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Anyone been to Kennedy Space Center? I'm going on the 22nd and very excited. Any tips are helpful, it's my first time on a plane
Got me to thinking.... with these doubles, actors or whatever, when we see FJB's family together. Like the inauguration, for example, what is the consensus opinion? Are they all actors -Jill, hunter, Ashley, etc... or have the real remaining family members been made, coerced to play along? For lack of a better word.
Mixture of actors and informants.
Rosalyn carter in hospice
Narrative change incoming...
A great yt channel if you want a laugh 💩https://youtu.be/4emT3XRiueo
A good Omen. In the last 3 days, I posted 2 memes I found and 3 links to articles that I thought were good. the 3 links each had (** 17 ** ) up-votes. 3 17's !!!!😂🤣
It's interesting talking to people who are clearly on the liberal/Trump hating side, but are willing to entertain the concept that things are absolutely not what they seem. In fact, a couple of them beat me to the punch when they in fact suggest there are dark forces behind the curtain controlling economies, entertainment, etc. What happens next is they say, "This is too dark. I can't go there." If they only knew...
Kind of like Plato's Cave in reverse. They prefer the sickly light of a low wattage light bulb illuminating their reality rather than recognizing the depth of the darkness. If they only looked further, they could potentially anticipate a world of a thousand suns lighting up the sky.
Small positive increments forward. Have a great weekend, everyone!
Can anyone help me buy Bitcoin? What is the best way to purchase it and hold it?
Is Coinbase any good? I signed up for Gemini but didn't use them since I heard they were shady.
Total btc and crypto noob here
Buy gold and silver metals instead. Get the actual metals in your hand. If shit gets real, paper and electrons will be dust in the wind. I deal with ajpm.com and have done for years. They are square dealers and the price does not change once the deal is made. They won’t ship until your check or transfer clears but the deal is the deal. Not affiliated in any way except as a satisfied customer.
I really could not have stated this better myself. It's absolutely dead on.
Can you watch it to the end? Can you suspend your indoctrination long enough to receive the message?
Let's see...
Full Throttle Faith
I got to 14:23
I just don't do long-winded well.
I'm not a pew sitter.
I like this guy ok, really I would have enjoyed hearing his whole deal, but I gave up.
I've left Jesus Christ before, I didn't return because it was safe, I returned because it is what I prefer.
His message did remind me of the lukewarm Church type.
Oh, and +1 from me
I'm a fan
:)
Yeah he's a bit "verbose", but in light of not throwing the baby out with the bathwater - my take away wasn't anything at all like "leaving Christ" - more like, illustrating the severe cognitive dissonance - such that many have become completely closed off to ANY alternate possibilities, having checked that sucker off on their bingo card early on ...then never revisit any decisions they made (say around 8 yrs old) and just remain on cruise control for the rest of their lives...
He does a much better job than I did ... It was noteworthy - that's all.
Thanks!
Rainy morning. Feeling grateful to be among this incredible bunch of patriots, witnessing truly historic times.
“Oh come, let us sing to the Lord! Let us shout joyfully to the Rock of our salvation. Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving; Let us shout joyfully to Him with psalms. For the Lord is the great God, And the great King above all gods. In His hand are the deep places of the earth; The heights of the hills are His also. The sea is His, for He made it; And His hands formed the dry land.”
Psalms 95:1-5
Me too,
Nice Psalm of David
I'm guessing it is a Psalm of David
Standing
Prayer Garden Podcast Episode 15: Matt (u/Exila)
https://youtu.be/4ywsXuHSrfw?si=HuSau0YRf724SR2W
On this episode we speak with my friend Matt (Exila on communities.win). Matt and I met on the Prayer Garden Server and he is one of our first members that came over from Reddit. We get to hear Matt's testimony and how growing up with his grandparents pointed him in the direction to Christ. We also listen to the very honest discussion about battling the flesh when it comes to lust and how the Bible's instruction in 1 Corinthians 6 : 18-20 is instrumental to avoiding temptation. We then discuss how Matt feels lead by the Lord to help his local community in advancing the Gospel and the coming Kingdom of God.
Thank you for tuning in! Together through Christ we have endless potential.
Timestamps:
0:01 - Introduction
1:31 - Opening Prayer
2:20 - Bible Verse (Psalm 23:4)
4:40 - Announcements
6:12 - Beginning of Testimony
7:42 - Matt's Grandparents
10:25 - Teenage Years and Turning Away from Jesus (Battling the Flesh)
16:30 - How Matt Returned Stronger in Jesus
19:34 - God's Design for the Family
24:33 - How Sin can Creep Back In and Control Us (We NEED a Savior)
30:45 - Helping the Local Community
38:36 - Creating the Prayer Garden Website
44:50 - How Talking With Each Other Helps Overcome Our Strongholds (1 Corinthians 6 : 18-20)
49:17 - Closing Prayer/Remarks
I have some fitness questions for those who may be able to help. I've lost a few pounds with my job, but even better, I lost inches and put on muscle. I have walked at least 14,000 steps a day while lifting cases and pushing heavy carts filled with said cases. How does my progress from being mobile 8 hours a day translate to using my recumbent bike? I can increase the tension on it, no problem, but would I need to maintain the same amount of miles on it that I walked daily? I still have some fat to burn, mostly in my thighs and abdomen. I have free weights to use to help maintain and tone my arms.
I've worked too hard to get fat again! My metabolism is in high gear and my stomach contantly growls. It's difficult to satiate my hunger during the day as much.
Awesome!
I just lost ~20 pounds and I'm on the same boat lol
I lost the weight by eating only once a day 3-5 days out of the week, I get headaches some times, but the rest of the time I've been feeling better than ever. Staying busy with other people who don't eat has been the key for me. I eat as a reflex, as a way to get a "dopamine" hit. And if I'm with my foodie friends it's IMPOSSIBLE to not have a good time them.
Quit literally is an addiction, and I jus got a small support network lol
I know the struggle very well, but it can be done, just keep trying and never ever ever give up!
Good for you and more power to you for fasting like that. I don't think I could!
Thank you!
I wish you continued success!
Once I fasted for a couple of days by eating only once, your stomach gets smaller and you get less hungry every day you succeed.
There will be days where you will just CRAVE, what I do is I EAT. properly that day, I will eat 2 meals next day, and then go back to 1. When I get the cravings and almst like a zombie go to the kitchen. I say to myself. (OK, I will eat, but in 10 minutes, not now, not when my body demands it)
Every few days I get the uncontrollable hunger, I just know that it will pass.
Learning how to cook was also awesome, not having to stand in line or spend my hard earned dollars on food that I can make at home with some garlic and some onion. I save time, I don't see advertisings in the restaurant.
I'm a food addict. Always will be.
Yurri Asmiov (sp?) On domoalizing a nation...
Mike Slater:
Dissecting the words:
Demoralized.... Morals removed.. Sounds exactly like what the left has been pushing with Drugs, lewd behavior and rainbow inclusion...
But maybe that is just me.
Yuri Bezmenov
Yar I would have butchered the spelling..
We have a 9/11 reference in the NFL this past Sunday. During a long touchdown by David Montgomery, he is flanked by two Lions players wearing jerseys numbered 9 and 11 respectably. Both tumble at the Chargers 19 yard line as if they were remote controlled. At the time of the tumble nobody was touching #11, but #9 was covered by Chargers players wearing numbers 26 and 3. That number equals 11 and there is also the game clock as there was 3 minutes and 11 seconds left in the first half at the time of the "tumble."
Here is what a few people on You Tube say about this incident:
One thing we have to ask ourselves, are they telegraphing a scare event to happen in March of next year?
If anybody else wants to post this in the main section, go ahead
Joe Burrow out for the Bengals! Sprained wrist or something. I just saw. He played for LSU Tigers! Came from Ohio I believe, before transferring to LSU. An anon pointed out to me, about a yr or so ago, him calling Trump a clown. I made a post about a ufc fight Trump attended which burrow was at and spoke I can't remember exactly now.
Another anon, bearueax it was a French like spelling being lsu is in Louisiana! I know thats college. That's. What I follow. Yet... Bengals Qb! Out!
The NFL world is up in arms over Joe Burrow's injury. That is because he apparently showed up to the game with a brace on his elbow and wasn't listed on the injury report.
Did you get a chance, though, to look into his college days as well? Just saying to add to what your talking about in your post. I'm not sure how it would connect. But I do know football comms are real! Brock bowers # 19 for GA out had to have some kind of ankle loop surgery. Bam, back.
UGA XI- name is Boom! UGA X - name is..... - Que!
GA is undefeated as of today! Brock bowers plays for GA. Carson Beck I # 15 the qb. Trump has been to SEC games.
Look it up.
They are real, but we'll just deal with the NFL in this thread.
As for President Trump, he attended quite a few football games including Army vs Navy.
Ok, since I just popped on and saw Rosalynn Carter passed today. 11-19-23. Which mirrored would be 91-11.
I knew I had read somewhere Jimmy was from GA, and the governor at knew time. A GA tech fan. ( Dawgs play GA tech this weekend ). Anyway. Interesting that you bring up the 9-11 comms, from NFL. And she passes away today. Thoughts on that?
There is also her age of 96 with 5 threes.
But that doesn't relate to the video which shows two players numbered 9 and 11 falling and the fact that they fell with 3:11 left in the 2nd quarter. It makes you think because the you tuber in this video did a version of this footage where he mentions the clock, only to see the video get blocked. They could try something bad on 3/11/24.
The question also posed to me was... what does Joe Burrow? What does burrow mean?
My question to you? Have you looked up arron Rodgers background? Why did he go out of the country to get the surgery?
Of course... college football, love My Dawgs! Woof! Have you looked at Brock bowers and his recent injury? #19? Miraculous recovery.
Clif High predicts a big event in March-April.
Without getting into too much (potentially doxxing) detail:
A local GOP committee meeting was held today; a local candidate who won in her district meet with us today to help figure out what is needed to propel our committee to actual victory. I talked with her regarding the notion that the GOP lost plenty within the area due to abortion issues.
Long story short, we MUST address the abortion issue on a cultural front before we even begin to think about writing laws banning or really restricting abortion. I know you all hate to get involve in culture wars, but politics is downstream from culture, and we must participate in culture wars and push back against the tyrannical left's monopoly if we are to save this nation and the world...
I believe that adoption agencies need to be supported and available and ready to do outreach which is visible, friendly, and accessible. There must be a percentage of women who would consider carrying their baby to term if they knew how to go about the procedure. Conservatives do not like the idea of helping the poor with services, but you cannot be anti abortion and anti support for a poor women. If we could show the culture we are really committed to life, we could influence the mind set. Have adoption alternatives for women front and center, get them educated to the fact that if they give birth, they will get help through their pregnancy, they will not lose their job. The left uses the argument that pro life people only care about the fetus, but not the child who is born after. In some cases they have a point. And for the love of God, stop being anti birth control. To me, that does not make any sense. Of course abstinence from sex is the religious stance, but that will not work, period. I have no faith that even spreading the Gospel will reach all of those young people enough to change their behavior. There is a wonderful agency in Virginia that I send a check to every month, Saint Margaret of Cortona for Women. They provide services, respite, and a temprorary shelter and home for pregnant women. They do good work. The babies adoptions are set up. Now let me bring up something that I have been harping on forever. If you are a parent of a son, and he is under age, and he gets a girl pregnant, you are just as responsible for the support of that child, and for helping that girl, you do not get off the hook. If the baby is born, the parents of the father, if he is under 18, are responsible, and that should be law. I think the GOP went a little nuts with preaching that birth control should be illegal, that just is crazy, in my opinion. People are going to do the thing, the best way to stop abortion is to not get pregnant in the first place, duh.
Conservatives do not like helping the poor with services???
You are confusing local town and church charity with government programs. Guess which American conservatives support and fund more than any other group in the world?
The many small church groups where I live only help those who are in the church, not the general public. They even have their own foodbanks, for the congregants. Our food bank, womans shelter from abuse are supported from local towns who put it in their annual budget and vote on at town meetings. Private adoption agencies are extremely wealthy and cater to wealthy people, who want a "certain" type of child. The foster system cannot keep up once these kids are older, there are lots of creeps applying to do foster care, and many who do it for the stipend check. If not the "government" then who regulates the care and adoption or funds the programs that can help a girl to carry out the pregnancy and have the baby's adoption set up before the birth? I get what you are saying about government, but government can be a good thing if the right people are working in it.
We can narrow in on your point easily and still begin to move the needle on abortion.
TO PROTECT THE CHILDREN - no grooming, no porn, no sex, no abortion for minors without parental knowledge and consent. Minors are being manipulated by bad actors; they should not have to deal with sex at all until they are of age. Before then, only teach them to never hide things from their parents, to never trust anyone who makes then feel uncomfortable, and how to recognize manipulation- this is a hard one, but is best addressed primarily by taking them out of government indoctrination centers.
We may need a whole generation to be freed from the programming before we significantly move the needle on abortion countrywide.
In that weird corner of the Internet which reeks of warmongering neocons, it seems Ben Shapiro fired Candance Owens
I’m not seeing that he did fire her - or even that he can fire her as he’s not in charge - in your linked video or even searching online. As far as I can tell, they’re both still employed there. Do you have any source that says she was fired?
Coincidence that Owens appeared on Tucker this week?
Was that due to her comment about supporting Nikki Haley as leadership for Israel?
We had a shit post about that in the last couple of days.
A part of the 3rd year junior high English textbook in Japan has a section about the supposed great garbage patch in the ocean. My daughter is now at that part of the book in her class. Chapter 6 is called "The Great Pacific Garbage Patch." It reads as follows:
"In 1997, an ocean researcher resached a new 'land' when he was sailing across the Pacific Ocean. However, it was actually a huge amount of garbage flating in the ocean. The 'land' was made of big and tiny plastic pieces. It is now called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch."
<Insert pic of the white "ORLY?" owl here.>
The textbook shows some pictures of filthy-ass coastlines. Probably in Philippines or something. A sea of trash resembling the Death Star's trash compactor room. Mountains can be seen in the distance, so obviously this is along the coast somewhere, with unmanned boats parked in the mess. Obviously this is not out at sea.
I was talking with one of my coworkers who is a bit of a libtard but has some common sense and is not a full-on shitlib about this. I told her that I really want to believe that this is true, but if it really is the size of Texas or whatever, surely it must be easy to take photos of this plastic trash mass instead of just showing photos of grodie Philippine coasts. By golly, shouldn't it be visible form Google Earth if it's that ginormous? So she and I did a bit of digging, and I found some article on Salon or the Atlantic or something in which they interviewed the originators of this fake and gay story. Oh guess what? They admitted it is a lie. But like liberals everywhere, "the ends justify the means." You see, they feel they were justified in lying because it promoted awareness.
Feldercarb! Nobody can deny that the oceans are polluted, and microplastics cause problems the the environment and our health. Here in Japan, beaches are full of trash, especially in the off-seasons. God made us stewards of His creation. Littering is wrong, of course. But outright propaganda is crap. My daughter told me yesterday that her teacher said that this supposed "garbage patch" is THREE TIMES the size of Japan. I told her to ask her teacher why they can't just photograph it for the book since it's so big and easy to find. I doubt she will as she'd rather just giggle about crap like this. She goes along to get along since she already stands out for being half-Caucasian. I do want her to be bolder and challenge authority. I've already shown her that "global warming" is junk science by doing our own experiment at home with a glass of ice water filled to the brim and letting the ice melt.
That sounds like a great warming experiment. Thank you for that idea.
It amazes me how many things we were told are true that simply are not.
Good digging fren!
I'm going to visit my dad in Florida and it's my first time on a plane. I'm a little nervous cause I'm afraid I might lose it. Any suggestions? I'm bringing gum ;)
Buy a huge bottle of water after you go through security. Flying always makes you dehydrated, so drink plenty of water. I also double or triple my vitamins starting like 3-4 days before I fly.
The homeopathic Bach Flower Rescue Remedy will calm you down...it comes in many different formulations and is easy to take. Just hand check this this through security which is very easy...good luck.
If you go to the front desk where you’re going to check in at the gate, you can ask them if you can pre-board due to a mental disability. They don’t even ask questions, and they will say yes. You will pre-board with other people in wheelchairs or disabilities, but don’t feel bad about it.
Flight anxiety is a legit issue. This will allow you to pre-board, and get settled into your seat, and it really alleviates a great deal of anxiety with flying. I just found out that you can do this now, and it really helps me when I’m flying. Also take some type of a Benadryl for your flight and it will help you to relax and be calm.
FYI starship launch postponed to Saturday
I’ve been wondering about this....what news outlet is best to follow this?
https://twitter.com/elonmusk
Thanks! I’m not on X. Hopefully, I can check updates with out having a log-in.
You can! All my accounts are banned and I'm just sick of making new ones for the moment
Ha! Thanks!
Elon on twitter/X is the best source