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A customer came in earlier today at work, I greeted him asked how he was doing...ya know, the usual. He says I got some bad news from a friend of mine in Ohio ( didn't specify a town). I said oh, what happened. Apparently his friends son works at a restaurant ( idk which one) and someone came in and robbed it today and shot and killed 2 people. His friends son, was one of those people!
I was so sad and shocked to hear that. Idk the man's name. But prayers to the family! We never know. Ty.
Praying! 💔🙏
Prayer Request
Copied from go fund me page. I don’t personally know this lady. I’ve been going in her thrift store about two years. I’m not posting go fund me page because I don’t feel comfortable asking charity for charity here.
Hello my name is Kimberly Brown. I own Lighthouse Thrift in Otway, NC. In September 2023 I was taken to emergency dept at local hospital and then life care transported me to Duke Raleigh hospital. I went septic due to infection and almost didn't come home. I already have osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis and scoliosis in my spine. Infection was in my chest, around lungs and caused damage to spine and hip. I was in hospital for 6 weeks. Came home unable to care for self or walk or even thinking of opening my shop. I had 5 weeks after hospital with pik line and antibiotics. Since December I have to use walker. And I slowly am healing and opening shop. The infection caused enough damage to hip I'm now waiting on surgery. Due to all of this happening it has put a huge financial burden upon me with medical bills and bills for the shop that I'm having to struggle to get back on track. I'm asking for help because I do not want to close shop and I want to be able to continue being a blessing in my community with my shop. I greatly would appreciate any help financially. It will help keep doors open and medical bills covered outside of what insurance covers. Thank you.
Thanks MB for posting. God wanted me to see this, because I almost didn’t even log in and go straight to bed. Been a very busy week. I will take the time to go visit and contribute this week. Thank you my Fren!
Thanks 😊 🙏 I don’t personally know her. She’s had a very rough time and sounds like a fighter.
That’s really sad. Hope you are doing well and feeling good these days. ❤️
Yes it is. If the thrift store is open today and if I can I’m going to give her money in person. If not I’ll donate online. Prefer not to because go fund gets a %. I’m at the coast with my daughter and fam. It’s great waking up to the grandbaby. I’m doing good trying to keep big picture in mind and stay on track. It’s hard to stick to eating right when I’m not home.
I hope you are doing good 😊🩷 Have a great weekend!
Good for you life is always good at the coast. It’s a beautiful day today. I’m hoping to get home and get outside and get some grounding in today. Eating healthy is always hard away from home unfortunately, especially on the coast.
Calm before the storm. Getting lots of rain tomorrow in NC. You might be getting some before then. Haven’t been watching the weather like normal. Looks like it’s wet across the south east. Hope you enjoyed your day. It’s finally warm enough for me. I laid out on the dock over any hour. Dang it put SPF 15 bronzer on didn’t get sun & no bronzing, it was probably expired. Oh well I got VD🌞 The neighbors have 3 story house and cameras everywhere they probably got a good show. I was in a 1/2 chair and wanted sun on back side so I stood up for 20 minutes and did stretches🤣 This white girl needs to get brown!
Lol that’s funny. Oh well they shouldn’t be looking. Have you ever heard of Earthing? I’ve began to do it and I really believe in it. Look on YouTube for the Earthing Documentary and see what you think. It makes so much sense
Will do; thanks for sharing this with us.
Thank you
Prayers on the way fren.
Thank you
Worker at Campbells soup says don’t buy its poison.
Campbells soup poisoning
ChatGPT is having some major issues right now and many on Twitter reporting it is down.
I wasnt able to login to ChatGPT all of last week. Has finally started working since yesterday and just checked, its working right now as well.
Guy pets chihuahua to relax
Can handshakes not make posts? I lost the password to my other account and now nobody is seeing my posts.
Needs manual approval. Just approved yours.
Thank you
After you lose your handshake you can make posts.
Or you can contact a mod if it's important I belive they can approve.
Thanks! How long does it take to lose my handshake?
Don't know,but not to long.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1312545997499719680
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCiTwMTAW04
https://files.catbox.moe/hvvznk.jpg
u/queue-anon u/merf u/pbman2
What do you think is going on here? Sending anons a tip that they are working together? Or internal comms for themselves?
I am thinking more internal comms personally
We have found a few between the 2 over the years, this could be some kind of marker though imo
"Booty" also has a double meaning. Remember Ryan Cohens pirate flag tweets?
Interesting, nice find thanks!
First time I've seen Ryan speaking.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Xzt84OY01g
What do you see in the background behind RC?
YUGE "Q"...💥
A Q on the shelf.
Good catch.
VFD showed me it first of course, he's always got the goods.
holy shit
DJT up 13%
Warrents up 23%
Silver hanging on at mid 28.00
Edit stock is up on the 17 after falling for several days.
Looks like you wrote this before it fell more. It went up slightly from 8am to 10am, then fell more. This is hard to watch, I have a ton of money in this stock.
Up 21% and warrents are up 47% right now.
This is a war, buying and holding stock is a lot easier than storming a beach with machine gun fire and arty falling on you.
I do find it kind of funny that we've been convinced that buying stock is warfare, it seems like only a few people are getting rich off this.
It's way more than this, their are many other stocks that are shorted. Supperstonk has way more than half a million members,from all over the world.
EDIT superstonk has over 900 k members.
I don't know what a stuperstonk is? Is that on Telegram?
It a disscution board on reddit, for talking about GME.
It's heavily shorted.
Our true enemy is the banks, they control the govt and the corporations. And the press.
Opinion question...If I'm designing a t-shirt, is it better to put the message in blatant words (ie "the arkansas abortion amendment will legalize baby murder"), or is it better to use a phrase that will hopefully catch people's attention and get them to talk to you (ie "ask me about the arkansas abortion amendment")? My thought is that the second option gives people a reason to talk to you so that you can explain why the amendment is bad while the blatant one with either be ignored or acknowledged only by people who agree with you.
Edit: Or option three...tshirts are stupid so don't waste time and money on them.
Tshirts or tanks is about all I wear. My daughter and I call it shirts with words. My shirts are more ocean vibe, song lyrics and popular sayings. I normally would not wear something controversial like abortion or anything political. I live in an area very divided by right and left politics and it’s also a very high crime, gangs and drugs area. Lots of welfare in my region. I don’t need to give an idiot a reason to shoot me. Same reason I wouldn’t fly a Trump or confederate flag. I believe stickers might be cheaper and more useful than shirts. Most of the people around me cover coolers and back window in stickers. I should probably clarify the country redneck type not other people. Hope that helps.
Just like memes fren, you gotta sink a hook in and make them question.
Option 3
I think, making T-shirts with a question on them, will provide you a better opportunity to interact with others. I think it’s a great idea Cary on. 🫡
Not so feel good stuff…this kid needs to be arrested for assault of an NPC.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13317101/teacher-assault-North-Carolina-parkland-attack.html
Feel good stuff
https://twitter.com/PatMcAfeeShow/status/1780279777368137842?
Good morning y'all. I hope today is a great day for each of you. Thanks for letting me lurk around here and draw hope and encouragement on days when I need it the most! Love y'all!
Good evening blessings to you, fellow y’all user.
God Is Our Anchor. My Morning Bible Read Was Acts 27:1-12, "Paul Sails for Rome". Verse 9 Says, "Much time had been lost, and sailing had already become dangerous because by now it was after the Day of Atonement. So Paul warned them,"
The Prayer:
The Song: https://youtu.be/JCwFQsKs16c
Have a blessed day.
Have you heard about Asma Lamrabet?
She’s a Muslim theologian from Morocco who recently decided to review the women role in Islam with a modern and fairer flair:
👉🏻 http://www.asma-lamrabet.com/articles/muslim-women-s-veil-or-hijab-between-a-colonial-ideology-and-a-traditionalist-islamic-ideology-a-decolonial-vision/
She chose not to wear the hijab in 2019 as it never was found to be used this way in any religious text.
Well, as a woman… I wouldn’t wear either. I live in America, I’m free, and I enjoy sharing that I am made in the image of God.
One of the main reasons they wanted us to wear the masks, and they want to cover Womens heads and face is all over the world, is subjugation. They hate us. They hate that we shine, and they hate that we are made in the image of God.
There’s been a history of people who love to subjugate not only was just women, but their slaves by using masks and head apparel. If you do a search on Google, you’ll find some pretty disgusting looking contraptions they used to put over peoples heads.
I’m so grateful that my Lord and Savior never wanted to hide my beautiful head under a bushel. He wants my light to shine.👏👏👏 I am grateful.
well said!
Whenever there is a sudden "feminist" uprising in the muslim world right now, my first guess is that they are CIA assets trying to do a color revolt.
Happy 17!
Plenty of Booms in today’s Deltas!🔥🧐
Happy 17!
u/#q3982
Thank you everyone here on this forum. Without you guys I would be so lost and alone.
I second this!
"Welcome to the party, pal!" Eventually we'll all have jackets!
It can even be a straitjacket as long as I get to keep the tinfoil hat.
u/#conspiracy
I was blind, now I can see
You made a believer out of me
I was blind, now I can see
You made a believer out of me
I'm movin' on up now
Getting out of the darkness
My light shines on
My light shines on
My light shines on
👏👏👏 So funny, because I just made a comment of above about allowing our light to shine.
Serendipitous!
These are song lyrics by a band called Primal Scream from 1991.
Anyone got eyes on Trump's visit to the bodega in Harlem?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH5aJdeA8Qg
u/#q3422
The address of the Spotlight hairplace is 3420. Drop 3420 references drop 3414 to "Save the Littles".
The address of the bodega next door is 3422.
[New York Society For The Prevention Of Cruelty To Children]
^ Located just down the street.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/NYSPCC+(NY-Society-Prevent-Cruelty-to-Children)/@40.753619,-73.9946218,1131m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x89c25a22a2f94f19:0xd11ec0cc4e9addf9!8m2!3d40.753615!4d-73.9920415!16s%2Fg%2F1tg6r0p3?entry=ttu
Cross street is 139th. Drop #139 references the retirements.
u/#q139
u/queue-anon
Honestly you can find numbers everywhere.
First Verse...
Proverbs 17:10
u/#pepedetective
2024 could turn out to be a re-run of 2012 where T. Roosevelts Bullmoose party siphoned off votes from conservative WH Taft so Liberal W. Wilson could win. Except this time Trump will benefit with RFK jr. bleeding votes from Biden. I notice RFK attacking Trump lately on X. This will help with centrist liberals who cannot bring themselves to vote for DJT.
I barely pay attention to anything outside of my life, anymore. Please excuse my question if it's dumb - did Trump ever ask RFK Jr to be his VP as RFK Jr claims? Or was this claim another hoax?
Hoax.
After work, when I take my shoes off, my right shoe smells like cheese, but in a good tasty way, not in a stinky way.
But only my right shoe, not my left shoe.
In my house, we would assume that meant a kid shoved a piece of cheese into the right shoe when we weren't looking.
The pattern of good and evil doesn't change.
Through history we can see evil has similar tells or attributes - smirks and lies, mocking and hating, deceptive and selfish, stubborn with rage, or wrathful with vengeance. Likewise, good also has similar tells - smiles and truth, sincerity and benevolence, receptive and calm, humble with long-suffering, or bravely with peace. Even though there is some overlapping where they meet, such as someone in controlled anger or another stubbornly sincere, the pattern of good and evil doesn't change.
That doesn't mean people can't change. This means if you were to train to identify the patterns of good and evil, you could use them to identify pure good and evil. If you can see both and gravitate to evil, then that's a tragic short-lived choice, because choosing good is where you'll find all the wisdom, and the definer of good and evil (whose track record is like ∞/0). You might even break out of the matrix there too, Dorothy.
( Good people have done bad.
Bad people can do good. )
”that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.“ Matthew 5:45 NKJV https://bible.com/bible/114/mat.5.45.NKJV
”But the path of the just is like the shining sun, That shines ever brighter unto the perfect day.“ Proverbs 4:18 NKJV https://bible.com/bible/114/pro.4.18.NKJV
Source: https://youtu.be/Z2YanHRvkDQ