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"Many people, especially ignorant people, want to punish you for speaking the truth, for being correct. Never apologize for being correct, or for being years ahead of your time. If you're right and you know it, speak your mind. Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is still the truth." Mahatma Gandhi
Why does X continually show me trends of the royal idiots. I always click "not interested" yet I always see them trending, with like 1k posts.
Strange. For me X is like a hyperactive puppy that drags back all kinds of trinkets, but if you tell it off it learns well.
Haha. My puppy does not listen to me.
Just wanted to say...who else thinks Edward Snowden looks like Daniel Radcliffe.
not saying muuh body double.. but just saying
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpAWwqhJHdI&list=TLPQMjMwNDIwMjQiKABcSL-wjQ&index=3
they both have small faces.
Anecdotal story
a friend of mine is a missionary, they live in the UK. She sent out a newsletter once a month, and this is an excerpt of the newsletter.
Jerusalem We stayed two nights in Arad and saw quite a number of our friends there. We also spent an afternoon in Jerusalem at the office of Christian Friends for Israel getting to know one another and discussing what would be expected of us. We really liked the atmosphere, and enjoyed hearing about some of the amazing work they are doing and sharing our hearts with the CEO and other members of staff there. For more info on CFI and their work, click on the link below.
https://www.cfijerusalem.org/
Trip back to Sharm Everything went smoothly on our trip to Israel and we didn't see any evidence of war at all in the parts we were in. But when we'd crossed back into Egypt, just before we set off, our taxi refused to start. Soon after we heard gunshots and realised the Lord was really protecting us. We watched our taxi driver take the back seats out and put them on the roof, then take the car apart trying to fix it. Thankfully we were able to wait at the Taba Hotel again. After about two hours of waiting, we were put into another taxi with a police escort, and then an hour into the journey, we lost the police escort and were transferred again back to our original driver. Eventually a few hours later, we make it back to Sharm safely.
But in the midst of it all, the beauty of the Sinai desert at night, with the bright stars and the silence brought a real sense of peace and the Lord's presence.
Maybe…just maybe… people are waking up to the fact that liberals are no different than Nazis. Nazis are no different than commies and Marxism is their child.
All of those are creation of Satanists
Yeah it is something many would not consider. I know and have known many so called atheist people and people who claim Spiritual stuff is fake and yet they say and do things that do not align with their claim. This is why USA is so important and why separation of Church and State is very important.
To rebuke evil is that but when authority has the power to not only rebuke but to also claim they are the authority over the outcome—basically guilty because they say so—just like we are seeing on many fronts.
I believe the USA has fallen already and just like anything there is waves of aftermath.
Once the wave hits the people who claim they are taking the higher road to keep peace and they finally realize they are guilty because the culture says so and the penalty is death—because evil only truly wants to keep in power and it has to destroy any kind of enemy.
When evil reigns it will continue all the way to people who have toes that do not match are a threat. Yep. They will claim people with toes that have a longer big toes are racist. When we go to the airport we already take off our shoes. Next could be socks and if your big toe is longer-guess what? We can joke but if you look right now in other countries they do this stuff. Color of eyes too.
Yesterday my husband had an appointment at the VA hospital. While waiting for his doctor to see him, in walks a 'Man' wearing a Dorothy dress from Wizard of Oz only in black and white, not blue. He said it had a little apron made on the front. The man had broad shoulders and a somewhat burly build. And...he was wearing a small (perhaps 2 inch) set of heels. My husband said he took one look at him and said, "Nice Dress." In which the man said something under his breath like a small growl. He couldn't wait to come home and tell me about it. He said he should have asked him if he was there for a mammogram or a pap test. Kek!
So, Weimar has come to your countryside?😳💐
George said it was weird seeing something like that at the VA hospital. And to think this person fought for our Country and then turned into this. The leftist brainwashing has gone too far. And today George has to go to the VA again. I wonder what he'll see today?
He might find Toto for Drag Dorothy.
LOL.
He is for gun control. he was a raging climate activist, but he has become changed to "ant corporate environmentalist". Here are his policies:
https://www.kennedy24.com/policies
I'll be blunt:
Why the hell are we getting this worked up about the budget bill that was passed this weekend?
I recall having similar questions last year when GAW had a practical collective meltdown over similar spending bills. It seems that the forum was too consumed by emotion to be the effective researchers we are called to be.
My opinion is that the spending bills is a colossal distraction on what we should really focus on.
Take Trump for example: I have noticed that, not even once in recent memory, neither he nor his team ever consider attacking the spending bill. Not this time, and not before. Seems to be that Trump and his team is signaling that we have far more important things to look at that a spending bill that we have no realistic chance at stopping forever.
Also, I have the feeling that we are getting gaslit into getting too emotional over this bill, from our enemies riling us up to cause our anger to overpower our reason, to our "influencers" like Catturd and Posobeic, whose income and reputation is dependent on how angry and fearful the MAGA base is (and independent on how critically thinking the base is).
We have far more important things to worry on, like making sure Trump gets into power. If we have to punish Johnson, that will need to be done after Trump takes office.
It is kind of pointless to boot him out if election day is less than seven months away. We need to focus on energies accordingly.
it's never a bad idea to use your brain to do your thinking instead of emotions. but we've gone on for literally years now about what's a distraction and what isn't- why do we have to pick what we focus on? there are enough of us and we're smart enough to maintain a big picture and dive whenever we want, on whatever subjects we want.
I have not yet seen a link here on GAW to the actual Bill that was passed yet.
Your comments are astute.
I'm supposing the high level emotional chaos is the result of the latest shill tactic and also the mod efforts to control discussion. I'm seeing a lot of low updot 3 year passionate accounts making rebel rousing comments and back a couple weeks ago we had a post stickied for a few days policing content rather than out saucing research... the mods do a mostly pretty good job but blew it on that and opened up a low effort emotional degeneration here.
Funny that you mention that. I have noticed that a ton of fishy and sus activity from accounts that are created years ago (sometimes even towards the beginning periods of the forum) but do not have the posting or commenting history of someone who is a active and fruitful participant. Maybe they are lurking a lot, but my theory is that many of such accounts were created back then by these shills and trolls, went joyriding around the forums, were put away into dormancy when the heat becomes too much, and were brought back out again once people's memories faded or the shills needed more numbers for a job.
Same thing over at Truth Social; noticed that a lot of the shill accounts have creation dates dating back to the 2022's and does not have a lot of history until recently where they were brought out to troll and pollute, like there were dormant for a long time.
We really need a system to deal with said sleeper accounts.
Just had this happen with a user with like a 25 count post score though he/she’s been around for a couple years and comment history is overall contrary to others. I deleted my post because I was trying to help some people out who were interested in the matter-and he/she sniped on it right away and I think that’s their MO. Snipe, cause deflation and less board action. I’ve noticed this for a very long time personally. It’s like they lay in wait and must have a situation going on like that Southpark episode where they’re gaming in the basement- fat, bloated, eating hot pockets and their mom is coming with a bucket to have them take dumps in. They lurk and pounce and occasionally comment in what they think is a brilliantly negative way. .
But I’ve noticed this a lot and it’s directly why I don’t post much anymore unless I’m ridiculously excited about something but even then I get my stuff shot down and field stripped and nobody even sees it really. I’m here to help. I’ve never attacked anyone personally. Not once. I don’t criticize. I don’t doom. I try to be humorous when possible. I’m too dumb to sit at the grownup’s table so I keep it simple but geeeeez I’m tired. Been here a long, long time and it has changed a lot here.
It used to be a friendly and supportive place. A full breath of fresh air and safe haven from the foaming at the mouth, viscous attacks and negativity at Patriots.win. There used to be no dooming allowed and that was a strict rule, there used to be no cursing (specifically F bombs,) there used to be no personal attacks, there used to be no antisemitism etc. I’m just tired. Don’t know where else to go though.
Just as an aside- if you ever look at your followers on TS and there is a blank on the side that says “follow” or “unfollow,” click on the person’s name and the hit “block” which is under the “...” tab at the top right of their profile. I just like getting rid of the deadwood.
I’m not sure. I guess either they’ve been banned, they deleted their account or are bots. Sorry, I don’t have a decent answer but I remember early on looking at my list of followers and finding a whole lot of them and being the ocd person I am, needing a way to get them off my list. The blank to me just seems to say they are gone. Sorta messy imho.
Yep I just posted about this in general chat about a week ago. Beware of the trolls
😂😂😂
Maybe these were the trolls that were under the bridge and Baltimore.
First Verse.
Micah 6:8
u/#ridetofreedom
Second verse.
Colossians 2:8 (NET)
Early church father Origen of Alexandria wrote a rebuttal of Celsus's accusations against Christianity. One accusation was that Christians run a "secret system", which was that the multitude was taught the entry-level teachings, while the inner circle of Christians were taught the mysteries and wisdom of God. The multitude was the gentiles, who were pagans before their conversion. These people, with their pagan mindsets, were incapable of comprehending the higher reality of the soul.
This is very serendipitous. I was just having a conversation with somebody on PDW, who is trying to tell me the Bible is not real based on some guys evaluation. I don’t remember the guys name but whatever just some dude. Anyway this is the scripture that I posted.
”As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving. Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ. and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power.“ Colossians 2:6-8, 10 NKJV https://bible.com/bible/114/col.2.6-10.NKJV
This is a memory verse that I was given by my family before I was to go to Hawaii to be discipled by them. I will always remember the scripture and it is indelible, on my heart and mind. Thanks for sharing this today. It’s just a reminder of a good time, and focusing on God.
Related scripture...
https://www.bible.com/bible/1/1CO.2.KJV
Do you know God's own?
A Song: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hSnzYnOe6kI
Have a blessed day.
Haven’t eaten Red Lobster in twenty years. I can’t believe I thought chain restaurant seafood from Asia was good. Now I only eat local seafood at the coast or do with out. Why are these large companies able to stay in business after filling bankruptcy?
Red Lobster is horrible. It always stinks when we went there and the food is overpriced for basically nothing on plate. We always feel robbed when we go there to eat. Never again!