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Welp I'm off to a horrible start in 2025. Economy is so bad I can't find work. My current work just deducted everyone's pay %30 due to rising costs... I'm holding out for inauguration but damn I hope trump flips things quick cause I just don't know if I can survive anymore.
Pray for guidance from God 🙏
He's busy saving the world with Trump. I don't want to take up his time. I'll still pray for a little comfort in this trying time. I just pray that this will be over soon.
You are not taking up his time. Your request will be delegated to your guardian angel whose job it is to look after you. We all have one. Just ask and believe.
Can confirm 100% this works, u/suicidal-cali-pede
Not for everybody, not for all things, not at all times. Everything is contingent upon being in accordance with God’s will, and often there are greater purposes afoot. Yet there are times where salvation is absolutely out of reach of our own hands, where God can provide it, as is His Name.
Psalm 18:6 - In my distress I called upon the Lord; to my God I cried for help. From his temple he heard my voice, and my cry to him reached his ears.
Psalm 34:17 - When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears and delivers them out of all their troubles.
In all earnestness, your username can’t be a good thing to regularly reinforce on your mindset. I wouldn’t delete the account, as there may be things of value to yourself and others, but it might be good to create a new one and link from that account to it, as marking the beginning of a transition to a new mindset. When a butterfly sheds the caterpillar husk, the old skin remains…. Then also cease to invoke that old mindset upon yourself. What righteousness oriented mindset could replace it?
There always has to be a substitution…. a goat… the cross… ourselves for others… nature abhors a vacuum.
Time is an illusion. Especially at God's level. It's no concern. Pray.
I will. Thank you.
Aww fren, God loves you so much, more than we can comprehend. I’m telling you, He wants you to cry out to Him no matter how big or small. He transcends time and space. I know it’s hard to comprehend, but He is with you at a close, intimate level, while at the same time fighting the big battles for us too. I’m praying for you fren. God bless, and please talk with Him. Give it all to Him, he can take it. :)
You are His number one priority!!
God is so great that He has the time to hear all of us. He wants us to count on him. He wants us to prove him. Try Him, Taste Him, Test Him. Have you accepted Christ as you personal Lord and Savior yet?
Trump has made comments that he knows it’s got to change and fast! But he also acknowledges that it’s going to be hard to do. So I’m praying for him, for us, for you and all who’ve been hurt by Biden’s policies. May Father God bring comfort, peace and prosperity fast to your people. Amen
My heart goes out to you. You are not alone.
Thank you.
Yeah, you're not alone. I've been out of work for almost 2 years now. I could probably find some bullshit job to do, but nothing in my chosen profession right now. Many have noticed that 2023 and 2024 have sucked under this Biden/Harris regime. Things are already changing with Trump coming; specifically the halting of DEI bullshit which hurts white men like me.
Yep you’re right. I watched a video recently and the guy blatantly said that they were going to extinguish the white race, or at least that was the goal.
I've about given up on my career field and with Elon and Vivek wanting to keep using h1bs to replace me I don't see that as a sustainable industry anymore.
Exactly. I was in IT as well. (over 20 years) Lots of calls from Indian recruiters that I just hang up on. They can't speak English worth a damn (thus me simply hanging up) and you know if the company is only using Indian recruiters then they're likely to hire Indians. I did find a local job that I'd be well suited for and just applied to it. (I don't have to compete with "the world" for local jobs.) We shall see.
Doing software for so many years and more and more I've been at companies that just outsource to other countries. India specifically. Every company I joined eventually went towards only outsourcing because it was a cheaper option.
My last job at an outsourcing company was doing work for the US Federal Government (among other customers), so we were protected from non-citizens and those without green cards. Where I had to work with Indians, they were on shore, Americanized, and performed just as well as anyone else.
My wife does IT as well and works at a company where they have outsourced a lot of their stuff to a company in India. I have to listen to her complain almost every day about how much they suck. They can't get stuff done in MONTHS that she can do in hours. She's constantly having to deal with them because THEY JUST DON'T GET IT. She was asked to go to India to meet with them and did so, but nothing has changed. Her immediate boss made up an excuse about her mother and got out of going to India. They have dozens of bodies, but with less than a dozen of the right bodies they'd be able to get stuff done; like they used to.
1 Corinthians 10:24 - Let no man seek his own, but every man another's wealth.
The men running corporations, partly through being obligated by law to do so, but also from greed, forgot this verse, as many of them also forgot God.
I make it a point to remind everyone as they order from Amazon that their orders of convenience to it will end in slavery being returned to them, for they have refused to pay a man his wages.
https://biblehub.com/topical/t/the_importance_of_fair_wages.htm
https://www.openbible.info/topics/working_for_fair_pay
Due to where we are at now, there will be times when those things are unavoidable, but we aught to be striving against it.
I don’t recall whether you specifically place weight here, but there is value in being aware of it either way as Christians aught to be held to it, by themselves foremost, and by others if they bear false witness.
Here's a pointing for you... You have options. You're not sunk. Don't allow yourself to talk you into anything less than the best for yourself and your family.
It's been a HARD lesson for me to get that, keeping your mind right and properly "weeded" as well as planting good seeds is a lifelong ongoing thing. It's NOT attend a seminar or read a good book - one and done...it must be maintained. Learning never stops.
Read or listen to:
Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie
As a Man Thinketh by James Allen
Psycho Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz
Anything by Earl Nightingale
Anything by Neville Goddard
The Law of Assumption 10 min (excellent)
The Master Key Society Channel packed with classic audiobooks like the ones mentioned, sans new age nonsense.
Thanks. I'll take a look at these.
The prayer that has seen me through is to ask for strength, not help. We were created by God to survive. My goodness, how did we get here through the ages of our ancestors? We are alive this very moment because God's chain of creation made sure we were linked strongly to him. Our emotions and the devil will tell us we are near defeat, this is the time we pray for strength to see us through, to continue to keep on keepin on to do his work and to praise his name. Somehow, we are here, after our forefathers faced war, invasion, poverty, natural disasters, famine and heartbreak, and survived long enough to make you. Almighty God, let all who feel weak right now know your power and strength , in the name of Jesus Christ
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so whatever happened to Shawn Ryan and his 'hiding from muh bad guys bcuz gravity drones Cybertrucks'? For real what the fuck happened, genuinely curious.
I know, I find that interesting. I actually listened to his interview with the Romanian fella while getting ready for work this morning.
Monday Poem...Claudia Emerson - Bee
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/58357/bee
Hard Times and The Forgotten Man: Remembering the 1930s
https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2025/01/hard-times-and-the-forgotten-man-remembering-the-1930s.html#more-271235
Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality
https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/parfit-a-philosopher-and-his-mission-to-save-morality/
The Worst Of Babylon Bee
Jill Biden Prepares For Final Week As President
https://babylonbee.com/news/jill-biden-prepares-for-final-week-as-president
Biden Desperately Searches For Anything Else He Can Screw Up In The Next 6 Days
https://babylonbee.com/news/biden-up-all-night-figuring-out-what-else-he-can-screw-up-in-the-next-6-days
Kamala Harris Stymied As Argument With Talking Cactus Toy Enters Third Hour
https://babylonbee.com/news/kamala-harris-stuck-in-2-hour-argument-with-talking-cactus-toy
California Police Arrest Arsonist For Using Gas Blowtorch Instead Of Electric Blowtorch
https://babylonbee.com/news/arsonist-arrested-for-using-gas-blowtorch-instead-of-electric-blowtorch-to-start-california-wildfire
Frodo And Sam Arrive To Toss Ring Into Fires Of Los Angeles
https://babylonbee.com/news/frodo-and-sam-arrive-to-toss-ring-into-fires-of-los-angeles
Today is Dan Scavino's birthday! : )
+1 good reminder , happy birthday to Dan Scavino and best wishes for him!
I keep thinking there's got to be a way to build a house that's fire proof. I know steel and brick doesn't burn too easy.
Today I realized all those times I worry about people's opinions and judgement, none of those things ever mattered to God. God doesn't care if you tell a Muslim or Satanic person they're wrong and hurt their feelings, God only cares EVERYONE lives by the truth. He doesn't tiptoe around, he is patient until he says enough is enough.. We should live our lives ONLY caring about what God thinks, not what man thinks..not even your spouse, parent or kids. Only do things pleasing in God's eyes.. it's very difficult but I'll make it my goal for this year.
That’s true, and I think age helps with that. Being a people pleaser will wear you out. It’s never enough. Live to please God only.
Today I angered a boomer friend of mine while texting for saying that I believe the Ashley Babbit shooting was staged. She's from San Diego where he lives and his neighbor knew her and her family well. She was a Trump supporter, etc etc etc. I told him to watch the Wooz Newz "Everything Wrong With The Capitol Shooting In 21 Minutes Or Less" video. He said he watched it all and said that the video is wrong. He knows that Antifa and FBI were infiltrating that event. He knows that J6 was a "staged event" (his own words) but refuses to believe that she could've been at least duped into that situation. He can't wrap his head around why it was staged. I said that it seems to me that it was meant to rile up the MAGA base and provoke people to violence for the media to frame as a true "violent insurrection" (which fortunately did not happen).
But he knows somebody who knew her, so I guess that means that he's an expert on whatever she could have been involved with, I guess. I said that her aberrant behavior should have led to her arrest at least, climbing on that door like that. I said that I am not accusing her of being evil. I said that I believe that Lee Harvey Oswald was innocent and that he believed that he was trying to stop something from happening. It's possible that Babbit could've been duped and used as a pawn like those guys entrapped in that fake and gay Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping conspiracy.
In the end, this friend of mine is a boomer and a bit emotional. He admits I was right all along about Covid and the vaccines. I told him not to take it. I told him to find a U-Haul, pack as much as he could, move to Arizona, take a data entry job and just live out of his car if necessary until he found a place to live. He didn't do it and he told me that after he got that second shot, he knew that his body was permanently damaged. He's very physically active but he found himself getting winded very easy and he's had heart problems since then.
Such is the fate of frogs such as us when dealing with normies. People who cannot see things the way we can. It's not like HE was Babbit's friend. Yes, I think she is dead by now, but not when she was shot. So much of that is illogical. And as the testimony that u/BaronsDog shared with us recently, it's so obvious that there were phonies at work, herding people where they wanted them to be. I've no idea if Babbit was MKUltra'd. I just don't take her involvement that day at face value, nor that Jacob Chansley "QAnon Shaman" guy who was escorted around by cameramen and then tossed in prison.
I watched Man of the Year (2006) with Robin Williams . So much in the movie is similar to our last 10 years. A Computer glitch that changed the election. Except the honest one came forward. A comedian running for President, somewhat like Trump, in that they both use humor to get across a point. Robin ran on a populist agenda. People rally behind him because he speaks the truth. Delacroy was the name of the voting machine company instead of Dominion. So interesting.
When I watch some of these older movies it appears to be priming us for what is to come.........
They always tell us what they are going to do before they do it.
Yes. They have to tell us. That’s part of the spell. It’s funny that there are rules for the evil entities that they have to follow to be effective. We just need to whole heartedly believe in Jesus Christ and that He came and died for our sins and rose from the dead. God takes care of the rest.
It's free on youtube.. I'll watch it. thanks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdDSpXud0Dg
Our Fren u/NeverStopBelieving is looking for some past post, could someone help?
I searched for « debunk » or « smear » but couldn’t quite find the desired compilation.🥺
You’re so cool and awesome . Thank you
Did you catch my yandex comment a few days ago?
I did now ty , I’m not sure how to use it , I guess just Google , I’m one of those totally clueless IT people
That help?
Yes thank you so much !
Wow I just went on yandex typed in lies about president trump and wah lah ! Thank you so much . I’m co hosting an all day breakfast lunch and dinner party in San Diego . Many of the people attending are from the fire areas and big trump supporters . They were supposed to be at the inauguration but have decided to stay close to Cali , to keep an eye on newscum , anyway the guest list is getting bigger ! James wood is supposed to come at some point if he doesn’t fly to DC last minute . it starts at 8 am and ends 11 pm . I was asked to have someone put some games together like true and false and wheel of fortune, all having to do with trump etc . I ordered a bunch of stuff from the trump store for prizes . Should be a good time , I’d rather be in DC but sadly I’m not going. Anyway this will really help with the true and false and which President did this or that . Thank you Fren !
The fires are devastating in multiple ways. Look at the effect on the local economy. Out of work are Landscapers/Gardeners/lawn services, housekeepers, drivers, grocery shopping services, retail employees as businesses burned, handymen, teachers, child care workers and the ripple effect is huge.
I thank God every day Trump was elected President and pray he is the man for the job.
My niece make jams and jellies and sells at farmers markets in the LA area. Her sole income. Lost 6 of her 7 markets.
Sorry to hear that, that’s sad.
She should try selling online on Etsy or even Amazon..
I apply for a job requiring getting the flu shot, How can I get a exemption from taking the shot if my Dr. won't write me one.
Are religious exemptions allowed?
Yes religious exemptions are allowed.
Is there a naturopath N.D. doctor in your area, or you could join The Wellness Company and talk to a doctor by phone appointment. Possibly a doc there could write the exemption letter. https://www.twc.health/pages/new-membership
I have not tried it as I work at a small company where they don’t require the shots. Hope you get the exemption letter somehow.
https://x.com/Osinttechnical/status/1878965068471107694 DJI drones getting software update that would allow them to fly in typical no fly zones, like DC, just in time for the inauguration. Potential use as weapons for an attack should not be discounted.