute hell, but the best is yet to come.
https://decodingsymbols.wordpress.com/2021/10/06/cosby-jell-o-office-king-of-the-hill/
When I was in college, a girl in my general orbit (friends, friends of friends, acquaintances, classmates, etc.) was “getting mugged” every week. She lived a commuter train ride away in a dicey area, so it was plausible, but after the third time, I said to myself that some guy in her life (boyfriend? father? brother?) was beating her up. It continued. I expressed my beliefs to some people in my circle. I was instantly and universally shot down, ridiculed, and scorned for having this belief. I shrugged my shoulders and kept my mouth shut. This girl kept showing up to school with black eyes, her arm in a cast, etc. Everyone bemoaned her terrible luck, asked her to try to get home during daylight hours, etc. Me: hmmm....that won’t make any difference. Eventually, she disappeared. A year went by, and she reappeared. She spilled the story that her boyfriend had been pummeling her. She fled after a particularly brutal beating and had to go into hiding. When she felt safe enough she registered for school again and was no longer keeping secrets. Reaction of the crowd: OMG can you believe it????? Me: WTF. Do you think anyone said something along the lines of “you were right all along!” to me? Nope. No one did. I could see it, plain as day. No one else, nobody, could see what was right in front of them. I think about that a lot now. I know all those people got jabbed. It’s a blessing and a curse to be able to see what no one else can. In this case it’s keeping me alive. As always, people mostly resist and reject my (very seldom offered) opinions.
It's easier to lie to someone than to convince them that they have been lied to.
You are looking at it the wrong way. You expect the sheep to thank you for seeing things they could not see, long in advance. That will never happen... and it also does not matter.
Seeing things that others cannot or will not see for themselves often has advantages all its own. Knowing not to inject yourself with an experimental poison is one recent example. In other cases, it can also be an opportunity to earn money and/or other benefits.
Knowledge is power. We often have knowledge long before all the sheep. Learn to use that knowledge effectively to your own advantage.
Power of discernment.
She needed a light.
sad that she went through that/no one noticed:( as I'm the way you decribed, can Always spot little things that are off, Way before everyone else. I'm old/used to it now, and all you guys help verify that I'm not totally batshit, but it's been a tough 'skill' to have. Karens don't like it when you 'notice' and I was surrounded by them growing up/was alway in trouble;)
Huh. All this time, I thought it was because I was too ‘tarded to act like a normal individual.
Normies are retarded.
My ex-wife was tarded. She's a pilot now.
Bating...
u/#excellentbait
Let's all give thanks she doesn't have to reverse-park it.
Its extremely wearying. I am in my middle 70's, have multiple disabilities, no one to talk to about all this and the churches around me are full of normies and others of the same ilk.
I try to tell them about whats going on and ridicule and derision come my way.
Its very disheartening but then i sit down at home in my little prayer alcove, light some candles, read the good book and pray, and lovely peace and calmness comes to me.
I will not give up, I will keep on keeping on.
We're all here with you fren.
God bless you and keep you.
Prayers are very powerful. God doesn't expect everyone to be physically active in the healing of the world. He needs people who pray alot as that helps the world tremendously even when you don't see it.
17 updoots, thank you Lord, thank you Pedes.
Same boat as you. It is disheartening, but reading my Bible and praying over it smooths my soul. I believe the Antichrist is here and getting close to the Tribulation. I am ready and praying to be Raptured any day now. Any mention of this to a fellow Christian and I am met with scorn or disbelief. Look around, people! Wake up!
https://goldenageofgaia.com/
You are not alone.
I was selfish once..I went along with things because I was too weary of social backlash, and poisoned by too much black-pilling from angry cowards like my mother, who has always denied that which made her uncomfortable. No more. Finally my 'weirdness' and rebellion has proven to be sanity in an insane world, and I am no longer alone in the dark, full of self-doubt. I have total faith in the plan, things are different than before. This is pure ascension, on a global scale, and it is good. I'm so grateful.
Do any of you other autists have the complete inability to not care?
Yes. I don't care because I trust in God and the plan. It's not blind trust either. I see the awakening happening and every painful thing occurring is waking up the masses to the global cabal. I see Elon being controlled by WHs, I see various areas of corruption being exposed everywhere, I see wall street being destroyed by a coincidentally named company "GameStop".
The public awake is their greatest fear.
I Love Jesus!!!!
u/#pepeguitar
This bipolar one is there with tou
yes, once I see through BS, or if someone is operating behind a facade, I stop caring. and I don't like a lot of emotionalism/being too sentimental, as I know this world is just a stopping point, not our final destination.
especially after President Trump called Puerto Rico a shithole...knew we have a brighter world ahead, so can't 'care' too much about our current serpent conditions.
https://truthsocial.com/@JuliansRum/posts/109644971279117778
I'm someone who never really went with the norms and didn't really care if I thought differently than others. I ended up in a shouting match with my manager 2 weeks into my first job because I believed he was wrong to just copy paste product info from a website to ours without verifying the information. A second manager stepped in and let me do the work of checking all the info before it made it to our site.
But I'm also more of a snake in the grass. I can converse with the normies very well. It is easy for them to open up to me and like me. I'm able to sneak in the information I have to share during these conversations, be it family or a random stranger on the street.
The frontline warriors who are able to shout it out loud to people's faces and take more flak for it are far better than I am.
Happy to be a sacrificial lamb STANDING for God
Yeah well I've know for 35 years.
It’s funny that we’re trying to do exactly to everyone with what they tell for. Tricked to caring about thy neighbors. Now, in actuality, WE are doing that. Watching out for total strangers across the earth. 😎🤯😎🤯😎🤯😎🤯😎
Life is always ironic, and I love it
My own wife thinks I'm a bit nuts. Because I prepare. We recently had an argument. It was basically because I want to grow some food in the yard and I installed a rain barrel.
I said to her "you think I'm nuts because of these things I do, don't you?". She agreed. What I told her is that what she overlooks is that it is my responsibility to provide for this family and by God, I'm going to do it. Argument was basically over at that point.
And there are plenty of normies out there that think I'm nuts because of what I believe is going on. So many still can't see the forest for the trees. But honestly, I don't give a shit. I will not stop preparing and I will not shut up.
Someday they'll understand and maybe I'll be redeemed.
I mean, I don't like to toot my own horn either, but while we're at telling the Truth, I guess it's safe to say we all really are heroes, aren't we? Well hawt damnit! WWG1WGA
https://boatagainstthecurrent.blogspot.com/2009/03/quote-of-day-john-henry-newman-on-each.html
This reminds be of “a light among others”/“chosen people” mentality.
People here aren’t smarter than people who aren’t “awake”.
Everyone who has free speech and freedom to consider every idea through debate and reasoning comes to the exact same conclusion about who the good guys are/were and who the bad guys were and are. There is a coordinated effort to stop this from happening.
Everyone agrees, except the people who choose for whatever reason to feel called out by what I said, and who know I’m talking about them even though I didn’t mention them a single time.
It’s bc some anons believe this is spiritual. I believe God uses people for certain things at certain times. It’s seen all the way through the Bible- God picking a person or group of people and giving them a task that will change the course of humanity. I do believe we are in that kind of situation now. In that way, yes we are chosen
Amen
We had to walk in the darkness, WHILE shining our light. That has attracted every moth, good and bad, to our flame. Truth is that light. Many times people just don't want to know that by giving their child a vaccine, they have condemned the child, or that child trafficking is a thing, or that their vote hasn't counted for many years, etc, etc. But, of all the truths you anons have spread, they have had to SEE. A person can only bury their heads in the sand for so long until they have to confront those demons that have kept them in the dark. They'll remember the truths, they'll remember who told them. They'll remember who has the light that they will be drawn back to. Anons are the way-showers, walking through the valley of the shadow of death.
Lord please continue to guide us. Keep us strong and steady on our current path and continue to show us new ways to complete your will on earth- amen
This made me tear up! I so needed to read that. I am going to print this up and frame it and put it on my wall! THANK YOU!!
A post from 2 months ago?
That's great.
I knew since young I'm meant to bear the pain and be persecuted as Jesus has warned us in the Bible. Now I know exactly what Jesus meant, as if he had been preparing us for present day. This IS of a biblical proportion.
This anon wasn't chosen at all. I knew this sh1t was going on for decades. Glad people are finally in board but there's still so many asleep.
TurdFergueson2 Excellent post, made my Monday, I hope some how Trump reads it.
"Hi pool" what does that mean?
Tim Pool? /pol/ ?
Not sure
/pol/ is what i thought too.
Centuries even.
Yeah, lucky us! We are still way better off than the normies living in "The Illusion" created specially for them!
Hope and optimism is necessary in order to win the WAR we are in, we Anons play an important role in the battle, "information warfare", "spiritual warfare"! Praying is a very important part, each of us can PRAY, every day!!!
Decades, yes, even centuries u/ILoveIvermectin, yes, for the restoration of Humanity! Including rewriting the history books! I think (and hope) we are close to a "next phase", last phases: "war in Khazaria", taking over their biggest weapon "twitter" / creating Truth Social started long ago, I think a "next phase" is imminent!!!
WWG1WGA!
Tick-tock, countdown is on 7, [-7]
https://qagg.news/
I've got lifetime supply of popcorns. Even when I'm dead I'd be watching this movie from another dimension.
Adapt. I just bought a giant prime rib for 6.99 a pound for Christmas. Stop complaining. A global cabal is being taken down at the moment and you're worried bout the cost of some eggs. Anons are the least concerned, you do not speak for us.
Yes, a lot of people are absolutely suffering.
I 1000% don’t mean to diminish the struggles, or suggest that it’s an easy task, because I know it isn’t, and families are being crushed daily. But we have to hold the line as well — as difficult as that is.
We have to strengthen our resolve, because otherwise what’s the alternative? Capitulation? No.
They become strong in our weakened state, but weak in our strength.
Well said
God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble
Imagine complaining that the world is being saved too slowly
u/#libcry
"We fucked up, the pedophiles got off on a technicality, and now they're regrouping their PMCs to ensure their power can never be threatened again, but at least your mommy's alive!"
War.
I thought it had to do with the house convening again tonight.
Someone's gotta! It landed on us and we don't know how to stop!