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High and mostly dry in Vermont, but the amount of water caused a spring to pop up under the barn floor, spent the day tearing up the boards and trenching it off down the slope. We were lucky, the neighbors at the bottom of the hill are still pumping about 7ft of water out of their yard and around their house, cars, pool, septic and well all under it. At around 6pm they said it went down a few inches, most of the roads are washed out. So glad I've made sure this land I sit on is heavily protected from erosion with conservation mix thick pasture grass, the water came down our skinny path like a waterfall, but exited out the back acre and onto the lower road. Lost power for about 5 hours, so I HAD to eat all the ice cream in the freezer, there was no other responsible choice.
I had another thought about SOF:
Maybe the MSM is calling it QANON because we were pushing it pretty hard in the lead-up, and the MSM knows we're the news now? (not us exclusively, but patriots waking up to the truth).
How would that benefit MSM? If they believe this, if anything, it will hurt their reputation by pointing out who actually knew real truth...
it wouldn't benefit them, but could show we're winning in another light :D, because they're disparaging anons who study/research Q.
My wife, who is a saint, left me a little note on my Todo List White Board the other day:
"Father, help me be as gentle and kind to others as you have been with me."
Long story short, it's been an awful month for me. Just awful. I'm a strong man, but I was at a bottom. Hadn't had the time to check in at GAW, or the internet at large. Obstacle after obstacle.
She left me this. A few people popped up IRL to check in long distance. Local friends kind of... Appeared and helped me with my burden. I checked GAW and was immediately drawn to a positive, Christian thread. Feeling LIGHT. 🙏
Wanted to pass it on because, you know, WWG1WGA.
Love. ✌️♥️
Now The God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that we may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. Top flight verse from Romans.
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Please bring up your concerns, respectfully, in a modmail.
I think we have some new mods who are overzealous. I had a post that was removed a few weeks back. I was told the reason they deleted my post was because it had been recently discussed. When I did a search on the topic, the last time the topic was mentioned was 2 weeks prior.
Did we recruit some mods from Twitters old censorship program? Its the best way to destroy a good thing, turn everything upside down. Bringing evidence home that collaborates deepstate crimes was our mission here for a while. Maybe our mission has changed?
Based on the current top post on the site, if we have increased traffic on the site from the Sound of Freedom movie, wouldn't it be a good time to rehash all the prior theories?
Weird. 👀
This historical battle theme gave me some much-needed optimism this morning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ah2I166f_U
Asking for help:
I've just found that for some reason, my ability to upvote, downvote, or open a comment window (reply) etc, don't work.
Never happened before. Logged out, logged in, didn't help. Open shut browser, didn't work. Currently using Chrome (as I don't have enough hardware to run Brave currently). Javascript is enabled for GAW.
Any ideas? It changed all of a sudden, although nothing else has been altered on my system (that I know about) or the browser settings...
Fixed? Sounds like a site bug TBH.
In chrome window choose vertical dot-dot-dot in upper right corner. Choose history then clear browsing data, can choose advanced (recommend - try just browsing history first). Deletes a bunch of cached files. Worth a try.
For what it is worth, this happens every once in a while and not very consistent. Most of the times the upvotes are recorded, just does not show up immediately. Usually it resolves itself after a while. Also worth trying from a different device.
Thanks BB, everyone. I tried via a different browser, which worked fine. Which is why it was puzzling.
In the end, I figured that somehow my system was not handling the commands properly, so I rebooted (after going out and coming back) and it's all OK now.
GAW has been acting very slow today to respond and load pages etc, which may or may not be related.
Either way, it's good now. Thanks, to frens.
Geez, l just tried to like Trump’s new campaign ad on Twitter and found out my account is suspended. Can’t even remember last time l tweeted …
Oh well. Rarely went there anyway.
Kek not even worth an appeal. Just “aww well, fuck it, guess ill pop back on GAW for the 100th time today”. My exact response. Cheers fren!
My thoughts as well
I was reading r/piano yesterday night and someone typed a lower case Jesus Christ. I commented politely that His name should be capitalized.
You can’t imagine how fucked up these morons are: -49 karma in a minute, hateful answers like « People like you are why I left organised religion. »…
I was just being a grammar Nazi.🤭
I should avoid Reddit, it really is a lowlivers snakepit.
Edit: https://greatawakening.win/p/16bime8Onp/finally-free/c/
I actually just had to think about it, which I can here, not on Reddit. Thanks Frens for making this place so special.🙏🏻🔥
Kek. It’s hilarious that one of God Most High’s diciples goes by the name penisse. He probably gets a chuckle from it too!
That nickname allows me to disciminate the pedantic from the easy going, it’s also based on Marcel Pagnol’s Panisse, a funny rich guy from Marseilles in his « Marius, Fanny, César » trilogy.
Thanks a lot for the « Most High », but I am just in the beginning of sorting my Faith out and I wouldn’t dare debate it too much at the moment, let’s say that the minute I was reprimanded for considering most of the New Testament to be highly significant but symbolically, my local Catholic Priest almost called me an heretic.
I am still not accepting that what we share during the mess is a piece of bread physically turned into Lord Jesus’ flesh. Jesus told it was and it was symbolic: nobody tasted His flesh and blood during the last supper.
Also, feeding a crowd of thousands with 5 loaves of bread… that’s symbolic: the bread actually is the Word, the hunger is the Faith. When you address people craving a Faith with the right and Holy words, you can then feed the crowd abundently.
It’s an allegory, but with magnificent symbolism: the life we have is actually purgatory, our temptations are here to test our virtues. I am slowly dressing up a philo-mathematical-logical map on what actually lays behind all this, it is based on what I believe to be true. Only Love is, and Love is the essence of God.🙏🏻🔥
The comments you already got sum it up pretty perfectly, but yes. Same experience here. I don't bother commenting on Reddit and the constant blasphemy makes me sad for the genuine users (versus the bots).
I have taken to chastising Twitch streamers who take His name in vain. It bugs me so much to hear it since I've been saved. I feel like an old timey black and white television mom... And I am filled with Joy about it. 😃
Reddit is so toxic, regardless of the subject. Got a question on how to get some game controller to work in RetroPie running on a Raspberry Pi? BOOM! Instant downvotes, people telling you that you wasted your money on buying that controller because there are better ones, plus others yelling at you to read the 40 page FAQ on GitHub, people telling you to "shut up and just make your own Linux drivers," etc. Plus people will downvote you, along with their sockpuppet accounts, so as to push their own content up. "Hi Sega Dreamcast group! Check out this Sega Dreamcast T-shirt I just bought!" BOOM! Instant downvotes. One may ask, "What the hell?" That's Reddit for you.
Exactly. I got downvoted in a really local subreddit when I adviced someone on a bar and then I asked one question about multitimbrality on iPadMusic and nobody felt like answering and even downvoted me… then I slowly realised: what does this bring me? I was happy to eventually help people but personally never learnt anything valuable. As a frequent the_donald user, I was also systematically banned on numerous subreddits. Then I took the compulsivity away by deleting my account.
I just politely ask someone to capitalize « Jesus Christ », shortly, nothing else, I got insulted and massively downvoted on the r/piano subreddit. Many blasphemous answers also came like « How do you like JESUS F*Ç[]KING CHRIST? » (censored by me).
So that when I realised Reddit is like that drunk pedo Uncle that once fixed your bicycle tyre but that you’d rather avoid because its pros can’t make up for its cons. R/cats is about people begging for updoots because they lost their cat 2 years ago, r/modular features showoffs with expensive rigs or idiots making repetitive unoriginal noise, the French subreddits are awful (« I am not transphobic, but… »), the r/3dprinting mostly consists of morons printing stupid toys... One just has to wonder: WTF is with that heavily censored and politically biaised cesspool?
I am better off that since I have enough resources to find answers whenever I need some.
I came to a realisation about these stories of Catholic abuse: there’s much more risk for kids in a state school, but if it were exposed, in France, for example, where education is the biggest employer, then they would immediately start a huge strike. There HAS to be such blackmail.
So today's post from me is somewhat related to the troll we've been dealing with, who fortunately has been silent for a few days at least.
My daughter has been struggling with hatred in her heart. Her brass band music teacher has really been pissing her off. She takes her drumming seriously, but others in the band have been screwing around, making careless mistakes, and not caring. A girl in a grade lower than her has been flirting with the teacher, and he's obviously been enjoying the extra attention and is playing favorites. He's a young man in his 20s, and he's having that temptation to play favorites when cute junior high girls show him attention. I won't accuse him of having a Lolita complex, but at the very least he lacks the maturity to not let the flattery override his judgement. So when that girl screws up, he ignores it, but he comes down on others who screw up. My girl says that she hates him for that double standard.
So we live in Japan and there are no decent churches within reasonable driving distance. On Sunday we did "pajama church" and I did Matthew 5:43 or so, which says to love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you. I shared that verse in this GenChat a few days ago. My daughter thinks that loving her enemies is stupid and unnecessary. But I told her that while she won't have to worry about her brass band teacher for much longer, when she grows up and has a crappy boss or somebody who treats her like crap, I told her that giving in to hatred will only make things worse for her. I gave her the example of when I had that crappy boss at the company I worked at before my current job. I'd refer to him as "the bosshole," but if I allowed hatred to overcome me, if I gave in to the temptation to hate him, then not only does that give him power over ME and my happiness, but it also opens the door for Satan to have that power over me as well. Because if I allow my heart to be filled with hatred, I am allowing the offender to have that dark power over me to break my joy in life, which separates me from the grace of God.
It's too tempting to hate those who persecute you. But when we do, that hatred interrupts the grace that flows from God. When I made the decision to forgive that cretinous villain for threatening my wife and my daughter like that, I felt a weight lift from my soul. Even though he made a disgusting, offensive accusation about me supposedly abusing my daughter, I chose to not allow that anger to have control over my life. For these past few days, I have felt more joy than I have felt in several months.
In other news, Gab's AI image generator still cannot depict Bob Saget riding a Pogo stick, nor Kaneda's famous bike slide from Akira depicted as a stained glass window. Stupid AI. I don't think the world is ready yet for AI to take us over if it can't even do simple stuff like that.
Wow. Low energy day today. Got some tough news. Hard to muster much energy.
BUT I want to comment: I like the way you think. It resonates. Very similar in some dimensions to my own thinking and approach, especially to emotions.
I don't experience hatred. Anger, sure, but not hatred. Very early on in life, I was taught some powerful things. One of those was to work on trying to see things from God's viewpoint. Now, this isn't easy, because it essentially hinges on how you see, think of, and understand God.
For the first 7 to 10 years after my rebirth experience, I consistently asked God how he felt. How he felt about this, how he felt about that. I would pray, and then the tears would come. I would find myself on the floor, curled up, with tears streaming down my face, and my heart hurting so hard that water would just run out my nose and my mouth.
One of the first times I experienced this was when I learned and understood how much Israel had left God, abandoned him, and deserted him in their unfaith. I couldn't stop the tears from flowing. I wept, feeling intensely how much God wept when he thought of Israel, how they eventually rejected and murdered Jesus.
God loved Israel above all the peoples of the world. He loved them as his own people, and through them hoped to rescue humanity, to lead the way. But they fell away, they broke his heart, more deeply than any parent or spouse has wept for their own children.
There is no anger in that pain, only sorrow and sadness.
For some reason, people think that Jesus in the garden wept for himself, because he faced the passion. Jesus never wept for himself. Can you imagine how deeply his heart was aching, how fervently he prayed, so hard that his blood vessels burst and he wept blood? Why?
Because he know that when Israel crucified him, it would face such monumental consequences. He was weeping for his people, for the ones who betrayed him.
So many of us carry such anger, hurt and indignation at the crimes we learn about. While it is understandable, the fact is, that Jesus loved each and every criminal we learn about so much, that he lived his entire life for them, and gave his life up for them.
In such love, the hurt, pain and anger one feels is immolated, and the sinful nature falls away, and all you see is the lost soul, faced with horrendous consequences of their action.
I'm certainly not suggesting ignoring or denying one's feelings. (As I said, what you wrote resonates powerfully with me, RT). But I am expressing the experience of gradually learning to feel what God feels, what Jesus feels, not by assuming that I understand or know, but by seeking them so intensely that eventually, they come to you and show you directly in your own experience, what it is like for them.
There is a maturation process involved, and I agree with you 100% that suppressing the feelings that arise only retards that process. And, as you say, certain emotions simply dissipate of their own accord, if not denied or held on to. (Denying them holds on to them)
In my experience, the only way to really learn about God's heart is to experience that heart. The more you do that, the more you automatically see someone from God's viewpoint, and that's where the capacity to love one's enemy comes from. When you value each person the way God values them, you are transformed.
If you find yourself really angry or hurt or hating a person, try asking how God sees them, how he feels about them, how he really, really FEELS about them. If you knock hard enough, the door will be opened. And once you experience that, no conceptual thought or idea will supercede that experience. It will be fused in to your heart.
Anyway, these are the thoughts your very powerful comment raised up in my mind.
$0.02
No, that is completely not what I have taught my girl. Much like you have said, I've told her that it is very natural to be angry with people, etc. I'd disagree a bit with your definition of words though. The way I described it to her, anger is a very valid, natural emotion. It's okay to get angry. Hate is when you refuse to let go of that anger. It is when we release that hate and refuse to let it control us is when we receive grace. Never denying one's humanity by saying, "I have no hate." Denying one's humanity is more like Buddhist philosophy.
I would suggest that RT's simply sharing an angle on the situation. And, I would expect, both of you are coming at this from different angles, with different focuses, and different ways of articulating your ideas.
It need not be this vs that. Each of the angles has something to share. Just try to imagine you are sharing two different life experiences, and see if there is some overlap, or something to learn.
Either way, thanks STF, for sharing. A prayer for your family's well being.
Ephesians 4:26 “In your anger do not sin” Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, 27 and do not give the devil a foothold.
Sounds like your life is a manga. Try smoking weed. It will put a new perspective on everything. I think you could really get it together. Probably hard to find I guess and just being in Japan would be wild enough I guess without dealing with any issues. I dunno. Try to get into the mindset though!
Manilla Road - Dragon Star https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5wXSgKryKI
Your comment is borderline inappropriate but then, op did well at answering you so I won’t get any further.
I actually comment because you remind me of that Manilla Road song.🥳
That's cool. I think it's appropriate. I'm just talking like I would with my friends. ...I love that song.
That's a good song, the first one that comes to my mind whenever Manilla Road is mentioned.
Right on. A song like Road of Kings gives me the good kind of chills no matter how many times I hear it.
No thanks. Drugs won't compare to the grace of God. And I am not willing to throw my entire life away just to smoke something that'll make me stupid. Even people who've smoked weed say that the new stuff has been bred to be weaponized and isn't the same as it once was. No chemicals for me.
People don't know what they are talking about. It's okay. I thought god is supposed to have said he made all the seed bearing herbs for man to use. You know better than god though, I see. I think you need to hold on to what intelligence you have, you're right. Can't risk losing any.
I acknowledge in CBD oil's healing properties and such. There is a difference between eating a banana and smoking a banana peel though. I'm not interested in a conversation with you as you seem to be a troll yourself.
Everyone sees things differently. It doesn't matter how we see it though. The only thing that matters is the true reality.
One thing cannabis and psychedelic compounds showed me that changed my thinking forever is that I might as well assume that everything I think I know is probably wrong. I was stuck hard in a mindset that things actually were how I understood them to be. Then I experienced realities far beyond my everyday experience that had a profound and meaningful effect on my outlook.
Not trying to pressure you to expand your mind with natural substances or anything. That's just what I saw as an interesting plot device in your story's arc. Take good care.
https://greatawakening.win/p/13zMs9IAeP/goya-cares--blocktraffikorg/c/
Sound of Freedom connection: Executive Producer?
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/sound-freedom-executive-produced-goya-232400839.html
WWG1WGA
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u/#pepedetective
Along with Steve Mnuchin?
I haven't read that. Do you have sauce for that?
I know Mnuchin was Executive producer on other films, but hadn't heard or seen anything that he was on Sound of Freedom.
I mean more generally, as a producer of this movie the world is watching.
So that is the real reason for Goyaway....democrats are too obvious.
I don't understand your comment. Please explain more.
Do you remember when libtards boycotted goya for being Trump supporters? And AOC started the #GoyAway hashtag?
Movies don't get made over night, neither do non profit projects, they were trying to sabotage Goya before they could fund GoyaCares
Yep. I 'member now. Thanks for your additional comment.